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That's true, but we're getting close: Linux ostensibly supports power-toggling and hot plugging CPUs, memory, and disks at this point. I think it's more focused on allowing VMs to be resized and replacing bad components in servers, but I know that some systems are already using some of this tech to improve power management and support better hibernation. I think there's still quite a ways to go to make graphical sessions robust enough to be suspended and then brought up on different hardware (I don't think things are presently set up to allow for changes to the pci controller and X sessions expect things to be pretty static, as evidenced by the hoops you need to jump through for switchable graphics), but we may get there if a major company ever decides to take an interest.
I think the part regarding scoping was well written, and there was a good suggestion on not nesting if...then...else constructs needlessly.
how come the motherboard isn't a small desktop form factor such as mini-itx?
Paid submissions are already disclosed by the inability to vote or leave comments. They also tend to be by one of a few companies looking for developers.
Really, the users police themselves for the most part. People aren't as obnoxious as many Reddit users tend to be. That being said, the front page changes a good amount during the day so nothing really sits at the top for awhile unless it is a really popular post. The last one Drew submitted dropped down pretty quick if I remember correctly.
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Ah yes, an unmarried woman, poor character,must be an adulteress, probably a witch.

That's exactly the sort of prejudice that we are still fighting to this today.
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I'm not really looking to argue. I'm on vacation in Ecuador. For the sake of conversation, I think your final point in the post I originally responded to is largely similar to the idea that a textbook publisher is not an unbiased source regarding the utility of textbooks. I agree with that point, and with yours.

I also believe that the fundamental strength of empirical epistemology is that it liberates us to some degree from our expectations, instead saying "set up the method and do the legwork, and let the results tell you what is correct." I happen to like that methodology, for two reasons. First, empiricism allows a more open minded approach to misconceived problems. Second, if applied correctly, empiricism is the only consistently useful epistemology because it is acquired in the same practical manner as it is applied.

That said, I think academia has a very low bar in general for research that is politically well-oriented, but scientifically ill-constructed. I think the peer-review system is less of a check on BS than it should be, and that there is a lot of social pressure that prevents researchers from stepping out of certain boundaries. Nowhere is this more true than in the social sciences, where there is more room to fudge facts and findings, as well as to infer and opine. So in a sense I totally agree that the target audience is always key to accepting knowledge in academia.

However, knowledge and truth are not identical sets, and something can be proven true without being accepted into the corpus of knowledge. Conversely, some of the BS that gets bandied about as "knowledge" in academic circles is just untrue gibberish that helps people go to conferences or gain acceptance in a weird elitist circle of ivory tower pinheads.

And then you get stuff like a textbook company publishing research saying "Nah bro textbooks are way better. Buy more of them bro."
The final question makes it murky though. Sounds like an earnest attempt at mitigation. If it's irony, that part makes it too subtle for me!
Could the linked article please stand up and give us some reference for this ridiculous claim?
Yep, they are subjective. That's what I want. I want the HN mods to curate the content based on those guidelines. It's what makes this site worth coming to.

I'm willing a optimize for precision over recall here.
I have zero problem with someone announcing on social media that they launched on HN. If they have a following it's because they have (or had) something interesting to say there. If that's the case and they have launched something, then there's a >0 chance that it is also interesting. If nothing else, it's interesting solely for the purpose of being more plugged in to what the masses think is or should be popular, even if I disagree.

At the risk of being hypocritical, I do have a problem with the opposite: coded messages to followers to flag en masse a post for basically any reason. The effects of flagging en masse vs. voting en masse are exaggerated as the data in the article illustrates. An optional email to moderators expressing the concern plus one personal flag is the appropriate response there, imo.
A larger wordview beyond a group think bubble of SV is needed to represent the tech industry. A lack of transparency always ends up empowering people behind the scenes who then have to make casual judgements of entire swaths of people and opinion. This is bad both for moderators and discussion.

Fortunately its relatively easy to launch a site like HN. A problem is a solution waiting to happen. If there is competition and it affects HN they are not going to sit back, there will be more transparency. However good something is competition is essential to keep people on their toes, so there is a largish lacuna here for the health of the industry.

Having said that any popular site will have the exact same issues HN does, so if the point is merely to change decision makers by those jockeying for influence then its a pointless exercise of exaggerating issues to gain influence, ironically how most new products are launched on HN these days.
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That how it works today in the public defender system
They are literally all trying to be slack, and their offerings don't live up to slack.

https://www.facebook.com/workplace/

https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat...

https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterp...

https://chime.aws/

That's a big theme lately. They all create copies of latest-billion-dollar business-targeted services, and release before they're fully baked. That's totally the startup approach, but it doesn't feel like an approach that works well when there's already a market leader doing the same thing but significantly better.

BI is another similar area. Quicksight and Data Studio are amazingly deficient compared to Tableau. Data studio can't join SQL tables, and Quicksight leaves you hitting bugs every other page and tried too hard to support fancy charts, but entirely forgot the basic "display some tabular data" option. (Power BI by MSFT does a bit better as I understand it, but is msft-tech-focused. Haven't tried it).
It is a myth and this is the same shaky reasoning I always hear from people who have been on the "other side" (hiring). I don't blame you for it, it is your job to compensate people as little as possible while extracting the most wealth from them. That said, there are a lot of people who fall for this "if you have a family (of 20 dependents) you totally make up what you lose in salary!" fable and that puts downward pressure on all our salaries.
> The mystery of there being more ID numbers in the breach than people in SA

Do you have a reference for this? From what I've seen, Troy managed to restore 31.6 million records, and said previously that the full backup seems to have 45 million. There last national census (2011) put the (current, living) population at 51.7 million, and rapidly growing. Granted, many of those are not of home ownership age, but the ballpark is very close all of a sudden (especially if you include the deceased).

There's also the question of whether those records are unique ID numbers; from what I understand (based on discussions of colleagues who work with actual SA deeds data), each record represents one status change in title deed of a property. So, each property purchase you've made will be in there as a row, with some people in there dozens of times.

Edit: I see he talks about 60 million rows; though I wonder if the statement about uniqueness is correct. Since the table he refers to seems to have two columns with the letters "ID" in it, I'd wager that the first one is a simple autonumber, and the second one is the actual ID number. But who knows, he's the one with the data.
I am a professional webdeveloper for many years and IMHO the best way is to look in your tacking tool and test in everything which has more than say 5% of your traffic in the last months. Browser usage varies strongly from the type of customer you have.
Excellent. You forgot that each step must be announced on HN with a title like "Walking my dog was hard. So I wrote this app."
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When I have to prepare a speech or section of reading for memorization I, more often than not, write/print it using OpenDyslexic Font[1]. I've tried many fonts over the years and for what ever reason this one seems to work best for me when reading hard copies.

[1] https://opendyslexic.org
I just tried out the service. Some feedback:

1. It would be nice if I could upload CSVs that are gzip compressed.

2. When I download the CSVs it would be good if the filenames included gz at the end as of now they're written out as a series of random characters followed by a .csv extension.

3. Time columns have been transformed after I downloaded the file I just uploaded. The date is in US format and the time information is lost. 2010-12-01 13:51:00 became 12/1/10.

4. When trying to view a 50K row CSV on your site Chrome slows to a crawl.

5. I originally tried to upload a 1-million-row x 9 column, 33 MB, gzip compressed CSV. It would be good if the service limits could allow for something like this.

This service should do one better than just sending a CSV via email and having the other party opening it up in Excel.
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That’s a very rosy outlook that doesn’t match with the few Windows devs I’ve spoken to.

It’s better now - because they moved to abstracting a lot of that stuff as you said - but the number of man hours spent on it and the knock on effects of the overall system design is non-trivial.

Plus, if they’d not had that policy they could have been where they are now in the early 2000s

Kind of like OSX was.
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I’ve gone through a bunch of different ways of publishing my blog, from Wordpress to static site generators and ultimately Medium. They all had their issues, but a recent thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507538) brought this back to mind

My question is, what do you use for your personal/company blo, why, and would you recommend it?
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Then, to be straightforward about it, you have zero problem with people who have large Twitter followings controlling the front page of the site, because that's what you'd get if Twitter canvassing wasn't heavily penalized.
Yea, I love using ebooks for light or SF novels. As well as journalist-y nonfiction (especially ones structured as the story of the writer learning that subject and consisting mostly of vignettes talking with experts). Basically anything I'll just blow through and never look at again.

I never use ebooks for most of what I like to read though. Or cookbooks!
Me too! I put together something similar a while ago [1]. It was great fun to build, but doesn't make a very ergonomic computer :)

[1] http://makezine.com/2017/06/15/commute-deck-keyboard-device/
There is some work on Open-Channel SSDs, that move most of the flash translation layer (FTL) to the host system. There are two major problems with this approach:

1. Each OS that wants to use the drive needs a compatible implementation of the FTL. Consumer systems always have at least two operating systems in play (UEFI counts for these purposes). Enterprise systems are where you will actually find non-boot data-only drives.

2. Flash memory changes. The FTL needs very different parameters depending on whether you're using Toshiba flash or Samsung flash, and even depending on whether you're using last year's Toshiba flash or the stuff they're manufacturing today.

These aren't insurmountable problems, but they're enough to keep such products confined to a small niche. Instead, we're seeing a trend of SSDs accepting optional hints that allow them to perform the kinds of optimizations you'd expect from a fully host-managed SSD. The ATA TRIM command was just the tip of this iceberg.
Your experience is not incompatible with the parent commenter's. On Linux, generally speaking, Intel > NVidia > AMD.
Maybe I'm the only one that is getting tired of smart phones? I feel like it just takes over every ones life sometimes. I'm ready to go back to a $30 nokia that just f'n works for half a decade, doesn't die every day due to battery usage, and in general... doesn't spy on my entire life story for the supposed purpose of better targeted ads.

I think there's some serious room back in the mobile market with the way these devices are going. Outrageously expensive disposables aren't sustainable forever. At some point people get tired of throwing $500 in the bin for the exact same thing they had last year, just so they can have a full day worth of battery charge again.
> Assemblyline is described by CSE as akin to a conveyor belt: files go in, and a handful of small helper applications automatically comb through each one in search of malicious clues. On the way out, every file is given a score...

This sounds like it could sit nicely between Github and CI (Jenkins/Travis/Circle/etc), and be a pre-integration security scan. Can we name it Sherlock?
A bunch of new accounts, going via known proxy sites, all voting for the same item? There won't even be a human involved in the ban decision.

If you don't have showdead on, you might not notice that many posts by new accounts are marked as dead immediately, and it's usually justified.
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My comment is prompted by the realization that recently (for the past year or so) a lot of general interest NYTimes articles shoot straight up to HN front page.
There are two explanations: either the HN crowd is turning into a general interest one or YC/HN has a deal with NYTimes to help the later increase their memberships.

Based on how the (down)votes go, I would give it a fair chance to the HN crowd turning into a "general interest" one.
It's ridiculous that mods can hide my comments but I can't delete them. If a post is removed, I should have the anility to revoke my license to tue copy and have it removed. Would DMCA cover that?
There are no paid submissions to HN, nor is there an elaborate conspiracy between HN and "certain media orgs" to get paywalled links onto the front page.

This is the sort of nonsense tangent crud that the mods would normally zap to the bottom of the thread as "off topic". But they probably won't here, because it concerns their own moderation, and they're generally loathe to intervene --- even to clean up the threads --- when the optics of doing so are complicated.

So, if you're interested in helping them keep threads clear of conspiracies between HN and the NYT, it's helpful to know that the "flag" button for comments is revealed when you click the timestamp on the comment.
Or politics ;)
The same teenagers also don't have much spending power now. And besides, teen trends change pretty quickly, so their main targets are teens it does not bode well.
The website that publishes my stats (https://hn.0x2237.club) is getting smashed. This is largely because collecting stats is expensive and I devote most of the CPU time to that. Rest assured, stats are still being gathered, and you should be able to browse them when it cools down a bit. Sorry for the inconvenience!
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You have to understand that this exact information is also in political databases, so whether or not you give it to them, a very big employer likely has it already.
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I followed the link from TFA:

"The study that led to approval enrolled 111 patients at 22 hospitals; 101 of them received Yescarta. They had one of three diseases: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma or transformed follicular lymphoma."

The study that led to approval is unpublished.
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That's quite the can of worms, but what an interesting topic.

I see your point and agree that vertical integration is harmful. I would like to offer the automotive industry as an interesting comparison of an industry with similar compatability issues.

All of the major components produced by the big manufacturers tend to be incompatible (without heavy engineering effort). When parts on a car are compatible between many makes and models it tends to be a third party parts manufacturer that has made it but a concerted effort from the big manufacturer that allowed that to happen. Think brake pads, tires, air filters, spark plugs. In most cases engines, their computers, interiors, transmissions and so on, are all make specific and also usually model specific.

No one is compelling BMW to make sure their engine fits into a Jeep. When I buy a BMW I am locked into their infrastructure and without their parts and support I could find myself without a working vehicle.

While you can often mix and match manufacturers parts so long as you can wield a few tools and have time and knowhow, it's pretty rare that someone wants to. Similar to emulators or jailbroken phones, IFTTT, APIs and integrations, it's easy to see there is a desire for this kind of flexibility but again it's often only a particular type of individual with a particular desire that makes it happen.

I feel that this desire for interoperability is niche. My mother on her Windows phone has been perfectly happy. I have never met anyone who wasn't in tech that has complained about interop. So while I agree it would probably be a good step to introduce more flexibility there, I don't think it's critical to protecting consumers against monopolistic behavior. If you buy an iPhone you are locked into Apple for that device, but you can still buy an Android. Just like I am locked into BMW while I own their car, but could still move to an Audi.
I had something similar.

What I was recommended, which worked for me, was this.

Go do something that has no connection with your career expectations, which can't be justified by any means other than to say, "I did it because I wanted to."

Once you take a moment for yourself, and it soaks in, you will have a better frame of reference to understand the best next step.
Forking 10 processes does not use 10x the memory of a single process starting 10 threads. It's actually almost identical. Both are implemented by the kernel using clone(). Many older tools written in "fast" languages like PostgreSQL and Apache also use forking.
Can you even trademark the name of a historic person like that? He's been dead for 549 years.

Could I start using Einstein (dead for 62 years) or Galileo (dead for 375 years) as a trademark?
I would make the demo link more prominent because it is really cool.
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I wouldn't argue too much from modern religious thoughrt. Much of modern religion is obvious jokes and scams and become "divine truth" via the
passage of time. See Scientology and Mormonism for the newest examples, and realize that Islam and Christianity were not so different.
would love to do that, too - but if you use the phone responsibly and maturely then its smartphone capabilities are pretty useful.

for starters - don't throw away the phone - throw away the crapps - FB, WA, IG, Twitter, SC, ...
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> Do you have a reference for this? From what I've seen, Troy managed to restore 31.6 million records, and said previously that the full backup seems to have 45 million

the reference for an update on those numbers is in the article linked above. He later got all the data in.

From TFA: "My original import of the South African "Master Deeds" data didn't complete. Just ran a complete one: 60,323,827 rows with unique gov IDs."
Yes, I realize I can use help. Does it being available in one place mean that it shouldn't be available in others? If I'm in an IDE I don't always have the command prompt in front of me, and that should be fine!

So here's the standard library page for Python lists: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-typ...

As a new python programmer, how am I supposed to know that the comprehensive API docs are actually in the tutorial? https://docs.python.org/3.1/tutorial/datastructures.html

Compare that to Javadocs (something Java got right!): https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/List.htm..., and .NET is similar. Ruby is also ok in this regard: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Array.html

(Javascript is a mess of course!)
I use Ubuntu for programming and it is great.

Still use Windows for HTPC though because I gave up on trying to get Ubuntu to sync video playback correctly after banging my head against the wall for a while.
I searched the release notes and manual but couldn't find an answer. Does anyone know if this release fixes the problem of not cleanly shutting down the guest OS when the Windows host does an automated update/reboot? It's really annoying to have Windows run an update overnight and see that it did a dirty shutdown of my Linux dev instance guest.

Virtualbox has a "save state" option. It would be nice if it would perform a "save state" on all guests when the host reboots.
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