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>Do you have the same mindset in regards to physical gold? Gold has very little, if any, intrinsic or practical value, yet generations of humans have been motivated to acquire more of it.

That statement is self-contradicting. If people covet gold for reasons other than what they might exchange it for, that means it has intrinsic value. And in addition to the satisfaction some people get from decorating their bodies with gold, it has many other practical uses. It's used in all types of electronic devices, including the computer you're reading this on.

And as a medium of exchange, gold does not rely on a global computer network being available. (But in a post-apocalyptic world, gold probably would not have as much intrinsic value as it does currently. Whiskey, guns and cartridges would probably be a better bet.)

The only thing scarce about crypto-currency is the energy it consumes, and the world's tolerance for its environmental impact. Aside from that, what prevents anyone from creating a new one?

It's all about the mindset. As long as enough people believe bitcoin is valuable, it will be valuable. I could be wrong, but I don't think that will continue to be the case long term. I think crypto-currencies will continue to exist and will have some practical uses, but, IMO, their values relative to USD are going to be, shall we say, "adjusted" to a more sane level sometime in the future.
The obvious question is : given all of the facts presented why is a multi-billion industry stuffed with the finest minds and equipment that can be bought or found carry on in apparent defiance of reason?

I see three explanations. First the pharma/cancer industry is a giant conspiracy working against the health and needs of cancer patients everywhere. Second, for some dreadful reason none of the brilliant minds working ceaselessly day and night have noticed these facts so far. They haven't read the studies and have been unable to parse the evidence, data science (counting) to the rescue. Third, there are other facts and knowledge which the author and readers external to the industry are not privy to, possibly because acquiring them required seven years of medical school followed by twenty years of biomedical research.
Text to speech, speech to text, is how I understand the two acronyms put together.
Honestly I don't think Vue is better than React, or React better than Vue.

They are just different, and that's where a lot of the arguments come from.

For me, Vue is such a monumentally large step backwards. I loved React because there are no templates, there is no 2-way binding, you don't have the vuex style state handling. Using Vue is an exercise in frustration for me, dealing with all of the templating headaches that I was so happy to escape, needing to learn the "template pseudo language" which ties your hands in a way that I haven't found helpful. But this makes Vue no more wrong or worse than someone using tabs instead of spaces is "wrong" or "worse".

But for others, React is a nightmare because of those reasons. A friend of mine greatly dislikes the React paradigm, and was always more productive and wrote better code in a templating style. And I genuinely don't think it has anything to do with productivity or skill. Vue's style might be better at some things, worse at others, React is the same, but in different ways. They are both fantastic frameworks.
You're schizotypal or schizoaffective. I am too.

We all either come to this conclusion eventually, or go mad.
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I wonder how this fares now considering all that context switching that just got more costly from Meltdown mitigation.
This has a clear purpose though - it exists to push people to change to a new BMW every 3 years. This is an open secret and salespeople like bringing it up.
Choo is pretty underrated IMO. Very small and fast, vanilla js, real DOM node diff, simple state management and routes built in. Also a very supportive community, esp Yosh.
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A fully automated CNC lathe with feedback is a robot.
So is it fair to say that Vue is for people that wish Angular had stayed on the V1 path and not diverged to be more like React for V2 onward?
I have heard from someone who develops S/W for one of these firms that they are concerned about instruction timing and have uncovered situations where some instructions occasionally take longer to execute. They go back to the manufacturer to find out why. They remain a couple generations behind the latest processors until they can qualify the newer ones for all of these details.

That's how far into the weeds they go.
domvm is the most underrated in this list. one of the fastest and smallest out there that's dependency free.

https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm
The difficulty comes when you ask the next question: What causes inertia? Why do particles “want” to move in a straight line?

As the article points out, the highest rise happens when the water is in sync with the bucket, so you can’t attribute the phenomenon to friction.
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It has a syntax dedicated to DOM operations. Doesn't change principles from React perspective - it's component based. So what I do for example: I can copy and paste react code, quickly parse it to Imba notation, and the result is 58 of original 198 lines of code. It's clear and nice to read. And outperforms React tens times. How could I not love it? :)
This really depends on commute times.

5x 8 hour work day + 1 hour each way commute = 50h/week.

54h/week + 20 minute each way commute = 57.3h/week.

54h/week + 1 hour each way commute = 64h/week.

That said, 56h is half your time awake a week. It does not leave a lot of wiggle room for other commitments.
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Well, it's a thought experiment. You can think of the same with two rocket powered capsules, tied with a rope, so that nothing has to disappear. If they are rotating, they are rotating against something (space itself), if they are not rotating, rocket power is strangely not having any effect, which violates Newton's Third Law.
Electricity in France is 0.10 to 0.20 E/kWh. Depends on the terms and the time of day.

It's more than China and USA cities with hydro. It's less than some other places.

We may have lower production prices but it's either not significant or not passed down to the consumer.
At least they didn't name it HOMER. You don't want that guy in charge of a nuclear reactor.
Programmers are engineers in a complex domain with many opportunities for establishing new best practices. A big part of their job is to analyze how complex systems function, and design changes to those systems that achieve a desired result.

The belief that they have a simple answer is a result of applying their engineering skills to a domain that they understand poorly but think they know well; this misalignment is due to the use of subtly inaccurate metaphors and generalizations, e.g. classical mechanics.

Taking their simple answer and methodically explaining why it’s incorrect efficiently develops their knowledge.

So this hubris is adaptive — it allows them to build their knowledge in a domain quickly.

Some might even do it intentionally, since they know the Internet can’t bear to leave an error uncorrected. ;-)
Some people read documentation, some tests (lol) to know what's going on. I read code - and Imba has really nice code to read. Also they are responsive on Gitter. But as I said. It's a pity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_aux_Cygnes

"A notable feature is a quarter-scale replica of Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, 22 metres tall and facing west in the direction of its larger sibling in New York City. Inaugurated by President Marie François Sadi Carnot on 4 July 1889, nearly three years after its US counterpart, it was donated to the city by the Parisian expatriots in the United States and Canada to mark the centennial of the French Revolution."
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In UK and EU law, it's the opposite: Geographical names are expressly excluded from TM rights, unless there's significant reason that they should be protected. Even then, it's only protected to the extent that its use causes trade confusion.
The one thing that Vue does great is exactly what you say you like about React (edit: not to say there aren't other things Vue does great, just that this is one of them). In Vue you have one file that contains the styles, code, and HTML for the component, all in their own HTML tags.

That means that there is a "blessed" solution for styling, that I'm afraid React will never have. Between "styled components", CSS-Modules, css-in-js, and tons of other options, many in-operable with each other. Styling is React's worse part, and it doesn't look like it's getting any better...
If you're interested in implementing a chip8 emulator, here are a few other resources of interest:

* Cowgod's technical reference: http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM

* SVision-8, an emulator (CHIP8 and SCHIP), various links (possibly dead) and a few chip8 and schip games for testing: http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/

* Petr Kratina's notes about their emulator writing (in HaXe), has a clear explanation of the oft opaque "store BCD" opcode which is nice: https://github.com/AfBu/haxe-CHIP-8-emulator/wiki/(Super)CHI...
This is a good write-up but it's also missing huge other sections of quant finance like statistical arbitrate and factor investing. I guess you could put this under the 'market taking' section except everything he describes is still in the mode of single stock thinking while these strategies are more about portfolios. You typically estimate some factor model of the market and use a portfolio optimizer to create your trade baskets.

In these types of strategies you care about latency but on the order of milliseconds not microseconds. The challenge is in building multi-day predictive alpha models with low correlation to each other, getting good executions though brokers can do a reasonable job these days, and especially combining alphas into one book which requires sophisticated mathematical programming (conic programming etc)
Out of curiosity, why did you not choose make to do this?
This comment seems unrelated to the one it's replying to. Did you mean to respond to a different comment or at the top level maybe?
Out of curiosity, why not use make for something so simple instead of a Shell script?
My USAF green "pickle suit" uniform in the 80's was made of polyester. And we knew that it would melt and stick to our skin in the event of a petroleum or electrical fire. Why did they ever make it from that material? It took a press well, so the creases were sharp. And it was cheap.
It's still there:

https://packages.debian.org/unstable/warmux
Yes but having tried it recently it provides very poor quality. The entire time the screen was blurry. Couldn't make out a single piece of text.

From what I understand before they rolled it out to everyone the system worked perfectly so it's just an issue of them scaling their backend.

No idea why they don't just use WebRTC for video&audio though.
That's fair, also I haven't tried using one outside of the google ecosystem. My personal accounts are tied up inside google and most of my employers have used the gsuite as well.

Maybe someone else can comment if it works the same with office365 or similar?
People look to Facebook as the effective channel for anything. Unofficial fanpages of stuff are usually significantly more informative and up-to-date than official ones.

Example from my city - the best way to find about problems with public transport (e.g. a tram had an accident and blocked off an entire route in both directions) is through an unofficial Facebook fanpage.
I think this is what they were referring to:

17 U.S. Code § 120(a): "The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not include the right to prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations of the work, if the building in which the work is embodied is located in or ordinarily visible from a public place."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/120

There is, however, an exception for secret military installations in 18 U.S. Code § 795: "[...] certain vital military and naval installations or equipment as requiring protection against the general dissemination of information relative thereto, it shall be unlawful to make any photograph [...]"

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/795
SIP is a disaster. There are so many issues with configuration, firewall traversal, and general user experience that saying end users should be using it is just disconnected from reality. Skype nailed it for a reason—because all the dumb SIP stuff you need to deal with just to get it going is too much. You need to be able to install an app and just go. Especially with interviews and any time you’re dealing with people outside of you controlled little environment.

SIP is successful in the telecom space because it still requires specialized knowledge and dedicated teams of people to run it, and preserving that might be the reason it’s still such a pain.
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Here's something similar: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0011076

I found that article from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregeometry_(physics)
keep in mind that the numbers have been skewed in the last few months because of an influx of pubg players from china, who probably don't have as much money to spend than western gamers.

see: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/

windows 7 having a huge uptick from aug-oct, and high end graphics cards' market shares dropping in the same time.
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Why would human versatility define the upper limit?
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> Its results are distinctly unimpressive... So far as I can tell, where there has been improvement in cancer mortality since the 1970’s, it is mostly due to people smoking less, early detection of some kinds of cancer, and adjuvant (cytotoxic) chemotherapy, not to targeted chemotherapies.

I'll just add this quote for a starting point from such abject failure, "The first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right name." -Confucius

"what's cancer?", "how do you fix it?", don't ask them.
Cowgod's technical reference describes memory load/store and bitshift instructions incorrectly. I'd strongly advise instead using Mastering Chip8 as a reference: http://mattmik.com/files/chip8/mastering/chip8.html

This GitHub repository contains extensive original research regarding pedantic SCHIP compatibility: https://github.com/Chromatophore/HP48-Superchip
Right, but legal censorship has been around for thousands of years. I don't see the full circle you're talking about - it's more of the same.
But neither of those composite terms is clobbering a preexisting meaning. Whilst their meanings may not be clear at first encounter they can be quickly and unambiguously determined using a dictionary.

In fact I had to look up booty call just now and understand immediately the difference.

Whereas "Switzerland should become crypto capital" can mean different things to different people simultaneously. That's the problem. If I look up crypto in a notional 2018 dictionary and it has two definitions, which do I choose?
That doesn't mean you won't have be harassed by the law: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/five-sue-gov-over-targeting/
That’s easy then; they’re rotating relative to the exhaust stream that they’re creating.

Now if you’re talking quantum vacuum thrusters, exploring exactly how that works should also give you a good idea of what space is! ;-)
Second this. We use Zoom internally all the time. When a client's Skype/Lync system fails to work, we send out a Zoom link and everyone is like "Whoa!" every time....
The buyers also get more weight to pull around.
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The advantage and disadvantage of lambda is that it decouples your economics from AWS's (or Azure's or GCP's) economics.

That is, the cost of idle time is shifted from your account to their account. This sets up a bit of a race: Amazon's goal is to have as few hidden warm instances for as little time as possible. The user's goal is to have as many hidden warm instances as possible for as long as possible.

This is where you start to see pinging to provoke AWS into keeping a warm copy. As time goes on they will have a growing incentive to prevent tricks like these from working.

At the moment, on the economics, hosted FaaSes will always have this tension. Self-hosted FaaSes open up the possibility of setting your own policy for trading latency against idle cost.

Disclosure: I am part of a team working on Project Riff, a FaaS.
> Im not sure which advanced society you are refering to. But i think you mean 40hrs of mandatory work

Germany or any other civilized country with such things as laborer protection laws. But in a society with at-will employment like the US I wouldn't expect any kind of protection, so...
Doesn't matter since the price can be easily manipulated. It pays to drain millions into inflating the price or keeping it afloat, if you could fleece the counterparty for billions...
I would recommend C: A Reference Manual (by Samuel P. Harbison and Guy L. Steele Jr.) along with K&R The C programming language.

C has lots of edges where it's easy for a beginner to make mistakes. Say for example the minimal range of a char is -127 to 127 (yes, C cares 1's complement machines) or 0 to 255. Not knowing this may result in a code working in one machine while broken on others. So learning the standard is a must, especially, the undefined behaviors.
Yea I'd say the big churn appears to be around tooling and paradigm thinking (state management, functional programming, etc.), the latter of which driven in part by the rapid expansion of the language itself.
Awesome! Thank you for the insight!
Quite. If a person needs a thing they will realise that themselves and go out and buy one. Advertising is 100% about things you don't need and have no real reason to purchase.

https://genius.com/Bill-hicks-on-advertisers-and-marketing-a...
> However, we will eventually reach a point where computers don't get significantly faster.

Help me understand why. Even if individual computational units cannot get faster, can we not benefit from additional computational units? I know that these don't scale linearly but I suspect there remains work that can be done to improve scaling. Isn't that where GPUs get their computational power?
Ask HN: Want to go to Tunisia for 2 months, advice?
Hello everyone,

I'm in Canada, Québec city, I'm a guy, 27 y, and I'm thinking about going to Tunis at Institut Bourguiba des langues vivantes to learn some arabic for 2 months.

Anyone has some expirience there ? How is it ? Is it easy to socialise ?

So I wanted to know, does anyone have some experience in learning in Tunis, how is it ? Does anyone know if that university is good ?

Secondly, how much does an apartement costs ? Not a big one, a small one in a good area ?
I can't find that information online.

And how's life there when you travel alone like me ? Is it easy to integrate and have a social life ?

Thanks :)
No, I think it would be fairer to say that it's like if AngularJS and React had a child and named it "Vue.js".

Because in the end, Vue.js has stuff in common with React, like the virtual DOM (you don't see this in Angular 2+) and has stuff in common with AngularJS (the good parts).

Check this out: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html

Don't go thinking you are going to read a biased comparison, the Vue.js vs React section has the blessing from a core React contributor (Dan Abramov): https://github.com/vuejs/vuejs.org/issues/364#issuecomment-2...
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I did the same thing for a conference talk once, but also “golfed” each of the 4 components down to Tweet size (back in my day, Tweets were 140 characters): https://gist.github.com/tlrobinson/1257254

Every programmer should implement a simple Lisp from scratch at least once, just to understand compilers and interpreters aren’t magic.
Related: the story of the owners of Bully Hill Vineyards in New York State, who are legally enjoined from using their last name on their product. They founded another wine company under their name originally and sold it to Coca-Cola, you see...

Wikipedia, since it appears their website's cert is just out of date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_Hill_Vineyards
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>>> If the windows and the HVAC aren't talking, you end up trying to heat or air condition the outside world. This is both futile and expensive.

That's an argument to be made to the hotel or office owner. The user has no control on the HVAC and is forced to open the window or turn on electric heaters to cancel it.
Their side of the story, if you feel up for temporary security exceptions: https://www.bullyhillvineyards.com/about/heritage/
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Whats the right choice for building a repacement for an existing app that has survived for 15 years and you want the replacement to last at least another 10? Whats the long term hedge?
It's not the frameworks, it's the build tool daisy chain with it's countless dependencies.
styled-components are actually really nice, so I don't think it's fair to say "styling is React's worst part". This seems like a more general criticism of React's agnosticism when it comes to so many things. React falls more heavily on the library spectrum than the framework one. It's rather un-opinionated about a lot of things: styling, state management, routing, code organization, etc. Definitely not something that's unique to styling.

On the one hand this offers a lot of flexibility to do things the way you want, but also makes the learning curve a lot steeper. Honestly I would love for somebody to build a more full fledged framework around React that makes most of the decisions for you. A sort of "good for 90% of use cases" setup. (I guess create-react-app is sort of like that? You still have to make too many decisions, I think.)
That makes no sense - trademark and copyright are totally different things.
Vue is SEO friendly and has native support for SSR.

Use Nuxt to get started.

https://nuxtjs.org/
Tree is also a form of graph
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I'm currently editing it a bit, I'll send it in a few days (feel free to remove your address from the comment, I saved it).

I also think such a system is well equipped for matters of taste, where some peer-bubbles can even be beneficial (there is so much bad art I never want to see...).
People prefer unavailability of something to it being available at a high price.

If you walk into a gas station and they say "sorry, we're out of gas" - no worries, try the next place.

Whereas if they said "we're low on gas, so you have to pay $100 per gallon", there would be public outcry. People would fill up then refuse to pay. People would be forming a mob outside the station.

Rational? No. But it's the way people think, and companies need to adapt to it.
More like 'The Ultimate Vue Shill Article'.
20% is because of VAT, so you have to discount that from comparisons.
"Polymer is a Google-backed libary focused on Web Components, a proposed group of technologies that are currently not well-supported in browsers."

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Wow.
I think 4 is a much larger issue. Cancer is hard, and low hanging fruit is easier to find.

Also, adding 4 months of life when you're talking about something 40% of Americans are going to be diagnosed with really is a huge deal. Adding say 1 extra day of life to every cancer patient in the US would be the equivalent of saving ~25 lives each and every year.
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You've missed out 4, which is that these modern drugs are mostly not that good, but doctors want to help dying people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_Drugs_Fund#Criticism