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I think it's we who don't understand. My son measures money in how many weeks allowance he needs to spend on it. And he still prefers to spend it on virtual things on sites like Roblox rather than buying physical objects, because he gets enjoyment and experiences out of it.

I find that hard to argue with when considering that e.g. the thousands I've spent on movies over the years, while e.g. I can pretend it is for the DVDs I bought rather than for access to the movie, really is about enabling experiences too - the physical objects are now largely obsolete and just takes up space. The experiences on the other hand last.

I find myself catching up slowly to his lack of attachment to holding something physical.

Sure, that means he needs to experience some degree of loss to make him internalize the risks, but even as he's coming to terms with that, but at the same time physical objects get broken or worn or lost too.

I don't worry so much about him losing virtual items he's paid for - I think most of the disappointment comes from no longer being able to be part of a community. E.g. the game he's upset about gets mentioned because he enjoyed making me play it with him - he's never mentioned the things in it he spent money on. We play other games, but that specific experience is something he misses.

And I think that is central to what copyright holders will face: They need to realize that these communities are far more important to people than their products, even when it is the product that enables the community. And antagonizing increasingly vocal communities is not a good long term strategy, because these people are going to more and more evaluate products in terms of community and trust. My son for example care far more about the group of people he follows and plays with than the specific game.
No, XAML, QML, JavaFX, Android, Cocoa are much better, with guaranteed hardware acceleration, and offer RAD GUI designers that are much more powerful than hand-editing HTML/CSS.

As funny anecdote, CSS Grid was originally proposed by XAML team.

Google apparently is pushing for the low level rendering control that native UI APIs enjoy on their Houdini project. Right now, it is yet again a Chrome only feature.
never heard of redbox? did you just wake from a 15 year coma?
nickbauman says>" I defy you to take your 11 year old self in that situation and do it differently."

This is such an odd statement. The time is past, the actions have occurred; they cannot be redone. All that remains are your memories and emotions, which can be changed.

Everyone is different and no two people handle a situation in the same way.

Its too bad that you were unable to get good advice and/or consolation at the time. But maybe, with some counseling, or discussion with friends, you can revisit this bad experience and others and change how you feel about them and yourself.
I guess that's the template text for releases and they forgot to remove it.
I suppose that is the logical reductio ad absurdum counter-argument. I'm no idealist, obviously some level of inequality is inevitable because humans are fundamentally different from each other in their abilities. I think it's really generational wealth and social mobility (two sides of the same coin) that are the important factors. Everybody knows that there will be "losers" in any game, whether it's a video game or the more serious economic game that we all play throughout our lives.

I think the disaffectedness of the not-well-off is due to a sense of helplessness that even if they had the ability and wherewithal to contribute to the world and better their own lives, that they wouldn't be able to do so due to factors that are out of their control, not out of some misplaced belief in equity-of-outcome

Note that I'm not railing against meritocracy. Rather, it's that the system currently equates a lot of "merit" with factors that very highly correlate with having a wealthy upbringing. Also, meritocracy taken to its own reductio-ad-absurdum of a small group of extremely capable people controlling all wealth is not in itself desirable - just because it's theoretically possible to achieve upward social mobility by being part of the top 0.01% of intelligence/capability/whatever doesn't mean it's "fair" that success is reserved for such a small group
Thanks for the answer, it'll keep me busy for a week or two!
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Go is not a language for "system-level features" in the first place. Its garbage collector largely precludes it from that in any modern context.

I'm pretty sure I disagree with that largely because Go is low-level enough so that the GC is easily handled.

And users can't really fix it, because hey, no generics. Sigh.

Users can fix it by writing languages on top of Go (particularly dynamic ones).
I feel the same way. I even tried starting a library like that (in Kotlin JVM and Native), but never got past a very early stage (https://github.com/peterholak/mogul). Hopefully one day I'll have enough time to work on it.
In rural communities, people were still bringing their hunting rifles to school (leaving them in their truck on the rack in the back window) up until and for some time after Columbine.

I even remember kids accidentally bringing their rifle maybe as late as 2001 or 2002. They were just asked to go home and drop it of, if anyone noticed.

I would wager that at those same schools today, a gun drawing or finger gesture of a gun would not get you expelled.
> "I frequently imagine something that takes the best ideas from react/redux and from other ui and layout frameworks and lets you build something that has consistent, cross platform (desktop and mobile, maybe even web with some kind of compilation pathway to js or webasm), responsive ui, without the huge web stack."

There are a number of existing UI frameworks that fit this description. As a starting point, I'd suggest checking out QML:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML
> "But there is no way to tell if you feel objectively better than before the medication started."

Would you elaborate at what you mean here? Two reads I have are either (a) you're getting at whether feelings like this are subjective, which is true definitionally but seems to me to be uninteresting, or (b) assessment tools (such as the Beck inventory) are imprecise, which is also true, but can still provide some basis for comparison. Or something else that I'm missing?

That said, I would like to see a longer time scale to see if the changes are maintained.
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Completely agreed on all of these (the lack of search, in particular) is just atrocious. I'd also like to see:

- Improved export functionality on all platforms :: I should be able to export my chats in some readable format from any client.

- More clients :: I should be able to read my Signal messages within emacs.

- Support for non-phone-number identifiers :: I shouldn't need to purchase a new phone number in order to get another Signal account. I completely get how valuable this is in limiting certain forms of abuse, but it also limits certain forms of legitimate use (e.g. Haven).

- Better privacy for contacts :: I shouldn't be sending my contacts to Signal's servers. I don't trust Intel's secure enclave technology any more than I trust Intel's ME. There are ways to discover mutual contacts privately.
The #123 is a link. Click that for the ticket with more information.

Though looking at it, the actual description is no longer than "changed an X thing".
"Best" is a complicated concept. Yes, amitriptyline has the greatest efficacy, i.e. response rate in a clinical setting. It may still have poor effectiveness (how well it works in the real world) because it belongs to a class of medications which, if you use them, you have to exclude many types of common foods from your diet. It also has less safety margins in terms of overdosing than many modern alternatives.

And then there's also the odd fact that earlier trials of antidepressants show better effect than recent ones -- even for the same treatment and all else held equal. We don't know why.
Cool, thanks for the suggestion.
I've been wondering when Google (or someone else) is going to do the same thing for pedestrian routes and locations. There are plenty of highly-trafficked places where GPS is unavailable or not precise enough, and mapping WiFi stations evidently isn't enough to fill the gap. Of course the problem could, and should, be attacked by ground-based radio systems * , but 100% coverage by such systems certainly won't arrive anytime soon, and it wouldn't be like the tech companies to wait for it. You would have to take your phone out to get a location fix ... but that likely won't be the case whenever AR glasses really start to appear in public, and the techcos will also be happy to stick cameras on your clothes and luggage if they and you can get away with it.

* Come on Transport for London, it's high time to show some leadership here.
Yes, I think we all feel it. Every UI lib has something wrong: C++ sucks and is hard to iface w/ other langs (Qt, wxWidgets), not enough widgets (IUP, libui), not native enough in my OS (GTK), carries a full browser (Electron, nw.js), carries a full JVM (JavaFX, Swing), etc, etc. And then every subreddit and community always has people asking what's the best UI lib for language X. We all travel back to awesome-lang-X lists' GUI section every so often hoping someone will finally fix it.

Qt or wxWidgets, make a supported C iface (I am aware of some work on both fronts, e.g. wxc that was used by wxHaskell I think?). IUP and libui, thicken your libs (libui guy just got permission from his new company to get back working on the lib, yay). World, don't hate non-native-OS-widgeted apps. Browser vendors, stop being so tunnel-visioned into your my-OS-only, non-embeddable, or must-be-multiprocess shit. And let us trim some fat off at compile time please (waiting on you Servo, but please stay lean and single-process for embeddability). JVM AOT...we're waiting, we know it's coming.

And no, I would rather not have an interpreted (or dynamic) language if I can help it.

Edit: To clarify before a ton of responses pick apart my specific criticisms, I'm making these points to show there is a void. I could poke a ton more holes in these libs and more (I have used most), but it's hardly worth arguing the nuances here.
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Why not use mixed approach? I find it works best for me. First, learn by examples to get a broader picture, then learn theory bottom-up to get into details. It's much easier to learn complex theories when you know where it leads and what purpose it serves than building mental model blindly.
It's really sad that in spite of the main glaring problem of Electron apps they didn't as much as even mention any work done on performance optimization in 2.0.0. The changes mentioned are just make up when compared to the real problem.
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I think HN is responding to the almost hyperbolic proliferation of "blockchain" as some digital panacea and social zeitgeist. It's cool to talk about "crypto" at dinner now. Every time I hear some suave new BTC owner at the table next to mine undressing his two lady friends with technically inaccurate explanations of how crypto currencies work I die a little.

But I think you're right. Time will tell. I would love to see more distributed software that empowers participants to grow stake in the digital systems they depend upon. And having well-curated frameworks and working knowledge for operating blockchains will help us grow our digital gardens. The renaissance has only just begun. Patience is a virtue.
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In Europe, the availability of contactless payment has been growing like crazy. I live in Eeastern-Europe and even here I can pay contactless almost everywhere. And with almost everywhere, I really mean almost everywhere. Even really tiny stores tucked away in a corner that didn't even support card payment at all until contactless was on the rise. And with contactless, I mean, you just tap your card on a reader and that's it. I am not really sure why I would want to do this with my phone. I'd have to take it out of my pocket, unlock it to approve the transactions etc. Instead I just put my card on a read for half a second and I can walk away.

In my home country (Western-Europe), some supermarket chains even support complete self-checkout. You just grab what you need, scan your items with a handheld scanner and then pay contactless at one of the payment terminals and then you're good to go.

Can somebody explain why I'd prefer using my phone over this system?
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I never said the author shouldn't publish it. I find the method, data and the conclusion presented flawed.
we, the OKFDE, have no partnership with Bertelsmann
our partner, algorithmwatch, has - independently from this project - funding from Bertelsmann Stiftung

again the data is first delivered only to the user, afterwards he/she can decide what to do

glad we agree that the issue is important
But is HTML/CSS/JS really the best we can do for desktop and mobile applications? [...] I frequently imagine something that takes the best ideas from react/redux and from other ui and layout frameworks and lets you build something that has consistent, cross platform (desktop and mobile, maybe even web with some kind of compilation pathway to js or webasm), responsive ui, without the huge web stack.

QML?

Or if you want native applications, what is wrong with Cocoa, Qt, and XAML? A cross-platform toolkit will either be the lowest-common denominator between the platforms (this has been tried before, see e.g. AWT, SWT, wxWidgets) or something that is alien to each platform (Electron). Small independent development companies have done applications across multiple platforms by using their native toolkits for decades. And now suddenly, it is too expensive for GitHub, Slack, and others to develop applications with platform UI toolkits? They are just transferring the cost to the users. We get inconsistent shortcuts, widgets, etc. between programs. No automator support, etc.

There is only a benefit to people who use multiple platforms and want to applications to look the same on every platform. But the vast majority of users just uses one platform, or two if we include tablets/phones (which have different input methods anyway).
The big problem is that out of the 5 technologies you mentioned,only two are cross-platform, and only one builds an exe (yet).

Oh, and that one is practically designed around a hybrid C++, so if you don't like C++ (last time I tried C++ with mingw on Windows I had a horrible time installing libraries), you're out of choices.
My take is it costs a lot of money to become worth any money in the space. The story breakers matter a lot more than the story regurgitators, and people see the value enough to pay for it. If you want to shoestring and cost cut your news room, your core value goes to none.

Biggest problem I find is the local news space. There’s nowhere for funded investigative reporting at the local level - I feel like some type of local club or community organization needs to start growing to get it back.
Someone needs to tell the author that Microsoft isn’t headquartered in Silicon Valley.
I'm not the biggest fan of this sed reinvention of PostScript we call the browser stack, but my main problem with Electron and the like isn't this, but their design target: Making desktop apps look and feel like web apps.

We're throwing away all kinds of HIG achievements since 1984, for the sake of pretty colors and superfluous transitions. Not too long ago, a considerable effort was spent to make web apps behave like desktop apps, now the inverse is true.

I blame the rise of "UX", just like "DevOps" is too blame for needless infrastructure.
Or maybe the other way around: what if a browser was modular down to the feature level? Don't use CSS/JS/HTML feature X/Y/Z? It's removed from the engine at compile time. That way you're only shipping what you're using, not a mini-OS.

Or maybe the JVM approach, where there's one electron process on the system, and all the electron apps on the system are run in the same process. That way at least the rendering/JS engine can be shared. It'd be like Firefox before electrolysis. Though, having your chat client crash and also take down your music player and code editor seems like a terrible user experience.
I very much hope Red finally takes off. Currently the GUI frontend works only on Windows and macOS, not on Linux yet. But once it does, we'll finally have a truly multiplatform tool for creating simple apps (such as the ones Electron is used for). As for more complex apps, this might well be possible as well, but I haven't seen anything really complex created in Red yet.
Ever try to steal a house? The buying and selling process tends to be so comically onerous, involving numerous layers of validation, lawyers, realtors, fees, taxes, title transfer, it's worlds apart from comparing it to present day crypto currencies and crypto transactions. Real-estate being the majority proportion of all traditional physical property value in the world.

Maybe stray gold or silver coins or similar. Those offer more privacy than BTC though and are also quite easy to safely store (safety deposit boxes are cheap compared to any meaningful valuables). Or you can just buy GLD on the stock market.

Cash, at least in the US, offers a lot more privacy than BTC does. It also has low, stable transaction fees related to its use and existence.
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Connecticut (the state where the Sandy Hook shooting too place) has a population of 3.6 million, compared to Norway's 5 million.

Would it be more reasonable to compare individual US states to individual European countries? If so, are we going to throw out outliers like Berveik and the Sandy Hook shooting? Because with that philosophy pretty soon there aren't any mass shootings anywhere.
The rule is that titles shouldn't be changed from as authored without reason. In this case, the submitted page used "construction materials" but not "cinder" in its title and subtitle. Maybe the submitter realized that and improved it within the edit window, or a moderator fixed it.

I imagine that "cinder" in this context could confuse non-native English speakers.
>Bad food habits, food choices, culture, and very low activity levels

You say that as if you know for certain that none of those things are affected by genetics. Could it be that some people are genetically predisposed to higher levels of activity? It seems very likely to me that different people get varying amounts of endorphin released for similar levels of activity based on genetics.

Same goes for levels of satiation, levels of endorphin release when eating things like sugar.

I grew up in the same household, eating the same food as my brother. Why is it that he just doesn't care for sweet things, never has? And I have a massive sweet tooth. It's been the same since we were both skinny children. It's no wonder he is still skinny and I struggle with weight gain.
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this looks likes an internal dev oriented page, not a public announcement type of deal.
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Can you suggest me the best chronic pain killer?
there are lots of medicine for the cure of chronic pain or other body pain. how can we suggest to someone the bets pain relief?
Curious if enforcement is going to also thrash legitimate human accounts that have been - underhandedly - oauth’d authorized to be remotely controlled by a third party.

I hope Twitter introduces a screen informing who and what caused suspensions or bans
It's unclear to me if these parallel tasks are also coroutines (there seems to be a call to yield but its unclear what it really does), and if they yield on any sleeps which is a key features of goroutines.
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scanned the changelog for any mention of performance or memory footprint optimizations. nothing.
I'm using a Qi charger instead which I put on the table. Ikea has them build in to tables, night stands, lamps http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/wir... they are really safe because there is no laser involved.
If they were "much better", devs wouldn't be flocking to Electron. If there's something amiss, claiming there isn't with hand-waves brushes whatever issues there are under the carpet.
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Where did the one way street thing happen exactly? I find it very interesting that it can do that, it implies a disconnect between the rendered data and the data used for routing.
Well if you are bringing up choosing the card, you should also bring choosing the right bills in case of cash. Then the cashier needs to count it, and select the bills/coins to return, which then you need to figure where to put in your wallet.

Pulling out the cell phone and unlocking it usually one step for me. Also, I have credit card for groceries (as that's where I use NFC most often) set as the default, so I don't open Google Pay to choose the card.
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Nothing in this seems worthy of a major version bump to be honest.
Ah, sorry if that came across as directed at you specifically. It was more just about the 'cultishness' around Bitcoin that I think marks it out as somewhat different to regular currencies.
Bank of America has NFC ATMs here in the Bay Area at least.
If your phone has a fingerprint reader, I find that it's even easier to pull out the phone and tap, than to try and get a card out of your wallet.

Plus, feels more secure since you need to authenticate, vs anyone with your card can just tap it. (sure, usually you are not liable if you report lost credit card quickly)

What I'd really like to see next is for proper electronic receipts to be transferred to the phone, vs just the transaction total.
Not sure why this comment wasn't upvoted higher. Inflation has effectively been a slow-moving tax increase to the middle class, as tax brackets don't change with the decreasing value of the US dollar. A $100,000 salary in 2018 was equivalent to a $65,000 salary in 2000, meaning much more of one's 2018 income is pushed into the higher 25% bracket rather than the lower 15% bracket.
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telesillla says>"A young killer supplants "his lost, confused, and unstable self-image with an actively nihilistic will to power."

Is this possibly also how normal teens become political science students?
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/blockchain/index.html

bonus points if you can work out what it is.
Having done a lot of React development (in TypeScript), and recently dealing more with Android, I disagree.

Having to manually mutate the UI instead of describing it with a `render` function feels like a huge step back. Even data binding is often too limited.

Trying to get a screen in Android to have the correct layout and style is also way clunkier - even with ConstraintLayout.
I wonder why there is no runtime package for all your electron applications, so you only have to install the runtime once and every app can depend on this runtime. This would greatly reduce download sizes of individual applications.