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This is absolutely worth it. I've been reading like this maybe half of my account's lifecycle. It is rare to see legitimate spam. More often you find real posts from accounts that trip the "spam account" detector because they're throwaways, or controversial but valid opinions that got flagkilled.

Sometimes you'll even find real accounts that have a years-long history of meaningful contribution. [0] It is most infuriating when these people get hellbanned just for pushing the limit once, or for triggering the mods extra hard one day.

[Quick note on old accounts that earn hellbans: I've noticed a correlation between the posting of something MRA-ish/anti-feminist and accounts getting a permanent hellban. If you have such political leanings (which I'm not endorsing or supporting) and want your account to remain in good standing, don't let them leak out on HN. Go to your regularly-scheduled Disgusting Online Den of Scum and Villainy (TM). It may be that this is only noticed because most other hot-button issues are already understood to be taboo, but sometimes the gender-in-tech threads run afield...]

There is a whole cast of characters that you can only find if you showdead. Most of these people have since realized that it's a waste of time to post here and gone away, but you'll still see the regulars pop up now and then, or find them in historic threads.

There is pg_is_a_butt, whose posts are sometimes insightful, except he ends each one with something like "you're all idiots". There is LoseThos, author of the amazing TempleOS [1], who will usually post some form of incoherent babble that is framed up like scripture. These are usually not worth much by themselves, but they remind me that he exists, which is great. And there are the heartbreaking cases mentioned above, of good contributors getting flagged off and seeing their profile activity slowly peter out as they wonder why no one replies to their posts anymore. [Vouching can actually make this more confusing, because they have ONE comment that gets replies/interest, so assume they must not be shadowbanned, they just must be going senile and have nothing worth saying anymore. You'll also get your vouching rights revoked if you vouch for something the mods don't like.]

Anyway, there's usually a discernible reason for something to be dead, but it's frequently not a good one. You'll be missing out on a lot of good stuff by keeping showdead off.

Disclaimer, lest one plunge in too anxiously: there are also things that truly deserve the flag and/or ban, and you'll have to tolerate seeing that. It helps that HN doesn't allow media embeds, but do be careful following links, etc., and probably avoid if your sensitivity to offensive text or ideas is higher than your interest in useful-but-controversial information.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=X86BSD

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
Ideally a mixture of medium and high rise condos and some higher density single family homes, duplexes and town/row houses would be great.
Im'a let you finish, but every device and capable to communicating with any other device in the present and the future will sell your data.
This is a nice analysis, explained well. The results seem to jive with the impressions I’ve heard about these apps.

I wonder how other places compare to San Francisco, though? The variables involved with solving vehicle routes can differ a lot across locations. Probably ditto for the fitness of however each app is implemented.
Definitely. Some of the most valuable posts are downvoted. Thats what makes them so valuable - sometimes the conventional wisdom is so wrong that when someone with specialist knowledge chimes in people reject it.

Try posting here about anything related to nutrition and the health risks of eating meat...
Well, those kind of comments do get downvoted, but people on HN do also downvote comments simply because they disagree with them (often regardless of whether the comments are perfectly civil, and just express a point of view that the downvoter doesn't share). Of course, many of those downvoting these comments would be quick to label them as "misguided" or "unhelpful", at which point there is usually little reason to argue about it.

It's an imperfect system, but I'd guess it is a net positive at least most of the time. It does help to filter out when people are just being total jerks.
I hope they also invest in roads and mass transit. A lot of residents in those 10K new homes will be working outside of North Bayshore. Heck, even if one is working at Google, it could be at any other myriad campuses across Sunnyvale / San Jose / Mt View. There would also be kids, who need to be transported to schools.

Without roads and transit improvements, North Bayshore can easily turn into a nightmare.
> Many (most?) people who study CS have no intention of writing software or becoming developers.

Quite the opposite, since most schools offer CS degrees but not Software Engineering degrees. Most students in CS are there to learn to become software developers, not to learn theoretical (i
e., computational) science.
Parking would be less of a deal if they built mixed developments, which are more desirable anyway. It’s quite nice being able to walk out of your house and drop right into a coffee shop, bar, or restaurant. Walking to work or school is amazing too.

People here seem to be so afraid that their neighborhoods will begin to look more like Dubai or Hong Kong. But clearly what we’re doing now isn’t sustainable, nor is it even that pleasant. Much of SV looks like it did in the 1970s, and you have to sit in a half hour plus of traffic if you want to do anything. I think we would be in pretty good shape if maybe we didn’t go to the extremes, but took a housing model more like Paris, London, or Amsterdam. We can limit heights, but still build dense and create a place people really want to live in.
The proposal doesn't seek to guarantee reproducible builds; it merely seeks to enable them, through the methods they outline.

If you did want to guarantee reproducible builds with SHA-1 hashes, one way would be to introduce those into the .mod files they outlined. But that'd be clunky; it's much easier to reason about a version number than it is a digest hash.

Another method would be to introduce a lock file where those details are kept from plain view, but my sense was that they wanted a little more openness about the mechanism they were using than a lockfile provides (which is why .mod files use Go syntax, save the new "module" keyword they would introduce). After all, that's how dep works right now: they might as well just keep the lock file.

Cases where tags are being deleted, or worse—where accounts are deleted, then recreated with (other? same?) code, may be said to break the semver contract the library or binary author someone has with their users. As such, it may be seen as outside of scope for what they are seeking to accomplish with vgo.
It's really not that hard unless you have kids. Just leave earlier. Like someone said, you wouldn't be late for a flight since you actually care.
Update: For what it's worth, I just tried it with wired headphones (again, a decent pair) and they don't sound different as far as I can tell, so BT compression doesn't seem to be having any observable effects.
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Do you miss a lot of flights?
The interesting question, then, is how far off can this be and still work? Is the limit "reasonable", or is there room for improvement of the algorithm?

E.g. I think most humans would say taking this content picture:

https://wallpapershome.com/images/pages/pic_hs/10150.jpg

and styling it with this picture:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3499/3876547311_c2e32759d9_z.j...

is a pretty well-posed operation. How does that look using this algorithm?
Ask HN: How do people get to a single number for churn?
I often see churn quoted as a single number. How do people "flatten" churn like this? In my experience churn is very high in the first month, then falls as time goes on.

My current (consumer) startup has a churn of around 25% the first month, then dropping to almost nothing after a few months. Using a single churn number doesn't even come close to approximating real behavior.

Seeing single number churns quoted as benchmarks makes them fairly useless. How do people reconcile this?
> We don't do a great job of outbound tbh

I can only speak personally, of course, but all the time you spend here on HN, and the helpfulness of your posts, have definitely established you as someone I will want to talk to when the time comes.
No, whenever I'm running 30 minutes late, whatever I did in those 30 minutes was nowhere near as important as the other person's time. It was probably something that didn't deserve my time at all that day, or sometimes even any other day.

Those of us who are deficient in executive function aren't "choosing to not give a damn". It's not a "choice". If you're a person who always has complete control over their actions, please consider the fact that some of us don't have that luxury, and our own lives suffer even more from it than the lives of the people who we subject to our tardiness.
What I mean is sometimes you find out you're the Buddha and sometimes you find out you're a lonely, pudgy 35 year old doing drugs in the woods and wondering how you're going to come down in time to get to the office in the morning. You imagine you're going to go out and meditate in a garden full of friendly animals, but the nature of tripping is that the non-tripping mind cannot predict the experience with any kind of fidelity. Especially if you're 35 and haven't found a free day to go do it since you were 25, due to mortgages and whatnot.
80% of my coworkers do not read them. I read the ~5% of them that contain more than "Status: -Open- Assigned." Of my remaining coworkers, there are a dozen that reply from their mail client, which just makes everything worse.
Surelly there's a threshold which must be crossed before the highly paid pool is depleted enough to make such an impact.

Edit: To clarify, it's not as if tech companies, especially Google, are going to stop hiring and attracting more highly paid people to the area. 10,000 sounds like a number small enough to be gobbled up pretty quickly by SV tech growth.

Not that I'm in favor of turning the bay area into a high density population. A lot of what makes the region so nice to be, especially the peninsula, is the relatively low density. I really wish tech companies would make more of an effort to distribute their workforce and better leverage technology to enable remote work. It's really messing with the demographics, culture, and gender distribution of places like SV. When San Jose is being referred to as Man Jose, you've got a real problem.
They pay them more for waiting, effectively moving the working capital up the supply chain where it accumulates to where it can be used.
do you really think losing a bunch of internet points will reduce people's ability to speak their mind?
Slashdot meta-moderation was fantastic for this. I'm curious why it never made an appearance elsewhere - it really was a great idea.
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Yes.

I'll quote what I wrote in a reply further below:

> I've missed at least 8 flights in the past decade, have seen only the last 80-90% of many of the films I watched in the cinema, have had to stand in the back for the first act of many stage productions, etc. Seeing me walk, rather than run, through train stations and airports is a rare sight. I don't recall a single multi-day bushwalk I've been on, where I pitched my tent before sunset, or even within 2 hours after it.
Totally agree with the first part.

But, does a program can use more than 4GB of RAM if it's compiled in 32-bit and executed into a 64-bit environnement (with more than 4GB of memory)?

I imagine that the answer is between yes and no.

I imagine that you, as developer, can choose between limiting your program not to use more than 4GB or let the system (host) do the memory re-mapping job for you...

But what about reliability in this case?
Interesting concept. I am the creator of the BeeLine Reader browser plugin, which applies a color gradient to make text blocks easier/faster to read. I go back and forth on whether this functionality is a net benefit on sites like HN, where our text coloring obfuscates the underlying color (and the downvoting that it communicates).

Sometimes I will disable it on HN if I'm engaging in a lot of discussions where I'd like to be able to see if other comments have been downvoted. If anyone else here uses this plugin, I'd be very interested to know if you've disabled it on HN or if you find the functionality to be helpful. We can make it default on/off on certain sites, so feedback is appreciated.
Downvotes (and flaggings) on comments are HN's biggest flaw. It has turned this site into a giant echo chamber and has completely killed any chance of having diversity of opinions.

If you do not conform, you will be downvoted into oblivion. So people censor themselves as a result.
I have never had a particularly hard time making friends. Then again most of my close friends are in their 60s or 70s now, so they won't be there for me in my 60s no matter how much energy I devote to maintaining the friendship.
The problem with cars is that you cannot avoid them, like you can avoid browsing ad-infested website or turning off add-annoying TV channel.

Everyone will know that and hence car manufacturers and car dealers seriously subsidied by an ad publishers will charge hefty price tag for anyone trying to escape ad prison system.
Salarys:
https://dcps.dc.gov/node/1057802

Bachelors degree with no experience (but presumably a teaching certificate) 56K. Tops out with a Phd and 20 years in at about 135K (not including bonuses). Not the end of the world, but median household income in DC & PG County is around 75K, Montgomery County 85K and Fairfax VA 105K. Unmarried, or with a family in a two income home, that's solidly middle class income.

> The only ones teaching are the ones who will submit themselves to humiliation and abuse and work 80 hour weeks for the reward of barely reaching a middle class existence.

That overstates it a bit, but that is the crux of the issue. DC public schools are administered so poorly, with such a legacy of failure, despite the great pay they cannot attract decent teachers, and they have outrageously high rates of turnover, as anyone who can get a job elsewhere does.
Stash works fine in precisely the same sense that lynx is a perfectly capable web browser. It's not wrong, but you have to admit that it's missing a number of 'modern' features that many users have grown accustomed to.

The more recent offering (Bitbucket Server) falls behind the curve as well, even when compared to their own Bitbucket Cloud service.
My guess is that I’m not interested in people at all, and so are my remaining friends. From time to time you meet a person who has a potential to be friends with, but all the potential activities you’ve already seen and got bored of. I don’t get drunk, high, do not do crazy things or sharp discussions anymore. Common interests are just that - common interests. What makes you friends with someone is not just spending time together, but doing something you’ll never do with random people (though few people think they are your friends because they spent some time with you). Now most of ‘still friends’ that I have simply offload their problems to someone’s ears when we meet, or endlessly discuss material matters like property prices, car options and female parameters.

I don’t think you can make true friends in 30s unless you’re taking part in a war-like activity.
Wouldn't the speed ultimately be limited by the CPU speed of the Drobo itself instead of the interface? Even hardware accelerated hashing has limits.
Go stopped being statically linked a couple of versions ago.

Yes, by default it uses statically linking, however generating dynamically linked binaries and libraries is also an option.
I think private schools use a lot of the same signals for success as public schools, however their students are often shielded from the downsides due to circumstances out of their control (their parents/family background), and upsides amplified.
So, given that Google Maps now has this feature, what's your reason now?
It's just a cheap/easy biometric. Retina pattern or finger print are better biometrics, but generally require special purpose hardware for ease of use.
So yes, that's not what I was saying, but it's true I also suffer from RIDICULOUS time-optimism. When I say I'll be there in 30 minutes, that's what I honestly think.

But I forget about the time to find my always-lost cell phone, the time to ride the elevator - basically everything except the actual time on the road/bus/etc... 30 minutes being that magical time every light was green and everything went perfectly, etc.

This impacts all areas of my life. It's a reason I'm reluctant to carpool or take caltrain, heck, I'm always late to my Therapist... and I pay a lot for that.

Point is that I really try to avoid things where I have to be EXACTLY ON TIME.

For instance, if I'm going to a theater show, I'll plan to meet my friends for dinner beforehand. I might not be able to eat (they will), but at least I'll make the show on time.

Incidentally "I'll plan to be 30 minutes early, so I won't stress the entire time"... doesn't work somehow.
Yes, one can certainly find a lot of material in Nietzsche's work supporting this interpretation. But there is so much more to it. Giorgio Colli wrote that "Nietzsche has said everything, and the opposite of everything." Depending on how you pick and choose, you can construe it to mean pretty much anything you want. Which is also what enabled his sister to use her brother's work for her own nationalistic, antisemitic goals.
Could you elaborate on how it works/worked? Or is it as suggested above: a downvote + a reason?
The reason there aren't speed bumps every few miles is the same reason it's not illegal to tell each other where the speed traps are: there is tension between public support for the goal, and public annoyance at enforcement.

This is also why it's not illegal to buy a car that can go 120 mph, even though there is not a single road in the U.S. with a speed limit that high.
It’s not simply a per hour cost basis: it’s the psychology of pouring your heart into being rejected when, statistically speaking, the writing was on the wall. I’ve seen founders pushed to breaking (myself included) by absolutely mundane shit investors don’t think twice about. Yeah, the “good ones” get over it and move on. Doesn’t change the impact.

Fundraising, for founders, is not a back-of-the-envelope ROI calculation. It’s purely founder psychology management. You’ve raised multiple funds from LPs and should be insanely proud of that fact. Kudos. I’m sure it’s one of the more, if not most, difficult things you’ve ever done.

However: you did that based on, correct me if I’m wrong, a pre-existing network and a safety net of wealth from previous exits as an employee. I’m not trying to “class shame”, that’s not wrong or bad and it doesn’t diminish you, your abilities, your insights or your fund, but founders’ predicaments are often very different and they have a lot more riding on the success of their startup. (Please - if I’m wrong, correct me! I’m not trying to be an ass here and I am making assumptions. I’m prepared to be very wrong.)

My guess is that Justin Kan’s fundraising style is an emergent result of his initial conditions (circumstances at first fundraise) and intuition, and that it’s designed to minimize psychological risk (harmful self-doubt, second-guessing) as much as it’s designed to optimize for a successful close, because the two are tied hand-in-hand.

My only conclusion is that it shouldn’t be dismissed based on anecdotal evidence from a VCs perspective without considering how wildly different founders’ perspectives can be. Again, probably no objective truth, just a whole ton of things to think about!
> Is it usual for the perspective of NPR articles to be this bizarrely biased?:

Yes. It's embarrassing. NPR favors that gonzo folksy editorial style over attempting to appear impartial.

> The primary bad actors on the internet are not individuals exploiting anonymity.

"international espionage" are not 'individuals'.
> If you do not conform, you will be downvoted into oblivion. So people censor themselves as a result.

I see radically divergent opinions on many threads which are not "downvoted into oblivion".

The things I do see downvoted into oblivion are usually unsubstantive and/or uncivil, and themselves come from all directions, often from a similar apparent ideology to comments that are not downvoted.

But if people who would otherwise post in a similar manner to the posts downvoted into oblivion are censoring themselves, I think the functionality is working as intended.
Hope my upvote gets you a little closer :)
My Relentless Hunt for Nicolas Cage
It is not at all equally common, it is a known health risk for men that they are likely to have less social support than women, and it is one of the contributors to the very elevated mortality risk of becoming a widower compared to becoming a widow. Here’s a reference to a few older studies if you like - https://books.google.com/books?id=J3-78PdF83kC&pg=PA201&lpg=...
I think it's somewhat of a subjective question. I'm curious to who you think are the primary bad actors on the internet.

I can imagine, if someone is primarily concerned with the free expression of ideas, then individuals exploiting anonymity to harass people are actually pretty bad. There are huge swaths of public opinion that simply don't show up on the internet because they're the kinds of opinions internet bullies tend not to like. That's a big loss to free speech.
And if the police focused their efforts in "high-risk areas" it would be hard to make the argument that speed enforcement is all about revenue.

They don't, so it's not.
Okay interesting, I thought I was alone. Guess there's a lot of us "noncontributors" on here haha.
This sounds like an excellent place for a [Citation Needed] tag, no pun intended.
I don't think so. Back when I was running my startup I would occasionally refrain from posting on some of the more divisive topics where my opinions aren't inline with the concensus here.

Investors, customers, and peers read HN, so maintaining a clean history can seem moderately important.
The demand curve is continuous so the effect on prices is continuous. There is no threshold effect.
This is an odd title for the piece, which is essentially three puffy descriptions of three unrelated peoples' relationship to the internet's potential.
What Are the Top 5 Software Development Trends for 2018?
i.e. what people were doing on ChatRoulette for a long time (and probably still are).
It's quite arrogant for one to think that just because someone is late, they are late out of a lack of respect for one's time. The early person upset their time was wasted is being equally if not more selfish by expecting everyone to move to their whims.
> Oh and the FU on all of our existing integration use is cute.

I certainly didn't appreciate it. As someone who invests significant portions of time building integrations between various systems in our development team, I quickly hit the brakes the second I heard the Stride announcement.

Since our organization is being forced to move from HipChat, we're reviewing alternatives rather than blindly continuing onward toward Stride.

I strongly doubt that this will have any impact on Atlassian's bottom-line, however.