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by paradite 10y ago
Finally Google is able to push its PWA concept to a potentially successful and widely-used product. Looks like a good replacement for the native app. Sadly the Google stack (ionic, angular) is not so mature at this stage and twitter opted f
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by paradite 10y ago
A lot of that is older version of Chrome (56) and iOS Safari (10.2), you can check the usage relative from the same website. Given their automatic update features, it would be changed pretty soon.
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by paradite 10y ago
Go to chrome://help/ and update it to 57.
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by paradite 10y ago
This got me thinking if there was an addon for that, and not surprisingly there is: https://kishanbagaria.com/userscripts/show-hn-karma/ Works fine on Chrome, now I can see everyone's karma while browsing the
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by paradite 10y ago
Or even better, snow in a tropical country, which can never happen in real life.
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by paradite 10y ago
That's very cynical view of networking and I am very much offended by it. I go to events and conferences because I am genuinely interested in them, I go there to listen to insightful presentations and talk to fellow programmers about i
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by paradite 10y ago
> Let's generously assume that you meet and have excellent working relationships with 100 people at each of the 4 jobs you've had. You need to realize that social life and networking goes well beyond your workplace.
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by paradite 10y ago
> It's not fair to replace a local worker with a foreign worker because they're cheaper. I think you just disagreed with the concept of globalization. Granted that human resources are more complex than other resources. However
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by paradite 10y ago
Yes. To phrase it differently, if we have trained a perfectly rational AI, it may make the same (biased) decisions against women based on past statistics (percentage of women leaving full-time jobs) and assumption in reasoning (family respo
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by paradite 10y ago
Making sweeping statements like this on controversial topics without substantiation usually leads to flame war, as evident here.
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by paradite 10y ago
Good idea to encode the code in the url. Unfortunately I think Chrome has a limit on the length of url you can paste into it. I tried copying the url of a slightly longer code into text editor and a new Chrome tab, the latter failed with a
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China Launches Global Consular Protection and Foreign Ministry Service on WeChat(fmprc.gov.cn)
1 points by paradite 10y ago|0 comments
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by paradite 10y ago
I ran Ubuntu 12.04 on a Lenovo laptop for a year or so. The graphics and wifi drivers broke down every now and then and sometimes it broke the OS completely so I had to reinstall the OS. Need to fix multiple config issues and compatibility
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by paradite 10y ago
The situation is entirely the other way round here in Singapore (for the younger generation). I used to run Linux on a laptop, but eventually I gave up and switched to Macbook so that I don't have to deal with drivers and low-level con
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by paradite 10y ago
Apple and Amazon are on the opposite ends of the e-commerce spectrum. Amazon is about volume of sales, Apple is about hype and class.
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by paradite 10y ago
Regarding the definition of AI, I find lecture notes for intro to AI courses in various university [1] very useful: > Views of AI fall into four categories: > Thinking humanly - Cognitive Modeling > Thinking rationally - “Laws of T
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Tech Recruiter Uses Fake Command in Cybersecurity Job Ad(paradite.com)
1 points by paradite 10y ago|0 comments
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by paradite 10y ago
SICP is a great resource for learning functional programming paradigm, but is it a suitable resource for CS beginners? There is only a few universities that still use SICP or its variants in CS introduction modules. I think a book on impera
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Free Giveaway Marketing “Scam” on LinkedIn(paradite.com)
2 points by paradite 10y ago|0 comments
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by paradite 10y ago
Sounds quite similar to Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in Singapore: http://www.pwc.com/sg/en/personal-data-protection.html
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by paradite 10y ago
I don't think your argument about less secure services is helpful to layman. By arguing that Whatsapp is more secure, you are giving people a false sense of security. A good way to phrase it would be "all messaging services are eq
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by paradite 10y ago
> Today, Singapore is seen as a perfect example of a data-controlled society. What started as a program to protect its citizens from terrorism has ended up influencing economic and immigration policy, the property market and school curri
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by paradite 10y ago
I observed and wrote about this polarizing phenomenon about 2 years when the protest in HK broke out: https://paradite.com/2014/11/11/internet-polarized-society/ Still, I can't believe it has grown
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by paradite 10y ago
> Organizations allowed in included Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended. I wonde
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by paradite 10y ago
Couldn't find a practical description of who is affected anywhere. Is it just the customers who have Cloudflare HTTPS proxy service being affected, or anyone using Cloudflare DNS is affected?
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by paradite 10y ago
I assume they were ranked by views or CTR, which is perfectly normal given the current circumstances. How else can Google News rank them? Follow some news media objectivity ranking on imgur? Hire tons of unbiased people to verify the integr
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by paradite 10y ago
> Did you even read the article? You literally broke the HN guidelines here. I agree that the headline is misleading, but nonetheless it promotes interesting discussions that can bring more value than the article itself.
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by paradite 10y ago
This problem has been addressed (in terms of proper coding style at least) long time ago with async.js: http://caolan.github.io/async/ https://github.com/caolan/async
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by paradite 10y ago
You got the wrong impression about Chinese politics and the press. If a dam fails, officials responsible for it would be sacked immediately before getting a chance to resign and the news will be reported. However if it's just "w
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by paradite 10y ago
This phenomenon is also very pronounced in China, mostly due to urbanization I think. When my parents or grandparents were still children, most of them live in small towns or countryside, where facilities are far away and main mode of commu

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