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They have space to place stuff on top of them, any LCD setup gets messy if you have to add an external box like a decoder without a specialized TV table.
100 Popular Posts about India on Hacker News in 2017
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Openstack has the worst documentation of any major open source product that I’ve ever seen. It takes a team of at least three experts, who have used openstack before, to setup a cluster. Many features are completely undocumented; others are hopelessly out of date.

It’s a massive, massive project with years of technical debt. It was a bit ahead of its time, and newer projects like Kubernetes have been able to learn from its mistakes. If openstack was designed today, it would have a much different architecture.

It’s used by major enterprises, so it will be around for a while, providing jobs to the engineers who have become specialists in it.
Re-think your assumptions about "mathematical proofs". Compiling software with types is a mathematical proof. We get certain guarantees "for free" without even thinking about it. It's immensely useful and flexible. We can build better type systems than are in common use. So much more is possible than just making sure we don't stick an int where a string is supposed to go. Moving forward is about raising the bar on what we get "for free".

We have a lot of experience building programs that help us program (e.g. compilers, IDEs, build systems) We can move forward without falling into traps (low performance, high programmer knowledge required, overly rigid, more work required than gained in productivity)

There are no silver bullets but we can continue to improve.
"In other words, Ethereum offers little more for day-to-day use than Bitcoin does."

Except for faster transaction confirmations, and lower fees.

A network with close to three times (28756 versus 11788) as many nodes behind it.

If you want to look at fundamentals, Ethereum is offering more for day-to-day use than Bitcoin does.
But they DO need privacy, they're more at risk of targeted theft than regular users. ZCash fails at this by making it impossibly hard for an exchange to allow z-address withdrawals, and impossibly hard for a mobile app / hardware wallet to support them, which means large holders withdrawing from an exchange are painting a target on their back.
I've had a similar experience with AHA. Although when I did that, it was a different email address, so maybe it's better now.
> How is it that the most virulent abortion haters are such staunch believers in the death penalty?

Because babies are innocent by default and murderers are not?
While I appreciate the record, the GPS fast forward video shows frequent texting while driving. Is this legal in the US? Here in the Netherlands we have statistics showing car accidents up after a downward trends with texting while driving as the leading cause. It makes me wish people were back to using cellphones without carkits, at least people had more chance of eyes on the road.
>> How did anyone ever hear about the product?

I am also interested with the answer to this question, thanks
He isn't a PR guy in the traditional sense at all.

He has been anointed as a neo-PR guy now because his style of doing things (like responding to requests on Twitter with "Done,") is breathtakingly refreshing compared to PR from actual trained PR agencies
Haha fair point but they actually have another 900 or so moving to different FC's right now - I suspect they'll be live soon - but even if not this is more of a fun experiment for me and the Show HN was I just thought something fun to talk about with other like minded people - if it generates sales thats ok too but definitely not the ultimate goal of the post
Until the idea captures attention of some marketing people, who will spread the fad further, and suddenly your mother is drinking arsenic-laced dysentery by gallons, based on recommendation of her friend or the most recent article she read on the Internet.
I can't really figure out what the merits of the case are, or get an idea who these folks are. Not a lot written about them, even though they have been around for some time.

Has spotify really been playing these major artists without permission? Or is there more to the story?

Not unusual to file for 10x what you think you might collect in the end. If there really are damages, will Spotify just give them 160 million in stock?
I agree with the distinction between mens rights activism and the red pill. These and other male subcultures (MGTOW etc) always seem to get lumped together by people who want to discredit them. A documentary about men's rights being called "The Red Pill" certainly didn't help in this regard.

But my question to the grandparent comment was meant to be more like, why should making some fairly uncontroversial (and evidence-backed) assertions require putting on any sort of 'hat' at all?

I'm not saying I agree with all of the red pill philosophy, but it's amazing how some people automatically go on the defensive when this stuff comes up.
A 7.2% rise intraday is pretty big, especially for traders holding leveraged positions. If you're comparing to crypto markets then no, but generally speaking yes.
> Anything that's covered by "insurance" is disconnected from consumer choice and thus normal competitive pressures don't work to constrain prices?

Not "anything." Obviously there are other types of insurance whose rates aren't skyrocketing higher than inflation, like car, auto, or life insurance.

> Would you outlaw insurance, then? I guess that could be a good approach if all of us were rich enough to self-insure!

I would make employer-provided coverage no longer tax deductible, and possibly even reverse that initially so that consumer-purchased coverage is tax deductible. This would cause a shift over the next few years away from employer-provided coverage.

This would be a net zero change in spending on day one, but now consumers will care about what they're paying for insurance and can switch on their own. This isn't a problem that will fix itself overnight, but when consumers actually see $1k+/mo leaving their checking accounts every month, they will actually shop around and make choices based on pricing. They don't do that now because they don't see the cost or pay for it directly.

With consumers making choices based on pricing, insurance providers will care much more about prices and push back, just like they do in other markets.

It won't solve everything, but it's a start.
There's a lot of variables which are not being taken into account there. If you hired a person from outside SV, and another from within SV, you immediately have a 40-50% difference in salary increases. Or, if you hire one person out of an advertising company and another out of a software company, the difference will be quite large.

It's also a bit of a weasely statement - to quote Penn & Teller, they are lying with numbers - since it doesn't mention the current difference in wages.
They may be highly sophisticated for individual operations, but it's hard for individual citizens to assess how well the NSA is doing in terms of systematically protecting the nation or even their own assets. Looking at the scope leak of data from multiple sources such as Snowden, as well as the inability of the agency to protect the government from hacks such as OPM leaks leaves a lot to be desired in terms of comprehensiveness.

And maybe it's not in their charter, but failures to promote security among private industry leading to hacks like equifax, or home depot, or many many others, looks to me like leadership is off chasing political objectives while at home we get pecked to death and damaged by a million small cuts of fixable security problems.
Speaking from experience, I applied to the NSA a few years ago and its surreal how unrealistic the expectations were.

a major problem with NSA employment is the mandatory 5 year contractor like status period with half-pay. the NSA expects seasoned professionals from the private sector to join its ranks with a 33k salary? get real. The agency also prides itself on an almost obscene reliance on Polygraphs, a technology no more accurate or scientifically sound than a babushka shuffling chicken bones and reading tea leaves.

I also wasnt exactly blown away by the interview questions. my technical screening for a Linux position came from former members of the military, who grilled me on 2 unix questions before asking if they could switch to windows, confessing they 'didnt know much linux.'
> What's stopping them from pulling a bait-and-switch.

If you're a contractor, you can just quit and find another contracting position. When I worked as a contractor at NASA, I routinely quit (3 times) when the job turned undesirable and then found another contracting gig through networking in under a month.

>Unfortunately living in DC/VA/MD on that you are competing with private companies which pay more and thus housing and well just about everything is a bit hard to manage on that salary.

No, these places (NSA and NASA) are in the not-so-close suburbs. When I was working at NASA at $85K I bought a condo and biked to work.
If you look here: https://www.computerbase.de/2018-01/intel-cpu-pti-sicherheit... (Sorry it is German)

But if you scroll down to "Windows-Benchmarks: Anwendungen" you can see that most applications do not have any performance hit with the Windows patch.

Only M.2 SSD seem to be affected.
This is good news. At the moment, universities are the primary gatekeepers to becoming a citizen in the U.S. Right now universities are capturing nearly 100% of the "citizenship cost" that immigrants pay start their path to becoming citizens. That is disgusting and greedy.

With 100K in loans paid to the university, anyone can come to the U.S. on a student visa, make contacts with companies, and eventually become a U.S. citizen. A U.S. graduate degree serves as the primary "citizenship cost" for a lot of immigrants.

Instead of New England universities shaking down immigrants, I would like to see midwestern small towns, red states, small business all get a piece of the small fortune that immigrants spend to come to the United States.
People who can't handle life at minimum wage aren't showing much resilience either, but why put yourself through that?
I assume -- maybe I should not -- that there are many products that are comparable.

So even at $30/unit, you sold about 2000 units over a few weeks which is (to my mind) pretty good for a brand new product.

You mentioned ads, so what was the ad strategy and were they productive?
I might be mistaken, but I was under the impression that in the early days of Apple, it was Wozniak who was the tech guy and did most of the tech stuff.
The current admin does not seem to have a strong appreciation for soft power, to put it mildly. All stick, no carrot.
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Well if you use m5.xlarge instances from AWS you were getting 4 vCPUs for your money. I don't expect you'll now get 5...
Would optimising for brotli and/or a custom gzip encoder result in improvements?
Yes, because it will likely evolve in ways not optimized for you, vs supporting a product that caters to your use case. Many products co-evolve with users, as the product modifies daily workflows. If you are not the target user, the product can evolve based on requirements that are adversarial to you.
It's still creepy. Doesn't matter if they know or not or if it's routine.
New York City tap water was unfiltered until recently, so I'd guess if it was a problem for kidneys we'd have heard about it.

Note that I said unfiltered, not untreated. It was treated with ultraviolet, chlorine, fluoride, orthophosphate (inhibits lead contamination from pipes) and sodium hydroxide (reduces acidity).
Totally fair question - Most of it started as word of mouth - as sales happen your rank rises in the Amazon search category - there are also some simple things you can do on amazon pretty cheaply (run ads on keywords, make sure your listing has solid photos and I think in general doing FBA is smart because it makes your listing prime eligible)
I have to agree that it's some sort of good (alternative) marketing
Mistakes to avoid when asking for a raise
Firstly, you won't hear about banks botching major IT projects and wasting $$ because it's their money they just wasted. The public doesn't have any stake in those private institution's decision making or their wallets -- and they are not necessarily harmed by their failures. Unless their IT projects are funded by the public, it's not really our business. They have their own investors, auditors and oversight committee who should worry about their IT projects and cost control.

Having worked in public sector (for a small gov't agency in NYC), I know for the fact that most voters or taxpayers don't hear much about most of botched projects or millions of dollars wasted extravagant IT purchases that incompetent gov't career bureacrats make. Or why the last president of my organization was "forced" to resign years ago after a major IT f'up. Normally, there would be no firing, but the scale of the f'up was so gross that the president had to resign, but, despite his public standing as the head of the second largest library system in the country (funded by taxpayers and private donors), nobody got to hear what really happened.
> (Oh, and there's also Sony's bizarre insistence on proprietary formats, like MiniDISC and MemoryStick -- that didn't help them, either.)

The Memory Stick was bizarre, no doubt about it.
Minidisc (and with it, ATRAC), however, was quite groundbreaking and had the potential to be huge.

As a lossy psychoacoustic codec, ATRAC predated MP3 for years in commercial availability.
Minidisc was both sturdy and flexible (esp. in comparison to DCC), had adequate audio quality (and later ATRAC versions became really good), and itcould have even been a contender for a 3.5" floppy successor in both capacity and speed.
Sadly, this was the worst days of Sony hubris, both the physical format and the codec cost a lot to license, the use as a data medium was needlessly crippled, and as such it never really took off globally.

I really wonder what would have happened if Sony and Philips could have reconciled and worked together on this like they did with the CD, instead of going all format war (with the DCC being the real head-scratcher here...).
I would echo what one Nordic poster wrote in a subcomment: Nordics see equality as both female and male thing. I would venture to add that <10% adjusted wage difference is negligible when girls in some countries (including mine) have 50% higher participation in university-level education and women have ~1000% higher success rate in child custody cases. Interestingly, the latter two stats are mostly or fully under government control in most countries, i.e. they are instituted.

The article also quotes Global Gender Gap Report, which lists countries with education dominated by female students as having 1.0 (perfect) score in education attainment. In other words, girls missing out on school is bad while boys missing out on school is okay.
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I'm not, primarily, an Android user so I wasn't aware of that option. Thanks. I have a USB-A yubikey and just got a laptop with USB-C ports and an adaptor so I guess I'll give this a go on my backup Android phone tonight.
no doubt the Takahashi brothers are mourning this one
Sorry to hog up all the question space but I have another question: can you describe your process in more detail?

Where did you find the suppliers? How did you pick your product? How did you know they could make them? Did you trust them to deliver directly to Amazon? Did you inspect them first?

In other words, if I want to start, say, my own bitcoin branded fidget spinner (that was my idea folks! Back off!) how would I go about doing it?
> That top pay grade is less than the starting compensation for PhD's at the big tech co's.

The top pay was 150k so that closely matches Amazon new grad offer of 145k which is what my comment was responding too.
'Blade Runner 9732' recreates Deckard's apartment in VR
It took Linux/BSD years to get it right, too. It often takes a long time for the user-facing interface to catch up to the kernel functionality.
Ad strategy was all Amazon based and pretty simple - target keywords like iphone x wireless charger, qi wireless charer, iphone wireless charger etc.

The main reason I think they worked is that most other chargers did not take the time to build any sort of real brand or spend time on packaging etc. when you order most of them it feels like an afterthought but when you order one of mine I think it feels more like an experience for the consumer.

That part was really important to me and I think it probably shines through because people tend to buy the product when they click on the ad form what I can see on the reports
It just results in negotiations over what job title you get. At least that is what I would expect.
> No love for the PS2 which was the champion of its era?

Champion perhaps in terms of sales, but the Dreamcast felt like the more forward thinking console of that generation.

It introduced the console industry to online gaming, downloadable content (it was free on the DC though), the idea of games being able to write portable mini games. Ok, that was badly executed but the VMU still had other cool quirks which was new for its era, like an LCD screen showing in game graphics.

The PlayStation 2, as nice as it was, was really just a hardware upgrade rather than a paradigm shift
Yes, but halfway through the article. It is a mystery until then.
Oops. You are right. I read something but... now can't find it.

I hope they don't pass US.
For $30, if I get a year or two of use out of it before Amazon evolves away my use cases, it was still nice to have while it lasted.
Spotify has been doing one feature wrong for as long as I can recall: The Previous Track button will always navigate to the previous track in the list, no matter what you played before, and if there is nothing in the playlist before that track then the button effectively does nothing. Come on! PREV stands for Previous not List Index - 1. Other than that, Spotify works well enough that I do appreciate the service, even if it smells of monopoly.
The difference is that Bitcoin supports a limited number of smart contract types (due to limitations in its scripting language.) To create new types, it requires changes to the Bitcoin scripting language, protocol, and runtime, followed by a coordinated soft fork. This is a pretty heavyweight process.

Ethereum is effectively a generalized distributed computer -- so new types of contracts can be written, tested, and iterated on readily, without requiring a change to Ethereum itself.

> Ethereum does, however, enjoy a massive marketing advantage.

I really don't think that's true. I'd wager that the majority of the public that is aware of Bitcoin has no idea what Ethereum is.
To add another point: NVDA is up 5% and doesn't have the same direct competitive narrative. If money has to be spent rectifying the issue with new or more CPUs due to performance loss, that's less money available for spending on Nvidia GPUs. It might tip a few marginal applications in favor of eating the development costs to migrate to GPGPU, but that effect isn't likely nearly as high, especially if applications with lots of system calls are affected the most.
For the record, the first part is sarcastic. Marx warned that one thing the capitalists would cut is the very tools to analyze capitalism. The justification would be that it doesn't make money. Which, is true.

Current "liberal arts", aka feminism, SJW studies, and "who wronged me today" - those are absolutist political positions that frankly belong in a trash heap. These newer classes in specific schools only teach discord and strife. It is not the language of understanding the truth, but of victimization. They do not seek equality; instead they seek their pound of flesh.

Ive seen these arguments, especially about feminism on HN come around every 2-3 weeks, and it is the same tiring talking points. There is no meeting of the minds. There is dialectic -it just one screaming over another (with -1 mods to boot). I've avoided them as per recent because there is no resolution, and nobody seems to want any sort of meaningful change.

What I am talking of liberal arts, is that of classical liberal arts of the West and the East. It is the tools of philosophy and logic, argument and debate. It is how parties may argue and debate reasonably and uncover the truth of the matter. It is how to understand how a new invention changes society; it also shows the inventor's place in that structure.
Do you have much familiarity with those inner workings and workplace tendencies in the intelligence agencies? What are your thoughts on Richards Heuer's work[0] on empirical methodologies to eliminate as much cognitive bias from analysts' assessments as possible (I've read a few techniques from his most recent book "Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis" but haven't read any of his earlier "Psychology of Intelligence Analysis" book). You mention burden of proof being lower for them than in police work, which might make sense given that it's a field where deception and operational secrecy are practically situational constants, but I guess I haven't gotten that impression from reading his work. I'm curious to hear what went into your conclusions.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richards_Heuer
Wait...does this mean people would pay a lot for the unfiltered, untreated water that comes out of my well?
I think the NSU/Audi Ro-80 [0, 1] predates Mazda, isn't?

And Mazda (as well as Citroen and others) used this engine, I think.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Ro_80

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine#Early_developmen...
Scientists create single device capable of dual transistor operation
I bought a battery replacement from ifixit for my MacBook air thos Christmas. Installed myself without any prior knowledge. Couldn't be happier.
It's better thought of as a trade-off than a flaw, because a different type of discourse can form. There are alternative venues if you want threads of witty comments.

No one is opposed to wit, but this comment didn't explain anything about the context. I needed to Google to know what the point was. It still seems more like a snarky comment than a serious argument.

I could have just responded with some lazy remark saying "Want short witty comments? Twitter this way." but I'd be a jerk for that.
One of my first large purchases of computer hardware was a Sony GDM-17SE1 monitor. This was in 1994, when a 17" display was unusual, and the display went along with an 8MB 486DX/33 machine.

The display was expensive at the time ($2,300 in 2017 dollars), but lasted me a good 6 or 7 years. By the time 2000 rolled around, I was doing most of my computing on employer-owned machines and laptops, so my need for a desktop display was minimal. (That didn't stop me, though, from a briefly owned 19" Dell rebrand of a Trinitron display.)

Display quality on those CRTs was excellent, although the thin horizontal wires were indeed noticeable if you looked.
It’s the terpenes and assorted ‘flavoring’ chemicals that are responsible for a lot of the as-of-yet officially unattributed effects of cannabis. They are responsible for the difference between indica and sativa, too.

Check out myrcene, for instance: https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-myrcene-an-abundant-ter...
Perhaps dive back into VFX, although that's still IT.

My next one would be Watch/Clock making.

failing that, farming/game keeping.