skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And their SSDs have hardware design flaws making them read slower and slower until the read speed of old cells is down to 1-2megabytes/second... of advertised 550megabytes/s.

Remember that? It affected all Samsung EVO drives, which is marketing speak for all Samsung SLC based drives, which means budget drives, the Pro versions based on MLC were unaffected.

But, the way Samsung handled my case, to deny warranty, and in general case to release an .exe file on their website called "Slow fix something.exe", has me stay away from Samsung SSDs for ever.

The other "fix" they had was to release a firmware which would shuffle data around in the background - reading and rewriting/updating cells - so as to appear that there is no problem - but read speed would anyway decrease with age, and increase the write-cycles on the cells even if the SSD is idle... Fun.

I recommend SanDisk Extreme Pro -- they are awesome good value drives - may exist newer on the market now, but last autumn those were and still are the best SSDs ever.
China Is Buying Up European Soccer – And Some Fans Aren't Happy
Is this common among VCs and investors in general, or was it just that Theranos' supposed technology was more complicated than what they were used to, so they couldn't accurately assess it? Or both?
We use Splunk, which is pretty great but costly. We are now also in the process of checking out Elasticsearch.
Right. The president of one company I worked for liked to have an all-hands meeting irregularly, but about once a month. Eventually I told him that, without an agenda listed, I was always afraid that it was a disaster announcement.

After that, every all-hands email had a body with two or three bullet points in it.
Ouch. So my bet is that Samsung is going to get serious about new battery tech and come out with a new set of devices in a couple of years touting their "revolutionary" new power system.

If we're lucky it will be ultra-capacitors that charge in seconds rather than hours. Unfortunately that tech still has 5x less capacity than lithiums.
6 Things Only
Just run `pkg install -y xdm` and enable it in /etc/ttys to have init (re-)start xdm on the ttyv of your choice.
I agree with the proposal to ban paywalled sites. Workarounds are annoying and/or temporary. HN should be about open discussion of freely available content; we shouldn't be encouraging the ghetto-ification of the web. The typical paywalled sites are almost never the only (or even the best) source of an article.
booting on the Dragonboard is unlikely to happen any time soon, I started working on it, but don't have the time to get it into a usable state (and lack hardware to test).

Source: I started & mostly work on the the FreeBSD arm64 port.
Hm there is this for fast (shell) execution:
https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode/wiki/Miscellane...

Jupyter support has been added in version 4.0:
https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode/releases
Immutable.js: Interactive tutorial for humans
And do you think it would still provide a tangible disadvantage to the user apart from maybe a style statement? The only relevant change I feel would be that it might get easier to keep in your hand.
Well, let's go through their other businesses.

Samsung SDI is going to struggle in a World with cheap coal prices and political inclinations (cf. Trump campaign) to not care about environmental impacts.

Samsung Heavy Industries is already struggling because of market demands for new container ships dropping off sharply in recent years - there has been a glut of supply for some years.

Their Engineering and Construction groups have moderate turnover on focused/strategic projects that go to lowest-cost bidders, they can't keep the entire company going.

They have a reasonable sized Financial Services group of companies, but they're not exactly global players, and it's going to be hard to see them picking up enough growth to keep things going if their consumer electronics division flounders.

They have a group dedicated to health and medical equipment, that might do well, but the largest market for healthcare in the World (the US), is currently playing political football with that industry, so, you know, tricky.

Their washing machines are exploding, and demand for products like air conditioning remains high but might be curbed by issues in the power sector within developing nations as people try to figure out what that infrastructure looks like on the 10-year, 25-year and 50-year terms, which again, they are fighting in another group.

They have a ton of electronics businesses that will continue to do well, but ironically because Apple is one of their biggest customers for their products.

It's not obvious to me that they are more robust than Nokia was. They have a lot of risks across a lot of their groups, with their phone division being perhaps the lowest risk group of the lot.

Good luck to them, but the Samsung fanbois (and yes, there are many of them), need to realise this is going to be a tough time for the company. For the sake of the smaller stockholders and the employees, I hope they get through this.
Could it have been an issue with the deign of the battery itself, so the failure would happen regardless of who manufactured the battery?
In the UK, running a blog over HTTPS is an act of terrorism, says Scotland Yard
What exactly do you mean by "flexible split window"?
Could use something like GNU social, and then could keep the network self-hosted and private, and not worry about being locked into possible future price-hikes. https://gnu.io/social/
Intel Launches Stratix 10 FPGA with ARM CPU and HBM2
A Different Approach to (AWS) CLI
well our standard developer workstation is around 1000€-1600€ for 4-5 years. so my laptop will still need to be used one or two years, actually it's also over the budget, but basically if there is a need for it we buy it and some people are just way more productive with a mac since they knew it form day one, however most new hire's actually used linux/windows so they never want it or only want it cause others have it. it really depends on the needs. we are a java job and I even encourage everybody to use IntelliJ Ultimate, however some still prefer Eclipse and I let them use it, even if I dislike it, it's still their preference after all.
Startups Bet on Workplace Use of VR
The chase for the thinnest device possible is plain stupid, the current devices with a replaceable battery are already thin enough to fit in a pocket, why go even further if it's such an inconvenience? For me, not having a replaceable battery is a very good reason to avoid buying such a device.
What to Do If You Have a Samsung Galaxy Note 7
Having tried self-hosted and cloud logging solutions, Papertrail is one of the services that we subscribe to that I feel pangs of gratitude when we receive our monthly billing notification.

Some of the things I liked about Papertrail:

- Super easy to setup (& automate setup). Just a dozen lines of setup in rsyslog.conf

- Also ships with a tiny client written in go if you want to tail specific files

- Sensible pricing. Charges per GB, which for us at least, correlated with how much business we were doing. Now we'd gladly pay more for the same service

- Great dashboard/UI. Having started with loggly, we were used to slow, unresponsive, unintuitive dashboard. As loggly grew, the dashboard increased in complexity. Papertrail by contrast is fast, simple and made sense (at least to us). It's quite surprising how simple it is and yet performs it's job very well. Although we don't use the live log tailing so much, the log grouping & notification system is very intuitive and easy to setup.

- Easy S3 archival. Took about 10 minutes to setup

Thank you Papertrail
there's more to it. The disenfranchised poor white didn't have a political voice. I know many out-of-work ex-democrat ex-liberal 50+ white males that are supporters of trump. Just last weekend, I was talking to an avid environmentalist in an interracial marriage who supports trump. To say "well some ignorant people are just racist" misses the true thing that's going on.
“doobry”: NoSQL Editor for Azure DocumentDb
Graylog is working quite well for us so far. https://www.graylog.org/
The phrase "from scratch" can't possibly have clear definition ("If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe"). However, in this case I agree with you.

If you used a keyboard to make a keyboard, that is definitely not "from scratch".
No, indoctrination to me is instilling dogmas in a small child who is developing their brain personality and cannot critically evaluate what they're being told. Instilling your morality based on a solid reasoning is not. Compare "Stealing your schoolmate's toy is wrong. Why daddy? Because it's his and he wants to play with it. If you steal it he can't play, and he will be sad. If you want to play, ask him first for permission, and offer one of your toys too so he can have something to play with." with "There's a man who preached in the middle eastern desert in the time of the Roman Empire that will make you live forever if you are good and go to church every Sunday. Why daddy? Because. And if you ever doubt, even in your mind, he will punish you forever!". These aren't the same.

Critical thought is a beautiful thing. Brainwashing a child into accepting an absurd dogma for no reason other than authority and fear is wrong.
Why you should run a morning standup meeting with your team
If your pool is layed out in a beadm compatible way you can use beadm. Otherwise just snapshot your root dataset recursively and rollback the whole pool in the unlikely case that the update fails. Once the upgrade succeeded (including the new boot blocks) you can upgrade your pool by enabling the latest feature flags.
I quite fancy joining lobste.rs as I've been reading it anon for a while now, so an invite would be gratefully received. my email is <my-hn-name>@<my-hn-name>.com

Thanks!
October 12th Is Columbus Day or Genocide Day
Thanks, I had never seen it.
The Semantic Web
Sure. I actually agree with what you write... up to the conclusion.

Why does this reasoning end up blaming people that by circumstance was born elsewhere for competing by doing a better/cheaper job, instead of blaming the system for allowing that transfer of resources between classes? Why not use $100bn of those 500 for betterment/education/job creation/etc for those less "lucky"?
Samsung isn't just a company it's a conglomerate. Their entire mobile division could crash and they'd still be fine.
Yes, the ones I mentioned as not supporting mail import do not provide any method to import and don't support IMAP either.
Report: The most popular smartphones screen values
I run out of monitors already. My current office looks like this:

|
O|O
---+--- |
O|O O|O
| ---+---
X|O
|
+----|
| | | |
--+DDD+--+ |----------
| |

X - me
O - other people,
DDD - doors.

The +-like lines are desk areas, we have no dividers there; everyone is facing each other. I've managed to block off the two people in front of me with monitors, and the one to the right of me is hidden behind his own monitors. But I still struggle with the space to the left and behind me, and I'm seriously considering building a cubicle out of pizza boxes...
I agree, most WSJ articles are available on other news pages and the web workaround doesn't work for me either (since a few days).
I remember how much I enjoyed assembly at school.

Yeah.
I think Lambda was never designed for building entire apps/APIs - It was designed for handling mid-sized processing tasks.
CLIs are designed for automation and are not as human friendly as they can be. I think we can make a CLI which rates very high on ease-of-use. Taking AWS CLI as an example, I built a project which has convenience as the top priority.
No, it's every kind of populist blame politics. What's unfortunate is that Trumps platform is based purely on emotion, and zero solutions.
"Going equipped"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_Act_1968#Section_25
> Travis doesnt support the toolchain so Im having to use Gitlab CI in the meantime.

AppVeyor has really good Windows images : https://www.appveyor.com/
It's not about refusing to read an article, it's about it being difficult, if not impossible, to read it. If sites don't want the general public to read their content, we should respect that; the content probably isn't suitable for a free, open discussion site like HN.
Astronomers confirm remarkable size of the largest known depleted galaxy core
Eliezer Yudkowsky on Trump's “maybe we shouldn't defend NATO” remark
Ah, a good, old "let's think of the children" argument. As I said, autonomous cars should always drive according to rules, and places, where children are expected to run into a street (suburbs, school areas etc.), usually have speed limit of 30 km/h (at least in Europe), so it's hard to imagine a deadly scenario at such speeds. However, if children managed to run into a highway, well, then blame their parents for neglect as this such not happen. To fantasize even more, what if there are my children in a car too? Should autopilot kill them as well to save these children on a road?
Papertrail is beautiful for watching loglines roll in.

ELK (logstash, self-hosted) is... consuming. The software is free, but it takes a lot of compute resources, and isn't trivial to come to grips with (setup or daily use). If you can spare the staff-hours, ELK can be pretty powerful, though.
At this point I'm beginning to think that is real possibility, not just a joke.
Couldn't help but say "toilet":

http://bash.org/?76909
Right now we do allow @gmail emails. Few years ago initially when we started, our initial focus was larger clients with a lot of personal touch. We later added self-serve model: public prices, credit cards, easier setup of popular data sources... As a startup its really tricky to address all segments at once.
I don't know where to begin. Maybe with the fact that I didn't write the article, but that it is obviously not sarcastic.

I don't know about your work experience, but in the context of a larger company, all-hands are quite important to remind people of the company culture and to connect individuals to the mission. Spend long enough in a growing company and you'll see people who have no idea why they're important, who slack, who feel they aren't heard, etc. Building a great company means handling all of this.

All-hands aren't about corporate bullshit. Even in a smaller startup, celebrating things like "we got a major new client" or "we hit this important milestone" can make people refocus and rekindle their passion for the work. I can't even see how this is "bangalore management for j2ee bodyshops". But I haven't been to Bangalore or done any j2ee work (bless up), so maybe that's it.
I support this proposal. I support any independent company's right to perform their business how they want. I also support that popular sites that encourage open dialog and discussion should not include companies that disallow public viewing of their content.

Let's also extend this to companies that prevent those with content blockers from viewing their pages. Forbes is one, and techcrunch is another. Techcrunch doesn't block content, but their site UI is messed up enough that when content blockers are used that it makes their site unusable.
Show HN: Autoreloading ES6 and Flow on Docker
I despise Electron and the culture it encourages of huge, slow applications.

I do have to say, that VS Code is entirely different, and the first time I played with it, I didn't realise it was using Electron.

It is really solidly engineered, with an insane amount of time and effort by great people working on the best of features for what an IDE needs, rather than the next shiny feature. (Scrolling, Time Travel Debugging, functional end points within to better allow for Vim and Emacs style integrations).

My upshot? Give it a chance.

This isn't something insane created by someone convinced Electron solves all their problems for them.

Its experts in TypeScript using what they know, inside and out, to make something deserving of the expert's attention.

The installer is 30ish MB, unliked the 200ish I've seen from a ton of Electron applications. gVim takes up the same amount of space on my system.
Does the web link work from an incognito session? I suspect that WSJ just sets a cookie on first visit to show the paywall on subsequent visits.

I personally agree with the current HN paywall policy. If the Google workaround doesn't work, then WSJ will get banned from Google, which is a far harsher penalty than getting banned from HN.
The trouble is, that's locking a set of people out of the debate entirely, which is surely not what we want to encourage. Much better to have an alternative, freely-accessible article from a different source.
Whoever can read them, take a screenshot and upload it to BayImg. Solves it.
I googled her name and she seems like a very shady person...
I disagree with banning sites that have leaky paywalls. Sites that do good journalism deserve the pageviews. We shouldn't incentivize blogspam just because it's convenient. In the case of the WSJ, they were the outlet that did the investigative work that broke Theranos, among many other stories.

The question boils down to whether the paywall is leaky enough. The "web" option, which helps the user find the article via Google because the WSJ paywall let's through the Google-referer, still works for me and many others, but apparently, not for other users. That's a strange technical quirk. I've tried emulating it on desktop vs. mobile, and using a VPN for different parts of the world, and the Google-referer-workaround still works fine for me.

So why can't some users get it to work? Could they be using a plugin that blocks the referer? Is the use of such a plugin enough of a common-case to block good journalism for the rest of the users on HN?
Does Mind-Wandering Make You Unhappy? – Greater Good
Hah, I can believe.

I consider myself an introvert too, even though a lot of people in my Hackerspace are utterly convinced I'm one of the more extroverted people they know. All because I can hold a conversation and like doing public talks every now and then.

The best description of introvert / extrovert thing I found is that comic strip - http://imgur.com/76HUN. Being an introvert, social interactions cost me energy instead of giving it, and that's why it's easy to deliver public talks when you feel like it, while at the same time avoiding people for most of the day.
Then the app is poorly designed. It should sync metadata over a different channel.

Otherwise you get inconsistent behavior such as metadata being synced when you copy entire folders, but not when you copy individual files. Then you have to rely on even more hacks to get around that, like detecting when a file is copied and automatically copying the corresponding dotfile. Sooner or later you end up with a complete mess.
Let’s All Obsess Over This Intricate Map of Alt Music History
That might help to an extent, but it really doesn't solve the problem properly - an image of some text is a far inferior reading experience to the actual text itself.
var iceberg = { tip : "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" }

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-...
Yes, a "network namespace" is the Linux equivalent. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip-netns.8.html
Brand colors as Crayola crayons: Analysis of brand colors used by notable brands
It already locks people out of the debate :)
Agreed with your point about having to add a transpiler, the extra complexity may just push newcomers away.

For porting over your old code to ES6, perhaps have a look at https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/turbocharged-javascrip...
Why is it so much better to encourage blogspam? Which is what you'll get when the topic is of worthwhile substance, such that there is no real alternative besides an aggregator?

Why shouldn't the burden be on the reader to jump into incognito (i.e. non-plugin) mode to read an article? Virtually everyone on HN has the technical chops to switch between an incognito browser instance and whatever they're using to read HN.
React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery to Get By
Melbourne Cup 2016 in Sydney (I created a directory)
Fermat's Library
Just VPNed into a German ISP and it worked for me. Are you using a plugin that blocks the referrer?
I'd like to see linking to paywalled sites discouraged, but banning them might be too inflexible. Perhaps a change to the submission form that suggests that the submitter looks for alternative sources first, and appends "(paywalled)" to the title if they opt to proceed.

Paywalled mass-media articles (e.g. WSJ) are very rarely worth submitting. Articles in paywalled journals (e.g. Nature) where the abstract is accessible may well be worth it. But it comes down to judgement.

Finally, I agree that (for the type of topics that HN concerns itself with) free access to information should be encouraged.
Hey, I'm wondering, how exactly does facebook selling ads against your data affect you negatively?
It's probably the best workaround that we have right now. The trouble is, it's an additional cognitive load to determine for each and every link whether it's one that requires incognito mode. If there's a good browser plugin that supports automatically opening links from listed domains in a new incognito window, that would probably be better than the current 'refer via google' workaround.
The subject says it all, but am I the only one who isn't a subscriber of the Wall Street Journal? Is there no free source on the Internet for this same piece of news?

I'm not saying everything should be free. I build paid-for services on the web myself. But how is “To Read the Full Story, Subscribe or Sign In” useful on the Hacker News?
1Password is closed source. And I don't want it to not upload anything, I want it to upload to my own server.
Rsyslog+ELK all day. Every aspect can be scaled, and cost can be easily controlled by managing our own deployments.
No, it's a bad idea. Pay for good content.
Hell, I owned Galaxy phones for the last 5 years, and even I will be hesitant buying the next Galaxy and will probably wait a few months to see, if any problems show up.
Use a service such as http://archive.is ? Or maybe copy it in pastebin?
I feel like in most cases it's impossible to avoid hurting moral a little if you're being honest about the company, you just have to decide if you're okay with it or not. Businesses have ups and downs and there are always going to be some sales that were lost, some project that's behind, some budget that needs to get trimmed. Even in successful companies not everything is going to be successful.

Most people I think want transparency, but it's so rare in reality, especially in meetings like that, that people don't really know what to do when they actually get it. I think a lot of companies are running on more risk and thinner margins than people expect, and being transparent about that can hurt morale for a while because I think in a lot of cases the sugar coating has been thicker than people realized and the reality is a bit more stark.

The up-side to it I think is that in the long term it can lead to a better team. People are more honest and loyal to leaders who don't shy away from the truth when it's uncomfortable, and there's less panic when a budget is cut or a project canceled, or even people laid off, when people can see what the business realities are that lead to those decisions.
Browser Treatment of Bad SSL
LogDNA: powerful, easy to get started and still improving. Using in parallel with Papertrail and instead of Logentries (which we had horrific problems with earlier in the year).
Self hosted ELK stack, not HA at the moment. Will move the ES nodes to AWS's managed service once I'm ready to make it more resilient.