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Ask HN: How do you find books to read?
Where do you get your book recommendations from?

Do you subscribe any value to all these 'Must read books' lists or what Bill Gates (or other famous person) may say they read in a blog post? Do you assign any value to a list put together by some random person that says a famous person recommends a particular set of books?

In other words, do you feel more inclined to read a book that has been endorsed in a list by someone famous?

Do you just rely on reviews from Amazon, Goodreads etc?

Lately, some of the most interesting books I've found have actually been through HN threads where a user mentions a book relevant to the topic discussed, usually by including a summary or short excerpt from that book.

Your thoughts?
docs. for easy maintenance and scaling
The former chief economist at Trulio has written quite a bit on this theme. One of his conclusions has been that a fairly specific demographic of college-educated young people has moved to a relatively limited number of very dense urban cores. Beyond that there's more of a shift to suburbs (which are urban in census terminology like pretty much everywhere you can actually see your neighbors).
> you need to secure it against all imaginable problems

It's not that hard if you avoid greedy power plant owners. TEPCO was repeatedly warned many years ago that they had to build a barrier against tsunamis, and all other plants of the area followed the advice.
Probably when actual "departments" become a thing (e.g. sales, marketing and engineering as separate tribes with separate incentives)
The ways in which people express status varies from social group to group

So does this notion only apply to people who demonstrate this status? Does it apply to someone who buys an expensive fountain pen, keeps it in their desk drawer, and uses it to write, but doesn't talk/boast about it?

It seems a bit of a sweeping statement to claim that owning a pen is vain, and could use a bit more clarification/justification to show the basis for making a claim like that. If any such claim relies on ethnographic or sociological studies, then wouldn't it be appropriate to cite those when making such a claim?

Without that, such a claim could justifiably be described as reverse snobbery.
If the wind force is too much for the turbine/blades to handle I think that the blades are locked in place. Don't know if that's what you saw though.
Brazil has a fair new "Internet law" [1] that states, among other things that:

1) Internet providers must not log any information about users traffic, except information related to the network access itself (like the IPv4 dynamic address attributed to the user's modem)

2) Application providers must log all actions performed by its users and retain for at least 6 months.

3) Any judge can request to an application owner the complete access log of anybody.

4) If the company does not comply to the request it can be fined up to 10% of its local revenue; face temporary or permanent shutdown.

WhatsApp ignored the law for two times and a 1st instance judge ordered the temporary ban to be performed by the major network providers. In both cases the order was latter revoked by 2nd instance judges.

Keep in mind that our "Internet law" was praised by everybody, including the international community, for its explicit creation of rules for internet neutrality. Turns out that the price for internet neutrality was mandatory massive surveillance

[1]: PT-BR source: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2014/lei/...
I would second this, awesome value for money. This pen won't let you down.
Slack is using a domain hack to spell out Get Slack Help. It's cute but there aren't really any usability, security or performance benefits.

Go with a docs. sub domain: users will recognize the domain it belongs to and you will have one less certificate to worry about.
Did you write the code? Do you plan to release new versions of the software over time? Is the service stateless?

Great. Use Docker.

If the answer to those questions is "no" then don't use Docker.

That's my rule of thumb.
Hacker News Books is a good source http://hackernewsbooks.com/ curated list of all the books mentioned here.
What's the use? You're in denial mode anyway. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044... "Specifically, we discovered that operational wind turbines raised air temperature by 0.18 °C"
I wasn't complaining about the voting. I'm fine with getting my comments downvoted as long as I can learn why. Without an explanation it might take me a lot time to guess what I did wrong and to improve. Isn't it better for the entire community if I improve my comments quickly?

> Do you see how that takes us from a concrete discussion into tedious flamewar territory?

If current US politics weren't relevant to the future of renewable energy, then sure. I thought it was a relevant concern. What I wrote isn't a political opinion, it's a fact. I have read the guidelines and I do try to be careful about posting stuff that's purely a political opinion.

Thanks for your comment, it was helpful even if I don't agree 100%. At least I now know which of the guidelines you think I was not following.
Yes, I've been talking about wealth. I mean, I've said "wealthy" a few times :)
I don't know, but there are phrases on my company's website that literally don't mean anything to me, and I work on the product it's supposed to be referencing. We have about 100 employees.
I assume the intersection of projects that need a no-budget solution for hosting an https site and projects that belong to the US government is zero.

Am I missing something?

I mean, yes, if you have practical problems that make gitlab harder to use, don't use it. No problem at all. But it is still a perfectly valid solution for the problem the GP was trying to solve.
I don't know, personally I like breathable air.
This assumes the wind is flowing over a frictionless surface with no protrusions. In reality trees, mountains etc cause drag below, and other atmosphere causes drag above. Drag is proportional to the cube of speed, so I really don't think a wind turbine will be able to affect wind speed much. Well, not more than reforestation would, and wind turbines don't even cause local temperature or humidity differences like a forest would.
That's an interesting prediction. From what I can remember from a previous HN article, there is a bacterial that already eats plastics. How long would such a evolutionary step take place, I wonder?
I highly recommend this talk [0] by Kevin Murphy. Rising inequality can be explained by the rising wage premium for higher-skilled workers. In the 60s, a college graduate made only 40% more than a high school graduate; this number climbed and is now more than 80%.

The demand for, and productivity of, high-skilled workers is increasing rapidly, while the supply is not increasing very much. The masses have responded to these price signals by going to college more, but aren't actually coming out the other side with higher skills, or even diplomas, probably due to deficits in K12.

Notably, this is not a story about the top and bottom 1%. The premium has widened enormously across the board, i.e. between the 25th and 75th percentiles.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/embed/KevV_A6N-6o
Not sure what your point is.
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Yes, the bigger worry is that evolution will solve humans, but thankfully nature is already working on a cure for plastics[0].

[0] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chow-down-plastic-e...
That may be so, but it is unfortunate that the author tacked on a highly subjective first paragraph to an otherwise informative article. Who regards Linux as "horrendously difficult to use" and why? That's a strong statement that needs explicit justification or citation in any trustworthy publication. We shouldn't have to guess the author's intent. This article makes me not want to find out any more about this news site.
The Tarsnap logo alone tells you more about what the product is than many entire websites I've seen.
Right, and when you try enrolling people, you get tarred as negative, divisive, a communist, anti-American, etc. etc. etc.
In short, yes. Both are very dry with extra fine nib i.e. less ink on paper and dry very fast, both are affordable and you won't mind having on scratch on.
I might want to consider Pilot metropolitan too.
If you mean temperature, then wind turbines actually increase temperature (friction, inefficiencies...) of locale climate. Solar panels cool the Earth, not turbines.

Wind is a byproduct of solar power. Why not derive energy from the primary source (solar) instead of going for secondary (wind).

Edit: really curious about downvotes. There is nothing in the above that's controversial. I've also provided data below: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044.... "Specifically, we discovered that operational wind turbines raised air temperature by 0.18 °C"
you assume that 1) most people are rational and 2) irrational behaviors of others costs you and everyone else nothing (in dollars or utility).
Does anyone know what software they used for creating those colored diagrams?
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Then again, a 12 hour fast equals one long session of in-zone coding or a bit too addictive new game..
Odd I posted this comment 3 days ago, but it says 2 hours... and the thread is back on the front page.
marketing is a god damned religion
Do people really eat that much fish? I thought fish is mostly raised as fishmeal for cows. Making an even worse bioaccumulation chain.
A 23-year-old university dropout just launched a cheaper rival to Uber in London
It's probably the point where what you're selling is so amorphous, customizable, and expensive that it's different for each customer and you want to be able to say "Yes, we solve that problem" to everything. Maybe 7 figures per sale?
Great read, thanks! This exactly shows how dirty each bank is, whether its Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of Ameirca, or any other major bank, and that system IS broken, corrupted, and only gives slaps on the wrist for things you and me would spend rest of our lives in Club Feds.

The only reason I'm resultant from switching to something smaller is the number of ATMs available; otherwise my choice would bt BB&T.
Yes, eating too much food can cause weight gain. That is also the simplest and least helpful view that exists. It certainly does not explain how some people can gain weight with a calorie deficit and some people can loose weight on a calorie surplus.

By the way "skipping meals" (aka fasting) is exactly what Dr. Fung recommends to lose weight. Fasting drops your insulin levels and gives your body a chance to burn its stored fats.
Aside from stuff others mentioned, there's a social/political component differing them.
Nuclear energy has always been pushed by politicians. Harvesting the mighty atom is a prestige project and not something a business that wants simple tech that's quick to market.
Wind energy in comparison is ancient, well-understood and something every person can harvest. Same with solar, generate your own, very anarchic.
"Silicon Valley" and "CEO" are just linkbait devices. When you rant like this in response, you're effectively feeding trolls. Please don't do that on HN; it doesn't make for substantive discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publhe...

Diet is established among the most important influences on health in modern societies. Injudicious diet figures among the leading causes of premature death and chronic disease. Optimal eating is associated with increased life expectancy, dramatic reduction in lifetime risk of all chronic disease, and amelioration of gene expression.

In this context, claims abound for the competitive merits of various diets relative to one another. Whereas such claims, particularly when attached to commercial interests, emphasize distinctions, the fundamentals of virtually all eating patterns associated with meaningful evidence of health benefit overlap substantially.

There have been no rigorous, long-term studies comparing contenders for best diet laurels using methodology that precludes bias and confounding, and for many reasons such studies are unlikely.

In the absence of such direct comparisons, claims for the established superiority of any one specific diet over others are exaggerated. The weight of evidence strongly supports a theme of healthful eating while allowing for variations on that theme.

A diet of minimally processed foods close to nature, predominantly plants, is decisively associated with health promotion and disease prevention and is consistent with the salient components of seemingly distinct dietary approaches.

Efforts to improve public health through diet are forestalled not for want of knowledge about the optimal feeding of Homo sapiens but for distractions associated with exaggerated claims, and our failure to convert what we reliably know into what we routinely do. Knowledge in this case is not, as of yet, power; would that it were so.
I've been jumping between hydra and dex for the last couple of weeks. On the one hand I like the tight focus hydra has, with the exception of the warden api. On the other hand it is really involved to simply setup a working environment that includes hydra ready to go. It would be nice to do all the token, client and policy setup using a simple docker-compose up.

Dex for example has a dev mode doing that for you. The downside of Dex is you cannot use your own backend without forking the project, writing your own login page and creating a custom connector for your existing login system.
Well... Yes.

Performance is highly application specific. It may be any combination of [throughput, latency, responsivity] x [maximum, minimum, average, some cut over a distribution, instantly measure on some important time]. And there are probably more possibilities, those are just the usual ones.

Microservices can make any one of them better, very likely at the cost of making other ones worse.
Does anyone know what the status of using kite powered systems for off shore power generation is? I know makani has been working on that for over a decade now, it always seemed like a really promising approach to me but I haven't heard of any commercial applications of it. Here is a link to makani...

https://x.company/makani/about/
> I would add to the list, but I can't login to my account at the moment since I don't have my bespoke HSBC 2FA physical device (despite having a far-superior, non-polluting equivalent on my phone...)

If someone banks and does 2FA on the same phone, if the phone gets hacked (malicious app) you have a big problem on your hands.
I was there last week too! Might have even passed each other, though there were a lot of folks. Also climbed Vesuvius, very cool place
I thought Meltwater's flagship product was media monitoring, which their slogan kind of captures:

> Welcome to Outside Insight

> Billions of online conversations, freshly filtered.

The title of their landing page is even more to the point:

> Media Intelligence, Media Monitoring, and Social Monitoring

I thought Optimizely was an A/B testing tool, which makes their punchline OK:

> Optimizely lets you experiment on everything—from design choices to algorithms. That way the best ideas always win, and the best customer experiences get even better.

I suppose this only adds to his argument though, it's hard to tell what companies do.
Churn makes things seem dated. After you see too many screenshots of it, the MS Office ribbon seems like today's thing and a plain old menubar seems dated. Could someone show me something that makes the ribbon seem dated? Nagel paintings seem dated now, but seemed hip back in the day, nestled between the ads for theaters showing Breakfast Club.
Where do you think people go when they move out of cities? Is having 3% of the countries land mass covered with dense cities really better than having 50% of it covered with attrocious suburbs and parking lots? Where everyone has to have a car and hour long commutes?

Comparing with slums in third world countries is ridiculous. The US has plenty of slums. White people and businesses fleeing cities makes it worse, not better. I don't know how you confused cause and effect so badly to think cities cause poverty.
The importance of paper quality depends on which ink you're using. I like Noodler's Black, because it writes well even on cheap paper. It starts reliably and it doesn't feather (spread horizontally) or bleed through the paper easily. I've tried many other inks, trading samples with other fountain pen users, and I never found anything else so trouble-free.
All failure events happened due to incompetence and/or greed, and increasingly unlikely due to new designs and improved protocols.

And even assuming those accidents are unavoidable, coal still produces more health problems and deaths.
Meillasoux's critique of correlationism is a critique of Kant/phenomenology, not postmodernism, at all. Viz., that truth is "correlational." Meillasoux's cohort are friendly enough with postmodernists, even if they disagree. The Badiou/Meillasoux critique of postmodernism is for them believing _too much_ in absolute truth, viz., for them being platonists. I would recommend reading "The Clamor of Being" if you actually want to understand the matter.
What's wrong with fish these days, They didn't do that when I was a kid.
Those are complaints about specific issues and outcomes.

The inquiry at hand touches on the fundamental dynamics of the system that those issues and outcomes occur in. How people get manipulated into favoring the interests of the wealthy, over their own.
>Tarsnap: Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid

Oh, okay, that makes sense. Probably some super-secure online backup service...

>Encryption: Your data can only be accessed with your personal keys. We can't access your data even if we wanted to!
>Source code: The client code is available. You don't need to trust us; you can check the encryption yourself!
>Deduplication: Only the unique data between your current files and encrypted archives is uploaded.

Wow, that's... extremely clear. That's literally everything I wanted to know, save for maybe pricing...

>Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month of encoded data
>Bandwidth: 250 picodollars / byte of encoded data

...aha, it's something confusing!

>($0.25 / GB-month)

...never mind. This is extremely clear.

I could keep going, but as far as copy, this website is excellent. And even the design could be considered a plus given your target audience.

Though if Tarsnap ever gets a GUI, I would suggest giving the website one as well :)
Properly built highrise districts in Asia have larger distance in between buildings than what Americans have in suburbs
That sounds like a terrible idea even if it were 100% reliable. When you shut down it will have to flush the entire memory at once. If you're syncing to a hdd it can mean several minutes of downtime.
He sites several studies including the Minnesota Starvation Experiment[0]. It's pretty simple, if the body gets some calories but not enough, your metabolism is lowered and you have less energy along with a host of other symptoms. This also explains why this is a terrible dieting strategy, once your metabolism is lowered you regain the weight quite fast once you start eating more.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experimen...
"Moral impact" is one of those features conveniently impossible to measure, and at the same time very marketable to parents. Each little girl and boy reacts in an unique and personal way to the same stimulus and modify gradually their points of view after years of observation and experience. You can't just buy a magic book covering all possible cases to turn your little evil in an angel in a couple of hours.
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Most cities are on the coast, so offshore offers generation near where it's needed. Doing offshore does not mean ignoring on-shore.

In some cases offshore winds are strong enough that on-shore turbines are less cost effective. That's true for some of the east coast of the US.
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You can only distribute it evenly the one time.
I second Talking Machines. The O'Reilly Data Show is really good too. The Threatpost Podcast isn't bad, but the episodes are kinda hit or miss. If a hack was something stupid there is only so much you can say. "Hospitals are running XP and they got hacked" isn't going to be interesting no matter what you throw at it.
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Thank you, I had to scroll down to this comment to realize why people cared about fountain pens. I think I have without knowing it preferred pencils, and the use/availability ratio of pens in my home/workplace is so low that I have never thought of buying one.
> Electric cars should be able to mitigate the worst of the environmental impacts.

That assumes the energy used to charge the cars is clean. It also excludes the cost of laying tarmac to everywhere.

In general, humans living closer together conserves more natural resources.
(This may be someone OT with respect to the specific OP question/circumstance, but...)

You are probably developing to/for a domain. (Healthcare, hardware, finance, etc...)

Part of being successful is having good domain knowledge and understanding.

If the technical aspects of your work don't translate well to an audio presentation, understanding of the domain(s) you are concentrating on might.

Then, when you're doing something, or in a meeting about it, you have a better understanding of the "why". And of whether the tactics and strategy under consideration make good sense, or of how they might be improved.

This is also a means of going past "pushing buttons" to becoming responsible for design decisions and the like.
Consider, for example, that we do exactly the opposite by providing tax shelters for retirement savings, and that this is the only way grandparents get to retire.
Product Manager for MySQL here. Yes, I agree with you that the reason is most likely support.

Consider SQL; it's declarative and highly expressive. Your users can craft queries that you did not consider, and you have to make sure they work consistently between versions. It's a very hard problem.

Creating more public APIs? It's a hard sell that vendors are sensitive to. Reducing the surface area makes it easier to add future improvements.
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Neither of you are making any headway in this discussion, and both of you are getting personally nastier as it progresses. Maybe it's time to walk away.
Here's some things off the top of my head:

* Single business function. Microservices don't have to be small, but all their calls should facilitate s single business function.

* Automated deployment. Services are deployed and undeployed live based on load.

* Unknown targets. Services are allocated and deployed to machines at runtime. The machine itself may even be allocated on demand. So service discovery is absolutely required.

* Stateless. Services instances can be spun down at any moment, so they can't be holding transaction state.
Vivaldi CEO – “Google: it is time to return to not being evil”

Me: that train has left the station. When you have monopoly power (70%-98% of market share) the governments should return Google and Whatever Corp to not being evil.
I like to just wander around the local library. There's something meditative about seeing all the books physically lined up and knowing you can just reach out and pick one.