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>just an endless concatenation of action scenes from different episodes

These videos are basically electronic drug trips for 3 year olds.

There is no teaching going on, just attention and reward psychology. Any form of structure or coherence is removed, leaving just reward-inducing bright colours and fast movement. I really do wonder what affect this has on the human brain when consumed for hours every day.

Don't let an algorithm-controlled, attention hyper optimised marketplace control what your children see.
You're conflating many things throughout this thread. What does "based on the rule of the law" or "libertarian" have to do with anything?

There was nothing illegal happening with drivers classified as contractors. Whether that classification should change is what was being reviewed by this tribunal and they've decided on a change. No rule of law was ever broken, the situation has changed, just like many rules and regulations are updated and companies adapt from before the change to after.

In this case, a very small group create change that affects 100% of the drivers. The fact that only 68 total drivers joined this suit, started by only 2 originally, is a clear signal that it was at the very least not the full intent of the entire driving workforce. Perhaps they should've taken a vote before passing this ruling, especially since these people demanded something from Uber that was already easily attainable elsewhere (eg: a fulltime driving job).
I have used RSS/Atom feeds for ever, recently I have decided to ditch Twitter's client and for Twitter feeds consumption I am using twitrss.me to parse twitter user feeds. I need to find a good parse for FB and than I will be a happy man.
Among the items I ordered today:

HC-06: Dealextreme $5.50, Banggood $5.99, Gearbest $6.57, Aliexpress $2.58

Arduino Nano v3.0: Dealextreme $3.46, Banggood $2.77, Gearbest $4.27, Aliexpress $1.66
My working assumption is that it makes a certain type of person feel like they're doing Real Academic Stuff, and not just showing off that they can remember syntax without an IDE highlighting their screwups.

(full disclosure: I cannot remember syntax without an IDE highlighting my screwups)
That is not dead which can eternal lie.

I still derive significant value from Usenet.

People keep saying that IRC is dead (because Slack) or that Jabber is dead (because Slack) but I use both of those daily.

It's a big Internet, there's room for lots of stuff.
> They can't be that stupid when a lot of modern javascript framework components are either direct clones of, or influenced by, their work

The JS ecosystem is like the baskin robbins of st. Which is mind-blowing because JS has gotten so much better and browsers have gotten so much better in the past 10 years. Yet the apps people are creating today are worse that the st people were creating with IE8 and jQuery.

I am hardly the only one who has recognized this as a problem. I see an article from a major dev on the same topic on a regular basis here.
A ME can be as simple as just another thread context, that is shared with the rest of the CPU. Basically, just a bunch of registers, and some simple logic to activate it.
'Towards a National Computer Grid' – Computing in 1965
Personally I find the opposite, I always start with DDG, but sometimes it doesn't find what I'm searching for. Typically though the fallback with !g does work.

However for me that's fine, it removes most of my use of Google search.

But also the !g search is less personalised than the regular google search so you'll get less of the search bubble.

Even better is to always do the !g searches in a private browsing tab or use the Firefox containers addon to keep the tracking cookies separate. Then you're even less likely to get search bubble results.
That was a fascinating and disconcerting read. The part where a cult member falls into the fermentation tank supposedly filled with botulinum toxin and comes out unscathed I guess illustrates the point I was trying to make.
Netflix cuts ties with Louis CK
>immediate applicability

That's a strawman, nobody ever claimed it needed to have immediate applicability.

As for having eventual applicability? Children have finite learning time, and teaching something with zero eventual applicability means not teaching something that will eventually be useful.
I don't really understand your question but if you were asking about how we actually store articles and provide such a feed, I can explain how I did it.

I made a markdown-based blog with the articles stored in a PgSQL database and, for now, two interfaces: the website, which I kept as lightweight as possible (no external content, no wasted space for ads etc) and a RSS feed, only experimental for now, which gives the latest articles without content (title, subtitle, dates and that's pretty much it), but I plan to give full article as a markdown article, but that'll need a bit of research (for images and such). Haven't made any way to change the query for latest articles but I'll add pagination the same way my list does it.
I think you have to go there yourself. Watch some of the videos by Bunnie Huang to see how. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXNv_rNGcc
Additionally, one of the reasons to subscribe to feeds for me is so that I can search those feeds in the futures. For certain topics a curated set of RSS feeds is a much better web search tool than google or ddg
Desktop with an ad blocker (which is my typical use case) returns their official site first, then Wikipedia, etc... .

https://i.imgur.com/c8THJcm.png
According to Bloomberg, Alibaba hit $675 million in sales for their cloud services for fiscal 2016. So they're likely comparable, or a bit larger than, Google presently (~1/2 the size of Azure and far behind AWS).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-10/microsoft...
We flew on a private aircraft with Uber-like service Wingly
Ask HN: Which books can teach me to invent and design a great SaaS product?
And interestingly, Facebook is creating something very similar to Second Life: https://www.facebook.com/spaces
I have a similar story of a smallish colocation site located in the cellar of a high school building in Switzerland where we hosted two servers for a small company ten years ago. The operator company had a generator at the site. During a thunderstorm there was a power outage, so at first all was fine. However a lightning nearby destroyed some critical circuitry of the generator. I additionally made the mistake of putting the watchdog system in the same colocation so that I didn't even get a notification about the outage. But after all I would have been powerless anyway.
I love RSS/ATOM. The only problem i have is with sites, that don't let me see the complete content inside feedly and i have to open the site in an extra new tab.
Would love some suggestions for this. (other feedgraber, self hosted,...)
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People have said this about apps and it's still going. I think eventually ML will become a grunt job like Android, PHP and so on.
Actually, when you open a RSS feed in Firefox, it shows a simple interface with the organized feed and propose you to subscribe to it, creating a "magic" bookmark in your bookmarks toolbar which lets you quickly access it and tweak it.
I am the same. The fact is Google knows a fair bit about my searches and knows when I type Django that I mean the web framework (not the film). Duck Duck Go needs extra term in the search to know that I am looking for the software and not the film.
Amphetamines were in common civil use, available over the counter and only restricted in the US in the 70s. They were in diet pills and pep pills etc. You grandparents may very well have taken amphetamines at some point in their lives.

But no, not commonly part of the narrative. Remember, drugs are literally Hitler.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_subst...
Can you elaborate on that some more? I thought it was a custom Perl application.
That was my point: pay a little if you use it and pay more if you don't, which should discourage lazy programmers to ask for access to everything by default "just in case I need that later" and then leaving potential holes in every app they release. Not to mention the bloat involved.
I'm at a workplace where 5 of our walls have been coated into being white boards. We also have a couple of whiteboards on wheels. We don't write code on whiteboards. Instead, we tend to write: data diagrams, UI mock up discussions, project planning, month end acknowledgements, scrum board notes / grids, brain storming (often in meetings), retro columns of good/bad/ugly, announcements to the office like new wifi password or when people are away

Recently we started a new project. I worked out a database schema around the concept of an Entity Component System. You have an Entity table with a primary id column & nothing else, & no other table has a primary key. I scribbled out some tables manually & was able to demonstrate the flexibility this enables to the team
I have great news for you. https://jsonfeed.org

All major readers have already added support for it too
A. They are already working on one. I expect it to arrive with Pixel 3 next year.

B. It's really hard to develop your own SOCs let alone get it right. And, it'd be difficult to catch up with Apple's lead, but If'd to bet on someone, I'd bet on Google.
Wow! I haven't seen that kind of differential for a while. I wonder if it's just because of 11.11
Generally called a "static switch", and they are prone to issues. Here's one: https://www.aegps.com/en/products/ups-accessories/static-tra...
Details about the RBX outage were already posted earlier: http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=28244#comment35217
RSS is the best to follow up with the latest news or blogs you like, yet it has some weaknesses like -I know this is the content provider's fault- not serving the full articles.

That's why I ended up using RSS client to swiftly filter the content I get then send the interesting titles to a read-it later service -Pocket specifically- that has a better reading experience -TTS anyone?- and solves the truncated RSS articles problem.
I'm guessing your assumptions get you riled up fairly often?
If you digress into talking about important distinctions using weird long words, people are especially likely to forget the Y&Z conditions.

Did you mean pseudoanonymity or pseudonymity, BTW? I can see the case for either/both, but the MSB is that is something hinges on distinctions as subtle as that, then it's too complex for 2017's general audience. UX accident waiting to happen.
Thanks for the advice. Since this is more like a fun experiment than a product, I tried to keep it minimal and ideal. My idea is that everything is composed of dots, from there, we have lines and planes. Therefore, you're basically connecting dots on the canvas. In terms of color, white is more like being null, so there's no color as a null. If you color some dots by mistake, just unselect the color you use like unselecting dots.

I'm learning Redux now, so I'll integrate it with Redux some time. I do feel it's weird that you need to move your mouse over the dots to deselect, so I'll think about that when I change my code.
Two things left to improve for mobile phone video that would massively increase image quality: increased dynamic range and higher bit rate.

Increasing dynamic range in going to be tough. The only way to to do that would be to make the pixel's electron well bigger, but phone cameras have limited pixel size. Image sensors will probably have to provide a separate stacked electron well capacitor below each pixel, instead of using the photosensor PN junction.

Also, the industry really needs a standard raw video format that allows for high-quality post exposure correction and white-balance.
Which seems really ironic with "adgate" going on where YouTube demonetizes videos with the message "not suitable for all advertisers". Seems like all advertisers aren't suitable for all videos...
According to their maintenance postings, RBX was an upgrade problem to the software driver of the optical fiber :

"RBX:
We had a problem on the optical network that allows RBX to be connected with the interconnection points we have in Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Brussels. The origin of the problem is a software bug on the optical equipment, which caused the configuration to be lost and the connection to be cut from our site in RBX. We handed over the backup of the software configuration as soon as we diagnosed the source of the problem and the DC can be reached again. The incident on RBX is fixed. With the manufacturer, we are looking for the origin of the software bug and also looking to avoid this kind of critical incident.
"
Nothing prevents an RSS reader from fetching the linked page. I believe NewsBlur does that.
Without creators Google doesn't earn money.
At what percentage of the global economy do you think the US will become uninteresting?

(it's currently between ¼ and ⅕ of the global economy)
Javascript libraries and their preferences are always a high tension discussion because at the end of the day, it often comes down to whether you made the right decision for years to come.
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I see, so it looks like what's being measured here is "gross merchandise volume", which is the total value of orders placed on their platform. Whereas the revenue in their financial statements is the money they make from advertising and their other businesses.
+1 for "nothing better". I have been using RSS for years and select my sources of information depending on its availability.

Some comments bring the question about the readers, and their exposure to publishers, who truncate their content in the RSS feeds.

I solved this by implementing my own reader, web based. It aggregates all RSS feeds from my subscriptions and retrieves the article. When the source only exposes limited data, the script retrieves the full article directly and shows this instead.

I have shared this tool with my friends, they love it. Unfortunately, I cannot widen the audience for legal reasons: the tool automatically scraps all ads and removes any "non-content-related" stuff. I also convinced some of them to share for membership access on some newspapers: a monthly subscription to the NYT shared by 5 people, with a guarantee of "clean, ad-free" content beats anything else.

Sharing these tools with a wider audience would expose me to legal actions, notwithstanding websites that have a JavaScript paywall...

In conclusion, my only recommendation is to spend a few hours learning scripting enough to be able to read from an XML url and parse it. Once you can do that, you have your own RSS reader.

Next challenge will be websites, that expose their content through AJAX requests only...good thing is that most of them have a fallback mechanism for mobile devices, which relies on much simpler logic. The trick is to understand how to convert the 'link' in the RSS feed to a 'mobile link'.

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Okay, my question was ambiguous. I meant: how do users store and organize full articles from RSS feeds ? I used a RSS reader before a hard drive crash, and I made the mistake of subscribing to too many feeds. Aside from cutting unnecessary information overload, how do people organize their "old newspapers" ?
It's still a hugely significant number. $18B is $13.20USD for every man, woman and child in China. Considering China's GDP is $8000USD, that's basically 60% of a single day's earnings for every person in China being spent at just one company in 12 hours.

It would be the same as everyone in the US spending $100 on the same day or $32B in a single day (which is almost half of US online spending for a year).
Also the iPhone 7 has OIS.
While Evan is currently the main force behind Vue, there are many large companies with stake in it, as well as a reasonable number of contributors. Personally I prefer the current state of operations over the dense bureaucracy surrounding some other libraries, but you’re obviously free to disagree.
I've often thought about this myself, and there's really no perfect solution.

The most practical option is just give people the hardware they need, then facilitate their comfort and mobility accordingly. Desktops and laptops being used simultaneously at the same desk is very common. I'd also suggest desks with wheels.

As far as remote solutions for your situation, I don't think there are any acceptable ones. Low-latency video streaming wouldn't even cut it. Personally I'd limit myself to solutions that actually run the display signal itself. There might be some clever things you can do with the latest versions of Thunderbolt/USB/HDMI/DisplayPort; I'm not fully up to speed.

If you do end up theorycrafting that approach, one additional point of consideration might be virtualization with direct hardware passthrough. You could probably do some cool things like assign one GPU per hotdesking location, and pool any unused GPUs as computing resources. Storage could be a similar story, with neat separation.

That said, running your own on-premises AWS can become very complicated and very expensive. I wouldn't go that route unless you're really, really set on the hotdesking thing.
But... but.. If you did, how would you know within the first few seconds if the connection would work? You'd have to wait until you got the success or error message.
Ask HN: How to start with JavaScript?
There are lot of resources including r/learn javascript. But if you're a developer in js for a while, which was and still crucial to know in js?
One good thing you get out of encryption at rest is that when some fool loses the backup tapes, or sells old servers to a "certified" recycling business that turns out to just put them on eBay without wiping anything, you may still be fine. So long as the keys weren't on the same tapes/ old servers.

It's small, but it is something.
Stop ignoring the world
And anything that matches "* Deep Learning *".
There was a report in Taiwan that merchants on TMall would fake transactions worth up to 1.5bil RMB. https://tw.news.appledaily.com/international/realtime/201711...
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> crowd-sourced news seems to be more reliable than news from any one source

this may be true in the sense that if you have a lot of news reports it is more likely that one of them might be accurate but in terms of the average accuracy of a single report I am sure it is much lower.

the current internet information free-for-all seems to me to mostly be pushing people toward a position of not believing in or trusting in anything.

the effect of this is not some kind of enlightened skepticism but that people will believe and accept anything, no matter how bat-shit insane, because they have no criterion for judging the accuracy of information.
Having a separate email for newsletters is a brilliant idea.
Face ID beaten by mask, not an effective security measure
That's right. eBay's gross merchandise volume for example was $84 billion in fiscal 2016 (their revenue take was $9 billion).

Every year the media makes a big deal about Alibaba's merchandise volume. It's a cute soundbite, and it's certainly a large number, but it's not how they make money at all. Their own revenue can technically grow far faster or slower than the merchandise volume (I would expect them to outperform their merchandise volume growth rate in the coming years, as they increase ad rates as China's economy scales the value ladder & GDP per capita keeps climbing, while their manufacturing and exports grow very modestly if at all).
Is there anyone else out here scratching their head as to why anyone would think it's a good idea to actually take (or otherwise) send (let's be honest, here) pornographic images of themselves to anyone else?

Back a long time ago, if you had a Polaroid you might have some reasonable expectation that picture was the only one... but now? Once it is digital you cannot guarantee a single thing that happens to it unless you do it offline.

Why would anyone want to take that risk?
Why Beauty Is Not Universal
Mobile safari 11 doesn’t appear to work
"like" "so", or "like so"? Because the latter means that it should be present on the page, as well as in that order. I'm not sure about the former though.
Also when you decide on a backup, make sure your backup is not hosting their servers in the same DCs as is your primary, or worse yet that your backup is renting their servers from the same people you rent your primary from.
So what if the unread counts go up? I have a feed with 543 unread items, and many others with 100+. Sometimes I scan the titles of the latest dozens of items, then mark all as read.

For me, that's the advantage of RSS over Twitter: your unread counts are separate for each feed, so that blog that rarely updates but is always worthwhile to read doesn't get lost in the pile of cheap content.
No, they use their own crawler for quite some time already. Spiced up with bing results, if I recall it correctly.
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I’ve used go for around 5 years on multiple large deploys without touching the reflect package. It is neither recommended nor necessary.

Go is radically minimalist compared to other languages - it leaves a lot out, most notably inheritance.
Electronic filing coming to the Supreme Court
Statistically rigorous Java performance evaluation
> To add, i also don't necessarily think of this as a "Google" problem - the same people that will believe in a statement gathered from a quick search will also believe in the same thing when they see it in a Facebook post, Whatsapp chainmail or whatever....

Yes! It's foolish to simply trust what you read. And that's especially so for contentious issues. Every source is biased, intentionally or not. And expecting Google to do the heavy lifting, and just trust what they give you, is just as foolish.
Yup. RSS is exactly what it say it is. Nothing more. Nothing less. And in that simplicity is a tool that just works. No wresting with authenication. No "oh shit they updated the API." None of that.

Sure RSS has it's limits. But there are plenty of times that's a positive. It's disheartening to see RSS not get the respect and value it deserves.
It would be great if someone provides feedback on further improvements. TIA
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One more from that scene! I still use the same nick. :)
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> I unplugged the microphone on my daughter's iMac years ago.

Please note that a speaker may also act as a microphone if configured so (at software level). This is especially true for speakers/headphones connected via the jack.
Sorry for the repeated post, but if you have an account, you can subscribe to the channel and then get an OPML file with all the feeds from the Subscriptions Manager page.