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Japanese lawmaker says being LGBT goes against preservation of species

kamocyc — Fri, 21 May 2021 22:32:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/05/21/national/politics-diplomacy/ldp-lawmaker-lgbt-remark/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27240797

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by kamocyc in "Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]"

kamocyc — Wed, 05 May 2021 14:21:23 +0000

Innovation by (and beyond) the numbers: A history of research collaborations in Excel

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/innovation-by-...

XPath Generator v1.1 – Google Chrome Plugin (2018)

kamocyc — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:05:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqvhVx26-i8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25590318

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kamocyc in "Show HN: Find GitHub Users' Email Address"

kamocyc — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:17:32 +0000

I’m receiving many spams. GitHub should warn the leak of email addresses...

New comment by kamocyc in "A Neural-Based Program Decompiler (2019)"

kamocyc — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 05:57:35 +0000

A curated list of awesome decompilation resources and projects.

https://github.com/nforest/awesome-decompilation

New comment by kamocyc in "Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators"

kamocyc — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:53:41 +0000

I think the author claims the XPath is more "robust" because it doesn't depend on indexes of the elements so you can add elements without breaking the XPath. (But it is arguable which one is better ...)

New comment by kamocyc in "Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators"

kamocyc — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 08:14:03 +0000

It depends on the content of the HTML document but I agree with you.

I tried running the algorithm in Chrome. It output much shorter XPath than one copied from Chrome Developer tool.

  e.g. "//*[@id="rso"]/div[4]/div/div[1]/a/h3" => "//*[contains(text(),'(text of the element)')]"

New comment by kamocyc in "Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators"

kamocyc — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 07:53:51 +0000

The algorithm described in the paper is outlined as follows (just for my curiosity):

"The algorithm starts with a generic XPath locator that returns all nodes (‘//*’) and then it iteratively refines the locator until only the element of interest is selected. In such iterative refinement, ROBULA+ applies seven refinement transformations, according to a set of heuristic XPath specialization steps."

The algorithm seems to be a specialized heuristics for XPath generation.

Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators

kamocyc — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 23:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cyluxx/robula-plus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24055733

Points: 77

# Comments: 15

New comment by kamocyc in "Launch HN: Mindset Health (YC S19) – Hypnotherapy apps for chronic conditions"

kamocyc — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 00:50:02 +0000

The Hypnotherapy is interesting. But the Wikipedia page [1] says "there was insufficient evidence to support its efficacy."

And in the research paper, there are also statements like "the current evidence is limited" [2], "it is unlikely hypnosis will be helpful to all clients" [3] or "the number of patients enrolled in the studies has tended to be low and lacking long-term follow-up" [4].

So, I think for some people Hypnotherapy may work. But it may be risky to pay a lot of money upfront for the therapy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotherapy [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786848/ [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK66430/ [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2752362/