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> That's an arbitrary distinction that's driven by developer group politics

Not at all. JavaScript is a textual language defined by a specification. Modern JavaScript does have a bytecode, but it is completely proprietary to the respective JIT compiler interpreting the code and utterly unrelated to the language's specification.

> There's no reason why a person couldn't program in bytecode.

True, but that isn't this discussion.
Did you watch the video? I think the transcription is automated.
Both projects eventually use the Chromium renderer, just with .NET bindings, so all you're doing is introducing a whole new framework dependency in order to make development a bit easier.

While I love the concept (and C#/.NET in general), this is yet another performance hit for end users.
From what I've read the "married = happier + healthier" thing for men is only true if you put the divorced guys in the "single" column. Which doesn't make sense.
I downloaded the tarball from Mozilla website. I use i3 with X.

I'm happy to provide more information via email.
What's even funnier to me is:

1. The concept they're claiming to have spent so much time to arrive at here -- a unified game time clock -- is something that most game engines have always had. This shouldn't be a new concept.

2. Even after they identified that the use of floating-point types for time calculations could cause errors, what does their new API design use as its return types? Float and double. It's almost as though they forgot what the problem was.
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+1 everyone building any sort of system should read this. Often.
> technologically its is quite feasible to use these resources in the next 1-2 generations.

These generations are far away and spent fuel piles up. Many countries have huge amounts of spent fuel near reactors. See Fukushima -> lots of spent fuel in pools in reactor buildings. This caused lots of problems in combination of the poor design (pool high in the building), failing backup electricity and failing outside electricity delivery (-> failing cooling of the pools).

> If nuclear energy development would not be stopped and opposed on every step both in development and deployment these things would have been solved long ago.

That's why nuclear thrives in China. Nuclear depends on and supports top-down authoritarian government and decision making. I'm happy that we have stopped this early.

> Every reasonable large country in Europe has enough space for these things, if you use real rather then fantasy risk assessment.

The faulty steel in the not yet running and extremely expensive French EPR is real and not a fantasy.

http://www.french-nuclear-safety.fr/Information/News-release...
> The privacy situation is absolutely different

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74n0b2/mozilla_shi...
>Who actually cares about browser speed?

Millions of people who've switched to Chrome. Including hundreds that have said as much in HN comments over the last 5 years.
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> The emergency move away from nuclear has been incredibly short sighted.

Movement for it started in 1986. Complete exit was made into law in 2000. Softened up and reinstated after Fukushima.

> I understand not wanting to build new reactors, but shutting down running reactors, with all the capital investment involved, just doesn't make any sense.

Many reactors are old and wouldn't have been running for any longer anyways. Other than that I agree that it does not make sense on a economical level.

> Especially when there is little risk of natural disasters in Germany.

Like in every other country that has nuclear power plants, severe hazards are a weekly occurence. Aditionally Germany is close to many countries which nobody trusts when it comes to nuclear security. Ukraine already had a nuclear catastrophe that cost ~1 million lifes until to date. Belgium has one of the most dangerous reactors running, Tihange 2. Etc. If you google for it you can find pictures of nuclear plants that fix their pipes with duct tape and catch radioactive water with kiddie pools.

Aditionally there is the very real and exisiting risk that all our sourrounding seas and oceans have the nuclear waste of a couple decades dumped into them with happy involvement of governments, militaries and organized crime. Then there is the waste which is temporarily stored. Worldwide. Since nobody can figure out how to store and keep it save for the next couple hundred thousand years. I mean we're not even on the level of knowing what really happened 2000 years ago.

> If people are serious about maintaining the same quality of lifestyle that we have today without burning as much coal,

The people in Germany have will and currently do accept sacrifices in this regard when it comes to saving the environment. We pay high taxes on energy and transportation. Our industry is on the forefront of environment friendly production. This was a push that started as a grass roots movement in the 80s. Now its German mainstream politics. Germans actually invest a lot of money in the environment. So do other countries.

> the current solution is Nuclear Energy.

Yes. But its not the optimal solution and it can be phased out. If my country is on the forefront of phasing it out I'm all for it. I'm also for phasing out coal. Especially since for example in our domestic coal production, every employee is subsidized by the state with ~ 500 000 € p. year.

> Yes it does pose many risks but so does burning coal, and the latter seems to be destroying our environment.

Both destroy our environment. All that nuclear waste in our seas will start to leak out and will probably kill off many species and large parts of the oceans. Its already killing millions of people and we don't know what is going to happen.

Nuclear could be a clean solution to our current energy needs if its managed correctly. On the other hand it could well be a suicide technology where we wake up one day and realize that its too late for our species or planet.
> they can also require Microsoft, Apple and Google to put in a master-key. And I don't see a problem with that.

I do.

How much do you suppose such keys would be worth? Trillions of dollars?

Every nation-state and criminal organization on the planet would be after those keys. They'd use every technical and social trick in the book, including assassination, to get them.

The loss would be inevitable, swift, and disastrous.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15622544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15654594

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15655952
Matt Levine has a history of ribbing on bitcoin exchanges. He doesn't really lay it out in this post, though, so here is a quote from an earlier one[1]:

> The other reason not to trade bitcoin is that, as far as I can tell, the fate of any bitcoin exchange/wallet/bank/custodian is to be hacked. That is just how bitcoin works: You buy bitcoins on an exchange, and you store them at the exchange because it's a pain to keep your private key yourself, and then the exchange gets hacked and your bitcoins get stolen. ("There have been at least three dozen heists of cryptocurrency exchanges since 2011," Reuters noted[2] last week.)

In general, his Money Stuff commentary tends to have a sort of sarcastic reductionist vibe to it. Whether the ignorance is true or feigned for effect really depends on the reader's perspective, I guess.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-03/bitcoin-t...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/bitcoin-...
Why couldn't you build a submarine pipeline, instead of the ship terminals and ships?

Langeled (1166 km) and Nord Stream (1222 km) transport gas under the sea, and a US-to-Germany pipeline would only be about 5 times that distance. I estimate Boston-to-Hamburg could be done for $60 billion, and it could make stops in Newfoundland, Ireland, and Britain.
That's nonsense. The market being lucrative doesn't provide any evidence for your claim and your second point is completely false. Apple doesn't collect any of this data. It's stored completely on the device itself and all processing of health data is done on the device.
What is to stop Universities from simply setting a super low tuition for funded PhD students to work around this?
I chose to be a citizen of Asgardia because it is the only nation that prizes science as highly as it does. It is a global community of more than 100,000 citizens who have all joined together toward common goals. I am proud to see our satellite launched into space. We are trying to make progress on a project greater than ourselves; this is only the first step. I look forward to greater things to come from Asgardia.
Universities charge students large tuition fees and then pay the students very large salaries. After the tuition is subtract, the students make very little. All the tuition is tax free.

Universities can easy fix this by just charging the students a tiny tuition fee so that the students new tax burden is minuscule? The money paid to the graduate students could be the same (very little).

So what's the problem? Is it that Universities route money through the graduate student accounts to avoid paying taxes on it and now they are upset that their tax loophole might be closed?
I moved from SE to UX because I needed a change from coding 8 hours a day. That's one of the field where I could easily transfer my skills.

The interview process usually requires a portfolio, 2 phone interviews and one onsite interview.
I had to talk about previous projects and what was my problem solving process, followed by a case to solve. This was refreshing and way less stressful, a walk in the park compared to the white board interview.

I understand the challenges that hiring managers face, but who has time to spend a day at 5-10 companies to switch job... A lot of companies still offer only 10-15 days vacation a year...
It's a Monty Burns quote
I'm not entirely sure what you mean with that, so I can't test it, but have you tried about:blank? So, just give it "about:blank" as URL in New Tab Override.

That's a blank page, as you might have guessed, but it's built into Firefox, so should load a lot faster. Really don't know, though, if Firefox actually treats it like a webpage or not.
You are overly paranoid... The GitHub repo is literally the first thing that shows up when searching for "Fedy" on Google:

https://github.com/folkswithhats/fedy

If the "--nogpgcheck" bothers you, a simple text replace over the source code solves it.

Same with the "curl|bash" thing, you are not obligated to run it that way, you can just clone the repo and run it however you want, it is open source!

It is funny the way people overreact with things like this with projects that are open source but are ok installed closed source software and feel safe because they got them from the official repos...
JPEG has a thumbnail facility built-in I think, did you try using a pre-created thumbnail scaled up? Or just progressive images?
I'm glad others are digging into this. It's a fairly common problem. I had to deal with my with my deceased friend's account being hijacked by a 'bait' account a few months ago. Facebook seemed fairly indifferent to the issue.

Wrote about the process here: https://medium.com/@vonkunesnewton/facebook-parasite-the-sec...
Nefarious purposes, mostly. I can crawl without rate limits (well, there are rate limits, but it's much harder to hit them), and I also can spam a lot without getting my account flagged (but it eventually gets flagged, of course).

By spamming I don't mean the usual "click on this link and I'll show you my tits" spam; if you create a useful bot that sends "expected" mentions (for example in response to mentions you receive, and not just spam) it will get banned in a matter of hours. With their "secret" tokens, it won't get banned.
Something tells me that'd be more tedious to get the same kind of data, what with having to go to several instances to get it, instead of one place.
The official twitter app is possibly using these premium endpoints, so it's token has access to those. If you "grab" that token(s) somehow, you can go ahead and use it in your app, I presume. I don't know how this will work when your app wants to connect to someone else's account, however.
I wish the animations were more subtle!
Short of the year right there. Reddit's revenue model makes Twitter look like a cash cow.
A polite term for unconscious bias.
> There is not enough hydroelectric capacity in Germany

Build pumped storage plants in 1km succession along all the high Fall lines of the Mittelgebirge. Ideally right next to the Wind Turbines that are already there. Sure, it's only 50-300m of height, but in sum it will be enough.

Voith and Siemens will be more than happy to produce those Turbines.
Servo doesn't render major websites properly (last I checked). Their UI is placeholder. Their Network/Caching layer is placeholder. There's no updates, configuration, add-ons, internationalization.

Servo is not meant to be a real browser. That's not a bad thing, but I don't think you can use it as an example of a browser built quickly by a small team.
A lot of people are missing the quote and the sarcasm.

Which is interesting, because the point of sarcasm is that it's so obviously phony that it's funny...and yet this one fails because some people actually advocate this. Look at the exchange quoted in the top comment:

> Ron Conway: Well I mean are you willing to work 24/7....I mean if they are dating somebody or they are married, they warn their spouse that they are not first in line.

That was, as best I can tell, completely genuine.
But the legal system constrains what employers can consider in candidates. Perhaps these hires would have failed a cognitive test? Unfortunately, we'll never know because the courts read disparate impact as proof of discrimination.

It's an ugly truth, but we would be better off with more discrimination. Stupid people should hold less power in society and discrimination is the means to keep stupid people away from power.
Tail recursion optimisation gets rid of all tail calls in functions, not just those that might lead to loops - you cannot in general detect those calls that might be loops. This can put a lot of holes in your stack trace.
There's a big scary warning about making any changes in about:config, so I'm reluctant to do so.
A changelog for docker image updates
Brave on mobile, Vivaldi on desktop
That's a really weird framing ("they warn their spouse that they are not first in line"). Lot's of married people with kids are "24/7." How many Chinese and Indian people come to America and spend 24/7 running a restaurant? Are they single? Or are they married with kids?
I no longer use Arch Linux due to breakage. In the six years you didn't have a problem when they switched to systemd and bugged all the config files to null? There have been several times when I pacman -Syu and didn't read the front page and there goes 15 minute to 3 hours.

I had several HUGE reports due and I ended up having to go on a different machine and git pull to get them done it time. I never recommend Arch Linux for anything beside personal hobby work.
Minimum wage laws, including the parts prohibiting unpaid work benefiting the employer, and setting minimum salaries for paid positions to be exempt from usual overtime, rest period, etc., requirements.
Ask HN: SAAS companies, why don't you have a “pause” subscription feature?
In lieu of the the CANCEL subscription why don't more subscription based companies do not have a PAUSE feature?
New Study Shows What Would Happen If the US Went Vegan
This is so awful that I'm sad to see the word "advice" being used. I lost my wife due to my commitment to my startup. I'm still at a startup, but the one that I loved and dreamed about so much which cost me so dearly ultimately failed.

Before you take this kind of advice, take a good long look at what you want from life. Before you take a vow to support your business you should remember the vows you've already made.
A large part of that is the filtering effect. Married people are happier than single people because the really unhappy married people get divorced. And health is correlated with happiness.
I'm not sure I understand the message of this article. Is it just that people in a (good) marriage have better (emotional, financial) support systems, and are therefore happier? The subtitle would lead me to believe that the article is encouraging founders who are single to seek out a marriage just so they can strain it in the name of their startup. Treating your spouse like a weird type of employee is all kinds of unethical.

Like, who is this article for? Are there single founders in committed relationships who aren't taking the next step because they fear they'll break the ranks of stereotypcial single founders? Founders in bad marriages (which I would believe make up a decent portion of them) know that their work isn't helping their relationship, and those in good marriages already know this.
Cancer cure? Engineering non-immune cells to kill cancer cells
OpenSUSE gives you the option to use the blobs or the opensource drivers. I use the evil blobs which will never be officially supported on Fedora.
I tend to use Chrome for its devtools, but I'd add WebRTC support to the list of things Firefox excels at
Its comically frustrating just how incompetent the current administration and the Republican Party seems to be. Bill Gates once said that US research universities are one of the best, and it would be very hard to fuck them up (I'm paraphrasing). This might just be one step in that direction.

As a former Graduate Student: you live very much close to poverty. The University provides a small stipend which covers essential expenses. Basically, you put up with the low wages because you love your research and are basically engaged in research all the time (i.e. you generally do not have a life). This tax hike will likely reduce that stipend and make life even more difficult.

I won't address whether there is a glut of graduate students; that is an interesting and separate issue. But the fact remains that US univ. have done a pretty great job of attracting the smartest people over the world to come here and engage in research.
I agree no mention of him isn't a big deal. But he is definitely changing the game. His stream style is way more entertaining then a lot of the other streamers mentioned, subjectivity aside. His production value for a live stream, thought that goes into each session, and the entire character he portrays.

I've seen so many knockoffs of him recently its kinda disturbing.
To me, Reddit is clearly an example of social media, and less clearly a social network. Compared to Facebook or LinkedIn, for example, it has much less focus on the network aspect, connecting individual users, and a much larger focus on what is being posted. On larger subreddits, most interactions are with random strangers, rather than people you have some close relation to.

That being said, I do think the ability to create small communities and organize that way could just be considered a different way of modeling connections. Rather than peer-to-peer links, you have topic groups as the primary structure.

There's definitely a spectrum, though, and I would be willing to accept it if somebody made the argument that Reddit wasn't a social network.
The answer to your question is the entire point of the blog post, which was written by Guy Steele, who worked on the original design of Java.
> That said, it's not the technology's fault that people abuse or otherwise make poor use of it.

I felt like I should respond to this, too.

It's not, but it is not unreasonable to object to implementing new ways for browsers to hog resources pretty much at the hosts' discretion. In this case it can be argued that it's poor use of technology to implement it in the browser.

On a similar basis, one might argue that it's poor use of technology to kill people with dynamite, but it is also reasonable to take a step back and argue that it is poor use of technology already at the point at which you gave a toddler the detonator. Regardless, dynamite is an excellent and useful technology.
here's a secret you can be in on too if you have access to ida/hexrays: every single AR sdk (vuforia/kudan/wikitude/easyar/arkit/etc.) is 90% opencv code, 5% novelty, and 5% glue.
I also have a Series 3. What app do you use to track sleep?

I'm using AutoSleep, but it seems to really overestimate the time I'm actually asleep, and as far as I can tell it doesn't take into account tossing/turning during the night (either that, or I'm getting way better sleep than I think I'm getting).
I don't think APIs in general should have anything to do with authorization, other than passing along a token.
Yes. Phones have SIMD. Hell, the cheapo MIPS in my router has SIMD. You use the portable simd instructions and they get compiled to native simd instructions for your platform. Just like any other part of webassembly.
When Dinosaurs Roam in Chrome
Below I am reinterpreting your first sentence as "Not 'per se', correct." (Your original has roughly the opposite meaning of this interpretation, but I've been known to omit metaspeech-indicating quotation marks, myself.)

Your answer is interesting. For those following I should note that compensation means a curative or attempted curative event (as opposed to a disease event such as bacterial infection.)

As what is probably an aside, neurotransmitter production being actively downregulated as a compensatory mechanism (to lower local metabolism needs) is possible, and an interesting thought (whether my thought or your thought) (just not one that creates a buildup of tau etc.) I haven't encountered any evidence that this is compensatory and not just a downstream effect. Your mileage may vary. The evidence that mental activity reduces disease progression might be taken as disconfirmation of such an hypothesis - except that mental practice could be helping mask the underlying (progress of the) disease by increasing skill/adaptation.

Re schizophrenia, I now think of it as a definition affected by a kind of "publication bias." The underlying disease process (or processes) may have rather random results depending on just what part of the brain is most affected - only when the amygdala is strongly affected is a patient likely to get a diagnosis of Schizophrenia, since this can make them (or make them seem) "a danger of self or others."
because Google has the worst biz model in the tech industry and is doing harm to the world.
It's easy to point and smirk at the quality of someone else's codebase from a distance. But as a long time player of League, it's been very rare that a software bug has affected my enjoyment of the game. The quality of my internet connection and the state of balance have always been matters with significantly more impact.

I further think that Riot often doesn't get credit for the things they do right. I remember back in the day they were rolling out patches weekly, with a 12 hour maintenance window a la WoW on Tuesdays. That fell to half that time, then a third, and has at this point been gone for years. Cheating is a major problem in any current multiplayer game (PUBG has been getting hit hard recently I hear), but it's never been big enough in League that I felt the effects.

Riot has managed to build the biggest gaming phenomena outside of Minecraft in the last decade, and I'd expect corners to be cut in doing that. Clean code doesn't win a startup race, and games are a cut-throat business (see: Epic's Fortnite rolling out a battle Royale mode in a span of months following the success of PUBG). It's a good thing, imo, that Riot can afford the time and energy to start cleaning their code, and are willing to share some parts of that process with the wider world.