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Show HN: Determining the winner of the rat race
I wanted to share a pretty-ridiculous novelty website I created to improve my web design skills: https://clouthomepage.com
The content on Clout Homepage is controlled by whoever has the most clout on the internet. To prove "top-clout" you pay $1 more than the previous person. We're up to $3 :)

It was inspired by the Million Dollar Homepage.

My friends get a chuckle out of it; so I hope it brings you a laugh too!
And also reduce bushes and lawns, they obstruct. And overly tall trees.
From a user/developer perspective, the advantage would be low latency.

I imagine that the more interesting advantages are from the perspective of the board designer.
More issues with IPv6 that are relevant for me as a techie:

- Memorising an IPv4 address is about as easy as memorising a phone number, which is to say, fairly easy. I remember the iPv4 addresses of both my rental servers, every device on my home LAN, a bunch of public DNS servers if things go wrong, ...; there's no way I'm going to be able to do that for IPv6.

- At least last time I tested it (more than 10 years ago now), the greater length of IPv6 headers had a quite measurable adverse impact on transmission latency of small packets (online gaming, remote shell...)

- Why do people keep treating "you get your own unique IP address when browsing" as if it were an advantage? The way I see it, NAT and IP address reuse (especially together with some European countries' laws stipulating the address->identity mapping must be deleted within some time period) are the currently most widely rolled out privacy technology. Somewhere downthread, they talk about how Belgian police is trying to prevent ISPs from putting more than 16 customers behind the same internet address. Since I can hardly say everything I do on the internet is perfectly legal, what's bad for Belgian police is probably good for me.
Anonymous Fingerprinting of Device Screens for Off-Line Payment Protection [pdf]
Would you mind elaborating? Hearing about this service for the first time, why are Coinbase and appstores fighting it?
How to treat heart problems in the mentally ill would be useful training for a cardiologist. How to treat mental illness isn't.
> The bottom line here is very simple: The cost of building and maintaining these facilities should be borne by the people who attend these events via their ticket purchases, and not the people of an entire state and/or metropolitan region, the vast majority of whom will never set foot inside these enormously costly structures.

We shouldn’t subsidize subways and rail transit for the exact same reason. Indeed, more people in any given metro region watch football than ride subways.
Lack of online tutorials is something that comes to mind.
No I've built it on my own. I only know that popular libraries as lodash don't call constructors, so I think there is no way to mantain a proper [[Prototype]] nor the constructor props. IDK how other libraries do to handle circ references nor if them allow to copy non-enums props and getters&setters.
these things are not always at odds

https://www.dw.com/en/how-germany-got-the-russian-revolution...
Is there a 'distrowatch' for OSes other than Linux/BSD-based? I can't keep up with them all anymore.
Secret laws are bad. And besides, how we have a democracy if their are some BS ridden from the public eye? And also, the bad guys prebvial after the government fails. If you want a counter example see Half Life series.
Is it really, though? I'm honestly struggling to think of a non-currency situation in which fractional customer data necessarily be handled as a decimal value -- and, honestly, even if the availability heuristic might make them seem more common than they are, I'd be astonished if even a single percent of general calculations programmers collectively ask computers to perform are involving currency. Most real-life situations just don't even inherently _have_ that kind of precision, let alone need it. Seriously, I can't think of a time when I've needed to store a coordinate or a person's height as a decimal value to prevent something from being broken.
If 95% was dual stack, we could start getting rid of ipv4.
> public libraries are little more than homeless shelters

This was totally false at each of the five public libraries that I've visited over the last two years.
>> ... the utter failure of v6.

> Even if IPv6 was completely perfect...

More specifically: "completely technologically perfect". Which is the point being made in this thread: the technical aspect is of only partial relevance. If IPv6 fails because of political problems, or "contextual ones" (like “we could make it technologically inferior but more readily backwards compatible; it would make it less awesome but easier for people to migrate”), then that is still "failure of IPv6".

If IPv6 had been perfect, it would be fully backwards compatible, and there would be no market for IPv4 right now.

Just because that isn't possible doesn't mean there isn't a middle ground.
You wouldn't parse the data into objects. Instead, the immutable data structure libraries have their own implementation of maps, lists, and so on. These are the data structures you'd be using. And of course, if you're using a language like ClojureScript then it's just how things work out of the box.
ChaosRequest – test your front end without modifying the back end
Coffee is a stimulant... 64% of Americans take stimulants daily.

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/americans-drinking-more-cof...
hoping that my funtion can help you :)
> ... the jobs created indirectly by his investments.

but i think this is one of the key issues of the article. the author claims that investment does not create jobs.

also, in absolute dollar terms the author may spend more than you, but in percentage-of-income terms he's spending less. and I think maybe that percentage difference is another key point the author makes, given how much wealth is tied up in the hands of the rich.

I mean, I think the author believes that wealthy people pouring almost all of their money into various investments -- as opposed to middle class and poor people spending all or almost all of their money on goods and services -- is not a very strong way to create domestic jobs.

IMHO, this is not a complete accounting of the situation. I mean, US people are spending -- we're spending big time. but where are all the jobs? the US has this giant trade deficit. a helluva a lot of jobs are in overseas manufacturing. so, we can force billionaires to spend all of their income every year on goods and services -- but how many domestic jobs is that going to create if what they buy is expensive Euromade yachts and New Zealand real estate?

it's almost like we need more than just tax policy, it's like we need some kind of domestic industrial policy
The microcontrollers (PRUs) run at 1/5 the clock speed (200MHz) of the CPU (1000MHz) and can share memory with the CPU as well.
I think that's different. While driving along the road in your car you're benefiting from the fact that someone else is on a train and not contributing to the traffic ahead of you. You are benefitting, if indirectly.
Paying more personal taxes voluntarily is a net loss to me personally. Everyone in my income band paying more tax is the same absolute loss in income, but the net loss is substantially reduced due to the additional governmental funds, perhaps even becoming a net gain.
>dumb-but-popular

Do you have a recent example of a new football stadium that had popular support among the constituent taxpayers? My memory can only recall ones opposed by the general public.
I don’t think funding is the problem. It’s misappropriation and lack of oversight. I was involved in the construction of two stadiums and the money is unlimited during construction. Very wasteful.
You're right that I'm highly biased by my Training background. If I wanted to teach "submitting code" and "basic math operations" then I would be doing very specific things (compared to people who haven't spent time developing professional training).

That is the things about great training - it is focused on results, and thinks carefully about what we want to achieve and how we want to achieve it. Otherwise, we could end up failing in both our primary goals as well as the secondary goals so often intermixed by non-professionals for personal and philosophical reasons.
The government is not in the position of a “kickstarter”. It has tons of revenue already, so your point doesn’t make sense.
You missed:

- No real competition in ISPs

If you had a national ISP in the US who ran IPv6 with end-to-end connectivity without NATs, a killer app would move to it and then drag all the other ISPs onto IPv6.
Show HN: Very simple shell for Python's SQLite module, with zero dependencies
iOS https://i.imgur.com/ecwAIis.png
9/11 hack passwords aren't truely random
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character 8 is Y, chracter 11 is 5, char 34 in p1 and char 35 in p2 is v, char 47 in p1 and char 48 in p2 is V, char 63 in p1 and char 64 in p2 is 5
And if you look at the original group that came up with the idea it was 19 academics and one guy from bell labs - and no one with real skin in the game.

In the mid/late 90's even I as a relatively low level person working in networking at BT I could see the problems with IPv6
In what jurisdiction do you envisage that law and why would the politicians agree to such a tax?
For canvas I’d be curious which would be faster: grabbing an ImageData and continually update then set or use fillRect.
>What happens if service was withdrawn because the user was black?

in the analog world countries provide civil rights protections for day to day commerce for this type of situation, in the digital world it's unlikely to ever matter that you are black, unless you state so in the first place.

The question itself shines light on the important difference here. Gab is not discriminated because of some natural feature about them, they are discriminated against because they act like unsavoury people that nobody wants to be associated with.

Nope, being black is not the same as being a troll or a fascist on the internet. People have the right to not be associated with you if you present yourself in a manner that alienates other customers or is simply incompatible with our values at large.
> Are there systems of communication between parties on the public internet that can guarantee native IPv6 on both ends, don't want to use IPv4 NAT, and don't want to set up a point-to-point VPN?

WebRTC is one example of something that can greatly benefit from having publicly routable addresses on clients (in practice this tends to mean IPv6). If both clients are behind IPv4 NAT that doesn't allow hole punching, they will need TURN (or media) server in order to communicate. While clients might be close to each other (e.g. same apartment building), that TURN server can have horrible routing for this set of clients. For example, it could be in Europe while both of the clients are in west coast of USA (and that's not even nearly the worst case).
>> Meanwhile Danish ISPs refuse to implement IPv6 because: There's no demand. That completely missing the point and their responsibility in my opinion.

Responsibility to whom?

If there's no significant demand from end-users for something, then we're relying on there being a benefit for access providers.

>> For IPv6 to be successful the ISPs need to role it out, regardless of demand.

>> regardless of profitability

Can anyone give examples of a successful technology roll-out where there was no demand, and no profit to be made?
Or you might be dead or your car might be wrecked.

When I was very young and very dumb, I did ~45 over a railroad track with a raised crossing. I landed OK, but it was a pretty scary experience.

Edit: some people seem to think that I'm against speed bumps to protect pedestrians because of my experience. I'm not really, I was just explaining my experience from when I was an idiot in how these bumps take speed. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Become an intermediate Rust programmer in one day
But can you implement JavaScript in Doom?
I use the KISS Launcher on Android, which is pretty minimalistic. You can see some screenshots (which are much prettier than what my phone looks like) on their GitHub repo: https://github.com/Neamar/KISS#previews
A classic case of what’s popular isn’t always good policy.

Although I get the feeling that financing of sports stadiums is becoming less popular now.
As a $12k/year property tax payer who has no kids, in my fantasy world kids would not be allowed on the street or in front of my house. This would be enforced by impounding the children of parents who don't teach then to blindly run out into the street w/o checking for cars. This way the speed limit on my street could be raised from 30mph to 45, reduce traffic, and save time for thousands of people traversing that street in their cars every month trying to get to work.
I know. I also know software development teams that believe that long night is simply necessary for every single deadline and everything is always at the last moment. And I know teams that make deadlines without long night - not always but often enough and sometimes sooner.

The "it is totally impossible without 28h+ regular shifts" sounds like team in first category.

Not blaming individuals here, these problems are cultural and systematic and largely steam from leadership.
I put my BBBs aside for a bit and when I came back to them I could never get the ROM flashing instructions to work again and gave up.

But I get a kick out of getting more oomph out of little devices than you’d think you could, and one of the things I’d hoped to accomplish with the PRUs was to get some streaming processing going.

If I understood correctly, if you wanted stable, high sampling rates on GPIO you were going to want to do that on the PRU, and with 2 you could send and receive in duplex. So I thought some sort of control or logging backplane to remove traffic off of the underpowered ethernet port would be pretty cool.

And then the other idea was figuring out how to cross compile zlib to do transport compression without hogging the CPU.

but now I’m off fiddling with NanoPi’s, and not even really as embedded devices. With 1GB of memory and GigE ethernet I’m thinking of them as tiny servers instead. I’m probably missing out, though.
I am frankly not very impressed with a quick glance at the networking API. What they show would not be difficult to implement as a library atop sockets, and I'm not convinced their callbacks capture the full flexibility of the old APIs. Meanwhile not providing at least a wrapper to handle the most simple socket scenarios to aid in porting strikes me as a bit stubborn. They determined a priori to hate sockets and that's it.
> The ripples reduce the tension around the thumb, allowing the thumb to drop quickly, before the rear of the band reaches it.

I don't think you need ripples for this...? The tension on your thumb is plenty capable of pulling it out of the way of the oncoming rubber band. I assumed this was just part of elemental rubber band shooting technique.
Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised.
I (still?) use Sparkleshare. Is it worth switching?
+ link to GitHub

https://github.com/fabiensanglard/DoomFirePSX/blob/master/fl...
The original reverse-engineering done by Samuel Villarreal
was already using javascript. I assume by "plain" you mean you removed easeljs library for canvas management and added buttons?
What kinds of tasks are slower on a micro-kernel? Are there use-cases where a micro-kernel is just as fast as a monolithic?
I’d bet that if we did the same for roads you would be very upset.
demand dual stack. nothing else really works.

sure, we can simply stay on v4 and encapsulate everything into UDP and use vhost or other names and simply treat v4 address + ports as the solution. economically both are costs of growing the internet. (any solution requires a lot of application changes anyhow, v6 is simpler, but requires ISP buy in, so what app devs can do?)
I was wondering, and I think you may know the answer:

Let me classify politically (potentially sensitive/incorrect) topics into 2 classes: 1) concerning concrete specific claims of history or what is happening or happened, 2) abstract discussion of properties of systems, designing "utopias", expressing general complaints and identifying their root/radix/fundamental causes in the design of society, and concluding radical/fundamental proposals of what should change etc... without naming nor insinuating specific politicians/leaders etc...

Are subjects in the second class also taboo/censored in China? All the examples in these articles about chinese censorship relate to specific individuals or events, and not to ideology/normative/prescriptive statements of what humans may or may not desire/expect/demand from a system.

For example would it be taboo or censored in China to discuss the following idea:

No one created the world/China, so we are all equal co-owners of the world/China. Everybody and every company rents their locations (farmland, buildings, ...) The highest rent bidder becomes the accepted renter. And the sum of all rented is divided equally among all humans/citizens. This could happen in a decentralized fashion (I hate the term blockchain), using OpenStreetMap etc. Nobody is forced to live here or there, so there is freedom, and there is equal rights. If you get a job you can thus rent an above average place, Without a job you can afford an average place and food, and if you rent a small unwanted shack for a few years you have the budget to start your own enterprise, or perhaps party all life long if you are otherwise OK with your shack...

Would this be considered taboo? Parasitism? Irrespective of our religion, no human created the sun (and the edible chemical energy it generates in plants), the earth, ... and all systems worldwide take claim of these resources, in order to make the puny little individual feel guilty about being born and having needs...
My go-to recommendation to read whenever this question comes up:

> In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in response to his ongoing research into a piloted mission to Mars. Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth. [...]

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
> Why would anyone suggest giving the federal government more money?

so government can directly employ people who don't currently have jobs. this will create a money multiplier effect as those workers go out and spend their new paychecks, which puts more cash in the hands of other workers in the economy, who then spend some of it, and so on and so on. in this way, GDP grows.

that's an answer. i'm not sure it's a great answer, but it's an answer i've heard an awful lot.

another answer is so the federal government can build large infrastructure projects (like an interstate highway system or Hoover dam), the theory being that this will pay off richly for society and the economy later on.
The advantage is that you can be behind a dozen layers of NAT on the v4 side and it doesn't matter so much because 99% of your traffic is going over v6 anyway and anything that needs an inbound connection has the v6 available instead of being impossible. It's okay for v4 to suck if you can avoid it most of the time, but not so much when it's your only option.

Maintaining v6 is a lot less work than site-to-site VPNs, especially when "specific parties" is "random internet users" and when RFC1918 clashes are a thing.

v6 is worthwhile even if there is still some v4 going on. And even if it wasn't, how would you propose to deploy v6 and turn off v4 in one internet-wide atomic operation? There's no longer any entity that can enforce a flag day on the internet, so I can't see any way of doing that. The result is that we'd need to do a gradual changeover, which happens to be exactly what we are doing.
> What is preventing nanobots, for example, from completely eradicating the problem of cancer at some stage of technological development?

The same thing that currently prevents nanobots (your immune cells) for eradicating the problem of cancer. So, why don't we figure that out?

Everybody in tech not in biology needs to realize that we HAVE nanobots--they're called cells or bacteria or viruses (also called minimum viable product). And, most of the time, those nanobots do a good job. However, sometimes they have bugs that get exploited and we need to be able to help out when that happens.
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Anecdotal reports indicate that illegal steroids and similar performance enhancing drugs are quite common in ground combat units. The military doesn't routinely test for those.
Except, there are lots of reasons to subsidize subways, for example to encourage ridership which in effect can then decrease public roadway congestion. Thus, even the people who don't directly ride the subway still benefit. It also can reduce pollution as well has have local economic benefits. All of which benefits others, not just the riders.

Source: https://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Pages/transitstats... which gets its data from the Federal Transit Administration.
I grew up in the US Midwest, and I'm pretty sure it was a norm throughout the region, if not the entire country. So far as I know every school had a hot lunch, and also a hot breakfast. As I understand it, the rationale was that there were in fact kids who came to school hungry, and that it interfered with their ability to learn. At the same time, the lunch was available to everybody, and payment was handled in a way so that the kids never knew who was getting it for free. The teacher would collect lunch money in the morning. I brought a nickel every day for milk.

(This is where the idea of the school bully demanding your lunch money came from. Today, lunch money is handled through some sort of payment system, and the kids don't have to handle their own lunch money or have it stolen from them).

Of course there is no such thing as a single purpose government program. The state bought the milk from farmers, effectively subsidizing it. And so forth.

I never understood the magic of why the meal had to be hot. Usually the food was vile, and I greatly preferred to bring a sandwich from home. I wondered why the cafeteria couldn't just make a nice sandwich for everybody. Perhaps there was a time when heating institutional food was the best way of making sure everything was sanitary.

Even to this day, I bring a sandwich or leftovers from home. My daughter just left for college, so her supper portion goes in my lunch bag for the next day. ;-) My employer has a cafeteria, but maybe only 1/4 of the employees use it. The rest bring bag lunches. The cafeteria and break rooms have microwaves for us to use.

This may be a regional thing. In the Midwest, eating prepared food every day will kill you.
I have no real first hand knowledge of this, but I have wondered if part of the reluctance of ipv6 is the fact that many of the "powers that be" use ip addresses to identify and group traffic and other activity from multiple devices. They also use ip addresses to block scrapers (both Google and Amazon do this heavily).

With ipv6, an IP address can be completely disposable. You could scrape Google search results all day long and use a different address for each call.

Heck, you could completely proxy search results in real time and create your own search engine, secretly using Google as your backend while injecting your own ads.