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Hi RangerScience, the APIs are based on REST, so any language that can handle https are supported. We're also working on libraries for a bunch of popular languages :)
Who said that an email that I typically reply to is more important for me to see than one that I typically wouldn't reply to?
The examples seem more typical of Coffeescript output.
Just a quick question.

I'm cool with this and all but I've had issues having my US dev credentials pulled from foreign banks. If I build a small integration with this, I won't end up having to rewrite the thing right? You are okay with someone outside of the UK and Ireland using this for development purposes.
That's true and important, but it's very different than "Alabama doesn't have unions", is all I'm saying. (It's kind of like saying "C doesn't have static types" just because it's type system is far less powerful than, say, Haskell's.)
I am a Windows developer, primarily C#, WPF, and Win-forms. I must say I have had my fair share of interaction with desktop applications. Electron is great for prototyping and bringing an idea to life quickly. Like many have mentioned the performance is pretty terrible. There has to be a balance between performance and development time/ease. Personally I can work quickly on WPF (due to exposure) and tend to stay away from Electron because of its performance issues.
What's possible on a high-end rig today will be possible on on a phone within 2 years.
This screenshot from the front page seems to be offering something like what you want? [1] And they clearly support virtual cards so why wouldn't automating that work through their API? [2]

[1] https://root.co.za/images/rootcode.svg

[2] https://root.co.za/images/mobile-desktop-mockup.jpg

EDITS: added 2nd part and formatting
I think it might be interesting to have VR use in the military. For example, small unmanned recon drones fly/move through an area, get a very detailed virtual environment, and then mission participants get a walk-through beforehand.
Facebook to hire 3,000 workers to monitor content amid surge of violent videos
The interesting part to me is that it tends to be the lesser educated that sense that there's something wrong with the news they are fed on TV & newspapers. I think this is likely because college educated people tend to use more pure intellectual horsepower (which is easy to fool) whereas the lesser educated use more "intuition".

That said, simultaneously the lesser educated can be far more easily led astray by laughable obvious fake propaganda (usually right wing) that an educated person would never fall for. But the thing is, those whose job it is to manipulate public opinion are experts in where weaknesses are in each type - different tactics for different audiences.
There's also a Planet Money episode on this
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/12/13/167055503/why-l...
The argument is General Computer. I argued that Chrome OS is not a general computer operating system. People then down voted me and

> How is ChromeOS not a limited version of Gentoo that it's based on and locked to Google's cloud for "ease of use and deployment"?

I don't understand the statement regarding Chrome is advertised as a solution for certain people but is not a general purpose computer?

Windows 10 S has some very capable general purpose computers that are limited.
>The math is for you to see.

It's not math.

>And how many ISP companies do you have experience running ?

Indirectly, 2. I worked for both my father's and my uncle's ISP's, both of which they owned and operated.

>What is wrong with it ? Has worked well for Google.

Alright, fair, you got me there.
Ah that makes sense. I was wondering why the examples all looked like Coffeescript output.
> It's not a "loophole", it's simply the lack of any explicit law

That's literally the definition of a loophole - something the letter of law fails to account for, but the spirit of the law would have intended to cover.

I was writing in a pragmatic register, not a legal one. You can't consider the ethical/practical consequences of the law using only formal legal language - there's no legal definition of what constitutes a loophole in the law, nor could there possibly be.

> Again, this isn't "abusive behavior".

Again, not referring to a legal standard of abuse. If you were arrested and wrongly convicted, had all your assets seized, and then had your conviction vacated but the state refused to return your property, would you feel abused?
Exactly. I always imagined a future where there would be an oAuth scopes like gateway for banks. Something like -

This website requires the following permission:

[x] Monthly recurring payments of $20
[o] Automatically get the payments
[ ] Send me the link to deposit every month

> Proceed
> Cancel

Life would have been so simpler then (Obviously I haven't thought this through completely, but something similar to this with proper security would be far superior than our current model of Name + Credit card number + CVV).
Employers never IN ADVANCE plan to lie to employees, right? If you ask your boss a question, you ALWAYS get a truthful answer.

Life isn't black and white. What if they're a 55 year old in tech? I could imagine someone being scared shitless of saying they're "burnt out"
India's judiciary, while vital and beneficial, is also extremely entrenched, at times quite unpredictable and bizarre.

In fact if you go by the definition of deep state, Indian judiciary might be cited as a good example of it. Except it's not a secret conspiracy, but a well known clusterfuck.

As for this one judge, it's likely that he is mentally unstable. It's also equally likely that there is some truth to what he is accusing the other judges of. Both those propositions need not be mutually exclusive.
Pypy does it a lot like that.
> This is a global phenomenon, not just happening in the US.

So are many other kinds of financial transactions, there hasn't been a real problem enforcing that. That's basically the IRS's job.
Hey spookyuser, yeah we do, i.e. Authy/Google Authenticator supported :)
Wait there are actually fishes inside all that batter? I was certain it was a euphemism.
Hello! I was wondering if Occipital was specifically looking for computer vision engineers who also know mobile development (Mobile Computer Vision Engineer), or if computer vision engineers without a background in mobile development were also welcome to apply for this role.

Thanks!
Google at least at one point owned about 6-7% of the Uber[0]. They may still own that much.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Uber-does-Google-ow...
Please stop, both of you. Internecine spats probably don't belong on HN in the first place, but if you can't address each other civilly, that's definitely not ok.
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that seems highly unlikely to me, given the abundant history of covert violence. Obviously it's hard to assess for individual cases but across a distribution people seem to avoid notoriety.

Perhaps we can make inferences by parallel; trolls engage in obnoxious behavior when granted anonymity or insulation from direct consequences. Is it likely that absent an audience for their trolling, they would be nice all the time?

Seems unlikely, and the historical record suggests that cruelty, criminality, and impunity are a common combination.
Google will acquire them. They already own shares from a Google venture round
> It is a recognition of individual right to defend themselves.

It's a recognition of the individual right to feel defended. Statistics (and the results of every other developed country in the world) suggest that feeling is wrong.
"SpaceX has also proposed an additional 7,500 satellites operating even closer to the ground, saying that this will boost capacity and reduce latency in heavily populated areas."

This should be interesting, depending on how this is regulated on the legal side it could result in the major ISP's updating our infrastructure, of course nothing has stopped them from agreeing to update infrastructure then running off with our tax money in the past. Not to mention they will probably use legal means to hamstring this if possible. Hopefully this spurs competition in areas with stagnating ISP's and increases availability of low latency connections in sparsely populated areas.
What were the reminder and habit tracking apps you used?
Cool, we're in discussions with a major medical school to run a study to compare performance after training with one of our modules vs traditional training materials.

Even outside of studies that specifically look at VR there is a lot of research into general learning, training and education that tends to support the hypothesis that VR will be a powerful tool for this type of application.
Problem is they did own part of Uber. They were (are?) invested in Uber.
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What about the barrier of 1:1 interaction being important? Certainly schools only scale so far on that front.

And probably kids aren't going to just be left home alone all day. That's a very big logistics problem on a country-wide scale.
> Even if you convince me these two languages are so different, there's nothing here to convince me Common Lisp deserves the title of the "real Lisp" or "true Lisp"

It's the lineage of Lisps where Common Lisp is in, which is Lisp:

Lisp I, Lisp 1.5, Standard Lisp, Interlisp, Maclisp, New Implementation of Lisp, ZetaLisp, Spice Lisp, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, ISLisp, ...

Those are all compatible to some extent and share a common core. Code moved a lot along these dialects. Macsyma had been written in Maclisp, moved to Zetalisp, then to Common Lisp. Reduce was written in Standard Lisp and then was ported to Common Lisp (without adoption). Hemlock was written in Spice Lisp and moved to Common Lisp. LOOPS was written in Interlisp and then moved to Zetalisp and later Common Lisp. CLOS was written in Common Lisp and was moved to Emacs Lisp and ISLisp. Even much of Common Lisp was moved to Emacs Lisp. ISLisp can be implemented as a package in Common Lisp relatively easily (Kent Pitman did this to check that ISLisp is compatible and has nothing which is not 'easily' implementable).

It was also usual that some Lisp implementations ran multiple Lisp dialects side by side, sharing everything: data, memory, I/O, ... For example Interlisp-D had a Common Lisp implementation side-by-side with Interlisp. The Symbolics Lisp Machine ran Zetalisp and four variants of Common Lisp side-by-side.

Then there are a lot of derived languages which either have different syntax, different semantics, different data structures, etc.

Examples are Logo, MDL, Scheme, Racket, Dylan, ML, Clojure, Javascript and a bunch of other languages.

Scheme initially shared some code with Lisp. Dylan tried it with a Lisp transpiler, ML initially was written in Lisp, ...

> Scheme can also run LISP code from 1960 with a very small driver.

The old Scheme is relatively near the Lisp mainstream, the newer Scheme less and less. Twenty years ago there was some code sharing between Lisp and Scheme, now almost none.

For me there are two definitions of Lisp:

* the main line compatible and sharing Lisps

* the general abstract family of Lisp which share an undefine subset of a set of features: lists, s-expressions, lambdas, parentheses, ... But you can find lots of languages in the larger Lisp family which have only a rough subset of this, like Javascript or Logo.
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It's partly to help raise awareness of this kind of advertising, and start maybe looking at its impact on the elections themselves. Also, if you are able to capture data from multiple feeds then you can also start to spot trends and maybe electioneering sheenanigans.

From the Guardian article [0]:

"It aims to show who campaigns are targeting, how much the parties are spending and will shed light on whether targeted adverts are crossing the boundary into 'fake news'."

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/free-soft...
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How much marketshare do you think that Javascript will lose once WebAssembly gets mainstream?

Has it evolved so much that it's now a language you would pick out of free will? With ES6, I'm hearing that it's actually usable and kinda nice, but every time I use JS for something instead of Python, I get hit with things like the weird typing that you just can't change.
> Where's the killer app for VR?

Treatment of mental illness, for example PTSD or vertigo.
It's rooted in federalism. The federal government generally doesn't have the power to regulate transactions between individuals within a state. When it has assumed such powers, it has required some legal gymnastics.

A gun dealer with an FFL has a license to do interstate commerce in firearms and is subject to federal regulations on the subject. A private sale is governed by state law.
Evaluating constant expressions at compile time is something any good compiler will do. It's not bad practice to write something like "60 * 60" in code instead of 3600, if the underlying computation is important. At the same time, performing a multiply at runtime is unnecessary and wasteful. This just gives you in JavaScript what any decent C compiler has been doing for ages.
I comment them heavily and use them as documentation.
This is Ubers fault for leaving themselves open, but this will play out like a hostile takeover w/ Google upping their 6percent stake to controlling or wholly owning Uber
Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
We just received multiple "google doc shares" that seemed sketchy and were not sent by the claimed sender.

They came from different companies that have no connection to each other, I assume others are seeing them too right about now. Anyone know whats up?
The term ICO is horribly misleading. It sounds like IPO, which generally is a liquidity event that happens after a company has become established. An ICO happens before there is a company or business, in any meaningful sense. But there is one similarity -- like an IPO, the sellers in an ICO are immediately liquid. What could go wrong?
No, but the Common Lisp of 1984 has much of the Lisp of 1960. It's backwards compatible in many ways.
Call me nitpicky, but you lost me at `Box Box1;`

Instance names should be lowercase, for God's sake.
You can just download VR prototyping kits for Unity or Unreal, you don't even need a headset.
What about crypto currency makes it hard to regulate? The US Gov regulates all financial transactions, including face-to-face exchanges of cash, which is just as untraceable as crypto currency unless you have the budget to follow everyone around in spy vans (which the IRS does not).
Ask HN: Is Google+ a good platform for a brand page or is it only Facebook now?
So we are in the middle of creating social accounts for our product and have created both facebook and google+ brand/product pages. But is seems like google+ is sooo far behind facebook in terms of API, apps and other tools. This got us wondering if Google+ is worth the trouble? Is it still worth using time on a brand page on Google+ or is it only Facebook now (or others)?
I can imagine the builders getting to 1968 pieces and having to find one more to fit in somewhere.
> I argue that you don't actually have any reason to believe that the differences are biological instead of social.

I could provide studies on how IQ development is set by genetics and very early childhood. So yes, I do have a reason to believe IQ is biological.

> Only a properly regulated market ever sorts itself out.

This is true, but "we must hire women otherwise people think we're sexist" is not a properly regulated market.

> Well, one flaw is that your conclusions don't follow from the studies.

But my conclusions do follow from studies. If you take top 2% of people by IQ from a random population sample, you expect to have more men. The same would be true if you took the bottom 2%, but that doesn't interest anyone.
For what it's worth they sort of used to. It's US Air that had all the Airbuses prior to the merger.
There's an additional challenge in Taiwan, where due to the superior pinyin transliteration system being politically unpalatable (because it originates with the self-described communist government of mainland China), they have eschewed pinyin and have never settled on one consistent romanization scheme for street names.

Therefore in Taiwan there are places where you can see the street name spelled in different ways on two sides of the same street.

Of course this isn't a problem for the Chinese characters, only for the romanized spellings, to the extent those are of interest to Google's data collectors.
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That may be part of it, but in Texas (where they do the same thing), they use the mail-back as a way to (partially) verify your physical address.
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If you include the price of the headset with a serious VR development computer, you get pretty close to $2,000 pretty quickly.
Are you asking me how to quantify culture? You could go buy services like what WGSN offers, or you can just not be a socially inept corporate econometrics data clown and leave your house once in a while, interact with young people, and use your eyes.
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It's 2037. A substantial chunk of 20-year-old Google user data got into the wild via (sale / theft / government regulation / who knows? A lot can happen in two decades).

Some enterprising startup fed that data into a simple ML algorithm and correlated it against other publicly available data. Turns out, your search history as a kid partially predicts adult outcomes like salary, grades in college, chance of bankruptcy, chance of arrest, etc. That startup sells this info to Experian, who adjusts their credit scores accordingly.
They already gave the data to Facebook, so I think that ship has sailed.
People in Chicago pay taxes. You know the city well and know this isn't a valid comparison. If you have to use our shared hometown as an epithet, make it one that's relevant to the place.
Who would want to acquire a company like that. They'd have to fire all the employees and management to get rid of the bad seed.
"Here's the thing," [Judge William Alsup] said. "You didn't sue him. You sued Uber. So what if it turns out that Uber is totally innocent?"

This is going to be a very interesting case.
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Same with going on a low carb diet. Your cravings for sugary things pretty much goes away entirely. There's something else factoring into those urges.
To set up a business account with Fire the company needs to be registered in the UK or Ireland, we have plenty of people accessing the account from elsewhere so yep - that's fine.

It's one of our selling points actually. In the past people that live elsewhere would have to fly over to the UK to set up an account for example!
I'm quoting precisely what you said, and providing a counter-statement, namely, people may or may not love/like their work.
Quite right. Compression over TLS, although useful, is frowned upon for the reasons you state.

I'm normally the sort of guy who puts everything behind HAProxy, I may still do that for convenience (certs in the same place etc) but imagine moving to a point where I put the Go programs behind, but in TCP mode.
Might be confused with Rootstock: https://medium.com/@CryptoIQ.ca/rootstock-smart-contracts-on...

It's a blockchain programming layer aiming to implement Ethereum's virtual machine on top of Bitcoin's blockchain . . . programmable bitcoin accounts . . .
see: that article from a few weeks ago chronicling that guy's 10 year journey exposing a serious bug in his bank's website where no CSRF is implemented.

spoiler: it still exists, and their solution was to have him sign his soul away and shut up about it.

one day (!!!)
> Facebook is approaching 2B users.

If you count also their sister properties including FB Chat and WhatsApp and Instagram. But Facebook the social network hasn't 2B monthly active user, as many left or rarely return.
I specifically recall LOTS of talk about "mushroom clouds" from the Bush administration leading up to the war. We knew they had chemical weapons because we sold them to them.
That's true. I know a lot of people with a lot of fake accounts for entirely legitimate reasons, as well as some trolls who abuse the ease with which they can be created. A good number of people in the first group maintain multiple sock puppets because their subject to frequent attacks by trolls who report accounts to under false pretences, knowing that FB's response is as likely to be wrong as right.

Really, what's needed is a decentralized approach where no central authority exists, only mutual reinforcements. I have found a marvellous solution for the next generation of social and informational networking but alas this comment field is too small to contain it.
Is that sarcasm or legal advice? It's not great sarcasm and actively bad legal advice.
Electron is more like the cheapest professional blender that is very fast and gets the job mostly done but leaves some pieces intact. It's a very bad idea to use it in a five-star kitchen where your customers would complain about even the plate arrangement. It's totally fine to use it in a Kebab shop to prepare garlic sauce.

Electron is to semi-technical+ users as Beats headphones are to audiophiles.
But why does this come up every time? When one puts a thing online for others to use, there will be responses, some positive, some negative. Nothing to be scandalised about.

Also, speed and resource useage is a valid concern. Some comments say that it's practically unusable on modern hardware, and on my laptop which is 7-8 years old, I can't touch this when it comes for linux (non that I would, but) because Electron is just too heavy for my computer, and I'd rather not use it than replace my device.
What will happen if you have bug in your function? Take the fibonacci function for example, what if you have a bug and created an infinite loop? Will Prepack terminate?
$1000 might be good enough for playing the Vive and Rift games that launched with the platform. If that's all you
want, I guess you're not quite so annoyingly pedantic as you first seem. But that's a really narrow use case. "I'd like to play only the worst VR games, please. Let's forget about keeping up with the market. That's not for me."

If you're just getting in as a consumer, a $1000 VR-capable PC is going to age very quickly. In my experience, the only way to get any sort of legs out of a high-end purchase is to buy the top of the line. Unless you're buying right before a major product release, my experience has been that you end up spending less year over year than if you try to commoditize.

But I took the person I was replying to to be asking about getting in as a developer, considering the blog post is about getting in as a developer, and considering this site is full of developers. $2000 has been very consistently the price one pays for "top of the line PC with parts that aren't going to shit the bed". You should not cheap out on a development PC for VR. You're going to be doing a lot of experimenting and running up against performance limits during development. You should have some headroom to avoid giving yourself a headache for the day.

But go ahead. Buy a Radeon GPU. Have fun not being able to use your VR headset right before a crucial demo because of some obscure driver issue. Cheap out on a crappy power supply. See how many investors you get for our VR startup when your demo PC won't even start.
Buying a VR headset and a new gaing computer today is still significantly cheaper than buying a home computer in the 90's for the early internet

https://pifflelab.com/2012/07/22/computers-the-1990s-you-pai...
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The entire point of Uber is to evade laws on technicalities, so the fact that they are doing this here should be a surprise to no one.

That is their core competency, in fact.
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