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Had less problems with Linux tyan with Windows for about 10 years now.

Installation is quicker.

No bloatware/scareware to uninstall (bundled McAfee etc).

I've spent more time hunting for drivers on Windows than on Linux the 10 last years.

Linux is also significantly faster for some of my workflows (git commits, anything with maven or node).

For me (partially colorblind, never cared much about fonts, everything is an improvement from what I grew up with) I also find certain Linux DEs a lot nicer and easier to use than Windows and even MacOS. Again this is my personal opinion, but I have used Windows for years before I switched to Linux and I've also been enthusiastic about Mac and Apple and have used it for years, I just happen prefer KDE or a well tuned Gnome, Cinnamon or elementary

The downsides? In my experience Linux is slightly less stable. And there exist stuff that is only supported on Windows (an old scanner I have. Although I should add it is not great under Windows either.)
I get slower during 4.20 moments too...
Was it him again?
Crimea Plan Blockchain Center to Evade Sanctions
Solving real problems is often boring and or difficult. Tedious mass refactoring, fixing bugs in horribly entangled code you didn’t write, convincing groups of people they need to make a painful change now for a better future, keeping a team of engineers happy and busy.

Learning is always more fun and easy. You can read a tutorial and make progress. Even a rigorous online course is still easier than real life problems because the direction you go in is on rails. You don’t have to do that hard part of deciding what to do and why to do it; the instructor did that already.

I often see people divert their attention to busy work that’s easy to make progress on instead of the real and immediate problems. Examples would be fixing all the warnings in a large project, optimizing things that are already fast enough.

The real stars of engineering resist these tempting short term buzzes somehow .
The problem I have with pen tests is that they're not systematic and rely on the cleverness and knowledged of the tester. Even if they identify an issue, it's often hard or impossible to ensure it doesn't regress, and if it's an inhouse or custom software they've never seen before they likely won't be of much help without a lot of effort.

I think one step forward would be also approaching security the same way epidemiologist track down causes of diseases. In that they take patient data and trace back the factors that caused it, just instead of patients we're talking about security vulnerabilities and breaches. Having a corpus of causal diagrams that then we can develop software to analyze risk factors that we can then systematically test for.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18452992
Telegram. Maybe I'd chosen something else today but it has served us very well.
This isn't as highly upvoted because it's old news from two months ago.

I remember this being very well received when it was first published on Twitter.
Outside the warmer areas of the US, I think a big reason for wood framing is how easy it is to insulate.

I'm not sure how it's done in the UK with brick buildings though. It seems like if you needed much insulation you'd end up with an inner wall and brick facade.
Agreed. When evaluating both of them, it looked like React and Vue implement the same concepts, but React did it in ways that made it more complicated than it needed to be. I specifically didn’t like that Redux and it’s docs were too heady for what it really is (it’s just event triggering and handling, why does it have to be so complicated?), and the fact that React didn’t have any official “here’s is how to build a complete app” docs. It was always “well here are different choices and project layouts you could use”. I don’t want to care about using this templating system or that. I want batteries included. Vue did that well.
Let's qualify that - it's an entirely appropriate way to deal with security with the current climate of not actually having any repercussions (or none beyond some tepid market response) for security breaches that damage third parties.
Native Apps are Doomed (2016)
I think it highly depends on 1) the severity of the law of your country, 2) the demand, 3) where you live (how many gangs are out there, how dangerous it is ..etc.).

Also, selling drugs doesn't imply selling hard drugs, which in many countries (in Europe at least) is the real "reason" to worry.

The money they make in 1-2 days, depending on what they sell, is way above an average salary (again... talking only about Europe). 1 or 2 days of selling marijuana and maybe cocaine in "good" places (of course, not in the middle of nowhere). So, why wouldn't someone do it, instead of wiping people's asses or cleaning toilets?
you know what, i meant to type 2.

2 story building height limit.

I am shamed.
If only the kernel went more creative..
Dont jump in to the wrong box
From my background in the chemical sciences, p-hacking and significance testing in general simply are not relevant. It's not that people aren't necessarily sloppy or disingenuous, I mean literally that statistical testing is hardly ever done by anyone in any form even in most contemporary practice and is virtually nonexistent historically in my field and those adjacent to it. That's slowly starting to change as individual fields transition towards big data-y approaches, but 'p-hacking' as a phenomenon is something I would associate as an idiosyncrasy primarily of biomedicine and the social sciences; I do not think it has generalized explanatory power.
I firmly believe it's important to learn a spoken language before learning the written language, assuming your goal is to become fluent.

Learning through translation is also an anti-pattern. Best to learn the basics of the target language then bootstrap your understanding of the more complicated bits by breaking them down to the basics.

I can understand the time benefit to learning through reading and translation, but I can't help but think it's a path to mediocre reading skills and poor speaking skills at best.
The person you are responding to clearly means "only one thing works to make money", as "works" in the context of a business and a discussion about stock price is not "it functions correctly" but "it brings on income".
Probably standard bitlocker. You get decrypted drive automatically, windows can use it, but you only get access to your files, and you can't decrypt and not boot windows. You have to hack local admin for that.
Creativity thrives on diverse and novel combinations of inputs.

So, if all the physicists in your office play tennis, except that one guy who collects butterflies as his hobby, that one guy will have more novel ideas than possibly all the others combined. Everyone else will think more or less alike. He's the one who will be going "But what if black holes are kind of like cocoons?" -- which may make him a laughing stock, but probably no one else is making that comparison and it may be fertile ground for new and exciting discoveries.

So it's possible that being busy is when your mind is getting sufficient diverse inputs to spark new ideas and maybe you recognize they are half-baked and you need more info about X to have any hope of fleshing it out. So you wish you could delve into it.

Starting an idea file and jotting stuff down when busy, then following up later might help.

Alternately, it's a general truism that people have kind of an internal quota.

Maybe they have an internal need to read 4 hours a day. If their job involves reading 4 hours a day, they are happy and won't read much after work. If their job involves reading two hours a day, they are going to read in bed two hours a night. If their job involves reading five hours a day sometimes, they are going to start going stir crazy that last hour and want to do anything but read.

So it can be a case of "I want to do anything else, just not this. I can't stand another minute of this -- and it's going to last all week, dagnabbit."
The drop was caused by mismanaged inventories. Mostly related to cryptominign boom cooling down.
Then 1 mol of carbon-12 would weigh 1300 g rather than 12 g and the conversions would be a pain.
I thought the big problem with the Cell architecture was that fully taking advantage of it was very difficult. Particularly as a gaming system where game engines have to be finely tuned to the hardware. Has this changed?
The projects they're attempting take decades. Period. Loon, for example: Two years for a handful of prototypes, two years for LTE functionality and a "real" trial run, two more years for a mesh network so they aren't bottlenecked by satellites, another year for a large-scale real-world trial run (Puerto Rico), and now we're at the present day. Their job now is to demonstrate that they can keep a balloon fleet up long enough and at sufficiently low cost that it's safe to transition an entire country's economy over to the system. That's probably going to take another ten or fifteen years simply because that's how long it takes to show that your system is reliable enough to be core, critical infrastructure. And Loon is just an easy example. Waymo, Brain. Anything to do with healthcare. Etc. There's a reason these things are called "moonshots".
> If you care about other people, that’s now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself. Maybe you can become rich, but you don’t care whether other people’s kids can go to school, or can afford food to eat, or things like that. In the United States, that’s called “libertarian” for some wild reason. I mean, it’s actually highly authoritarian, but that doctrine is extremely important for power systems as a way of atomizing and undermining the public.

-- Noam Chomsky
Could the mods please fix the title?

“Tens of developers building web apps on Twitch right now”
That's not really clear from the article, but I suspect that performance drop is from multithreaded software. And sure, if you are observing performance degradation with hyper-threading, there's 0 reason to keep it enabled. OpenBSD guys suggest to turn it off after all.
You definitely do not need Webpack. Here's a bare-bones React component "editor" with support for JSX: https://codepen.io/namuol/pen/MXJOzy
2018 Secure DevOps: Fact or Fiction?
Sorry! I didn't mean to disparage your efforts, or anyone's.

I should have said maybe, "relatively easy in Python".
Does the article not actually mention the reason? (I mean, I know it's STIBP, but it never says that?
They pretty much started it. Google maps was probably the first real attempt at a “single page application” written in JavaScript. Everything else at the time trying to do the same thing was java/activex. Chrome also pushed JavaScript speed so much it enabled doing much more complex things with it. They’ve just become a much bigger company since thenwhich makes being “nimble” a lot harder.
I can concoct a couple of explanations:

1) in an environment of oppression, manipulation or negligence, where a perpetrator, manipulator, or guardian/parent realizes that a victim will come to realize the cause or shirked responsibility surrounding their injustice, the manipulator has an advantage to change your mind or subject before you realize what happened, before you can formalize a pattern or solution or worse attribution. Those who got manipulated survived less or prospered less so had less offspring. The fact that we exist means our ancestors were then probably those who had slight predispositions to not allow "business therapy" change your train of thought.

2) this is HN, so plenty of us were terminally bored in high school, where we created the habit of postponing exams and task till the very last minute (a sort of handicap move?), at which point we had little time left and started finally doing the task or study. we grew up associating a lack of time with starting to study? perhaps it's also what gives us a good idea of estimating workloads of unperformed tasks?
This is the great spirit rising inside of you. Listen to the great spirit or it will abandon you.
Waymo doesn't count?
Insurance companies don't cover total health costs over the life of the patient. They cover the next month of health costs, and a certain percentage of their customers churn afterwards. For insurance companies, providing treatment that lasts a longer amount of time can often be a terrible business decision - if the customer switches insurance providers afterwards, then they're essentially subsidizing the insurance company they switched to.

This more commonly happens with prescription quantities. Medication compliance is far better when people can pick up a three-month supply of medication. Insurance companies want patients to pick up one month supply instead, so that they aren't paying for two months of medication for every patient who switches insurance companies.
I have a Dell XPS 15 running Pop!_OS, and it’s great[1]. No issues. It’s a much better experience compared to setting up Kubuntu[2].

[1] http://bryangrohman.com/pop-os-dell-xps-15/

[2] http://bryangrohman.com/kubuntu-dell-xps-15/
When React was new and compilers/tooling wasn't that good it was pretty common to use it without JSX. JSX is pervasive because the tooling is now first class (and you'll need it if you make a non-trivial app sooner or later...at which point might as well use JSX since its there), but it works perfectly find without. My first couple commercial apps for React didn't use JSX and it was quite usable. There's just a lack of examples on how to do it these days because no one bothers.

The only time when you won't really have access to a tool chain is for quick demos with just an html page and a script tag (if you don't want to pull in babel as a script), but most online tool allow jsx too now anyway.
Setting the DNS servers on iOS is stored with each individual wireless network. There's no way, that I'm aware of at least, to set them in a global way outside of a VPN profile.

From what I can tell it is working correctly stacked on top of a VPN profile for a VPN.
For me, it's because the thing I'm doing right now is boring, and doing some other project instead (a) seems more interesting by comparison and (b) lets me convince myself that I'm still being productive.

When I'm not busy, I can play a game or read a book, and those are way more entertaining than a new project, even a relatively interesting one.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/shudder
City employees have good pensions, benefits, and job security. Even if their salary is average or slightly below they're not really an "at-risk" population.
Uh, no. The final 2x4 product is milled mostly dry. Mills allow the timber to air dry, then mill, then post-kiln, and may mill the final product after that e.g. by cutting 2x4s out of a 12x4. The reduction of a 2x4 from 2x4" to 1.75x3.5" is done on purpose, because modern mills can put guarantees on the density of knots in the wood, thus requiring less wood for the same engineered strength guarantee. So the 2x4" product is not actually 2x4 because the mill is asserting that while there is less wood than just cutting a 2x4, the board they're selling is as strong as a 2x4 would have been at the turn of the 20th century, when they didn't have a way to guarantee the density of knots.
Cool!

Naming might be a problem, however. Companies get litigious when you use their trademarks/brand, even when modifying things on the client side.

Slack came after an HN user for using "Slack" in their GitHub repo that hosted a client-side script for Slack.
it's on page two. Why a short article like this has pages though...
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not, but just in case, there are dozens of editors that are way better than notepad++. Feature rich ones like Sublime Text, or VS Code, or simple ones like xed / gedit.
"it's about the scale that Amazon does it at"
"it's just they do it on a massive scale"
"This is something that Amazon is great at"
"Target is doing the same...but they just don't have the massive scale"
"As a consumer I love what Amazon is doing"
"Lots of respect to those guys"
"the most important advantage Amazon has: it has data...with this data, it enters markets and undercuts its competition at the perfect price point"

At some point I feel like I'm being astroturfed.

People are amazed Amazon sells pasta and batteries under their own brand? Sounds like Ikea to me.

Amazon has several problems they haven't corrected in years - generally not great prices, fake products being co-mingled with genuine items, fake reviews, flaky or slow shipping (esp. with their own delivery people). I've even had a few brand new books arrive with binding or cover damage. Ugh.
Conversely, sometimes the obscurity layer will obscure the issues not just from others, but also yourself.

I worked for a thin client vendor years ago that was obsessed with encrypting our boot image etc, and poured all our resources into that. Which lead to encryption that was still trivial to work around, and a lot of other real security issues were never dealt with because we were fixated on the ineffective obscurity layer.
The cord is also the size of the standard US pickup truck bed with the wood stacked up about cab height.
2018: This time we mean it.
Yes, it’s pretty obviously a joke
I agree and from a purely rational standpoint you are correct. However in my experience the main benefit of a successful pentest is to achieve a change in culture and the perception of security of staff across the entire workforce where before it was deemed “taken care of” or non-important.

In short, people won’t change before shit has hit the fan, and a pentest is the closest you can get to a controlled shit-hit-fan situation without it being a meaningless drill :) How, and what is uncovered is besides the point and merely secondary when viewed from that perspective.
(HL2 has run natively on Linux for many years just FYI.)
My experience is anecdotal of course but what is broken about it for you?

It is working fine for me on Firefox 63.0.3 (64-bit) using ViewImage 2.1
This part was NASA's fault when it cancelled the heavy launcher program. The Shuttle was supposed to just be a way to ferry people into orbit. Heavy hauling was supposed to be done with a different rocket. Cancelling the heavy hauler put all of the burden on the Shuttle and forced it to be a jack of all trades. Ironically in the name of cost savings they made the most expensive system possible.
Switzerland Approves the World's First Crypto Exchange Traded Product
You're argument doesn't make sense. YouTube, Android, and Google are 100% completely different businesses and are all wildly profitable.

What you seem to be confused about here is that you think a business model is the same as a business itself. This couldn't be further from the truth.
I meant consuming a 9bit/byte bytestream on an 8bit/byte box.
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"Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem" - Alan Turing
I'm on a 2 year old MacBook Pro.

Gmail will completely freeze for ~10-15 seconds while performing a search.
Yes, because the graphics are a visual joke. The illustrator, Tarcy Ma, does great work: http://tracyma.com
From a shareholder perspective Facebook and Google have done pretty great. In fact, as an investor I hope the dual class structure continues. I’d much rather leave it to the founders and not have activist investors pushing their own agenda.
Not perfect: one anecdote from maire above to disprove: "My childhood home burned in the Oakland hills fire - and it had a tile roof -- so roofing material is not enough. Having a defensible space also seems key."
That’s not a problem if you don‘t have a LinkedIn account. I recommend it.
Math isn't intuitive for humans. It takes a lot of work to learn it and most people don't remember any of it past school age. If we taught base 12 instead of 10 it would be just as intuitive.
I tend to have this impulse when I’m unhappy with the things keeping me busy (e.g. low value work). My mind will try to drift into new areas to create alternative work that’s more fulfilling. Ironically, my capacity for learning and creativity seems to diminish when I’m busiest while my desire for those things grows.
There are others:
https://github.com/NicolasT/kontiki
This is so cool. More than the startups themselves, I'm more interested in the dev tools/techniques and pace at which other devs code.

Not surprisingly most thumbnails look like..... VSCode :)
SNS and SQS works together but serve two different purposes.

SNS is for producers. You use SNS to say something happened. You have no guarantee that any consumer actually successfully processed the message and if the consumer is down, that message is lost to them.

The only way a consumer can actually directly process a message is by subscribing to via http or lambda. But again, if the consumer errors or is down, you’re out of luck.

SQS is a traditional simple queueing mechanism. It has no fanout capability on its own but you do get the traditional queuing functionality. But it doesn’t make sense logically for more than one process (or group of processes doing the same thing) to consume the queue.

If you want the traditional fanout, filtering, multiple queues that do different things on the same event/message, you use SNS and SQS together.
I thought loon was also considered a failure, although not shut down yet. It's an interesting idea on its own, but it's somewhat dated in that there are better technologies now that don't cost as much to run.
New ‘SLICE’ Tool Can Massively Expand Immune System’s Cancer-Fighting Repertoire
I call this escapism. It is the inability to be mindful and focus on what is happening in front of us right at this moment but rather distracting ourselves with thoughts of a better situation.

Better situation is relative to the situation you find yourself in. So it changes with every situation you find yourself in.
It's been years since people were mocked for using Javascript. The language has greatly matured.
I try using pine here and there. Every time I try, whenever I attempt sending a mail it locks my account for suspicious activity
the graphics are a visual joke.

It sailed way over my head apparently, what's the punchline here?
I don’t agree with EC2. When people think about EC2 they only think about VMs. Amazon considers the EC2 service a service that encompasses, VMs, load balancers, and a lot of other stuff.

“Amazon SQL” makes it sound like Amazon’s bespoke sql database. RDS is hosted Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MarisDB, and Postgres. They all behave so much differently it really doesn’t make any sense to combine them into one service.
Not the OP but: it’s all about learning to build habits in order to break this inconsistent “flow” of motivation.
Place the center of your line at the correct location.
Things like 2FA greatly limit the damage of a compromised domain and give defenders time to react.
Yes, I was going to say, procrastination.

I came across a piece of writing about Perry's theory years ago and thought "Gee, that's deep, the guy must be a philosopher" - and he is. The idea is to have such an impressive To Do[0] list that even when you do the things lower down on it - "procrastinate" - they're still not a bad use of your time, and maybe better than the urgent, important things at the top.

[0] I just can't write 'Todo', as seems universal in English, because 'todo' = 'everything' in Spanish.