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Ask: How to announce my 14 years old web development framework?
Hi guys,

I'm searching a way to announce my 14 years old web development framework for people who are willing to contribute and use.

I created this framework in 2003 and since then I've developed more than 50 big and small sized web applications using this framework. In time surely I also developed and improved the framework. Currently, I released the v7.

If I need to give some info. about versions. I first made the v5 open-source that was the version came from 2004. It was the worst written code. I always had fears that I'll lose control of my codes if I make them open-source. Yea, I know, total ignorance. That's why I made the worst version open-source but in years, lots of things changed in my mind. I released the v6 version that came from 2008 which had better structure and more readable code. All codes where written in VB.NET. Why? no reason. But I know that developers are more willing to work on C# if it will be a .NET language.

That's why I rewrote v7 (VB.NET) version that came from 2010 in C# in last 5 months with the true support of .NET Standard to make the framework completely OS Independent and also I believed I'll find users and contributors easier if make it in C#. There is still some lack of features that are already on v7 (VB.NET) version but not in v7 (C#) version. But they will finish soon.

So, what I want is to announce this framework on somewhere to take attention of developers. It is a really good framework. I'm not telling that because I developed it. I'm telling that because I believe, it will bring something new to the programming world about development, deployment, and the like. I'm not doing this to have some profit.

Can you advise me some places that I can make entry? I think, one is here! :)

Project website is http://www.xeora.org
Project Source is https://github.com/xeora/v7 (I'm still working on Readme files.)

Thanks.
Google does a lot of things but they've never betrayed my trust by installing an extension in conjunction with a third party without telling me.

Google does track a lot of my data but they provide useful services in exchange, and in addition they make it pretty easy to see what data they have on me. Also Google's data is its competitive advantage so our interest in protecting my data from 3rd parties is aligned.

In short, Google tracks me sure, but they're pretty transparent about it. I do think some of the things Google does with Chrome and it's market position is less than stellar so I'm still exploring other options. If you have any suggestions I'd be happy to hear them.
.....young people don't have FM radios --- those who don't own cars.

No one I know does.
I did not recall agreeing to opt-in for the studies and there it is under Privacy & Security as checked.

I have the pug experience study active and I don't recall the browser asking about it.

From the studies about page linked from about:studies...

"When a study is available, you will automatically be enrolled if you meet the criteria. There will be occasions where we might prompt you for participation first."

Just saw also that if you opt-in for the "Allow Firefox Developer Edition to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" then it automatically checks the studies checkbox for you. I would wonder if I checked the allow sharing at some point in the past, or during installation, with no mention of the studies option. So it was presumed to opt me into the studies automatically.
Unknown boy slays his own song
Would a screen reader pronounce it as “fox dash it” or “fox it” for both? In my mind I read “fox it” without the dash and thought it was the PDF company.

Which was really weird trying to wrap my head around how they could discover an issue like this so quickly.
Unbiasing a coin is easy (the Von Neuman technique): toss it twice, if the results are different then output the first toss. If the results are the same, forget both and start again.

You can use this technique to unbias a 4-die or 8-die by throwing a coin multiple times (apply the above technique for each digit in base 2).

To produce a fair 6-die from a biased coin, the following should work.

- Using the Von-Neumann technique, creates 3 independent unbiased coin X, Y, Z. Then X= 1 + X + 2Y + 2Z is uniform in {1,...,8}, we basically randomize each digit in base 2.

- Finally, throw the unbiased 8-die until you obtain a number different than 7,8. The result is unbiased in {1,...6}.

import numpy as np

def biased_coin():
return np.random.choice([0,1], p=[0.1,0.9])

def unbiased_coin():
a = biased_coin()
b = biased_coin()
if a != b:
return a
else:
return unbiased_coin()

def unbiased_eight():
return 1 + unbiased_coin() + 2*unbiased_coin() +4*unbiased_coin()

def unbiased_six():
d = unbiased_eight()
if d < 7:
return d
else:
return unbiased_six()

np.bincount([unbiased_six() for i in range(6000)])

Edit: there was a mistake in the previous version of the comment because the digits in base 2 were not be independent. The last version is correct, I believe :)
Good thing if it's so! I mean, I wish it was so; what I called by "progressivism" (note the quotes; I don't know a universally accepted name) is very much about identity politics, unequality issues of all kinds, and many other things related to "social progress" as seen as a motion towards a certain kind of utopia.
That would be an idiotic waste of money by a non-profit organisation considering the audience of Mr Robot.
All bubbles make someone rich.
I switched to Vivaldi a few months back and tried out FF57 recently. I really wanted to move back to FF again, but two weeks in, the performance enhancements just seem really overrated. The UI is still draggy, load times are not great.

I ended up going back to Vivaldi.
True, False, and https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_
Add a couple more buttons and hey, you've got a toolbar going.

Why can't they just make a web browser that's... just a web browser? Chrome has never had buttons to email pages with gmail, record videos onto YouTube, share pages on G+ etc.
Yeah, the idea that being able to adjust the priors for a Bayesian analysis based on suspicious behavior, and then saying that proves cheating, is certainly not the case. The cheater is not going to agree with your assessment of their ‘suspicious’ behavior. You might as well just skip the analysis and say you proved they cheated because of their behavior.
Depends on the field. Some fields are very careful about this, while others are not.
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The dinosaur was not placed there by a movie studio to promote a random.movie.
I'm quite ignorant about wireless signals, but do you know why they chose 96ms? That sounds huge for a single frame.

I guess an optimization the receivers could do is decode all the presets, then at least switching between those would be instant.
Now, that is cool.

Tours of a computing facility are otherwise pretty useless.
Thanks, thats the funniest thing I've read all week.
This isn't necessarily true, snapchat deletes all of the physical messages sent within 30 days.
My cellphone is an FM receiver if you plug in earphones to act like an antenna. It's not like the headphone jack is going anywhere...
The cringe-worthy construction "different than" which should be "different from" makes this episode even worse.
What David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary
Alphabet wants to deliver Internet access via laser beams
A local bike shop closed business a few months ago. They had had a location on Downtown Main Street for years, but for some reason [I'm guessing rent] moved several blocks away from their old location -- and several blocks closer to where I live. I imagine that this negatively impacted their foot traffic, even though it was directly in line with my own walk-to-the-bus commute.

I shopped at both of their locations several times, but not routinely or regularly. When the "inventory sale!" signs started going up, I admit that a part of me literally saw the writing on the wall but I didn't want to believe it. I believed it when I walked by and saw the location empty and deserted, a lonely 8x11 explaining what was up.

I'm curious as to what happened, but suspect that I was part of the problem -- not shopping there more often, for product or maintenance service, even though I am just one person.
Gloating is a strong indicator of insecurity.

Why do you need validation from randoms on the internet so badly?
How are you supposed to do turn the defaults to a reasonable level of privacy without launching Firefox once though?
This is ridiculous FUD, you're not compromising anybody's privacy by letting google drive do an OCR for you. The chance is extremely remote that there would somehow be a leak of the information to malicious parties or the like out of Google. Is this is all over the possibility of their advertising engine seeing keywords and giving you an ad based on it? Even if that's the case then that's not a privacy violation, no human ever can see how that's associated with a specific identity. Do you also avoid sending anything personal through gmail? Using google search at all? It's impractical tinfoil hat territory to act like there's any reason to be concerned about this OCR tool or any other instance of putting your files on Google. To my knowledge there has never been a hack of Google's data or any leak connecting any user's identity to PII.
Outside of all the discussions surrounding the policy itself, the one thing that's been the most heartbreaking/angering about this is how unprofessional Pai has been throughout the entire process. Even in a more formal environment (the FCC vote/hearing) he couldn't help but laugh and mock.

Regardless of policy he is unfit for office.
We should talk. Email me at bookman@google.com, and I'll be sure to get you a competitive pricing estimate.

(Disclamer: I'm a Cloud Solutions Engineer at Google Cloud)
I'm talking about longer-term trends. Post New Deal, government regulation didn't just mean things like safety standards. The government was micro-managing the economy, telling companies where they could build telephone lines or what routes they had to fly and what prices they had to charge. Getting rid of all that was hugely beneficial: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/PB_Dere.... And these market reforms weren't just adopted in the U.S. European countries engaged in massive deregulation themselves.

This is kind of a silly example, but in France, the government used to regulate the open hours of bakeries to ensure adequate supply of baguettes: https://econlife.com/2017/07/tbt-throwback-thursday-french-b.... There was a time when this sort of government intervention in the market was completely common, even in the U.S. But everyone realized that less invasive methods of regulation were preferable. (Though France has always been slow on the uptake--Macron got rid of the baguette regulations only in 2015.)
Since currency is created by consensus, it's inherently political. Currently the political system underlying bitcoin - in which formally, decisions are made by voting with hashing power and informally, the bitcoin core developers and a handful of large miners / pool operators have enough power to call the shots - is a disaster.

However, even deeper than this social/political structure is a value system shared by bitcoin users - there are some changes to the system that would not be accepted by users no matter how much hash rate or which influential community members backed them.
Wow ... that's .. disturbing
Did you try that link/URL earlier? Perhaps you were trying other links, and this one was, in fact, always there.

How were you previously trying to find the RSS feed? It's still not obvious to me from the front page that it exists.
> you can more easily tie voting to geography/gps

We've had both cruise and military ships that got their GPS spoofed by malicious actors. Tying voting to GPS doesn't seem too much of a hurdle for an attacker wanting to hack a country's elections.
My phone can play FM radio by plugging in a pair of wired headphones. And while most young people don't have cars, pretty much everyone around here has one of those.
Monero and ZCash are attempting to do exactly that.

Yes, obviously nonrepudiable ledger schemes are natural allies with governments. But not all cryptocurrencies are the same.
I remember a similar experience when my dad and I tried it out back in the day. We weren't even that far apart but I remember as a 10-12 year old (can't remember exact time) asking him to use it to talk to me from the next room over. I wish I had kept those AIM and other services' messages since they're mostly lost to me due to either the service shutting down, lost passwords, or my own mistake of deleting them around the time he died - in my grief I thought I'd never want to see them again.

It was one of the things that got me into computers. Although it doesn't directly affect my day to day as I no longer use AIM, it was the first place I registered my screen name that I still use everywhere. Yes, my screen name is just my name, but it has significance to me all the same.
'Citing science'. I can think of a few other groups throughout history who have said awful things and backed it up with 'science'.
Indeed. Considering the volume of transactions going to and from Coinbase, their adoption of Segwit would go a long way towards alleviating the current mempool situation, which would bring lower fees for everyone.
You mean uncompressed data. Yes, analogue is uncompressed, but digital could also be uncompressed. However, everyone wants to stuff more video, more audio over the link, so we compress... Bandwidth goes up, latency also goes up, and things get more complicated...
I grew up in an inner city Detroit neighborhood. The junior high school that I attended was pretty rough so, to avoid the gangs that formed after school, I quickly ran over to the near by public library and stayed there until it was safe to walk home around dinner time.

A friend showed me a magazine at the library; it was Scientific American and it completely hooked me. This was 1963 and SA was then a great magazine. I read every current issue and then read the bound volumes of past issues. My favorite monthly columns were Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games and the Amateur Scientist. I read every one of those two columns ever published.

The schools I attended were not very good, but I learned a lot of math and science during those years at the library. I went on to score very high in math and science, got into great colleges and ended up with a very successful career.
Remember that Altman is most likely paraphrasing his interpretation of a hypothetical person or class of people responding to the idea. So parsing Altman's quote too deeply might not be useful. It's entirely possible no one ever actually said those words.

People tend to "tune" the details of a story to fit their argument. Especially when they feel aggrieved.

Also, the comment assumes a certain supremacy of science (or physics) over social concerns which everyone might not agree with. Physics is wonderful. But as far as improving people's lives, decrying and eliminating homophobia might also be a very important thing to do. So to say "I'm willing to sacrifice the well-being of gay people so physics can progress..." Not everyone may agree that the exchange is worth it. And that's valid.
That's not a large amount of money for a startup. Silicon Valley VCs threw away that much on the Yo app.
You don't appreciate the sheer scale of hardware? The blinking LEDs alone are a spectacle.
Interesting. It's dangerous to be a journo in the big city.

The newspaper should change its style guide to prohibit the use of the word "accident" to describe car crashes, except in verified quotations. They should call them "crashes" or another word that doesn't connote inevitability.
there is a lot that isn't about "the earnest citizen" in the US. Yes, we taxpayers aren't pleased about it. Canada is lovely-- you will get good healthcare there even if you lose your job. A lot of us Americans wish the US could learn from Canada. Menwhile, be thrilled you are there!
You just did
no it goes through one place where it then goes either through sattelites or under the ocean. decentralized internet is like tor/cryptocurrency but every public network in the world running like how tor/cryptocurrency does

this is at the very least 50% true just because of "physics" or "science"
Boy, you sure got me now. You really are smart!
Fair enough. It still shouldn't become a criminal issue.
What benefits does this have over Atom, Sublime and Textmate?
Also, currently, all decoder chips (at least the 'official' ones you need for an 'HD Radio' designation) are controlled/manufactured/sold by one group, 'Xperi'. The protocol itself is closed/proprietary, and it's not trivial to build any kind of receiver/decoder, like you could with analog FM/AM.
FWIW, this is why some people have fears around GMO foods. It's not that they can't appreciate the benefits, it's because they fear that we're testing systems in production that we don't fully understand.
Just as another data point, I'm on 56.0, and while the option is there, it is default not enabled. So, it looks like something changed in the move to Quantum.
I kind of get what you're saying, but to be fair, there are certain characteristics that women find more desirable in men and yet no one would say that men are being oppressed because of this.
> Here’s the pitch: Remember that scene in the Silicon Valley HBO satire where they try to create a new Internet by connecting-up Smartphones using Bluetooth? Yes. I know. But these guys are actually doing it.

I guess this author hasn't heard of FireChat, and others like it:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/20/firechat-for-ios-is-a-hype...
I believe that the biggest exit ever, remains Microsoft. It is said to have produced more than 10,000 millionaires in 1986 dollars in addition to the handful of billionaires. Now technically, since it took $1,000,000 VC funding in 1981 [1], it doesn't meet your criteria. On the other hand, because it was a profitable company with a high pre-money valuation, the founders + Ballmer kept control. Because the valuation was high and the investment small, the VC had little effect on how the money was distributed.

I say this because, never taking VC is not a great long term business goal. Accepting outside investment is a business decision and one that in Microsoft's case probably helped all their employees and certainly did not hurt them.

[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/microsoft
So how did that work out for you when the FCC decided to kill net neutrality?
GCP doesn't have a separate HIPAA cloud. GCP went through the trouble to certify the services themselves for HIPAA. That means you don't need to wait for us to update our `HIPAA` cloud. You are always getting the latest releases.

Here's a full list of our certifications. We're rapidly adding more. Feel free to email me at bookman@google.com if you have any questions:
https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance
Thanks @EricVicenti! And congrats to you as well, especially since you were the one who brought this idea to us back in the summer. So happy you did. :)
Oh, I'm definitely agreeing with the person. I was just being a little snarky at that one statement.

I am also trying to ask a question that is extremely relevant to the author's "study".

"Are the original dice fair?"

That was never asked, it was assumed. It is a pretty hefty assumption too. I think everyone that has played a game of Catan has, at some point, questioned the fairness of the dice. I'm not saying they are unfair, but because of manufacturing methods, it is quite possible to get a pair of dice with an ever so slight bias.

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS find the bias in the instruments you are using to perform an experiment. THEY ALL HAVE THEM. NEVER NEVER NEVER assume your instruments are accurate without first verifying.
It seems like that use case is being taken over by cell phones, which the government can mass-message in an emergency. Of course, that requires a lot more infrastructure that could potentially get taken out by that same emergency.
Office Hours with an Engineer Turned VC
>Most of robotics is about reinforcement learning.

is != always will be.

But forget that, let's check Wikipedia, as you suggest.

What are the first few words of the article on Reinforcement Learning, hmm. The very first few words at the very beginning of the article:

"Reinforcement learning (RL) is an area of machine learning..."

Read that and tell me what the last two words are. "Machine learning."
Amazon is the biggest threat to Bitcoin right now
> I think it likely to engage more.

As opposed to running it by yourself on your own computer in a bunch of virtual machines?
wow, that's a lot of comments. (:
> a really smart thief with enough money behind them might not even need to steal any Bitcoins. They could just destroy cold wallet keys in a very stealthy way and profit from the appreciation of coins they hold elsewhere.

This is a cool idea but I'm not sure it works (or I don't understand it correctly). In order to reduce the supply enough to appreciably increase the value of the remaining coins, you'd need to freeze/destroy a lot of keys, or keys to wallets with large holdings. If the owners of those keys start reporting their losses and the news spreads, people could start to lose confidence in bitcoin itself and move to other assets, reducing demand.
Thanks @chenglou for being one of our earliest adopters. You and your team really helped improve the quality of Docusaurus for launch.
We have regressed on so many audio-related fronts. Our phone conversations may have far better sound today than they used to, but anyone who remembers true analog telephony knows what we have left behind in terms of synchronicity and natural flow of dialogue.
To my knowledge, I haven't heard of Netflix having overtly anti-competitive behavior but I'm all ears for examples.

I’ not aware of any either, but one does not have to engage in anti-competitive behavior to become or be a monopoly.

If anything, this shows that the monolithic telecoms that have large stakes in these cable TV brands are facilitating monopolies elsewhere because likely competitors are locked into their current markets

Yes, that’s right. But like HBO, they are trapped by their business model.
If they ask my social accounts when I visit US, I don't want them to see my comments on this topic. I was once questioned half jokingly by a TSA agent on my choice of tshirt. The tshirt was of an IC engine schematic. Just playing it safe. US has become a scary 'stereotypy' place for non US citizens.
You're not going to have a Tbone steak without beef, it's true. So you can't have a beef burger without beef, but you can have other flavors of sandwiches that are absolutely tasty too (and can be as fat and unhealthy as meat options btw). Also many recipes do work without meat : I do a kick ass lasagna and stuffed tomatoes. Anything with minced meat basically is not that much reliant on the meat for taste and can be easily replaced with textured soy (closest in taste but also seitan or beans or whatever).

But then again, I don't understand how one can hate food before even trying it, and how one can be so adverse against acting towards a brighter future for everyone, here by having meatless meals more often.

edit : Luckily, I just saw that while you're the most adamant, you're also the single user with such a behavior on this thread, so I still have hope that others will be more receptive.
Thank you for sharing your story! I am going to google Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games later this afternoon!
This was true a decade ago. After several moves, I no longer have VHS player, Floppy disk drives, CRT, or radio. The only am/fm raidios are in our cars. If anything AM should be kept on, as you can broadcast farther on lower power or we should get younger generations into ham radio.