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What evidence leads you to believe that nasa is currently run as efficiently or as innovative as during say the first half of Apollo. Everything I’ve heard from people who worked there is that it’s generally become more and more of nightmare
My newest two gotchas:

1. Don't use private attributes for struct types if you ever want to serialize/encode them (exception: Mutex and Channel Attributes). Just had to refactor a whole lot of code just, because I decided I wanted to save the struct to disc. Btw. the type itself can and probably should be private.

2. Don't use Pointers in map key structs. As nesting maps is a pain the simple solution is to use structs as keys. But if you do so please remember not to use any pointer fields within those structs. Again when you encode and decode maps with pointers within the key structs those pointers will bite you.
Thankfully, mine are more of a mild annoyance than cripplingly painful.

I'll check out Curable though, thank you!
Great now we need an Anti-Virus software for the browser, to avoid getting infected by iloveyou.net and co. Screw you WebAss(m), stupid idea of greedy fellows, it's the worst thing since Java applet and Flash.
Yep. We already have threads.

What I find most painful about this development is that this new platform requires Javascript and wrapping everything inside an HTML document.
Yap. It was a bit of a back and forth.

After the election was lost, the traditional media which Clinton relied on so much was deemed to have failed. Chomsky would say the Manufacturing Consent machine had broken down somewhere. Almost immediately Facebook and Google started talking about "Fake News" and how they'll work twice as hard to combat it.

On the surface it was nice to see these companies saving us from lizard people spam, on another level it was a message to the future presidential or other marketing campaigns saying effectively "Don't spend you billions on MSNBC, spend them on us, we'll be far more effective".

Now the old and crusty media is punching back and writing articles about how tech companies are eating our souls.

I agree in principle with article and never even signed up for Facebook to begin with but like you identified so it has merit, but I think there is also a battle on another level here as well.
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I had decided I wasn't going to read any book in 2017. I almost succeeded - ended up reading Novice to Master - An ongoing lesson in the extent of my own stupidity by Soko Morinaga.

I found the book to be beautiful and practically useful. I am going to continue my resolve in '18 by not reading and instead applying what I have already read towards more productive and joyous life. I think I have plenty to go on with.
Some of the best game developers have really dark minds. Look at the artwork fro the original Warcraft or the Doom guys.
The projects you mentioned can also solve the portability and distribution parts for apps (like browsers can now), but that's not what the web originally was intended to don

This time will truly be different because it developed out of a document viewer.
Because it's awesome. :)

I mean, we burn piles of money just for fun. May as well burn a pile of money to put someone on the moon again. Doing it just because we can is a fine reason.

"Still got it!"

One tweak, though. Rather than forcing them to find a reason to go, i.e. gathering moon rocks, they should just let the astronauts play around. That's the goal. Go there, then turn on a webcam and romp around for a few days.

That would get the world thinking. And that'd be pretty cool.
An issue not mentioned: Animal Welfare. According to the ASPCA (https://www.aspca.org/animal-homelessness/shelter-intake-and...) over 6.5 millions companion animals enter shelters in the US alone every year.

Family Pet Project is making it easier and safer to find resources as a struggling pet owner who may need to find an appropriate place to live, assistance with a pet's medical care, and even rehome a pet if there is no other option.

https://familypetproject.com

It's an issue that affects people more than they realize given that the average euthanasia for animals is around $300 and over 4 million animals are put down in shelters in the US every year. The US government could probably do better than spending ~$1.2B taxpayer dollars on euthanasia annually.
Isn't this what containers do?
I like the Lamport answer, implying that proofs are just as faulty as programs, they just don't get tested https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/85362/23759

One might say the amazing thing is that many (not all!) such theorems are correct, despite the errors. Somehow, mathematical insight sees the truth, despite formalism failure...

But, by this standard, most programs are "correct", they just have some inconsequential errors.

I think this goes to a systemic problem in mathematics, that proofs are not very rigorous. I've never found one convincing. Instead, math is slightly like English Literature, where you learn "theories" that are held to be true by the community. You get inducted, and off you go. It's not purely objective.

Of course, this doesn't explain the usefulness of mathematics when applied to reality, so I only claim it's "slightly like" an Arts subject. Perhaps some survivor bias, and engineers fix any problems.
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I agree, they are in the browser and they searched for the software in the browser. Why not deliver it in the browser too, if there is no good reason not to.
The point of abstraction is to not be tied to Bitboard--or any concrete representation whatsoever. Chess 2.0 changing its rules is exactly what can be protected against.
> ... micro level unit testing, driven by people like Uncle Bob.

"The structure of your tests should not be a mirror of the structure of your code. The fact that you have a class named X should not automatically imply that you have a test class named XTest."

"The structure of the tests must not reflect the structure of the production code, because that much coupling makes the system fragile and obstructs refactoring. Rather, the structure of the tests must be independently designed so as to minimize the coupling to the production code."

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/10/03/TestContrava...
Sounds like a modern day of slavery.
Every time something like this is posted, I always think of that video.

As ridiculous and played-for-laughs as it is, it's looking more and more accurate (in one form or another) every day.
I like this kid... I bet we’re all playing her games within the decade.
And that's how it solves an additional problem.

You don't have a GUI toolkit pre-defined if you start out with c++ (yes, it takes freedom, but gives ease of development, which seems to be today's currency).
> What would a world without death LOOK like to you?

People stop dying. We stop losing a hundred and fifty thousand people forever every single day. The vast majority of resources that would go to health-related (and death-related) industries briefly get redirected to getting the cure to everyone, then get freed up for numerous other things. The state of science and human knowledge improves because we no longer lose experienced minds to age and infirmity. People start checking things off their "bucket lists", and adding many more to their life goals, realizing that they have all the time in the universe now. People stop having to mourn the losses of those they love. (There'd likely be more than a few points where people have to stop and re-mourn past deaths, once it truly hits them that death could have been eliminated much sooner.)

I would also recommend reading https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html .

> How would people vie for this immortality treatement?

Hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of people would dedicate everything they have to getting the treatment to everyone as quickly as possible, asking only for what resources that people can afford, and using all of those resources to accelerate reaching more people before it's too late.

> For food?

We have more than enough food for everyone. If you're attempting to imply overpopulation, that's been studied, and it's not an issue.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman was a game changer for me. I've seen it mentioned countless times here.
It's not like the Guardian article didn't link to the primary literature, which is www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140925/ncomms6065/abs/ncomms6065.html . All you're doing is making an ad hominem argument.

You originally said there was "much evidence indicates it is due to soot". The SciAm article asks "Is Soot the Culprit Behind Melting Himalayan Glaciers?"

Now you've changed your mind and said "dark particulates in general", but provided no references, nor explained how that is different than soot/black carbon. That's changing the goalposts. You wasted my time by making an argument you don't actually mean.

Since you think it "can rarely be boiled down to an article written for general consumption by mass media", why did you reach to an outdated SciAm article as justification, and not something in the recent primary literature?

It's even much less likely to be boiled down to an HN comment.

In any case, you still incorrectly summarized the glacier melt comment.
Just be sure not to go in the summer, and to read all the tips for hiking in Death Valley and surrounding areas. It gets really hot (but it's amazing!)
>Doing anything ambitious in space would require a lot of material, which has limited our ambitions since the 1970s.

We go to the moon because materials are cheap because... we want to build what?
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I was going to say this is just for portability for average consumer facing applications you need shipped as easily as possible, but actually I've seen people developing "native" extensions for Node.js with WebAssembly.
We would never have done it the first time if not for military competition with the USSR.
It's a TON of data. When I was in an alliance during my EVE days we had TONS of "classified" information. It would consist of systems, contents within those systems, daily numbers for corp and alliance transactions, influx of cash, spies, plans, user information, capital and super capital ship information / plans; EVE is such a huge and complex game that many joke that it's a "second job". Well, that means they also have a TON of data that can be used by other corporations / alliances.

Such an interesting game. I played for years and always want to go back.
He was stating his own experience - so that is his basis. When you work at some place you also see whats going on in there generally. He was not commenting about the "bias" which is what TCS is facing trial for.
So was this the first article on how todays AI works?
Download of normal Kate hangs for me, too. But the noicon variant works well. However, I don't get a keyboard for text input (Chrome on Android/HTC10).
So, well, sorry to disappoint you :P

While Kate is already quite funny, I'm looking forward to someone porting Linux to the browser, so we can have a clientless desktop environment delivered from a serverless cloud ;)
I really want to run vim/g++ in a terminator on KDE on Linux on my phone connected to a keyboard+screen (once, for the laughs).
Mickey Mouse porn is probably legal in the US too; if you wanted to try and argue that it's protected as parody or satire. I mean we have porn versions of Pirates of the Caribbean as well as Rick and Morty (Dick and Morty .. it's actually pretty hilarious)
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I hope the browser will be invisible soon, because I hate having it between me and my application.
> But the use of a) and b) remains, as does ascii art, [a] for footnotes, it's just endless.

You mean like ⒜ or ⓐ or ᵃ? Not to be confused with any of ªａ𝐚𝑎𝒂𝒶𝓪𝔞𝕒𝖆𝖺𝗮𝘢𝙖𝚊ₐ. Unicode has a whole lot of stuff that nobody uses…

There's also a separate Cyrillic а.
won't you want to factor by cost of living/geography/state taxes etc? 100k in Austin is very different from 100k in SF. It is quite hard to come up with an actual mathematical formula that can be used. I can sympathize with the law makers who are in charge of actually coming up with a concrete real formula.
We already have good reasons though. Starters would be to prep a moon base and see how structures handle being constructed on the moon and how they fare.
> WebAssembly doesn't do UIs, that component is still built in HTML

Your UI could be HTML, but equally it could be a WebGL-based UI. Some UI libraries already use OpenGL as a backend so adding support for a WebGL backend shouldn't be too hard.
Firefox feels very heavy and is slower than Chrome on Android, even on high end smartphone.

And it has a non-native UI that looks so out of place.

And many browser features like bookmark handling (folders) are still missing. Maybe v58 will change things for the better, but at the moment it's obvious why almost no one is using Firefox on mobile, probably even the devs don't dog food it on mobil. Where is the DevTools on mobile. Why not offer a full browser, with a slightly more mobile UI. Firefox mobile is very dumbed down, for casual users, Chrome has lots of more settings and features on mobile.
Disney copyright terms have been extended twice.

The first time was with the Copyright Act of 1976. That was a major rewrite of US copyright law (probably the most extensive rewrite ever) whose main purpose was to bring US copyright law more in line with that of the rest of the world in preparation for the US joining the Berne Convention.

That included making copyright terms in the US match the terms from most of the rest of the world (life + 50 for works of individual authors, publication + 75 years for works for hire).

Despite the lazy "they bribed politicians" theories others have offered, I've not been able to find any information on whether Disney spent any money lobbying for this. They were almost certainly in favor of it, but it had such widespread support that I doubt they would have needed to.

The other extension of Disney copyright terms was in the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, which they certainly did lobby for.
Thanks. I'll let her know!
... or to just load it up in the browser and skip the HTML part.
Non-browser vendors will probably have to integrate browsers.
Opiods should never be used as a treatment for chronic pain; they have rapidly decreasing efficacy coupled with rapidly increasing addictiveness.

My (totally unsourced and straight from my arse) guess is that both the decrease in efficacy and the increase in dependency are going to occur at a rate perportional to the current dosage. As far as I can tell the user's desired dose will increase at an exponential rate - making the drugs thoroughly nsuitable for long term usage.
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How do you know they're acting as a buyer and not just creating a sell order on GDAX?
Unity also has the slight delivery hitch of needing the browser plugin to run games in the browser. I tinker with Unity and I still didn't install the browser plugin.

That is the same hitch the JVM had. For a non-technical user, that extra step feels risky and unintuitive. "Why doesn't it just work?" feels a bit unfair when you know what's going on, but to a normal user I think it's a fair question. We are the professionals after all, why can't we make it "just work"?
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As long as acquiring an ID is equally painless for all demographics.

Introduce a fee, limited licensing locations/appointment times, or complex applications, and the indirect result is often selective discrimination by race. That's still unconstitutional.
And 5 technical people, 2 projects managers and 6 digits to install a server that could be done in 30min by someone in house?
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The site is very fast and it offers a smooth experience.

A key missing aspect are product reviews and the shipping time is not great (5 days for a book)
To the vast majority of users, anything in a browser is a web "site" and anything bundled with the OS or requiring an installer (including Electron apps) are "apps".
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The thing about the “War on Drugs” is it has never been a real war, more a minor skirmish fought with the equivalent of paintball guns.

Not that I am suggesting any of these are good ideas (sometimes the cure is worse than the disease), but if you really wanted to go to war on drugs and win you could do any of the following:

1. Spike the drug supply with a slow acting poison. Lots of poisons to choose from to make this work.

2. Conduct continuous drug testing of the entire population (say once a week) with harsh penalties for failing.

3. Apply a mandatory death penalty for any drug use (especially if combined with 2).

4. Immunise the population to induce anaphylaxis if drugs are consumed (this one is technically possible, but it would need further research).

I am not advocating for any of these (far from it), just pointing out that it is meaningless to say you have failed at something that has never been tried.

Edit. Rather than clicking the inverted arrow, how about engaging in a discussion.
It could've been done. Flatpak & consorts are trying to solve the portability problem, but packages are in the tens of megabytes.
It probably won't happen now.

Android has tried out this app-streaming model, but seemingly about 0.04-heartedly.
The answer is that browsers provide something that users desperately need and no operating system has ever provided: a sandbox strong enough to run completely untrusted code. The success of browsers is an indictment of the entire field of operating systems research. They have either failed to recognize the need or simply failed to deliver that kind of security.

For one example take WebGL. For decades OpenGL had been a native API prioritizing performance first and security last. It wasn't until browsers decided to expose OpenGL that the necessary work was done to make a graphics API safe for untrusted code. And who did that work? The browsers had to do most of it themselves.
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This is pretty bad for Indian IT Industry. I would want companies like Flipkart etc. to represent the tech industry in India rather than TCS and Infosys.

Having said this, the American companies are equally at fault to exploit the system. There are a lot of complicit parties to this dysfunctional system.
Can you point me to them? Thinking about using HTML to build an app with good UX lets magic smoke leave my head.
Your argument would be correct if no American from the company was re-hired by TCS which I don't think is the case.

Outsourcing efforts at companies usually start with part of the workforce / couple of projects outsourced to a major outsourcer. This gives them partial insider information on the competence / political scenario / compensation in the company. I wouldn't be surprised if TCS worked with company management to figure out who would be retained based on these 3 variables and let others go without their fair shot even if they were qualified.

While this sucks for a candidate, I don't think you can allege discrimination based on this.
So thanks to Unicode, things that look the same can have different representations, and things that look different can have the same one. (Limited) text used to be easy, now it's even worse than recording pen-strokes in a vector graphics format. How is this still useful?
> HTML is a pain for things that aren't documents.

Indeed it is but there seem to be no relevant alternative. The only thing that is better [for apps] is XAML (WPF) but it is Windows-only.
Ask HN: Does anyone use an alternative to a password manager?
As time goes on I find myself, both in my professional and my personal life, adding more and more usernames and passwords I need to remember. I have over a 100 accounts I need to keep track of and access typically access at a whim.

Since it's insecure to both use the same password over and over or to modify a single password per service (e.g. appending "fb" or "tw" etc to a password when using a different service) I have found that a password manager is literally the only thing working for me.

However, as break-ins become more and more frequent, I am concerned that my single point of failure, my password manager, could become compromised. I mean it seems almost inevitable, right? An attacker wouldn't even need to compromise the service or app you're using but your phone instead to gather the same data.

So I'm curious to those of you who use something other than a typically password manager: what do you use and has it been successful or a pain?
This will probably happen. Hopefully properly compatibly.
This is neat and shows great potential, I hope in future that Adobe products would be integrated with WebAssembly or even old products converted to WebAssembly and running in the browser. We shouldn't be that far off.
This is no different than saying that the street sweepers were left behind by street sweeping machines. Or that accountants got left behind by the invention of accounting software. This is what technology is all about. It's not zero-sum, because there's other work in the world waiting to be done to make people's lives better.

You may have have a bad work environment where you feel like the only goal of your work is to one-up your co-workers. But your boss is not paying you and your co-workers to compete for sport. The reason you are getting a paycheck is because you are giving someone something they value. That person would be happier if they could get it for less money by putting you out of the job. But if that happens, that doesn't mean you should be unemployed - it means you could be helping society in a different way. In a well-functioning labor market, every worker will be more prosperous if they all produce more.
This gets us to two caching-related problems: What if you're offline and how do you decide what you want to be cached?
But browser vendors will solve this.
Aren't browser plugins considered a deprecated technology already? The latest versions of the major browsers won't even let you run Java applets AFAIK, everything is forced to go entirely web-native (compile to HTML+CSS+JavaScript/wasm) and I'm not sure whether that's good or bad so far...
Sure, but the economics of preserving something you can’t redistribute are tough, especially as you get out into less popular media. If you could sell copies of those preserved works, it would provide a means to finance the preservation efforts.
Google, Microsoft, Apple aren’t Indian body shops. Not many of us think the former are abusing H1Bs like the latter.
I don't think there was a war: Reddit started growing, and Digg shot itself in the face.
Your daughter's awesome! She's going places. But you already knew that :) And you're awesome too for encouraging her by sharing her work and helping her with it.

I don't have feedback on the game so I'll just recommend a book which I think is readable for a 12 year old (I'd also recommend it to anyone here): "A Theory of Fun for Game Design" (https://www.theoryoffun.com). It's a great introduction to game design and it's full of fun cartoons.
We're working on building tools and knowledge for people without access to electricity, so that they can make their own electricity supplies using recycled motors.

Key idea here is giving people tools rather than solutions.

https://localelectricity.org/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SuGv44f69vg
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Webassembly is still loaded through javascript, webassembly "apps" will be like libraries.
You could compile other languages to js before, but the performance gain is really awesome.