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Oil immersion is commonly used for transformers in power distribution systems. The cylindrical transformers on power poles are cylindrical for the same reasons beer cans are, it's a good shape for holding liquids.

In commercial buildings it is also not uncommon for transformers to be immersed in oil. But oil's flammability creates substantial fire hazard and modern building codes address this by limiting the density at which the oil in transformers can be distributed; specifying fire resistant separation; and other substantial hazard mitigations as the hazard increases.

Since the oil around servers burns just like the oil around transformers, there probably won't be any special exception for oil immersed servers in the building code any time soon. So I'd bet against large commodity data center installations...a state sponsored agency's data center might be another matter.
>They are free to modify and adapt the code without contributing the changes back to the community, which kind of ruuing the point of the GPL in the first place.

As they are with the GPL so long as they don't distribute the modified code outside of the organization.
Uses medium.com instead of a tweet storm...
Yeah! But...how hard is it to cut it down to real bare-bones staff and still somehow manage to have $120M in revenue and way less costs? Or is it mostly server and processing costs from how real-time their platform is?
> most of their added value is in driving experience

I think BMW's added value is in comfort and prestige. People buy a BMW because they can afford it and other people can see that they have one. The ride is smooth, the interior is nice, it has good sound insulation, etc. A small fraction buys them because they are fun to drive. BMW makes luxury sedans, not sports cars. The top of the luxury sedan market is not Ferrari but RR and Bentley where people literally buy the car and pay someone else to drive it.
Nobody is going to call out the title? The fact that silicon valley is called SILICON VALLEY literally because of the hardware that was manufactured there, made of silicon?

Oy vey
Twitter's tendency to ban and censor is either part of the problem or a sign of desperation. Either way, not good.
great if you need to run a vb6 application on modern hardware maybe
It sucks if you have a fast connexion too, because then your CPU and RAM suffer instead. And as you add addons to rectify the many offending web pages, then the performance penalty of those quickly equal to that of crappy JS. I was so happy with Xombrero as my browser, but it's stagnant and insecure now. I do like my Firefox but with all the blocking addons it's slow, and without them it's slower (not that it's its fault).
Let me guess, you live in the US and think you live in a completely free democracy?
I've just recently started to read academic papers and have fussed a bit with the best workflow. My hardware that I owned when I started the process were a Macbook Pro and Android Samsung Tab e 8.0. I've avoided purchasing any new hardware so far but may end up going with an iPad Pro or iPad Air if I cannot get satisfactory results with my Samsung Tab.

My software setup currently includes:
- Zotero -- reference management
- Zotfile -- pulls annotations out of the PDF for saving in Evernote, among other things
- Evernote -- The workhorse of my setup. I use this for both organizing my research projects, task lists, etc and also for notetaking while reading a PDF. This includes pulling annotations out of the PDF with Zotfile and storing them in an Evernote note.
- Google Drive -- for storing my PDFs. Each PDF has an Evernote note linked to it. This allows Evernote to full text search all my PDFs that are stored in Google Drive with OCR, so it will even detect any handwritten notes in a PDF.
- XODO -- I've tried many Android PDF annotation tools and currently XODO has been the best as far as UX while reading/annotating and also stability and integration with Evernote via Google Drive. Ideally I would use the built in annotation tool in Evernote but it is frustratingly slow on my Android device and the UX is suboptimal.

I've had a few issues with the Samsung Tab
- It is only 8" so it involves a lot of zooming and panning while reading.
- It has a split screen mode so I can have my notetaking app in one pane and my pdf annotator in the second screen. This works well except that, again, there is limited screen space
- I've struggled with finding an acceptable PDF annotation tool on Android.
This just means that you'll need to charge your customers more for supporting such obscure configurations.
On the flip slide, politicians have been using Facebook increasingly (especially Facebook Live) for the same reasons, which isn't good for Twitter.
It is one of the reasons that makes me love Arch: developers are pragmatic. They were always in the early birds for taking decision about the future, like switching to Python3 as default interpreter system-wide, embracing the change to systemd, and now this.

The rolling release aspect imposes to stay as close as possible to upstream versions because upstream does not wait on Arch to update their dependencies to newer libraries versions. This, plus the fact that Arch tries to stay as close as possible to vanilla upstream packages (i.e. less changes as possible), force them to be pragmatic about their choices. They prefer to embrace a change directly when it is happening, encouraging at the same time to contribute upstream for helping them make the transition, instead of trying to maintain a legacy compatibility that can only get worse with the time.

For me the picture is simple here: Arch is mostly used/oriented towards personal computers of power users, and most - if not all - of them are on 64 bit for years now. Instead of wasting efforts to maintain 32 bits compatibility, they prefer to drop it. Side effect will be that people will be encouraged to get a modern computer if not already.
Do people in general realize that software is one of the US's greatest strengths and that there is a staggering amount of innovation done via free/open projects? Or do they just know "SV has some big companies like Apple"?

In all the debates about MAGA or how to invest in the country I don't think i've ever heard someone raise the issue of funding importent open source software (only indirectly).

Actually for any country that can afford to invest, it provides so many benefits economically, competitively, academically, and strategically. Best of all it can boost macro productivity, which benefits everyone even if they have nothing to do with tech.

Even lowly web development which people love to bash as changing too much. you can look at all of it as creative experiments in engineering that eventually end up advancing productivity.

Who handles PR for open source anyway? Shouldn't a professional communications person work on building awareness, explaining the value, advocating for the cause?
Why did you leave Akka for elixir?
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http://www.recode.net/2016/8/11/12417064/twitter-stock-owner...

>Add on the fact that much of the board is new, with little financial stake in the company. It’s possible they are loyal to CEO Jack Dorsey, who essentially appointed them, and don’t have the financial incentive to push change the way older, more frustrated investors might.
Obviously (I hope) my comment was intended as humorous but given that Twitter now appears to be an integral part of the political landscape I could imagine a scenario where it was bailed out as simply being too important (rather than too big) to fail.

I wonder if there would then be a "revenue" model in charging other governments to use it?
> So I want to be where the growth is happening. How do I do that? Do I need millions of dollars before I can achieve anything? Should I learn Mandarin, Hindi, or Swahili? In the past, I would have had to visit some of these countries and talk to some local entrepreneurs. Now I can just do my own research, meet people online, and have Skype calls. There's really no need to travel in order to find opportunities.

I don't know anything about Africa or China, but I just spent 1 month backpacking through India doing exactly this: meeting local entrepreneurs (tech industry, non tech, small business, street vendors, etc) and meeting people and families from the north to the south. To really get an appreciation for a market, how the consumers in that market think, and the obvious problems and opportunities around you, you HAVE to go there and see it for yourself. I spent the previous 2-3 years keeping an eye on Indian development from the West, but the 4 weeks I was there eclipsed any prior learning I did. Go visit.
They're already empty most of the time, for what it's worth.
I think they were always polarized but most of the time they had something interesting to say. What I was unaware before they would have such bad meltdown because of events across the world. I would think in the past people would get angry, say something and move on to other stuff.

I am just no longer interested in erudites who display such shallow understanding of human nature and world events but nonetheless whine whole day, whole year about how world is going to hell.

Nowadays I stick to tech, philosophy, Netflix etc. Though on netflix I notice how simplistic the social/political views of characters are even in shows with fantastic production values.
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I get the impression that Gitlab focuses a little too much on releasing new features at a rapid pace with every release. Maybe they should spend more time on running their infrastructure reliably and getting their engineering practices up to speed. The recent events will raise a red flag with enterprises who might be potential Gitlab customers and that directly affects their bottomline.
Example : we organised a trip to a large trade fair and got 1000 € support pledged verbally by a large chip maker. As we get to the date of the trip, we get an email in English from the (apparently British) accounting department :they need a contract for sponsorship. We tell them that we thought they just wanted to donate the money (as did other German companies), mails go back and forth.

Finally we slapped their logo on our site for the trip, added the tax we would have to pay on the money, then sent an invoice. As our tax consultant explained to me, they can reclaim the added tax through their own tax return, resulting in a net exchange of exactly 1000€- whatever the labour costs of everyone involved.

Now, this trip was not too bad, but possible complications are :

* What you get sponsoring for needs to be in proportion to the amount of money, leading us to need way more volunteers than originally planned just to deal with the overhead of the sponsor services in a career fair we organised
* If you are tax exempt for charitable purposes, you need to very cleanly separate donation funded things from sponsorship or otherwise business funded stuff, because subsidising a lossy business is only rarely legal

German-cultured(DACH) companies get the idea of "give money as a donation because what they do benefits us" a lot more than Anglo-Saxon cultured ones, at least in my experience, which might be reflected in the law
Build one by starting to code it up one's self?

Developers like to work with other developers. Becoming a developer will is likely to help a person attract other developers. In terms of offers, developers these days tend to have many opportunities to implement someone else's business plan so learning to develop will make a person's business plan stand out in a market filled with unimplemented ideas because it shows that the person is committed to making their idea real no matter what it takes.

Good luck.
While I'm happy for you that you feel comfortable deciding that this can be put to bed, clearly many people feel differently.

I'd argue that merely the observation that many intelligent, morally sensitive people here on HN feel differently should be enough to realize that this is not a 'tangent' that can be 'put to bed'. Why would you even put it like that, knowing that there is such disagreement?
I'm going to steal this comparison :)
> all the Anglo companies don't grok this

News at 11

Hardest part of dealing with American companies seems to be that they usually don't understand (or don't consider that) things that are different from the US (UK companies seem more open to this, still)

The fact that nobody pays invoices with checks outside of the US for example, or that different countries have different payment methods.
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But isn't Twitter's unwillingness to ban unless in instances of overwhelming PR part of the problem? (i.e. the harassment issue that has legitimately driven away users)
Sure, maybe build it. But could you actually * run * Wine on Windows before this? (Without using VMs or coLinux/andLinux, that is.) I hear a lot of people claim that, but I've yet to see any actual proof. :)
F5's poor coding practices are the common denominator.
You can download the day one update for Xbox offline and then install via USB.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/system-updat...
I'm not sure he's correct.
Donations to charitable non-profits are tax deductible both in Germany and the US IIRC.
Surprisingly, they are already testing in snow conditions.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3399315/The-d...
It's $1,000. I think a lot of people in the tech community can afford to part with $1,000 for a while. It's fully refundable until you actually convert your reservation into a concrete order, so you can change your mind later.

I'm thinking about getting a second car for my family. I don't need it immediately. A Model 3 sounds like it would be perfect for the job. I put $1,000 down to reserve one just in case. If I decide I don't want it, I'll get my money back. I'll miss out on maybe $15 of interest on that money in the intervening time, big deal.
I had endless trouble getting my logitech wireless audio receiver to work in Windows 8 & 10. Works way better in Linux Mint (though it still forgets the pairing pretty often; but that's way less annoying than simply being unable to connect).
Funner definition is "positive number with exactly two divisors". This reduces the amount of special casing
> Your 'plain English' sense of 'airspeed' is pretty irrelevant to the most critical parts of flight - takeoff, landing and not exceeding the plane's design limits.

I know the pilot needs a measure that behaves like IAS. I just think it's misleading to call the thing we measure "airspeed" when it can be so radically different from, well, airspeed.

> You have markers on runways, wind socks, etc. to all get a feel for what your IAS translates to on the ground and thus how much speed you're going to have when you hit the runway. That seems far more useful to me than having some kPa display on the dash.

I don't understand this argument. Surely if you were flying in a plane that displayed kPa those same markers etc. would give you exactly the same sense for how a given kPa reading translates into speed on the ground. All that would change would be that the conversion factor would be slightly different. Is "110 knots" any more intuitive (to a non-pilot) as a measure of everyday speed on the ground than "20 pascals"?
Because they were desperate for someone to save the value it has/had and they figured 50% Jack is better than 100% anyone else
That doesn't solve the problem for cars sold today though.
Tech is perishable. Luxury is for ever
payment and shopping integration and processing, higher quality video, expanded broadcasting, long-form content (a year ago Twitter said there were going to try longer character limits but I don't know what happened to that)

Twitter fills a niche.. it's not growing, but a pretty big one nonetheless. It's like classmates.com yahoo.com and other sites that are large, stagnant, but exist anyway because they fill a niche, have good advertising revenue, and have a lot of users.
I like how the chart in the article you linked to has Steve Ballmer's job title as "Owner, Los Angeles Clippers".
There are known knowns and known unknowns etc etc. Yes I totally know they say this about me. I say this about me.
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I tend to run web frontends in lynx (or links) to see if they can degrade well enough. If the core user flows don't/can't work then there's a big problem with the UI.
I don't think you will find a standard answer. Depends on the company, the team, your experience level, how technical the PM role is, etc...

PM salary could be higher or lower but from I've seen, broadly speaking the roles earn about the same...Sometimes you will see developers base salary higher but then PMs can get larger bonuses.. but meh I would say on average they are going to be very close to the same when you look at total comp, ceteris paribus.

There might be a supply and demand issue in some markets. No offense but 'ensuring people are aligned and the focus is correct' is not very hard, at least not harder than grinding away developing. If there is a shortage of developers vs. the number of roles needing them but there's enough guys who can do the PM-babysitting type roles then in those markets developers earn more.

I know companies that would fall apart in a minute if the administrative assistants and secretaries weren't there on the ball. The company seriously depends on them being good and they get paid the least. Responsibility and impact is subjective.

Anything goes when it comes to higher levels of experience or legit superstar PMs or developers, they will be able to get paid the most. So if you are a talented and experienced developer but not able to be a standout PM, well that's that.
The original news on Archlinux.org: https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/
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It seems that this app and Slack are hugely influenced from the iPad style of app design. Why can't we have a window per chat session on the desktop and why do desktop users get wrapped apps? Is this an indication of the lack of perceived importance of the desktop?
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Hero worship. Jack has done what few else could achieve: he built two multi-billion dollar businesses.

The problem is that doesn't mean he can run both at the same time nor does it mean he's the correct long-term steward of both simply because he was there first.

It really falls on the respective boards to keep the situation honest, but nobody wants to be on the board that fired Steve Jobs again.
I agree. You could get payment without a vat number though
I'm sure there are lots of people associated with this discovery that would be happy to sweep those older documents under the rug and forget about them.
Perhaps it was deleted for some reason, and posted again? I definitely remember seeing it here earlier.
Don't forget that they can also modify any API in a way that fixes the bug but also behaves in the legacy way under "compatibility mode".
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Emscripten uses a TypedArray for the C heap in asm.js which has the exactly same data layout as if the C code is compiled natively, this gives you (more or less) the same performance advantages for properly arranged data as native code.
A bit off topic, but related: can anyone point me to a recipe for "low-latency" video with the RPi. I don't even really mean "low-latency", I had tried a couple of different setups/tools a few months ago, and the best I could do was a half or full second delay on the video.
You know Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc and other major companies use CDN's like Akamai to deliver their content to users right?

Building a few data centers may not be not be hard and may be cheaper, what's hard is serving content fast and as close to your users as possible in the world. For that how many data centers could you really build?!
This is not a point against this site, but isn't using programming language names as topics pointless? You can already search and filter by the main programming language a repo is in as well as the languages used in the files within a repo. Searching for something like "concurrency" or "threads" comes up with zero results (at least on this site).
This has a very 'China' vibe to it.
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> but is using one of the major cloud services cheaper than running your own?

Discovery Communications recently announced moving all infrastructure for linear broadcast playout to AWS to replace their data centres.

AWS re:Invent 2016: Discovery Channel's Broadcast Workflows and Channel Origination on AWS (MAE303)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iao7Zcq1-s

25:30 - Rationale, background
53:00 - Discussion of financial models, move from capex to opex

Keep in mind that the volume of data in terms of video assets for broadcast quality linear playout as well as numerous continuous high bitrate outgoing video streams is very large.

As they note in the video, their financial modelling showed that it made financial sense to move to AWS if it was "all-in", allowing them to fully close down a number of large data centres.
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Exactly so. The last time I had to go out of my way to "fill up" my car was at the end of December. The next time will probably be this summer sometime. Sure, it slows me down a bit when I'm making those long trips, but it's a net win.

It's true that this is a negative for EVs, but it's also one of their great advantages.
I found this to be a nice summary of all the themes. I don't understand why comments here are so critical—it's a youtube video not a PhD thesis!

Here is my take on a concept map of math topics: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/conceptmap.pdf (covers only high school math + calculus + linear algebra)
Errrm, this did not reassure or reinforce me or my views, rather it scared me witless and made me rethink things...

Still different strokes for different folks and all that.
Wait. You emulate 3.5MHz machine on 2.8GHz Core i5, reach 10 the speed of original (1.3 to 1.5 ms 'emulator time' per 16.6ms) and therefore proclaim success? :o
I don't think they have released it yet. When it comes out it should be on Wired UK's YouTube page.
I think the comparison to Firebase is a bit disingenuous. Their core offering is real-time synchronization of large, arbitrary data structures. From perusing Baqend briefly, it seems like your architecture is much more poll-based.
I'm not the parent you were referring to either, but my view is that 1) yes, shamelessly 'pirating' is at the very least a moral gray area, and in my opinion on darker side of this area, and 2) calling it stealing is a gross oversimplification.

Concerning 2): many people I know who pirate, say, a particular show, would simply not watch if piracy was not available. On the other hand, once this show becomes easily available and accessible on something like Netflix, these same people happily pay for the content. It seems inaccurate and dishonest to call them 'thieves' by the conventional definition.

tl;dr: I wouldn't defend piracy in most cases (you could just not watch the show), but I think calling someone doing this a 'thief' is a morally worse because of what that words means to most of us.
Ah, oops :/ Seems to be okay now, let me know if there's something else you need! I'm looking for ideas on how to organize the docs/site at the moment.
While I largely agree with the positioning and much of the reasoning, this statement is so false as to be farcical:

"All solutions necessarily have to come from the middle ground. "

Just no. All good solutions should be taking in the perspective of both sides, but the best solution will often be from a totally unanticipated direction that is far from the middle ground of the status quo.
But then any Windows Update would wipe out that driver.
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