skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Requiring people to be involved in spending of large sums is often a feature and not a bug. It's not infallible but neither are computerized financial systems (e.g. SWIFT)
Seriously lower your pitchforks. This was a bug and a mistake.
I thought that the only change was that the DRM mechanism was turned into an open standard. How is this worse than before? As someone that occasionally uses Linux, I think it's great that Netflix works there now. Previously, the audience on Linux wasn't worth the development effort for Netflix.

Am I missing something? Is this a case where an open standard is a bad thing?
Free as in freedom means companies are free to add things like DRM if the want and consumers are free to choose services that don't go down that path.
I'm still loving it at 60. I'm actually looking forward to being able to change jobs in the next year, but I am realistic about how difficult it will be.
My favorite response to the voucher debate is that most politicians who are against vouchers... send their children to private schools! (In D.C. at least, where public schools perform very poorly.)
This is an interesting perspective. Can you share more on your reasoning for wanting to work for a BigCo as you got older?
glad you didn't actually read the analysis of the bug
There is a simple trick to using complex template meta-programming techniques correctly: Leave it up to library authors.

It sounds tongue in cheek, but I am serious. In the std library, boost and other sophisticated libraries there are tons of template shenanigans and there is little to be gain for most application developers. The single thing complex template meta-programs buy you is compile time evaluation for things in the middle of algorithms and classes.

Which is useful, but usually for things like deciding how many object should be allocated at once or how big a working set is to keep everything in cache. These are usually the performance optimizations you care about after all the algorithmic ones have been dealt with and often save only a constant number of instructions. When this seemingly insane level of optimization makes sense the author of a library will often accept the needed data as a parameter.

With constexpr things like lookup tables can easily be computed at compile with much more sane code.
Thanks for this comment. I switched to bitwarden from LastPass last night.
I studied my masters in Malmö. We had one of the most collaborative, cohesive, friendly classes I have ever had the pleasure of being a part of, and the only time we ever really, really got into a fight was in the middle of winter, when we had a four-week project that forced us to go to a small room in the middle of the building (no windows) from nine to four, essentially cutting off access to sunlight during this entire period.

On the flipside, my happiest memories of Malmö are during my summer internship when I would go to the beach after work around six, when everyone else left, and enjoy the evening sun for four more whole hours
France as well for some use cases. Everyone pays the doctor with a cheque, for example.
So that explains why Telstra has been doing so well and why Foxtel had so many buyers lining up for it! /s
How often does counterfeiting really occur? Anyone have stats? I have been buying from Amazon for at least a decade and have never run into a counterfeit item. Is it just me, or is Amazon trying to cover something up?
> Not necessary, use an up to date computer with Windows defender turned on and create a non-admin account for your kids.

You're a complete idiot
I'm not familiar with the margin rules for forex but given how shady that business is (seriously it's just a bunch of sharks fleecing anybody they can get their hands on), I wouldn't be surprised if they give you leverage at such small amounts.

For a traditional brokerage account though the minimums are generally larger. Also, there are specific rules as to how much margin they can provide on a per security basis based on whether it's a actively traded, pink sheets, etc.
A coffee break is another good excuse to walk. Besides doubling as exercise with the accompanying mood/energy boosts, it gives me a natural chance to step back from my problems - and perhaps talk with coworkers about theirs.
There was a Seinfeld episode where Kramer tries to opt out of the mail system. I always wondered - can you do that? Is there a law saying that you have to receive mail?
If they need DRM in "open" web standards then they deserve to go out of business.
How to get everyone working together well?

Do we need to? Sure, many projects need multiple people, but few end up needing the whole organisation. So with a little flexibility on project assignments I feel most organisations can accommodate a range of working styles -- if they want to.
I assume they did not overpopulate themself in way to small areas without moving to other places ever.
> every Linux distribution comes with either Firefox or Chromium preinstalled

False. See, for instance, Arch.
read the analysis of the bug. it wasn't malicious or intentional.
That makes way more sense, the article should have indicated it was using an out of date topical quote.
1000 char lines are common for latex. I tend to let the text editor do wrapping on my paragraphs.
This terrible analogy would only be remotely close if your house was copied to millions of people, and a single person breaking in could expose everything inside to everyone on the Internet.
Unless I'm missing something, generic algorithms that work across types, and algos that work on type internals are just two separate things. And the latter probably still wants to be encapsulated in the type.
Kind of a corollary to "It ain't done 'til Lotus won't run."
I highly recommend scheduling a little bit of time around lunch for a walk or some other outdoor activity. :)
Or, you could just not feed the trolls.
The sound of mysql crashing is about 10 decibels.
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I don't get it. I can still make a recording of my screen can't I?
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Perfect, judgment-free description of an emotionally charged debate. I cant tell what side you're in, which is the exact right thing for this particular post.
IIRC, doesn't BTRFS also allow you to do cool things like change RAID levels dynamically? (E.g. You can be running a 2-disk RAID-1 array, pop in another disk and tell BTRFS to make it a RAID-5 array instead, then a year later pop in 2 more disks and switch to RAID6, all with no downtime.) I imagine that wouldn't be possible if you were doing RAID at a different layer.
When you say team-based, do you mean as in organizations? That would be a huge killer feature. I've only been part of an org on GH, but org wide issues/boards/communication is a huge missing piece.
But there are many examples of interactive learning systems, starting with the specific one from the article..
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Ask HN: Can an insider explain why Apple's networking/connectivity is so poor?
This isn't meant to be hyperbolic or a rant. I'm genuinely interested after several years of pain. There are blatant problems that exist with Apple networking/bluetooth/USB stack (see 10,000's of Apple forum posts) and the message we usually get from an app is "There was an error". Somebody on this earth knows why yet it's never been disclosed (or I cannot find it in the piles of "reset your NVRAM" posts on the internet).

The follow types of things fail with regularity:

- Awake from sleep and connect to previous wifi connection (also wifi stops working and has to be restarted)

- Backup iPhone to iCloud

- Sign into iCloud on macOS or iOS

- Sign into Message on macOS

- Sign into Facetime on macOS

- Make a Facetime call from macOS (why is call disabled?)

- Backup iPhone to macOS over wifi (never got it to work)

- Backup iPhone to macOS over USB (loves to fail during backup)

- Backups iPhone photos to Photos app (phone disconnects during backup)

etc

I'm amazed at the problems Apple seems to have writing stable code for a very limited set of hardware.
Full results from mcvoy.com i7@3.5ghz:

L M B E N C H 2 . 0 S U M M A R Y
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Basic system parameters
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Host OS Description Mhz
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slovax.mc Linux 4.4.0-5 x86_64-glibc223-linux 3497

Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
----------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Mhz null null open selct sig sig fork exec sh
call I/O stat clos TCP inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
slovax.mc Linux 4.4.0-5 3497 0.09 0.12 0.28 1.76 2.170 0.12 0.58 86.4 249. 644.

Context switching - times in microseconds - smaller is better
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Host OS 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw
--------- ------------- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
slovax.mc Linux 4.4.0-5 7.630 8.5200 10.5 10.9 15.5 10.8 19.0

*Local* Communication latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS 2p/0K Pipe AF UDP RPC/ TCP RPC/ TCP
ctxsw UNIX UDP TCP conn
--------- ------------- ----- ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----
slovax.mc Linux 4.4.0-5 7.630 13.6 14.7 20.8 19.4 25.8 24.5 25.8

File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
--------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS 0K File 10K File Mmap Prot Page
Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault Fault
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ----- -----
slovax.mc Linux 4.4.0-5 2.7920 2.0480 8.2600 4.0840 17.6K 0.158 5.00000

*Local* Communication bandwidths in MB/s - bigger is better
-----------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Pipe AF TCP File Mmap Bcopy Bcopy Mem Mem
UNIX reread reread (libc) (hand) read write
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- -----
slovax.mc Linux 4.4.0-5 1928 11.K 5674 43009M 11.0K 11.2K 7686.9 14.K 10.3K

Memory latencies in nanoseconds - smaller is better
(WARNING - may not be correct, check graphs)
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Host OS Mhz L1 $ L2 $ Main mem Guesses
--------- ------------- ---- ----- ------ -------- -------
slovax.mc Linux 4.4.0-5 3497 0.889 2.6670 57.4
I'm only a casual observer of the court, so corrections here are very welcome. As I've seen, many rulings tend to cluster around the end of the session (June). Decisions from this term can be published at any point between now and then.

I suppose withholding an obviously short and easy 8-0 decision until after the hearings would be just as political. But to announce the ruling now, during the last day of the committee confirmation hearing, seems extremely political and like an indictment against Gorsuch.
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We've been using gitlab for most VideoLAN projects, and are moving towards it for all of them (including vlc and x264). A lot of things are great, and going in the right direction, but the issues tracker is really lacking.

The lack of custom fields, that you find in all other bugtrackers except github, and the lack of dependent issues are really blocking us to move full to gitlab.

And the biggest issue is that they're discussing to do it, but only in the non-open-source version, which we cannot use...
lol, It wasn't nefarious read the reddit thread.
I think I could agree with that - once the newbie learns how to market a bit, how to be more aggressive getting clients, contracting COULD snowball (we shouldn't be making any sweeping claims!) much faster than a normal 9-5 career.
Indeed. But it sounds like something _new_ microsoft would do and does not imply that they are still _old_ microsoft with a new hat.
What do you mean by "open web"?

From the beginning or near the beginning it was possible and not uncommon to put things on the web with restricted access. The HTTP protocol itself supports a couple of login mechanisms which were intended to be used to restrict access to content, and these have been there since at least as early as 1996.
> If you’re a student entrepreneur, turning a side project into a startup is one of the most important steps in your journey as a founder.

Considering the audience that YC is talking to, I get this statement, but I don't think the process of turning a side project into a startup is restricted to the "student entrepreneur". IndieHackers is full of seasoned and experienced professionals (mostly engineers / developers with a few years in the real world) who have turned their side-projects into successful startups with enough growth and income to quit their day jobs and focus on it fulltime. https://www.indiehackers.com/

One particularly inspiring story I found on there was that of Tyler Tringas - the guy who created StoreMapper. I do remember he did a Show HN here and I loved it. He says he wrote the MVP for StoreMapper on a plane ride to Argentina, contacted a few of his clients for whom he'd done Shopify work for, and was generating income from week 1. Now he says StoreMapper is bringing in 21K / month

Story here => https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/storemapper

> I have no idea how I found the time at the very beginning, since I was already spending 80% of my time on a startup and 40% on freelancing. But I built the first version of Storemapper from nothing to live-and-accepting-payments in one 30-hour flight.
> If a user agent change makes the software slower for a platform then that's not exactly an accident so somebody must have had the intention to make it run buggy

That's not necessarily true. For example they might be doing polyfills that are slower than the native windows implementation.

I feel like I'm seeing a lot of this kind of thinking everywhere. The canonical example for me is lately is "he voted for Trump/Hillary therefore he must support groping/war/whatever".

I wish people would ease up on these kinds of deduction-based motivation attribution. It's my view that there enough self-professed unethical motivations for us to work against, without speculating. The speculation just muddies the waters.
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of...

More telling is the difference between the verbs ending in "ing" and those not.

canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, and packing are the actions.

shipment and distribution relate to packing.

If distribution was supposed to be a separate activity, they would have used "distributing of" instead of "distribution of".
Disagree but your post is another wonderful example of civil debate. Thank you.
It was either support EME or become the browser where you can't see any video.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...
Scientists are supported and rewarded by the people who control the money in the ecosystem that they already live in.

I'm not sure that you'll be able to convince people to devote time and energy to a completely different ecosystem... one that their current ecosystem doesn't care about.
Diversity, mixing departments in the name of collaboration are all at fault here.

Walls just make things better.
From https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/ipv6, it sounds like this is IPv6 support on load balancers.
A lot of this seems to be a problem with academic publishing, peer review, and the pedantry contained therein.

I tried (twice!) to publish a paper that was scientifically sound, but written such that it could be understood by a lay audience. It was rejected; quoting a reviewer: "This paper lacks math." That sentiment made me lose a lot of faith in academia. Now, I simply refuse to contribute any more time to writing papers or performing peer review (esp. in non-open publications). I'm sure I'm not alone; I know of at least one "seminal" robotics paper that was rejected from top venues multiple times for "simplicity" (lack of mathematics content) that went on to become a foundational paper in the field after appearing in a lower-tier venue years later.

The irony: it takes researchers a lot of time to make a paper dense & concise. If they "showed all steps", it would probably improve researcher productivity & make the material more approachable to newcomers. Instead publishers enforce length restrictions... for which authors dedicate upto 25% to related work (some of which is useful; much of which is pandering to likely peer reviewers in small, niche fields). Length restrictions seem equally foolish in the age of digital publishing. And again, inadvertent pedantry is the only explanation I can imagine... but happy to be wrong.
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Well, he burns that, he doesn't emit it, so I don't see why that matters. Once burned it seems like the same old CO₂ is emitted, so what he does is a net win... or? I'm not a chemist.
Well, Microsoft often doesn't get the benefit of the doubt because of their history of incredibly aggressive, borderline unethical behavior. Being a convicted monopolist tends to color people's attitudes to a company. Let alone something ridiculous like trying to destroy the open source movement in its nascent stages, stealing Google's search results, or running the completely insane Scroogled campaign. And all the other things Microsoft has done to erode good will.
> Netflix wouldn't be a viable business if not for DRM. Why is everyone so upset? Having the option to use DRM in native web APIs is not a bad thing.

Because Netflix is freeloading on our open technology to deliver closed content, and putting the cost to support their DRM on us. It's not right. It's not fair.

They are fragmenting the web by making "web sites" which are browser and OS-specific.

If they want to make closed, OS-dependent stuff anyway, they should have to pay the cost, not us. They should just make a native app. Like they already do for at least 10 other platforms.

Basically keep your closed and non-free poison out of my browser and open web-standards. That's a no-DRM zone.

I'll use your app though, if you just go make it.
Microsoft did the same thing way back with CPUID .. when it was Intel, it worked well. Otherwise (AMD, Transmeta), they would use very inefficient operations instead of SSE (IIRC), slowing down benchmarks that used media (like players, etc) and Photoshop. This is from a distant life in the past, but I think it was not limited to use of SSE.
"This is certainly a bug. It is not a targeted attacked against Linux users. Report it to Microsoft.
Microsoft is just doing really shitty feature detection using User Agent strings instead of, well actual feature detection. I was able to reproduce the same result by setting my User Agent to Firefox 52 on Windows 98. If I set it to a "more realistic" user agent like IE 7 on Windows XP, it would actually redirect me to a busted page to upgrade my browser instead of Word Online. It appears if Microsoft cannot figure out your User Agent (including your OS as part of it), it gives you a busted experience."
Sorry, doesn't DDG use Google as a back-end, just anonymizing the results?
Achieving a research-level understanding of a topic is quite different than working in the trenches on new research. I figured the goal of distill.pub was the former.

I think you're partially describing a search problem. Google fails to return relevant passages from full-text papers/books for whatever copyright reasons (ignoring the notational buy-in). The remaining issue is that reviews/surveys/textbooks do not provide the complete picture necessary to perform successful research. I'm sure they fall short on specific things that are scattered around the web; practicalities, implementation details, quick definitions, etc. But are you suggesting that distilled publications should include all this information in one place?
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These are completely different realms. Legality of Uber and Airbnb is very different from Netflix losing all 3rd party content if they didn't provide DRM.

Also, many people seem to have a real hard-on for the same legal system that outlaws marijuana and created the DMCA.
58, programming since 1978. I can't imagine wanting to do anything else.
Any official explanation from the "New Microsoft"?
The trend towards open plan is a consequence of a bad incentive structure. Most companies put the management of the workplace inside the facilities department, which is viewed as all cost and no benefit. When profit margins are under pressure the facilities department is usually one of the first places senior management goes looking to cut costs. A private office layout averages up to 15 square meters per employee, while open plan moves that down to 9 square meters. This allows facilities to reduce the rented building area by a third, which is a major cost cutting. Of course, the other departments protest against this, but since the senior management sees only the reduction in cost, and does not (want to) see the costs incurred by the move to open plan, they usually approve the move. The big irony is that the facilities department often assigns themselves private offices. They're not idiots after all, and they need to get some real work done.
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Hey! My two cents

2 sources of ideas:
- Keyword Research (use SEM Rush, KeywordTool.io and AnswerThePublic; this is great for SEO)

- Qualitative Research with customers/leads (just send an email asking them what are their goals, challenges, obstacles, etc; that is a great way to start writing topics that your clients care about)

How to write fast
- I try to copy the structure of similar articles and then fill in the blanks
- I just sit and write as fast as I can - and then review and edit to make it better. I think that separating this two steps is a great way to write more - first you write, then you judge your content.

Another tip
- I usually see more success writing fewer articles with higher quality (and word count!) - 2k+ words articles perform a lot better and can position you as a source of relevant and deep content
No because this has to do with the rights guaranteed to a disable student by the Rehabilitation Act and IDEA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Appropriate_Public_Educ...
Meaning anyone can implement the technology that can show a web page. You can't show Netflix's web page, unless they preapprove of your DRM.
There is plenty of room at the bottom.
Yesterday they screamed for the singularity, for information to be free, today it is free, and they yell for protection, of their minds hard labor, so completely different from the protection they deny those who work with their hands.
Tomorrow, some Namibian kid, learning with cheap ripoff books, will cure there cancer, allowing them to scream on for the centuries to come.
To get downvoted by this, this is praise.
I got automatically enrolled in this last week and have been getting scans of mail for 5 days now. It is a complete disaster. I got my own mail one day, but the other four have been mail for other units in my building.

I sent one support ticket in that went to an unmonitored inbox, then another that got a vague reply saying that there is nothing I can do about it.

What a mess.
Seconded. It hits the sweet spot of "incredible featureset" and "fast enough that it doesn't get in my way".
If you're looking for quality, you want to go with a Bluray, not a rip.
I live in Salt Lake City, and during the Winter it gets significantly darker.

I can definitely notice a difference in my mood and well-being when it's brighter outside. It becomes like hunger or thirst where you're craving some sunlight, and if you don't get it, you'll feel bad.

At least, that's my experience.