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Using an iPhone 5S with the latest iOS I have caught a handful of behaviors that are clearly bugs, everything else is just the rumbling of a grumpy person with lots of personal opinions about web stuff. Some complaints are not even mobile related.

- Performance is fine. It's not great, but it's ok.

- Sometimes when I open an article/blog post and can start scrolling already it will push be back to the top. The virtual version of getting tripped up in real life.

- The bottom bar is uncomfortable. It adds zero value and adds bloat. On my iPhone 5S the SMS icon touches the Open in app button. Don't get me started on the desktop version with two bars. By the way, the useless and annoying black box that (probably lets you highlight text appears above the top bar when both are visible. I can only guess what the buttons in the black box do, they don't have tooltips.

- Try zooming in and out. Things start spazzing around with bad performance, text momentarily becomes white/invisible. The bottom bar is zoomed in too, becoming unusable moving around slowly depending on where I have scrolled. I am convinced nobody ever even tried out zooming in and out. A cheer for attention for details!

- If you start scrolling down, the top bar containing topic appears, but without its white background. The white background only appears once you stop your scrolling.

- Sometimes I "catch" the blurry, lazy loading images. I don't want to see that many seconds after I opened an article.

- Confusing navigation: Many articles lead you to other Medium sites with different top menu choices.

- The app shoehorning makes me feel like there is a lack of confidence in the web application.
actually you can, depending on the management structure in an organization :)
Oh, I'm not worried about her well-being. I'm mostly curious to see which PE/VC/Hedge firms genuinely DGAF about public perception.
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Came here to say this exactly.
Salesforce sells a lot of "best practices" that sometimes aren't, but so many young developers(and even architects) buy into.

You are leaving out storage costs. There's a minimum record size and then per licence billing, something like $250/GB/month.

If anyone needs some info/consulting - PM me via email in profile.
You are 2.5% confident that something is going on that the parent poster doesn't know about? While I applaud your willingness to bet, your first 2 sentences indicate much more confidence than your proposed odds.
> San Francisco was perceived as very trendy at one time. It just isn’t anymore

Companies are certainly not moving their conferences to San Jose because it's a more trendy city. San Jose is nice but it's not San Francisco. I fly in to San Jose regularly from Australia but San Francisco is hands down where I'd want to be given the choice.

With Moscone out of action and the San Francisco Design Concourse a block of Luxury apartments there just simply isn't the venues to hold conferences of different sizes in San Francisco.

Even when Moscone was an option, event organisers from moderate sized companies consider the space too large and potentially awkward if they don't hit attendance numbers. Going south for medium-to-large events is now the only option.
Yeah either the examples from the video are cherry-picked, or something's wrong with the deployment, because what I get is way worse than what's in the video.

I really don't like this new trend of throwing Deep Learning at anything without really checking whether a simple model (e.g. markov chains in this case) would give equal results. Because using a simple model wouldn't be "cool" or newsworthy...
Arguably, Facebook has been very cautious on how it moves towards social engineering the world, though. Which is what has allowed things like Cambridge Analytica to do so instead. The whole point of this manifesto is not "lets take over the world!", it is "we have a huge influence in the world, that much is a fact, let us take some measure of responsibility about it". Could there be a better alternative to Facebook being the one which has this power? Sure. But that's not for Facebook to change. The best you can hope is them taking their current power seriously and trying to wield it responsibly and that's what the manifesto is about. You want to take that power from them and build something better... well, feel free to give it a go.
A locked room with adjustable light and a 27" iMac with internet connection.

Nothing else, not even food.
If I'm reading this correctly, the only "food" involved is cannibalism, although they didn't end up doing so with the mice due to supply issues. It doesn't explain why eating another organism's "accumulated damage" reduces the eater's own lifespan but says they expected it to have even more effect than it did.

Clearly, eating works differently than I thought it did, because I'm at a complete loss.
Indeed. In my experience, unreasonableness in interpersonal contexts often seems to stem from unmet emotional needs. Having the tools to deescalate the situation and address those needs is critical to getting emotional arguments back on to the rails of civil discussion.
> social-welfare policies were used to weaken family structures of the poor

How on earth do you get that message out of Orwell?

He argued in places that the various relief organisations were often patronising and under-informed, but the "weaken family structures" is a distinctly modern code phrase.
I think this could be any smaller country eg Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore. Its really difficult to build a world beating huge company from smaller centres. Perhaps dominating local markets or selling out to a global behemoth are the only successful models.
"Politics and the English Language" is unquestionably one of Orwell's most important essays. Kind of amazing that this post overlooks it.
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Also, isn't this the same guy who very recently tried to evict people from his estate in Hawaii? He also literally built a wall around his home after buying off neighbors homes for a premium. Is he taking down that wall?
Yup. Same with Git. Nobody uses Git in a truly p2p fashion.

Distributed systems are useful for a variety of reasons, but so is authority. Most successful systems seem to use a distributed p2p system because it adds useful functionality to a system that will still ultimately have a master server.
This reminds me of Steve Yegge's google plaforms rant, which I'm sure I've posted and reposted before:

monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But when your service says "oh yes, I'm fine", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say "I'm fine, roger roger, over and out" in a cheery droid voice. In order to tell whether the service is actually responding, you have to make individual calls. The problem continues recursively until your monitoring is doing comprehensive semantics checking of your entire range of services and data, at which point it's indistinguishable from automated QA. So they're a continuum.

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

In smaller projects I've worked on, I'm not willing to expend the level of effort required for truly comprehensive monitoring, but I try to do some kind of end-to-end test of the whole system as part of the monitoring -- something that requires all components to be alive and working -- so that I'm aware of issues at least as fast as the people using the system.
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I'm jelly. Congrats on your achievement. How many saas have you started that did not fizzle out? Also, for the 600K what is your profit on that? Was that just in the last couple of years (getting 600K/year) or already a long time?
Oh you may be right. I couldn't see the pattern right away though. Is it memory resident databases, and it is a pun on them not really being considered "databases"...?
Cost of these autonomous vehicles, the very early ones, will be six figures

GM paid a billion dollars for those Cruise clowns. If they build 10,000 self-driving cars, that alone is $100K per car.

Meanwhile, Volvo is quietly putting 100 customers in self-driving cars.[1] They're still way ahead on marketing, too.[2]

Volvo and Google/Waymo are the only self-driving car makers I'd trust right now.
They're the only ones who take the safety issues seriously. All the other ones testing in California have crappy disconnect statistics. (Uber refuses to test in California because they'd have to report their numbers, but reports of their bad driving indicate their system isn't very good.)

[1] http://blog.caranddriver.com/meet-the-first-real-family-slat...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDB6fFflTVA
You mean like taxing the hell out of Microsoft because they automated tons of jobs due to computers? Pay up Bill.
> The algorithm prioritizes what it shows a user based, in large measure, on how many times the user has recently interacted with the poster and on the number of "likes" and comments the post has garnered.

FB has changed so much for the better for me since I've joined an AutoRetro group featuring cars at least 25 years old and since I've started like-ing that group's posts. Now almost half of my feed is filled with photos of old Trabant, Lada or Opel Kadett cars, and I love that. The other half is indeed filled by mothers sharing their kids' stuff, which I don't give a crap about, and some fiery political stuff, which I care about but which I generally ignore, the reason being that there's not that much that I can change, politically-wise, by commenting on the Internet.

I've also found out that I've been a lot more relaxed and generally better off since I've stopped checking my feed on the phone when in public places (tramway, waiting in line at the Post office or at a general store). For those situations I always carry a magazine (the Economist folds really well) or a pocket book with me, and it's been for the best.
JavaScript can bypass ASLR protection on many architectures
At the boundary between analog and digital, you typically need to provide an anti-aliasing filter.

If you are measuring a differential signal with a large high-frequency common-mode component, then it also makes sense to perform the subtraction in analog. Otherwise the inevitable small phase shift between the sampling of the two channels in your ADC will end up coupling the common-mode signal into your difference.
I kind of covered my personal answer to that in my original comment.

It also annoys me that companies name things common English names because that makes it hard to search for things. "Chevy bolt loose steering" "bolt bolt size trunk latch" "bolt size for tires"

Ultimately, it's obviously a battle that I'm not going to win because I'd prefer everything just have a GUID so I can easily identify exactly what I have. "The Chevrolet B0F30517-BAFE-43EB-BA62-1832AC5272F7"

Lastly, I know it's been a common theme for a long time but it just seems to keep getting worse. Apple Ping. Chevy Bolt. Chevy Volt. Chevy Spark. Many different products called Hydrogen etc. Rust. I know of at least 2 products called Go. It just wouldn't be difficult to change spelling or do something clever instead of just taking direct, common dictionary words and grabbing them for your product.
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FT Alphaville blog?

There are various finance blogs, but discussion sites tend to be a disaster - actual information is worth money and not given away for free, so most people are just "talking their book".
I'm not so sure Kernel contribution is really such a big deal in day to day linux usage.

Sure, everyone loves if stuff just works - but if I'm looking back to my first years of Linux (1998-2007) and the last (nearly) decade - I haven't actively cared what kind of kernel, what version of kernel or whatever I am running on my laptops or servers. It just works[tm]. I'm really not trying to downplay the kernel developers' work - but if you're not using the latest hardware or need the last bit of performance.. many people could live with security fixes alone (hey, surprise, all the kernels in LTS distros only do get security backports).

(For me at least) in the last 5+ years the real development was in userland (for better or worse) - but I've stopped caring for anything besides "works fine" on a kernel level. Sad? Maybe.
I wonder if the results extend to normal (non-cannibalistic) diets.

For example, does feeding a mouse young plant parts result in a longer lifespan than using seeds that have taken many months to ripen?
>as a precondition of getting more support

Nobody is still putting money into Theranos, are they?
>Please stop pretending that you're Mother Teresa here.

The funny part is that Mother Teresa wasn't a good person, but made a lot of money from her image of nicety. I think its the same way with these individuals who are trying to act 'noble'. The most noble thing you could do is bring consumer trust back and invest into people.

I would argue that a lot of problems that companies have, like when Tim Cook was going around giving presentations on why encryption is important, is solved by bringing consumer trust back by working in the best interest for everyone, and not just for money.
What is the technology/stack/infrastructure used there?
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Linkers have to copy large amount of data from object files to an output file, and that is inevitably slow. But LLD is not that bad if you pass -O0 (which disables string merging, which is computationally expensive). For example, LLD takes 6.7 seconds to link clang with debug info on my machine.

$ time ld.lld <omit> -O0 -o bin/clang-4.0
real 0m6.689s

Copying the output file to other file takes 2.6 seconds.

$ time cp bin/clang-4.0 foo
real 0m2.657s

So, LLD is only 2.5x slower than cp in this case. That's not too bad, as apparently the linker has many more things to do than the cp command.
It's because he is launching a political career. As simple as that.
I.... What? You're happy to _watch_ the pirated material for free, but you refuse to pay for it? (Not even challenging the fact they do aggressively take down copyrighted material)

This is the most pathetic tortured excuse I have yet seen.
Without doing that research how can you tally their cars and homes?
Also, I'm interested in what their employees are doing every day. Do they have offices to show up to, still?
ld64 links clang (a multi-millions line project) in roughly 2s on my laptop. Do we need incremental linking?

MSVC incremental link is really not a model I would take as an example: the final binary is not the same as the one you get from a clean build, which is not a world I would want to live in.
Public land use most often correlates its fees to related expenses. The value of the land is irrelevant to public use; it is held for the general public, not for value as an asset.

If the cost of the burden of the roads themselves increases, the fuel tax should increase. If there are fewer drivers (or lower fuel consumption overall), the fuel tax should increase to cover their portion of the road budget. These directly correspond to the same mechanics as rent. Sure, there's going to be political and bargaining realities beyond that, but that's the general basis.

Plus, bike lanes and sidewalks are a government owned & run part of many roadworks, so it's not just paying car owners that are served, so if anything the fuel tax payers are subsidizing this benefit to bicyclists and pedestrians.
A reasonable person understands and accepts the wildly different views in a society. They try to find common ground anyway.
I thoroughly enjoyed Geek Heresy by Kentaro Toyama, which is precisely about taking that trope apart. The book goes over a number of case studies about technocrats thinking their purely technological solutions would "make the world a better place", and how they failed. It also goes over examples where no/low tech approaches succeeded. It's a quick, recommended read.

https://www.amazon.com/Geek-Heresy-Rescuing-Social-Technolog...
I've got a turtleneck, tits, and tantalizing techology -- my magic wand waved over adhesive wound care tape detaches said tape without skin tears.

Time magazine, please email me cover photo ops; SV nerds will surely figure out the tech with enough VC money!
It's because people want to feel like they have a purpose.

It's the same reason you see Hollywood actors being outspoken political activists. Because if they stay out of politics, they're "only" insignificant entertainers.

It's the same reason you see comedians and TV shows getting political. Saturday Night Live (SNL) is just a show for laughs. But if it takes a political stance, suddenly the writers/producers/actors can feel good about making a positive change. (Whether it's actually positive is beside the point; it only matters they think it's positive.)

And so, Facebook is doing something to enact positive change. (For various definitions of positive.)

Facebook is only different in that it has enough money and influence to actually change things in the world. Whereas comedians, actors, TV shows can only offer political opinions and try to influence people, Facebook can actually change things thanks to its financial status and its staggeringly user base.
Mother Teresa wasn't a good person? That's news. Why?
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I would expect that the engineering costs to bring the vehicle to market would, even when divided among many sales, far exceed the cost of a single LIDAR unit.
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> The libraries are searched in the binary’s current directory first.

Huh?
A first guess would be that these diets are passing over aggregate compounds and compatible metabolic waste: misfolded proteins, lipfuscin, oxidized lipids, and so forth, and enough of those escape the stomach to be incorporated into tissues to do harm.

That said, 10% for mice is well within the "try it again in a different lab, get a different result" margin of error for this sort of study.
LLD supports LTO natively. Unlike gold it doesn't need a plugin.
I alternate being a hacker and non-hacker.

When I'm in the hacker mode I read almost everything here. Then I go into non-hacker mode maybe for a few months or years when I come here to read non-programming related articles and discussions.

Whatever it is I just hang on to HN.
I don't like the fact that YouTube requires red to play music with the screen off. I don't want to support YouTube and make them think that's alright.
Well for GM, 80k cars doesn't move the needle.

GM sold 320k cars in December 2016 alone.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/auto-industry-poised-to-set-ann...
I know this is meant to be a "cool experiment", but from trying this out for a while my impression is:

I could just build a random sequence generator and tell the world "I made this with tensorflow" and people would believe. I mean, none of the response sounded like music. Which is fine, but then again, what is the machine learning for, if it just sounds like random keystrokes?
Thoughts from the first WONTFIX Cabal – an unconference for OSS maintainers
Here's a start: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_wor...
At least Tesla's one thing is inherently important because of the climate change implications.
If the price is right, someone will invest in anything.
Well, the article does quote the seed of that:

> Above all, be skeptical of ... rhetoric ...

Quite self-referential ;)
> Then the next-generation P2P network (BitTorrent) decided that it was easier just to rely on HTTP for metadata exchange and went to centralized trackers, and the ecosystem that grew up around BitTorrent realized branding & centralized search engines were important for non-technical users and we got big torrent search engines like ThePirateBay and Mininova.

Followed by those trackers getting taken down, we went from distributing .torrent files over HTTP, to distributing magnet links and getting the torrent metadata over DHT.
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+missionary+position+hitc...
Why do you think the free/open source stuff don't "just work"?

Also, a lot of time using FOSS is a choice we make not because of the price or principals but for convenience. I simply don't want to juggle licenses and dongles between home and studio computers, or for that matter be forced to install licensing software that is more or less a rootkit...
I also use Gatsby for a blog, thank you for the software, exactly what I was looking for.
o.u.c.h.
I read somethings years ago about how she didn't allow the hospitals that she oversaw use pain medication for some religious reason. There were also claims that she personally profited off of her likeness. I can't recall if any of those claims were credible however.
This piece touches on a few different ideas:

1. Many workers are frustrated with their job, and the common thread is how they treated by other people

2. Investigates whether an organized upheaval of the work status quo is likely in the near future

3. Suggests everybody's job can suck, no matter how nice it appears from the outside (even the CEO)

-

I'd like to react to point 3. Though I think any job can suck, I think those with disproportionate influence (i.e. CEO) have much more ability to improve the status quo and not make things suck for those below them.

What I see is an irony where those with the MOST responsibility are those with the least influence (the "lowest"). Those who have the most ability to fix things (investors, C-level) are the ones who almost never get fired, just moved to another position or asked to resign with a generous package.
Normally I would assume they had followed up and ensured they were not just accusations, but a confirmed history.

But, this is CPS we're talking about. They take a lot of kids out of a lot of homes for a lot of sub-par reasons.
Not OP, don't think she was, but her image is very controversial due to her questionable ethics. There is plenty of material about this on the internet.
can amazon even afford to buy ALL of CapOne? Is it just their banking business?
I wouldn't call it "unable to compromise". There was some version of Ubuntu that wasn't any more stable than Windows XP for me - that's when I stopped using it.

I've also never tried to discourage anyone from using Ubuntu - but I noticed it's not for me. Apart from a tiny fraction of "this is a little nicer for the desktop user" I am losing a lot versus plain Debian - and I wouldn't that call that idealistic.

On the other hand... maybe there would've been a year of Linux on the desktop if a good part of the distros would've folded and people would've joined forces. Who knows?
The result we need is for the cost of urban housing to be less than the cost of suburban housing + the cost of driving.

You're proposing to add to the cost of driving until that side of the equation exceeds the cost of urban housing. But if you don't address density restrictions or minimum parking requirements or urban property taxes, that is not going to end well.

Today it costs $3000/month for an apartment in the city vs. $1500/month for the same apartment in the suburbs and $400/month worth of driving cost. If you add $1100/month worth of driving fees to even it out but still have all the restrictions on creating new urban housing, next month the same apartment in the city will be $4000/month and 95% of the same people will still live in the suburbs. And employers will start to move out of the city because they can't afford to pay employees what it costs to work there anymore.

Whereas if you eliminate the impediments to creating new urban housing (or subsidize it if necessary), the price of the apartment in the city falls to $1700/month and we have the result we need without having a regressive tax on driving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa