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Ask HN: Any solution for implementing native ads to ionic/Cordova app?
Seems all popular ad networks(Admob, etc..) provide native ads format, but do not support Cordova.
>2 GB of RAM for the system (and separate 2 GB for Ram Disk)

Pathetic operating system without dynamic filesystem page caching or SMP. I honestly don't understand why people obsess over Amiga.
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Hi hackernews,

currently just merged HHVM and MySQL 8.0 support.

If you have any critics, feedback, suggestions or wishes please let me know.
I wish Reddit would embrace commenting and could compete with Disqus. I think bloggers especially have more trust in reddit, if would work fast and doesn't load a lot of crap like disqus it would bring a good chunk of new users to reddit and also be beneficial to bloggers themselves.
I agree somewhat with the article.

So many small/medium sized companies are obsessed with re-writing everything without even realizing that re-writing something from scratch is probably the worst business decision that can be made.
"Greater than"?

Maybe "More than"?

The > character is not allowed in titles on HN?
I don't understand why the Carbon Price Floor was a 'poorly designed policy'. From your description, it had exactly the intended effect - it reduced carbon emissions. That coal was pushed out so early might not have been foreseen, but why does that matter?
Everything new is bad.

Everything old is bad.

Finding the middle way is hard and makes you sad.
> I don't think microservices, react, functional programming or no sql are examples of 'hype'; I think those are good engineering decisions (depending on the problem domain).

Hype does not mean that a popular technology should never be used. It's when people overrate and overuse it and try to apply it to the wrong domain.

The examples are spot on.
Comparing that to the aircon in the buses... Getting soaking wet while hiking in MacRitchie, no problem. Riding the bus home and fearing to catch a cold because it feels like European winter with shorts and a wet shirt.. not fun.
From what I've seen they've done two things. First, yes, they've basically spent huge amounts of what would otherwise be profits on subsidizing two day delivery. They have dabbled in various methods of last mile delivery, like using their own drivers or drones, but to this day 90+% of my Prime deliveries are delivered by UPS or FedEx. The rest are either Lasership or Amazon delivery both of which have a noticeable drop off in reliability.

The last mile cost is extremely complex and I see no evidence that Amazon will figure out zero cost two or single day deliveries. FedEx nor UPS has been able to, and that's their core business!

I do think that it will be solved one day, but it won't be by Amazon. It'll be due to an advancement of lots of outside technologies that will be enjoyed by all retailers. And if we're being honest, isn't that outcome better for consumers?

The second thing that Amazon has done is subsidize things like free Video, books, and now Thursday night NFL in addition to free two day shipping to create an overall value package that draws people into Prime.
One guy I recently discovered and fell in love with is Jeremy Blake, who is also behind the YouTube channel Red Means Recording [1].

A few weeks ago, he released a song, Reggie's Song [2], which has been like an absolute mind virus. If I'm not playing it on my bike commute to work, I need to get it in during the day somehow. The song was mostly created on a Pocket Operator OP-1 [3]. The whole video is super entertaining, as he annotates the creation process via textual inserts, and has arguments with an alter-ego, Octocat (the GitHub one?).

Another EP that I really enjoyed recently, though not in the same style, is OVERWERK's Canon [4]. The same artist also created a Daft Punk anthology a few months back, which is a great way of going through the many years of Daft Punk's history, all in a single song [5]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChnxLLvzviaR5NeKOevB8iQ

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5cU9qWRg0 (This video covers the creation of most of the song. The whole song is available at 12m37s)

[3]: https://teenageengineering.com/products/op-1

[4]: https://soundcloud.com/overwerk/sets/canon-ep

[5]: https://soundcloud.com/overwerk/daft-punk

Edit: It's also through issues with playing OVERWERK's and Jeremy Blake's songs that I discovered that SoundCloud appears to have some pretty major issues with their CDN. They've never gotten back to me, but some people can't play a bunch of songs, and the Android app silently skips over them. https://twitter.com/teotwaki/status/847140656715837440
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Yes, for example NoSQL and MongoDB .

Ppl had no idea about relational databases and thought that's a good case for not using them.
If nothing else, he'll almost certainly be dead soon.
Well, if you mean because you get to do fun stuff like this then yeah!

This work is not really a product of higher education though. It's one of creativity, tenacity, good programming and more than that a deep knowledge of the NES architecture! Most people have the capability to do the last two regardless of education!

The more I read about 8 bit computing the more amazed I am. Needing a very detailed knowledge of the underlying system was a given then, unlike today. What's massively impressive is that some hit games back then were developed by teens in their bedrooms (so no grad school!). Miles away from the game industry we see today!
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I am also an Aussie, but I have a sister who is a permanent resident in Singapore, and owns a house and a business there. I have spent plenty of time there, and have met lots of western ex-pats who have found success there.

But the immigrant worker thing bugs me.

These workers, mostly women, are treated very poorly from what I have observed. I have heard my sister threaten her nannies with deportation for not complying with her orders, and have seen and heard of other ex-pats behaving even worse towards their immigrant employees. It seemed to me to be so normalized, that my sister and her friends do not recognize their behavior as being in any way abhorrent.

I would hate to see that sort of tiered society in Australia ever. It might work on paper but it also changes the nature of the people they serve in an ugly way.
at first glance, yes i think this is the case, especially people straight out of college

a similar trend happened with dell, hp, oracls and ibm- gone are the older, whiter males making over 100k base to sell to corporations as "trusted advisors"

in are the thousands of young kids fresh out of college dialing for dollars and making 45k
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I've used sourcerer for a while now. https://github.com/xero/sourcerer
Yeah, I was also thinking along those lines when writing my comment. That there trade-offs are like those in a Huffman tree. So one easily accessible/expresible feature means many more distant ones.

Has someone thought and wrote about this?

And there are other aspects that don't quite fit the information theory model (like using infix notation for operators or not, from Paul Graham's post).
Did Spellbound Show Us the Power or the Myth of the American Dream?
> whiter males

What does that have to do with sales aptitude?
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/apple-recycling-i...
I've had an idea for a potential free solution: www.wordpress.com

Nevermind. It's not an idea, it's a real product.

You're gonna have a very hard time if you want to run instances, lambda and dynamodb in the cloud only to run a blog with comments. First, it's really complex to setup, even for an experienced dev. Second, it's gonna costs a ton of money and you'll be at the mercy of your traffic.
Lessons learned building a decentralized app
Building an 8-bit breadboard computer
> coal on the fire is going to give out ~10Kg of CO2 'easily'

Very easily.

C + O₂ → CO₂

Carbon has atomic mass 12, oxygen 16.

12 + 32 → 44

So to produce 10kg of CO₂ we need only burn 2.7kg of coal.

This is why burning methane gives more heat for the same amount of carbon dioxide − we get the energy from producing water as well:

CH₄ + 2O₂ → CO₂ + 2H₂O

We have the same C → O=C=O, but we also have two sets of H-O-H bonds giving energy.
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The future of enterprise is virtual and augmented
I feel like it's learning a new totally artificial language.
A few other notes.

As well as steel, forestry was tightly bound to coal mining, with a significant legacy in the rural environment today. Pine plantations were put in to provide cheap pit props with a 70 year lead time.

Deep mined pits are doubly bad for the environment. The spoil is noxious & the coal polluting but also the pits themselves emit greenhouse gases from the seams that would otherwise be safely sequestered indefinitely.

Moving to the countryside has given me some of the skills you describe. We have woodburners, so for me the learning has been to gather kindling in the summer and dry it, and to have facilities for large scale wood drying. I've learned to use a proper wood axe - a workout that's probably unavailable in any gym!
Funnily enough my new hardware startup was looking at getting PCBs manufactured at the same Sony factory as the RPi a few months back.

We don't really have the volume for it yet so are using a fab in Newbury, Hampshire for now.
Ok, that is rather cool. Could something like this be used to make a better Template Haskell?
I wrote the rfc for this "effort": there will be an IR in CockroachDB, just not right now. It's a lot of work and we're not going to do this in one go.
Is there a way to tell them apart?
I don't know about in the US, but in the UK when the Green party attempted to propose UBI they were ridiculed because it would be so expensive. Apparently even the average person can see there are orders of magnitude between the cost of bureaucracy and the cost of UBI.
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I think all of this serves to highlight how valuable information technology is right now. People can get away with massive inefficiencies, producing tons of garbage code, not-invented-here habits, horrible performance, and still run a profitable company. I agree that hype-driven development is bad, but instead of complaining about it, just don't do it. Run circles around those who do.

I have my own theory about why hype-driven development is prevailing: it's social signaling. Probably none of the hyped up stuff is as good as they claim, but nothing is cool without hype. It's a good way to attract younger developers in job postings, who lack the experience to evaluate their own career decisions.

I'm also not sure about the solutions proposed. Spikes and hackathons are useless if it's already determined that a hyped technology will be used, then it just serves as a training exercise. A strong technical background and experience comes with age, and this industry is heavily biased against older programmers.
The home you live in is usually not included when classifying high net worth individuals. A common definition at least here in Australia is:

"a HNWI defined as having more than US$1 million in investable assets, excluding their primary residence, collectibles and consumables"
Yeah, you come down to breakfast and there's​ a random person sat on your sofa, you ring the police and they say "meh, you didn't put a sign up"?

The requirement to post a sign to make trespassing an actionable offence is a USA thing AIUI, it's not a UK thing at least, but copyright is almost universal and doesn't require even adding a (c) mark, it's automatic at the point of creation under the Berne Convention. Or in other words you've pushed your analogy too far and hit a marked legal difference between USA physical property law enforcement and international intellectual property law.
Hype is worse that what people think: it create bubbles where constructive disagreement and criticism are quickly shunned.

Amazon has (or had) a culture of encouraging criticism (as long as it's supported by reasonable explanations) to the point of harshness and this was quite effective at stopping hype.

Grumpy engineers loved it, starry-eyed ones got hired elsewhere.
Because old solutions are so old and boring. I've built programs with J2EE, I wrote those XML files. Nothing wrong with that, this stuff works. But it's so much better to write 2 lines of Kotlin code running a top of Netty instead. Yes, it's very immature and new. But having fun is essential in my work. If I'm getting bored, I won't work, simple as that. I could be a uber driver, if I wanted boring work. Some people are just boring money makers without any passion. Nothing wrong with that, but not everyone is like this.
Ah, you were talking about maids. Yes, I agree there needs to be far stricter enforcement there, and a cultural shift to go with it. I haven't witnessed any abuse personally but have also heard stories.

I think it's because that mostly happens behind closed doors in private property - there's all sorts of scope for that few percentage of natural assholes to abuse the power they wield, plus as you say, it's sort of culturally acceptable. I too would like to see that changed.

That said, would you destroy a whole class of employment just because of a few bad apples? Or even more than a few? I also know that for uneducated girls from villages in Indonesia, working overseas as a maid is like winning the lottery. The alternative is often to become a prostitute. Where's the line?

And FWIW I've had a maid before and I don't think it changed me at all. But you're right - there's a certain type of person for whom having a little bit of power over a person unlocks something dark inside them, and in a domestic setting that can be a recipe for mistreatment. More regulation is needed - Singapore's laissez-faire attitude fails it here.

I was talking more of the construction industry, where stories of abuse are much less common (and there are witnesses and company licenses at stake) - in this context, migrant work is IMO an inarguable good.
You're misreading the blog post. Choosing React because it's a well-engineered solution to a specific type of problem that plagues front-ends is fine. Choosing React because it's currently the most talked-about and blogged-about platform for front-end development is not, and is likely to lead to issues.

Similarly micro-services. If you cannot see the tradeoffs you are making when you choose to use them, you will blindly lose man-years of productivity when you inevitably encounter their rough edges. Prepare for them, and work around problem areas like monitoring and interface complexity, and it may be the right choice.
I live is Australia. I used an even distribution for simplicity's sake. Obviously the wealth is skewed toward Melb/Syd.
So true. Add Angular to the list. I would say, as a rule of thumb, if your team is not 5+ developers, don't bother using a framework. Because small team usually get small projects.
Unfortunately, using "brighter" here is still completely incorrect and parent is right for correcting him.
Indeed. It isn't a supply chain thing per say, but the availability of the latest OS in older devices has made it easier to upgrade less often.
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How many of you migrated web projects like this:

1) JQuery/JqueryUI

2) handlebars/mustache

3) Ember/Angular v1

4) React/Vue/Angular v2

From the average HN stories and comments over the last few years, this was the common path, and migration steps.

So I agree with the blog post in general (not the details). Instead of running from one hyped tech next and rewrite your stack constantly as a side-effect.

I value educated decisions and more long term thinking. Using Javascript and copy&pasting some functions from JQuery and other libraries to build one own/company little library/framework that suits the task might be a better idea. In the end the tech behind popular framewoks is often pretty simple and just a few lines of code. The hundreds of opinionated API corset around is what makes it hard to refactor and migrate later.
Few points should be mentioned here, mostly because [non]strictness and dynamicity are not the same.

Tunable strictness is already there for languages that use type inference (and nontrivial type system in general). Haskell, Terra, Julia to name a few. In terra you even have two separate worlds and the border is strict; static side doesn't poison dynamic side. Otoh, in haskell once you fix a type, all calls are specialized, so careful typing must be applied even for cases that really never happen.

Dynamicity is the other beast. Dynamic code is not one that was written in dynamic language, but one that uses dynamic approaches to the problem. Metaprogramming, functional programming, complex dispatch programming cannot be converted into efficient code without providing special hints to the compiler (iow writing c++ code). Even jits usually give up on meta paths and provide little-to-no benefit there. So in general we can't convert really dynamic code to its efficient static representation. Otoh, if the code is not so dynamic, then type inference will do everything right for it, no type magic needed.

Edit: I forgot to add julia's details, quick intro is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28078089/is-julia-dynamic...
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Gaming Your Heating for Cash and Giggles
The more thought put into the font, the more likely that it is graft.
Design it like human
> If I'm getting bored, I won't work, simple as that. I could be a uber driver, if I wanted boring work.

This is big problem in the "new economy" of automation. Some people want "boring" jobs and those are disappearing, some people want "stimulating" jobs and there's not enough of them or at least the threshold is too high to get such jobs.
Wow! That's schocking!
Hmm something has to be done to improve this. Know anyone else who has suffered this?
> 20-30 years experience. Most have fewer than 10

I've rarely met devs with more than 20 years of experience that would buy into any hype. OTOH it the most hype-y conferences I've been to the average level of experience seemed to be... between 0 and 2 years.
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Not always a bad idea to try new and exciting developments (Bit of a time waster though) I like your examples, I remember the ror years well :)
Not being constrained by weight and size (unlike most other forms of engineering) explains code bloat and perhaps NIH but not hype.
So the Carbon Price Floor onæy targeted coal and not other fossil fuels?
This basically what I'm talking about.

Ok, if what the smartest and best people are doing isnt the right solution for my problem, what is?

Come on; enough vague hand waving. How do you pick the right tech to use then?
If you were to turn off the coal supply, wouldn't the boiler quickly lose heat, particularly since we're extracting energy from it?

Even if it takes an hour to cool down, since daily and weekly patterns are generally known, can't they reduce or stop the coal supply an hour in advance?

In a world with more renewable energy, perhaps coal plants can be designed with smaller boilers, to strike a different tradeoff?
Hey Contingencies, are you talking onshore/offshore China RMB? If so you should know offshore RMB capital flow is strictly controlled by SAFE (State Administration of Foreign Exchange). RMB is NOT freely convertible and is designated by the PBoC as a restricted currency (even though it is in the SDR basket). Look up QFII its one of the few legit ways to move or repatriate foreign capital into/out of China. CNH (offshore RMB) deposits ARE freely convertible and major banks do offer conversions.

Im not totally sure where you think there is a missing gap, but happy to talk more. Email in my profile.
I think you mean 17-USC-108. It might surprise you to know that the web extend outside USA and that Fair Use and exemptions for libraries and archives (aside: where's the definition of those two terms in the USC that's being used here?) don't extend to the World. IA may be legal in USA but a whole lot of the websites of the world reside on servers in other countries.

There's a minor technical problem with that USC too, it seems. It allows archives to "reproduce no more than one copy of a work". But to compare a website you make a second [admittedly transient] copy to decide whether to re-archive. That's technically not within the scope of that 17USC108 accommodation AFAICT. This may have been solved in US law; I've a feeling there was a modification of EU law to allow transient/cache copies?
The point of peer review isn't primarily about finding fraud, which is rare, but about finding errors in reasoning by the authors, lack of needed experimental controls, faulty statistical analysis and so on. The retracted papers aren't necessarily fraudulent in a malicious way, but by circumventing the peer review process as the authors did, it is hard to judge the merits of the papers -- they might be great papers or they might be crap.
Solar is cheaper than coal without subsidies (and coal is/was subsidized a lot in western countries over the last decades primarily b/c of jobs).

Not to nitpick but "advocating for ../../coal/etc. [...] None of them compete with coal" doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
> Before you criticise other developers: STOP

That's exactly what hype is: not using enough critical thinking and trusting developers of popular technologies.
Can anyone please explain why electricity is called hydro?