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BackerKit (YC W13) is looking for devs who love to pair – join our dream team
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BackerKit is the best way for crowdfunding creators to manage their backers, help fulfill their campaign on time, and allow them to focus on what they love doing—making something awesome!

Since we are profitable already, our goal is to build a high functioning, tight-knit, sustainable agile team.

We're very much looking for a Tech Lead, someone who wants to code every day, own the important technical decisions, and is excited about being a mentor to their team.

This is perfect for you if you want a new challenge, but maybe you don't want to be an engineering manager right now.

Here are our open roles:

- Senior Software Developer: https://jobs.lever.co/backerkit/488b7d87-8ead-4ac4-91cb-59a3...

Tech Stack: Ruby (2.5 at the time of writing)
Ruby on Rails (5.1)
Backbone.js
Postgres
Redis

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More about our culture here: https://www.keyvalues.com/backerkit
Well for starters, humans work on continuous video streams rather than still images, so there's a ton more information there. Even when we're identifying a still image, we're looking at a video stream of an object showing a still image (which is why a photo can look "exactly like the real thing" but we're never in any doubt that it's a photo and not the real thing.)
You're a life saver, thank you!
It's your blockchain
I think that they think it's only a system-wide weakness if someone blabs. And no-one will blab because that's a significant amount of jail time.

That's always worked... /s
Fair enough. But in the colloquial sense, the meanings are close enough that nobody has any trouble understanding the point.
SingleFile can now save a web page from the command line
Sure but "pc" at the time of amiga was already pc compatibles and at backward compatible with xt and IBM PC. Besides amiga was very optimized for 2D graphics. 3D story has been less rosey. But I would seriously welcome a new amiga. That wouldn't mean a specced up amigaos running pc. That would mean a radical new mobile architecture. Or Vr machine. Some fresh air On a radical, alien architecture. Belt CPU ? Gpu/CPU à la xeon phy ? Ram only? Dunno. Something crazy.
I don't think so. When people think about the USA they only think about the 1 or 2 most significant problems overall. With Europe you think about the 1 or 2 for each of the constituent countries and so it seems more problematic. To be comparable you would need to think about the 1 or 2 most significant problems for each state in the USA. Once you do that the number of issues is not that different.
Completely! With convention and macros, it's a whole new language.
Australian here. I hope Apple etc.do just walk away. Our government has been a continual embarrassment for a decade now and they're just getting worse. Until they start getting reality checks they'll just continue pulling stupid stunts like this.
Hanlon's razor suggests to me it could be a flyaway (which of course doesn't make it less dangerous to aircraft, just not intentionally reckless).
Don't forget that Google once tried to kill Wikipedia with their own proprietary project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol). Really happy that was a failure.
We'll thankfully they gave us the actionable advice to ”be careful”. What does that even mean?
How do you respond to the comment (#23) from the author of uBlock Origin & uMatrix describing the filtering capabilities that will be lost under the proposed declarativeNetRequest API?
I don’t think middle class refers to median income. At least it certainly didn’t used to. How else could a population have a small middle class? I don’t think the answer is by having equally large upper and working classes.
Hi – I wrote rbx[0] as a React UI Framework based on Bulma.

In the process, I learned a ton of TypeScript, a bunch about front-end testing, and have become quite fond of this language and community.

My approach to building a UI Framework was to keep it light and composable, while at the same time allowing it to be exhaustively extended. Unlike most other UI Frameworks, rbx isn't very opinionated: it plays nicely with all the other React packages you've learned to love (like Formik) without trying to re-invent the wheel.

[0] https://dfee.github.io/rbx
Fully extensible editor written in a lisp dialect. Old and good with regular updates. Rival to Vim.
I might have to try that. Looks like you still have the tabs at the top of the window too, not sure I'd like the visual clutter.
That would mean itanium could have won only by a monopoly and that with open competition, backwards compatibility won.
That does literally nothing because the government can just say "Push an update to this device to not do that" which is what the whole law is about.
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes // Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
Today Wikipedia has 82 articles with Uranus in the title. Something is interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&se...
> The loss of control of our own law was a major issue for New Zealand signing the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Can I have a citation for this?
It's because google.com contains very valuable cookies which could be leaked if there was an XSS or something anywhere on the google.com domain.

Thats why things like this (which are often developed by third party contractors, and might not go through the same level of review), are hosted on another domain.

It's a flaw in the web though. A domain should have the ability to host content without that content gaining full control over the secrets/cookies of the hosting domain.
I don't think it is necessarily the sway of corporations as much as the sway of the citizens. If Apple got out of Australia it could cause a lot of media attention which could get citizens riled up, especially if they could no longer get Apple products.
Magsafe have saved my numerous nd expensive MBP's more time than I can count. I don't plan to buy another one until they either add it back, or cut the price in half.

My pet theory is that most of Apple, as most of the industry, believe that what was selling MBP's was their design. Design as in fashion, or watches. But I don't think that was it, it was rather design as in furniture classics, as in quality tools, where the goal is for form and function to become one.

According to me, it is evidenced by how eg. iPhone4/5 feels really nice in the hand whereas 6 and up feels like holding a slippery bar of soap, minus the nice smell.

I really hope they find their way, because Windows still want me do stab myself each time I use it, and getting Linux on a portable still doesn't feel very tempting, even if I could find a hardware that has good touchpad, rigid chassis, a keyboard that doesn't feel like it's made of cheese, webcam that actually has colors, and microphones with echo cancellation that actually works, some battery life, not too noisy, good screen. Most fail already at the touchpad.
Embrace: Google shipped its own ad blocker in Chrome last year. It blocks all ads on sites that violate ad standards set forth by the Coalition for Better Ads. If Chrome's basic ad blocker can encourage the publishers to clean up their most annoying ads, then Chrome users might be less likely to install a full-featured ad blocker like uBlock Origin.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17011266/google-chrome-ad...
> The word mathematics is singular not plural.

It was originally considered plural. That may even by why the transition from “mathematic” to “mathematics” happened in English.
+100 This is the first setting I change on a new Linux laptop install.

You can also disable smooth scrolling only for the touchpad in about:config to keep the animation for scrolling with the keyboard. Search for "smooth"; I think it's the mouseWheel one, but I'm not at home to verify.
IIRC you can run wine on cygwin, so I wouldn't be terribly surprised if wine on WSL worked.
Light's path is affected by gravity of the bodies it passes in space, so technically it doesn't travel in perfectly straight lines at all.
I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm aware of the apt security model and the nature of this bug.

My point is that these Ubuntu repo servers are not available over HTTPS, which seems like a problem. In the context of this bug, a serious one--who's to say that there aren't more bugs like this lurking? There's no reason that these servers shouldn't be available over HTTPS.
Busy Bee, President Xi – China Media Project
I don't think it's malware, at least not on the client. I see the same thing, and I'm using w3m on Linux.
You can read about Firefox Sync here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/. It is also possible for you to run your own sync and account servers: https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

I assume that Chrome has a similar design, but I'm not familiar with it.
> Is it inevitable?

How would you change the incentives? The incentive for a restaurant to leave a fake review is much higher than the incentive for a customer to leave any review. For crowd sourced reviews, introducing a trust model opens the door to account selling/paid reviews. You can't really punish the bad actors or you open yourself to a different kind of abuse. You really need a PageRank equivalent for reviewers? Is there some feedback loop (like following clicks) to the things you recommended (and seeing engagement on that page from GA)?
ASTEROID is evolving...

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BOOM!

ASTEROID is now CRATER. triumphant music
It seems to me that a lot of those Brexiters were claiming to sell something a lot more concrete than hope, if only Britain could somehow free itself from the shackles of the EU.

The other thing I find interesting (ironic?) is how many Brexit leaders/campaigners have dual citizenship or residences in EU countries.

It seems more like, "hey, not even we believe this stuff, as evidenced by our actions." :)
I don't think so. Most fly aways in my experience are horizontal not vertical. A quick check of YouTube will show plenty of reckless behavior and my small drone is more than capable of flying at a distance of 3500 feet away from me.

Hanlons razor says this was somebody trying to get that sweet picture or see how far they can push their toy.
Why doesn't it? (Not a leading question, I just don't understand why it doesn't) Isn't the way uBlock and the like work is that they see network requests from a blacklist and not load those resources? Isn't network level blocking just moving that from the local device up a level?
It's still very suspicious though that such changes happen right after Google implemented their own native adblocker. If tomorrow 3rd party adblockers stop working, Google can now point out that people can rely on their own solution.

Paranoid? Probably. But Google's revenues are from ads, so this kind of attitude is very much warranted in this case.
Just looked at Chromium for Windows the other day, for general reasons (which can be summarized as stay the hell away from Google).

Turns out those suckers don't even release it as such. They only build nightlys (useless for actual use and impractical too). If the community forks that sucker that would be great.

Firefox is just as bad (and as some noted, uglier too). Thankfully there are community versions without he Mozilla Foundation junk.
So the key question is what is the energy efficiency, and how does it compare with other carbon capture technologies.
> Restaurant and delivery dining are highly elastic in general

Elasticity of demand depends on whether or not there's readily available substitutes. If you're a mid-end restaurant, you can be replaced easily by fast-casual concepts (food quality doesn't differ much from fast-casual to casual full-service). However if you're high end, your competitors will be other high-end restaurants, with the same staff and space constraints as you. This is why in higher-rent markets such as NYC, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, high-end restaurants flourish.

> there's no rule saying that a given type of restaurant has to be viable at any price point.

Of course not. But in a dense, urban, high-rent area, there's likely a model that does work.

> maybe mid-tier restaurants with lots of staff are just an inefficient use of valuable urban space

They are. Rent is your main fixed cost, staff is your main variable cost. COGS matters, but you need a product to sell in the first place, and every restaurant brings in similar products. Having too much staff and too much space is a recipe for disaster.

To conclude, here's some statistics for you concerning household expenditures on food: https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/consumerexpend...

> San Francisco-area households spent $4,487, or 50.3 percent, of their food dollars on food at home and $4,431 (49.7 percent) on food away from home. In comparison, the average U.S. household spent 56.3 percent of its food budget on food at home and 43.7 percent on food away from home.

In San Francisco, households are spending a higher percentage of their (already higher) income on food away from home than other Americans.

Anyhow, in my experience, restaurants fail because there's a lot of shitty restaurant owners out there. Not knowing their demographics, costs, labour situation, etc..., qualifies them as being a shitty restaurateur.
This sounds conceptually right and I would definitely agree with it... if I haven't given multiple sites access to my email over the years.

Anything that interacts with your email is going to need it, and if you're signing up for that service odds are you know (or at least assume) it'll need some kind of access to your email. For example, I used unroll.me for years, which gives you a singular interface to block spam and fake subscriptions -- for these kinds of emails, there's often no (working) unsubscribe link. Unroll.me works by looking at each incoming email and, if it's from someone you've blocked, automatically deletes the email.

Similarly, it has other services that operate on emails you receive, like bundling up multiple emails into one (which, on the backend, deletes thoseincoming emails and concatenates them into a singular email with them all later).

It's easy to say "i'll never give a third party app access to my email", but for most people it comes down to the age old problem of trading data for services/conveniences that you find valuable.

Side-note: There've been many rumors over the years that Unroll.me sells information about the emails it scans. I think it's even more telling of the "trade data for service" paradigm that people continue to use the service even after finding out.
- rights to FSX have been acquired by a company which has re-released Steam edition, and made some minor improvements to the engine

- Lockheed released its own version called Prepar3d:
https://www.prepar3d.com/

- X-plane 11 is largely understood to be the main competitor. FSX and X-plane have different underlying modelling principles. You can easily start an internet flame-war on which one is "better", but X-plane is actively developed and improved

- Aerofly FS2 is also a good "lighter alternative". Still a very solid sim, but easier to get into. Very pretty graphics as well.

All three of these support basic and advanced joysticks. I've had Saitek Yoke, Engine cluster, and Thrustmaster MFDs running in Aerofly in seconds.

From combat flight sim perspective, DCS suite is widely considered the current best-of-breed, though Falcon 4.0 modded / enhanced variations are still widely played. Tons of other "lighter" contenders as well.
Fight the groupthink. Many, many believe we aren't allowed to take a technological viewpoint to climate problem solving because "technology got us into this situation". Plus, they claim a "moral risk": that technological solutions will allow people to continue to lead their big lifestyles.

But believe me: you don't want to be on the side of the argument that claims individual virtue is the only way to save the world.

Luckily, it's not! There are lots of technological solutions to pursue once we want them.

One of my favourites is using jet engines on the back of container ships to loft salt water spray into the air where it seeds/brightens low marine layer clouds. Super cheap, very high impact.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/07/25/could-spraying-pa...

Then we can go back to trying to promote biodiversity, like real environmentalists. Save the rainforest!
What if someone would create a pull request to implement unlock origin natively inside chromium, instead of an extension. If such a PR met all technical criteria, would Chromium project accept it?
Stock returns are modeled based on the assumption that they are lognormal.

Whether they really are is a different story.
> for possibly billions of years with its unknown fate already sealed

Probably not for quite that long. The path of a meteor is only going to be deterministic on a timescale given roughly by the largest Lyapunov exponent associated with its orbit. On longer timescales, even the very tiny irreducible quantum uncertainty in its initial state would be enough to cause it to miss the Moon.

Not sure what the Lyapunov time is for these meteors, but typical time scales for planets are 2M-200M years. For small things like meteors, there are likely other sources of noise (e.g., solar wind pressure) with quantum uncertainty that lead to non-determinism even faster.
> I don’t think middle class refers to median income. At least it certainly didn’t used to. How else could a population have a small middle class?

Well, it could if it meant “near median income” if few had near the median income. Median doesn't mean particularly common (or even the most common, which is the mode.)
The one that gets me: in the future, the expanded universe will be so spread out that there will be no detectable anything outside of your immediate solar neighborhood. No stars. No nothing. There will be no reason to assume the rest of the universe even exists. We live at an amazing time in our universe's history where we can see stars and learn from them.
And a large part of their argument is that this all works vastly better than socialism.
This seems like a fallacious argument in that you’re attempting to conflate “alarmist” with “extremist”.

Someone could be alarmed about the state of privacy in society and not want to take an extreme action.

It seems entirely reasonable to want to remain a part of civilization and advocate for change on a topic you are passionate about.
How does Brexit make the UK attractive in the event of a near-term Eurozone crisis? The grim economic outlook if the UK's major trade partners are all in deep recession isn't improved by it having lost a lot of that trade earlier in the year for other reasons, and its economy isn't going to reinvent itself overnight.
The parent commenter mentions this when discussing "geodesics in spacetime".
You shouldn't cut worker production at the beginning of the game - it's critical to keep pumping them uninterruptedly. You only build when you have enough resources to ensure that.
> Why use Nvidia when AMD has drivers in the kernel that will never be removed.

It's perfectly reasonable to be concerned about a vendor going bankrupt and choosing not to support their product. If that's the issue, just don't buy their products.

If one thinks that CUDA functionality is really that important, then isn't that proof that it's valuable IP? Nobody should be forced to open up valuable IP. I don't think it's reasonable to call somebody scum of the earth because they value and don't want to give away what they created.
You know what else takes up massive amounts of CPU and slows down a typical chrome instance? Sites filled with ads.
Using uBlock in Chrome is like asking a bank robber to guard an open vault. Sure, they’re smart enough not to steal anything, but they’ll case the joint the entire time and you’ll never sleep well again.

EDIT: The bank robber is Chrome.
Most of what I've seen lately is queueing theory, markov processes or statistics, and yes, I have seen notation used for hundreds of pages at a time and I've seen these symbols used to mean different things (not including partial differential).

One of the books I read recently[0] has a table of where symbols and formulae are first defined. It's a godsend.

But I would prefer self-describing names to a lookup table. I don't put comments at the top of each file of code with such a table.

[0] https://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0073401323/informatio...
My bet is on this site being developed by a google security team to try to embarrass other teams around google to get their act together and close flaws like this.

The concept of AMP for example should have been built into browsers, perhaps as a new protocol, for example:

amp:https://newyorktimes.com

Then the browser can go to any amp-provider to retrieve the amp page, which will be signed by the origin that it came from so the browser can still validate the amp-provider hasn't tampered anything. That model would also let any company be an amp provider with no trust required.

The benefit of AMP is much reduced with QUIC zero-rtt resume anyway.
Made good progress. Looking like 1, maybe 2 more days.
I did a factory reset on my Android phone today and was depressed when I realized the vast number of settings I have to change in order to get even a small semblance of privacy. App permissions, location history, disabling of default apps; the list goes on.
Your remarks may not be a turn-on, but as it turns out, I wouldn't turn them down. Or away, unless they turned up again. They set me off. It's clear that it was a set up; in fact it's starting to set in. They're spot-on; but if they weren't, they still wouldn't be spot-off.

It's fun to think about how we sit down, we sit up, we stand down, we stand up, we lie down, we don't lie up. Except according to Merriam-Webster, who claims that we do when we stay in bed. (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie%20up)
His primary website is still online. Me might not be allowed on YouTube anymore, but his primary platform still exists.

Additionally, I thought his removal from YouTube was as a result of pressure from the Government on hate speech and fake news etc. All the stuff Facebook is also attempting to crack down on.
That's excellent advice. But I am saying it is a lot more likely men will start thinking and behaving that way if women explain it all to men, and if they behave in a consistent manner themselves.
That stinks. Considering how well Fortnite is doing, I am a bit surprised that they haven't made a Linux version.

IDK how much it would cost to make a Linux version, but I would think the amount of money from microtransactions they would be getting would make up for it
Most likely there were just bribed by one unnamed company, or promised some investments - the time correlates with expanding their office in Munich. So I would not trust Munich's claims at all. Despite recent whitewashing of Microsoft image they were never practicing a fair business.
Funny, I just wrote a reply to another post which explains exactly what you wrote.

> In SF, for example, fine dining is doing well, while the mid range is slowly failing and being replaced by fast casual, where they focus on fast turnover.

It has to do with readily available substitutes for a given price point affecting elasticity of demand. The type of food offered by a casual dining concept can be replaced by fast-casual, whereas higher end food has relatively inelastic demand, because it has fewer substitutes.
They can say 6 months after the notification in public about how many requests they have received in the last 6 months.