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Ask HN: Power adapters withconnector with2.5mm OD and 0.8mm ID for Chinese tablets?
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Ask HN: Non-generic power adapters with barrel connectors with 2.5 mm OD and 0.8 mm ID for Chinese tablets?

Also posted here, where it’s a bit easier to read due to lack of footnotes and the convenience of inline images:

http://hardwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/1522/1221

(Hardware Recommendations Stack Exchange isn’t exactly frequented much though, which is why I figured I’d try asking the HN community since this is kind of a specialized question).

EDIT: Well… seems that HN has a character limit of 2000 characters which I managed to exceed. Instead, I’ll only post the questions I posed at the bottom of that link here. There’s a lot more helpful context in the link above though (including why I’m asking this and all the searching I’ve already done), so it may be preferable to read it there instead. Anyways, here’s the bottom of that question:

This leaves me with two options:

1. I can buy a 2.5 mm OD / 0.8 mm ID barrel connector to USB connector cable like the one I linked to (despite not specifying the AWG of the cable, it seems like others have gotten it to charge their tablets fine, so it may be good enough), which would then make my question: are there any reputable (non-'no name' brands) that sell a USB power adapter that supplies an output voltage of 9 V (DC) and an output current of 2.5 A?

or

2. Buy a power adapter that already has a 2.5 mm OD / 0.8 mm ID barrel connector on the other end, which would then make my question: are there any reputable (non-'no name' brands) that sell a power adapter that has a 2.5 mm OD / 0.8 mm ID barrel connector on the other end of the cord and supplies an output voltage of 9 V (DC) and an output current of 2.5 A?
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I wonder if this is true of self-published, ebook-first writers. In conversations with agents about my novels, I was told that they needed to be "longer" and that ~70K words wasn't enough or wasn't sufficiently "commercial." But in my view the novels were the appropriate length to the material (see http://jakeseliger.com/my-novels/ if you're curious). With ebooks, I don't think readers are subconsciously swayed by length as they are by physical books in bookstores.

Indie authors also often point out that they're better off splitting one massive tome into multiple parts. A novel like Neal Stephenson's Seveneves might've been split into three to five parts, with the first one given away and each additional part $.99 – $2.99 in its ebook edition.

EDIT: Also, I'm not opposed to being commercial, and indeed if I could think of more / better ways to be more "commercial" I'd do it!
Probably about half of the novels I read could work just as well as short stories... (especially in science fiction.) It's like Strunk and White said: Omit Needless Words.
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I did but since Chrome is my main browser it was much easier to change the Cert once than to switch browsers everytime.
Could the risk of SHA1 be mitigated by re-issuing certificates daily and having 24 hours expiration dates? Or would any attacker be able to set whatever they please for the expiration date if they find a collision?
The intro bit spotlighting a South Park episode sets the tone for the rest of the piece with remarkable accuracy.
To me the comment says "Shift the argument from 'Are we sure climate change will happen?' to 'How much insurance against climate change should we buy?'"

However much expertise has been invested in risk analysis, I don't see the public debate being framed in terms of risk analysis.

Maybe this is an example of the level of skill in the PR campaign for denialism -- no need to win the argument if you can just get it framed the way you want.
I think this applies to a vast majority of people outside the academic environment (or once they leave that environment). I really wonder why that is.

I've definitely noticed my mind wander once I start reading a book. It seems like we can all benefit from training our attention span.
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I didn't say obligation. After reading here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091895/

My question was an oversimplification.
You've been running an obsolete firmware on an obsolete device for what I imagine is years.

A wrt54g doesn't have gigabit ethernet, doesn't support 802.11N or AC.. The last one I used topped out at 50mbit on a single connection.

Those things were good for a while, but unless the rest of your hardware is from 2008, you probably owe it to yourself to upgrade.
And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamidian_massacres
Can't decide between "fascinating high-tech solution (drone)" and "fascinating low-tech solution (net)". Which one is it?
Fish is miles ahead of any other shell I've tried. That said, I still use z with it:

https://github.com/sjl/z-fish
matching Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10723933
There's no progression between invitro gender selection and genetic design? Wat? One's more sophisticated and an inexorable movement toward turning raw chemicals into manufactured organic machines (specifically humans).
Doing GAs right can be very hard. Like, I've seen cases where GAs hooked up to a certain type of physical simulation learn to exploit the ODE in play and find optima that are based on ODE artifacts, not reality. Eg wind turbine design and CFD modeling.

I remember one specifically learned in Quake to always strafe run because the dx+dy gave sqrt(2) max speed instead of just max speed.

What most people don't understand about GAs is that asking the question correctly and unambiguously can be harder than solving the problem. GAs can have a steep price, it's not magic.
The older the place you live in, the more likely someone died there.

And given how old civilization is, I bet someone probably died within 1000 feet of where you live right now.

Certainly hundreds of animals have died around you for sure, many within your lifetime.

In fact you probably ate a dead creature today.

WTF is with people and "ghosts" ?
Writeups, files and descriptions repo for almost all CTF challenges in 2015
There is an excellent webcomic called The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, that describes what would have happened if they had successfully completed the Analytical Engine and gone on to fight crime.
http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/

More impressive than the comic itself is the amount of research put into it and the footnotes that go along with it. The author often takes inspiration directly from primary sources. For instance, a whole series on Babbage's strange hatred of street musicians.
It might be the lack of coffee and food, (I read this before breakfast), but the mental image of a flower describing how it got watered kept popping into my head - the flower can't decide whats more impressive, the watering can containing the water, or the water itself. And in the middle of telling the story, every now and then, the flower says "But look how pretty I am !!"
I think the age of the father may also have something to do with it.
The Millet System brokered by the Ottomans was definitely advanced compared to what Europe had during the Medieval Age under the influence of the Catholic Church esp. when it comes to religious tolerance but make no mistake it's still a backward system where Muslims are favored and other people are discriminated against.

Also, not a single country was under the occupation of the Ottomans had any advancement or progress in quality of life or any other aspect of social or public life because the Turks made sure that most of the generated wealth of Vilayets be transferred to Istanbul/Asitane/High Porte where the Sultan lives and only when people revolted against them and ended their rule, the countries managed to enjoy the fruits of their labor and national wealth like in the case of Egypt in 1800s.
You could make basically the same argument for why humans will never invent heavier-than-air flight

You're not getting it.

The effective argument of the danger seer is akin to "humans will learn to fly but then our cities will be covered with feathers" -

Humans have incentive to produce flexible, learning, language-understanding machines. Humans don't an incentive to produce a thing that will suddenly go rogue and decide to kill us.

It is entirely reasonable to argue that the tendency of humans themselves to go rogue and decide kill other humans comes from the evolutionary processes that produced humans rather than from the quality of human intelligence. We can see other relatively intelligent animals that live with in more (and in less) harmony than humans. No reason intelligence implies entity X won't fully cooperate with the people who intentionally engineered it.

I would argue that we human imagine that AGIs would have the same "downsides" as ourselves simply because we don't have any conception of intelligent things besides ourselves.

Maybe a carefully human-engineered intelligence would for reasons unknown turn into the things we see on movies. Maybe the next generation of supercolider will create an subatomic chain reaction that destroys the earth. But it's premature to worry about these particular hypothetical, especially given humans with ordinary AIs do pose problems.
You're free to your opinion! As someone without children, I don't want tax dollars subsidizing having children. I don't think you should be stopped, but please pay for them yourselves.
For third-party software, it's a trade-off.

But when the distributor is also the author – like Microsoft is for everything that is delivered via Windows Update – that is no longer a concern. We can compare the solutions by technical merit alone… and Windows doesn't come off too well.
I think that's just about right personally. Any more and it would be too infrequent to be useful. Any less and it would get lost in the noise of the media cycle. It's important when these things happen that there's a sense that the whole world is watching, and international reputations can be impacted depending on how countries behave.
The worrying scenario is just any powerful system that optimizes for something that's different from what humans want.

Like AI based-HFT? Which humans want what? I'm pretty sure, that if there's one constant, that there always will be some humans on either side of the argument.
It's not amazing people believe in ghosts so much that they believe gravity somehow affects ghosts which blows my mind.

Because the earth is no longer remotely close to where the person died, not around the sun, not in the solar system, and given the universe is constantly expanding, millions of miles from where they died.

So somehow ghosts are both non-corporeal yet affected by gravity.
> "Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it (Islam) has vainly struggled"

I think this means that Christianity is "tamed" by the doubts science has laid on it. And that science does not seem to reign Islam much.
Your boss is probably just trying to buy some time to find a replacement. I've seen this happen numerous times. You'd probably end being at same position for some more time (meanwhile the other company finds their employee elsewhere). After that you will be informed that this new position was cancelled.

This is employers best trick do if they don't want you to leave immediately or don't want to give you some larger salary raise which would make you stay.

I'd leave.
The way you said it sounded like an endorsement (if you'd said that on Reddit, the way you said it would certainly be taken as an endorsement!). But, my mistake, sorry, carry on.
You're right - VS Code is a open-source text editor with Intellisense and refactoring and plugins and about 80% of the functionality found in Visual Studio. It works well and does almost everything you need if you're working with ASP.NET 5 / .NET Core stuff - which is the only thing you can deploy cross-platform right now anyway.

Visual Studio the full edition will likely never be running on Mac or Linux, but it doesn't need to.
Thanks for the reply, after getting down-voted for sharing I was wondering if I am out of touch. I was formerly in an academic environment where you had to read everything at least three times over. After reading densely packed scientific literature and I now just search for the information I am interested in and skim through everything else because I realize how increasingly limited is my time.
NUMA systems are annoying for also other reasons. RDTSC is typically CPU socket dependent. Different CPU sockets have different counts. So even with constant TSC (time stamp counter), you can't compare TSC values between different sockets. As a workaround, you need to also somehow record the CPU socket information together with timestamp. Which is hard unless you're in kernel context. Well, there's RDTSCP, but it also requires kernel to load appropriate values to IA32_TSC_AUX MSR.

When requesting high precision time stamps, some operating systems fall back to APIC or HPET. The issue is these are 2-3 orders of magnitude slower to query than TSC. TSC takes a few nanoseconds to acquire, APIC / HPET can take a few microseconds, which can sometimes be too much.

Thus precision timing and timing sensitive code is somewhat tricky on NUMA systems.

Another annoyance is how easy it is to saturate a NUMA interconnect with synchronization traffic. Atomic ops (and by extension, mutexes, semaphores, etc.) can easily bottleneck a NUMA system.
I don't actually view it as a problem -- as long as you can finish GOOD books. (I was reading "breadth first" since before 2000, before my and everyone else's Internet addiction...)

My usual habit is to check out 5 books at a time from the library, and I end up finishing one. The other 4 I skim through. There's simply not that many books that are worth reading in their entirety. Many books have useful nuggets of knowledge, but there is generally a lot of filler.

I have read at least 1000 academic papers in CS and other fields in the last 5 years. And by read I mean mostly skimmed. A good paper will get 3 or 4 re-readings; most papers remain skimmed until something else reminds me of them (a paper or a problem in real life). I think that is the norm.

I do find that paper is better for comprehension. I get my books from the library and I print out PDFs of publications.

tl;dr The goal is comprehension, not "finishing books"
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A Middle-Eastern superstate?

Where did you guys come up with this?

I don't think that the Elite in many ME countries would cherish the idea of sharing their power with any of their peers in neighboring countries let alone people of different countries sharing space with other people from the region. If you're talking about Pan-Arabism or Pan-Islamism, both ideologies are moribund and can't be taken seriously in any meaninful discussion.
Ask HN: Novelty addiction is ruining my life and career. What should I do?
I have an extreme case of neophilia. Well, most of HN readers like new things, but in my case this is really extreme. I start many projects, but never finish them because they are inevitably losing novelty (I had better luck with shorter projects). I am a fairly decent software engineer, but I never held a job longer than 1 year (for the last 12 years), and recently I realised that the only thing that motivates me in software engineering is learning new things and trying new fancy toys, not building something working and useful (this is obviously an invalid approach in engineering, and it makes me sad enough to consider leaving this career path for good). I've been fired from 2 jobs this year (having a stellar start, then quickly boring for good). Everything I do seems to be motivated by novelty, it seems like a dangerous addiction now. I am 32, jobless, and have more than $50k in debt now.

What should I do? Is there a cure from novelty-seeking behavior? Or how it can be managed to be useful, not disabling? Please help, if you have any experience coping with this...
I suppose because this is a concept that doesn't need a test of truth anymore to be proven. It is accepted and easy enough to be verified mathematically.
I don't even think basic filtering is only appealing to power users. Just some way to find films apart from their recommended, too-cute "genres" would be appreciated.
I upvoted you for being honest... and I just replied -- I think it's a problem if you can't finish ANY book, but I wouldn't worry about finishing most books.

I don't think it is effective to read scientific literature from cover to cover. I think the best scientists skim.
Mega Corp has engineers who know what's up. When they're ready, Mitchell gets a call.

This works in specialties where an enterprise solution is very hard and only a very few are tackling it well.
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Its not a new router - Buffalo AirStation HighPower N600. However I guess I am one of those people who gets irky to replace something that is not exactly broken. Maybe once the AC specs starts showing up in the gadgets I use, I might.
Which may or may not include taking time off.

What you view is as a "need" may not be what someone else views as a need and people should not feel they must take 3 months off, or even 3 days if they do not desire to do so.
EF6 is still the recommended ORM and amazing at what it does. EF7 is still missing major features like Lazy-Loading so while you can use it in production, the team has repeatedly said that it's not recommended or necessary unless you have a specific reason to use it. Summer 2016 is when EF7 is supposed to be at full release.

EntityFramework can also support any underlying database and EF6 has providers for sql server, mysql, postgre, oracle, sqlite and many others. EF7 will even support nosql options like MongoDB.

What exactly is the issue with disk space for a published running app? The GAC (global assembly cache) in Windows was originally designed just for this: to share references and avoid having multiple copies of the same binaries. All this led to was a complicated situation with maintenance and reference nightmares. Disk space is exceedingly cheap and a strange to worry about when picking a tech stack.
Having kids did it for me.
I would say that someone died within 1000 feet from where you live, while you actually lived there. This is probably true, unless you live in a remote house.

And they all forget to count ghosts from microorganisms and insects.
Running steel cable or nets, instead of monofilament wire, is pretty much SOP for denying an area from rotorcraft. There's a pretty cool article on Wikipedia about prison escapes by helicopter [1] that explains how this is often implemented in high-security correctional facilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_esca...
I've heard Quentin Tarantino's new film "Hateful Eight" is ~3 hours long, and I'm still quite excited to see it.
> we are hardly anywhere close to a place where we should start worrying about all this stuff

Here's a comparison: wouldn't it be great if we had started thinking about climate change way back at the beginning of the industrial revolution, before we decided to create tons of open-air coal plants?

There are reasons to solve problems before they're problems.
Mostly agree with this, but I don't think one should expect there to be a perfect correlation between enjoyment/engagement and worthwhile-ness. Most book and most articles are garbage, but there really are a few that are both painful and worthwhile.

Now if only we could convince the rest of the world to make abstracts the norm for books, internet articles, and the like...
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Ghost hunters do look in hospitals, though they are generally restricted to abandoned ones; operational ones aren't particularly welcoming to them.
For short bs we now have the internet.
The same people probably also want to curb Gun Violence?
The stock market isn't magic, its traders will arrive at some sort of consensus position reflected in prices, through reading the global media like the rest of us, about how serious the intentions are around the deal, but that doesn't mean they know how the governments of, say, Brazil, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Indonesia, Spain, Ireland, or India are going to react to it over the next few years. A reality of concerted action could just as well emerge over five years as policies come into place. Following the money, i.e. stock prices of oil companies, will be an accurate way of judging how successful an agreement like this is in altering the global investment markets, but only after time. On Monday, you're not going to get much more than the immediate impression.
I do. Mainstream movies became a caleidoscope of boring repeating scenes. They often lack any sort of plot.

Compare "Back to the Future" (any one) with whatever new movie in this genre you can remember.
While not very deep, this is a good general outline of why .NET is still great. I think most startups and SV companies get caught in their echo chamber and use whatever is shiny/fancy without realizing that .NET powers many of the businesses that you interact with daily. Practically every company in the Fortune 500 uses it and if you're looking for one tech stack that can do everything, this is it.

We're a small startup/biz in the adtech space and we went with .NET and it's allowed us to be more agile and build better faster and better technology than all of our competitors. The real test isn't blog posts or endless dev debates but actual productive output and when looking at that, .NET is one of the most successful options available.
Are you sure you measured correctly without systematic errors caused by out of order execution? Did you serialize execution by using RDTSCP or CPUID? Any chance you accidentally compared TSC counts between two separate sockets? Did you keep in mind that each CPU socket has a different unsynchronized TSC.

Not accounting for those could give you an illusion of asymmetry.
This isn't the only article i read on this topic. It's shocking to me how inconsiderate the Japanese are of suicide and grieving. Just goes to tell you what happens to a society when a troubling issue is ignored - it becomes mundane part of daily life and the majority ceases to care.
Funny not a single one of all these scare-mongering pieces of a Muslim demographic ticking bomb popping up periodically explores the effect of population growth in China or India in the coming years given they have currently the lion's share of humans on the planet and any population tsunami hitting the Earth would probably come from these areas not from the Greater Middle East.
Yes. Which is something Firefox doesn't offer.
Aaron Swartz had some interesting things to say about the length of most non-fiction:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001229
Is oh-my-fish usable if you've already got a bunch of customizations? I don't want to install it if it means half my stuff is going to break. I have things versioned in a git repo, but still...
That's what I came here to say too. The damn kids now happily sleep until noon, but I just can't anymore. Grumble.
Key sentence:

"It's developing the software with $100 million in funding from Hong Kong-based Tsinghua Unigroup International, a subsidiary ultimately controlled by the Chinese government and the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing."

Sounds like the Chinese government wants its own Android alternative.