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Blog post: Why you should consider Progressive Web Apps
True, there are many similarities. But it seems to me that the author of this article makes Dart appear even more like Java by ignoring Dart features and idioms.

For instance, what's the point of those Java style getter methods in the Movie class? These are public instance variables after all, and Dart has special property syntax to transparently wrap instance variables if and when the need arises.

I know next to nothing about Dart. So maybe there is a reason for this weirdness. But I rather suspect that the author has written a lot of Java and almost no Dart in his life.
Sounds like a good business model. Look at what US tech companies don't want to abide by EU law. Copy their app, but without all the privacy issues, make it free for all, incl EU. You already know what to copy, you don't need to do any research. Development and business risk is much less.
Ben Thompson delivers again. I love reading this guy’s stuff. I’m not saying it’s earth shattering, but it’s accessible, well thought out, and leave feeling much more informed.
HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/1 – Performance Comparison
Previously, HTTP/1.1 was the major version of HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web, implemented across clients and servers. That worked well for 15 years. But as modern day applications and websites evolved and the amount of data to be loaded on a single page increased, the shortcomings of HTTP/1.1, became more prominent.

The relatively new HTTP/2 protocol speeds up page load significantly and is widely supported by all major browsers and servers. Here is the detailed comparison between HTTP/2 and HTTP/1. Check out.
from the site: $0.005 per request, first 1000 requests are free
Yes it's opt-in, and consent also has to be as easy to withdraw (at any time) as it is to give.
400k servers may be at risk of serious code-execution attacks. Patch now
I was under the impression that voltage was mostly constant most of the time, except for brief periods where it was switched to keep up with/scale back to match demand. Assuming constant voltage should be a good approximation in this case, right?
China's Global Cloud and AI Ambitions Keep Extending
It still doesn't explain to me why the authors still mention the BMI. It seems like a meaningless piece of information given that they have much better markers.
That doesn't matter, because for the highest rated loans (Buyback and PG) Twino guarantee payments even in the case of defaults or delays.
Make fun of hipsters all you like, heck it's not hard. But that won't change the fact that hipsters, a cultural group like any other, control a big chunk of the tech world, especially in Berlin. Meaning that you flippantly ignore their cultural preferences at your own peril.
In what sense? The company guarantees you will get paid back for the loans at 11%. For higher rates there is risk, but that isn't what I'm talking about.
Ask HN: How to meet Founders who failed after YC
Desktop isn't all that consistent.

Spotify uses its own skin, as does Windows iTunes. NetBeans uses Swing with the Nimbus look-and-feel. Firefox and Chrome use their own toolkits (e.g. on their Settings windows). Even Microsoft Word feels like 'its own thing'. UWP applications don't tend to feel native. At least RoboMongo and the CMake GUI feel like proper Windows applications, but they both use Qt.
Good on your mother for persisting until she got to the bottom of the brownie mystery! It’s a bit of a pity the company tampered with such a successful recipe!

My brownie recipe is from a cookbook and I tried a lot of variations on it and then had to concede that the person who wrote the recipe got it just right. I make it with high quality chocolate and butter and then am very careful not to over bake it and they turn out deliciously decadent every time!
Check out Enonic XP - https://enonic.com. Runs in any cloud and you can build your server side logic in Javascript. Embedded NoSQL, search engine, identity and (headless) CMS. Open Source on github.
Here's a different take on it: in my country, the government is already roughly an identity provider -- drivers licenses, passports and birth certificates are commonly required as identification when signing up for things like rental agreements, jobs, bank accounts, etc. These are issued by state or federal government.

Yes, this isn't implemented as something you can integrate with over the internet using SAML 2.0 or oauth or whatever, but it still happens with much older tech (writing + paper + anti-counterfeiting tricks + bureaucracy).

James C. Scott's book "Seeing Like a State" makes a pretty good argument that the state wants to arrange society in such a way that it is legible and tractable to central bureaucracy in such a way that the state can efficiently pursue the state's goals -- collecting taxes or crushing political dissent or so on.

So separately from if the state "should" do it, or if it is a "good idea" or not, the state will do it if they think it will help the state achieve its aims, and the population or some other powerful party doesn't resist it.
I bake a few cakes regularly. Most of the recipes can be found online, but I usually have found some tweaks that make them taste better (subjective). So I make notes of them in my little book.

I think most recipes are derivative. You have to start somewhere when you make cornbread. So why not start with a standard recipe. Then you substitute some ingredients because you're missing something at home. You find it either tastes better or worse. Then you can improve the recipe.

In the end my cornbread recipe only has 2 different ingredients that give it better texture and better aroma. It's still almost the same recipe.
I feel bad that you think amphetamines are some class of "lifestyle" drug. They are one of the most simple drugs around..pretty much the definition of a stimulant other than even more primitive ones like adrenaline or noradrenaline. You are welcome to keep thinking you are doing yourself a therepeutic solid by taking amphetamines - but ultimately you are just popping stimulants like a spice jawa from Star Wars. Just be honest with yourself - its easier to change when you admit that amphetamines arent complex drugs...that they are just simple stims...that they dont give a person anything they didnt already have. That they basically just overclock the brain and the body. If you dont believe it, pop 100mg and try not to have a heart attack or seizure. Good luck bug
The road to senior dev
Hey DeepYoghurt, sure just apply directly to contact@theengineering.company with your CV. Thanks!
Show HN: Goto aliased directories in bash with autocompletion support
Eliminating the need for synchronization isn't the only benefit of high tension DC power lines. DC is also sometimes used for long-distance transmission lines to avoid hysteresis losses. The downside to DC is that voltage step-up and step-down equipment is more complicated/expensive and (at least generally) less efficient.

In high school, I was told that a lot of the power for Minneapolis was sent over high tension DC lines from coal power plants in the neighboring Dakotas for this reason. This was part of the lesson about how the lakes in northern Minnesota had very little pH buffering capacity due to limestone being scraped down to bedrock by glaciers and therefore being particularly sensitive to SO2 emissions from coal power plants in the Dakotas, but most of the electrical demand for that power also coming from Minnesota.
I think the only clock I have that does it that way is the one in the stove/oven as I recently noticed the deviation after having set it correctly just a few weeks ago.
Atlas Air Acquires Two Boeing 777 Freighters from LATAM Airlines – Aviation
I think what most people mean when they say 'regex' is actually 2 thing:

1. The syntax of that pcre-like regex engine accept.

2. regular language, a kind of formal language.

Many regex engine nowadays like the one in perl5 and onigmura already breaks 2, but still makes 1 compatible. I think what perl6 does is also breaks 1. (I am not experienced in Perl6. Please correct me if I am wrong.) I don't think it is a problem, though.
I mean, in software engineering we try to avoid unnecessary dependencies right? This is exactly what's happening, why would those clocks ever depend on the power grid??

EDIT: Nevermind, sounds like there are precision concerns that justify using the power grid for timekeeping.
I was just yesterday changing my oven clock. Interesting to find out why here on HN. I wonder what critical systems (besides my oven) will start misbehaving. Traffic lights, maybe?

(edit:Apparently, the emergency broadcast system.)
Food labs actually levelled up my cooking to the next level. So many great recipes and ideas. It was a very readable book too, I pretty much read it cover to cover. The best thing was buying a meat thermometer. Why did I cook for so long without it?

I’ll have to try your other recommendations now. :)
Any idea where one could find such experts? And good on you for bumping his initial offer.
>When in doubt, don’t google until you read the official manual. It’s a document of an astonishing quality. Go print the pdf.

This applies to most GNU software.
The security of my bank is pretty good, any account management action (password reset, card pin change, mailing address, email, name, etc.) requires physical presence in the closest branch. Not any arbitrary branch, the closest. With my passport. Not some bill or mail on my address. My passport.

The password reset will then setup a new password with 12 characters, number and specials included. This password is then sent via german postal service to my house, I can't pick it up on my local branch or have it told to me. Send via mail. Period.

The letter advices me to change the password to something secure immediately and destroy the letter securely afterwards. The banking website enforces this and you cannot change your password to any temporary password that your account previously had. (So if someone intercepted the letter, you would either notice or it would be useless)

The only downside is they have an ancient COBOL mainframe doing the accounts, so they're case insensitive and encoded in ECBDIC, although they are properly hashed using bcrypt, there is an upper limit of 24 characters because it still passes through there.

So I would say my bank is banking on the customer picking a good enough password and hoping they can replace the COBOL mainframe at some point.
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For Two Months, I Got My News from Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned
Overnewsed but underinformed.
Machine Learning for Auto-Tuning HPC Systems
So here is a pitch you could make for the tech companies to get into finance. Simply replace <x> with either Amazon or Google

1. <x> Advisor: Retail investors are moving rapidly to passive tracking instruments such as ETFs, <x> can help educate investors on how to allocate their funds to this asset class based on individual risk/reward profiles. <x> can make better sense of all the data available and become the 'ultimate' robo-advisor.

2. <x> One View: <x> is in position to own account aggregation and build up an incredible view into the spending/saving habits of the general population in the developed world. Initiatives such as PSD2 in Europe will help fuel the growth in aggregation in the next few years. Going forward beyond simple read-only aggregation,combined with <x> Advisor and write-APIs to to financial institutions, <x> can allocate my funds to the best products across multiple different institutions in real-time.

3.<x> Bank: With my investments taken care of through <x> Advisor and One View whats left is a utilitarian bank account to manage my free cash flow on a daily basis. Something practical and highly functional without the fuss that offers features such as peer-to-peer FX swapping at mid rates when I go on holiday. This is where <x> could create the challenger bank people have been anticipating.
Lessons Learned While Working on Large-Scale Server Software
This is great! it is very useful for writing papers. I tried it with some of my equations! It actually improved it by adding more approrpiate braces than I had.
I am curious to know as well.
The Square Root of 4 to a Million Places by Norman L. De Forest
Sounds like she started with AmigaBasic then moved onto C. I quite liked her "yo-yo" variables idea, not a typical algorithm but makes sense for what she's making.
The Roadmap Ahead for Exascale HPC in the US
I assume all mission-critical clocks get their tick from a quartz crystal. Clocks running on mains frequency is a very cheap cost cutting measure.
Depends if you're making an analogue clock or a digital one.

If you look inside a cheap mechanical timeswitch [1], you'll find a synchronous motor the size of a sugar cube, turning 50 or 60 times a second, then half a dozen plastic gears reducing the rotation to 1 turn per day. AC wall clocks follow the same principle, but with a slightly different gear ratio.

This means you don't need a printed circuit board, or any integrated circuits, or anything like that. Such efficiency is how you make a profit, if you're selling timers on Aliexpress for $3.50.

If you're making a digital timeswitch, a quartz crystal might be cheaper, or might not - it depends on the insulation/isolation you think your product requires.

[1] http://swarfer.co.za/rc/03-timer.php
Good example of how a critical external dependency without an SLA is a problem waiting to happen.
Buying shiny new hardware isn't needed, any old Thinkpad is bound to have good Linux support, plus it'll be upgradeable and durable!

Use the right tool for the job, avoid assuming you need the most expensive tool possible!
Fund ideas, not pedigree, to find fresh insight
Imagine a stone being lifted. The weight of the stone is the current, and the height it is lifted to is the voltage.

Both the weight of the stone and the height have an impact on the energy required to do the lifting.

Now imagine you are lifting and lowering it repeatedly. It should be intuitive that doing so 50 times a second requires more power than doing it 25 times a second (One being more lifts than the other, in the same time period).
cheap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock ?
Four rules for effective collaboration – Guidelines for better commits
MRI Stroke Data Set Released
To see what the Grid's up to in roughly real time, I love this site.

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk

After last week where demand was very heavy and frequency was below 50Hz, the frequency is currently the highest I have ever seen (50.107Hz)

You can also see the French grid using the same site. This shows the European frequency at 50.024Hz, so perhaps corrective action is being taken.

Edit - as you were, 5 minutes later UK frequency is 49.902Hz and European frequency is 49.993Hz
Here's something similar for >110kV powerlines:

https://openinframap.org/#4/47.96/21.01/Power
I think it's fair to add a disclaimer the commenter works for enomic. (self promotion itself is totally fine of course).
I enjoyed the part where they quote themselves.
Switzerland is a small country benefitting from being the hub of a disproportional amount of global banking and commodity trading. I think that props up the minimum wage at McDonalds. That being said, the pride that the Swiss - from a McDonald’s worker to bus driver - show in their jobs is noticeable to this American.
Movie Monad: Make a Video Player in Haskell
"Ricing" as used here comes from a pejorative which fundamentally comes from using "rice" as a race-based slur for people buying a (cheap) Japanese vehicle like a Honda Civic and then modifying it for looks rather than power or efficiency.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner and the many comments on the term in the Talk page.
I have no idea who the hipsters are. An Anglosphere subculture?
There is plenty of old hardware that won't properly work for modern linux distros, either by missing firmware packages or software not running on the CPU anymore (such as on an old Thinkpad of mine from 1998, modern distro's don't properly run, a lot of stuff fails with invalid opcodes or segfaults. An ancient copy of knoppix runs (with kernel 2.3))

Even then, most people don't buy with "it must run linux" in mind, they grab whatever has good sounding numbers on it.
One thing I sometimes wish was possible in make is using the automatic variables in the dependency part of the rules. The one that I most often have desired to use is $(@D) so I could depend on a file with specific name in the same directory when the directory name isn't known beforehand. I got around this with some touch trickery but it would be just easier to read if those automatic variables were available at that point.
The UK's http://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ keeps track of frequency, although not cumulative drift. The UK is DC-coupled to the rest of Europe.
Good point. Come to think of it the article perhaps ought to have mentioned their drug-taking (since it may bear on their creativity).
Write a Shell in C
I found striking the line up of the mediteranean, the black sea and the caspian sea, even further the aral sea and I was wondering if this line was on the aequator before. So if it was, I would wonder, what's the significance of this? Tidal and centrifugal forces influencing the tectonic movement and vice versa, changing water movements influencing the rotation.
Mmmm, no in alternating current V is alternating as well as I
A lot of electricity meters can take have the 50Hz mains as a clock-source...

Leads to interesting questions such as how the (time-based) metering is affected in this situation.
In the past there've been a couple of threads about being rejected from YC

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rejected%20yc&sort=byPopularit...
Chrome does nothing with asm.js; it's Firefox who applies special, faster compilation routines to asm.js code.
Looks like she extended her Amiga with Microbotics Starboard 2 (2MB RAM and RTC, visible in 2:36): http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=...
Ask: Shorthand informal cryptocurrency notation: oo2 for 0.002coin?
A little easier on the eyes and the mind and the soul, yes— how do you feel about the proposal/suggestion? Care to help it catch on?
A quartz crystal?
>Carbon dioxide isn't a mineral. When water absorbs CO2 there is an equilibrium reaction where (H2CO3) carbonic acid is produced (the percentage depends on things like the concentration of CO2 and the temperature of the water, among other things).

Fair enough, my point wasn't clearly stated. It seems the single opposition to distilled water is that it's "acidic".

1.) Do you believe ingesting anything slightly acidic is inherently bad? (is distilled water worse than fruit juice?)

2.) Is there more carbonic acid in distilled water vs soda water or coke/pepsi?

I would certainly agree that Reference.com is not a good source. My father is a chemist, he's the one who brought home the distilled water we all drank from as our daily drinking water my entire childhood... he didn't seem to think it was an issue.
Rendering to native components is a dead end. It creates huge surface area for bugs to appear, and it's slow.

I had a "pleasure" of working with Xamarin Forms and interactions between native UI, behaviour difference between Android manufactures and versions, etc. were a constant source of pain.

With Flutter, if something works on one device it will almost certainly work on all devices. You can also customize per platform.

It is also possible to run it on desktop (although not officially supported). IMO that's a big deal and a potential Electron killer.

Dart is meh though.
This is my 2nd attempt to reply - just created an account. I hope it gets there. I feel very much for you - you sound like you have physical pain as well as financial distress.

I am a sometime lurker on this site who has created an account to tell you that I hope you get some kind of breakthrough or something good does happen. Probably that's not much help. Please hang on. I have read your post and also your comments to other posts and can see that you are an intelligent and good person. You love your cat, and she needs you, and yes, she does love you too!

Being not a programmer or sysadmin etc. myself there is not any concrete help I can give. I would hope that some here would be able to offer you some remote work?
If you're interested in improving your learning, I can't recommend the free course "Learning how to learn" enough:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

It includes a section about this. I've also found many of the lessons applicable to other parts of my life.
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 is getting a new ‘S Mode’ in 2019 – The Verge
Manage Financial Mess of Joblessness with Loans for Unemployed
This Neural Net Hallucinates Sheep
Did they ever come out and repute this article about faking results for "racists"? Yes, it's on cracked but many a true word was spoken in jest.

http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2522-inside-shad...
If your clock is mission-critical, it should be rather well kept. Quartz, NTP, GPS, the list goes on and multiplies like rabbits (redundant this redundantly connected to redundant thats and backed up by those...). But indeed, sometimes you don't need sub-second precision, and relying on The Grid is useful.
>Calcium isn't going to magically go into your distilled water and "remineralize" it...

Fair enough.

>Distilled water pulls minerals from cells and causes apoptosis.

Does it do this because it's acidic?

>...most people get their minerals from solid food anyways.

Are you saying that because distilled water is acidic, and doesn't have minerals, it will destroy our bodies when fasting?
Hash tables beat the common list by a clever compromise
I dont have the data but probably most applicants are 20-30 too.
Nothing Anglosphere about hipsterism. Plenty of that from Southern Europe and East Asia. A typical member is youngish (born early 1980 and forward), secular, educated in tech, media, the arts, sometimes (social) science, left-leaning, with an urban and transnational worldview. I think honestly it's more of a social and economic class than a subculture. It's a new word for "intelligentsia".
Beatles would not have become popular if they had not incorporated themes of drugs, sex, etc.
I wonder how those industrial automation clocks deal with power outages. Europe has quite reliable power, but even the best electricity providers have occasional unplanned outages.

As of a few years ago the best was Germany, where the average customer had about 15 minutes per year without power due to unplanned outages (excluding outages caused by exceptional events). (For comparison, the best quartile of utilities in the US averaged about 90 minutes/year for their average customer).
What do you think about organic clothing? When it comes to regular clothing, it's become relatively easy to buy organic clothing at least where I live, primarily due to relatively big-name clothing store C&A having a pretty wide selection of organic clothing. However, since they cost just as little as other clothing, I'm wondering whether it really is that much better.

Then again, I guess production costs are hardly factored into final pricing anyway.
Google Home brings free mobile and landline calls to UK users
Sure, and I would like to have the simplicity without the stability issues.
Audi gets in on the flying car action with Airbus and Italdesign