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- HEADLINE: Kernel and Desktop

- DESCRIPTION: This request might not be considered in a short term or never be considered, but personally I hope that can be done.

For Desktop, I wish there exists Debian defined environment or interfaces which transparently integrates with desktop environment like power manager. So when switching between different, for instance, desktop environment or window manager, I don't need to tune for specific setting (particularly non-Debian way) in order to get it work.

For Kernel, I would like to see integration with seL4.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Engineer
The Japanese have the perfect answer. They don't zone by use. They zone by nuisance level.

You can build whatever you want in the cement-plant-district. But you have to deal with having that kind of nuisance nearby. You can also build whatever you want in the no-nuisance district. But you can't impose any kind of nuisnace.
Personally, I agree that unclear or shifting definitions are bad for discourse.

And in this case, I would agree that there are better ways to express the idea.

I used a stronger tone than necessary about your original reading, I didn't mean to be hostile. But I did think it was clear that the poster was not generalizing as broadly as you took it.
Anyone have good links or articles for DB comparisons to get a better understanding of which DB fits best for what type of projects?

So far I've gathered from here is that I want Postgres if going for a SQL DB, MariaDB as a MySQL drop-in, Redis for a simple NoSQL cache DB, RethinkDB for real-time applications (if project is still ongoing), and then there's CouchDB, CockroachDB, Cassandra, etc. which I still need to look in to.
> Meanwhile we build a popular opinion that these things are dangerous and need to be restricted or regulated. Software ends up as the new "burglary tools."

If I'm against the regulation of software, it's because I don't trust the would-be regulators and deem the effort unrealistic - not because it "isn't dangerous". Software (particularly of the surveillance, de-anonymization, & big-spy-data variety) has an absolutely massive potential for horrific abuse, and hence is unequivocally dangerous both to the individual and free society as a whole.

> We need to shame the people that would have used any means available to the same ends.

Why not both? I don't see why the investors, executives & engineers who make a cushy living off of developing tools that they know will be used to reduce the freedom of others don't also deserve to be shamed. You don't see many talented people flocking to work for big tobacco anymore.
I've always enjoyed my cycling trips when I've been in the Netherlands - its just so calming and relaxing, and good for me - but without much stress. There aren't many hills, its for the most part very safe and bicyclists have a place in the transit system that feels very comfortable and, indeed 'right'. There really is something quite right about the feeling - you are getting fit, and going somewhere, and .. well, its just so easy to ride around.

After a month in the Netherlands, I always feel like going back to a car-based society is a huge step backwards. Like, there is a wall of concrete and asphalt and metal and fumes and busy-ness, and we're all just so trapped in it. Like prisoners.
> And many of us aren't working with relational data.

I think this is probably where the disconnect is. If your data has relations to other data, which is the vast majority of things that you're going to be building in the real world, it's relational.

Mongo came out of the gates billing itself as a general purpose backend solution for modern "webscale" apps. It was upfront about being document-oriented, but not upfront about the ramifications of such a design, leaving a lot of people including the author of this article to find out the hard way as to the sort of architectural debt that you end up with as you shoehorn a relational schema into a non-relational store.

When you're showing a simple demo with three relations like article <-> comment <-> user it's easy to be fooled that a document oriented design is relatively sane, but once you build something more complex the shortcomings become very apparent _very_ quickly.

> That is exactly what it was designed to be and one of the big reasons people are using it.

A lot of people are using it because of early hype, aggressive marketing (the "MEAN stack"), and misleading benchmarks when it came out (`writeConcern`, flush intervals, and no journaling) combined with the fact that moving databases is very hard once you've got a big operation going.

I don't think there's been a reason to use Mongo for years now, but that goes doubly so these days with the advent of modern scalable databases that give you a lot of important features that Mongo doesn't (Aurora, Citus, Spanner, ...).
True, but since everything is saved you only need to fuck up once and now everything can be pointed at you. The asymmetry in effort between staying anonymous and someone de-anonymizing you is getting bigger every day
Does that include Office 365 though? Because if so, that makes it an apples-to-oranges comparison.
I may spend too much time visualising binary representations. :)
Think also about customers who have seen already seen your ad or read about the company somewhere, but did not have immediate need for the service back then. Good and simple domain name might help the end up to the web page right away. If they need to Google, they are exposed to all your competitors.
Spotify, Amazon Prime, NY Times
You can use browserpass [1] instead, it's a web extension for Firefox and Chrome.

[1] https://github.com/dannyvankooten/browserpass
Wow, I've yet to experience this, I'll have to keep an eye out for this sort of deception and recognize what is happening when it's happening. Good heads up.
They could at least update the declared version if nothing has changed...
To be clear: very few people involved in the Redskins naming controversy think they should be prevented from using the name as a matter of law. It's not inconsistent to believe they have a first amendment right to name the team what they want but also that the name is offensive and should be changed (or even that the NFL is within its right to force such a change).
I'm currently learning piano on udemy. There are some great intro courses and udemy frequently discounts for 10 dollars. Previously I've done watercolors from them as well. I know they seem 'small', but I can't explain the thrill I got doing something I previously thought was impossible.
> I am also not an mac/ios person but I don't know why that is relevant to aesthetic preferences.

You get used to what you're exposed to. What looks hip and cool in graphic design from the 70s doesn't so pleasing today.

I don't know if MacOS or IOS uses such gradients, but I believe Apple Music at least does (do a Google image search for Apple Music), so it is mostly a hunch on my part.
I'd be interested if this has been brought up with the dev team via IRC, mailing list, or some other medium so they can explain their reasoning?
[I'm the current mostly absentee maintainer of html5lib]

https://speed.python.org/comparison/?exe=12%2BL%2Bmaster%2C1... has an up-to-date version of html5lib, albeit only on CPython: notably, both 3.6 and the latest 3.7 build are significantly faster than 2.7.

That said, I don't think html5lib is going to become massively quicker: string allocations are just going to become an ever bigger issue (i.e., s[1:10] causes an allocation in Python v. just referencing the subsequence), and even using Cython, at least under CPython, isn't going to help with that.
Hi, thanks for reaching out.

Maybe I misspoke. Maybe I meant "tree view" and not "thread".

I was aware of the reply feature, and yes, if you read a reply and you click on the original title, you get to see all messages attached to this original message, in a window to the right, that you can navigate (more or less).

But AFAIK you can't reply to a reply (if you do, it's a reply to the original message); it's probably a feature (back in the days, the Joel on Software forums worked like that, and Joel Spolsky was actively defending this option in various posts).

But it makes it difficult or impossible to actively monitor different threads or topics. Threads are not collapsible. The UI actively favors the more recent messages, you have to actually click on "load more messages" to see earlier messages (and if you change channels and come back, the earlier messages are gone, you have to click again to see them).

Anyway, I don't mean to be negative on the product which is very well polished and works perfectly; it's just that the choices that it makes seem ill suited for a very international and asynchronous crowd.
Those are only technically consumer chips; you're never going to see any computer without the word "workstation" on it running those chips from any OEM.
Doesn't include Office 365
An institutional failure of review, testing and security that will lead to tens of billions of dollars of identity theft goes unpunished completely?

I'm going to agree with you in wanting to see someone punished for this, I'm not sure if I'm on the side of jail time in the absence of malicious intent.
Show HN: Blanko – Minimal New Tab
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The site you linked to is not affiliated with any state DMV. It links to a sketchy background check service that appears to be a scam.

Edit: spelling
I do, yes. There were sound technical reasons for it.
> You shouldn't have to think everything perfectly though that you write. It's OK to say something dumb, or even offensive. It's not great, but no big deal either. I don't want to live in a world where we have to polish and double-check every thought that leaves our minds.

That's nice. And we shouldn't have to maintain physical appearances or be judged for it. We should just accept all of our imperfections, celebrating all forms of expression. But lookism and online-lookism are here to stay. Conventions of "good" info content are strengthened by karma/gamification, for every vote you give, including here on HN. It's noble to desire for a time when we can just all be ourselves, but with attention spans vanishing I don't think anyone will care.
Hey there! I'm author of `blanko`. Blanko is a Chrome extension for minimal New Tab pages.

- Set as many words as you want.

- Switch between dark and white theme.

- With every `New Tab` you will get a random word from your list.

Pros:

* Boost motivation.

* Inspires you.

* Doesn't spend much resources.

* Free & Open-Source.

Cons:

- Not a lot of options :( Will try to add new features.

Still in early phase, just released the 1st version today, and would love to hear your input.

Credits to /u/goffstown for current logo, and /u/am_rawr for older logo version.

Notable similar extensions/alternatives:

- Currently -(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk...)

- Blank New Tab -
(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blank-new-tab-page...)
Packet?
My Gen 1 Intel SSD showed up as 8MB one day... while only from my own pov (literally a couple days after the original 1yr warranty), I would disagree with their presumed superiority. For the past few years been mostly Samsung and Corsair drives though.
If the situation reach that toxic point it's time to revolve.
I was building an app that worked like this on top of Flowdock when I used to work for Rally. Fully integrated work management communication application.
If you have a small collaborative team it was awesomely powerful we had used it on the team that built it for about 6 months before the project got cut.

If someone wants a tester or feedback on something they are building I'd love to help. I badly miss that thing :(
He addresses that on the page he linked to.
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Because technologists don't know everything about laws and society, even though they like to think they do. You might add that not only is it searchable, but the Freedom of Information Act and its derivative implementations in state laws mandate that it be made accessible in this way for no cost other than the expense in compiling the records.

People getting angry when "government transparency" is supposedly such a good thing no one questions? Go figure...
Are you trying to make me feel old, simply because I once had the 74Fxxx TTL catalog nearly memorized? Or that I can do an instruction decoder and conflict interlock unit in 100K ECL?

Now get off my lawn or I shall be forced to shake my cane at you quite vigorously.

Honestly, those were fun, fun days.
The difference is:
- scale
- transparency (ability to complain or discuss decisions).
- culture: people can recognize normal discrimination, but think algorithmic judgements are 'neutral'.

Check out https://www.mathwashing.com
troika: I'm having a hard time getting GL to work with React and Redux. There's a Github repo showing it working together, but it's achieved by wrapping the component, and I haven't resolved all of the issues. Namely, that this repo seems to work when referencing React js files from a CDN, but for some reason, fails when building them in the app. Also, refs in components seem to be a problem when wrapped in this way. Wondering if there's a better way to handle these.

https://github.com/andrewcapodieci/golden-layout-react-redux

Looks very promising, but I'm wondering if you've tried this combination successfully. I also haven't figured out yet whether redux and pop-out windows will work properly.
It's not the devs that remove older apps. Apple keeps older versions of the apps around when you submit a new one.

Now if by "older" iPod touch you mean the first gen one. I can also confirm that Apple does not allow you to go back that far.

Around January of this year, I reset my first gen iPad running 5.x and was able to download and use older versions of Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, the CW, Spotify, Plex, YouTube, Facebook (?) and Google Drive.

Also most of Apple's downloadable apps still work - Pages, Numbers, and Keynote (?).

Most games will not work.

Edit:

I just noticed you said that you abandoned your old iPod touch years ago because searches came up empty.

Apple didn't always allow you to download older versions easily.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/previous-version-ios-apps
It absolutely is how criminal laws work under the Constitutional prohibition of ex post facto laws; while we can write forward looking criminal laws however we want (within other Constitutional limits), we can't apply those new laws to past conduct.
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In my experience, every school kid who lived ~10km or more away bought a moped (scooter) the instant they turned 16, when they were allowed to drive one.
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Indigo Fair (YC W17) Is Hiring a Front-End Engineer in Waterloo
We're looking for a Frontend Engineer in Waterloo, ON with React experience and an eye for design who loves building amazing user experience.
Our goal at Indigo Fair is to accelerate the Shop Local movement by helping boutique retailers find new and unique merchandise to outfit their stores. Our online marketplace offers a delightful shopping experience and uses machine learning algorithms we’ve built to match retailers with hundreds of exciting products that perfectly fit their sense of style. We want every store in America to use Indigo Fair to keep their inventory as fresh and exciting as possible for their customers.

Our founding team is a comprised of product leads and engineers from Square, Google, Salesforce, etc. We're backed by top VC funds including Y Combinator, Khosla, SV Angel and were recently named one of the top 8 companies at our YC Demo Day.

Apply online at https://angel.co/indigo-fair/jobs/250456-frontend-engineer or shoot us an email at careers@indigofair.com

More about Indigo Fair:

https://techcrunch.com/gallery/yc-startups/slide/4/

http://news.communitech.ca/news/indigo-fair-builds-amazon-for-local-retail-in-waterloo-region-and-california

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/07/indigo-fair/

https://medium.com/@max_150/betting-big-on-local-retail-1aa9706c4e04
But average case or worst case are in the middle (for a doubly linked list) or the end (a singly linked list without a tail pointer).
Applets were/are a terrible idea, but they started us down a path of improvement that's lead us to where we're at today with browser technology.

I really wish we had a powerful virtual machine like the JVM in our browsers though... Client-side frameworks are making the web much slower and are eating battery life.

Web assembly is a step in the right direction, but the "not invented here syndrome" makes my head hurt.
Not anymore though. Today cities are trying to push back.
> I still haven't found a good cloud platform for short, high intensity HPC tasks.

I would suggest contacting the nearby university with research groups using HPC such as theoretical chemistry, bioinformatics or computational economics. I would guess you could get a special deal for less than what you'd pay for an AWS instance.
Apple Music, Hulu, MLS Live (American professional soccer), NFL Sunday Ticket (American professional football), Twitch (I subscribe to several streamers I like).
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> Birthday is an included item. That's definitely private as it is often used to confirm identity.

Lots of things that are actually not private data are used to confirm identity; “it is used to confirm identity” is not a disproof that a piece of information is public information.
We have mild, flat, and dense. Boston and NYC, for example.

I think the only missing piece in many cities is funding and prioritization.
An additional summary (with sample code!) lies in the explainer document:

https://github.com/WICG/budget-api/blob/gh-pages/README.md
I guess it's well that the conversation is going on. The novelist Larry McMurtry used to run a used bookstore, Booked Up, in Georgetown. In a memoir of his time in the the book trade, he remarked that he quickly perceived that a) in Washington the true stars were the journalists, and that b) most of them just didn't read. He named Joseph Alsop as an exception. Perhaps things have since changed in DC. (McMurtry moved his operation to Archer City, Texas, about twenty years ago, not from disappointment with the journalists but for lower rent.)
>This is fine in a prototype or in a research paper, but when it comes to production, you will not win the fight against reality.

Indeed, that's the argument I'm making. Where's the disagreement?

>or programming languages, I imagine the graphs are roughly features vs. complexity (directly correlated)

You know Simple Made Easy is a ubiquitous recommendation here and I don't really have anything to add to it. In Haskell as in Lisp all the complex "features" are described in terms of far simpler features. Languages that build in these features explicitly are complex, languages that let you choose don't have to be.

This is why C++ is complex and Common Lisp is simple, even though they have a pretty similar feature set all things considered.

As far as I can tell Go was designed by people who think C got most stuff right, and they intended to make a language that was hard to screw up in. I think they failed here though because neither option types nor generics are that hard to understand and eliminate huge classes of errors.

As I understand it in Go it's pretty common to cast stuff from interface{}. This is a bad pattern because it eliminates type safety. Somebody wrote on HN a while ago, and I'm inclined to agree, that you either have a static type system with generics or you have a dynamic type system. Go is no exception.
It's not 'obvious'. The goal of that chart is not to be a perfect representation of history. It's to show 'greatest hits'. Foucault was a superstar-philosopher who was a regular TV guest. His panopticon analysis is way more widely know than Goffman's analysis (as much as I love Goffman).
Stealing a mans food can be just as lethal as stabbing him.
People usually bike quite leisurely in the Netherlands. You can easily bike 10-15km in reasonable time without sweating, especially if you're used to riding a bike.
I don't get it - that competition is of bike thefts for unguarded and _unlocked_ bikes. Surely it means nothing. Do people not buy bike locks in those regions?

Is it typical for a 13mm+ Ulock in Amsterdam to get broken?
Just call it "de-platforming" when the government denies KKK marches. Then every college liberal will be on board.
What do you mean by "leak"? I wrote a scraper that used lxml and a single instance/process ran for month on end in production without any issues. Lxml may have used more memory than some alternatives, but I don't think it was "leaking" memory.
Did not really think about this before, but if airlines are able to purchase this service for their business class customers, then other companies can certainly do it as well. For example Norwegian has an option to purchase access to priority security check on certain airports in their mobile app.

Actually a bigger business opportunity might be to sell the "pass the queues" access on the fly (without pre-booking). In most cases I would be a bit hesitant to spend money on these in advance, but if things don't go as planned I might be interested in paying to speed things up.
What do you mean by "treat it as code you authored"?
One difference that I think is important: no .htaccess in nginx. So the only way to change any configuration in nginx is in the configuration files and a server restart is necessary.
LOL, I am surprised CNN was able to get ANY money out of FB.
>Ben Lerer, CEO of online video machine Group Nine Media (Thrillist, NowThis News, the Dodo), says that while he’s not satisfied by his deals with Facebook, he’s optimistic they’ll improve. Either way, he says, “whining and complaining that Facebook isn’t making you money is probably not going to be the most successful approach to building a partnership with Facebook where they make you lots of money.”

Says the CEO of companies which were completely built on the viral factor and will not be able to serve without social media. no surprises there.

Also, every media company now crazily rely on Google/FB for users, as i see it, there's no escape, sadly.
> Does he really think memory encryption could be implemented in microcode?

Yes? Why not? This argument rather relies on knowing what the (trade secret) capabilities of the microcode are. I don't see why this warrants a smear on peer review.
"Brain damage" is a rather extreme way of putting this. It's a slight decrease in empathy. Which sounds bad, but makes perfect sense. Empathetic people make terrible leaders. They get taken advantage of. They seek approval from others instead of making what they think is the best decision. They have trouble saying "no." They are indecisive when a decision is controversial and might upset some people.

I know this because I think I am an overly empathetic person, and I know I make a terrible leader. Even watching shows like the West Wing stresses me out a bit and I don't envy people who have to make hard decisions.
For anyone on iOS, I recommend you check out the app Frax. Created in part by the Legendary Kai Krause!

http://fract.al/

Realtime, 60 fps, incredibly beautiful fractals on iPhone and iPad. (am not affiliated with them, just a fan)
But what law specifically was broken? Should we have a law that punishes the CEO for data breeches? Is a CEO responsible if his experts recommended the practice? Is the CEO responsible if their staff went around and did this without conscent? That seems rife for abuse. Don't like your CEO, leak some data and have him go to jail.
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I've done this multiple times over the last 2ish months, and every time it has been because I don't want to create the wrong perception of myself. In fact, I almost did that with this comment, but decided the irony was too much.