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EDIT: I just realized you were replying to the over zealous fellow that replied to me and not me. Sorry. Time for coffee.

>You're in a bubble.

Come on, I made a qualified statement, I didn't even say most devs.

> I've used QBASIC, C, C++, various .NET languages, Java, Python, list goes on and on. I've led desktop app, firmware drivers, kernel driver, security architecture projects, list goes on and on.

I have a fairly similar history, ASM, QBASIC, C/C++, Java, Go, .NET (C#/VB), Haskell, Scheme, Prolog etc. I have also worked on systems software and applications.

I've worked at consulting firms, fortune 500s and startups and I have to say if you haven't run into my sentiment before commonly, I would assert that it is you who are in the bubble (sorry). I don't think you have to agree with my opinion, but to reject it as being common is absurd.

I don't hate JS out of lack of familiarity, in fact I have spent a lot of time porting node apps to Go and discovering all their terrifying callback spaghetti, concurrency bottle necks and inconsistent typing during single variable lifetime.
> If you don't want to cough up the required rigor...

Forgive me, but this sounds absurdly elitist.

Mathematics is not a subject reserved for a select set of chosen elite. It is a very necessary tool for almost every scientific endeavour. And this is a huge problem because people in those fields aren't just studying maths. Case in point, I'm a mechanical engineer. I have to study thermodynamics, materials, structural analysis, mechanics and on and on. In the midst of all this, I needed to learn advanced numerical methods, but was flummoxed because it was taught by a senior professor, to a class of mostly mathematicians, with an inordinately huge amount of effort placed towards proving things etc. and not much thought spared for us non-applied mathematicians.

I once heard maths described as something like "a person sees a category of something that exhibit a certain behaviour and then abstracts away the specifics to be left with a set of "general principles" that let the something exhibit it's behaviour". Thing is, it sounds like you start from the specific and abstract towards the general, but it is taught as a general and I am left to my own devices when dealing with the specific.

All for good reasons I'm sure, but then who is making a case for how we lesser mortals learn it? I was nearly in tears by the end of the course, convinced of my own stupidity and incompetence, because it was as if the class was communicating in their own language, and I (and other aerospace guys) were the village idiots who accidently made it in.

It was only after I took it upon myself later to learn using a lot of youtubing, "maths for idiots" type backtracking that I was able to learn just enough.
Many native apps still make sense as they need deep access to phone features or better performances (games). Many apps are already backed by a website used for acquisition and first engagement (and then pushed to install the app). Both worlds have not been so disconnected anyway for the developers standpoint so they should be able to adapt easily.

The question is more tricky regarding CPI ad networks or app analytics services.
CPI ad networks will make less sense because the Installation disappears. Web technologies will make SEO easier for developers (app indexing was not easy) so paid acquisition and SEO will be back in competition... which should lower the ad spending.
Retention remains key and app analytics and mkting tools (like push notifications) have acquired a great know how about managing users during their lifetime. So they should stay too.

Like in the 00's when developers had to adapt their skills from Windows software to web technologies, I assume native apps developers should start updating their web skills. It's hard to find the right guy for developing a high quality PWA right now.
That makes sense, well, that it happened, at least. Typically those topics are covered in US schools before university as well, just they are covered in more depth and rigor again in university and with the applications of those topics to CS as well.

In the US we have this body called ABET which helps define a standard engineering curriculm.
Oops! Thanks. Will add it.
This was for macular degeneration. My family has it, and all of my elders affected still drive cars and most read normal typeface. Maybe in reality these patients were extreme cases, but the article didn't present them as such.
I maintain that System and Distribution are not compatible by definition.

Distribution: A spatial or temporal array of objects or events.

System: A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.

I admit I am not an expert in language, but I have yet to see an explanation of how these two terms mean the same thing.
Besides the obvious lack of advertisements, most my the improvements would come from resolving my main issue with YouTube, which is how aggressively the service directs you towards content with ads. I feel that this was not the case many years ago and that YouTube has actually gone backwards in terms of having a reasonable interface for navigating through the vast amount of information it hosts. I feel channels, suggested videos, subscriptions, searching, and even monetization were more user-friendly back in the early 10's.

The problem is that, as far as I know, YouTube has not been wholly profitable for Google at this point, so they've really been trying to squeeze all the money they can out of it, and I feel it's come at the expense of the service itself. I spend far less time on YouTube these days.

I would be much happier spending money directly on a service which treated its users as customers rather than the product.

As far as other features, I think it's naive to say that YouTube has every feature someone could want a video hosting service to have. I feel YouTube could improve quite a bit in plenty of areas, particularly in how people 'watch' music there.
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790

We could remove 90% of custom scrollbar javascript if this was fixed.
Two questions: Did you have problems with w10 LTSB which you didn't have with regular w10, or was it the same with both?

And how did you get LTSB? I read it's $7 a month but I don't understand if anyone can get it or you need to sign up as a company.
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America is way ahead of almost all of Europe in terms of access to transgender healthcare.

In most of Europe, it's not uncommon for trans women to be forced to crossdress in public in order to get hormones. It's not uncommon for trans women to be denied hormones for a number of stupid things: if you're attracted to women (you have to be 100% straight to get hormones in most of Europe), because the outfit they wore to the doctor isn't feminine enough (you have to be wearing a dress), because you have no interest in bottom surgery, because you don't specifically hate your penis, because you didn't play with dolls as a kid, because you've had any sexual thoughts about being a woman. You have to go out of your way to prove to the shrinks there that you're trans enough, and their standards are so ridiculous that they'd tell 90% of cis women they're not really women.

It varies by country. Denmark and Finland are the absolute worst about this. Denmark in particular has been condemned by Amnesty International for this [0]. Norway is pretty bad, but I've heard stories of people who found a sympathetic GP who's willing to go around the law (in Norway, it's illegal to prescribe estrogen for transition outside the gender clinic system, but a doctor can prescribe estrogen for other reasons, and doctors don't have to report their prescriptions to anyone). I've heard Spain is one of the least-worst countries, actually, so much that trans people from other European countries actually go to Spain for treatment. Same goes for parts of Eastern Europe (estrogen might even be OTC in some Balkan countries). The UK used to be horrible, but they've gotten better in the last 2-3 years or so, which is entirely thanks to a single private doctor (Dr. Webberly). In Germany and France, it depends on exactly where you live.

In the US, I can just walk into any informed consent clinic or in some cases the offices of certain GPs, sign a paper that says I know what I'm getting into, get my blood taken, and walk out with a prescription for estrogen once the bloodwork comes back.

Oh, and in some European countries, you can't even legally change your name unless you've had surgery. I know this is the case in the Czech Republic (you can take a gender-neutral name, but you cannot take a female name if you have testicles). It's sad, because access to hormones is better in the Czech Republic than in most of Europe.

[0] News article about it in English: https://www.thelocal.dk/20170303/amnesty-slams-denmark-for-d... -- Amnesty International's actual report, in Danish: http://amnesty.dk/media/2263/amnesty-transkoennedes-adgang-t...
> "Magic" becomes obvious common-sense once you understand.

I fully agree. Packing data into a binary array, popcount with bit fiddling, macros for generics, etc may seem "magic" to some, but they can be useful especially in performance-critical code. Once you understand these "magic", they are just some common pieces in your toolbox. C is a simple language. Learning C plus such "magic" still takes much less time than grasping the entire C++.
This could be great for freight trucking where they spend majority of time on freeways, which should be easy win for self-driving, and then do the last leg with a virtual, or physical pick-up driver. Likewise for shipping.
That makes sense, thanks for the insight. But I don't think there are too many store clerks that want to strip-search shoplifters...
If "kingdom" in your Guardian quote refers to the United Kingdom, then it is surely in turmoil when a non-trivial number of people (say ~50% in Scotland, ~25% in Northern Ireland) don't wish to be a part of it.
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Ask HN: Best platforms for conversational UX development
I've recently started looking into building conversational UXs. I've looked at Amazon Alexa and also briefly looked at Actions on Google & API.ai.

Does anyone here have comments on where each of them shine, and what their shortcomings are? I'm particularly intrigued by how you can build conversational agents for multiple platforms on API.ai, but their documentation seems a little lacking at the moment.

Are there other platforms that are worth considering at this time? I'd imagine Apple will likely open up SiriKit to arbitrary intents soon.
> Today, WASM doesn't support GC

That's true for now, but they're [planning][1] on adding support for that in the near future.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
By global standards, the US government is spectacularly honest, effective, and efficient. That's one reason the US is so attractive to foreign investment and foreign entrepreneurs.

Charities and private businesses actually succumb to corruption, inefficiency, and outright fraud pretty often. How much research do you perform on your charitable contributions versus your taxes? Do you know, off the top of your head, how many cents on the dollar actually support the cause of your favorite charity, and how many are "wasted" on administration?
In the Japanese study, they used these cells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell Which are very expensive and complicated to produce. They injected the cells into one eye, monitored the patient carefully, and decided to halt the experiment and research further based on some genetic findings in the injected cells.

THAT'S how you do "you don't really know whether it will work until you try it" on humans.

The clinic in Florida used a different type of cell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesenchymal_stem_cell These are far easier to obtain (centrifuge and wash liposuctioned fat -- voila!), but have more limited uses. They can become muscle, fat, bone, cartilage, and blood cells, among a few other things, and they help repair injury -- awesome stuff! They CANNOT become eye cells. We already know that. Do not inject them into your eyes. You will go blind. Those stem cells do not belong in eyes.

What the clinic did was tremendously irresponsible. This is not a matter of "someone has to be the first" There's just no evidence at all that this would work.
This footage is always so scary, and beautiful at the same time. Amazing stuff. I can't imagine what it was like seeing the first test go off. The feeling those people must have had about the future.
Contemporary commodity CPU's have all sorts of features that important customers want [1]. You probably are not an important customer if you don't own multiple large data centers of the sort located next to hydro-electric dams and who causes price drops on used high end Xeons when you upgrade the data center hardware.

The CPU inside a CPU is vulnerable and it changes with every tic and toc. Windows 7 is pushing 8 years old and was designed around older and almost certainly early generation Management Engine designs (and perhaps a few down the road iterations of it). But it wasn't designed with data from the field about attacks and exploits. Windows 8 is largely a reskinning of Windows 7 and probably has similar vulnerabilities in regard to accessing the CPU in the CPU if such vulnerabilities exist.

Windows 10 has a somewhat different architecture and almost certainly has been designed considering ME and AMD's spin on it from the ground up and reflects all those years of experience from field deployments and the CPU vendors current roadmaps. Importantly, Windows 10 is designed with the idea that future experience will require changing the code.

Anyway, my suspicion is that the internal security model of at least some contemporary chips are considered to have probable or actual vulnerabilities exposed by Windows 7/8 and the business decision is that the most effective way of mitigating those vulnerabilities is simply to not support the consumer use case of buying new hardware and then running old versions of Windows on it.

The business case I am imagining runs along the lines of how much damage would Microsoft suffer if there was a problem versus how much damage it suffers from pissing off a handful of edge case users (considering that the majority of the noise will come from people who don't use Windows).

[1]: example AMT, etc. https://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-...
You're mistaken, ARPANET is not the internet. ARPANET was one network, there were others. The intenert is the internetworking or network of networks that emerged from connecting those networks together.

From the network standpoint it is peer-to-peer as the internet is a network of dumb pipes with intelligence put in the periphery of the network. This is different from say the european minitel network[1] where dumb terminals were connected to a central intelligence.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
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The way I've come to view culture is that it is a byproduct of communication. Stick three people in a room and have them talk to each other, eventually they come to share a culture (a small one, but nonetheless significant to them)[1]. If it's indeed a byproduct, it follows that the amount of culture generated is directly proportional to the bandwidth/speed of that communication.

In that interpretation, the internet can only be an accelerating force; driving society forward into greater levels of social consciousness.

[1]: A relevant XKCD comes to mind https://xkcd.com/915/
Despite the other replies, at only 1% of the speed of light you could set up a reasonably similar situation. The deviations between Newton and Einstein here would be significant if you were trying to literally plot an orbit for your visiting spaceship (and why the bloody hell would you want to do that?!), but not if you just want to watch two high mass objects dance around each other really quickly for a bit.

My question would be more about whether the simulation has sufficient granularity to avoid the star flying away due to the time step being too large, rather than concerns about relativity. And of course Universe Sandbox won't be simulating the black hole tearing away bits of the star, or at least, so I'd presume.
I'm responding to your comment based on the information you provided. You should direct him over to /r/socialskills. If he's neither "neurotic nor dysfunctional" then he just needs to polish his social skills.
Wouldn't the force required push the satellite so far towards the edge that it would get crushed?
I think he simply read that as "Do they pay less (for living)?" and not that they pay less for software. No one could seriously think that you pay less for software based on your location, compared to other people in the same region/country.
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> The general rule, really, is more like borrow only for appreciating assets (often real estate, financing a new business) and not for consumables or depreciating assets.

Note the gotcha: if enough people borrow money and buy something because they think it will appreciate, it will. In other words, according to your rule, speculation can make itself appear worthwhile.
They're included in the arXiv version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01724
> It's a repayment for all those years I was poor and the government paid for me to live and go to school.

Not to mention an investment in the costs you'll impose upon the state in your dotage.
Multithreading is hard xcode edition
Here's the scene from Selena, it's pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5bA8cVF-E
I use greasemonkey on firefox. Recently, I have written a crawler for a major accomondation listing website in Copenhagen. Guess what? I got a place to live right in the center in 2 weeks. I love SCRAPERS I love CRAWLERS.
Congrats on finally jumping into the conversation, so to speak! Also, thanks for the perspective, this is really encouraging.
This should no longer be the case, at least for Safari, Edge, and Chrome. All of these "detach" fixed/stick position elements from the viewport once you start zooming.
Where is yours? Hardcopy?
I don't understand why this guy is particularly more interesting or amazing than the countless other homeless people who have survived in our inner-cities for decades. The only thing that makes this guy different is the superficial aspects : the setting is more rustic, there's no drugs or begging involved, he lives in a forest instead of in an abandoned subway line, etc.

In some ways, this guy actually had a much easier time surviving than many of the inner-city homeless. He essentially had access to a low-security, well-stocked resort town in rural Maine - entirely to himself with no other criminal competition and a very small police force to worry about. He didn't have to worry about getting killed by other desperate homeless people or by police, or having to constantly search for a different place to sleep every night.

Also, he wasn't even forced into homelessness. He just made a willful decision to live this kind of parasitic lifestyle. Perhaps he was mentally ill in some way, but regardless, I can't be particularly sympathetic without further information about his motivations.
> Since the time of your interview, we have changed the process of discussing compensation within the first 15 minutes of a conversation to the end of a phone call.

Cynical read: We discovered people are more likely to compromise on the salary if they've already committed their time to the interview.
See my posting at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884950 for an explanation of why that's not actually true.
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I never heard/read that quote by Einstein; interesting. Here is the full quote for the curious:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17014-the-release-of-atomic-...
I'm coding in C89 because I'm writing software for industrial embedded controllers. Future maintainers of this software are more likely to be electronic engineers than programmers, so "keep it simple and don't use magic" is actually extremely good advice.

That said, my code does use a couple of macros, but only to do stuff that would be very long-winded and/or impossible without, and using malloc at all is very much frowned upon: storage should either be declared ahead of time in special .var files, or on the stack.
To be fair, D in BSD stands for distribution.
Because the vendor should provide an SDK for development?

That's literally what Yocto builds for you.

you should still be able to download something from them with instructions.

As an example, here's Freescale/NXP's github with their Yocto recipes. It was not "nuked from orbit" on the purchase.

https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-platform

And a sample build guide:

http://www.nxp.com/assets/documents/data/en/release-notes/IM...
It's not really until you get up near 90% of the speed of light, where dilation starts getting insane. That's when the curve starts to sharply jump straight up.
You can't draw your own lines, which is precisely the argument in favor of a small, weak federal government and robust, largely sovereign state governments. The same people glad Trump is in office now were screaming about executive power two years ago, but were thrilled with the huge expansion of federal power with the TSA, etc. It's cyclical and everybody's memory seems to be maxed out at 12-18 months on a good day.
I kinda see the future in that talk as that as a worthwhile goal. If we could get all the security and interoperability advantages of the web but with native-level performance, support for multiple languages, and backwards-compatibility with legacy software that'd be huge.
Part of the perception might be that people do get runny noses and sneeze more in cold weather (at least I do). That feels a bit like having a cold so our minds might connect them and subconsciously feel it's the same thing.
What do deductions have to do with anything?
Why don't roads count as an "entitlement program?"
Honest question, do people really find sleeping in cold rooms with little/no clothing to cause illness? I'm probably an outlier (last illness was food poisoning in 2003), but I sleep through the winter in boxers, covered in a light sheet, with the heat set low (65F, higher if I had a GF at the time and she was sleeping over).

Is it the shock to the body for those unaccustomed to it, or just another area where I'm at outlier?
What about microwaving? Would that work?
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Like using a chess computer, it seems that there would be no way to protect against someone who relays the cards to a separate machine, and then enters the bids by hand on their own computer.
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tl;dr Still no evidence that D-Wave's new "thousands of times faster" computer is any faster than a classical computer, even for annealing tasks. And we'll see if we've reached quantum supremacy when/if Google and IBM reveal their 50-qubit quantum computers in the next few years.