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number of commits on the fork is irrelevant to the stated coal "find MAINTAINED forks..." if you had 400 extra commits, but they were 6 years ago i don't care. it's very unlikely to be a "maintained" fork.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643607 and marked it off-topic.
Intel hasn't spoken about why they use the thermal interface material (TIM) they continue to use. Best guess anyone has is that there's a higher cost somehow with a soldered lid. I'm not completely sold on that, but Intel hasn't defended their practice in any way so it's open to interpretation.
Check out LingQ. It's pretty much exactly what you've described wanting.
This interests me a lot because I'm using Azure App Insights (full disclosure: I work at Microsoft) after a couple of years of New Relic and I'm constantly looking for better takes on the "let's instrument this code and profile it remotely" thing, especially around gevent and asyncio (which have their own little challenges).

I've been thinking about building my own using Prometheus as collector/visualiser. Time hasn't been on my side, but eventually...
Now that this has come up, can somebody explain me how do profilers work? My main concern being regarding the overhead to the process it adds.
Cool tool, but by using it, you depend on it staying alive for longer than any page you archive on it.

This got me thinking about how a decentralized p2p internet archive could solve the trust problem that exists in centralized internet archives. Such solution could also increase the capacity of archived pages and the frequency at which archived pages are updated.

It is true that keeping the entire history of the internet on your local drive is likely impossible, but a solution similar to what Sia is doing could solve this problem: split each page to 20 pieces and distribute each piece to 10 peers such that every y pieces can recover the original page. So, you only have to trust that 10 peers out of 20 that store a page are still alive to get the complete page.

The main problem I can see right now would be lack of motivation to contribute to the system -- why would people run nodes? Just because it would feature a yet another cryptocurrency? Sure, this could hold now, but when the cryptocurrency craze quiets down and people stop buying random cryptocurrencies just for the sake of trading them, what then? Who would run the nodes and why?
I wrote a similar tool which uses Electron to create PDFs of webpages and bookmark them in a SQLite database.

https://github.com/marvelm/erised
> Security cameras and police cars that continuously scan the faces of pedestrians and other drivers. It will happen.

It's already pervasive:

1998:"Face-recognition CCTV launched"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/face-recognition-cctv-laun...

2015: "A scheme widely used by UK stores to identify criminals is testing facial recognition technology, the BBC has learned."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35111363

2016: "Retailers are increasingly using facial recognition technology to track your face. With an estimated 59% of UK fashion retailers doing it, is the anonymity of cities an outdated idea?"
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/03/revealed-faci...

2014: "UK, the world’s most surveilled state, begins using automated face recognition to catch criminals"
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186435-uk-the-worlds-mos...

2014: "CCTV cameras on Britain's roads capture 26 million images every day"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/23/cctv-cameras...

2017: "New York plans to install vast system of facial recognition cameras that matches drivers licenses to social media accounts at bridges and tunnels "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4167854/New-York-ins...

You can google for more, watch out for those black helicopters tonight.
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Don't comment like that here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20astroturf&sort=b...
Aren't you feeling the need to rush out and buy the $50 doohicky that replaces the simple razor blade?
Conversely, just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean everyone else feels it's broken. At the same time Google was introducing the shopping results that the Commission says were illegal, Microsoft was running advertisements with the slogan "Bing and Decide" that advertised how great a feature it is to do essentially the same thing.

So even if you don't believe Google, there's at least some evidence that a lot of people actually do like services showing up.
"Just because Tor is used by child predators and of little practical use to the average Western citizen doesn't negate its positive value."

you cant just say that and expect me to decide its worth it on balance, you need to make a case for it. maybe this isnt the place, but its a funny thing to just kind of assert. arguing that things should exist because there are potential upsides is missing the point, which is that the downsides may outweigh the upsides. its particularly bold to make that claim about tor- there must be a hell of an upside to justify the child predators...
I wish that Ikea would disrupt the automotive industry and start selling these:

http://oxgvt.com/the-ox-all-terrain-vehicle/

I would so love to build and own one - sadly, I don't think I'll ever be able to, because they likely won't be sold to regular consumers here in the US. Even as a flat-pack kit, I think regulators would figure out a way to keep them out of the market due to crash-testing compliance and/or pollution control/EPA issues.

So if I ever wanted to have something like one, I would have to homebrew it myself. I know it is possible to get such a vehicle legally registered, but it probably isn't super-easy, unless I start with a donor vehicle frame.
It's an interesting idea. I like that UUIDs are not recommended to be the internally stored id. I do wonder about overall performance. UUIDs are rather large. Now you're going to start weighing down your DB since the column has to exist and have a value. Then you have to index them. I think, depending on the database, their size tends to cause the DB to have a lot of work which can start to write through your SSD life.
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What? For data amplification attacks to work you need to spoof IP addresses, which is almost impossible with TCP (telnet uses it), GP was a victim of a plain old DDoS.
"what is the real value of learning japanese? (apart from being an english teacher in japan) sure is fine as a hoby, but for a professional, I believe the japanese are the ones that should learn english,"

Are you interested in Japanese culture, history, literature, religion, or people?

Do you or your company want to do business in Japan, with Japanese companies, or Japanese people?

Do you have friends, family, or a significant other who's Japanese? Do you want to make new Japanese friends or contacts?

Are you interested in what the Japanese have to say, and want to read or hear it in their own language?

Have you ever wanted to visit Japan and feel less like a tourist and more like a native, to be able to better know what's going on around you, read the signs, maybe have some ability to find your own way?

Well, if you're not interested in any of these things, perhaps you'll forgive or at least understand some others if they actually are interested and find these things valuable.
Interesting thought, probably could. USB scales are cheap, but your plant with water (draining through) would be sitting on top of said scales electronics. Could get messy.
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The statistically significant result is that scores on this test : "in each trial set, participants complete a series of math problems (information processing) while simultaneously updating and remembering a randomly generated letter sequence (information maintenance)" were significantly different for those with their phone silenced, face down on the desk next to them than for those with their phones in another room.

Given that this test essentially measures attention and distractions would seem to affect performance, I wonder what the results would be for some other object on the desk in the field of view - a book or a photo say - rather than just a phone.
Can you give an unbiased concrete example (eg. tainted baby formula, collapsed bridge, corrupted hard drive from virus) of something that has benefited google to the direct harm of one of it's users?

The biggest argument I've seen is that people don't like that they aggregate the data you give to them.
What I mean is I don't see my buying habits having any larger of an impact on the behavior of corporations than my voting habits do on the behavior of the government. The libertarian conviction that businesses will change their behavior to attract my dollars never seemed to have any empirical footing to me.
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Questions to everyone who's tried similar things:

1. why use a water pump, instead of a gravity-fed system with a valve you could control with a servo?

2. Would a scale be able to measure soil moisture? Dump in X grams of water, wait until scale registers X/2 before adding more. (Some fiddling would be required to see how much of the water is retained by the plan as building material.)
If you are adding another state then you are redrawing borders.
> I hear this a lot from people who have little or experience building large applications in high level languages. If you manage your code properly you can have strong/static typing in JavaScript.

No, you can't. If you manage your code properly, you can have code without the kind of errors that would be prevented by static typing, but JavaScript does not have static typing, period. (I mean, you can have it via type annotations in comments and a separate static analyzer, but that's a type language on top of JS, not JS proper.)

> The difference is that nothing yells at you when you mess that up.

Which means you don't have static typing; static typing is when the types are statically verified prior to runtime, and something does yell at you when they are wrong.

> Instead the application just runs a little bit slower.

Performance problems are the least issue with uncaught type errors. Crashes and incorrect results are the more common results.
I'd be also interested to hear. Btw. the interviewer of the linked site has an app that helps with reading.
1997 here :-)

hat was that XP xploit app from back then... I cant recall what it was called...
The easiest way to learn Japanese, at least spoken Japanese, is to find a Japanese boyfriend or girlfriend. And to live away from other gaijin.
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while 90% of this is really bad to everyone(privacy, oppression,etc), I see there is a small bright side , that the criminals can now be caught so quickly these days there from some news I read.

the videos are all connected and facials are recognized quickly(a few seconds for millions of faces), they tracked down criminals(and their cars) who was on the run for thousands of miles all the way, in less than 24 hours sometimes. I think the whole project was called something like "peaceful city project".

in US, where surveillance cameras are scarce to find in most public areas, you need eye witness all the time, many cases take years to resolve, if at all.
> The agent overhead is measured to be less than 1% for applications under high load.

Do you have the methodology and data that you used to obtain this figure? Because to be honest I'm quite dubious, especially for an app which is CPU bound.
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They confuse helicopter pilots too!

http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.asp
I hired from a tech-coop and the person didn't do any work.
None of which was yet true when I posted. Now is the time for outrage, as evidence has been presented (In the form of confession).
How much research have you done on this topic?
Why do you only post terrible comments here?
They let you know how many they have available, so the line has a logical end to it.
What you'd want is consistency over time together with the most recent commit.
I am an American. I have lived without a car for a lot of years. From what I have read, Millenials are putting some pressure on society to make things more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. And even with a car, I don't think that accounts for the entire 200 times as much consumption (a figure from a few years back, I don't know what the current figure would be -- it was given solely to make the point that people in developed countries can cut back modestly and have more impact than they think).
psutil (https://pythonhosted.org/psutil/) is awesome for collecting valuable monitoring information.

pyrasite (http://pyrasite.com/) will let you inject code into a process. This can be used to add monitoring of private internal state etc (if you have no other options).

If you want to have locally hosted graphs then grafana and influx are my current tools of choice.

It is going to be more work than swiping a credit card, but not a crazy amount.
The discussion 3 months ago on bookmarks mentioned several options for archiving pages (some locally): Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064096

extensions: Firefox "Print Edit" Addon / Firefox Scrapbook X / Chrome Falcon / Firefox Recoll

open source: Zotero / WorldBrain / Wallabag

commercial: Pinboard / InstaPaper / Pocket / Evernote / Mochimarks / Diigo / PageDash / URL Manager Pro / Save to Google / OneNote / Stash / Fetching

public: http://web.archive.org / https://archive.is/
lol that's not why we're unemployed in Spain.
Even though the different transactions on a debit card may have the same legal status by law, banks typically apply "zero liability" to transactions processed by Visa/MasterCard, while holding users accountable for fraudulent debit transactions processed by ATM networks, up to $50 if you report within 2 days, then $500 within 60 days, and then unlimited customer liability after that.
A particulate filter mask, maybe combined with a cheap plastic sunshade visor?
If you mean liquid metal vs. paste, then the answer is money. Liquid metal is more expensive and harder to apply.

If you mean solder vs. paste then
"Micro cracks in solder preforms can damage the CPU permanently after a certain amount of thermal cycles and time. Conventional thermal paste doesn’t perform as good as the solder preform but it should have a longer durability – especially for small size DIE CPUs."
http://overclocking.guide/the-truth-about-cpu-soldering/
> In the event that the leaseholder is partitioned away from the other replicas, it will be allowed to continue to serve reads (but not writes) until its lease expires (leases currently last 9 seconds by default), and then one of the other two replicas will get a new lease (after waiting for the first replica’s lease to expire).

So, what happens to readers who are partitioned away from the node which holds that data? Can they not read the data for that lease duration? If they can't, then yeah, CP is a good description.

...

So the design doc seems to hold this up - reads must go to the lease holder, until the lease expires. Nice.

EDIT: Design doc link:

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/docs/de...
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In the past, there be at least some shred of truth in the politician’s otherwise untrue statement. So the worst one could say is, “okay, that’s not 100% correct”. Trump takes it to a new level in that there often isn’t the slightest bit of truth in what he says. IOW, other politicians stretch the truth, but mostly don’t outright lie. Trump‘s statements, OTOH, appear to often be completely unconcerned with facts.
yes i agree its not going away. but im curious if public perception has shifted at all since it was first becoming popular. my opinion has changed.
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I haven't seen the episodes, but I wonder if in history (if it isn't just a made up legend) that a couple of actual events have become conflated due to lack of knowledge by the witnesses?

Perhaps there were a bunch of soldiers with mirrored shields, and they did shine their shields to "blind" the incoming ships. Then archers shot flaming arrows against the ships...

...and the legend of mirrored shields setting fire to a ship was born?
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I don't think a shopping comparison channel, which actually doesn't command a particularly large share of price comparison sites, is comparable to life savings. Surely, you'd take these results with a pinch of salt and 'shop around'?
Unibody construction helps some as well. Less drilled holes, more plastic panels, better sealed seams, fewer dissimilar metals touching.
I can't figure out why Co-ops (particularly education institute backed) haven't really taken off in the US.

For example my alma mater Georgia Tech used to offer a Co-op program but I believe they discontinued it.

Northeastern here in Boston from what I have heard from others had serious problems with adoption of the Co-op program (I have to find the citation where I also read this).

Of course this was a few years back so maybe Co-ops are in now?
I was being a bit sarcastic, but ya, you are completely right. My point really was that the US isn't falling behind, China just has much larger problems to deal with ATM and so they are beginning to take the environment seriously.

Both LA and Beijing have similar topological bowl and inversion problems. Tear down the western and northern hills in Beijing, and the air quality would also be greatly improved.
As a person who has spent a couple of years in college with Japanese, leisure time, and time in Japan -- I can tell you that it's one of the richest cultures I've come into contact with to date. Mind you, that's completely subjective.

One of the things that exists in their culture that doesn't exist in the US is the notion of "oneness." If you get on the train in the morning and observe people going to their jobs, you'll notice that there's almost a "uniform" - very similar suit, haircut, and overall style. In America, individuality has become a disease that has lead to everyone feeling the need to be special and different. I'd argue that this 'disease' is the plague of our politics and economy, as companies nor politicians typically think about society's greater good ( save a handful who are now trying to align business with humanitarian efforts ).

Also, embedded in the language is respect. You use different words and sentence structures to address your friends vs. your boss.

So, what is the value? Probably experiencing life in a different way, and gaining more perspective.
Chemically, a "strong acid" is one that dissociates completely in solution. HCl, H2SO4, HNO3, HBr, HI, HClO4, HClO3 comprise the complete list. That's it. All other acids have a dissociation constant, pKa.

The pKa for acetic acid is 4.76 . It is a "weak acid", but then again, so is HF, with a pKa of 3.17 . If you have ever seen Breaking Bad, you have seen what even a "weak acid" can do to the human body at high concentrations.

The usual story about acetic acid is that your chem prof was pipetting glacial acetic acid by mouth, and they accidentally got some in their mouth, and all the cells lining their oral cavity peeled off the next day. And they used bulbs or thumbwheel pumps on their pipettes ever since. Not sure if this story is especially common or if it is made up to scare students into using the lab equipment safely.

But anyway, the point is that the ill effects for caustic chemicals are largely dependent on concentration. "Vinegar" is acetic acid diluted to between 4 wt% and 18 wt%. You can drink vinegar, and just have skin rashes and weak teeth. If you drink enough glacial acetic acid (>99 wt%), you're going to die.
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They can supposedly be manually run in wine on non-windows.
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Thermal paste is difficult to apply at large scale. It's cheaper and easier to use the thermal pads, even though they kind of suck. This is also why the stock cooler that came with your CPU came with one of those stupid pads.

The alternative is to use the paste and end up with the shitshow that was the nVidia 8000 series GPU debacle. People pulling them apart were uniformly aghast at the quality of the paste job, usually with big blobs of the stuff smeared all around the chips.
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> Nothing good ever came out of Monsanto, it's all harmful crap; it's mind-boggling that these psychos are allowed to continue given their track record. <

Can you back that up with even one verified instance ?
This is sad on many different levels. I look forward to hearing what Jeri is going to do next.

I was also reading about Coraid which had humble beginnings, got some venture funds and tried to go big but exploded, and now the original founder has bought back the assets and is running the company as a lean startup. One can hope there is an opportunity here for something like that.
Many soil sensors use electrical conductivity between two contacts, using the resistance to gauge the moisture. The more water, the lower the resistance. Unfortunately those contacts will start to corrode after being left in a damp (and electrified) environment.
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Well I'm biased as I'm an angel investor in the business. It is like any price - it is cheap if you use it heavily, expensive if you don't.
it's both plain and false. consumers pay with their money, not "data". google gets this money from advertisers. consumers pay even if they never used google in their whole life.
With AOT compilation, you are not minimizing the size of the JRE. The Java bytecode is more compact than any assembly code because it is more high level.

So with jlink, you are reducing the size of the JDK by creating your own JDK and with jaotc, you are augmenting the size of the JDK but have a faster startup (not sure) or at least less jitter (no JIT) (sorry for the pun).
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I totally agree with you on context. Something that has worked for me is to add the Core10k(http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Core_10k and the Core6k decks to Anki and then when I bump into a new word I want to learn, I search for it on these decks and move the corresponding cards to my main study deck. These decks have the words in the context of one whole sentence including audio and images. Also, I only add words to my main study deck that I have seen in a real Japanese text.

That is not enough though and that problem you are describing is the reason I am developing Koipun Reader(https://www.koipun.com/reader/). My goal for Koipun Reader is to help intermediate level learners go through any arbitrary Japanese text and give them the ability to save words they want to learn, so that they can review them later within the same context of the text they read. I only have preview version of the app right now, but I will release an MVP in a month.

Edit: fix typo
Just a thought, but: you don't have to write JavaScript. There are lots of other languages than JS, and lots of areas of programming other than the web. So it's really, really possible to not write JS if you don't want to. Just think, you could be free! Forever!!!!!
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