skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've done that on mobile, but most of users don't even know that feature exists and another big chunk still don't trust a website vs an app.

I've never seen this feature in desktop.

Closes thing I know are these "hosted web app" in Windows 10.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/hwa-cre...
It's case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy. Silicon Valley is no longer just a physical place, but also represents the tech industry itself in popular imagination. Also, while the article is centered on Microsoft, I think the title is meant to be general, as shown by this passage:

> The project represents a much wider effort to build a new breed of computing system that is truly conversational. At companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Salesforce as well as Microsoft...
Not a user of this tool, but https://github.com/yujiosaka/headless-chrome-crawler#event-n... points to https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/a... where you can grab elements.

Basically, when new page event happens, you get the `page` object where you have access to it and can do queries.
Evil startup idea gleaned from paper: Use AI/ML to scour a sales prospect's online persona (social media) and build a 'vulnerability profile' and generate targeted, personalized cold-emails (or even phone calls eventually). Also identifies 'levers' for a particular person that can be used to influence a buying decision.

May even pre-qualify leads for you and tell you when not to waste your time :)

I mean, a good sales person already does a lot of this, but it's time-consuming. Imagine if you could automate this process.
"The world is allowed to be made out of shades of grey."

I never said it isn't. I just don't see how voicing an opinion on who has it worse or not in a discussion about a different subject can lead to anything else than the polarisation of the discussion.

You can do whatever you want of course. I was just pointing out that I feel that there is some underlying sexism in the article and that it should probably be taken into account when determining its value.
Dad, drop your hands and back away from the computer. Nobody has to get hurt.
The consequence of confiscatory public policy is that you end up eating 400 calories a day. A timely reminder for those that want to expand welfare estate and abhor economic inequality.
In my list of applications that are always active, Firefox and ConEmu are also over 500MB too. The exception is Total Commander (amazingly, still compatible with Windows 3.1), which is only 20MB but it's more the exception than the rule.
>On that topic, some cities in Germany are so fed up with the pollution levels, they're thinking of banning diesel cars, which is being argued before a court today.

Bigger cities already ban diesel cars that don't adhere to Euro IV (or V?), and gasoline cars without catalytic converters. You have to have an "umweltplakette" sticker to drive in the cities.
Claiming that everyone is worse off because electron apps consume more resources then they would had they been written in a "native" language is only true if the only value you get from an app is low resource consumption.

(I use native in quotation marks because we can probably not even agree on what that is.)

This attitude seems to be common here but everyone hating on electron seems to ignore any positive aspects of it and only focuses on the fact that it is slower and/or more resource intensive then had it been written in <native-language-of-choice>.

You can dislike Electron on a technical or principal level, that's fair, but until there is an alternative that would be considered better by most things will simply not change.

Until then, repeating the negatives over and over again only serves to de-value the efforts of those actually producing and shipping code and the only possible outcome is another "tabs vs spaces" holy war.
> It only has happened that way because our industry has been so web focused for so many years, that very little brain power has gone into cross platform desktop apps for a long time.

While there is an ongoing trend to move towards web apps, I think you are mixing up the causality here a little bit. The main reason why developers are increasingly choosing to move towards web technologies for UI is the sheer pain of doing any kind of cross-platform development on the desktop.

Most of the nice desktop development frameworks (like the ones in C# or Swift) are not cross platform. Meanwhile, we have a decent cross-platform UI framework in Qt, but this requires dealing with C++, which doesn’t even have a good package manager behind it. You could also use GTK+, wxWidgets, FLTK, but these don’t provide a good look and feel and non-Linux OSes.

Basically if you want to easy-to-use cross-platform desktop UI development, your choices boil down to Electron, and maybe pyQt.

Desktop developers have years to make this a better situation by perhaps promoting cross-platform UI standards or building better tooling, but nothing good has really gained much traction, so more developers are justifiably moving to Electron for now.
Elon Musk quits AI ethics research group
Nice! Didn't know that law existed in the first place. Good to see it's being monitored right from inception.
Pretty dismal communication from @cramforce.

Seemed like a political response to the questions raised, and I don't think "making the web competitive to native apps and walled gardens" is the real goal (err, Google happens to control the world's biggest mobile platform and it's app ecosystem)

I think Google have just realised that if they create an obviously closed platform, a la Apple, everyone will resist it and it will fail or be supplanted by a more open one.

What gave Android power? The thousands of other companies that jumped aboard. And Google won all the spoils. Billions of devices running Android, with Google search by default.

Make it "open", but control it. Win.
And even worse, 5.6.0 to 5.7.0 is, by semver, one minor point release to another minor point release - no breaking changes, no major bugs. 5.7.0-pre would raise some flags.
You might read up on http://www.appaftercare.com/, the guy who started it is named Einar Vollset. It's a similar idea (I think) and he has published a lot of material about getting started with it.
It's definitely starting to look like Disney should be broken up, I just hope that they can acquire Fox first so they can keep each franchise together afterwards (e.g. all Star Wars properties owned by one entity, all Marvel properties owned by one entity, etc.)
k. But as for my assertion about depictions of Jesus as modeled after Roman or Greek gods, it's more of a fun theory than a fact, as all the depictions were just "What would we like him to look like?" They all just painted or sculpted him however they wanted to, which we know included classical depictions such as heroes, philosophers, and even gods, as well as with eastern influences and various other depictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depiction_of_Jesus https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft3f59... (also I may have totally fucked up by saying the young Jesus was modeled after Eros, may have been a different youthful god, oops?)
I see the activity on the original github repository is very low (two PR accepted since the bankruptcy). I'm not even sure these are still the official repos. And it seems to me that no one has access to the repository of some of the riak client libs[1].

[1] the php client lib for instance: https://github.com/basho/riak-php-client/issues/152#issuecom...
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Can Disney take their ball and go home without stopping selling their movies entirely?

Can't Redbox just go to a store and buy the movie and put it in their boxes?
No, it's not what VidAngel did; VidAngel bought and ripped DVDs, Redbox buys DVDs and rents the DVDs it buys, which is unmistakably protected under the First Sale doctrine (the sale of the digital download codes that are sold with the physical media was disputed, but renting the physical media is non-controversial.)

Also, the courts didn't shut VidAngel down; VidAngel is still in operation—for a while apparently defying court orders, now using a different mechanism to achieve a similar effect, though also excluding movies from the studios which sued it.
The sick thing it's a smaller download to write your app in Turbo Pascal and distribute a virtual machine running DOS than an electron app.
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I completely agree and the internet keeps records of the many mainstream support that Venezuela had as the Nordic model applied in America. Venezuela moved from a rich country to a starving population.
Redbox rents out the physical disc. VidAngel tried to claim having DVDs gave them the right to stream to send one stream per disc. Sort of like Aereo's arrays of tiny antennas, that didn't hold up in court either.
Can you provide an example of this? How would the password show up in ps output?
Yep, I'm seeing a lot of my competitors running these more often now. I work a few with law firms primarily handling development and online advertising/marketing. I've done print as well, but been dying to get into making tv and radio commercials as the clients have requested it. I struggle because for the ad buy itself is hard to find someone good to work with. It's a bunch of middle-men. Everything is segmented. I also really dislike the lack of hard figures and live data so it's difficult to give up that control.

Not to mention the commitment seems to be quite expensive. I can spend a few grand on Adwords and then turn it off the next month if I really needed to. It'll be amazing when I can make produce commercials and upload them to a platform that then airs on cable TV reporting back statistics.
Intel Announces 5G-Connected Windows 10 PCs Coming Next Year – Thurrott.com
If you are interested in this area of research, checkout Rob Miles' channel (the guy from Computerphile)
=> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg
Remote working: what developers need to know – JAXenter
How is your concern different than what they are calling political security (~1/3 of the paper)?

>Political security. The use of AI to automate tasks involved in
surveillance (e.g. analysing mass-collected data), persuasion
(e.g. creating targeted propaganda), and deception (e.g.
manipulating videos) may expand threats associated with
privacy invasion and social manipulation. We also expect novel
attacks that take advantage of an improved capacity to analyse
human behaviors, moods, and beliefs on the basis of available
data. These concerns are most significant in the context of
authoritarian states, but may also undermine the ability of
democracies to sustain truthful public debates.
I’ve lived in the Bijlmer for two years and had a wonderful time. The streets are clean, has great restaurants and the people are warm, kind and generous (within a few days neighbors dropped by with delicious leftovers of a birthday dinner as a welcome gift). I never experienced any trouble or felt unsafe while I lived there. Perhaps people perceive it to be a failure because the majority of inhabitants happen to be black.
Venezuela and Norway have completely different outcomes though they both represent so-called expanded welfare states that abhor eceonomic iniequality. Venezuela’s problem is simply corruption, it has nothing to do with ideology.
A JDAM through it's power supply would be an effective defense against a malicious strong AI.
It has military applications. Charging drones from the ground without landing them.
Microsoft’s continuing efforts to be cool
Ask HN: What mobile apps do you recommend for productivity?
I'm talking anything that can help you get the most of your mobile device in terms of work.
FWIW, "new npm broke Æeeeverything? Meh. Destroy the docker container, force version <= 5.6.0, rebuild" has now saved me from a bigger disaster. This is the 1.5th option, IMNSHO: npm gets its root(-ish) access, host computer is somewhat protected.
The UK dropped to 500 million bags annually used from 7 billion after introduction of a 5 pence per bag charge. That's just one country albeit one of the world's largest. Still I think we're over due for much more agressive action.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/30/england-...
> I would argue that there are plenty of no-go areas in NL.

Your username indicates you're Dutch. I do wonder if you're aware of the common definition of a no-go area? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-go_area.

From Wikipedia:
"A "no-go area" (or "no-go zone") is an area that has a reputation for violence and crime which makes people frightened to go there, an area in a town barricaded off to civil authorities by a force such as a paramilitary, or an area barred to certain individuals or groups.[1] It has also been used to refer to areas undergoing insurgency where ruling authorities have lost control and are unable to enforce sovereignty.[2]"

There's a few areas where people might not like to walk there at night. There are NO no go areas though.

A friend works for the city of Rotterdam. South of Rotterdam has a similar reputation as the Bijlmer. Whenever they show around South of Rotterdam to city officials from other countries those officials almost always ask when they'll arrive to the problematic area; this while standing right in that area (e.g. Afrikaanderbuurt).

You want to argue no-go areas? Go ahead..
> everyday Linux desperately needs a proper application management and security model.

We already have the necessary tools to do it, eg. firejail. We only have to make every binary run in firejail by default (and write firejail profiles for more binaries).
All the examples you mentioned are preferable to the status quo, with the exception of the NYC soda size cap which is ridiculous (ban the substance or put a limit on the allowable amount in a serving, don't arbitrarily pick a container size and ban it).
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For programmers "understanding" graph theory begins with being able to implement a traversal and knowing how depth-first is different from breadth-first, what is pre-order, in-order or post-order, what role the stack and the queue play in it, and how it can be done recursively or using a loop.
Pretty cool, but I recommend anyone wanting to do this kind of thing to check out the source Puppeteer library. You can do some really powerful stuff and make a custom crawler fairly easily.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
The way I read it is that they’ll first ban plastic straws at sit down places, then charge extra for plastic straws for takeout, then ban plastic straws for takeout as well as sit down dining.
They unfortunately did not have to tear the device apart and extract the cert, they state that each device uses the same one, valid until 2038, which was exposed in a previous exploit (and was likely previously available online as a result).
Though it was definitely a bad idea to post it again on their site.
I realize the article is discussing a form of immunotherapy, but I think immunotherapy is also in its infancy, and given the nature of cancer cells and the heterogeneity of its own genetic makeup, immunotherapy still seems like a very blunt weapon in the war on cancer. For a patient who has already been beaten down by rounds of chemo and radiation, it offers a last ditch hope for survival, but its still laden with risks and adverse outcomes.

On the contrast, metabolic treatment is tough from the standpoint that it requires strict discipline by the patient to adhere to the protocol, but the "side effects" may actually enhance overall health at the cellular level. It's a treatment that at the very least could be melded with the current standard of care to achieve better outcomes, and yet there's very little awareness of it, possibly because there's not a lot of money in it for hospital systems.
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Is it just me or did Twitter just remove a large honey pot for identifying fake accounts?

For example, a recent anti Net Neutrality marketing push was allegedly done by AT&T paying a company who owned a large amount of accounts to tweet members of US Congress the exact same message at roughly the same time. I can't think of an easier way for Twitter to round up a ton of potential fake accounts than watching for these type of events.

I'm not saying that if 100 accounts all post the same thing at the same time, they're all fake accounts. I'm just saying those 100 accounts are worth looking into with other automated checks.
Great job making the world worse.
I've been using the Sciter bindings for Rust, lately. It might be worth a look if you want a more performant option for a HTML/CSS GUI. The documentation is pretty rough, though.

https://sciter.com/

https://github.com/sciter-sdk/rust-sciter
Just no. CPUs don't have an endianness on internal registers and operations - it only applies to memory access (and occasionally some simple conversion operations).
Learning how to look at a map, look at your surroundings, and then look back at the map to figure out where you are is apparently a lost art.
Interesting notes, thanks. I was struggling with such books that compress a complex idea in a couple of sentences, so I'm always trying to explain as detailed as possible. Though understanding that there is a broad audience who likes the opposite (succinct explanations), I wrote disclaimers to secure me just in case. So, read the disclaimers one more time, that's my only excuse for such long and boring discussions :)
A lot of self-driving thought seems to go into deciding when to obey rigid rules and when to break them like everyone else.

We can't assume the pure chaos of Cairo or Delhi requires the same model. Self-driving might only need basic Roomba-level collision avoidance and basic pathfinding for a place where the humans navigate with the expectation that every object, moving or not, is a collision waiting to happen.

Think about how much of rules-based driving is about avoiding hitting people who aren't following the rules. If you start off assuming there are no rules, the model is simpler: everything the sensors pick up could come flying at you at any moment, so plan accordingly, and stop or slow down if you can't find a path that avoids an impact.
Plastic straws for takeaway can remain free until 2025. For in-store use they can remain free until 2020.
> Put companies out of business that produce or import said goods

Tough. Don't go into business ruining the environment. Similar closures would have happened in asbestos, coal, tetraethyl lead additives and plenty of other things we've discovered are a very bad idea.

> Reducing availability and increasing cost of medical goods

That's quite a leap - do you have a source?

Scotland is banning all plastic straws from end of next year. I sincerely doubt there is going to be a black market as a result.
I have a feeling that they will force the code to be 'paired' to an Disney account which can only be accessed through e-mail/password.

Yes, you can create a burner e-mail for this, but you get the point.
TwoHardThings
Oh well, I remember fondly that one time I had an important deadline whooshing by (with that lovely sound Douglas Adams knew) and I happened across this cute little bug:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/12/snow_leopard_guest...

(Yeah, it's that much-vaunted Snow Leopard.)

I do remember scrambling to recover my backups. Back then, I didn't make full-disk backups, so I had to assemble my user folder from various places. Everything else that transpired that night and the day after remains a haze.
Maybe plastic waste in the long run imposes a bigger cost?

Just like overconsumption of cigarettes, alcohol etc. imposes a much bigger cost in the long run (in welfare countries).
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A strong AI which limits itself to one machine, isn't very strong at all.
I saw it wasn't open source, they say it's like the subline development model and to click here[1] for more details. Well..

1. https://eul.im/development
Not a dumb question. We're lower-level - the biggest value Wistia brings is helping marketers be more effective with video. Mux Video is like the plumbing; we get the video from ingest to device/player efficiently with high quality, but we don't actually offer a video player, engagement tracking, content management, metadata, CRM integrations, etc.

We think of ourselves as more of an alternative to S3 + EC2 (or Elastic Transcoder) + CloudFront + weeks of engineering time.

Use Mux Video if you're a developer who wants to build software around video streaming. Use Wistia if you're a business who wants to use video to communicate.
Yes, my phrase is missing "in some cases"
Obviously it's not, like, a world-shattering problem, but I think there is a real, if small, overhead, to switching between different styles when looking at code.

I also just happen to really like things neat a tidy.

Final minor nice thing about having a fixed style: you can grep with confidence, without having to try to encode stylistic variations in the regex.
This is the main reason I stayed away from medication for 12 years. That is until 3 weeks ago.

I decided late 2017, after a major depressive episode, that I needed to get help after 12 years of dealing with this depression. I kept thinking that I had a handle on it, and then it coming back weeks, months or years later.

I read The Depression Cure (https://www.amazon.com/Depression-Cure-6-Step-Program-withou...) about 5 years ago, and it helped for awhile, but it started to worsen again, and after awhile, getting the right diet, exercise and sleep seemed impossible because of the depression and anxiety.

I started therapy about 3 months ago, and finally agreed to try medication. I started taking Zoloft 3 weeks ago, and the side effects are downright awful. I made it through the first 3 weeks though, and I'm starting to feel a lot better.

Zoloft might not end up being the right medication for me, and there might be a better one, but my goal is to find something that takes 10%-20% of the depression and anxiety symptoms away so that I can start my path to curing this beast with the methods Dr. Iliardi outlines in The Depression Cure. Once I'm at a point where I'm better, I'm going to try and ween off the medication and try to live a healthy, great life without SSRIs.
I think the antropocene is meant as a permanent change to the composition of the earth such as through changing the naturally occurring rate of carbon isotopes through fission.
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That depends entirely on the government and the set of laws and incentives they operate under.
I hate Javascript and web tech and he didn't sell Qt to me either.
It's the complete app. Cocoa on macos, WinAPI on Windows, GTK on Linux.
Has been done, lookup Tabletop Simulator and the LEGO mod.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=96143...
The important issue is that sticking them together is not intuitive, you can stack them, no problem but if you pick up the structure they can slide off. You need to manually stick them together with a tool or some command. Ideally this would be a gesture or button click.

Tabletop Simulator in itself is a nice program for simulating tabletop games, next to Bigscreen it's my go to VR app for board games I love. There are mods chess, card and flicking games and my favorites, Gaia Project, Scythe and Neandertal.
Thanks @signa11 for sharing this.