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You keep bringing up these useless analogues about movies and chinese boxes. Be more specific.

There specifically IS user input involved here. There is no "building from scratch".

I can look at (simple) video footage of a game I've never seen before and start to model in my head various ways how certain mechanisms can be implemented in code. I quickly learn to predict how different game elements move based on how they look and similarly looking things have moved before. Even if I didn't know anything about programming, I could learn to predict how that monster moves. In fact, playing the game trains my brain to predict these things.

_Obviously_ I might not know what's behind that next monster. I don't know what the game designers have come up with: some things are _impossible_ to predict, but the basic mechanics can be learned and the more I play, the better my prediction accuracy gets.

The mechanics of me learning these things is not too far away from e.g. neural network learning the same things. Again, obviously, the neural network cannot create the parts of the game world it hasn't seen. But no-one is claiming that. Nor that just by showing a little bit of game play, we could re-create the whole game. Only that it can probably learn to render the mechanics (game engine) based on user input. The authors showed some interesting results based on this.
Really? Good to know! Maybe one day a few stubborn sound designers will replace Yamaha modules from their rack with these FPGA replicas :)
I don't know why you're being downvoted. The lack of impartiality in the public debate was pretty obvious, there was almost nobody in the public sphere that was openly exploring all the issues. Would it have been hard to actually listen to each other and get beyond the surface level shouting match that constituted the pre-Brexit debates?
Aaron Gustafson does (did?) that, example medium post: https://medium.com/@AaronGustafson/your-site-any-site-should...

apparently from a jekyll blog: https://github.com/aarongustafson/jekyll-crosspost-to-medium
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Correct. But the fact that they're leaving the successful economic environment they're currently sort of privileged members, which helps them avoid becoming irrelevant, based on clearly misinformed and mostly implicitly supremacist arguments, implies the idea that they are indeed.

We can argue all day, but the campaign 'remains' (sorry for the pun) in our memories. Denial will not make things improve, nor chanting 'Rule Britannia' like some other commentators.
They're paying cash. I've seen as much as $500 USD / hour.
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The main problem is that it isn't a very good knob for this use case, as "ratio of freshly allocated data to live data remaining" is only incidental to the goal of the person writing the program. Therefore you'd expect to have to retune it due to unrelated changes, like if you allocated a big chunk of static memory to hold results.

I expect Go's current behaviour is right for memory-intensive programs, where "limit the wasted memory as a ratio of the actual working set" is a reasonable high-level goal. For a CPU intensive program you might have preferred a "max x% CPU overhead" knob, but just a minimum memory size would work, as this is mostly an artifact of the very small memory usage of benchmark program.

Java's G1 has "max pause delay" as their preferred knob, but Go has stuck that knob on low since around version 1.6, which is a good choice for what is essentially a language for network services.
Isn't the difficulty the same? Why wouldn't you want to mine whichever coin cost more?
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FWIW, Firefox is still number one in Germany (desktop only) which is not an to be underrated economy.
Thank you for calling out what seems like an incredible -- almost intentionally ignorant -- hive mind HN tends to have at times.
According to this site the average transaction fee for Bitcoin right now is $19.20! I'm not sure what is going to happen long term, but it's interesting to watch from the sidelines as this situation evolves.
As someone out of the loop, why do the series have noted periods where the rates have inverse extrema, starting with Oct 1?
There are Jerks and Non-Jerks. Also Brilliant Folks and Averae Joes(?). I dont know why we tend to club two different qualities and consider them as a single entity. The question should be, "This employee is a jerk, what to do about it" rather than, "This employee is a brilliant jerk, should we tolerate it". There are enough brilliant people who are excellent human beings with no failings and plenty of mediocre bullies. The employee should conform to common sense behaviour which is compliant to their corporate culture like most tech workers do.
I can imagine. :)
I’m surprised I didn’t see React mentioned anywhere in the article. I wonder where its growth curve is compared to angular. Though to be fair, a bunch of the angular2 growth is people moving from “AngularJS” so it doesn’t exactly represent angular growth as a whole.
Let's make this very clear: this is not a typical Hungarian approach. This is what Fazekas and to an extent a few more similar specialized high schools do. The typical Hungarian approach is frontal instruction with no respect to the learning speed differences.

Source: Personal experience. I am a Fazekas alumni and have a Hungarian maths teachers masters as well. I am bankrolling a very small reform school in Hungary so I am in contact with current Hungarian teachers every day and also I am obviously very interested in what's going on so I read a lot.
Exactly. If I ran a lemonade stand, it could be the best lemonade within 100 miles, but it would also be bankrupt within an hour.

I would need a non-technical co-founder that I could trust to not stab me in the back, and an investor willing to give us enough runway to take off without putting any land mines in it. So far, those conditions have never been met. Business around here is very often more about who you know than what you can do, and since I don't know the right people, those customers are simply unavailable, even at a deep discount to $100/hr.

All that overhead is necessary to navigate the system that has been set up to favor those that support the system. The bureaucratic hoops are insurmountable barriers to entry to individuals, and very steep even for a hypothetical small company that is 51% owned by a disabled Indian veteran woman. It wouldn't be much of a military-industrial complex if it could be disrupted that easily. The "clients" are far less interested in saving money than with preserving their influence over the nature of the work, an end often pursued by spending every penny of the allocated budget, regardless of need.

A union could change it. A U.S. attorney with a forensic accountant, TS/SCI security clearance, and a stack of subpoenas could change it. A political party could change it. A handful of generals and admirals could change it. One software pro, working alone? Not so much.

This is really the best deal I can get right now, without dropping everything and moving again. It isn't great, but it is available to me, and I don't have to front capital, work owner-manager hours, or do types of work that I am not comparatively good at doing.

Besides that, I have already failed at going it alone once, and once was all I could afford. I didn't make it, and lost everything. The work was good enough, but not enough people wanted to buy it, and not enough customers recommended it to their friends. So that runway is gone, and I'm stuck workin' for The Man until I can retire. In retrospect, I would have been far better off not trying. But that's all anecdotal. You might succeed on your own. Maybe I just didn't work hard enough.
If companies are hiring there... yes? Like, it is an objective "yes, California needs more people."
Well going even beyond that. There's entire populations of people barely living above the stone age, not to mention uncontacted tribes still out there in the world. It provides a fascinating spectrum of experiences.

I guess my point is any large enough group of beings will have a variety of responses ranging from embracing new ideas and information wholeheartedly or rejecting them out of fear and ignorance and every possible combination of response in between. And it can be tricky to figure out which sub-group should represent the whole in these sort of blanket statements about how "they" would "feel" about an arbitrary bit of knowledge that they couldn't have foreseen discovering.
With Tree Style Tabs plus the Awesome bar it is not a problem to handle and it's easy to get up to this number over the day.
I am seeing quite some issues with google chrome and twilio lately, dropped calls and non-responses from twilio's RTC servers.

It could be a chrome issue though because firefox works fine.
I think in an 83(b) you haven't had a gain, same as today, so there's nothing to tax.
percentage of royalties would reduce from current ~5% in LTE to 2.5-3% in 5G.many operators have just invested in upgrading to gigabit LTE so next rollout should happen after they recoup their current investments so probably by 2020.
Not broken. Using it on FF57 stable.
That graph is many hours behind. https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate

The hashrate quickly jumped back to Bitcoin after the difficulty changed.
I'd guess that it is large pools of miners switching over together.
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You're right that productive people are productive despite being jerks, not because they're jerks. And sure, cast as much judgement on jerks as you feel is proper.

But most people are pretty set in their ways. Everyone who yells at cashiers when they're 40 has done so before, they've probably faced some consequences for their actions and the behavior persists so either you need to be more persuasive than the totality of their lived experience or you can adjust your sails.

If we can accept people who miss work for sick kids, we can accept jerks. But we don't have to accept either. Everything is subservient to money. You can simply pay for excellent people, but some corporations need to compete elsewhere.

I wouldn't pay a jerk as much as a team player (all other things equal), but for the right price I'd put up with the headaches. That's the right call for me, it's not the right call for others. What's important is that corporations and managers get creative about making things work for people.
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I hope it will not take too long until FF gets hardware acceleration for videos on Linux (VAAPI/VDPAU). A few days ago I installed Arch Linux on a Netbook and was shocked to see that FF still doesn't have hardware acceleration for videos (VDPAU exists since 2008).

Some might say this is not much of an issue as most modern CPUs can handle 1080p, but actually pre-Ryzen AMD CPUs are too slow and power saving Intel CPUs Laptops are too slow too. So the only excuse might be, that nobody uses that open source OS, but especially from Mozilla I would not expect such an attitude towards open source software.
No it hasnt. this is fake news.
https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate

Bitcoin cash was momentarily ahead of bitcoin, but now the order has been restored.
It's probably miners switching between the two depending on which is more profitable at the time.
It was short lived, much like the battle between ETC and ETH.

You can see the updated hash-rates here: https://fork.lol/pow/hashrate

This might equalize with BCH's fork today, which will give them a free difficulty adjustment.
Last time I tried it was in the KDE 3 days and there were mappings that you could set up but it required so much tedious work, often per app.
the end result was terrible and inconsistent.

I’ve also explored the Ctrl/Cmd separation in GNOME/GTK3 but it’s deep into the code, guess what there’s actually a constant or two dedicated for that and it could magically work but they’re entirely unavailabe to configuration, probably pertain to some build time thing for macOS, gated by auto #define’d per platform values. Turns out nobody cares and it requires quite an involvement to get into the thing, build a proper patch, submit it, have it reviewed and accepted.

In the end I stuck for a while in tiled WM land (awesome, i3) with deft configuration, and minimal desktop apps that wouldn’t require such shortcuts, but you always end up needing a browser or something and things become leaky and inconsistent again. So I moved back to macOS.
I'll leave that for fine gentlemen such Mr. Farage or BJ. Hopefully they'll be kind enough to explain what I'm referring to by just elaborating on their position on this whole affair.
The difficulty rate fluctuates depending on how many people are mining it. Sometimes BCC is more profitable to mine and everyone piles into it. Then the difficulty goes up and all the miners go back to BTC. Doesn't really mean much.
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It can be. I think it's a trade off that needs to be applied on a case by case basis. Too much dependency inversion leads to writing way more code than necessary, all of which needs maintenance. Too little leads to brittle, tightly coupled code.

I think you have to weigh up the relative merits of having less code vs. having a lower cost of code change. Furthermore, following YAGNI dictates that you shouldn't really do DI until you actually do need it.

I think doing it to facilitate unit testing is a universally bad approach, and a code smell that indicates that what you really wanted was an integration test.
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Aagh! "Let's take hardware designed to be connected to a machine by its owner, connect it to the whole internet, and blame the hardware when it gets hacked." Does anyone remember how long it took for single-user operating systems to harden themselves against remote attacks? Yeah, they're still working on it. Now imagine something like that, but for hardware that either never gets firmware updates, or is connected to the internet so it can have them pushed.
> So it's not going to tell the main story itself, which is probably wise given the film adaptations aren't even that old.

As far as my understanding of the very complex and sad story of LotR rights goes, they can't/. In a nutshell, JRRT has sold all non-printing rights for LotrR and Hobbit a long time ago, and they are currently held by the entity (currently) called Middle-earth Enterprises [1], a division of The Saul Zaentz Company. This basically boils down to them having the final world on any derivative work that includes the characters, locations and some other elements from the novels.

The rest of the rights belong to the Tolkien Estate [2], which is a legal entity controlled primarily by Tolkien's son Christopher. The Estate have for long been opposed to any derivative works, but they have apparently changed their stance, considering they are the ones Amazon made the deal with.

So I expect we won't see any of the Fellowship, nor places like Rivendell, Moria or Minas-Tirith; but there are plenty of areas in Middle-earth with enough stories to explore -- early days of Arnor and Gondor, Dol Amroth etc.

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No, it's not the same, since they are completely separate now and run the difficulty adjustment independently.
> Don't go gatekeeping the gatekeepers

I realize you're joking, but I didn't think I was. It's not like I said "HN is no place for this type of comment". I just stated my opinion
What? My point is that the incentive structure driving that expectation is even stronger than any legally-binding requirement could hope to be. Your framing of this issue implied that short-termism is somehow a perversion of capitalism and what I’m trying to explain is that it is in reality a direct consequence of it.
How long will it take to forget about this again?

The whole story reminds me of something a project manager, who worked at the Google homepage, once said.

They worked their asses off to get the page smaller and smaller so the UX was unbeatable. Then, after they got enough users, they focused on different things, and more and more stuff was included.

Somehow Firefox went the same way, right?

First they created it so it would be small, fast and modular, then it got bloated to the max and now they set it on a diet again.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer Mozilla to Google, and I like that they even explored experimental stuff like Rust and Servo to get on the right track again.

But for how long?
IMHO, there is even too much focusing on speed. Firefox got _cool_ again. It looks great, the logo looks great, animations are great.

I look at the thing most of the day, looks are important just as much as speed.
that's because it's more profitable to mine BCH now before the difficulty adjustment kicks in. Didn't they recently hard fork to relax the difficulty adjustment rules so this exact situation could happen?

Alternatively Bitmain has just plugged in a new batch of their ASICBoost
Would you like to elaborate? What "agile graphs" fail and why?
also one more thing. Bitcoin cash is a altcoin backed by some dubious people:

-Some swedish guy who claims he is the CEO of bitcoin cash. Who is also a pirate party member

-Roger ver, who has been kicked out of US after serving jailtime.

-Wright, a guy who impersonated satoshi nakamoto and was exposed

+ alot more.

these people want to take control of bitcoin and make it a centralized currency.
This was achieved by paying miners substantially more. That payment gets pulled out of the Bitcoin Cash market cap when the miners sell their coins.

This news is essentially equivalent to saying "On November 13th, Salesforce outspent Apple in cyber security. This is one of just a few days in all of history where the security spending for that day for Salesforce exceeded the security spending of Apple for that day. Apple is expected to fall into a death spiral soon."
I don't know about Deep Learning Nanodegree, but I took Machine Learning and AI Nanodegrees at Udacity and they are definitely worth it. I would not recommend them to total beginners in the field. You need to have at least some experience with data science and Python to be able to follow along. Do some free courses on Udacity, Coursera, EdX and other platforms, try to implement these algorithms with your own data and problems and then take the Nanodegree to fill the gaps.
I've given advice to young professionals in the past in this same vein. I ask, "What magic is it that people love good ideas, yet, you have a good idea and no one listens to you?"

The answer boils down to this: if you have a good idea but people are rejecting it, find a new way to talk about it.
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