skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having deployed Plack and Mojo in production, I would say Mojo's documentation is hard to digest.

If you stray from a simple web-server with routes, you are relegated to reading Mojo source code to identify how to integrate esoteric middlewares (I'm looking at you, JSON-RPC 1.0 and Azure AD). Weirdly, it shares this "no help off the golden path" problem with Varnish Cache's VCL docs.

However, Mojo is still the most full-featured library out there, and you can easily bend it to your will. Hypnotoad is a process-based worker pooling engine for Mojo; its performance is not terrible and debugging issues is easy.
> I was not an engineer, and I did not have Asperger's.

Yuck. Seems like she thought that was going to be a laugh line.
Agreed. I have now been asking this question for nearly a decade: what economic value does cryptocurrency deliver today? So far, I have found no good answer to that.

(Note that speculation does not create value; it at best transfers it from bet-winners to bet-losers. Crime seems to be the next-most-popular use case, and that is also generally net negative economically. And not also that the future isn't today. Which seems obvious, but every time I ask this I get a lot of fantasies about the future.)

That hasn't stopped an awful lot of people from raising money and launching ICOs for products that haven't worked and often couldn't possibly work. For example, see David Gerard's excellent ongoing dissection of Kodakcoin: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/tag/kodakcoin/
The cybersecurity balancing act – Bangkok Post: business
Sooty Feathers Tell the History of Pollution in American Cities
Hmm I disagree with your conclusions.

What you seem to be describing is geopolitics. Honestly, not much has ever really changed.

I mean if I were to give a metaphor for how I see geopolitics has changed in the last 150 years I would say:

Imagine we are a group of kids going on a camp. First there is the argument over whether we should go on a camp at all. Next is the argument over where we should go. The last thousand years equates to fighting all the way there in the car. WWI and WWII were arguing over who got which bed after we arrived in the room. The first night came and went and followed by the first full day of camp. The first day of camp was going fine until it wasn't. That was brexit + Trump. A minor hiccup here and there but everyone lives in such close quarters at the moment we are all starting to get on each other's nerves. But mum and dad (The UN) tell us not to fight. One could break out but we try to keep the peace otherwise we know it's going to be miserable for everyone. Full scale warfare is a food fight away.

Human nature never changes but scale which it was never designed for tends to expose the very rough edges.
I'm not OP but something similar happened to me. I ended up buying the Papago goSafe 535. Pretty decent bang for buck.
Do you have any links to bug reports or other documentation about this?
If you want to use Apple SDK and APIs to develop your software and use Apple Infrastructure, and Services to deploy your software, push notifications, upgrades, manage billing, etc. then they want 30%.

Or you can use none of those services and program against the Web API and pay them 0%.

It seems like a fair choice.
First, thank you! It looks like really solid work.

This project must be fairly new as I was not able to find it mentioned and compared with other ruby servers. Does anyone know some comparison running puma vs falcon or passenger vs falcon?
For whom it may concern, would be nice to consider autobatching [0] of DyNet fame when designing AD systems. Makes the world of difference for NLP applications.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.07860.pdf
Also related, PHP in the browser using webassembly: https://github.com/oraoto/pib
Huh. And they can't pass point 5 without repealing the ACA?
Fed up with cloud giants ripping off its database, MongoDB forks / new license
It's not complete snake oil, it does work it just isn't practical. I'd guess those investors were betting that they could over come the issues of practicality.
Seems like in a mature implementation your phone/laptop would route the message to a GPU farm and the work requirement could be scaled appropriately. And for whitelisted everyday contacts the computation cost could be zero.
The Adam Test: A Few More Steps to Better Code
Microsoft seems to think users are idiots. And often they are. But you can't help these people, every solution they come up just creates more idiots who don't know how it works. Some point soon we'll all be idiots who don't know how anything works anymore.
The manufacturer charges a higher price to the insurer and pays for the consumers copay so they are not impacted by price sensitivity. Kind of like business travels tend to spend more because it is the companies money vs their own. If the copay is too high, consumers might shop for cheaper alternatives instead of the "latest and best".
Good question. Anecdotally, I have been to a few stores in Australia and they have always been consistently busy. I listen to a few podcasts following (ATP, Connected) when the topic comes up the same experience pops up, the Genius Bar used to be great but now they are routinely difficult to get an appointment and being seen late is a real possibility.

I suppose expensive retail spaces? Apple has got mail-in and phone service but I've never really heard anything about it.
> I'm not sure this is true for oil. For example, long standing sanctions against Iran prevented them from selling a lot of their oil and crippled their economy quite a lot (decreasing their income).

You're referring to international sanctions (i.e. acting with market power), not something anyone can do at the individual level. Not even the US could do it on their own -- if the US put sanctions on Iran by itself, Iran would just sell to Europe or Asia and not care. The only way it works is if nearly everyone agrees not to buy from them.

But the reason countries don't like sanctions on oil exporting countries isn't that they're ineffective, it's that they raise oil prices.

> Oil would come from other countries, they could increase their output while Saudis are under sanctions.

Yes it would, that's normal for a commodity market. When you remove a supplier, the price increases, which attracts new suppliers who may have higher production costs.

But the relevant part of that dynamic is that the price increases. The problem isn't that oil becomes unavailable, it's that your consumers have to pay more for it and the money goes to other countries you don't really want to enrich.

And if you have an international coalition willing to suffer higher oil prices then the much better alternative is a carbon tax, because then you get the money from the higher prices instead of Russia and OPEC, and can use it for things like subsidizing renewable energy or electric cars to mitigate the cost to your consumers and reduce the length of time you have to pay it.
Yeah. I don't think it was as big a fraud as Theranos. But the amount of money spent, the level of self-promotion, the utter uselessness of their solution, and the suddenness of the collapse all make me think that they at best acted with utter disregard for the sort of concerns that keep sane entrepreneurs up at night. Did the CEO know it was a fraud? Hard to say. But that's not a question we ask of other frauds like anti-vaxxers, spirit mediums, and snake oil salesmen. Since we can't crack open people's minds and look, for me a standard of "knows or should have known" is generally good enough for me to call something a fraud.
Is this the case for native iOS? I would love to forego the Apple toolchain and release obstacles and use stripe apis. But to suggest that a web solution is on par with a native app isn’t really a sound argument
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Wi-charge uses lasers. Wanna guess how efficient and cheap high power IR lasers and GaAs solar panels are?
> As a user being able to install packages without root and start my own services

The future is today:) Nix is a package manager that can run without root. Gentoo prefix installs are an option. Or if you want something more traditional, proot can run a decent number of distros. Maybe also fakeroot? Haven't tried that personally.

No idea if there's a FUSE module for NFS/CIFS, though sshfs is a thing.
I guess the difference is Palau has year round rain, not seasonal rains, so it's more akin to say Singapore than parts of the US, although may be LA or FL might be close, I don't know.

Another confounding problem with Palau it's an island in the Pacific. In the US, if you need to patch the road, you just send a couple of catepillar machines in an oversized truck down the interstate along with tar and whatever else to your small town. I mean, of course someone has the catepillars and tar lying around, but that's at least how it got there. For Palau, you need to get the tar, caterpillars, and fuel and everything else and send it on a cargo ship, whilst burning more fuel and putting it into the air. Just the sheer distance and isolation adds a huge cost to repair for everything that sort stretches the analogy with small town America for example.
My experience with Apple repairs is a mixed bag. For several iPhone repairs over the years the experience has always been easy and positive.

However last year I bought my first iMac, an i7 27” 5K. Last month a line appeared in the display; a vertical column of pixels were stuck black. The issue is intermittent but I took pictures when it happened.

In store they were happy to schedule warranty repair of the display even though the probably wasn’t occurring the moment when we booted.

But I got a call from Apple yesterday saying my repair was “completed”, they found the problem, it was the two 16GB sticks of RAM I added. They said because it didn’t match the other two 8GB sticks it would cause display issues.

Of course Apple’s own docs state you can mix sizes as long as you do it in pairs and keep the matching pairs on the same bank. How RAM would cause a single column of stuck pixels is beyond me.

My only hope is it reproduces again without the RAM present before the 1 year warranty runs out in 3 weeks. Bah!
Repeat after me: directional radiation is still subject to inverse square law.
A site like ebay but sells paranormal items
Putting up a wholly artificial barrier to entry and then charging a toll doesn't read as providing value to me.

Linux repos provide an obvious model for multiple sources of packages accessed through the same interface.
What is the possibility of more widespread drug resistance as the HIV strains that exhibit immunity are selected for?
I have seen “GNU” been used instead of “GCC” by many people. I’m not sure why.
Nah because as soon as you deviate from the GenServer behaviour you'll get errors from not matching the @callback. The trick there is to provide a narrower API that calls into the GenServer functions with the proper @spec and treat the handle_cast and friends as private functions that you don't call directly. So like a pop/0 might call cast(:pop) and you'd have the associated handle_cast for :pop.
> That's because they're usually required to accept the lowest reasonable bid.

Lots of public sector bodies use best-value rather than lowest-bid procurement.
Sure. That's a valid point. Things have changed a lot since my oldest child. But my youngest children are still at home costing me money. My own financial situation has improved, of course. But my recent college grad children step into jobs making 80% of my current salary. And they're not making SV money. So again, I turn the volume down on millenials who complain about the cost of children.

I had my first children when I made less than 1/3 of what I make now and new college grads are making 4/5 of what I make now. And I'm still raising children. You can argue about inflation or whatever you want. I don't buy it.

Just admit that you are not willing to give up anything to accommodate children.

I'm not saying that you should give up anything. Those are your choices. But you do have a choice.

I have neighbors who make $40K and raise children--yes, more than one. Right now. Today. In the U.S. No welfare.

It is within the reach of most everyone on HN to become a middle school math teacher in Kansas and raise a family. Very few make that choice. But they do have the choice.
I don't understand what principle you are endorsing. Are you saying it should be illegal to make hardware devices unless you allow others to duplicate it exactly?

Nobody can make the decision to buy a Chromecast or an Echo or a Nest or a Tesla without restrictions inherent to those devices. In what way is Apple special here?
"I feel like your reply is almost condescending, a "you will know this once you're old enough" kind of argument."

That's not condesending that's reality.

Accept the fact people with considerably more experience at 'adulthood' will have developed more knowledge from that experience.

"I strongly believe university falls on the "extremely inefficient grind""

You have no way of comparing it to any facet of life if you're a regular university student.

If you haven't even had a real career job, then haven't the exposure to lots of other schools, haven't hired from all over, from all classes and walks of life, from many countries and witnessed the difference. Then you're going to have a hard time judging.

" at school you are being made to grind because someone else thinks that's the best way for you to learn"

Maybe you've worked as a waiter? Or unloading trucks? That's 'mindless grind'.

Solving problems, reading books, researching and writing essays is almost never a waste of time. It's an exceptionally good way to learn, and 'not being paid for it' is irrelevant. For example, the only way to learn to write well, is by actually writing. English and Software! I'm ashamed to say I graduated Engineering woefully inarticulate ... because I didn't respect language and the Liberal Arts. I do now, and I regret not paying more attention. Many of my peers share my regrets.

"grinding because some jackass doesn't know how to teach and assess knowledge."

Profs aren't necessarily supposed to be great teachers, they are lecturers. It's your job to get something from it. If the prof is lecturing decent content, if it even makes sense, if the course work is rational, then he's doing at least his job.

If you're calling your profs 'jackasses' already now ... you're going to have a long, hard life ahead of you.

Consider that your profs are probably pretty smart, and fairly knowledgeable and that teaching a bunch of ungrateful teenagers is probably not that rewarding for them, as they try to do their research.

You could always just drop out and be an instant billionaire, right? Or you could put your head down, do the work, try to learn something, have some fun, make a thing or two get some decent grades and move on and be a better human being for it.
Here's a relatively recent thread with Ubisoft asking for help to improve accessibility: https://www.reddit.com/r/disabledgamers/comments/8kf9bx/ubis...

The consistent theme I see is being able to change the controls, which is often game specific, making it difficult for the browser to help out.
Why Paper Plus Evernote Beats Pure Digital for Taking Notes
My local bike shop sells bike accessories for like 10x a fair price. Myabe they're struggling, maybe they have expensive rent to pay.

But at some point it's just much too much.
It’s not on par in the slightest! Because Apple has spent (billions?) making their Native SDK, and it shows.

But they do charge 30% for the privilege of using it to make commercial software.
Ask Mac users what their favorite version of OS X is and it more than likely won't be the latest one.

But I agree Windows is descending -- they fired the guy the righted the ship and made Windows 7.

For Apple, it's always hard to be sure anyone their really cares about OS X and professional hardware.
> Obviously a functional democratic society will stomp a dictatorial one on pretty much any axis you care to think of.

A lot of Singaporeans might disagree there. Enlightened dictatorship can be really good however the probability of a having a great dictator is extremely low.
Apparently there are a lot of people also using Explorer for extracting zip files. Those end up in our support because the .NET License Compiler won't license components that have the Internet Zone black mark on them. And Explorer is the only extraction tool to my knowledge that propagates that marker to the extracted files.
When I hear 7zip I associate it with security vulnerabilities. I remember reading a couple of articles last year that said 7zip was maintained and distributed by a single person with not-stellar security practices, and most mirrors online are hosting old, insecure versions. Therefore I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that doesn't "know what they're doing" wrt security.

source: https://borncity.com/win/2018/02/21/security-risk-avoid-7-zi...
Seems to have just been temporary. I'm presented with a signup link on that page.
> Sears promised that a buyer with only rudimentary skills could assemble a kit home in 90 days.

People used to be handier than they are today. I don't know anyone who would dare take on this project.
We have a security camera at our front gate. One reason why I no longer order from Amazon is that our porters could actually show me videos of Amazon's delivery contractors going to our gate, pressing the call button, and leaving before the porter could even start speaking.
I was looking in Amazon for a protective case for the iPhone XR that my SO has preordered.

Apparently there are many cases and even more reviews of very happy customers (verified purchasers as per Amazon) who were making very positive comments on the perfect fit of the case (on a phone that is not yet on sale).
You can't not use Apple's infrastructure; they don't let you. You could get billing, upgrades, push notifications, etc, from somewhere else for cheaper if it was possible.
1. The size of the phased array is directly related to the distance over which you want to maintain focus. In order to focus a beam across a room, you need a hilariously large array.

2. Ultrasound transducers are very inefficient, so you’ll lose a lot of power.

3. Ultrasound transmission will be blocked by a person, or even by a sheet of paper in the way.

4. Even if you do achieve a tight beam, then you either have to actively steer it around, or it’s only good for transmitting power to something sitting still in a specific spot.

5. We don’t really know much about the effects of having watts of ultrasound present in a space with humans 24/7/365.

(And these are just the easy ones)
A Real-Time Display-Oriented Editor for the Lisp Machine (a Synopsis)
The article asserts that the the conspicuous consumption in Veblen's sense is over. I've tried to find some research to verify that. I've found this, but it's just a blog post, presumably based on research, but I haven't found the research itself:

http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2017/06/09/elizabeth-currid-...
A Thorough Introduction to Boltzmann Machines
I have been meaning to evaluate fossil-scm.org for a while...
An aside, Prudential is the most scummy insurance company ever. I don't know how many times I've reported their lies to my work or the state insurance regulatory body.
It also gives Apple a big lever to ensure the platform stays agile. For example, Apple was able to make 64 bit happen first because they knew what software could be installed (so they knew what the compatibility risk was), and because they controlled distribution.

If there were another major app store with significant market share, Apple would find it more difficult to evolve the platform.
That kind of research is really hard. You pretty much have to lock people up for long periods of time, and make sure they only eat what you give them. The current state of dietary research is pretty much a morass of contradictory associations, with no proof of any causative factors.
Yeah no. Commercial SDKs and toolchains existed before iOS; heck the OS itself is just a fork of Mac OS. There is no financial reason, other than massive profits, to charge 30% on every transaction.
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Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now
I love the Brave mobile.
You're saying that you trust that contract today, or are you saying that you have always trusted that contract?

Its only recently that gmail's contract involved keeping out of your data. I think they also only say they abstain from using your data for targeted advertising, not that they don't use it for other purposes. I haven't read the terms in quite a while though and I could be mistaken.

Great products though. I really do wish I could pay for them in exchange for a real, trustworthy, comprehensive privacy promise.
i.e. how "keys" work on modern cars. my fob gets put into my pants pockte at the beginning of the day, and I forget about it. Enter/Exit/Start/Stop the car by just being there. It opens when I pull it open, and locks when I lock away.
Solar Mamas: Who is Rafea? - Why Poverty? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeqM2OnVu0
> Arguably, it's actually Amazon's search algorithms that are to blame. Those have been known for a long time to be sub-par, now, at least since 2012 (when I worked there).

You’re conflating direct experience with the masses. My parents didn’t work there. They wouldn’t know if I didn’t tell them. I think most people aren’t having this conversation.
> Consultants from the Energy Department and World Bank Group advised Palau that the maximum it could draw from renewable energy was 45 percent

What? Why so low? I don't understand that
Exactly, a GPU needs to have specific hardware (a dedicated ASIC) for H264 acceleration. It's not accelerated by the usual GPU hardware, which is sufficiently general-purpose that an accelerator running there would not be codec specific.
I'm not a fan of combining licences - it's just confusing. They should come up with some new license like the "totally free if you're not reselling it as a service" license or something like that.

"The large print giveth, the small print taketh away".
Yeah it sucked. Lesson learned :P

Also, googled you. Here is a quote from your website: "I'm an american entrepreneur, inventor and __activist__" :)
Class-action lawsuit accuses e-scooter companies of 'gross negligence'
The smartphone market is quite competitive. Apple is far from a monopoly.