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What does "gyp" mean? I googled it but I feel like I'm missing something.
> Reduced commute time, increased comfort and reliability.

Can the reason for these be that many other people use public transport instead and thus the roads are way less busier?
> that private firms cannot be trusted to manage financial transactions despite the massive history proving they can

This has to be satire, or else you must have been asleep for the last 10 years.
Tesla always emphasizes that the cars can self-drive using AutoPilot when selling cars; and they refer to "driver aids" whenever somebody dies.

They fully understand what they're doing. They just don't give a fuck.
I couldn't possibly consider .Net core on a number of reasons I didn't discuss above. Opt out telemetry, constant direction changes, who is in charge of the project and the general abusive nature of the company running the show towards its customers and end users over the last decade. The list is endless.

I have actually tried to get things fixed on MSFT open source projects as well and even when you get up to Scott Hanselman poking it on github, nothing tends to happen. On top of that many crippling bugs remain unresolved for so far 9 years. We have unreliable tooling, portability problems, all sorts.

On a larger team and product, it's a non trivial time and cost sink.
Only the rich should be able to have the fulfilling romantic relationship they desire, right?
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I think it's easy to forget that we've had relative peace in the west since WWII only because the two major powers built nuclear arsenals large enough to end all life on the planet in a matter of minutes.

Even with all the carnage of WWII, I have very little doubt we'd have been back at it 10 years later if it weren't for the specter of nuclear armageddon hanging over everyone's heads.
> In that case you should also have noticed the crushing poverty "enjoyed" by many Russians

Compared to Soviet Union, modern Russia is light years ahead. Of course, all this progress is built on the foundation laid down in the 90s, and is slowly deteriorating away for the last 10 years.
woah. did not knew just because of a line accidents may cause.
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My kid had to be on Similac Alimentum for like a year.

Now that’s a good racket.
> The amount of blood that the eastern European ground soaked up during the course of these great migrations

Any source for that? I'm pretty interested in the history of the Middle Ages and as such I've learned recently that some historians have even started to question the long-held believe that the famous Mongol invasion of 1241-1242 was that bloody. Yeah, they did ransack a couple of towns in Transylvania and present-day Hungary, but that mostly happened because those people put up a fight, on the other side of the Carpathians (Wallachia, Moldova) there are no visible "destruction markers", so to speak (like burned villages and such). A couple of centuries earlier the Pechenegs and the Cumans did cause some bit of a stir in their wake, but that was comparatively short-lived, as they were very rapidly (again, comparatively speaking) integrated by the Hungarians in their kingdom (there was even a king of theirs called Ladislaus the Cuman) and also by the Wallachian/Romanian population which was not part of any established State: to this day "Coman" is still a a pretty popular family name among Romanians, and some big name-places bear Cuman/Turkic names, like the county of Teleorman (meaning "crazy forrest") or the plains of Baragan (meaning "winter storm" or something of the sorts).
I asked him about if he could not see the smoke. He said the wind direction took the smoke away from his house and some hills obstructed his view. He had just moved into the neighborhood so he wasn't friends with the neighbors quite yet.
well there is a big gulf between storm and hurricane. if they had encountered a normal squall it is doubtful they would have been in trouble but they ran straight into a CAT3 hurricane which if you have experienced on land you know its not even remotely sane to be out in it.
We used cloth diapers on my son (who is now almost 4). Our technique was as follows:

-One wash cycle in warm water using no soap.

-One wash cycle in hot water using soap.

-Dry

Every couple weeks we would put white vinegar in the no-soap cycle. This helps cut the smell down.

Every couple months we would put a small amount of bleach in the no-soap cycle. Any more frequent than this and we found the diapers then irritated our son's skin.

If I had to do it all over again, not sure how I would choose. As you call out, there are additional costs to the cloth diaper approach (water, detergent, etc) that add up, plus it takes quite a bit of time.

One advantage that we found is that our son, and other folks we know who used cloth diapers, all had kids who ended up potty training sooner (anywhere from a couple months to 6+ months earlier) than kids wearing disposables.
Wells in aquifers don't work quite that way - they aren't open bodies of water that can flow freely.

When a well draws water, it creates a cone-like depression of the water level around the well (think of all those nifty gravity diagrams of planets). A well which was drilled sufficiently deep to work with existing draws can be made "dry" by getting a new neighbor who draws enough to lower the aquifer below their well head.

Those wells can be made to work again, but only by having a company come in and make the well (perhaps significantly) deeper.

An search on "aquifer drawdown" will provide a lot of reference material.
Those things are supposedly hell on every septic, and even (older?) sewer, system.
We're 99% Python but for an internal app I would probably go with Postgres, Memcached and Phoenix/Elixir as that's probably where we want to end up in a few years time. For the front end I'd go with HTML and vanilla JS. Front end dev has gotten so mad that picking any framework at this point could turn out to be a bad decision.
Yes I agree there. I would err towards redis these days myself as well, not necessarily using it for anything persistent unless you need to.
What a bizarre comment. Saying "Jews, in general, aren't an ethnicity" is almost an oxymoron - for it is precisely the identity shared between this group of people, that justifies the existence of words such as "Jews". There is an evident sense of shared identity between different populations of Jews, based on common history, culture, customs and traditions - this is the very definition of ethnicity, and this why we refer to all of them as "Jews".
I think a crucial part of the equation is the context. I'll give my answer with that in mind:

DB engine:

Postgres or otherwise MySQL, unless I'm planning to do something specific that clearly warrants the use of something else. Too often I've regretted using something more 'exotic' for no really good reason.

API layer:

If this is something I'll mostly be building myself, definitely Phoenix/Elixir, unless the Rails/Ruby or Django/Python ecosystem has something that I 'need'. If hiring 'cheap' bodies is at all a concern, I'd go for Django/Python or Rails/Ruby. But at this point I'd rather hire that one developer (remote or nearby) who is itching to use Phoenix/Elixir over five of the alternative. And I think any decent Python/Ruby programmer could pick up what I started with pretty quickly.

Frontend SPA:

Just myself: React. If I need to work with others, possibly Vue, but most likely React still. I would probably start out with TypeScript right away, and go for the most 'vanilla' possible everything else (Webpack, Redux, React-Router, Babel, bits of Lodash perhaps).

That said, while last year I would never consider this, I'd probably go for a 'good old' server-side templating approach (w/Phoenix) with some React/Vue components sprinkled in. Even with the best of devs and the best of tools, front-end just strikes me as still too fiddly, too labor-intensive, and too expensive (front-enders often cost more than back-enders, or am I wrong with that impression?) to be worth the effort. Obviously this depends entirely on what's being built though.

Caching:

With Phoenix, possibly none at first. Otherwise I guess something on the nginx side? Not sure if I can see this mattering too much until later in the process.

PaaS:

No. unless there's a good justification for it. I still lean towards using a VPS or something like that, at least until things get out of hand.
Better post than the original link :)
> water is better than tea also

What are you basing this off of? How are the comparisons being done? Tea has many benefits provided its not "fake" sugar-riddled tea.

Don't make a comment telling someone else to "stop doing something" without any context about why you're suggesting it.
Your last sentence doesn't strongly support your first, thanks to the four qualifiers you added.
Traditional VC fund raising can do this too in that the founder is often pressured to fund raise more than running the company and to optimize the company for the next round rather than for real customers.
That's a start, but I suspect we're better off thinking about all possible features, because this allows us to define a protocol that generalizes better.

In your example, users can be tagged in a photo. That's nice. But let's say that in the future we want to share who's attending what events. Perhaps we can use the same kind of constructs in the protocol for both uses.

Of course, an implementation does not need to support all features from the start.
> Are all these big tech companies spending way too much money on employees and not enough on their actual product

Do they make more money when someone fires up the IG app and watches ads, or a third party tool sucks data out and displays it elsewhere?

The developer API is not the product.
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"if you had poo on your arm and you wiped it off with toilet paper, would you say its clean?"

If you had poo on your arm and rinsed it with a gentle spray of plain water, would you say it's clean?

If I had poo on my arm, I'd use soap and water to clean it then rinse well. Of course, if my arm was what was generating the poo, I'd probably be less fastidious about keeping it clean and free of poo. And I'd see a doctor.
UK Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn attends Passover seder describing Israel as “shit”
Last IE to be branded as such was released in 2013; the not-IE-nooosir-notatall aka Edge will continue to be supported.
> carry more risks

Citation needed, and good luck finding one considering the long list of pills side effects.

Also all your previous objections to birth control are invalid in the case of IUD.
Yeah, that's what I meant^^
If a survey is conducted in almost any part of the world, I'd guess that most people (including me) would prefer to be hit by a human rather than an autonomous car. I'm not sure why this is, but having someone to blame and the fact that being a victim of an emotionless lifeless machine is subjectively way more horrifying than being a victim of a person are some that I can think of.
I think the piece was aiming for maximum irony. Also note: "In a 2001 study two scholars in Canada (LINK) showed that comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases."
I know I am missing something, but passing -F 49 to perf will tell the kernel to adjust the sampling interval dynamically so approximately 49 events/s are recorded, right?

But then how does it make sense to plot the number of events per second in the overview? Or what exactly is being plotted in the overview?

Edit: Perhaps it is simply that idle events are discarded and multiple CPUs allow more than one event in the period?
I'm in a similar boat. I felt very over whelmed and addicted to social media and news in general in college.

I've got rid of all my social media other than twitter and linkedin which I use for work. Facebook I only use for messenger. I check reddit once or twice a day but rarely do I scroll past the first page. My overall mental health is much better. I feel a little bit of sadness when I see friends who HAVE to check their phones (social media) after being without it for a hour. It's great in moderation but I think most people get too sucked in.
The autopilot page needs to start with a description of what autopilot is, and then farther down the page, the point about not having to buy new hardware for "full" self driving could be made. This probably still needs a disclaimer that that is the belief of the company, not a proven concept.

But that's not going to happen, because Tesla wants to deceive some people into believing that autopilot is "full self driving" so they will buy the car.
To clarify, by "simple", I meant that the bug was discoverable, exploitable, and testable by Google's own public interface -- i.e. didn't require the researcher to break into anything, or find an otherwise extreme set of conditions. This isn't meant to impugn the skill of the researcher, just to point out how amazing it was that such a bug could exist in the open. I wonder if any analysis was done to figure out how many customers (good and bad) specified cross-domain redirects for sitemaps. Should have been easy to calculate, I assume.
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I've always been idly curious as to what happened in Israel (as in the geographic area) between, say, 35 A.D. and 1948. It seems, though, as if everybody who might have some insight there also has an agenda that makes any concrete information they might have to share indecipherable.
You should follow what's relevant to you and where you live: local force twitter account, local community, any risky mother nature alert if any, etc... only real information, and not "news"
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Every little while when I scroll and a media element is displayed I experience a large stutter. That's an awful UI.
Maybe what the other commenter was referring to was something like weak leg muscles that manifest as pain in or around the knee.
> this is exactly why ios devices are not general purpose computers.

What general purpose computation requires root?
All the trends are longer term, the theory about lessening violence first emerged in the 1700s[1]. WW2 doesn't change Pinker's conclusions, by his own admission. So, it is reasonable to conclude this book could have been written in 1930, and would be no less correct than it is now.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_peace_theory
Even though it’s much less lucrative than ads, it can still disrupt google. It’s work examining the equivalent of mining in CPM terms to compare.

But precisely why it’s less lucrative is why it’s a threat. Remember when Napster came out and the argument was “they’ll never make as much money as the record industry?”

For new entrants making an order of magnitude less is perfectly fine because they are a new market. Why would they care if google loses $1B in ad revenue if they make $100M. Especially since you don’t really need a market maker like Google matching ad buyers to content makers, the $100M can go directly to content creators running sites.

The payout for Adsense is super low for display. They don’t reveal the payout ratio for clicks, but I expect it’s 10-30%.

So for comparison for $1B in current AdSense payout to content sites, content creators only get $100-300M based on clicks.

If you replaced this with crypto miners then you only need 10-30% payout from browser miners in order for content creators to break even. But ad in all the readers who never click (like me, the ads are not relevant) this gets more attractive.

If google is smart, they do recognize this as a threat.
IUD pregnancies are often extrauterine (which are mostly non viable, so that solves the unwanted pregnancy problem). And there's still abortion. I wonder to what point having a child was a choice in the case you evoked.
In a way, this is a big part of how I transitioned from someone who knew how to program a Commodore 64 to someone that could help people build web pages (and eventually be able to do other things good, too.)

I had a Geocities web site, and I loaded it down with JavaScript widgets that I wrote. Things to flip images around. Things to annoy you with alerts. Then I spent countless hours in MS Paint making images out of bitmaps which I then wired up using JavaScript to emulate an Iron-man watch (complete with glowing and a very bad battery!)

There was "no risk." It was fun and exploratory. It didn't achieve anything useful for anyone else, but I learned and got confident in learning (and experimenting.) When someone actually hired me and threw ColdFusion at me, it was wildly different... from QBasic and from JavaScript... but I just experimented and figured out how to do CRUDDY things.
What was the bug that remained open for 9 years? Was it part of the .net framework or a Windows SDK issue?

What sort of projects did you have the most trouble with? Where were your pain points?
For a less radical step than giving up news completely, try just giving up 'push' news.

For me this meant disabling my Google Now feed, turning off NYTimes notifications, unfollowing all non-human accounts on Facebook, and unsubscribing from some email digests. Oh and check out the 'noprocrast' settings on Hacker News.

Now I read the news exactly when I want to and from sources I enjoy. I still probably know more than I'd like to about the whims of the president, but I notice that I'm probably 20% happier and 5% less informed than when I started. A good trade.
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Hah, same in my household but with Age of Empires II and Caesar 3. Strategy games are particularly fun/engaging when played cooperatively as a single player.
+ lost value to the victim, who are essentially paying an attackers bill for them
> Either you give the control over the data to a central authority, or you give the control to the user [receiver?], you can't have both.

No, there are middle grounds, such as a decentralized/local authorities. E.g. you send a hyperlink to the message on your server, rather than the message itself. Theoretically, you've still ceded control to the receiver, but practically, in most cases, you haven't.
Seems that the bright minds here behind friendica could be helpful in the MIT Solid project being run by Tim Berners Lee. And/or they could be a SOLID app themselves:
Without ad blockers my fan frequently kicks in from flash/js ads. I frequently have to kill tabs like YouTube and even Reddit for hitting high cpu just from doing dumb stuff.

I still visit those sites anyway.
I mentioned this in a reply to another comment, but the NHTSA findings have apparently raised suspicions in other researchers. Currently, the DOT/NHTSA are facing a FOIA lawsuit for not releasing data (they assert that the data reveals Tesla trade secrets) that can be used to independently verify the study's conclusion:

http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/quality-control-...

https://jalopnik.com/feds-cant-say-why-they-claim-teslas-aut...
You mean ... aren't interested in things that aren't luxury products for already-rich government officials and clients.

Same can be said for Unicef.
async/await is still slower in 8.10 than promises though, isn't it?

Also, I'd be interested to find out why this is so massive? We've been waiting a long time for this, and I get that Lambda is complex with lambda@edge and all that, but how much tweaking does AWS do to the node runtime before they can deploy this?

Node 8 has been out for 10 months, and it's been LTS for half a year - or did they simply wait for it to be stable enough to run, or anything specific in 8.10?
>> Linux applications have a lot of trouble with the HiDPI screen

> Honestly haven't noticed a single thing.

I've got a coworker sitting right next to me with a HiDPI main + non-HiDPI secondary screen. X or Wayland, it's a thousand cuts of hell: set native resolution and render scaling to 200% and you get some (most) apps at 200% on the non-HiDPI screen. Drag an app from HiDPI to non-HiDPI and notice how the overflow is wrongly scaled. There's no way to render at 200% on a non-native resolution then downsample to native, you have to set a non-native resolution, upsampled by the GPU/panel, which results in a useless blurry mess.

> it doesn't get burning hot to the touch when doing actual work on it. Nor does it sound like it's about to take off.

Early '13 and mid '14 13" rMBP here, VMs don't lag, slightly warm, but in no way "burning hot". Early '13 is dead silent thanks to dual fan design, mid '14 slightly less so, and only when I peg all cores for long enough.
Would it not be better for you (and the rest of the world) if you instead willingly paid them the equivalent portion of your power bill, without actively wasting the resources?

I really don't want the world to devolve into a future where armies of ignored pre-teens with ipads are rapidly accelerating global warming, just so that they can watch clickbait videos and share content in $social_network_vNext, on sites sponsored by "monitising PoW".
I found this article really unconvincing. It lashes out at random things like the number of hyperlinks in an article, and has completely unsubstantiated claims like the following:

"Most news consumers – even if they used to be avid book readers – have lost the ability to absorb lengthy articles or books. After four, five pages they get tired, their concentration vanishes, they become restless. It's not because they got older or their schedules became more onerous. It's because the physical structure of their brains has changed."

This claim stops just short of saying watching the news causes ADHD, from a self-styled "self-help guru" with no expertise in neurology or psychology, without any sort of citation.

There's also specious logic like this:

"I don't know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer, mathematician, physician, scientist, musician, designer, architect or painter"

I also find the question "Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life" to be poorly founded. Knowledge is a good unto itself, and simply raising awareness of issues can lead to action, even if the majority do nothing concrete to help. Simply seeing the change in polling data can cause politicians to enact legislation (though, obviously, donating to a lobbying group or contacting your representative are more effective).

Moreover, I think the fundamental idea asserted here is dangerous. Limiting your news intake is one thing, but forgoing it entirely?. The cornerstone of democracy is an informed public. Keeping people aware of the actions being taken at and highest and lowest levels of government is the only way to keep it accountable. And on a personal note I think it is immoral for people who are relatively well off to ignore the problems plaguing others.
I think it's a similar quandary with Arabs, minus the shared religion of course.

I'm Tunisian and I consider myself Arab, but many other Tunisians consider themselves (ethnically) Maghrebi and/or Amazigh. Tunisia and the remaining Maghrebi countries are part of the Arab League, though.

I'm sure it's even more complicated for Tunisian Jews :P
I did. I'm very aware that lately more and more posts on HN have the same depth as main stream news (what the article is about).

But what I like about HN is that the comment section is full of insight about the subject sometimes even debunking the article that was posted.

So yes.
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If that technology is controlled by a government, it could be denied to whomever they decide is "undesireable"...