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Salary: MYR 5000, based in Malaysia

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We are located at Wisma UOA Damansara, Damansara Heights. We are mainly focusing on .NET web based system and mobile app development in several industries such as insurance and banking, oil and gas, plantation, manufacturing and etc.

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The Internet Historian did quite a good cover of this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axgyj7g5XZY
Ban all political advertising everywhere.

publicly finance all campaigns. Every candidate gets the same public funds to run their entire campaign.

ban all lobbying. eliminate the government -> private sector job pipeline.

eliminate the concept of "money is speech" - speech is speech, and that's it.
Or https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/robinhood... .
It can get ugly. I did a gofundme to raise money for my daughter's stem cell treatment. Half my extended family doesn't talk to me anymore. I'm sorry I was short 20k in savings and couldn't figure it out on my own guys but I had to swallow my pride and do whatever it took.
I agree with most of what you've said except for low prices. There are a few things that are good deals but lots of food products actually cost more than at my local grocery store. Particularly meat.
That sounds great. How large do computer monitors go?
These days though- kids have access to much higher level languages and libraries and frameworks that can make some of these processes much easier. While it is much harder to understand the tech stack from the ground up- you can do a whole lot with the high level tools closer to the surface.

Kids may not no how to go from BASIC to a video-game- but they don't have to write their games in BASIC. There are point and click game studios, there are really great physics engines available, there are libraries that attempt to make it simple.

I remember learning how to build mods in minecraft ~10 years ago- there were tools out there that allowed you to make creatures or blocks that inherited behaviors programmed in other parts of the game- and you could do a lot with that!
> Organic chicken stock is cheaper at Whole Foods.

If you buy Better than Bouillon at Costco, you can get a pound of the stuff for about $6, which is double the quantity that you find at most other grocery stores.

I stopped buying liquid stock after I found that stuff, because it's so much cheaper.
My theory about what is going on, and why it's not totally insane that Softbank is throwing bad money after bad: By throwing in $3 billion more (after already having throwing $11 Billion into WeWork) this gives Masayoshi Son the following three things:

(1) WeWork is able to secure the $6 billion loan commitment.

(2) Softbank gains 51% voting control over WeWork, getting Adam Neumann totally out of the picture.

(3) It avoids WeWork going bankrupt (and setting its value to zero), while Masayoshi Son is in the middle of raising money for Vision Fund 2.

If it goes bankrupt a year from now, Softbank will have already raised money for their next VC fund, and like startup founders of failed companies, Masayoshi Son is probably hoping that people will forget about his prior mistakes / trash fires, and if Vision Fund 2 is at least halfway successful, he'll be able to continue to play his VC games. Being able to play the part of the visionary VC is probably well worth pouring another $3B into the WeWork firepit.
Both Amazon and Newegg are marketplaces, and at least Amazon has commingling issues which can obscure the actual source from the customer, even when you think you are buying direct from Amazon.

It's possible the differing experiences reflect different actual sources on the same marketplaces.
Having used that book and gotten some great bread out of it, and then "messed up" the recipes a few times and had the bread still turn out great, I agree. I don't think the precision is as important as it implies.

I think the oddly precise teaspoon measurements are a side effect of converting from weights, though. Early on he recommends measuring ingredients by weight, and I vaguely remember him saying that the volume measurements were really just a backup if you absolutely couldn't use a scale.
I had to explain to someone in my office how URLs worked - he only knew how to get to sites by typing what he wanted to visit into google search. Our intranet is obviously not crawled by google so he had no idea how to access it.

I got the same "I'm not good with computers" response.

Modern web browsers are the cause of this they don't distinguish between an address and a search query -frustrating.
Back then, it didn't even help much to have the original assets. I worked in-house for a company porting some of their early EGA graphics PC games to the C64, and I just had to basically do everything from scratch. I could look at the original source code and art assets, but I was writing 6502 C64 assembly and the original was MSDOS 8088, with absolutely no commonality. Even the art-- I had to be my own artist-- was a tremendous chore. Downgrading 16px16px8 color EGA "tiles" to C64 8x16x4 color sprites when the 8 pixels were double width and one of the 4 colors was "transparent" was frequently an exercise in frustration. At one point I hollered at my boss that "I can't make a duck out of this!" (attempting to create a mallard flapping its wings) and went home early. I came back the next say and made a duck, but only barely. I eventually quit to work on my engineering degree. Never regretted it for a moment. A lot of us got really burned out back then.
Upon logging into the demo account, a clever upsell appears to a $219 product.

https://www.softlab24.com/product/view/43/premium-social-net...
I think it has something to do with their cookie requirements. Not too sure, I just stopped opening Twitter links rather than debugging why I couldn't load their contents anymore.
People Have Falsely Claimed Up to $74M of EV Tax Credits
Wow what a video and the whole time I was saying this is 1968. Incredible. So many things I forget half of them. A digital stylus on a CRT display with real time input able to change the program on the fly and run simulations to test said programs. I saw what really reminded me of the Matrix drop text effect however it was on the horizontal. Computer speech and programing the various sounds. And Finally, at 14:27 in the video someone please chime in here are they showing a QR code back in the day? They show what looks to be a QR code while talking about how computers will allow us to communicate visually in ways we can yet to imagine. Very cool video I recommend the short watch.
why are these old ass stories making it to the top?
Can you provide me with a source where I can better learn about the shortcomings of public analyst reports? I had never even heard of WSB before, so I guess I'm a bit in the dark here.
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Who Was First to Walk in Space, Dies at 85
Deplorables? Are we doing Hillary Clinton references or something?

Hey, downvoters, it was a genuine question, if I've missed something, please let me know. The term deplorable is rather odd, and I can only recall it being used in in recent pop culture by Hillary Clinton wrt Trump supporters.
I only hope they start supporting CDMA across more models, or Verizon finally axes CDMA. That's the rather large obstacle that has stopped me from getting a Nokia.
Maybe this sounds harsh, but:

Who cares? If researchers are producing crap to get published, why should we mind if they stop producing that crap when journals raise the standards of publication?
Unix timestamps are a duration¹; they're not in any particular timezone. They're "the number of seconds since midnight 1 Jan 1970, UTC" — but while I've used "UTC" there, you can also equally define it as the number of seconds since 19:00 on 31 Dec 1969 in America/New_York. It's the epoch itself that requires a timezone, not the duration since the epoch.

¹iiiish. Let's forget leap seconds exist.
That’s what I was referring to in my second paragraph. :)
LSST | Tucson, AZ

And now for something completely different... if watching the Fortnite black hole has given you the feeling that maybe you would like to find an actual earth-killing asteroid before it blows up our map...

At the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (https://www.lsst.org) we are building an astronomical observatory that will map the sky at unprecedented speed and depth.

We are looking for a senior security engineer with strong devops chops (or alternatively, a senior devops engineer with strong security credentials). Less exciting version here: https://ls.st/zc5

This is academia, so salaries are not what you are used to up there in SV, but it's a chance to contribute to an awesome, if not historic, science project.
The Secret Life of Vector Generators
Those are called "synergies."
Do not forget vml. The more superior version of SVG. Sigh.
No. I'm sure it wasn't anything to do with Pac Man.
The most depressing thing for me as someone who loves F# is how `.net` is nearly synonymous with C# in most people's minds
I couldn't possibly agree more with this article. It is still possible to do the kinds of things that Flash did now-a-days with HTML5 canvas, but it requires a lot more programming abilities than Flash required.

Websites for design firms were literal masterpieces. Now, those same firms have beautiful, yet predictable, websites.

The user experience was entirely unique from site to site. No side vertical stack of buttons, no top nav bar. Designers back then encouraged exploration. You just don't see that anymore.

Overall, websites are way better now. But we have certainly lost something as the entire web has become commoditized and homogenized. No one is willing to take risks anymore. The late 90s and 2000's was a different kind of internet than it is now, for sure.
> Edit: to clear up the analogy - UK courts don't have a say over what Unilever can and can't sell in USA jurisdiction.

And the SEC is dealing with what is being sold in the US.

> committed to flood the U.S. capital markets with billions of Grams by October 31, 2019

> sold more than 1 billion Grams to 39 U.S. Purchasers, raising $424.5 million from the U.S. market
Totally agree but traditional media was never as ubiquitous as internet based media companies. Their pervasiveness is just at completely diff level. Hence the effects are much more impactful compared to traditional media.

I agree with the mallorean below. Lobbying should be eliminated. It’s just a legal way to bribe and it has corroded the democratic system.
The Worst bug I ever Caused
Flaring it isn't even the main problem. If it's burned up, it's just CO2, releases of Methane are much more problematic as it's a much more potent greenhouse gas.
I’m staggered that this is some scenario that isn’t possible before apps like Revolut.

While I did pay an interchange fee I could do this with my USD account numerous times in the past 20 years.

So is it just that you avoided slightly higher interchange fees?
There’s a tradeoff between rigor and output. Except in toy or very niche problems, I’m not aware of formal verification striking a good balance between the two, although perhaps I’m just ignorant. But it seems to me that code review and some unit and functional tests are usually a clear win.
You could have parking with rental cars on the periphery of the city or its car-free zone.
The fact that a candidate can tell obvious, blatant, and easy fact-checked lies with impunity isn't Facebook's problem, it's America's problem. (And the rest of the world's too.) In any functional democracy, a candidate telling blatant lies under their own name should be political suicide. It somehow is not, and that's stupid, but I'm not sure banning campaign ads is the right solution.

Banning political ads not directly paid for by a campaign that had to put a candidate's name behind their words seems reasonable. But banning ads from the actual campaigns themselves seems like an overreach.
Had Adobe bought Goowy Desktop, Adobe could have launched their own iPad or iPhone of sorts. Maybe even a desktop.

Instead AOL bought them and realized that was a mistake.
This post was just on the front page of HN. Why did it disappear all of a sudden?
Or just that those updates don't exist? My phone will probably be never updated to Android 10.
Maybe. It depends on your luck in getting a professional who is actually knowledgeable and competent, and as a secondary aspect, knowing enough to do it yourself generally enables you to accurately judge the job someone else does. For the common oil change and lube, mechanics have a tendency to skip the lube part because there is no easy way to verify it has actually been done —- you actually need to crawl under the vehicle and check the zerks for fresh grease at which point there’s no reason not to just do it yourself and save the money.
> O'Reilly doesn't sell e-books directly, which made me mad. You can get their subscription service, or buy the paper version.

On the plus side, all my technical book purchases are work expenses, and even though I only read the e-book versions, I can stock the shelf in my office with books that make it look like I'm reading Impressive Technical Things.
There is not much difference there. iPhone might be more confusing for people who are used to android.
But there is far more competition than there was before. People have devices allowing them shorter attention span to get to value than before.

This change is not only because of the loss of flash.
My oven heats up to about 170F on proof mode, and my kitchen is frequently 60°F in winter, so a proofer wound up being a good buy for me. But to be sure it was not needed for just getting started.
> Go ahead try and value any tech company as if it were a ordinary company. I dare you.

ok. Let's look at Apple compared with three non-tech F10:

PE Yield PEG EV/EBITDA
AAPL 19 1.35% 2.0 14
WMT 23 1.77% 5.3 13
BRK 19 0.00% 0.86 10
MCK 9 1.23% 1.27 8

Looks like it's priced right; if anything it's cheap.
Kim Jong Un May Be Hiding a Hog Apocalypse from the World
> I have zero debt (no mortgage) and 6 figure college savings for 2x kids

Looks like you've hit the best scenario most people can get in SV, really. Unless they bought their houses years ago.
I might have missed a few names, but I'd like to contribute a list of folks and sites from the old Flash community who seemed like rock stars (in order of how much I idolized them).

Once I typed it up, I realized it was all dudes, so let me first link to https://flashgoddess.com/spotlight/ , who shone a spotlight on the women who worked in the same space. (Shoutout to Lisa Larson-Kelley, fellow alumnus of FlashCodersNY, and Stacey Mulcahy, whose hilarious AS2-to-AS3 migration talk was fucking awesome!)

If you wish to view any of these links, I recommend pasting them into web.archive.org and setting the Wayback to the mid-to-late 2000's.

mrdoob.com (Mr. doob, later created three.js)
audiotool.com, lab.andre-michelle.com (Andre Michelle)
wefail.com (Jordan Stone, Martin Hughes)
gskinner.com (Grant Skinner, later created EaselJS, etc)
quasimondo.com (Mario Klingemann)
bytearray.org (Thibault Imbert)
bit-101.com (Keith Peters)
vectorpark.com (Patrick Smith)
hoogerbrugge.com (Han Hoogerbrugge)
levitated.net (Jared Tarbell)
blog.joa-ebert.com (Joa Ebert (also audiotool))
orisinal.com (Ferry Halim)
hospital.apoka.com (Edouard Artus)
kirupa.com (Kirupa Chinnathambi)
mosessupposes.com (Moses Gunesch)
gotoandlearn.com, theflashblog.com (Lee Brimelow)

Most of these folks also spoke at tech events, sharing techniques and hard-learned lessons. Like that time when Wefail gave a talk that took a memorably heavy shit on Jakob Nielsen. Hell yes.

Also worth noting the HBO Voyeur promotional site made by Big Spaceship: archive.bigspaceship.com/hbovoyeur

The Flash community was creative and groundbreaking as hell. Most of the folks who criticized it for being proprietary and insecure are lifelong users of proprietary, insecure platforms; the worst aspects of the Flash-equipped web linger still, namely ads, inaccessibility and site bloat; and let's face it, as capable as the modern web client stack is, it's lost so much ground to the walled garden platforms, that Steve Jobs's 2010 agenda can no longer be seen as anything but duplicitous.

Godspeed, FutureSplash! You were to good for this web.
AS3 was literally the best thing that ever happened to Flash. The problems with Flash had nothing to do with the actual tech (aside from security) and everything to do with product management. It's just a shame that AS3 came so late in the Flash lifecycle.
I've never been laid-off, but back in the early 2000s when the internet bubble popped our company was going to have to lay off some people. They instead opted to let us decide whether to lay off some people or for everyone to take a 20% pay cut. We opted for the latter. So while no one was laid-off, I was impacted by a possible layoff.
This information is available in the play console (where people can submit apps to the play store), and there's tens of thousands of targetable devices

The vast majority of Android devices in use are Samsung devices though.. judging from my own apps' stats and other stats I've seen around over the years
Isn't all that the stuff that makes crypto exciting? Its the wild west come again. A new frontier. Appeals to the desire to expose oneself to risks for profit. To do something that maybe you shouldn't. To operate outside of the soft, protected existence of mainstream first world society. Bowl without the bumper bars.

Absent that emotional fulfilment its just boring old money.
Sounds like your hydration was too low or you didn't develop the gluten with enough rest & kneading.
this list is a very simple algorithm. Why don't you tun it into a script deploy.sh ?
worst case this is just a good recommendation
This has not occurred and is not occurring in programming.

The CEOs 14 year old son is a straw boy.
I was a front-end developer during the AS2 -> AS3 -> Flex era. These days, I've been messing with Web Components (via LitElement) and the similarities with Flex/MXML are uncanny.
I went from 90% of my online orders at amazon to maybe 35%. Some things have always sucked, liked clothes.

Thanks to software like Shopify, ordering from other e-commerce sites is pretty painless now. When you factor in finding the product, many sites are now more convenient to order from than Amazon.
Which one of these comments is right? You both can’t be.
I really haven't owned a TV in 10 years!
> I completely disagree, coming from a Java

I'm sorry but I couldn't read past this.
Flash was fundamentally just a file format. You made the format using the program in the same way you make a Photoshop file in Photoshop. It was a noun and a verb because you make thing and both the part that makes and the part made are called the same.

Due to the nature of present browser APIs you cannot name your editor WebGL or something that produces WebGL. But if you made an editor called Sparkle or something that produced .sparkle files that had native browser support you would have the same nomenclature going on. But native browser integration and containerized file formats with external editors aren't a well made match.
Now Is Not the Time for a Fonop in the Arctic
Ask HN: What are you using as an issue tracker in 2019?
Issue trackers are something every development team needs,we use pivotal tracker but the experience is not good and looking for simple intuitive solution.What you guys are using to track issues for your project / API / UI etc ?
In addition to the above, iirc, there was a variant of Flash called Flash lite that ran the UI of many feature phones for quite a while. It wasn't full flash, though.
>1. Amazon takes action when a brand complains, even with only a single complaint.

The owner of No Starch Press shows up at a lot of CS shows and other shows. Next time you are at one, seek him out for a chat. Tell him Anazon takes action after a single complaint. Be prepared for him to disabuse you of your misconceptions.

Source: I heard his story first-hand at PyCon.
WebRTC seems to have less than consistent performance/experience. Red5 shouldn't be able to be on par or out-do it.

Zoom has done some nice stuff in bypassing webrtc and instead using a webassembly connector to move video and audio.
You can go to the liquor store at the one near Boston as well, though their prices are worse than several of the dedicated liquor stores down the street.

I've known people to go there as an after practice group activity to talk and eat incredibly cheap food. I wonder if they actually do lose money, their selection is so limited and the amount sold so high. I bet they make a small profit.
If they wait for complaints, that's not amazon doing the QC, it's the client.
Seeing the code, I don't get why this was encapsulated in a function, considering they don't even take a path argument.

It could easily have been just a oneliner:

gaussian_outputfils = sorted(glob.glob('*.out'))

Of, if it needed function form:

def read_gaussian_outputfiles(path):
return sorted(glob.glob(f'{path}/*.out'))
The upgraded membership is 60usd more than the normal, gives you 2% back on purchases, and they will refund it to you if you ask, so not sure how you could lose 100 on that.
If you can bake bread with wheat from an Italian grocery store and it doesn't cause her any problems, you could probably then narrow it down to the variety of wheat. There are actually quite a few, and they can be very different. Do run some kind of blind trial though, as another poster mentioned.
Should Airlines Remove Seatback Screens?
Yeah, I thought security was where they were going with the "can't have nice things" comment
The San Francisco Chronicle used the data I scraped in their own visualization here, combining it with wind data: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/wind-outage-map/
The article makes a reasonable argument that the US would benefit if Facebook were to unilaterally refuse to run political ads, but unless I missed it, it made no mention of why Facebook as a profit driven company would benefit from refusing to accept money from political campaigns. This would seem to be a glaring omission, because unless Facebook stands to benefit, it seems unlikely that Facebook would voluntarily make such a change.

So: how can we better align the incentives of the social media companies with the goals of the public as a whole?
Are you sure about that? I thought part of the whole incentive for commingled inventory was that Amazon no longer kept track of it separately per vendor and just lumped it all into the same bin without a unique serial number.