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I would love to use other browsers on iOS, including Brave, but I can’t.

All the browsers on iOS suffer from one fatal flaw, they crash, often. As I have been told this may have something to do with the OS’s health & safety precautions by killing apps that run away with CPU or RAM use. I don’t know that for certain and I haven’t tried to dig into it further.

Here’s a simple test, find a site that grinds safari to a near standstill, then try that site in Chrome/Edge/Brave on iOS. Chances are it will crash them.

I’d really love to see a healthy ecosystem of browser rendering engines on iOS as well. I understand and have benefited from the walled garden that is iOS but I’d really like Apple to figure this out. Isn’t it ironic how Microsoft got in trouble for anti-competitive practices against Netscape but Apple can block other rendering engines?
Blazor is coming. It's not GA yet.

https://github.com/aspnet/Blazor
That's no star...
A separate process from what? The IDE? Why would that be a bad thing?
I’m tech literate and they don’t phase me either. Why would they? My business is already in the streets. What does it matter if one more company leaks my personal info?
To further tangent: I don't think the last Office related announcement says anything about UWP that people think it does.

From my understanding, the Office apps that were killed were supposedly forked from the web apps and actually ran as UWP HTML/JS.

Meanwhile, Office has also announced plans to move forward with more UWP XAML Islands to integrate more Fluent Design in the UX starting soon after the Windows October release, and part of why the Office 2019 LTS was shipped where it was and arguably why Office 365 pushed to align to only support latest Windows releases so they could move forward on Fluent Design dogfooding.

They did sunset the non-UWP OneNote with this LTS release, and the UWP XAML app is supposed to be the only Windows version of OneNote moving forward.
> new coffeescript combined with the verbosity of J2EE

- Saying that TypeScript is like CoffeeScript is almost equivalent than saying that CoffeeScript is like Babel.

- The only part that CoffeeScript and TS (and Babel) have in common is the transpilation step.

- CoffeeScript, Dart, ReasonML, ... are all about creating a pure/clean/elegant languages that use JavaScript as a runtime, and since JavaScript "bytecode" is "sourcecode", they transpile to it.

- TypeScript is all about adding Type annotations to JavaScript without removing or redefining any of the language structure. In fact, the transpilation step is mostly about removing TypeScript more than anything else. Besides enum, as mentioned in one of the comment, TypeScript does not add any language structure beside type related ones (another one is class fields, but coming soon to EcmaScript)

- J2EE (JEE and Spring in some respect) are frameworks, and not languages, and does not really have any comparison with TypeScript. They just encode what they see/saw as best practices/patterns into a set of APIs. TypeScript is a language (or language superset), and can support many different design patterns.

- Perhaps a better statement would have been "verbosity of Java," and while developers can use TypeScript to code JavaScript "Java-style", and bring a lot of the J2EE/Spring/JEE patterns to JavaScript/TypeScript, nothing in TypeScript force or even favor this approach.

- In fact, we use TypeScript to write more robust and maintainable javascript code following a "Functional first, OO/class as needed" style allowing our modules to expose simple and intent-driven APIs. Same signatures as if we were not using TypeScript, but now we know what comes in and what comes out.

- Thanks to TypeScript expressiveness and following our functional first and OO as needed code design, we migrated one of our Java backends to TypeScript/Node, and made the code 40% lighter, better typed, and much simpler and cleaner intent-driven module apis.

Btw, been there as well, where a couple of years ago I mistakingly classified TypeScript in the Dart / CoffeeScript category. I was misguided by the then tight "marketing" coupling with Angular, which I would describe (Angular) as the J2EE for Web UI, and my anti-Microsoft bias for open source project (which I rectified since).

Yes, there is a learning curve, but it is not that high (mostly on setup side), and the value back for any sizable JavaScript code is huge. Even for small projects, once you get the habit of including it, the value is great, especially for 3rd party api discovery.

Also, as a developer will finally drop IE11 support, Babel value will probably diminish, and TypeScript benefits will probably become even more noticed. TypeScript's cost of adoption for babel developers is relatively low since they already have a transpilation step.

(btw, class fields are coming to the JS spec, so this was very babelish of TypeScript to have added this support early on).
What’s the point of living if you can’t achieve your biological function?
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I'm sorry but there is nothing new here? This seems like a backwards step if anything.

Usually when web scraping, I can just load in the HtmlAgilityPack (c#), point it at a URL then write some functional code to extract the necessary data.

Even better, I'll examine the website in Fiddler and hope they have a data-view separation going on, and be able to just intercept the json file they load instead.

Worse case scenario I need to dynamically click on buttons etc, but this can usually be handled by selenium, or if they detect that just roll a custom implementation of CefSharp (again not hard, just download the nuget, and it lets you run your own custom javascript).

A new, more limited, language (with no IDE tools) is not the way to go. If anything a better web scraper just make the above processes I mentioned more seamless, for example combining finding/selecting of elements in chrome with codegen.
You're not wrong, not neither is the op.
56% -- the majority of conscientiousness, it seems -- is not heritable. They can decide to, and be, but it sounds like a decent chunk of that is due to genetic predisposition.

Genetically I'm not much of a runner compared to my brother, but I work hard at it 3-4 times a week. But if he got around to hitting a treadmill as much as I do I'm sure he'd outperform me.
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Could you provide some pointers to "other, sometimes exotic, selectivity mechanism" ? I'm interested in reading more about alternatives to indexing.
doesn't life actually count as training? :) and it's a LOT of training, isn't it?
Its also the fact that having tax payers subsidise your work force out side of the Cinderella professions (nurse doctor etc) doesn't go down well with tax payers.

Which is why a tory chancellor wanted a higher minimum wage - to cut the social security bill
I typically either (1) do light work on another project, or (2) clean up code or revise documentation in the project being compiled.

That's the answer I'd like to give. Really, I just open up Hacker News. :)
Yes, there are other such cities. In fact, Redmond City has, percentage-wise, an even bigger fluctuation, according to this article: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2013/05/most-importan...
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Let's suppose they were lobbying to reduce the minimum wage instead. They would receive a lot of well-deserved abuse. So it seems clear they're in a no-win situation. Beyond that, it's a truism that any company lobbying for any policy change is mainly operating out of self-interest.
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It still represents many tens of thousands of opportunities. More importantly though, I would argue that the skill level required in its employees for a startup to not go out of business is at least as high as that at these top companies.
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You're seriously asking me to do free research for the guy who started with an opinion and uncritically posted the first Google hit that agreed with his position? Why would that be a good use of my time?
Because artificial neural networks work nothing like human neural networks, despite the same names.

Its a false equivalence. Its no more valid a comparison than asking why "CLOS Networks" can't play Mario by themselves, despite also being a network. (A CLOS Network is one kind of network topology for switches)

The human brain does NOT take the derivative of the error function and glide down it using gradient descent. There are no matrix multiplication circuits in the brain. Things work in completely different ways that biologists and psychologists barely understand today. It has to do with chemicals, neurotransmitters and other such, which are completely alien to Comp. Sci.
Tesla may or may not survive, but in some ways tesla vs gasoline auto manufacturers is similar to the web vs Microsoft. Car dealers make most of their money on maintenance after the sale, and electric vehicles (not just Tesla's cars but all of them) need a lot less maintenance than gas cars. My car in point, 35,000 miles drive, 3.5 years old, all I have done is get new tires. I didn't even take it in for annual maintenance, but I will do that before my non-drivetrain warranty runs out.

This is a big disincentive for bmw, etc (ice makers), in kind of the way that the web was a challenge to windows dominance - if microsoft supported the web too well in a standards compliance way, it would hurt their future prospects. There wouldn't be a viable ev market with customer pressure without tesla.
Wow! First, is Vladivostok that bad to be called "a hellhole" (that is, if you're referring to it, of course), and second, if it was only to make your parents shut up, couldn't you somehow done it with much, much less (say, a village house somewhere)?
Fast chargers need a high voltage electric hookup, which is expensive and often unavailable in residential neighborhoods.
Government doesn't generate any money. They get the money from taxing employees of the large corporations. It is a symbiotic relationship.
So once Newton figured out the equation for gravity, Einstein should have left it well enough alone? Science rewrites itself all the time, too. That's the point.

What kills me about programming is the ugliness. In natural science, there's an "I know it when I see it" factor of essential simplicity and beauty. We may not know what to work towards, but we know when we've found it. It's hard to improve on F=ma, and it looks it.

In programming, we just keep endlessly tweaking. (Recently I commented here about a non-software job where I had no deadline, and the programmers here were legitimately concerned that lacking a deadline would cause me to "gold-plate" it.) Writing software, I'm having to use a language with 100 reserved words. There's no essential beauty here. It's a million little committee decisions, layered on the legacy systems of today. I guarantee that in 10 years it's going to be replaced by another language which has 100 reserved words, which will make slightly different design decisions, based on the legacy systems of that time.

Programming language design today is almost a random walk. I don't see it converging at all. Everybody takes a slightly different starting point, and then adds all the features from every other popular language. There's no science happening here.
What makes this language "declarative"? It looks pretty imperative to me.
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How would it impact a solar system if one of these relativistic stars got too close? Any chance it could pick up a few planets, or would they mostly be flung into space?

Along that point, what does the heliosphere of such a star look like - a giant comet?

Lastly, were a life-bearing planet sent into space this way have any chance of maintaining that life without a parent star to heat and magnetically shield it?
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That's not how it works...the Lyft has a carseat, you use it, then you get out and leave the carseat behind. It's not a loaner for the day.
This is really great but unless it’s done on a curve people who’ve worked very hard for a long time to get to $14.95/hr will be getting fucked.
There are billionaires who regularly post here, the impressive part to me is the self-filing not the $6,000.
>Like many other compromises, this one will be forgotten.

When people say, "It'll work this way in the future because it worked this way in the past" I tend to discredit them.
Personally, I'm willing to praise them for extending the fifteen dollar minimum wage to temps and contract employees.

That certainly bucks the trend and is praiseworthy.
Awesome! I still hate Amazon but this is really nice to see.
Yes, I noticed the lack of Arabic philosophers right away. That's a big oversight, because frankly, they're a big part of the medieval tradition of preserving and expanding on the Greeks, particularly Aristotle (it's modern ethnocentrism that thinks of the Arabs as wildly foreign relative to the Greeks). But again, there's no reason the data can't be expanded to be more extensive and inclusive.
Sales figures came out, they did well, more than doubling production and sales from last quarter.
>1) He says you should delete your facebook account. It's too late, the data is already there. Deleting does nothing.

facebook monetizes data by using it for selling targeted ads. by not using facebook, they can't sell you more targeted ads, which is something.
US Federal Reserve rates have been increasing so banks get loans at higher prices which means consumer interest rates will also increase.
Corporations do not deserve praise for doing the right thing. They are not people, with feelings, who respond to emotional stimuli in the form of positive reinforcement. They are businesses that respond to the market (indeed, their legal duty is to maximize profits). In markets, negative pressure works. Asking nicely does not.
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>GDPR gives you this vote.

>GDPR says: if you want to resell data you harvest you HAVE to get their consent, in clear and understandable terms. Can't bury it in your TOS.

>GDPR says: you cannot make your website / app / service unavailable if people refuse this.

>GDPR says: you can ask companies how much and which data they got on you and they have to provide it.

>GDPR protects you from an invisible industry many people don't even know exists.

And it does it by in effect forbidding you from interacting with parties that don't follow EU mandated criteria for what needs to happen for a packet to go from A to B. I don't care about what the EU thinks is good for me, I want to interact with server X whether or not it is GDPR compliant and whether or not it's over a protocol that lends itself to this nonsense; my data is supposedly mine, so fucking let me.
Capital costs seem rough. You can’t use a normal wall plug for a supercharger. How many amps do they pull, 200? You would need a new breaker box and the super charger hardware.... say 10k per house.

Who is going to spend 10k to get a charger in their driveway strangers can stop by and pay you $20 to use?

Uber works because people already own the car. Even EV people don’t already own a supercharger, they have a much simpler one.
We had some of our legacy setup on hetzner used in a DDoS reflection attack a year ago. That was handled really professionally by Hetzner imo. They null routed the systems and requested us to get in contact with them within a couple of working days or they'd void the contract. We handed them our office IP to whitelist. Once I could get back onto the systems, I could finally overrule all the stupid legacy hesitation and setup firewalls on the systems. From there, the support confirmed the ports are closed and the servers got freed again.

Good experience, in spite of the circumstances.

And the remote hands at hetzner are good, especially if you know how to work with DCOPs. You know, have redundant systems, shutdown the broken system so they can just do whatever they have to do once they're around.
Point #4 would definitely have been a concern for the m68k as well. DR's CPM/68k wasn't AFAIK available yet (came a few years later), and Unix would have been expensive and too heavy weight.
Dealerships aren't in the right locations to make long-distance travel work out. You'd have huge holes in the network.
Hmmm, queer the downvoting on a simple multiplication...
Maybe if the US regulates hard enough, they can stifle progress and become like Europe!
You should read Bluestrike's comments about the lack of Arabic philosophers, downthread. That's how you make a point of incompleteness, not just politically correct yelling.
Please do link to any studies that actually designed, developed, and carried out a comparable experiment with different results. I'd be more than happy to read them! I try to base my views on evidence so much as I possibly can -- and to my knowledge, such studies do not exist. On that note please do not link to any studies where an individual decided to 'process' data and p-hack their way to a proof for their ideological biases. There are indeed a multitude of such studies, and such behavior goes a long ways towards explaining the current replication crisis plaguing psychology.

p-hacking is particularly easy to do with IQ since there's a peculiar effect in that the heritability of IQ is not fixed. When we are young our IQ is generally able to be more significantly influenced by environmental factors, yet as we age our IQ becomes ever more a product of genetics with recent studies showing the heritability to be upwards of 80%.

So for instance in this study if you look at the results of the children at age 7, you'll note that both black and white children had measured IQs that were about 10% higher than their IQ at age 17 (around 8 and 10 points respectively). This is normal and indicative of a privileged upbringing, as all the children in this study had. Yet that privilege counter intuitively does not carry over into adulthood, which is phenomenally interesting -- but also makes it very easy to generate disingenuous arguments when it comes to this topic.
Yeah - I'm in the Seattle area, I read where they were storing their cars before selling them, it was a giant parking lot. I drove over there and saw a couple of 100 cars that were in different stages of being prepared, some ready to go, others with protective wraps.

Every 5 minutes a tesla would pull up and 3 or 4 people would get out, walk down an aisle until they found the car they were looking for and drive off to deliver it.
>Do you believe that the raise of the minimum wage at Amazon was out of good nature?

Does it matter what the rationale was? I know if I was an Amazon minimum wage employee I could care less what the rationale was. I'd just be thrilled to be getting a pay raise. Where I live the minimum wage is only $11.25/hour. Getting a bump to $15 will be a big deal for those people.
Looks interesting, I'll have to dig into the details further. Annoying that the home button on my keyboard appears broken on the Brave site.
selling shares short is selling shares you dont own. There is no restriction on selling shares you dont own.

Short selling amplifies downturns because you dont have to own a share to sell it. There is no non option equivalent to short selling.
As far as I know there is no button to simply do this. One could probably ask for removal by emailing hn@ycombinator.com
Er.. your imagination must be weak if you can't imagine that. Every state has different landlord laws with different thresholds....
Timely since Bezos is going to run for President.
I believe the new garbage collector for the JVM colors pointers in a way they are not scrubbed before use; they memory (re-)map into multiple regions to implement read and write barriers.

Some very old distributed systems used 64 bit pointers where the upper bits told you what machine the data was on.

And we have Intel putting SSD card in DIMM slots. I expect there are semantics attached to those address ranges as well.

I dunno where we are after Spectre, but one of the microkernel architectures got its IPC speed by packing most processes into a couple of address spaces, only with different read write access. On preemption the TLB wasn’t invalidated (about half the cost), just modified.

These are the sorts of tricks you do when your address space is bigger than you will ever need. I expect to see more of this as time goes on. And if we ever see 128 bit pointers, expect crazy stuff like this to be de rigeur.
How would that end up working? I think few people think of themselves as "call center professionals" because they end up in some other job, but maybe I'm misunderstanding your suggestion.
Requires iOS 11. I don't want to update my iPhone SE -- it's fine as it is and I don't need it slower; I made that mistake with a previous iPhone.
> Man can cause localized disruptions and pollution but cannot yet alter the entire planet - that is sheer arrogance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
My minivan is a road trip machine. Until we have EV minivans, my electric car would be in region only. Further trip is to a nearby airport.

Maybe if I replace my minivan with an EV minivan I would care.
Former church pipe organist here. I've always thought organ is a great candidate for a digitally manipulated real instrument as playing with precision and feel is NOT dependent on fine motor functions as it is for most keyboard and string instruments.

Press velocity is not correlated with volume- in fact sound is not dependent on a key press at all. Organs don't really require percussive mechanical functions for a full range of control: an idea virtual/real instrument.
Or maybe they won't employ humans at all because robots will be able to stock the shelves and flip burgers for <$15/hr. At least sooner than they'll be able to for <$7/hr.

Also some jobs will just go away, like grocery baggers (mostly) did. Which customers liked and was a good entry level job for teenagers.

There are a lot of factors to consider and have to be careful about unintended consequences.
Oh, well if your best evidence is you imagining things, you can see how I'm not going to invest a lot in this reply.

I'll clear up one misunderstanding, though. The point isn't that one should be in favor of the particular conditions of one's birth. It's that one should be in favor of the continued existence of humanity, and do so such that the conditions for future humans are at least as good. Basically, Rawls' veil of ignorance.

By the way, I don't think your misunderstanding was an honest one. If you get to the point that you're suggesting your opponents must be pro-rape, maybe that's a sign you're too wound up to have a good discussion.