Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

I’ve not actually spoken to many other developers about what their user needs are. But the way Google has gone about introducing it to the world betrays a huge lack of empathy for the poor sods who have review standards, for other browsers, for users, and for the broader Web community. But Google have presented it in such an arrogant way – and with no user research – that I’m getting afraid of what they’ll do next.

Source: shkspr.mobi

Prosecutors Are Shaping Privacy Law, and Your Privacy Isn’t Their Priority

Prosecutors Are Shaping Privacy Law, and Your Privacy Isn’t Their Priority

If Congress won’t write laws for this century’s technology, courts must craft rules that ensure a fair and orderly review of new investigative methods. For example, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (which also confronts the tension between effective investigations and privacy) has a system for bringing in independent lawyers called “amici curiae” to argue novel or significant legal issues that occasionally arise when the government asks for technology-based surveillance orders. Giving these independent lawyers the information they need to argue about the legality of novel law enforcement requests, as well as the right to appeal, would at least provide for a more balanced assessment of new surveillance technologies and a quicker way for questions about them to be decided on a national basis.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience

Yet there are a few small interface tweaks and additional features that can drastically improve our experience while browsing through items and comments which this extension implements. Hopefully, in due course, a few of these tweaks can be implemented by Hacker News themselves. Refined Hacker News was made by me during my study-breaks and free time.

Source: github.com

Pyramid Tracks: Obscure, retro, and weird royalty free music

Pyramid Tracks: Obscure, retro, and weird royalty free music

{“seo_title”:”Pyramid Tracks Curated Collection #1″,”seo_description”:”Check out great royalty free tracks hand picked by our staff. Includes: ambient synthesiser, droning choirs, echoing Film Music Collection | Royalty free music for indie music for independent movies. Genres such as psychedelia, world and retro music.”

Source: pyramidtracks.com

Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

I’ve not actually spoken to many other developers about what their user needs are. But the way Google has gone about introducing it to the world betrays a huge lack of empathy for the poor sods who have review standards, for other browsers, for users, and for the broader Web community. But Google have presented it in such an arrogant way – and with no user research – that I’m getting afraid of what they’ll do next.

Source: shkspr.mobi

Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

I’ve not actually spoken to many other developers about what their user needs are. But the way Google has gone about introducing it to the world betrays a huge lack of empathy for the poor sods who have review standards, for other browsers, for users, and for the broader Web community. But Google have presented it in such an arrogant way – and with no user research – that I’m getting afraid of what they’ll do next.

Source: shkspr.mobi

Puerto Rico energy plan introduces MiniGrids to avoid repeat of Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico energy plan introduces MiniGrids to avoid repeat of Hurricane Maria

The IRP also notes energy efficiency and demand response can provide significant flexibility, which is particularly important due to uncertainty with the island’s load forecasts. The plan calls for load management techniques, concluding efficiency could reduce demand by over 1,900 GWh by 2025, while demand response would add 60 MW of flexibility to the grid in the same time frame. “There are significant uncertainties in the future related to potential load deterioration, the relative cost trajectory of renewables and storage compared to gas, and the political environment for developing new LNG infrastructure,” the report said.

Source: www.utilitydive.com

SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple executes its invisible transition strategy

SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple executes its invisible transition strategy

The switch from the classic Mac OS to OS X was enabled by Apple creating something called Carbon, which was a set of tools that let apps written for the old Mac OS run natively on the new one. Classic Mac developers brought their apps over to OS X using Carbon, but it became clear over time that Cocoa was the future—and at one decisive moment, Apple went back on a previous promise and announced that there would never be 64-bit Carbon apps. But given that all Mac and iOS developers are already using Apple’s Xcode tools to develop their apps, I suspect that the pieces have been put in place for a fairly simple transition to a new processor architecture.

Source: www.macworld.com

Dear Bureaucrat, My job wants me to lie

Dear Bureaucrat, My job wants me to lie

Requiring you to sign the form lets your agency’s officials claim they are assuring only essential items are bought. And whenever you comply, it shows your agency’s officials that they can depend on employees’ willingness to make false certifications, to cover up for official procedures that don’t work. Dear Bureaucrat is a new feature on Federal Times, providing the federal workforce with the opportunity to submit questions about their careers to David S. Reed, founder of the Center for Public Administrators, a 501(c)(3) civil society organization that builds communities of practice in the public sector.

Source: www.federaltimes.com

Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study

Nearly 400 medical devices, procedures and practices found ineffective in study

“We hope our broad results may serve as a starting point for researchers, policy makers and payers who wish to have a list of practices that likely offer no net benefit to use in future work,” Prasad from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), who helped coin the term ‘medical reversal’. “In countries like the US, where there was a 20 [percent] increase in spending between 2013 and 2015, and drug prices alone surpassed the increase in aggregate health care spending, the identification and disuse of costly and ineffective (or possibly harmful) medications and practices are especially important,” the authors write. If randomised independent trials are not conducted rigorously and these medical reversals continue to claim lives and cost absurd amounts of money, public trust in the medical system is bound to disintegrate.

Source: www.sciencealert.com