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Ask HN: What does “I'll let you two take it from here” really mean?
In many email introductions, the introducer says "I'll let you two take it from here." Obviously this means they want to be taken off the thread. But it seems kind of rude to not thank the introducer, either separately or in the same thread. Often this manifests as one person (typically the person who requested the introduction) moving the introducer to BCC in the next email and including a thank you.

Is this appropriate? Do people really want to be pulled off the thread immediately and not acknowledged/thanked further? I certainly don't want to pester introducers by clogging their inboxes, but I also don't want to be seen as insufficiently grateful for introductions. It seems kind of odd to send a separate thank-you email, since it's equally inbox-clogging as one sent in-thread. What are best practices here?
As a rule of thumb high speed rail is 1/10 the CO2 of flying. However, I wonder what the carbon footprint of creating the tracks is?
It’s timing. They could have done it, but waiting for just a little bit, would net them billions.

Like the article said, they prepped a certain amount and waited. Saving billions for doing the same thing but waiting a few months is a no brainer.
Sorry, see my update.

I agree with you, but what's the incentive to learn that stuff these days?
Good! Let's talk again when you're 70...

Regardless of what decisions you make, having more information (basically a statistical aggregate of similar cases) should be useful information, no?
Why wouldn’t game theory books from the 1960s be relevant? People still recommend the 1944 Von Neumann & Morgenstern book all the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Games_and_Economic_B...
I had a locksmith pull that on me once. They gave me one quote over the phone, unlocked my car, then invoiced me for double.

Car movers are also notorious for this. The fun part there is that if you don't pay the new rate, they hit the road again and it can be another week before you get your car back-- assuming it hasn't been impounded.
Also a huge point to consider is that games also have to be as cheap as Steam. I used to buy pirated DVDs once upon a time because the real thing would cost about a month salary. Now Steam games in third world countries are so cheap I just buy a bunch I don't intend to play.

Even the discount sites and Humble Bundle aren't able to match up against Steam in third world countries.
Where is crop? To me, the most valuable tool in MS Paint. What? Did you think I used it for “drawing with a bar of soap?”
Casually underestimating the effort to build something by at least one order of magnitude is a favorite pastime on HN. The Dropbox thread is the canonical example.
We sell our game on itch http://QuantumPilot.me
Developer chooses what cut to pay to itch, which is nice. DRM free, easy to setup -- 5 minutes compare to 5 hours with Steam.

Itch supports indie game dev by letting community manage "Game Jams": http://itch.io/jams

Their site + client is open source: https://github.com/itchio
The fact of the matter is that those $64B will not be returned to the taxpayers and will probably be diverted to other less relevant projects.
The story of how they went from most populous bird in North America to totally extinct is fascinating, if a bit depressing.
> Citizens United ruled that actual human beings had the right to make unlimited campaign contributions

No, it didn't. Campaign contributions are still limited.

Citizens United built on the established precedent that people unaffiliated with campaigns are free to spend their own money how they wish, as long as they don't coordinate with campaigns.

Citizens United ruled that this right applies to people who pool their money together.
You make some very good points, however, I still support the HSR even with the higher costs. Why? First, I think it will major way to somewhat solve california's high cost of housing. If you are using HSR to commute then you can go further out. I could technically have a reasonable commute from Merced, Fresno or Madera all of which have super low cost of housing as well as tons of land to build on.
> One of the errors
found with SPIN, a missing critical section around a
conditional wait statement, was in fact reintroduced in a
different subsystem that was not verified in this first preflight
effort. This error caused a real deadlock in the RA
during flight in space.

So they used code that they had already discovered an error in, in a different subsystem. I would not contend that that means that software verification doesn't work.
"Software developer Abraham Masri found the bug, called “chaiOS,” and posted it on GitHub Tuesday afternoon. Masri told BuzzFeed News that he found the vulnerability while “fuzzing with the operating system.” In other words, he was trying to break the operating system by inputting random characters into its internal code."

...hm, and then later: "The chaiOS GitHub page has been taken down and Masri’s account was suspended. But that doesn’t mean iOS users are safe."
Never thought about it like that, but you're right about it being a pretty decent package manager.
Neat, there's a multi-user mode: http://jspaint.ml/#session:test
Also you seem to be under the incorrect assumption that capital will just sit in a warehouse as bricks of $100 bills collecting dust. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, one of a few things will happen:

1) Apple will spend it on capital investments (factories, campuses, data centers, etc.) in its business. Doesn't benefit the government, but benefits the country.

2) Apple will spend it on R&D / employees. Doesn't benefit the government directly, but benefits the country.

3) Apple will dump it into an American bank. That bank has a reserve ratio that is relatively low. It will lend several times the amount that Apple deposits to people or corporations who will do 1) or 2)

4) Apple will spend it on buybacks and dividends, which ultimately ends up in the hands of Apple's owners (you and me through our 401(k)'s, and probably a bunch of rich people as well), who will do 1), 2), or 3)

So, whether or not the government gets a cut, it benefits everyone who actually lives here.
My CS degree didn't even teach any specific languages. Pretty much every course used a different language. I'll date myself here but I used PL/1, Pascal, Modula 2, C, Scheme, assembly, and maybe a couple of others. None were the explicit focus of the class. The programming language was incidental, students were expected to learn it on their own. And my first job used none of those languages. My next job didn't either. In fact I've never used any of the languages I used in school on the job.
> Intel processors support two loads + one write per core. That can be 2x256-bit reads + 1x256-bit write. Each clock, every clock. At least to L1 and L2...

You can approach 2 reads + 1 write in L1, but you won't get close for data in L2, especially when writes are involved. Writes dirty lines in the L1, which later need to be evicted, which eat up both L1 read-port and L2 write-port bandwidth.

You'll find that with pure writes to a data set that fits in L2 but not L1, you get only 1 cache line every 3 cycles, so nowhere close to 1 per cycle. If you add reads, things will slow down a bit more.

Even Intel documents their L2 bandwidth at only 32 bytes/cycle max, and 25 bytes per cycle sustained (on Broadwell - slightly better for Skylake client), and that's "one way" i.e., read-only loads. When you have writes and have to share with evictions it gets worse. So again nowhere close to the 96 bytes/cycle if you could do 2 32-byte reads and 1 32-byte store a cycle.

Some details are discussed here (although it's for Haswell, it mostly applies to everything up to but not including Skylake-X):

https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/software-tuning-perf...
Steam has lost that "discovery" aspect to it. It's now mainly weaboo garbage, early access and PUBG clogging up the trending and leaderboards.

I feel like I can no longer discover cool titles or great things people are buying on the site.
How does licensing actually help prevent crime? It seems people will ill intent would just ignore the licensing requirement and people with good intent could be made criminals (as per this story).
The most valuable thing to me about MS Paint is the ability to print screen, CROP the largely extraneous material, and post, embed, or transmit the result.

Where is crop? I am not interested in the drawing with a bar of soap aspect. At all.
I think Trader Joe's has a heat-n-eat pre-marinated vacuum pack, too.
That's exactly what's ruining the entire effort. 27 stops turn this high speed train into a slog. 27 multi-minute waiting periods for boarding. 27 times decelerating and accelerating. When exactly is this high speed train gonna go full speed?

This is what we are competing with: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KM7B_auaBgE/UNr_iYv1v-I/AAAAAAAAAY...
This is unlikely to get us there: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Fresno_C...
Your experience will count much more than a degree or certificate in far fewer than 20 years. It's probably more in the 2-5 year range, depending on your degree and experience.
I always really enjoyed the "fix random broken mechanical thing" part of the "IT guy" job.

"Hi, I'm Luke, and I fix things."
I'd love to hear why, i'm just curious (dev who's only ever worked with centos at any kind of large scale)
For what it's worth, Irfanview's generally a better solution for quick cropping:

http://www.irfanview.com
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"The size of the tax cut was certainly enough to significantly affect the economics of a datacenter investment."

So without a tax cut Apple would have just let users suffer? Hardly. Users drive DC investments, not tax policy. There's no tax cut in the universe that's going to get Yahoo to build a new DC in Nevada.
>Don't trust course counselors - or other people in general.

I... think it's not so much a matter of 'trust' as you have to understand what people understand. My understanding is that their job is to help you navigate academia, and I'm sure they are competent at that. I can't imagine how they could be good at figuring out what you want to do. That's hard enough to do yourself.

The other thing about higher education is that it's usually not meant as vocational. Now, I'm in IT too, and for that matter, I didn't go to college, so maybe I don't know anything, but my impression is that a good school is about giving you a common intellectual and cultural background, not about actually teaching you how to do your job.

This is to say, after your undergrad, you should be prepared to learn how to do a job that requires a degree, and how to communicate with others who have gone through the same training.

(Personally, I am a little confused as to just what you learn in an "IT" degree; as far as I can tell, they don't give you much math, and on a personal level, the only people I've worked with who had 'IT' type degrees were management.)
Try monosnap: http://monosnap.com
Finding the right employees is the key to the continued growth of most businesses, but especially in this vertical: 99%+ of the experience of hiring a moving company is directly related to the people who show up at the house to do the hard manual labor.

PS. Set aside some extra cash to give these people directly if they exceed your expectations (at least in the US, not sure about 'tipping'/etc. elsewhere).
It should be put in bold letters in restaurants that "Tipping is optional".
Or get rid of tipping fully and pay minimum wage.
Using an infrastructure as code platform like Terraform makes switching clouds vastly easier, but your other points still stand.
yeah, you're right there. in actuality i still can't pull the trigger, it's a perfectly fine machine and nearly 5 years old if i remember right.

it could do with a pcie sdd and maybe a gpu upgrade but it's still perfectly serviceable. the only thing that has failed is the motherboard (was able to replace that for 110 AUD) and the CPU fan (i bought the wrong one and burned the bearings out because it was for lower TDP cpus).
Does tang yield the same flavor as fresh squeezed orange juice? On the one hand yeah they both taste like their source, on the other there is a quality difference that is noticeable.
For anyone worried about leaving a "big" bank, often credit unions will offer mobile deposit and free (reimbursed) ATM withdrawls. I'm actually happier using a bank with no local branches because there's no more thinking about driving to the "right" ATM. (mine reimburses up to $15/mo which is more than enough for me; these days even the sketchy taqueria ATMs only charge $1.25 or so where it used to be $3+)
We were under the impression that v10 removes it completely. Perhaps this is only in enterprise or maybe we have it wrong? Or maybe it is still included just deprecated but the release notes don't make that clear and no one in my org has checked an actual install or the source.
I've recently started running regularly. At first I got a phone strap thing and some Bluetooth earbuds. Used them while running for a while. Music or podcasts.

Then my friend, who is a much better runner than me, told me he likes to keep it simple. None of that stuff, just a Garmin watch for pacing/tracking reasons.

So I've started running "quietly" as well. It's great. Not only am I exercising my body, I'm cleaning my mind.
This does a lot: https://getsharex.com/ The workflow is based around print screen, crop, and then add any optional processing you want.
Did the overdraft fee also disappear?
What's a 'car mover'? Do people pay others to move their car for them? I can understand if the 'move' requires transit over water, but is there another reason for this?
I'm a bit clumsy when it comes to mechanics, so to avoid silly mistakes I usually watch bike repair and tuning videos before and/or during doing maintenance.

As for programming tutorials, I usually vary the playback speed up to 1.5x during parts that resonate well with me, and go back to 1x and pause and rewind as needed when trying out code during the more difficult parts.
I'm amazed. This webapp even supports opening files via dragging them from the desktop or Windows Explorer. This fact alone makes it more "native" than most (all?) UWP applications.
Something like lightscreen or snipping tool might be what you’re looking for.
Paint didn’t have the ability to crop to a selection until the Windows 7 redesign of the app with its ribbon UI (not sure about the Vista version of Paint, which is halfway between the XP and the 7 versions); JS Paint has copied the XP and earlier design, not the newer. You can still crop, but only from the bottom or right, because you’re using the canvas resize handles instead.

Concerning your specific task: I’d say the Snipping Tool (built-in from at least Windows 7 onwards) is generally superior for that sort of thing anyway. Its biggest problem is slow start-up.
Why should parsing CSS block on decompressing base64, unless the CSS itself is a base64-encoded data: URI?

If you're talking about data: background images in CSS, then all the CSS parser has to do is find the end of the url(). It doesn't have to do any base64 decoding or anything like that until the rule actually matches.
Minor point but aws can be HIPPA complient, if it capable of that, bank software will be perfectly fine for complience. (although incredibly terrible for other reasons but I digress)
If there is no fee, keeping it open can help your credit score; a major factor for your credit is what percentage of your available credit you use, so having a credit card you don’t use simply adds to your total available credit.
Why is it relevant if it benefits people with high or low income? Are we back to Marxist class warfare?
.net core not net framework.
Funny but I would really appreciate a good Paint.Net remake (usable on Mac, Linux and OpenBSD) more.
It's currently being destroyed. It's AWESOME
You are right: by definition real-time tasks will always be vulnerable.

With regard to Urbit, it is a non-issue because there are no use cases which would warrant access to soft or hard-realtime for a networked OS.

Such tasks will always happen on client-side, by virtue of network latency.
Who says I'm not organizing and acting?
It works for me. The site also doesn't load with any certs or over SSL. Maybe you are being MITM'd by your ISP or employer?
It might happen every now and then, but I still trust auto-pay to make fewer mistakes than me. I have accidentally missed bills way more often than auto pay has messed up.

Plus, when auto pay messes up, the bank will usually make it right and you don’t have to pay any fees. If you mess up, you will have to eat the fees (usually).
Mmmm this works fine in MacOS (I did it years ago with the MS Paint binary).

Screenshot: https://rymc.io/mspaintosx.png
Depends on where you look. The Bay Area is full of hatchbacks. And even when I was living in TX, I had two friends who had a Honda Fit when I bought mine, and Fiat 500 is pretty popular over there (even if F150 is still king).
I had something like a Banh Mi in King's Cross. It was called a pork roll
its not that people cant understand [salt, chef, ansible, terraform], its just a non-trivial amount of human effort, error, and upkeep just to say 'run my program'. kind of a shame that every shop has to have one or a few devops people on hand to do that.

I guess it mostly stings when there is a critical openssl update, or something analogous. Despite the ideal of continuous integration and lightweight deployment - none of the shops I've worked at lately can make than happen in the 10 minutes its supposed to take.
You can't get close to 50 GB/s of bandwidth to a single core, even if your memory configuration and controller supports that because the per core bandwidth is limited by the latency per cache line and the maximum number of concurrent requests. There is a maximum of 10 outstanding requests that missed in L1 per core, so if you take a (very good) latency to DRAM of 50 ns, you can reach only 64 bytes/line * 10 lines outstanding / 50 ns = 12.8 GB/s.

In fact, you'll observe pretty much exactly that limit if you disable hardware prefetching. Of course, almost no one does that, and it turns out in particular that one can do better than this limit due to hardware L2 prefetching (but not software, since it restricted by the same 10 LFBs as above), since the concurrency from L2 to the uncore and beyond is higher than 10 (perhaps 16-20) and the latency is lower, so you get higher concurrency, but you are still concurrency limited to around 30 GB/s on modern Intel client cores.

On server cores, the latency is much higher, closer to 100ns, and so the per-core bandwidth is much lower, and the memory subsystem usually has a higher throughput, so it takes many more active server cores to saturate the memory bandwidth than on the client (which one just about does it on dual-channel systems).
You can select a section, copy it, create a new image, and paste it.
For reference, here is an example of the end product of a (in my opinion) very good transcription service: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-645.txt

I do not know how much Elaine (who makes those transcriptions) costs, but of course it's going to be more than Amazon Transcribe's cost. What I wonder is, what would be the cost to take the output of Amazon Transcribe, and fix/format it into something like what I linked?

Regardless, one thing that (I think) is important, is that having at least the output of Amazon Transcribe (or something similar) will make it easier for people to find something that was said in your podcast. At least, until Google/etc. start transcribing audio they find, and indexing that…
Today the author added support for transparency, and thereby also shift+left-click brushes from current selection. My most favourite MS Paint feature. https://github.com/1j01/jspaint/issues/23#issuecomment-35851...
Aww. I selected an area then tried to use the arrow keys to translate one pixel at a time. Didn't work :(

Then I tried to cut and paste. No go.

Still, very promising!
I'm really sick of Github seeing every event as a marketing opportunity and releasing the yet another graph. Like we get it, people touch themselves.
There have been quite a few articles on this.

http://www.ebony.com/news-views/are-black-people-really-bad-...

http://freakonomics.com/2008/03/20/the-racial-tipping-point/

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132924...

http://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic... (This one is a survey of the research literature on this)

Summary: there are racial differences in tipping in the US. They persist even after controlling for socioeconomic status. Servers (both white and black) treat expected poor tippers worse than expected good tippers. No one is sure why there is this difference.
Come for the 90's nostalgia. Stay for the websocket fight in a phonebooth.
You never know if they keep producing innovative educational products.
Developer marketing != valueless. Every single $B dev co you know has invested millions of dollars in developer outreach and content. It seems the issue is that there's no "technical details" as if a post titled "the hidden costs of serverless" would be about anything but costs. Perhaps the original response expected "costs" in terms of technical debt - in which case, that actually is covered as well, making the criticism a little underwhelming.

If you don't agree with the article, that's one thing. Can you pick out anything in the post that's counterfactual? Look - I'm the CEO of a cloud product that, in some sense, could be considered competitive with Amiram. I've made plenty of upvoted HN comments and Medium posts talking directly about our company and what we do - hell, there's one posted here if you scroll down. I take a great deal of pride in it, and I'm very enthusiastic about the future of the space. It's for that reason I consider the criticism a little unfair.

If the criticism is simply, "be more direct with your marketing and assert yourself and your company" --- that's totally fine. But dismissing an entire article because it's actively providing advice and context because the CEO runs a company in the space (wouldn't that put him in the best position to understand the market?) is... well, like I said, kind of silly.

If the above is, in fact, the actual criticism - perhaps we should ask A Cloud Guru if they'd be more willing to allow promotional posts to feature partners and neat products. A big problem with content marketing (generally) is the people who control the flow of content often ask for pieces to appear as neutral as possible, where a huge chunk of motivated content producers are actually trying to push a product or service (platform, consultancy, themselves and their career, their open source, you name it).
Also, the borders between the higher levels of IT, what we call Systems Administration, and programming are somewhat porous. I've worked as a programmer before, and I've never worked anywhere (as a sysadmin) where they would hire a SysAdmin who didn't have basic programming skills.
Unfortunately I was part of one of these at a much smaller bank in the past. A job that "memo posted" checking accounts failed. When we restarted the job, we tagged the restart to the wrong step. We should have hit the restore step first, prior to the posting failure. Instead, we tagged the one right after, duplicating the posting for all accounts that had successfully passed on the first run. It was thousands of transactions that had to be backed out before they were hard posted. It was an awful feeling when we realized it, made more awful to know we caused people so much trouble that day. Anyway, I'm telling the story because it doesn't have to be because Wells Fargo is inherently bad. Their management has made some significant errors lately that could be considered criminal. But in this case, I'd side with it being program, job scheduling, or technical admin errors. I'm almost 100% positive the people responsible are just sick about it right now.