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Think about Background Location Tracking when the app is closed. I saw some video on YouTube in which the speaker has one such use case like he has a Car Service like Uber. But the Driver needs location tracking & the app shows the path to reach from point A to point B. So if the app is running all the time even when the car is stopped at some place. Lets suppose the Driver wants to take a piss or have food. Then he will stop so the app won't be running now. This specific use case with React Native will run a lot of the battery & CPU cycles as the speaker told in the YouTube video. The original video I could not find. But I think I explained it perfectly now.

Summary of the usecase if I have not explained well - Uber like Car for picking packets from one place to another. Must be keeping track of Driver Location. But should not run all the time, must only run while Car is moving. This won't work with React Native, I mean it would but it takes a lot of performance, CPU, battery, etc...

Another 2 videos also show where React Native cannot be used for particular usecases like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXKFQu2cP4c & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZLAHQXRsI

Let me know if its clear now ?
>The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui.
This gorgeous graphic novel is a deeply personal memoir that explores what it means to be a parent and a refugee. The author’s family fled Vietnam in 1978. After giving birth to her own child, she decides to learn more about her parents’ experiences growing up in a country torn apart by foreign occupiers.

>Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond.
If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are intertwined, you should read this book about the eviction crisis in Milwaukee. Desmond has written a brilliant portrait of Americans living in poverty. He gave me a better sense of what it is like to be poor in this country than anything else I have read.

>Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, by Eddie Izzard.
Izzard’s personal story is fascinating: he survived a difficult childhood and worked relentlessly to overcome his lack of natural talent and become an international star. If you’re a huge fan of him like I am, you’ll love this book. His written voice is very similar to his stage voice, and I found myself laughing out loud several times while reading it.

>The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Most of the books I’ve read and movies I’ve seen about the Vietnam War focused on the American perspective. Nguyen’s award-winning novel offers much-needed insight into what it was like to be Vietnamese and caught between both sides. Despite how dark it is, The Sympathizer is a gripping story about a double agent and the trouble he gets himself into.

>Energy and Civilization: A History, by Vaclav Smil.
Smil is one of my favorite authors, and this is his masterpiece. He lays out how our need for energy has shaped human history—from the era of donkey-powered mills to today’s quest for renewable energy. It’s not the easiest book to read, but at the end you’ll feel smarter and better informed about how energy innovation alters the course of civilizations.
"We'll have real AI in just a few years, we swear!"

-- Every AI researcher since 1950.
What excites me most about ICOs is how accessible it makes organization. To get a group of 10 people to work on a common goal and share the reward is surprisingly difficult. The overhead of the legal and accounting costs makes it a non-start for anything worth less than a multi-million dollar venture. But what about all the opportunities below that? Local shops, gardens, and service based businesses?

I'd like to see a set of standardized smart contracts, where if you adhere to the protocols of the contract, investors can enjoy the benefit of certain expectations. Such as, the cap table being accurate. The distribution of shares will be known, along with the voting power of all members. The flow of income and payout of dividends will also be transparent.

If complying with regulation is cheap and accessible more people will do it. I'd like the SEC to open a github account and create regulatory compliant smart contracts. Let's welcome everyone into the business class and encourage local investments in our communities. That's my vision for ICOs at least.
still ridiculously large file compared to webm/mp4. The alpha support is cool though.
The highest daily volatility ever was 15% and it's currently around 4%, according to https://bitvol.info/ . Two times the highest daily standard deviation ever doesn't seem so unreasonable.
IOTA surges up 70% after teaming up with Microsoft, now the 5th cryptocurrency
What's the issue with Edge? https://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm shows Edge has support. Seems like Chrome does on Android as well.

> The time needed to figure out integration between JavaScript and Rust is too long.

Yup! This is currently a very low-level target; we're actively working on stuff here. It'll get nicer over time!
Yeah Frondo has it right; it's a slippery slope argument. Your argument is essentially an argument against all laws like, "well we can't make everything bad illegal, so we shouldn't make anything bad illegal".

Furthermore it's important to say I'm not advocating for laws that dictate what you can and can't say. What I am saying is if you get on YouTube comments, HN forums, Twitter, whatever, and start tossing slurs you get bounced. It's a reasonable place to start I think.
I have been using this for past few days after the AWS announcement. It works so well and feels almost like having a fully functional Web Based IDE. I simply SSH into my Digital Ocean server and can work smoothly from anywhere.
Can u give me a tough use case where RN won't perform likewise ? I really want to make good decision here. Otherwise it would happen like AngularJS.
DBMS for Analytics: Risky Business Without Foundation Knowledge (Part 1)
Yeah right, what's a bigger problem: not being able to say the N word or going to jail for no reason and feeling lucky that you weren't shot for no reason because you're Black?
Little projects like this are a pretty good way to play around and learn.
What does it mean for a currency to be backed by the military?
Didn't see it that time. Found it interesting this time.

Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> It's not a particularly sensible default

I'm not convinced there is any sensible default for that. By now I think lazyness is something that will only be solved by interactive optimization.
The ultimate list of hacks for Chrome’s forced yellow background
Think carefully about what you're saying. The rich get to live longer and healthier and the poor get substandard healthcare? The poor are the ones that need to work.
gif is easy for the kids to say? I don't get it either though.
A senior editor at buzzfeed is not Jeff Bezos
You are right, thank you for spotting this! I will have to make a new contract, this one is flawed. If someone decides to call this function and I get the funds, I will give a manual refund. It will have to do until v2 release of the contract. Right now at least it's not holding any major funds.
I followed Olimex's instructions [1] for their AM352-SOM, which is very similar to the BBB. From those instructions it's not difficult to build a working kernel, u-boot and debian-based rootfs.

In fact, I highly recommend this route (debootstrap) if you're not interested in compiling everything (the way buildroot and OE do it) and instead rely on Debian's prebuilt ARM packages. You still get to customize exactly what is in your image; adding or removing pre-installed packages is not difficult. Plus you get apt/dpkg, for updates which IMO is superior to ipkg.

I've used both kernel v4.4 with Debian Jessie and 4.9 with stretch, both work well.

I've got a bash script which acts as a pseudo-makefile that does the whole shebang: builds kernel & u-boot with my kconfig/ DTS, calls debootstrap including my preferred list of packages, applies my rootfs customizations and spits out an image ready to burn directly to an SD card. The whole thing runs in a docker container (could also use Vagrant) from my Mac workstation. Tweaking the package list, distro or kernel version is mostly a matter of changing a few constants defined at the top of the script.

Note that BBB is slightly different from the Olimex module hardware-wise, but the process is essentially the same. Also note, the ti linux kernel is close mainline, whereas
the bbOrg kernel has tons of patches for their "capes" system. If you're not interested in expanding the BBB with capes I think you can stick with the ti kernel sources.

You could also build a very minimal busybox-based distro. But from there you're pretty much on your own w/r/t additional packages.

[1] https://www.olimex.com/wiki/AM335x
so GHC can generate C code to bootstrap GHC?
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> Especially when facing criminal charges (or public scrutiny), this kind of tricks can actually work.

Alternative: the trick might be using someone else’s credentials because you know they, not you, will take the blame.

Without knowledge of the real behaviour of espionage and interfering with foreign governments/other political parties in your own nation/police officers who never take bribes, I would presume there are people who get themselves hired by their opponents specifically to undermine them in this way.

Can you imagine how few people would believe a politician protesting their innocence if it was discovered that someone has used that politician’s email account to chat with a 9-year old? Especially if the person sending the emails claimed to be that politician (bonus points if the politician shares their phone as well as their password, they might have selfies nobody else has seen)? When the 9-year old could never be found (because they never really existed, but again imagine how that will go down as an excuse)?
Code reviews help a lot with that. At my current company we don't review so I've found myself getting complacent
It works, but as a general rule, you need to include more fluff than the person above you in the hierarchy unless you know they're fine with you being shorter. The trick is figuring out just how much more fluff is ok.

But what will come across as "curt" or "mean" is if your e-mails are substantially less fluffy than those of your boss or your co-workers. You need to adapt to the style in use in the business, not because it is objectively curt or mean, but because people judge whether or not you're being curt or mean subjectively based on their base of comparison, and that is your co-workers.
If there were an short and foolproof course to fix that, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
I apply the 80/20 rule recursively. It’s something I caught myself doing at some point and now I tell junior devs to do the same thing.

If you spent most of a day on something, nobody is going to notice an extra twenty minutes to fix it up a bit more. Especially if it means fewer production issues with that code. On a sane project the interesting problems are given to the most reliable people, not the fastest. So look at th code one more time than you deem necessary.

Try to look at it the way someone else will or the way you will in six months when you touch it again. Do the commit comments match the code? Can you tweak the code a bit to make it mean what you said? Then do it.
In a way "burning" the funds already does distribute them to everyone else.

Since that is now money that is forcibly and irrevocably taken out of circulation, so therefore everyone else's money is worth slightly more because of it!
Is there any real alternative to C9 (self-host or no, I don't really care) that isn't a part of AWS/GCE/<cloud provider here>? I've already tried C9 (hosted and self-hosted) and am not really a fan.
I think this is similar to the idea of Health Justice that I've heard Tim Faust talk about. The reason the hospital will take the deal is simple, it's the only deal by law and the private insurance payers will be eliminated.
The Winklevoss twins have become the world's first Bitcoin billionaires
Ask HN: Is chainload loaded slowly-ier as time passes by?
Ask HN: Is chainload loaded slowly-ier as time passes by, it fissions?
It looks like a bracelet is enough depending upon the jurisdiction in the United States. For example in New York -
https://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/ems/policy/99-10.htm
Finally! I love Apple but taxes should be paid. There is a difference between legal and ethical and US companies should begin to understand that. So hopefully others will follow suit.
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Ask HN: Will NIPS 2017 be live streamed?
Arpilisp author here.

Yes, jonesforth definitely inspired and influenced me; that's why Jones is first in the Acknowledgements section.

If you're curious, I keep a list of single-file implementations of programming languages (including jonesforth):

https://github.com/marcpaq/b1fipl
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Nope that doesn't work because there's still no way to reliably control for the confounding factors. We don't even know what all the confounding factors are. Patients aren't randomly assigned to providers.
I expected something along the lines of http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html (link to code broken) or the more ambitious (a Unix-like OS on Z80, 6809, 6502, 68000, and others) https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX (with ‘Lots more bugs right now’ than UZI)

This is a nice hack, but not as cool as those projects.
That's true. Facebook isn't the only problem, and there's not really any way around the new economy of attention in exchange for money. Though it's not particularly groundbreaking, it's frustrating to see yet another instance of a company invading the lives of its users even more.
"Its mission is to broaden the possibilities of uses and to increase the number of users by simplifying the process of managing cryptocurrency to the maximum."

...clear as mud, where do I sign?
What you are talking about is the speculative value. There is also a utility value for a pseudonymous currency that is difficult to block and nearly impossible to reverse for things like drug sales or laundering money. One big risk with bitcoin is that another cryptocurrency could come along that has lower fees(because of block size or different proof of work system), faster block times for more reliable transactions, more anonymity in practice, or a more useful secondary network.
Pairing.

Bouncing off ideas, war stories, snippets, learning and sharing alternative ways to solve problems. Priceless.
That's not a "possibility", it's a reality.

From what we are seeing (as a desktop software vendor) all fancy-shmancy AI-based antiviruses absolutely "excel" at false positive detection. It's more of a miracle when they do NOT flag something that's not of "hello world" variety as a malware. And I wish I were kidding.
i take courses on udemy and coursera.
I don't know if this applies, but my favorite YouTube channel is The Great War:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

They post weekly videos following what happened exactly 100 years ago during WW1(so it's halfway through) and get very detailed and informative, since starting they have also expanded to include a bunch of specials on the parties involved, major characters of the war, and answering questions from their social media channels.

There is some speculation that they follow up a similar format for the 80 years of WW2 in two years but since there's so much more material I guess they need way more funding and research.
I thought it was a typo for "model employee", but your interpretation makes more sense.
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Bruce Schneier previously had this to say regarding IOTA:

> In 2017, leaving your crypto algorithm vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis is a rookie mistake. It says that no one of any calibre analyzed their system, and that the odds that their fix makes the system secure is low
Banks are allowed to hire armed security to shoot at potential robbers. They could require better vetting (maybe requiring the use of a debit card before the doors are unlocked, metal detectors, etc). But instead they're allowed to skimp on less draconian security measures and go straight to guns. How is back hacking any different?
Yes, the same HD content is better as MP4 than GIF, but in the past a "typical" GIF loaded much faster than a typical video. It may even be true (any experts?) that there is an effective lower limit on video quality/framerate for MP4 that prevents it from being the super fast novelty juice that a low-quality GIF could be.
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Here are my 5 favorite books of this year:

- The investment checklist http://amzn.to/2zlAvj9

- Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable http://amzn.to/2znnhTb

- Grinding it out: The Making of McDonald's http://amzn.to/2A3VTwF

- Difficult conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most http://amzn.to/2znr8iV

- Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups http://amzn.to/2A7Jng0

What are yours?
Cloudflare has a plan to never censor again
If your code developed a "god class" that does everything and should be ripped apart there isn't much you can do about it except changing core parts of your project.
> I don't see what the big deal is.

Let's say that a Windows user wants to use sandboxie to isolate web components when browsing, until Aug of this year.

You're Pwned: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12480
You get Dickens-esque wordiness from pay-by-word, not short and punchy
Smart glasses, maybe, if there's an iPhone-level breakthrough in optical tech.

What will likely be ubiquitous is simply a seamless, always-on, phone-based AR experience. Lock screens will become a relic of the 2010s as phones move to becoming AR-first devices, with apps joining SMS and phone calling as secondary use cases.

Glasses will be on the market and in use, but they'll probably be too bulky for ubiquity in the next decade. Smart contacts will be the long-term goal, but that tech will be missing a lot of prerequisites for some time.
Unlike Ray Dalio, when Bill Gates talks about something like books it never feels like he's trying to impress anyone.

It's "here are some books I really like and maybe you would too" versus "I am a genius, if you enjoy these books you might be a genius too."
You're going to be working with less supervision, so you need to prove that'll work.

Specifically you need to demonstrate you can work independently. This can be both job title ("senior software engineer" often maps to this) but it's also about a set of skills you want to demonstrate in your resume, cover letter, etc..
This sounds right but in reality I think something is missing if you end up isolating what you know and just keep coding. I worked with a guy who programmed for 5 years and wrote the same crappy code he wrote 4 years ago. If you don't know you're doing something wrong because even though you are solving problems the hard way to you you're still solving problems. If you are always pushing yourself and reading you learn there is a better way.
I would say, do your best to imagine the receiver’s Inbox and help them.

I wish that E-mail clients didn’t give so much control to senders. (Oh, you picked a crappy Subject line so now I need to use that in my list forever? Oh, you rambled for the first 1-2 sentences so now my message preview is useless. Oh, you mark every E-mail “high priority” so now that sort column doesn’t really organize things usefully.)
Every Sunday, I go through the things I did that week (including work and social events) and ask "how could that have gone 10% better?" Then I see if I can apply those ideas to future projects.

Years of accumulating minor improvements based on real projects I actually worked on have compounded.
For the "Keep track of what you read" section I'm surprised there's no mention of https://www.goodreads.com/. It's a fantastic webapp for tracking books you've read, along with the ones you want to read, and what your friends are reading. Some of the reviews are very well-written and insightful.

They also have a "reading challenge" where you can set a target number of books to read that year (in this case, you could set it to 100).
While I intend to agree, its not 100% correct. In case the only copy of that data resides on the server you hack back and you can delete it... you have actually unstolen the data... technically speaking..

In practice of course, you have to assume its already copied a trillion times.
Actually, you've moved the goal post.

Your actual claim was that Canada immigration policy is anti-diversity. The only correct claim you've backed up is that the Canadian immigration policy is greatly favoring rich and educated immigration.

It's no wonder people feel offended. Saying Canada is anti-diversity is a close proxy to say it's systematically racist.
Using Tunable Controls to Beat the Latency-Survivability Tradeoff in CockroachDB
A short History of the West
Oh the irony of a site named "perf planet" going down under a little HN traffic.
"Read before going to bed."

By doing this you'll train yourself to associate reading with sleep, and it may get harder and harder for you to stay awake for long after cracking open a book at night.
Tis the season to write Clojure
I think even in most of those cases it would make more sense to use Bitcoin or Ethereum, which users are more likely to already have, and will likely be less volatile.
I think I might get a similar tattoo, but with a URL, QR code, and a chip. The url and QR code will point to a github repo with my DNR. Which I will sign with a "No really, I mean it" statement that is cryptographically signed, maybe once a day, once a week, something like that. The chip will also have the key to authenticate the git signatures. And, in the DNR, I will have directions to contact my pre-paid attorney, with further direction to summon them to the ICU and make sure my wishes are carried out.
I have always disliked the massive over-use of e-mail, and when I first heard "Email is where keystrokes go to die" [0] it really resonated with me. E-mail is temporal, but far too often used for things of long lasting significance. Though it's somewhat of a necessary evil for communicating externally, I don't use it internally for anything more than I have to.

Here's my take:

Anything long-lived belongs on wiki, ticket system or other shared storage location. E-mail a notification to say there's an update, but the official version doesn't belong archived forever in everyone's inboxes -- well, everyone other than employees who happened to start after it was sent, of course.

Quick questions are better done over chat, if for no other reason than the single-line interface tends to encourage single-line questions.

Long conversations are better had in person or by video chat. How many times have you been on an e-mail thread that included several angry paragraphs written back and forth because of an incorrect assumption or simple misunderstanding?

My ideal interactions start with a chat message or ticket, switch to in-person/video if needed, and document the result (if relevant) in a ticket or wiki page. No e-mail involved.

[0] https://jamesclear.com/keystrokes
Those benefits are mostly a feature of the Octavo SIP (I think!)

Unfortunately in my case, I want to use it in a product with wired ethernet, so a PocketBeagle limited to a USB or SPI ethernet device because the it doesn't expose the pins for the AM335x's integrated MAC.

Also, buying the Octavo chip alone in small quantities is much more expensive than the whole PocketBeagle :( I wish they made a PocketBeagle-Pro with all signals routed out through high-pitch headers, comparable to Olimex's AM3352-SOM.