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> It's commonplace to have 4-10GB of free memory at any given time and it should be utilised if it's available instead of being wasted by being unused.

I'm not sure when this became the new normal, but I was taught the exact opposite. How about trying to squeeze that into 200 MB rather than allocating 4-10 GB just because it happens to be available at that moment?
> Honest question, is there any evidence that shows the usability is _worse_?

It is obvious that usability will suffer when you cannot fit all the required functions into the screen real estate. Now, since we're talking about websites, which usually have a rather low function density, that's not necessarily a problem. But try to apply this design advice to more complex web applications, or to professional software like Photoshop or Blender.
If you miss it because you're now in the UK, there's a museum with an impressive collection (especially of the very first machines; EDSAC, WITCH, and Colossus) just outside of London.

http://www.tnmoc.org/
Spending your days trawling through other peoples uncommented, undocumented, and ineligible code sure is soul-destroying.
I'm a foreigner living in Amsterdam and I'm assuming you're Dutch. Look, the Bijlmer area is certainly problematic within Dutch standards, and I would just call it a massive failure within these standards. Really, there are no no-go areas in this country and it's a very well accomplished land in many societal parameters, when comparing to the world. I'd call a colossal failure the city I'm from, Rio de Janeiro.
Do you think the salary level reflects the high cost of living? 45k SEK pre-tax seems like a common figure, but appartments e.g. in Stockholm are around 12k SEK.
It does address rent: "If you didn’t own, you’d pay rent (which is tiny compared with the above, as I showed in last month's column). " Here's the link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2018/01/28/40...
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I see it the other way round. The people and community who chose electron at this point probably don't care about performance as much as we do. Improving performance would probably make us (people who care about performance, capable of writing lower level code) happy, but that's not their target user. Their community are people who write web apps, who don't want to learn native but want to make something.
It is not derived from Ανρωποσύνη. It is derived from ἄνθρωπο-καινός and in this context, it means human age.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/anthropo- "of man";
https://www.etymonline.com/word/-cene "new"

The wiki article on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene#Etymology has a better description of how this naming scheme came to be.
I believe his point is that although it is useful to analyze someone to see what they're doing wrong (so that you don't repeat the same mistake), it would be more useful to study what they are doing right so that you can apply those lessons to your situation. The former is quite easy to do and runs the risk of lulling one into complacency and a false sense of security, while the latter exercises your brain and demands greater effort and a more impartial assessment of the situation.

http://www.aaronkharris.com/presumption-of-stupitidy
https://sivers.org/ss

In the grandparent commenter's case, he is saying that everyone is focusing on the negatives of Chinese research when there are some useful lessons regarding regulation that could possibly be ported to the US.
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They had a demo thing, but a lot of developers didn’t like it.

The problem is that their networking layer API sits too high. Like if I want to implement the throw mechanic, I really don’t want to call Improbable.blah.

Glen always focuses on principles and techniques, so one can easily use these lessons to create network behaviours for own projects in a given environment.

Also love attention to detail, edge cases and push to perfection, rather then good enough.
> There are ways to discover mutual contacts privately.

Such as? I don't have the URL handy but the Signal team did investigate the literature and known techniques for this a few years ago and found them to be nonviable.
I just took a quick look at average salaries and cost of living (specifically rent) [0].

WRT average salaries, none of these seem particularly out of kilter i.e. the ratios of the salaries you quote to the average salary of the respective areas are fairly consistent.

What's interesting is cost of living. Surprisingly (to me) Vancouver and Toronto have salary to rent ratios similar to New York. Boston and Washington are better i.e. higher ratios. Seattle and especially Atlanta are much better.

Not sure what to conclude from this but it's quite interesting, at least to me.

[0] https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living I have absolutely no idea how good this data is.
I think making clients died when Twitter shuttered their APIs; companies want to keep control over how their users work with their stuff.

I've looked into alternative Slack clients for example which seem to be doable, but the only ones I saw were dead and/or looked terrible.
Bad Science is a very insightful and witty read with as many shocking parts as there are hilarious parts.

It's a while since I tried to read it, but Bad Pharma seemed to be much more focused on the fundamental problem and its effect, which I found to be a very hard read, I never finished it. No fault of Goldacre's writing, it's just a horribly horrible and massively massive problem.
As a counterpoint (and not necessarily the one the GP is referring to), if you were compiling for, say, an FPGA the overhead of compilation would be very significant.
Depends, if they are trying to compete with native apps or not.

Of course if they just stick with the ideal model of hypertext documents, with a little bit of JS, it doesn't make sense.

As for web apps, I am ok with them, provided they run on the browser I have already installed, instead of faking native apps.
I use Qi chargers as well, and they do work, but man... They would be so much better if they had even a few more millimeters of leeway in their positioning. As it is, each Qi device I have needs to be just so or it won't work. The fast wireless charger I got for my S8 is better than most, but still picky. I genuinely do think this needing to pay close attention to positioning is their biggest limitation to wider adoption.

(that, and android's insistence on turning on the screen to announce full charge, turning off, then turning back on again...)
Yep - Also found it a hard to read. I recommend the Audio Book read by Ben, much easier to consume the information having it read out. Plus, Ben has a lovely voice which helps.
Evernote could help, it allows you to add tags to a bookmarked article.
But what C code is running alongside the Rust code on the microcontroller that would make adhering to the C calling convention necessary? Is the hardware expecting the C calling convention?
Can something be effortless and a bother at the same time?
This is a actual use for blockchain that we could put into action pretty much whenever we can decide to.
To prevent glitches it rarely problem but sometimes happens: imagine that default pin state must be high (on reset pin are floating) and moment you set pin mode to output it goes low, because data register is 0
now: "Percent reported: 89.7%"

website: http://fdaaa.trialstracker.net/

github: https://github.com/ebmdatalab/clinicaltrials-act-tracker/

github issues: https://github.com/ebmdatalab/clinicaltrials-act-tracker/iss...
The longest lived stars, red dwards, will most likely simply fizzle out like a hot plate you turned off. It is unlikely we will ever observe such an event.

Even our Sun doesn't go Supernova, it just blows up a bit and discards it's outer layers, forming a white dwarf.

The stars that go Supernova are much more massive (around 3 times, IIRC) and have orders of magnitude shorter lifetimes (measured in only a few hundred million years at best).
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This is just off the top of my head, but it made me wonder: are there any VMs that put a stack map header of some sort as a literal in the stack?

E.g. for each frame the compiler orders roots first and then other primitives. Then, as you enter the frame, write the number of roots to the stack. When the GC walks the stack it can see precisely which are roots.
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Saying that you intuitively do not understand XYZ often requires intellectual honesty as well as understanding it rigorously, even more so in academia. So saying that you intuitively do not understand XYZ can be used as a signal.
That's hardly a point, since even some of those toolkits you mentioned are also available on Windows and macOS.

We're talking about proper toolkits vs. Electron here. Good luck making Electron look native, yet alone "talk" with anything :P
I have been curating resources for this for a while. I'm hoping to get at least some of them online this weekend. I have already noticed that there are some opinions coming out which are more prescriptive than the actual GDPR text. A lot of it is FUD from IT service providers. I'm hoping to focus on interpretation, grey areas and materials for non-power-users rather than replicate the source material below

The three best resources for a high level user I have found are (in no particular order)

1) Wikipedia as others have said

2) ico.org.uk

3) The GDPR itself

Best tip I can offer is that if your business is not the personal data itself, simply acting in good faith is going to get you 95% of the way to compliance
Signal has both gif and emoji support.
Any chance you can share what niche this was?
This study, along with long-accepted clinical practice and the generic cheapness of most anti-depressants now, and the effectiveness of CBT/therapy if it's available to you, means you should really avoid self-medicating for major depression.

Why take risks with your health when there are lots of safe, cheap and efficacious treatments that can be monitored by your doctor?
Meh... I won't bother. Discuss your solution with a security guy you trust.
That’s funny because coral.co.uk posts its login over HTTP. In fact if you try to login via https it redirects you to http. It would be fun to setup a hotspot called _The_Cloud outside a Coral and see what you find on the wire!
Unless you're a best-seller, swinging a deal like that's hard - in any genre =]
Battery technology is increasing at a steady rate of 8% per year. Everytime you hear of a breakthrough it's at least 10 years away from being production ready.
Does this mean that tools like https://www.thunderclap.it/ are in for a hard time?
Yes, with unique passwords for each services, you narrow the attack surface to compromise other accounts. But you still have to trust the operator to store and process this one - unique - password on this one service/website. It does not make any difference for the argument, if one or many accounts are potentially compromised. And you have to trust your password-manager software, since it is next to impossible to remember all the different passwords for all the different services you use.
Yep. It's a complete oversimpliification to consider all DP problems at O(n^2). Anybody familiar with modern algorithms will tell you that certain DP problems can even be O(nloglogn)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Emde_Boas_tree

For example, implementing VEB trees or even (countably distinct length) dictionary-based tries can speed up execution by orders of logn/n
> would be utterly trivial to implement in a proper language natively.

Have you tried to develop a cross-platform app for Windows, macOS and Linux recently recently? I do not know what you mean by "trivial", but using HTML/CSS/JS is the fastest way to develop UIs, and so, apps/programs. No contest. (about performances or resources management, that's a whole other story).

And using different techs for each platform to have a native app is not what I call trivial for developers in terms of complexity.
AVR microcontrollers use the same register to define the pin value when it's set as an output, and define the state of the internal pullups when it's set as an input.

I haven't seen that in ARM microcontrollers, but as peripherals vary across manufacturers I don't think you can assume that it's not done this way.
5.00€ CPC, ugh
This is really great and I will use this API.

Wrote a simple method in PHP using 10 lines:
https://gist.github.com/JimWestergren/a4baf4716bfad6da989417...

Feel free to use.
I see, my intuition is that the brain is like a very complex analog amplifying station with different types of transistors, capacitors, resistors, whatever.

Drug A decreases 100ohm resistor values to 50 in a noise filter stage and "fixes" your problem with the radio.

Drug B has same 100ohm -> 50ohm effect, but in a different section of the radio and doesn't work.

Drug C increases the speaker resistance from 5ohm -> 10ohm and "fixes" your problem because you simply cannot hear the noise.

Drug D increases the microphone resistance from 5ohm -> 10ohm and the noise simply is not picked up.

Drugs A and B work the same way, drug C and D work the same way, but opposite to how drugs A and B work and they all provide the same net effect as far as I'm concerned.
Was expecting this to be pitch for neo4j.
I understand the case in the case of Mozilla, because a browser is an intrinsically absurdly complex product. In the case of Signal, the benefits of having a foundation like that seem unclear to me. What exactly is it that they want to do but couldn't before they had a $50m foundation? The linked page seems very vague about this.
Because of the crowd that doesn't want to pay for AOT compilers.

The majority of commercial JDKs always supported AOT to native code, only Sun did not, as they were religiously against AOT.

Oracle thankfully thinks otherwise, has kept sponsoring MaximeVM research, which became Graal and SubstrateVM, and now they are in the process of even re-writing the C++ parts into Java (Project Metropolis).
Keybase is an amazing idea which seems to be trapped by the current zeitgeist. It implements smooth and intuitive PKI via a command line, a mobile app and a web/electron app and seem to be rolling it out as a slack and/or dropbox alternative which are pretty solid use cases.

The downsides are that it has a very cartoony 'silicon valley' type feel which is great for early adopters, but will be a significant barrier to enterprise and government customers who would otherwise be an absolute prime market for easy-to-implement, easy-to-administrate PKI.

It also has a very start-up oriented world view in terms of 'teams'. There would be great call for generic group management. I would love to have some stakeholder management across some projects where we could have a shared space, but also have separate areas for client, supplier and subcontractors. Keybase kind of doesn't quite fit the need for privacy there, although it is so close to being exactly what is needed.

Bringing it back round to the social networking thing though - it feels kind of like it was inspired a lot by social networking. This would be a boon if it were to become a social network. It is absolutely a downside if they're looking for a wider remit.
> In '95 consumer grade computers were shipping with between 512MB and 1GB.

Do you have a source for that? I bought a consumer grade computer in 1995 and it only had 120MB of disk space. And the historical prices suggest that 250MB was beyond consumer prices until ~1995.

http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte suggests 250MB would have been >$500 until 1994. Which is nowhere near "consumer" price.
How many jiggabytes space it requires for an app?
There's also a book called Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates from Oxford University Press.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bad-medicine-9780199...

It's not by the same author, but adds a nice historical perspective. On a long scale, medicine is mostly about harming your patient with treatements that are worse than nothing.
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Who gets to decide what constitutes a spare part on, say, a car? Should a cam shaft be a part or is it ok just to sell whole engines? That’s a really nice big can of worms you’re opening.
Reminds me of this amazing story and song!

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian...
I can't help but think that self-driving cars is the penultimate American thing. They aren't effective or needed in properly built cities (think London) and they won't make THAT much good to the society eliminating taxi drivers. If we dig into the vision of what people want to achieve with them, it's mostly manifestations of American problems (poverty, systemic racism, homelessness, segregation, insular indifference to others' problems, crazy urban sprawl) which people don't want to confront directly, instead opting for "let's spend HUMONGOUS amount of money to keep everything more or less the same".

There is a solution for most problems people try to solve with self-driving cars: more cycling, better public transport, denser cities. Look at London: car use is heavily discouraged (20mph speed limit, congestion charge, expensive parking) and still the whole thing works like a charm.
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What's wrong with them? I love those shirts! O.o
So can someone please invent a toothpaste that's not heavily mint flavored? I'd rather have my food taste like food.
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Ask HN: Examples of non-open-plan tech offices?
What are some good examples of technology companies without open-plan offices?

I'm in a battle at work to make the new floor for the engineering department be not (entirely, at least) open-plan. I have all the arguments marshalled, but I am struggling to provide good examples of tech companies that use traditional offices.

What are some strong examples I can offer? Modern startups would be especially useful.
> You are saying that because two locations have two different rates of obesity, that means genetics plays no role in obesity?

This really, really needs some explaining from GP. All evidence in the history of genetics tells us that if you put a population in relative isolation (say, West Virginia or one of the other deep south micro-societies which are predominantly economically insulated from one another with very little social mobility), adaptations and recessive traits become more prominent and pronounced and eventually speciation occurs.

Let me run this one by you: Put a bunch of poor people from Ireland and England (which were already isolated populations subsisting on a lean largely starch-based diet, which pushes selection pressures towards genetic adaptations that preserve starch-based energy) into a society-based island that is Appalachia, start applying very cheap garbage food made largely of factory starches and sugars by the train-car load since the late 1940's when the processed and packaged food industries needed an excuse to keep going after WWII, and social pressures like the reduction in need for dirty coal, mineral mining and manufacturing such that all that most of these people can afford to eat is the cheap processed stuff, and you wonder why previously rare diseases like obesity are so common among these people? You wonder why over time these adaptations may have had a chance to take hold as some of these individuals are able to diaspora or escape abject poverty and pass on their obsolete adaptations as we move forward into a post-food-scarcity society?

HackerNews is so filled with people who lack even the most basic sense of human empathy - I wish I could say I'm so surprised, but it's almost looked upon as a badge of honor by some of these people...
I highly recommend a visit! I went a few years ago and had a great time. It's right at the top of Bletchley Park and only costs a few pounds. It's a bit of a shame that it feels neglected by the main museum (it's a separate area/exhibit/entrance to the main Bletchley Park museum). Easy to get to from London, regular trains run from Euston all day.

I took a bunch of photos when I visited [1], I could've easily spent days there. It's unlike any museum I've been to before, towards the "end" there are lots of rooms with just piles of books and computers you can sit down with for however long you wanted - lots of tactile interaction! It was also wonderful to see machines like Colossus running as well as all manner of oddities like early UNIX systems, air traffic computers and calculators.

[1] https://photos.app.goo.gl/uhYyF3qgRnXtLy183
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Can you explain how you find it possible to think deeply about complex algorithms and data structures, or to debug code? When I do this I find that I'm essentially running programs in my head and keep a "mental stack" of what's going on. A distraction can easily break this mental stack. How do you deal with this?
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Both Facebook and Instagram are down. (from Sweden)
Right, so since a common problem with anti-depressants are the varied side effects of different classes (insomnia, weight loss/gain, sexual dysfunction, etc.. and etc..) a big part of going on an anti-depressant is you and your doctor finding a drug and a dose that shows both efficacy and a tolerable side effect profile.

This study generalizes this process by discussing both efficacy (how well the drug helps with depression) and the tolerability of the treatment, as measured by how long people tend to stay on the drug (the site is down right now so I forget the actual term used). Once the paper is accessible again have a look at some of the graphs that chart both of these measures. Generally, the drugs in the upper-right quadrants are better, showing both good efficacy and tolerability.
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It will be nearly impossible to find someone who disagree with him getting this award IMHO. That's so well deserved. Slow clapping time here.
To be honest, unfortunately this tends to only work if you're a white male. (And I say that as a white male myself.)

Edit: Since I am getting downvotes, to be clear, this is from experience. I definitely wish it wasn't the case, and I hope we're going to improve going forward. But in a lot of cases, the phenomenon of defaulting towards assuming intelligence in ambiguous statements for males vs assuming naivete in females is a huge subconsious (often unrecognized) bias that we aught to be more aware of.
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