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> You keep saying exact query match

Only said it once =/

> The point being that HN's use of just the id in the URL has a minimal, if any, effect on search ranking.

A single data point absolutely does not indicate whether the id in the URL affects SEO or not. Your Google search is context specific (to you) so I would certainly expect it to show up near or at the top. But what about those who have never touched that page or even have gone to HN? The more specific the title the better overall but none of this gives us data about the id in the URL being good or bad for SEO.

Likely I think it's more of a UX than an SEO thing. But still don't go off a context specific, single data point to decide whether something is true in general or not.
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I like that this is posted on Gitlab, even if GL interface needs work when I compare it to Github, at least it's not GH (in an era where all open-s0urce code is on GH). Diversity is inspiring to me!
Well, America.
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huh? We are squarely in the eternal September of HN at this point.

I get what you're saying, but Uranium/thorium is categorically not a fossil fuel. They are elements for crying out loud and quite abundant ones too.
I've been hearing just the opposite for the last few years, that nuclear power no longer makes economic sense in comparison to renewable energy. Renewables are just getting cheaper much, much faster than nuclear and don't require the enormous initial investment and construction time.

I'm no expert, and this is just based on several things I've heard over the years, so I'd suggest just starting at the Wikipedia article if you wanted more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...

It's showing a range of estimates between $0.067-$0.30/kWh. In comparison, solar was around $0.25/kWh in 2008, $0.15/kWh in 2011, and continues to fall quickly.
The most significant security problem with Namecheap is really this: It only takes a 4 digit PIN to perform any action on an account through live chat (which seems to be outsorced to Eastern Europe), even if the account is protected with a 2FA... All you need is the PIN, and an attacker can do anything to the account.

Sometimes you get what you pay for.
Keep at it. The best thing you can do is make as much progress as possible between now and W17.

Anecdotally, I'd say >50% of our batch applied more than once. The one thing we all had in common was traction/progress between applications. This is probably the single best thing you can do to increase your prospects of getting in, as it shows YC that you are 1)serious about working on this, and 2) capable of doing what you say you're going to do (which is to say, make something people want).

Happy to also provide advice that's tailored specifically to what you're building. You can reach me at (firstname @ lawnlove.com)

Go get 'em!
it's similar to an EMT fee in that there isn't necessarily mutual consent to a contract
He did it as a quick hack, I imagine he just didn't notice the API
"We [redacted] the first barrier of the organism".
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Uranium being limited is a red herring. Breeder reactors and Thorium can provide us with power for hundreds of years.

Similarly, renewables are also fairly concentrated (optimal conditions for wind power or solar are not evenly distributed) and need excellent transmission networks because production is fluctuating.
Didn't you post this exact thing last night?
I guess you can't blame them too much, they are a domain seller after all.
> VARcrypt is a place for artists, a place for content, a place for the future, because at VARcrypt we are breaking everything.

It has to be.
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$50/year and you have to provide your own storage? Can somebody explain to me how they are competitive, i.e. in comparison with Crashplan or Backblaze?

edit: my bad, it's $50 for one time purchase, not a year.
I am holding them to the same standard I would any other business. Very few play nice when there is a motive to milk customers for a larger profit each quarter. We've seen how "Don't be evil" worked out.

They are a public traded company. They are beholden to shareholders not consumers, their customers or myself.

It is profitable to entice users into your ecosystem and trap them there. Apple, Google and Microsoft all do it.

I do have to ask, though: After being slighted for years, why should they be given an immediate pass because of very recent events that make nerds happy?
This is sadly one of the reasons that the USA is one of the regions I will never go to as a tourist.

The police has too much power.
What makes this even sadder is that it was done for what... to prevent someone from bringing controlled substances into the US? Who cares?

Yet another bullshit consequence of the War on Drugs.
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And yet, given the amount of power it generated Fukushima still didn't kill any more people than a typical coal power plant.
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I've used this (thanks seliopou!) to convert my bash-based (Mirage) deployment scripts over to OCaml, and am significantly happier with the end result.
Why not being on WhatsApp not being a big deal is a big deal
Is password recovery a bug or a feature? cloud providers seem on the fence about this. AWS has certainly had similar problems in the past.
In Sweden being offended is big business getting a lot of government grants. Some really shady fuckers (ISIS) supports have gotten a lot of money that way.
I don't know about mace, but I have seen people claim that police who are tased before being able to use a taser are only electrocuted for a couple seconds where as in the field police usually electrocute people for much longer.

I imagine the same kind of thing would be done if they had to go through invasive searches. The searches wouldn't match reality.
Huh, why? Normally you don't see kernel panics because of X¹¹, as it prevents you from accessing the TTY with the dump data. :-)
We don't - all we know is that the Neanderthal Y chromosome is missing from the modern human population. This could have occurred by chance (genetic drift), lethal genetic incompatibility (all males died), or infertility. Given the data we have it is hard to know which of these is the real cause.
That's bad, really bad. No 2auth can save you from humans who do support.

I also had one of my VPS attacked recently, and I feel for you.

But the name namecheap says "cheap". Maybe they are indeed cheap? I'm not sure the same would have happened with say HE. You pay, but you know what you pay for and get in return.

Personally, I am thinking about moving from a "manually setup" distribution to a "no ssh but deploy", so as to ease reimaging in the future. This way, if a server is compromised, all I have to do it to start the install of a new one.

Any suggestion for tools to do that with Debian distro? (yeah I could write a shell script, but I think there must be better tools out there)
Nope. threats are one thing, national security is classified, and covered under other laws.

the "Obscenity" you cite is more art/visual, and not verbal. verbal obscenity is covered as part of free speech/freedom of expression.

Defamation has be brought against you by the 'offended' - NOT the gov't.

What does gov't employees during official business have to do with anything? feel free to scream at cops all you want, just stay out of their way... screaming in a session of congress warrants a trespassing charge, not a knock on the 1st.
I always make sure to check the technology behind the software I am about to use. This gives me a rough idea of how safe it is, how it works and how comfortable I am into hacking the source if needed.
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Really glad to see that these guys are listening to their users. I'm looking forward to getting my site up from a D to an A...
Hand concatenating SQL is also not a good thing. Prepared statements and/or something like JOOQ (which is my goto in Java nowadays) would have prevented most if not all of the injections.

Sprocs also go a long ways towards preventing SQL injection. One could still build sql statements through concatenation inside the sproc I guess. /shudder.
Offtopic, but does anybody know how the diagrams in this article were generated? I'd love a simple piece of software to generate beautiful, straightforward pictures like this to explain architectural problems.
So you think having an IQ below 100 wouldn't hamper you in the job market?
If I wanted more security on my account, is there a different service I should be using?
I feel your pain. I immediately wiped Tinder when it asked me for a Facebook signup. But there are other apps such as Badoo etc, it just depends on where you live.
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Do you refuse to use programs written in C?
Why do I keep rolling my eyes everytime I go on hacker news?

Microsoft providing more free tools in their suite is nothing but nice. It certainly won't do any harm to OSS.
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I'm surprised that the HN police haven't modified the clickbait title. They are usually on top of that for much more minor "offenses".
hn-cli?
How is this, from a technical point of view, more advanced than running rsync in a regular fashion (with hardlinks to keep cheap snapshots)?

Just wondering about the technical aspects.
Yeah, there's a development tool I was watching that worked entirely the same on Linux and OS X, but then it has to have a special sidebar for 'if on Windows, do this'. And this will likely be able to go away with Bash for Windows.
If I understand well, Arq does not backup the whole computer. I am looking for a tool that allows for recovery of single files, but also that has a backup of the whole machine, so that if the HD crashes it is possible to rebuild it verbatim. What does HN suggest for such a tool? I used Norton Ghost for years (but it has been discontinued).
On another note, there 2FA seems to broken as well. I once received a text about resetting my Instagram account from the same number that they send me to authenticate my login session. I've never had an Instagram account.
Hi, I'm inclined to believe you, but can you quote some numbers to back your assertion?
Except neither of those agencies were involved in any way.
They should spend some time in jail, yes -- like a month or so. Judges too.

While it might clash with the "but they're proper human beings while those in jail are lesser humans" mentality some have [1], they should absolutely have a sense of what their punishments mean to people, and what the conditions where they sent them are.

[1] To which I have to say, I hope you get thrown in jail sometime, something lots of otherwise upstanding citizens get to experience at some point or another, and not always because they were guilty (or unethical/unjustified which is a different thing), and then we'll see if you'll change your tune about prisoners being some kind of subhumans deserving everything they get. Especially in the US, a jail-happy country with 5% of the world's population but 25% of its prisoners.
I usually stand up for cops, but this is asinine. I mean, how many shows do you see where they're at LaGuardia or JFK with the customs people there and they're sure a person has drugs on them? All they do is either warn them they're going to take an x-ray, or just make them take it and it will show if they have drugs on them - anywhere. No anal probe needed at all.

Why cops feel anal probes are necessary are clearly not doing their job properly when suspicion of drugs are easily settled with a painless x-ray. Even the mere threat of an x-ray to get the person to tell them the truth is usually enough to get these drug mules to confess.
Be careful when someone speaks about ideology if they were free of it.

"In the wake of Fukushima, Germany acquiesced to demands from lobby groups to shut down its nuclear sector, building heavily polluting fossil-fuel plants in their stead."

This is probably the worst part in this article, because coal is also decreasing in Germany. Not as fast as nuclear but nuclear was always the smaller than coal.

My main issue is, that again, someone believes that nuclear power is a way of solving the climate change crisis. It isn't for that nuclear power never had a big enough market share to begin with. Even the current plants which are being build won't change that.

Also nuclear power is extremely expensive. The ones currently being build in Finland and France are 3x over budget and are lagging behind years. Those two plants will supply 1600 Watts for the grid.

You can get that from renewable energies in less than a year.

And yesterday I read that Chinese researchers developed a solar panel which can even use also rain.

Why do people want a an energy source, which comes with so many unsolved issues and only promises to solve them later. In the last 50 years none of the issues could be solved. None! (I'm not talking about safety!)
Yes, NVIDIA GPU SIMD units are 32-wide (also called a warp), AMD GPU units are 64-wide, and Intel is anything from 4-16 depending on what processor you're using. CUDA/OpenCL allow one to query this width and optimize one's kernel's to avoid pointless synchronization within a vector unit. CUDA 8 now has a NOP synchronization that only fires between warps to canonize this sort of programming going forward.
While she was standing in line, a CBP dog handler walked by Ms. Doe and hit the ground by her feet, but did not hit the ground by any of the others in the line. The dog responded by lunging onto Ms. Doe and landing its front paws on her torso.

Good grief, is every LEO "investigative" technique such total bullshit? If the dogs have been trained to alert when prompted to do so by the handler, they're really just a fig leaf for LEO discretion, which is rightly subjected to strict enough scrutiny to prevent "just search the Mexican lady, every single time". If the whole ridiculous expensive exercise of training and keeping dogs is a mere detour around such scrutiny, they're working a lot harder on that than they are on any of their stated objectives. One would like to think that LEOs might occasionally use a valid procedure, if for no other reason than by mistake, but one is eternally disappointed.
Twenty years ago isn't "recent history" for anything in the tech industry. People who were at Microsoft back when they were "really evil" in the 90s have since WORKED AT GOOGLE (or any number of other companies you might be a fan of), and even left Google, since then.

Very few people who made decisions you may be holding over them today, actually work at Microsoft today. You can legitimately hold a decision against a person for a long time... they're still the same person, more than likely. But a company is an amalgamation of it's employees. And employees come and go.
Sadly cling is a huge mess, broken links and failing build everywhere. And Cxx looks too clumsy to use and not what cling and this project seem to do.
Where do you see $50/year? From what I can gather, that is a one-time fee.
Wow. So in both cases, money was squeezed out of somewhere that should have been providing actual services (hospitals), but the actual thugs had little to no consequences, at least not yet. Sad.
Much longer? What does that mean? 4 seconds, minutes, hours? Whenever I have seen people tazed by police, it seems over rather fast.
Well if the japanese could not foresee it, i can imagine what would have happened in a less developed country. I fully agree that we should be switching to nuclear already, but everyone who agrees should be willign to sign a petition to build a nuclear plant 10km from their home. I suspect a large reason it's not being promoted is the fear of developing nuclear weapon tech.
It's very system dependent, but VoltDB is designed for systems that require up to a million tps. "A matter of ms" is not irrelevant in such systems.
It's not per year, it's for current major version (if you don't want lifetime upgrade option).

edit: You get a free upgrade if there is a major version released within 90 days of your order (if you don't order lifetime upgrade of course)
Stop using wordpress.
Minimum Viable Superorganism
Amazon Web Services is great, and as far as I experienced, their support knows more than average.
> The only way that it affects you it's because Go programs can be compiled to a static binary. So from the final user perspective you just download it and put the executable in your path.

This should apply to EVERY PROGRAM for a final user. It can be written in C, Go, Rust, PHP, compiled Ruby. Final user doesn't care what language it's written in, it shouldn't crash, should be intuitive and fast, and this can be achieved with any programming language, unless it's written in JS in Node and wrapped with Chrome, then will be lagging. Completely invalid argument for me.
If you are just a user, and it's a binary, I'd say there's no compelling reason you should.

If you are a developer, you might want to know if you can easily make local changes, you might be interested in contributing, or you might just be interested in seeing how the internals work.
Does Namecheap claim to take backups? Even if they do you should be taking backups as well if you care about your data.

I do agree with more login forms needing to support 2FA. At this point I wish almost everything did. It is a bit more hassle but is easy to manage for me at least.
>Beginners tend to start by saying they'll need a hadoop cluster and spend the next week setting up a pipeline.
Intermediate people tend to jump into R or scikit and try to model the problem with a small subset of data and the library and technique they know best. The advanced people tend to flesh out their hypothesis first and then work out the math and then jump to modelling with a small set of data and finally move to a cluster.

This is funny. It all boils down to metacognition, I suppose. Beginners don't know how much they don't know; they're seeing the tip of the iceberg but don't know the concept of an iceberg to begin with. It's just that white thing over there.

Intermediates see the tip of the iceberg and slightly panic while trying to correct course.

Advanced know they're in the polar circle because they know geography, they plot their course because they know navigation, and actively look-out for icebergs.

Here's what excites me.. The term "Emerging country" was used so much, that the real meaning of the concept of "Emergence" is practically unknown.

Here's the first paragraph from Wikipedia:

>In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is a process whereby larger entities, patterns, and regularities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that themselves do not exhibit such properties.

Something that's greater than the sum of things that constitute it, but it's still constituted by those very things.

My point is that often times, you'll find "resources" or tutorials that try to hide all the yak shaving that's necessary to get into a field (the constituents) and try to give you the "fruit". I'd much rather a course that says: here are the prerequisites for this course, here's what you need to know already, if you don't, go learn that and come back because you'll only waste your time. Listing exactly the things one needs to know would save time, in my opinion.
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Either of SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription... or Carbon Copy Cloner https://bombich.com/ is great for making a complete, bootable copy of a drive.
It would be interesting to correlate this with IQ.

It's well known that higher IQ correlates with greater income. I wonder if higher IQ also correlates with better health.

Even more interesting is if being around people with (on average) higher IQ, correlates with better health by osmosis of sorts, by people picking up good habits from those around them.
electrocuted?!

TASERs kill a lot of people (more than one a week), but it's usually ostensibly not intentional.
Or maybe they did start with the engineers. Maybe they already have some pretty cool technologies but they realised they don't know how to sell it all so they're looking for business people (yes, yes, very wishful thinking).
Wouldn't heating it up to release the gas use more energy than results from burning the gas?
Well... Java is more portable than Go.
I'm reminded of Anna Karenina

> "I wouldn't attempt to teach you what you write about in your office," said he, "and if need arose, I should come to you to ask about it. But you're so positive you know all the lore of the forest. It's difficult. Have you counted the trees?"

> "How count the trees?" said Stepan Arkadyevitch, laughing, still trying to draw his friend out of his ill-temper. "Count the sands of the sea, number the stars. Some higher power might do it."

> "Oh, well, the higher power of Ryabinin can. Not a single merchant ever buys a forest without counting the trees, unless they get it given them for nothing, as you're doing now.
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For anyone interested in this topic, I can really recommend "Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know" (by Robert Peter Gale and Eric Lax)[1] which includes some very thorough discussion on Chernobyl and Fukushima. An interesting point they raise about Chernobyl is the psychological fallout of people thinking they were exposed: there was a notable rise in abortions and quite a few plant workers drank themselves to death after the accident. It's all very fascinating.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Radiation-What-You-Need-Know-ebook/d...
I wouldn't describe something which is a minor performance delta as a “really really bad idea” — save that for things which have reliability risks, security implications, etc. This is a tool which people should know about and consider when they have the right situation.

I'm also not sure what you're basing the claim that “Your database or the roundtrips are mostly not the performance factor nr. 1” on, either – poor database usage is a notoriously common area for performance issues. Roundtrips are less common since things like unindexed or poor queries usually dominate first but it's certainly not hard to find examples of someone missing the problem when testing their app using a local database and then being reminded that latency matters the first time they try it using production-scale data on a real server.
Yes, it does. Not so much on servers or desktops, but on phones. The mobile ecosystem is in danger of becoming a iOS/Android duopoly (or already is, depending on which X you want in 9X% to say it is)

I love Windows Phones. No so many apps, which is good as I don't have that much time to tweak stuff. Sensitive defaults like a black theme (!!!), a click to enable reading aloud SMS (!!), crazy battery features.

They are liquidating the current WP8 line, so it's like $30 if you want to get a Lumia 640 LTE to play with for a weekend (and free unlock code if you want to keep it but don't want AT&T). It's just sad to see something that had so many good things for it go the way of the Dodo.
Forgive my ignorance here, but what is he referring to when he says "Magic Systems" and "ML"?
>If you are a developer, you might want to know if you can easily make local changes

Not programming language decides it, but license application is on.
Still if you have an extra 1Tn then that's 1Tn trees less carbon in the atmosphere. The dead trees can also be made into timber, biochar and similar.
It appears that there may be an issue with just their blog. The main site[0], and most of its links, works for me.

[0] https://www.arqbackup.com/