skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reads like putting 2010 knowledge about China and Trump propaganda in a shaker and then really go at it for 10 minutes. Dude, get an update. We are in 2018.

Both Western and Chinese "fictitious overlay" to real market is so big that each can lose their current leadership position through that fantasy blowing up. In some regards the trade war is like this party game where you need to step on other people's balloon with your foot that has also a balloon attached.

The good news is, once one of the bubbles burst the other one can be exchanged step by step with real markets that are overtaken from the other.
I think that currently the serious consequences are the amount of businesses that expended huge amounts of cash and time to getting towards compliance. It has focused every business on the data that they generate and keep. Overall, the main consequence that I see currently, is that almost every business has some idea about GDPR and your data. Surely that is the largest consequence?
Did you honestly think you would get all content ever created, old and new, for $10/month without ads for the rest of your life?
> some are great, most aren't

Which is true for all content out there.
The crap people willingly watch on TV astounds me.

As they grow, it's only natural to produce mediocre content that will still have a large enough audience.

Not everything can be a high quality hit show (and most aren't even supposed to be).
Why? Because the W3C is a factory the never stops churning out specs.

It's quite telling that even Microsoft was not able to keep-up with the complexity and decided to piggy-back on the biggest investor.

If we want less mono-culture, the first thing to do is to bring the complexity down to something manageable.
Same way scummy ad networks do it (in fact they probably use ad networks' tech), google 'browser fingerprinting'.
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Well you should maybe think about the content creators. If they live off the ads then you just killed their living. Bat is about micro transactions - you load Brave with 20usd and leave it to distribute money. It is actually great usecase for crypto. I doubt you want to be giving out your credit card to sites you read and micro transaction services would also invade your privacy by paying for you. All crypto is not bad and BAT is pretty legit in my opinion.
It is not news that you don't get anything back. There is a documentary (forgot the name, but should be googleble) about how China created loads of fake companies to get money from naive investors.

The problem with this whole situation since day one was: How can you be sure that you're not cheated if it's in the other side sovereign's interest when you get cheated.

So yes, there was probably never a point where you could have invested reasonably into Chinese bonds or stocks or startups.
> No I think they email each other.

You never thought that some information needs to be received or conveyed in real time for efficiency?

I only check my email once an hour, maybe every couple of hours. If people need to get a hold of me instantly, they call… like normal people.

Even if I did check my mails more frequently, there's no guarantee that (A) I'm going to bother reading/responding to _every_ mail I receive, nor that (B) I will reply immediately.

Does everybody here really live in such a techno-bubble that they fail to see how the real world works?
Backdoors are a moot point. Security is so bad on them that they don’t need a backdoor. Or maybe that is the backdoor. I don’t know if it’s incompetence or plausible deniability. I don’t care to speculate, and am not interested in the politics, all I am saying is, technically speaking, you do not want this shit near your communications.

Some well known industry experts sharing their opinions: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2505191/malware-vulner...
Fucking Mormons and their censorship bollocks coupled with corporate BS equals steaming crap piled higher and deeper.
Lack of official support for Chromium on platforms other than OSX, Windows and Linux worries me a little.

Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD maintain large patch-sets to be able to build Chromium. [1][2]

I don't know the current situation, but historically some of these patches have had problems reaching upstream because Free-/OpenBSD is not officially supported[3].

[1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/chromium/files/
[2] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/www/chromium/...
[3] https://codereview.chromium.org/180743014/#msg3
I’m working on a similar design! https://twitter.com/cellularmitosis/status/10745555509968117...
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I'm just using a Razor mechanical keyboard at the moment, keep the quiet one at home and the noisy one at work to bug my co-workers.. Always worried about going Ergo keyboard incase it's too difficult for me.
>"Just blocking ads with ublock solves the problem of annoying ads but leaves the problem of website revenue."

To put it bluntly, that is their problem, not mine. I feel absolutely no obligation to support a flawed business model, in fact I feel absolutely no obligation to support the commercialization of the internet.

Based on the egregious attacks on privacy we've seen, I have absolutely no intention of ever allowing ads again.
Well, Microsoft opting for Chromium will be a big win for Google. As Google has a strong hold on Android mobile user base, for many non-technical users what comes by default is the first browser (may be best browser). Google taps that privilege/monopoly/advantage to their use. Those who comfortably use Chrome in mobile device will obviously opt for Chrome in desktop as well. Because it simplifies their mental model of browser comfort. Microsoft might have done the same thing for decades, but it has been trying to come out of that image for the past of couple of years. IMHO Microsoft is no more an evil. I won't blame Google if it plays fair with respect to its Chrome browser in Android. In many Android phones we can't uninstall Chrome. If we use Chrome actively in Android, it pushes lot of notifications (they will say serving the user with relevant content, but to me its a ad/handle which intend to make me see pages where ads are again controlled by Google). Even in Desktop when i open Google's any of the services using browser other than Chrome, at least in the third world where i live, it suggests me to "Switch to Chrome". Nobody is forcing anyone. But it is very essential to tell the world that there is something better available.

The recent better one from Firefox: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.ro...
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>> Using GitHub issues to discuss design is like drinking from a firehose

It depends what kind of community you have. I noticed that projects which have received a lot of hype tend to lose their thought leaders and they often end up with highly divided communities and opinions.
Also, when people jump on the hype bandwagon too quickly, they set themselves up for disappointment and discussions become more emotionally charged.
This is made worse by the fact that the most emotionally invested people are more likely to get involved in discussions.
ESPN FC crew is also great for those who watch soccer/football.
Does anyone have a mainstream news link to this? I don't trust coin-related news sites not to be involved in hyping things.
Github comment threads are basically like a kicked over dumpster which has all the content landed on the floor. I hate going over them. Something like a stackoverflow style organization would improve a lot.
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Nicotine delivered through e-cigarettes is not even remotely as addictive as classical cigarettes. I also know 3 people that stopped using cigarettes using vapes, 2 of which stopped altogether.
Thoughts on direct manipulation
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Let's say you have a historian who believes that historical group X were terrible human beings. How likely do you suppose that this historian would be open to new information that shed new light on group X, with some positive and possibly redemptive qualities?

I reckon, based on my understanding of human nature, that historian would take a while to come around, if they ever revised their perspective at all.
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It's not about the browser, it's about browser engines. Edge will still exist, but EdgeHTML will not. We're down from four major browser engines to three, with one clearly dominating the market.
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It's unclear from the title and the first paragraph what it is actually 22% faster at doing. Deep into the first paragraph, the article finally reveals that the new version has 22% faster 'load time' but to me it wasn't immediately clear what the loading time meant. Is it startup time or time to load a site? What site did it load?

I wish engineering articles such as this can be more to the point instead of being ceremonial.
Sure. There will be people that will get undeserved benefit. But this idea is not about perfect justice. It's about aligning incentives so that financial institutions don't fund expensive degree's that will get you janitorial job or no job at all.

Currently student loans are pretty much no risk at all. You can even shake them off with bankruptcy.
They chose not to because they felt the chance of getting a positive resolution was lower if they proceeded with criminal charges instead of civil.
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That's a really interesting idea. Come to think of it, I've spent a lot of time on extended camping and hiking trips and cant come up with a memory or picture when my skin wasn't at its best then.

Also: that microbiome could be include yeasts, which also naturally live on the skin.
android manufacturers seem to skimp on component quality and testing in general. never have had an android phone last more than 3 years with my heavy usage, meanwhile comparatively heavy usage of an iphone only means you need to replace the battery after 2 years and then it's good as new
I'm late to reading this article, but @hubicka already updated the article with Skylake benchmarks. GCC's lead is similar, if not higher.
That (and watching video) requires significantly higher resolutions than the Rift provides, even 4k isn't enough.
>Maybe it is a bad idea in general to allow a remote page write pixels to your screen: images, videos, text and now applications

Computers have been doing this since the 60s, at least, in some form or another. I don't think you want to live in a world where the very idea of networks is considered harmful. Where all of the software you consume has to be loaded from physical media and the internet and any network connected device just doesn't exist. You couldn't even have cellphones.

We don't need a "whitelist" browser - you simply choosing not to visit sites you don't want to visit is already a sufficient whitelist. Having "specifications" that websites and authors would have to enforce based on content would make the web less free.

Websites are software. Software authors have the right and the freedom to write whatever they like, any way they choose, up to and including the UI. The Guardian being able to make their own decisions about how to implement the web versions of a "newspaper" - including design choices which might differentiate them from USA Today, is part and parcel the same sort of freedom that any author of any work, software, literary, music, what have you, enjoys. That HTML, CSS and JS don't step over the line from describing content to making editorial decisions about content is a feature, not a bug.
Pity this article has been released after the limited run has seemingly ended
In some sense the first shot fired was at royalty, by the student Gavrilo Princep.
I am not advocating for prohibition. I am just saying that legalization hasn't demonstrated a solution.
Although the Chromium project is ostensibly open-source, Chrome is clearly closed-source. And worse, some Chromium releases have included (or at least pulled) closed-source blobs from Google.

So the whole thing is arguably suspect.
it has similar issues with audio quality during video recording. i think they implemented some fancy noise cancelling/voice boosting in a chip thinking people would love it and now they can't fix it.
TLDR: they use family offices, we don't know what they invest in as there's no transparency, and they didn't outperform the global stock market in 2016 and 2017.
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I would suggest reading more childrens books :)

I just remembered how many children's books my daghter loves are kind-of stem-adjacent?

We have a book about a forest-bison that is kinda upset that he doesn't hibrnate during the winter, so he tries to persuade the forest spirits that help other animals to prepare for winters rest to help him as well. When he fails, he decides, he will do that himself, and strts searching for a nest :)

Or a little book about how a poppy-seed grows.

Or a book about a tale of friendship between a doormouse and a vole, where the vole is sad he won't have anybody to play with the whole winter, because the doormouse hibernates.

Or a short book about an islad that has 2 kindoms, each has 3 castles, under every one 4 cities, in every city 5 houses, in every hous 6 room, in every room 7 cabinets, in each cabinet 8 boxes. And then it shows a dot for all of the boxes on a page.

Or a book about a father and his daghter that recieved magic space-suites from an old wizzard, so they go visit each planet in solar system.

Or two siblings that realize that the ants they have at home know pythagoras theorem, so they learn to communicate with them.

Or the kid who discovers his weird neghbour actually managed to communicate with the plants (well, more just their raw emotions?) and then they use this to help the neglected plants in their back-yard?

I might remember more? :)
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I believe this comment neatly goes at the heart of this discussion. I have absolutely no horse in this particular fight, having never even used any software by confluence, as far as I know. Coming into this discussion as somewhat of a blank slate, I stumbled over this somewhat nebulous concept of “ownership” just like the parent, plus some mild dismay at seeing the only two threats meaningfully engaging with what IMHO is the core of this dispute being flagged into oblivion.

To reiterate: I have no earthly idea nor opinion if Confluence is the confluence of everything that’s wrong with earth and beyond. I just think the argument would benefit from a sharp pencil more than a pitchfork, for now.
Literally unplayable, exploding gas goes through thick solid walls without even damaging the wall.

Awesome game, I love the options :)
There is a lot to compete on. Recommendations and reviews for example, customer service, price, outages, video quality. The problem is that those things are harder to build a marketing campaing on than "We are the only channel that has Game of Thrones".

Exclusives serve only the producer. They are terrible for consumers, as the orignal commenter lamented. Perhaps "anti-competeitive" is the wrong word, since each channel can compete at having the best exclusives ... probably "anti-consumer" is what I meant.
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>To put it bluntly, that is their problem, not mine.

This reminds me of my friends that used to download games of thepiratebay because the gaming industry was a "flawed business model", but were still expecting content to be produced

If you don't support content creators with money, how can you expect content to be produced ? Content creators need to eat too, especially indie ones

>Based on the egregious attacks on privacy we've seen

I like how Brave tackle the privacy issue by displaying only privacy-friendly ads from Brave publishers network while giving a way for users to contribute towards content creator with the built-in tip feature. And this is a opt-in feature, so if you hate ads, you just don't have to opt-in and can still enjoy a fast and privacy-focused browser

I've ditched chrome 2 weeks ago, not going back anytime soon
I forgot the favourite, where somebody shits on little-moles head, so he goes from animal to animal to compare their poop to the one still sitting on its head. It is very informative :)
their google one initiative seems to have "dedicated customer support" whatever that means to google. maybe google knows about the issue and is just all fucked up due to competing PMs trying to create the perfect customer support service(which seems to be the case with all their products)
The title should include "(2013)".

Edit: Maybe change this to https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/16/strangest-th...
I have been powering SPA with go backend, and found gorilla mux [0] to be quite reliable for years.

- [0] https://github.com/gorilla/mux
> So far legalization has not proven to solve the problems of demand or addiction.

Those are really biological issues.

If they were to make tobacco illegal tomorrow that also wouldn't solve for demand or addiction but would merely make it vastly more inconvenient for people to get their nicotine fix. But, as they've doing for (at least) the last 40+ years, if they try to get people to either not start or stop on their own (i.e. without jail time) then the problem just kind of fixes itself.

Two choices really and one leads to having the largest prison population on the planet with no real end in sight to the "drug epidemic".
How long it takes? I'm 30 now and I would have breakouts if I didn't apply benzoyl peroxide twice a day.
> Those small indulgences might be the only thing keeping people from giving up entirely.

I might be sympathetic to that point of view... but then what about the 'indulgence' of keeping a rainy-day fund? You know, the one indulgence that OP fails to acknowledge in any way and even disparages, despite the fact that indulging in this gets rid of a major source of stress in a poor person's life? This is why you should save, even at strenuous cost. Because when you save, you do feel better.
A landscape populated with fungus-like spires of 6-8 meters tall. Amazing.

Makes me think of Omnivore (Of Man and Manta, #1) by Piers Anthony. A planet full of fungus, with fungoid animals.
Looks neat! Pattern matching is one of those features that I sorely miss when I have to program in Python.

I do feel a bit wary seeing this[1] though, given that `_` can be considered a special character in Python. I suppose you can use `ANY` instead of `_` in the pattern matches, but of course that would not look as clean.

[1] https://github.com/santinic/pampy/blob/4c8e6e0cabada82a5ed79...
I cant find one, the Fiancial Times have covered Venezuela and petro in the past and they have no mention of it. Looks like BS to me based on one line in what appears to be a financial statement/email.
#clojure: Why does (seq nil) return nil but (str nil) return “”?
Whilst living in hotels a few years back, I experimented with the provided moisturiser as aftershave. I soon noticed that rubbing any excess on my face reduced the number of spots I had, and now I apply it daily and get no spots.

Not applying it for a single day has a >50% chance of having spots appear. My hypothesis is it adds a mechanical barrier to my pores. The paper suggests various environmental factors might be behind it, so reduced exposure to anything airborne could be related.

Using moisturiser daily is certainly something that would have shocked my (more closed-minded) younger self - not being something that 'real men' would do.
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Can’t find any either. Surprising...
Those who comfortably use Chrome in mobile device will obviously opt for Chrome in desktop as well.

You make it sound like users know, or care, which browser they're using. Most of them don't. Most don't actually know there's more than one browser. They use the stock browser that's installed on their device, and they don't switch unless there's a reason to - eg their favourite websites and apps don't work.

In the case of Edge with EdgeHTML there are popular sites that don't work properly, and that means users seek out Chrome instead. Microsoft switching to Chromium will mean those users continue to use Edge because "it works properly" for the user regardless of the actual problem being the developers of those sites failing to write cross-browser compatible code.

I'm a bit sad that the choice and market for browsers is shrinking, and I think it's going to slow progress in web tech, but let's be honest here - the blame for Microsoft's very sensible business decision lies with web developers who fail to test their code in more browsers than just Chrome. If web developers did a better job there'd still be business value in developing a competing browser engine.
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Have you tried the "cloner" type ? I managed clouds that rain, using a cloner with ice above a cloner with fire. The cloner with fire make the ice melt which release some water which reduce the fire and help the plant grow. Once the plant below grow enough to reach the fire almost all the plant burn and the cycle begins again. You can then add mites which will eat the plants and reproduce and be almost destroyed by the cycling catastrophe yet survive thanks to the wanderers. Mites usually eat the bottom plants so sometimes for plants to start again from the ground you need to accumulate enough water to form a lake which will reach the preserved from the mites plants. Once the lake reach the plants it is consumed by them, and allow mites to have close to the ground food.
I was with you 100% about the AMP stuff, but a statement like "page loads within 1-2 seconds do not make a major impact" is just so laughably wrong that I have to wonder where you source your information. If you actually work in the space, it would behoove you to do some A/B testing on different page load speeds. You will quickly see that it does indeed make a huge impact on user interaction.

That is leaving aside the fact that nobody is actually investing the time they'd spend in AMP to make their website faster. It's simply not something the really bad publishers (for example, a lot of the news space) care about, for reasons I have never managed to follow.
I would say depending of the region/country wechat/WhatsApp/Viber