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> HN mods have shown a strong pro-authoritarian sentiment

It would be very difficult to overstate how strongly I disagree with your statement. HN mods have shown a strong tendency to shut down discussions that turn into flame-fests. The most common topic for such discussions is politics. But they will post on political discussions, begging people to keep it civil so that they (the mods) don't have to shut the discussion down.

If you think that HN mods are taking a political side, well, I have to say that I don't see it. I see them trying to behave as authoritarians only to the degree that they need to to keep the conversation from crawling into the gutter. (And I see them not always doing that perfectly, but it seems to me that the intention is not to take sides.)

And I would say, then, that the problem is more likely that the anti-authoritarian political crowd posts flames, or else that they attract flames in response. If you can't state your anti-authoritarian view without pouring gasoline on the conversation, it's going to look (to you) like the moderators are pro-authoritarian. But if every time you state something anti-authoritarian, your opponents consistently light the conversation on fire, it may have the same effect.

Bottom line: I don't think the problem is the mods. The problem may be you. I'd encourage you to seriously consider that possibility, rather than just dismissing it. Or it may be that there are enough trolls and flamers on the other side that we just can't have a conversation without it destroying the forum.
> Again, if this is what he believed, then he would be suing to get out of the bargaining unit. The entire suit is a scam to weaken the power of unions. If the union has to act on behalf of you, but you don't have to pay....

The courts have already ruled that the unions can create contracts that exclude non-members from bargaining units (and therefore refuse representation to non-members) as long as they don't charge the non-members agency fees. If Janus wins the right not to pay an agency fee, that's what they'll do.

The only scam is in pretending that the unions are forced to represent people like Janus whether or not they receive fees. That's nonsense; it's their decision entirely to include non-members in the bargaining unit.
It's even more complex. It's not only the predictor state that would need switching/indexing, it's the result of any prediction.

A speculative load in cache is global today, and that leads to a possible side channel attack. One may think about marking a speculatively cached entry by its security context, the only context allowed to "see" it until the speculation is resolved. But that is not enough: the entry may have evicted another, and that's globally visible. Or one may not use the regular caches, but add another lookup structure (CAM) for in-fly speculative loads (and same for store), indexed by context.

Another source of complexity is: what is a security context? An OS could use existing structures like processes, and it makes sense, but it's not enough. For a sandboxed application a given process or thread could run untrusted sandboxed code (Javascript) and also trusted runtime. In this case, the application need to help and manage security contexts. It's possible, but not backward compatible.

I expect progress will be made, but considering the complexity/costs it may take some time...
How does this compare to Preact?
Male birth order-linked gayness probability is epigenetics in the mother IIRC.
Looking at my job's code base, I'm not sure that would help.
This is going to be a massive political can of worms...
> Why not doctors and lawyers? A-list actors?

They do, in their own fields. Lawyers provide pro bono representation to the indigent, help charities and others who couldn't afford them, develop law to address problems, etc. Doctors do similar things, helping the ill regardless of their ability to pay. A-list actors use their status to draw attention to issues. Etc.
I see a submission in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17127044

Maybe the original poster deleted it?
Yeah. It’s mildly sarcastic. The costs of machinery, factory, people are fixed. They are not breaking even because they are not working at full capacity
When all they probably needed was a real drug rehab program.

Edit: Just saying because almost all petty thievery is committed to get goods to trade for drugs.

Edit 2: Also, I'm not saying that this wasn't a good use of home surveillance, or to whatever parent's comment referred, although (s)he is probably wrong that they won't be back next week. I have acquaintances that having got hooked on meth, began stealing cars. Once caught, I thought she'd be put in prison or a drug rehab program. No. She basically served no time because the judge and everyone else know she was just a junky and there was no funding for rehab, and little room in prison.
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Yes, we need some substantial acts of congress including and up to a Constitutional amendment to properly handle technology.

I still shake my head that "wiretap" laws are what are being used (last I knew a few years ago) - why not have a clean law to address modern communication capabilities and proper privacy & court interests? :-/
Wouldn't every behavior be driven by biochemical processes?
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> despite the fact that he was just doing what every major US journalism organization does: publishing leaked classified information in the public interest.

I'm not sure that major news outlets leak classified information that may put US military and government officials in danger. That's where this article lost me and I stopped.
3 hours seems very optimistic. Also what about the cost of actually running the company ? It exists even if it doesn’t directly handle scooters day to day
House built 50 years ago is firstly, about half as big as today. Personal living space more than tripled in 100 years and more than doubled in 50 years.
so the message for new hires is: don't even try, you are not part of the old-friends-cloed-group
Come on. If the post wasn't about that then why does it specifically call out four male role models? It could have just left it at Grace Hopper, but no. The post contains more negative than positive by far.
> However, for live-action film and architectural visualization projects where photorealism is valued over performance, ray tracing gives an extra level of fidelity that is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve with rasterization.

Don't essentially all modern production renderers use path tracing? Mental Ray was the last 'major' renderer I know of that used ray tracing, and it was discontinued a few years back.
On the contrary as far as Amazon-the-online-store goes: they are notoriously pro-customer to the detriment of small retailers.
If I had to buy an electric commuter car today I'd get a BMW i3. It's ugly as sin but they are practically giving them away used, and it's utterly fascinating.
Maybe there's simply nothing else to say.
That's theory and it ignores all other factors. There's a reason that science, the law, and other fields rely on observable fact, not theory.
I thought they lumped all deposits together from all pending products, so how much of that is from the semi and new sports car? Is there a breakout on each deposit that an investor can see?

edit: the tesla sportscar was a 250k (5k up front +245 wire transfer) reservation for 1000 accounts. All those past 1000 have to reserve at 50k. Semi deposits are 5k each
It's amusing that the image attached to the article is of a company neither in Silicon Valley, nor in tech.
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>To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, you can lose everything you own and you're only out $15.

You can also lose your mental/physical health, family/friends, love life
I think it was mainly Google. In the 90's companies didn't have time for all the drama; for instance in 1998 I went to four interviews in one day. These were typically 1-2 sessions with the hiring manager and a tech lead.

The content wasn't that different, but the format was simply shorter, and things like education and references were used.

The economics of this practice are interesting; I believe it's Google's brand of conspicuous consumption (and aspirations to it) combined with Confucian bureaucracy.
> I still don’t understand what Oracle does better than Postgres

Compatibility with established Oracle apps, and a whole lot of database-peripheral stuff (much of which has better alternatives, but those are often newer, and we're back to legacy compatibility.)

Some of this (more on the DB than peripheral part) you can mitigate by buying Postgres Plus, which is a proprietary enterprise version with, among other things, extensions for Oracle compatibility, and it's still vastly cheaper than Oracle. But no one (well, except maybe MS, who can leverage Windows and .NET to sell SQL Server) is close to Oracle when it comes to selling RDBMS software to enterprises.
I just set my iPhone up for that. I am hoping it makes a positive difference.
Stack Overflow diving for otherwise poorly understood concepts can be a good starting place.

I wish there were more good blogs about testing, refactoring and teamwork on Rails projects. Not idealized forms of it, but talking about real refactors.

If you manage to bridge the gap between the real world and theory, that is wonderful. Show me how in a 100k LOC Rails app that's 10 years old how to refactor my User class to obey SRP and I'll follow your blog for life.
Norway immigrant population - 16.7%, US - under 15% (incl. "illegal" immigrants).
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Charley from Plaid here.

Correct! We have three environments you can send API traffic into - sandbox, development, and production.

Sandbox + development are 100% free to use, development just requires a quick request through the dashboard after signing up for API keys. (https://dashboard.plaid.com/signup)

Sandbox- gives access to sandbox data to test the integration.
Development - add up to 100 live bank accounts
Production - add as many live accounts with paid account
Top payment app (in terms of users) isn't Apple or Google Pay, it's Starbucks
> I don't know any cooker with a brown rice setting

Zojirushi's, depending on the model. Mine has settings for white rice, brown rice, sushi rice, porridge and quick cooking.
Thanks for this.

Our team worked really hard on this release. I believe we started sort of doing some research and proof of concept type stuff after WWDC last year and went full time a little over 6 months ago. There's a lot in this release that isn't visible as well.

Version 6 was a set of processes (Main app and Mini) that used XPC for communication. The mini drove the whole ship. With this release we combined both of those into a single process. For the most part no one will ever actually notice this massive change but it brings with it speed improvements, removes a ton of baggage for us as developers so we can focus on things that matter, reduction of complication, and a whole host of great stuff. It's not a feature we can "sell" but as anyone who does development for a living knows it's really great to kill off tech debt when you can and it starts setting the tone for 1Password 7.1 and 7.2 :) There are a ton of great new features that users can use of course, but I know sometimes hacker news likes to hear about the other stuff going on under the hood, too.

We really hope everyone finds something they love about version 7, but we really are interested in constructive criticism. We know there are some pretty big changes in this release and they may or may not be great for everyone but we want to iterate and improve on these things.

Kyle

AgileBits
I've really enjoyed using Hyperapp so far. Looking forward to building more with it.
Yeah, I thought the same - "look another branding exercise, I'll pass".
>Yes I check my phone at last once every few minutes when I'm at home, does that made me an "addict"?

I'd say undoubtedly so.

"Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences."

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

The adverse consequences is debatable but it is very likely we are all missing out on experiences and losing health by checking our phones every few minutes for those hits of neurotransmitters.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5076301/

"Cell-Phone Addiction: A Review"
I found that spending a bit of time visualizing the scale and complexity of cells is helpful for not finding this sort of messiness surprising. A similar thing that used to surprising me was the idea that some viruses, like herpes simplex, hide out inside cells for years and years.

A cartoon of the HIV life cycle: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/watch-the-...

The complexity insides eukaryotic cells is startling, and compared to individual molecules they are massive. (Prokaryotic cells are 0.1 - 5 microns, while eukaryotic ones are 10-100 microns. That means eukaryotic cells are larger in volume by 2-9 orders of magnitude! It also lowers the impressiveness of comparisons between the number of gut bacteria cells and human cells.) If you think of each cell as a person, then the body is an army of 30 trillion soldiers each with his own copy of instructions to follow (which he copied from someone else) and many possible ways to get hurt or die. It's not so surprising that some fractions of the soldiers will have very small errors in their copy of the instructions, which they will pass on as copies to other soldiers, or that individuals could get a tape worm and still fight.
I write facial recognition software. If those example facial images and their match scores are any indication of their systems accuracy, it is on the poor side.
Don't write because you want to write. Write because you care.

That is, when you're trying to pick a topic, don't look for a topic that hasn't been written about. Look for a topic that you want to write about. Write about that.

Yeah, try to say something different than what everybody else has said. Yeah, try to say it different than everybody else has said it. But mainly, if you don't care about the topic, don't bother writing about it.
I sometimes give lectures on evolution and I usually open with this classic puzzle (due to Dawkins): most ants (and other social insects) are sterile. How is this possible? Why would evolution select for genes that produce sterile individuals? (You might want to see if you can figure this out before continuing.)

The answer is that ants are not organisms, they are organs. The ant colony is the organism. It just happens to be made of parts that are not physically connected to each other.

Well, it turns out that humans are much like ants in this regard. A single human individual cannot reproduce. Even a single fertile couple cannot successfully reproduce in the wild (if you doubt this, watch a few episodes of Naked and Afraid). The minimum viable reproductive unit for homo sapiens is a tribe or a village.

This sort of organizational grouping is found at all of the levels of abstraction in life. Even your DNA is not really a unified whole, it's a bunch of genes that have glommed together in a cooperative effort to reproduce themselves, but it's not an organized or homogeneous effort. That's why you have freeloaders ("junk DNA") and defectors (cancer genes) who put their own interests above those of the group. What happens at the cellular and molecular level is really not so different from what happens in human societies. The presence of brains changes the dynamic, but not in any fundamental way. At the end of the day, it's all just self-replicating information looking for an ecological niche and a reproductive edge. The idea that human individuals are somehow special in this process is mostly a prejudice brought on by our particular point of view, namely, the fact that our thoughts reside in brains that are strongly bound to bodies. The ability to see beyond onesself can be both powerful and humbling.
The number of counterfeits and abomination of UI argues against that point. I think Amazon is against both customer and small retailer and that goes to my point they are about market share and profit margin above all else.
> HN mods have shown a strong pro-authoritarian sentiment

SV has long leaned that way. YC's success depends on the financial support of upper echelon SV people.

It's no surprise that what is considered "too political" here usually leans anti-authoritarian. You'll never get flagged talking positively about the GDPR or large ISP market fixing (also known as NetNeutrality™). You'll just find that your comments are instantly pushed to the bottom, without any rebuttal.
>Courts will say that when you're in public you give certain privacy rights away etc. etc.

This is the law of the land right now. As to your next example, I don't see what's wrong with those, as missing a court date or violating parole is a perfectly legitimate reason for you to be arrested.
"We lose money of every sale, but we make it up on volume"
Plaid can pull balance information for asset + investments accounts, so typically the size of the portfolio
I wonder how many innocent people are going to be harmed due to poor facial recognition matches...
Good point! Hopefully the Kickstarter crew will incorporate the "incinerate whole families based on probabilistic guesswork" card in the public release.
If you're raising 1M+ in the midwest, it's straight forward. Get a meeting with a VC associate in the region (Chicago: HP VC, Origin, OCA) and they will tell you exactly what they're looking for in a Series A.

I've never had any success with getting institutional money at the seed stage, but if you do get it, it's even easier to bypass some of the troublesome checklist items you get in the A round.
Not Op - but for me, no.

When smartphone 'addiction' starts getting in the way of day-to-day responsibilities and personal health then we can talk about ways to curb smart phone addiction.

Maybe for others its different, but the only time I have the 'tick' is when I'm otherwise unoccupied - watching boring tv, riding on public transit, or otherwise killing time. Could you replace that with more beneficial ways to pass time? Sure. But to me the 'smart phone addiction' craze is the same thing as 'tv rots your brain'. Overstated and not really an issue imo.

And on the point of 'motivated by for-profit entities', how many aspects of your life are not in the same bucket?
This is also what I was expecting
Isn't it "known" that even something like temperature is also linked to increased crime?
I like this quote, because it seems to be something that TSLA bulls and bears can mostly agree on and thus gets to the heart of the actual empirical disagreements between them. For my part, I'm a Tesla skeptic because my evaluations on the likelihood of those clauses are:

> "most cars are powered by electricity in 10 years"

Unlikely. The average age of a car on the road is about 11.5 years (source: http://news.ihsmarkit.com/press-release/automotive/average-a...), so even if electric vehicle sales went to 100% tomorrow (and they won't), this wouldn't be true. It's possible fuel prices will skyrocket in the meantime and get people to scrap their ICEs, but with fracking and other deep extraction, I wouldn't bet on it.

> "most of these cars are made by Tesla"

Unlikely. Even if Tesla becomes a healthy and established carmarker, I can't imagine a situation where they are the only one selling electric cars in the late 2020's. Everyone else is getting their electric cars onto the road, and outside the HN bubble, most people are not so enamored with Tesla that they would refuse to even consider buying something else.

> "if Tesla can make those cars with sufficient margin and quality control"

Possible, but I think it's unlikely. Despite year after year of promises by Musk, Tesla still struggles with both margins and quality control, and I haven't seen any evidence that it's getting better (and there's every reason to believe it will get worse as they seem a bit desperate to scale up production)

> " if Tesla can raise additional capital sufficient to cover a $3 billion annual cash drain and another billion to service its debt."

I don't know enough about financial markets to make a solid guess here, but this seems iffy to me in light of all the other givens about Tesla, especially if markets tighten in the next few years (up until now, Tesla has had the good fortune to need cash-raising in an era of low interest rates, cheap money and bull markets. That may not be the case the next time they need capital)

Hence, I'm a bear. I don't necessarily think Tesla will go out of business, but I think their current valuation is absurd.
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What are you passionate about? Start there.

I'd rather see an article describing, in detail and with passion, your particular [esoteric computer configuration], than the most requested topic in this thread. If you don't want to write about X, then no matter how desired or profitable it would be to do so, it's probably not going to be a great article.

My advice would be to write what enthuses and interests you. And if nothing in that domain is something you feel should be written, then maybe consider finding a different outlet for your creative energy. Nobody's forcing you to start a tech blog :)
That comment is even less helpful than saying "It's actually quite easy to break your addiction to alchohol - just don't drink".

The reason it's even less helpful is that, unlike alcohol, smartphones provide useful functionality in day to day life.
I thought the defining definition of addiction is that the action causes an interference in your ability to function. I'm not sure this qualifies.
> It's even more complex.

Oh, this one goes elbows, armpits, neck, ten thousand fathoms deep. Now just imagine that every memory access that the processor does actually consumes another type of resource, which is memory bandwidth. There are a limited number of cache-fill lines and those can be occupied or not; after tracking down all of the state of things at rest, you now have to think about the information leakage from the occupancy of the various networks of the CPU--data in flight. Tougher to analyze, but also tougher to secure.

It's gonna be separate CPUs, memory busses, and disks if we really want to get rid of side-channels.

And that's actually simple. Simple is better for security!
Does it work well with inputs? (text, checkboxes, radios, selects)
Conventional.

For comparison, fair trade ranges from $1.40 to $1.90 (organic on the higher end). Direct trade starts at $2 or so at the low end, averages around $3.50 or so and can approach double digits for top-end specialty coffee.

Afaik the quality of the cascara is even more sensible to farming and processing conditions that the bean, so I'd expect a large part of the cascara production to come from higher-end farms anyway.
With the amount of abstraction going on in software its going to be much more like soup in the future.
> Oracle now owns MySQL.

Well, yeah. And no (thanks to MariaDB). Similar story with Solaris/ZFS.

> (...) in Austin, Texas (...) [Oracle] have plans to hire 10,000 people (...) Apple (...) is doing something similar.

That's interesting. I wonder if this will be about "more cloud" for both companies.

Maybe we've seen "peak Free Software" and more secret sauce will hide behind SaaS paywalls in the near future.

I think the AGPL was rather prescient here; unfortunately it's not proven successful in the way GPL was. So if and when the big players move everything "home" there's little left on the outside.

Not saying it will happen - both Apple, Google and Microsoft are sharing more than before. As of now.
Ask HN: How much in charge of your reality are you and how much is chance?
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Some of the options (e.g. autopilot) are software flags. Doesn’t get higher margin than that.

It costs an extra $1,000 if you want to add the software license later, but you can do it.
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