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I did indicate that the power issues are not inherent, even in the quoted sentence. I am disappointed in your response to the degree that it does not address other externalities. In some ways the general lack of exactitude in human affairs is a feature. There are also two sides to the issue of privacy, which is not impossible to achieve for an immutable distributed ledger, but not necessarily the natural tendency. Further issues may occur to you.
Yes, but not unusual, as well as Unity we have similar blocks from MS, Sony, Oculus, Nintendo.

One good thing is that rather than us hitting lots of blocks with the hardware manufacturers with regards to the engine, Unity handles this instead and Unity is in a much better position to resolve issues due to their relationship with the hardware manufacturers but also the size of the dev team.

We still had several issues we had to deal directly with Sony/MS/Nintendo. Some issues they could resolve and others they could not (meaning we had to find elaborate workarounds or key changes to the game we didn't ideally want to make).
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Yes, in fact it uses one of SuperMemo's algorithms: https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#what-algorithm
It's a problem for infrastructure investors, or more precisely, investors in traditional power plants. Since most traditional power plants tend to produce CO2 and other pollutants, I'm actually inclined to think it's a good thing if economic incentives begin to turn against them. We'll still need power, and energy is big business, so there's tremendous incentive to solve any problems in that sector.
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It seems to me that there are two gates, and they move with age, and the rate at which they move differs from person to person. The first gate is the time until losing something from associative memory. The second gate is losing the memory completely. Yes, this does happen, and it happens to everyone. But the quote still has some validity in that many things we think we forgot are still buried deep inside.
> > ...as demonstrated by their engagement, prefer the algorithmic model.
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> As demonstrated by their engagement, people prefer doing whatever their boss tells them to do.

Engagement means people are engaging more with non-chronological feeds than with chronological ones. This isn't just about blindly accepting what you are given, it's also about caring more for pertinence than order.
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Bias is to be expected, after all, even the smartest humans are filled with all sorts of evolutionary extras that may have been useful in the past.

But what's new, and should be obvious to anyone who's been on this site for 5+ years, is the increasingly bizarre nature of these disagreements. Yes, people have always gotten emotional and disrespectful from time to time, but if you pay attention, you may notice a new phenomenon where people are starting exhibit signs of not being able to distinguish the person they're communicating with from an imaginary caricature of the person. People will passionately respond to specific claims, sometimes even fairly complex, that literally haven't even been hinted at by the actual person in the actual conversation. It's like people are arguing with their imagination.

Man, if people on HN can't keep it together, I don't know what to think. It's easy to say this is just how it is online, people in the real world are much more reasonable, and there's a lot of truth to that. But at the same time, I believe the contagion is spreading, and might be even more influential in future elections. And outside of the very rare post like yours (which unsurprisingly has a dim grey color to it), there seems to be almost no support for a voice of reason, at least not ones that happen to dissent in the slightest.
Someone send this article to Armin Ronacher (creator of Flask, Jinja, etc.) so he can understand asyncio since he wrote a much longer and more detailed article explaining why he doesn't understand asyncio (previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12829759).
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:( sorry my bad English. It will be really great if you can help me on that. The code is here: https://github.com/axcoto/axcoto.com-hugo/blob/master/themes...

Yes, I didn't have time to get to the cert automation yet :D. I promised to myself to do that this weekend.

And thank you so much :).
Everything's a pendulum, especially, (un)fortunately, pendulums.

I, personally, doubt social media is really peaking. Maybe it is. Seems like more of the same, people switching providers. Going from that crufty thing the old folks use to something n new. Isn't Instagram the new hotness, spreading like crazy? How are they not even mentioned in the article?!? Seems pretty sloppy, or worse disingenuous but maybe I'm missing something.

So, then isn't Snap due for a fall? How does one provider falling signify a collapse of growing, still nascent, medium?
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And the reason that it's not is that the chronologically ordered feed generate less revenue. I doubt that Facebook is just trying to mess with people.
That's how you get nothing but science and engineering majors, because most other majors don't have the ROI on average. But society is probably better off with some history and art majors too.

We need to find a way to finance education that isn't based on future income.
To be fair, all the toys/consoles have been similarly marketed to a bunch of kids (for example during after school hours) for a long time without anyone getting pissed off. It's just marketing. This doesn't really seem like a "psychological" trick to me.
> "You need to have your JAWS BROKEN!"

OK you got this one. It's in the middle of the large and mostly incoherent rant, so I missed it, but that's encouragement of violence (even though Jones would probably call it rhetorical figure, but he should have used different rhetoric in this case). For this he does deserve condemnation. Doesn't make him a "threat to our democracy", as one not-very-smart Senator recently proclaimed.

> "1776 WILL COMMENCE AGAIN IF YOU TRY TO TAKE OUR FIREARMS!"

This is not a call to violence - not only nobody is trying to take our firearms, but most gun control proponents specifically and emphatically reject the suggestion that this is their goal. And even if they were lying, it's a predictive, not normative statement, about a very hypothetical situation at that.

> He's basically telling people to rise up in armed revolt.

If "they" try to "take our firearms", which nobody is doing. On the contrary, Supreme Court repeatedly recognized firearms ownership as a personal right (even though some locations have trouble recognizing it). Saying "if you do this policy, people will revolt" is a common rhetorical figure, which is very far from direct encouragement of violence.

> He tells his audience that the victims' parents are actually part of a conspiracy to take their guns,

This is despicable and loathsome. But not a call to violence.

> tells them that armed revolt is the proper response....

If his conspiracy proves true and people actually come to take his guns - which of course it won't and they won't (unless he commits a felony, which is different business).

> You're not demanding that he be treated fairly.

Yes I do. I am kind of an expert on what I am demanding, you can believe me at least on that.

> Being treated fairly would mean that if he's advocating violence he should get kicked off these platforms.

So far we've seen he advocated violence once, and even that in kinda rhetorical (though no doubt very objectionable) fashion, along the lines of "punch the Nazi" that we've heard so much recently, or one press member expressing a desire to "wring the neck" of one press secretary for not giving responses to this press member's liking. I've seen the same and way worse literally on every platform that banned Jones, with no consequence to speak of, certainly not total ban (maybe sometimes short suspension). This is certainly what should be condemned, but way below total ban. So I continue to think he was not treated fairly.

I leave you with this quote from Noam Chomsky:

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
One of the reasons that I like Twitter... It has a short section with "important" (by some metric) tweets since the last time that you viewed your feed, followed by tweets in chronological order. Facebook surely has the ability to do something similar but it would negatively impact how much time people spend on the site.
From what I understand, another disadvantage of monolithic 3D are the yield implications.

When you fabricate several 2D chips and then integrate them, it allows you to test those 2D chips for errors separately before the integration, which should give you better yields overall.
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Oh I know it’s hugely popular. But the people who use Spotify for inforwars, mutilplied by the percentage who would leave over it, I’m just not seeing that number registering in the scale of Warner Music Group
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Helios works pretty well, and I believe is in actual use for some college elections with people trying to break it.

I'm curious to see an implementation of a variant called 'BeleniosRF'[1], which adds the requirement that voting be receipt-free (RF)

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/629.pdf
> Algorithmic ranking is not evil. A tiny minority of people rail against algorithmic ranking, but the vast majority, as demonstrated by their engagement, prefer the algorithmic model. Should we let this tiny vocal minority dictate policy, data be damned?

I was listening to the Next Billion Seconds podcast the other day. They made the point that in social media 'engagement' is a polite euphemism for 'addictiveness'.

I've rephrased your post to show why I find it unsettling:

> Algorithmic ranking is not evil. A tiny minority of people rail against algorithmic ranking, but the vast majority find the algorithmic model to be more addictive. Should we let a tiny vocal minority dictate policy, data be damned?
Concrete blocks do not leak or wear out. They are cheap and zero maintenance. For more thermal capacity, use a bigger block. You can even make them structural - using concrete for walls.
I suspect they will still be available on TPB and friends
It's not demonstrated by engagement. The engagement exists simply because there's no alternative: FB made new attempts to enter the social media impossible. You will not get funding and you will not be able to monetize with advertising: monetization of user generated content with ads is impossible in 2018 unless you are at least the size of Reddit.
> But the woman, known as "Jane Doe" in the court case and "kristall.night" on the app, attempted to quash the subpoena.
Employers don't have free gas stations. Having limited charging stations at work is a bonus, not a restriction, compared to the past. That being said, I'd love for all employers to subsidize clean energy as much as possible.
I'm currently in the business of doing exactly this. My 5c is that though we keep an eye out for new tech on this scene, usually the impact is very minimal in terms of customers.

There is a lot more value in a managed offering than there is just by doing it yourself. A few top points are:
- No DevOps
- Reduced cost due to scale
- Minimal engineering time spent
- Long term reliability

Usually, there are two buckets of people - those who want to do it themselves anyways so the service is not really what they want, and those who just want to make it simple to them and reduce the cost of development and ownership, especially if it's not core to their business. There is a large value to anything if it just provides convenience and nothing else.
Instead of API, they could encode relative price directly into the power source.
The current state of research seems to reflect that there is a balance: almost none of the most cited papers go really far out of theirs way to be trivially reproducible, even in computing where doing so is unusually much easier.

If a paper is very novel and impactful but difficult to reproduce, it doesn't seem to matter much for citation counts as long as people just believe it to be true.

And yet there's no revolution among funding sources to send money away from those and instead towards researchers who spend more time on it.
So why don't they keep the shares of they are so optimistic?
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If they want to be paid well, they are probably not going on Upworks anyway... These websites are the bottom of what you can get as a consultant.
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I am just waiting for Disney to buy the rights to Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" and try to claim they own the monomyth and all derivative stories are violating their copyright.
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>Spiegel directly attributed the drop in active users to the app redesign

I wouldn't be surprised. Navigation is all over the place in Snapshot. Try sending a snap, and now I'm suddenly view stories from people I don't know, with no clear way of getting out. I can see some users jut giving up on using the app.
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quite honestly because your point doesn't make much sense. it is obvious some companies see the calculus of continuing to have him on their platform so they weighed that against any "backlash" and still decided to ban him.

most people are going taking the path of least resistance to get what they want. if they want to listen to music and they don't want to pay, who else are they going to go to? almost every other supplier of streaming music and podcasts have banned him. people who support alex jones are going to look at this, shrug, and then continue using spotify while listening to their fill of alex jones on google+ or wherever else it'll show up

and this point makes doesn't even consider the backlash that wmg would have faced if this was really their reasoning.

and why would they only sell their stake in the company and not also pull their catalog if this was the reason? seems like a weird hedge.
Potentially for immediate liquidity to invest in multiple new assets? I assume they made quite a bit of profit on their initial Spotify investment.
I think the only part to me that seems a bit sketchy is that the pages were titled things like "TBH @ Some Random Highshool". It seems like their goal might have been to trick kids into thinking the page actually had some association with their high school.

They rest of the stuff they seems pretty normal and is actually pretty clever in my mind.
Yeah! We're thinking along the same lines. I think with a bit of work, libretro can be modified to do it: https://github.com/libretro/parallel-n64

It's already been ported to the web. https://medium.com/webmr/n64-vr-with-javascript-e188de42ced5

The trouble is performance. N64 emulation is all software rasterization based, but it can be rewritten to use WebGL. It's just a lot of work that no one's done yet. RetroArch runs at 40fps because it can use SSE ops, which is beyond what browsers can do currently.

I think it would be possible to ship an Electron app with a local build of Retroarch, modified to export the rom's game data and selectively replace the draw calls with other ones. That way you can basically swap out starfox with mario, if you wanted. If any of this sounds interesting, shoot me an email (see profile).
I've never seen a single ad on Snapchat. Where do they even show up?
There's a great quote about this from POTUS JFK
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
When companies hold stock as a means of storing capital, the portfolio should be diverse to avoid risk.

Spotify stock is highly correlated with their own line of business.

Unless you're a strategic investor, holding any one stock is just not profit optimizing.
The 'malicious file system' on a USB stick is not something to worry about - the firmware of your USB stick is. People (ie for-fun hackers) modified firmwares on USB sticks to make them look like HID keyboards and send commands to target computers - it is well enough in the capabilities of a determined adversary to own your internet machine and implant something on your USB stick.

For secure airgapped computers I'd use one way low tech comm channels with no side bands, maybe IR or sound? (if you trust the device drivers)
Well there's quite a few progressive European countries which it might be worth the USA having a look at
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I think your numbers are way off. 20 Million subscribers would be a 100% of Spotify‘s US subscriptions
Having journalistic standards that were enforced by Law.

It's a can of worms, especially in a country that is as suspicious of it's government as America, but in my view, one of the biggest changes in people's views of the media (and "truth" in general) is the steady erosion of Journalistic standards - putting infotainment shows and opinion pieces on the same level of journalistic rigour as actually well written, high standard news stories.

News corps will continue to chase money, and money is tied to viewership - which gains from people being engaged through polarising, emotion driven content.

If there are no standards for this kind of thing, people will gravitate towards the stuff that gives you that hit of emotion, and they'll forgo and bend facts to present a story in a way that keeps their viewers at the expense of fair representation of facts, and bias.

In the context of social media, it's tricky, because robo websites and opinion pieces run rife through them, with pieces debunking them and/or apologising for incorrect facts not propogating as hard - so in my view there needs to be some level of targeted/intelligent regulation of social media as a news source. (Content aggregators perhaps taking some level of responsibility of curating what is being shared? Admittedly difficult to do this without getting Orwellian...)

But that's just my opinion, interested to hear if people think it's a load of BS or not.
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Hi all,

I have an unoriginal idea, but I'm targeting a specific geographic market.

What would be the best way to build an AirBnB clone?
I think the confusing user experience serves to engage younger audiences who gravitate to what is regarded by the older users as complicated. I believe this is Snapchat's unique approach vs all the other social media.
It's common for experts to share some of their expertise for free as a marketing tactic.
why should a college offer therapists? that is not their job. a college should have a medic for emergencies and for all other things the student can go to a doctor's office that specializes in their issue
A semester at any old American university could be $30k, especially for out of state tuition.

It's pretty easy to get $30k+ credit limits, I have two cards with over $40k limits (I do points milling/never carry a balance). If I were to max my total credit limit on all cards and pay minimum payments it would take 86 years to pay off.
I don't think 1970-90s UK counts as "impoverished" the IRA/UDF did lots of innovation. Deadly destructive innovation.

Making bomb timers that lasted months/years to avoid detection was no mean feat in the early 80s
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This is such an interesting dilemma in terms of laws and ethics, and there is literally no way out without being shunned.

This is an online business, which laws actually apply? Company incorporation location, account location, reader location? All of them?

Twitter has usage terms, did he actually violate a single one of them so far? If yes, which one? If no, wouldn't it be illegal to ban him without reason based on ToS?

Then there is the interesting question of responsibility. In capitalism it usually boils down to he who has ownership also has responsibility, which is the price for being on the owning side.

So if your small shop around the corner sells Nazi propaganda, it will very likely be closed down.

So why do we treat these so called platforms as if they were a piece of paper? Paper is no business. It just exists, whereas platforms are companies and have intentions. Money is the goal, so responsibility should be there.

Which leads to ethics: all things considered, does an abstract concept such as morale mandate we only accept truth, wisdom, right things?

Finally the biggest question of all IMHO: if we as a society can not rely on the majority making the "right" decision, then does it even matter if people who spread lies are banned since we failed as a society so badly that this is the least of our issues.
Thanks for the perspective (especially for me, since Go is my primary language.)

Just to clarify, the primary target audience for the article is anyone who is getting started with asyncio (although I know of people who have been using asyncio, but don't really understand whats going on).
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I realized a while ago that "engagement" is very much the wrong metric to optimize. The reason people optimize for "time spent" or "number of interactions" is because it is easy to measure.

I think ultimately what you need to optimize for is much harder to measure. I think for most senarios it is "value a user can recieve for a given amount of time". When measuring this, time spent in the application is acutally detrimental unless you are increasing the value a user is getting from the application by a substantial amount.
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A lot of people in this thread are confused.

Selling stock can mean a lot of things. For example:

* You need money asap.

* You think the stock won't rise so you decide that your investment should return.

And from the article it looks like they need the money.

Ofcourse we can only guess what they need the money for.
Well it's also how you have a globally competitive workforce that can experience wage growth. We have a shortage and companies are outsourcing for good paying jobs because we aren't prepping enough people for the market.

There are some that can't get scholarships or even into universities in their state for engineering because there aren't enough spots. The no return majors take up resources and funding and leave countless people in debt they can't pull out of for a long time.

We don't have a shortage of history and art majors or lawyers and also, real artists would be a better investment than art majors anyway. No need for the debt. Just invest in the talent for society to thrive and be balanced.

> We need to find a way to finance education that isn't based on future income.

This already happens. One example - We have collegiate sports revenue financing no return liberal art degrees directly or indirectly via scholarships.
Oil is sold on a global market. In fact the state of Texas is due to become a large producer/exporter than the nation of Iraq in the next year or two. Differences in price are due to regional taxes.