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The Empire is long since dead and gone, and small has-been nations with little significant industry cannot retain world-leading status forever on inertia alone. Just look at Italy; where are they now? They make some great olive oil I guess, and a few really nice cars, but they're not the powerhouse they were 2000 years ago.

The essential connection of the role to the EU may not be universally accepted, but it's also not universally accepted that the world is round or that humans visited the Moon. The EU countries are more prosperous economically for the same reason the US has been prosperous for a long time: having tons of different currencies and massive transaction overhead (customs, duties, different regulations to follow, etc.) every time you cross a border is bad for economies. North Korea is a good example of how a country does economically without significant trade.
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> ease of use and near-native speed

And still when we want actual speed we port it to C++ or at least need to use Cython.
To have all the features you get for free out of slack, you have to do a lot of work and maintenance to get out of IRC and mailing lists.

Mailing lists by themselves are terrible, because there's no history. You can't scroll up to find context for the conversation. You can get public archives, but then where you actually use the mailing list and where you go to look at history are completely separate, which is a terrible UX. Google groups mostly fixes this because they're really just a forum that supports emails.

IRC is terrible because everyone has their own client, so you never actually know what someone will see when you post something. Post a link, - will it get auto-expanded? How will it look? Will it get auto-linked? If you @ someone, will they get notified? if so, how visibly?

IRC also has the multi-login problem - it gets confused if I log in from my phone and my laptop. To get a persistent history of IRC requires running an external service which is way beyond most users.

Slack has mindshare, which leads to having a ton of integrations with other platforms, which just multiplies its effectiveness.

I 100% agree that I wish they offered a publicly visible option, so anyone can view without logging in. I also wish they natively supported self-registration.

I have to echo another commenter on here. If you want the best of all worlds, a forum is what you're looking for. Publicly visible, easily linkable, long form, asychronous communication. Whether that's google groups or something else is up to you.
Implementing a feature for macOS in Chromium is considered a cross platform project these days?
How does it do this? When you use IRCCloud to go to a channel for the first time, where does IRCCloud get the history for that channel from?

(You say "they're a client too" - I confess, I don't know what they are apart from a client.)
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Yes, please! Because the only response I can think of to the list you've posted is "so what?"

Humanity faced a lot of problems in the past. Let me remind you just a few:

* multiple plagues decimating European population

* wheat rust (and unpredictable famines ensuing)

* guano depletion

However, we engineered our way out of them. I can't see why the problems you've listed are any different.
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Whats the time commitment like? is it full time for 3 months or a couple hours every weekend for 6 months ?
That surely is an interesting finding, especially if it can be confirmed.

Null hypothesis: females in general are more trusting and [consider themselves more] trustworthy. As humans we tend to project our own morality on to others, thus expecting people to be less likely to try and attack their stuff and so being less desirous of strong protection?
"Enlightenment" as a goal has always felt like a sham to me. All understanding is approximate, but comparing science to religion is a false equivalency. Dogmatic belief ends in tautology, a thing is true because it's in the book and the book is true because it says so. A scientific belief is probabilistic and ends in open research questions, the theory of General Relativity models a subset of reality to a reasonable degree of confidence based on the evidence we have collected and makes no greater claims.

Science shows us there is no meaning, purpose, or grand truth. All life is a 4 billion-year old chemical reaction... born by chance in the universe's beautiful dance of physics, fueled by energy and bound by entropy. From dust to dust, the billions that came before us are as forgotten as those that live and those yet to be born.

But, yet, there is meaning.

We don't exist at the abstraction layer of quarks or microseconds, nor do we exist at the scale of galaxies or millennia. Questioning human existence at those levels is a philosophical divide-by-zero. We exist at the human layer, in the context of society, on the scale of under a century. Science gives us a solid foundational existential philosophy for higher order philosophy, which we can probabilistically derive from the evidence available and test as rigorously as any other aspect of our understanding.
Just because something is legally your right does not make it morally correct. People are also perfectly within their right to complain about whatever they want to online. What are you going to do about it?

Uniteds' stock crashed because of this. Perhaps people aren't as powerless as you think they are.
Yes, but as this article shows, there are much higher costs coming up for us. If we came to a consensus that this technology is important and devoted resources to this, we would see a lot of improvements in these parameters.

The problem is that neither the market nor governments work well for these long term decisions.
We are spending lot of resources on trivialities due to our short term mindset.
If it is incredibly valuable, other companies can do it too, and sell access to the corpus to other companies.
Our company recently purchased some Hardware I/O devices that came with software (both made in Germany). Lets just say, I'd much rather buy their cars than their software.
> Corporations are graduating from companies and becoming as powerful or more powerful than many nations.

Charge first leveled against the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the 17th century. Of course when push came to shove, they were nationalized by the government. But the trope has far outlasted any of the companies its been pointed at.
Hero worship to that degree is dangerous, blinding, and frankly a little scary to see on a site like HN.
I always thought it was kind of weird choice. You'd think one of the requirements for your primary military building would be that you wouldn't want it to be easy to pick out from the air by potential bombers. Especially in WWII, when aerial bombardment was such a major part of the war, and such bombing relied heavily on visual recognition of the target. But the Pentagon isn't just architecturally distinctive, but is so in such a way that's primarily appreciated from above, and than they named it to draw attention to the fact. (the article does mention that this objection was at least briefly considered during the buildings planning).

And indeed, the building was bombed from the air in 2001. One wonders if the 9/11 hijackers would've chosen it as a target if it wasn't so easy to pick out by eye.
Stop using it. Both Firefox and Edge have come a long way. I recently dropped Chrome and have not looked back.
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Same here. I keep getting the popup every now and then to confirm my number.

At one time, the mobile app used to pre-fill the username field with my actual phone number, and I had to delete it manually and enter my email address to log-in... those sneaky sons of...
No, but it generally makes sense to talk about expected investment return over the rate of inflation. Hence, the raw number is meaningless - a 12% return rate in an environment with inflation of 9% is almost as reasonable as a 3% return rate in an environment with inflation of 0%.
"There are numerous modules and setup stuck in prefork mode"

I have no idea what in the heck you are talking about. If one must use mod_php than it is recommended that you avoid a threaded MPM, but even that is no longer 100% true; you can run mod_php and Event is most implementations with no issues at all.

"stuck in prefork mode" is a nonsensical phrase. prefork is a MPM.

Just because something is threaded doesn't make it slow. Take varnish for example. There are tradeoffs on all implementations, that's why Apache httpd allows for prefork, worker(threaded) and event-based architectures which the sysadmin/devops can choose for their own particular case. But "Oog. Event be Good. Threads be Bad" is really completely missing the very real tradeoffs of both.
You bet ? I have 3 software opened right now using Python for their GUI: my rss reader, my torrent downloader and dropbox. And I got many more installed on my machine.

But the thing is, even when I write something for myself, I first write a command line app, then a web service. Never a GUI, because it's such pain.
...Also the Tesla model 3. This was going to be the model E, but, as per the article, Ford already had 'E'. Elon Musk wanted 'E' so the model lineup would be 'S-E-X' but had to settle for '3'.
That app makes it a little harder for a stranger to read what's on your screen, it doesn't have anything to do with browser access to the accelerometer and other sensors.
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Could have sworn the Swiss voted to get out of the free movement stuff a while back.
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IMO it qualifies as an IDE for Typescript, and borderline with Javascript — slightly better than WebStorm in the former case and slightly worse in the latter — but not so much other languages.
"If Google could find a way to take that corpus, sliced and diced by genre, topic, time period, all the ways you can divide it, and make that available to machine-learning researchers and hobbyists at universities and out in the wild, I’ll bet there’s some really interesting work that could come out of that. Nobody knows what,” Sloan says. He assumes Google is already doing this internally. Jaskiewicz and others at Google would not say."

For books that are scanned, but with no extra licensing, would Google be allowed to do anything with the data? Create a very delocalized n-gram set? Use it as the "test" set (not even cross-validation, where it might influence hyperparams) for a ML algorithm?

Edit: would love to know where google's authorization derives from, with the ngram set. Somewhere in the Judge's orders? A negotiated fee with the Authors Guild?
There are also lots big companies that have "SSO" but it is half-baked or incomplete with regards to which services and you end up with MSSO - multiple single sign on.
I've switched from Sublime Text 3 (native) to VSCode (Electron) and I couldn't be happier. If I didn't know it's electron based I wouldn't have been able to tell as a user. YMMV so don't generalise.
Like I was saying, IRCv3 has support for replaying the channel's history, as long as it's stored serverside. But I don't know if anything actually implements it, even IRCCloud which is v3-compatible.

At the moment if you join a channel you can't read its backlog, no. They could implement it though if they used logs from their users... kinda wish they would. But hey.
> We're at a point where the revolving door has become an expressway,

Yes

> and the connection has become so hardened,

maybe (but probably not)

> that the only option becomes to shut them down

Not even close.

The answer is to prosecute the corruption, not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
It was great. Not posh or anything, but better all around. You can use a laptop, eat actual food at an actual bar/table, see some pretty countryside views. And even if the train is packed, you aren't crammed into the passenger next to you. Not to mention the relaxed boarding experience.
Isn't this why FTP had separate Binary and Text transfer modes?
"4) Use bootstrapping with noisy labels
In practice, most of your data will be messy, where labels are subjective or missing and objects might not be localized." yes, messy data...the bane of my existence.
> Since it was a whole crew I would guess they hit up against FAA mandated rest requirements.

Gee, I wonder if they could, I don't know, hire more people so that these situations don't happen as often? Heaven forbid they lose a little bit of profit a year...

You simply delay the other flight. You don't force someone off of a flight they've already boarded.
I don't think it's necessarily a generational thing. I know people in their 30s who don't know what IRC is (or who at least haven't used it), and I know people in their 20s who DO use it (or at least know what it is). And it's not as though the knowledge is lost; IRC still exists and there exists plenty of information about it. It's just not carried around in people's heads as much. None of this is good or bad; it just is.
Are there any open source projects that coordinate development or provide support primarily through in-person discussions at conferences?
I really want to apply to Google. But unfortunately, my startup doesn't qualify due to not being in an approved VC fund, Accelerator, or Incubator.

Does anyone know of any program, that does not require me to give any equity? So that I may join and get the Google credits?
I like using IRC, that's the best for communicating with people about oss stuff. The client takes virtually no processing power too.
You don't select or navigate in text?

Shift+arrows — select characters

Option+arrows — jump between words or paragraphs

Cmd+arrows — jump to beginning/end of line or text

Shift+Option+arrows — select words or paragraphs

Option+Backspace — delete one word back

Cmd+A — select all

I actually used all of these except the last one while writing and formatting this comment! Plus clipboard shortcuts.

If you use vim in a terminal 100% of the time, none of those will matter to you because vim invents its own keyboard universe. But if you don't, I don't understand how you can have this opinion.

I get super annoyed with anything that somehow overrides these standard keyboard shortcuts, which is suprisingly often. Non-native UIs typically have to reimplement them because modern OSes have made the curious choice of not abstracting them.

I don't think it is a "Mac fans" thing. The exact same principles apply to Windows. Even to Linux, although the keyboard standardization there is next to non-existent. (I don't use Linux desktops often, but when I do, I get really frustrated that the terminals use Ctrl as a meta key instead of Command. So "copy" isn't Cmd+C, it's something like Ctrl+Alt+C.)
Well said. Being able to write an application and have it work on multiple platforms without any major UI inconsistencies or UX idiosyncrasies is a major benefit.
> These huge CPU sinks making it through to release required nobody to even glance at a CPU graph.

Every bug looks egregious in hindsight; just because an app has one is no reason to assume the engineers who made it don't bother to test anything.

Also: that particular issue only hurt idle CPU usage, and the usage was something like 13% CPU usage IIRC. It wasn't exactly the kind of thing that sets off klaxons.
Mildly off topic but still on topic: Last night I was looking at user benchmarks for the Ryzen 7 vs the newer i7s and it looked like the i7s were beating the R7s in almost every practical category. I thought the R7 was supposed to be the 'bigger performance' sort of chip, but it can't seem to beat the i7, which hasn't really had a big performance boost in 5 years. What's going on? Is it that software testing the chips has not been updated to take advantage of the fancy new technology in the R7? Or is Intel just so far ahead that the R7 is a catch-up?
I don't think it's derogatory enough. There's always these same rehashed arguments against electron - and it's always because of the same reason. The developer thinks he's a special snowflake and knows something that everyone else doesn't. He knows the "right way" and everyone else is dumb for not realizing it.

FTA: It turns out modern operating systems already have nice, fast UI libraries. So use them you clod!

FTA: Also all you web devs: Go learn C or Rust or something.

I just want to know who the hell keeps upvoting this neckbeard bullshit.
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> Nylas Mail - The best free email app | Nylas - The best free email app

What exactly makes it "best"? It looks to offer nothing more than other "best" mail apps.
There's really only two tiers, and the price jump is crazy. And does nothing for large parts of the bad experience.
The real trick is whether or not users care about:

A) This works on all of the platforms that we use

vs

B) Performance could be better on my computer

It's been a LOOOOOONG time since I worked on a laptop where I experienced noticeable performance problems...which is almost entirely because SSD's make them so much less noticeable if you start dipping into swap unless you're really working out your machine.

For most users, just knowing it will work on their machine is a bigger influence in using the product...and therefore a greater influence on business...than the performance of that system. It's especially true with a chat system where the most important feature is that everybody on the team can get access.
I'm a little confused by your list... In what way are text selection, caret behavior, clipboard, spell check, open/save dialogs, drag/drop, accessibility, and right click menus not available in the browser?
They were crashing your browser all the time, hogging randomly CPU and were the worst vector of malware infection ever. They destroy select, right click, history, scrolling and copy/paste.

But I get your point, it's was really handy. Only this year HTML5 videos are starting to be on par with flash videos. Those were so light to download.
Who were these employers of United that have been more important than a customer at that cost?

Maybe Trump chartered out Air America to United Airlines in order to save money and those employers really were CIA Agents?
My explanation for why we use complex exponentials in waves analysis, in two common cases:

In the first case, when you're solving a differential equation like

f(t) = - C^2 * d^2/dt^2 f(t)

you have several different ways of representing the entire family of solutions, all valid. Here are some:

A*cos(Cx+phi)
A*cos(Cx) + B*sin(Cx)
A*e^(±iCx)

So at least two of these solutions only involve real numbers. However, it turns out from experience that this is actually harder to work with; it's more annoying to keep track of phase or FOIL cross-terms than it is to work with complex numbers. Your equations end up with fewer terms when you use complex exponentials. Then, because we're working with linear systems, you can simply add up your complex solutions in such a way that the complex numbers cancel out and you're left with a real-valued solution that works for physical waves.

In the second case, we use complex numbers to keep track of something. Like when you're doing a Fourier transform, you break down a signal into its different frequency components. However, a signal made up of a 500hz sine wave is going to be shaped differently from a signal made of a 500hz cosine wave, so we have to keep track of those separately. Conveniently, e^(ix) = cos(x) + i sin(x), so we use a complex number to represent the presence of a 500hz cosine wave (real part) and a 500hz sine wave (complex part) while keeping our equations simple. That's sort of a practical overview; a deeper understanding can come from learning linear and abstract algebra.
As a freelancer, I have EXACTLY this problem, so I started hacking away on my own solution. Don't want to shamelessly promote myself here, but if you're interested, link is in my profile.
Java also has JavaFX, which comes with an embedded Webkit browser. I can create my UI with React, or any other HTML/CSS/JS library, and make it interact with code written in Java, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, Frege, etc. very easily. I think this provides all the benefits of Electron, but is even more flexible and powerful.
Sadly I don't often get to play with OpenBSD, but every time I do I'm impressed by how coherent an operation system it is. You really get the feeling that the developers care about delivering a system with a unified expression, where everything is meant to be used together.

It's not just kernel bundled with a bunch of tools/programs which sort of seem to work together, but not in the same manor. Even FreeBSD have sometimes left me with the impression that the developers don't care about style and just import tools or subsystems at leave it at that, rather than making it feel like it belongs.
There's been a lot of talk about software unions, and based on the horror stories from the video game industry, game developers would probably benefit most.
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You may already be familiar with but just in case: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

You can specify the types of updates to auto install (ie I use security updates only automatically).
Actually, I've been shipping desktop apps in Objective-C for roughly a quarter of a century.

Gets me the high-level, Smalltalk-ish productivity when I want it (most of the time) and the low-level C efficiency when I need it (sometimes).

Having my cake and eating it, that's me :-)
Java Swing wasn't native, though. SWT is more comparable.

React Native isn't "native" (in quotes), it's native... it uses the actual widgets provided by the host OS. You use similar techniques to create your UI for each platform, but you do generally need to create separate UI for each platform with React Native.
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If Freenode disappears, people will join Debian over on OFTC. I'm not sure if Mozilla and GNU/FSF use Freenode or run their own infrastructure but if the former, then they may set up their own network(s).

Other IRC networks than Freenode and OFTC exist too.

As far as security goes, SSL is an option for client<->server connections. I hope that at this point it is default for server<->server connections. What else are you expecting for security?
Bingo, it's the EU version of the US playbook going back to the late 70's... Take advantage of labor arbitrage by moving production to the cheaper Eastern European labor markets. But the workers in Britain, Norway etc. don't have the freedom to take advantage of the lower costs of living in those cheap labor markets.

It seems to me there's an inflection point in these national economies when the citizens' wages can no longer pay for goods and services produced locally.

I'm all for free trade between countries but I think nations need to really discourage imports of goods and services that can be provided internally solely for maximizing profits.
It seems to average 10-20 compiles a day... And it's Chromium compilation. That probably averages 1-2.5 hours per compilation. Compiler as a benchmark depends a lot on moving data and jumps from all the parsing, codegen, dataflow analysis, etc.. It's definitely not a floating point heavy benchmark.
didn't see this one coming! major congrats to Courtland.

just a thought on the power of Hacker News to get noticed by 'players'. surely Patrick Collison heard of Courtland/Indiehackers and Patrick McKenzie through browsing Hacker News? so it's not all procrastination posting here
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Perhaps the solution in this case is to put the AI in sort of a sandbox, where it has control up to a point. But there are independent anti-collision systems in place with override power.
Sorry is this is rude but how do you make a living only working 3 hours a day? Are you products already established?