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Comment from the oldest HN article I could find -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349808

NO one refuted it.

The issue is not that smart people didn't know, it's so many people can't see the obvious.

Assuming the comment is ordered correctly it's the masses with the problem. Valid concerns were raised, no one could defend them, but the comment was left at the bottom.

HN, like the media has flaws that don't allow it to correct at even a snails pace.

But if you're smart it's not hard to see the truth, hard part is making money, it was fake from the beginning but who would have thought it'd take so many years to fail in RL. Knowing when to bet against it is the hard part.

IE. Magic Leap will fail, who knows when though.
If you poll those same voters on individual social welfare programs, particularly Social Security, you'll find they support them.

It's really upsetting.
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> To use a possibly relatable issue: most people find consuming shots of vodka more efficacious than consuming the equivalent amount of beer by alcohol. 3 shots will probably get you more wasted than necking 3 beers

But it won't, after drinking 3 beers after each other your BAC will go to the same level, just takes a little more time to get there.

Subjectively, you start feeling drunk much more quickly because the change is faster with Vodka, but your capabilities are as much impaired.
Does this mean that they can access the site for free by blocking qeys.io?
I forgot how much I liked Mercurial. GitHub really destroyed it.
It's all marketing claims when all is said and done. PIA is still the only VPN company that has proven its no log policy not once but twice.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-no-logging-claims-tes...
[2] https://torrentfreak.com/ipvanish-no-logging-vpn-led-homelan...
That was my takeaway as well. I notice coincidences like the examples all the time, but I don't always have my phone and many times the ads are on TV or Radio. Usually when I see the ads online that seem like a coincidence it tends to trace back to me actually looking for an item I had talked about on amazon or something. And honestly based on the number and variety of ads I see I wouldn't be surprised to see something pop up out of the blue that I had recently talked about.

I'm not convinced, but I think I could be.
I suspect what is more common is a legitimate company just making their life easy to create multiple instances and not pay the correct licence fees. They want convenience. If they want to modify the source code and hack around, then it's probably not going to solve that.
You're surprised that Kissinger has escaped consequences?
I learned to use Radare2 a bit during our company's last CTF, and while it's super awesome in terms of capabilities, the GUI story is terrible: if you start investigating, it seems there's a long debris trail of half-done GUIs where someone said, “Hey, this would be easier if there were a GUI”. Even the visual mode inside radare2 has completely different commands from the non-GUI mode, and you almost certainly need to switch back and forth.

If radare2 found a couple of undergrad usability students to contribute and then focused on consistency and bug-fixing, it would be able to live up to its truly amazing potential.
But in todays world, is not manufacturing anything an issue? Does UK manufacture even a safety pin, and they seem to be doing ok, by and by, focusing on services, financial businesses, licencing and IP etc..
It's pretty easy to hit 4 cups. Large cups of coffee are 20 fl oz which are ~570ml. So 2 larges in one day, which I have from time to time, will get you there.

I can't really explain why I hated it with complete accuracy -- I think I just felt overall less energetic. And I felt this way when I was definitely over the effects of caffeine withdrawal.
>Saying no to opportunities is very very expensive in India.

Unfortunately lying about your skillset is very expensive in the long term as well.
I see what they are getting at. My initial thoughts are:

1. There will be considerable losses in storage. Evaporation in LNG tankers is around 0.05-0.1% of their cargo capacity per day. This is around the same as the self discharge rate for Li ion batteries, which have higher cycle efficiencies.

2. The claim could be that the overall cost of complex liquefaction equipment to use up a little bit of energy per day over say summer months combined with large relatively simple storage tanks to hold the liquified air until say winter could be cheaper than having very large batteries. This is possible... but:

3. This would have to compete with for example production of hydrogen by hydrolysis, which would be cheaper, easier to store, and have similar cycle efficiencies.

Finally: Consider that none of the current LNG import terminals attempt to extract energy from the re-gasification of liquified gas. This seems to be the low hanging fruit of liquified air technology, but it is not economically attractive. So I sincerely doubt that the described scheme would make economic sense.
It's a decent all-in-one site with links and explanations. Good for the average user.

Take a look and let me know what you think or if you disagree.
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Sure many transactions require human judgment. Shift left. Make those decisions before entering transactions into the main accounting system. Don't wait until the end of a certain period and then try to figure out everything all at once.
Or prediction markets that investors could use as a second opinion to get a corrective input on their own views.

If you invest 100M you might as well throw another 10k at a prediction market if you're confident in yours and there are naysayers who would bet against you.
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I assume you're not using Google's GitHub profile as a measure since Google's has fewer repositories than Microsoft's. Where does the 2000 number come from?
I suspect it was written to be sold. Not so much to influence.

It was an entertaining read and likely to get lots of clicks.
Do you have any plans to add memory usage to the benchmarks? It adds an extra dimension and sometimes even shows if there's a problem with a specific implementation (e.g. in the benchmark game it's often a hint for a program that can be optimized if the ratio compared to other languages is off).
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>We have a saying here in India: "You pay peanuts, you hire donkeys".

That is amazingly similar to the common english proverb: "You pay peanuts, you get monkeys."

Did you translate the Indian (not sure which language) proverb using the english proverb as a base, or does it directly translate?
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>> until he dies as far as I am concerned

Fortunately, the justice system is not concerned with how you feel about it either. It should assess prisoners purely on their current state and their current danger to society, not on how their victims feel 31 years later(and that should work both ways - someone shouldn't be kept in prison because their victim feels that way, but they also shouldn't be released early because their victim feels compassionate - justice should be blind to both of those).
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…it also affects Atom! (the text editor)

Finding an alternative to GitHub is easy-peasy. An alternative to Atom may not be so easy.

Several years ago Oracle got hold of MySQL and Open Office. Two popular projects. Whilst MySQL kept on going Open Office got the brakes on. The latter was kept alive by the Libre Office fork.

Microsoft will now own two popular text editors, Atom and Visual Studio Code. Will it keep both of them? Will they be merged? Will any of them be discontinued?

VS Code is now freely available for commercial use. (I don't think it was always the case.) With the recent turn of events maybe VS Code will go back (?) to non-free whilst Atom remains free but with less features.

Who knows?
> How different are the various frameworks here?

Quite different. We have included test implementations for frameworks that span 26 computer languages. There are an infinite variety of opinions about how to do things in computer programming in general, and our project is no exception.

And on the other hand, fairly similar. Tests should stick to the requirements [1], which are designed to be permissive but sufficiently clear on the expected work load of each test type. The principal goal is that test implementations should be realistic, and we will mark those the community believes are not realistic as "stripped" implementations.

> Are they all running with SSL?

No, not yet. But planned future test types would include SSL/TLS.

> Do they keep track of session cookies?

Generally no. These are intended to exercise anonymous requests. But a future test type could include session management.

> Do they have Content Security Policy headers?

No, that is not a requirement of our tests. We have specified which headers we expect. Others are optional.

> There's probably a million different feature configuration differences between each framework.

Yes. And it can be challenging at times to get all of these opinions to fit into the same box. For example, we've to-date kept SQLite implementations out of the project since those would not incur network costs. And other times the box has to be reshaped a bit to make room for new consensus opinions about what is suitable for "production." We recently made a decision to allow for innovative features in the Postgres protocol that are—in a manner of speaking—analogous to automatic pipelining. That conversation is still ongoing on our discussion forum.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=code
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This. There are mannerisms, and there's outright lying. I'm sure those people know they're potentially wasting your time or even hurting you with false answers but they still go ahead.

It's reasonable to drop some phrases/mannerisms when you know some phrases are going to be taken literally or misinterpreted (while they shouldn't be). I can't remember of any examples about western norms right now, but I think asking "How are you?" as a greeting is not acceptable in some places, as it implies actually caring on how the person is doing or knowing them well.
Just constructing a Uint32Array view of the buffer and accessing values by index way(!) faster than using the buffer.read* methods.

Likewise, you don't need to copy bytes in your last code sample. You can copy uint32s.
> If you're not good at written communication, or you work with people who are not good at it, remote work will be miserable.

I had a pretty poor team leader a few years ago with a bums in seat type job. He would never write anything down and teh result was quite frustrating. The spec used to change frequenty and he would come and verbally tell me it. then he would change it again, then again. A week or two later when I actually got around to implementing teh said feature I would ask him what he wanted done,

"I thought we talked about that."
"Yes we did but you changed your mind 4 times and I can't remember what the conclusion was."

I used to regularly ask him to put things in writing, but he was usually to lazy to deliver on that.

So I don't think these problems are unique to remote teams.
I actually not trusting Google for source code. Have they killed theirs you know.
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From above, it would sound like it O.o
>>Poor managers are threatened by underlings smarter than themselves.

That's law #1, "Never outshine the master."

>>Good managers seek people smarter than themselves then try to get the best out of them.

Fundamental laws of power say, Never hire anyone that could be become your boss.

>>Great organizations and teams don't have time or tolerance for much of the stuff in this doc, they are too busy doing.

No such organization exist. Power structures are an axiom of the very groups existence.
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...in any culture where you want trust and reliability.

If someone doesn't want to be reliable, that's their choice, but don't expect me to be willing to engage in business with them.
> In the context of this conversation around remote only companies though

I've worked mostly remote for many years and please trust me - it's almost exactly the same, with every weekly meeting starting with "is everyone here", "do you hear me?" etc etc.

This is especially when working from home - typical residential connections are having less nicer SLA and may get flaky from time to time. And someone may leave their phone near mic cable. Or someone's machine may need rebooting. Or conferencing service may be experiencing problems.

Glad if it's not like this for some, but I believe it's not exactly uncommon.
Wouldn't allowing apps defeat the purpose of having a phone like this? Allowing users to install more apps would get in the way of having a simple phone.
Yes, it does. Qeys is not designed to deny user access to protected sections of an application, though.

The ideal use case is a web app (e.g. awesome dashboard) you built and is ran on premise on one of your clients' servers. Their dayjob isn't pirating software, so blocking qeys.io probably has not been on their to do list.

But yes, if qeys.io is blocked, no validation takes place.
I'm talking legally and from a US perspective.
The DJI Tello is probably the closest thing available:

https://store.dji.com/product/tello
https://tellopilots.com/forums/tello-development.8/
Where's the control in this "experiment"? Even just a colleague at the same location checking ads without uttering these ridiculously generic test phrases. Did he ensure his logged in account wasn't used to research some points for this story, either on his laptop or phone? There's quite a few trivial ways he could have polluted his ad stream before needing to look to voice monitoring.

Half of the stories on this topic seem to be merely the effect (I'm sure someone's coined a name for it) of seeing more of what you look for. e.g. Decide you are buying a Tesla and suddenly you notice there seem to be more Teslas on the roads...

I'd like to see some studies and stories on this that are a significantly more credible. I am naturally suspicious but in the absence of evidence I tend to think it's not happening, yet. This piece clarifies nothing.
The only hard drive I've broken was because a let a pretty powerful magnet fall on the computer, right on the spot the HDD is. Never play with magnets next to your computer.
Fair enough. However, the context of this discussion -- and the modern economic context -- is made up primarily of corporate actors.

Which is one more reason why the application of Adam's philosophy doesn't make sense.
Yes. Attach the device to a network where you can monitor the amount of traffic (don’t need to monitor the actual content).

Streaming voice takes a bit of data. That traffic would be clearly evident. 320kbps rate translates to 2.40 MB per minute or about 1 GB every 8h. I can assure you my data plan would notice that.

As I don’t see gigabytes going out of my devices (I have several amazon and apple devices at home), it’s fairly safe to say they aren’t uploading all the noises of the house for analysis.
Frank Whittle used Benzedrine while working on the turbojet engine, so there's that.
Are you familiar with the video game industry? This tactic occurs frequently.
"People don't have to say when they are working"

We are a remote only company and don't agree with this at all. People should have flexible working hours but others must know when they are working. It removes confusion and sets clear expectations.
> What does that say about US?

That most American like the taste of authoritarianism especially if it reinforces white supremacy.

Source: I'm an American.
This is an amazing article that I had read a few years back. Incidentally, I had tried many combinations of keywords to find it again but no avail. Thanks to you, my search is finally over.
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Last Nokia (150, not sure) I have costs $30 or so and has a battery life of about 2 weeks with normal use. So yeah, I'd love e-Ink, but it should be worth it.
The typical cabbage Kimchi also has a number of regional variants as well. Instead of salted shrimp, I've seen it made with small clams, or other things. It also makes it difficult to be a vegan in Korea (though its getting easier as that type of thing becomes more common) as literally everything has some kind of animal protein in it in some way even if it doesn't superficially appear to.

Kimchi is a living, aging, food, and its flavor profile will change dramatically over time -- leading to different uses in and with different foods at each stage. For example, there's a point where it starts to sour and the taste explodes with savory complexity -- and it's at that point where it excels as a condiment with pork.

These days, it's easier to just buy it at the grocery store. We buy it in 5lb bags and let it sit out for a few days to kickstart the fermentation again before putting it into jars in our fridge. My Mother-in-law has a dedicated Kimchi fridge that's at a more optimal temperature for the controlled fermentation. You can find a Korean grocer in most major U.S. cities and there will be a chiller section that looks something like this: http://www.chicagonow.com/chewables-chicago/files/2012/11/IM...

It's also worth it to explore some of the other fermented foods that Koreans regularly use. Two of my all time favorites are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doenjang and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssamjang.

Doenjang can be used to quickly create an incredibly delicious broth as part of one of my favorite stews called Doenjang-jjigae. Recipe here https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/doenjang-jjigae
Yes! In fact, I just responded to a similar question over at the Rust Subreddit thread about the same topic.

We do in fact capture dstat data while executing the tests but as of today do not render these in any way. You can find raw CSV output from dstat at our logs server. For example at [1] are stats for Grizzly while measuring the "json" test type.

I will create an issue at the project's GitHub repo to begin a conversation about which stats to render. I'd like to select a meaningful bite-size set of stats that we can render into a table view. Basically another tab in the results view similar to the latency tab.

[1] http://tfb-logs.techempower.com/round-16/final/grizzly/json/...
I don't work remotely as such, but usually with distributed teams. Personally I find skype chats or similar the best way. Writing emails is quite a long winded way to get to where you want and takes me a while. Chats are more two way so you can judge where the other person is with understanding the problem, and has the benefit of being written down for future reference.
Minor typo on your front-page "deativate" rather than "deactivate".
You have strong leadership that makes good decisions.
> [T]hings should be designed outside-in, and developed inside out.

This is gold, and so many do not do this.
Nothing to be scared about. It will keep you awake but does not negate the affects from lack of sleep (which is what you're probably describing).
I think he's saying that the beers take that much longer, and you're metabolizing the alcohol along the way.
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That lead me to the KaiOS webpage out of curiosity.

KaiOS is apparently a fork of Boot 2 Gecko, so all JS. The dev portal is alright, but the main website is unusable and takes over the scroll in a huge way.
Imagine the difference in traffic and office space if every job that could be remote was.

I was wondering how much work cannot be remoted and it seems a lot. Remote work is a privilege.
I like to distinguish between a toxic environment - one where you are being constantly harrassed, bullied, demean, forced into doing things that are illegal or unethical, etc. and a "bad fit for you".

I would never suggest someone suck it up and deal with sexual harassment for the chance to learn new technology and build thier resume. But if you have to deal with a long commute, long hours, or the red tape of a large company for a little while to build your resume, that's a different story.

Having the one large well known company I worked at for 2.5 years opened a lot of doors for me. But now that I have choices, I wouldn't go near a large company unless I was desperate.
Thanks, I didn't notice and it happened two years ago.

Still, with Bitbucket we can have unlimited private repositories for free up to 5 users, then it's $2 per user. With GitHub unlimited private repository come at $7 per month, then it's $5 per month for the first 5 users and $9 for the others.
At work, we've had issues with Indian candidates informing us during interviews that they've already recently accepted an offer / started a new job, but that they're willing to come work for us instead. Completely oblivious to the fact of how big of an immediate red flag that is.
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There are some really good Indian teams in the Banking sector. You do have to be careful of course, but I've worked with some excellent Indian colleagues over there in Hyderabad and Chennai. I think the thing is the banks and other big corporates hoover up the top talent, and retain it, which then becomes invisible to the wider tech industry.

All the problems mentioned here do exist and are real, but they're not the whole story. The management culture over there s a bit different. Managers tend not to want to be involved in anything technical. There is a 'yes' culture of not challenging requests. However there are plenty of exceptions to the 'rule'.
Microsoft will now own two popular text editors, Atom and Visual Studio Code.

Atom is an open collaboration between Facebook and Github. That hasn't changed. Microsoft could insist that Github withdraw from the project, but that's very unlikely. Regardless, Atom isn't going anywhere.
This is really slick! Very nice job. I realize that this is primarily a tool for teachers but I would love to see more public tutorials and examples. I realize there are many tutorials on the internet but I haven't seen any with such an interactive design interface like this. Might anyone else have some suggestion(tutorials plus editor) for such resources?
Anyone know if they will be open-sourcing their tool as well?>
If you really want to control how your customers are allowed to use the thing you can put a limit like 3 or 4 apps maximum. For example I think this phone needs at least a way to read e-books but it's possibly not going to be implemented. IF there was an API I could write my own e-book reader for it.
Discussed 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14773106
This was makes from folks at IIT Bangalore. That is pretty cool.
I think that is what the author means as strategic vs. financial. For example, buying a company for its list of customers, to eliminate them as a potential threat, to get some IP/technology they have, etc.

You are right that the large tech companies have extremely large bankrolls to just do what they want in a sense.

If you view it from their perspective, a success might mean they get access to 1000's of companies using GitHub to try and sell Enterprise hosting, development tools, etc. to. All it cost them was $7.5B in stock.
Having worked on a team that was responsible for uptime of some high traffic web apps, there's a difference between when you're working and when you're on call. We had an on call schedule for emergencies and down time, but we rarely had actual emergencies to respond to. The rest of our work was done in two week sprints. No one cared when we did the work, as long as we stayed on track with those two week sprints and got everything done most of the time.