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There's a middle ground, which is far from complete but very useful for practical reasons. Also, there's no cannon, but most people in the know would agree that the useful middle ground includes many (most?) of the following things:

1. Being able to drive safely and efficiently, even in bad road or climatic conditions.

2. Recognizing all the regular maintenance the car needs, and being able to perform at least some of that on your own.

3. Recognizing all the main subsystems of the car, down to their most important pieces. Being aware of the most common problems each subsystem usually show and what symptoms you should be in the look.

4. Being able to perform emergency repairs while on the road, with only basic equipment.

5. Recognizing the parameters of the most common models, on how those affect the performance of the vehicle.

That kind of knowledge was more common a couple of generations ago, but then... cars were much simpler machines back then, too.
Ethereum has already surpassed Bitcoin’s transaction thoroughput and yet features significantly lower confirmation time and transaction cost.*

Bitcoin core has made significant technical decisions that has hampered the project in these two areas.

*Source: https://themerkle.com/bitcoin-vs-ethereum-transaction-throug...
I had also wondered whether its ability to match exact phrases has degraded. It would make sense, since keeping individual words on a distributed index is a lot easier than keeping a long phrase. But I had no way of telling, not having benchmarked it in the past.
> The study's methodology of comparing only the lowest-priced tier service isn't that great, because it may be more indicative of the degree to which a provider is willing to cross-subsidize service tiers rather than real cost efficiencies. To take the top 3 providers from the chart on page 8 ... LUS charges $109 for gigabit. The "market rate" for AT&T/VZN/CenturyLink is $70-90 (excluding promos).

AT&T's 1000/1000 in Lafayette is $80 with promo rates/$90 without, plus a $180 ETF and data caps (though removing the cap for free is often part of a promo deal). However, it doesn't match LUS's coverage area yet.

The next-fastest active residential service in Lafayette today is Cox 300/30, for $80 with/$105 without promo rates.

Closer to even offers, LUS's 100/100 is $50 with/$63 without promo rates, AT&T's 100/20 for $60/$70 + $10 per 50 GB over 1TB cap ($90/$100 without data caps), and Cox's 100/10 is $60/$85.

Cox doesn't compete with LUS's 60/60 plan; their next plan down is 30/3 for $40/$64. AT&T's 75/10 DSL is $70/$80 with data caps.
The thing your argument is that no one is arguing about these philosophical ideas of intrinsic value. People are just saying: 'if people didn't use gold as money anymore because they lost faith in it, the gold would still be useful (ie as in jewlery, circuit boards, etc).'

I mean I could do you one better with this type of argumentation and say 'your idea is wrong because all ideas are social constructs, so all are equally the imagination of peoples and all are equally valid,' and we could just have nothing left to talk about and get nowhere with anything.
> bit of a bummer for those of us hoping for something more agnostic.

If you can imitate the go/rpc protocol, you an run any binary from any language on this, including LLVM based systems.

A version of this is already in play in https://github.com/apex/up
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I'm not sure it wasn't a false flag if I'm honest, especially considering the amount of publicity & nature of reporting around the incidents.
Same here. Offline search in Thunderbird beats everything, particularly the quick filter feature.
Yeah, the problem with RPC is that there's no one RPC to rule them all, like there is with JSON or HTTP. They'll have to build RPC wrappers for each language / VM, and choose the most popular RPC packager if there's isn't one in the stdlib.
For a replacement? Or for the next word?
That's still 46 seconds too long and how long until you got 6 confirmations? 1 hour. DAG based coins are the future.
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I don't get this either, it's not as if there are two "m"s in the word million. I must be spelling it wrong.
Generally an interesting idea, but Lambda containers are re-used across requests, so might not be a good thing to do in this case. If there's no reuse, and they figure out sub millisecond cold start, they could do this and essentially create a disposable server for each request.

Ironically, I think that's what CGI did :D
RaiBlocks is highly relevant to mention here since it's the only coin solving these very problems while still being decentralized.
Factual counter arguments here: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/01/california-is-...
This may mean good things for the outbreaks in remote parts of Madagascar and anywhere else one may occur, because the solution could be as simple as sanitation and delicing.
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> Java APIs ARE C APIs,

You lost me there. I wouldn't call JNI boilerplate a C API.

> It is quite normal and traditional though, for C/C++ developers to work with what they call statically built binaries.

Polyglot dev here, including C and C++.

The way a library is linked is orthogonal to be made available on the SDK.
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If the NYTimes' tweets had the same level of quality as their pretend tweets from the past, I'd follow them.
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Should have? Yes. Could have? Probably not. No one in the US gave two shits about French Indochina, it was all about Western Europe and containing the USSR/Communists during the scramble to pick up the pieces after the war. France had a large Communist party that was a key part of the resistance during the war and maintained a good reputation after, and large proletariat revolutions had a historical precedent in France that probably scared US government officials to death. No matter how much he was hated, you backed de Gaulle over the alternative so that you only had to worry about Eastern Europe and not have a grenade explode in the middle of the continent. Not a good choice, but even in hindsight it seems like there were not a lot of good options available to the US.
I'd be trying to drop six ranks in that case.
Unfortunately Google dropped + when they introduced Google+ social network. Nuff said Google+ is a ghost down nowadays but the + operator hasn't returned yet.

And even written "search term" doesn't work consistently anymore, Google thinks to know better and semi-randomly omit words and show results no one asked for.
NEO is centralized. But at least it has code.

Cardano has no published code for its smart contract platform, yes somehow it is the 5th most valuable cryptocurrency. Its hype is based on something that Ethereum already has under development: a formally verifiable programming language (and unlike Cardano, the work on formalizing the two programming languages is being done out in the open). Its website also praises regulations and implies pretty strongly that only regulated entities will be able to run consensus nodes for its smart contract platform.

I don't think either has any hope of being the next Ethereum.
I'm so glad I'm not the only person thinking that. Last year and a half or so I've started scouring forums and reading studies on google scholar rather than searching the web. And it's gotten worse and worse each year.

I've been lazy and so acclimatized to the UI that I haven't changed, but I plan to now. It's especially difficult finding medical information. Mind boggling how 6-7 years ago it used to be so much better.
Does this escape spaces in filenames properly?
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AFAIK (and I can be totally wrong here) screen grabbing is part of the Wayland protocol, but most (all?) compositors restrict which processes are allowed to use that API. For Sway (which is what I use), I've seen a separate config file for this. So it might be worth taking a look at the documentation for your compositor.
Monochrome existed for some time before Instagram.
Literally from the first moment the story broke, I had completely discounted the magical sonic weapon theory and was wondering what was in their environment and whether they had instead been poisoned. It fits vastly better, and there are much better questions to be asked probing the nature of the poisoning. The entire "sonic weapon" angle seemed to be some kind of fabrication to immediately drum up Cold War feelings against Cuba and the ongoing efforts to end the embargo and return to normalcy.

In fact, it was this very story that makes me wonder to this day if Obama's move to normalize relations with Cuba in 2014-15 was the inciting incident behind Russia's decision to start the Digital Cold War in the first place.
The company I don't think so. The products.. a bit more - not because they are bad products, but because they are enterprise products which comes with all the enterprise baggage that makes user experience range from meh to painful
i know what you mean.

on the other hand, many of the problems in CS 229 are proofs and derivations that are very similar to those in the lecture notes (forcing you to understand the lecture notes in detail). as such, they can't just "tweak the problems every year" like you'd do in a lower-division math course - they're more like the exercises in an upper division math text (some problems are in fact referenced in the notes).

so, it is perhaps understandable why they might not want solutions floating around the internet forever.

(yes, i know that the stanford honor code is supposed to deal with this.)
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If only stack overflow had a crypto currency, he'd be a rich.
Weed and psychedelics go together as far as usage culture is considered. Meth is the outlier on your list.
Top 3 languages at Google are certainly Java, JavaScript and C++.
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The current richest person in Africa (with a net worth of just under 13 billion US dollars) comes from Nigeria. I hope he's taking notes.
I thought I read an article linked from HN(which I can no longer find here or google) that vaguely stated they used a previously trusted device(PC) to gain access. That would mean the "yes, I trust this computer" notification has long term ramifications security-wise.
Actually you can:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url

But you DO need a Google Account though.
Given these regimes often are unstable politically and/or corrupt, what prevents new debt being made and filling the pockets of the leaders?

In the Jeffrey Sachs model.
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If the contention of this page's article is true (BD spread by humans), then the link you posted is more in favor of smallpox being the cause of relatively greater resistance to HIV in Europe.
The main problem with a lot of these stories is that there are combinations of iPhone models, operating systems, and settings which are believed not to be breakable by general law enforcement agencies, and others which are known or strongly suspected to be.

Apple tends to make its claims regarding latest iPhone model combined with latest iOS version combined with particular settings.

Thus, for example, in the San Bernardino case, the fact that the phone in question was a 5C mattered. The 5C is not just an older phone, it has different security-oriented hardware inside, and that does change the security characteristics of the device.

Also, the Apple statement you keep pointing to said that Apple, as of iOS 8, is unable to retrieve or reconstruct the key used to encrypt the phone's storage. Which is true -- Apple cannot do that, and has designed things so that Apple cannot do that. What the FBI wanted in that case was not for Apple to supply a key or a passcode (which they don't have). What the FBI wanted was for Apple to create and sign and load a custom firmware which would disable anti-brute-force protection for the passcode, allowing the FBI to determine the passcode via brute force. Apple could do that, but refused to do so.

And for completeness' sake, that avenue is no longer available on more recent phones with more recent versions of iOS; performing an iOS update now requires the passcode, regardless of whether the update is initiated from the phone or from a connected device (even one previously designated as trusted).
I suspect the cause is a little more subtle (and terrifying).

The majority of people don't give a shit. Correct spelling and obscure searches are not even on their radar, it's not a part of their reality. Don't let the comments here fool you -- it is a very specific, picky, technical crowd that frequents HN.

The voice of "those who care" has always been a minority, although it used to matter more, simply because people who care and worry and try to do a good job tend to have more power and money (conscientiousness is a great predictor of success), and so businesses cater to them more. Now that everything seems to be turning more uniform, more global, more binary, more equal, that voice is marginalized (good thing? bad thing?) -- you're seeing the effect of a hoi polloi stampede.

So it's not the fault of "incompetent programmers" -- it may be a trickle down effect of our social incentives and economic trade-offs.
Can you give me your reasoning to port the db to Postgresql? Thanks.
Wide-body aircrafts with lots of space inside to walk around every few hours in a 12 hour flight are great. For such long trips, I prefer the big B747 or A380 over these ultra long wide-body but still quite claustrophobic narrow low ceiling noisy aircrafts (e.g. B777) that barely have enough restrooms fitted in.
They bought the company last year (or the year before). Before that it was a university project and a support company.
Aren't you spending resources setting up your CI/CD pipeline /deployment tooling to talk to Amazon's APIs?

Unless all of the providers have the same API to deploy functions, they are all trying to lock you in.

So not lock-in at the code level (unless your serverless app talks to S3 or whatever Amazon services), but lock-in of your whole devops process.
MM is widely, though decreasingly, used in legacy finance:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/181917/mixing-us...

It’s also used by finance-outsiders who want to look like they are finance-insiders, a bit like how people will casually write GOOG and AMZN instead of Google and Amazon.
I've never seen it changing words after you have started on the next word.
The little passionate website in the 2000s used to be the best source of information if properly vetted. Now it's only big websites regurgitating the same superficial content written by paid writers who have no expertise in the subject matter. They instead just copy other superficial sources.

I think this has dumbed down society because it certainly has dumbed down me. Also, complicated topics are dumbed down to 1 sentence answers and it's very difficult to get detailed information about something. Ironically, I've started to go back to purchasing and reading books if I really want to go in depth on a subject.
True, but that's Docker. There's nothing, that I know, that would make Linux containers inherently much slower than a fork. Amazon could conceivably also write their own container runtime that kept the container ready to run without actually starting the app (though I'm sure there's a lot more to it -- I don't know how Lambda is implemented).
I have a long-ish discussion at https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/674
They are used to it.

Only after Microsoft had a better Android emulator experience and C++ support for Android development on VS, did they care to actually improve their own tools.
It's hard to identify what 'unsubstantive' might mean when it apparently doesn't include the idea that businesses are not created in order to employ people.
I don't know how easy it is to switch keyboards on iOS, but its a great idea on Android.

I use Minuum - looks whacko at first but let's me use way more of the screen when replying and it is really accurate!
I've only been a contributor on SO for the last 1.5 years or so (though a long-time lurker since almost the beginning) and can tell you that it's not that easy or outright impossible to reach that kind of figures nowadays. Not that I care that much about my SO rep but still. Folks would often not even respond to long answers, use throw-away accounts, and the quality of questions is depressingly low, like in "How would I go about (description of a multi-year web project)?" without even the slightest effort of basic research or checking already answered questions. And of course the frequent case where students want to crowd-source their homework (sometimes answered by others who want to quickly grow their rep).

Was it always like that, or is it a recent phenomemon with more Web freshman coming to the scene since around 2012?
Could be a stolen US/China weapon or at least a stolen smaller component of a larger US weapon. Or stolen IP of some new weapon which was then built by the thieves.

Maybe this was originally supposed to be use as a component of missile defense and now it’s been repurposed as a brain melter.

I only say this because I don’t know if many countries have the budget to develop advanced, new weaponry.

This may be a leak of epic proportions as some group is running around with some deadly advanced new weapon.

The existence of these weapons might reveal which weapons our government is focused on.
It's correct for full nodes, which is the point.
Well, there is its physical essence. Cryptocurrencies are a bit like a DVD vs a movie on Netflix. Everyone is starting a new cryptocurrency nowadays, whereas opening a gold mine is an entirely different matter.
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I've also noticed Google omitting the only relevant and crucial keyword in my search over the last year. The First result will consistently show a result that has that keyword crossed out.
It does generic terms like "cars", but it doesn't work for specific brands (at least on my 5S).
I believe it come from mille - Latin for 1000. So 1mm is one mille mille or one thousand thousand. Why we use the Latin? I have no idea.
> , but after seeing likes tron, verge, and doge...

Just clarifying for uninitiated: doge coin is a "joke currency" (literally) that has a huge market cap anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin
This is the biggest series A I've heard of. It may be the biggest ever. Admittedly, series A rounds are now de facto series B rounds, but even so, this is very big.
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Vague "I agree" criticisms make for poor reading. Provide specific counter examples like the parent or don't bother commenting.
2 is the only integer n such that n-1 = 1.

That’s significant because (n^m) - 1 is divisible by n - 1.

So, for example, 125320078^35785332 - 1 is divisible by 125320077 and, hence, not a prime.

So, this problem has been solved for all n>2.

n^m + 1 is a more difficult problem. For example, for n=10, we get 2: prime, 11: prime, 101: prime, 1001: composite, 10001: composite, etc (at least the 8,000 following are composite. See https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2108085/is-there-a-...)
Zoom works great for me in regards to supporting voip along with video chat.
This might be interesting: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...

Excerpt: "...The designers of Spanner call this ‘TrueTime’, and it provides a tight bound on clock offset between any two nodes in the system. TrueTime enables high levels of external consistency. As an open source database based on Spanner, our challenge was in providing similar guarantees of external consistency without atomic clocks."
* terabyte, not “Terra byte”
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You're suffering from survivorship bias. When you think about "bad luck", you seem to be thinking about minor mishaps (along the lines of "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger"). However, consider the huge number of people which are literally killed by bad luck (along the lines of "being born in a poor country with ongoing civil war/without potable water/without enough food"). Or, less drastically, think about those who are born into relatively poor families, are thus never properly nurtured (because their parents are too busy earning money to feed them etc.) and fail to realize their potential.

For example, going back to the original question, one huge factor of my early personal growth was that I had relatively wealthy and caring parents who could afford to send me to a good school, to music lessons etc., and who pushed me to realize my potential. Being born to such parents is sheer luck. All the other important people that I met in my life, that's luck, too. (At least by Occam's Razor. I obviously cannot know how my life would've looked if I had taken a different path.)
A thought in the light of Spectre and meltdown, if we look at distributed computing as an ooo execution, couldn’t one trick someone to act, and therefore spill information about something they really shouldn’t or normally wouldn’t done, because of the “fake” branch being revoked?
I understand image recognition searching for generic terms like "cars", but my point is this can even recognise brands. And it only returns photos matching that brand, so it isn't replacing "Rolls Royce" with "cars" to do the search.

I guess it makes sense to do this, given that most things they do is based selling ads, I'm just surprised it is this accurate.
This is a silly false dichotomy that many of "zen" teachings keep repeating.

"I want to know the perfect complete truth + human beings can not know perfect complete truth = therefore truth is unknowable and we should give up trying."

This is dumb. Just because you don't get to be perfect, doesn't mean it's pointless to try to do better.

We are all flawed, but we are less flawed than we were 2000 years ago, and that kind of progress is worth striving for, even if we'll never know the ultimate truth.

Also striving to be better and knowing as much of "the truth" as possible is valuable for it's own sake, "gaining stuff" and being "beloved" is not what makes truth worth pursuing.
> Also, the Apple statement you keep pointing to said that Apple, as of iOS 8, is unable to retrieve or reconstruct the key used to encrypt the phone's storage.

False. Quoting from the article: "Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data." As I keep stating, Apple's statement is clearly false.

Why did you decide to lie for Apple, too? They covered up their lie by removing it from their website, but we still have records of their statement in these articles, and your claiming otherwise does not change that.
It seems to work [0].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=f6xdWs2KJq7k_Qb0k...
It seems like Japan (not a corrupt government) helped eradicate polio in the country Nigeria in exchange for some amount of debt from Nigeria.

I'd think the Gates' foundation would have paid Japan directly avoiding all of the problems you mentioned.
They should definitely pressure the airport (to pressure the government) to create a few of those precious New Jobs and add some more people to immigration. It's just ridiculous in many airports, particularly in Europe. And it's been done, it's not like it's some pipe dream.
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Thanks. Blends in with our opinion.