skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The closest to a good answer was one guy who said he'd seen an interview in which the guy clarified that yes he did mean that.

No, the closest was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=14775990

You can find further confirmation of his views very easily by googling the English language media. Doing this could have saved a lot of pointless back and forth:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-...

> In a 1988 interview he stated that "to choose westernisation is to choose to be human".

> In a well-known statement of 1988, Liu said:

> It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is. Given the size of China, certainly it would need 300 years of colonisation for it to become like what Hong Kong is today. I even doubt whether 300 years would be enough.

> Affirming this sentiment in Open magazine in 2006, he added that progress in China depends on westernisation and the more westernisation, the more progress.
Security concerns with this particular project aside, my dev machine does indeed have 8 GB of RAM, which Slack alone readily consumes 1/8th of whilst also using 15% of my total CPU power at rest, doing nothing at all.

There is no excuse for this - it is shoddy engineering. Sending text messages is a simple task. Ruining my battery life and performance for the sake of making it easier for the billion dollar company to ship a cross platform app which feels wrong on every platform is something I despise and I for one am extremely happy that people are trying to counter this ridiculous trend.
Because some people want to do more than keep a couple chat windows open at once? Anyways, which antivirus is flagging this?
in my experience, a lot of SPA-like pages are slow because their authors didn't think to async-load code that they don't immediately need. When we async load the larger not-immediately-needed components, the page gets faster. Optimizing the data fetching is also important but the simple ways to support server rendering are to eliminate ajax calls for initial data fetching, which is often an improvement anyway.
A while back I was looking for an online password manager that you can host yourself (I don't trust my passwords with anyone else).

I couldn't find one that matched my requirements so I build one myself:

https://github.com/rnentjes/simple-password-manager
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Looks a bit overpriced.
If you cannot see the way to exit from that dark place don't be ashamed to ask for help. And please talk to a psychologist, sure it will help you.
Am I seeing corruption on Google Play? How's this possible – legal?
When I went to Google Play to check if our recently published game was in the subcategory Top New Releases of Games category, I entered some random games to see what's good about them.
One that really caught my attention and shocked me is the Calculator: The Game by Simple Machines:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sm.calculateme

I'm not advertising them; I'm trying to understand how they got 844 ratings while Installs says: 10-50? Updated on July 13th and today is 16th, I'm sure the installs data and ratings is up to date for that date.

But how can they have so many ratings and only 50(max.) installs?
As far as I know Google Play allows you to rate an app only when you have installed it.
I can believe that it's possible to download and rate it without launching, but still looks strange to me to have that many ratings.

Are we seeing corruption? Have they agreed with Google somehow? Is this cheating?
full-time h1b employees != h1b consultants
Extreme scarcity is a good driver of sustainability. Maybe colonisation will help develop technology that makes living on earth more sustainable.
Well, I was rooting for her because the story paints her as the hero; and because not being able to think of a falsifying experiment for your favourite theory is pretty damning.

Honestly I don't understand the specifics of the theories, and I wouldn't know if string theory is actually not falsifiable.

On second read I realise that this is a straw-string-theorist ready to be knocked down. It was still an enjoyable read though.
If humans can't do that either, and we cant't, why would you conclude that it's necessary to be able to do that in order to match human intelligence?

Or are you specifically talking about perfectly simulating human brains? Human brain emulations are only one very specific and narrow form a strong AI might take. But even in that specific subset of possible AIs, we have no real idea how precise the simulation might have to be. It might be perfectly acievable without even simulating individual molecules.
The unthinkability of war between its members (a millenial problem, solved for 70 years now), for starters ?

Addressing inherently regional/global issues like environmental ones at the appropriate level ?

Having the clout of a 300 million people market in trade negotiations with China/India/the US ?

Gigantic economies of scale through common legislative work and a single set of consumer/safety regulations for companies to follow across a huge addressable market ?

"greater (bilateral) cooperation" just won't give you that. Creating a higher entity is the only way that makes sense past a certain level of complexity.

The "not in its current form" argument in EU discussions is a classic one (a similar rhetorical device to "I'm not racist but..")

The truth is that while no organisation is perfect (is Westminster perfect?), and with the assumption (a difficult one to make these days) that you are actually aware of how the EU works, there are a very few other forms than the current one the EU could have ended up in.
VS (the big one, not VSCode) has a bunch of stuff in it written in HTML5/JS.
I have to agree about matrix. In fact I think at this point effort should be focused on bridging protocols to matrix instead of each different client implementing support for protocols by themselves. Then the client can only implement matrix support.
Should GitHub Unite with npm?
> A potential patent applies to any implementation.

This is the point that most people seem to be missing, and it applies to much more than just React clones. If for Facebook has patents required for Virtual DOM, you are no better off if you use Vue.js or almost any other recent frontend framework. Just because you're using a project without the patents file doesn't mean those patents won't affect you.
Apache Foundation bans use of Facebook BSD+Patents licensed software, React.js
Yes! That was it, thank you!
> because refactoring takes too long

In my experience refactoring microservices only takes a long time if the microservices are badly done, just like refactoring a monolith only takes a long time if the monolith is a horrible piece of spaghetti code.

If refactoring requires modifying multiple microservices then the microservice boundaries and contracts were badly designed at the start. When you have practice drawing boundaries well then refactoring with microservices becomes very fast, as you only have to modify the code of one service and redeploy it.

I think too many microservice enthusiasts have a tendency to claim monoliths always turn into spaghetti code, and monolith enthusiasts claim microservices are always slower and hard to refactor. This is just a sign that neither group of architecture fans knows how to do the other architecture properly, because its possible to build microservices fast and refactor them quickly just like its possible to build a monolith that is clean and scalable.
VCs might not like competition, but maybe it would be good for them!
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In the past 2 jobs even though it was just small startups with less than 5 devs, we used them in relatively critical or complex cases, but it wasn't anything formal (e.g. for every major component introduced do this).

I personally like them, maybe because I like thinking of the big picture no matter the task, plus we had extensive practice on uni.
But these aren't "individual software engineers who invent new technologies", now are they, shill? As stated in the article -- which I'm sure, based on what you've said here, you haven't read -- the "individual software engineer who invented new technology" made his one United States dollar in selling it to these vampires. Get a job.
Phrases from published works aren't strong passwords no matter how long they are.

Here's a nice example from a few years ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ptuf3/brain_walle... where "a line from an obscure poem in Afrikaans" was considered secure.

Granted, your password hash isn't going to get as much effort as BTC brainwallet cracking, but phrases/lines from common poems are going to be in bruteforcer lists.

Also, for any targeted attacks, everything from every poet or band you've ever liked on facebook or mentioned in any online resource are going to be used against you, so you better use poetry from authors that you don't like or ensure that you have never talked about which authors you like (easier said than done). Checking every line from e.g. Shakespeare is easy.
Quite cool!
I have no special sympathy for bankers, but the matter of the fact is that London and the South East are the engine of the country, largely subsidising the rest, and finance is the engine of London.

It's all good and fun to say bankers jobs will be somebody else's problem, but you are offering to replace that money with what, exactly ?

The UK used to be the laughing stock and sick man of Europe in the late 70s, had IMF loans like Greece today. It really doesn't take that much more than a wound like Brexit to fall back again into misery over a couple of decades.
Arguably, most of his contributions to Google's mailing lists were a very strange and very long form of fiction...
So if I understand correctly, if I were to use React for a marketing website about my patented system for <some extremely valuable invention> and Facebook steals/uses that extremely valuable invention, I can’t sue Facebook by virtue of using React?

Obviously, if that were to happen, you’d simply have to stop using React or else you’d get countersued for using React without a license right?

Why would anyone use React ever if that’s how it works? It feels like a payday loan – React makes it “easy” right now, but if your business is built dependent on React, you could pay a serious price later in exchange for “right now” convenience. It makes a strong case for Ember or Glimmer or any of the other front-end systems not tied to Facebook. Imagine a React “Native” app around which your business is based – you’d have to rewrite the entire thing of Facebook were to start using some patented aspect of your business.

Perhaps I am misinformed, but it seems absolutely bonkers to essentially indemnify Facebook from patent infringement just by virtue of using React somewhere in your business.

Imagine if Apple did this: if you release on the App Store using Xcode, you can’t sue us for any patent infringement ever or we’ll sue you for using Xcode illegally.

Is my assessment correct? Is React that good to risk such a situation? Facebook could sit back and watch a company using React develop something amazing, then Facebook could steal it and you’d have no recourse but to stop using React. Meanwhile, while you are rebuilding your application, you lose all your customers, but if you don’t rebuild your application, Facebook can legally take your invention and crush you in the market. Either way, you lose – simply because a few developers on the team were insistent on React’s greatness. If I were a VC, I’d be incredibly wary about supporting a company using React for their primary application.

Am I wrong? I am not trying to be argumentative – I just want to be sure I am understanding this correctly.
There is something equally insane happening on the Turkish internets right now.

At least two major mobile operators / ISPs are injecting JS into web traffic to display pop-up ads / Youtube videos on the lower right corner of every web page. The videos "commemorate" last year's events on July 15 in a language that is, to put it mildly, thorougly in line with Erdogan's ideology, and make a point of offering free data and phone credits throughout the 3-day commemorations being held.
This is no longer all that true. A lot of "trouble" one finds, even as a teenager, can keep you out of the military. You might be able to get a special waiver. After all, they want to only enlist upstanding citizens into the military. The days of offering young offenders military service rather than legal trouble is basically over.

It does still remain on of the US's largest jobs programs, though I'm not sure this is the goal of the military. It does make reducing military spending rather tricky since so many livelihoods depend on it.
> Gulenist group did the coup attempt

Has the government provided convincing evidence of this? I know Gülen was immediately accused despite not being in the country, but I don't know of any evidence of his audience being involved beyond Erdoğan not getting along with the guy, which automatically makes any opposition sympathetic to him.
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It's called PR and google has mastered that art. I dare them to open source gmail's spam filter. There are so few email solutions right now out there. They are basically a monopoly. They could use some competition.

Feel free to downvote google fanboys :). You're no different from MS fans for 90s
Unless you just don't shower and/or shave.

I work from home. I don't need effort and products to look like I just woke up.
SpaceX's proposed satellites will be LEO, allowing for low latency.
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Have a look on this picture which maps subsystems to tools: http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html
What would impress _you_?

Me personally I don't think it is impressing of Google to be able to store every web page in existance and to refresh them every other minute. I just don't think that is a good way of spending electricity while we haven't figured out yet how to properly utilize the sun's energy. Google is all-knowing while burning shit-loads of coal. What's impressive about that?
It wasn't a middle finger to the German, Merkel-Macron relations are excellent.

It was certainly an attempt to position France as the first port of call for the US in Europe, taking the opportunity of current German unease at dealing with Trump (can't blame them), and well, total political shambles in the UK.
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Atlassian started rearchitecturing around services in 2013. They were 1500ppl at the time. Confluence and JIRA were not only monoliths, but non-multitenant, so they had to have one instance per customer (700Mb RAM JIRA, 700Mb Confluence, a dozen gigs on SSD). The worst was restarting upon upgrades: Easily 3-5 minutes per instance, which, at scale, was a huge burden.

After rearchitecting around services, pieces could be restarted and upgraded independently. As a customer, we didn't notice differences in the UI (e.g. the file storage on AWS).

Epilogue: They had a shared login system, multi tenant and all... which they recently replaced by a third party. Proof that services are replaceable, but also an acknowledgment that simple critical services can be hard at scale.

I personally believe that Atlassian switched to services at the right time, when it's hard to coordinate teams of thousands working on a dozen products, and when the monolithic approach was way past refactoring date ;)
Someone is this thread mentioned windows defender and I checked with virustotal where there are some others as well. These might all be false positives, even then it still seems wrong to run a random executable from some anon from the internet.
Replace "the west" with "globalism" and "islamic" with "evangelical", and you'll see a comparable sentiment in the US.
I am French and extremely surprised to hear that the French administration will let you do paperwork in English. Then again, I haven't lived here for some years.

I wouldn't be surprised if some kind of local government agency in Paris was helping expats with paperwork, but the idea that all French civil servants and forms will suddenly start speaking English seems outlandish :)
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Graphics programming in general has a pretty steep learning curve in the beginning compared to other fields of programming.

Even with simpler OpenGL it's not so easy. You need to have quite a bit of knowledge before you even get your first triangle (hello world of graphics programming). Context creation, extension loading, buffer objects, matrices, shader writing and compiling. Even with frameworks to help you, it's much more complex than your usual hello world.
I'm saying this as a past user of slack and knowing that this doesn't help, but if they can't keep their frontend solid we can probably surmise their backend is just as shoddy, so we shouldn't be using it, no matter what client we choose to use.
Yep, and that documentation is often bad. We create our own (currently we are working with some obscure mcu) but cannot share because NDAs etc with the chip manufacturer. And so the docs remain crap and the trial and error continues.
The UK has not historically been at the forefront in terms of labour protection, and the EU did nudge it in that direction.
Yeah, I've noticed the injected video my ISP, Turkcell Superonline. Only works with sites with no HTTPS/HTTP->HTTPS redirection since they can't proxy sites with SSL.

Interestingly, I don't get the Erdogan's message on my cell. My friends tried calling me last night to hear the message, they don't hear it when they call me either. Could be related to me using my networks -paid- call ring tone customising app.
Well, obviously that was an advice given by a working man trying to punch above his weight and be treated seriously in situations where most people from his background weren't. It worked for him, and it worked for me when I was looking for jobs, houses, had to do official business and run a company. I suppose a situation like you described has never crossed my dad's mind because it's just such a unique problem to have. As with any advice - use common sense?
Thanks for the good question. I'll add it to the FAQ section of the readme.

Magnet hash is generated with create-torrent and magnet-link, like so:

create-torrent message | magnet-link

and then appending the other params like download name and tracker to it. So the above command gives us magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b8e8adbee320fc312e5fd71479329c3d53c40aea and we append more params to it so it uses our tracker on port 8000:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b8e8adbee320fc312e5fd71479329c3d53c40aea&dn=message&tr=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8000%2Fannounce

You also get the same magnet link printed to the console if you run the seeder first with node seeder.js.
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The most common reasons for requiring shared memory concurrency (instead of message passing) are:

1. It's just plain easier to write a lot of stuff with a shared memory approach.

2. There are algorithms where you get the best speedup using shared memory.

But yes, there are also downsides.

1. Shared memory concurrency can be a lot harder on the runtime. In particular, writing an efficient single-threaded GC is an order of magnitude easier than an efficient concurrent GC.

2. You eventually run into scaling issues with shared memory only (number of cores, limited memory bandwidth). That said, a hybrid shared memory/message passing solution can still be superior to a pure message passing one, and for "desktop" parallelism that's not an issue.

3. Shared memory concurrency requires programming language support (at least if you want to keep a modicum of sanity), whereas message passing concurrency can be done as a library. And many languages have really, really screwed up their handling of shared memory concurrency where it's extremely difficult to reason about correctness.

My perceptions may be colored here because I did cut my teeth learning about parallel programming with distributed computing in the 1990s, but I also find that lack of shared memory concurrency less of an issue in actual practice (though, obviously, I'd hardly pass up on having the option).
Patent trolls are extreme actors in the patent system. The spirit of patent laws is that it rewards & protect innovation. However the letter of patent law is open to interpretation and unfortunately, abuse. A patent troll, doesn't invent, invest or build. It spends all it's time attempting tot retroactively claim ownership of innovation, through acquisition of junk patents, building portfolios of them and using them to, effectively, extort companies.
Yes, OpenGL is pretty low level too. It may be better to start with a high level library or framework, you can still drop down to writing shaders, octrees or tessellators
or whatever for experiments.
Exactly this.

And the UK is going to learn about it the hard way (if it goes ahead with Brexit, less likely by the day). The Euratom debacle is already showing that.
This news has been submitted 31 times (and those are only the ones that used the word `teleport' in the submission title.) It has sparked near zero chit-chat. People are excited enough to share it, but not excited enough to discuss it.

As a community service, here are some of the links :)

Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00934

MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608252/first-object-telep...

Aunty Beeb http://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-40573621/firs...

The Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/scientists-teleport-a-particle-hundreds-o...

Fast Company https://news.fastcompany.com/china-teleported-a-photon-from-...

Futurism https://futurism.com/scientists-just-teleported-a-photon-fro...

The Grauniad https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/12/scotty-can-y...

Sites such as The Mirror, The Metro, and others are left as an exercise for the reader. Gizmodo whines about my ad blocker.
I don't know about that, but this synopsis beats 99% of book blurbs I've read:

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/farisas-cour...

so fiction might well be his real calling.
Seems like the app is quite simple and should not grow too much in scope.

You are lucky, it seems like a case where hybrid apps are interesting.
There seems to exist an inflexion point where hybrid frameworks become an hindrance and it is more productive to just go with native.

You should start by having a look at either Xamarin, Flutter or React Native.

They are rather good multi platforms solutions.
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http://kube.news

http://www.oreilly.com/webops-perf/newsletter.html

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/

https://twitter.com/SREcon

https://usenix.org

LISA conferences

Not a blog, https://cloudacademy.com
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Why should they accept a country that's not in Europe for 95% of its landmass? Not to mention the huge cultural gap.