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you mean like "Hey Alexa, order me this book ?"
Selenium IDE was discontinued due to the change of extension (from XPI to WebExtension) in Firefox. Nothing to do with Chrome Headless.

see https://seleniumhq.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/firefox-55-and-s... and associated HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15061605

Re:Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:33PM (#14038940)
There is no Google Play store in China.

It might come though http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/06/no-really-this-time-...

>- Android w/out Play Services

this is China

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017) on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:26AM (#13558160)
The actual contact email is [email protected]
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017) on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:25PM (#13557418)
UNESCAP | Java software developer | Bangkok, Thailand | Onsite |fulltime | visa provided | www.unescap.org

ESCAP is the regional arm of the United Nations in Asia and the Pacific. We are building and maintaining several web applications in Java/Spring for our internal usage, using Java Spring, deployed on linux/tomcat, interfacing with other systems via WS(REST/Soap).

To know more and/or apply, email us at [email protected]

Re:Introducing OpenType Font Variations on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @04:41AM (#13113412)
Not exactly what you want, but "Recurrent Net Dreams Up Fake Chinese Characters in Vector Format with TensorFlow" - http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fak...

previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801712

Re:Pinebook ARM Linux Laptop Powered by Allwinner A64 CPU on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:02PM (#13034349)
if you don't mind X86, http://www.cnx-software.com/2016/10/24/jumper-ezbook-2-cherr...

Current black friday sale is $178 to $185

Re:Mobile Holoportation on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:05PM (#13027447)
How does it work with N people ? Do I see other with Vive or hololens on their head ? or the head is actually "reconstructed", and in that case, the eyes are not tracked ?
Re:Show HN: My first web app – PDF memo creator on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @04:53AM (#12844233)
or using https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake e.g. http://pdfmake.org/playground.html "pdfmake is based on a truly amazing library pdfkit.org"
Re:BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @01:36AM (#12485838)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvlink.html - NVIDIA® NVLink™ is a high-bandwidth, energy-efficient interconnect that enables ultra-fast communication between the CPU and GPU, and between GPUs.

And a big on the PowerPC roadmap http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/07/ibm-unfolds-power-chi... "With NVLink, multiple GPUs can be linked by 20 GB/sec links (bi-directional at that speed) to each other or to the Power8 processor so they can share data more rapidly than is possible over PCI-Express 3.0 peripheral links. (Those PCI-Express links top out at 16 GB/sec and, unlike NVLink, they cannot be aggregated to boost the bandwidth between two devices.)"

Re:Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:25AM (#12295704)
both wechat or line do video and/or audio call on iPhone/Android.
Do you reconcile “Teach everyone to read and write English” and “Only hire the best writers”?

No because you write: >Literacy is not vocational: it can be applied in many contexts-everyone uses reading all the time. Arithmetic is also plenty useful.

So the question is more: "is coding vocational" ?

Re:The truth about deep learning on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:45PM (#11820020)
I read the "universal algorithm" as a reference to the book 'The Master Algorithm'
Re:Phrack Magazine is back again on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:55AM (#11720415)
it can use OpenCL GPU as backend, so it works on Non AMD hardware (e.g. NVidia Titan X )

Vulkan support for FireRays is currently a work-in-progress.

Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript on Saturday May 14, 2016 @09:20PM (#11698877)
a nice project is the Positive Lexicography Project, an evolving index of 'untranslatable' words related to wellbeing from across the world's languages: http://www.drtimlomas.com/#!positive-lexicography/cm4mi

(previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001695 )

Re:A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript on Saturday May 14, 2016 @09:16PM (#11698866)
>> the Shapir/Worf hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity >That's an interesting point, but on the other hand I'm still not convinced that this means that having a lot of distinct languages is "better". While on the other hand, there would be clear benefits to everyone speaking the same language or having at least one common language.

Would the computer world be "better" if anyone standardize on one single programming language (e.g. java) or is it "better" that different languages are there, ( dartmouth basic , javascript, python, lisp, haskell or perl) so you can code differently ?

As for the universal language, Esperanto tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto a nice documentary about it: http://esperantodocumentary.com/en/about-the-film

Previous discussion on “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively” quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7754905

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