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ap46··on Apple Announces Full WebRTC Support in Safari 11
YASSS!!! FINALLY!
ap46··on Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly
Can someone get opencv running on it?
ap46··on Millennials are less keen than previous generations on illicit drugs
Its a good thing & not to mention-illegal.
ap46··on AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls
Appear.in or even something simple built with WebRTC on a heroku dyno or Firebase for signalling would get the work done for free.
ap46··on British Airways: Computer problems cause flight delays
They need to seriously deal with the upcoming 2038 bug.
ap46··on Improving Connect to enable more platforms
This was the reply I got when I asked about lack of framework based examples

> Thanks for reaching out! We don't have an Angular 2 example for Managed Accounts specifically, but that's a good idea!

Damn right it is a good idea, they absolutely don't make it developer friendly.

ap46··on Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?
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ap46··on Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?
Yeah but stabilisation doesn't change over time, for the most part it still remains PID based. 8-bit MCUs are so under-utilised & 32-bit processors are simply an overkill & barrier to people getting started.
ap46··on Ask HN: What do you do while your code compiles?
Android Studio users-----> Modify the HEAP_SIZE in the gradle file. It will shorten build times by a factor of 3-4.
ap46··on Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?
Ardupilot on MEGA2560 with a Pi/Odroid for any video processing would be fine. You can get away with a 3500mAh battery on a quad w/ 1045 props & 1000KV motors for 15-20mins.

PM me for another great combination/consultation.

ap46··on My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
Mostly for those with iOS/macOS development & the creative suite of software from Adobe & Apple.

There rest might do it for the heck of it too, slick UX & benefit of doing ML/DL from one single OS & machine instead of context switching between Linux machine & a macOS based laptop for the above reason.

ap46··on Kotlin 1.1.2 is Out
A single line on the submit page could filter this out way more efficiently.
ap46··on Kotlin 1.1.2 is Out
This is the only solace we have....
ap46··on Kotlin 1.1.2 is Out
Finally we can have minor updates on the front page. Yay to those with 500+ karma & who let this go up up & away....
ap46··on My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
Tonymacx86 & the new Pascal drivers will let you use the greatest GPUs now for all creative work not fulfilled by linux & if you want to avoid the spyware plague of Windoze 10.
ap46··on Ask HN: How do you define DevOps and is it dead?
DevOps gets sidelined as a single skill, part of the whole.

An analogy would be iPod/Music app in the iPhone from the glory days of the iPods.

ap46··on Ask HN: What smartphone would you recommend with superb battery life?
One Plus 3T or the SE.
ap46··on Ask HN: What smartphone would you recommend with superb battery life?
What? They couldn't put in an IMU with a compass? My XPERIA M from 2013 didn't have a compass....such progress. Moto does some real awkward stuff like not having a simple flash LED on the E a while back.
ap46··on Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and Macbooks
Will repair MacBooks for food, but for the love of god don't shred them. Just give them out at high schools or college grads. They can learn a thing or two & save BUX in the process.
ap46··on Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and Macbooks
You seemed to have skipped over the times when consumers were able to repair their products without being ripped off by OEMs.
ap46··on Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and Macbooks
But electronics is not just a single material. It consists of independent parts which could work fine as replacements without shredding the entire device.
ap46··on H-1B visa debate: India says it’s a trade and services issue
Yeah, they are for sure. My point was the huge chunk close to 80% or more which goes to these out-sourcing companies.
ap46··on H-1B visa debate: India says it’s a trade and services issue
No, its not the salary. Its the number of non-migrant visas quota for a year. 65000 for workers & 20000 for those with higher education from USA.
ap46··on H-1B visa debate: India says it’s a trade and services issue
Everyone knows that people on the H1B(20K) with higher education from USA are the actual skilled/MS/PhD candidates that companies want, not the bodyshop which imports one-employee-one-company labor on the 65K remaining H1B quota.

Jaitley(FM) would have us believe that the 65K are the skilled ones, while they are the ones who just happened to be the bosses pet/bribed ones getting a chance to go on-site & not because of some specialised skill.

ap46··on H-1B visa debate: India says it’s a trade and services issue
Someone on HN proposed to have application fees for individual applicants under a company be proportional to the total number of applications by that company, so as to deter them from applying in high number & having to pay exorbitant amounts as fees. Only then would companies with few requirements are also able to get H1B candidates at low fees also without suffering the sheer probability advantage that BigIT gets.
ap46··on Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
It wasn't manually hacked, there's someone out there running a program to brute force known Skype usernames & spreading spam & confirming more Skype usernames. Alphanumeric password upto 9digits are not safe absolutely.
ap46··on Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
Someone has been successfully running brute forced attempts at login into accounts & spreading/amassing valid usernames & attempting brute force logins on them like a pyramid. My password of alphanumeric password of 9 digits got cracked & Skype fucking sent spam to everyone & now is most likely attempting to brute force their accounts as well.....they can't even implement a rate limiter for the logins against an IP.
ap46··on Ask HN: How do World Lenses work without depth sensor?
Semi-dense visual odometry, thats what you need to search.
ap46··on H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
I really miss the past 600 years of free travel.
ap46··on H-1B visas mainly go to Indian outsourcing firms
That's kind of a paradox right? OP's link wanted H1B rules to allow employees to change companies or start new ones while on that visa unlike the present rules which don't allow for that.

That's what the article wanted to implement. The Indians at the helms of most companies in SV are here because of the H1B(& gradually progressed to green-cards) for higher education from US.

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