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"tech-illiterate massess...."

I am very well aware that our audience is a developer tool and well again, people do not use tools because of the languages they are written in but because of the experience they deliver. You are bringing up extreme examples to support your viewpoint. Bad developers will write terrible experiences in any language. Writing native apps requires a level of expertise that is not with the average developer either. Look at other comments in the thread talking about a "native" app going from good to bad.

> "HTML based components..."

Well, one of the reasons why one has not come up is that most users don't care about OS styling as such. Again, UX benefits over pedantic comparisons.

> "They can perform equally well..."

Why is the browser a bad environment assuming the level of performance required is known? I don't see any technical limitation here. CPU/memory impact on the machine can be handled equally well in Electron by offloading components onto native languages if required. I guess then one should always write in assembly languages? As far as I recall, games were written in C and specific parts were optimized in an assembly language. Those lower level constructs are still available in other ways. I am not sure you understand that technological choices are made with specific constraints towards a goal rather than purity of abstractions.

> "Qt developers..."

And I am sure so can any competent developer through any of the choices available in the market. A copy of a product is easy to create. A product is harder to iterate and maintain.
At age 59 I have come to the opposite view. I assume you are referring in passing to Erlang & Haskell. They are probably OK, never actually used either. I Prefer the real deal, which to me is Prolog. But that's just me.
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I'd pay $30/yr to twitter to keep the service running, in return I'd expect the option to opt-out of ads.
We are working on connecting the Interceptor with the native apps. Need a few tweaks in the codebase. :)
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>> $25 a year would be too low, everyone will be verified

I don't believe this.

Suppose it is true. This would be an excellent reason to start with a "quota" (say 10000 per day) - sort of a queue based FIFO system.

But each day, there will also be a few (say 100) which will open up for bidding allowing you to jump the queue.

If $25 a year is really too low, then some variant of this system should work.
Pissing off Symantec customers is a necessary evil in this case. It's a sign that the strategy is working.
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You could write a native text editor which can use JS plugins. Sublime Text uses python plugins and is nice and snappy.
There is a giant gap between the public client and their proprietary API.. something in the middle is the only sensible solution (50-100$ a year). I would definitely pay just for more options on getting their data.

This is going to cannibalize their gnip/API business but their pricing is in the thousands per month and any small or midsize companies have so many work arounds to get the same information it's laughable.
I honestly thought Bush had doomed the Republicans for a generation, but all that got wiped away somehow. Two wars and a fucked world economy? Can Trump top that?
And what is the reason your business would benefit by being verified?
I am unfamiliar with the concept I guess
VPNs are the new passwords.
By not having a physical mailbox. Nothing says that you have to have a mailbox, and without one the USPS won't deliver mail to your house. Also, I believe that they have some sort of permanent forward that the local postmaster can put in so that if you don't have a mailbox at home they'll send it to a PO box.
> Therefore, I am asking all authors to respond to this thread if they
object.

> ...

> If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you have no objection.

Is "nobody objected" a high enough bar to re license a project? Or am I misunderstanding what's happening?
Ok, so release of 50 gigatons of CH4 means 10x increase in atmospheric CH4, then we are looking at around 50% contribution to greenhouse effect from CH4 after that I guess.
Maybe. But then that would be the first time a Twitter had a spam problem to deal with. ;)
I've probably read a handful of Alzheimer's cures in mice that haven't panned out in human trials the past 5 years.
so arctic russia has acne?
If they let you sort on it you could turn off anyone replying to your tweets that wasn't verified. A crude but probably pretty good filter for not seeing the Twitter mob.

One more thing, it's 2017 and if I am paying you money let me edit my tweets for a certain period after posting to correct spelling and grammar errors.
Are the aquifers/groundwater sources filled up/filling? Seems like they have been kind of overtapped for awhile in many areas. If they ever get back up to high levels then maybe we should celebrate.
What you define as bloat depends on the system where you expect things to be running on. If we were building a super thin client which probably runs on a low memory device - it's worth saving the bloat on memory and CPU.

Saving dev team time is exponentially rewarding as a product matures. I'd rather say that as the team gets better at saving dev time on testing and platform parity, they can use that to optimize the experience across all platforms simultaneously. Meanwhile, if you are a small startup (like we are), you would have validated your business proposition and have a larger team to take bigger challenges. That's exactly what we have seen in our experience.
While what you say is factually true, I think the thing you are missing is the psychological effect of putting up such signs and having these policies. It gets people in the mindset that this is serious and we can't ignore it. It's very easy to get caught up in the mob mentality when it comes to personal water usage which leads to, I think, feelings of helplessness and an ignorance when it comes to the larger problems like agricultural water usage.

If you aren't encountering these sorts of things on a daily basis, you lose sight of the greater issues. However when the entire community is affected, it changes how people act and feel. People are much more likely to stand up and say something when they are personally affected (either by choice or by situation). Even if only a small percentage of people started caring more about conserving water because of these laws, I think it's a good thing.
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This is Theo de Raadt trolling, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13945492
I had a similar, yet opposite experience moving from AZ to CA.(Northern)

Going from a lifetime of desert living with miserable weather and the greenest sight being olianders, to a sea of green trees with more normal weather. Night and day difference.
Theo's trolling because of the proposed OpenSSL re-licensing.

Thread for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13945492
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I think what the point of the parent is saying is that we have never witnessed the likes of something like this and that our system is more fragile than we think. Previous wars and other events have all been leading up to "the big one". We can see it beginning to happen in what you mentioned above or in smaller instances.

Also saying that poor people can just not eat meat or seafood seems a bit distasteful; not that you might be wrong.
Will the service change the current top-comments-all-negative situation under all of Trump's posts?
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>> The advantages of having a cross platform application developed in 1/3rd the time especially for new applications are huge (faster time to market, larger number of people for validation)
> I'm not entirely sure the premise here is accurate. I suspect that an experienced Qt developer could produce a basic native application in roughly the same time as an Electron developer, but with a fraction of the overhead.

One difference here is there a lot of JS developers available to hire an much fewer Qt or even C++ devs.
Every time I see stories about runaway climate catastrophe, I stop and consider the scenarios and how it might affect how I lead my life, and none of them really change how I plan to do things. I'm working and training in ways I believe will contribute, and that is sufficient to calm myself.

Basically, either we make all the turnarounds necessary, on every front - policy, technology, engineering, culture - to beat this stuff by a huge margin, or it's all over. I don't see a middle ground of "things kind of suck for a while and then it's okay" happening. And that guides a lot of my thoughts on other topics: I want survivability, and of a form which preserves key freedoms. I believe massive reforms to the economic and political system are needed to do it. I believe our existing social network structures and cultural norms are insufficient to address this. There's a lot of room to change in all directions.
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"That's the standard subsidy for electric cars in the UK, I think."

Nope. The maximum subsidy for a car is 4,500 per vehicle[0]. The article says they're offering 7,500 per car to taxi drivers.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/plug-in-car-van-grants/what-youll-get
He means you can save them for offline playback. A 2-hour mix is around 100mb for me. If you're listening to music every day, then it adds up pretty fast.
I imagine the literal boiling of the earth. Yes, not accurate but just interesting to picture (for me).
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>…device makers build in pattern learning so devices can recognize when they're been compromised. A coffee maker that suddenly starts sending out email, for instance, would be suspicious and should set off alarms.

Or, you know, don't install an e-mail server in your coffeepot to begin with.

(You'd think that would be a lot easier, too, but I guess the other way they can charge more for "machine learning".)
The context is that OpenSSL decided to re-license and sent an email saying "send an email if you object" to everyone. Theo De Raadt understandably objects strongly to this, and is parodying it by declaring intent to relicense GCC in the same way.

Also, he's contacting gcc devs by emailing tech@openbsd.org.

The entire point is that it's NOT a high enough bar.
but Jazz disks didn't have any better data retention than writing to /dev/null, whereas most alternatives do.
Many CAs are cross-signed, what should the software do in that case?
Interesting.

gab.ai just added subscriptions as well.
In what language pair going which way
I have to get around to reading those books... I have Blindsight sitting on a shelf.
I think there's a lot of variables at play, all of which need to be considered. The answer won't be the same for everybody.

To me the ideal candidate for electron is moderate complexity with an audience that's likely to value day-1 cross-platform support over other factors. If it veers toward the simpler side of things like Simplenote, electron is overkill, as developing separate native front ends isn't going to pose too much of a challenge (especially if platform agnostic code is shared). On the other end of the spectrum with a high complexity app (e.g. same class as Photoshop, Maya, etc), you're frequently going to find yourself at odds with the limits and performance issues of web tech and whatever conveniences it affords you are largely rendered moot.

As for if a wrapper offers value, with ever increasing OS-browser integration I'd say whatever value that's there is quickly being eroded. Personally, if I have the choice of running an Electron wrapped-web-app vs. running a web app in my browser and a true native app isn't available, I'll take the latter in most cases for the greater control it affords me. It allows me to take resource consumption into my own hands (to an extent) by choosing Safari or Firefox instead of embedded Chromium and it lets me controls what scripts are running, what domains are being accessed, etc.
That's not too surprising. Though I will say that NYC cabs are pretty ok, at least I never have to worry about being able to pay with a credit card and they are actually cheaper than Toronto cabs, which really says something.
This appears to be it: https://twitter.com/socialhorrornet
It may somehow be detecting the size of the display. My 13" laptop likes 250% scaling, while my 27" monitor likes 150%.
Ideological trolling? What does that mean?

No offense intended, but it's a bit confusing knowing what topics/opinions I'm allowed to discuss and which ones I'm not.

For the record, you're criticizing me for a post where I suggested that everybody had the right to voice their opinion (even those I disagree with) and suggested a tactic that would help give respect to a movement that voices concern for at-risk people.

I feel very strongly about equal rights for all humans, and I'm not sure why this is so offensive here.
And teach your grandpa it's ok if his bank's website no longer displays that green address bar?
Mashape folks are fantastic. Remember augusto pitching in 2011. Cant help but be happy for the guy. Part i dont understand is how A16z funded Rapidapis.com and now Mashape. Is it not a clear conflict?
There's no direct benefit to the spammer. More effort would go into pruning spammers (from those who are paying, spam protection services) and if twitter credited their account for any payments related to an account marked as spam it seems like it could work. Definitely an interesting model.
That implies that climate is at a relatively unique place. I mean, there's arguably no way that Greenland temperatures will be higher than tropical temperatures. But I guess that makes sense, in that we're in an interglacial.
If you're meaning to say you can write "multi-platform desktop" apps using Electron... I suppose you're technically correct, but they don't feel native on any platform, are generally slow, massive to distribute, don't integrate well with other applications and generally have weird non-native-app-like behavior. Like Discord I can resize and have the minimize/maximize/close buttons overlap the window. Atom and VS Code still can't do DPI scaling right. I wouldn't say you can build good desktop apps with them. Just crappy little ones. Maybe that's necessary to interact with one library or another, but that's a tradeoff. And a big and important one to recognize.

Maybe React Native will work on desktop and fix all this eventually, but IMO React Native is just not there yet, it doesn't even feel native on mobile.

I say this as someone who writes both an app with both an Electron/React portion (in order mainly to interact with a specific JS library) and a Qt portion. I really do like the way React does a lot of things and npm seems like the exact right way to do package management in a programming language - but the JS ecosystem is a mess. While I'll agree the wealth of developers on it has had many good results, it's also created a horrible moving target. There are half at least 5 different and fairly popular module systems, module loaders, etc. There are constant attempts to use language features which aren't official yet or even at a final spec via babel. The build and packing systems are a mess, everyone has their own different series they prefer and getting working integration between a few can be problematic.
I flagged this story and comments like this is why. If you want to argue the pros and cons of a government policy, do so. Reading accusations of astroturfing etc is not intellectually gratifying.
TL;DR - It's the code from "Massive Exploration of Neural Machine Translation Architectures", where they run extensive hyperparameter search using 250K hours of GPU time.

Direct GitHub link: https://github.com/google/seq2seq

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03906
Dr Racket has something similar.

http://soegaard.github.io/blog/2013/06/21/running-man/
This just made me realise that yes, 2008 was in fact almost 10 years ago...
What if it's not lack of will but game theory? Maybe it's actually impossible for a large complex system to act against these trends because there exists no stable game strategy for the kind of large-scale cooperation that is necessary?
But it's the truth - those Uber drivers don't get guaranteed work, they don't get hours, they don't get salary. Instead they find contracts via Uber and they keep their portion of the earnings. Just because Uber takes the payment makes them an employer? If Uber had the drivers take the payment and pay them out later would they not be an employer anymore?

Seems like the exact definition of a contractor to me. I don't know how else you could define it really.
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Maybe there's a chance the IP is worth something.
No monetization yet. Although, we are building out some tools for people that run haunts that will for sure be monetized. Went into this knowing there isn't that much money in this sector for just websites.
Comes in cycles, always has - certainly more severe due to nature and more people on this last go-around.

I remember in elementary school being taught how to properly brush our teeth and conserve because the drought at the time - decades ago.
Groundwater takes decades to replenish, and that's a huge source of water we've been tapping.
Pretty simple, people see the checkmark and value you more. Also stand out in search and some threaded conversions.
Word sense disambiguation is just one of many factors that go into machine translation. What matters is average human evaluation.
I and I'm sure most people on this planet don't care about leaving a legacy to a future species when the problem at hand is our own survival.
I always find it fascinating to read and understand the mistakes or yesteryear. Many of the same architecture flaws can be found in systems today, and likely tomorrow. Bugs, on the other hand, are fun because we tell ourselves we would never make those mistakes, and then proceed to make them.
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A number of people recommend doing that as best practice.

https://raymii.org/s/articles/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning_Extens...
Mods, could we get a title edit clarifying the joke?
20% of American houses are not connected to a public sewer system while only 10% can't get at least 25/3 broadband.
I have tried Rust, Go, Java, SML, Lisp, Javascript, and many other languages. I prefer Go in many situations where simplicity, speed of compilation, and portability are important. Rust is an interesting language with a lot of potential but the jury is still out on how wide the adoption will be. There is a steep learning curve, and the borrow checker has limitations.

One thing I don't appreciate is being lectured by pimply-faced nerds about how Go programmers should embrace Java/C++ generics into their heart as their personal saviors. I understand what Java and C++ are, I can choose to use them or not, and it's none of your business.
No need, you can just dmca the various people who use the software in violation of the project.
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Very interesting. I tried similar experience once and it was pretty fun. Good luck with that project OP!
Does anyone know which crops would particularly be bolstered? It would be interesting to see what lagging effect this has on produce.

Edit: not the point of the article.
That would make sense, your DPI scaling is all to do with readability after all :)
Yup, definitely room for a "Twitter Prime" subscription. Some vanity icon & no ads.

On the plus side, users who pay Twitter monthly are less likely to be throwaway accounts.
I did some hardware design for a product in my first job out of college 10 years ago. They are still shipping it. I'm sure they've updated the boards as parts go EOL (end of life), but they definitely didn't restart from scratch. I would like to get one, but it costs $30k+ [1]

[1] http://www.keysight.com/en/pdx-x202266-pn-N9020A/mxa-signal-...
That seems like it's clipped from a "You Can Do Anything!" article. He said he's full up on Generic Business Magazine advice.
Developer of Insomnia here, and I'd just like to say that it makes me happy to see people in the wild are enjoying the app! Oh, and there are some big, fancy, and awesome things coming ;)
It has. The end result of the ATT v. BSD [1] suit was that certain files had to be rewritten

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....
That's pretty epic to have a fully functional human nest for 49k.

Is there a place where I can try them out. I will be visiting SF and definitely want to experience staying in a container home before deciding to make a call.

A dream of mine is to buy some land in a remote place with a gorgeous view and place a container home there.
I have a completely different take on where twitter needs to go. The YC application I am submitting today is based on a twitter-like.
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Thanks, the things you miss when you work instead of browse HN for a couple of hours :)
Burning wasn't necessary. Most texts that weren't copied continuously were simply lost. Our oldest sources for written Chinese are on dinosaur bones -- but the script already had characters that clearly show they also wrote with pen on bamboo slips, but we don't have any surviving examples of that until the Classical Chinese era.
Thanks, thought I'd missed something.
>It's all just for show so politicians can pretend they are doing something when they really should be regulating agricultural usage.

Blaming farmers is scapegoating. California doesn't have a water waste problem. Everyone there is trying to save water. California has a water supply problem. Which is inexcusable for a state with that much coast line. After 30 years of drought, only now are politicians deciding to build desalinization plants. They were perfectly happy to collect taxes and spend it on anything other than infrastructure to support the growing population.

But go ahead and "conserve" agricultural water. Watch the top soil and all its nutrients blow out to sea.
> Is "nobody objected" a high enough bar to re license a project?

If you had an agreement with the contributors giving you the right to relicense after publishing a notice, provided there were no objections, sure.

Otherwise...It doesn't seem likely.
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Beautiful photos! The only reason I still click on big media links is the photography. It is the only thing 10-100x better.
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I love his ideas, but sometimes they swamp the action. There's less of that in Echopraxia than in Blindsight, as a response to feedback. But Blindsight gives you back story for Echopraxia.

After you've read them, do check out https://www.reddit.com/r/SF_Book_Club/comments/2hzpmt/echopr... .
Yes, this is true. But emacs without plugins isn't worth much, and I'm too old to enjoy playing the configuration fiddle for more than a few minutes
They must have an exploit, and they're pivoting to ransomware. Dang.
Prices are driven on the margins - that is the last transaction
> Everyone deserves access to C technology without
restriction, especially as rust makes inroads.

What? Is this whole letter some form of sarcasm?
The title's not a joke.
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My only issue with configuring X is that 'load "glx"' will not fetch the correct libglx.so with nvidia drivers loaded unless you tell it to go looking in /usr/lib/nvidia-[VERSION]/ :| took me a very very long time to get GLX working on my setup.
The pedantic force is strong here.