skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An issue with their work for current SSDs is that the write groups they use are about 16MB to 32MB, current SSDs, need far larger write sizes in order to get the optimization they used to get (essentially they tried to fill an entire erase group at once to get control of the locality). This will no longer work at the same level it worked before.

Their estimate of improving endurance is based on using a disk simulator with FTL and not by checking the actual wear level change before and after their test which to me would be fairly suspect. They are not testing against a real FTL and full world behavior of the SSD and are rather "inventing" a test which is very limited and doesn't say much. Admittedly, testing the way I suggest would require a far longer test and take a lot longer but this is the only thing that really tells you if you are making things work in real life.

SSDs are also affected by the workload and especially by any down times that you give it. If you let the SSD sit with no queued commands it will clear buffers and do maintenance work that will improve its behavior which will also affect the result so to get a real "real-world" behavior you need to factor that as well which will increase your test time.
Just do that in the task manager
CoreOS's clair[1] will automatically reject (or alert) on new deployments of containers with known CVEs. So at a minimum, it could have let the administrators know they were running vulnerable images and fix the issue before the hack occurred.

[1] https://github.com/coreos/clair
As others have said as well, I have seen the opposite of this. The real advancements have all been in coding up custom solutions to work with larger data in new ways. Things like ArcGIS / QGIS have just been used for visualization after the fact.
Gravity4 had signed a 1 year contract with my employer, a SaaS company. They consumed millions of transactions through us over a 2 month period and never paid. They said they're cancelling. When I explained we've signed a yearly contract and it must be honored the employee claimed the signee had no signing authority and she only kept this guy in CC.

I'm surprised Gravity4 is still operational, their employees are acting like mini Chahals.
If you have an SSD then defragmentation does nothing
Huh? If you just define the problem as only "really solved" when you aren't fixing the symptoms with technical tools, then, yes, technical tools can't work by definition.
Yeah, the ability to make something which looks good and works well in one evening is a big sell for me.

If I want to put countless weekends into it later, I'm still free to do so. I don't want to just commit to one idea at the beginning when I'm 100% sure on it.

Makes Bubble a really attractive tool for me.
I was wondering about that. Tez means quick in Azerbaijani Turkish as well. It's interesting that it has the same meaning in a language spoken so far away.
As it should be. That was the definition of insider trading.
A GUI from the 90s, documentation often indecipherable if you are not a subject expert, awkward UX.

I like using it via QGIS but that's as near I can make myself go near it. It saddens me because it seems very powerful and featureful.
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Someone in Equifax was made aware of the breach on July 29, 2017. It defies common sense that the chief officers of the company did not learn of it until the same time as the general public, over a month later.
I mean, on one hand, I wouldn't want this to go unnoticed and unpunished, but on the other, I'd rather that the feds be more focused on the actual breach part of things.

Then again, was any part of the breach actually criminally negligent? Maybe this is the only real way that the DoJ even can go after Equifax...
I highly doubt the iPhone will be able to compete with the flux density of sunlight, at any wavelength, which we generally regard as safe.

(1400 watts / m^2) * 0.2 [ground albedo] * 0.5 [proportion in infrared] = 14 mW / cm^2 of infrared radiation looking at the ground on a sunny day.

(14 mW / cm^2) * 1 square foot [approx size of a face] = 13 watts

I'm going to guess there isn't a 13 watt infrared laser in the iPhone, or we'll be seeing some great hacks where people take the lens out and start setting things on fire from hundreds of feet away.
The article itself doesn't make it clear how they will determine whether or not its insider trading or just a coincidence.

Also, if there was a "bad vibe" at the company, but they didn't specifically know about the breach, would that be insider trading?
I guess we know how Equifax got hacked.
yayyyy the deception is real
Having read the current child psych lit extensively, I can provide a boot-camp education on raising young'uns in one sentence:

"Your children don't want to be praised; they want to be noticed."

'Dad/mom look at me / watch me do this / see what I did in class', etc, etc. all signify this — praise isn't what their psyche thirsts for, merely plain old attention. Done earnestly, giving attention takes time, and so has a 'cost' in adult's life that may be greater than you'd assume — see, the subtext of the tune "Cat's Cradle" — but the payoff is immeasurable.

/George's Dad
Arguably, it's better that these people are in private industry than in government, which might be considered a feature of the system. Some have argued that civilization is mostly concerned with the management of sociopaths: this guy seems fucking horrible, but at least his ambition took him here, instead of being the "Duke of Feeding People and Medicine" or something where his shittyness would kill people.

I feel kind of gross writing that, for the record, but think it's true.
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you can thank gh pages for that
i don't think public code means community driven, or public development.

Just uploading a zip of the final source code is enough to count as public code imho.
I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I was playing with words. A method is a protocol defining a group for a project duration together. We call numerical recipes methods but they are more like refined tools we apply selectively. Methods are more than a point solution preferences. I have yelled at the BSOD and typed harder at the machine. But software engineering is a pure communicative discipline. The "enforced" was rhetoric. All methods are mutually enforced like a grammar.
How has your experience with the USDS been? From a selfish point of view, it seems like a great way to make contacts in the industry while serving your country.
This is one of the many reasons why I always prefer UWP apps on Windows 10

https://np.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/6ifyxq/spotify_for_...

In addition, this also gives you granular privacy control

https://www.howtogeek.com/221864/digging-into-and-understand...
You are spot on. They are trying to do it behind the scenes at this point, but as the culture war continues to shift to the right winning they will go full blown. My theory is it will start with google, facebook, and twitter. This is why its more important to get these alternative media up before its too late.
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This surprises me since I wouldn't have guessed that 3 year olds know what "smart" means not to mention knowing that being smart is unrelated to effort. Could this effect actually be due to something else than growth vs innate mindset? My guess is that the teachers experience different emotions depending on word usage and that kids are affected by those emotions.

Previously I believed in these studies but this result makes me question the others as well since they could suffer from the same problem.
i think you mean [mangodb](https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb)
Just want to say that Windows Pinball may be MS's best software ever. The gameplay is pretty deep and well balanced.
I feel like Valleywag did a pretty good job of that, but it's now shut down.

One problem with Valleywag, or any enterprise that would chronicle these sorts of things, is that while abhorrent behavior by SVites waxes and wanes, the need to push constant volume leads them to be gossipy and vapid. Also, while we might have a substantive discussion about this guy's abhorrent behavior here, a normalized version of that discussion for general consumption may gloss over some aspects of the despicableness of this behavior that require addressing in order to promote higher quality actors in tech.
“There’s the peacetime C.E.O. and the wartime C.E.O. Not to be overly dramatic about it, but this is sort of a war. This is a wartime period. That just means that we need to change a lot of things. We need to just break shit. Sorry to say, we’ve got to break shit and embrace being uncomfortable sometimes. And it’s scary. It’s definitely a scary thing to do. But it’s also fun: you know, lean up against the wall and break it.”

Does these kind of words work with people older than 20? I once had a CTO that also started with these shitty things on the first meeting and he was fired less than 3 months later, as people sabotaged him and his work. Almost nobody gets excited when someone tells you that your professional life is going to change drastically, come on!!

When behaviors are entrenched, you have to be diplomatic, smart and cautious..
If you're on Windows, could you use it instead of a virtualized Linux? Maybe a work computer disabled the virtualization?
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It's still a really nice web server. Easy to configure, incredibly reliable, twenty years of security fixes under its belt, endless docs/info available for it online. I've been meaning to learn nginx for a while, but with Apache working just fine, it doesn't feel very urgent.

Besides Apache and nginx, there aren't really any servers I'd trust for production use. Conceptually, I really like what Caddy is doing, but it's simply too young, not to mention the concerns that came up when Let's Encrypt had an outage back in May: https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/1680
TCC is faster. It's on the comments of hello.c
Im assuming you are ok with shutting down twitter, facebook, and other social media platforms for allowing far left and extreme islamic terrorist ideologies?
Is there any evidence that anti-depressants in general work better than placebo? This seems to be up for debate.

Are there any studies that have actually linked genetic testing to increased positive outcomes for antidepressents?
I would love to have a similar upgrade path with the X220. I don't love the 16:9 display, but a higher res upgrade would take care of that issue. I definitely want to try out the power saving tweaks from that script in the article. I use a 9-cell battery currently and get somewhere around 6-8 hours of life out of it. Would love to extend that a bit.
That's the Cultural Revolution.

The Cultural Revolution is the one aspect of Maoism that everyone in China today, including the government, will admit was a terrible idea.
There is a guy on HN who catalogs corporate actions of this sort, but not on an individual level.
Not with OS updates. Even Windows can take months to push major updates after availability. This isn't just to take the load off of Google's CDN (they could honestly handle all of the Nexus/Pixel owner's downloading a 1GB update the same day without noticing a blip on resource usage). They want to avoid some device-bricking or otherwise major bugs happening, which is easier with a slowly staged rollout. Impatient users can always install manually with minimal effort.
It's actually because I tend to be very action-oriented so at some point I get fed up with all of the planning and have to dive in and do something. Then, at a certain point down the road, I realize that the resource requirements (typically time or money) to get to where I want to be are too high so I drop it. I actually get more frustration than gratification out of it.
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That's hard for me to believe.

I can imagine people lackadaisically sharing things like ssh keys / passwords on it. I certainly have.

Any time something is hacked where the participants thought they had privacy is a potential disaster. Not sure how you can say otherwise.
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They belong in prison, not in industry.
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For those who check the comments first - read this article. It's short, and his behavior is honestly horrifying. He sounds like an actual sociopath that has no human decency.
> I think the question then becomes, how much are you willing to pay vs how much does such a service cost. Does the economy of scale factor in here? Right now most of those services ask for ~$10 a month. Expecting all of it for $10/month seems unlikely.

I see economy of scale as the key hold up here. A multi-source subscription that costs $10/month would be a no-brainer for a good number of subscribers but such an offering would immediately destroy the current subscriber base for publications like the NYT, Washington Post, Atlantic, etc. No one would continue to pay $10/month for one, when they could pay $10/month for all.

That would then mean that the $10/month all-you-can-eat plan would need to gain enough subscribers to offset the lost revenue from the old plan. Realistically it would have to result a 5 to 1 increase in new subscribers.

So you'd have to go back to an all-inclusive plan that is a discount over the individual plans but not a HUGE discount (let's say 20-35%). But then would that be compelling enough?
It would be a shame if true. I suppose if I gave the same talk for 20+ years my enthusiasm might wane.
Can you quantify "robust"?

The fact that these incidents have happened and armageddon has not yet happened suggests that the probability of accidental nuclear war is relatively low. But how low? Maybe the odds are one in a million per year. Maybe the odds are one in a hundred per year. I'd say that both numbers are compatible with the publicly known facts, but result in wildly different conclusions. The former number suggests that nuclear war is a minor worry and we should concentrate elsewhere. The latter suggests that human civilization is very likely to be destroyed in this way, and we should do everything possible to avert it.
Speaking of being amused, when I upgraded my devices to iOS 11 I noticed a lot of apps wouldn't work or install until the developer updated their app to iOS 11. I've never had this type of problem on an Android device.
I'm re minded of when baseball was pulled infront of congress and players were questioned about steroid use.

There was one player Sammy Sosa who had for years conducted interviews in English who suddenly could not speak English when questioned by congress.

This seems to mirror whats going on at Equifax now. The executives only way of staying out of jail is to claim that they suddenly have no idea what's going on not only in their company but in the case of the IT people, also in the very division they are supposed to be running.....

Hmmm

Time for Matt Levine to update his rules of insider trading to add rule 11, if caught insider trading after a a security breach don't try and claim that you as a C Level executive don't know whats going on in your own company.
Dodge regulators, capitalize on hype buyers who won't read the fine print. Taken in context, I don't expect one satoshi* of this to go toward anything real or good.

(sidenote: is a "satoshi" the right term for the indivisible unit of a cryptocurrency that's not Bitcoin?)
I'd already read both of those, and yes I take chances on people who are smart but don't fit the mold, so to speak. I've hired straight grads from performance arts universities, and I've hired people with 15 years of industry experience who are changing from a related field. So please take your condescending preconceptions elsewhere; the only thing I care about is whether they can do the job, and if they will be pleasant to work with.

Unless you've been exposed to the raw resume data that gets sent, you have no idea what I'm dealing with, and how unqualified the majority of applicants are. I'm an engineer myself, from an unknown university, in a foreign country. My degree isn't even in CS, and I had better problem solving / coding skills straight out of high school than the majority of the applicants.
I can't imagine CoffeeScript will see much adoption these days as most people seem to think ES6+ is "good enough". I miss how concise functions are in CoffeeScript and also miss being able to do object literals without the braces. But there's no chance at all in convincing my team to adopt it, as modern JS really is "good enough".
I think it's a tradeoff between:

- a potentially earlier monetization event where the shares might not be above water when lockouts expire

and

- a potentially later monetization even where the hype would hopefully keep the shares high enough to be valuable after the lockout period

That being said, anyone who joins a startup thinking their options/shares have assured value is a fool. My own personal experience netted me a few K in exchange for a lot of anguish.
Do not sully this man by attempting to associate him with people whose only notable achievement was fighting for the right to own other people.
That really sounds dreadful. I'd avoid.
I think the distinction needs to be made on whether or not they started together as best friends or if they became close through work. My reaction would be different for each situation.
Approximately zero - I mean, about the only things they've done is updating of play service stuff and some interesting malware detection techniques. They've (sadly) done almost nothing towards the goal of truly improving the update situation until now.
Can you remap keys easily? I'd like to give my right pinky a break by using my thumb for enter key duties.
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CoffeeScript has lost a lot of adoption after Typescript and ES6 gaining its turf. But by all means it's a good wrapper to JavaScript. Congrats on shipping.
Hopefully they can do BOTH.
> So a CoffeeScript => is now output as =>

Wait, using the arrow function notation doesn't bind this, arguments, super, or new.target[1] in javascript, as opposed to the normal function syntax. Not being a user of coffeescript, did coffeescript not do that already, or did they also throw in code to change that in the generated code?

It seem to me it would make sense to map items that match conceptually, not just notationally (unless it's common to have both coffeescript and JS side by side). Can someone comment on how this is handled?

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Edit: Added "in javascript" after reference to make it obvious I was talking about JS behavior for the binding.
fwiw, in the print edition the bomber cover was included in the covers displayed on the front page of the business section
This is true for smaller projects.

Big projects are still built out of GCP mostly for cost reasons - google doesn't give itself a discount on gcp
>transactions taking more and more time

Bitcoin blocks will always be ~10 minutes, if you pay the fee to get into the next block, it'll be 10 minutes until your payment is confirmed, before that, all the nodes will announce it anyway so 0 conf is much faster.
I don't know what to think about coffeescript anymore. I love it back then before babel and ES6, but right know I didn't even know how to use coffee and a library used today.
Still miss the python/ruby-sque sintaxt witouth brackets.

Edit: After reading more about the changes about CS 2.0, I may give it one more chance, let's see how it work now.
No idea. Journalists to me perform the same function as search engine robots/crawlers. And probably have the same value as those robots do in the info economy.

Google hasn't created a robot to do indepth scans of lets say all the Wikipedia tennis tournament pages even if they can afford to do so technically and financially. Why?
Cause its results returned are good enough for the waste majority of ppl. If I ask who last years 4 US open semifinalists were Google isn't able to produce just the 4 names. I can rant about how dumb that is. And why more in depth scanning/parsing is required.

But if Google can't find any great reason to upgrade its crawlers why should a news org do so. Maybe we are past the point where there is any great value.
As obvious as these sales look like insider trading, I wonder if the execs are that ignorant and or greedy, or if this is truly a case of bad timing of large sales...
Appropriate collusion (organizing the weaker side)
Took a few minutes on my Chromebook, but it eventually loaded.
I believe that "Resting" is actually key here - the Minority Report UI will most likely tire your arms pretty quickly.
Bringing agpl into a banks systems would cause lots of fears. Adoption there is unlikely.
Jeremy,

First off thank you for Underscore, Backbone and CoffeeScript. Your work really has helped me and my development team.

This question is a little off topic but one I've been wanting to ask for a long time:

Last year you took a year off from The New York Times to ride your motorcycle across the Western Hemisphere. Just recently you were hired back at the paper, doing what it appears to be the same thing in the graphics department.

From a hiring perspective, did you have to reapply for your job, or did the Times just give you the necessary time off?

If this was considered a "sabbatical," how did you justify traveling around the Americas as something that could benefit the paper?

I don't mean to offend. I'm genuinely curious. A lot of people aren't fortunate enough to take a year off for traveling and then be rehired at their company, especially in the journalism industry with the revenue declines, job cuts and managers wanting to hire cheaper people.

Thanks again for all you've contributed.
I understand and that's quite unfortunate. Nonetheless, my opinion is my own and I see nothing to change it so far.
Oh absolutely, but making the steps they take to get there as non-genocidal as possible is also very important.

There's video of him striking his SO 117 times, hopefully he goes to prison and stays there.
Do you have a source regaring the terms of his sentence?

Anyways, one of the interesting things about his involvment was that he has paid out in civil lawsuits to about 40 victims.
Fair enough but... If you work 80 hours per week. That leaves 8 hours per day of free time. So you need to commute to and form office, sleep, eat, run/exercise, shop and do all the other things you do outside work in 8 hours per day. Doesn't add up to me.
1) While he is shitty that does not make him incompetent, I would dare to say that if the incentives were right, assholes might even be a great in government and do an awesome job as
2) The fact that assholes are more obvious in the private sector does not preclude them from existing in the state sector. They might just be more hidden.