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If the purpose of flagging is to change user behavior (rather than simply removing unwanted material from the site) it would seem important that users are notified when their posts are flagged, but before they are banned.

Perhaps it would be good to show the "flag" count to the owner of a post, if that owner is not already banned? This might be provide warning to a perceptive user that their comments are considered inappropriate, while not making it obvious to intentional spammers that they need to create a new account.

For the same reasons, it might also be helpful to show the split between up- and down-votes, rather than just the total. Since this is visible only to the original poster, it wouldn't have much impact on the overall interface.
Not sure about the connector, but I have heard reports that some cheaper USB cables with thinner-gauge wires already cannot handle the current from some chargers that are on the market.

I can imagine USB-C only makes this more of a concern, since the USB Power Delivery spec allows up to 5 A @ 20 V.
At that point, you do not even need rocket style staging. Instead, when you are low, have a battery car meet you and dock while you are driving along the highway. Once you are recharged, the battery car can go back to the charging station, or to another customer.

Of course, I do not forsee this being a cost effective approach, even without the regularty hurdles of highway speed docking.
Me too! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10235123 answers your question. It will be back next year.
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Yeah, you are right.

I was thinking it would put rest to the voting rings theory if anyone had access to everyone else's vote history. But, the cost probably isn't worth the benefit.
Along with iOS ad blocking, this seems like a big shift in Apple's stance toward Google.
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You stream from the content source straight to the device. Google is only involved with the content if you stream it from Google services (eg, YouTube, Play).
We're not talking about asking him to sift through data on hundreds of programs. He had the resources to leak information about the one or two programs that actually went so far over the line that it made him worried rather than everything he could get his hands on. Talk to the same journalists and everything. That would have been easier, not harder. Sure, maybe less gets fixed in the one go-round, but if the NSA doesn't take that as a hint to clean up their act, more whistleblowers would follow, especially if Snowden had actually earned trust for the idea by acting responsibly.

Thinking that people wouldn't believe the data he provided because there wasn't enough of it makes no sense.
So basically, are you expecting the reviewer to spend hours and hours of QA testing to try to find bug that the OEM didn't find during the pre-release test?

It seems obvious to me that a technical review will be pretty limited in term of "stability" evaluation. They will run a few tests, but it can't cover all the configurations. Especially things like the wifi issue which were mostly triggered depending on the network environment (what is your access point? What other devices are connected? etc.)
In group theory exponential notation such as x^f (picture a superscript, like x<sup>f</sup>) or composing on the right (x)f are not altogether uncommon. It's particulary convenient for homomorphisms or the action of a group on a set. Some category theorists of the mathematical kind, not the computer science kind, (i.e the kind that cares most deeply about homological algebra) also like to compose on the right, so that you can write function composition in the order that you diagram-chase.
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So this is a physically separate CPU, not part of the FPGA chip, right? If so, what are the advantages compared to CPU implemented as a hard core in the FPGA?
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Good stuff. I'd like to express my admiration for dang and the other moderators, as well as the larger team at YC and of course pg himself for building such a valable community resource.
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I think swapping batteries [0] or even whole cars would be viable before any kind of staged-power, especially for autonomous vehicles.

[0]: http://www.teslamotors.com/videos/battery-swap-event
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Would they not have to do that to get multi-room audio, period?
Does HN really need that much money? Sorry for the indiscreet question.
I think Elon is still talking about hypermileage not production numbers.
Your TV has to support AND have the right HDMI CEC options. I had dig through the menus on my TV to turn the options on.
Do you have a source for that? I've also been under the impression that HDR in most phones is just a gimmick that operates on a single exposure.
There are lots of algorithms that take an image and produce a so called perceptual hash that matches all images that 'look' the same. phash.org is a popular open source implementation of one such algorithm
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hmmm. I was referring to CPU and battery above but I looked into it a bit further. Also, connectivity is HORRIBLE on my iphone iOS 9.1 so thank you. I don't know how to confirm the wi-fi issues independently here.

I have gamecenter.app deleted, airdrop and bluetooth disabled and many of the sharing and push notification services are disabled. I have fairly decent connectivity and not much seems to change after disabling awdl0, a speedtest seems pretty similar.

I am now really interested. Is there a way I can run a better speedtest, and also check if these issues you describe are happening because it sounds as if it is sporadic. Also, is there a way to use something other than bonjour/mdnsresponder via wi-fi? I could not find anything which is why I still use it unfortunately.

edit: Also, almost forgot.

> This was a bug for which we know the root cause and for which a patch was actually developed.

What? I have seen issues surrounding coreaudiod but none of them are referenced in your post. The post actually explained the iOS connectivity issues I am having but doesn't seem related to a glitch in the core services daemon, which seems to affect some users, and was almost certainly self-inflicted. Now, I want to test my connectivity to confirm, but it seems alright most of the time.
Of course not. The range given in the title comes with the context(which is not explicitly given). The average speed to obtain that mileage is very low.

Watch the video, this question is addressed in the last few minutes. Transcript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10299634

On a side note; you are basing your expensive decision on an arguably click-bait title!?
I'm not sure comparing refurbs is the best idea. While they do come with new batteries (I think), who knows what else could be quite different.
If this was anywhere else it would be called "disruption".
My understanding is the Tesla vehicles are a platform, and that even if you purchase a X now, you'd be able to upgrade the various components for autonomous driving and extended range.
I've read a similar claim in The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. According to Pollan, most fertilizer is manufactured with petroleum-based energy, so our agriculture is driven by fossil fuel consumption; ie natural gas -> fertilizers -> corn. This is not necessarily a vegan agenda; Pollan says we should move to solar-based agriculture by feeding animals grass instead of corn, which should incidentally make the animals tastier and more nutritious.
The second worst code I have had to fix was in Python (sadly the worst was in Perl). Both bioinformaticians.
> Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7, Nexus 9, and Nexus 10 devices get the latest version of Android directly from Google. These devices will receive Android version updates for at least two years from when the device first became available on the Google Store.

> Nexus devices will also receive updates for security issues considered Critical for at least the following periods:

> * Three years from when the device first became available on the Google Store

> * Or, 18 months after the device stopped being sold on the Google Store

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en
I would love if at least one streaming stick support VPN. Otherwise its mostly useless for streaming shows outside USA.
Phew... Every time I see announcements like this I get scared. The other day I literally had a nightmare that HN had been "re-designed" à la Slashdot (in my dream, it turned out to be an April Fools' joke).

I know it is increasingly unfashionable to keep resisting "modern" trends and leave the HN look as it is --maybe see it as a mark of prestige somehow? In any case, please never, ever the change the look. Please.
1. If the infrastructure is then built solely for people that have that something you don't, then you are worse off compared to a situation where everyone does not have it and the infrastructure reflects that. This is not just about jealousy.
The SD cards are a better price comparison because they will use a similar stacking technology to get the small form factor. The main difference is SD cards need a controller which adds cost.
> That's pretty niche though.

Not really. Do you ever travel? Have you ever been on a road trip? Have you ever been on a plane? Have you ever gone camping?
9 worker nodes plus one master node. Each with
48GB of RAM, 3 data disks, and dual 4-core Xeon L5630
processors at 2.13GHz.

So, pretty old stuff. But note that the 100G dataset fit comfortably in RAM. If you don't fit in RAM, then the latencies are obviously going to be much worse on spinning disk. Our bet is that for OLTP workloads, you're probably going to be on flash or mostly RAM-resident these days, given the dropping prices and increasing speeds of solid-state storage.
In theory, I wouldn't disagree. But in practice, I've been using an extension that offers this capability for years now, and have never intentionally collapsed a comment thread. The utility depends on your usage pattern, and my point was only that it's not a universal desire. This doesn't mean it shouldn't be added, but for me, it simply adds clutter to a clean interface, with small buttons that I occasionally accidentally click and unclick. Do I take it that you are using an extension that allows this, and find it useful?
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>software engineers tend to be underpaid compared to the value they produce

I think comparing salary to the value produced is a slippery slope. Software engineers are certainly not paid below the average or median salary. Their "value" is just a function of the job, not a measure of its worth.
Yes. We're going to look at all the vouched comments and the feature succeeds or fails to the degree that those follow or break the HN guidelines by our usual moderation standards. Not sure if that's a "metric" but that's the idea. Beyond that, the only thing that would make us retract the feature is some bad consequence we didn't foresee.

During testing we did notice an unforeseen consequence, but it was a good one. Reviewing vouched comments naturally leads to looking at the history of a banned account, and in a few cases we just unbanned it. Some had been banned for an obvious reason in the past, but recent comments were fine. Others had been banned by mistake, such as by a rogue spam filter. So although this feature applies on a per-comment level, it can have per-account side-effects.

This also raises the question of whether we can take this feature all the way to letting the community manage which accounts are banned (presumably with occasional moderator overrides). That's on our list, though it's too soon to tell if it will work.
case in point https://citytog.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/iphone-users-beware...

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What I find the most surprising here is how optimised the v8 engine is. Javascript code running on v8 is as performant as native go code or as optimised C code. Obviously it's just a use case but still, mind blowing.
Matt one of the creators of the card game here! Happy to answer any questions about how we translated the mobile app into a tabletop game.
I'm a little disappointed too. Don't get me wrong, my N5 is great and it doesn't have many disadvantages... but the stuff people really want should be more doable now. For example, a replaceable battery? Maybe an included thumblonger so you can reach the top-left corner :P
I love wireless charging, but my Nexus 6 has such horrible battery life, and charges so much faster wired, that I end up using a cable a few times a day. Especially in my car. I can pretty much only get away with using a Qi charger at bedtime. So to me the USB C is a big win.
I had this as well. Took me a while to figure out it was my Chromecast. When I watch TV I basically have to turn of my Chromecast because of the otherwise interference it causes.
The US price will be $380+ state/city sales tax which almost every state has. Add 5%-9.9% to that $380 price
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The costs are all low except for paying people.
For me personally (and I imagine many others), not willing at all. I use Uber when I need to be somewhere quickly, so I'm not going to risk being late so I can save $5.

I'm actually curious if anyone knows how well Uber Pool is working? I've never used it for a few reasons, but a big one is that I don't want to risk another rider pickup causing me delay in getting to my destination.
Autonomous within 3 years ... So Elon is planning to massively disrupt the legal and insurance industries? Both those will need a lot of changes before anyone can drive down the road in a privately owned fully autonomous car.
Seems like they've reinvented the tracing emulator, on a higher level, with nice visualizations. Looks good to me!
When I use unusual or difficult language features, or basically anything I expect someone else reading the code won't understand, I leave a comment.
You could pull over just for docking. Then spend an hour towing the battery car, instead of waiting in one spot.
New vulnerability on iphone used for advertisement
and this is why we run adblockers, dear content owners. it's not about you: https://citytog.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/iphone-users-beware-of-new-text-message-exploit/
On the bright side, at least none of Apple's pro apps on the App Store have been excluded due to breaking sandbox restrictions.
I fail to see how the rocket equation applies for land-based vehicles.

It makes as much sense as calculating Delta-V of a car.
But if you're delivering on the product launch day and you've delivered 20 of the same shape/size/weight with the same sender information (no matter how obscure) it would be easy to infer.
Any chance we can get discussion threads for those?
Sounds interesting... can i see a demo? I'll let you know what I think.
I think HN does have a few people working on it fulltime.
Software is not magic, there's a specific amount of energy stored in a battery and you won't software more out of it, sorry.
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Closer to 5 times, but yes, it's more expensive.
Thanks a trillion!
Yep. Notice how this phrasing does not say the listed models are currently being updated, just says how support length is calculated. Nexus 7 (2012) Stagerfright update is just missing without specific un-announcement, but it fits the schedule. It was sold till early 2013, 18 months from that... See threads on XDA etc for discussion on its absence.
I don't have much faith in that product really working. Evapolar seems pretty hi-tech so I'm hoping it could be much better.
Wouldn't HTTPs prevent that?
I actually just bought the Nexus 6 (moments ago) thanks to the above poster for mentioning the price drop. It is going to replace my N5.

Personally, i don't care about the "top of the line issue" in this case. As it stands, i absolutely love my N5. It is every bit the phone i want, and need. Price point is, of course, a huge part of it. Is it a $700 phone? Probably not. But my value of it is far higher than retail price ($250).

So i guess what i'm saying is, because i love my N5 so much, i don't "need" better. The N5X just feels like the same (but a bit better) phone, and since my N5 is still operating great, i have no need for it. On the flipside, the N6P is a bit too spendy for it's (personal) value. The Amazon price of the N6 on the otherhand, definitely raises the value bar, for me.

Quality with lower price points (N5 land) just makes me a really happy customer, totally willing to spend the coin.
> When there are no tall tent poles I switch to invocation count

Oh, yes! It's so useful to keep an eye on invocation counts. For example, one "problematic" service in a team I managed was being analyzed by an engineer on my team. He was focused on % time culprits, but I spied a highly suspicious entry a fair ways down the list taking many, many orders of magnitude more invocations than anything else. Off I went to have a look...

It turns out the original dev had meant to put a blocking call in in the code, but had gotten mixed up and used a polling version instead. (Both were non-obviously named and signature interchangeable. Sigh.) The baseline CPU hit in the perf run wasn't significant, but in context of this service, it produced a very severe performance cliff characteristic under high site load.

A one-line change corrected that error, and suddenly the operations team stopped talking about that service (with evil glares ;-) at every opportunity.
The requirement to hold all of my music is as I make the switch to a smartphone. My dumbphone requirements were just redial and alarm clock.
Maybe stop sitting on your phone? I've got a nexus 6 in my front pocket and it doesn't affect the way I sit.

There isn't a huge market for small portable phones because most people shelling out $500+ for a smart phone want to actually use it as a smart phone. They play games, watch shows and movies, read full novels, and browse the web. These are all experiences that are enhanced by having a larger screen. My wife upgraded to the iPhone 6s from her old phone (5s maybe?) and one of the first things she said about it was that the screen was small, despite it being considerably larger than her old phone.

I cannot understand how the "I want a small phone" crowd don't realize that they are in the minority.
If you share passwords between services that is a fault well beyond the scope of SendGrid support... that's a major OPSEC fail.
I'm curious how much Metal matters but it seems like they went from GPU to CPU in Yosemite and then back to the GPU.

The review sorta skimmed on Metal but reported that it only worked on a Mac Pro 2013, which lead me to wonder why my 2008 Mac Pro couldn't run it with a GeForce 680 GTX, turns out it can.
http://netkas.org/?p=1405
I fear that this is one of the worse OSX updates. I've seen a lot of issues in the GM. For example my USB audio device (an amplifier) is no longer working. The Wifi connectivity issues are not fixed. The Airdrop connection between my MacBook and the iPad Air does not work. A Lisp system did not start because Apple removed some font protocol.

Stuff like Screen split between two apps are non-intuitive.

There is lots of good stuff, but Apple created also new problems or failed to fix really annoying old problems (like Wifi connectivity issues, the buggy and unreliable Finder, the annoying slowness of iTunes with larger music libraries, ...).
For me the ideal solution would be if you could pinch zoom and have the text wrap to the viewport. Best of both worlds. A handful of sites seem to support this (at least on the browser I use), but it's unfortunately not very common.
Which make and model and what filter did you use? Did you perform the conversion by removing the factory applied filter over the CCD?
Well there are 200 countries. And once Norway starts to show plummeting casualty rates every major country will soon follow.

We'll need to start short selling car insurance companies soon.
Yeah, agreed - the main point of income inequality is missed.

Beyond the employee who makes 100x less than the CEO, it's also the people who have little to no hope of even getting a job at such a company, because they weren't lucky enough to be born into an environment that allowed them to develop to a certain degree of their potential.
You should probably go back and reread the article, he says 3 years technically possible, maybe 3 years of regulatory change after that.
Completely agree. I just ordered an N6 because of the lower price, but the N5 is by far the best phone i have owned to date.
You, Sam, and I are all on the same (information-dense, text-centric) page. Besides, we need to keep the HN redesign side projects in business.

I must say your nightmares sound rather benign. Mine don't usually end with "haha j/k".
>A new 2x battery technology seems unlikely.

i'd say giving the amount of money on the table, not only 2x, more like 10x is very likely. If you look at the actual amount of the lithium ions and actually participating oxidizer in the battery - it is 5% at best out of the total battery weight. So even modest progress at the decreasing of the weight of the "non-active" components would lead to multiple "x" of capacity/weight improve. And this is without even getting into metal-air territory.
I think Amazon already operates on a risk-taking model for package delivery. When I first started using Prime it was very conservative about requiring signatures, and overtime that became relaxed and I'd come home to find packages on my doorstep. Now sometimes they aren't even at my door, but instead downstairs away from my apartment. I think they'll just keep taking more risks to save money until they start losing packages.
Who cares ? Make battery swap the standard option, build enough swap stations, and sell me a cheaper car without battery.

I want to pay for "battery as a service", I don't need to own a battery, I don't want to charge it, just bill me by the KWh used (which should better be competitive to gas).
Did you go to a tech school or something instead of a real college / high school?
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Honest question: why would I get a 5X over a Moto X Play which is cheaper or Moto X Style which is only £20 more (in the UK at least) and has better specs?
The point of LALR, as opposed to LR is performance but one of the advantages of bottom-up combinators over backtracking combinators is that ambiguities in the syntax can be detected at compile time.
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Oh, yeah. We don't actually have any real post offices where I live; post office functions are handled by select grocery stores and are available as long as the grocery stores are open.
Apart from GraphQL itself, two things are pretty impressive about this thread. 1) Impressive community to have such an informed set of comments in a matter of a few days. Congrats. 2) People have to talk like that in a very hard to follow way since we used to have better ways (NNTP, mailing lists) but now they are gone in favor of worse systems.