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Ask HN: Examples of good Electron apps?
Electron gets a lot of hate around these parts for being consuming a lot of memory and/or CPU. But I'm curious if there are any applications that have been built with Electron which end up not running into these issues. Is it possible to create an application with Electron which uses a minimal amount of memory? That doesn't use much CPU? I'm curious as to what the theoretical minimum amount of memory an Electron application could consume if being very careful, etc.
You could use Tensorflow-on-Spark to read your JSON into a RDD in Spark. Then the Tf-RDD-Reader will be in-memory and can feed your training.
Uggh. Privacy nightmare.
Blizzard probably doesn't own all the source to SC1, they could have licensed code from other companies that they can't release even if they wanted to.
For one system, over a few years when few people are trying to break in sure. But, the history of those trusted systems is terrible overall. Look at video game consoles for example and it's not just one or two that but all the major companies that tried generally several times each.

EX: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/25/sony-ps3-hacked-...

And no the US government has not done much better.
I use IDEA, Eclipse, VS, etc on an e-ink. Use the light-theme that comes with your IDE (not the Dracula theme). You will see the colors as different shades of gray (not just b&w) - it's fine, one gets used too. And color e-ink exists just still too expensive - there were rumours that the next Kindle after v3 gets a color e-ink (2010), but Amazon shifted the focus to Kindle Fire. The technology is there, just the volume is too low, so color e-ink are still expensive.
> Modern JavaScript VMs like V8 will often optimise functions treating types as static, then "deoptimise" in the rare case their type assumptions are broken.

And that logic that's needed to test invariants is exactly the overhead we're talking about.
Putting Humans in Stasis Is the Best Way of Getting Us to Mars
Yes, Bitcoin's death will be announced, again...
yeeeeeup
I was responding to "There should be no more shame in choosing to default as there would be for choosing to exercise a stock option that causes your counterparty lose all his money." The idea is, if "default" were just a neutral acceptable option then we wouldn't think of it as fraud if you took out a loan that you planned to default on.
All you need to know about prefetching in Django
I don't think people are using true ultrasound, e.g. 40kHz. In most cases, it's more like "poor man's ultrasound" at 19 kHz, Just outside the hearing range of most people. They have to stay as close as possible to the human hearing range to avoid audio low-pass filters and simple capability envelope of the speakers and microphones.
also, LTCM managers were partners in the firm.
How to Survive as a Solo Dev for Like a Decade or So
You are right. That was naive and wishful thinking on my part.
How to Scale: Lessons from Strip CEO
Author here. Please see the section on mixed models in my post. As I mentioned there, I would love if an expert could expand on the relationship between mixed effects and Empirical Bayes.

Regarding MCMC, one of the things I try to emphasize throughout the post is that the best solution depends on your needs (for example if you want a full posterior). In fact, most of the post is devoted to quick and simple methods -- not MCMC -- because they are good enough for most purposes. I welcome your feedback though on how I could make this point clearer.
Very well done! Just tried it, and like it a lot.

I created a little screencast of the core concepts of Mini.css here, in case anyone is interested in quickly grasping how it works:

https://scrimba.com/casts/cast-1945

[Edit: there was an issue with the audio in the previous screencast, so I created a new one]
You can now use Google’s AI to add voice commands to your Raspberry Pi
We have something similar for water, see dropcountr.com.

But even without that, the water is already metered, and values on the meter are required to be visible and legible, so I'm not sure what the challenge is.
Whats so thoroughly disappoints me about the design community is that so few of them are actual disruptors. Browsing through these interviews, the questions are almost entirely about their taste --a very superficial understanding of design. And unsurprisingly, their tastes almost always have the minimal Japanese aesthetic, and a lot of talk about 'simplicity'.

As part of my job I have the pleasure of occasionally working with some of the more recognized product designers in the world, and very few of them are anything other than "basic" in their public taste profile. The majority of their concentration is on market psychology, shifting trends in technology enabling new designs to be possible, and the really hard problems of global design. They tend to have out there hobbies focused around building things and their work process is not a endless flow of whitespace and pretty objects.

All this to say -- I am disappointed that the design community has gotten sucked into designing itself more than designing for others -- a process I know is a lot messier than this website shows.
If you couldn't jam the receiver, could you jam the satellite itself while it is over your territory? Direct enough signals at the satellite from your country that it can't respond to actual users? Sort of a DDoS attack?
Show HN: A data intelligence product to make sense of the data around you
That pretty much describes 2016-2017 in America in general, doesn't it?
Python and Tarantool: Races in the Loop
Looking at the photos I'm surprised that the software isn't aware of panel edges.

In this photo, for example, the "2" and "T" could have been shifted a little so that they didn't cross a boundary.

https://www.visionect.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/sydney_...
"We're going to call it 'extreme vetting'."
When I got my mortgage (c. 2006) I had an idea of what I could afford. I went to the bank hoping they would approve me for that much. Not even taking into account my wife's salary, they approved me for at least $100k more than that. There is no way we would still have our home if we took the bank's advice.

Sure, people make bad decisions. But how can they be expected to make better ones when the people that are supposed to be relied on for good advice give such bad advice.
Unit testing is simple
The benefit of a satellite network is ubiquitous connectivity regardless of where you are, not speed.
Abundant Robotics rakes in $10M for apple harvesting robots
It may be there, but in what quantity? Please don't imply all countries are equally safe.

And why should fear be the only cause to bar entry? Is that the standard you'd use for your home? I'd start with close friends and family, myself, then go from there.
Introduction to Mini.CSS (5 min screencast)
The cost of fiber is mostly the cost of hooking up homes. Once you have that, the cost of running a connection to a telecom is cheap comparatively.
Docker Tutorial – Getting Started with Python, Redis, and Nginx
What does that have to do with anything? OSS and tech generally likes to praise itself as more rational fact based, but demagoguery is sometimes downright ridiculous.

If I distribute open source library under GPL, the advantage of GPL is supposed to be that users of my library have to provide source code to their users. Making it "viral" and preventing them to do close source business. It was written this way because of ideology authors had - treating open source as moral value.
It seems like the trouble with this approach is that you have to not only build up adequate Electron compatibility but you also need to build up Node compatibility, which seems to me to be a bigger deal. One of the huge benefits to Electron is the ability to use any of the modules from npm.

I can see how the architecture is greatly simplified, and I can still imagine using something like this... but giving up npm is a lot.
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The government of Russia in the 1920s was not composed of peasants; it did not even consider peasants as its allies. It largely considered them to be class enemies of the proletariat and counter-revolutionary. During the 1920s, it began its efforts to collectivize them. The peasants resisted these efforts initially. Ultimately, the effort succeeded only when the Russian government expropriated the peasants' property, and it deported, it imprisoned, and/or killed millions of them. That occurred mostly in the early 1930s, but Russian rural policy in the 1920s was a persistent struggle against the resistance of the peasants to the government's policies aimed toward collectivization. Saying that Russia was not ruled by peasants is not a "no true communism" argument, it is an accurate reflection of the continued efforts of the Russian government throughout that period and beyond to coerce the behavior of the peasantry and to break down their existing social structures and communities.
42% of Consumers Won't Buy from a Poorly Designed Website
Ask HN: How to find a business partner?
The last few months I've been working on a company by myself. I have a solid prototype and path to monetization, but I'm running out of energy. I need to find a partner who's willing to work for part of the company before I completely burn out.

Specifically I need to find a mobile engineer who's willing to build an android app. I just have no idea where to start looking. Any advice or would be appreciated.
Litecoin is now back because of Segwit. It's Bitcoin's hope to push a final acceptance of Segwit on Bitcoin. But, it doesn't have a real value in my opinion.
About cryptocurrencies in general I can say that I use them to get payments and to pay employees and I find them very useful and the user experience is much better than normal banking (fast international transfers and complete tracking) and no need for KYC.
1,110km ~= 4ms each way so 8ms from ground to satellite to ground but that only get you to the internet and you need to do that again on the way back so 16ms is the minimum latency possible. However, ~25ms round trips seems possible especially if they have enough ground stations near major interchanges.

PS: Remember, they can put these stations near anything that people want low latency connections to.
GE’s Alexa lamp will be available in September for $200
Send SMS Messages with Java
OpenMP: From Parallel Loops to Exaflops
Free and Instant CDN, 0.9.1 released
Ringling Bros. will broadcast its final circus on Facebook Live
I love the concept of this... it took me a minute to figure out how I could get the most out of it, but the possibilities are endless... the fact that I can write my own rules that can manage my account semi-autonomously for me and know that my code is always watching my back even when I'm not - which is most of the time is awesome. I can have this account do everything I call the bank to get them to do and be told there's no facility for that. Things like automatically taking the remainder of my chequing account balance and dumping it into my savings account as my pay is being deposited so my account starts fresh from 0.00 each month and all surpluses are put into savings accounts. I can then have some kind of AI monitoring investments and automatically transferring money in and out of my investment accounts and TFSA... I love love love this idea. It could almost become a pension manager.

What I don't love is the lack of information they have on their website. They're in South Africa, does this mean the service is only available for South African residents and Rands? Or can we get international accounts for U.S. and Canadian dollars and more?

Anyone have any further info other than what the site presents? Do we have any founders or insiders reading that can enlighten us further?
They would still have to prove you a) leaked it, b) didn't prevent someone taking the CD and creating a backup without your permission
Cost perhaps? I don't know about the pricing differential between the two, but that's the simplest answer.

Also, if this is for an educational market, another answer might be simplicity. Kids and teachers and parents likely didn't want to have to shell out multiple times for lost dongles.
It is a radically new and experimental type of money with a unique set of strengths and weaknesses. In some situations it is currently superior to all other options.

Bitcoin is available anywhere the internet is available (so it cannot be censored), and has a relatively low, flat transaction fee. This gives it utility in money transfers. It is also secured with cryptography and anonymous (yet not completely un-traceable), giving it utility for storing value.
Does anyone consider contract-to-hire roles?
Does anyone consider contract-to-hire roles? Seems like only desperation would cause someone to accept this kind of offer. Have any of you done this before? Did the job work out?
Although I can't confirm this myself, a few people here have mentioned that its likely that a digital TV signal's audio track would be compressed to remove inaudible ranges. This would require that any ultrasonic data be added by the TV.
I know, but that's kinda the point: Germans tend to obey the rules even if the
government isn't watching at the moment.
Not an expert, but here is my take:
A phased array consists of many individual, non-directional antennas. The directionality comes by cleverly combining the signal of the antennas.
If there is a jamming signal, all antennas would receive it. In theory, it would then cancel out when the signals are combined. The question is now: Before the signal is combined, is there any element which can be saturated by the large jamming signal? If so, you can jam.
The phased array direction is tune-able, so I assume the combination is done in the digital domain. That means ADC in between, which can be saturated. So my guess is: yes.
Thanks! Defender updates can be downloaded separately and installed as a standalone executable.
I don't find the arguments presented in the article for "why" to be very convincing.

- The most important difference is the continuity of the leadership. The leaders of the Hidden Champions stay at the helm for an average of 20 years

ok yes, could be

- the German history of many small independent states (until 1918 Germany consisted of 23 monarchies and three republics), which forced entrepreneurs to internationalize early on in a company’s development if they wanted to keep growing

there must be lots of countries where this is the case

- Scientific competencies also play an important role

there must be lots of countries where this is the case

- the unique German dual system of apprenticeship, which combines practical and theoretical training in non-academic trades.

ok yes, could be important

- Tax advantages are another reason.

skeptical

- the international openness of a society is an essential factor in the globalized world of the future. Germany is far ahead of other large countries with regard to mental internationalization

skeptical that this vague claim is true, let alone an important factor

I was expecting to hear something about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_company_law

e.g. "in companies with over 2000 workers just under half the seats on a supervisory board are selected by the workers"

seems like shareholders have less power and employees have more, under the German system, and it seems fairly logical that this could lead to long-lasting companies producing high-quality products
If your custom elements put their internals in shadow roots they'll be protected from page styling.
Ha ha, indeed! :)
No, really the only point of crypto-currencies are for speculating, playing stock market "lite", scams, and funding illegal transactions. I made my money on it ages ago, and it was nothing but a minefield.
Someone tell El Presidente that with a backdoor others will be able to read his tax returns and bingo he will veto any such bill!

Also, 'security backdoor' is an oxymoron. There is no such thing. It is either secure or has a backdoor.
Politians should be the first to worry about privacy.

1 - They are not guaranteed to always be in power.

2 - They will be the first to be targeted.

3 - They have the most to lose.

I just don't understand why they don't care about it.
> Is that the standard you'd use for your home?

One doesn't (and shouldn't) run a country like a house.
I negotiated them down to 75 bucks (im still on contract for 6 more months). I had to pay 90 bucks to install a new fiber termination point though. And my price is only set until Nov.
As long as they double their budgets that's fine.
But those who read this here might share it with five average joes, perhaps one of which might really get upset about the situation and call their congresscritter. If this argument is presented in several different formats and enough average joes hear about it and get upset enough to act on it, then maybe--just maybe--we can fight this bill off, again. And perhaps, over time, public awareness will grow enough that Jim Comey eventually stops making flawed arguments and begins working with the system instead of trying to game it.
No need to change a tire in Germany (or elsewhere) either. There are plenty of shops that will happily do it for you. It's an easy thing to plan for.

Besides, the northern US has more extreme winter weather than Germany, so based on this, Americans should be better at changing their tires than Germans.
The surface laptop starts at $999; I'd be really surprised if they couldn't fit in a USB-C port at that price point.

Also the article isn't arguing that the laptop shouldn't have any USB-A ports, just that the charging cable should be USB-C rather than a proprietary cable.
You should visit New Zealand one day, they have very strict rules about bringing anything in, but I've found their customs people to be the most friendly, even shared a few jokes and tips on snowboard gear with one of the officers while passing through the nothing to declare line last winter.
I am sort of stuck on this too. From my research, you want to avoid being a 'payment aggregator' but the definition of that depends on the payment processor.

SubmitHub has a similar setup and reports using Braintree (Paypal). I wonder if he only uses that for one side of the marketplace though, because holding payments is where I'm stuck. Maybe cutting checks manually to the producer solves everything? I can't find a clear answer.
I've known a lot of people burned by those deals.

The feeling you get is "I can prove my way in!" but the facts are usually related to which budget columns to drop you in...and if that's the case, budgeting is tough at that company, and the "contract-to-hire" is a huge gamble.

If someone wants you full time and refuses to hire, you HAVE to just treat it as a contract gig...and if the price is not contract-gig priced, you should probably move on.
Whenever I am fumbling around with the usb-c power on my MacBook Pro, I miss MagSafe.
It is a value store which is insulated from manipulation by Central Banks and not speculatively dependent upon the performance of a particular company or nation. It is subject to precise, predictable, and slow inflation.

If you look at Greece where savings accounts got a haircut and ATM withdrawals were frozen, or Venezuela where staple commodities and health care are now in cases only available for Bitcoin due to their currency crisis, the robustness of it is apparent.

It does have technical risks, but those are simple and easily understood. Personally, I am excited about ethereum, which turns the global mining network into a Turing complete engine for arbiterless smart contracts, where payment is built into the process mechanically rather than obliged legally and bolted on by trust like in a traditional contract.
Yes. This is one way to fix a price, when said price can be enforced.

On the other hand, if I could do so, I'd just beat you up or worse and take that water. Which is what ends up happening when you see instances of piracy and IP violations around the world.

Eventually pricing also has to take into account, the point at which robbing you would not be worth the hassle for me, and we'd all be better off conducting a transaction. For example, GoG and Steam in the video game business.
> Many national American banks are toxically opposed to actual modernization, for a variety of reasons.

That is true of many, but not of all. I work for a US bank of national scope that IS working hard to achieve actual modernization.
"Sit down and do some fucking work."

The other stuff is just optional.
so youve never been to detroit and are going on what you hear from the media - got it. Just wondering if you had any real reasons
Work and ‘Character’
Has anyone created a tool to automate the removal and restore of work and secrets for this purpose?
This seems different and a bit lacking in detail (although I don't dispute that it could be useful). How exactly does one choose m and C? And what are the conditions under which it would reduce to the James-Stein / Bulmannn / BLUP model?
You should never directly work with the WordPress global variables, and it's bad practice to do so.

Use wp_get_current_user: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_curren...

The largest attack surface for WP is poorly developed plugins and themes, not WordPress core.
> Sit down and do some fucking work. Don’t go for a coffee, that’s not work and you know that’s not work, no you’re not ‘working from the cafe’ stop lying to yourself. Get up, get on and do some fucking work.

I can relate so much to the coffee trap. Just went back from grabbing coffe. Just another to delay working.
I think that would work very well. You can't learn software development on just theory.
I like the surface connector. It's magnetic, plug a single cable in and you get external displays, USB and power. If USB C had a magnetic version I'd consider it.
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For a none PHP guy, does that mean I can put the following in my PHP.ini file (I guess at the top is as good as anywhere) and be safe?

UseCanonicalName = On
ServerName = www.mydomain.com
NASA wants YOU (to make its Fortran code run faster)
My first exposure to a machine bigger than a 6502-based home computer was a Cyber at the University of Lowell (MA). Not sure the model number, ?600. In 1984 the freshman CS classes were in Pascal, on print terminals. I think my year was the last to use that machine; the following year it was replaced by a VAX 11/780 running VMS.
Indeed.

"don’t be a fucking idiot, be sensible."
To prevent backdoor abuse, you could have a shared key controlled by various parties.

A scheme such as Shamir's Secret Sharing - "An algorithm in cryptography created by Adi Shamir. It is a form of secret sharing, where a secret is divided into parts, giving each participant its own unique part, where some of the parts or all of them are needed in order to reconstruct the secret."

Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing
As someone who sees CSS as a necessary evil, the simplicity and readability of Milligram really appealed to me. I tend to use Bootstrap out of habit (plus there are plenty of resources and answers out there) but as my skills improve I really can see the advantages of a minimal, tidy starting point that Milligram (and others) provides
and don't make 3d space game I guess. :)
The new cacao Soylent is so much tastier than I expected it would be. Despite all the mocking Soylent gets, the product is excellent. Maybe it's groundbreaking and maybe it's not, but it's definitely helpful to my life.
https://medium.com/@pauli/put-your-electron-app-on-a-diet-wi...

Even a small Electron app is still pulling in Node and Chromium, which are relatively heavy no matter what. CPU depends on what it's actually doing; if it's just sitting there, it won't take much.