skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than engage in an argument on semantics let's look at the facts of the matter. The Bitcoin project has been the organization behind the official Bitcoin client since Satoshi was still around. If you were to start up an ancient Bitcoin client today it would follow the Bitcoin project's chain. The BCash chain would be considered invalid as it does not conform to the restrictions of a valid block according to the ancient Bitcoin client. The Bitcoin project chain would still be considered a valid chain. Contrary to most of the FUD around Segwit, the reason why it is considered a soft fork is because while it is a change in what constitutes a valid block, it does not violate any of the previous rules for a valid block.
Great! I do, too. I agree with your thoughtful comment above, particularly as it focuses on the issues of tracking with respect to the majority of advertising on the web. There have been some attempts to decouple these two, such as the Deck: http://decknetwork.net, but they've clearly not been as successful as Google and Facebook.
Well, there wasn't much to do up there.
It looks like the actual block size limit that most miners are using on Bitcoin Cash right now is 2MB, which isn't so much of an increase from Bitcoin at all. (The odd ones out are BTC.com with a 4MB limit and ViaBTC which has the full 8.) The new Cash difficulty algorithm also has an unfortunate tendency to oscillate when there's a sudden change in price relative to Bitcoin's price.

Also, Bitcoin Cash supporters have a habit of... well, frankly, outright lying sometimes. They were still pushing the idea it was faster than Bitcoin back when it was running at hours per block most of the time, and the usual response to people who discovered this was to tell them that the block time varied and was as low as a minute per block. This was technically true - in fact, often an equal number of blocks were produced at the minutes per block and hours per block rate, in alternating 144 block chunks of each. Can you perhaps see the problem here?
I wonder if this smaller reactor size would prove safer in earthquakes? There is a lot of tectonic activity in Norther China (though I'm not sure if that is where these are planned to be deployed).

http://www.drgeorgepc.com/EarthquakesChina.html
> A more assertive Britain would be a strategic move, to exchange short-term disruption for long-term gain.

What long term gain, exactly? I still fail to see how this isn't a slower and more painful way to arrive at (most likely) the same deal they'd get in the first place. What new long-term concession do you envision them getting from a bit of chest thumping?

> An implicit mandate of Brexit is to demonstrate that the UK can not only survive, but thrive on its own

Except it can't? I scarcely think any country actually can in the modern age, without making significant and dramatic sacrifices that even the most ardent Brexit supporter is most likely not ready to accept.

Brexit in and of itself was obviously over-optimistic. Doubling down on those delusions doesn't seem like a recipe for anything but unnecessary hardship - mostly for the Brits themselves.
Too complicated, yet another bunch of websites to register at. What works for me:

- Consulting. You need clear message what you offer and how you can help. Also clear way how consulting process works. Companies are happy to pay extra, if they get author.

- Paypal donations, put 'Donate!' button on website, prefil some amount and offer recuring payments. Paypal even handles credit card.

- Crypto coin donations. Setup wallets and put addresses on web.

- T-Shirts or books for premium price.
No, it won’t imply ARM macOS. It’s obviously a distinct possibility, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they went that way one day. In fact, given release builds uploaded to Apple are basically just an intermediate llvm bitstream, Apple could theoretically release to any architecture.
> Good for you. If I need to be happy every time I opt-out "when I hear about it" which is often "when I already used the software" and get USDs for every hour I didn't opt-out even though I'd have loved to opt-out right away, then I'd be one hell of a happy Richie Rich.

It's not like they owe me anything, I downloaded their software for free and use it for free with absolutely no expectation other than "I'll use it as long as it works for me."

If it gets annoying I'll replace it with something that isn't just in this particular case it was a lot easier to click a box than search out a new adblocker.

> Why do software developers get away treating their customers like stupid sheep either wasting their time or getting their data?

Because they want to use Windows 10 or uTorrent or something with a bitcoin miner instead of searching out alternatives. Personally, other than ABP, I can think of no other cases of this happening on my stock (other than the chrome repo) Fedora box.
Read the document I linked to see just how much of a joke those procedures were. That letter was signed by law professors ranging from extremely liberal to extremely conservative, so there was nothing ideological about their conclusions.

The stakes in a Title IX suit are not really lower in reality, if they are in theory. First, a senior expelled from a private university in their fourth year has been deprived of 1) over $200,000 spent towards a diploma they will now never receive, 2) the opportunity cost of four years of their life, 3) enormous lost future income, as they are now excluded from most professional positions, and 4) other reputational damage resulting from an adjudication that they committed sexual assault. It is an extremely rare civil suit that can actually have such catastrophic consequences for someone's life.
Not C++, but there's BCHS: OpenBSD + C + httpd + SqLite

https://learnbchs.org

It's good because OpenBSD has https://man.openbsd.org/pledge, which makes web programming in C safer
> I don't understand why this entire field seems so focused on gaming, and not productivity.

Is it ? If we talk abour VR, yes, but there are a number of companies actually delivering AR products whose focus is on productivity. Some examples (but there are more) are

Microsoft with Hololens [1]
Epson with Moverio devices [2]
Sony [3]
Vuzix [4]

Their oldest model are simple smart glasses, it seems to me that they are moving towards full AR.
As a plus side, they don't look something that I would wear only inside the office of SV startup.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens
[2] https://epson.com/moverio-augmented-reality
[3] https://developer.sonymobile.com/products/smarteyeglass/
[4] https://www.vuzix.com/
Your employer's inability to provide sufficient toilet stalls isn't my problem.

(My problem might be bowel related, and I bet you don't want to hear any of the details.)
And the presence of those only adds to my point. Where bike lanes are not specifically states as being 2-way, the default for someone like google is to treat them according to the rules of the road they run alongside.
Michael Collins' "Carrying the Fire" is by far the best of the astronaut memoirs (IMHO). Really well written!
Presumably, their ad blocker will primarily block other ad networks' ads, so then it would be a netgain for them to enable it on mobile, too.
You must be older than you look.
What are some prevailing opinions on why it did not succeed?
I'd quibble with 'biasing', more like reporting. The bright line between this kind of delegation and FCC-style comment-bots is that each communication still only represents the will of one individual human. Just that they don't have to manually act each time, as they've already made their position clear.

Really it's just about changing EFF's emails from "Act now!" to "We're about to do this on your behalf! (opt out if you want)."
Click on "Get dataset and code":

"We will email you the dataset and code."

What's wrong with a github link in the article?
I spent nine and a half years with my own office (right out of school, too; I was quite lucky to have that) and while it wasn't much, it was mine. I then moved to a much better position with a more open concept. Not ultra-trendy-start-up open, but still with nine people in one room. The effect on my ability to concentrate has been very noticeable. If there is more than one conversation going on in the room, I need to get up and leave until it's over; I can't accomplish anything. I wouldn't go back to my previous position for anything, but I do miss my office.
On the other hand, for many applications where people say they want to "render black," darkening the entire field of view and rendering on top of that is sufficient and not particularly hard to do.
I was very impressed by the WeWork offices in southern california. Modern, maze-like, soundproofed rooms, conference areas spread around (multiple floors). It was a little cumbersome to get in to with all the security, but was otherwise delightful.
>One thing Rust's vector guarantees that C++ doesn't is that Rust's vector will not store elements inline; anything (with nonzero size) you push into it will be heap allocated.

I believe this is incorrect and small-vector optimization is in fact disallowed by the C++ standard. In any case, standard or not, no implementation is ever going to do SVO because it would require a branch on every access, making them incompatible with SIMD instructions.

>Rust also has a concept of zero sized types, which C++ does not

No, C++ allows this optimization too, it just requires that the "sizeof" operator always returns an integer >= 1.
It's called JavaScriptCore and it's part of iOS as well.
Yes, that's me!

I feel a bit sad that I was unable to put in the work to bring Electrino forward. There was a lot of interest, but I just couldn't find any more extra time between existing paying work and family. As you say, Electrino is a multi-year commitment because of the sheer number of APIs needed to support the apps that are already out there.

I made Termipal because I found myself writing a bunch of crappy shell scripts for various tasks, and having real UI with dropdowns and buttons made the scripts much more usable.
Simplicity: implementing a smart contract language in 30 lines of Haskell
Also have an iPhone 6. I didn't plan to replace it this year until iOS 11 made it frustrating to use. My primary issue was constant Bluetooth disconnections.

Now I have an Android phone. (Not especially happy about it.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/ is usually the best place to learn about SpaceX launches. The 'about' part of that page has the current schedule. Jan 4 is the current NET date for Zuma.
Retro cool is always sexy.
I work remote and regularly work from coffee shops where the noise level is high. I find I am quite able to block out the noise/distractions fine in that environment.

I also go into the office occasionally (which is an open layout) and my productivity plummets. Less so because of the noise, but more so because the conversations being had around me have some relevance to me. And if I can help clarify something than I will interject. But the problem for me isn't noise, it is relevant noise where I subconsciously listen for something useful. Also with that you have people coming up to your and asking questions, because there is no indicator of "I'm busy right now" like a closed door in an office.
Oh yes, people surely love to claim Fukushima is being covered up, and I'm sure many Japanese politicians and businesspeople are being dishonest and trying to cover up their asses, but let's be real. Japan is a dense and well-connected country, and it's been six years. If the deaths and destruction predicted by doomsayers have any basis in reality, we should have seen a glimpse of it by now.

(But the very fact that no such thing is happening is of course considered an evidence of cover-up. How you are going to cover up a thousand leukemia deaths in Japan is left as exercise for the reader.)

Sadly, I do believe many Fukushima residents will suffer long-term health effects, which is inevitable when you've been told a hundred times how your body was irradiated by death rays and you will have cancer as a result. It was a major issue following Chernobyl as well[1]:

> A number of adolescents and young adults who have been exposed to modest or small amounts of radiation feel that they are somehow fatally flawed and there is no downside to using illicit drugs or having unprotected sex. To reverse such attitudes and behaviours will likely take years (...)

I hold those anti-nuclear activists at the same level of contempt as peddlers of homeopathy and other natural woo. These activists likely caused greater harm to children of Fukushima prefecture than the accident itself, by making them believe they are irrevocably harmed and their lives will be stunted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Other_healt...
I understand your point that they don't need fine grain controls, but does uBlock Origin require anything beyond the defaults? I'm just not seeing the benefit from using AdBlock Plus, anymore.
Design Rules to Manage Software Architecture
mailinator to the rescue.
Basically, if you're going to have drivers out of tree, the driver ABI has to be perfectly stable, which restricts internal refactoring. Otherwise things break - and this does happen elsewhere; lots of drivers for Windows XP don't work on 10.
Well, I couldn't agree more. The concept that ad-blocking is bad is right up there with the content industry thinking, believing that the Internet couldn't, wouldn't exist without them. Rubbish.
A race to the bottom means cutting quality (e.g., cleaning frequency and thoroughness) to reach the lowest price.
VR is mostly focused on gaming. Because it sells better now and is simpler, cheaper. AR is mostly focusing on produtivity, Google Labs and Microsoft Hololens are known examples. But this is harder to develop, so progress is simply slower. And I assume it's easier to develop for highly specific task then delivering a universal solution. So there is not much to hear about for the normal people.
I do understand the economics at play, and I haven't dismissed the subscription model. My point of view is simply this: if you're a media outlet producing content and you can't survive on a subscription based model (or any other model) alone, and have to revert to ads (malicious, annoying ads - I'll admit there are reasonable ways to advertise, but that's not what we're talking about here) to make ends meet, then your content isn't good enough.

That's like making a terrible burger and complaining you're going out of business because people aren't buying it. Tough luck, but that's capitalism.
> That's one DDoS short of a digital protection racket.

Your specific condemnation rests on this tired narrative that "ad spots" are something belonging to the site owner. In the reality of the web, it's all the user's display area - the user agent decides what and how to render.

The real critique is that the software is working against the user's interest for its own gain. This is par for the course of proprietary software, but generally seen as unsustainable poor taste in the Free world. Fortunately, having achieved the activation energy of installing extensions for one's self, switching is not hard.
The reporters involved ignored massive inconsistencies in the accuser’s story and twisted facts to advance a narrative - the opposite of due diligence. Wether they uncovered the story or not isn’t relevant.
Google glass is absolutely pointless and cannot be used for mixed reality.
It has a fixed small display that forces you to look at there.
Magic leap will allow you to move freely your eyes inside the active field of view.
Anybody with a computer/graphics card and an interest in technology could have money on Bitcoin and countless other cryptocurrencies. Neets from /g made money on it without spending a dime. Where were you?
The form factor also looks significantly better.
I'm not seriously concerned about malware. I trust Google (Chrome) and Microsoft (Windows) enough to protect me if someone does try to serve me malware. And on mobile, iOS malware really isn't a thing, and I trust Apple there, too.

It's mainly about customer experience. On desktop, that's auto-playing videos and terrible "sponsored content". On mobile, it's malicious redirects to the app store that not only takes me away from your content, but my entire application. (And, also on mobile, a real cost: your 1MB tracking JS costs me a couple cents and counts towards my cap every time I load it. I hope your caching logic is sound.)
First, just ignore downvotes, as trying to find rhyme or reason is the road to insanity. You’ve got enough points to cease giving a shit. And on mobile, mistakes still happen ‘cuz those buttons are still pretty damned small.

But if I had to guess, “doesn’t contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way”. Not that I agree, so have an upvote.
Report shows that South Africans are going online this festive season
Is it possible to pre-allocate a fixed-size file with sqlite to then use as a local cache evicting old data? Supporting this may offer a chance to differentiate a bit.

Closest I could find was a workaround that is probably close enough (disable auto_vacuum and delete a giant blob) https://stackoverflow.com/a/4821318.
Looks interesting! The website could use some more screenshots showing off what's possible.
It could also just be HTTP/S from the developer's site, which already happens.
I prefer golang's syscalls and os modules. Just direct interfaces to the C functions, no abstractions and no cruft.
They were not hired to handle their campaign banking, that was a side deal made with a hastily written contract because the founders failed to put time into setting up the necessary accounts. This is the start-up version of going to a check cashing service. We all cut corners trying to push our product out the door but I do think keeping the books in-house and having your own bank account is pretty sound advice, not victim blaming.
Indeed - I think ad-paid centralization (largely for ease of use sake) effectively drove a lot of great stuff off the internet.
.Net is only a great stack if your focus is to contract or work for Corporations in America (mostly in the midwest and south). Europe is heavily set on PHP, some Rails and Python. The coasts in the U.S. incl. the valley are usually Rails, Django and Go.

I personally would not invest in a .Net focused education.
We have a "private" office in a WeWork. For me the worst part is the desk itself, it's totally substandard as a task desk. Same with the chairs, people joke about the college analogy but I had better desking as a college student. Secondly, a lot of the interior decisions are questionable, such as the pendant light that casts glare on my monitor.

Also the music in the common areas is irritating and I even like some of the songs they play.
> That just screams Marketing Department Overreach to me,

Yeah, and doesn't sound like how Apple has done things in the past. More likely this is Reporter Doesn't Understand Technical Decision Overreach to me....and it worked ("made you look!")
Fake internet points, meaningless rewards, and cosmetic bullshit.

I think gamification of socialization in general is part of the reason all social media sucks.
A week? Why not some odd months so those potentially impacted could read and analyze them and submit feedback.
Add a pinch of Blockchain for funding
When you openly put something on the world wide web, it no longer belongs just to you, it belongs to the world.
not sure if this page is aimed at regular people, but by reading it I don't know what this device is. I would guess some kind of AR. what I can read is that it's for creators and it will change the world.
You're right. We are witnessing some serious fanaticism here. It's kind of disgusting.
Accordingly to the rolling stone journalist he was unable to see any pixel even when specifically looking for them.
Is there any advantage to a shared space? It seems like the sort of solution where you're working solo anyway, so there's no reason to have the team all there...
Yeah, one of the best decisions/discoveries I've ever made was just putting a little PayPal donate button on fruitbasket.io. It's something I threw together in a few hours, but I guess it helped people. I'm still seeing a few donations here and there almost exactly a year later.
Maybe into your attention, but the majority of people probably have no idea what a Palm Pilot even is…
The Internet was not a platform for users. It was a platform for nuclear weapons, therefore by your logic anything that's been done to it since the 1960s must simply be wrong. Why don't you go and start your own network where you can read and write, post videos, and exchange other information?
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I had the exact same issue on 17.10 + XPS 13 + Dell firmware update. I booted in the BIOS setup and manually pointed the EFI to ubuntu's grub's EFI file. That immediately fixed the problem.
iOS has had low-power mode for some time, which disables some of the most power-hungry UI effects and background processes.
Makes me wonder how well a Tesla Roadster would hold up when exposed to hard vacuum. They probably have a nice sized high vacuum chamber to put this to the test before they launch it.

Funny how this will probably be the best preserved Tesla Roadster in a couple of decades.
Depends on how much you're torrenting. GCP's smallest VPS is literally free, so you can get 20gb of storage + 42gb of egress for $5/mo.

If you torrent more than that, then a DigitalOcean box or something similar makes more sense. Above $15/mo, a real seedbox platform is better optimized for what torrenting needs; lots on storage and ingress/egress bandwidth. I'm a fan of Whatbox.
>>I've never worked at a financial firm but I have a hard time imagining the uptight social culture of finance being one that embraces employees being spotted wearing goofy headsets and waving their hands around.

Put some time in at a long/short or quant fund. This would be par for the course. I've been there.
AFAIK, Paw is macOS exclusive so I've not tried it.