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Eh, pop radio has been like this as long as I remember (back to the 80s). Then as today, pop radio is just rotation of a few tracks every single day, and if you want anything non-robotic, you go to college radio, jazz, classical, or NPR.

Even before Clear Channel, pop radio stations would have you believe that Bruce Springsteen and Prince only ever recorded 3 tracks each, Radiohead recorded a single track in 1991 and then stopped, U2 got stuck at Joshua Tree, Soundgarden made a single track... I could go on. That fine tradition continues today, where at any given moment I can turn on the radio and find Portugal The Man's "Feel it Still", or one of ten other predictable tracks.

Looks to me like Clear Channel just replaced one brainless programming model with another.
It's possible his job at Toys R Us was to run it into the ground. It had been loaded up with so much debt that extracting all the remaining value and going bankrupt might have been the actual plan.
As I mentioned in a different comment, it's probably just gravity. The rock slides against the curl because the ice is not level. Uneven cooling could cause the ice to freeze unevenly, or maybe even sublimate. Shaving patterns over time can also play a part.

Of course I'm speculating on the specific underlying cause, but I would be pretty surprised if the mechanic isn't just the rock sliding downhill.
They've zapped some of my AWS subnets but not others. It doesn't appear to be a dynamically updated blacklist.
I assumed the comment was about human extinction -- apologies if that was mistaken.
Europe is not in good shape to fight a war by themselves against Russia. So Russia could get away with lots of things like they did in Eastern Ukraine or meddle some more in the middle east. It does not hurt them, but it will hurt the EU as well as the US.
As someone that's been there, that's an excellent metaphor, and as close to a description of the freezing, sweating, spiraling manic terror that polite society will allow.
Russia can't afford starting conventional war against NATO, but if such a war will somehow flare up, Russia can afford to finish the nuclear war that will follow.
> Everything has a bug right? Find a bug, short a stock. Profit.

There are reasonable arguments that encouraging this would reduce vulnerabilities, or at least make them more costly. I’m not sure I would bother raising those arguments as it’s likely to draw in anti-finance ideological ire, but they do exist. Activist short selling is not novel, nor is it even novel for activists to short sell on the weight of security vulnerabilities.
It did not. The EU issues software patents anyway.
It’s funny because, ycombinator loudly boasts that, ideally, it seeks to fund billion dollar ideas, and yet I so very much do not want a thing like this.

Computer vision is this incredible thing, until you realize it means you’ll be in front of a camera you cannot control, and that camera will require broadband internet, if not for a one-time activation, then perhaps continuously and indefinitely.

I’ve never seen a high-end electronic device produced after 2010 restrict itself from the internet. No company seems have the self control necessary to consider even the idea. No internet? Impossible!

What kind of echo chamber would shout down such an idea? Do people understand why I might worry about a camera with unrestricted internet access? Why must I trust anything so deeply?

I don’t want to hear about how I should just give up this fight, because I’ve already lost anyway. I don’t care about what other devices already do. I don’t care about how different this time is.
With its defaults, I find Atom a bit nicer to use than VSCode for rails.

It may just be because I'm more familiar with it, or because I'm too lazy to set up VSCode and get the plugins for Rails dev.
> Most people should arguably be putting their money into index funds and holding for the long term

Fidelity’s internal survey revealed that best performance correlated with low account activity http://www.businessinsider.com/forgetful-investors-performed...
Who noticed that the graphs on the two phones in the second graphic are vertical mirror-images of each other? i.e. on the left is "Bitcoin" and on the right is "very-large-number-minus-Bitcoin"
Mass-produced tiny reactors reduce capital cost and construction time. Even without that, energy for 10 years from now still matters.
Depends on when you bought them of course. I bought FNMA(Fannie Mae) in 2010 and it turned out pretty nicely.

But yes most people are better off buying index funds. That's where most of my money goes.
Russian-American relations have worsened not because of russophobia, but rather because of several high profile and geopolitically relevant events. The first of these was the invasion of Crimea and the funneling of arms to Ukrainian Separatists engaging in a civil war. These actions are a direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum signed by Russia and the US. Essentially, Ukraine agreed to destroy the nuclear weapons leftover from the USSR in exchange for total respect in regards to territorial integrity.[1] Furthermore, a Russian BUK system, staffed by these separatists downed the civilian airliner Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 innocent people.[2]. Furthermore, Russian hackers hacked the emails of both major political parties, and has, literally, a 3 story office complex staffed with internet trolls intent on misleading the American public via social media for the last several years[4]. Finally, you have the most recent incident where Russia attempted to murder not only a former spy in the U.K., but also his daughter, and about twenty other bar patrons, neighbors and first responders. The poisoned used was a nerve gas developed in Russia and exclusively available in Russia.[5]

Clearly, these are meaningful events in the context of American-Russia relations as well as NATO-Russia relations, you can't just handwave them away by saying it's one parties political problem.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
[3]https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/comey-republicans-ha...
[4]https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/15/594062887/...
[5]https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/europe/theresa-may-reprisals-...
While we're on "nice to haves," it would be great if there was a way to explicitly terminate the scope of objects. Then you could have an atomic move-from-and-remove-from-scope operation. Which removes any possibility of accessing the moved-from object again.
Yes, these are comparable to ME vulnerabilities, which were plastered all across the HN front page and had people asking how they could find parts that didn't have MEs or whether they should switch to AMD.
Kotlin. Less verbose than java, functional and modern features when I want them but doesn't implement every programming idea like scala. My second favorite language is python, but I like getting the type safety while writing way less code.
That is the attack surface for a secure coprocessor vulnerability!
Show me a mass produced tiny reactor in production. If not in production, provide a solvent business that can produce and maintain these reactors.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-jacobs/solar-vs-nuclear

"In comparison with nuclear, the amount of solar power built in 2016, taking into account how many hours each can operate each day, is the equivalent of more than 3 new nuclear plants.

To dive in a little deeper: let’s use a 25 percent capacity factor for new solar, making the 14,626 MW installed equivalent to 3,650 MW of theoretically perfectly running nuclear plants. The Westinghouse AP 1000 units under construction for the last 7-10+ years produce about 1,100 MW. So, in one year, solar additions were equal to what takes more than 7 years to build. The difference in speed of deployment is why UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) is clear that nuclear power isn’t a near-term climate solution."

So if you're not going to take my (rando HN poster's) word for it, the Union of Concerned Scientists seems somewhat reputable.
swift, because it has a high level syntax with a really nice Generics implementation, but can still interface relatively easily with low level API's. Also because it uses reference counting for memory management instead of mark and sweep garbage collection so has more predictable performance and low memory overhead.
It's actually more complicated, nbbo governs quotes but there are a few other things that affect your actual trade price such as exchange fees and price improvement.

For example, every exchange can have the same quote, but a different liquidity fee.
I hope people there don’t automatically imply trust everytime they hear blockchain. If controlled by central authorities the blocks can be changed like text on a file.
Movidius is a DSP, literally a VLIW DSP.
Nevertheless, if you love them, let them live and take their chances.
Perhaps with asymmetric key encryption? So someone can validate that a vote was theirs, but you can't pin a vote to a person without them doing so. It would require that everyone understood key management, which is probably untenable
It's infinitely harder to have a reasonable discussion when there's a troll factory pumping out bad faith arguments in great volume. [1]https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/15/594062887/...
> I'm not singling out Democrats here.

Considering that you've tried to misrepresent Pelosi's quote multiple times in this conversation instead of bringing up an easy example where the thing you're allegedly mad about actually happened, I'm not sure I believe you.
What a weird, rambling article. I read the whole thing and I'm really not sure what point they were trying to make. Two ultrasonic signals can interfere to produce lower wavelength sound? That's kind of obvious to anyone who has studied signals...
To be clear, ToB is not trivializing the vulnerabilities. In particular, your second and third quote here are equally applicable to most serious vulnerabilities found in e.g. iOS.
I think everyone who doesn't know regex should make learning regex a priority. (However, I find that lookahead and lookbehind in particular do not tend to come in handy very often. So maybe just make a mental note that this exists and then look it up when you need it.) Just learn the basics and maybe take a very quick look at the theory, finite automata (maybe the name puts people off, but its just a couple of circles connected to other circles with a bunch of characters written on the connecting lines. I'm pretty sure you could explain it all in a few sentences a few examples). You'll get an intuitive feeling for what you can and can't do with regular expressions.

You don't even have to be able to code to make use of regular expressions. You can use regular expressions when searching and replacing in editors (even slightly barebones editors like gedit or kate). You can transform input data from almost any format into any other format using nothing but your editor and a series of replace statements. (No computations though.)

I think they should teach regex in high school. Many people working in non-IT office jobs could benefit from knowing regex, and I think it's really quick to learn this. (Now if only Excel's/Word's search/replace supported regex...)
> I think immediate total aversion to nationally biased language is a specifically American trait (and left-coast American at that) - as the result of contemporary cultural conditioning and general lack of exposure to international identities.

I am Russian
Mobile programmers doesn’t need regex nearly as much as serverside
That's a trick question, there are no competent managers in government service for the most part. They either burn out from managing without the ability to recruit competent staff, or they moved elsewhere to make drastically more money.

I'm sitting with a 4x multiple on my old public service job.
And Charlie Lee is a scam artist, so no surprises there.

In light of the downvotes with no response, here is some reasoning. He bought in at around $30, and the first thing he did was clone BTC with minor negligible modifications. Philosophically at that time, this shows a remarkable lack of commitment to the underlying goal. Then, during the recent boom he completely cashes out of his own project while the market cap shows nothing close to the transformative goal of the creation of Bitcoin. Ultimately what he does doesn't matter, but his actions speak louder than words. In addition, the tactics employed within Coinbase for the LTC listing and his involvement in a proof of stake coin leave me completely unsurprised. This isn't to say Nano has no merit, I congratulate the team there, but proof of stake, unfortunately, results in all rewards to creators and an unsatisfying amount of control among people where distribution was guaranteed for no "work".
In my opinion, distributed ledgers and mutable blockchains based around trusted actors are business as usual and frankly not very interesting. Bitcoin could actually make everyone's life a little better. Isn't that what technology was meant to be?
More like mad to the point of meltdown.

Seriously though, when you copy and upload 'their' (in many cases the author is long dead, or in your case they even attacked the author) works of art it's "How dare you, you are single-handedly responsible for the breakdown of the fabric of society. You should be locked up forever, we lost over 1bn moneyz because of your video!!!!11"

But when they store and sell your age gender and other personal data to other shitheads that want to sell you useless stuff you don't need it's all fine and dandy.

This is why I will always endorse piracy at user's discretion as a way to harm stupid greedy corporations relying on a broken copyright law.
There’s no real stack without an NDA, if you want to write code for the device itself. Clang does support the SHAVE cores they use, but I don’t know what the tooling actually looks like. Probably much like any other cross compilation tool chain.

If you just want to use it, there’s a Python SDK which you can use to run a subset of models popular frameworks can train. In that case it’s pretty easy to get going. I believe there’s also a C++ integration of some sort, but I haven’t used it myself.

It’s all moot, though, because properly programmed, recent ARM CPUs are fast enough to run usable models such as MobileNet and ShuffleNet with good performance. The problem is that at the moment this draws anywhere between 4-12W if things are running full blast, at least until throttling kicks in. Movidius is more economical in terms of joules per inference, but it also costs quite a bit, and it’s not built in, so market penetration is non-existent.

As I mentioned, though, this should start being less of an issue with the advent of cheap, built in tensor acceleration IP.
Have you ran the math on how much that "user friendly" layer is costing you? I adore nice UIs, but I love even more keeping my money. Vanguard is really not that hard to use, and for how often you need to mess with it I don't think it's worth to spend more just to have prettier graphics.
Unable to break its security or the service's owners are not cooperating.
Brainfuck - because of it's name.
Hmm.. possible but that runs counter to most Christian doctrine. It's unlikely that someone would believe they'd end up in heaven after taking their own life let alone another's.
People need to understand Russia needs a deep water port in the black sea. There is no way around that. That's what Crimea is about. They couldn't give two shits about it otherwise.

But Obama wanted to thumb his nose at Russia and ignored that to Russia (as well as the USSR) a deep water port on the black sea is a must.

The separatists are often labeled as Russian military in the MSM, but I gather they were essentially militias who overran Ukraine depots and then later got some Russian leadership help. The MSMs though, present them as Russian regulars.

The Russian troll factory for most of its existence was to troll Ukrainians not The West.

It'd be like expecting us (the US) to give up San Diego as a strategic harbor and let it silt up. It is not gonna happen.
>They don't even brother with tariffs they prohibit all competition and coerce rivals to hand over the fruits of their research. It's diabolical.

Well, they've been forced to open their borders once, at the opium wars, so that "free trade" can triumph and more junkies can be made of their people.

I'd cut them some slack in not seeing "free trade" as all its advertised to be (by those that primarily profit from paying lip service to it).
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If I leave my door unlocked can I really blame <bad person> for opening my door and robbing me? Why dont I invest in door locks? The US should really look into a more security focused infrastructure. This year the bad guy is Russia, but last year it was China and next year maybe it will be Iranian hackers. I understand that security is constant game of cat and mouse but when I see and hear of companies running Wimdows XP in 2018... it's like we're not even trying. Might as well leave the doors unlocked.
I grew up next to meadows that were rarely if ever cut, in the 1980's (Northeastern US). As a young child I'd often find Monarch caterpillars, and was sometimes allowed to keep them in a small, strange box molded from glass and known as a terrarium. I'd feed them milkweed until they reached the pupal stage, then watch with wonder as the chrysalis changed from a jade-like, gold-rimmed ornament into a transparent capsule of folded orange-black wings. Finally, when the new insect emerged, we watched and waited (with still more patience) for the wings to dry, leading up to release day, when the butterfly was suddenly gone in a dash toward the sky.

Guided by my grandmother, an amateur naturalist, these were my first experiences leading to a knowledge of change, lifecycle, and above all the beauty to be found in the natural world. This simple gestation process of a curious looking caterpillar is impressed on me like no other early childhood memory. A process taking weeks, it was my first consciousness of time.

Today, those meadows are acres and acres of trimmed lawn. The smooth aesthetic of green grass pocked with dandelion has won over the wildness of a milkweed dotted field. But me, I've forsworn all lawn mowing, and should I ever own a meadow, will let it go to seed.
That's great. I just checked and it isn't available/enabled here yet. I'm wondering if GitHub doesn't enable their own SSL if a user is providing that through a service like Cloudflare... perhaps I should disable the latter and see if that makes a difference.
I second this. I love ES5. It was a beautiful, simple language. And it runs just the same on literally every device.

The JavaScript community has taken a horrible turn towards complexity. I’ve been planning a fork of the npm tree, to return to ES5. But it’s a big project and I want to be ready with a good modern, modular web toolkit before I do.

(The plan is not just to fork an ES5-compatible tree, but to allow people to rewind the npm tree to an arbitrary branch mask based on any linting rule they like and append from there. If you want to narrow to only typescript+react packages with named exports for tree shaking, you could. I’m gonna do good old fashioned ES5 though, no promises allowed and no assignment in global scope)
>The larger point is that China is practicing extreme protectionism while benefitting greatly from free trade.

More power to them, then? Sounds like a good way benefit their country.
Genes are never perfectly conserved; they accumulate mutations through generations. The rate of mutations can act as a clock, telling us how far back was the common origin of two genes that are similar today.

When we see modern populations that carry neanderthal genes that are better conserved within the population than some human-specific genes are with other human populations, we can infer that the neanderthal intermixing happened after humans became... human.

At large scale, many such inferences can be combined to form a historical map of population mixing and the migrations implied... That's what the research in the article is about.
A conventional one, very true and a good point to keep in mind. Do you think, however, this would push them towards the nuclear button?
Are you implying that HN is full of trolls from the said factory ?
Out of date doesn't mean stale or bad, just that it's not the fashion du jour.

People should think better than using categories like "outdated".

Or "judgementalism" for that matter. Not sure when being able to judge things (a prerequisite for not going through life blindly) went out of fashion.
While this probably isn't helpful to you in particular, my company has a learning site geared towards beginner/intermediate programmers, including some content on Rust. The catch: it's in Japanese, so you'll have to use Google translate if you can't read it. The code is in English though.

https://codeprep.jp/books?tags=&sortBy=createdAt&keyword=Rus...

The exercise style is "fill in the blank" so it's not as rigorous for learning, but still fun to get a sense of different language concepts.
Reminds me of the 386 when 8M ram was quite a lot. 4 Gigs address space ! Few people even had hard drives that held 4 gigs.
That doesn't guard against the lead pipe decryption strategy. The point is that you need a way to prove that a vote was yours, without any possible way to prove which vote was yours, whether you want to or not. I'm not a cryptography expert, but that sounds difficult if not logically impossible.
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Kind of like the sentiment in Other People's Money about "You're dead. You just aren't broke yet."

Or something.
Presumably you'd want a deniable system. So, something where you have a private key 'k', some function 'f', and the public chain 'p'. So, you compute:

r = f(k, p)

Suppose r may be 1 or 0. The meaning of 1/0 will be randomly distributed among the population, and will be made known to you when you place your vote, but at no other time. So, later on, you understand that a value of 1 means your vote counted for candidate A, but if someone tries to coerce you, you can realistically claim the opposite.
It's likely a 100% EV home would want the option to charge as quickly as possible, even if they trickle charge most of the time for the sake of battery life.

It's also likely that future EVs won't have this battery limitation, just put in the heavier gauge wires and breakers while you're in there if the house is going to be around for the next century.
The EU can impose penalties. For example the new EU data protection laws have this as the maximum penalty: a fine up to €20 million or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year in case of an enterprise, whichever is greater

I guess Github could decline to pay. But then they could do no business in the EU, and then there is the likely impact on Github employees - similar to how BetonSports' CEO was arrested when he changed planes in the US: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-feat...
You apparently missed the “or are misallocated” part and completely missed the point of what I wrote. It seems like you are doing some projecting. My post does not in any way imply a “throw more money” attitude. Also, the original statement I responded to was an attitude that taxation is theft. It was not a statement about whether or not taxes should be reduced. Indeed, in my first post I specifically mentioned that reasonable people can and do question taxation levels.
I think you are saying they can afford Mutually Assured Destruction? I hope they're not that crazy.

I suppose it's monetarily/mechanically true, but it's almost like saying you can afford a new car when your life insurance pays out.