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I think there are some advantages to "installing" PWAs to your phone. As I understand it you're grabbing a ball of HTML, CSS, Javascript, a bunch of assets, and whatever else your website needs and presenting it in a chromeless browser (a browser without UI, not without Chrome).

If your PWA has significant offline capability, this can be useful. Think of Google Drive on a laptop. You can enable offline mode, which essentially saves a similar ball of assets to your cache and saves copies of your files to local storage. You can use most of the capabilities offline just like you were online (obviously not anything that actually requires internet).

There are advantages to appear like an app to the user. User's tend to assume "If I have no internet, websites don't work" which obviously isn't the case with drive in offline mode. But it's hard to fight that. The expectation around apps is that they generally do work offline, so it tricks / socially-engineers / whatever the user into that assumption.
> Is the ICO a scam? Yes, it wasn't legal.

Not everything that's illegal is a scam. If somebody sells me cocaine and I'm happy with the product, it's illegal but nobody was scammed.
I took over a month away from other work I have to do to develop the planeshift crate [1] to solve this exact problem. On the WebRender side, tiling work is advancing quickly as well. OS compositing in WR hasn't landed yet, mostly because work has to be done on the legacy Gecko side to wrangle the Cocoa widgets properly, but it's not true that nobody cares.

[1]: https://github.com/pcwalton/planeshift
I bet the help their customers to position their products to rank better in Amazon search engine and how to sell more.
> Objective C is much higher than Swift: 11 vs 18.

And Apache Groovy rose from number 91 to number 17 in the past 12 months also according to that same Tiobe page (May 2019). Quoting Tiobe for anything only discredits what you're trying to prove.
I had trouble running Android Studio on Ubuntu 18.04 (specifically the emulator) with OpenJDK and ended up having to use Oracle Java.

I assume there are other such compatibility issues as well.

Is there a list of projects somewhere that work with both, work with Oracle and that work with OpenJDK?
That, and if it was going well they wouldn't have relicensed.

Just like parachutists who open their reserve chute suffer more injuries than ones who don't :)
Investigating the most efficient way to boil water
More people, as long as we avoid massive overpopulation and resource depletion, should result in more technology. More technology means better resource usage, which enables more people to exist.

There's plenty of room on the planet for more people, but not if everyone wants to live like a suburban American with 2 big SUVs and a McMansion with a huge lawn. If everyone lived like in Tokyo, we wouldn't be so worried about overpopulation. Better technology will also help us create more food without having to take up more land for it. Finally, technology will allow us to push into space and use that for both resource extraction, manufacturing, farming, and living, giving us space only limited by the amount of building material we can gather there.
If it were purely a profit case and they really don't want to make a new game. Then why doesn't valve sell the IP to publishers that want to make HL3, Portal3, Left4Dead3 etc? they'll collect a check with no effort and enable fans to have a new game.
This is such an elegant idea that I literally laughed with joy for a few seconds when I read the abstract. You made my morning.
We do see the explosion in episode 5, and in my opinion it's one of the low points of the limited series. IMO the generic CGI animation you feared is exactly how it comes across.
‘Minecraft: Story Mode Will Be Delisted from All Storefronts Later This Month
I guess if a fully loaded iMac or MBP are not suitable to your needs, then you are in a particular niche where I would expect a person not to balk at $6000. There's not much either my MBP or iMac can't do and I heavily abuse them. The only thing I can think of would be very very intensive video editing, and in that case, $6000 is a drop in the bucket compared to most professional editing tools and software.
lazyboi is a bash script which makes it fast and easy to send raw HTTP POST requests to servers, for example to send some JSON to an API end-point that you are developing on your machine, or to send some test-data to an API that you are integrating with.

Using curl for this purpose from the commandline can be cumbersome if you have multiple headers that need to be specified, or if you are submitting complex JSON data. Doubly so when you need to make changes to the request headers and the data. Editing long commandline invocations; no bueno.

Several great tools exist for interacting with HTTP APIs. But sometimes those tools are overkill and you just want to submit some headers and data, and to tweak those headers and data a little bit all in one place in raw form.

That is what lazyboi lets you do – it embeds a raw HTTP request that you can easily edit with your favorite source code editor, and which you then submit to the server by running the script. Edit and run. Edit and run.

The README shows an example embedded HTTP request and contains instructions on how to use the script and how to install it.
> Always include hardware safe guards when it comes to safety.

What does that actually mean? Maybe in the Therac-25 case the maximum dosage could somehow have been limited by a hardware dial in addition to software. But what form would hardware safeguards take for the millions of decisions software makes every second on a starting rocket? And considering hardware has far higher failure rates than no-moving-parts software, wouldn't any system that lets hardware dominate software decrease safety?
wow, I'd think Seattle being a major tech hub would have better internet.
I live in a farming community 15 minutes from the nearest small city (Google: Paragonah Utah), and we have few competitors but for $90 I get 1 gig fiber. There's not many places in utah where you can't get at least 100-300mb.

The state had the forsight to lay tons of conduit a decade or two ago whenever they do road work so that there's plenty of space for bandwidth upgrades and what not across the entire state.
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It's weird how people like you somehow think that immortal people would somehow be immune to gunshots or speeding buses. In reality, you'd have at most 1000 years before you were the victim of some tragic accident or murder.
Yes, also in my experience "Amazon's Choice" does not protect you from counterfeit, grey market or any other crap items.

I wrote to jeff (at) amazon (dot) com last week about this, because I got super upset. And some middle manager replied. I shipped US -> UK some underwear from a company that uses no latex (I'm allergic), sends items inside a ziplocked sealed bag and prohibits underwear returns (for hygiene reasons).

After waiting for the parcel for 2 days at home, as I was in a hurry to get more latex free underwear, I got an Amazon envelope and the underwear came inside without any packaging and clearly used (!). I was furious.

Not an isolated event. A few weeks ago, I ordered a shower with a chlorine filter from Amazon UK. I know this korean brand very well. Again, I got the item without any original packaging, and water inside (!).

So I don't trust Amazon anymore for items that are more than $10. People abuse the return policy, and Amazon does not care. Or it's even their business model: Ship it again, selling it as new. Online shopping is getting very tricky.

I'd gladly pay more at places that guarantee brand new items. Things are getting really scammy. Around 1/5 of the items I buy online have been opened and used, or have some defects. And I'm talking about expensive stuff and supposedly reputable sellers.
But you're essentially saying if you want to compete with AWS, you have to offer every feature and integration they offer. Good luck to any startup attempting that.
> Do you really believe Britain is on the brink of a Brexit induced food supply halting catastrophe? I'd seriously like to believe trade relations are strong and that selling in to a 60+ million population market is a strong incentive to keep trade relations well lubricated.

Nigel Farage and his Brexit Party won the EU elections in the UK. People are talking openly about "hard Brexit", and some day the EU is going to have enough and give the UK the boot in the arse. No way the UK is going to be remotely prepared - it simply won't be possible to prepare for a hard Brexit with weeks, maybe months of border chaos. There simply is not enough warehouse capacity.
You do that by raising the tax $0.10 every 3 months until your tax is at the right price.

The issue isn't $10/gallon gas. The issue is $10/gallon gas suddenly.

If everybody knows that gas is going to go up every quarter for the next 10 years, things will adjust. Businesses will start making long-term decision around the increase. People will buy smaller cars and will start screaming for mass transit.
More than 10 years ago now, I built myself a few x0xb0xes, one of Limor's first projects. You could only buy the PCBs and had to source all of the other stuff yourself. I still have one somewhere, those were fun to build and had a great community. http://blog.bityard.net/category/electronics.html

Very satisfying to see how big Adafruit has become.
Thanks. So since cryptocurrencies aren't specifically listed but just fall under "investment contracts," and investment contracts have to pass Howey to be considered securities, doesn't that mean that cryptocurrencies which fail a Howey test are in the clear?

(I guess the SEC could claim they count as "any interest or instrument commonly known as a security" on the grounds that the SEC themselves consider them securities, but that seems a stretch. I don't know why the courts would have bothered making the Howey test if they just wanted the SEC to rule however it liked.)
But I've never really found a site that collects these free software licensed fonts with curated reviews and use-cases.

There's not much out there, I'm afraid. It looks like you're already aware of the sites that just list a million fonts and maybe let you try out rendering some sample text interactively. You might find sites like Typewolf[1] and Fonts In Use[2] interesting if you haven't come across them before. There's a little more curation and organisation there than on something like Google Fonts. But really, for free fonts, there's not a lot of detailed commentary in my experience. If you have specific questions or want advice about suitable fonts for a specific project, you could also ask on the Typography subreddit[3], which is fairly active and has a few people who know what they're doing around.

[1] https://www.typewolf.com/

[2] https://fontsinuse.com/

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/
The article starts with: "It’s been several weeks since I was promoted to Senior Vice President of Firefox, responsible for overall Firefox product and web platform development."

How is this relevant? Did Dave Camp's SVP appointment trigger these changes? Honest question, because this is the first sentence of the article and I'm having a hard time understanding why.

Tracking protection is great though. I hope Firefox gains market share again, I love the direction it's taking.
The SQLite official documentation lists examples of using SQL to generate the Mandelbrot plot and to solve Sudoku.

https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html
If I have nothing and rob a bank, should I get get to keep half? Why should the penalty bankrupt me?
One difference is that AWS etc. can run software on bare metal if they want. (I suspect they are doing just that with their hosted Kafka offering.) Even with the new EC2 bare metal instances, I don’t think you could roll your own for a competitive price (IME packet.net is much cheaper than EC2 for on-demand bare metal, with a much better UX).
Thank you for posting this. This is a really good 2-sentence summary of what I have been struggling to put into words. The other approaches to nature seem so anti-human.

I like the idea that somehow the quality of the world is somehow intrinsically better when humans aren't involved. Certainly there are plenty of ways that humans can make it worse, but that is not the same thing as saying that somehow humans are less a part of nature than any other organism or geological feature.
Currently the fuel is very inexpensive - a tiny fraction of the total cost of the electricity produced. Most of the cost is the initial capital, and most of the ongoing cost is the (highly specialized) labor. A new reactor design that saves fuel is not really what the industry needs.
Sorry, it came of stronger than I wanted to. I actually run into high CPU utilization shortly after I posted it. Haven't had it for a full year, may be something in later version got messed up. I did go away after refreshing FF though, so I do recommend trying it to see if it will fix things. I am routing for FF, but it's definitely not perfect.
Wow. That’s really telling. I assume the Chinese gov’t thinks that any effort to prosecute him would just bring more attention to a mostly forgotten episode.

Reminds me of the stories a coworker told me about growing up in Romania under Ceaușescu. A neighbor would disappear and a new family would be living in their house the next day.

Nobody ever said anything. Just acted like they had always lived there.
Perhaps the show is more of a hit with soviet geeks than Chernobyl geeks. I was thoroughly impressed with the level of detail in set dressing and by the costume department. This individual does a much better job articulating the period accuracy than I could[1].

[1]https://twitter.com/SlavaMalamud/status/1132029943297265664
Economy class seats generally speaking will earn the least amount of money to an airline, so this idea would actually likely be the most unprofitable option.

To make it truly profitable, you convert the plane to First class, but then you'll need to fill all those seats.

Wendover Productions had a great video on this a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc
Child mortality rates have plummeted over the past century -> lower fertility rates -> more outrage over every child's death -> let's prosecute someone every time a child dies!
The editorconfig plugin might be your friend. I've made it a requirement for every project in our company to have an .editorconfig file.
ENUM anyone? https://www.nominet.uk/search/enum - ha! (There used to be a page on the Nominet site about ENUM but now the ITU doc: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/inr/enum/Documents/ENUM/ENUM%20... can't even spell Nominet correctly)

I should explain: In simple terms, ENUM allows you to turn a phone number into a SRV record that points at a PBX via a DNS lookup. The ITU allocates the zones to registrars, the zones neatly map to country codes - its a great idea.

However, as you can imagine this is not very popular with big telecoms who are used to charging by the second/minute and location by distance which is obviously bollocks when you turn a circuit switched network into a packet switched one that no longer routes calls via satellites to cross the Atlantic (eg). OK pricing and tech for "POTS" has come a long way since I were a lad but it is still a nice little earner over letting us lot do our own thing.

You can also imagine that Google, Facebook int al would also suffer a collective coronary should us lot be able to do our own comms without them.

I'm fairly sure that you (for a given value of you) can't remember the last time you used a "landline" but if ENUM was available it might have been a few minutes ago and not logged externally and charged as though it was 1970 sigh
I like coffee, but oh my god don't drink 25 cups of coffee a day. I'm not necessarily saying it would be bad for your heart, I'm just saying that sounds horrible.
Actually, you see the explosion in the distance at the start of the first episode from the Ignatenko's apartment.
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Engineering management should be taught by engineers at your company, not HR
The default behavior on Emacs is to warn you that file-local variables can be unsafe and prompt you to execute them. However I developed the habit of mostly ignoring it since they're usually in my own files.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Sa...
I believe the Firefox crash stats database includes both “is webrender enabled” and “what is your GPU” with crash reports, which likely relates to their choices for only enabling it for specific GPUs right now.
> Obviously, some people don't just give up when they get older

... you understand that declining mental health is not the result of "giving up", right? And that the celebrity academics/rockstars still active at 85 often are 1) reasonably wealthy and 2) lucky.

I've TA'd for 70+ years old professors with declining health who were still teaching because they didn't have a choice and had bills to pay, and it was just sad. Complete waste of time for the students (and tragic for the professors to find themselves in that situation).

Your messages give the sense that you have a very naive/idealistic view of aging.
Well, PII is a bit of a nebulous term. Some websites still transfer some signup/user info in url parameters or unencrypted responses. We would even see SSNs pop up now and then.

Most data being sold has some good faith effort to remove PII, but that's never 100% complete, and by utilizing multiple data sources, an industrious person or team could de-anonymize your data. We were mostly doing this type of work for segmentation and persona analysis. Targeting an individual was never a goal, but would not have been terribly difficult.

I'll give you an example. We might receive all urls a person visited. Many contain person information that would not be caught in usual PII filtering process:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#search/my+viagra+prescript...
That’s not really true because Windows does come close, and I say that as someone whose every day DAW is running on MacOS. I also have Windows on other machines to compare it to. Out of the box a Mac is fine as is but a well configured well spec’d Windows box is really good once paired with a decent interface.
Netherlands teen legally euthanized due to ‘unbearable’ pain
Canada returns 90% of its carbon tax as a per-capita dividend, making it highly progressive.
GDPR used to intimidate journalists in Romania
Lockpick lawyer (not embarrassed to say my fav youtube channel) has some choice words for amazon choice locks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ/sea...
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The jeff@ experience is really poor now. There doesn't seem to be a way to request real review by someone who might care about something other than ticket throughput. I tried it when I got a ding against my account because my wife and I had ordered something that in total was over a limit. I was accused of misuse of accounts. Ended up move all my personal data out of Amazon because of it.
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did you really come here to say that someone else's work of creating a production typeface package with multiple styles and weights is "trivial"?
That will spur the development of many alternative sources...
Version 67.0 on Ubuntu, in Europe (maybe that makes a difference?). And this same preference is set to true for me in about:config.
I guess that isn't wrong, your boss is part of the staff and they have "picked" the poorly selling wines to highlight. It didn't say "Staff Recommended" or "Staff Favorites"
That has more to do with HR laziness and keyword sniping. Want to hire a product manager? Does the person have "product management" somewhere in their resume? Good. If not, pass. That's how crude the process can get, and that's how it's practiced in plenty of places.
Ask HN: A company just shared my contact details without asking me what do I do?
A company called Pana that schedules travel for interviews just reached out and told me they shared my information (presumably this means email and phone number, but I'm not sure) with Uber so I could book rides. Uber is a disgusting company that I want nothing to do with, and I certainly don't want them to have my email (they've already sent me one email since Pana shared my information). I did not sign an EULA or similar for Pana, Uber, or the company I was interviewing with.

Can they really just share my information like this? Do I have any recourse?
yeah, thanks. i guess i kinda misread that comment.
This is just for a regular SWE position at Google. The pay there is banana town. I'm glad to be a part of it.
That's fine as long as you can patent some core innovation and then develop the rest later. There is protectable IP to be shared between collaborators.
To be fair, the argument most often used for OTP-ing in LoL is not that you neglect developing game knowledge and macro play in favor of mastering that one champion, it's that OPT-ing eliminates all of the random barriers to entry that comes along with having to learn a wide array of champions which in turn allows for you to spend a far greater amount of time developing general game knowledge and understanding of macro play.
You missed the point. There's no access because you can require end-to-end encryption for mails that use the forwarding system, just like the PGP remailer/forwarding systems, so the remailer node isn't subject to MITM.

Moreover, if you're using "Sign in with X" in the first place, there's no password and no password reset. Key Exchange is the big MITM vulnerability.

There's decades of experience now around building distributed identity. Bitcoin wallets are a large scale example of that. If we're going to finally flip the switch on not using verifiable, public email addresses as part of credentials, we should rip the bandaid off and get rid of the centrality all together.
Or just an effort to protect their children.
As said for the other comment, on my 67.0 installed on Ubuntu, from Europe (if that makes any difference), I have no prompt on new profile and the suggestions are enabled by default. Not sure if that changes per region, operating system, or other reasons to be honest.
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Sorry, what "argument" did I make?

It's more of an observation about how even people who are vocally pushing for renewables/sustainable energy aren't personally following what they preach (while seemingly not feeling guilty about it).

Is this observation wrong?
What happens if sites start blocking Apple's anonymized login just like they block disposable emails?
Free software has the exact same problem here. You can be 100% free software and still have VC funding you. For the context of this discussion, they're the same.
I miss working with other engineers. But overall it’s been fun. But with changing trends and so many people making videos now, it may be the right time to get out and get a real job again.