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From a desktop-application standpoint, the Web provides something very useful: easy upgrading. Like, you go to a URL, and if you aren't seeing the latest production revision of the site code, that's a bug.

IMO, if you think you'll ever have edge cases where users might struggle to stay connected to the Web, think about doing a desktop app - but even then, consider using eg Electron/QTWebKit/similar so you can continue to use HTML.

The only situation I would shy away from using the HTML/CSS/JS approach with new general-purpose PC-centric applications is supporting older hardware - I like my apps to remain snappy, but sadly even Webkit tends to lag (generally speaking) on anything older than an i3 or so.
The leading cause of diabetes is poor diet. Nestle is selling you foods that if consumed in large quantities will absolutely result in you becoming a diabetic.

It's called vertical integration and it's not accidental.
"Brawndo, the thirst mutilator"
License is ISC, in case anyone is wondering.

They don't mention it anywhere, but you can find it in the package.json file in their git repo.
Hmm; how about a +5 point boost instead for sites doing paywall innovation? Free content isn't the end goal. Don't we want people to make a living off content? I can't imagine anybody here wouldn't pay 1 or 5 pennies for the second half of a useful article.
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we built a green threads implementation for VAX/VMS in 1984 with pre-allocated stacks because performance. the key is to put guard pages in between the stacks to protect from stack overruns.
It is still something different when my health care just pays for it and later talks to me about the costs than when i need to find a way to finance it from the beginning.
So these days about every language supports any form of "gem" import.

Even Go makes it extra easy because the developer does not even need to care about packaging as long as there is a git endpoint with the code.

And there are two ways of seeing this:

- One says that this is awesome. Microlibraries allow to make every little module really good by allowing multiple people to iterate on it. That having 100s of dependencies of small modules that "do their thing right" is better than writing functions oneself, which surely leave some corner cases out and decrease the quality of the applications.

- The other says that this is fucked up. That dependencies break your apps in ways you couldn't have imagined and by surprise. That tracking these problems down is a pain and often requires reading through obscure core that does way more than what you need in the end because it's generalized for every use case. That maintaining dependency hell ends up eating the benefits of not having written the code oneself.

I personally find scary when someone runs "./mvn build", "sbt assembly", "bundle install" and this triggers a download of dozens to hundreds of nested dependencies from a place which has to be online and hopefully hasn't been compromised. On the other side, it is clear that if an existing module does the job, why would you re-invent the wheel? And aren't small modules and microlibraries the expression of "simplicity" the author demands? Not sure there is an easy answer for this debate...
"let a company supply a substance to intentionally harm people"

Isn't that just a loonie interpretation? Making Butterfingers available for sale don't "intentionally harm" anyone. Surely you're not working on an "attractive nuisance" sort of legal theory here.
More importantly they taste like crap.
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There should be some sort of government chartered corporation for generic drug manufacturing. After a drug patent expires, they review the drug, determine the manufacturing cost, and compare it to the market price for the drug. If the market price is above some multiple of the manufacturing cost, they set up their own production line and sell the drug at their cost.
Air pollution (outdoor as well as indoor - the offgassing from the myriad synthetic materials found in construction and furnishings these days) is only one trigger of asthma and not the only one exacerbated by modern society.

Many experts have theorized changes in our microbiota are partly responsible for the general rise in asthma over the past decades. That would include things like over-sanitation, increased C sections, antibiotics, gut flora-killing diet, etc. http://www.everydayhealth.com/asthma-pictures/8-expert-theor...
This whole thing reminds me of a relevant paradox:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Dead or alive they are still your friends, family, coworkers, etc. You take care of each other no matter what. Thats it.
I do, but I use a SAAS sales model. I think trying to use a one and done sales model is hard these days.
Let's not pretend the entire world doesn't use them irresponsibly.
I think the point of it is more as a kind of protest than it is to actually obstruct their ability to spy on people.
Clearer: its not 'ok' that segments of the population are 'priced out'. Its just economics. Life is hard.
Actually, they do encourage exactly that. Stating the obvious, the choices people make are a function of the choices available to them.
This is the worst offense. The iPodization of water is real. I try to avoid buying water whenever I can. If people like us who have a voice will just quietly switch to bottled water or very expensive home filtration, then we will have failed our civic duty.
I'm guessing but 誤解 => 'go kai', which means 'misunderstanding'. That sounds like 五回 => 'go kai', which means five times.

In Japanese, you often encounter words/phrases that sound more or less the same but are written differently.
That's precisely where I'm at currently -- 2 days into having the arrows disabled. It tells me what key I should have pressed relative to the arrow I pressed, but you take a second to stop and think "is that REALLY what I wanted? could I do this more efficiently?"
Nestle is generating a ton of money, and periodically invests in unrelated industries sometimes very successfully like with Alcon.
Pinball on the PC is a fool's errand. The screen is too small to convey the ball motion. However, companies that are adding computer displays to pinball machines, are finding some success: http://www.jerseyjackpinball.com/the-hobbit/
Really, you don't see any problem here?

You said it yourself. It's not _always_ a (direct) byproduct of over consuming sugar. However, it often is.
Anyone have a non-paywalled link?
It isn't about money or tying finances together, it's about how people self-identify.
What are the low level problems you have been running into?
My gif app can only handle about 20 seconds before it chokes :)

Perhaps I should have broken it up into two gifs, one for the completer + interactive help features, and the other for the GitHub integration.
"does not force or even encourage over consumption of sugar."

Actually they do encourage you to eat a lot of sugar. Specially children. Their marketing campaigns are specially tailored to that objective. Just look at the cereal advertisements, most of their cereal brands have a lot of sugar in them.

If that is not encouraging over consumption of sugar I don't know what is...
That's their job - to sell legal products to those who want them. What happens to the purchased products is a matter for people's own assessment and capacity for self-control. What was it a McDonalds' guy told folk? Something along the lines "It's not my job to teach your kids to eat vegetables".
> If you are required not to communicate something, then you don't communicate it. Period.

Legal opinions vary on this subject. Some feel (as you apparently do) that an order not to reveal the receipt of a NSL would require someone to leave a "warrant canary" in place. Others[1] feel that the US legal system does not permit the government to require someone to lie. The only way to find out for sure is for the government to prosecute someone for deleting a warrant canary[2] and either succeed or fail. This has never happened.

Your basic point that "the judicial system isn't stupid, and you can't just violate the rules but with a squirrelly definition and expect to get away with it" is true in general. Your example of insider trading laws is correct. But there are reasonable arguments that a warrant canary is a legitimate legal tactic.

[1] For example, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq

[2] Or to make enough of a threat to do so that the person has standing for a declarative judgement.
For example design / civil engineering. Unless we can adjust literally everything to be supported by arbitrary-width any-direction conveyor belt system, we'll have issues with transport. Unless we can easily sell devices that are adaptable to any body shape/position (this goes from "screen for fat fingers" to "can't reach the panel on the wall"), we'll have issues with interfaces. And so on - this applies to thousands of ideas.

We already see those 2 problems right now: Existing issues about how to handle people who don't fit in economy seat on a plane without disturbing the next person. Smartphone (and previously calculator) design doesn't work for people with bloby fingers.

We barely started to make essential services available to disabled people who don't actually have a choice of moving on their own, or read, or... If we can't handle that special case, I don't think we can easily handle those self-inflicted issues as a norm.
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You would think, if they have the ability to detect that a user has an ad blocker in place, they could just as easily redirect them to a subscription form for an ad-free experience, rather than block people and lose revenue completely.
I don't know about "only applies to /r/technology" - we've been there before. Remember when ad blockers were mostly prevalent among techies and visitors to tech sites? Yeah, well, that changed. It may start with /r/technology, but I'm pretty sure it won't end there...
> if consumed in large quantities

And when consumed in moderation, has no adverse affect. Poor diet is you, not a company.

Nestle is simply going where the money is. If you need diabetes pills because of your poor decisions though, that is your fault.
Asthma used to be a lot worse until we figured out how to avoid open fire in living spaces. So arguably, air pollution is currently much less of a problem compared to almost any time since we learned to make fire.
Both the original Japanese (meaning 5 times) and possibly pun Japanese (meaning misunderstanding) are read as 'gokai'.
Actually it is. The article seems to describe an algorithm with a catastrophic failure mode where no (or not enough) ants return. Without retransmission the ants just hang around waiting for a returning ant. So there must be some sort of retransmission.
The premise that everyone must work to "earn" the right to food and shelter is the essence of fascism. Humans have always been creatures of community.
Not sure if the war motive is much better than the profit motive, though.
Health insurance in US charges you 10¢ monthly premium, to provide a $100 pill for $10, while it is available for $1 in India.

Dental insurance is as bad. Travel to India + dentist costs are often cheaper than one time treatment costs.
There is no "magic pill" for some of the issues associated with massive obesity. One issue you can get is obstructive sleep apnea where you're so fat your tongue blocks your throat at night, and you can't breathe. This eventually leads to pulmonary hypertension and heart failure. You can "fix" this with a CPAP machine, but it's not pleasant. Another issue is that you can be so fat that your chest muscles aren't strong enough to allow you to breathe. There's no real fix for this other than losing weight.
Your link reminded me of this tradition,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch

"In the potlatch, the host in effect challenged a guest chieftain to exceed him in his 'power' to give away or to destroy goods. If the guest did not return 100 percent on the gifts received and destroy even more wealth in a bigger and better bonfire, he and his people lost face and so his 'power' was diminished."
That was my first thought when I saw the headline. Water is a human need.

All that out, however, I do actually agree with some of what is being done. I'd seriously prefer to eat a gummy candy than swallow a pill - no matter how small a pill is, I can only swallow one at a time. Patients with dementia get crushed medicines mixed with jelly or another substance here - and a pre-mixed solution of some sort would be easier on everyone. It'd be a bonus if we can have the extended release stuff in edible form. Children wouldn't mind taking medicines so much.

I just wish it weren't what I consider evil people (from the water stuff) doing it.
Good for Symantec as they do not depend upon Google for data and have their own extensive collection of data
Could be different for many people. For me, it allows me to live in a universe that is a beautiful creation and to feel a great deal of gratitude towards God for creating it. It fills my heart with peace and love that I can spread to others.

Tdlr it makes me happy
I can understand some people not wanting to send sensitive financial data across the web.
Well that all depends on what kinds of sauces you have at your disposal.
As a software developer who has been stitched back together by an MD who has been on shift for 36 hours, I'm with the machine also. No relevant paternal affiliation.
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Ahh, guess my info is out of date, thanks.
I think i found the article in english.

http://dynamic.hs.fi/2014/deep/
+1 for Threema. The servers are located in Switzerland, it's a good iOS citizen with a clean interface, and it offers some unique features (e.g., polling).
No, diabetes is often a byproduct of choosing to over consume sugar. Nestle didn't make them diabetic, they did that to themselves.

There is no direct cause and effect, producing sugary snacks does not cause diabetes. People choose to over consume to the point they develop diabetes.

People's lack of self control created a market, Nestle wants to be one of the companies in that market.
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The best alternative is really quite simple: public funding for lifesaving medicines. This model also works for the provision of medical care and is used throughout the entire developed world, with one exception.
So people didn't over eat sugar until there were diabetes pills?
> "This incident happened, and then they've made a film and they all come out as heroes," he says. "But these two people should never have died in the first place."

What should the divers have done to avoid this? Were they just not experienced enough for a dive of this magnitude? One mentions they should have done a practice run, but what does that mean? How do you practice for a dive?
All evidence I've seen points to a massive reduction of poverty "at the bottom" (the actual bottom, not developed world's bottom) as globalization has increased in the last few decades. On what do you base the claim that it has increased pain?
The first time I heard about this was from Joel Spolsky of Fogcreek/Stackoverflow. It really changed how I've approached postmortems and encouraging those to really drive deeper into problem solving. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/22.html
Grail seems to have supported python scripts

http://grail.sourceforge.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_(web_browser)
The guy you're replying to is talking about amateur sports, and you reply by talking about semi-pros and making a living out of something. The divide runs deep.

The people in those 9 divisions have a game every weekend, and training once or twice per week on weekday evenings, as a hobby. Pro sport is something different entirely.
Most western countries do the "nominal charge" thing - which in this context is just about equal to zero.

For instance: German public health insurance buys a course of Sovaldi for EUR40,000 ($46,000), the patient pays a cost of EUR10 ($11.50).
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Almost everywhere I travel outside of NYC the question pops up: is tap water safe to drink? New York is notoriously proud of and vocal about this local amenity. Achieving a universal standard in this area would go a long way towards putting a significant dent in the bottled water scam.
Yes, I am thriving with a niche C++/Win32 graphics app. Web apps are a long way from having the responsiveness and control of a desktop app.

Do you really think users will be doing Photoshop and AutoCAD in a browser? No matter if you have a fibre op connection, the lag is always there.

Recently the main player in this domain moved to Web apps. There was an overwhelming protest from its customers, who insisted they prefer the desktop version.
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Actually, I'd care more about the average.

You might hope the be the special snowflake who gets the heroic surgeon, but I wouldn't bet on it. Unless you are medically interesting in some way, you're likely to just get the next schmoe on the rotation.
"Also, the Secret Service employs some of the smartest and most capable people in the federal government"-the plethora of stories in the past several years about the SS fucking up on many, many levels would indicate that they probably hire mediocre, middle of the road candidates (at most). They aren't superhuman, or caricatures from a Tom Clancy novel.
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Oh, the future. The land of what ifs. Listen, you described your market already. Non technical people go to Google and type in facebook.com. A simple desktop app that they can just click will do. Still worried about future proofing it? Put it inside a webview and move on.
There are many ways you can actually not ask yourself that question.

1. You can package your web app into electron or similar
2. You can use a portable platform like QT or Xamarin

But more importantly, you should chose the one that will help you conclude that this is a good idea sooner. You'll probably end up rewriting the tool once you get feedback about where it rules and where it sucks.

So I'd say that unless you want to do that side project to learn something new, stick to what you know best (and what you know will work). That'll get you to the point where you can decide whether this is worth pursuing faster.
Ask HN: Anyone looking for a cofounder?
If you're looking for a co-founder please share your project and the what you're looking for ;)
Our startup develops a HTML5 game editor called Construct 2, which is a Windows desktop app (Win32). We've been running about five years successfully with that. I'd say depending on the market it can still be relevant, but I don't know for how much longer - Windows in particular seems to be trying to drag developers away from Win32 and the new Windows Store UWP apps. Note that Windows Phone and "Windows RT" can only run Windows Store UWP apps, with poor support for Win32. MS continue to push UWP hard and I'd expect to see more MS hardware in future with no Win32 support, which is a little worrying, but doesn't seem to be happening fast enough to cause any kind of panic.

I'd add while mobile seems to be the trendy place to start a startup, most productivity apps are still easier and faster to use with a keyboard and mouse. So desktop-first can make sense sometimes.
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People in the US already take about 10x too much medicine. Not sure making it easier is a good social goal.
defender of liberty?

What's anti-liberty about collecting information that people voluntarily show the world? I actually disagree with this decision on the basis that it just eliminates potential business opportunities for Twitter corp.

I mean, if I tweet something, I can't then turn around and get angry at someone who approaches me and says, "Hey, you ran at central park yesterday, I saw it on your twitter." or whatever, because I voluntarily chose to tweet it.

The same goes for anybody else, including intelligence agencies. I can't read past the paywall but I googled around and to my understanding, it's not even the intelligence agencies that are doing it to begin with. These other companies correlate all the data, structure it with an API they provide to the intelligence agencies. So at this point, there's two different types of businesses now suffering from this decision.

I don't even understand why I like twitter so much, they keep doing these stupid, stupid things!
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Someone cared to downvote. So I made a random Google search and came up with this guy, who is 5'8 and 210 pounds in contest state

http://www.bodybuilding.com/author/john-hansen

Which puts him at 31 BMI, so just barely in the obese category.

And this guy is clearly not your average "gym rat", he's a winner of Natural Mr. Universe, so he'll be somewhere on the very edge of the Bell curve. 99.9% gym rats will never be close in terms of lean body mass. So if they are "lumped in obese", then they truly have a lot of fat to lose.
What does "global citizen" even mean? I am quite happy to be a citizen of smaller entities. I would like them to be even smaller, not larger. I'm German, and I find the size of that entity in terms of democratic accountability almost too large already. Definitely constructs like the EU are overblown and have too many competencies. I would prefer a small state like Switzerland with a small population, but direct democracy and relatively direct accountability.
>when was the last time you bought anything substantial without reading a review of it or checking the customer ratings?

But reviews don't tend to judge product lifetime that well, because they're usually written within the first month a product comes out.

I think the only way you can get reliable information on lifetime is by forcing companies to provide it, and guarantee it. (Or put a big sticker on their product saying "0 years guaranteed")

>Depending on the market, those two price points may be in different segments based on (e.g.) disposable income.

I feel like I see a lot of reasonable sounding financing in the markets I'm thinking of, but perhaps I'm remembering times before 2008.
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Well, intelligence agencies have the resources to build their own versions of this product, if they really want to. At the most, it will slow them down.
Can we stop this "Nestlé thinks water isn't a human right" BS already?

http://www.nestle.com/ask-nestle/human-rights/answers/nestle...

I'm far from being a fan of Nestlé, but there are better arguments against their conduct than a single quote from the CEO years ago, misquoted and out of context.
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programs that use lots of signals and/or asynchronous completion of IO or timers ("completions")

completions create all sorts of concurrency problems because they are delivered to the program without any concurrency protection, and writing such protection correctly turns out to be non-trivial.

By delivering completions into coroutines, you gain all the concurrency protection that is offered by the green threads, without having to write it from scratch.
Microsoft has something like that: https://www.touchdevelop.com/
People have also built tools off of Google Blockly:
https://developers.google.com/blockly/about/showcase
What about cherry-picking modules, briefly going through their source code (and, hopefully, test suite), then manually (read: copy/paste) importing them into the project at hand?

What are the ethical implications of this, though? Is it different than importing the module directly via package managers, license file and all?