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Ask HN: What are your hopes for the new Lord of the Rings from Amazon?
Amazon is remaking Lord Of The Rings.

What are you hoping this will be like?
I see. Thanks for the links. I would have thought standardization in terminology goes back much further in history than Java, like PDP-9~11 back. But better late than never.
Hello,

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Wandermarks provides browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox browsers. Whenever you come across interesting travel content (Travel sites, Travel Blogs, TripAdvisor, Airbnb), you can save it with one click via the Wandermarks browser extension icon. Wandermarks will automatically identify the location being talked about and will bookmark and organize it for you!

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And Apple is no better in this regard. Both companies obviously want to prevent sales outside of their walled gardens -- soft deprecating independent software with warnings and 'on by default' blocks.

Of course they do, why not take 30% of everyone's work and keep control?

Maybe I misread Krita's situation but I'm not sure why they don't just pull out of the store and sell independently. Plenty of payment processors would be happy to take them on.

Pricing is always difficult, but for a product that well known there's almost certainly a tiered system they could set up that generates enough income to keep the lights on (or better).
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There's a difference as I explained earlier. In a conventional company ownership structure, owning a share means you can vote on company matters, to elect directors to the board etc. However in the case of FB, the outsized voting powers of class B shares are not available to the public. In other words the shares have no inherent value. An investor might be wiser to invest in FB bonds since they are paid ahead of holders of equity should FB implode.
Is there a reason why you are not cross compiling?
The economics of new technologies can be hard to see/predict.

Automating personal vehicles has the potential for a lot of efficiency gain too, if people stop owning cars privately. Taxi drivers tend to buy "efficient" models, vehicles that will do a lot of miles/€, so there's a gain here. There would be a shift in consumption habits, as a response to pay as you go pricing. Possibly more ""efficient" consumption, maybe even some new forms of public transport.

In terms of infrastructure, you'd need less parking which frees up valuable and scarce space. It could eliminate the parking industry, rental industry, taxi industry and such. All (potentially scary) consequences of efficancy gains.

Back to commercial vehicles... One way to think of potential efficiency gains is (driver cost)/(total cost) of a journey. Trucks are expensive. A long distance truck journey uses a lot of fuel & maintanence. So, the driver's wages are a smaller overall part of the journey, a smaller potential efficiency gain per journey.

That doesn't tell us much about economy-wide gains, but it does tell us something about disruption. Self driving taxis could reduce the price of taxis by 50% or more. This has major implications for how and how much people consume. For long haul trucks, it probably changes the industry less.
Create presentations using only Markdown and JSX
Maybe they prefer to focus on writing actual language than PR’ish stuff? It’s quite refreshing after seeing too much of the opposite (especially in blockchain space where you have in 99% of cases just pretty PR page and zero product/code).

I’m sure they’re open and would be happy to see contributions.

Translating source code into docs is a great way to learn and it looks like very pleasant language to read.
> I wonder if this system will still hold up when the country develops further.

It's similar in southern European countries, although to a lesser extent, so it's very likely it'll remain.
Readers who enjoy banditry may also enjoy John Langford's http://hunch.net
High-bandwidth Ethernet uses forward error correction, but I'm not aware of any higher-than-physical internet protocols that do, unless you count erasure codes a la QUIC
Any fellow skaters may be interested in an interactive visual essay I recently made about music in skateboarding:

https://pudding.cool/2018/06/skate-music/
I've had vendors on Ebay selling obviously fake products[1] refuse to refund my payments until I removed negative reviews and/or made positive full 5-star reviews. I've also received products where there was a note included, offering either free stuff or 10/20/30% off my next purchase, if I made a full 5-star review and sent them a screenshot.

When you're just one of thousands and thousands of vendors on a platform, I guess any trick is considered fair game.

[1]Such as flashlights that looked only vaguely similar to the pictures in the listings, and were blatantly just cheaply-made knockoffs.
That's not what they say:

> Still, the income generated makes it possible for the Krita maintainer to work on Krita full-time, which would not have been possible otherwise.

They need the revenue generated by the small sales on the store.
I rarely have a Chrome window with less than 50 tabs, but at least it'll encourage you to take the time to read the articles.
Not all programming is akin to building a house. Some of it is similar to hanging a shelf in the kitchen. Why should it take an architect to drill the holes and fasten the wall plugs to hang a spice rack?

Sure it might need some training, but it should be the kind that can be explained in a DIY TV show.
I agree I could handle this better. To my defense after handling a few hundred emails, sales messages, comments etc. my brain was melting. I was prepared for everything, besides hijacking my thread for self-promotion. My reaction obviously should be better.
"ArdaCraft seeks to recreate J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth"

Could someone fill me in if it's JRR Tolkien or Jackson Middle-earth? Couln't find it on the site or from the images.
Why does it have to be that the order of members matters? shouldn't both {x,y,z} and {z,x,y} compile down to {x,y,z}?
Fixed route is already solved by trains and trains can be made self-driving or be remoted easily. There is a problem in variable-route, variable-size transport.
I think that wordless logo can only work for brands who spend heavily on marketing and advertising. We ran a design shop for past 10 years and lately pivoted into a productized service http://draftss.com

All these years we've received hundreds of requirements with similar specifications such as "We want a logo that we can use just as a mark, Eg: nike, adidas, mcdonalds, etc."

What client did not understand is that it's not just design or branding that makes these big brands recognizable to every person but their huge expenditure on 360-degree marketing campaigns. Not just any marketing campaign but high targetted quality campaigns where they are spending a huge sum of money everyday for decades.

Although, this article reminds me of a time when Web 2.0 had been at rage and there were articles which said it's the Age of Web 2.0

All the logo design brief we received thereafter were "We want a Web 2.0 logo".
Banker vs moon rover. B&D languages panic at the first whiff of deviation between the compile-time and runtime environments. But I loaded cnn.com, and my third-party ad blocker did god-knows-what to dozens of requests, with a bazillion unexpected undefineds, and yet the page still rendered.

The web powers through!
> Maybe it's different in the USA ... I went over to the store

Disclaimer: I don't live in the USA

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that many cities in the US have residential neighborhoods separated and far from commercial ones?
If I had to grab the car and make a 20min drive, and find parking, just to buy a 10$ scale, no thanks, better to order online
North Korea is developing new missiles
How to manage the best possible way to perform Umrah –  My Chat
original chip is disabled, its IO buffers put in Hi-Z (high impedance) mode. 386/486 PC motherboards did the same thing when you used coprocessor/upgraded soldered CPU using socket.
OpenNMT: Open Source Neural Machine Translation in Torch
Ravenous for Meat, China Faces a Climate Quandary
People act based on the standards of the places around them.

My example: I'm Portuguese but have lived in Denmark for quite a few years now, in Denmark I'm about as punctual as everyone else around here (which is mostly punctual, not as much as Germans though, who tend to show up before the agreed time) but when I'm visiting down south, I go back to the standard of showing up a little after the agreed time.

In other words: when in Rome do as the Romans do.
As someone of Swiss ancestry, thank you for this! My sides hurt from laughter.
Children starting school 'cannot communicate in full sentences'
I do hear that in the USA, people order everything from
Amazon instead of walking over to the store. I just can't
imagine staying home for packages all the time

It depends on your life situation.

Personally, it's hard for me to get to stores on work days - whereas my workplace will accept my personal parcels.

On the other hand, I know people whose workplaces won't accept parcels for them, but who walk past loads of stores on their way to work.

So for me, ordering online is a convenience - but for them, it's an inconvenience.
Browser vendors have instituted a variety of different rules for this problem, include at least:

1. Decide (policy, enacted by humans) for each TLD if its registry has rules that will prevent abuse, if so whitelist this TLD and show IDNs as text for this TLD, everything else is punycode.

2. Algorithmically detect "confusing" IDNs and show punycode instead for those.
Up until the 19th century, construction was an extremely bespoke process. There was no standardization on tools and materials which made everything much more difficult. It was always hard, but it's much, much easier now -- and maybe there's a way it can be even easier still with 3D printing techniques.

Saying, we can't make it simpler is a cop-out. It used to be simpler. The question isn't whether we can do better (we know we can) but how to find the will, effort and funding to accomplish it.
Go deeper: The panic over 3D-printed guns
No one cares who you are on the dancefloor when the techno is thumping. Close your eyes and dance!
run sysinfo
Mozilla Update on the Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
I think one thing one should ask is:

If monads are the solution to X, and we add a different solution to X to the language, then what are monads for?

Let’s say you have imperative IO. Then promises are a Monad but then you could just add language support for async and promises are not really needed as a Monad anymore.

A more functional replacement for monads could be something like algebraic effects. These could replace monads completely or they could be like multi core ocaml and only give you one shot continuations (so not allowing for list or other multi-shot monads).

In this context I like to think about the continuation Monad. In Haskell:

newtype Cont r a = Cont { runCont :: (a -> r) -> r }

This means “some computation yielding a r which got paused part-done having just yielded an a. In some sense all monads are expressible in terms of Cont. I feel like this is largely the essence of why it is useful to have monads: they express computations which happen with some context, able to switch back and forth between things in the context and things in the normal computation. I don’t think sequencing evaluation is so important to the definition.
But what is the real checksum? Did the author get it right?
Why No HTTPS? Questions Answered, New Data, Path Forward
why make it worse with c++? :)
This is a very nice specimen of the clear and easy to read code that is so typical of room 1127. A great example to follow.
Feds Seize Backpage.com
Why do people contribute to open source?

Some of that applies here as well: the feeling of doing good, the hope of "paying forward" works (just the culture of leaving reviews might one day lead to a review for me) etc
Some interesting bits of information here, like "connectivity checker", but you have to go a long way down the page before the specific ubuntu stuff crops up -- most of it is the usual enterprise stuff about locking it down so the users can't actually use the computer.

They don't think LUKS is good enough for full disk encryption

They don't like OpenVPN -- IPSec is the only approved vpn. That led me to https://www.darkwirevpn.com/vpns/ipsec-versus-openvpn/

I fully agree with no "curl http://blah | sudo bash " though. If software is worth deploying, it's worth deploying as a package (deb, snap, container, whatever. Versioned. Repeatable. Signed)
Sorry, Elon Musk: NASA says plans to terraform Mars won't work
fuck EA
They got the UK stores too. :(
Moreover, they don't really show anything to make their point — I can't see any type annotations on the frontpage.
Happened to me. BoA is buying customer information from data brokers who get it from social media. Anyone with any foreign contacts at all gets flagged by their algorithm. Accounts are instantly frozen with no suspicious behavior whatsoever--unless pulling money from an ATM is supicious. Eventually this foolishness will cause the U.S. to lose its position as a banking center. In the meantime, enjoy your closed account.
WhatsApp’s new group video calling feature is now live
Weight and dimension check stations would need to be considerably enlarged to allow for load handling facilities.
Hmm, so the only self-driving part of Uber that was working gets shut down and put under dysfunctional part. I love corporate politics...
Rise of the Machines: The Future of Data Science and Machine Learning
It's both the water and the fluoride content of the tea leaves, although the tea leaves are the main contributor. The first table in the paper shows this.

Edit: spelling and comprehension corrected; pre-tea morning fog.
HTML in my opinion indeed is both much more accessible and more inclusive than many technologies that preceded it, particularly layout tools.

QuarkXPress, LaTex, visual GUI builders. These are different layout tools for very different purposes but they all have in common that they’re not as accessible (with Delphi / RAD Studio in the GUI builder category as the only exception that comes to mind) as “View source” or a simple text editor.

Granted, setting up a new web app with a modern framework such as Angular or React is way more complex than that. However, you also have tools like WordPress that allow you to publish content in a decent layout with little to no experience at all.
Hell yeah.

I am so, so glad that Open Access is being fought for instead of being appeased with concessions.
Documentation can hardly be called "PR'ish stuff". It is also (ideally) far from some kind of "translation" of code into natural language.
It is very much true to the lore of J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle-earth.
I know nothing about parsers or Marpa, but I can offer a link for the curious: http://jeffreykegler.github.io/Marpa-web-site/
Seems to only work with Amazon.com not Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de. Do those not suffer from fake reviews? Also, I found that buying the full review from "trustworthy" cost 10 USD.
Quote from doug:

> And finally, having followed the development of C++ from its infancy, I wanted to try out its new template facility, so there's a bit of that in the package, too. Arnold has discovered that not only has C++ evolved, but also that without the discipline of -Wall to force clean code, I was rather cavalier about casting, both explicitly and implicitly.
I used it a lot. Sadly, it destroyed my Macbook Pro's drive when I tried to rip a particular CD-R (it had ripped others fine before).
I think the mistake a lot of people make is the split between you need a degree and degrees are worthless. Degrees are largely what you make out of them.

I have been going through a bachelors of computer engineering and the curriculum/professors make every effort to provide as much value as possible yet most students do just enough work to get the grade they want in the class.

In this same vein, students so often take the required courses, look for the easiest (instead of the best) teachers, and try to pick the easiest, lowest effort classes out of the in major classes they can choose between (tech electives) rather than focusing on building a useful base of knowledge for their future careers. Many students intentionally avoid useful classes because they are hard and don't want to risk damaging their precious GPA. I find this accounts for a lot of the grads with very high GPAs but with fairly limited knowledge outside of the basics. This ends up with students putting the cart before the horse by focusing on how to be best suited for getting a job rather than how to be well prepared for it.

The true value of a CS/ECE degree comes from the classes that you take not the degree itself. Much of that material (particularly the fringe optional courses) can be very difficult to grasp on your own and having a professor dedicated to assisting in your understanding of that material is extremely valuable.
You are just a mindless drone, CIA drone, troll, who is sitting in the Langley CIA Starbucks Division.

I can read anything, and you're obviously a CIA PR cleaner.

Don't trust the CIA mopping division.
> That's personal wealth, not including assets held by corporations.

Are not all assets held by corporations also personal wealth in the form of shares?

I'm not well versed in corporate finance, so correct me if I'm wrong, thanks.
The site is not loading for me (too much traffic?).

Here is an archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20180731090017/https://ardacraft...
Kids? Because that requires 30-60m extra with a large probability unless the parents are very punctual and have little else going on that day.
I think the site is experiencing the Hug of Death a bit.
Well to be fair this is really the target market for those sorts of posts and discussions. Equally the same could be said of the Firefox blog post I guess, that it was intended only for other branding people, and that by posting it here it is outside of the interests of many people here (though as it was addressed to the community I don't believe that to be the case). However when branding guys write these sorts of posts, they very often write it as if they're preaching to the unwashed masses.

Clearly everything that was before is now terrible, our new icons resemble the very essence of our business/existence/the human condition, and we will deign to allow you to experience it. Bonus points if they fit "growing the brand" in there somewhere!
Presumably blocking spam leads to a wider spread of spam. Presumably having a zero tolerance policy on drugs leads to a wider spread of drugs. Presumably making firearms legal leads to more violence. Its an arms race, but just because of that doesn't mean the fight is worth it or not.

I'd say however that the lack of accountability by Amazon (et al) is the real problem. They should be held accountable for these fake reviews. We need a lawsuit on this.
I know who the truck kind of troll you are. Enjoy your Mocca Latte Extra, bird Phoenix.

You got it free, for trolling the public minds. The trucking mocca. Enjoy the truckery
I’m looking for something that can do this as well. Anything out already?
Yeah, they could have mentioned the same and got some exception.
> you'll be fooling around with that song again sometime

I've been ripping in AAC 256kbps for 15 years now and have yet to see any reason to revisit any of those CDs. Even if a more efficient encoding mechanism gains mainstream support, I'll just use that for new rips only since storage is cheap enough.
Companies using tech to tackle food waste
In the UK Umrah packages are cheap at Easter
In case anyone was wondering why a "red book" audio compact disc isn't designed to be resiliant in a way that is familiar to a modern technologist (or even compared to a CD-ROM disc) the basic reason is that the former is designed to stream with no buffering directly into a DAC chip built with technology from the late 1970s. It had to handle data rates that were incomprehensibly massive for the time, so only the most insanely basic error handling was feasible.

Whereas the "yellow book" CD-ROM standard got to take advantage of over four years of technology advancement. Plus it doesn't have a real time requirement, so there's plenty of time to calculate more advanced checksums and error correction codes.

In many respects, an audio CD is more like a vinyl record than a data storage format.
Crypto Exchanges Really Do Want Regulation
HTTP/1.1 vs. HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/2 with Push
Scalable Deep Symbolic Reinforcement Learning with Imandra: Part I
I could be wrong about this, but I think that, like Elm, it's not technically Grain that throws the runtime exception. It's whatever is reading in the JSON.

In more detail:

It's purely functional, so it cannot handle I/O at all on its own. It needs some sort of harness into which it fits which handles that, and which then calls the pure functions in Elm / Grain. In Elm's case that harness is JavaScript, and it seems to be a similar case for Grain. (Maybe for Grain it's WebAssembly? I don't honestly know enough about Web Dev to say).

During I/O (including user input, and sending data over a network), runtime exceptions can still be thrown, but once it's been converted and passed into the functional part, it's in a sense correctly formatted by definition, and the purely functional Elm / Grain parts don't throw runtime exceptions at all.
> the government is generally not incentivized to do a good job, since they don’t face competitive pressure like businesses in the private market.

Isn't that exactly the kind of mindset that facilitated this whole situation in the very first place?
"Government can't handle money, that's why we gotta privatize everything".

And if that would be true, how come it wasn't a private business that took us the moon, with all the resulting auxiliary inventions, but the combined effort of a whole nation in education and research [0]?

"A better job" isn't always the one that "makes more money", some ventures don't need to be directly financially profitable, in some fields introducing a profit-incentive can have rather negative consequences (Education, Healthcare) and in others, it's just perverse (for-profit prisons).

Would any private company have taken the risk, of flying to the moon, back then? Hell no, because there was literally no money in it back then, it was all just a big venture of "wasting money".

That's why I don't think literally everything needs to be "profitable", we can't eat money and money doesn't make anybody a better person.

It's also friggin weird how on issues like this there's never "enough money", but when it's about tax-cuts for massive corporations, which is, in essence, nothing but handing out free money to private businesses, then there seems to be always plenty of enough money to justify it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_crisis
> it's 2018
> type annotations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference
Just bought a rotating bike wheel light from Amazon Marketplace. It's a novelty item that draws images as a bike wheel rotates using persistence of vision.

I don't think anyone has every heard of the "brand" but it was sent from "the UK" allegedly.

It came with a US plug (I'm in the UK) and software on an 80mm mini-cd. That software is riddled with malware. It also has one of those comedy auto-translated user manuals.

Some of these trade offs I can forgive for the price. I can't forgive the malware at any price.
Nokia, T-Mobile US agree $3.5B deal, world's first big 5G award
Zhaoxin x86 CPUs are not available anywhere, they are engineering samples at best, more likely just paper products to siphon government subsidies.