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Mechanical relays are not obsolete. They can have lower resistance and capacitance than solid state equivalents. A good relay is a very close approximation to a plain wire when closed. Relays are still commonly used for RF switching.
People vastly underestimate how massive, complex and heterogenous the likes of Target, Home Depot, Walmart's stacks are.

I've worked with people very used to working with enormously complex systems and even they say Walmart etc is on the higher end of that scale. We're talking weeks of people on site to get new software stood up.

This isn't to diminish your point about the need for upgrades, but it's nothing like a push button process.
"Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime." - David Leinweber
Thanks Kyle! :)
The point-of-sale terminals have vendors that produce them in large quantity and they should have the expertise to upgrade the software of the machines that they built.

One can always hire experts with a proven track record to help with the install of the new OS.

Incidentally, many people may have trouble with upgrades to the new OS because
1. Running old hardware
2. Not running quality hardware -- e.g. for Windows laptops traditionally Thinkpads.
3. Do a fresh install. E.g. don't upgrade, but backup the data, clean the disk, do a fresh install.

I use Mac and did the fresh install of Sierra 10.12.1 and then upgrades for point version updates.

I also have been running Windows under Parallels and on Thinkpads prior to 2011 and not had problems with new versions of Windows.
There's nothing wrong with his response given how the original post was worded...
If the fund owns the assets, and you own shares in the fund, then you own a part of the assets. Who else would? The management?
This is the only product on HN I've ever seen where "This is great!" is all over the place and never downvoted. Almost every single product on HN that makes it to the front page is full of flamewars and grumps. I should post the sentiment scores. Its a serious outlier.
Almost the whole population of earth is affected by computers on a daily basis. Seems logical for the citizens to know the fundamentals irrespective of the domain they are in. Because almost all the domains will be soon run through computers.
maybe common sense was the wrong phrase. It seems like many of these solutions are just basic answers to really simplistic problems: Why is no one visiting our site? Because it is outdated, not optimized, and has no content = Make some improvements
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As the journalist encouraged in the medium post, I opened their blog post in question and then the ethics statement they linked to.

I didn't get past the first paragraph of their article before finding what I would consider highly objectionable content, that Trump's government "thrives on the lie of white racial superiority."

That is just way over the top inflammatory rhetoric and not befitting of a journalist, even on a blog that is supposed to represent an opinion. IMHO.

While I am aware of a ton of racially-oriented concerns about Trump the sentence seems to reflect a very polemical ad-hominem view that isn't even attempted to be backed up by the author despite being in the thesis sentence.

It displays a careless disregard for facts, evidence, and/or the meaning of words, ironically the very thing the author is complaining about.
Interestingly, if Amazon scales back on UPS and FedEx as they ramp up their own logistics, this would leave both companies with a lot of excess capacity and infrastructure to maintain unless there is equivalent growth from the rest of the market. Given how much Amazon ships, that a big potential problem. It also gives Amazon even more leverage with both shipping companies when it does need to use them.

I'm curious if this eventually could create market problems like we are seeing with excess shipping capacity. The World Container Index hit a 5 year low this past year due to excess capacity.
The biggest reason is that there's so much more volume in organic search (80% of all clicks) vs paid search (20%), and the ROI on SEO is so high. There's also so many companies in the PPC space -- it's quite saturated. SEO is appealing to us because we think it's overlooked due to stigma.

SEO and PPC are really two very different games overall, but I have a ton of respect for people who are really good at PPC.
Just that the sentiment scores of comments blow everything else out of the water. Haven't done one in a month or two though.
Renders are split out into their own queue now, so those should work pretty quickly. I'm having issues getting all the GH history, so please be patient on that. Sorry!
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I miss Windows 7. It did work just like Windows 95. It was just downhill from that.
I did an advanced forensics course a few years back that was geared towards preparing me for court cases for the company I was working for. I quickly realized how easily "expert" witnesses could and most likely were being abused in the system just as you say. Expert shop till you get what you want.

That's not even mentioning the epic level of incompetence I saw among others. I'm talking about "forensic experts" who didn't know any filesystem other than NTFS, and even then if the tool didn't do it for them they didn't see it... At least I know if I ever end up defending myself I have plenty of inside knowledge on how to undermine the prosecutors arguments.
It doesn't concern me at all. The Democratic Party isn't a branch of government. It's a private company. That so many treat it like it's a government organization is far more concerning than the motivations behind any hacks of one or both major parties.
Correct. I use Linux at home. Ubuntu and Mint have nice rendering OOTB, Arch got that great with the Infinality package.

OSX also has decent rendering (albeit too fat for my taste), Windows' subpixelrendering + matching fonts used to give sharp letters, yes too skinny, but legible.

With their new engine, texts are less legible. The letters are still skinny, but now they're also blurry.

All this to cater to the very small fraction that uses Windows on a mobile device; throwing existing desktop users under the bus.
Something something iPhone integration.
Upgrades occurred without user approval. If you have to do something extra to stop it from happening then it is forced.
Unfortunately, Chromebooks will struggle with the engineering crowd, where software like ANSYS, Matlab, AutoCAD, etc. are required.
What are the actual requirements for a perjury conviction in the USA? Does the witness have to be intentionally lying? Presumably you don't prosecute someone for being mistaken, misguided or over-confident in their own abilities?

It doesn't sound like Carmack was accusing the witness of lying, but rather they they believed a bit too much in their own pet theory about how to detect copying in code.

I don't usually like to comment on trials, but I think perhaps he has a point here. If there were a reliable method for detecting 'non-literal copying' of code, then the person who made it should be making a killing by selling refactoring tools.
It really boggles the mind why there is no Open Source Lastpass/1 Password Teams/etc. Clone/Rewrite.

There was TeamPass, which was buggy as hell and shouldn't be touched with a long pole... ...but why is there nothing else?

Where can i donate twice my yearly LastPass fee to get something self-hostable opensource and fund their Audits?

And no, Keepass in Dropbox/NextCloud/WhateverStorage doesn't work for a company that has Non-IT People needing access to passwords.
Shouldn't these stores standardize on vendors? Why would they use different vendors which only adds to complexity unless they've bought out a different store chain and are integrating existing systems?

Also, they should pay the vendors contracts for maintenance instead of trying to do the upgrades themselves. The vendors are generally more likely to do the testing necessary and have the skills for upgrading systems across from various customers.

At any rate, as you put it, eventually they still should do the upgrade.
Awesome site and idea! I hope you figure out how to work your bottlenecks out
I guess I meant it in the context of it has a lot of velocity and is continuing so.

But I agree :)
I am surprised at the amount of semi-negative comments here. Yes, some features are yet to be implemented, (it's still a fairly young project and you can always follow GitHub issues on progress), but for an Electron app, it's surprisingly fast and capable.

The Microsoft-developed Go plugin makes it the best Go IDE out there, the devs, (Ramya Rao etc.) are super responsive and really trying to resolve issues quickly.

If you haven't tried it yet, I think you really should and if you have found a problem, open an issue at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode so the devs know about it, complaining doesn't help making it better. They generally release every month, so it will get fixed sooner rather than later.

P.S. Kudos to the team & contributors for another awesome release!
Correct me if I am wrong, but you are trying to determine the effect that many different tweaks have on Google's ranking. You are not explicitly trying to reverse engineer their search algorithm, but, implicitly, you are trying to build a model of their model, and to then use your implicit model to drive up rankings.

Of course, the final determination is entirely up to Google, but this seems kind of a risky game to play.
The Group Policy Editor lets you disable telemetry.
Wouldn't something like that be encrypted and have a neural password?
> Because all your friends and former classmates can't code even if their life depended on it.

How about a little on-the-job training? Let's be honest, the real issue isn't talent. These H1B applicants are willing to sacrifice their lives for your company whereas your average entry-level American engineer may prioritize something else.
At least police obtained the data through the proper channels, securing a search warrant. I can't think of an argument against this being valid and reasonable.
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Well there we go, I do see it now. I only see it as a small imperfection in some letters, but it does ruin everything as a whole.
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That's quite a different use case from a one-time event with the results evaluated immediately.
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The "Why Use JSMPEG" section hits the nail on the head with respect to the needs of some projects I have worked on.

Particularly, I once needed to stream video from a UAV to multiple tablets and phones on a local network to allow collaborative annotations. Since it was a disaster response system there was no depending on external services, which at the time put WebRTC out of the picture (all of the easy to use implementations required internet access to use existing signaling services).

We ended up using MJPEG and then later a JavaScript implementation of a MPEG-1 decoder. This library certainly would have made my life a little easier at the time!
turning off javascript usually fixes it.
12 seconds? Snap is pretty awesome on Windows 10.
Err.. what?

Particles going into your lungs to produce cognitive effects is the basis behind smoking cigarettes, marijuana, meth, etc.
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I get it but this is some scary stuff that pushes the bounds of ethics. I mean, on one hand we want to prevent insurance fraud because it impacts everyone. On the other, where do we draw the line? Should we even have to consider that a pacemaker could be used to gather data about us before we consent to a pacemaker? It shouldn't. Now it is.
MSP430 has been in LLVM for a very, very long time though, since 2010 or so.
They had a dialog saying "Hey, do you want to upgrade?" and if you closed it or said no it would leave you alone for a bit.

Then it would pop up and say "Hey, do you want to upgrade?" and if you said no it would leave you alone but if you closed it it would assume you were okay with it.

I know a lot of people who woke up one morning and their computer was running Windows 10 without their approval, despite having said 'no' to previous questions.
JFETs main application these days is for when you need very low noise, usually for precise measurements. A depletion mode MOSFET has similar behavior, but not specs.
What frequency are you PWMing at, and are you applying any analog filtering? I frequently get annoyed by slow PWMed lighting, and I wonder how other animals with possibly faster vision perceive it.
> With the above two and DMA protection, physical access attacks become very difficult.

Physical attacks aren't part of my threat model on a desktop PC. Indeed these protections feel more like DRM - trying to protect the computer from the (legitimate) user.
"We only care about the making money part. Please don't ban that..."
I ran into this too. I emailed author about it.
If you properly drive a 2N3055 (so all the way to 'on' or all the way to 'off') you'd have to put a pretty good current through it to get it to get hot. The trick is to use the highest voltage you can get away with (most power for the least amount of current). .6V * quite a few amps before you overcome the housings capacity to get rid of the heat.

You'll need to properly drive it though and not at too high a frequency (and for obvious reasons, not too low either because you'll notice the flicker).
What makes a serious tech enthusiast? I consider myself one and I enjoy using Windows 10 as my desktop PC. I have had almost no issues or qualms with how Windows 10 has performed for me since launch.
Weren't all of those in 8?
There's also https://grayscale.co/bitcoin-investment-trust/ -- which awaits approval as well.
VS Code is a web dev IDE. Microsoft has lost the mobile platform wars and pushing the web is a way of countering that. Plus, web and azure do go hand-in-hand, as you point out.
The sentiment scores are somewhat pointless, I feel. If you're concerned about astroturfing, all post history on this site is public. You can click a user's username to browse their comments. Bots are pretty obvious, I do this on reddit quite often.
RF grade relays will cost you an arm and a leg though.
/Startups has a "Share Your Startup" each month which is great
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I'm curious how a) they determined he had a pace maker b) where they got the idea to check it for data. Pretty wild.
By took over I meant he bought the company. If you read the bottom of my comment . . ( I agree Warren was not responsible personally , I don't know where the buck stops. )
What makes you think the government couldn't demand the maker of the neural connectors exfiltrate the neural password?
It's a misunderstanding by the journalist, since other articles and the study itself expressly stated that the researchers concluded that lychee would probably not be useful for diabetics because it doesn't address the correct glucose pathway, i.e., the liver, from which most blood glucose is generated. Fatty acid oxidation is the secondary pathway for glucose generation in the body and generally isn't responsible for blood sugar spikes.
> Why A/B testing and not a more complex statistical hypothesis testing method?

We like simple! We only take on extra complexity if it's worthwhile.
Ours is automated and continuous, and there's is a self-service product. We like those guys though!
When one's only tool is a hammer every "problem" seems like a nail, eh? Some things simply aren't improved by the introduction of computers.
> Haskell doesn't really target industry, never has and never will.

Why do you say that?
I guess I am one of those astro turfers too because VS Code is probably one of the best editors for Windows right now.
Unfortunately I can't find a source for this but I saw someone saying recently (and it makes sense) that a lot of congress fax numbers just convert the fax to an email message rather than physically printing it out.
How does your pricing work?
I would like to add that in most cases it is crucial to understand philosophy behind everything. Whatever you try to learn, if you don't understand the way of thinking, don't see a roadmap, then you don't understand a subject.

In schools and colleges this is not always the case that we learn philosophy of a subject. Especially in schools. This is sad.
As an emacs user, it's interesting to watch the race of open source extensible editors like Atom and VSCode.

I still haven't been tempted to leave emacs, but it's great to see so much progress in the ecosystem.
As well as the fact that for every apartment-size space used by a hydroponic farm, that's a family that likely has to commute into the city?
About time for more people to stand up to Trump and his idiotic executive orders.
Atom and Dolphin also get near-unanimous praise when they come up. It's not exclusive to VSC.
Don't tell me that a LM386 is bad without telling me why and what to replace it with. If you don't, then you're not actually helping me at all, but rather it just sounds like you're spreading FUD.
We all love a redemption story.

Over the decades I've gone through a personal journey of discovery, astonishment, deep affection, surprise, disappointment and downright hatred with respect to Microsoft, now transitioning to wary hopefulness.

We all want competition in the marketplace, so I like to see them visibly earning their way back into developer affections and leaving their dickish ways behind them.
Thanks, just to be clear, I mean you generate the clicks via SEO and selling them on a PPC, lead, etc. basis.
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I think it's fairly similar - I remember showing Ryan a demo of our tool back when he was at 7cupsoftea before RankScience got going.

We just published an update on our first year of data:
https://www.distilled.net/resources/distilled-odn-by-the-num...

(Distilled founder & CEO here)
Nothing in VS Code is terribly web specific. I've been using it for C++ for which it works swimmingly.
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I keep trying VSCode, but the main thing that keeps me going back to Atom is the fact that I have to do everything at the command line or by editing an enormous json file. Maybe I'm spoiled, but I'd much rather have a nice UI to deal with settings than have to figure out that, say, in order to show line numbers I have to modify "editor.lineNumbers" and set it to "on" (or is it "true"? or 1? I can't remember... let me go waste more time looking it up...)
And before that people were vowing never to upgrade to XP, and before that people said 98 would be the last version of windows they would ever run...
Agreed. Since VSCode came out there has been one gigantic circle jerk over it. It's "always" been better than sublime and atom, even though sublime and atom had been out for much longer.

I've used a lot of text editors. VSCode really isn't miles ahead of the rest. As tech enthusiasts we all discuss new software regularly and we know none of us agree on one thing. According to stackoverflow, VSC is only used by 7.2% of users, yet people want to argue that "everyone just agrees it's a good editor". No, no they don't.

The MS employees aren't tricking anyone and it's really more of a turn off than anything. I'll just stick with Vim (there's a reason it's still popular after decades).
This situation is easily distinguishable from hypoglycemia from starvation - the latter unlikely to happen in non-diabetic children who spent the day eating sweet fruit. Checking basic labs such as a blood glucose fingerstick - as would have happened at a properly provisioned hospital - would not identify the specific fruit but it may well have prevented these kids from dying, as the treatment is just to give sugar.
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I find it kind of funny that most screenshots are taken from MacOS :)
I use vs code for Go development and it's pretty amazing. Slowly starting to use it in other languages as well, but the Go support is really 5*.
There is work underway to create an LLVM backend for the Tensilica Xtensa, so Rust on the ESP32 / ESP8266 might soon be a reality!
i read another article about this, and apparently he told the 911 operator something along those lines...

Edit: "Compton also told the dispatcher he had “an artificial heart.”
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3162740/security/cops-us...
Great, I didn't know the terminal portion if VS Code exists as a separate project. Was it made to fuel VS Code? Or did it already exist before launching VS Code?

I also liked the name of the project, xterm.js. :)
To the site author:

Let me just say that I loved how quickly this site loaded. Thank you for taking the effort to build a fast site.
I've wondered the same thing. It concerns me that there are more police dramas than any other genre on American television.... and even more that they are so popular. It says alot about a cultural mindset. One the one hand you can argue the shows are being pushed.. but they wouldn't continue to do so if people didn't eat them up.

It's a gut fear that is being appealed to, and simultaneously teaching people exactly "us vs everyone else" and "other people are dangerous and untrustworthy." Even your neighbor. Even your friends.

Makes me sad.

It didn't used to be that way in the US. It's certainly gotten worse.
If you want to switch power, MOSFETs are the way to go today. Voltage drop is near zero.
Digi-Key has over a thousand MOSFETs in TO-220 packages. Here's one of the cheapest with a low gate threshold.[1] Probably good enough for most Arduino on/off applications.

MOSFETs do have some problems. They can draw large gate currents for the first few nanoseconds of turn-on, which can overload whatever is driving them. The gate input is very vulnerable to electrostatic discharge during handling. Device failure tends to be into the ON state.

I just went through a big struggle with MOSFET selection for a special purpose switching power supply. The big through-hole parts have too much gate capacitance and need too much drive at turn-on. Only in surface-mount could I get something that would work.

That's the real problem with antique parts. The new stuff is surface-mount only.

[1] https://www.fairchildsemi.com/datasheets/FQ/FQP4N20L.pdf
blatant gyroscope rip off. nice effort in hacking it together though.
Leaking the Trump tax return was illegal. There was nothing illegal in the tax return. The Snowden leaks were quite probably illegal. Many of the things he leaked were not illegal. (Since this will never go to trial, we'll probably never know.) Should the press only report on legally-sourced information? They aren't a jury.

Good news for us, though - both illegal leaks, and illegal hacks are illegal. We already have a mechanism to deal with bad behaviour in this space.