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Increased use of segwit txs would help to clear the tx backlog. They carry less "weight" and therefor more of them can be packed into a block (which is limited by weight now).
General public has probably been sold on the potential & novelty of the device, without realizing how little there is to it (feature wise). It feels like it is similar to VR and personal drones; it sounds exiting, but it isn't that practical in everyday setting to replace other activities, and setting it up can feel tedious.
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BeagleBone Blue was also released for sale this year, https://beagleboard.org/blue

> BeagleBone® Blue is a complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer. Community-supported and fully open-source, the real-time performance, flexible networking and rich set of robotics-oriented peripherals make building mobile robots quick and affordable.

Unlike the Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers, the BeagleBone line is completely open source and permissively licensed. The design files for Blue are at https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-blue

UC San Diego is developing coursework based on the Blue, https://www.ucsdrobotics.org/
Because it's meaningless to define "especially obnoxious X" to be the same thing as "all X". If you do that, you're not even trying to engage in a discussion, you're just trying to 'win'.

I thought it was clear that I was separating ads into multiple categories. If you tell me you honestly don't understand then I will reword it in other terms for you. Let me know what you need.
Every time I see something like this, I'm reminded of one of my favourite crackpot/artists of all time, Stanislaw Szukalski and his mad theories about "Protong", the proto-language of a civilisation that was destroyed by a cataclysm some 65,000 years ago, which - according to him - was the language of the first human civilisation across the globe, and which survived - barely - as a 'forgotten remembered language' in ancient pre-historic glyphs.

In a nutshell, "Protong" was the global human language that was spoken across the globe - until the planet suffered an enormous 'flood-like' cataclysm that split this civilisation into shards and pieces around the world. The survivors of this cataclysm clawed their way back to land, and in an effort to warn future humans of the danger, encoded many of the glyphs of Protong into their cave art. Per Szukalski this can be demonstrated by the fact of many common glyphs among a wide distribution of different cave paintings - the fact that the 'neck ring' is a key element in many paintings vastly separated by geographic distances, and the significance of such glyphs as a 'cup or water vessel', and so on.

Szukalski believed he was able to decipher these glyphs in a way that hadn't occurred to researchers before him, and he made an entire philosophy out of his personal discoveries.

While I still remain highly sceptical of his ideas - and I am especially dissuaded by the racist form of this philosophy that later evolved from Szukalskis explorations into ancient/pre-history art (Zermatism, the idea that the human species is in competition with another race, "Yeti-like", which brings about perpetual downfall among all "noble societies"), I nevertheless remain fascinated by the idea of using "Protong" as a means of appreciating the meaning of pre-history. From the Programmers Mind, its kind of like discovering the mnemonics for machine code, after having spoken nothing but Lua.

So, I do wonder if he wasn't onto something with the idea of Protong being an underpinning to all ancient/pre-historic art forms. If this sort of thing is of interest - and I mean it in the most casual sense, because I have absolutely no interest in promoting the racist Zermatism - then I encourage HN readers to have a look at Protong. The book on the subject "Behold - The Protong!!" is a wonderful coffee-table item, if you care for these things. I don't know of any other on-line resources which cover Protong - its a kooky subject indeed, so this is very surprising to me - but I do encourage the casually-interested to have a glance. It may - or may not, indeed - provide a bit of context to understanding pre-historic cave art. As a fan of this, I think its neat.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2118037.Behold_the_Proto...

More on Szukalski here:

https://www.kookscience.com/arch/Zermatic.html

Warning: definitely kook science, but a fascinating though experiment nevertheless.
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Before iOS 11 my 3 year old iPhone 6 behaved perfectly fine. After the upgrade it's so painfully slow it's basically unusable. For example, the Messages app maintains a lag of a few characters when typing, the Camera app freezes for ~5 seconds every time you open it, each tap on the screen has a perceivable delay, etc. My battery life hasn't been a problem over the last 3 years and I have not experienced my phone overheating or crashing (which I could interpret as signs of overclocking).

I do not believe Apple shipped the slowdown to "protect my battery". Even if that truly was their desire, I'd much rather protect my UX instead and let the battery die (though, again, it didn't show any signs of severe degradation). This underclocking should at the very least be a customizable setting.

Is there a reasonable chance Apple will revert this change after losing some of the lawsuits?
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It comes down to what you as web author want to accept as "standard". Just that Google, err "browser vendors", write spec texts that are changing all the time for over ten years now doesn't mean it's accepted by authors or the general public. If anything, the W3C has been handed down HTML spec work back in 1996 or so by IETF, when before HTML was spec'd in the form of RFCs with a proper DTD grammar for it's vocabulary.

Anyway, I don't quite get the W3C hate, and the naive belief in WHATWG as the altruistic HTML authority when the motives and process for WHATWG are intransparent, and the Web has clearly degressed into a monopoly during WHATWG's reign, all the while having produced nothing to stop the Web's degression into a monopolistic tracking and ad shit show.
Quick glance (click PRINT instead of 10 sub pages) and memory capacity is wrong in almost every single listing.

I expected better from eetimes (owned by Arrow, serious Fortune 500 electronic components supplier giant).
As far as I'm concerned, this is a deal breaker. I've been an iOS user since 3GS and now I'm ready to jump ship.
Apple has been disappointing me since few years now, and I've postponed migrating to Android mostly because I'm accustomed to its UX. But this is enough of a push for me to make an effort to give Android a try.

I'm looking into Oneplus 5T and Pixel 2 XL. Any other suggestions?
> Among the elaborate horses, bulls, bears and hunters, there are some other rather less captivating designs – small geometric motifs, etched onto the walls. Until now, they’ve not received much attention.

I would have expected the opposite.

Someone drawing animals and hunters could easily be explained simply by them drawing what they see everyday.

Those other things, though, are harder to explain as merely drawings of things they see.
It's complicated. Prop 13 is a major cause, by removing any downside to increased property values for existing homeowners. God, what a terrible law.

Also, those who would benefit most from saner housing prices are those who would potentially move in, but potential residents don't get to vote.
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When I first heard about this, it was apparently due to Apple throttling the CPU when the battery started getting old and losing capacity. When the battery gets older, it keeps less charge and therefore, if you want the battery to last a reasonable amount of time, you'd need to lower the power usage.

I recently got my iPhone 6S battery upgraded since it started shutting off randomly below 40%, especially in the cold. I got my battery changed for free due to the Apple 6S battery exchange program.

Today the phone feels just as fast as I want it to. I have zero incentive to upgrade, and I'm even on iOS 11 which I've had zero problems with. I know of other people whose phones got faster after switching out the battery.

In my opinion, after 2 years or so, you just need to change the battery.

I wish Apple made it easier to see the health of the battery, and maybe a button that would send you a package with a return sticker so you could mail your phone in and get the battery changed in a day or two.
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Thanks for the reply. I'm on the move, in my phone, and has regretted on posting the comment as it is hard to elaborate further given the situation.
Why? WHATWG doesn't make money with the spec itself, rather want it spread to wider audience, so more are informed of the upcoming changes for smoother deployment.
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Professionally, directly measuring Alcohol By Volume (ABV) which is the property that is regulated, could not be most accurately accomplished with any technique that comes to mind.

In the lab, alcohol content is always best determined by weight, then converted to volume percent using a number of traditional conversions.

You might have something there with a fuel cell approach, but if you are detecting mass or relative mass the only way to arrive at volume is by conversion.

Even when you calibrate using precisely prepared volumetric reference materials, if you are still detecting mass then you would be better off using precisely prepared gravimetric reference materials instead.

Gravimetrically I can be traceable to NIST using only traceable reference weights without requiring NIST ampoules of reference alcohol.
While those devices are far from perfect they are an evolutionary step in how people are able to interact with technology.

My mother in law does not use a computer or smartphone at all, but she loves to use the Echo because it provides a familiar interface (speech) to services she would use (music, weather, casual information search).

And interacting with voice assistants is a two way street in my opinion. They will get better at understanding what we want and we will adapt to phrase our questions in a way the software understands.

And while I doubt us folks would use a voice assistant to query a solution for an error message on stackoverflow it still provides a convenient way to control music, lights, shutters while our hands are occupied in other ways (cooking, drawing, crafting, ...)
Why would someone want to do this?
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> The next dozen years will drain less than 1 percent of the reserves in the ground

That's actually an extremely large portion for such a short length of time (this is the entire planet we are talking about). That projection doesn't paint a very sustainable future compared to oil (yes I hate oil), I hope it's efficiently recycled or replaced with better tech.
They don't have to be!
See: w3m and vimperator / Tridactyl
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This is actually a follow up on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852100. We are creating a service to help everyone who has lost their bitcoin password.
Till now our clients had to go through the terminal for extracting information (Thanks pywallet for intermediate solution). But we created a GUI script to aid the extraction. This is also done trustless.
So we never have access to the funds. I'm asking hackernews to help and confirm the code (Technically it is working, also the trustless part. But that should be confirmed! As my reputation is zero ATM).
Additional resources:

- An article explaining why HastySite was built and the main technological choices: https://www.h3rald.com/articles/hastysite/

- The contents of the HastySite site as a user guide, in a single, printable HTML file: https://www.h3rald.com/hastysite/HastySite_UserGuide.htm
> If those doing the profiling are interested in being successful, and race and religion prove to be ineffective indicators of threat, then such profiling should stop

I mean maybe if the profiling is being done by robots, but in reality I have my doubts.
Yes. The term robotics as used in banking is a bit ridiculous. EUC is deeply frowned upon by audit however; a different name is used.

The access to quality tech BO has is terrible. Lack funding for people that can DIY and lack time and budget to experiment.

Fintech is not driven by tech but by regulation where banks are forced to make an investment in change, not just talk about it.
Also the same number as "Hey, Siri". And Samsung's "Hey, Bixby". I'm assuming it's not a coincidence.

I think it's likely that three syllables just happens to be a nice cut-off point that minimizes the number of spurious activations, and that explains why everybody doing voice control uses that particular threshold to activate their digital assistant.

Heck, even Star Trek got it right way back in 1966 with its "Computer" wake word.

About the only company I can find that seems to be ignoring the three-syllable rule is Microsoft, who use "Hey, Cortana", which is four syllables. But Microsoft's always been a fan of using really long phrases to identify their products, so maybe that shouldn't be a surprise.
I didn't know that app.

But it's a crutch AND doesn't allow the same stuff: If I watch a YT video, it's in my browser. No way to throw it at the TV. If I watch Twitch, it's in my browser. No way to throw it at the TV.

Maybe it can handle URLs. But if I have to copy the URL, paste it somewhere, fiddle to get to the same spot in the video ... then I can just launch Chrome and curse just as much.

(Highly ironic that the player offers the option to install a Chrome extension to open movies in SodaPlayer. For me the whole selling point of the thing would be to .. not need Chrome ofc)
No, stop it.

Great paper[1] by Ruhr University students. Whole research is great so take time to check it out, if you want to see bloody industry. Notable pages: 8, 17, 18 for rev. eng maps.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~klevchen/diesel-sp17.pdf
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Be advised that Orange Pi have many different boards with similar names, but vastly different specs. The $6.99 model is for 256MB RAM and a Allwinner H2 chipset.

Also a lot of the boards can only be powered by a DC jack, not the onboard MicroUSB.
It's actually my semester textbook
If we visually detect and remove ads, we take away the incentive for big companies to create ads and track us in the first place.
> If you have a more specific doubt, please, feel free to ask.

Unless by "feel free to ask" you mean "I don't plan to answer", this doesn't really seem like a sincere suggestion. I already did this and you didn't answer.
Good ole western arrogance / hypocrisy.
This startup is already powering India's electric vehicle dream
> As humans we'll be forced to re-evaluate our position on the sentient species ladder.

I bet that we will just keep trying hard to kill all of them to regain our top position.
> Someone who has an adblocker installed is unlikely to be respective to ads

Any statistics to believe this is true? I know for a fact it's false for myself because I do sometimes click on ads when I don't block them.
Is Apple’s marketing driven by benchmarks? I don’t think it is. They rarely talk about concrete performance or specs and focus more on the user experiences the device enables. Might have missed some campaigns though!
While amazing in their own right, those aren’t examples of a web browser and terminal becoming one application. Those are more like the interface of one being used to manipulate the other.

I think something like hyper will get us close: https://hyper.is
And most subscription sites still show ads.
Pretty much, yes.

Gave me new perspectives on life. Went into self-employment after that year. Also I invested much time in my peronal life, stopped doing monogamy and had much time for my two partners.
I guess you are going to weep:

https://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2017/12/6-14-now-av...
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Why should apple replace batteries for free? Do you expect a car company to replace car-batteries or tires for free?

Some components just wear and need to be replaced. Apple just provided a workaround that ensures your device doesn't crash due to the worn out component.
You are assuming the mirror is parabolic.
For $500, the Essential Phone may be worth a look.

My wife seems pretty happy with hers.
https://natgrp.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/india-renewables-...

"We therefore note that wind is now cost
competitive with new coal-based generation
capacity."
Well made ads are actually selling to people that would want to buy, not just any target that could buy, so it makes sense.
Edit: nvm
> I do not believe Apple shipped the slowdown to "protect my battery"

So you believe they only slowed down your phone to have you buy a new phone and hoped not to get caught?

My GF and I were affected by the voltage issue on iPhone 6 & 6S. If Apple can fix it by limiting voltage, it will give a better experience. Alternative is literal data loss which I consider much worse. BUT: They do need to tell users about this slow down. This is where they made a mistake.

I don't see them reverting this change. I do see them paying a hefty fine for covertly downgrading, and being forced to inform their users of the downgrade. I do see them pushing software updates to refine the "battery management system" going forward.
I was looking at an echo dot for the first time. my roommate is using it and our location is a small town 35 miles away. We tried to set the location through voice and then through the app but both didn’t work. We just gave up after wards thinking the weather should be similar.
Micro:bit seems a bit expensive when you compare its features with the other options.
I love that everything is doable without lifting my hand from the home row keys,
the programmability, the lack of advertisements, the consistent emacs/vi keybindings and the low performance costs.
People in the United States aren't throwing away old iPhones. Apple has a recycling & buy back program, https://www.apple.com/recycling/. other companies also buy back old phones.
Economists Hyytinen, Toivanen, have been publishing some good papers with good methodology and interesting results.

Some examples:

Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections, American Political Science Review, forthcoming [with J. Meriläinen, T. Saarimaa, O. Toivanen and J. Tukiainen]. http://aalto-econ.fi/toivanen/Hyytinen_Meril%C3%A4inen_Saari...

Cartels uncovered (2017) with Ari Hyytinen and Frode Steen. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming. http://aalto-econ.fi/toivanen/HST_2017_07_07.pdf
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next step - CSS for dummies, because this is awful[1]

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I think, the further back in history we go, the kookier things get - and that this is a positive, not a negative aspect of the experience. We in the modern age have conditioned ourselves to be subjugated to science - well, for the humans alive 20,000 years ago, cave-paintings were science. The fact that we don't understand them now, and have very strong opinions about the nature of civilisation in that period of human history, is more of the effect that time and history have on human consciousness - namely, occlusion and obfuscation. Kooky explanations for the weird and unusual artefacts we discover in the modern age are to be expected - we are as oblivious to the meaning of ancient art/science as they would be, had we a time machine, of our modern rocketry and iPhones and so on.

I think the Imperial View which tends to lead one to discount observations made beyond the lunatic fringe is less valuable than the conjecture and supposition that occurs when someone, perhaps weird and unintelligent, says to themselves "What if ...?" and then subsequently go off to investigate.

Never forget, even Newton was considered a crackpot for a period. We kill and eat our messiahs, after all, it is an ancient and provocative segment of human psyche, that we have been unable to shake the bonds of cannibalistic behaviour in our societies - sure, we're not cooking and roasting on an open fire, unless that fire is a metaphor for the modern thinker, convinced of their own righteousness.

I'm personally unconvinced that there weren't ancient civilisations with advanced technologies, yet undiscovered, which moved mountains for their own purposes.

We need only look at the deleterious effect of technology in our own generation to understand just how banal things can get, vis a vis forgotten science, and specifically technology. Perhaps the ancients did have anti-gravity capable flying machines that allowed them to build these structures - and perhaps the tech was lost in a few generations because of the deleterious effects of "planned obsolescence" at such scale. Unless someone is willing to stick their neck out and ask "What if .. there are UFO's buried under these mountains/&etc.?", we'll never really know.

Of course I understand the requirement that sense trump fiction - however I don't agree that the line is so drawn in the sands and stones of the ancients. There are many, many signs that we do not understand, and yet many clues that there is more to ancient history, and particularly civilizations beyond our comprehension, than there is 'total certainty of fact'.

Heck, even the Pentagon admits it doesn't know it all about UFO's, c'mon ..
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Interesting.

We have an Echo and to this day we haven't found any use for it.

Talking is broadcast and most of the time we search stuff for ourself on mobile. Also, it often simply says it has no answer.
Nope, I don't see the point in voice controlled gadgets, except maybe for use in cars. Otherwise: Just give me something with buttons to push.
Here's a recent pet annoyance of mine: if you have a lot of output from a command, so you pipe it through less, and then use X cut-and-paste to copy a multiline chunk of it to another terminal, it seems to be arbitrary whether it pastes as a single line, or multiple separate lines split by newlines. (For instance, resizing the xterm can change which you get.) I think this is because cut-n-paste is handled by the terminal, but the pager is just drawing characters at cursor positions so the terminal can only make a best guess about multiline selections.
yep I recognize it. that's an awesome book.
Around where I live, you probably have to mow about 25 times per year. The lawn care people have quoted me about $70 per time to mow my ~1 acre yard. That's $1750 per year. It looks like, if these robots are able to become 20-30% cheaper then it seems like they'll probably be competitive with those people.
I simplified a little. My full hierarchy looks like:

~/Images/$year/$month/$day-title/{ RAW JPG Public }

RAW contains all the RAWs, JPG for processed results, and Public for any images that are shared publicly, as opposed to given to paid clients or kept for my own use/reference.
Well it is obvious to me that terminal handling and indeed the shell itself should be absorbed into systemd....

On a more serious note, the terminal has to "just work", its role is to host shells, ncurses apps, and so on. It doesn't need to have any clever features, it just needs to be a blank canvas, one that is tolerant of its guests doing weird stuff and able to recover gracefully. All the "cleverness" should be in the shell, so it can be swapped out for another one easily.