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Tech giants to face US hearings on anti-trust, cryptocurrency
https://www.therahnuma.com/tech-giants-to-face-us-hearings-on-anti-trust-cryptocurrency/

Washington, July 15 (IANS) Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook are set to face two US House hearings on anti-trust issues and Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency Libra.

On Tuesday, the House Committee on Judiciary will discuss anti-trust issues while the Senate Banking Committee will discuss Facebook’s digital currency ‘Libra’ that is slated to arrive in 2020, CNET reported on Sunday.

Amazon is often criticized for undercutting competition on price.

“Facebook and Google have struggled with questions around privacy, free speech and election interference. Amazon and Apple meanwhile have grown so large and powerful, some lawmakers say they’ve become monopolies that need to be split up,” said the report.

Facebook has reached a whopping $5 billion settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Cambridge Analytica privacy violations.

The FTC opened a probe last year into the matter after the social networking giant admitted Cambridge Analytica acquired detailed personal information of more than 87 million Facebook users via an academic researcher.

The report of the $5 billion settlement, the largest ever by the FTC against a tech company over privacy issues after a $22.5 million settlement with Google in 2012.

The Facebook case is being looked at as a measure of President Donald Trump’s administration’s willingness to regulate US tech companies.

The European Union’s anti-trust regulators in March fined Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for abusing its dominance in the online search market by blocking rivals.

Google has abused its market dominance by imposing a number of restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites which prevented Google’s rivals from placing their search adverts on these websites, according to the European Commission.
Yes, the method syntax comes from Oberon-2, unsafe package is similar to SYSTEM on Oberon.

The rest comes from Limbo (Inferno's userspace language).

Unfortunately it also left a couple of other nice things from those languages.
It doesn't seem quite right to pick apart a private family email from an obviously enthusiastic father, and I stand to be corrected as only a casual observer myself, but a lot of his message seems pretty misleading.

Apart from the unobstructed view and the fun factor, I don't think being on a plane bestows any great advantage to the casual observer versus being on the ground.

The last full lunar eclipse we had here I heard many people comment on how 3D - "marble like" - it looked, that's not something that's going to be any better from a plane, nor is it an effect which "pops" out at you, in my experience.

Also, due to its atmosphere, the Earth's shadow is certainly not "sharply edged", far from it, and you won't be seeing its edge climbing mountains and valleys, nor be able to calibrate your watch to the second from the start of it. Again, being on a plane won't make any difference on this front. Ironically, for great views of sharp edged shadows its a partial moon you want to observe.

Finally, if my use of https://staratlas.com/ is correct, I don't think the moon is going to be at a straight though the window level as it begins for them over Oman unfortunately, but rather at 45 degrees up, so some neck craning is going to be needed after all unfortunately.
Yep, and phasing out print textbooks is only accomplishing the opposite.
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Plaintext vs diagrams or videos vary greatly by person.

I for example cannot stand videos at all when it comes to learning - it is either too drawn out, or too distracting - and i actually prefer plaintext. On the other hand i have few friends who absolutely cannot stand plaintext and need a good video, or real life interaction to learn.

The one thing in common in most posts is your 3rd point - build something that you want to build - that's the best way to stay motivated.

On a subject of notetaking - i really like recursive approach to notes:

* summarize the source

* read the source(n-1) and your summary(n)

* do a summary of your summary and repeat this process

I do it few times, depending on complexity of the subject.
So, if i have a mutable pointer, i can make multiple const pointers which borrow from it - but i'm not allowed to use the mutable pointer while those borrows exist. Makes sense.

Can any of the const pointers outlive the original mutable pointer?

I would guess not, because you're not allowed to let an owning pointer fall out of scope, and you can't pass the owning pointer to a freeing function while the const pointers are alive.

So is there any way to start with only a mutable pointer, and end up with only a const pointer? Say i am gradually building up some object, i want to use a mutable pointer to do that, but once i'm one, i want it effectively frozen, with only a const pointer to it.
> Maybe the name shouldn't include that, then?

Why not? There are already a lot of resources for various other ecosystems. Should all PlayStation focused publications also include games for all platforms? Should Android Police talk about Symbian?
Well, there's that org chart...

https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/micro...
OKR Framework – what Agile has been missing
Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?
Correct of course.

"Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization explains 70 percent of the greening effect, said co-author Ranga Myneni, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. “The second most important driver is nitrogen, at 9 percent. "

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

The greening is also observed in areas unaffected by man's agricultural activities.
France Maintains the Goal of Creating a ‘European Army’
Running $240k worth of ads to sell $250k worth of things sounds much less impressive.
That's the homo-economicus argument and it's fallen flat a great many times.

Humans act irrationally all the time.
I think there are two ways to look at excluding input vectors from the output. You can look at it as cheating/bias, or you could say the method explicitly excludes a specific subcategory of otherwise valid results (i.e., perfectly equivalent analogs, where X:Z == Y:Z... not sure if there is a term of art for that). Which to me seems like a perfectly legitimate limitation on the algorithm, as long as it is explicitly acknowledged and handled.

But I think you are absolutely correct that very few articles explicitly acknowledge and handle these types of common pitfalls. Especially more intro-level articles. Personally, I'd love to read more about effective strategies for ensembling different algorithms to work around some of those pitfalls. For example, the OP points out that Word2Vec underperforms on lexical semantics. I wonder if you could use a different algorithm that performs well on lexical semantics but poorly on other categories as a supplement, with some third algorithm deciding which to use in any given case.
Bicycles actually are less stable with a more angled fork. If the fork was perpendicular to the ground it would be very difficult to turn.

the geometry of the ride type of a bicycle or motorcycle is really interesting [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr...
For me, I have to listen to audio books during the right activities. Mindless things that don't take the thinking part of my brain like doing dishes, driving a car, riding a bike, walking. It absolutely can't be background noise or the only thing I'm doing because I'll either zone out or fall asleep.
Perfect product name.
World hunger not going down and obesity still growing – UN report
Becoming a C++ expert is impossible in a lifetime, becoming a D expert is a matter of months.

It is, from the very core, a way simpler language than C++. I'd argue it's simpler than Rust, even. IMO acknowledging a few function attributes is way simpler than learning all the flairs of ownership and lifetimes.

As for metaprogramming, I love D's introspection capabilities, while I kind of want Rust's ability to create unquoted DSL.

The only "non-uniform" part of D that I can think of is the oddness of `shared`, and a few outdated stdlib modules. Everything else (betterC, pure, live, etc.) is just a subset of a powerful, coherent multi-paradigm language.
I'm not an economist but I expect Jevon's paradox to make the cheaper productivity result in increased consumption of the productivity. And that seems to be what we see.
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Limit is 100 Euros, or 5 transactions. Reach either = 2FA. Single transaction limit is 30Eur. If higher = 2FA.
In the end, it doesn't matter what transformation you do though, as long as you do it consistently and/or not in an ad hoc manner. If excluding the original term always leads to useful results, it is a useful transformation.

The problems materialize when you're just cherry picking for results.
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The topic of shielding is covered in the radiation chapter (which included something I wrote as an excerpt! My most internet famous moment!)

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/radiation.php

And all the nuclear ships in the realistic designs section have shields.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns.php
Great combo suggestions. Are there any specific tools you use for the mind maps?
Does this not allow the server credentials to be stolen and then used to log in as you?
> so I didn't have the opportunity to study Compilers at University.

Lots of CS people haven't either. My university moved compiler theory to the Masters program.
> John Mathew is Associate Professor of History of Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Sciences at Krea University. He previously taught at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts, and Duke University. He holds advanced degrees in Zoology, Medical Anthropology, Ecological Sciences, and History of Science.

5 advanced degrees?? Doesn't seem plausible
From a father they will be flying out to see. The eclipse being a two-fer.
The Wikipedia article you referenced has much interesting information, including "China ... embarked upon a massive and expensive expansion of the Great Wall of China. In this environment, funding for naval expeditions simply did not happen"; and Zheng He's part in spreading Chinese influence throughout South-East Asia.
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The “or better” tagged into JVM applications really needs to go away. Realistically, most JVM applications do not have as good performance as native ones. Yes, it’s possible to run better, but it’s very hard to create code that JITs to something faster than a thing written in C/C++/Rust/etc. You have to basically write code that looks like C to make it run as fast or faster, because there’s real overhead that comes with a lot of things in the JVM. You don’t just write standard Java or Scala and suddenly it’s as fast as C++, in general. It’s still heckin blazing fast, to be fair, but not AS heckin blazing fast. (As long as you aren’t just going insane with objects, at least, such as huge lists of integer objects)
Tell the conference audience what you want them to do
I don't see any reason to cut access to such large area. It crosses a few lines of what can be too much coddling by the state.

Maybe just put up some warning signs. Then, if people get hurt, it'll surely be their own fault.
If the words are really similar in meaning, you should still be able to arrive at a useful result using some graph manipulations.

The words might not appear in a directly shared context, but given their semantic similarity, they should share more contexts of distance 1 (or something along those lines) than an arbitrary pair of words.
Good job on generalizing more than 1 billion people in one fell swoop, i.e. thrice the population of the US.
I agree with the similarities with regard to addiction. But the mode of delivery is very very different. You can drink enough hard liquor to get drunk and satisfy the addiction cravings in 30 minutes or less and that 30 minutes of drinking(which you can also do while doing other things) will effect you for the next several hours. If you played video games for 30 minutes a day that would be a "healthy" amount in most cases.
At least for me, I find that textbooks are more accessible when they are textbooks, instead of heavily-DRMed software hidden behind a subscription paywall and wholesale information rape.
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In the UK there's tremendous lip-service by the gambling industry about keeping vulnerable people safe from becoming addicted to gambling apps.

However, they spend millions constantly promoting any number of gambling apps disguised as games to children. Not just on the Internet, but on daytime TV, where you get a commercial break every 5-10 minutes. I have no idea how they get away with it - the "Regulator" must be asleep.
Yes, being able to accidentally cause $800 overages is terribly anti-consumer.

After it continually happened to people roaming, the EU by law instated a cap where the operators need to request an SMS confirmation once the overages hit a certain cost.

For domestic data, I can't remember the last time I saw a plan that didn't just cap your speeds once you hit your data cap.
Definition of advanced can be rather loose
I don't get why you are being downvoted. It's a legitimate strategy. Register with oauth (or whatever) and then fill in the blanks (nickname, etc.)
Traces of two unknown archaic human species turn up in modern DNA
Lucky them. Roughly 2/3 of my income goes on rent. Not London, another UK city. Its the same story everywhere.
Broadcom’s bid for Symantec stalls over price cut
You end up in all the worlds.
Netflix Edits Why’s Graphic Depiction of Suicide
I would also agree with you that it is fine to add additional rules to improve the outcome, but than it shouldn't be made clear in the way the result is presented (as you say, that rarely happens in intro-level tutorials/courses).

Your last point sounds like a cool idea! Using those more in-depth metrics to find weaknesses and see if other, complementary algorithms can fill the gap.
> 30% out of the majority of PC game sales, and what do we have to show for it?

Steam links, Steam controllers, Steam on Linux, Proton, and the OpenVR SDK to name a few. Sure several of those things were failures, but it isn't like they aren't trying.

> In the video game industry developers are the ones that bring the most value to customers.

That's some trickle-down theory right there. I'm not convinced that what's good for developers is necessarily good for gamers or the gaming market. Case in point: loot boxes.
(I am referring to Lisp here as mostly the Common Lisp and the Scheme variety)

There is also the issue where are a lot of areas like UX and tooling requires boring engineering work that no wants to put in. Dependency management, language servers, static analysis etc.

Scheme is stuck in academia; its creators are more interested in forcing language constructs like Continuation Passing Style onto end users rather than fixing ecosystem problems. Despite having a multitude of standards, every Scheme has to roll its own dependency manager. Chicken libraries aren't directly compatible with Gambit and good luck with Racket's licensing.

Quicklisp is relatively recent and a lot of books that are considered "standard reading" are so old that they don't mention it. Simple things like exporting a binary using save-image-and-die etc. don't work properly, easy Rust/Go style cross platform compilation support is almost non-existent and the whole process is extremely flaky in general. Stuff like Roswell improves the UI a bit but the underlying foundation is extremely barebones. Now most of these problems would go away with proper funding. But the major users of Lisp tend to be small niche companies in areas like natural language processing and quantum computing. They are not Sun, they are not Google. They never had to onboard a tremendous amount of new people in a short time. They have their pick of a community with too much supply and not enough demand. The people in charge of using them are happy to stay within the safe walls of Emacs and tradition, expecting all newcomers to do the same. They are not gonna drop a couple million of investment to fund tooling and infrastructure. Even with Clojure where you have new editors and tooling the language authors are infamous for being reluctant to address user needs and concerns at a core level. Forget about a language whose ANSI standard has never seen an update for 2 decades and whose improvements are fueled by a hodgepodge of mildly incompatible language extensions and macros. Sure there are two new compiler projects in CL that are coming along nicely, but they are not dedicating the attention to UX that languages like Elixir do. The CL21 project looks nice on paper but never caught on, and everyone is happy to push for more compiler implementations instead. A lot of the compilation and ecosystem stuff that are really important such as mobile, Web, GUIs etc. are tied to proprietary software. Sure the situation is improving with electron and I heard that the Qt binding is slightly better these days but the language situation resembles more to closed sourced relics like Embarcadero Delphi than the highly vaulted insane-productivity-startup-secret-weapon that HN seem to give the impression of.
Oil is always driven by the boom/bust cycle.

Food is worse as policy seeks to stabilize prices.
It's owned by Jack Ma.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1937256/alib...
This is a welcome move. It comes a bit late, after having caused the deaths of a few people, but late is better than never.

Let's hope Netflix continues to consider the harm their shows can cause (Sharp Objects being another example of irresponsible broadcasting) and make changes to production.
Anyone here use RSS? Just curious on your setup since I find that using bookmarks is enough for me.
Wiping out the secondary market where students can sell on their textbooks at the end of their courses to those just starting. I can see why such an unregulated market is a threat to their business model - increasing their control of the market won't bring prices down at all.
There are corrosion resistant aluminium alloys that are passivated by washing them with fluoric acids that create a film of fluoride compounds on tank walls.
> Do they really believe the value of playing music is derived solely from the effort to produce it

If you remember anything from your economics courses, you should remember that in an efficient market, the price of something should decline to its marginal cost of production, due to competition undercutting the overpriced competitors. Your point might be relevant if there are wild swings in the demand for music.
Why y’all weirded out about a family email being public? Ever read history books?
I typically read at 300-500 wpm (I don't really subvocalise - it's not a deliberate choice, I just don't, and don't remember ever doing, when reading at a 'normal' speed), and I'm always visualising scenes and characters (there are some I can distinctly remember, years later). Listening to an audio book at regular speed, I'm often waiting for the next piece of detail, and that pulls me out of it. That is sometimes the lesser experience (for me) - I generally find it much more difficult to build a mental image at the slower pace.

If I really pay attention, I can sometimes 'hear' fragments of words and individual words - it's like a partial subvocalisation (something like "I listen 1x speed plenty fast visual fill detail"). If I deliberately slow myself down (as I often do if I'm particularly enjoying a certain section, or if a section is particularly intricate), I subvocalise as normal, but at the same time I lose the visual aspects of picturing a scene. I start to hear the prose, but lose the visualisation.
No idea why this is downvoted, same thing here.

Ripping off students through overpriced mandatory textbooks is not a worldwide phenomena. Through CS Bachelor and Master I too have never had to buy a coursebook. The few books that were needed for extremely standardized courses like math 1-3 were available in sufficient numbers in the library.

It takes two to force students to spend so much on books, a publisher can price their books anyway they like if there isnt a university forcing their students to use them. That for profit universities dont have a problem with that is not surprising.
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Driving works for me, though I no longer drive to work so don't listen to podcasts or audiobooks. A colleague suggested playing mindless games on your phone while listening; the minor focus required for the game gives you enough to do without getting distracted.
Those questions are flip sides of the same coin.

The problem is defining the boundaries. For example, does it count as an "experiment measuring human behaviour" to slowly roll out a new feature to see if engagement metrics change? What about A/B testing the colour of all the links on your page to see if they're clicked more?
Dynamic, reprogrammable material goes hard under light and soft in the dark
>Repos already have a “language” property funnily enough which is based on the code contained in it. Similarly they could introduce another property to detect the natural language of the readme/docs/etc and assign it to the project. On the trending tab you already have an option to only browse projects in a specific programming language so you could also set this as well. A “worldwide” option could be the default. I don’t want to hide other people’s projects.

Sounds good to me. Post title is a bit too strongly worded though.
This was a fascinating read overall but I found the effort to translate everything into modern big-tech terminology very distracting. Furthermore the Gates/Jobs or Microsoft/Apple analogies seem tenuous at best and gives the impression that the author is misrepresenting a story that is already interesting enough on its own.
In the book "tents" euphemistically refers to tenting that encloses small towns. Also the tent fabric was a multi-layered thing (one layer was to absorb some radiation). Imagine this is why supports were seen as necessary.
Yepp, that's the place. I actually come from the region just below the mountains, so see it anytime I go back home. Not nice at all.

Yes some crooks were/are using this to cut more (healthy) trees, ie having permit for 10 but cutting down 100 trees. Then there are large parts of still standing forest which completely died out due to overpopulation of tree eating bugs (which happened due to dead wood not being removed). Most of this happening in highly protected park.

Law enforcement is pretty bad back home (read - cops are often beyond useless and corrupt), with general public viewing such thievery as semi-acceptable. One of many reasons I moved out, no matter how nice the nice parts are, the bad ones are plenty and sour the whole experience.
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The author says, that you cannot purchase a Spotify subscription in Ukraine, where he is based.
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What sets Oberon apart is that it has become smaller and simpler over time, something which is not true for the languages you mention.
Which happen to be currently broken on modern .NET runtimes because it wasn't done on a clean way apparently.
I think the point is, Bill Gates was already privileged before he got rich.
Paul Graham convincingly made the case that not all programming languages are equal in terms of power. A more powerful language should be a competitive advantage all else being equal. Hence it makes sense to use one.

(Aside from functional programming, Ruby on Rails comes to mind even though it is a language and a framework.)
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