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> Civilisation is a Red Queen; we must keep running just to stand still.

While this is true, it doesn't prevent a hell of a lot of our engineered world from just being retained while the innovations are piled on top. So there is a hell of a lot of close-to-static stuff that matters a lot -- probably more than the innovative works of any given day.

If the old layers were a bit dodgy, their abstractions will leak, foundations will shift and problems will appear in the layers above. And most things are a bit dodgy to start of with, and will not become a firm foundation until they have gone through incremental improvement and maintenance.
Yes, but movies have a much higher barrier of entry than pornography. People actually care about the production value, plot, special effects, music, etc. For porn, on the other hand, that's not the case at all.

You should be comparing porn with short form, low production value content (e.g. youtube channels) and indeed, there's a lot of free content on that category available.
Man, that game is addicting.

I have so much work to do but can't keep off it!
I like programming and technology and reading about it and learning new things.

I’m never working 80 hours a week for someone to make them look good. No one should expect that.
You can disable the hotspot and use your own DNS servers if you want. The ability to disable the hotspot is documented in the public FAQ (Google: "XFINITY WiFi Home Hotspots FAQs").

I've used my own DNS servers before. I have no problem making DNS queries to 8.8.8.8, and in fact I switched my PC to use it one time when Comcast DNS was down.
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Does it really keep the blockchain size in check? Either storage costs shrink at an exponential rate, in which case the block size basically doesn't matter at all, or they don't, in which case the blockchain will eventually grow too large anyway.
A Sudden Illness (2003), on Chronic fatigue syndrome
Do you have a reference for that Jim Keller estimate? BTW he's at nVidia and they have a solid interest in risc-v ;-)
There are several universal basic income coins.

The issue is why use them? The bootstrap problem.
Actually many C++ devs are ex-Turbo Pascal, Delphi and C++ Builder users.

It just felt natural to use both languages.

C++ was the welcoming home that we never taken C for, thanks to offering language features that we could use to for safer applications, and more developer friendly abstractions.
The story about the mother leaving her two children is too sad. Sometimes I wonder if the quickest way to end humankind's pain is to just stop existing as a whole... No matter how well-off you are, there are N humans in great pain somewhere else, and you can never be sure your descendants wouldn't have to experience great pain in the future.
Also, less visible, but the pervasive role of organized crime in the world of business and politics is a big one. The Kaplan and Dubro Yakuza book is incredible; a lot of that history feels ripped from the most fantastical movie.
A W E S O M E! So simple, so much fun!
Having both models works well...

TCP from a master server to every client.

and

UDP low latency links from every client to every other client.

The client code sends a sample of received UDP packets to the server over the TCP connection, who will then verify that all info contained in the packets is true and accurate and nobody was cheating.

It's a nice model because you get the super low latency between clients, and at the same time within a few hundred milliseconds you can detect cheaters and kick/ban them.

Obviously, you have to design your game to handle asynchronous lossy information from many different sources and nobody having a complete and whole view of the game until half a second later or so. Thats quite do-able though by timestamping every event and then running rollback-able or checkpointed synchronous simulation on all clients.
> It's far easier to split a CISC instruction into uops, than to attempt to detect the possibly near-infinite combinations of RISC instructions that effectively do the same thing so that they can be fused together.

Er, it's not like macro-op fusion is some theoretical thing that isn't proven in practice. x86 cpu's have done it for quite a while for CMP+JMP, and compilers optimize for it by not putting other instructions between the CMP and JMP. That is, macro fusion doesn't scan through some huge window of instructions, it only works for neighboring instructions.

If you want to know more, I recommend reading through the slides that the parent poster linked, and the article link I posted in a sibling comment.

> Consider a round of AES, for example.

FWIW, there is ongoing work to add a crypto extension to RISC-V, so this isn't really an argument for or against RISC-V per se.

> Or for something simpler, a memory copy loop. On x86, the latter is 2 bytes (and has been since the 8086)

REP MOV* is a good example of what's wrong with CISC. It gets you good instruction density, I grant you that, but it also slower than alternative implementations using, say unrolled loops and vector instructions. Look into a modern memcpy() implementation and prepare to be horrified. If it were that easy to make REP MOV fast, one would have thought that Intel with their near-unlimited budget would have made it so.
All Intel would have needed to do to comply with the license was include a small blurb in that tiny insert provided with each retail chip. Similar to the about screen in most mobile apps that list all the individual libraries and their OSS licenses? Right?
From their point of view why wouldn't they, children become eyeballs, sorry adults with money to spend.

I've given up expecting corporations to be nice, I haven't quite given up on expecting them to obey the law, the bits they haven't written themselves anyway.
I mean, even if gangs are "on the retreat" they're starting from a very strong, entrenched position.
Author here. I think everyone's life will be better if firefox implements webMIDI :)
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Movies aren't as popular as porn.
A couple of the constant examples of password reuse that can be found:

proceeds to list domain names that are aliases of one another

Also the whole describing the thing as a database and saying it's fast because it's alphabetical...

At least describe what kind of database you're talking about so we can understand why an index isn't possible.
I've been wondering this too and haven't been able to find any estimates. By "paid-in capital" I think you are trying to get at how "leveraged" the holders of bitcoin are, or how much non-cryptocurrency was used to buy the bitcoin relative to current "market cap". This is complicated by the mining costs incurred and by the fact that trade for other cryptocurrencies obscures the source of funds. But understanding the distribution of how rich bitcoin holders feel would help a lot to understand the market.
I don't think a spam filter would be the first thing you'd prove correct if you wanted to go down that road..
https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl

https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/data
Interestingly, Barry Myers, the guy that Trump has nominated to run NOAA, believes that climate change is primarily caused by humans. That's quite different from, as far as I know, everyone else in the administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
No, you're correct, karoshi 過労死 means "death by overwork."
Well you can't use this approach to verify haskell code if you don't know coq.
Swear I used to play that on my dads amiga - good times.
Please stop with the fake news consipracy theories. Faceebook just want to make the world a more connected place - it's clear from their mission statement.
So you're saying the director could have stood his ground against the cajun navy person
...for now. Google has shamelessly abandoned Nexus and Moto devices in the past: who's to say they won't just do it again when they decide it's too much work/not shiny enough?
> The kids really started changing in the 90s and by the 2000s a lot of the creatives were wearing t-shirts and tennies to work, which was a huge change (although some traditional places still wear uniforms today). They've (as a cohort) changed some of the norms of work and life (not getting married or having kids!), but have also hidden themselves in weird little sub-cultures (anime, videogames, shopping, karoshi).

Part of the reason that people stay in subcultures much longer is the payoff to adapting a straitlaced image and seeking work as a salaryman just isn't there anymore. Also a major reason people aren't starting families.
Among other issues, it breaks down completely as soon as you have subclasses of any sort.
China may be trying to manipulate the Internet trend of the world through Wuzhen
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Easy—there’s more money to be made from Americans being wasteful.
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15879843
B-but they had that rainbow flag avatar thingy for LGBTQA folk! They can’t be the bad guys!
We've been living with sysvinit style systems for years, and were able to transition away. We could easily do it again.
Here is yet another tool for managing multiple repos as one: https://supertanker.github.io/tsrc/
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Same experience and my camera literally will not focus anymore. No drops or water damage. I simply cannot explain the loss in function or drop in battery life.
You obviously haven't been to Northern Territory in Australia. The way that the Aboriginal people have been treated, and the conditions they live in are Australia's national shame. People getting hit by cars because they drank too much and fell asleep on the road are a legitimate issue. They even have PSAs to try and stop people from sleeping on the road [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/XA241Lg70fg
Very fun! I think the Mohawk helicopter has the most potential due to its strafe ability.
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I have been in music for some time, and this is almost exactly what great musicians do. There is definitely a time for activities that are ‘neccessary’ or ‘good practice’ to spend time on, and then there is a large amount of time they almost subconsciously spend in their field: they just enjoy having a beer with friends (at a jam session), having a chat (about music), hanging back (with their instrument), waste time on YouTube (watching poor quality phone recordings of musicians they look up to). Some don't think about anything else. Some have other interests. But I cannot think of one great musician that doesn't touch music when they're ‘off from work’.
"io games": Massively multi-player, real time, no login, no rounds (continuous game), just type your name and play.

There probably were a few flash games like this, but didn't caught on like it has now.
I think you're missing an important distinction. When paraphrasing a group of people or stating a cultural zeitgeist, quotes are acceptable:

> The gist of the HN community's opinion is, "don't use quotation marks when paraphrasing."

> Lately the Democrats approach has been, "oppose Trump at every turn."

However, when paraphrasing a specific individual, it is frowned upon at best[1][2], and considered intentionally misleading at worst[3], to put paraphrases in quotes.

> pvg said, "I don't care what HN thinks, I'll do what I want."

> pvg continued with, "no one else cares what HN thinks either."

Contrast that with,

> pvg said that "only harcore lispers" care about how paraphrasing works.

In the last example, you can clearly tell the direct quote from the paraphrase. This is very important when communicating someone else's ideas.

Regardless of hard and fast "rules" of punctuation and grammar, you have a large number of people calling your writing misleading, confusing, and inaccurate. Clear communications should be the goal of any writing; wouldn't you be best served by hearing and incorporating this feedback?

[1] MLA: "Paraphrases and summaries do not use quotation marks" - http://www.lmu.edu/Assets/Academic+Affairs+Division/Academic...

[2] Purdue: "Indirect quotations are not exact wordings but rather rephrasings or summaries of another person's words. In this case, it is not necessary to use quotation marks" (note that no example of indirect quotations include quotation marks) - https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/577/01/

[3] "But then there's a long slide through confusion and bias into intentionally misleading quote-mangling and outright fabrication" - http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/10/17/gay_tal...
> you've cherry-picked the exact point in time...

I picked this number because it's what I paid yesterday

> lol, nope. let me guess, `geth --fast`? well, i suggest you go read up on what `--fast` means. i challenge you to try syncing from the genesis block.

I used Parity, and instead of suggesting I "go read up on" something I already understand, maybe you'd be more convincing if you made an argument as to why the difference should matter (it doesn't).

> bunch of broad, abstract claims

I can't argue with any of those because you didn't provide any reasoning or facts to address.
This is one of the most objective views on "what makes a great software engineer" so far here. People who can focus generally deliver better work, even when they don't work on pet projects after work.
Gave me a good chuckle.
Actually arrow keys are good enough to avoid that trap
I'm confused. There are plants called air plants that exist entirely from chemicals in air. See: www.bhg.com/gardening/houseplants/care/grow-air-plants/ How are these bacteria different?
Hmm. I just did a poor job combining two sentences into one. Not sure if that's the case at all for non-moms. :)
I've been to Japan a few times and I'm the fucking idiot who explained it away.

Thank you.
> I have trouble understanding the usefulness of this.

Well for one thing, sometimes projects are just for fun, or to explore uncharted territory, without thinking about a specific use case. For another, there are definitely use cases for proofs in code, as verified software appears in a variety of domains. It’s not likely to make its way into the average CRUD app any time soon, but that doesn’t mean it’s not useful.

> Haskell is barely used in the first place, and even less for highly safety critical software.

“Barely used” is relative. Compared to java or python, sure. But there are untold millions of lines of Haskell code running in production right now. Besides, in my humble opinion Haskell should be used more, whether or not it is (right now). And in any case Haskell has had a big influence on many other more popular languages, and/or libraries, and this could one day be another example of that.
({ }) is handy but is a GCC extension.

So is "typeof"; "__typeof__" is the standard spelling.
On iOS, Shazam is usually used through Siri (it's beyond me why anyone would download the standalone app).

I wonder if the connection is made straight from the iPhone to shazam, or Apple actually proxies this.
I do mean pruning, which for most practical use-cases is fine, and also the patricia tree compression
Kudos! I appreciate anything that works out of the box with uMatrix blocking enabled.

Gameplay wise: looks like you may want to slow down the reverse speed... or not it's pretty fun as is
boils down to some risk theory under uncertainty + how to know your own desires:

- uncertainties have uncertainties, recursively

- now, if something has a chance p(success) = 0.99 and p(ruin) = 0.01, and reward(success) is on the order of, say, five or even ten years's worth of happiness, whereas reward(ruin) = -inf.. avoid avoid avoid!!!

- 90% boring in-demand skills + 10% god-tier hobbying is a good mix for both stamina and creativity (aka anti-burnout)

Einstein never had to use much of his brain while he was at work so he could devote all his creativity when off work. Can you even imagine how differently our whole of science might have turned out had he become something more intellectually demanding than a patent clerk? :P

Maybe instead you should invert the question: how can you make that which is worth learning from, choose you? :P Because, listen, you don't need a syllabus. A syllabus ends up tossed in a trashcan.

You need to find someone who is so gifted it makes you leap to your feet and dash to your IDE after they casually drop a brilliant one-liner. Now I'm not talking about those bullshit rockstars developers who are in it for the vanity.. I'm talking about someone whose presence makes you re-estimate your former 100% effort could have been a mere 40%, with the right nudge.

And if it's a school thing? Take a few practice tests per test. Each makes the next easier, that's the nudge in the helpful direction.
If you have a large (multi TB) filesystem, sometimes those can take a long time to fsck.

And if the fsck is just a scheduled one (after x reboots) instead of being triggered due to filesystem weirdness, then getting the server back up and serving can be the higher priority.

That's just an example because you asked though. Wouldn't want that same fsck to be skipped if it was actually started due to filesystem weirdness being detected. :)
dammit this is addictive, even to me!
please add a "auto lock" feature, that you can find in military aircrafts since the 80s, like a "god mode".
Yes. Not only that, it's the cumulative effect of having to include tags from so many vendors.
When I said particularly fast, I meant for a regular book reader, not an average person. I'd compare it to touching your toes: being able to do it doesn't make you an athlete, even if the average fat slob like me can't do it.
I had this happen to me recently when I hit 90% of my data cap from Comcast for the first time.

At first I noticed that all traffic was being hijacked to show me a full page message that I was at 90% of my data limit and to contact the Comcast Security Assurance team. It looks really scammy like those alerts from "Microsoft" that my computer is infected.

After clicking on the acknowledge link multiple times it wouldn't stop so I called the security assurance team.

While waiting on hold for 30 minutes it finally stopped but I was already irate. I had to argued with the rep because he told me that I could disable the web notifications and he finally found out that Comcast removed that option and he apologized that there was nothing he could do.
Jeez I quit Facebook like 6 years ago and never looked back. What’s the real need here? Old buddies you barely know of? Let them go.

Just drop FB, it’s not that important, and 70% of people are clearly (by reading all the “I quit Facebook drama posts”) over attached to it.
Interestingly I tend to find that if the comment count is higher than the score it often means the article is somehow wrong and everyone has jumped in to say so. Though I guess that depends a little on the score count too.

Would be interesting to do a meta analysis to see how much valuable information there is in the different categories of score comment ratios!
Well, I assume this is at least partially funded by the public. Most side projects are not. While I appreciate that the engineering that went into this is non-trivial, I fail to see the scientific relevance.
My iPhone 6s Plus gets extremely hot, battery life sucks, camera doesn’t focus, and apps are not responsive. Whenever I’ve brought it to an Apple store they said there are no issues...
Gameplay feedback:

Mohawk (helicopter) and Prowler (stealthy) don't seem worth it.

The helicopter dies from a single stray rocket, random spam and attacks from behind. Alt+arrow for strafe worked in DooM because field of view always pointed away from the player. Here, strafing is hard to get used to.
Since there are already 2 keys for ability, why not make one of them "strafe left" and the other "strafe right" ?
Also, because helicopter lacks a clear point, it's harder to aim.

Stealthy Prowler is very slow and not especially fun to play. To the point that only effective way to play is to cloak after every rocket fired. You crawl towards a victim, then shoot at close range, then recloak. Visual notification is quite subtle, there's no sound and you end up mashing the ability key never quite sure if it already worked. So it kinda works against newbies... but sneak attacks are also effective with Goliath (the fat one) and Tornado (multifire). So I don't see the point. And here's the kicker: advanced players see it because they play (and aim!) by radar. This is an issue when fighting away from the crowd.

Thoughts on upgrades:
- I would appreciate a kind of "laser sight" upgrade. Each level would render a laser line in front of your plane, and the line would get longer with levels.