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A bit of a stretch, but you can use Electron (https://electronjs.org/) which ties to nodejs, and use nodejs to call out to C.
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It needs to be regulated, but really shouldn't it be the government enforcing price transparency?

I'm not opposed to this action, but ideally we wouldn't need Google to do this.
You’d be surprised: 1.39kg for the carbon, 1.37kg for the MacBook (13”) The latest Pro models are comparable to the Airs in weight.
German Navy experiences “LCS syndrome” in spades as new frigate fails sea trials
You can't shoot lead shot at waterfowl in most jurisdictions these days, and it's been that way for around 20 years at least.

I'm not sure that the bismuth and tungsten and other heavier than steel shot that has partly replaced lead is a whole lot better, though...
We have ANPR[0] in the UK. Makes it very easy to follow vehicles around the country on main roads.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...
The people you ask will likely give very different answers to a stranger than to someone they know well.
Privacy is about individual freedom, and in all societies there is a tradeoff between this and social cohesion. True liberalism aspires to achieve a stable society with minimal encroachment on personal freedom.
I've found that antivirus in general (apart from their bad security practices) consistently fails at multiple of those points. For example:

Consumes a lot of resources.

Fails to follow design guidelines of the platform, but then again, maybe "modern trends" are more important than following the design language of the platform ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Paris flooding harks back to one of the great breakthroughs in hydrology
I can't upvote this enough.

I done a fair bit of performance problem fixing now in my career and I have never seen a .ToLower be the cause of any client's performance problems. Or really any string manipulation opinion like stringbuilder vs += and all that nonsense.
Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material
Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. The idea of objectivism and running the world on your own shoulders is idealistic at best, but for 14-year-old me, it was like a free pass to feel intellectually superior to others. It cost me 2-3 years of my social life to realize that I'm not an island.
BBC article on the same topic:

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To be honest, at this stage, it's just another thing to add to the ever growing list of things that could potentially kill us.
To a politician is science just about spending money to know more information? Is this bad? Or is it just bad that people have confirmation bias?
The trouble with facial recognition technology (in the real world)
Your code is harder to read and the performance implications are so trivial, a classic example of pre-optimization.
Luckly for you, the consensus from the kernel developers seems to be that these firmwares are only problematic if the new anti-Spectre features they expose to the kernel are actually used. The current upstream kernel doesn't use them, and the next upstream kernel will have a blacklist of the problematic firmware versions, so unless you distro patched the kernel to use these features without the blacklist, you should be safe.
This was a great read. I indeed agree with most you are saying and that is why I do not want to make people work for equity. What if at the end it is worth nothing. That is why I was wondering if there is a way for me to learn something basic, to get things going before I do something else. Any advice on courses or simple instruments?
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Maybe they were suppressed for a while and now resurfaced?
The article says:

> Sfyria, […] is not technically a language; linguists refer to it as a speech registrar, like shouting or whispering.

I've never heard the term registrar (in the linguistic sense), and Google doesn't find anything relevant either, so I wonder if this is the correct one.
I didn’t mean to be rude, i just think that you’re not well informed about the repairability of the iPhones.

Oh and you’re the one who needs to prove your claim. We can’t assume that claims on the internet are true until proven otherwise.

I provided the links to inform you about the repair options and the difficulty of those.
money laundering via bitcoin, is overhyped and not as much of an issue as people make out. cash is always going to be king.
This repo is an elaborate joke, right?

It's just doing basic set intersection. You need maybe a minute and six lines of code to do this, not six THOUSAND excluding the database!!!

You can't even pass it off as just the work of an amateur either, because it has all this complex integration garbage with babel, travis, a linter, unit tests, npm, and so on. What is even going on?
That is interesting. Thank you.
> Still, it seems many Youtube personalities are still making money from the videos they post on YT. Why can't others do the same?

Actually, there is a trend in past few months of YT personalities either moving to other sources of monetization, or stopping to bother uploading to YT completely.

For example lot of game streamers on Twitch, when asked why they upload so infrequently or not at all lately, they respond that it's not worth their while doing YT content anymore.

I think it has to do with YT's latest changes to their policies about video monetization and demonetization, coupled with their (automated) handling of (automated) copyright infringement claims by 3rd parties.
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That's why they call them stories and not facts.

I've been in the "movie industry" for decades and it still astounds me that people come out of the theater thinking what they saw, in most cases, is reality--even when the disclaimer "based on" is clearly shown ahead of time.
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This feels like an anti pattern. Lambda is event driven, it doesn’t even have a mechanism to schedule activity. You have to abuse some other service to create an event on a schedule.

Surely this is not the best use of the service, even if it is common.

If you need to run tasks on a schedule what’s wrong with cron? Or a cron service?
This is great advice. It is encouraging. Thank you.
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I agree this is the most reasonable advice. I have never heard of Zero Cater, will make a research. Thank you!
Facebook doesn't have a right to exist. If the law were changed then they could follow it by just not recommending things to people.

Or hiring some people with their untold billions of dollars.
How can NLP technology change the finance industry?
Quality threads in HN: "But [outgroup] would disagree!"
Yes, I understand. I appreciate your opinion and boldness.
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Face recognition exists, is becoming trivial and this has implications.

I saw a demo of sorts about 6 years ago, and heard rumors of various research projects @ FB. Banner tracking in malls that link banner "views" to "conversions" using a camera armed cash registers. Hi-res cameras on streets that collect data like wildlife tracking collars. A stadium cam that can id all the people at a match. A smart building that knows who's inside it & where. Casino cams that dispatch cocktails waitresses to VIPs wherever they are. Casinos've been using face recognition since early days, for persona non grata identification. Coffee shop loyalty stamps. School attendance. Prison monitoring, with relationship graphs and ML conspiracy detection. Traffic Analytics....

There are a ton of applications, commercial, security, intelligence or general nosiness. IMO, the best way of thinking about face recognition is: Google Analytics will now work for physical reality.

All this stuff just exists. FB (and many others) have an enormous, proprietary set of tagged photos. You could probably create your own set just scraping social media and google image search. Some applications don't even need it. Face recognition works. Cameras are high-res & cheap. The software is fast. Customers want it. It will happen.

We (our generation) has not shown the political will (or competence) required to create new rights and limitations on power sufficient to moderate this kind of technology, thus far. The only thing preventing wide-scale & unlimited use is creepiness feelings and that is temporary.

Putting the technology onto AR robocop glasses is just an illustrative way of demonstrating implications. If this is well implemented, every police force will want it in some form. Fugitives are needles-in-haystacks and I suspect this will turn up a ton of them. It's probably a genuinely useful police tool, unlike the dragnet digital snooping they do.
I've always loved Qt Creator, I sometimes wish it would have first class citizen support for Python w/ Qt and other languages who bind Qt as well. Another language I would of loved to see even if it doesn't directly target Qt is D. Great IDE though, for the little C++ I've done, I've done it with Qt using Qt Creator. Otherwise I use PySide which I wish had firsthand support from them. Maybe Qt 5 could be a powerful Qt IDE that includes other languages that integrate well enough with Qt itself.
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You need to rate yourself against these principles. This is the whole point.
There's also https://www.nidium.com
He's not saying memes are the future of comedy, he's complaining that people are making jokes for free:

> the whole point of [Pitch] is to pay people for jokes because I hated seeing people just giving work away for free

Perhaps people want to crack jokes for free, because it makes them feel good. Not everyone wants to monetize basic human interaction.

If anything is killing anything it's monetization uber alles.

So instead of people cracking jokes on internet forums or their local pub, he'd prefer it if they confined their material to his app instead, so he can financially benefit from it.

That's the thing about a lot of Facebook haters. They don't really hate Facebook, they hate that they're not Facebook.
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> 1. How is bias handled?

What did they mean by this?

It deserved mentioning and it took up a couple paragraphs but at no point was it ever made clear what exactly needs to be mitigated or handled, other than vague statements about how it is undesirable in a start-up.
"Adapt or die" — you must've thought how cool you are, while typing those words.

Typical apologetic BS, by an imbecile from a tech-bro culture. Facebook should and must have responsibility for their actions and their platform.

"He's basically a million other dinosaurs" — let's hope you won't become a "dinosaur" one day. No, you won't. You're so smart and edgy, right?
We’re Not Addicted to Smartphones, We’re Addicted to Social Interaction
I don't agree with the "disposable tablet" thing from the article.

I'm typing this on a 2012 MacBook Air, which I've been using as a freelance dev as a primary machine on client sites since that year. It's used for full stack development and Docker builds that get deployed to AWS.

It hasn't worn out, or become noticeably slower (I remember the days of registry bloat on previous Windows machines). I did get the glued-in battery replaced once during that time, which cost me £100 at a nearby Apple store.

I had previously avoided Apple kit for years because of the whole "planned obsolescence, so it's rented not bought" thing, but in hindsight I don't think it was really an issue.
Some other questions that seem to have been omitted from this list:

1. Is there an atmosphere of energy?

2. Is the company bureaucratic?

3. Does the company do good work?

4. Are the people good at what they do?

5. Are they happy?
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Yeah, XML GUI is nothing new. But there are huge differences in usability. Having worked with at least a few of those, i got to hand it to Microsoft. Working with XAML is a pleasure compared to any other UI framework i have had to work with.

It really works well, and their Blend tool, makes it easy enough for even non-developers to design the UI component.
100 MHz, why so slow?
Agreed. The CEO sounds like a (probably millenial) douchebag. Sweatpants and and wifebeater, preferrably stained, should be worn to work tomorrow just to put him in his place.
The title is completely false.

Metals are used for their material properties more than just strength but homogeneous strength and stiffness (in all directions) and tolerance to a wide range of environmental conditions (thermal and moisture cycling)

Not to mention ease of manufacturing.

The material described in the article will never make it out of the lab.
"maybe mercury's good for us, who knows ?"
I don't know if you're referencing anything specific, but comedians being edgy has never been an issue. Comedians being edgy to cover for their lack of humor is.

I've never been offended by a topic, but I have cringed at a lot of extremely bad jokes.
Elon Musk still doesn’t think LIDAR is necessary for fully driverless cars
FCC report claims the broken broadband market has been fixed by killing NN
A significant percent of individuals who don't have savings, I believe is due to poor financial choices: spending more than what they earn, buying too many unnecessary things, financing to buy a new car, buy a big home... the list goes on. Sure thing, some people have extraordinary bills because they have to support people other than their kids or have a medical situation. But I doubt it's the majority of it.
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Repairability is a good thing. That being said, the 5 year old macbook pro I replaced had way better battery life than the then-new HP 840 G3 I am now using day to day.
Has Betteridge's Law stopped working?
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imgui is a C++ libarary, which is why I chose nuklear being a C library written in C89. Just a small distinction, but some people are working in just C.
I am developing in a container - most of the time - as this allows me to run the (micro-)service within it's defined ecosystem, so no need to mock any service boundaries.

Note: New services and major functionalities are usually developed locally with unit-tests ensuring compliance with the spec. But once this is done and stuff needs to be integrated with the real system - or debugged later on - there is IMHO nothing that can beat a complete copy of the real system running locally where one can easily manipulate whatever is needed.
The W series are workstations. Solid, fast, heavy, expensive.
I still think C++ Builder and VC++ are quite up to it, specially in the debugging area, edit-and-continue, incremental building and linking.
That's the most skewed results I've ever seen.

Anyone can cache content to get 511 ms to load a page. Try doing it like we do in under 500ms with NO caching involved....

The Wordpress page load for a start at 1.5seconds is cached!

If you're going to benchmark something at least get it right.

Your own featured customer is a 1000ms page load not 511ms
I’m somewhat in love with the older x2x0 as well, rock solid machines that can take a beating, small and lightweight, good Linux support as well.
I think this makes sense in the stockmarket which is much more established than cryptocurrencies which are not. The stockmarket is unlikely to ever fall to 0 and if it does then there are much bigger issues going on that you don't need to worry about it. But bitcoin or ethereum could well plummet to single digits and you could lose your entire investment. This guy invested a lump sum and if he isnt happy to lose it all he should withdraw what he can and cut his losses. If he didnt take a loan out, or used cash that was otherwise going to be use for investing it may be adviseable to hold onto it for 12-24 months and check back then.
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-scr...

If anyone actually wanted to stop ticket scalping they would put buyers name on tickets and only allow reselling on primary site, for face value. No hi-tech required. This is what train service I use did after people tried to buy all and resell reduced price tickets.
And if you keep crushing it then it will become as hard as a diamond.
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I own several companies but I've some interest in programming and design. I am looking to apply some stuff which I've learned working at my own company. So, is there any website where requirements are clearly posted and I can choose a gig and start working on it?
It's strange they roll back these updates (microcode and BIOS updates) on all platforms. My HP Elitebook received a BIOS update after which the Microsoft powershell scripts reported the laptop as Patched (and working normally), then, last week a new BIOS update making the laptop vulnerable again.
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There is an alternative hypothesis. That it's just an evolutionary accident. Possibly it's a side effect of some other factor that is significant.

I mean, we get a lot of evolutionary traits because of bias through natural selection. But there's probably not much reason to lose a trait if there's no selection pressure to. It still may happen,of course. It's possible we'll all have brown eyes some time down the road. But it's not obviously because of natural selection.
Have you considered contributing to an open source project?
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Sure, but you might be able to perform some computation that involves those 2^64 possible states that ends up with some determined state that you can reliably measure. So while you can't store 2^64 classical values in one quantum bit, nor can you necessarily simulate that quantum bit exactly with even 2^64 classical values.
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Or a webview using Webkit or IE11. There is a cross-platform wrapper in C99 [1]

[1]: https://github.com/zserge/webview
...products like this already exist, so maybe it will just lead to a refinement of an existing process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardboard
“Tesla won't be making it to the asteroid belt, as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk originally claimed.”

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What’s the difference between this and radiation pressure on charges (which is classical physics)?
Instead of writing Dockerfiles, this approach requires me to write a docker-compose.yaml file. How is it more advantageous?