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nope I'm saying that one is as easy or indeed easier than another. Once you assume an immoral authority has control over patient care it's frankly easier and less risky for them just to remove organs without patient consent after death, than deliberately give poor care to hasten the patient's demise.
The basic issue with all this is hardware manufacturers, and their fire and forget attitudes towards products.

Thus they barely get their stuff working on the major commercial platforms, and all the rest have to either beg for specs so they can write their own (good luck) or reverse engineers (and risking bricking the hardware because of abusing standards for firmware flashing and whatsnot).

And your primary complaint boils down to power management, aka ACPI. And it, like UEFI, suffers from the second system effect (Linus Torvalds do not hold either in high regard for example). There is at least one documented case of a name brand motherboard offering up junk ACPI data unless Linux claimed to be Windows.

Linux appears to be at a standstill because each time a new motherboard or expansion card gets released, the process basically starts from ground zero unless it happens to be based of some bottom of the barrel chip with zero modifications so the Linux devs can just add another product ID to the driver table and call it a day (resulting in things like USB webcam drivers that support some 100+ camera models).
I get downvoted a lot of the time if I mention Pivotal or any of the things we work on (particularly Cloud Foundry).

However in this case it might well be the referral link. Some people don't like them on principle and there will always be someone who hasn't seen previous discussions about it[0].

For anyone who hates referral links, go to https://pivotal.io/careers. If I have to miss out on a referral in exchange for a good hire, it's worth it in the long run.

[0] Notably, this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202874
A youtube channel focused on teaching distributed programming in a simple way

I have already sketched some videos explaining consensus algorithms and the byzantine generals problem (yeah, I'm a Lamport fanboy)
This is quite controversial and sounds more than a little conspiracy theory-esque.

While I'm sure this sort of thing goes on, if you could back your statements up with some evidence it would be really helpful.

What you're suggesting here allows for the possibility that at some point some tech firm finds creates a way for us to ditch traditional DRAM and use the cheaper flash storage instead.

My gut tells me there is more to it than politics and capitalism.
It's surprising how much of a disruption this caused to their launch schedule, but it's great that they got to the bottom of the issue before repeating the process on any further rockets.

The worst kind of bug is the intermittent one that you can't reproduce or see in logs. With only 35-55 milliseconds of metrics leading up to the event and nearly obliterated evidence, it seemed nearly impossible they would be able to nail down the exact cause.

Critics have pointed out risks in SpaceX's method of loading supercooled fuel. Accidentally forming solid oxygen around carbon fibers from a buckling overwrap is an example of this.

There are benefits, but they will need to find and prevent all these possible edge cases exposed by the new method.
Arguably because of the Haber process.
How do you know that cats, flies, and other lifeforms run their brains at the same "frequency" as humans?

When it comes to comparing the sophistication, adaptivity and functions of life to the in-silico mashines we produce and use very, very primitive.
Pimcore.

https://www.pimcore.org/en
Tldr, extinction.
OP is simply asking.
Public safety regulations are not pointless red tape. They are created after real tragedy that shows a clear need. In fact, fire regulations in NY first applied to apartments, while hotel owners fought for decades to avoid the regulation require it fire escapes (Read the following for more information http://www.uvm.edu/histpres/HPJ/AndreThesis.pdf )

Even after fire escapes were mandated hundreds of people died in a factory fire ( see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_... ). I hope you are wiling to concede that these regulations, while imposing a real burden on businesses and landlords, were designed to correct a real and very persistent problem. Is your position that we would be better to just ignore fire and other safety rules for all hotels?

In light of a clear rationale for such regulations, we must ask why one business should get to play by a different set of rules than another? Free market competition does not work if the only advantage is regulatory arbitrage. That would be like a race between two cars, one that has a 40 mile/hour speed limit, the other no speed limit. Which car would you pick?

The only argument that I would concede is that perhaps AirBnB is closer to an actual bed and breakfast, so those regulations should apply, but I would guess that class of regulation is generally more strict than what they are subject to now.
"around a third of the $100 saving you make over the price of an average hotel room"

Up to 30USD of the 100USD I save compared to a regular hotel? PER NIGHT? In that price range, $30 are a mere tip.
Ah ha! This is down to taste, I think. Google seems to rewrite 'FOSS tools for software testing' to 'Open source tools for software testing'.

Ddg does not. I strongly prefer the ddg behavior. To each their own.
TL;DR : Even though ReactJS (or any other JS framework) is 'heavy', Web Devs still need them to be able to code in a sane way for real world products.
I think more what the parent post was getting at is perhaps better visualized:

For flash storage, the hierarchy looks like this:

CPU -> standardized interface (PCIe, SATA) -> Controller Chip -> NAND

For DRAM, it looks like this: CPU -> DRAM

The DRAM controller is (these days[0]) built directly into the CPU, whereas for flash storage, the NAND controller communicates with the CPU (indirectly) over a standardized interface. So for flash storage, the designers have control over which controller chip they use, and as such can change the NAND technology used at will. They aren't even limited to NAND, if something better comes along. Whereas with RAM, you can't just plug DDR4 into a CPU that only "speaks" DDR3. I think that flexibility is the important distinction.

[0] It used to be that the DRAM controller was on the northbridge, which was a separate chip from the CPU. But for the purposes of performance and power consumption, the tradeoff with flexibility was made (The Athlon 64 was the first [consumer?] CPU to put the memory controller directly on-die, and that was a large part of the reason it crushed the Pentium 4.)
By and large, nobody is well suited to sniffing out hoaxes. This particular example is rather egregious, since it involves the "critical studies" people, who were meandering around in territory that they were completely ill-equipped to navigate. But there are plenty of other examples from academia and elsewhere, where the recipients of the hoax were supposed to thoroughly understand the details.

Further, those hoaxes outside academia, such as Theranos and Bernie Madoff, tend to be directly harmful rather than merely embarassing---one would think the victims would have been more careful.
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The definition already assumes that "market wages" reflect some optimal (for society) balance...Rent seeker is already incorrect as I showed.

The definition of rent seeking has nothing to do with your favorite socially optimal balance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Unions attempt to obtain a higher income than that which would be necessary to keep a factor of production (in this case labor) employed in it's current use by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth. Thus, they are by definition rent seekers.

...those paying the wages have numerous means to get the upper hand -- from forming cartels and controlling the media, to downright buying politicians and favorable legislation.

You seem to be confused - it's unions, not wage payers, who have these powers. Unions buy politicians and get favorable legislation, and a union is by definition a cartel.

In contrast, cartels of wage payers are illegal, and the media is rarely favorable to their interests. But in the rare cases when wage payers form a cartel, this too is rent seeking.

You know, the people that, unlike Ayn Rand's heroes, actually produce something.

I'd suggest once you finish reading the definition of rent seeking, you might also consider reading Ayn Rand. You might be shocked to discover that all of her heroes are productive workers.
You probably just need to click the 'return' link and create an account. (Haven't actually tried it tho.)
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We're building an online development environment to analyze and optimize supply chains, backed by a cloud-based computation, forecasting and optimization system. We are looking for an engineer to help us improve and extend the front-end components of our apps: an online code editor, highly dynamic and customizable dashboards, a file system with an online browser and preview system, etc.

We are a C#/.NET shop, with TypeScript and React/Redux on the client side, and you will be developing under Visual Studio, the source code being versioned in Git. Our apps are hosted on Microsoft Azure.

At Lokad, you will benefit from the coaching of an awesome dev team. Our codebase is clean, documented and heavily (unit) tested. We are largely bootstrapped, profitable and growing fast. Our offices are quiet (no open space!), bright, and you can get three monitors. We are located 50m from Place d'Italie in Paris (France).

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If there is mandatory donation, or even if there is opt-out, wouldn't that increase the supply to meet the demand, thereby reducing any incentive for profit on the sale of organs and eliminating any motive for corruption?
I'm the kind of person that keeps receipts for tax purposes, as all parts I buy are for business purposes (repairs, fresh builds, etc.)
I've been full time vegan for two years and converted over night. I also recognize that this method is not for everyone. The "try it out for a few days of the week" approach has worked for a lot of people I have talked to (sorry, no data on this). Taking incremental steps toward long-lasting diet and lifestyle changes is better than adopting drastic changes over night and giving up shortly after.
Make those protocols NVME, PCIe and SATA. Don't think I've seen an IDE flash drive yet ;)
This is basically a bunch of red herrings. Most people are not Tibetan yak farmers or the last of some African tribe. These things are not the common case, and if these approaches ever became the most common way we got those items, it would be effectively the same as everyone going vegan, because AFAIK that couldn't support even a noticeable fraction of our current egg and dairy intake.
A similar-seeming program in California at the former Fort Ord in Monterey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Transition_Center
Your last point is important. Enabling others to break the law can, and often is, breaking the law.
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It is somewhat self-righteous to claim that since everyone in the world isn't doing what you deem correct, that it is a tragedy of the commons. Any sort of immediate mass change on that level would be likely catastrophic.
Fiat Chrysler and Google team on Android in-car tech
Which introduces issues on other sides ...
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Heads up, you listed 2 different email addresses.
No -- the people most affected by the decisions should have the greater voice.

If a driver drives once:

1. they have less knowledge about working conditions

2. the trip was more of a fling with being an Uber driver and not a source of income.

3. It is easier for Uber or Lyft to stack the deck with drivers who are less informed on the issues
Customers love Uber because it's prices are currently subsidized by VC money. Once that goes away, we'll see how competitive they are.
Soy phytoestrogens are basically a myth.

Soy isoflavones are structurally similar to estrogen, so it was a reasonable hypothesis that they would behave like estrogen in the human body. But this has mostly not been born out by evidence. In particular, it is now clear that soy isoflavones have no measurable impact on male sex hormones.

Isoflavones do have some impact on estrogen receptors (the correct term for this is "selective estrogen receptor modulator"), and indeed this causes some health benefits. But in healthy humans, there is very little reason to think they cause any negative effects.

I think most of the fear mongering about this has come from body builders, who worry that soy will lower their testosterone and sabotage their efforts. This we now know it does not do.
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Full stack web developer Ruby on Rails (8 years), Backbone/Marionette (5 years) and recently a bit of React on the front-end. I worked for successful startups before and I run a successful saas web app. I'm looking for a new challenge for a couple of months part time. I'm only interested in working for projects I actually like/love/stand for. I'm fluent in English, Dutch and Spanish.

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I bet Google "could" write some algorithms that can predict if a stock will go up or down seconds before change based on live search data. All it takes is for an article or something to come out, then watch people search for "Will IBM stock drop" - and perform live sentiment analysis across all such live queries involving the stock name.

In a sense, it's all about what information you have access to.
Ask HN: Is it ok to ask interns to brng their own laptops and flash ubuntu on them
I joined a startup/company yesterday as intern and they told us we'd have to bring in our own laptops. I was kind of fine with it but then today they also told me they would need to install ubuntu on it (the work they do is node.js/android so unix type system is not a requirement) and format my system drive as well. I think that's crazy. It's my system and I should be able to control what happens to it. Yes I can of course quit but this should not be a thing.

The reason they gave everyone is that they cannot risk people using pirated windows but I don't have a single bit of pirated code on my system and they still insisted on it. I was hoping to probe good people of HN to see what they think. I realize they can request whatever they want and final control still lies with me but I think this is very personal invasion of my privacy and rights to my own rig.

And my laptop is a lennovo yoga the flex version, it has touch screen and screen folds back. It's semi hybrid version and Ubuntu would look laughably bad and criminally useless on my machine. Not to mention I have all my workstation set up on it. I told them I have genuine windows which will be rendered useless and their response was that I can always take my machine to the service center and tell them to install windows again. My internship is 6 months long so all this trouble would only be for 6 months to begin with.

I tried to negotiate quite a bit but they don't seem to budge. Dual boot, VM, or just working with windows all don't seem to make any dent in their resolve. If I cannot resolve it tomorrow I will have to either escalate it to top management (it's a small 300 person company) or just give up and leave.

I am not looking for any legal recourse, instead I am just trying to find your take on the matter.

PS Ask HN part is malformatted and bring is brng to go around the 80 character limit.
Hynix price fixing appears to be have taken place over ten years ago. Does your "break ground and get killed" principle still apply? Have any new vendors shown up?
D does have zip, enumerate, cycle (https://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html). It doesn't have a universal collect like Rust, but you can create arrays from ranges using array(). And if the target container/collection type is an OutputRange, you can use the put()(https://dlang.org/phobos/std_range_primitives.html#.put) function to create collections from ranges.
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Even Bad Ideas Win
Actually, if you think about it, those who have money are really only people who are qualified to say such a thing.
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The accident investigation team concluded that one of the three composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) inside the second stage liquid oxygen (LOX) tank failed. Specifically, the failure was likely due to the accumulation of oxygen between the COPV liner and overwrap in a void or a buckle in the liner, leading to ignition and the subsequent failure of the COPV.

The investigation team identified several credible causes for the COPV failure, all of which involve accumulation of super chilled LOX or SOX in buckles under the overwrap. The corrective actions address all credible causes and focus on changes which avoid the conditions that led to these credible causes. In the short term, this entails changing the COPV configuration to allow warmer temperature helium to be loaded, as well as returning helium loading operations to a prior flight proven configuration based on operations used in over 700 successful COPV loads. In the long term, SpaceX will implement design changes to the COPVs to prevent buckles altogether, which will allow for faster loading operations.​

SpaceX is targeting return to flight from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) with the Iridium NEXT launch on January 8.

Are COPVs a universal thing in rocketry? Or has SpaceX actually loaded fuel into its rockets over 700 times?
Well, I constrained the scope, but CO2 emission is not the only problem about the environment. Most resource are scarce and although I believe in Elon Musk as much as the next techie, we can't just take a leap of faith. Water is scarce, energy is scarce (though we are getting better), but we are growing at an unsustainable rate.

Now the main problem is that if you reduce your CO2 emission by 80% and you and all your offsprings have two kids and each consume at your reduced level, in just two generations, it would been better if you didn't have kids. Two generations after that even at the reduced consumption, you (by having kids) contribute to CO2 emission by a factor of 6 if you have just consumed all the meat and didn't have kids.

Geometric progression is a nasty nasty thing.
> It's utterly ridiculous that engineering and efficiency decisions are so deeply affected by whether or not the largest search engine will properly index your content.

I would argue that it is nothing to do with Google.

Google's official line is that that will index your content, even if your entire frontend is a big client side only SPA. The explicitly tell you to focus on having good content that people actually want to read, and little else.

As others have suggested in this thread, it is likely that they developed Chrome for this reason. My understanding is that they basically crawl the web using a headless version of Chrome, and take a snapshot of the augmented HTML straight away, after 5 seconds, and after 10 seconds.

Other search engines aren't so clever, and so the work to have your important content available even when Javascript is disabled is done so you will show up on Bing, Baidu, Yahoo, etc also.

To go further, I reckon Google would love it if you didn't do this, as it would give them an edge over their competition which has less advanced capability to crawl the web.
I wondered about this topic last week! Whether it was possible to use ML/DL to model and predict cyber-attacks?
According to the census conducted in 2016, Vancouver has 603,502 people. In all of 2016, there were 67 murders, up from 60 the year before.

Vancouver is truly a beautiful city, with a fairly low crime rate considering it's the 3rd largest Canadian city. A good place to work, a great place to raise a family.

The only drawback if you are working in an international firm is that we are one of the last time zones to conduct business in. Be prepared for 5am or 6am teleconferences with Europe, and 10pm calls with Asia.