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>Just because I type in yourdomain.com does not mean I want you to be able to start playing death metal from my speakers.

Given the way HTTP works, I think it kind of does. It means you want the server at yourdomain.com to send you whatever content that URL points to, if anything. Which, granted, given the complexity of the web now, does seem fraught with danger, but what alternative would there be? Profiling each site for embedded content, size and complexity and whitelisting the elements before rendering? Browsers already let you block scripts, disable images and autoplay, overwrite or disable stylesheets and mute tabs, that would seem to be sufficient.

>The current model is basically handing complete control over my machine to a third party that may be compromised by anyone any time I click a random link.

That's a good point, but separating "applications" from "documents" wouldn't solve that problem, since that's presumably the model the applications would still be using. Sure, static pages that aren't running client side code would be safe, but those pages already are safe.

Anything that could be done to make a separate application space run safely could be done to make them run safely on the existing web, couldn't it?
To add to your comment, I wish that high-functioning ASD people would stop ignoring the more severe end of the spectrum. If you are high-functioning, then maybe ASD just makes you quirky and different. But for the lower functioning people, ASD can profoundly affect their lives in extremely negative ways. For example, my son almost starved himself to death because of sensory difficulties. He is four years old and still cannot feed himself. For my son, ASD is not just a small difference that the world has not accepted yet. It's something that possibly could have killed him if he had had less devoted parents and/or lived in less privileged circumstances.

And my son is not even a particularly extreme case. With lots of therapy and a little luck, he may be considered high-functioning someday. Other kids might be in diapers forever, never talk, and live in a group home their entire adult lives.

So I struggle to take seriously the high-functioning people who throw fits about what language we use to describe our situation. I've had people get mad at me for saying that I have a son with autism when I apparently should have said that I have an autistic son. I'm sorry, I'm too busy keeping my son alive to care!
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i once heard that most small business owners are either the children of small business owners or small family farmers.

if this is true, perhaps we're in a downward spiral, given historically smaller startup cohorts and the agglomeration of family farms into corporate farms.
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China plays the US for the gold medal in Olympic BEACH VOLLEYBALL. They can dominate anything they want, they just haven’t invested the effort and money into soccer yet. There are more popular sports in China like basketball which they will go after first.
I was dealing with a similar bug yesterday. I was using Python (Pyramid/SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL) and had an integration test that was failing about 80% of the time, but would never fail when I stepped through the test code.

I ended up pairing with another developer, who rewrote the test from scratch and didn't have the issue. I think I know what the problem was, though - the test code called the route in question on one line, then the next line retrieved an object that was modified during the request. The line after that asserted that an attribute of that object had been changed. Most of the time, it hadn't changed; sometimes it had. To make matters work, any time the file was modified it seemed to work once or twice then begin failing again.

I'm 99% sure what was happening is that by the time the object retrieval happened in the test code, PostgreSQL hadn't fully committed the changes to the DB that were made during the request and the object returned was unmodified. Why was that happening? No idea. I suspect it was something to do with connection pooling or the way we were using gevent monkeypatching elsewhere, even though the tests themselves weren't using gevent.

Things like this are both the most frustrating and most fulfilling part of development :)
The service sounds really good, though I think the subscription payment should also include Paypal. I think many people would like to avoid handing over their credit card information to more sites if they can.
White House to propose merging Labor and Education departments
> and who act knowing you are powerless to object

I still have the power, mostly, to just not buy from other states.
I mean even if we lived under a monarchy we would still be one country, the two things aren't really related.

That is the worst possible reason to enact a law. It should be obvious why making people's lives worse purposefully for political posturing is a bad idea, and you run the risk of your plan backfiring and having to live forever in the now-worse world.
> As New York enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. It is approaching a state where it is no longer a significant cultural entity but the world’s largest gated community, with a few cupcake shops here and there. For the first time in its history, New York is, well, boring.

Subjective speculation. Hardly thought provoking or meaningful analysis.
> Look at almost any public service or space in New York, and you will see that it has been diminished, degraded, appropriated.

I'm not sure I agree here, NYC's parks are great and seem to be constantly improved.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/19/...
Typical Intel - act like nothing is wrong until you get caught (Compiler gamery, violating your own internal company policies, etc.)

This is one of the reasons I left Intel behind 20 years ago. Only Intel systems I have currently were given to me. It was apparent back then that Intel had no real morals or ethics, and it continues to show now with the CEO having been ousted violating company conduct of which, in his position, he should've been well aware.
This assumes these mom and pop shops have heard of these services. Personally I was helping someone get their little internet store off the ground and it was a huge hassle even with woocommerce.
I've heard good things and I would like to use it, but the biggest drawback is that you have to use Windows 10 and all of that associated baggage. It's just not worth it.
Most developed countries do ban (or at the very least limit the sale of) guns because they can be used to murder innocent people.
The command shown doesn't work on macOS. All I get is a usage text for openssl(1).
I'd believe that fashion firms are very sensitive to bad publicity. A lot of them have shops in that mall. Maybe if a number of them made complaints that they're receiving mails from customers that felt unconfortable with that kind of intrusion, it would be removed.
How many mom and pop stores go through the hassle of maintaining their own software for this vs just paying someone else to handle it, who can do so trivially?
Any tax paying person in any land is financially supporting fascists. On top of that, there is NOTHING wrong with fascism.
I was thinking this too.

If insider trading as obvious as his wasn't prosecuted, it paints the picture that it's only ever prosecuted for political reasons. Which is maybe more true than one would hope.
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There's so much progress in the design/front-end tools space after years of Photoshop/Fireworks stagnation.

Right now, in this space, Figma is up against Sketch and InVision, and they each bring something pretty great to the table. Super-constructive competition, and we're all benefitting.
> What are the remaining APIs that people need in Electron that are not available in the web browser?

https://nodejs.org/api/index.html

I don't think APIs like full access to filesystem will be available in browser because any malware could do anything it would like with your OS/files.

So in a lot of cases you can't really replace Electron with just normal webapp in browser.
I have had the exact same experience. Plus totally unacceptable tweets by Nick. Those have been deleted in the mean time for obvious good reasons.
Event dispatcher based on the CustomEvent interface
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

There is zero economic gain from more complex tax rules. Further, the software does not absolve you of liability. At best they may agree to cover it, but that's unlikely and they can also go broke if they get it wrong.
I'm OK with this.

Number of sporting events I've watched on television in the last ten years: zero.

If I want to watch sports, I go to a game or a bar.

In some places I've lived, watching sports at home is considered sad and lonely. If you want to see a game, you go to a bar.

Then again, in other cities I've lived, people spend tens of thousands of dollars equipping their "man caves" with 6-10 massive screens so they can be surrounded by sports.

Must be regional. Or cultural. Or just whatever group of people you hang with.
So if you look at a distribution of folks possessing the attributes required of a footballer, you can be fairly competitive amongst the general population with one or two, but the long tail of elite players requires all seven of the attributes you mention.

you'll be better than most players up to probably a US division 3 college level

If you really love the game, this sounds like a fairly satisfying career peak. A reasonably healthy player should take comfort in knowing it's achievable through effort alone.
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Sony is the undisputed king of exclusive content. Microsoft really has nothing, and Nintendo lives off of a once per generation Mario/Zelda/Metroid. My guess is that they enjoy their clubhouse, and don't want to invite others to join it.
This is key I believe.

A lot of successful entrepreneurs had no safety net, and have been through significant adversity.

Those that have been coddled and never held accountable have worse coping mechanisms and drive than those who have dealt with it and overcome obstacles the majority of their lives.
How to Pave Your Own Entrepreneurial Path as a Coder
The number of women playing sports seriously is much higher in the US than in most other countries due to Title IX and cultural reasons.
What Happened to Alan Dershowitz?
I expect that some third-party solutions will spring up, but of course that's more money that any third-party retailer has to pay.
The 50% on marketing number isn't BS: https://www.vox.com/2015/2/11/8018691/big-pharma-research-ad...

Everytime I've gone looking for this, it's just been confirmed over and over.
surely you can list the differences between a romantic / physical relationship and a purely platonic one and understand why it is bad when it comes to imbalances in power right?
I much prefer NYC today than NYC a decade ago. This piece just reads like a hit piece from somebody who is too poor to live in NYC now
I've heard about realtime raytracing for decades, and it regularly shown off in demos, but it never materialized in commercial engines. Even now, when we have realtime graphics that look better than movies from 20 years ago, we are still using rasterization, and it shows no sign of stopping.

Raytracing doesn't mean better. It is just a different solution to the rendering equation, and what it does better than rasterization (mostly refraction) is not worth the additional cost. Especially considering that it won't help with global illumination, which is the big thing right now.

The closest thing we have to a "perfect" rendering technique is pathtracing, but for something that isn't a sphere or 8 cubes in a box, we are far, far from realtime rendering.
I totally believe right to try should be a thing. Who is the FDA or anyone else to tell dying patients that they can't put something in their body to try to save their life? The reason this is necessary is because under the previous compassionate use policy, pharma conpanies are required to report any adverse events from these patients using these products to FDA which could result in a halt of their independent clinical trials running in parallel. Because the patients utilizing compassionate use many be in any stage of disease with multiple comorbidities, it makes root cause analysis of adverse events much more difficult than in a clinical trial, and presents a much higher risk to developers.

This strongly disincentivizes companies from leveraging the compassionate use pipeline, and patients are left to die and suffer as a result.

Also as far as profiteering goes, there is no way that an insurance company would reimburse for any untested therapy which by default would keep costs down, and patients would still be required to get a prescription from their physician who would hopefully review the trial data. The idea that this would be used as an end run around FDA regulation for huge profits is moronic.
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The big list of Vi[m]-like software (2016)
"Reader Mode" is built into Firefox. (Dunno about chrome, I don't use that)

There is also https://outline.com
I remember being in grade school, and we networked (shared) the drive on the one computer - only because the cd-rom drives on the other ones were broken and we wanted to play/ install Warcraft.
How is a 'mind' ever supposed to develop in a neural system with no sensory input?
the money quote for me: “we now live in an America where we believe that we no longer have any ability to control the systems we live under“

too bad the argument isn’t supported.
This article reads like a paean to a place in the author's nostalgic imagination. The NYC of the past that he describes was dirty, filthy, and downright dangerous. I grew up there at the tail-end of that era, and it wasn't a place to glorify. What paid for this crime cleanup and quality-of-life improvements is in part the same wealth he pans. Not to mention that billionaire absentee ownership has almost no impact on housing availability for the average person.

Instead of articles like this I'd love to see one about how to improve housing policy to accommodate a wider cross section of the population, or sensible reforms to tenancy laws that protect the vulnerable while not making it impossible to build new housing.
The database that stays up even when you try to remove the last replica
TS/SCI is the employment gift that keeps on giving if you ever get it.
"What really struck me about that conversation was that the guy seemed like a really nice guy. He was soft spoken and very respectful and understanding, but also very determined to build that site."

The measure of "a nice guy" isn't how they speak.
I see.

I meant more that Electron would add ~/.electron/chrome-66.so, and guarantee that it will be there or downloaded if required by an Electron app.

Then, all apps that are built against Chrome 66 would all use a single ~/.electron/chrome-66.so
> This is like asking why Brazil (pop 208M) and Nigeria (pop 191m) don't field competitive cricket teams.

Why? Soccer is by far the most popular sport in China for quite some time now.

I think you need to spend a generation or two to also get the systems right, tho.
This is because space is a vacuum which is a great insulator so heat builds up and titanium dioxide radiates well in the infrared.
Yeah I still pay $130/month for Cable TV + Internet just for the sports. And that's not including Sunday Ticket, WNBA League Pass, etc.
This reminds me of a line from one of Eddie Murphy's comedy routines back in the 80s: "Herpes is like luggage; you keep that s--t forever."
That's relevant to specific sections not the entire thing. I really don't see any applicable fuzzy language involved.

As far as I can see it's purely a political question and they simply chose ahead of time to change their minds independent of any arguments given. That's a huge perversion of the entire idea of the supreme court.
Three kids, one ball, not very much space. One goes in goal (if needs be a jumper or coat on each side), the other two compete to put the ball past them x times, then rotate the goalkeeper. Continue ad nauseam.

Or go to a park and practice ball skills, solo. Ex-England captain Wayne Rooney was famous for having done that for hours at a time as a kid.

I'm not actually a particular soccer fan and quite enjoy basketball, but it's definitely not true that soccer has higher kit, space or numbers requirements to get in a game as a kid.
Yes but then what if apps are built for another version?
Can you go into more detail or give examples of the companies ethical beliefs? This is the first I've seen someone speak differently about it, and I'm very interested to hear what you have to say.
It probably depends on the state.

In Massachusetts, oddly, if you paid less than the Mass sales tax rate of 6.25%, you owe 6.25% use tax. It's not the delta you owe, it's the full amount. But you don't owe it at all if you paid more than the Mass rate.
If you have an Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV, you can login to each cable channel app that you want to watch. There are commercials but it is still better than live TV streams. Until I got cable TV again from Comcast, in order to get internet service that was both cheaper and faster (300 -> 400 MBPS at $30 less including cable TV); I didn't understand Apple's TV app and why it exists. I now understand the TV app. Before I couldn't be bothered to even use it. If you want something seamless after having activated all those cable TV apps, use the Apple TV app.

Why does Comcast offer internet and cable TV bundles cheaper than just internet service? To pad the numbers for cable subscribers of course.
I've had this happen sometimes too - haven't figured out what triggers it.

Someone sent me a GitHub gist in Discord, and it wouldn't let me see it until I logged in. I clicked the link again, and it let me through just fine. A/B testing maybe?
That is exactly my point.
Why is Twitter considered part of the "tech world"? Is there anything interesting going on under the hood besides engineering for scale?
Related: Documentary about individuals that go hunting scrap in active us military target ranges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4pFat3VTkI
I switched over to Firefox for about 3 months. The following were dealbreakers for me and I switched back to Chrome:

- Battery draining...it's seriously really bad. Even if the app is just open on my MacBook, I go from ~8hours of battery to like ~2hrs. I travel a lot...it's untenable

- Performance is generally pretty good, but it never felt better than Chrome.

- At first CPU on streaming video (Twitch, YT, etc) was better on Firefox, but over time I got the infamous "fan spinning" and CPU churning issues.

- Site compatibility: about 10-15% of sites I would visit broke.

- Nitpick, but not deal breaker: icons on my bookmark toolbar didn't work consistently. I would save a bookmark and it would stick to some other site and I could never clear the cache to fix it. It also frequently used non-retina images.
I have the same experience, and I suspect it's because we haven't replicated the utilities in these environments. No one uses them as a replacement for shell because no one has done the work to use them as a replacement for shell.

Personally, I think Prolog is the right way to go, but I have this idea that I don't want to spend the rest of my life typing into a teletype emulator.
> If anyone runs into problems like this, feel free to bug one of the Chrome dev rel folks, such as me.

Hi, and thanks for being part of creating Chrome && reaching out here.

Now that I have a Chrome guy here maybe you can help with another annoying issues:

-QC internally at Google seems to be blissfully unaware of the fact that other browsers exists.

Examples:

- one glaring issue I'm running into in core Angular on a daily basis.

- Google Calendar performance is sometimes unreasonably slow in Firefox

- For weeks or months Google search results would drive once CPU core to 100% twice a minute.
Single core speed is near equal on 3770 and 1700 but you get 2x the cores with 1700.

So if you can benefit from 8Cores (ie compiling for one) then it is a nice upgrade.

If you rarely utilize all 4 cores on your 3770 then it is a pointless upgrade.

That is the thing, going from a single core to 2 core pretty much benefited everyone. Heck PentiumHT was a big thing.

Going from 2 core to 4 cores took longer to show benefits and 4 cores to 8 cores is going to be slower still to show benefits for most users.

At the end of the day single core speed has been stagnating for the last 6 years every since Sandy Bridge which was the last big jump.

I mean I plan on buying AMDs ThreadRipper 2 32 core chip since it will be of benefit to me for running 100 copies of the same program.

Still those 32 cores will not help with regular computing.
Why? If you create a conscious brain and leave it in a container, keeping it perpetually alive just to study it, that sounds pretty cruel. I'd imagine it would be like being in a conscious coma. Lack of social interaction is known to be damaging to people, so who knows what kind of distress an isolated brain might be in.
Who cares what option they gave their employees, you don't have to agree if you already had a contract in place. Don't sign anything and go speak to a lawyer.
How is this related?
It doesn't matter which engine is used in general, the only problem here is Sony.
It isn't technical.
Fortnite proved it when it 'mistakenly' allowed PS4 players to play with Xbox One players due to a 'configuration issue'.
The FDA allows "compassionate use" exceptions for this type of thing and generally grants them. The point of the approval process (and the entire FDA) is to prevent charlatans peddling dangerous and ineffective therapies and drugs to desperate people for profit.

Which is what this article is about: you can have no choices, but here, pay us a ton of money for UnprovenDrug(TM)! It might work according to nobody but us.

You're making the classic misstep of assuming a Pascal's wager type situation - as though there's only ever 1 unproven option out there so you might as well, when in reality there's many and getting scammed out of all your money on one means you can't try others which actually might work.
Not stellar? Across multiple searches I see companies like Johnson & Johnson, Gilead Sciences, Novartis, Procter & Gamble, and Pfizer on the top 10/25/50 lists, with profit margins in the double digit percentages. What is stellar in your book if not billions and billions in profit?

http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/filtered?sortBy=profits&f...
Not wanting to defend SO, but reading a question, thinking about the solution, scanning the documentation, does help me to learn something new. If I stumble across an answer, even better.
Been here 35 years. It's never been more boring (in that period). I only started to notice this about 10 years ago. Everyone I know with even a little bit of ambition that isn't just "make a lot of money" has left.
Yeh, I asked them this question. While you lose HBO for life, you do get a choice of HBO, Showtime, Starz,Amazon Music Unlimited, or Pandora Premium instead.

The only reason that you wouldn't want to update is if you signed up for their Unlimited Plan when they were giving $25 off DIRECTV NOW, DIRECTV, or AT&T U-Verse.

In that case, you wouldn't get AT&T WatchTV, but you would get a much more comprehensive DIRECTV NOW package + HBO for $10/mo.
DirecTVNow does have a sports package, you just have to spend $35/mo to get it.