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I was in a similar position two years ago. Best advice I can give is to just build a full-stack website with JS on front and back. Make sure you get your tooling set up so you can use ES6, and then just focus on building what you want.

I would recommend using create-react-app for frontend as it sets up all the tooling for you and is production ready. On backend, I would recommend parse-server but I just have a personal affection for its batteries-included approach. You could also just use a simple node/express setup (and/or mount parse-server onto it).

Three major things that might trip you up, and you should read about and practice early:

- Async programming / closures. You can't just call a function on an object in a loop like you can in Python.

- Promises. Figure out how to use these instead of callbacks as soon as you can.

- Prototypical inheritance. I recommend explicitly writing "classes" with the "old style" of YourClass.prototype.method before moving to using the "class" keyword. The "class" keyword is just syntactical sugar on prototypical inheritance so it's a good idea to learn the raw form before the sugared form.

Recommended reading:

- "You Don't Know JS" (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/READM...)

- Source code. Read the source code of as many JS projects as you can find.
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Banning magazines based on what? Any magazine ban that effectively bans a class of weapon (e.g. nearly every type of handgun currently manufactured) is no different than banning handguns.
but always kafka..
Like some others here, I have an Amazon FBA business but I treat it as my full-time job, even though I've automated a lot of the grunt work and employ a VA for the things that can't be automated.

I did, however, find a little unsolved problem on Amazon that sucks up seller's time, so I built a solution[0] for it with about a month of work, and now it generates >$2k/m with 1-2 hours of customer support work every month.

[0] https://azlabels.com
Nope, it isn't necessary. It just helps with peering, and the actual download will start faster.
I am curious what critters hitched rides out of China. Being a collector of antique porcelain in addition to glass I was amazed at how much porcelain still sits on the floors of ocean areas including near some European ports. There was so much of the stuff being shipped that it was used as ballast on its journey to Europe.
I generally feel the opposite. It's much easier for me to buy a movie or box set outright than subscribe to a streaming service. It's pretty much the same with all fixed recurring payments -- I always feel pressure to use the service and I'm constantly evaluating whether its worth it.
Scotland managed it from wind alone.

"On one day in particular, 15 May, output from turbines generated enough electricity to power 190% of homes or 99% of Scotland's total electricity demand."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40149604
I was in a similar situation, decided atlas was not for me. You should note as well there's a $30 monthly charge on the bank account unless you keep some large ($25k? don't remember exactly) balance. This is pretty well hidden and was enough to make me keep my LLC and free business bank account (capital one).
San Diego Tech company have the most diverse workforce compared to other cities
But that doesn't explain why you can't just start a session.
There is a book "The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles"[0] that is often called "From NAND to Tetris". This has you building a computer simulator from the ground up (NAND to Tetris). There is a website[1] and a Cousera course[2]. And a TED talk[3].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-Building-P...

[1] http://nand2tetris.org/

[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer

[3] https://www.ted.com/talks/shimon_schocken_the_self_organizin...
I mean if you want to go with the highest transistor count chip currently in existence, that would obviously be the 512Gb flash chips with ~170 billion transistors. Or if you want to constrain it to 'processors' that would be the 30 billion transistor Altera FPGAs. Which have been available for 3 years. No CPU yet has exceeded the 10 billion transistor count of the Sparc M7, also released 3 years ago. The Tesla P100, two years old, retains the highest GPU transistor count at 15 billion.

It's meaningless to compare these totally different types of chips that end up with extremely different transistor densities on the same node due to the wiring requirements.
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I don't see how it takes "courage" or how it's a risk. If you're a software developer with in demand skills and have one of the FANG companies on your resume, it shouldn't take long to get a job if your startup fails. I don't have but one company that anyone has ever heard of on my resume, and I historically I can get a job in less than two or three weeks.

If you have $1 million in cash you have plenty of runway to find a job.

If you try, and your company fails, at least you tried. Studies show that people have a lot more regret about things they didn't try to do than things they tried and failed.

Life is short, go for it.
You can't buy a belt-fed machine gun, so banning types of guns and ammunition are both constitutional. They are fairly simple to manufacture a single shot hand gun, and they are still plenty useful to hunt wildlife with just look at history.

The clip is a weapon of war, just look at the impact repeating rifles had on the civil war for example.

As to the reasoning, a single bullet is a threat, but far less useful for mass shootings. So banning them would save thousands of american lives over time and it's also constitutional.
I would like to add some constructive conversation instead of banter about the cert...how does this get around malware/rootkit software that is embedded in the mobo or bios. How is this really any different than a LiveCD of Kali Linux or something?

I see that it is read-only media so I suppose that helps, but in the end its still only as secure as the machine that you run it from.
It's not just the executions for the French Revolution. You have to add all the wars that followed during 20 years, including the wars fought by Napoleon. So we're talking a few hundred thousand deaths still.
Perhaps a commercial BBC that could actually sell it stuff to people who want it would help a) the BBC b) people who want it?

> Tories are always looking for an excuse to shutdown the BBC so their donors can pillage the public commons and eat the corpse.

Or maybe it's because it's not the government's job to run TV channels and radio stations, nor is it the public's job to fund them?
Autonomous weapons are much worse. If in 2003 the US had had autonomous weapons they probably would still be occupying Iraq because it would just cost money and no (American) lives. Unnecessary wars will be much easier if they only cost money.
I've been using BikeShare and have friends with electric bikes, so again, I don't think I'm underestimating it as much as you expect.

But again, even if you are exactly right, it won't be too late for Uber. Either they'll be successful, and so have plenty of money, or they'll be troubled, and this business won't be nearly enough to save them. And in the meantime, it's at best a giant distraction, and at worst they smother it, as happens all the time with large-company acquisitions.

Compare with Apple. They were 3 years behind on smartwatches, 4 years behind on MP3 players, 6 on smartphones. It didn't matter, because they had skills, assets, and market power. It was better for them to wait and let others prove the market and then come in when the shape of consumer need and likely solution was clearer. I think the same would be true if Uber were a successful, stable company.
There are real racists in America. There are also systems that are in effect racist. But there are also real differences between whites and blacks and other races, and there are real differences between their cultures. A difference in outcomes is insufficient to tell whether the cause is racism. It's quite tricky to prove how much of any difference is due to external racism.
The Charter calls for "distinctive output" but it also calls for umpteen other things including innovation in service delivery. They cannot "distort the market" but if the market is minuscule or simply does not exist (how many streaming services have access to the BBC back-catalog?), there is nothing to distort.

I do share the political outlook but I don't think that's what really matters in this particular circumstance. There might be occasional issues with royalties/copyrights and whatnot (production contracts in the media industry are notoriously byzantine), but imho the main factor remains a strategic choice.
A lot of programming, especially in industry, is horribly boring unfortunately (it shouldn't be) - but computers and what can be done with them, is anything but. It's just a question of somehow keeping your imagination from getting bogged down by the job.
Some benchmarks https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/feral-interactive-hav...
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I don't see 'autonomous' weapons as being developed by the US military as ever being banned under international law. Let us examine weapons that have been banned.

Chemical and biological weapons were banned under international law because they aren't all that much more effective than conventional weapons yet cause an undue amount of suffering in comparison. You get no benefits, only downsides.

The other example, anti-personnel mines, is more instructive. International law bans them because historically, belligerents who have employed them for area denial purposes never stick around and de-mine the area after the conflict is over, leaving the civilian population to suffer.

The United States refuses to sign a blanket ban on landmines, as her position is that her landmines are different, they self-destruct after a set period of time, therefore they don't threaten civilians long after the war is over.

There are two takeaways here. First, weapons are not banned before they are tested in a conflict. Second, effectiveness trumps morals, if a weapon of war is effective, that can tip it's acceptability status even in the face of "collateral" damage. This is the case with nuclear weaponry, which imposes costs on civilians but is considered worth it for their sheer power to end a conflict in minutes.

This is, after all, the entire premise upon which war is waged, for the good of the many over the few who are harmed. AI controlled weapons, unless they're left in a battlefield for civilians to contend with, something that appears fairly unlikely, at least at the moment, does not change this basic equation.
Hold your horses, this is better:

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/panasonic-electron...

and

http://eshop.sintech.cn/sdhcsd-card-to-micro-sd-tf-extender-...

or

http://www.saikosystems.com/web/p-44-sd-to-microsd-converter...

Depending on your location.
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No, just procrastinating on a higher level. Should definitely continue to work now, but thought about those topics lately.

I hope your comment isn't meant to be offensive, can't read you sentiment. I'm not a big fan of those drugs.
A banana plant has a stick up the middle. I'm just throwing that out there, because I thought they were trees until a week ago, when my neighbor offered me a plant. They yield fruit once and then die, feeding the daughter plants around it.
They were banned for being inhumane, not not militarily useful. The international community doesn't like the idea of military actors running around with weapons that permanently cripple but don't kill; landmines are probably a better example of a banned weapon than blinding lasers. They're highly effective military weapons, but frequently leave victims alive and in need of critical medical care, and then support for the rest of their lives; incredibly terrifying and demoralizing from a psychological perspective. Countries that care about their soldiers don't want their soldiers to worry about that. The blinding lasers are similar: how many volunteers could the US get if there was a high risk of "merely" being permanently blinded, and then discharged?
Chilipeper doet je afvallen zonder jojo effect maar is het ook gezond?
Netflix's client has some warts but if you're looking for a specific movie or show it completely gets out of your way. HBO and APV have somehow managed to make it difficult to find things you know are already there.
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I am not sure we have to wait that long, the masses may have never actually cared. We live in a world where many just shrug and accept what happens because they believe its the only possible outcomes.

on sites like HN and even reddit are but a bubble
In Germany, people are very concerned about ongoing data scandals on Facebook and this is one reaction.
I think the big takeaway here is not that Woz is saying this, but that USA Today is carrying a story about leaving Facebook. I'd almost guarantee that USA Today's readership has never been presented with the concepts regarding user data that we, here, are all very familiar with.
The path to Hell is paved with good intentions. You can make nothing but good decisions when considered individually, and yet, end up exactly where you don't want to be. It's no smarter than your typical greedy algorithm leading to a local maximum, or worse, once you get forced down a path you'd prefer not to be on.
>And besides, they take nothing that you don't give them.

I think this has been disproven in several instances.
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We already have autonomous militaries. We have for a long time. Nuclear Weapons don't have pilots, after all. I'm in favour autonomous militaries amongst non-pariah states. At least insomuch as I'm in favour of militaries in general: Temporary, necessary evils.

What is different is the plummeting costs of killbots. We should do everything in our power to stop these from proliferating to lesser states or terrorist groups. Just as we do with nuclear weapons. But at the end of the day autonomous devices are going to kill people and terrorists are going to do some of the killing. We need to accept that fact and design around it, not plead that the reality be different.
"Something useful" here refers to an opinion on what the book in question is "about", or an interesting lesson I drew from it, or a coherent reason why I might recommend it to somebody else.

Here, for example, is what I wrote down for A House For Mr Biswas:

> Finished yesterday, and found this primarily a story about a man who never really knows himself, and as a result can never quite situate other people in relation to himself. Fits and starts of self-improvement, a sense of life about to begin that persists for far too long, shifting roles played according to setting, a series of humiliations for which books offer some kind of solace and hope for betterment -- yikes. Like Proust, Naipaul seems to like unpacking the (nonobvious, often directly contradicting the obvious) motivations behind actions, and like The God of Small Things, the picture that emerges is one in which nobody is all that good, though it mercifully lacks its clockwork-mechanism-of-misery aspect

I generally find that books leave me with ideas and sensations that tend to just dissipate if I don't write them down. This is a way of combating that.
You'd be surprised at how influential memes are these days ... as ridiculous as it is to consider, they are absolutely political speech, and can be used as propaganda.
You're thinking of flywheel storage. There are a few of these running. One pretty big one in Ontario for example.
Yeah, hydro should really not be considered renewable, not just because it's invasive, but also because it's not renewable: dams fill up with silt and have to be either abandoned, removed or desilted.

Go read Cadillac Desert, it's been written a few decades ago, but it's a real eye opener on the history of water management in the (west) US.
Has there been any significant advancement since 1700ish that wasn’t a mix of science, capitalism and military?

Darwin sailed with Cook who was a military captain that colonized Australia and New Zealand.

Computers really semented their mathematical values as code breakers.

Medicine advances came around because having healthy soldiers won was.

GPS wasn’t even meant for civilian purposes.

The internet was made by a military, and much later, so was the TOR network.

Hell even something as innocent as food conservation and canned foods saw their rise as a means to feed your army.
Exactly so. A country without either an effective military, or a strong trustworthy ally with one, is quickly not a country. Switzerland is neutral, but that's not the same as pacifism; compulsory military service applies to all male Swiss citizens. Japan has its Japan Self-Defense Forces, bolstered by a strong alliance with the US.
Racing isn't just for PR. It's extreme abuse on every component. Automakers put their cars through intense testing before they hit showrooms. Racing just does it faster.

And then when you crash (and you will crash) you find out how easy or hard it is to repair.
...backwards employer? NIH.
A very short description of the Spine Model
I find this hard to believe. I can certainly believe that American crypto laws resulted in a lot of unencrypted protocols, but there’s more to security than just crypto. What about things like rlogin? A lot of older stuff (and newer stuff, for that matter) assumes that the other side is trustworthy, which is a separate concern from encryption.
The "fanboyism" around these two games is crazy. 2048 might have been a knockoff, but it's a very different and unique game. I actually really dislike Threes because it's a "play until you get screwed by the RNG" type game. I gave up on Threes after about an hour (I didn't "refuse to even pay a little") and went back to 2048.

In 2048 you can keep playing far longer and are much more in control. Sometimes you get a number in a bad spot, but some strategy and additional luck can get you out of many of them. The sliding mechanism is also behaves differently which significantly changes the gameplay.
Does MAD apply to AI-centered weapons? I thought the Cold War's MAD environment had more to do with the advantages that a nation would have if it were to preemptively attack, because the weapons act so fast over such long distances.
> An analogy of filling a curved-bottom tub would be a better fit

No, it would not. That rationalizes your concept of trying to match the input distribution with the response function, but it is specious and incorrect to apply it to a response function. Filling a tub with liquid allows liquid in one place to move to another place. Light doesn't work that way, light at 550nm doesn't spill over to 600nm. The incoming light at 550nm is completely accounted for in the output response, and doesn't affect the response at 500nm or 600nm, and isn't affected by input at 500nm or 600nm.

The response function is literally an efficiency curve. If you want maximum efficiency or maximum output, you give it inputs that land at the apex of the efficiency curve.

> I would also suspect that the receptors are becoming less and less sensitive to the stimuli they accept as they get closer to saturation

That is correct, but outside the bounds of what this article is discussing. For all practical normal daylight situations, which the range of all monitors lands inside, response is roughly logarithmic (or linear on a log scale). Clamping or saturation in the response happens in extreme darkness and extreme brightness. Response to the night sky in between stars, or to staring directly at the sun have a non-log. Response to computer monitors and almost everything you see during the day is linear on a log scale.

> If that really is the case, then a LF really would be better off if it was more bell-shaped

It's extremely unlikely that there's any real-world scenario under which this is true. But if you want to do this thought experiment, then you need to account for the receptors saturating. If you push the receptors to saturation, then their entire response goes flat, changing the overall shape of the response function. By matching the shape of the response function and then saturating, you force your target to move, and then get the wrong answer anyway.

If you push one receptor to saturation, the next best answer would be to put the remaining portion of your power distribution at the apex of response sensitivity for the other two receptors, so you'd have three specific wavelengths, but not a bell shape.

Here's an deeper discussion of human visual response that includes cases of extreme ranges and saturation: http://www.telescope-optics.net/eye_intensity_response.htm

Look specifically at figure 242. Monitor level brightness response is very near the center-line (vertically) in the chart. All normal daylight conditions are represented between the "cone threshold" (0.001mL) and "discomfort" (100,000mL) marks vertically. You will note that no response clamping occurs between these values.
I'm okay with that, yes.
I much prefer the ads that are personalized to me then the random ads I get on mass media.

One caveat! Can I please not be bombed by ads for days for items I purchased?!?!?! I bought a camera and I have seen the batteries and camera in my ads for almost a month now.
That’s a very interesting opinion on hacker news.
This is the reason I haven't deleted my FB yet, I'm going to send so many letters this June! And then I'm going to be joyously forgotten for real! And then I'm going to send more letters to see how forgotten I truly am!

GDPR = Get Damn Priers Rekt
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The demand for housing is not the problem. It's the supply that is the problem. The supply is being kept artificially low
what is was a pink toe finger that is derailing history as we know it ?
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Nice set of updates.

I'm looking forward to playing with ActiveStorage. Hoping this results of a stronger, more maintained answer than the string of other popular libraries we've used.

Glad to see Webpacker is progressing. It works now, but felt too messy/challenging to motivate me to use it more extensively. I think some of that comes from the JS/webpack side, but that side seems to be improving too.
>Youtube loosing anything to blockchain solutions ?
>Yeah, in 10 years maybe.

I think it's way more likely for Youtube/Google to implement some sort of blockchain based system to reward creators.
I wasn't so lucky since I had everything as one big BTRFS filesystem.

I did recover it by booting the installer in recovery mode, mounting the fs read-only, and doing a backup. Then I blew away the partition table and reinstalled.

I also learned a lesson about backups, mainly that I should have them.
Agreed. BEAM is absolutely fantastic, and having other languages to be able to leverage its power can only be a good thing.

I have high hopes for Alpaca personally, a super modern ML that targets BEAM. I think that in a similar way to how an APL-like would allow leveraging BEAMs building blocks in unique ways, an ML type system that’s aware of BEAM would allow for some seriously powerful, seriously correct programs. There’s a lot of research into algebras for concurrent and parallel processing, which slot nicely into ML-likes.

https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca/blob/master/README.md
I'm not sure if this is a society I want to live in. But yeah, sure, give them a platform. But I guess they won't stop destroying people in the real world just because they have influence on social media platforms. Most humans don't work that way, sadly.