skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"By early afternoon on April 17, 2018, the contractors had determined that the root cause of the Tax Day outage was a cache overflow issue causing repeated warmstarts and had deployed a preventive script on the storage device that will monitor and correct the issue if the condition reoccurs. At 1:40 p.m., all IRS mainframes and databases were fully operational and ready to resume tax processing operations."

overflows... even happen to the best of us.

Props to the IRS for having the processes in place to handle. It took hours, sure, but at least it was ordered and the rest of us can benefit from this
Thanks for the info! I also love interface design, usability, empathy for the client. can be possible to work on UX and UI or only UI?
This is hard to do as an afterthought. I bet Firefox had it from the start.
Using fake accounts to upvote things will get you banned here. Please don't do it again.
An alternate view of the Microsoft antitrust case, suggesting that government action was necessary, and did have a positive effect:

"Some limitations were placed on Microsoft’s behavior, such as a requirement that it share certain programming information with third-party companies. The appropriateness of that remedy is still debated. But what we do know is that the remedy pushed Microsoft to act with more caution, creating an essential opening for a new generation of firms.

It might seem like a cruel irony that the immediate beneficiaries of the Microsoft antitrust case — namely, Google, Facebook and Amazon — have now become behemoths themselves." [1]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/opinion/microsoft-antitru...
I vouched for this one. At the very least it's a sincere perspective worth discussing and disagreeing with vocally; not flagging to death. It didn't strike me as a troll.

KirinDave: I think this mentality is somewhat destructive. Your feelings on the matter are justified given your situation but to some degree you're just being the same kind of asshole you're mad about too.

> Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences.

Yea, so? Those consequences aren't free from criticism. Whether they're disproportionate is perfectly topical. Public mob retaliation is notoriously so.

I'm not strictly disagreeing with you: calling someone to task for something they said publicly might be plenty reasonable but "We will hunt you down and make you own your opinions publicly." Might be inappropriate too.
> President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9250, establishing the Office of Economic Stabilization. This froze wages. Businesses were not allowed to raise pay to attract workers.

Tangent: from where does the president draw the authority to do this?
Practically, nobody in tech cares that the government did the early heavy lifting for - pretty much - every technology we're using today.
Don’t become an entrepreneur
Oh, huh, that's the first I've heard about that fallacy...
A seemingly small change to Chrome stirs big controversy
Don't disparage the opinion of the man who predicted 11 of the last 3 recessions
I've been using DGG and find myself switching to Google for maps, images, news, and sports scores and schedules—Google has really built out over the years.
Maybe?

Calling out hypothetical whataboutism of someone else is like whataboutism squared on your part, though. Hyper-whataboutism. Meta-whataboutism.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
Accessibility in Single Page Applications (Podcast)
Huh, surprisingly for me it was the opposite. I tried to switch to DDG 4,3,2 years ago, eventually coming back to Google due to the need to use !g very often. But in the last year or so it became a non-issue, so I finally switched.
It's a Myst-ery
Launchpad and Its Processes inside SQL Server ML Services
It sounds like your company is ready for a framework like OKRs. I'd suggest reading Measure What Matters if you're interested. The problem with having just one Northstar metric is that it doesn't capture all the complexity you need. That's why it makes sense to track a few important metrics and maybe change them as the company outgrows each metric
I thought I'd try it..

https://imgur.com/a/7GHeVZM

槍枝管制
"gun rights"的圖片搜尋結果
槍支管制是指任何對定義、限制或限制擁有，生產或改裝，進口，運輸，銷售和／或使用槍械的法律，政策，實踐或提案。 槍支管制的法律和政策在世界各地有很大的差異。有些國家，如英國和中華民國，擁有非常嚴格的槍支限制政策，而其他國家，如美國，有相對溫和的限制。槍支管制的支持者普遍認為，普遍民眾擁有槍支會導致危險性。 維基百科

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Gun control
Search results for "gun rights"
Gun control refers to any law, policy, practice or proposal that defines, restricts or limits the possession, production or modification, import, transportation, sale and/or use of firearms. The laws and policies governing gun control vary widely around the world. Some countries, such as the United Kingdom and the Republic of China, have very strict gun restrictions, while others, such as the United States, have relatively modest restrictions. Proponents of gun control generally believe that the widespread possession of guns can be dangerous. Wikipedia
A deep-dive into Launchpad Service and processes using #WinDbg and ProcessExplorer
Since you've posted nothing but unsubstantive comments, I've banned your account. It's not what this site is for.

If you don't want to be banned, read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and feel free to email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
LLVM: UBSan Modifies Program at Compile Time to Catch Undefined Behavior
I think internet is not meant to be regulated. But (US) companies like Google and Facebook dominate how people use the internet. It is all too obvious that these companies are greedy. Their goal is to maximize profit, and they will do anything to achieve that as long as within the US law. That includes putting thousands of human lives at stake. The new LastWeekTonight episode that came out today deals with this issue- how Facebook has been used to instigate ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
It's clearly not the case when the checkbox you adding is an option to turn off some feature enabled by default.

No, not the feature all other components do need so much you have to work around by adding another zillion lines of code in other places of your program to deal with the case it turned off.
Are you saying these companies didn't want to be acquired ?

Because pretty sure they were thrilled to (a) get paid and (b) have their product be used by pretty much the entire planet.
Recent Motherboard article about this topic: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmp9v/life-on-th...
Azure Database for MariaDB now in preview
Performance Updates for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Annoying that the image for the article is an 'artist's conception', and further that it's not immediately labelled as such and you need to click through to determine that.
Perhaps android apps are relatively resource intensive or inefficient, but in terms of "web apps" like SPAs vs server rendered websites, web apps are doing more on the client. They inherently use more resources. Electron apps don't tend to have awful performance characteristics on the desktop just because they can't share the underlying Chrome instance, opening the same apps (like Slack) in the browser is only marginally better. And if native resource consumption on Android is really that bad, that would be pretty unique for that platform. iOS and desktop platforms definitely have much more efficient native apps than web apps.

However making it more difficult to crash the device is a definite advantage, you're right about that. Although I very rarely have native apps crash my devices anyways. I can't remember a time it's happened on my phone, and on my desktop it's usually a device driver issue combined with a game that causes an issue. Definitely an edge case and not something I encounter with native applications in general.
Yes, you can. It's not as smooth as could be, but I am continuously logged into three separate Google accounts (one vanilla Gmail, two for separate G Suite businesses), and it works fine.

Each container can load any page. If you want to toggle the current domain to load in the current container, you can opt for that. Then, it will prompt you to switch to that container when you browse to that domain, and at that point you can opt to make it automatic. If you don't make it completely automatic, you can just choose to use the default container for that domain, or stick with the current container (or source container, if opening a new tab from some other container).

What would make this better would be to be able to flag a domain as openable in multiple containers, but have one be default, so I wouldn't have to decline switching to my personal Google container every time I clicked a link on an email in one of the G Suite accounts, as they redirect to a google landing page).
It already has a name - processes like this were historically called "comets".
It's really hard to help a neurodivergent person. Normally, that requires having a special type of strong love for that person, the type of love that exists from parent to child (and not the other way around) for obvious evolutionary reasons...

That said, the state in a truly civilized society could take better care of people who aren't neurotypical. Something I believe is lacking in the US.
I am not doing anything :(
... And it's a better search because it has two decades worth of mindshare, and the revenue and data that came with it.
#FeelTheBern

Those greedy corporations in their tophats and monocles.
Sony Santa Monica.
I'm partial to Chicken Scheme:

https://www.call-cc.org/

It's a Scheme-to-C compiler (plus interpreter / repl / script runner.) The Scheme code is transformed into continuation passing style (CPS) and then translated into C function calls that never return, but call other functions instead, forever. Therefore the C stack can only grow, never shrink, and is used as a natural "nursery" or first generation of allocation. When it eventually overflows, the garbage collector is invoked, which scans the stack for "live" values and moves them into the permanent generation (on the heap) and resets the stack; after which, execution resumes.

It's the most ingenious way I've ever seen to turn not just Scheme, but any language with automatic allocation into fully standard C code. I think there's only one non-portable function written in assembly, the garbage collector that runs when the C stack overflows. That's a small price to pay to have a compiler that can piggyback on any existing C compiler, for virtually any platform. (It's not even entirely in assembly. IIRC, it uses some kind of setjmp / longjmp sorcery.)

Moreover, the generated C code is fully tail-recursive and call/cc comes for free, so you can use first-class continuations in complex ways, without any performance penalty. It has hygienic macros and all the advanced stuff you expect from a modern Scheme. And of course you can link to any C library, use standard C APIs from Scheme and have your code compiled to optimized machine code.

If only Scheme was not a dynamically typed language... but that's a rant for a different time.
> They have over 2 billion monthly active users. This is a global penetration rate that is the best in the world. They have done something that no other company in the world has done. They are relevant to basically the vast majority of all Internet users in the world. To say they are the least stable or that their power over most humans is waning is, quite frankly, ludicrous.

Yahoo used to be the most popular email provider, too. It was relevant to a vast number of American internet users, when American internet users were most of the internet.

I don't think you can infer future relevance from present usage statistics. There are definite network effects with social networks, but fashion and novelty also play a major role. If Facebook/Instagram lose the latter, I don't think the former can sustain the kind of user engagement they require to thrive.
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870222. I suppose we should mark the current submission a dupe.
taking you up on your advice would be an ulterior motive.
Modern file system crawler and disk space usage software
You say “of course”, but in reality this is at the cutting edge of medical knowledge obtained through the scientific method.
Florida Town Is First to Test Autonomous School Shuttle
Yes, that was a very cheap shot. It's not Android's fault that China is forcing crappy spyware on users
id hardly say venture, you just made up an imaginary scenario
owed PTO is probably the main reason behind the trend for unlimited vacation among startups as they owe employees nothing after they part ways (since no vacation hours were 'earned')
Back in the days I was a big Opera fan, I even bought myself free from the ads it came with in the top right. But since they abandoned their own rendering engine I literary haven't even downloaded it a single time to even test it. It's so uninteresting to see a closed source browser which just uses the open source blink engine.
In my experience, it’s typical for senior leadership at a large company to have a carefully orchestrated departure. No internal announcement would be sent until after a press release is prepared. The set of people that know would be kept extremely small, even to the point of keeping direct reports in the dark.

If Facebook truly was unprepared, it’s reasonable to assume they weren’t expecting the announcement.
Facebook might mature though. They have large data centers all over the world, if they wanted to, they could make their own cloud service and sell that.

React is one of the most used front-end frameworks in the world, so it’s not like they aren’t capable of doing what Microsoft does, if that becomes their focus.

I’m not sure either company is really that interesting though. Azure is limited AWS but with better support, Windows is more horrible than it’s ever been and the .Net environment is a shit show for anyone working in it because it’s running around like a confused cat. Which is awesome for some people, but terrible when you have to keep your employees up to speed.

I mean, going from asp to mvc to core 1 to core 2 has been ridiculously expensive. So has replacing half our services with modern power shell and orchestra. It’s not bad tech wise, but it’s so ridiculous expensive from an organizational perspective.

The worst bit is that in a few years, you can add to things Microsoft has changed for the apparent fun of it.

We didn’t have to adopt core from a tech perspective, of course, but my developers wanted to, to stay relevant in the .net job scene, so we kind of had to from a management perspective.

It’s too much though, and they are doing the same across platforms. Like we have skype for business and we’ve trained 7000 employees to use it, and now it’s becoming obsolete... That’ll litteraly cost us millions because 5000 of our employee can’t tell you if they are on an android or iPhone device when they contact support, so many of them won’t havd learned Skype before it dies. :p

I think the thing that describes the problems with modern Microsoft the best is how they enabled new 365 features by default. So suddenly we had non-tech savvy people creating teams (and new emails that were added to our address books).

Anyway, this was a long rant, but it’s just to show that Microsoft isn’t really doing well in non-tech focused enterprise. And we’re their main market share.
And yet Google blocked the app i built while Apple let it pass.

Hmm.
> would Google have ever emerged as a dominant player if Microsoft were free to compete with them by restricting access to their website at the operating system level?

Yes, the scenario you seem to be imagining is logically impossible.

Microsoft can't just block traffic to random URLs before they emerge as a dominant player somewhere. The course of action only makes any sense if Google has already achieved dominance.

Could Microsoft shake a website's existing dominance by blocking web traffic to it at the OS level? Of course not.
The Shell Game – Non-Root Linux Rootkits (2010) [pdf]
If only everybody was as enlightened as us, Vivaldi users. Too bad those illiterate masses don't know what's good for them.
At least they've fixed that, replacing leader would be a month long affair and be voted on by every member of the party.
The first round of applications for schools in Boston is January, so it's only a few weeks (over Christmas!) for families to figure out if they can make it work, if it's worth moving schools, which school they want to move to, etc. (Your chances of getting into your first choice school decline rapidly after the first round).
Anti-trust your mom
Plague basically hasnt existed in developed societies for quite some time. The traditional transmission vectors for plague have basically been cut down to zero. The only one that remains is airborne. All this fear is just dark fantasy.

The only rampant plague I see is plethora extremely poorly written articles with vague socially suicidal liberal elitist positions.
L-dopa, yup. I don’t think GP meant actually ambien.

Also GP if you check this - what are the downsides of gabapentin your relative was trying to get away from? I thought that was a fairly benign drug, even for long-term use.
"Messrs" is pretty old fashioned language. It's uncommon to see it in modern use.
Isn't their purpose basically the same as process groups?
I am Radha Vembu, the product manager for Zoho Mail and would like to clarify the process we follow:

For troubleshooting issues, we generally refer to email delivery status and activity logs of the user to help us understand the sequence of steps involved for a reported issue.

There are special cases related to spam/abuse for which we request the user to share the email headers/content whichever is applicable to the issue.

There are even rare instances of issues with mail parsing and to debug those cases, we ask our users for the complete original content of the email to simulate the problem.

You can also see our support team asking the users to share the original content of the email for debugging some of the issues, as seen in the links below.

https://help.zoho.com/portal/community/topic/disable-blue-li...

https://help.zoho.com/portal/community/topic/emails-going-as...

https://help.zoho.com/portal/community/topic/emails-forwarde...

https://help.zoho.com/portal/community/topic/my-incoming-ema...

We take the privacy and safeguarding of customer data extremely seriously, and adhere to the strict policies that govern access to user data.

Sorry for making you feel that we access our user's data without permission. That is far from the truth.
Wow, tough to read but thank you for bringing this to my attention.

It’s really awful Western countries just put up with it because they’re afraid of offending China. Not even the Soviets thought to make such use of the millions of people they executed.
To me, my intro to comp sci class nailed it by teaching Scheme. The first 30 min or so were spent introducing all the syntax wed learn in the entire class. The remaining several weeks were spent on CS concepts and learning to express ourselves to the computer. I've never used Scheme/Lisp professionally and nor do I have an urge to. But it was the perfect teaching language because it puts so little between the student and learning to program a computer.
Well, there's more than a 50% probability that they're leaving because of conflicts with Facebook, the privacy issues and the push to add more and more ads everywhere. If this were the case, I hope they'd speak up sooner than later. We need voices from within FB and its acquisitions to tell everyone how messed up things are behind the scenes.

But you have to give credit to how the company started and how it's been running all these years. Instagram is still flourishing (and grew in the face of competition from Snapchat, even by copying its features and making it better) and seems like a nicer group of communities with a lot less of the nastiness that's seen on Facebook (I don't have much first hand experience, but do see some feeds on the web). That's not easy to cultivate, and for reasons I haven't read about or examined, the Instagram users have self-selected such a group to be in.*

Here's hoping the founders start something new and fresh, far from privacy invasive platforms.

*: I'd be interested in any writings about how these communities developed to be what they are.
> I'm the founder and CEO actually)

Yes, you have stated that quite often on a bunch of threads.

> has zero to do with this topic

You are incorrect.

> Are you suggesting that you would add another downvote simply because it is an ICO?

Nope
That's dependant on the mental illness. What if your illness is you just dont care about anyone.
Is this Atwood's law Gravity Probe B?
Some things are cliche because they’re so often repeated, and sometimes they’re repeated so often because they’re often apt. Are we really not allowed to call a spade a spade? I can understand that just saying, “whataboutism” and nothing more would be low effort shitppsting, but in the context of a reasoned argument pointing out how something truly is just whataboutism, we’re not supposed to point that out?

The comment that set this all off was short and made a single point that can be accurately described by a cliche. There was nothing else to it. I an understand not wanting people to dismiss real arguments with cliches, but I don’t think that’s what happened here. When someone brags about using a straw man to deflect reasonable criticism, it merits a response.
I wouldn't be worried about the performance cost of using `date +%s` personally, I'd be concerned about what happens when the user or an automated process changes the system time.

For example, what will happen in the debounce function if the user sets the system time backwards by a week after a limit has been set?
5. Your network isn't partitioned exactly, but someone bumped an ethernet cable and the packet loss has reduced the goodput on that link to a level too low to sustain the throughput you need. With most congestion control algorithms (basically, not-BBR), at 10Gb even 1% packet loss is devastating.

6. Well, basically the hundred other reasons the machine could brown-out enough that things start timing out even though it's sporadically online. Bad drive, rogue process, loose heatsink, etc.

Dead hosts are easy. Half-dead hosts suck.
That’s the beautiful complexity of social science research - always trying to hit a moving target: one person believes that a biological explanation is necessary for empathy and another believes that an emotional reasoning is necessary for empathy.

Either could just be sufficient though and likelihood of sufficiency for empathy is the thing, subject to the whim and winds of society, being studied.
this looks like a clandestine attempt of industrial sabotage meant to pressurize zoho. May be you refused investment or something? just asking...
If the US was jailing and murdering Scientologists for their organs, I’d be pretty mad. This is awful, the Falun Gong are human, and this should be condemned, regardless of what they believe.
Anyone interested in this topic should also make sure to check out the Procps-ng Audit Report by Qualys Security[1].

[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/05/17/1
Would you mind elaborating? I didn’t upvote, just curious if it’s a faulty fraud detection..

Why do you suspect foul play here, considering the OP is claiming not to do it?

Edit: and thanks ahead of time!
I'd argue that all negative behavioral issues are mental illnesses. One way to classify it would be biological mental illnesses and learned mental illnesses. For example autism being a biological one and PTSD being a leaned mental illness.
Right -- I gave up trying to fix the problem, for example via some kind of copy protection, as I can’t think of a good non-risky solution and figured the sales impact was small. But I hate that potential users are put at risk just by googling for free copies.

I guess adding “legit” mobile ads might help, but I don’t like that as I think mobile ads are a completely miserable experience. And people would probably still rip it off and install their own ads anyway.

You simply can’t trust any APKs you find by googling. (Obvious to most people on HN, of course.)