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Visual Basic 6. Fantastically easy to learn and let you make extremely useful GUI apps quickly. And the edit and continue debugger is still a dream compared to some of today’s debugging setups.
Scripting API now in public beta
Front page and iWeb (or even bbedit/homepage).

Trying to teach kids simple html site design with core principles (you own the html, you put it where you want) is harder because you have to plunge them into code and file transfer and what not.

Earlier kid had a much easier way with iWeb basically making word docs and pushing them out to any web server.

The web based kits are great if you want a web site, but terrible for learning how to build web sites.
My First lasted 4 years.
[2G, VGA Camera]

2nd Phone lasted 5 years.
[3G, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, Radio, 5MP Camera]

3rd Phone 2 Years and counting.
[4G, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, Camera + Front Camera]

It's a simple pattern. Every new phone buy should be a major Technology Upgrade, not just specification upgrade. So Minimum Requirement for my next phone will be [5G]. Hopefully within next 2 years. :)
Via one ISP, "Firefox can't find the server at www.ncjrs.gov." Via another ISP, the link timed out, then worked 5 minutes later.
Of course the main markets for Electron are Windows and Mac where it's probably not shared (although MS may try to fix this).
I loved Ecco's outliner features. Give me cross-platform ecco pro with cloud syncing and I'll never use onenote again.
I don't understand why transclusion has to be so hard.

Any developer can probably implement it on the web in a weekend by adding some metadata to some <blockquote> tag and creating a browser extension that displays the source page on the side, locate the copied text in it, and scroll to it.

Heck, you probably could brute force it by doing a Google search for every <blockquote> or "some text" patterns in a document, and link to whatever is the #1 result.
Google management should try treating the cause rather than the symptom.
Far from equivalent my friend. Going through tapes is a manual laborious process that can only be done on a case-by-case basis. Transforming tapes into perfect database line-items that can be combined into a comprehensive profile on all your activities and whereabouts is a much more valuable and dangerous data set.
You could just have said "sweden doesnt produce/export oil" instead of all that nonsense ...
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." - Eric Schmidt, Google CEO until last year.
Low density is a good thing as long as it's combined with high focus.

My interpretation from the post title was that these would be stories about why certain tech was used on specific projects and just just posts about why so-and-so likes or dislikes such-and-such.

From the top listings right now, I consider these to be too broad/vague:

- JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
- Rust 2018 is here… but what is it?
- Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs
- PyTorch 1.0 is out
- Microsoft Edge is moving to Chromium

Each of those are either (a) Intro to __ or (b) general news/announcements.

And these ones are on point:

- How Heap Built an Analytics Platform that Auto-Tracks Every User Event
- M3: Uber’s Open Source, Large-scale Metrics Platform for Prometheus

There were many more fluffy posts before I got to the second 'on point' article.

I suspect that the site is more broad than the post title and that over time as there is more content, that it can be more focused and find it's essence. For me, I already have too many sources of broad content that I don't see adding another destination. Wish you the best of luck and hope to cross paths again and see how the site has evolved. Cheers.
All it takes is one simple chemical to completely alter a person's mind, mood, or behavior. Surely there are viruses large enough and substances simple enough for a virus to alter the production of a simple mind-altering compound?
There was an attempt to do this in the 90s in the US, but it failed. There's a paper titled "Keys Under Doormats" that outlines the debate of that era:

https://www.schneier.com/academic/paperfiles/paper-keys-unde...
I was thinking 3 lasers 120 degrees apart, turned on as needed, rather than a mechanical solution. 5W laser diodes would probably be enough power.
The IBM BASIC/BASICA used the ROM stuff to an extent, but the free-standing GWBASIC included in MS-DOS didn't.
Where I grew up in the Scottish Borders we ate it with White Stilton and Branston Pickle.
It’s only a problem if you’re wrong.
Monsanto accused by legal opponents of hiring internet trolls
This is a little off topic, but it's been driving me nuts and I want to know if anyone else has experienced this. I feel like iOS 11 causes my phone to drop calls...

I have an iphone 5s, and took a loooong time before I updated to iOS 11 from iOS 10.3. I learned the hard way with my iphone 4 not to blindly click update or your phone may be unusable. Anyway, I have been in my apartment since the beginning of the year. I make all sorts of phone calls no problem. Reception is good, usually 3-4 bars.

In June I updated my phone to iOS 11. Since then, a phone call in my apartment will last at best 5 minutes before I get a "Call Failed" screen. It's insane. I look at my phone and it has 4 bars. Literally as I press the "Dial" button, it instantly drops to 1-2 bars. Usually about a minute into the call it drops to 0 bars. Then the call drops. As soon as the "Call Failed" screen goes away, it's back up to 4 bars.

I feel like I'm going crazy. Has anyone else experienced this? I haven't been able to find any similar bug reports or experiences online...

edit: i meant iOS 11. I am hesitant to update to iOS 12 because of my experience with 11
Seems like the scientism in this paper neglected to historicise the notion of “post truth”.

Sociologist and well studied scholar Nathan Jurgenson wrote a recent piece regarding our collective willingness to subscribe to this belief: https://reallifemag.com/faked-out/

> Kakutani misses how poststructural and postmodern thought has long been a response to science’s unwarranted claims of neutrality and objectivity. Yes, sometimes this work really is just a set of stylistic whims and nihilistic postures or arguments for full epistemic relativism. But the core of much of what was popular and is still taught — Foucault, Haraway, Harding, Latour, and so on — uses empirical evidence to show that objectivity is never as such. These theorists show how accepted notions of truth are deeply rooted in cultural contingencies, and that interrogating these notions helps better articulate reality than accepting false objectivism with blind faith. This work was not “post-truth,” but rather called for smaller, more local truths instead of absolute or universal claims made from a posture of neutrality.

Epistemology isn’t new, and lays below the foundation of “science”. This isn’t a new concept, but one that we are sadly being forced to face in contemporary culture.
I feel like anyone who uses the phrase “post-truth society” has an agenda.
Perhaps that's the point?
I do not think GroupLayout is similar as there aren't really any groups and the anchoring is done directly to the other controls. And TBH from my experience using it in NetBeans i wouldn't describe anything other than a PITA :-P (although half of it was probably NetBeans itself).
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That's still a thing, it's just the design of widgets from app to app is disparate, usually visually clashing if multiple widgets are used. Not as clean and uniform as Windows Phone tiles.

There is an Android launcher (launcher 10, i think) that offers tiles, and some of them even live tiles. It's okay, not quite the same slick experience though.
For those wondering what this is about, it was published in 1992 at the direction of the U.S. Attorney General at the time, William Barr, who is now the presumed nominee to return to that position.
It’s an extremely common objection, you’re not alone.

The post does discuss this as well.
There is such a thing as PonyTail Equation. Even won an Ignoble Prize.

[..]The Rapunzel number is a ratio used in this equation to calculate the effects of gravity on hair relative to its length. This number determines whether a ponytail looks like a fan or whether it arcs over and becomes nearly vertical at the bottom. A short ponytail of springy hair with a low Rapunzel number, fans outward. A long ponytail with a high Rapunzel number, hangs down, as the pull of gravity overwhelms the springiness.[..]
Ah. They're using the pointerdown event, which was added in Firefox 59 (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GlobalEvent...).
Can you actually train a torch::jit::script::Module? I couldn't figure out how to feed its parameter tensors to a torch::optim::OptimizerBase constructor...
Have you looked at neocities.org
If I could buy a good Windows phone today (e.g., current technology level, not used), I would immediately. I refuse to own an Apple product, and I don't like Google knowing so much about me (I've had multiple bad experiences with romhacking, so that's a no-go).
Why Huawei Should Worry America
This article relies on a single former (disgruntled) employee as its source. We should definitely not be making inferences about the top priorities of Google's management based on his claims.
I liked XP for the UI. Ubuntu is still ages behind, although with Gnome again it seems to be getting better. Unity was a disaster.
Phones have reached the same point laptops reached maybe 10 years ago. They are "good enough" and no real innovation is happening. It's probably just the normal curve for most things. Once things mature, they still sell well, but the excitement is gone. Happened to cars, TVs, PCs and now to phones.

I could get excited about smaller phones though...
It's exceptionally sad since Australia has order of preference, instant runoff and mandatory voting. Even with all those safeguards to prevent major parties and ensure equal representation, Australia still ends up with major parties and too many people who don't bother with the bottom of the ballot.
In some sense this isn't really new. Google has always emphasized the importance of keeping confidential things secret, with the argument that it allows them to share information more widely internally and have robust internal discussions. (In contrast to Apple which is much more secretive internally.) At least at first, employees mostly bought into it. It was always understood that if you get caught leaking you'll be fired and maybe worse, and generally people assumed you deserved it.

But this gradually eroded over the years, as more leaks happened and distrust increased, and now it seems to have mostly broken down.
> You say "Yes" "primitive operations can be applied to values of the wrong type", but then you say that doesn't happen and what actually happens is that "it throws a runtime exception".

Because that's not a different type. It's the same (sum) type just with a different tag.

> What you seem to mean is that isn't what I (`naasking`) would call type safety. [...] However, it clearly has been a text-book meaning of type safety.

No, it's not.
AFAIK Rocket has always been focused on developing an ergonomic type safe API to building web applications. Many things it depends on, codegen, proc macros, that sort of thing, are yet to be stabilized. I'm not affiliated with the project, this is just what I've read about it.

There are other frameworks you can use if you want to use stable, many of them are async already. Granted, none are really 'mature', but this is a new-ish space for Rust anyway.
circa 2100: "Wait, so you're telling me they just burned it?! The same stuff we need to make plastics?!"
That wasn’t their point. These are global services and many of them are written and controlled by people who aren’t under the authority of Australian law.
Both.

Regarding diet, I started observing the effects of everything I ate and adjusting accordingly, somewhat like an elimination diet. I was actually really clueless at first and had numerous deficiencies as a tradeoff for some of the symptoms disappearing (which was great but not sustainable). Over the span of years, this has improved and today I have no deficiencies and only relatively mild symptoms remain.

The biggest breakthrough was limiting fermentation, by taking the FODMAP IBS diet to its natural conclusion, and eliminating everything that would ferment (and thus increase intestinal microorganisms, which for me were imbalanced). What prompted me to do this was trying 2 similar probiotic formulations, only one of which had FOS. The one with FOS caused a huge flare up. So I greatly reduced fermentable things ("resistant starches," "soluble fiber," "FOS," "FODMAPs", fructans, sugar alcohols...). Caprylic acid supplementation really reduced fermentation whenever I made a dietary mistake.

I googled that idea and found the blog of Dr. Norm Robillard which advocates for a similar low-fermentation diet. Interestingly, the people who commented on his site seemed to divide into 2 camps: low-fermentation people vs. those who did well on the opposite diet (high starch / fermented foods).

Adding S. Boulardii then reduced my symptoms further (brain fog, chronic intestinal inflammation) and I feel pretty decent now.

I cannot yet figure out how to make it so my intestinal microflora is balanced enough that eating fermented and/or fermentable foods wouldn't destroy me. I'm still working on that in my spare time.
> Has anyone ever done a happiness/energy-consumption ratio?

Given nobody has objectively defined happiness, no. But energy intensity, "calculated as units of energy per unit of GDP" starts at what you're getting at [1]. On that front, energy intensity has been materially increasing (EDIT: decreasing) for decades [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=27032
It depends. Australia is part of the 5 eyes countries. So now via cooperation between security agencies and due to no judicial oversight, I think more people are affected, whereas before this you would have to convince an Australian judge to give you a warrant.

IANAL.
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Probably not. They basically print money.

All the churn around Google's other products and services have ~zero impact on their revenue stream. What matters is ensuring Google maintains goodwill so that governments won't do anything to harm their money mill - so it makes sense that controlling information would be management's priority.
So, Futures are moving into the standard library; there’s been a last minute procedural issue over one name, and then they’ll be in. So “futures 1.0” isn’t as important, the futures library mostly provides extra utilities, not the core of futures themselves. It’s likely this means they’ll be in 1.33, February 28 (if my math is right)
Macromedia/Adobe Director (1985-2013) was a really cool authoring environment. You could drag and drop animations and interactive experience together really fast. It was an animation software first but had its own scripting language. Even kids could create complex experiences and games with it. Today I need to code everything first before I am able to see anything. I miss this easy direct wysiwyg way of doing things. I think the development processes for the modern web platform are very limiting creatively. The end of Flash is also a huge loss in that regard.
Well there's the conflict then. Many people believe that morals are more important than the law, not the other way around.

And really, what you're talking about is a balance. Very few people actually believe that anyone has a total responsibility to always submit to punishments for laws. Nobody argues that people who helped slaves escape from their masters should have turned themselves into the state afterwards. Nobody argues that a North Korean dissonant should hang a sign on their door announcing their intentions to defect. Nobody argues that before the Boston Tea Party everyone involved should have said, "well there's no need for these disguises, the point will be the same regardless of whether we go to jail afterwards."

And of course in the opposite direction, nobody argues, "well, you had a good reason for running that red light, so it's perfectly reasonable to run from the police when they try to pull you over."

What you're really arguing is that leaks about a company's immoral behavior don't cross the line where people have a right to defend themselves from having their lives ruined. The reason GP disagrees with you isn't because they don't understand that orderly societies require laws. It's because they think it does cross that line.

Personally, I trend towards agreeing with them. It is very easy to tell other people that they should just buck up and accept unjust consequences as a result of helping me. The reality is I (and society as a whole) benefit a lot from whistleblowers. Given that whistleblowing is already a very dangerous process, it's not clear to me why it's in my best interest to heap additional social condemnation on top of that.
I thought it was pretty clear from the poster's message he was talking about product sans network effects.
Well, would you assert that the industrial rise in CO2 levels, as such, will have consequences comparable to one of the worst mass-extinction events, caused by gigantic volcanic eruptions lasting millions of years?

I hold that unlike causes have unlike effects. The Permian-Triassic extinction started with and involved many more destructive elements than merely increased CO2 and global warming. Unlike what we are experiencing today.
how is Microsoft different? just curios.

also, why not Apple?
I honestly can’t tell if this is an honest comment, or a dark ironic reference to Trump, Brexit or current Italian politics.
Depending on the use case (mine is really simple--play music with basic playlist management), QMMP is also a really good replacement and is well-maintained.

http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
> Distrust in the scientific enterprise and misperceptions of scientific knowledge increasingly stem less from problems of communication and more from the widespread dissemination of misleading and biased information.

What's interesting about this is that I think it directly contradicts what people like Dan Kahan have been saying (http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/), which is that motivated reasoning has always been the key problem for science communication, and that the only thing that really changes is not so much the degree of political partisanship but the choice of which scientific issues are the ones that end up being linked to politics. (For example, vaccinations have all the potential to be divisive but nevertheless have almost no political partisanship about them apart from the occasional tweet by Trump.)

It seems they put up the videos of the colloquium at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGJm1x3XQeK2xwsj2vkRg...

Also, I had to look this up, it's an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium, which is the Sackler that marketed Valium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Sackler), not one of the Sacklers responsible for Oxycontin.
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I am very interested in learning more. I will Google etc. of course, but if there are links, blog posts or bits of info you would be willing to share I would be most grateful. Thanks.
The parent is providing an alternative reason for avoiding particular neighborhoods.

Also as votes are hidden here me-toos provide useful info.
Oh yeah, that movie has been extensively sampled, and not just once, and not just by Astral Projection. Goatrance and psytrance in general are quite fond of it [1].

Juno Reactor - Rotorblade, Quietman - The Sleeper (Man With No Name remix), Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy, Astral Projection - No One Ever Dreams, Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy, and Astral Projection - Ambient Galaxy (the latter two likely being the track you meant).

Or the happy hardcore band Dune (see Discogs [2])

[1] https://www.psydb.net/samples?q=dune

[2] https://www.discogs.com/artist/16821-Dune-3
I'm very interested in your experience.

Few questions:

- what positive effects did you get taking S. Boulardii ?

- did you try reuteri ? If no why ? If yes what happened ?

- what forms did you take the supplement in ? What form do you prefer and why ? Any brand recommanded or things to watch out ? Do you know natural reliable food sources ?

- can you tell me more about your 3 courses of H. Pylori eradictation ? Why ? How ? What are the results and costs ?

- did you notice what in your life may cause you to loose a proper gut content ?

And if you ever have the time, can you give a long explaination text about your overall experience ? That's the kind of information I'm mining hard for. I do understand it takes time and also that you are not a doctor and cannot be considered a representative sample. But it's very interesting and hard to find information.
It is of course not the same, but webamp is kind of fun: https://webamp.org/
Most of that stuff is now stable; the major thing it’s waiting on is a fairly technical detail that gives Rocket more informative errors. If Sergio was willing to regress a bit there, it could be on stable, in my understanding. But developer experience is kind of the whole point, so he’s making the call to wait longer.

(EDIT: I just reviewed the flag list and I am 99% sure this is true; the never type could use a library instead, and I am pretty (but not %100) sure proc_macro_hack could fix the other one. It’s quite possible I’m wrong, but in the end, it’s still basically three features left to go.)
It also casts religions with dietary restrictions in an interesting light.
On the technical side, this is the price we pay for weakening software patents. With strong patents, everyone knows what the proprietary technology is, and after 20 years, it's public. Without strong patents, we've seen companies get much more secretive. Trade secret laws are being used against employees routinely now. That used to be very rare.

We know how Google worked originally, because that's patented and you can read the patent. Today, nobody outside Google really knows.
The anti-patent lobby made a horrible mistake.
Even open source projects have centered around a 5 support term.
Granted, it's cheaper to upgrade to Ubuntu Bionic LTS from Ubuntu Trusty LTS than upgrading your hardware.
Gee, I wonder how people did software development as a hobby before AWS was a thing. Totally impossible, way to hard!
I think you do yourself a tremendous disservice by ignoring the actual numbers associated with the generational wealth disparity on display here.

We aren't talking a small backslide. Who gives a fuck if your fridge can make ice if you can't afford to buy a place to keep your fridge.

>I think you've been brainwashed by movies, TV, and Facebook into thinking everyone is supposed to have respectable homes, solid jobs with bennies, and financial security. Very few people ever actually have that kind of life.

No, the middle class most assuredly did have that kind of life. That's what made them middle class.
Windows 95, the only good Windows Microsoft ever made...
Is there any single day goes by without a negative article against Google on HN?