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The guidelines specifically ask not to comment on downvoting.

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As suggested above, if you believe there's abuse going on, please contact the mods via the Contact link below.

Comments do sometimes attract downvotes from people who disagree, but far more often from what I've observed is that HN members strongly value civil and constructive comments, and will tend to downvote comments they feel don't meet those standards. They'll also downvote comments that go against the guidelines, which is likely your last comment is receiving downvotes.

Speculating as to why your comment was downvoted is of course, just speculation: some might wonder what the purpose of your comment is. It reads somewhat critical of 'tptacek's Twitter feed, which is not the topic of discussion. So it appears to be needlessly negative of an arguably personal nature for something that's off-topic. While that may not have been your intent, viewed in that light, it's not surprising that it may have attracted some downvotes.

Like I said, it's speculation. I have no special insight into the minds of those who downvoted. In my experience, it does little good to dwell on it other than to use it as motivation to write better comments.

Again, if you think there's actual abuse going on, do contact the mods. They're very responsive and I'm confident they'll look into it for you.
Those 2013 frameworks didn't get to the level of completion necessary to become popular until 2015, really.
I think they mean replubican in the representative democracy sense, not the GOP sense.
I'm not 100% sure what that is about, but I'm pretty sure it relates to new functionality for migrating data from existing file servers.

The API at https://www.dropbox.com/developers works for all account types. (Note that there are endpoints specific to team accounts when the functionality only makes sense there, like methods to add or remove members from a team, etc.)
Yes, those are the initials of an employee here. Sorry for the confusion!
This is just as true of any other cable. The Lightning cables you can buy at the corner store look like regular ones, but they don't have data lines, and they won't charge at full voltage. Cables are just awful. Or, one might say, knock-off cables are awful, and you shouldn't let them polute your junk drawer lest you never sort them back out.
Yes, humans can derive energy from alcohol.

The system that eventually extracts energy from glucose (the citric acid cycle, also called the Krebs cycle) is involved, after the liver converts the ethanol.
MagSafe was great for dealing with cables draped across the floor in front of you. With 4 USB-C ports, so you can plug your power in to either side, this is no longer an issue. And it looks like doing a MagSafe-style plug for USB-C is actually pretty bulky, as you can see in this Griffin product (https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...).

There's also another good reason why specifically Apple wants to get rid of MagSafe (as opposed to it just not being worth it anymore). And that's the fact that MagSafe has insidious problem of laptops sometimes just not charging, and you often don't even notice. I myself have started experiencing this issue with my current laptop and external display - I went for almost a whole day without it charging and didn't realize until I hit 10% battery, and since then, it's been a bit finicky, sometimes requiring me to poke at it several times before it charges properly. I don't know if it's the port or the cable that's having the issue. In any case, I would imagine this issue makes for a non-trivial amount of AppleCare support. And since MagSafe isn't really pulling its weight anymore, now that we have long batteries and can plug the cable on either side, the downsides outweigh the upsides.
I think it's a staff member. Can't remember first name, Yuri maybe, who is fairly active with the project.
Yeah if you pull it down, it snaps out pretty easy. Whenever I end up tripping on it, though, it's usually catching my foot and being pulled nearly straight out. I can actually push the Magsafe connector down until it bends far enough to touch the desk and then pull on it from that angle and it still just drags the laptop.

Maybe it's useful to some, and I agree it's great engineering... but it's never once worked for me in practice. I only find myself cursing when my leg bumps it and it stops charging.
Could attach a service worker if it can load before the assets. I know safari has this under consideration, but it's a w3 standard now anyway.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it.
From looking at the context of the way YP is referenced (link to a slack archive), I believe YP is an employee.
That's a great link, thanks. I was actually looking for an image of testcard 61 (at the bottom of that page), a copy of which I saw being used only a few years ago!

57 is interesting too; the black square in the centre is actually a hole leading into a box lined with black felt, to provide a black reference.

The generation and use of test cards and patterns is a surprisingly complicated subject; even in the digital age.
> they cannot help students unless those students have safe, stable, supportive home lives

As someone from a teaching family, this is absolutely true.

That said, the underlying problems can only be fixed by a combination of economic improvement and education. Education empowers in the future, but economic status empowers educational opportunities in the present.

And when it comes down to it, the government can't afford to replace the future wealth created by an educated citizenry.
Beyond recent news, there's got to be something related to the length of time people are able to use a Mac and have it be very viable. I'm getting 5-7 years from any I've purchased, vs. 2-4 for most of the Windows machines I had been purchasing prior to getting on the Mac train. While I think the Windows machines have upped the ante on that a bit, at least from what I hear anecdotally, you can likely track some of these sales to seasonality, new products, etc. and get a legit handle on how sales are truly going.
Edit: Seems 2FA is in fact available on all team plans. Please disregard.
I'm glad you posted it because it shows how little people understand their engineer's financial importance.

Granted, engineers are required to create products and maintain it. You need product to sell.

But at the marginal level for every dollar your sales person makes your engineer is not. You might argue but the product is generating revenues but that's not what drives a sale. A sale is a function of value derived from the product and the price paid for it. Engineers aren't driving the sale unless the product itself is a developer tool. But even in that case the top level business controllers will always have the final say. In the end, buying such developer centric tool is about minimizing cost expenditure.

There is critical proprietary knowledge and experience that is formed from a sales person that is driving revenues. Businesses do not want to lose the hen that lays the golden egg as they are hard and expensive to replace.

Engineers on the other hand are easily replaceable and are expensive because they cannot generate revenues. They are not efficient when pulled away to a sales meeting from the work they are doing. Their knowledge and skill costs businesses time and money with no way to get it back directly. It must be sold, money collected and redistributed to all the payrolls. That's the main risk a business owner or a CEO is dealing with where as the engineer collects a cheque at the end of the month with little to no concern or exposure to that risk.

Society rewards risk takers disproportionately at the corporate level. Even if it's tough to measure to the Board and investors losing a C-level executive is always going to be more impactful than a senior engineer who has far more workers to replace him as a result of being cost intensive.

Find me an engineer that can code and sell, now that is a truly rare hybrid, a mewtwo, but it will still be more expensive than a guy who just sells (and does well).

A poor salesman understands this better than anyone, his weight is worth the revenues he generates. For engineers it's the efficiency / dollar or output / dollar that they are competing against which is always headed towards commoditization and any business would replace them with an AI that can code if they could if it cost less.
"So in other words, out of 5 backup/replication techniques deployed none are working reliably or set up in the first place."
There's industry-wide confusion related to the USB-C plug

USB-C != USB 3.1

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/197145-reversible-usb-...

USB-C != Thunderbolt 3

http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-th...
I did do the math. At 1.5 oz, there are 85 shots in a gallon.
85 * 4 gallons = 340 shots.
340 /.40 (80 proof alcohol) = 850
850/365 = ~2.3 shots of 40% alcohol.
But then 1.5 oz shot is pretty small and my knob Creek is 50% :)

Edit: so it's 3.5 oz, not shots. Also, mmmmm whiskey.
It's both.

I very much appreciate their forthrightness and the way they conduct their company generally. Having said that, I have the code I work on, related content, and a number of clients on the service.

[edit for additional point]

They need the infrastructure guy they've been looking for sooner than later. I hope there's good progress on that front.
I was hoping there was a connection! Even if there's not, it makes the song richer. Iggy Pop's version gives me chills.
> And the capitalist system works fine, because if these employees think I'm doing a shit job, they do have a vote: leave and start their own company.

I didn't know it was this possible to be so non self aware.

> The parts that don't work are actually the more socialist parts of the system, such as bailouts for big behemoth, and regulatory barriers to starting competitors.

Socialism is when the government does things, and the more things it does, the socialister it is!
23:00-ish

YP thinks that perhaps pg_basebackup is being super pedantic about there being an empty data directory, decides to remove the directory. After a second or two he notices he ran it on db1.cluster.gitlab.com, instead of db2.cluster.gitlab.com

Good lesson on the risks of working on a live production system late at night when you're tired and/or frustrated.
Exactly. When there is no price list, I do not even bother to go further, I switch to another product/company.

Else I know I am gonna get screwed. First, the price will be set as my face fits (there is even an expression for that in my language, I am unsure how it translates to English which does not seem to have the equivalent saying); that means depending how the salesman judges me, he will set a price according to the maximum of what he imagines I am ready to pay. If I call from another company, I may get a different offer for the same product. If I word my request differently, he may infer I am the sucker of the day.

Then he will expect me to bargain. Fuck that. That means his second or final offer still provides him the reasonable benefit he needs. Which also means that he only provides lubricant now and he was ready to fuck me dry with the same plastic smile in the first place if I did not bargain. How can I trust someone like that? How can I trust I got a fair price? What if I hear someone else got a different price? Will I be pissed at the seller or... very pissed at the seller?

Oh, and meanwhile, he has wasted my time, and he has wasted his own time talking and talking, or exchanging several mails across several days. I have had salesmen coming to my office, and then during the meeting calling their company each time I asked something to get a different price than the official one. What is the point of this cinema? I know the guy on the phone is just reading a price list, he's not making complex financial calculations for stuff in the range of $100. Why doesn't the first guy have it? He knows he's not going to use the official price anyway.

If they get kicks from that, that's fine, find themselves a game or a sport that does the same. Because now they are costing their company money, and that money has to be taken from the price I pay, so I necessarily pay more than if they had just put a price list. Price list that they do have ready, because they're not pulling the prices they tell me out of their asses. But they keep it 'secret', as keeping it secret is the only justification of their job existence.

I just want a price list, that includes the proper benefit to have their company live fine, that's all. I can read the varying "prices per quantity" columns as the salesman does, thank you.

EDIT: and I forgot the case when the price is 1 or 2 orders of magnitude higher than what we can afford. I want to know it immediately, before I spend any minute considering the product, which may be all bells an whistles, but since I cannot afford anyway, it doesn't matter. So it makes me adjust my expectations.
I'm going to cherry-pick your examples again and point out that sports scores actually an ideal use case for actual tables because they are generally actual tabular data. But frankly I just disagree when you say that a hierarchical tree isn't a mechanism for expressing general-purpose semantic relationships, when it's at least as good as spatial positioning on a page. In fact, I can use classes with semantic names which make my meaning perfectly clear to anyone reading the source. It might be invisible with a bad or default stylesheet, but that's a relatively easily resolved problem.
Why not take the Georgia Tech online MSCS instead? Only $7k, you get a Master's degree instead of a 'Certificate', and you have the option of covering a lot of the same material.
Nope, that would be me.
I once almost donated to the NRA several years ago. But on their main website were a few links to some anti-abortion/pro-life organizations. (And, AFAICT, it wasn't advertisements served over a third-party system.) I never went back.

I don't think the ACLU is nearly as partisan aligned or affiliated like that. But they're definitely more aligned, as a political matter, with the Democratic party. Partly for historical reasons (e.g. school busing, voting rights, criminal rights, etc.) But I totally get what you're saying.

The other part of it, though, is that we all need to learn to be a little more tolerant of political organizations and politicians taking stances that we personally disagree with. It's inevitable. To demand otherwise leads to more extremism, and leads to more fragmentation. If all we have are 10,000 smaller advocacy organizations, they're all going to drift left or right to a much greater extent. The only way to arrest that shift is to use yourself as an anchor; support the organization but then be sure to voice your opposition when they assume an inappropriate policy stance or affiliation.
I generally do agree, but 'laptop' is a little disingenuous when you're talking about an engineer's workstation—I get very little code written out of reach of a power socket. I'd even put up with a heavier/clunkier/louder machine (slightly) for a gpu/power boost.

They did use to make 17" laptops; calling those portable was really stretching the word.
Write proper documentation.
Start at:

> At this point frustration begins to kick in. Earlier this night YP explicitly mentioned he was going to sign off as it was getting late (23:00 or so local time), but didn’t due to the replication problems popping up all of a sudden.

This is why I'm not a fan of emergency pager duty.
I'm not looking for a job, but if you're looking for employees, why do you limit your search to a small, expensive city like Seattle? What are the downsides of remote work that are keeping you away from it?
> If I'm dismissive it's because we've had a lot of field tests of socialism throughout history, as well as in economic studies, and the results are always poor. It's a dangerous mindset to not examine critically because it is a slippery slope towards communism, the most inhumane type of society responsible for the most deaths in human history (much more than religion).

This one sentence already demonstrates that you don't know what the words socialism or communism means.
huh, I hadn't heard about that. One less competitor though, right?

I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled for updates!
As much as I appreciate GitLabs extreme openness, that's maybe something that by policy shouldn't be part of published reports. Internal process is one thing, if something goes really bad customers might not be so good at "blameless postmortems" if they have a name to blame.
This popped up a few days ago and it seems worth it to compare: https://github.com/alexellis/funker-dispatch/
Is your username a Spin reference?
What do you mean by this? What did I say that was false?
Thanks for the good discussion, upvotes are a token of my appreciation.
"1 + 1 = 2" is true and objective for an infinite time period.
Dell's XPS 15 comes closest to that, although perhaps doesn't have quite the same battery life, it does have: Quad Core i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SDD, higher resolution, approximately same weight, and a more powerful GPU.
Good lesson on making command prompts on machines always tell you exactly what machine you're working on.
Quit abstracting everything into run-time
Alas, poor Yorick!
It would be interesting to see the epigentic effects of generations of alcohol use. Kind of like Terence McKenna's "stoped ape" theory.
Actually, email matching might be suitable for this problem. I did a project for matching flatmates a while ago. [1] Was trying to leverage a user's facebook connections etc. to create better matches (e.g. 2nd degree connections).
If anyone is interested in taking it over/working on it let me know.
[1] http://www.flatmate.io/
> My site, an actual working solution to the problem of both fake news and bias, is doing great (Over three million page views last month).

How is crowd-funded media a solution to the problem of bias and factually unsound reporting?

I found a link to your site from your profile and it appears to be a gossip and tabloid site with a focus on UFC.
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Hey Pavel, not sure if you reply was for zeptomu or myself but i just checked out ipfabric and it looks really interesting! I hope it is ok if I send you an email about this?
Make it a 10ft shipping container. (1/4th size) That should be good for a full standard load of around 30 tons, with some empty space for equipment access. Maybe redox flow batteries will win for the grid scale use case, because it could become feasible to process the solution in-situ and save a bunch of shipping weight.
I've heard third hand rumors of people at fancy parties using sublingual methanol drops recreationally. Sounds insane to me, if true.
Thanks for the transparency. Doesn't always feel good to have missteps aired in public, but it makes us all a little better as a community to be clear about where mistakes can be made.
For complex software, it's not always practical to list everything it does and expect customers to search for all the things they want to do with it, or even know what they want. It can be more efficient if the customer explains what they want to use it for then you (as the salesman) can use your deeper knowledge of the product to decide if it's suitable for their needs before they invest time learning about it. There could be subtle issues that become showstoppers, like maybe it's not compatible with some other software they already use or it doesn't work well at the scale they need, etc.

That might still be a marketing failure. Perhaps there's a better way to capture that salesman knowledge and apply it to the customer automatically, or perhaps it's a failure of the product design that it's so complicated in the first place.
This is the stuff my nightmares consist of after 900 consecutive days of being on call (and counting).
You nailed it. AI advancement leads to arbitrage opportunities in white collar labor as did mechanical automation lead to arbitrage opportunities in blue collar labor which leads to group of giant firms that collude to keep wages low as a result of the Nash Equilibrium. Apple won't pay workers more than Google does and vice versa. Starting a tit for tat would drive wages high which would increase uncertainty and risk for market monopolies.
I think the ACLU goes beyond the rule of law, and sometimes will push the line on interpretations of the law to limit government power (which I think in a fine thing to be doing).
This makes zero sense. You can install 3rd party apps that can do whatever they want (within the limitations of the platform) power-wise. But for some reason Apple needs to limit the special case of apps that are browsers?

I think the most charitable explanation possible is that Apple doesn't want any kind of "open with..." choice ala Android Intents because they aren't very usable. For the same reason they don't allow you to set the maps application or the phone application.

As a person who has done a lot of platform design, I can definitely relate to that desire. OTOH, as a user who prefers Chrome and Google Maps, it drives me crazy that the default is always to open Safari and Apple Maps.
VR Gear and Accessories You Must Have (2017)
I didn't know it was this possible to be so non self aware.

No matter how ignorant you may think another poster is, it's never okay on HN to be uncivil. Particularly with contentious topics, it's even more important to raise to level of civility to ensure constructive discussion.
On a Dell XPS 15 9550:

- Trackpad is awful and all the synaptics software and tweaks and configs I've tried can't make it work half as well as a MBP trackpad
- graphics switching + sleep + power brick replugging + lid closing doesn't work ever
- high power usage unless powertop --autotune is run, which breaks USB replugging and causes more havoc with sleep
- mfg defect with the ribbon cable under the space bar causing the space bar to be almost unusable. Required a new keyboard and me tearing the whole thing apart to fix

The screen is gorgeous though (thin bezels + 4K IGZO + capacitive touch which I don't need) and the hinge works well even when touching it. Build quality is OK but not micron-level perfect like MBPs (the seam where the metal meets the bottom shell is off by a tiny bit and catches my finger). The power brick is bigger than an MBP equivalent and they're not ubiquitous as the MagSafe2s now are. Having real USB ports is nice, since I hate the USB dongle I have Velcro'd to the USB-C power cable for the tbMBP.

It also doesn't run Mac OS, which FWIW on the 2016 tbMBP fares about as well as the Dell with re-plugging two 4K DP USB alt-mode adapters -- I end up hard-powering the MBP >50% of the time since the internal displays and external displays won't show anything, even though the stupid touch bar lights up.

I got the Dell used on eBay for about half of retail, which is about what I consider it to be worth, while I consider the 2015 rMBP to be worth ~$1600 and the 2016 tbMBP much less.
You're right that certain parts of the country have been hit hard by automation and globalization but the idea that the hard hit people are the Trump voters is not particularly true.
Also, as a safety net, sometimes you don't need to run `rm -rf` (a command which should always be prefaced with 5 minutes of contemplation on a production system). In this case, `rmdir` would have been much safer, as it errors on non-empty directories.
One data point: I have no idea if I checked the box, but I'm a regular subscriber and I've never had solicitation from any of those other companies.
Why should a bartender be compelled to offer their services?