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> Publishers shouldn’t know what people are interested in until they actively go to their pages.

Yes, that privilege is reserved for Google.
As the site guidelines make clear, you can't use HN primarily for ideological battle, regardless of ideology. Since that's clearly all you've been doing with this account, we've banned it. Please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How exactly do you get a rent controlled steal in San Jose? Those 8% annual increases add up (multiply up) very quickly.
Get MPV or VLC. I like MPV because the minimum, no nonsense approach to just play video.
Excellent point. If non-insider investors notice large suspicious insider trades, then they might want to sell based on that knoweldge.
It's not an argument of rationality, it's about fairness to the larger market and how easily insiders can abuse access to information. The price of a stock is supposed to reflect its value, if you act on insider information and sell at the apparent price when it would actually be lower if everybody had access to the same information then it's fraud. Those are the rules you agree to and you have to abide by them, even if it appears irrational. I agree actually that patch writers should have been notified first with specifics, but he should have held on to the stock (if he indeed did sell it based on insider info as accused).

Edit: to say it differently, it's only irrational if you consider his personal profit exclusively and not the harm to the greater market and shareholders. As con artists and scammers demonstrate, fraud can be very profitable personally. I think the disadvantages are self-evident, however.
So my understanding is that government officials did a bunch of illegal stuff, maybe the whole thing was illegal and corrupted in its core, so they decided to rather withhold the evidence of their wrongdoings and loose than expose the amount of corruption.

I am simply amazed by the whole thing. No matter what is the actual "legal" and "illegal" here, and who's right and wrong: to stand up against the Federal government as an individual is extraordinary. An to actually win... unthinkable.
(The Vive Pro will also support a tracking-area boost of up to 10 square meters [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/valve-announces-the-f...], which requires four 2.0 base stations.)

I read this and thought "Hmm, 10 sq meters sounds small. That about 3.1m x 3.1m (10 ft x 10 ft), which is about the same maximum as the current Vive". Not impossible, but an odd boast to make about make about the new Pro unit, and funny that it requires more base stations to be able to match the old one.

Then I read the link:

The new base station protocol will only support two tracking boxes at first (just like the HTC Vive), but Valve promises that they'll receive an update in "early 2018" to support two more tracking boxes to grow the total tracking range to 10 meters squared, or 32.8 feet squared (1,075 square feet). That's quite the jump from SteamVR's current max of 11.5 feet squared

Oh, I see now what's happening! Instead of 10 square meters, they mean that you that the new version will support a 10m x 10m room (30 ft x 30 ft), which indeed is much greater than the current 3.5m x 3.5m (11.5 ft x 11.5 ft) max. But their own earlier writeup was so confusing and innumerate that they couldn't figure out what it meant!

Maybe "innumerate" is too harsh, but how does a technical site like Ars muck things like this up? Am I being too optimistic when I still hope that both the author and editor should have caught this? Hurried author and no editor? Or is someone teaching that "X units squared" is a valid way of specifying a square room of X units per side?
Would you please refrain from doing ideological flamewar on HN? Surely you're aware it's the exact opposite of what we're trying to have here? I realize other people were doing just that, but that's all the more reason not to feed it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Every other day approximately. Not too much running - 15 mins maybe. Then an hour of weight training.

The most important thing has been regulation. I stay away from foods I’ve recognized as being triggers. I was taking probiotics for a while. I was stressed, anxious. All contributing factors. Learning control has been a key for me.
Let alone the psychological damage to the society that any kind of speculation and a flood of "get-rich-fast" schemes incur.

Strict measures are not always bad. If China did not handle the SARS epidemic years ago the way they did, things could have been more similar to the Ebola epidemic.
> Personally I think it's easier and more likely that we attempt to fix a few web browsers than expect a millions of websites to change.

This is the same argument I criticized before. The world doesn't change completely over night because one changes their own actions, and that is fine. These million websites maybe never change, and that's what we'd have to live with.
You're just describing evolution. We almost assuredly don't practice most of the habits of whatever sludge we evolved from, regardless of how useful it is to sludge to continue such practices. And if we stop doing things, we will probably do so for reasons just as valid as why our ancestors started them.
One of the best things you can do is teach your kids how to read and write at an early age. Then give the kids gaming consoles (wii, 3ds, switch), an ipad for watching youtube, and a laptop or desktop for minecraft or steam. Prepare to be blown away at how quickly they can learn something from watching a video once. If a game isn't interesting enough that there are not multiple youtube channels dedicated to that game then it is likely not a sufficiently engaging activity. Educators are completely failing the current generation and are stressed out about 'digital distractions' because they know they can't compete. People can absorb information much faster now and will lose interest if you can't match the pace. Shorter attention is not the problem, poor communication is the problem. By way of analogy, if I produce a car that accelerates to 60 mph in 2 seconds instead of the usual 8 seconds, does my car have an acceleration deficit disorder?
But, they didn't ask how much voters cared, like whether a congressman's stance on the issue would change their vote.
That is perilously naive.
I think the parent is making the point that potatoes are in general often fried, consumed in more quantities and come with other unheathly things, whilst that is not typically the case with bananas.
Probably because of it’s potential for harming other rich people.
They weren't when I flew, but that was when they has just gotten deliveries and were still using them on domestic routes, so things may have changed. Now their domestic 787s are the most bare-bone interiors you've ever seen, without even IFE.
That's right, but the media doesn't think that way. It's always the most expensive painting sold ever, the biggest box office hit, and so on.
Oh your original comment wasn't harsh at all. I was just listing a few of CV's strengths which may have played a role in making it a popular choice
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Don't forget about transit.
A regular Github search turns up half a dozen more. It feels like you've intentionally limited yourself to the less commonly used tag search in order to attempt to prove a point that isn't there.
Ask Volkswagen how your argument worked for them.
You should edit the context of this question based upon the answer from its_trivial : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16103175
>Educators are completely failing the current generation and are stressed out about 'digital distractions' because they know they can't compete.

This is practically a conspiracy theory. There are definitely old teachers that frown on the value of technology, but this is because they're old, not because they're teachers and somehow have a financial incentive to believe otherwise.
The price of basic necessities is limited by the cost of production, not some fundamental scarcity. We could produce as much food, clothing etc. as anyone could want without increasing the cost. (In fact, the cost should decrease slightly due to economies of scale.)
Ftfy and Unidecode[1] are two of the first libraries I reach for when munging around with a new dataset. My third favorite is the regex filter [^ -~]. If you know you’re working with ASCII data, that single regex against any untrusted data is resolves soooo many potential headaches.

I manage and source data for a lead generation/marketing firm, and dealing with free text data from all over the place is a nightmare. Even when working with billion dollar firms, data purchases take the form of CSV files with limited or no documentation on structure or formatting or encoding, sales-oriented data dictionaries, and FTP drops. I have a preprocessing script in python that strips out lines that can’t be parsed as utf8, stage it into a Redshift cluster, then hit it with a UDF in Redshift called kitchen_sink that encapsulates a lot of my text cleanup and validation heuristics like the above.
Careful, don't want any of those senators to step out of line over there. I hear dissent is treated with lashing and in-party sabotage.
- Submits issue to Chromium requesting it just run webpages through this before displaying them (I've stumbled on old webpages with legitimately broken encoding within the past 4-5 months)

- Creates Rube Goldberg machine to fix UTF-8 text copy-pasted through TigerVNC (which I was surprised to discover setting LC_ALL doesn't fix)

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Fun trivia w/ VNC, because it's cute:

1. Example from site: #╨┐╤Ç╨╨╨╕╨╗╤î╨╜╨╛╨╡╨┐╨╕╤é╨╨╜╨╕╨╡

2. Fixed: #правильноепитание

3. What I get when I copy #2 through VNC: #Ð¿ÑÐ°Ð²Ð¸Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾ÐµÐ¿Ð¸ÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ

4. What happens when ftfy sees #3: #правильноепитание

5. What happens when I copy #1 through VNC: #â¨ââ¤Ãâ¨ââ¨ââ¨ââ¨ââ¤Ã®â¨ââ¨ââ¨â¡â¨ââ¨ââ¤Ã©â¨ââ¨ââ¨ââ¨â¡

6. What happens when I paste #5 to ftfy: #правильноепитание

This is absolutely awesome.

VNC details: Arch Linux server, Slackware client, both running TigerVNC 1.8.0.

Bonus: what happens when I paste the above into Google Translate: "# Proper nutrition" (nice!)

Edit: Wow, Arc didn't choke on this. It has good Unicode support. Nice.
Microcode is essentially a program that runs on the CPU below the level of the normal instruction set (machine code). It's firmware, and stored in some memory on the die (or in the EFI/BIOS, or loaded at or after boot time, depending on the system.) It allows for mapping a large set of complex instructions to short programs of fundamental microinstructions. A CPU without a hardware multiplier might still have an assembly (and machine code) multiply instruction, and simply implement a shift-and-add multiplication algorithm in the microcode.

I suggest Tanenbaum and Austin's "Structured Computer Organization" for a pretty good book about this (and other aspects of CPU design).
yarn's "offline mirror" blog post[1] has been super helpful — I was able to set one up in less than 30 minutes.

[1] https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2016/11/24/offline-mirror/
I'm really curious how SharedArrayBuffer can be used to create high-precision timers. I'm also wondering what's now broken due to SharedArrayBuffer being removed.
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> As far as I'm aware, neither of these is known to have resulted in damage yet,

How many sysadmins have been working overtime to investigate this, deploy out of band patches, and test their impact on infrastructure that may now be underprovisioned? Meltdown and Spectre are already inflicting serious costs even before exploits are found in the wild.
No, it could be the reason. The patent/money issue is related to the initial FDA approval, which is very expensive (clinical trials).

If no one foots the bill for the testing, it won't spawn a FDA approved thing, right? And if it's not patentable, then it's not worth the effort to go through those hoops, because you won't be able to recoup the costs of doing the FDA approval steps because others could also bring generic versions to market right away, without a cool-down period, and at the same price.

If it is patentable, then it's worth it to make the drug and get it approved. You'll have 20 years to recoup the costs before generics can appear.
While I don't disagree, I feel compelled to point out that in the same book he also introduces the idea of shoving people out of an airlock for being rude to you.
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Which of the above do you think are "NSA-designed algorithms"?

The real NSA algorithms are part of "Suite A", which you don't have to worry about trusting because they aren't public. (I've chosen not to use things like the NIST curves for ECDSA, though.)
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Two Major Apple Shareholders Push for Study of iPhone Addiction in Children:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/jana-calp...
This excellent Reddit comment shows that when it comes to the voting record, no, both sides are not the same.

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6brytw/comment/dhpcbd...
It solves the problem of landlords waiting until you're established in the rental property (or worse yet, waiting until some misfortune befalls you that prevents you from moving) and then jacking the rent up.
It's things like this that really make the west seem backwards. Did you know the average Chinese citizen has more representation in their government than the average US citizen cf. https://aeon.co/ideas/one-way-the-us-and-the-eu-are-less-dem...?
Thai PM leaves cardboard cutout to answer questions
From page 10-11 of [1]:

> A shared resource provides a way to build a real counting thread with a negligible overhead compared to a message passing approach. This already raised concerns with respect to the creation of a high-resolution clock [19]. In this method, one worker continuously increments the value of the buffer without checking for any events on the event queue. The main thread simply reads the current value from the shared buffer and uses it as a high-resolution timestamp.

[1] https://gruss.cc/files/fantastictimers.pdf
Oh hi Sean I didn't see that it was you. We worked at CDG at the same time!

Thanks for the links and survey. I think something like "illustrative programming" is going to be really important. There's already some evidence of this in the observation that programming in Flowsheets is just so pleasant. I'm working on a couple demos that try bring this pleasantness to other types of programs.
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By running a worker thread in a counting loop.
This is a good post but I feel like the title is misleading. It's specifically talking about the V8 engine in particular, not Javascript in general.

While other Javascript engines may work in similar ways, the article doesn't make that assertion.
Since there's no technical reason for it to stay, what Google decides to do here will be telling.
You Get What You Get
"American women" as a class now have a sufficiently loud voice

Why is it important that they have a sufficiently loud voice "as a class?" This seems backwards to me. The whole point of liberation is liberation to be treated as an individual not as a member of a class based on something contextually irrelevant like your biological sex.
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No. No one would ever take the "sure we fucked up but be happy that you got a deal" argument seriously. Ask Intel's legal counsel if they're willing to go on record with that counterpoint.
Unfortunately humans tend to measure their wealth relative to others ("keeping up with the Joneses"), so making everyone equally wealthy probable doesn't improve average or maximum happiness in the population.

In developed countries even the poorest are infinitely better off than the upper class in medieval times, safe for the aspect that they're not richer than their peers. That seems to be a very important factor for happiness.
The price of basic necessities is based on what people will pay for it (or what merchants can charge for it). If everyone has $10 today to buy groceries and all of a sudden, tomorrow everyone has $100 to buy groceries, what do you think is going to happen to the price of groceries?
The 1% owns this country and can get away with murder while Joe Schmoe is left holding the bag.
I've been explaining to friends that Spectre is like discovering that ESP exists.

Not that Spectre attacks are going to be easy to pull off, but it really makes you reconsider everything that you thought you could take for granted.
>Canada's most prominent food related export is Maple Syrup

Canada exports ~$200mm worth of maple syrup a year, and $5bn worth of wheat. Similarly, seals were only an important food source for the Inuit, who have never accounted for a significant portion of Canada's population.

>Go for it. The growing season in Canada is so short you'd have to farm a ton of land to feed everyone. Tell me how you'd make it work.

Canada is a net exporter of food and food products - 56bn export, 44bn import: http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/industry-markets-and-trade/internat...

You seem to be getting your facts from the book of lazy stereotypes. Do you think we also ride moose or polar bears to work instead of driving cars?
It seems pretty simple when you look at the filing. Just quietly change the rules whenever you see fit.

> Explanation of Responses:

> 1. Transactions reported on this Form 4 were made pursuant to trading instructions adopted by the reporting person on October 30, 2017 that are intended to comply with Rule 10b5-1(c).

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/50863/00011276021703...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_Rule_10b5-1
India unveils 6.8 petaflops super-computer dedicated for climate research
> Its an improvement but Comcast has been delaying real improvements for years but collect insane profits (afaik).

Comcast has raised speeds from about 16 mbps to gigabit in the last ten years, through multiple rounds of DOCSIS upgrades.

As to access to the last mile: that’s already the law. Pole and conduit owners are required to lease out access at non-discriminatory rates. Comcast owns few if any poles. They lease access from the power company or the phone company, just like Google would have to do.
They could just strengthen the weight of that to be more noticeable. But Google has a vested interest in keeping JS everywhere. I seriously doubt that they tried hard.
> and if she were a guy she couldn't get away with it

I think this is untrue. I know a lot of male "sofware engineers" who are totally incompetent and remain well employed.
> Martha Stewart went to jail for avoiding $45,000 in losses [1].

Your link says exactly the opposite of that:

> On February 27, 2004, Judge Cederbaum threw out the charge of securities fraud which could have led to up to ten years in prison and a $1 million fine. The judge found that "no reasonable juror can find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant lied for the purpose of influencing the market for the securities of her own company."

> On March 5, 2004, Stewart was found guilty by a jury of eight women and four men on all four remaining counts against her: conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and two counts of making false statements to a federal investigator.

Martha Stewart went to jail for having the temerity to be a target of a federal investigation, not for doing anything.
A: if you are going to just slip in an insult there with the line about economics being unintuitive, go fuck yourself. If you honestly didn't mean it as an insult, then I apologize.

B: you've moved the goalposts. I said it hurt others when they sell based on information they know as an employee, of the company whose stock they are selling. You are arguing that its fine because those people would probably be hurt anyway. If it was really fine then why didn't the CEO tell everyone about the vulnerability before making the sale? Those investors would have just bought it anyway, right?
so 1 month -> 2 years
but 4 weeks -> only 8 months
Maybe these operations will incorporate solar + battery storage into their systems if they want to stay alive... Be less efficient and less productive, but be legal, environmentally and socially responsible (sucking this much power from the public system is not responsible), and still profit.
He did several things wrong, and simply _stating_ that he did not does not make it true.
Usually I try to be constructive, but I just need to get this out: fuck AMP. I don't care downvote me to oblivion I'm a little buzzed but FFS who actually wants AMP and why is it even a thing? Why can't Chrome just prefetch shit from the actual servers and let ISPs handle the caching? Why does mother Google need to serve me all the content from its overly suckled teat? I know everyone working on AMP means well but why why why does Google insist on destroying the internet and entirely undermining TLS in the process? Sorry. That was therapeutic.

Bonus Quiz:

1. When I encounter an AMP link I...
a) Click it.
b) Don't click it.
c) I don't see AMP links using FireFox.

2. When my friends send me an AMP link...
a) I click it.
b) I don't click it.
c) Friends don't send friends AMP links.

3. Reasons I've switched to FireFox...
a) I love RUst.
b) I care about privacy.
c) I hate AMP.

4. My ISP is...
a) Google
b) Chrome
c) None of the above.

The answer is 'c'.
Housing association in CA fining residents $200 for keeping garage door closed
I too have no experience with satellites, but I imagine a project may not be able to survive the financial burden of a loss.
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The analogy is flawed.

He did not write a piece of software, he wrote a piece of rhetoric which had very little to do with reality and had a lot to do with making people dislike Google and its policies.

I also write a lot of rhetoric designed to do that. The difference is I'm not a Google employee. Were I, I would fully expect to be fired, regardless of what I did with that writing (except perhaps leave it unreleased on my home computer, or write it to /dev/null).
Ehh...I was replying to a post that didn't consider the fact that he might actually be wrong, come to terms with his wrongness, and admit it and move on. Whether or not he's wrong is perhaps an unanswered question -- I don't really know enough about the memo to say one way or the other -- but he should consider that what he did was wrong.
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Problem there is no one knows how to pronounce it. Every day I hear two people talking, and person one says “a /zh/ ure” while person two says “uh-zhure”. Emphasis on the u or emphasis on the a.

It’s almost as bad as Ker-burr-os vs Ker-bear-os or OS 10 vs OS Ex.
Why gin distillers in particular?
Seems to me an obvious target. Soundness of sleep seems to decline monotonically from near birth all the way to death

https://twitter.com/clumma/status/764842049199898624
Agreed. Shutting down participation in the planet's largest pyramid scheme doesn't have a lot of downside.
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That sounds pretty damning then, do you have a link?
I'm completely happy to see this happen to ~pkrumins. He's always seemed like a genuinely nice, brilliant fellow, who's stuck with his project in spite of the usual startup advice. (He submitted a YC application years ago that iirc didn't go very far.)

Hope this turns into some real success for him.
To the submitter:

Did you build this?

If so, you should prepend "Show HN:" to the title and make a comment giving us a little background on things like how/why you built it and what's interesting about it.