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I don't know about others but I'm not expecting it to be an amazing experience. It's more that I expect not having DOM interop to be an amazingly boring experience. Maybe Rust could be good for Web Workers but it'll be far more interesting when I can use it for interactions.

The overhead problem you mention reminds me a little of the false intuition that people have about databases.

I've worked on a couple projects where people were surprised that as the data set grew (either more customers, or accumulated customer activity), operations like INSERT and UPDATE got slower and slower, even without new functionality getting in the way. Everyone expects SELECT to get slower, but INSERTs seem to catch them off guard.

Every INSERT or UPDATE has to update the indexes. And when you quadruple the data, the update time for each index doubles. At first the cost of the insert is in the noise floor. It's swamped by the communication and transaction overhead. But after a handful of doublings it becomes detectable. A few more and it becomes noticeable. After a few more it becomes a problem, and if you haven't already changed your product roadmap, you do now.

To make a web page fast, you have to correlate the DOM with the CSS and the viewport. Adding more data isn't free.
It is CA-Clipper (formerly Nantucket Clipper). It falls in the xBase family of 4GL languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBase
Yes, I am aware of this. P-values tell you the probability that what looks like a positive result is not in fact a positive result but merely a fluke, i.e. the p-value is (a lower bound on) the probability of a false positive. So?
I love when people try to reinvent stuff like html, but with JSON! Like html somehow would be better with JSON? If he didn't want to use GTK, nor HTML, then he could have just gone with Qt Quick. Qt Quick offers a declarative GUI, it even looks almost like JSON. What a waste of an article.
Are you aware of Workspaces?

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/10/devtools-r...
I'll admit to completely ignoring the system theme, but that's absolutely standard practice among photo editing software like RawTherapee, darktable, and proprietary ones like Lightroom and Capture One.

As far as slow, no way. Instant startup, instant everything, no memory leaks. I've left my editor running for multiple weeks straight with no issues.

Usability bugs? Yes, there's basically one: scrolling. I've hacked together my own momentum scrolling system but I'm not happy with it. At least it's better than scrolling in KDE Plasma native applications, though.
Really? Who cares?
Flipper – A new embedded development paradigm
Hello Hacker News! I'm excited to announce the launch of a project that I've working on for quite a while now.

https://i.imgur.com/amISTK4.jpg

Flipper is an embedded development platform that aims to redefine the traditional embedded programming model. Flipper lets you write code on a host computer that controls the embedded device remotely. This means that you can write code that interacts with embedded hardware peripherals from any programming language, on any platform. Our platform gives developers the ability to use the tools that they already know to control an embedded device. Since all of the application logic that is controlling the platform runs on the host, it can be developed and debugged using techniques already familiar to the developer. We hope that this will decrease the barrier to entry needed to work with embedded hardware and enable a greater number of projects that rely on embedded systems.

Flipper aims to promote a new kind of embedded development cycle that is relatively new and unexplored. I am a firm believer that a real-time embedded development workflow would benefit thousands of developers and help bring embedded to a wider audience. I gave a talk at Mozilla detailing the platform; you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/8IS7Xw1Ihco?t=1777

If you are interested in contributing to the platform, you can get a board at https://flipper.io/ You can also get all the software right now at https://github.com/flipper-io/flipper

If you're interested in update, you can follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/flipper_io/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/flipper.io/
It's not a lot to look at and I'm deliberately working on it slowly, but if anyone finds my goals compelling and wants to jump in my email is in my profile:

https://github.com/sircmpwn/chopsui

I plan on finishing up the boring parts in the next few weeks, then the exciting stuff begins.
"even" Microsoft? Microsoft, home of the individual office, 8-hour workday, #7 in Fortune's Best Places to Work?

There's a lot to dislike about bigcorps, but the working environment isn't one of them.
> WW2 was a historical anomaly in that it was fought between developed nations. It's an anomaly we pay a lot of attention to, though, because it led to the current international system of American hegemony and history tends to get written by the victors.

Because major historical powers like Rome, China, Mayans, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Macedonia, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Britain never fought any wars against other powers that were at their same level of development. Oh, wait, all of them did.

The anomaly is the past two centuries or so, which have been the most peaceful times on record, particularly between major powers. (Since the Napoleonic Wars, the sum total is Crimean War, Mexican-American War, Austro-Prussian War, Franco-Prussian War, Spanish-American War, Russo-Japanese War, World War I, Russian Civil War, World War II [noting that there's a lot of related conflicts getting summed up here], Korean War, maybe War of the Pacific and the Russo-Turkish Wars). Compare that to the Early Modern, which is replete with constant conflict on Europe: 18th century alone has Great Northern War, War of Spanish Succession, War of Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War, American Revolution, and the French Revolutionary Wars, all of which were far nastier than the brief wars in the 19th century (save the American Civil War and the Napoleonic Wars).
> the media were complicit with the Democratic party

But the were. There is plenty of evidence. In fact CNN was caught red-handed giving Hillary town hall questions in advance.

And who said anything about Fox news? What are you talking about?
Nope! The tin-bath process is still dominant these days - the only people rolling glass are small-scale stained glass manufacturers.

For lower volume (or higher tolerance materials), the overflow downdraw method and updraw methods are used, mainly for display glass.
I have many friends that work there or have in the recent past, Amazon's practices wrt employee abuse are constantly reported on though.

Take a look through recent articles about Amazon: https://www.qwant.com/?q=amazon overwork employees&t=news&freshness=all
Specifically, unless my knowledge is out of date, they use a subset of C known as MISRA-C that is easier to analyze using static analysis.
Given power, people will show their true self. Money is just a proxy to power in a capitalist society. Give money to someone like your friend and they'll do great things. Give money to someone who would be horrid if they weren't constrained by the norms of society and they'll be horrid.
Ah, neat.

Experts say a lot of things on GDPR, one of the really interesting things about reading it myself is that I've found a lot of them seem to be wrong. I've heard a few people talking about a "social media exception" that doesn't seem to exist, for example.

It's possible that there have been preliminary rulings on GDPR that I'm not aware of, because I'm not a lawyer. So I'm not by any means declaring that your experts are definitely wrong, but I am nigh on certain that their source of information for making such statements is not the GDPR text itself.

I disagree that GDPR is an overly broad law by the way. The GDPR text is actually fairly specific. It encompasses a large domain, but it clearly defines that domain (Article 9 is an example of a large but specific definition, although it is only one of multiple such articles) and tells you clearly what you need to do within that domain to be compliant.

People just /think/ it's overly broad because it impacts a lot of tech companies and none of them have actually read the text. The human brain interprets this as "inspecific", whereas it's actually carefully targeted at a handful of specific things that lots of tech companies are doing (or not doing).
> I think somebody needs to do something about this NDA situation, it’s getting out of control in SV

Not just in SV, it's all over the world. IMHO the right of protection for whistleblowers should be made a basic human right, in order to protect people worldwide who are afraid to speak out.
I was there, though as I was only 18 months old I don't remember it.
How expensive is this compared to, for example AWS RDS?
What an asshole. His whole line of logic seems to be:

* Open source software and long distance companies make it too easy

* Why didn't they stop me?

* They should have regulated me.

* Other people do it worse.
Which part of this story is crazy? That someone got injured working at an automotive plant, that they were strongly encouraged to do overtime, or that their employer declined to assume any liability?
Don't be rude, boy.
How I’d Approach General Assembly Again as a VC: 9 Key Lessons
I split one into two, I get 2-3 nights before changing them which means 12-18 nights better sleep, for an insomniac I’d pay 10 times that tbh.
Quote from page 13:

`After extensive troubleshooting, IT personnel figured out they had to change several settings on Internet Explorer so ALIS users could log into the system. This included lowering security settings, which DOT&E noted with commendable understatement was “an action that may not be compatible with required cybersecurity and network protection standards.”`

They use Internet Explorer?
At least seven examples have been mentioned so far, but I'm shocked that the most prominent such city, by far, is missing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.#Foundation
I like this one. It's funnier.

"This reminds me of north korea"

https://ytcropper.com/cropped/YZ5ad7ac55e5e3b
Very cool! Not applicable to all use cases, but where it is applicable it is a great tool.
I beg your pardon, sir.
Yeah, and if someone don't like browsers he always can do something with React Native.
Marissa Mayer first interview since Yahoo!
From the description, the dataclass decorator generates an __init__ method for the decorated class, which seems different than using a common generic __init__ method for all classes with the decorator.
Is LinkedIn Lying?
A Tale of Two Fibonacci Lambda Functions
So it's a layer under the filesystem and should work with any filesystem in theory? So would XFS + VDO be better than let's say using compression in BTRFS?
So you claim that in a naval battle, there's no chance that the surface of a carrier gets polluted with debris?
Doesn't California have Workers' Compensation? I once injured myself on the job a long time ago in Florida (drill press nearly turned my finger into a Pez dispenser), and with a little paperwork, all my medical bills were covered by WC. I thought it worked like that in all 50 states.
your loss, they're the best cars on the road. it's iphone 2007 vs flip phone...
When i needed to learn something - I'd find relevant, quality course/content and filter it down to manageable quantity.

I wouldn't pay for online course to learn technology or language that contains piles of long videos.

However succinct, compressed course that explains everything in a couple - to - few hours - would be a good candidate.
It's really surprising to me see posts critical of Tesla highly upvoted on HN these days. It tells me the narrative around Tesla is finally starting to break down, and naturally the stock price has declined from its highs as well.

A few years ago most of the comments here would have been much more sycophantic. It's very refreshing to see.

edit: Ok maybe it's not completely gone yet.
An oldie but goodie is "My Father's Dragon" which has three books that you can get in a single binding.
Actually, looking back at it: I've been living under a rock and oblivious to how successful Qt Quick has been :b Before I lost the plot, Qt relied on a lot of C++ particulars (and they used to recommend their own precompiler for some features), so it was trickier to work with it from other languages. Some of that has been improved over the years, and it has a simpler surface nowadays with Qt Quick, so, yes, use Qt!
Is this fork that you now use free and/or open source software? I'm wondering because I'd be interested in using it myself.
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Contracts with terms that can be changed retroactively by one party. What could possibly go wrong? The whole point of this smart contract stuff is supposed to eliminate the need for trusting a party.

The article has full details on how to create a contract changeable by one party, then hand waving about "writing a contract that uses tokens and voting mechanism to allow the community to decide whether to update or not." No details on how that's supposed to work. Who's "the community", anyway? The parties to the agreement are the ones involved.

A mechanism where all parties to a contract could agree to replace it with a new contract would be useful. That's a normal contract activity. You do that whenever you renew a lease.

The Etherium promoters want this because they botched the design. Smart contracts as byte coded programs are too error prone. The DAO debacle, and this latest demand for a "state change" because someone botched a big contract, indicate that. Smart contracts should have been in some declarative form like decision logic tables, not Turing-complete programs with race conditions.
Funny. HN users have about 922 downvotes on my comments left before they lose the chance to get an occasional clue.
Great job, we have similar service https://ip-api.io - ip geolocation and ip intelligence / abuse prevention
Very excited to try this out finally. Integration with netflix OSS ecosystem seems like it will be a big win for moving those dependant services off ec2
Elon Musk: Just walk out of bad meetings
Aren't i proving my first point? Being wealthy is sufficient. You don't need to be rich.
You can read the JS code.

If it's trying to be sneaky, you _cannot_ understand it, in general. If you think you can, that is false confidence that is best gotten rid of.
Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Writing advanced web applications with Go
Is it possible there wasn’t anything to talk about? We are assuming that they had something to say but didn’t because of an NDA, but are we considering that they might not have anything to say?

If something illegal is happening, California law provides that NDAs are not enforceable when in conjunction with some criminal acts. Furthermore, NDAs can’t protect against a witness being subpoenaed or being required to testify in a court proceeding.

California whistleblower laws are also quite clear on the matter. It isn’t “getting out of control.”

It’s very possible that a reporter is using the existence of an NDA to imply something that can’t be confirmed or refuted. Remember, reporters are ambitious and have inherent bias as well. Just because someone doesn’t want to go on the record doesn’t mean they are acknowledging a problem. They might just genuinely not want to talk to reporters.
> even when it costs them more and results in lower quality.

The advantage of keeping much knowledge in-house is that you are not subject to extortion campaigns (e.g. the Prevent/VW dispute. In addition you

- are always exposing your internal knowledge to the part vendor and have to rely on the vendor protecting your IP from other customers, so "inventing here" works out better.

- are not bound to endless rounds of waterfall development. Tesla is heavily agile from what can be seen in reports... keeping communications (and decisions!) short saves money and especially time. Where time is Teslas biggest issue - just like a Tesla will kill almost anything at a drag race, eventually the gas-powered engine will win as it can go to higher speeds... and this is even more valid in terms of production. Tesla absolutely has to develop rapidly so they can get an established mass production e-car before Mercedes, BMW, VW and especially Toyota catch up and fly past Tesla.

- have to factor in margins for the vendors and by extension also their refinancing cost - Tesla gets shovelled with cheap cash, a vendor must build production lines with significantly more expensive capital. This adds up especially over many years...

- have less issues if something goes bad. For the old model, if a defect turns up it's usually a complex and long negotiation process where each side wants to avoid assuming blame (and thus costs). For Tesla, this cost risk falls away for all parts they manufacture in-house.

- have less probability for a catastrophic fuck up, I'd say. While a vendor has to "save face" and so has the incentive to e.g. hide issues that crop up during development or, worse, production from the customer (in order to avoid delay or other fines), the incentive for a Tesla-internal department is much less, as there are no delay fines.
IBM's homomorphic encryption accelerated to run 75 times faster
Having looked at their website, I'm unclear as to whether bolt is a payment processor like Stripe or whether it's just optimising checkouts. Does anyone here use them currently?
If you try to install the app, does it actually list those permissions? Or are they just listed on the Play Store listing?

We think there's a bug that's hitting some folks on Play Store that's related to an old manifest from our Beta 9 months ago... but we don't require those permissions anymore. Or at least we shouldn't. If you do see something when you actually try to download it, could you reach out to grasshopper-support@google.com? We're trying to find instances of this occurring and trying to convince the Play Store team it needs to be fixed :-/
Which model? I've looked into a couple of models on Amazon but the reviews were quite mixed regarding their accuracy.
That's because the vast majority of the start-ups won't work and all YC has to do is to pick the best from a batch, not viable start-ups in a vacuum. The more background data they have the better their decisions. Classes and the alumni network are the reason YC scales the way it does.
Top speed matters a lot in modern air combat, maybe more than ever. With modern fire and forget, datalinked missiles, the shooter aircraft can often immediately turn around after firing and run away from the missile coming at him. An F-15 can turn tail and run at Mach 2.5. If the AAM has a speed of Mach 4, the missile closes at Mach 1.5. Against the F-35, it’s closing at Mach 2.4. This means that the enemy’s AAMs have an effective range about 70% higher against the F-35 than the F-15. Now, this is of course dependent on being able to maintain long range tracking of the F-35, but my understanding is that against a high-end opponent, stealth is not a panacea.
>An open office has the benefit of whiteboards and pen/paper to do visual knowledge transfer.

Any face-to-face setting really.

I'm not sure why we haven't done a better job of cracking the "like a whiteboard (or flipchart or whatever) but for people who aren't in the same room" thing. I know it's partly a surface area thing but you'd think we could do better when it's such an obvious, at least to me, missing piece in remote interactions.
>This afternoon I sat down to write a mini text editor.

i understand reinventing wheels is both fun and educational and grants a deeper understanding of wheels in general, but the way that statement reads is... over confident. the idea that any nontrival standard tool for software developers can be written in an afternoon, presumably from sratch, starting cold, not even done with preliminary researche (as evidenced by the rest of the article), is just silly.

>I wanted this to be easy.

has the author ever programmed anything at all these things are never "easy" just "easier than once thought", which is rare, and "inexplicably more difficult and obtuse, and motivation enough that time is better spent on other projects" or somewhere in between.
Great news! This has been a long time coming (over a year since the beta started), looking forward to migrating my MySQL instances over.
California law DOES protect whistleblowers. The law is extremely clear. Those laws even provide for damages due to retailiation.
If Hertz or Avis attempted to use public space to park their inventory, local residents and city officials would pitch a fit. Public parking exists for the benefit of the public at large, not as a cost-saving measure for rental firms.

The same is true of bicycles. You can store your private bicycle almost anywhere you like in public. But city fathers will naturally take a dim view of a business using that public space without permission.
it's about the pigment, not the color.
There are some examples of people plugging away on a 'failed' project for decades and eventually striking it rich.
> Doesn't California have Workers' Compensation?

Yes, all California employers are required to offer workers compensation benefits, and to inform employees about their rights under workers comp law.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dwc/faqs.html
Even if it gets granted, there's prior art. The big TV and movie analytics firms have been extrapolating socioeconomic data from viewing patterns since at least the early 2000s
What was uncivil about my comment? How does one judge a comment as civil and substantive? You've linked to something but haven't explained it.
These apps exist. Here's a rather funny one: http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/
Bolt is a full-stack solution. We do 1) end-to-end payment processing (like Stripe), 2) optimizing checkout, and 3) white glove fraud detection where we take on full fraud liability.
Why not just use the Case–Shiller index? It's been around for 18 years, has data from 1890 to today, has a solid methodology that has been scrutinized by many economists, and is the industry standard for US residential home prices. Oh, and it's also widely quoted in the financial media.
Tetrachromacy is real but vanishingly rare. However, I've read before that women have more bars and cones in their eyes than men & therefore better color reception, without being tetrachromatic.
You're only seeing his "success". We'll see how long it lasts
How snow leopard selfies and AI can help save the species from extinction
The founding fathers should have written something about this right into the constitution...
That's a hindsight analysis, and not very useful for planning in the future. Germans v Russia was a fight among equals and the Germans lost.
I did a basic benchmark [0] when partially porting gl-matrix to a near 1:1 wasm equivalent.

There is some overhead but it seems acceptable. I get drops when calling a wasm function with a lot parameters (see .set).

[0] https://maierfelix.github.io/glmw/mat4/

Note: This benchmark is far from perfect but hopefully can provide some insights
Your best bet is to transpile a language you’re more productive in to it. See https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck_code_generation
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