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Isn't this literally the point of computers? A processor is something that does amazingly stupid stuff 1.3 million times a second.

If you do even very simple things rapidly enough, you can get amazing results.
What, like the US? Way to apply double standards. Trump confirmed to keep Guantanamo Bay, a known human rights violation concentration camp, open in the State of the Union only yesterday.
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Give the people the option to work from home and welcome them to the 21st century... this is the best office space by far...
If support volume grows, there are three options: 1.) hire more staff 2.) keep staffing levels the same and force workers to take on more for the same pay or 3.) look at why support volume is growing and a) fix some avoidable reasons that require support ( small fixes in UX can go a long way ) , b) automatically solve some of the support issues ( improved documentation ), and c) have the support staff build themselves better tools so they can more efficiently handle the support volume rise.

If you are an owner, #3 will not only improve your products, but also likely to make your entire company much more valuable over time. If the staff are also owners or there is a system in place such that the staff benefits when the owners benefit, they will likely be on board for #3 as well. If #3 is not sufficient enough to provide support, then hiring should be done.
While I love their philosophy, part of me can't shake the feeling they are rubbing it in our faces for marketing purposes.
Why it is important to check what the malloc function returned
Yep. Fetch is very low level. Chaining is a godsend. Adding elements is way shorter with jquery. All the vanilla js project i've seen end up writting a poormy tested a'd documeted half backed jquery little brother. It's not a win.
Interesting name. I worked on an app called "ShotPut Pro" as an intern years ago that did the opposite (snatch video from big cameras).
Performance isn't actually the objective of the Pi cluster; the people using it have a real supercomputer next door. It's a testbed so they can validate programs before transferring them to the expensive supercomputer.
The broke ones. :)
What is now the UK hasn't had anything like an absolute monarch since the 17th century - indeed you could argue that the last one got his head chopped off!
The government's job should be to not be swayed by lobbyists, do their own analysis and make policies that best serve the country long term.
Blender is the best free software video editor across GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac. I've used it to edit a feature length movie. It's not perfect at all, but doesn't crash and doesn't crap out when you give it a slightly unusual formatted file.
The Mexican fisherman leans on his family and friends, his community, when he runs into trouble.

The banker relies on a socialized bailout.
So they rebuilt Alfred and are charging for it?
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Kinda feels like a false equivalence to me. Yes, as a society we all put ourselves at risk as we drive and interact. Doesn't mean I want to be an possible participant in witnessing some adrenaline addict fall off a building. I don't want to see people die horribly in auto accidents either, but that seems like a compromise to use a car, something that actually has a use for me. Nothing about random daredevil getting a dose of adrenaline benefits me personally, so out of all of the possible horrible things that can be produced from human interaction, this one doesn't seem necessary.
As someone who has been dealing with migraines since I was in my early teens, this is concerning.

I'm curious what the distinction between a risk factor and an early symptom are though. Could it be possible that migraines are just early symptoms of cardiovascular disease versus a risk factor?

Hoping someone with medical knowledge could chime in.
Reddit/HN are popularity contests. My guess is GP would prefer something more like RottonTomatoes, curated by "experts".
It's a corporate blog. That's the entire purpose of it.
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I'm looking forward for the Pitivi 1.0 release because it feels quite natual to work with (and uses GStreamer) and I expect some minor bugs to be solved until 1.0
Yes, a small number of people do care about this -- how many comments are these compared to the ones that are discussing the topic itself?

All I'm saying is: If you're going to try to tell people to not change the language as people seem to want to change it, because you don't want the language to change, then prepare for complaining for a long time with no results.
Yes, that's an issue, but only if you don't want to make your Qt client Free Software. Since nowadays most client-side applications are tied to some web service anyway, releasing those as Free Software might even be advantageous.

Having said that, statically linked wxWidgets .exe files are usually smaller than Qt .exe files. Moreover, dynamically linking to Qt does have technical advantages for certain types of applications (mostly plugin architectures).

Shameless plug: You can create all variants (Qt or wxWidget, each statically or dynamically linked) very conveniently on your Linux build server via cross-compiling, which has become really easy thanks to the MXE project that I started in 2007.

http://mxe.cc
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Maybe we could find a way to transfer our consciousness into mice bodies ;-)
The app stores market your app for you? Ha!
Correct. Moderators only intervene in public groups and channels, chats are exempt and secret chats are impossible to be moderated.
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Exactly, similarly, I'm not sure why anyone argues against the troll watching the bridge. It's the travelers who make the determination whether the price is worth crossing the bridge.

After all, there are alternatives to bridges, why do the travelers opt to pay the fee?

-- Obviously, /s
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I just remembered the quip about "a PASCAL programmer
knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing".
Please explain how developers can ship native iOS apps outside of the store?
There's no case.

Web Components are an overly-verbose under and overspecified near-monstrosity that cannot even function on its own without throwing in Polymer/Skate/whatever.

"React-like" components in the article are to React what rocks are to a CNC machine. I also encourage you to count the number of problems the author mentions vs. the number of advantages.
@phire awesome, thanks for the link. This weekend is a trip to GpuLand!!!
At least WRT to the cycling thing, I can add some color. They aren't normalizing the rate of injury to the rate of participation. Certainly, the mountain bike industry is growing, and a greater number of people doing it guarantees greater numbers of injuries.

However, it only takes a brief tour through historic red bull rampage footage to see that gear is getting a lot more capable, and the stunts are getting huge. Watch Kelly McGarry's backflip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Mr9Z1fhtE) or Semenuk's big step-downs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqY3LBawDXc).

The big question is whether this is really a problem. People have always done big stunts, and always died doing them. At some level, it should be for an individual to decide what risks they want to take, especially in the case of outdoor sports where the risks are more easily contained to only include the participant (unlike driving cars too fast, for example). I'm not sure there is a right answer.

I know this is editorializing, but I can't help but think that the relative increases in safety all around us also increase the need for that "risk outlet". Danger and adrenaline are parts of a natural state of being, but we don't encounter wild animals or suffer privation much anymore. Video games might sate that urge, but, for some people it isn't enough. When those people film themselves, they may not only be fulfilling their own need for risk taking, but providing an outlet for others' which creates a feedback loop of fandom, and pushes the drive toward risk. Those athletes that are unwilling to participate in that part of the bargain face difficulty getting sponsorships, views, and to make a living.

Social media challenges what it means to "be a professional", where the assumption is that you are good enough to evaluate the risks you are taking, vs just having a gopro, where the only barrier is whether you are entertaining enough to watch. Stories like that in the GP article are ones that put special credence to that distinction. Vitaliy became a pro while on camera. The fact is that we never used to see the progression until after it had happened - when an athlete was already a pro. Now we do.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that there's a strong correlation between those denouncing Google's move and those who denounce weapon sales to and oil purchases from Saudi Arabia.
Yup, and my feet and legs sort of turn to fuzz. I have pretty bad vertigo so this is what I'm like at the top of buildings etc, but it happens vicariously too. The absolute worst I ever felt was crossing the Capilano Suspension Bridge in Vancouver, by the end of which I was just a sweaty mess. Good times.
I think it's Haskell.

I know sometimes it gets some hype but Haskell and its ilk is just so above the quality of any other language it's mind bending. Whenever a hard language design problem comes up in any new language, Haskell has solved it more than 2 decades ago.

The ecosystem (Hackage etc) is pretty bad though.
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My belief is that more and more is becoming digitalized also culture.

Culture is fundamentally an accumulation of history. It's the history part (unique history trail) which is greatly undervalued. A piece of art is valuable because of its history.

That makes it more than a novelty from my perspective it makes it a fundamental part of our digital life.

It's like TCP+History that has tremendous value.
Diverse countries they settle in and where they adjust to local laws and customs maybe?

Diversity also includes operating in countries that are not as liberal as e.g. the US pretends to be; it's the only way to get a diverse world view for anyone. Closing your eyes for a culture as different as e.g. Saudi Arabia is not the way to go.
Because of network effects outside of anyone's control?
> dependency-free, compilation-free, and portable, then God help you because sh it is.

That's a fair point. Nothing beats shells for ubiquity and supportedness everywhere . . . in theory.

In practice, even people who write "portable shell scripts" (almost) never really write portable shell scripts.

If you learn the POSIX sh standard like the back of your hand, and stick only to the features in it, never using bashisms or equivalent, most shellscripts still rely on external programs (even if only grep/sed/etc) to do their heavy lifting.

And that's where you get into trouble. Because compared to the variability in behavior of even "standard" ultra-common programs, the variability in behaviors between shell syntaxes/POSIX-vs-non-POSIX shells is tiny. The instant your code invokes an external program, no matter how ubiquitous that program is, you have to worry about:

- People screwing with PATH and changing the program you get.

- People screwing with variables that affect the external program's behavior: LD_LIBRARY_PATH for dynamic executables, or language-specific globals for programs' runtime behavior (CLASSPATH, PERL5LIB, PYTHONPATH, etc.).

- External program "editions" (e.g. non-GNU sed vs GNU sed). Good luck using PCRE with a non-GNU "grep"! Oh, and if you're sticking to POSIX-only shell semantics (no bashisms), you don't even get full BREs in most places you need them in the shell; you're stuck with limited BRE or globbing, which makes editing 100-line PCRE regexes feel like a dream.

- External program per-version differences.

- External program configuration.

- Etc.

Dealing with those issues is where "self-test"/"commandline program feature probe" things like autotools really shine. Raw shellscripts, though, very seldom live up to the "ubiquity" promise.
> are alternatives

Are there? Really? No, they're not. No one who isn't in tech is going to install F-droid. Few people will uninstall untrusted sources, or even know what that is. Fewer Apple users than ever jailbreak their phones.

For over 90% of the market, no, there are no alternatives (other than a mobile website). Due to the non-standard nature of ARM and SoC/binary drivers, we don't even have a real alternative OS for old Android devices that's universal like most Linux distros on the PC in the 90s (although PostmarketOS is making some huge strides in this area).

30% is an insane cut. Bandcamp sells music with a 15% cut, literally half of Amazon/Google/Apple. I always prefer it because I know the band gets more money and I get a higher quality version of the song without a patent encumbered codec (FLAC and OGG downloads are supported).

But no, there are no real alternatives. AppStore/Play are bastardizations of the software repo concept from Linux.

If Google Play was a real package managers, it'd keep standardize shared jar files across apps (dependencies to reduce massive app size) either by mirroring maven repos and signing dependencies or creating their own system, and they'd also allow for easily adding 3rd party app trees.

Both Apple and Google are closed walled gardens, where everything you need has to be contained in your bloated package, and where their corporate overlords get final approval of what is in and out.
If you want even more react-like web components, we built Stencil to use JSX and output plain web components as we move to WC's for Ionic Framework: http://stenciljs.com
> horrendous. US based companies need to stake a moral stand against working with backwards regimes with ongoing human rights violations.

The US is a backwards regime with ongoing human rights violations. I mean look at your own shit first before throwing it at others.
Apple’s ‘App of the Day’ featuring boosts downloads by 1747%, games by 792%[1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/apples-app-of-the-day-feat...
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The app stores you mentioned are inextricably to their respective operating systems. The problems with the Play Store are a compromise I'm willing to deal with so I can easily install apps using alternative app stores or none at all.
The approach is in the public domain - in that it could be attempted by anyone else.

According to the paper, these were the two drugs used:

* "CpG SD-101 was provided by Dynavax Technologies"

* "Fc-silent Anti-OX40 (CD134) mAb was purchased from Absolute Antibody"

SD-101 is already in clinical trials. http://www.dynavax.com/our-pipeline/cancer-immunotherapy/sd1...
The anti-OX40 was a laboratory antibody, presumably as this was for a study in mice. However, there are various anti-OX-40 molecules in clinical trials, which could be used.

To get clinical trials going with this approach isn't a matter of patents - it's a matter of one or two companies (depending on ownership of suitable molecules) deciding its something they want to do, and then doing it. My guess is that Dynavax will already be exploring this.
I think they are solving a real pain point with Ruby APIs
I think the point was they're free not to ship iOS apps.
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Every social network has a "weird" subset. "Weird facebook" is circularly-referencing visual memes. Weird Telegram is people who mix their Deleuze and Bataille and come up with something like the Andy Kaufmann version of witchcraft mysticism.

I mean, it's awesome.
I would tend to disagree with this assessment. Nathan has a Ph.D. in statistics and as someone who is a Ph.D. candidate in the same field, I know for certain he has done a lot of thinking about this.

- For the gaps example, I think it's rather clear what's going on when gaps are present. Is the NYT flowchart not clear? This is valuable advice as a lot of visualization tools (ggplot, d3) will linearly interpolate these values for you so making an effort to avoid that is valuable.

- The category example lacks color legends because they are not necessary in this situation. He was simply stating that you can show missingness as a category next to other categorical values. The plots shown are simply examples of the plot type.

- Zooming _can_ be biasing but ultimately any visualization of data is going to be some level of 'zoomed' in. As for representing uncertainty, I'm not exactly sure why that is applicable in this case as he's not talking about that.

- Interpolating being a bad suggestion, in any case, is... well, just not true. Missing data imputation is a giant subfield of statistics and lots of theory and application has gone into the methods used for it. When it's not a good idea using the 'gaps' suggestion seems like a fair substitute, but there are certainly instances where it is fair to use interpolation.

There are absolutely examples for every technique listed where it is not appropriate, but this is more of a toolbox of methods and the visualizer who is familiar with the data should make their decisions on which method to use for their data.

Adding this response as the above comment was the only one on the article and I know I sometimes use the comments to filter articles I read and would hate to see someone pass up this due to an (in my opinion) misguided opinion.
Strongly agree.
>You either identify the transfer function model using step/impulse tests

This is what I tried (step, not impulse). Did not work well. The result was too dependent on the "starting position".

The course professor probably knew less about controls than I did. He was a computer engineering professor.
Correct. 144 nodes + 6 spares in one box.
Hey! That's my retirement plan!
isn't this an app like Rambox which is effectively a glorified web browser? That one at least only opens the web interfaces of the various chat and email applications out there right now, it doesn't store (or claims not to) any credentials itself. Doesn't need to either. I mean it'd have to implement authentication for all those services, which is hard to scale.
1. They have some intricate puzzles that could be distracting to someone who is driving.

2. Yes, it could, but this hypothetical car manufacturer didn't think of that. They probably don't have a "drive it into a lake" test case, either.

3. I wrote another "transcript" that ended up with the person escaping, but seemed like too much text and not enough delivering the point.
is their real supercomputer 32bit? because if it's not then i'm not sure how they are validating anything
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Are there no end-to-end encrypted communication apps in the Apple store/iOS? I know it's an option (that no one uses) in Facebook.

It's kinda ironic since Apple refused to break encryption on their own devices for the FBI.
Believe me, I want to touch more on Web Component reactivity, but I don't have the depth of knowledge yet to really expound on it in a blog post. Happy for others to fill the gap in the meantime though. :)

I definitely agree with pretty much all your points. I think it's a pretty exciting time for web dev right now.
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Franz looks like it was an abandoned project; its spiritual successor seems to be Rambox, which supports a lot more services atm. See http://rambox.pro/
I worked at a company building something similar. I do think this kinda product is a bit niche. Certainly when we tried to roll something out similar it was a hard sell as most companies are trying to standardise on one type of cloud storage solution.

That being said they do support searching across slack, email and other things. That was something we didn't support and I think that makes this product much more appealing.
Yeah, it's really 2 4k screens in picture by picture mode making them 4 individual displays to the computer, with 4 cables. I find that gives me more usable real estate than 2 4K screens because of the way it's easier to maximize windows and place them side by side.
I wish the best for you and your loved ones, and genuinely hope your wife beats the shit out of this cancer and I hope she beats it so badly that it never returns. My mother went through ovarian cancer, including the hysterectomies, chemo, and associated therapies. I wish I could tell you it was easy, but I would be lying, it's not.

Incidentally, at least for my mother, the injections she would get shortly after her chemo treatments -- if I remember right these were referred to as "white cell-count booster shots" although I don't remember their actual medical terminology -- these left her feeling far worse than the actual chemotherapy. It most affected her appetite, namely she didn't have one for 3-4 days after getting the injections. We tried everything the doctors and nurses recommended, and a few that the internet recommended [don't do this, but we were desperate], all to no avail. Finally, I talked her into smoking a joint -- and this woman never drank anything other than communion wine or did any drugs in her 55+ years of life before this. Appetite problem solved. It was back in spades, almost like never before. I guess what I'm saying is, if your wife finds herself with the same issues [and I hope she does not] never mind the 'stigma' associated with it -- weed works.
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I'm just saying it's easier to make progress when your universe is easier to define.
Probably not underrated but not very well known. I’d say Julia as it easily one of the best script languages.

But I’ve also wondered why D is not more widely used as it is a much nicer version of C++ and integrates fairly well with it.

Also a bit odd that OCaml and SML isn’t more widely used
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Ask HN: Teaching an 8 year old with Aspergers to code?
I want to teach an 8 year old with Aspergers to code games. She is highly functioning and very creative and curious. I know about Scratch and Alice but I am not sure if there is a more appropriate tool.

My background is C/C++, OpenGL but I don't think this would interest any 8 year old.

Any advice on tools and techniques?
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In my opinion there is humanistic / philosophical difference between somebody risking his life purely for the experience (Honnold does not care for Instagram fame) and somebody for who this is a way to promote him/herself to satisfy narcissistic desires. If you are passionate for something I think it is fine to take risks - this Chinese daredevil was just a bit stupid and a victim of his personality flaws. If Honnold dies climbing - well, that would be very, very sad but that's just that then.
Can confirm that blender is incredibly light on resources and in contrast to most NLEs doesn't seem to crash or get unexpectedly bogged down.