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Hi Madcatm2,

First, I want to tell you I know exactly what you mean.

When I learnt programming, SO was not around. I mostly learnt by reading source codes, their authors' blog posts, and asking them questions. I started to use SO mostly by answering questions, since the languages and tools I used were already well known for me, and I had my previous ways to learn new things.

And then, I started learning golang. At some point, I said to myself : "why not start asking questions instead of learning everything by myself the hard way, like I usually do?". I asked a question on SO and was immediately downvoted. This came to a surprise to me, because my question was concrete, detailed and was wondering about something that wasn't explained in any publication. Then I started looking at other questions, and it was alarming : most were downvoted. Actually, I computed an average of questions scores and realized it was negative. That's when I stopped contributing to SO : blaming people for asking questions is not OK. If the question is really bad, suffice not to answer it.

I've been looking for alternatives since then - that is, general programming discussion platform with specialized areas - mainly to contribute, because explaining to juniors how things work is a perfect way to learn to document things, know what they find complicated, and learn to address it before questions arise. I found none. The best I could find was to fall back on mailing lists.

There are two pieces of advice I could give you :

* don't hesitate to mail people you regard as the most experienced to ask for their advice. Worst case scenario, they won't reply

* Choose ways of communication that don't allow downvoting - like email, forums, google+, whatever - because downvoting features do encourage hive mind and condescendent attitude

Also, please keep this experience in mind next time you'll be the one to explain something to someone having less knowledge than you. And remember that downvoting == bullying.

Hope this helps.
This... I feel that we (US) should go back a bit on this, and restrict all advertising not in specific magazines/journals that target doctors, and restrict office visits of pharma reps to dr offices.
This is being done to create unified narratives across spaces for future political goals as a way to nullify the narratives of those who rely on personalized ads.

Bet you dollars to donuts those regions will look eerily similar to known voting districts.
As a member of the TOC of the CNCF, I'm happy to advocate getting RethinkDB in the CNCF now and changing the license later -- I would love to get RethinkDB in the CNCF!
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Only partially, unless you consider trending topics to be the entirety of Facebook's news. Presumably, News Feed content and "news" will still be informed by their preferences algorithm, right?

When you consider that the majority of their engagement almost certainly continues to come from the News Feed, this seems more like an effort to simply add in a source of news that is not influenced by any kind of self-selection effect.
I can fulfill the rest of my social needs besides sex through family and friends and the part of my brain that likes sex doesn't care much about personality or intelligence or compatibility.
The reasoning can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...
If psychometric analysis is so good, it did not matter whether the Russians hacked or not the DNC.
ioeventfd for PIO exits is still handled in the kernel, but that one is easy since it's a dedicated VMEXIT type.

We do very little that typically requires trapping MMIO, particularly in places that are performance sensitive (VIRTIO Net and VIRTIO SCSI do not, and honestly there's not too much that guests do inside GCE that isn't either disk or networking :).
I bet most men on this site are in the top 10% of incomes (it's only about $100k) so they're fine.
Ask HN: Is it illegal to hijack the result of an online poll?
Just for fun I'm trying to hijack the result of an online poll. Security of that thing is ridiculous: you just need to send POST to the server and use different IP's to keep your right to vote.

Assuming I'm not DoS'ing the server and no terms of service have been agreed do you think is illegal to do so (in your country at least)?
I kind of see your point, but OTOH, retention is a huge issue throughout higher education. Some of this is due to the expansion of college compared to the 50s and 60s, but not all. State schools have something like this, though maybe by a different name. Scholarship athletes also have direct help in order to keep their grades up to snuff, but also because a large portion of them are also first generation college students.

If you have 12% or more of your first year class dropping out because of preparedness, then the institution has a big problem regardless of whether it is a state school or an ivy league. And if a high portion of that group is lower income, that's a huge black eye for some of the wealthiest and most prestigious institutions in the world.
you can get retransmits from 'sar' on linux
iOS developers are also (for better or worse) already used to things breaking every year when a new iOS release rolls around.
Why didn't they just keep the news editors they started with? It seems completely rational to keep news editors on staff to run a news service.

Think about how much in this world would be different if tending news was rebranded rather than replaced with what they ended up putting out.
Sure. Anyone with cancer should go to a high volume academic and designated cancer center. The hospital should also rate high in us news and reports and score top marks in nurses, safety and cleanliness. But you can't deviate from FDA guidelines except in very exceptional cases.
Ask HN: How much does p2p lending make? Are they highly profitable?
I remember an earlier article highlighting the potential benefits of olfactory stem cells for damaged brain tissue repair.

Engraftment of human nasal olfactory stem cells restores neuroplasticity in mice with hippocampal lesions

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/44489
The computing part of this sounds fairly straightforward to me; if the psychological things described in the article are real, then no doubt you would be able to measure and exploit them in the ways described. But the psychology strikes me as black magic. Is anyone qualified to comment on how plausible it is?
This site reminds me of https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

This is not what I expected when I read your comment. I was expecting a platform where you upload the parameters of a hardware system, the platform digitizes that system into a virtual sandbox, and people can then write arbitrary programs for that system and showcase them in the sandbox, where the uploader can buy, comment, and rate those programs. Something along the lines of https://openai.com/blog/
Tesla has a number of patents on this, which they made available on a reciprocal basis. They can easily refuse to allow the startup ANY USE of the patents. The startup can do the same, but may not have much in it's patent portfolio. Whatever it has are likely to be stole Tesla stuff
I haven't checked my email since 2008. I didn't think many people still did. My phone simply alerts me when one comes, and at work it appears on my screen.
The first line of defence against Facebook mining is not to run FB apps (because they can harvest your likes).

But is it possible for an app to retrieve the likes of a user's friends?
I just mean Whatsapp feels like an entirely separate entity from Facebook (unlike Instagram which is quite integrated)

Disclaimer: I work at FB.
I'm impressed by the thought, care, and craftsmanship that went into this, and all the more so because it's such a seemingly mundane tool. A better bugtracker UX. What makes this a secretly interesting or important problem?
not the person you're responding to but a lot of times people have clips on the weights at gyms
When I clicked on the link, it brought up a page that was already playing a song. I tried to pause it and couldn't. I had to look for the volume control instead?

Why can't I pause the song?
Do you have users in China? I'm curious whether IKEv2 works well through GFW. I use Shadowsocks (on my Asus router, and on my Android/iOS devices), and it works well.

What would I gain in ease-of-use, performance, or security by switching to Algo?
It even shows the YouTube pause icon thing when I click on it. This is really frustrating.
You're right, it is just trending. Here is the press release this article is based on ...

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/01/continuing-our-updates-t...
Sorry, but it's Clos, which is named after Charles Clos. Pronounced "Cloh". This only bugs me because I've seen this done so many times - specific domain knowledge nerd rant over.
Links are already tied to some specific version. Nobody serves "jquery.js" that points to a constantly updated version of jquery. Nobody that's sane anyway.
It's just their corporate domain name isn't it?
On plug.dj, this isn't true. Playlists that are in the queue will repeat after all the songs from that list have been played once.
I agree with everything the article says. But of course, it's utter fantasy. Especially under a Trump administration, I very much doubt we'll see conditions attached to mergers like this.
Coke tastes better if you know it's a Coke. That's what a top-notch advertising department does for you. Well, that and early memories of drinking Coca-Cola on a warm summer night. It's the real thing, baby.
These are unscientific polls, and if that poll does not mention it, they do not care much anyway.

If there is a funny aspect in the poll, those from 4chan might pick it up and abuse it for you.

Regarding legality, it is up to local cybercrime laws. In practice, you may get in trouble as a knee jerk reaction to some unexpected and unfortunate outcome of the poll.
By default you can only get that per-kernel from /proc/net/netsnmp. BPF may allow something more granular.

The other way of approaching it is to look for the additional latency it causes, which you can spot on a per-service basis.
This looks like classic hedging behaviour. A Zuckerberg run for office is looking more and more likely, and when he's running for Pres he won't want to face awkward questions about what did or didn't show up in the Trending algorithm.
>If you increase the strength of the authentication on an account, then you increase the expectation (in others) that anyone authenticated to the account was authenticated legitimately.

But that assumes that your login methods are provided to your social network. No one necessarily knows I have 2FA/U2F, so if I am compromised, I still have the same general assumption in my social network of "oops plttn left his Facebook on his laptop unlocked".
This is a "no-brainer" as they say. If you're getting "fat shamed", this means you are probably "fat", and thus are much more prone to health risks. Case closed.
I have a subaru crosstrek with the eyesight package, and it can't do lanekeeping. Are you sure your forester can?

Auto braking and automatic speed adjustment cruise control, but no lanekeeping. It does have an alert when you leave a lane without signaling, but that's not the same as actually keeping you in the lane.
Ah the old "they benefited from living in this country, so the country has a right to rob them" argument. Self-righteous demmaogogues love to propose robbing successful people and spreading their wealth.
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Invented? Hardly, variable focus spectacles have been done many times before.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=variable+focus+spectacles&oq=...

This can easily be done with an autofocus mechanism, as used in cell phones to adjust a variable fluid filled gap (which has been done many times before)
The biggest problem in the past was the weight, lens thickness and leakage of the liquid. They could also use an air gap, but that is even thicker.
Exactly, and it is not a laughing matter. Have you noticed how common arbitration 'agreements' (that you cannot in any practical sense avoid) are becoming?
A "strong background in signal processing" is not required to generate the results detailed in this article using ffmpeg.

Nor does this article provide any information enhancing the user's understanding of the encoding options employed by the various presets discussed or the ultimate effects they hold in regard to signal processing.
CNN used to be my absolute go to for news. However more and more, especially during and after this election their coverage has been biased, opinionated, and worse of all not as accurate and timely as others.

Anchors like Van Jones who push their own agenda, have really rubbed me the wrong way. So much so, that I've switched to the "dark side" Fox News and can say they as a whole provide higher quality news.
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I'm sure they'll eventually integrate. And they'll give the infra project a cheesy name -- just like instagration -- Whatsagration.
Here's how I would have done Snaptacles scarcity marketing:

1. Make the actual Snaptacle design into a Snapchat filter.

2. Randomly allow a select few users everyday access to that filter and access to purchase the glasses online. Stipulate that they have to use the filter at least once to gain access to buy.

3. People will be excited to receive invitation to buy the glasses via the filter, and also be happy to use the exclusive filter and effectively become the marketing engine for the glasses.

4. Others who did not receive the filter will be envious, further creating the want to both be selected to use the filter, and ultimately purchase the glasses.

5. Sales, sales, sales. Scale, scale, scale.

The current method with these limited time stores is really taking scarcity marketing to the extreme, and I believe at the cost of real user adoption.
Yes, I know that. You could provide your examples of some other popular languages that we all know about. Sure, it's easy to change a language no one uses, but when you've got hundreds of thousands of users, it's much harder.
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And what would be a better measure? We can't assess the validity of the belief without one.
Does the patriarchy also force babies and male rhesus monkeys to mentally cut parts of themselves off?
Agree 100%, I turn on CNN every Saturday morning at 8-10AM and its the same thing over and over again. A little bit of reporting (usually on the same topic now adays) and then a bunch of experts giving crappy opinions masked as news coverage.
I don't care what the president tweeted while taking a shit at 3am last night, what else happened in the world!!!!
AFAIK, there's no "codes in stasis" in U2F. http://google.com/ sends you a challenge, your U2F device receives the challenge and makes a response signed with the private keypair that exists. Each CR pair is nonced and only valid for the originating site.
Why does anything need marketing?
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> pray he does something impeachable

I think it's more than that, it has to be impeachable AND Senate Republicans have to dislike it enough to upset their boss, right? Without Senate Republicans' support there can be no impeachment hearing can there?
So I can build a site that stuffs your cache full of "immutable" content, and all your frequently used "cache for 10 years" stuff gets evicted?
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Amazon's front page proves that by typing in the amazon.com url, you get a page of whatever content amazon generates. Which isn't a very useful proof.

Python is dynamically typed, so it doesn't prove much either. But in a statically typed language, if you have a method that takes an integer and returns a string, then you have proven you can generate a string from an integer. If it runs, then you have proven it. Granted, that's also not particularly useful, but it's proven if it compiles/runs.

To prove, you need types. Typeless proofs/programs are just really general, not-very-useful proofs, same with dynamic typing. That's why static typing gets you a little closer to the correspondence/isomorphism.

Dependent types gets you closer still - like, if you have a method that will only compile if the method takes an array of numbers, and returns only the subset of those numbers that are even - then the correspondence is starting to get a bit useful. Then you know your output won't have numbers that weren't in the input.

I don't have much experience with this so I'm probably explaining it badly.
How are you dependent on Google for your job? Do you work for google?
"The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't know what it means for a programming language to be powerful and elegant. Once you learn Lisp, you will see what is lacking in most other languages....I have not had time or occasion to learn newer languages such as Perl, Python, PHP or Ruby."

Glad to know his opinion is here well-informed. Perl only came out 30 years ago, so I guess I can understand not having had the time to learn it and just assume that it and other languages must be inferior.
So..., why did you have to install the webhooks in the first place?
4 - it is not his/her fault and Stack Overflow is hostile to new, junior developers.

I would vote for this one as I personally feel the same way (and do not identify myself with neither of your 3 options)
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Ask HN: Switched from MacOS to Windows for Daily Driver. Any Advice? Tip/tricks?
I do DevOps work. Ruby stuff mostly. I bought a '16 MBP, and had all the GPU issues people have been talking about.
Can't have my daily driver wigging out, so I bought a second machine. The new Dell XPS 15" model, running Win 10 Pro.
I've been considering putting Linux on here, but that brings its own set of hassles.

It's been >15 years since I've used Windows as a daily driver. Today, I'm having issues with env vars that seem like they're not set. I know where it gets done, but "echo $FOO" or "echo %FOO%" doesn't output anything.

I'm just curious to know if
a. any of you made the same switch away from Mac? (how is it so far?)
b. do any of you have advice/tips/tricks on making the move?
c. do you use the Windows Subsystem for Linux at all? how's it working?
d. what issues have you encountered since going back to Windows?

Thanks!
I made a Chrome extension for Gmail which uses CSS to make your inbox hidden by default [1]. This makes it easy to search your archives or compose new messages without seeing your inbox.

Users of the extension report benefits that sound similar in kind and magnitude to those mentioned in the article [2]. The median user has Gmail open, but the inbox hidden, for 1.5 hours per day (mean: 4.5 hours).

I'm starting to think that "inbox hidden by default" should be the standard UI for an email client.

[1] https://inboxwhenready.org

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/inbox-when-ready-f...
the only way to save cnn at this point is to simply let it die. they have become worse than fox.
> especially during and after this election their coverage has been biased, opinionated

Is there any US mainstream news outlet that hasn't gone this route?

It's gotten to where I ignore MSM as much as possible and just browse headlines on Reddit, especially non default subs, to try to build a balanced picture. As a result, I wasn't surprised Trump won: Some politics subreddits made it clear Rasmussen, IBD, LA Times were polling in favor of Trump, but if you only followed the MSM you probably thought it was some black swan event.
>The premise was if it were better for all involved.

How could any institution that denies a party the freedom to choose (e.g. slavery) be better for all involved. Maybe you're suggesting that if slaves were better off by some criteria with someone else making decisions for them, even if they would prefer to not be under the control of that third party, then slavery would be in their best interest?

>"Tax is theft" is an unassailable moral position.

Some people forget that government programs are paid for through forcible income redistribution that in turn relies on the fear created by throwing non-compliers in prison. It's good to remind them, as it may go against their own morals. I think most people are fundamentallt opposed to violating other's rights to their person and property, and it is only the complexity of government, and the ideological constructs created to euphemize and justify its actions, that obfuscates the violence that it deals out, and makes people consent to it, and vote for programs that rely on it.
You think Fox News is less biased than CNN? I think that says more about you than CNN. Fox News outright lies and doesn't even cover major issues when they are harmful to their agenda. Fox spent years attacking Hillary for her private emails and yet I haven't seen one peep from them about Trump doing the same thing. All news sources are biased in some way, but Fox doesn't even count as a legit news source--it's a propaganda mill.
Wow thanks a lot for the information. Both of my phones are outdated/no longer updated. I guess I should be careful what I install. How would you even know that you're affected? One thing I was was you can have malware that won't go away even flashing I think. You had to do something, as some memory wasn't touched on reformat or something. Man that's crazy, thanks.
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In my experience the editors of Wikipedia definitely deserve to be harassed.
this is very big news.
Here's Boeing's press release and video on the subject. (no paywall, or crazy adds)
http://www.boeing.com/features/2017/01/space-suit-01-17.page
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Van Jones is not an anchor.
Yes there is. In California it's governed by the Labor Code:

Section 2863 states, “An employee who has any business to transact on his own account, similar to that entrusted to him by his employer, shall always give the preference to the business of the employer.”

There are other aspects to it as well, but that's the nut.
Van Jones is not an anchor and is never presented as such.

He has been hosting a show on Wednesday nights, but it isn't a news format show.

He's an analyst, they have partisans from both side argue throughout the day. They took Jon Stewart's criticism of Crossfire and turned it into a keystone of their programming.