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I was attacked. The following comment:

> You're a hypocrite. (-rogered)

I responded to that comment twice. First, defending myself as not having made hypocritical comments. Then, somewhat "regretting" that, I made a second comment pointing out that I regretted flaming but that I had been attacked and was merely defending myself.

So at the point of making that second comment, where I said I was attacked, I was actually referring to the immediate parent, the one I quote above, not the original comments by DanBC.

At least, I think that's right.

Anyway, I appreciate the advice, and I did indeed walk away (actually, I did it before your comment---I made a comment stating as much).

I comment less and less on HN.

edit: This conversation has been disconnected by the mods from the original thread, otherwise I wouldn't be willing to clutter up the thread with this mess. Also, that I'm still getting downvoted on a thread that is disconnected perhaps supports my slight suspicion that I get auto-downvoted by a bot whenever I post.

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edit: here is my response to the below comment which I found, only after writing it, I could not post, due to being rate limited.

I'm pretty surprised by your comment here.

I wasn't crabbing at you or trying to argue.

You said I hadn't been attacked, which was mistaken (an entire comment only consistent of "You are a hypocrite,") and I poited out your mistake.

I told you I appreciated your advice.

I pointed out that this kind of meta-conversation is only acceptable to me because it has been disconnected from the main thread, and by that I was trying to demonstrate that I am trying to behave ethically. In other words, I'm trying to say "I don't want to keep flaiming the issue, but I think it's OK to have this out-of-band conversaiton."

So what is your problem?

> "I don't agree but I am not going to argue it" instead of deleting your comment is still arguing it.

I don't agree with this. The comment I was responding to said:

> Your "rational argument" amounted to "people are stupid, fuck 'em."

And that is a malignant distortion of what I said.

I think it's fine for me to state that, while I'm not going to offer a rebuttal, I don't agree that it is accurate.

tl;dr your aggression here is unwarranted. You come in supposedly offering "wisdom" and trying to help and you just become aggressive when I take you up on that and actually try to talk to you. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I guess the sentiment of what I was saying to you didn't come across.
Half the languages in the list are branches off the Indo-European tree. I have a hard time believing this is a result of "language hardware" in the brain as opposed to a much simpler explanation like the shared heritage of the words.

They don't seem to have controlled for native language; E.g. Dutch has a lot of similarities with English...
If you're transferring anything other than hypertext over http then you're a hypocrite.
I read several articles on this. My recollection is that conservation of giant tortoises has been very successful and that identifying this as a separate species will most likely result in efforts to further increase members of this specific species. IIRC, it only has 250 members, much lower than the 2000+ members of the group it was thought to be part of. So identifying it as a separate species is expected to help increase their numbers.
Boris Vian was an engineer working for the AFNOR (french normalization body), which he found boring out of his mind. The first draft of L'Écume des Jours was written of AFNOR engineering graph paper.
Personally, I'd rather have open-source firmware for spinning disks. There's a lot of room for optimization of spinning disks. If the firmware could pass through more realistic cylindars, and if the firmware would quit silently re-mapping bad sectors, there's a lot of performance we could get out of spinning disk.

I mean, on the 'remapping bad sectors' bit, right now? to the OS, it looks like you are doing a sequential read, but if there was a remapped sector in there? you're doing a random read. We'd be much better off, at least on server systems with decent raid subsystems, just handling the bad sectors in software.

Right now, I pay almost double for my spinning disk because I want slightly better firmware that is designed to fail outright rather than retry, because all my disks are in raid. some consumer disks allow you to adjust the time-limited error recovery paramiters, but in my experience, it's super unreliable.
Are there websites to discuss and teach mechanic repair informally like SO ? I mean with a few tutorials I could probably fix a lot of things in cars by imitating the video. One big difference though, initial cost. I can't download a wrench yet, and most auto equipment is costly.
> Battery life is important to me, but even more important to me is having more reliable networking, and network tools I can actually understand and use. Ever tried to set a GRE tunnel in NetworkManager?

I have no doubt that doing advanced network stuff is easier in OpenBSD than Linux -- but remember I was talking about average users. How often does your average desktop or laptoo user need to set up a GRE tunnel?

Overall, I see your viewpoint, and I think you see mine too. OpenBSD is a more reliable OS for servers and in general headless stuff. That being said, given your optimism, I will try out OpenBSD again on a laptop.
And that is almost definitionally a lack of social grace and tact. It's one flavor of what is meant by "low EQ".

It may be usual and common for Google employees to do that. That doesn't make it excusable, and it's a pretty big reason why I, too, tend to avoid gatherings where I know it's going to be a bunch of Google employees. They communicate that they don't want outsiders around? I can oblige.
The existence of ring species says that there must be arbitrariness in deciding where to draw the line. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species for an explanation.

That said, where and when hybridization is possible is a complex question. For example consider the following pairs of species. (polar bears, brown bears), (horses, donkeys), (humans, chimpanzees). All are at about the same evolutionary distance from each other (current estimates are 5 million years, 4.5 million years and 6 million years). The bears happily interbreed, the equines interbreed but the babies are not generally fertile, and there are no reports of successful human/chimpanzee crosses. (No reports of anyone admitting to trying either, but it would be hard to believe that the attempt was nowhere made.)

Yet in all three cases, biologists generally agree that those are pairs of distinct species.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7930428
Very interested in this problem and this guy's story, as a network engineer and a user of the discussed products, BUT I really can't take a blog post seriously that has a spelling or grammatical error in every other sentence as this one does.
Nothing's wrong with infiniband, of course! Except for prices compared to average SoHo network infrastructure. Video mastering and editing networks usually aren't large. You need a fast SAN with fast network and up you go. Everything around it is so expensive though. In recent years there have been a massive price drop in fast storage, fast graphics cards and now we wait for cheap fast networks and 10-bit through and through.
Does OpenBSD have any "certified" laptops where everything is more-or-less guaranteed to work out of the box? Something like that would go a long way towards increasing adoption.
That kind of restriction is easy to game, and creates perverse incentives. Imagine a billionaire with an enormous house: if they start renting out half of it to someone else, suddenly they have to pay more taxes? That's not right.

Rental prices are already as high as the market will bear (people can't choose not to have a house, so demand is pretty inelastic). A land value tax does exactly what we want: it will keep the net rental price the same, but push down the ownership price. So we'd see a lot less buy-to-let, and more people able to buy homes. As a bonus, it would make it harder for corrupt foreigners to hold empty property as emergency funds, since someone would have to be paying the taxes on it.
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Taxing sales encourages people to hold onto property that they're not really using optimally any more, which is the opposite of what we want.
wow. next they are going to take on consulting gigs on the side? right?
Personally, having worked at startups my whole career, I would in a heartbeat hire a single highly qualified veteran at a market salary than 5 people fresh out of college.

The trick, though, is to get a veteran who is not jaded. Someone who believes in the vision and has enough skin in the game to make them want to fight for the project.
I hope these are not as tasty as the first set we discovered
It looks like 488 days ago that was posted. What would you say a good re-post timeline would be? (of interesting topics that is)
Any other person in the world with access to your body, and $300, could get your genetic data anytime they wanted.
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sigh Microsoft keep doing this "please don't use our trademarks" spiel. It got old at least 20 years ago.
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Yep. This was astonishingly dumb. As an acquaintance (I live in San Francisco) said, "Any time a corporation dumps that much money into a local issue, I'm voting against them." I think a lot of people are coming to that viewpoint now.

Which, whatever one thinks of AirBnB, not terribly great. The proposition, ISTM, has problems that are likely to have unpleasant repercussions mostly unrelated to the company/service/local housing issues.
Jesus christ, what a bunch of self-absorbed assholes at the top vetting something like this.
Apologies if this is a common held practice which i'm unaware, but why not establish a policy amounting to: "if the system-admin can't somewhat trivially crack your password then i won't bug you about it". That is, allow any password, then if your chosen crack software can't crack that password, leave them alone. If you can crack it then: "Please select another password, as our trivial cracking software discovered it". This would strike me as a less user burdensome method which would be more generally secure than every 13 weeks: "9-12 characters including one of each of the following set"
This notion of "realising" income is what drives a lot of complexity and abuses in the American tax system (e.g. companies doing stock buybacks when it would be more efficient to pay dividends, except they're taxed differently). If income were as simple as "net worth at end of year - net worth at end of last year" that could remove a lot of that. (Bonus: income which goes back to society via consumption doesn't count, and so there's a natural progressiveness to this model: the money that you spend on living this year isn't taxed, only what you gained on top of that).

If your painting increases in value that's an indication that the amount of value that that painting could generate for the rest of society has increased, therefore the incentives should encourage you to sell it, not discourage you from doing so.
These are not the associations I have with the "Visual" MS branding (for what it's worth).
I'm curious as to how this is different from existing path finding strategies such as (ironically) A-Star.

Naming your company after a pathfinding algorithm that has been around since the 60s, and then claiming that you are doing pathfinding in a completely different and novel way, smacks of a funding grab to me.

Show me the code.
so I don't know about on the professional level, but on the amateur level... just about anything you might want to do to your own car? you can find a youtube tutorial. Last time some asshole busted out my window to steal my laptop, I replaced it myself; took maybe an hour and a half and a $60 window from ebay. And a youtube tutorial. Same with replacing brakes/rotors, though those took considerably more time and effort. (have you ever replaced drum pads? Jesus. The video makes it look so easy, and I'm sure it is if you know what you are doing, but my god. Next time I'm letting the professionals handle that one.)

Even if I'm billing out at my full sysadmin rate, the cost to me of replacing the window was dramatically cheaper than the $400 my local repair shop quoted me for a new window. and considering that I pay for car repair out of post-tax money, the difference is even more dramatic. (now, this is silicon valley prices, but the window was for a decade-old toyota sienna, so it's not luxury car in silicon valley prices)

Especially if you are willing to go with 'craftsman' level brands rather than 'snap-on' level brands,[1] tools are pretty cheap compared to what you pay for auto repair, even if you want things like air tools and compressors.

All that said, while youtube is great for figuring out how to do a thing, it's less great for troubleshooting; but I think the reason why things like stackoverflow/serverfault is so great for debugging is that our error messages are printed out in text that we can search on.

And yeah, I've got an ODB2 reader, and for those errors, the internet is awesome. (I replaced my oxygen sensor at the request of my odb2 reader a while back, and that was also easy, facilitated by a youtube video again.) - but for "my car is making a funny noise" kind of errors, it's hard to search for the problem without knowing the jargon, you know?

[1]for auto tools, I really don't see much difference between the craftsman level brands and the better brands. I suspect this has to do with my skill level; I am very solidly in the shade tree school here, and I'm not ashamed to get the damn thing towed to someone who really knows what they are doing if I get in over my head, and that does sometimes happen.

For screwdrivers and other things that you use to rack up or take apart computers, I have strong opinions, and am significantly less happy if I have to do the job with my 'backup screwdriver' - also, I can tell you the difference between a phillips, pozi-drive, and JIS drivers and become agitated when someone assembles an object with fastener heads that are more than one of those.
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Thanks! :-D

Our hardware team has been working on our next product for a few months -- that's why they found time to hack into iPhone batteries, lol, as work on the first product has been handed off to supply chain & manufacturing for the most part. ;-)

Meanwhile, the rest of the engineering team is working on firmware & software updates to make the hardware we're already shipping even better/more interesting (and of course, responding to first consumers' feedback).

But... you know what? Sorry for going on a tangent. All I really want to say is thanks, means a lot. Sometimes it's hard to enjoy these victories because you get so focused on the next uphill battle. ;-)
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What's the difference then, between a software developer, a mechanic, and a doctor? Only one of them has a white collar job.
Ironically, lunches are not like this. :D Since you never know which people in the cafeteria are or are not Google employees, conversation in the cafes is almost never about sensitive work stuff. The infosec focus actually stimulates an environment with a better work/life balance. Totally strange to experience, but 100% true.
There was an interesting post around this very topic related to Eve Online in the last couple of years.

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130405/189984/H...

What was interesting was that the poster found that factories in game were highly underutilized, and after convincing Eve Online to raise rents, he found that the factories tended to change hands be much more productive.
This reads like the opposite: they're trying to make people think F# is not solely theirs.
[if no densification]...then adding taxes isn't an incentive to better using the land. Which was the point of this tax.

You seem to equate "densification" and "better using the land". That is a narrow definition of "better using the land".

In strictly utilitarian terms any change that increases total utility would be "better using the land", so if a tax increase on land makes some current residents reprioritise their money and decide to move, giving space to other people who value the location more, then that is "better using the land".
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You are really grasping at straws to defend this company. I will do both of us a favor and skip the mental gymnastics about giving, getting and profit.

But... the FDA didn't "understand" 23andme's data? And the company made an innocent mistake when it comes to presenting data? This letter from the FDA describes exactly what was and was not done and obliterates any arguments like the above: http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2...
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Selling Value in Localization
"Walking away" = "shut up and stop posting". You are failing to do that. Editing your comment to say "I don't agree but I am not going to argue it" instead of deleting your comment is still arguing it. Coming here to crab at me some about the whole thing is still arguing it.

I have a great deal of sympathy for your frustrations, but the way you are handling this is only going to make things worse.

I don't care to have an argument with you, so this will be my last comment.

Take care.
No.

More specifically, if you're willing to hand-wave away certain things as being outside of the "center of the open-source software-release ritual", then you can get a 'yes'.

But in addition to source-distributions mentioned in the essay, which are "too tiny a minority", two other issues are:

1) If you define "git" as "pervasive" then you can declare that git is the solution. In my field, some of the tools are still only accessible via tarball/zip. Two examples are the IUPAC InChI distribution, from http://www.iupac.org/home/publications/e-resources/inchi/dow... , and VMD from http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Download/download.cgi?Pac... . PyMol, a more popular free software visualization package, is also not developed using git.

2) If you define "open-source software-release" to exclude fee-based free software distribution (perhaps it it also "too tiny a minority"?), then it preferentially excludes certain flavors of 'open-source software'. For example, I write free software, and distribute it for money. A tarball is an easy way to identify the delivery of the contractually obligated product. I can also send it via email, vs. setting up a private git server and getting accounts set up for my customers.

How much free software development is part of the hidden world of non-publicly accessible development? I don't think anyone really knows.

So if your free software baseline assumes "pervasive git", a public development repo, and no cost to access the code, then sure, the answer is a "yes". Until then, it's a "no."

And my examples show that baseline is only a subset of free software development, with no clear idea of how large it is.
I wonder how necessity affects neuroplasticity? I think of foreigners who are forced to to learn a new language and culture at an older age. I can't help but think ones mind needs "jolt" to become smarter.
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Man Accused of Spoofing Some of the World's Biggest Futures Exchanges
If the people who currently own the apartments have to sell because they are unable to afford the taxes then they would be in a poor bargaining position - they would pay for their "desire" for immediacy. Those who purchase the apartments would, therefore, be paying below the market rate (defining the market rate based solely on people's desires, without including their financial position).
As a reader of the article kindly submitted here who speaks and reads multiple human languages from more than one language family, I'm not convinced that this article passes the linguist's or polyglot's smell test. The sample size reported in the article is wholly inadequate for showing that there is a real effect here. That the underlying study was reported in a rather minor journal is a further indication that there isn't any real-world significance behind the statistical significance claimed by the researchers. For good background reading on why you shouldn't look merely to statistical significance claims for evaluating research on human subjects like this, see the articles by Uri Simonsohn[1] and his statistically astute co-authors, who have identified phenomena called "researcher degrees of freedom" (there are a lot of researcher degrees of freedom here) and "p-hacking" (a news release that mentions "more accurately than by random chance" is almost always a sign of p-hacking) that allow many weak, underpowered studies of human behavior to be published in journals with poor statistical skills among the editorial staff.

[1] http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~uws/

http://www.p-curve.com/
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Much much cheaper? What?

The 512GB 950 Pro is $349, 512GB SM951 is as much as $490 if you can manage to find it. The 256GB SM951 is more available, but it's the same price as the 950 Pro at the very best.

And that's before you start to see sales on the 950 Pro, which you will definitely see.

SM951 is an OEM product and you're generally hard pressed to find it available as a consumer in any substantial quantity. The 950 Pro is a mass market consumer product.

Just look at Amazon, Newegg, etc.
Essentially that's 'thinkpad' & anything else from lenovo coming as second. I also saw a large uptick of Dell laptops (the latitude series). Now, the thing with laptops is - they all lie.

One model can ship with 5 different wifi chips and they are never provided on the spec sheet - same for other components. So you have the highest chance with specific models but it still depends on the guts that were shipped with your specific device.
AKA all publicity is good publicity.

Unfortunately for Airbnb this isn't true. What they don't get is that when publicity becomes negative enough, it actually does, in fact, work against you.
While I agree with some of the premise of the article (you can't become a great developer in a few weeks),

I don't think coding academies or the people in them would argue that you could become a great developer in a few weeks or even a year.

The other day I was talking to a friend who is doing one of the better reputation coding academies in NYC. She's learned a lot but also realizes how much more there is to learn, and she's also gone from knowing very little to understanding that coding academies operate primarily in one, high-level part of the tech stack. Over time she'll keep learning but she does have a job as a junior developer—which means someone, somewhere thinks she knows enough to be productive. AFAICT, that's what coding academies offer.

Which is, I suppose, what you say here:

The fact is that programming is a highly rewarding job (both financially and mentally). As long as there is a demand-supply gap in the industry, people will try to bridge that gap, by whatever methods. Coding academies are just one such method.
USDA to investigate egg lobby as CEO resigns
I little of both depending on the end use. Most of the times we use 3 PCIe raid controllers. Some cases 1 24 port controller works great. Also, we keep at least 2 or 3 in the hot swap mode for reliability.
No globe though but the mercator projection (awful for a global map like this).
> As long as you throttle login attempts short passwords are fine.

Not if the password-hash database leaks.
This is very cool!
Once a story has had significant attention, about a year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html