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> Why do so many prefer the walled garden

I think that puts the question wrong, the question is actually 'what's the actual downside to the normal person of the walled garden?'

Mobile Safari and the App Store are still gold standards from everything I've seen. Go look at any browser benchmark you want -- Anandtech has a bunch of them in any review article -- and the iPhone running Mobile Safari runs circles around flagship Androids running Chrome (this includes Google's own Octane benchmark). Part of that is the hardware but (1) the magnitude of many benchmarks is larger than the single threaded advantage the hardware gets in say Geekbench and (2) hardware is another walled garden(!!); if the unwalled garden is so much better in theory, why in practice isn't there a single Android phone that can match the iphone in single threaded performance?
Sounds to me like you didn't accurately analyze the threat and now you are making excuses about how nobody could see it. People saw it.

PS: I have followed US elections before, I am a DC native and followed them since I was a kid (now in my thirties) - I have observed differences between campaign promises and execution/governance, but this one was still pretty easy to predict based on what we knew before. The bigger shock is that he won in the first place.
Android phone repair sucks – here's why
sounds like a whole lot of fish to me, amirite?

Courses, like fish, tend to congregate in schools.
I'm not sure there is a "late" at night or tired in the incident report. All times are UTC and it's unclear where all the team is located but if in SF then this is at 4pm which is when the incident just occurred. It doesn't necessarily change that you shouldn't be firefighting for extremely long cycles in hero-mode for that long, but not exactly the same as exhausted and powering away for hours.
So you agree that Germany (and the URSS, only later) had much more influence than UK in the war, which is clearly the point of the comment you're answering to.

About revisionism... there was blood in both sides' hands. To mention just the most obvious fact: the spark that ignited the war was the assasination of the opposition's leader. That happened in downtown Madrid with total impunity. Do you really believe that can happen in a normal situation? That's terribly one-sided.
For a computer company with so many billions in the bank it's amusing how Apple has married itself to the iPhone.

Why not try to leverage the relatively secure walled garden of iOS to open a business selling hardware and software to enterprises? Why not make Unix servers with distinguishing features? Management could get away with it while they were surfing the iPhone wave but it was always obvious that it wouldn't last forever.
The only thing I can say is games are different. People seem to have a since the games can use a lot of power and be willing to accept that. And you're definitely not wrong, many of them are written terribly and destroy battery life unnecessarily.

But the other thing is it's obvious when I play a game. Where is I don't really think about using Safari, but I'm sure I use it dozens and dozens of times a day. So I'm very conscious of the fact that Pokémon go or whatever else I'm playing eats my battery, but all the little interactions with the web browser eating an extra 20% probably wouldn't raise a flag for me; I'd just think my phone's battery life got a lot worse.

That's my best guess anyway
> Lastly, there exists a wing of American conservatism which is significantly more racist, sexist, and homophobic than the national average. I think you're right, that group would not feel welcome at YC nor should they. Their exclusion is based on their personal views, which they are capable of changing. Their inclusion would make others feel excluded on the basis of immutable traits, which is far worse in my opinion.

I'm not sure which "wing" of conservatism you are speaking of but I'm neither "alt-right" but my views are likely to be labeled as something like "homophobic." I get the feeling that national average you speak of isn't really average so much as it's left-leaning and acceptable in your views.

I do agree that there are people who are vehemently and dangerously bigoted and I gladly condemn them. However, there are people who have extremely reasoned yet different beliefs than most people you'd likely find at YC.

If the left is going to continue to preach "inclusivity" and "diversity" then it would behoove them to actually ensure that there are those things rather than limited everyone to a particular worldview that makes people feel comfortable.
Page length is a common indicator, though it varies by conference. This paper is 3 pages, which is in most subfields of CS a typical poster-paper length (2-4 pages), with full technical/research papers being 6+ pages. But in this case it also says so on the arXiv page.
I honestly think that things like $40 packs of cigarettes are pure bigotry (the only politically-acceptable bigotry at the moment). It's kicking a man when he's down.

But then, I believe that cigars & pipes are an essential part of the good life. Can you imagine a world in which C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien didn't head down to the Eagle & Child to enjoy a pot of ale and a few good pipes together?
Exactly. I meant to include exactly this. Thanks again for the links. I did see that the author of one of the articles, Wendy Kaminer, used to work at the ACLU and does make claims of ethical decline at the ACLU.

Her 2009 book Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity and the ACLU critiques what she regards as the ACLU’s ethical decline, ideological hypocrisy, and descent into groupthink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Kaminer
You missed the tense. When cigarettes became popular they weren't banned right away because we had no idea they would become harmful. Of course we know differently now.

In this case, we are erring on the side of caution and banning e-cigs until they are further studied. Learning from our mistakes.
The Inadvertent Benefit of a Maintenance Month
"The reliability under your circumstances might be wildly different."

No. I've seen this argument raised a few times whenever hard drive failure rates comparing manufacturers has occurred. (Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7119323
) Backblaze puts more stress on their drives than typical users, but a drive which works well in their environment is also very likely to do the same in a less stressful one. This is how accelerated life testing is done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_life_testing

Their pod approach even results in worse performance

Not once in the data presented in the article is performance mentioned. This is not about performance, it's about reliability. It may be anecdotal, but the numbers I see correlate well with my experience and many others' experiences I've heard of.

More amusingly, I remember coming across a forum discussing data recovery, which happened to be split by manufacturer, and noticing the Seagate forum had an overwhelmingly large number of topics containing people asking for help with their dead disks relative to the WD, Toshiba, Hitachi, etc., which was disproportionate to their marketshare.
Let me augment that with this: I would love to donate to a project that uses ${INSERT_TERMINAL_TEXT_EDITOR} and turns it into a general IDE.

I'm talking the full shebang.

* Autocomplete/Autoimporting (Static Analysis backed by compiler output)
* Formatting
* Linting
* Fast or able to run over a slow SSH connection.
* Default error resolutions (if test() throws an exception generate a try { })
* Global refactoring
* The idea of a project (Creating, building, export/importing, libraries, dependencies)
* Automatically generated & maintained building system at the click of a run button
* Documentation at a single click or on hover if possible
* Integrated console for running a project
* File and source manager that should be easy to use
* Binding profiles for Eclipse, NetBeans, JetBrains, VS20XX, ReSharper

Optionally these would be nice:

* Formal Method Verification?
* Coloring/styling of the entire TUI
* Simple to interact with menus
* Rust, Go, JavaScript (Browser & Node), Java, Scala, C, C++, PHP, Python support
* Pluggable language support that allows the plugin to provide static analysis & compiler data

If that can all be provided that could easily sell for $25 to $50 per user and I'd be happy, happy!, to pay every last dollar of it. It'll never happen. The world will never be that kind to software developers.
I appreciate that you're concerned for people inside and outside of the womb, but I think you're not paying enough attention to a third group: the people who are the womb.
You're right, sorry - quoted the wrong passage. This is the one I meant to:

"(e) Notwithstanding the temporary suspension imposed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security may jointly determine to admit individuals to the United States as refugees on a case-by-case basis, in their discretion, but only so long as they determine that the admission of such individuals as refugees is in the national interest — including when the person is a religious minority in his country of nationality facing religious persecution"
Yet NVidia graphics were found on Macbooks as recently as 2010. And it worked great. My 2015 Air w/ Intel integrated graphics is slower on most anything 3D, and renders glitches that I never saw on my 2010 Air w/ Nvidia.
I am actually curious what user they were logged in as and what permissions were in effect.

Unfortunately, the answer most places is that the diagnostic account (as opposed to the corrective action account) is fully privileged (or worse, root).
There's no excuse for backups not being setup, period. For such a high profile site, and the rigorous hiring circus they put candidates through. This doesn't fall under "a learning experience". I wish them luck, but this is just gross negligence.
I agree with what you're saying, and this is almost exactly what I do, but when disk space is limited - particularly during time-sensitive situations - this advice isn't very useful. For example, if a host or service is on the cusp of crashing because of a partition quickly filling up with rolling logs, what do you do since mv doesn't actually solve the problem?

At some level you have to run an rm, and you better hope you do it right in the middle of an emergency with people breathing over your shoulder.

In an ideal world, this wouldn't ever happen, but it does. Inherited/legacy systems suck.
> The negative externalities of alcohol are substantially exaggerated. Public health researchers go crazy inventing externalities for things they don't like.

…

> With cigarettes the damage and causation is much clearer. Something like 1 in 2 people who smoke will die early from a smoking related cause.

But the externalities of tobacco are essentially non-existent: 'second-hand smoke' is one of those invented public-health externalities. Tobacco preponderantly affects those who smoke it (although of course young children of older parents may lose their parents to smoking-related illnesses).
Cool, what made you choose "pay what you want" and how is that working out? Thanks.
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Thank you. I will check it out.
I don't think I've ever seen a session beer for sale under 4%. Most seem to be between 4.5 and 4.9, just low enough to be "less than 5".
Or you could just sanitize your filthy carboy before brewing.
This is a dumb idea. The whole matter is too subjective to be easily quantifiable. In a free country, no one dares to attempt to hold some kind of claim to what is true and what is not true. Any such behavior is akin to what China, East Germany, and the Soviet Union did--they attempt to manage reality for people. It never worked, it doesn't work today. Only the willful foolish are ever tricked by state propaganda.

It's sad that we live in a nation that is so broken that disinformation is a daily problem for each of us, but it is and it is not going away. Your best bet is to remain skeptical of all information at all times.

Also, there is more at play than just reporting of so-called facts. The NY Times will typically run a story and for no reason at all, there will be a paragraph bashing Trump in some way, right in the middle of an otherwise unrelated article. They just find ways to inject stupid editorial opinions into otherwise "clean" news articles.
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> It's incredible. Every country should do it.

Yeah, it sure is wonderful to repress a hated minority. How dare they befoul our pristine public spaces with their benighted culture and their foul customs‽

Of course, the victims of your repression might feel a bit differently than you do.
Charging a laptop in the middle of a room with the cord stretched across where people normally walk is mostly a relic of the past now that we have much longer battery lives than we used to. These days most people charge their laptop in a situation where the charger is not stretched across the room (e.g. when sitting on a desk against a wall).
Isn't this playing a bit fast and loose with physics?

Isn't the the same thing as saying, wow, I'm heavy on the planet earth. The sky is putting a force on me, by not having enough mass to counter the gravity of the earth.

Our galaxy is being pushed by a lack of mass on one direction?
Compared to the paragraph before it, I think he's just saying our estimates of ABV may be wildly off because we don't have a great historical basis for them. Our modern notion of what constitutes wine or liquor is based in part on ABV ranges. If we say "ancient peoples drank wine nonstop", someone might think you're talking about a ~15% ABV beverage, when that isn't necessarily true.
It's very MVP! Good luck
We're using the Gitlab CE for our internal use, but one of our customer's is on Gitlab.com. We're likely still going to recommend Gitlab.com after this, but also enable mirroring to our internal instance.

As a side note, I just checked our S3 Gitlab backup bucket and it does have backups for every day for the last year (1.8 GB each yikes) so instead of failing to create the backups, its actually failing to delete the older ones! :)
It's called the Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem - "Complex systems usually operate in an error mode". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics has more rules from the book. It's worth the read.
I have debated myself but did not donate the ACLU this weekend. (I did donate to the Victoria Islamic Center Rebuilding though.) I hate to be right. Working with an organization where Peter Thiel is a partner is a betrayal of everything the ACLU stands for.
ACLU Enrolls in Startup School Y Combinator
In CS typically the poster track is peer-reviewed like the main track, just with different standards that are oriented towards allowing people to present preliminary work, minor experiments, etc. However it is still supposed to be interesting and competent work, and you can definitely get rejected even with a non-crackpot poster submission if it's one of the more competitive conferences. You usually have to submit a paper for peer review, but a short one, <4 pages. At some, it may also be a consolation prize for rejected full-track papers, where work that doesn't make the cut but is still interesting is offered a space at the conference if the authors are willing to submit a cut-down version as a poster paper.
When it comes to civil liberties, smaller government is always a good thing but literally no party supports that

Perhaps you should try to re-frame your statement in the context of local vs state vs federal government.

In reality, a government does not have to be big to be corrupt enough to willfully harm or infringe upon the civil liberties of its citizens. The "enforcement" piece of a local government doesn't have to be large to harass or detain or jail people. Or protesters. Or anybody they dislike for being ___________ or having voted __________.

The terrifying thing about Trump's administration is that he's fueling this delusion of an America that doesn't exist any more, empowering corruption at the local level (Martial Law) while simultaneously removing options for citizens to redress where grievances about their civil liberties matter -- at the federal level.
Do you get the irony?
Yes I agree with this. I think if you're going to offer equity too, offer equity that vests over a longer period of time (3-4 years) might help keep them connected and give them a reason to stay with the business too. Make them work for ownership of the business.
Sure, but avoiding hyperinflation is Monetary Policy 101. Most currencies in developed countries have never experienced a hyperinflation and never will because money is created via the fractional reserve banking system as credit for which there is a definite future demand for repayment and taxes denominated in that currency create additional future demand[1]. People are prepared to accept currency because they have future debts and expected future debts denominated in it, and that confidence is boosted because whenever the central bank sees price rises above the level it's prepared to tolerate it steps in to adjust the supply.

The BTC mechanism for attempting price stability on the other hand does the opposite: the supply is designed to grow very steadily, but with no reason whatsoever to believe a stable and sustainable demand for that particular cryptocurrency exists in future.

[1]Hyperinflations occur when the supply of money grows steadily without even bigger growth in future demand obligations, which in practice invariably happens because the government has resorted to printing it to discharge debts and release people from future tax obligations. This actually looks more like a Bitcoin economy (albeit with more potential for the money supply to grow really, really quickly) in that what the government is doing is decoupling supply from demand.
> If the ground-state of the human mind is tipsy, then is sobriety functionally an abnormal state we're maladapted for?

I vaguely recall reading that the ancient Persians would make decisions twice: once sober, and once drunk. If their decisions were the same, then they knew that they'd decided correctly. Of course, they ended up being conquered by a bunch of teetotallers …

No reference, I'm afraid. It could be very well be total bunk.
Now, mostly, maybe. At launch it was a clusterfk. I use Win 10 on pretty much every device except my phone and my disposable 7" Fire tablet.

But Microsoft still find ways to screw things up.

I don't know if ICS was working pre-Anniversary update, but it certainly wasn't working reliably post-Anniversary, which screwed me right over. It'd work fine when you set it up, only to die and require disabling and re-enabling to work again.

The Anniversary update broke the DMP client (not that I use it). It mangled the IPv6 DHCP client as well for a lot of people supposedly.

And that's ignoring stuff like the awful search functionality, Windows Defender randomly breaking and effectively eating a CPU core, profiles breaking for no apparent reason, the randomly resetting/breaking non-default file associations, the regular bullcrap trying to push you to Edge, the broken gaming platform (seriously, how hard is it to accept money for the Solitaire collection upgrade?)...

That's barely scratching the surface.
Or skip the middleman: prod-db1, prod-db2, dev-db1, dev-db2.
My advice, start with the free stuff. If you complete it then consider a paid thing. The completion rates of online courses is super low. I take this to mean people don't really want to do it.
> The second reason for outsourcing: no young person in America wants to spend their time making stupid stuff like pencils and chalks and little american flags . Foreigners would be more than happy to do it though.

They find it just as boring over there. It's a job people everywhere do because they get paid to, not because the want to.
They aren't counting outsourcing firms as "tech firms"?
I remember when we accidentally deleted our customers' data. That was the worst feeling I ever had running our business. It was about 4% of our entire storage set and had to let our customers know and start the resyncs. Those first 12 hours of panic were physically and emotionally debilitating - more than they have the right to be. I learned an important lesson that day: Business is business and personal is personal. I remember it like it was yesterday, the momement I conciously decided I would no longer allow business operations determine my physical health (stress level, heart rate, sleep schedule).

For what it's worth, it was a lesson worth learning despite what seemed like catastrophic world-ending circumstances.

We survived, and GitLab will too. GitLab has been an extraordinary service since the beginning. Even if their repos were to get wiped (which seems not to be the case), I'd still continue supporting them (after I re-up'd from my local repos). I appreciate their transparency and hope that they can turn this situation into a positive lesson in the long run.

Best of luck to GitLab sysops and don't forget to get some sleep and relax.
This article does not reference a source for the quote but author writes this about Osama - "He repeatedly asserted that the only way to drive the U.S. from the Muslim world and defeat its satraps was by drawing Americans into a series of small but expensive wars that would ultimately bankrupt them. “Bleeding the U.S.,” in his words. The United States, first under George W. Bush and then Barack Obama, rushed right into bin Laden’s trap."
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/osamas-ghost...
>There is a fallacy there - you believe, that if voting Republican does not improve situation, but can likely be detrimental, its better to stick with alternative.

No, I don't believe in the two-party system. If someone voted Green, Libertarian, or otherwise because they believed a third-party vote (especially down-ballot) would actually help address their problems, more power to them.
Quite right. I much prefer when people vote third-party on principle.
In fact I use byobu instead of plain tmux.
Your argument is still not making much sense. I don't see how the power efficiency of the APIs is relevant. The point is that they currently allow tons of applications (E.g. Candy Crush) that drains the battery. What's the reason for making the browser a special case? It's just rendering to the screen like any other application.

One argument I could see being made is that the browser is used more than others and thus warrants tighter control. But even that is weak. People are draining their batteries all day long playing games as it is.
Exciting Times to Tackle the American Dream Head On
Did you take the courses online or on campus? Did you feel like a "regular student" or "divided but equal"? Did you look at alternatives like Harvard Extension ALM in Software Engineering?
I see what you did there. :)

Someone even made a drinking game out of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/mlclass/comments/lvxuz/mlclass_drin...
this x 1000

tl;dr, use tmux if you ssh into places and hate restarting after losing your connection.
"Hello world" is not particularly interesting. Make it do something simple, but fast. Like connect to memcached, get a random piece of data, spit it out.
Why am I getting downvoted? What is the rationale?
awesome feature! I've always wanted something like 'tagging' on github :)

btw, can you implement tagging when I star/fork a repo?
ps: have a look at https://getpocket.com's tagged-bookmark feature
Yesterday I've downloaded VSCode and https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode (seriously, look at the GIFs in this repo!) for first time and I had autocompletion (with IntelliSense and documentation lookup), refactoring and code define jumping for Python code out of the box working within 10 minutes in a VirtualEnv. VSCode + one plugin (all opensource) and I had something similar to PyCharm and fast. (nothing against vim, just want to mention how impressed I was)