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> Regardless of what one feels about children, I'm kind of shocked anyone could see accidental sterilisation as a benefit of any kind.

I know plenty of heterosexual men who would see this as a license to have unprotected sex with as many women as possible and never be burdened by the responsibility of a child.

I'm not saying I agree with this attitude (furthest from it, actually), but "you'll never have kids" probably won't come to them as a negative.

(I'm not hetero, for what it's worth.)
I think it helps to learn how to gamble or /play poker properly.

You'll learn what the poker players call "varience".

If you know varience (not patience) then over the long term, you aren't gambling. Or you are gambling but in a way if done properly that will make you money over the long term with 100% success.
Microsoft seem to have believed that they shouldn't compete with their OEMs by offering their own hardware. This doesn't seem to be a problem for Android.

CE Pocket PC et al suffered the same problem as Symbian and everything before iOS: they didn't have the App Store, and as such it was a pain to get software for the devices other than through the OEM. And OEM bundled software is always terrible.
Purchased or no, there was an investment in time and money to populate your iTunes library. I think the original comment stands on its own.
Well, I lost nearly half the article asking myself why would somebody ever run a single container per VM... They got a bug that made container-running VMs unreliable, thus did a non-test using what they got available.

I'd be more interested on articles that actually tested it running how it was meant to. Or, if you can't, just stop there and say "there's a showstopper bug, it wouldn't work for us" - those are useful articles too, and require much less effort.

About databases, mostly anything¹ you put between them and the hardware will hurt you. VMs are bad too. What I can't imagine is how you would create and destroy database instances at will - I might live in a different reality, but around here you'll always want as few database nodes as possible, and as a consequence, as powerful and reliable nodes as possible, what means as little moving parts as possible.

1 - What won't hurt is a disk abstraction layer designed for performance and as expressive as the original physical stuff. This is widely used with the "SAN" name, and I'm willing to bet you can mount one inside a container. But well, on AWS you really won't.
I agree. HTTPS is only good against your neighbor script kiddie and your isp injecting ads. Also now good if you want to support https2 features.

It's naive to think it's any good against states or sophisticated attackers.
Uber | New York City | Onsite

Process: phone screen, 1 onsite interview, offer.

Uber Engineering in NYC is growing! We currently have two major teams/initiatives we're building out and have a number of senior, foundational level roles within both of them. Here's a bit about our groups as well as a listing of some of our open positions.

If interested, please apply or reach out to Patrick Burke at pburke@uber.com

UberRUSH - a completely NYC-based team that is helping Uber transition from moving people to moving everything. This is our effort to become a global logistics firm using the core infrastructure and applications used in our rider app.

Observability - an NYC-based SDE infrastructure group responsible for core metrics, infrastructure and monitoring systems that provide anomaly detection and intelligent alerting to Uber engineering groups. This team also builds Uber's distributed tracing platform, allowing for request latency to be measured through a complicated services architecture.

Job specs:
Senior Distributed Systems SWE - Observability: https://www.uber.com/careers/list/21687/

Senior Backend SWE - UberRUSH: https://www.uber.com/careers/list/21688/

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Senior Android Engineer - UberRUSH:
https://www.uber.com/careers/list/25845/

Engineering Manager - UberRUSH: https://www.uber.com/careers/list/25678/
Is there a need for IoT devices to serve HTTPS?
Money. You should measure money. everything else is just a proxy for that.
I'm absolutely thrilled by the response so far! I didn't expect to get such a large amount of interest so fast. I already have hundreds of users interested in the early access program. I'm going to be hard at work the next couple weeks writing documentation and developing the rest of the web app (API is ready) so that we can get this ball rolling!
Dyson, the billionaire who backed Brexit, is worried that there aren't enough engineers in the UK.

Hah.
New Electric Vehicle Magazine on Product Hunt. Thanks for Supporting
Yep. It seems like they took the opposite approach to what they should have.

They killed their billboard campaign because their attempts to attribute the value of the campaign to growth failed.

They talked to a few people (got attribution) and learned it had a wider effect than their original attribution did. This is more data, not less.

It sounds like they should have taken a different approach to attribution in the first place when they moved from purely digital marketing to meatspace ads.
Meh I don't buy it, the method of the study seems not very sound. I myself was on a 10 days meditation retreat http://www.sobhana.dhamma.org/ where we meditated for 16 hours a day or something and sure it helped with the mood, relaxation, etc. but it wore out after a couple of weeks and I never had the nerv to meditate daily because it was not worth it. Btw. my brother and sister attended it too and both say the same about it.
Or per a single user, even if all else works well:

- Email account gets hacked, and you can't respond to emails anymore.

- Spam filter bug filters the service's emails for 3 consecutive weeks.

- You are simply hospitalized for a few weeks, maybe under anesthesia, maybe in a temporary coma, maybe some memory loss.

A "dead man switch" needs to be more robust for really sensitive stuff IMO.
He wasn't using orchestration, but said Docker Swarm is terrible. How did he come to that conclusion.

For the record, orchestration in Docker (1.12.x) is actually quite good. Its built-in service discovery and mesh networking make setup a breeze.
The USDA Organic label allows for mined phosphate and potassium to be used on organic farms.
> At first glance your n and my n are different

Right; as you sketch out, there's some constants that disappear into the O() notation.
is there a print version?
The first iPhone was actually being sold unsubsidized. That's why you could pop in and buy one from the Apple Store in cash. It was one of Apple's concessions to AT&T. iPhone 3G was subsidized and sold for $200.
Show HN: I quit my job at Facebook to make personalized children's books
Op here. I had called this a Broken Arrow because it is. The newspaper headline is obviously a toned-down version so as to not raise local alarm. This object, if it is what is suspected, is not just an "old bomb". Old bombs are found almost daily and do no warrant headlines in major newspapers. I refrained from terms like "nuke" as that suggests nuclear material. Nevertheless, this is a nuclear device and part of a notorious, perhaps the definitive, broken arrow incident: a bomb lost for decades on foreign soil, known and read about by people all over the world.
Most mining products are very much inorganic, oil being a notable exception ;)
This will affect a small percentage of features, in a small percentage of browsers, of the 23% that don't support @supports (all three of which are shrinking percentages).

That coupled with the fact the features are likely to be non-functional aesthetic elements makes it a very minor flaw imo.
> Internet Explorer was a hugely successful browser dominating the market.

Mostly because it was shipped with Windows and many people wont change it (Non tech). Furthermore, setting aside the anti-trust case, I would rather say they did not capitalize on that start they got IMHO.
Everything you have said here is correct but I would like to add one thing.

Someone who writes a higher level language (like python, php or ruby) and can understand the internals (written in C not C++) can at times have a distinct advantage.

Not only are you able to/capable of understanding what is going on at a deeper level you now have the ability to optimize things in a way that would not normally be possible. On the PHP side I have used C to do some low level optimization that would not have been possible otherwise, and a long time ago simply get some features to work properly.
I build a lot of "small sites" and you're correct - implementing SSL for them on a typical shared host is not drop dead easy (also not free).

I also host with WPEngine, a more progressive WordPress only host - which has made SSL implementation extremely simple. They're an example of a modern approach to web hosting.

It's the low cost, shared (LAMP) hosting providers that need to implement it into their sales process and make switching existing non-encrypted sites smooth. Unfortunately, I don't see them moving to "free SSL for everyone!" anytime soon as it's a revenue generator for most.
Of course while reading the article you are going to be very conscious of detail and image quality because that is the subject matter of the post.

However if that MacBook Pro image was placed on the side of an article where the primary content was the text you were reading, you'd glance at the image and your brain would fill in the details for you. You probably wouldn't notice the difference in that context.

For most use cases, there likely is very little functional difference between the two images. At least, that was how I understood it.
The more fun article is "When the elves leave middle-earth".

(Which is the HN equivalent of saying "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra")
Yeah, for every article complaining about how Docker in production is just so terrible there's a huge group of people who have been running it for a while and have no problems at all.

Nobody writes rant posts when things work, I guess.
We do have budget and will be paying once quota is depleted (can't wait for that moment) but so far (and in case of our disappearance) free should sustain the minimum viable service levels (aka delete account).
Like the author I've also been running Docker in production since early 2015. Given the 'HFTGuy' part of his email address I'll guess I don't do anything nearly as edgy as he has to do on a daily basis, so it would be tiresome to just say that I haven't had the problems he's experienced. A lot of his issues probably do stem from his organization pushing the limit and wanting to run very specific configurations for performance reasons.

The one thing I do want to respond to is the notion that Docker cannot run stateful apps. Among the stateful apps I have run on Docker in production: elasticsearch, redis, postgresql, mysql, and mongodb. Containers and application state are orthogonal topics. The contained process is reading and writing a file system on persistent media just like all the other processes on the host and that file system doesn't mysteriously disappear when the contained process exits. Naturally stateless apps are simpler. They're simpler to run on VMs or bare metal too. When you need data in a container you do the same thing you do when you need it on a VM or on bare metal: you mount appropriate storage for it.

The main issue with most stateful applications isn't the existence of the state. The main issue is that if you have state then its probably important, you probably want to make it durable and highly available, you probably want clustering and replication, and now you're into discovery and peering, and that can be an actual issue with Docker, especially for finicky beasts like redis.
The banana plant extracts potassium from the soil and deposits it in the banana, but it doesn't do anything to change the isotopic ratio, the makeup of the potassium in the banana will match the makeup of the potassium in the soil.

The plant might put a higher percentage of potassium in the fruit than exists in the soil, or it might not. So it isn't clear if it concentrates it (it certainly makes it more appealing to consume it).

I'm not sure if that matches your meaning or not.
"In British English, either is acceptable"

from the first sentence.

> Quora

> not a high quality reference

> proceeds to reference Wikipedia
I actually haven't used RN with the intention of falling back into native code before. I was working on contributing an RN-built component as a CocoaPod dependency into an existing Obj-C code base but that project ended up not getting very far for reasons beyond my control. Before it was scrapped, we were exploring performance issues in loading up RN in each individual component.
The sound is probably coming from the LCD screen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862689
Mads Kristensen [Visual Studio] Extensions
1) You had to pay full price and sign up for a two year contract with AT&T when the iPhone first came out.

2) Another fact that supports Ballmer's point that the phones were too expensive is that Apple dropped the price by several hundred dollars a few months after launching it.

So, yes, there were two year contracts, but no smartphone was $0 down or close to it at the time.
Thanks! The single file component format is becoming increasingly popular (for good reason), being used on Riot, Vue, Polymer and probably others.
The main difference, however, is in HTMLComponent the goal is to use native functionalities as much as possible, so any code you write is based on web standards, not framework specific.
Also, unlike most frameworks (including Riot), there is no support for data binding, and direct DOM manipulation is the expected usage.
A Journey Through Asynchronous Coding
You have to use devicemapper in direct-lvm mode in order to get free space back. I agree it's not the best out-of-box experience, but so far we haven't had any problems running ECS on CentOS instances since switching to direct-lvm.
Do I Even Need a Routing Library?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9315346
Says in stock on Adafruit https://www.adafruit.com/product/2885
Previous discussion [1].

Getting Started with Webpack 2 (madewithenvy.com)
98 points by gregorymichael 2 days ago

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12851864
I can't think what we're the engineers that implemented that stuff were thinking.

Blogger sort of worked fine until they hugged it with js and their latest super cool network and view engine. Let's see if they rewrite the whole blogger thing in webgl soon. I wouldn't be surprised.

Also I'm sick and tired if closing those cookie notifications.

PS. I browse the web with js enabled like the majority but there is no need to use js to render 50kb of text.
How to Prioritize Bugs on Your To-Do List
It's fairly standard for non-academic teaching organisations to have their degrees sponsored by an established university. For example the Centre for Alternative Technology offers a number of masters courses without itself being a university [0]. This is probably more common for postgrad courses, but no reason why it couldn't work for undergrad too.

https://gse.cat.org.uk
Then how are they going to decrypt the messages to send to your loved ones?
Remove enough heat and fires stop. The geometry of battery packs may make this difficult, but at a minimum it can prevent secondary fires.

PS: However, simply letting a wretched car burn is generally safe and the car is already totaled so there is little reason to mess with it.
Jaw.Dropping.
>it can cause cancer

So can dental fillings, breast implants, and artificial sweeteners.

Like female birth control though, most people agree that the risk for developing cancer associated with the activity is well worth the benefits. Saying "boo fucking hoo" about someone who can never reproduce again is pretty cold-hearted, in my opinion.
i think it's more likely a temporary spike in popularity of some non-HTTPS site than a temporary failure to provide HTTPS by a site that normally does.
Light drives single-molecule nanoroadsters
Paperwork. Miscounting. Bent Spear also covers, imho, incidents where a device is counted twice, where it is on two different inventories. In such a situation there is no suggestion that the device is gone, but at least one of the two lists is inaccurate and therefore 'missing' a device.
What you're calling "coalition building", I think of as "consensus building". And not only do I think of it as important, I think that it is literally the job of elected officials, especially after they've been elected.

Right now I don't even see coalitions being built by major political parties. I see political organization being transmogrified into factions and enemies.

I recognize that there are millions of dedicated activists and organizers who are building coalitions, building consensus, reworking political narratives.

For all that human effort to be channeled through the grimey distorting lens of left and right... Its wasteful at best.

I absolutely agree that issues are what's important. Unhooking the issues from the gridlock of corrupt political establishments would give elected officials the freedom to build consensus beyond the coersion of corrupted political parties.
Dude...

People are raising valid concerns about your product, and instead of listening and accepting early feedback from HN, you are all over this discussion, defensively arguing with everyone. Just sit back, hear what people have to say, and then decide for yourself if you want to make changes, or reject the feedback.
Effectively he's bringing back apprenticeships the way they should be.

It's far more useful than the current University arrangement, where 'everyone' gets to pay money to drink for 3 years (whilst studying) and then either drop back into the market looking for useful work, or go on to spend even more time making Academia seem worthwhile.

We used to be world leaders in engineering and production in the UK - now we just have students everywhere, with no jobs to go to as we import pretty much everything.

Okay - slightly over-dramatic, but at least Dyson is trying to do something useful.
Adobe is working on an audio app that lets you add words someone never said
No but I printed this PDF (http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/everything....). 1250 pages. Not sure about the legality of it.
Part of the reason we don't have the people is because we rely on 'Europe' to provide everything.
Do you have a reference for that?

I was under the impression that the first 100,000 units are free, and then 20c per unit afterwards to a max of $25m.

H264 drops to 10c per unit after 5m units, to a max of $6.5m.

You need to be shipping 125 million units annually to hit the full $25m.

Yes it's more, but it's not quite ten times. And notably if the chip maker pays the royalties, then the content creators don't need to (though that was excepted indefinitely with H264).

Parts regurgitated from a quick google for reference [1]

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/03/hevc_patent_terms_th...
Interesting. Didn't know about this. Just turned it on for as many things as I could. Now my phone keeps crashing and rebooting. x)
What about passwords and such? How do you handle it when it comes to will?
People aren't inhaling large amounts of woodsmoke on a regular basis for years.
I'm in the process of reading Vol 1 atm. It's densely packed but really well presented so far. I should caveat that I'm still near the beginning (learning MIX) so I can't claim that it will remain that way, but so far I'm really enjoying it
Show HN: Build RPM and Debian Packages from git on Travis CI
You're welcome to suggest measures I should undertake to be more effective at getting to the truth in these matters.

Here's what I'm doing so far:

- Reading a wide variety of scientific sources across the spectrum of thought on these matters: Dr Bruce Lipton - pioneering stem cell biologist, now author and speaker; Rudy Tanzi - Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and researcher behind some of the biggest recent breakthroughs in Alzheimer's research; Lissa Rankin - mainstream physician and author; Bernardo Kastrup - PhD scientist, philosopher, author; Sir Roger Penrose - Physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science; Sam Harris - Neuroscientist/Atheist/Skeptic movement icon; Richard Dawkins - biologist & father of the modern Skeptic movement; Jerry Coyne of https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/; http://www.quackwatch.com/; https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/; Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. - Biologist and Author. Karl Popper - philosopher of science and leading contributor to The Scientific Method. Comparing points of view from all these sources with each other and with my own experiences and what I can establish from publicly available studies in science journals and papers published via NCBI.

- Conducting a variety of lab tests of physiological metrics over almost 10 years, including: blood pressure (was consistently high for a few months about 10 years ago, went low for an extended period around 5-6 years ago, and has been consistently optimal for the past 2 years); cholesterol (improving), blood sugar (normalising), iron & zinc (improving), hormones eg adrenaline, cortisol, thyroid (normalising), inflammation (reducing), white blood cell count (improving).

- Collaborating with acquaintances who have been afflicted with similar illnesses (chronic fatigue, auto-immune illness, depression, etc), particularly those who are strongly scientific/rational in their worldviews. Admittedly my own scientific background is merely limited to high-school chemistry/physics/advanced math, a career as a software developer (self-taught), several years working in the fields of agricultural science and secondary science education, and an upbringing by an electronics engineer father and a mainstream medical practitioner mother. But my most trusted fellow travellers in this journey are minimum Master's-degree qualified in science (one in biotech, one computer science), and are widely reputed as being among the best in their field.

But I sincerely want to be as effective as is humanly possible at avoiding delusion and finding truth; my qualify of life depends on it. Please be forthcoming with any suggestions.

By the way, your challenge is to refute anything I've said without succumbing to the "beg the question" fallacy. Ideally you'll avoid all the other fallacies too (particularly Ad Hominem), but "beg the question" is the trickiest and most important to avoid in this debate.
I would recommend puff, puff, pass. Otherwise you risk the chance of a bogart.
There is also https://www.fidsafe.com/
You can easily be hospitalized, trap in another country without communication etc. etc. for three weeks.
IPv6 spec was 1996.

Four years is not really a very long time in the greater scheme of things, the pace of modern web development just makes for an impatient populous with short attention spans.
I think if you apply to any university they'll strongly recommend that you should be doing the MEng instead. The BEng isn't enough to even get chartered is it? So you'd need to do another degree anyway.
Commercial arts employ artists.
Can you elaborate on which legitimate uses you had in mind?