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Announcing AWS Fargate Price Reduction by Up to 50%
>The iPhone X* phones were some of the best-selling phones of the last year and they all have AR.

What does "have AR" mean?
> Your assertion can only make sense if you also believe that a 12% paycut is irrelevant to your income.

You only see the short term.

I was on Github during my university, all my projects were there, my team mate were on there too, it was pretty great. When my student account expired, I decided to move everything to Gitlab. I didn't want to move but I won't pay 7$ a month to host my old school projects and some personal stuff. Now that I did move everything, I actually enjoy Gitlab quite a bit.

What do you think I'm going to use if I start a commercial project? In the past I would have chosen Github, but now that I'm comfortable with Gitlab and see all its benefits, it's probably the one I would choose.

Cutting that 12% may lose 12% in the short term, but in a few years, it's going to gain you much more than 12%.
I'll give some examples, keep in mind that individually these aren't too bad but they add up over time and wear you down.

* Being asked by a doctor "where's the mum?" as the first question when I've taken to the children to the doctor.

* Getting a lot of offers for help because of an assumption of my incompetence. i.e. during kindergarten induction for my daughter, I was asked if I needed help with some of the jobs like covering books. I was the only man in the room.

* Getting glared at while playing with my kids at the playground. If you're actually playing with your kids and not sitting on your phone then suddenly you'll find ALL the little kids near you wanting to play. Mums don't like adult men playing near their kids, even if it's with their own kids.

* While Christmas shopping with two kids in tow I've received comments like "giving mum a day off huh?".

I feel I'm doing an amazing job as a parent so the constant assumptions just do my head in.
Agreed. Affluent mothers feed their kids well too. And give them proper medical care. And live in places safer for kids to grow up. It's actually the reason we try to make more money. Its not a game; we earn so we can live better. That's how its supposed to work.
>I'm pretty sure you can sue anyone for anything, and then the judge throws it out if the case doesn't have merit.

You can file almost anything you want, but it costs money to do so, and in some cases you can be forced to pay the defendant's legal fees. Lawyers can also face disciplinary action for filing suit that they know will be dismissed.

Assuming you learn how to file on your own, and you continue filing meritless lawsuits, you can be declared a vexatious litigant, and the court will bar you from taking further legal action without prior approval by a judge.
An update from eth classic amount linked in that thread: (not sure what they mean by selfish mining...)

Regarding the recent mining events. We may have an idea of where the hashrate came from.
ASIC manufacturer Linzhi confirmed testing of new 1,400/Mh ethash machines #projectLavaSnow

- Most likely selfish mining (Not 51% attack)

- Double spends not detected (Miner dumped bocks)
51% attack: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp

I can't comment on investment. Note Ethereum has always been over-hyped which (imvho) makes it useless for any serious engineering. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18780489
Whatever happened to the decentralized ideal of ad-hoc networks? Shouldn't we expect a much bigger payoff and a much better world if investments actually made the real world better for the consumer? What if VR made the wearer smarter, stronger, nicer, wiser? Is that really so hard to imagine, given that it's the bare minimum we expect from technology today?
It's often cheaper than Amazon for the market segment it serves.

I don't think 'JL has more pans above £100 than below' is any more valid a complaint than 'Target has more pans below $100 than above'.

(I've been to a Target once, sorry if that's not accurate, but I'm sure you see what I mean and can substitute something that is!)
Yes, that's obscene. It should be legal for private citizens to call a cop dirty without first launching a huge FBI investigation into the police department to prove it. Often times those FBI investigations only take place because private citizens bring federal attention to the local situation by calling cops dirty loudly and often.
Most lies on Fox News or spread in the UK before Brexit would not qualify as libel or defamation. Misleading numbers about immigration, border crossings or crimes committed by foreigners are not directed at one particular person and would not be considered defamation/libel.
Java uses reflection and annotations to support all kinds of language extensions. Js has a lot of nasty issues with the "prototype chain" and annotation support is still experimental. For example, in java, scanning your classes and their annotations to generate code for them at compile time is a standardized feature.

Maybe I'm just complaining that JS is too dynamic, but being able to generate code at compile time with reflection and know it will generally work (type checked) is nice.
> prefers cotton boxers to synthetic boxer briefs.

Modal is beech tree fibre and cotton. It doesn't seem super synthetic to me, although some argue chemical treatment of the tree fibres make it that way: https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-wash-modal-clothes-2145794

I don't subscribe to MU by the way, I collected t shirts and one point and used to date a girl with a textiles degree. I had one t-shirt that felt magical, she told me it was modal and I learnt what it was. Now I buy cheap modal t shirts and underwear from Amazon.
You may be interested in the NSF-funded Molecular Programming Project -- http://molecular-programming.org/. Projects listed there include "gro: the cell programming language" and "DNA origami" -- designing synthetic DNA that folds together into recognizable 2D and 3D shapes.

I also encourage you to look at the Qian Lab. Lulu has created neural networks out of DNA -- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10262. Her research is entirely about programming molecular systems -- http://www.qianlab.caltech.edu/research.html.

I was fortunate enough to collaborate with Lulu and with Erik Winfree's DNA computation lab at Caltech a while back.

My work was about building switching circuits using DNA. We designed DNA sequences that would bind together probabilistically. Using these, we created "probabilistic switches" -- analogous to Shannon's original on/off switches. Then, we used some earlier work of mine to design (and build!) circuits of "pswitches" that realize certain probability distributions.

We published an open-access paper last year here -- https://www.pnas.org/content/115/5/903. I suggest looking at Figure 1 to get a good idea how it works.
Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog? (2013)
Startup employees could pool their risk by creating their own shared investment fund which held all their shares/options in trust and spread out the winnings. The reward would be far less but more predictable. I doubt many would have the foresight to commit to something like this.
> My point is what kind of "other remote" a typical FOSS project have these days?

In the context of the original comment, think: "setup a /second/ remote" as the meaning. If the first 'remote' is github, the second remote could be gitlab, and so forth.
Of course. What, some people still don't use it?
Yeah, but it's only the case up until you graduate, at that point you are forced to pay or move out.

I'm one of them that moved to Gitlab afterward and right now I currently hesitate to go back to Github, even if its free.
These are solved problems though and unicode identifiers are rare in practice...

See Normalization Form KC and Clause 21 of ISO/IEC 10646:2017.

"Normalization forms are the mechanisms allowing the selection of a unique coded representation among
alternative; but equivalent coded text representations of the same text. Normalization forms for use with
ISO/IEC 10646 are specified in the Unicode Standard UAX#15..." yada yada
Also consider the isolation present in the western world. It is a huge factor but kind of invisible because we swim in it.
it was the minimum recommended by Oculus and may've been for Vive too, can't remember, at one point. But I think what they're saying is you can conceivably work on VR/AR without having world beating hardware (it really only becomes an issue when you want to test, I would imagine).

But maybe after getting some VR development under one's belt with a 970, that may give incentive to do the GPU upgrade if things progress accordingly.
Nothing short of a real-life holodeck will ever make the public care about VR.
“Launching Your MVP Technically” by CTO Taylor Dondich
Do you predict the same fate for AR?
If you’re interested in addressing this problem, you need to look at economics.

The reasons are not simple, but the bottom line is race and gender focuse equality efforts _always_ fail to help the lower class. Always. Statistically, gender and race gaps in economic equality have only grown since the 1970s.
yeah. battery life is a real concern as well when mobile for me on my ryzen laptop. It doesn't have a very large battery. lol
Those rules can cause breakage under normal usage because the probability of an N-deep reorganization is low but nonzero. They also don't help nodes that are syncing the chain from scratch.
Gotcha - the feature matrix clears it right up. Most of those features aren't very useful with the <4 collaborators on free private repositories anyway, so this makes perfect sense. Thanks :)
> Also sounds kind of pretentious to say that VR will more interesting than where 99% of people live

Oh boy was it. If you're bored, then you're boring, imo. Every place is interesting or boring depending on how much effort you're willing to put into it.
It seems like the apple ipad charger is the gold standard for usb charging (at least based on the things I've read around the internets). Anker may not reach those heights but it seems to be moderately better than the non-name ones that short and catch fire.
> Can you explain what Java offers with regard to reflection that JS doesn't?

Among hundreds of other things, getting the return type of a method and getting the input parameter names (+ types) in a way that doesn't revolve around literally parsing the functions toString() representation.

Oh, and typeof checking that isn't disgustingly broken.
I have to say, it's quite entertaining to watch. It's pretty much a car crash happening in slow motion at this point. At least it provides something else to nerd joke about by the watercooler...

The above part pretty much applies to humanity as a whole, going back at least 200k years.
that depends on the product/service said startup will offer.

Having a client is all that matters, if your startup strategy relies strongly on a nice looking, fully bug-free product, then yes, it's very naive.
proof doesnt matter, they have immunity from prosecution, and its near impossible to prove they are acting beyond thier legal authority or as an unreasonable person.
They should have consequences to fear when they screw up just like everybody else does.
AFAIK one agent = one build. So just start several agents, they're only a few MB RAM
I"ve thought the same thing. I can imagine AR/VR melding into a single device.
And the game is also unplayable until you turn the AR off, unless you love wasting all your Pokéballs because one arm can't quite flick the balls in the right direction while the other arm awkwardly holds the phone just so.
Ah, fair enough, apologies for misconstruing. Definitely good enough for a very wide range of use cases; it's not a language built for speed and power anyway.
I'm cynical, so I think you missed the punch line. Presumably those previously salaried doctors will be hired back as consultants, bringing their productivity in line.
First, Webpack and Babel are totally used for backend. If you look at a lot of Node libraries, they use ES6 modules in their [docs](https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js). While you could use mjs for this, it's still experimental.

I do think create-react-app is a good innovation in the JS world. However, I've never found a good equivalent on the back end. Setting up even the most basic CRUD REST API requires a whole lot of typing for very little reward.

As for convention, I think JS could do with more of it. I find that when I talk about adding more convention, people take it quite literally as "we need to reinvent Rails in JS". That's not at all what I mean. Convention can be something as simple as Rack, which is a consistent, useful interface between servers. Convention does not and is not tied to monoliths or MVC or any other aspect of Rails.
Same way you wake up dead.

Seriously though, one of the consistent things said by people who attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate bridge but survived were (paraphrasing) "At that moment, I realized that of all the problems in my life, this(jumping) was the only one I couldn't fix".

At that point, when it was too late, they regretted it.
It basically validates all those parents’ efforts to get their kids into the top 20%, because otherwise you’re treading water or sinking.
> Intensive parenting is a way for especially affluent white mothers to make sure their children are maintaining their advantaged position in society

Urgh. Really?

I think intensive parenting is an arms race, more or less. I don't know if it "works" but I think it's increasingly common mainly due to a feedback loop of parental anxiety.

I don't think it has a thing to do with race, though.
Maybe cat owners complain because their cats were eaten by the dogs, and you scared away other cat owners and lost profit.
Well, first I think there is a difference between having the facts wrong and not protecting a source enough. And secondly, what exactly did the Intercept do to harm John Kiriakou and Joseph Hickman?
Maybe people can rent those just when they need.
> Among hundreds of other things, getting the return type of a method and getting the input parameter names (+ types) in a way that doesn't revolve around literally parsing the functions toString() representation.

Ah, that's quite cool.
Some of these numbers are very low. $30/h for Bitcoin Private? Seems inexpensive, what am I missing?
Looking back on my own childhood, I'm skeptical how much anything alleged to "enrich" the children actually made a difference. I recall most of all piano lessons. When I was a kid, every kid had to learn piano. Today, no adult I know ever plays piano; they forgot how because they don't like it and no one wants to hear it because it's boring. I know one serious professional musician. He taught himself guitar for our high school punk band and got super interested in guitar technique.

Now, you could say they learned "discipline" from the piano lessons. But how do we know? I don't see any relationship between who took the most piano and who became a doctor, etc. My view of piano lessons, and other enrichement, is that they are sort of homeopathy for parents' anxiety about their kids' future. Even when there is nothing to do for someone's medical condition, lots of people will turn to quack treatments out of anxiety, and these quack treatments involve a host of immeasurable concepts like "toxins" proposed to imitate the kind of causation we know of for better-known treatments. Same with piano lessons: your parents are too anxious about you to sit on their hands, so they make you practice piano and tell themselves, and each other, that you're learning "focus," some magic property that will stay in your brain one day even when they're not around. I don't buy it. Nobody made their kids take piano because they read a bunch of studies proving it makes your kid choose to go to med school or whatever; they clung to it automatically because they wanted to believe in it.
I don't disagree with this: ELMs exist and will remove the inner lining of the containment unit over time, and current cutting edge research is on how a plasma will react with specific impurities and their distribution within said plasma.

It is one of the things that I look forward to from the stellarator folks[1] is their ability to continuously run plasma up against a variety of materials.

[1] https://www.ipp.mpg.de/w7x
> A Civic or an A3 is not a mid-sized sedan by any stretch of that category.

The Civic sedan is only 2" smaller length wise and 2" narrower than a Tesla 3. Size wise, this is a perfectly fair comparison, and the Civic weights 1,000lbs less. That's a pretty close comparison from a size perspective.

You are correct about the A3, it is indeed much smaller than a Tesla 3. But the A4 is 1" longer than the 3 (identical in other dimensions), and weighs about 400lbs less.

> I used 4000# as a typical mid-size sedan as-driven weight with an allowance for a person or two and fuel.

Curb weight includes all necessary equipment, including oil and gasoline for ICE vehicles. Given that there is no reason to expect that an EV driver is a different weight than an ICE driver, it's completely fair to compare the two by curb weight only.
Are they any better in 2019? Last I checked the anything beyond desktop compositing features is still a tyre fire of lying capabilities, broken functionality and wishful thinking. nVidia being by far the most stable while lacking integration with modern Linux APIs.
I noticed Travis builds complete faster once they're running, by something like 20% in my case, but that's more than offset by having twice as many parallel builds by default. Never dug into why it's slower, though, at a guess something to do with the filesystem
> For those of you using GitLab, BitBucket, or <insert-other-git-host-competitor-here>, does this make you consider switching back at all? If so, why?

Absolutely, though I don't think it's really "switching back". I always preferred to use GitHub but had to use BitBucket for private repos. Now I don't need to bother with BitBucket.
> Maybe one can't reorganise the source tree layout because to do so would break our custom tooling / integration systems / interface with proprietary vendor tools.

That hardcodes the source layout? I don't buy that a tool that's being sold for money would do that (precisely because there's no standardization in the C++ world; any tool that wants to have more than 1 customer will have to support more than 1 directory layout), and if the tools are internal then by definition you have the ability to make changes to them.

> Fundamentally: the codebase has worked perfectly well this way for the last 20 years; what's the business case for changing it (at potentially significant cost) just to be compatible with XYZ new tool that everyone is rallying behind?

Well, if you make adopting good tooling in C++ harder than switching to a language that already has good tooling, don't be surprised when developers do that.
The power of free stuff

Jun 4 2018: (microsoft acquisition) Github sucks!

Jan 7 2019: (free repos) Github rocks!
I suggest you have a look at OpenSSL.
It’s all about developers, developers. Microsoft is desperately trying to attract developers since many have left their platforms, GitHub doesn’t need to be profitable on it’s own for Microsofts sake
It takes about 30 seconds since last week 'till the end of the next month. If you read older tutorials, you won't figure it out. By March, current tutorials will probably be out of date.

That's my issue (one of many) with the JS ecosystem. Things move so fast that just keeping up feels like a full-time job. I remember giving up on my first approach to React after I followed Swizec's tutorials and quickly hit into some issue with Babel (of all things) that was a week old and transitively screwed up a few months old React/D3 guide.

And, as 'simion314 said, there's way too much magic. create-react-app is a useful spell that (most of the time) makes you a working React app, but I'm not fond of a culture that encourages casting it instead of understanding what's going on and how to actually set up a React project.
You won't see ads on GitHub.
Less cargo, more trucks.
Well it's not a thing with a particularly obvious term to search for -- "small thing worked on over long periods that brings great change" doesn't really provide good results on Google despite it being a rather specific idea. So I'm grateful for any pointers to resources I can look into further for this kind of thing. The other person's reply with an explicit book name doesn't seem to have taken up all that many words, and presumably they know what they're talking about and them dropping a book name like that would save me a lot of time compared to me searching around the internet based on a very vague phrase.

Now granted, my Google-fu could stand to be a lot better.
> That's not what I'm seeing in the benchmarks.

Change “outperforms” with “equal performance” and my argument doesn’t change due to the lower price.

In the recent years, we have seen a number of cases where Nvidia set the perf/$ higher and AMD was forced to follow.

This case is no different, with AMD expected to announce lower Vega 56 prices today.

That’s the exact opposite of what happened with AMD and Intel wrt CPUs.
I support the FOSS idea that software is knowledge and should be public, but I think that a substantial amount of FOSS development has always been done professionally, on a paid basis. Ad-hoc bazaar-style contributions where someone happened to notice a way to improve something is probably the exception rather than the rule.

One reason for that is that many codebases are large and complex, and so even expert programmers won't automatically understand how to improve them substantially without a considerable amount of study. It's likely that many people will need to be paid for that investment, not because they ideologically believe that software should be property, but because it takes up a huge amount of their time and effort that they won't be able to apply elsewhere.

And indeed, when people have empirically looked into some of the larger FOSS projects they've found that a majority of the contributions were made by people who were being paid to make them—again, not because of any ideological aspect, but because being paid for it allowed them to invest a huge amount of time and focus and helped them to be more sophisticated and productive contributors.

(Edit: Just to be clear, I don't think that trying to convince people to use, develop, or procure FOSS instead of proprietary software is bad, or that, if successful, it won't also lead to more resources being applied to FOSS development. However, a lot of those resources will probably be mediated by money.)
HTC Announces Vive Pro Eye with Integrated Eye-Tracking and Foveated Rendering
According to [1], running a 51% attack for an hour is incredibly cheap for most currencies. Why doesn't this happen more often, or is running the attack for an hour not a long enough time frame to double spend?

[1] https://www.crypto51.app/
I agree about critiques for most of those languages but not java.

If you reach out to the Java ecosystem you can find libraries, frameworks, and language extensions that make it relatively easy to code in. For example, with Lombok you don't have to write any getters and setters, or catch checked exceptions. Java 11 also makes good improvements to lamdas making method chaining a lot nicer. The Java I write at work is barely more verbose than the TypeScript, maybe 15% more code to do the same thing.

Java devs also get paid really well honestly, pretty sure it's better than the pay for JS and Python actually.
Every critic of those politicians would be in jail too.
Everyone here is too shy to state the obvious; VR poronography will soon be a billion dollar industry that will completely rewire how we as a society seek physical and emotional intimicy. http://www.wired.com/story/coming-attractions-the-rise-of-vr...