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I might be downvoted since this is just a random anecdote, but at work I've seen a lot of computers having a specific performance issue on Windows 8. The symptoms were Task Manager showing disk usage at or near 100% with the total throughput being around 2 MB/s on an otherwise idle system. The files being accessed were the swap file (although the system had enough free memory) and sometime Office Click to Run stuff. It also happens when the system is not idle, so it's not a random background job.

I thought it was fixed in Windows 10, but I've just seen it happen on a low-end laptop. My theory is that so many developers have SSDs now and almost nobody tests on an HDD. That $300 laptop feels unusable, much worse than Windows 7 has ever felt.

This issue has been reported in many places (e.g. https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/fix-100-disk-usage-in-t...), but most of those solutions don't work.

The other thing that bugs me is the start menu search sometimes not working.

Anyway, my point was that between the Windows and Office telemetry (the latter nobody mentions), random Store apps getting installed automatically and long-standing issues such as these, there are other valid reasons to dislike Windows 8/10 than "fear of change".
Being clear about that kind of thing would be a serious career limiting move in all of the companies I worked at. No one likes a whiner, even if whining is justified. Simply put, in a 1:1 you're not in a position of power and therefore your leverage in this negotiation is very weak. If you are vital to the team/project, when seriously threatening to leave, you _are_ in a position of power.
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Npm is both a package management and a package registry.
Yes, this time is different -- since white people are dying, we suddenly feel sympathy. When blacks OD from crack, they were thrown into jail and treated like morally failed individuals. When whites die from heroin, we feel sympathy and want to treat them.
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I would use the word “discovered” rather than invented.
Nowhere in my post did I compare their projects. I compared their age. And there’s nothing wrong with using PHP as a framework for your website. Mediawiki is written in PHP and Wikimedia’s websites (including Wikipedia) run on Mediawiki. Just because a language is bad doesn’t mean the projects written in them are bad. Also, AFAIK, Facebook doesn’t run on PHP anymore.
I agree in general, if the product was going to be made anyway.

But one situation where crowd funding might be appropriate is where a product manager or developers can’t get budget to fund development. So unless a crowdfunding project is successful, the product will never get developed.

That may or may not be the case here, but in general I can see a few scenarios where crowdfunding in large companies might be appropriate as a way of seeing if a real market exists and gaining traction internally, prior to development.
North Korea is a good inverting mirror of our modern societies, and there is always something of inspiration in the diametrically opposite. I, for one, would welcome a brandless packaging of most products, where a pack of coffee would just be a dark brown folded paper with "coffee" written on it. Same with sugar, yogurt, butter, etc. We are brainwashed into believing that sugar X is different from sugar Y but it is the same thing with different packaging, often produced in the same lines in the same factories.

Muji is a successful Japanese brandless shop where I get my clothes. We have generics drugs that are less expensive. I think a brandless Walmart would be successful too, for those who refuse to be brainwashed.
I never read Knuth but after swimming in FP and above for a while now, one thing that hit me is that:

1) even the most abstract things are still a bunch of tiny operations; but with structure

2) I peeked at Sutherland Sketchpad Thesis, and it's mostly 1).. full of 60s machine assembly but, it's nicely structured, very regular. I had probably more pleasure reading this than all of the OOP book I know combined.
> machines are not submerged in an environment that effects them, giving them no merit to be intelligent about anything

You're alluding to the problem of having to 'raise' a super-intelligence with a vested interest in the continuity of its physical existence. I think I agree with where you're going with that.

Our understanding of 'self' or 'self preservation' likely comes from a long history of suffering, pain, and failure brought on by trials at understanding the self from evolution's attempts at imbuing the information for longevity into cognition. Mother nature has had years of exponential growth with an inconceivable number of branches attempting to understand the 'self', that lead to failure, all necessary because the idea of 'self preservation' or 'grounding one's sense of ego into a concept of physical sensory data' is very obscure to precisely define, let along to define such that it can be TESTED between generations.

Based on how much of a headstart evolution has on that refining process, and how bad humans are at implementing that or even exposing sensory information about that that plug directly into concepts that necessarily affect an artificial's sense of self, I'm willing to bet that we are completely ill-equipped to grow any real intelligence that's truly grounded in the real world, until it can make all the same failed attempts at living longer or evolving + testing those attempts, with that exact same directional goal of 'self-preservation' which humans have.

Self-preservation is really the only thing you can evolve to, to guide a physical evolution. I'm not aware of any other physical goals that could lead to the same human-like intelligence or human-like neural models.

Most creatures seem to hit the exact same point. An agent-based survival of the fittest with generational physical trials that punish poor understandings of the self's physical manifestation, trying to optimize for its longevity.

Anything that doesn't hit that kind of model is strictly not aware of the manifestation of its ego, as we know it (e.g. plants, bacteria, etc), and I don't think the physical sense of self can evolve into grounded concepts without allowing for generational failure on the understanding of self, due to incorrect concepts of 'physical self' between competing generations.

TL;DR - The concept of physical self is an evolved trait only if there is a goal tied to it, it cannot arrive without the concept of 'self existence' being threatened or when not allowed to fail.
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Problem with scams is that part of it is getting automated. Scammers are now regularly scanning entire area codes looking for people to scam, usually spoofing their caller id.

I called my phone company and blocked inbound international calls: problem solved and no more scam calls.
"Common" probably not. Knuth is large, CLRS too but less so. People needing or craving such amount of knowledge aren't a lot.

As other said, lots have CLRS as a reference bible to pick a solution or read about one subject or one idea in particular.
i've only left 2 jobs in the last 12 years but both gave me counters.
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It doesn’t seem to work on phone. All I see are a few ads.
I am not keen on learning the ropes, but I understand that it is driven by a barter culture and that there are financial exchanges made but that a lot is simply traded.

The illicit nature is probably one of the attractions. My understanding is that people become 'addicted' to it and strive to amass large collections. Few offenders have just a couple of images and videos but, instead, have vast collections. This is more so than is seen with legal pornographic material and possibly has something to do with the rarity and difficulty of access as well as inconsistency of access.

Disclosure: I used to date a lady who studied and worked with sex offenders. However, we seldom discussed her research and never her individual patients. So, I'm largely speculating with just a hint of regurgitating expert information.

So, with that said, it is largely still a fairly taboo subject of study. I guess there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings, even at the academic level. An example might be that sex offenders have a low rate of recidivism, even lower if narrowed to new sex offenses. On the other hand, they often have many victims prior to their first interaction with the justice system. Most victimization isn't done by strangers and involves grooming by a person close to the victim. That sort of stuff.

I don't have a solution, by the way. There has been some serious discussion of allowing current examples of confiscated CP to be used by those who are predisposed to such, but that goes over about as well as a lead balloon. It also doesn't solve the issue where they seem to want more and new material. Maybe CGI will be the answer? I'm just not sure that society will find that acceptable.

It isn't easy to have a conversation about it. She would very seldom disclose her work with the people she knew and had received death threats and had some instances of vandalism. Her work with offenders negatively impacted her social life.

So, we on HN might discuss it and try to remove our biases and be objective, but we are a rarity and previous threads might indicate that not everyone is willing to do so.

Sorry for the novella and meandering nature of my post. I'm not the greatest wordsmith.
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Surely wealth or living in the "West" has no correlation to happiness, if happiness is considered freedom from worry, and freedom from a never satiated desire for more things, experiences and status.
Part if team not speaking your language is issue through. Also, dealing with cultural differences is harder, people get frustrated if they are not prepared for that.
I made JavaFX app for my company. It is in the gambling space. Used to display jackpot related stuff, winners, current jackpots, promotions, etc. It is deployed to every betting shop (around 600 of them). It also interacts with central server and gambling machines.

I started with swing then shortly thereafter switched to JavaFX and it was a joy to use it for this usecase. Really easy to make what we needed in small amount of code and it is performing well and is really stable (runs 24h/7 without problems)
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Different conception of happiness?
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Thank you for this. Putting Stallman’s quote in context helps me see how forward his thinking is and how important the distribution of power and consent can be in software.

I see a parallel with food companies spending money on researching and marketing foods that are more addictive and more profitable.

Yes, people do “want” addictive foods, but that’s not the type of want we want empowered; rather it is a hook into addiction and transfer of power by inducing an addiction.
Yes, I totally agree this makes the most sense.

I think that even one quick sentence or a few tweaks to make the application look more personalized, can go a long way to getting on top of the list though. e.g. something as simple as "I love what you guys are doing at <company name>" / "It seems like a great place to work with like-minded people at <company name> on <project name mentioned on the job ad>"... not to mention simple formatting, avoiding typos and spelling errors etc :)

And of course, even if you write the best resume or cover letter, there are others who would do the same, and perhaps are better qualified. Or did an even better job at it... Sadly, we also had to reject candidates who spent time writing good cover letters and had good resumes. You can only shortlist as many people, and some are bound to get rejected however great they may be.
cast != read.

Deferencing a pointer of incorrect alignment will generate traps on many architectures.
Thanks for your feedback.

I am in the SF Bay area, and I do (and have been doing what is now called) "devops".
That's what XKEYSCORE does, pretty much. The NSA has spent a lot of time working on these sorts of techniques.
Here's the code to do it: https://github.com/skeeto/branchless-utf8/blob/master/utf8.h

It's pretty straightforward. He uses a lookup table for the first byte ("lengths") and then later checks that subsequent bytes have the correct continuation prefix (0xc0 mask / 0x2a value).

I think it checks all of the same conditions as your Lua code.
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Even without a cover letter, you need to write an email and attach your resume? If this email is being read by a person, then this email is therefore the most important thing to even get a chance of your resume being read.
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Homicide rates in hunter gatherer societies are extremely high:

https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/no-hunter-gat...
I don’t know. I think the Stallman quote can be read in two ways. Either the control is about free software (which is what I suppose he meant). In this case it would mean that if you can not read and modify the source code of your program then you are its instrument. I can't agree with this. For me there is little difference in end result for most users between not being able and not being capable of modifying the software.

The other way to read this would be about how the program is used. If my morning starts with my phone telling me it is not going to rain and i go out into a downpour without an umbrella then I put too much confidence into the algorithm. This could get much worse though.
Kaplan did buy Dev Bootcamp a few years ago. I noticed that mentioned quite often in the articles that came out in July about Dev Bootcamp shutting down.

I don't know anything about how Kaplan's ownership affected it though, either positively or negatively.

Apollo Education (which owns the University of Phoenix) acquired The Iron Yard bootcamp in 2015, and it is shutting down as now as well.

So in these cases at least, some of the large for-profit education providers don't seem to have found dev bootcamps (in their current form, anyway) to be very lucrative.
The information the reporter has is very newsworthy and should have been reported. If he had that info and didn't report it, he would be failing at his job.

Attacking journalists when the subject of a report doesn't like the news has become almost standard procedure. Look at Trump, Sarah Palin, Hulk Hogan, Harvey Weinstein, much of the GOP, etc. etc. Journalists wouldn't be doing their job if powerful people didn't like what they read.

Without more to substantiate them, I don't give much credibility to the attacks. In this case, why should we take the Red Cross at face value? Did they substantiate their claims? How do they know what investigations the journalist did?
Well, the Federal government as utilised by both competing and ideological interests, yes.

That's actually not what I was referring to, see follow-up comment to my parent above.
> Knuth may have seemed like a luddite, but given how many people are hooked onto news/social/media/e-mail/Slack, his hard stance on email was perhaps more wise than most of us realized.

What was his stance on email?
I haven't looked (literally the only thing I use them for is making smoothies when our Cavendish plants aren't producing) but I believe the "Thai" ones (or similar) are available in other SE Asian countries too, so it's possible they're very similar/the same thing.

They look very similar (very much like 3rd from the left in https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Bananava...) when peeled (apart from size - they're generally 1/2 or 1/3 the length of an average Cavendish and a little fatter, relative to length) but they're much 'juicier' and probably a little sweeter too.

The taste itself isn't enough to put me off (see above about smoothies) but the texture is unbearable, it's like an over-ripe Cavendish.

Edit: for some growing-bananas-in-thailand trivia:

Here at least, the little horrible ones grow a lot faster and are much more durable than Cavendish. The tallest Cavendish plant we've had so far is maybe 2.5m tall - I can always grab the bunch when cutting them, and generally I can carry the bunch one handed.

The "Thai" ones are giant plants by comparison - usually 4-5M when they produce, and the biggest bunches I can't carry at all.

Then you have the giant Thai ones (the name translates as "Elephant banana") - the plant is as big as the regular Thai ones, but slower to produce fruit. The fruit itself are like a Cavendish on steroids - easily 2x the size, but horrible to eat, not even any good for smoothies. Even my in-laws don't know anyone who actually eats these ones.

Then there's the even tinier Thai ones (the name translates as "Egg banana") which have a quite short, but very leafy plant (maybe 2-2.5M tall at most) with lots of offshoots. The fruit itself are tiny - most plants here the bunch never drops down to 'hang' because it's not heavy enough, and the bananas are, as the name suggests, comparable in size to a large chicken or duck egg, and almost egg shaped too.

Thus concludes my tale.
Yes. I went away a few months ago with my fiancé for 4 days and we did an unofficial smartphone detox. We just got there and said to each other, why not turn the phone data off and leave the phones in the corner of the room. So we did. The holiday was very relaxing.

But the most interesting part was when we got back. When I jumped onto hacker news I was overwhelmed by all the headlines about totally different things all simultaneously being interpreted by my brain as must reads. It was total overload, and not at all what I was expecting. The Hacker News feed is it’s own kind of brain hack. I wonder how much more pleasant (but less addictive surely) it would be if each page had say 5 headlines with a few paragraphs underneath. Like a newspaper.

Another interesting thing that i’ve Observed since I started observing my Hacker News usage: I read maybe 2 paragraphs of an article then read the top 3 or 4 comments then go to the next thing. I don’t stop until I have some kind of realization about something. Or I see my own views on something validated. Then I put the phone down seemingly satisfied. It seems I come here for the hit of dopamine that comes from “you learnt a thing” or “people agree with your view on a thing”. The addictive part seems to stem from this. I stay here until I get that moment.
I found the assignments to his class to be really weird and challenging. The first one had you fill in a few functions of a half-complete percolation simulation, but without having written the other part of it, it felt like having to reverse engineer and guess at the solution. There was no real way to measure your progress. Either it runs or it doesn't, and there's no incremental progression towards a solution.

I'm curious if anyone else experienced this or could point out where I went wrong. I really wanted to do the class and I liked the lectures, but i started it after finishing Gardner's Stanford algorithms Coursera class which had some of my favorite exercises ever. They had you write an algorithm in it's entirety, gave you sample data sets to check against, and let you write it in any language. Compared with that, Sedgwick's assignments were like coding with one hand tied behind my back.
I posted a comment on this project: http://sunboxlabs.com/2017/10/07/stock-sunjack-in-window.htm...

Was wondering, what is the best option to power a NodeMCU on a battery.

The NodeMCU draws around 18mA in deep sleep. Problem I'm encountering is that the current draw is so little, a lot of battery packs don't respond to it when it needs to wake up.

I have tried several power banks, but only the Anker Astro E7 is able to supply power consistently (Plan on getting a smaller battery next since the Astro E7 is 25000mah).

Would using the sunjack setup work? Any fire hazards that might be of concern?

I'm planning on getting this solar panel to test: https://www.amazon.ca/ECEEN-10Watts-Charger-Samsung-USB-Char...
> this government with its current leadership has been anything but effective and we are better off depending on private organizations

To a degree this is an intentional, by-the-book strategy: Paralyze and weaken government to strengthen the powerful and wealthy.
I'd +1000 this if I could!

> Getting the resume in .docx means that they aren't so great at details.

:) I also discovered this to be true even when we didn't require the resume to be PDF formatted on the ad.

And a fantastic point about testing your writing skills as early as the initial email (and with a limited time for each job application, but fairly high stakes). Couldn't agree more.
The cigarette company analogy also includes the "secondhand smoke"-style problem: Even if I don't personally use their services, I'm still exposed to the problem indirectly with gmail/GA/etc.
I thought the article title was pretty silly; as a gregarious human, risking death threats is something I do on a daily basis just shopping for milk.

Anyway, I tried what you suggested. It was well worth it: https://imgur.com/a/dCFnx
true. doesn't mean that you shouldn't. exercise is important for your health in general.
I can't do full on job seeking if I know I'll not take the job. The amount of people's time you waste is significant.

If there's even a slimmer of chance I could accept it, yeah, I could go for it.
I'll try to do you one better. I use Maine Solar, out of Starks, Maine. They are over next to Harry's, which is where the weed festivals started and continue.

Anyhow, I have to head down that way during the coming week. I will see if I can get him to write something up. I can kind of explain it, but I don't know all the details. I know what to do with it and how to verify that it is not pushing energy to the grid during an outage, for example. However, that trips automatically and I have no idea how - but I do know how to go check the manual switch to ensure it is off.

I know, for example, that it synchronizes with the mains before it comes back online and grid power becomes available, but I don't know how that is specifically done.

I know how to turn the turbine blades and lock it into place when it gets windy enough. I hit two switches. I guess they will self-protect, but I've never noticed it doing so and haven't any idea the specific mechanism. If gusts are up past 45 MPH, I just turn the turbines sideways and a switch locks the brakes on it.

I have a huge bank of batteries, they are just expensive car batteries. They are from a brand called Optima, I do know that. I don't change, test, or maintain them myself. I will be converting to a number of Power Walls, but I am not sure how many I will need or what the costs will be - or when they will be available.

So, I'm only good for general information. I will see if he will give me a list of parts and how it is all configured. I'm sure he will, it just will eat up some of his time. There is a bunch of literature tucked into a cabinet in the room. I'll see if I can make something coherent with that, pictures, and whatever he can supply me with for more info.

I do know he has pictures of what he has done here. He may have them on his site. He did have some pictures included in some brochures he was handing out. Either way, I'll try getting a bunch more info for you. I should probably at least learn more about it myself. I've just been pretty lazy about it and lots of electricity scares me.
Not sure it meets all 3 requirements, but last time I tried I was rather impressed by the Nightcode Clojure IDE built with JavaFX:

https://sekao.net/nightcode/
I feel the same which is why I moved to a mountain village a long time ago. We are thinking of moving to the edge of a rainforest within a year.
Sadly, no. It's not that the ideas were invalid, I learned that I'm simply lazy and unmotivated.
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