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> But this arbitrary validation of nutrition as medicine, unless I am doing it and then it is somehow hokum, is just one of the craziest things I have ever seen on HN.

Yeah, nutrition as in "you need more vitamin C, or else scurvy", not as in "eat salads, drink no coffee, consume only 'natural', no processed".

Anyway, you're talking it personally way beyond what was intended. Nobody is discounting your opinions because you're you, or because you're a woman (in fact, people were probably positively biased towards them by the virtue of your karma score on the previous HN account, before you ditched it). You started your subthread here with, "Color me skeptical", towards the outcome of sponsoring biomedical R&D, based on your experience with one form of one disease that (you think) you figured out how to manage with healthy lifestyle. But there are plenty other forms of that disease, and plenty other diseases, and you can't cure them all by healthy lifestyle - and most importantly, people are not living healthy lifestyles for some reasons - reasons that are fully orthogonal to what medical research is doing.

Anyway, I'm going to drop it, as I'm no wordsmith, and 'dokein happened to make the same point I want to make much better than I ever could.
How so? For the majority of employees, the lists' main adverse effect on promotions is the time sink that they represent, just to read them. When I was there, only a minority of subscribers actually posted in the conversations. The rest would read them, mute them and sometimes frown ("why the hell did I sign up for eng-misc again?").

This is par for the course for any place where you're given a microphone, for good or for bad.
SMS marketing is an option if your userbase isn't in to using the internet enough for email notifications to be an alternative to facebook updates.
I completely agree with everything you've said.

My original point was that the finance whizzes aren't creating money.

Your gain/loss from a derivative contract is paid by/to your counterparty.

As opposed to a stock, which is a legal claim on the assets of an enterprise. When an IPO happens there is no magic in which wealth is being created -- rights to the enterprise are being sold.

(This is distinction with a typical ICO, in which what is being sold is often unclear or simply worthless. That is seigniorage -- or simply a scam.)
Ah yes the old “the business man thinks he knows how to science and the scientist thinks he knows how to do business” problem.
> Just curious, if it comes to Trump v Oprah 2020, how many of you currently in America would consider starting or joining a venture outside the US?

Based on the amount of people who promised to move to Canada if Trump won, my guess is next to nothing.
Perhaps your expectations are too high? That's why it's called a hussle and lots of startups go nowhere because promoting yourself (or company) which so much noise, information, distraction is just simply getting harder and harder. I have tried internet marketing things in the past and most of the time it's tumbleweed.
Thanks! Mind if I send you a few suggestions/feature requests? Doing these weird routes has brought up some small things...
Several things,
1. it's an assumption that gizmodo is writing for a tech audience,
2. it's not really "blatant" in that, ultimately, it's completely intentional since this is what gets monetizable views - gizmodo pushes an agenda because it's profitable to do so
Overall, great comment.
Years ago they pitched this exact idea/goal at F8 I believe.
Out of curiosity, how do you suppose an Intel microcode update caused a blue screen on your system running an AMD processor?
Nope, that’s not what they do in my experience. When a VC says they “invest in the team” what they generally mean is has the team already had a successful venture. Either that or, we’re they referred by a friend, or did they went to a university they like.

They rarely dig into how the background of the team and their ability to deal with unforeseen problems. That is, in my experience.
If the likes of Oprah and Trump become the norm, it will have seemed obvious in hindsight that politics always was showbizz.

Politician in democracies seem to lose more from specific bad events they gain from good ones. This gives them an incentive to push responsibility away from themselves out to unelected officials (regulators, judges, cops) and non-government lobbies (big businesses, NGOs, public-sector unions). And this pushing has been progressing for decades and decades already.

So by now, while politicians collectively could seize the reins of their own power, they don't actually have them in their hands. In such a world, the "job" of the politician is then engage with the public, putting on a show of attacking the system, while not having, or even desiring, the power to change it.

Who better for that job than Trump and Oprah?
I think it's about Google advertising channels -- with advertising decisions being the driver, not the quality of the content from the Youtube side. The main consumers of this designation are potential Google customers, not Youtube content creators or users.
> vast increase in CPU cost for a minor decrease of bandwidth cost could still be a welcome trade-off

I don't think that this would be true, though. Recall the 80-20 rule. They have to encode (CPU) a lot of videos, which will get very few views (bandwidth).
Any species that has survived for a considerable period has to be intelligent.
You are going to drop it, but not until after you take a few more personal swipes.

One thing I highly recommend for people with CF is the right kind of high quality salt. This is very much like taking vitamin D for Rickets or vitamin C for Scurvy.

But you just assume that I have nothing that specific to say and facts be damned.
If they do that, they better not forget to enable "http nowhere" in those tabs, or people will be in for a bad surprise.
I haven't visited the Facebook Main site either for quite some time. Only using the messenger.
What's interesting is that SCP implements consensus without electing a leader. There are, of course, numerous asynchronous protocols that do this, like Ben Or, Rabin, Mostéfaoui, and most recently HoneyBadger, but is rarer for synchronous protocols like SCP. However, it is necessary for SCP's setting, because if you don't even have agreement among nodes over what nodes do and don't exist in the system, how could you hope to elect a leader.

One way to view how SCP avoids leader election is to consider that it is effectively emulating the leader. SCP has two phases, a nomination and a balloting phase. The nomination phase is effectively like one or more instances of an asynchronous broadcast protocol (which don't require a leader since multiple nodes can choose to broadcast). The balloting phase is like Paxos, except that the value to propose is embedded in the ballot number so nodes don't require a leader to tell them what is being proposed--they can each emulate the leader themselves.
> There are various solutions to tab groups out there, I thought?

Not when I last checked. The only solution is either a separate browser window for each group of tabs, or put them in bookmarks.

> I wasn't aware that Firefox requires Pulseaudio, but I've never understood the resistance against that project either

I can deal with PluseAudio. It's just annoying since I've never set it up, and I don't need it - except for Firefox.

> But why are you personally disappointed with Mozilla?

Because they have caught the bug that to make things better you have to remove things.

It's one thing to make an alternative - like when they ruined the UI, but created "Classic theme restorer", it's another to remove features that people actually use.

Right now, Unity and Flash are better than any kind of native web technology. They just are. But Firefox is removing them anyway because of "purity" reasons.

> Do you believe that the browser got worse for the general case

Yes. Not everyone is affected equally of course, but removing things like Unity isn't a net win. Nor is removing Flash. I know, I know, not pure. I don't care. Removing flash removes so much stuff from the internet.

> or is this the feeling of being left out at the side of the road because you have special & specific requirements and preferences that aren't completely common?

No, I can't expect that. Honestly I can (and will) deal with Tab Groups and PulseAudio. PluseAudio especially I can understand. And I guess few people used Tab Groups.

But Unity and Flash, that's just unpleasant.

> but I believe that it's becoming a more and more improved browser for ~everyone~ insofar as that's possible

It has in some ways. But they also messed up really bad. For example they switched to WebExtensions before creating a replacement API that Tab Groups would need! Read this if you haven't already: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lXF50-h... (he gave up his DNS, that's how badly Mozilla burned him).

Why do that?

They removed NAPI without leaving any possible alternative.

Make the browser better by improving it. Stop making it better by not supporting things. Look at Linux "Never Break Userspace". Linux has things that are hard to support, but they deal, because it's the right thing to do.
Intel's adaptation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey [0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkey
I enjoyed the Linux comment too. It's as if they were only concerned with the other 97% of the market! Those fools.
With the implication that random reboots of a lesser, but non-zero frequency are okay, it's at least expected?

Odd wording for sure.
You just answered your own question.
Life extension research does this by focusing on "healthspan" - that is, the amount of time you spend living in full health. The idea isn't to let you live 200+ years as 80-year-old person. The idea is to let you live up to 80 as if you're 30-40 - that is, to extend the time you're fully able to function and enjoy life - and push it out from there, keeping the tail-end small and extending the total lifespan. This happens to both offer huge potential healthcare savings, and meshes nicely with the idea that everything happening to your health past ~40 is part of the disease of aging.
I pay $10/mo for the storage bump. Not sure how many there are like me, but I suspect a non-trivial amount of their revenue comes from non-enterprise customers.
Heck, even now it doesn't happen in Apple.

Btw your point about Tesla was null since it has faced very public allegations from a woman and a black guy.
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Boiling water costs a helluva lot of energy. Do these engines recover that energy?
I like the effort, but I think their target is slighty off. The privacy with regards to the network (ads, tracking, fingerprinting, etc.) and the privacy with regards to other users of the same machine (browsing history, downloads, etc.) are orthogonal. FireFox Focus lumps them together into one, just like FireFox private mode. I think they should be seperated. I want locally all the convenience of usability, but towards the outside all the protection and privacy features. FireFox doesn't offer that :-/
Thanks; I had never heard of the Doble Steam cars until now. I found this video of Jay Leno driving one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUg_ukBwsyo
man I wish I could choose to see written posts but not shared posts.

Exactly. And Facebook won't give you that.
The whole point of gasification is the production of syngas. You don't vent syngas to the atmosphere for the same reason you don't pour gas on the ground. Burning syngas doesn't have to emit carbon monoxide, a catalytic converter like on almost every car out there would work just the same to clean up the emissions.
Whoever said JVM should be for the web? The question was, why don't we have a way to cross language boundaries and the answer was: we do, the jvm.
thanks for your reply. in Google Cloud's specific case, what was compiled using Repoline ? Was it the kernel or userland ?

Because you are kind of claiming that the patches that the linux kernel used to fix this (with a 10% drop in performance) are no longer needed. I am kind of wondering if this was submitted to the core linux kernel to be mainlined ? If yes, why was this not used there.

If no, then it means it is being used in some Google Cloud-specific way that is not mainlineable.

EDIT - found this comment which seems to suggest that retpoline is not bulletproof and the kernel's performance-killing patches are still needed

https://github.com/marcan/speculation-bugs/blob/master/READM...

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.0/03137.html

Does it mean that Google Cloud is doing this only on non-Skylake CPU instances ? It is a very interesting stand - it will mean that it will suddenly be more cost effective to use Google's OLDER machines than the newer Skylakes... because the newer machines have a performance degradation that the older machines will not suffer.
Yes, it loads all tabs at startup. That's not a good thing, starting chrom[e/ium] on my old laptop is not a very fast experience, even on my work machines it takes a while.
> You can excuse their exploitative business model all you want, but it only works until there's a viable alternative.

I'm not excusing it, I just want to put it in stark relief because I dislike it.
> Recent example: while I was logged out, they put my picture on their “quick login” page with a little red number “2” on my photo. Well gee, turns out there wasn’t “2” of anything in my profile to see: no unread messages, etc.; no, it was just made-up crap to make me want to go check Facebook again.

I've seen this too: I created an empty profile once for some reason. The email account that I setup for it very quickly started getting messages like "you have 1 new notification - log in." When I did that, there wasn't a damn thing there.
>It’s all for show.

Maybe this is the role of the president in the future? Just a buffoon celebrity who can say whatever they want and best represents the fickle fancy of the people?

Somebody else handles the actual governing.
Show HN: Fun Learn – Amazon Alexa is your kid's English Teacher now!
>> Moreover, in all these situations, I feel like it just be improved by asking the user instead. There are thing I'd love recommendations on and I'd be quite willing to tell these portals about my preferences.

> Explicit feedback would be amazing, but my experience is that you do not get many chances to request it from your users. Sign-up is the best chance, but anything after that is a non-starter from a UX perspective.

Wait, I don't mean I'd fill some dumb survey or something. Yeah no one does that. What I mean is if I could have a set of key-words and other filters that determined what appeared on my home page, I'd definitely spend time tuning those to get what I wanted and I suspect a lot of people would do that. Of course I'm not holding my breath since the trend of the last ten years has been less and less customization for things like that.
It's just Dave Asspray's bullshit spraying from his ass.
Well, that's not what Urban Dictionary says.
CCFI: Cryptographically Enforced Control Flow Integrity (2015) [pdf]
> In all experiments on non-human intelligence, only Alex, the grey parrot, actually asked the question

Is it possible that they asked questions of each other, in their own tongue, but did not know how to ask humans questions?
> But this arbitrary validation of nutrition as medicine, unless I am doing it and then it is somehow hokum, is just one of the craziest things I have ever seen on HN.

Every nutrition as medicine claim on HN is highly controversial. Sure, there's some people that tend to vocally buy into even the most unscientific of them usually people that are personally invested in the claims made, which are often quite general in applicability. I suspect the reason you see less of that for yours isn't either a specific bias against you or anything about your particular claims except that the popular to whom they are applicable is fairly narrow. So you get the skeptics, but not the eager adopters.
Customers actually could turn to AMD... their offerings are very competitive right now.
facts are not subject to a popularity vote

I seem to recall "scientific consensus" being important on certain things?
I played with Sony’s new Aibo robot dog, and I miss it already
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Even this is harder than it should be.

What if the exec succeeds? The pipe is never closed.

If you mark the pipe as O_CLOEXEC and rely on the parent treating EOF as success: what if the child crashes prematurely before exec? E.g. killed by sysadmin, or by OOM killer.

What if a write() to the pipe fails?
I would guess expressing a viewpoint strongly aligned with the individual most responsible for your promotion would help you land that promotion. Likewise voicing an opinion counter to a popular narrative of that individual could prevent you from getting one.

If the majority of your team or even just the management level of your department are participating, you must pick a side, keeping in mind silence and abstaining from emotionally charged discussions if often seen as picking a side in and of itself.
This is what has made Dropbox so successful. You have files. They sync. It does one thing and it does it really well.

I'll also admit their enterprise tool that lets you sync only some files as you need them is also seems cool, although I've never worked at a place that used it, and even if I did, I'd probably have to use it in a VM since I've used Linux at my last three jobs.

Dropbox could try to build new products. Keep Dropbox as it is, but then try to branch out and build other tools. Maybe other office tools, or project management tools? They could keep the same login systems if they wants to pitch them to enterprise. But I agree, their core product is sold and should stay that way. Their brand can help them quite a bit if they start offering other products, but only if they're up to the same quality.
Hacking Exposed Linux, 3rd Edition
The temptation for "enlightened dictatorship" is strong - both in society & in business. One of the problems with it is that, while efficient, it's fragile. The dictatorship can be effective in moving you in a certain direction - but it's horribly ineffective at adapting & changing direction/finding new directions. Long-term, dictatorships all fail because of that (even though short-term they can indeed be spectacularly successful)
Turing completeness is not a virtue in a smart contracts language.
Out of curiosity, which features did you lose?
> I'm disappointed though that the author completely omitted any discussion of single-parent families ... I would think that would have a huge impact

Perhaps the author had no evidence of it. Is there any?
I'm pretty sure I'd find plenty of reason to dislike the leaders of state no matter where I live. Most of what is great about this country isn't done in Washington - we can survive bad leaders (hopefully).
Great, I too am onto something similar, what do you plan to build?
Absolutely - cullen@ridewithgps.com. Perfect timing, we are planning route planner and route show page improvements right now.
I’m overwhelmed by the humanity and joy my dog brings to my life.

I think the author should consider adopting a real dog.
Some questions that have always bothered me:

Do mentally sick people have "consciousness"?

What happens to "consciousness" during episodes of extreme rage\trance\trauma?

Sometimes, I think that we are simply machines collecting data for someone. A other times, I feel there is a higher purpose.
Fresh wood contains ~50% water (up to 70% for certain species), 'dry' wood lies around 15% water. Depending on the type of gasifier you can feed it anything between fresh from the tree to kiln-dried wood. Starting a gasifier requires dry wood or charcoal but once it is going it will do a lot of the drying itself. The reduction process in the lower part of the hearth - where the gas production goes on, reducing CO2 to CO - can also reduce H2O to H2. The end product of a wetter wood will be gas with a higher H2 content next to the CO which forms the main combustible component in wood gas. Yes, wood gas is mainly carbon monoxide and as such highly poisonous, you do not want to start a gasifier in an enclosed environment nor open an unvented gasfier in such.
It's going to take a LOT of money. Where does this money come from, or on what gets less money get spent, to use instead to pay the very significant cost of security we haven't been paying?
It’s closer to Idiocracy than Fahrenheit 451.
I still see 31 in the title :)
Well it was the first. Mega has a Linux client. It's a different service though; full end-to-end encryption.
it's unbelievable how badly skype functions as a PC IM client. it just keeps getting worse and worse. there's zero reason an IM client should be using hundreds of megs of ram and a hideous, garish UI that you can't turn off.

the only workaround i found was the pidgin skype-web plugin, which can be a little buggy, but it's far preferable if all you use skype for is IM.
Your doubt is legit, afterall they may not be so different:

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Jed-McCaleb-leave-Ripple-to-st...
We love you Aaron.
Birdcage liners
I have a habit of looking "further upstream" so I'm saying the ICO, or the question of fraud, isn't the issue.

The issue is that you're not profitable. Or not sufficiently profitable.

A company whose need for money far outstrips its ability to generate money -- that's the company that will be asking "How can we get some money?" and looking for ideas. Maybe it will choose an ICO as the answer, maybe not.

A profitable company, one that generates money, never has to ask, because everybody already knows the answer is always "Keep running our profitable business."

In other words, if "Do an ICO!" is the answer to "How can we make some money?" the only ones asking the question in the first place are people who don't already know how to make money. Make your exit, for that reason alone. You don't even need to consider fraud questions.
Live migration of VM’s is a well solved issue.
What does "retpoline" stand for? ret for the ret instruction, I suppose, but the rest?
Cloud Providers Already Considering Intel Rivals After Meltdown/Spectre Flaw
YouTube.

Well, when we say "you", we mean more like "we".

Or, if you prefer, think of "you" as "TV". TV Tube!
I am not looking for eager early adopters. I am fine with skepticism. That isn't what I am met with. I am met with ugly personal attacks. I am met with complete dismissal.

Anyway, it is probably pointless to engage here. I did not expect my initial comment to get any upvotes at all, much less engender discussion. I expected it to be downvoted to hell and end up at the bottom of the page.

I meant it when I said that speaking to these issues on HN is evidence that I have snapped. I am, in fact, having a huge personal crisis that seems unsolvable. Spouting off is just me falling apart in public, basically. I already am very well aware that I will never be taken seriously. That isn't news to me.
The few times I've tried OneDrive I was met with frequent crashing and disappearing documents. They had two version for Windows 8 (the touch screen UI one and the office one) which really seemed like they conflicted with each other.

When I used OneDrive, it also didn't sync files. If you opened something in Word from OneDrive, it created it in a temp folder and resynced when you saved it (hence the disappearing documents because of their buggy implementation).

And of course, OneDrive doesn't work on Linux. It's garbage and it's one of the reasons that Microsoft latched onto Dropbox with Office integration because their product was just that horrible.
The internet is toxic! It's not even anonymity, since on places like Facebook people know who you are. It's more the one (or more) steps removed from personal consequences.

Hacker news is one of the few places I find intelligent thoughtful discussion. Occasionally people are jerks, but compared to the internet in general, this place is a calm like on a mountain top.