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There are now at least four submissions of this, and at least two of them have at least one comment.

Mods - please, make a decision to avoid a split discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13717321 (14 pts, 3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13717066 (7 pts, 1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13717016 (The original, 2 pts)
The pharmaceutical industry has an entire sub-industry of coming up with names - I believe there's an algorithm for producing phonetically reasonable names that are unique.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/fyi-how-does-d...
I don't know about amazon, but MSFT seems to have this issue covered with a completely separate non-public Azure Germany region. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/clouds/germany/
As a citizen, I'm frequently told to "vote with my wallet".

Therefore, I would hope that people with way bigger wallets than me would be held to the same standard.
An Open Letter to the Uber Board and Investors (from Mitch and Freada Kapor)
Thats an impossible statement to prove. Signal is centralized with a concrete list of users. PGP is decentralized with no possible way of knowing how many use it or dont
Well, the iOS simulator is leveraging it all running on the same box. Putting an apk up to the device can be arduous, depending on how big your app is and how bad your device is. Those swift... (edit) playgrounds, I wanna say? Those were really nice when I played with them. Getting better all the time too, although you have the obvious problem of maintaining broader application context in a non-RESTful environment. Still, slow but steady progress on hard problems is more than enough for me personally.
"In early rounds, founders are looking for investors who will trust management..."

And by "early rounds" you mean $2B, correct?
Thanks! Just changed my title.
Or that same russian hacker probably already has the compute power in his malware botnet to crack it in the span of months.
Right, but those components exist as bindings for HTML/CSS/JS. It would be awesome to see a Rust UI framework built on top of them.

It's certainly no coincidence that the top contributors to the Flutter engine are all Chromium contributors.
But the definition of computation is physical. The Church-Turing thesis is a physical hypothesis. It is conceivable that a new physical discovery will contradict the Church-Turing thesis, and with it the definition of what is computable (and in particular how we construct and verify proofs, which is but a small part of computation).
If anyone has any questions, feel free to leave a comment.
This is in fact the problem with trying to write eulogies for PGP. PGP is still a useful tool, just not for the application it was originally intended to: it's a very idea to try to retain secrecy among even small groups of people using PGP-encrypted email.
A lot of it has to do with the inherent problems with the Android platform.
I find it extremely funny that loading the website shows me a message asking me to turn off my ad blocker. Seems that some things don't work anymore because we break them intentionally...

BTW I'd be fine looking at some ads, turning off my blocker is not an option though as the third party ads always track your behavior and often store personally identifiable data without user consent.
Apologies, more people have smartphones than access to a toilet. "only" ~780 million don't have access to clean water.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/wash_statistics.html
Is it wrong to be bothered by the lack of favicon?
This is an unvetted list of random programs that claim to perform this- or that- cryptographic operation; it's not really helpful.
Hold on -- there's a category confusion here: "check your blindspots" isn't a comforting lie; it's a command. Converting it to "checking your blindspots will avoid collisions with careless drivers" would make it no longer a lie.
Where to find a good mentor?
Hello .hackernews community;i am a long time lurker,procastinator.i always wanted to code.but,always found a way to do something else.
Anyway,I made my mind to learn webdevelopement.i am currently learning on the freecodecamp.com plateform + eloquent javascript+ some courses by David j.malan from cs50.I am enjoying it ,i cant believe myself that i spend the whole day learning to code.
So,To clarify i am a total beguinner to code,
i sometimes observe myself with theses learning wholes.or where to go next.
i am looking for some kind of guidance.
where to find good mentors online?
how do you track you progress while learning?
Can we use them only on conducting sidewalks then? Might become pretty expensive, especially if copper is used.
Yeah, OCaml is as close to the ideal language for me as I've found so far (it's still pretty far from my ideal, but it's closer than everything else I've tried). But it definitely has tooling issues. Tooling issues have pushed me away from it for more than one project.

By far the biggest issue is dependency management/build tooling. Opam was a huge improvement in package management, so things are better than they used to be. But OCaml is missing something like Rust's Cargo, that makes creating and building projects simple and easy, and something that allows devs to avoid wasting time on build systems. OCaml also has issues with Windows support. OCaml works on Windows, but currently getting Opam to work on Windows requires Cygwin.
Sorry I conflated 2 related but distinct discussions. On your front I disagree that programmer productivity will have a substantial negative impact on employment for the earlier stated reasons.

Demand for software will continue to increase quickly as the rest of the planet catches up to the developed world and increased productivity just increases demand.

I also disagree with the notion that this will substantially increase productivity in and of itself.
There are now at least five submissions of this, and at least two of them have at least one comment. Here are a few ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13717321 (14 pts, 3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13717066 (7 pts, 1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13717016 (The original, 2 pts)

Mods - please, make a decision to avoid a split discussion.
Libraries that provide similar abstractions in js do exist (https://github.com/tim-kos/node-retry and https://github.com/MathieuTurcotte/node-backoff), but I'm not qualified to recommend anything.

Most of the colleagues I've had have rolled their own one off solutions when needed.
We use cucumber at work for a few weeks now. Our product owner actually writes the initial feature files for our end-to-end tests and we refine them. We keep sending him back on what we changed and why, and the product owner learns from that and tries to do it the next time.
We started doing this around 6 weeks ago and it is helping us developers a lot in my opinion, as well as getting some work off of us. Sure, we need to refine the POs feature definitions, but it's better than nothing.
Signal does a better job of practically everything PGP does with regards to message encryption. Yes, PGP is more useful for encrypting files or signing updates. I agree that it's too early to write of PGP for those applications. But people should use Signal instead of PGP for message encryption.
The monospaced font is a downer, but the clean colorful pixel logo makes me happy.

Overall this strikes me as a project borne of a sweet domain name, but I still dig it.
haha i know he has, but M2K isn't performing the way he used to and the record is like 12-3 in favor of Armada, if I'm not mistaken
Until Apple stops soldering on memory, swap will still be alive on the desktop.
Sublime Notebook: An attempt to use Sublime Text as my note taking application
If a person goes into Tech with the plan to get a quick career advance then this person is not going into Tech, really.

You desire to be a manager or executive, but you make it sound like what you really want is create shippable code. That's not good. A developer would be happy if he (or she?) goes into Tech and stays in Tech, working on increasingly important/challenging projects as a developer and that's it - with sufficient pay of course.

You can branch to non-coding but if that's your desire, you're not playing the same game at all.
Sites that support Bitcoin don't usually make a big deal about it. For example, Microsoft.com accepts bitcoin.
At 5'1 I'm often too short to easily use them, I have to stand on my tip toes and try to balance and not hit the walls of those air blade monsters that like to fling water in my face. I guess children have to just walk around with wet hands. I hate those things.
When people say it's the same, they are assuming you are investing the tax savings from using a traditional 401k. In other words, you could invest $10,000 in a Roth 401K, or $10,000 + ($10,000 * marginal tax rate) in a Traditional 401k. Then the numbers work.
> a solution to a problem that doesn't exist

The problems are central banking and related problems: demonetization, devaluation, hyperinflation, bank bail outs from taxpayers, etc.
> The OS should start swapping very early to avoid bursts of disk I/O and rendering the system unusable.

I think you're talking about the I/O of paging dirty things out, but I'm talking about the fact that some memory location is no longer present in RAM, so accessing it will take 10 ms or more to page in.

The system is not only useless while actively swapping. It's useless after it has ever swapped, and you can only recover by disabling swap ("sudo swapoff -a") or rebooting.
Thanks for the link! I didn't know about Conrod, even though I knew about Piston. It looks very interesting – I will have to try it out.

also, the fact that it is one letter away from my name was confusing at first :P
My understanding is that nothing serious has gone wrong, so far, in nearly two years.

GBTC is a bad way to trade bitcoin and the chart in reference [2] you posted shows exactly why. A good BTC tracking ETF would have NAV = market cap, but here you can see that NAV and market cap are unlinked (as are returns for GBTC vs bitcoin) and people are generally paying way over NAV (in some cases over 50%!) to own GBTC. This is presumably due to unsophisticated traders buying GBTC without understanding that they're getting a terrible deal.

In summary, yes something is seriously wrong with GBTC and has been wrong for the entire life of the product.
A lot of the people featured in this story came from Microsoft. Folks at Microsoft/Facebook - any ideas as to why that is? Is it just that Microsoft is a huge and dominant institution in computing so probability wise a lot of people naturally would have backgrounds which came from Microsoft? Is it because Microsoft is (or were??) leaders in ML/AI and it is has recently become a FB focus area, so lots of hiring of Microsoft talent?
This is what happens when you ignore the incentives. I think forcing professionals in any field to "just be moral" -- "just do the right thing" -- "just ignore the inverse financial incentive"... I think this expectation is in itself immoral; human will power has its limitations and just like everything else, we are very good a justify immoral behavior when being moral contradicts our short term needs.

Regulation is indeed complicated and imperfect.. but the solution isn't a simple one -- its certainly not complete deregulation.
Surely you're joking. Kindle himself deleting books that warn against Alexa technology, "for copyright reasons", is worth both a good laugh and a war.

If you're not joking, please write a blogpost about it and post it on HN.
As an investor, I'd never give money to a founder who exhibits this sort of attitude.

Uber is facing a catastrophic crisis. This could kill the company, or at least cause massive attrition. If Uber isn't willing to take advice on how to get out of this terrible situation that it has created, it may well die.

And in situations like this, I find it a general rule to never give management the "benefit of the doubt".

Of course, I'm not trying to give you money, but I'd hope other founders don't learn from your behavior.
I wonder how many people are aware of the ongoing and raging battle between big blockers who want a hard fork to upgrade block size, and small blockers, who want a soft fork that adds functionality to make side chains feasible. I am strongly biased for one of these, but won't say which to avoid being attacked.

Awaiting the propaganda wave in response to my comment...
That's not how contempt works.

If the prosecution asserts you have evidence material to the case that you would be legally required to render and won't render it, and the judge believes you probably do, that's it; they don't have to prove the evidence is in your emails to search for the evidence in your emails. Fail to render up the emails or render them up in an intentionally-obfuscated form, and they can hold you in contempt at pretty much the judge's discretion (your mileage may vary depending on severity of crime and state law, where applicable).

(Personal observation: people of a technical bent seem, for whatever reason, to underestimate the wide swath of power the legal process has in investigating a murder case).
Pardon ignorance - why doesn't SpaceX and co use electromagnets to stick the landing of a rocket (in either polarity it seems interesting)?
Is the sort of signing you want to do for code signing related to the sort of signing you want to do as part of an encryption scheme?

This vaguely sounds similar to how RSA decryption/encryption and signing/verification are the same sets of operations, at the primitive level, making it easy to turn a tool that does one in to a tool that also does the other. But the actual high-level signing and encryption systems (e.g. RSA-PSS and RSA-OAEP) are not the same operations at all, and being good at one is no guarantee of being good at another.
I think it's a trend like any other - I saw the beginnings back in the Internet boom and now the corporate laggards are getting to it. It's unclear whether it will be enduring.

I've run every day for years and am a musician but neither makes me want to compromise my high-focus responsibilities with distraction. That's not to say that others don't find it somehow (shudder) energizing.

Personally I have had the choice and have avoided it but never had to transition an existing job from office or even cubicle. From what I've seen of the new MS offices, as expensively pretty as they are, I'd be looking for another position internally or otherwise. I can't imagine that others there haven't done so - though maybe Amazon is bad enough to keep them at Azure.

There are gradations of this too. My spouse, a stone introvert, works in a mostly open environment - very low dividers - being remodeled to full open, no hiding. Her group, including the extroverts, managed to fight off the change in their area as destructive distraction. But they're policy people, not developers.
Big fan of Fossa and the team. They're solving an important problem.
IIRC, the ACA has stipulation that 80% of premiums must be spent on medical services, so...a larger spend -> increased premiums -> a larger 20% piece of pie they can keep.
This Wikipedia entry has some details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_to_gas#Power_to_hydrogen
If Linux has no swap, it doesn't quickly and efficiently kill processes when memory is exhausted. Instead it first removes executable code from RAM and reads it back from disk when needed. This is because without swap executable code is the only thing in RAM that is duplicated on disk and can be removed. This makes the system completely frozen and unusable.
This seems, like most things, it could be good or bad. Wix could choose to launch a Graphicriver / Canva / Adobe Stock type add-on that could help artists monetize their work. Or they could straight up license the work and pocket the money via some legal mumbo jumbo. Hopefully it is opt-in and the first case.
Can't the same be said of any monetary instrument that has changed in value due to deflation or inflation?
Maybe people in your part of the world are less educated when it comes to using public toilets

It occurred to me (and people I know) more than once that I did flush, multiple times, and that the damn toilet just refused to suck up everything I put in there. And for some reason this was always in public bathrooms, across Western Europe. Hypothesis is that due to being used a lot and possibly not cleaned in the correct way there's to much deposit of bicarbonates limiting water flow and the force/pressure of the water being flushed isn't high enough to flush everything in there. Not much an automatic toilet could do about that btw.
About 8 years ago I got a virus while viewing someone's portfolio on DeviantArt on a page when my computer rebooted. My best guess is maybe it was through third party ads. I've never completely trusted DeviantArt ever since.
> Each account holder resides in the United States, the crimes they are suspected of committing occurred solely in the United States, and the electronic data at issue was exchanged between persons located in the United States.

I don't feel like this is a bad call.

Wasn't there a judgement recently that non-US residents can't have their stuff searched just based on a US warrant?
Electromagnets are big and heavy, and then you have to power them, which is usually more "big and heavy". "Big and Heavy" are the enemies of modern rocketry.
I recently went on a month-long trip to New Zealand. I have never seen so many clean restrooms in my life. Sure there were a few that were kinda nasty, but the overall cleanliness was super impressive. Even the bathrooms in gas stations were always clean.

I mean, I spent a month traveling there, and had no problems using public restrooms on a regular basis. If I'm traveling here (mostly West Coast US) I have to make multiple stops before I find a clean restroom.

It could be that NZ relies a lot more on tourism, so people try harder to keep things nice. But hey, hope you enjoyed my anecdotal story.
[Gross oversimplification] Nope - insurers are incentivized to pay as little as they can get away with. Which leads to healthcare providers being incentivized to bill the insurers as much as they can get away with. They'll meet somewhere in the middle.
I'm happy for a good ending. Reading this story when it first came out definitely made me feel sorry for the people involved.

Side note, when I worked at UPS they wouldn't even accept packages wrapped in brown paper for this exact reason. It gets stuck in the machine and ripped off, never to been seen again. When sending a package, put the label directly on the cardboard and write the address in marker on the side.
10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017: Self-Driving Trucks
Thanks, I already have some. I think there is value in alternative cryptos with strong dev teams and desirable properties.

If bitcoin disqualifies itself through certain failings, second tier contenders hold value through their optionality as an alternative.
Lots of people stand when they wipe: http://deadspin.com/5424415/sitters-vs-standers--the-great-w...
It seems the backend is PHP.
People have been pining for the past golden days since antiquity. I'm not really sure if it truly can be said to be "in fashion right now"
Doesn't that risk cascading failures?

A cluster of a few machines experiences a bunch of requests that trigger pathological memory usage. One machine OOMs, drops out. Now the rest of the cluster has to take more load, needs more memory, and increases the likelihood that the other machines also run out of memory.
Congrats on locating the package.

This govdeals.com site looks nifty. I may need to peruse it for, uh, research.
I don't know the above poster but we run over 4500 docker containers on AWS distributed using kubernetes. Docker has indeed caused us a problem or two in the past, but actually it's largely smooth sailing and most of our problems are with the app layers and both docker and kubernetes have largely made our lives much easier.

A quick skim would suggests that sits on about 8TB of Ram and 1000vCPUs spread over 100 machines. It's not the biggest stack in the world, but it's doing a good job as our little internal PaaS.

We have some non-aws versions too, but I don't have metrics on those right now.
I couldn't figure out how to scale i3 to the high DPI on my Yoga 900, with Wayland on F25.
I agree and I wasn't clear enough about that. Moving funds from areas that provide clear tangible results to research that might produce results seems wrong.
Magnetic forces follow the inverse cube law. So, a magnet is 8 times weaker at 2 times the distance.

This means that over long distances (Of more then a few centimeters), magnetism is incredibly weak. So, you can build a maglev train that hovers a few centimeters above the track, but you can't pull a rocket that's a few meters over the landing pad into place.
I have read the whole book, it was a waste of time.

Mainly because Newport keeps contradicting himself. I remember a few paragraphs before the end of the book, he was saying how he didnt want to make a philosophical or moral point and just after said "having a deep life is the best way of living". The full book is like this.
There is also the "sponge" tool from Joey Hess' moreutils.

> You see, sort is too smart to read the entire file into memory, sort it, then spit it out on stdout, which is how it can manage sorting huge amounts of data without completely trashing your system memory.

This is not why the file is empty. sort doesn't need the original file for very long. Very likely it starts a merge sort by sorting smaller chunks of the input file to temporary files. As soon as all these initial-size chunks have been read, the input file is no longer needed.

The reason for the file being truncated is the semantics of I/O redirection:

anyprogram somefile > somefile

means that the file is truncated by the shell (because of the redirection) before "anyprogram" even has the chance to open that file.
there won't be a need to move your funds anywhere else.

Long term value and volatility would beg to differ.
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Why are they even storing this USA data outside of the USA? Seems weird to me, no?
Machine Learning Speech Recognition
Oh ok, I just didn't understand your answer. My apologies!
I use mutt currently, but I find the lack of rich-text and images a feature, not a bug.
Not bad, a better font and a fix in markdown for fenced code and good to go:

https://txt.fyi/+/39c4f224/

Also, a way to make ninja edits with a cookie for 24 hrs.
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You are right and I was wrong.

I do however routinely run into cases where

some chain | tee inputfile.txt > /dev/null

also results in lost data. I will try to find it.
The 00s decade in general seems to have been the high point for small/idependent/hobby-based online communities in general.
I came here assuming some novel electron orbital geometry had been discovered. It's always something to do with physics and/or food... always.
> http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
this is pure gold! and check the end of the source... xD
Where Feature Flags Meet Testing
I thought about that, but I wondered If the landing pad was the magnet and the rocket itself wasn't? (I literally have no idea wtf I'm talking about to be clear)
Bitcoin Price Surpasses 2013 All Time High
On windows when you allocate it will gurantee it has the memory to fulfill the request at the time of the request. On Linux no check is made until you try to use the memory.

Because of this memory pressure will be higher on a windows box. Pageing helps paper over this as the commit can be billed to the page file not RAM. Windows is smart enough to not write anything to swap until you actually use the page so in practice this is rarely a problem.

The benefit to this approach is you actually have a hope of recovering from OOM.