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Ask HN: What fundamentals does a veteran mobile/backend dev need for front end?
I have many years of .NET and Java (backend, Android, desktop) development under my belt. Over the last year I've had to do a lot of frontend development, first with Angular1 and now with VueJS. I've hit the ground running quite decently, using TypeScript/SASS/Webpack, and so on. I grok the languages, the DOM, HTML/CSS, the frameworks, and my Google-foo seems to be serving me well.

But I'm uncomfortably aware that I'm missing some fundamentals, and am spending way too much time in trial-and-error land. I only have a fuzzy understanding of JS modules, module loading, and bundling. I don't really get when and how the browser loads scripts. I don't really understand the concurrency model of the Javascript VM. I'm somewhat confused by the tooling (NPM seems to be more than just a package manager, Why does Bower exist? Why would you use both Gulp AND Webpack?) And so on.

So, I'm looking for any and all pointers on which fundamentals I need, and the best resources (books, tutorials, online courses, whatever) for learning them, and of course I'm willing to spend money. The important thing is to find resources aimed at an experienced developer who did not come of age doing webdev.
You should take a look at this YC company: https://www.sixa.io/ - these changes might come faster than you think :)
She is doing no such thing. She's just saying that
without a positive drug test, she has no ground to
prosecute. That's an awfully big step.

It's a really nebulous statement: "Without a confirmatory test of the specific drug in the defendant’s system that impaired his ability to drive..." This can be interpreted two different, but equally semantically valid ways. The pessimist in me thinks this "double-speak" is intentional.

Your interpretation is: "We don't have a test that shows the presence of any drug that impairs the defendant's ability to drive."

My alternate (but semantically valid) read was: "There was a drug in the defendant's system, we just don't know which one because nothing we tried tested positive."

Combine that with the valid but underhanded: "... prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt". Again: "We don't have a case" vs. "this guy is guilty but we just can't prove it legally".

The direct, unequivocal re-write would be: "We do not have a confirmatory test of any drug in the defendant's system that would impair his ability to drive. As such, we do not believe there is a valid case on this charge."
Tesla Is Snatching Apple's Stars to Make Itself the New Apple
Wait, you mean bank employees could previously install random apps on their phones?
I think fitness is going to be huge with VR gaming.

We’re developing an FPS game, and are researching walking and jogging in place to drive character locomotion. The new Vive trackers are an exciting announcement, because that means we can have ankle tracking. In-game hands and feet.
30k hands (as opposed to 20k in the first experiment) is usually still not large enough of a sample size from a player's perspective to overcome up and downswings. I suppose a compromise must have been made out of respect for the player's time. I would be very interested in seeing everyone's equity vs actual winnings at the end.

The pay per hand is very good for any normal mid to higher stakes reg player, but I wonder if these guys are taking a pay cut to participate... considering these guys probably charge $500 - $1000 an hour for coaching, and that's aside from their table winnings. I haven't been in the poker scene for some time now, and am a bit out of touch.

I wish we could get some real time player commentary. I would love to see how they adapt with their thought process.
I think the core argument is that it wasn't working and isn't working any better now but costs everyone a BUNCH MORE.

Regulatory capture and conflict of interest made it impossible for government (itself the largest payer for healthcare) to find ways to drive down costs. All the incentives are lined up to deliver worse or less care for more money. That's a recipe for disaster.
Maybe, in the not so distant future, the use of VR in real estate will be to give everybody a seaview mansion when, in reality, they live within four boring walls.
Oh if only it were that easy. The competition in those other markets is much stronger and has proven to be reasonably efficient.

Healthcare is different because consumers often don't know what anything ought to cost, rarely in a position to shop around, and will never be able to afford some big ticket items without insurance regardless.

And the economic consequences are non-obvious. For example, many conditions are much cheaper to treat if caught early; if access to a doctor has an inconvenient cost attached, overall costs go up. The ability to see a doctor for cheap – ideally free – is the most effective way to lower the risk of expensive procedures in the future.
This is such a shallow argument. Healthcare is a service unlike any commodity or service you've mentioned. Healthcare demand is unpredictable on an individual level, and it grow on an individual level over time when it isn't met. That is to say you get sicker if you go untreated. If I skip a meal today, I don't need extra meals tomorrow. If I sleep on the street tonight, I don't need two houses tomorrow. This is to say that any random individual can be struck ill (demanding healthcare) at any time, to an unknown cost that snowballs the longer they go untreated. It's a thing unto itself and metaphors don't work well.

Furthermore, there's an enormous information asymmetry in healthcare, so it's hard for it to function as a market.

Because we already have "free" healthcare in the form of emergency rooms, this is ultimately a conversation about how to best allocate health spending. Emergency care is the absolute most expensive form of non end of life care, so we should focus on minimizing that send. There's a well known path for doing so, regular check ups, vaccinations, preventative care, and chronic disease management. All of which cost money now, but reduce future expenditure. And if we already pay for sick broke people in the emergency room, why not optimize the expenditure of those tax dollars by shifting it to more effective health interventions?
100% agree - this is how I am going to explain it from now on
> So, if your good coverage went from $175/month to $450/month and covered less and less with each passing year

But that's not the case, because that $175/month insurance didn't meet current standards of "good." While the ACA made it happen a lot faster for health insurance, this is kind of like me bitching about how high my car payments are because they keep adding on stupid useless things like bumpers, seatbelts, airbags and antilock brakes and I don't need ANY of those because "I don't get into accidents and if I do I have enough savings to cover it."

As for the question of him not being able to get subsidies for himself as a matter of law, I'm 99% positive that the way you become ineligible for subsidies is by making too much money to qualify. It has nothing to do with owning your own business, and if he's telling you it does then he's blowing smoke up somewhere.

As for the amount you're paying before you get benefits, yeah, there are plans in there like that, and they tend to be cheaper. You might almost consider them catastrophic care plans, except they cost more than $175/month and cover things beyond hospitalization. They're the ones with "20% coinsurance after deductible" for regular doctor's office visits, while what you're probably looking for are the ones with a "$40/75 copay" for primary care/specialist visits. That coinsurance/copay bit is one of the things insurance companies can still do to game the system.

The thing that those plans all have in common though is a maximum out of pocket number. That means if your friend the lawyer has a heart attack, is hospitalized, needs a couple of stents put in immediately or god forbid a bypass and doesn't have the time to shop around for other hospitals that might be cheaper, he's not going to be leaving the hospital with $250,000+ in medical bills that he's personally responsible for. Sure, $10-15k is a lot of money to take on as unexpected debt, but for an awful lot of people that's not bankruptcy money it's "payment plans for a few years that are going to kind of suck" money.
It is actually written in C++. Github says C because the SQLite files are a lot bigger than the ones I wrote. And Chalk is used because in the following way:

- The application creates a file called pfox_console_printout.js, which is hidden in your home directory.

- It writes the tables/graph line by line into that file. Each line starts with 'console.log(' or 'process.stdout.write(' and ends appropriately.

- When it is done writing it executes 'node pfox_console_printout.js' and all the data is displayed.

The reason I went through the trouble of doing all that is to have Windows support. I had a lot of issues with Unicode characters and with changing the colors of text in a way that worked in Unix and Windows. I also think that using Chalk simplifies the process of changing the colors, which will prove useful when I start supporting new color schemes!
Because it's COMMUNISM!!!

/sarcasm
Debian 8. I find Tomoyo to be the most usable of the LSMs. You can be up and running in a few days with rather complex policies. I could not get Chrome to work with it. It just reads and writes all over the place in ways that are hard to manage. No bugs yet.
Which you could get by hacking WhatsApp endpoints.
If car insurance had to cover a 6+ figure operation replacing an old engine that was was seized up because of poor maintenance, it would make financial sense to cover oil changes as a preventative measure.

A health disaster is several orders of magnitude more expensive than an automotive disaster, and you can't just total out a human being and pick up a new one at the local dealership if it's too expensive.

Preventative maintenance is a money saver long term.
Information asymmetry is the general subject for those who are curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
Now just imagine how that'll play out when we have really good competitive VR games that are also cardio workouts - so you're aiming to out-fitness the millions of other players.

The first DOTA or Counterstrike equivalent for VR that also rewards fitness with increased game ability will unleash a legion of very, very fit competitive gamers on the world.

Bearing in mind - 7 hr a week is more or less the minimum to be at all competitive at DOTA, for example. 7 hr of intense exercise a week will get you pretty fit.
Your second line reminds me of an essay I read:

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I know of exactly one site which had a .tk TLD. Here’s why they switched to a .com:

http://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=388

“tailsteak.com

Alright, so I'm finally fed up with Tokelau.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice island, but they just aren't answering my mail.

I suppose most of you have noticed, by now, the fifteen-second ads that present you with beautiful women and fish when you surf to tailsteak.tk. Those are not my ads. I do not obtain revenue from them. Tokelau's domain name referral service just started putting them up there without so much as a by-your-leave. I have contacted their tech support and enquired if, perhaps, they might consider removing them for customers willing to pay a certain amount. They have not responded.

Of course, I have had access to tailsteak.com for some time now. So henceforth, I will be directing my viewers there. It's the same site, the same host, and, in truth, the .tk address has been sending you there for months. But now it's official. Note the change in title graphic:

tailsteak.com”
As just one anecdote for rebuttal, my insurance premium increased by 20% this year--not even mentioning the additional deductibles they hid in the renewal options.

I, for one, am very much looking forward to purchasing insurance from the best provider in any of the 50 states, not just the few available to me in CA.
Yes. It is not cheap enough to be mass market yet, but is close enough that you can see a lower price being attainable. The vision implementation is good enough in some circumstances, but obviously much of that will improve. Multi-player games are not there yet, but Oculus has already shown next-gen demos with multiple players.

The current batch of first generation devices obviously have shortcomings, and the price, lack of apps and shortcomings will make them early adopter devices. It's obvious that VR has come a long way in 20 years though, and the next few steps forward will make these into mass market devices.

On Youtube is a demo of Medium, a sculpting app, used by artists. I used this myself on Oculus Rift. They said it can sculpt 3d objects you can't easily do on a PC or in real life. It's like Photoshop or Illustrator or some CAD app, with the left hand being the toolbar and the right hand drawing and sculpting. It may be primitive but is useful now. VR is here.
I spent ~$20 on a Evo and updated youtube and was very impressed. would I spend ~$1000 on the head stuff probably not but for ~20 you can't beat the it.
Alright, how about this situation:

Alice's long-term static keypair is S_A/s_a
Alice's long-term static public key signature(signed by a trusted third party) is sign_A

Bob's long-term static keypair is S_B/s_b
Bob's long-term static public key signature(signed by a trusted third party) is sign_B

Alice's per-session ephemeral keypair is E_A/e_a
Bob's per-session ephemeral keypair is E_B/e_b

Alice sends S_A|sign_A|E_A|sign(data=E_A, key=s_a)
Bob sends S_B|sign_B|E_B|sign(data=E_B, key=s_b)

Shared key is generated with kdf(ecdh(E_A, e_b)) == kdf(ecdh(E_B, e_a))

Would this be vulnerable to KCI?
If you change your mind due to coming down with some condition, then you won't be able to upgrade your policy or pick up a secondary one, because that will be a preexisting condition.

So, one of a few things will happen. You may forego treatment and recover, in which case great. You may forego treatment and remain ill, meaning we all lose out due to the loss of a productive member of society. (Or, worse, you hurt a bunch of people.) You may seek treatment and be able to afford it, in which case great. Or you may seek treatment and be unable to afford it, meaning the rest of us get to pay for it for you.

That last one in particular is why we like to force people to have insurance. It's basically the same as forcing you to have liability insurance for your car. You can end up costing others a bunch of money, so we want to make sure you're able to pay it back.

Decisions have consequences. So long as the consequences remain confined to the person making the decision, I don't care much. But once they start impacting others, there's trouble.
I've heard good things about Soundboxing too, but haven't tried it yet.
My bet is on the Chinese with their enormous pig farms which feed every pig a constant cocktail of antibiotics to ensure they grow faster to be the ground zero for an antibiotic-resistant epidemic.

Edit Source: A Chinese government official in charge of a meat-producing SOE boasted about it during a presentation seeking foreign investment
Considering Clojure's impressive adoption I wouldn't call it a niche choice anymore; it even seems to be a win for most people adopting it.
Give me a break. Obama saved the economy, saved the American car industry, and provided health care to 20 million people that didn't have it before. All while facing unbelievable obstruction from the GOP that never wanted to acknowledge he was actually President.
How do you deal with sweat getting all over your device? Doesn't it start getting dirty quickly?
Huh. You really believe that people who say that race is a social construct are trying to label it as a figment of the imagination? That's not my intent, at least, and I doubt very much that it is the intent of anyone who makes that claim in good faith. I'm not trying to argue using rhetoric; I'm saying that if one tries to segment human variation into races ignoring societal attitudes, one will either fail entirely or will arrive at "races" that do not correspond neatly if at all to society's conception of race. That is the sense in which race is a social construct.
I'm coming at it from the other angle. Republicans know they're stuck with an intractable problem. You can't cover people with large costs without raising the costs for everyone. The problem for Repubs at this point is that those with large costs have already been granted access. It's much easier for them to deny those with pre-existing conditions access than it is for them to now take that away. Futhermore, Repubs can repeal ACA without Dems help but can't pass a new bill without Dems. I believe the goal at this point is to repeal ACA without Dems then push a hyper-partisan ACA replacement which the Dems will not vote for. Then Repubs can successfully lay the blame at Democrats feet for not coming to the table and passing the replacement.
This actually isn't true. Ranges are wider HU which means you need to be more precise.

Proof: Top HU players can crush 6-9 handed but 6max players get killed HU.
You can keep restating the same things, but they still aren't accurate.

The ACA is not being repealed today. This simply is not true. It's not what is happening. Saying that it is is in fact fearmongering.

The ACA will still be in place tomorrow. It will be in place next week. It is not being repealed as we speak.
I'm mostly using the Unity level editor, in actual fact, although I use 3D Studio Max for my detailed 3D modeling when I need to.

The Unity editor's very powerful, and you can extend it with tools like ProBuilder and Gaia, which are all available in the Unity Asset Store.

(I heartily recommend both of those for simple geometry creation and landscape creation, respectively.)

I've been coming at it the other way - I know game engine graphics and assembly like the back of my sinister hand, but I've been on a rapid C# learning curve :)
I agree that a lot of movement will happen to adapt actual apps to be explored in VR, but not just that. A lot of space will open for immersive content, one moment that you have a headset in every house. Therefore, new solutions are going to be needed both to explore and create for those devices. A good example are 360 videos editing. With that in mind I've been working on the last months on the first 360 video editor for smartphones, you can check that here http://collect.video
This is a silly thing to argue about, but the article ends with a 5 paragraphs on how "Everett is far from the only current Chomsky challenger." And Everett has his own explanation of why his ideas still stand. It is a good article and people who are casually interested in the topic should read it.
We've had some form of universal coverage at least since the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act was passed in 1986

Which, of course, is the most expensive way to go. You have people who can't pay visiting the emergency room for an ear infection or the flu. And that cost gets passed on to everyone else, which is why that single Tylenol tablet in your hospital room costs $10.
DMCA. It's down.
It's already been DMCA'd by Opera. From reading the DMCA notice, it looks like it was a real leak. [0]

[0] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2017/2017-01-12-P...
Yes, the group insurance through a payroll processor is a great solution. That's what we do now.

The caveat is that it only works if you're collecting a paycheck, but not if you're bootstrapping from savings.
Basically you want the ACA. Don't you think if all those things were possible without the mandate, people would have chosen it ? Let's face it, it is not possible to cover pre-existing conditions, children till 26, and poor people without expanding the insured pool dramatically
The US is specially screwed up by its insurance system, which adds a lot of noise to the price signals.

Another thing that could drop the costs is the elimination or reduction of medical quotas and medical licenses. Those two are easier and smaller to solve than full welfare, which considering the us system, could be really expensive to implement.
This headline is highly inaccurate. It is clearly stated that requests must be made for specific raw SIGINT, and there are heavy restrictions applied.

Whether or not this is OK or not can surely be up for debate, but it is not helpful to phrase headlines in a manner which relays a false message.
Isn't that the case at a gas station too?
It's a totally different product.
Note that kebolio is in no way affiliated with Tox or TokTok, just a random person contributing to the discussion.

I take full responsibility for everything I said, but I hope I don't need to take responsibility for other people's posts. As nbraud (who is in fact a contributor) noted, this has nothing to do with a secret club. I like to think that all actual contributors are open for discussion and willing to learn what they do not yet know.
Understanding Your Option Agreement
I agree that opening up across state lines is a very good thing. However, if the marketplace goes away and there's not a good way to force companies to be competitive, we're really not in a better place either. Hopefully we can have the best of both worlds.
Yes, but consider what the H1-B is meant for: an extremely highly skilled worker for which there is no local supply. It doesn't seem outlandish to me to put some metrics on that other than employers' (biased, suspect) word.
How about—to cross-pollinate current front-page articles—optogenetics? Rather than a virus that turns light into electrical pulses, you'd want a virus that takes power from ambient RF energy, and emits RF energy on a different frequency attenuated by the strength of the local intra-synaptic electrochemical gradient. Your neurons would report their state over RFID!
I'm not part of the Tox/Toktok project.
Nicely put together, sounds like the first place in a long time where I simultaneously would love to apply and feel completely intimidated by what is clearly a really amazing team of people.

Guess I need to figure out how to get more ML papers published!
Yes, you can, for many, many maladies.

People without insurance don't go to hospitals. They don't go to doctors for routine checkups. They don't go to doctors to deal with chronic conditions. They go to ERs because they can't afford healthcare, but they know that the hospitals can afford their emergencies.
You'll find that most 'secure' projects rely upon external marketing while their internal tracking says otherwise.

Man can make it, man can break it.
WebSockets with ASP.NET Core and Xamarin Forms
Translation:

Mission accomplished, I'm out of here. See you in four years!
>I suspect this debate would be much less dramatic.

Not when pro life means human life begins at conception.
Obviously 20% seems high, but they'd be higher without it, crazily: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamac...
Big screen TVs aren't convenient either - but a huge number of households have them - VR doesn't have to be exactly like smartphones in order to be very popular
Thepiratebay.org torrents dumps. All torrents since 2004
That was fast...
You neglect to mention the part where the person who found it actually tried to return it.

http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone