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Microsoft pops up ads from the Windows 10 toolbar
> in all but appearance

And consumer price.
Introducing Google Home
I agree with this. SmartOS would be my choice over Solaris. I think FreeBSD is getting there. With things like Tredly. The building blocks are solid and available they just lack some polish.

So if you have the skill FreeBSD. Otherwise SmartOS makes a killer setup for containers unmatched by anyone else.
Biases are bad whether about conservatives or about LGBT people. I get that there are consequences for everything but the consequences for having less biases is a more open and fair academic system.

EDIT: The stated purpose of it isn't bad and as long as it doesn't enforce specific biases instead of eliminating them then it's probably okay
The entire conversations with Tyler series is great. He makes an effort to ask slightly unconventional questions and doesn't show off.

Previous guests include Erza Klein, Peter Thiel, Jonathan Haidt and Nate Silver.

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/all
...have helped make the South Pacific nation -- a day by air away from New York or London

Isn't that essentially anywhere on the planet?
SmartOS, FreeBSD, Tredly, etc
Anonymous downvoting is pretty popular around here. I agree it's a very rude thing to do. Also, just an FYI, I was scolded the other day for acknowledging the downvoting in an edit.

Edit: case and point
Not disagreeing with you or the postmortem, but:

1. that post is from Feb 8, 2016

2. nanomsg 1.0 was released on June 10, 2016

After nanomsg 1.0 release, recent activity on github includes:

8 days ago -- fixes #828 Add logical connections to UDP RFC

9 days ago -- fixes #827 nanomsg zerotier mapping rfc errors

11 days ago -- fixes #825 Extra tests in pipe.c
gdamore committed 11 days ago

15 days ago -- fixes #800 accept4 not implemented on all systems

15 days ago -- fixes #783 WS transport - not connectable from Firefox

16 days ago -- fixes #821 NN_WS_HANDSHAKE_CRLF is silly

And etc.
one of those is at least a different post in the series
The article mentions the customer configuring 3 sliders of wine characteristics, that might be too much decision making for me at a restaurant.

I'd still ask a sommelier standing nearby to pick something for me.
> Money does not buy style if you see all those new houses by the way...

Always thought it must be something with my taste but every time I see houses by 'the (super) rich' I think; why didn't you hire an actual talented architect?
Mission-Adaptive Digital Composite Aerostructure Technologies (MADCAT)
Looks great, thanks a lot!

While causally browsing I noted the following in the 8-queens backtracking example:

"The following recursive algorithm, essentially due to Gauss (who called it “methodical groping”), ..."

Hilarious, especially given the current situation. I'd like to know what his original German term was.
> Twenty years ago I was a tea-totaller, but there was a group of people I wanted to hang out with who would get together to drink wine so I decided to try to develop a taste for it.

Could you go into a bit more detail on this? The very idea of forcing myself to "acquire the taste" for alcohol seems distasteful in itself. I've got additional reasons for choosing not to do so, but I'd be interested to hear another point of view and why you'd want to make a fairly drastic change.
Disagree.

Voter fraud would be noticed when a person goes to the polls and finds out that they have already voted.
Another funny thing is that Docker just got slapped in the face "Docker in Production: A History of Failure" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304).
I agree. NNT makes a surprisingly cogent argument for why Pinker is incorrect. In NNT's words: "Charlatan!".
So, now NZers will not be able to afford to live in their own country.[0]

The mega rich should buy sailing vessels and live on those and leave the housing prices affordable to the rest of us.

[0] Or at least not own a house.
> We tried the notorious two-buck chuck and thought it was absolutely horrible

Then you should try it again! Not only are there many varietals, but they change far more year over year than your traditional wine would as it's basically a blend of whatever was available as overage from many different California wineries. Some years there is a bit of a hidden gem worth spending a few bucks to find.
I think the point in this sentence is that most other "popular" places with international airports are closer and easier to reach. It's "a whole day, that's a long time to fly", not "just takes a day, so not too bad".
Takata Airbags still deploying incorrectly
We believe doing things together is just better
Never understood the comparison re: Microsoft and Google. At the time of the Microsoft litigation (and still), they were the dominant OS. The OS wasn't/isn't free. It restricted competition esp. browsers. Google is (mostly) free and ad based. They can't keep other search engines off the internet. They're just what people use (so far).
This entire thread makes me think of that Silicon Valley scene[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5jF5jtMM_4
It is absolutely relevant: If your container is running its own kernel, then it is consuming memory for that kernel, not to mention the CPU overhead of the hosted kernel. Additionally, every container must also boot a complete OS. More overhead. This is why traditional containers use a shared kernel with process group isolation. You pay for what you use. A traditional container only uses what it needs for the app itself, and it starts in a fraction of the time because it doesn't have to boot anything. Performance and cost may be acceptable regardless, but that's not the point. Containers are more efficient.

Based upon responses from Hyper, they appear to address these concerns in a manner I have never heard before. I will certainly be looking into their core technology.
> It's based on information. As such, your opinion is objectively wrong.

Hang on, I'm not making the claim you think I'm making. Pinker observes that the level of violence in society is at an all-time low- that is, as you say, an objective fact beyond dispute (modulo measurement error). But there is a clear implied claim there that this fact means pessimism for the future is unwarranted. That is what I am disputing, because I think trends and incentives are more important than current numbers (think about how a company's share price can fall even if they have a great quarter, if investors don't think its future prospects are great)

I also dispute your claim that _every_ metric shows things are getting better. Some are, especially in areas like health and lifespan, but others (income inequality, social cohesion, faith in democracy, etc.) are not. There are legitimate grounds for disagreement as to which metrics are more important to the question of "should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future", and maybe your opinion differs from mine, but that does not make me objectively wrong.
Serverless Map/Reduce
Sorry but what does HN stands for?´
'Every time a cell divides there is some chance of a genetic error occurring.'

Why is that cell allowed to exist then? Isn't there a quality control mechanism or something, that can detect an error occurred and delete the cell?
LVR restrictions were upped in October to 40% meaning you now need as an investor 40% deposit for a mortgage in Auckland from the NZ banks (previously was upped to 30%). Things might be slowing down - open homes in my area seem to have less traffic on weekends ....
No effort towards innovation would then go into that sector. Ever again.
You may view them as inflammatory. But it's coming from a POV of pain having to deal with broken architecture, piss poor portability and general pain of hacking around poorly engineered Linux architecture.

Frustration, pain are more appropriate terms from my pov than inflammatory. But ymmv.

It's like "Come on folks! You can do better than this! Please! Just stop! Think! Please. I'm begging you."
Yes but that is quite more work than "apt-get install opencv", and thar is an incredible barrier to to entry for a lot of projects from a lot of people with less expertise and/or time.
When you add recipient your message is (decrypted using your id) copied and the copy is encrypted with the recipient email. Once the recipient logs in (their OAuth id becomes available) the email (verified by the OAuth) is used to decrypt the message copy and encrypted again this time with his/her id. That temporary email encrypted message is decryptable of course although there is no utility or UI for us to do so.
I guess we'd better store the owner Id and don't make copies, since it doesn't change anything security wise ... Yes, rogue admin can do harm ...
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Healths Fitness
Smoking breaks are a social activity in many workplaces.

Its hard to get rid of those sort of addictions.
Interesting. I'll look into this further. Thank you for the insight.
Show HN: Try this Chrome Extention
Whether it's relevant or not is up for the project maintainer to decide. All anyone can do is point out what they perceive as a potential problem, and then let the others take it from there.

CiPHPerCoder didn't exactly do that. He came out guns ablaze from the start, using bolded text, italics and inflammatory phrasing - basically just stopping short of calling the project maintainer a complete idiot.

It's not surprising CiPHPerCoder got the reaction he did - it is, however, surprising he decided to do all this under his company's name.

It's almost like CiPHPerCoder is personally offended that some joe random developer hasn't heard about some obscure CVE CiPHPerCoder was involved with, or that they didn't handle it like he would like. "Do you know who I am!?"

The initial issue was he came here and ranted about it, instead of pointing it out to the projects. Eventually he "gave in" and reported it to a single project, but took this holier-than-thou tone and was aggressive the entire time. That's ridiculous.
>> How would a reasonable person not want to be an organ donor??

Because I have fundamental issues with the economics of organ donation. I do not want my organs used in million-dollar surgeries to save elderly rich people. I would much rather that money be spent more efficiently on younger/poorer people where it can save more lives. How many flu shots could be purchased for the cost of one heart transplant? I cannot change the economic realities of modern medicine, but the least I can do is not contribute my own flesh towards the problem.
In Germany they have "Berufsakademie". You get paid by a company while you go to school 6 months a year and are a sort of intern the other 6 months. and usually you are expected to work there but it's not enforced in any way. The starting salaries are the same as graduates from other colleges. It's a pretty good deal in my view.
This is true of macOS as well now. You can defer it, but you're nagged pretty consistently. There was a time I remember when installing updates on OS X didn't require a reboot unless it an os update. Now, so many things are tied together.

This doesn't require a system reboot, but if you're updating Xcode, you can't if iTunes is open. I understand shared libs and things, but I don't really see that much difference anymore between rebooting for Windows updates and macOS updates. YMMV I guess.
How exactly does this square with the UK CS grad unemployment crisis?

https://www.studyinternational.com/news/uk-computer-science-...

http://blog.hefce.ac.uk/2015/07/08/unemployment-among-comput...

“For a long time we wondered why more people didn’t major in computer science,” Alex Aiken, chair of Stanford University’s Computer Science Department, told Times Higher Education. “Everyone in the field believed it was the future and that [it] represented an important way of thinking. Now the world believes us, and we have an overwhelming number of students.”
It's hard to answer this question without knowing what it is you are doing or want to do. Python + C++ can be a good combo in the computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, etc spaces. But for say a normal web app developer, C++ doesn't add much. I haven't written any C++ since school.
None of these are true for snus, and the American Cancer Society hasn't been the most trustworthy party on tobacco (although they should be.)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=swedish%20snus

The Lancet article is good, but there's a universal consensus.
If Apple actually exits the PC era years from now, then I expect an iPad Pro-like platform will host an iOS-based XCode (or whatever they call it when it is re-targeted to iOS). It can be a bumpy 3-5 year transition, about the time it took for OS X to stabilize the transition from the MacOS user experience. We won't know until it happens. Jobs-Apple never articulated what they see for their users going forward on a strategic scale, the vision is only laid out at the product introduction, and only tactically-constrained forward optics are shared. So far Cook-Apple seems to follow the same behavior in this regard.

I think the tail is wagging the dog if Apple goes down that road. A lot of shareholders and customers are impatiently pushing Apple for The Next Innovation, but ironically I suspect a steady-as-she-goes Cook-style CEO is exactly what they need for the next 4-6 years because I see us in a hardware technological interregnum that takes time to mature. Apple's innovations have usually come from a confluence of the right hardware maturation cycles to capitalize upon software waiting in the wings for the hardware to catch up. The innovation and revenue has been hardware-based but it can just as easily be software- and services-based, but Apple hasn't chosen to monetize yet. At the moment, the hardware-oriented tail is wagging the entire organization, as they seek out the next innovation category in another piece of hardware, when seeking hardware might be the wrong question to ask in the first place.

Battery and charging technology is an especially big obstacle right now for them. Apple Watch is the Mac 128K of Apple's smartwatch category due to that obstacle. They're making uncomfortable engineering tradeoffs in the latest MacBook Pro (if you believe Schiller's explanation, which I do) due to that obstacle.
Grpc in python is much slower than c++ or even java.
That's all well and good if the fire takes place on a normal road, but that seems extremely dangerous if the fire takes place in a tunnel or on/under a bridge. Are we going to need autonomous vehicles to drag burning cars out of tunnels so they don't cause structural damage?

Not trying to knock electric cars, I'm a huge proponent of them, I just am not a fan of hand-waving about safety. Vehicles are probably the most destructive thing most people own. You can literally cause tens of millions of dollars in damage with a car merely through negligence. Pretty hard to do that with anything else normal people have access to.
Are they truly "errors" or deviations which could be good or bad?
The 20% number is part of the initial 3-year pilot program, not necessarily the ultimate goal. That's also the mandatory minimum, with agencies "strongly encouraged" to release as much as possible.

See the policy [0], linked from the launch announcement [1].

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda...

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/08/peoples-code
That's fair, and it's something I've noticed at supermarkets in Dublin as well. I think the price of eating out is comparable though.

That said, I've noticed the portions of food tend to be smaller here in Dublin as well (I suspect being a metropolitan area the supermarkets cater more to individuals whereas the supermarkets back home tend to cater to families).
For example, it's next to impossible to buy 1kg of Cheese here in Dublin as the largest you can get from a supermarket is 400 grams.
I think the people that are inventing this "bias reporting system" have horrible biases, and they only get worse as time goes along.

The problem is that it's not a fair system. And everybody knows this, but obviously if you're the ones making the rules and the system is in your favor, you don't care.

But the real problem is that there is no honesty in the discussions and arguments that SJWs and their sympathizers present.
OP's comment was succinct and digestible by a non-technical audience with basic biological knowledge. If he had known of the model, surely he could have spared 2-3 sentences like OP.
[2015] The Tail at Scale – the morning paper
"Where does that misplaced pride come from?"

I don't think it's misplaced at all.

There's no way 'not' to be 'married' to your startup.

For entrepreneurs, it's a 'life' investment, for VC's it's a calculation.

There is no doubt that VC's play an essential role.

There is also no doubt that VC's have incredible leverage in the situation. They also have completely different motivations.

A 'not wealthy' entrepreneur, who's trying to make something big, is in a very weak position compared to very wealthy VC's, who can opt to chose the pick of the litter.

The personal attitude and objectives among most VC's is very, very different than that of entrepreneurs.

VC is definitely capital. They are bankers first. Most entrepreneurs have broader objectives. That plays out in the deal.

Finally - VC's see deals all day, every day, and know all of the tactics. Most entrepreneurs go through one set of deals in their entire lives.

It's like playing a single hand of poker against someone who plays all day, every day.
To confirm your point, last time I checked, vegans were still dying from cancer too.
The first thing I noticed was the ringing, which is an artifact of low-pass filtering so it's a nice opportunity to go into problems with that kind of filtering. Other than that I think it was an ok teaser that gives an idea of how compression is done and what the trade-offs are.
Michael Zagaris Backstage
I "want to believe you" and I always try to extend the benefit of the doubt whenever possible but it'd be interesting to hear the other side of the story as well.

Among other things, I manage a bunch of mail servers and I keep a close eye on them. I "blacklist" IP addresses of "misbehaving senders" pretty often and the rejection messages provide a way for the sender to get in touch with us. This way, we can work with them to rectify whatever problem caused them to be blacklisted by us -- many times it's that an e-mail account was compromised and used to send out spam.

I can't even begin to count how many times I've had administrators of other mail servers swear to me that they have NEVER sent out any spam whatsoever (or similar statements) and that blacklisting them is a mistake and absolutely 100% our fault.

Except that, in every case, I, personally, have looked at every single message, determined it was spam, tracked down where it came from (verifying Received: headers against Postfix logs), and manually added the IP address to our list. In addition, the first time it happens they don't even get prevented from sending mail to us; only upon the second incident are messages rejected.

Thus, for someone to say that they know absolutely positively 100% without a doubt that their server never sent us spam just makes me laugh because I know that not only did they send us spam but, as a matter of fact, they've done it at least twice!

So, like I said, I want to believe you but I'd want to hear it from the other side before making a conclusion. There's always another version of events and experience has shown me that it's usually drastically different.
You say "foods" - plural. Did you cut other things out besides sugar?
I was hoping to see a poll here. I'm curious to see say 3–6 months from now what percentage has left Apple hardware, laptops specifically.
Heart disease?
Just a wild guess here, but I bet they're using Google Analytics for the same reason everyone else uses Google Analytics--to see what their audience is looking at.

> Also, requiring Javascript in a single page application is a terrible design for this kind of site.

Good luck making a single page application without Javascript! It is all in 25 requests and 668KB, not the lightest site, but that's actually less data than the homepage of Google is today. It's also properly setting expires headers so future page loads are very quick.
In that sense, shall we care whether the EC2 instances in the ECS cluster are located at the same server, or the same rack?
So this is what it looks like when the NYT hits rock bottom.
> Its better to NOT estimate because it doesnt hold any values.

This is the core of where I disagree. Giving estimates provide tremendous value to those who depend on your work. It allows them to plan and forecast future needs.

You're rarely ever working in some kind of bubble where your work is this mysterious thing that can be done tomorrow or in 4 years. I've never encountered a situation where there's so many unknowns that you can't come up with some number. Requirements change, timelines change, that's all fine. Businesses should be able to adapt to change. Being in the complete dark is much worse.

> 'finished on time'.... This is the waterfall approach.

I'm not sure what you mean by that? Things can't be late just because you're "agile"?
Yes, perhaps if they use a standard protection scheme :)
Box is in a rough businesses.

They are offering a commodity product in a very competitive landscape and so they have tons of upfront costs, and have to buy their way into the market.

As far as 'cloud storage' - the winners in the game are truly the consumers. I mean, it's cheap for us.
TIL there is a .wtf TLD.
Clicking this link takes me to a login page with no ability to access the content in any way.

I screen shotted it because I've actually never seen something like this before: http://i.imgur.com/1YBFuiU.png

Also, doing the web link brings me to the same login page.
Last year I took two months off between contracts. It was more a staycation, but realistically it had been over 10 years since my last vacation, or more than a day off.

That time period did so much to help rejuvinate me and make me better. Working on personal projects, and other items. Towards the tail end I took on part time work and was still happier than I had been in years. The biggest thing was being able to meditate daily. Pick what I want that day, whether it be a novel, research, or software.

I took an actual vacation this year. I was more stressed, and frazzled going into it, and even worse coming out. I had just rented my house, and the vacation was rife with calls from the police about trouble from my tenants, and missed payments. The travel was also frought with layovers and delays.

I also meditate, did tai chi, etc. Gym time and meditation was crucial for my over all well being. But now being one of those mega commuters, which is about to end. I didn't really have the time. Being crunched for time, it was easier to reach for a bottle of whiskey to ease my tension. Which is by no means ideal. I had actually gone dry for three years, and broke that several months prior.

I've also found my meditation is largely based on relieving stress from work. Where I'm not fulfilled in the slightest at work. I then meditate to try and combat that feeling. It's a cyclical cycle.
Atlassian, which just IPOd this year, was famously bootstrapped. There are two founders, each with 37.7% [1], so the table is misleading and the should really be 75.4%. Atlassian eventually took funding from Accel, 8 years after its founding.

It is also curious the table rounded Accel's ownership up (12.7 -> 13), but truncated the founders' (37.7 -> 37).

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650372/000155837015...
One of the best explanations I have ever heard, for why someone might choose to smoke.