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Howdy from someone who writes substantive comments for the showdead audience. I'm https://lobste.rs/threads/shawn on lobsters.

I was embarrassed to be classified with the 99% of useless or negative comments, at first. But the truth is simple: few people who value their time write for the showdead audience. It’s so hard to participate constructively that it almost feels impossible. But it’s not.

Till now, poor moderation decisions have caused community members to quietly leave – as yummyfajitas did – rather than risk standing up to Dan. After all, if the entire community likes him, the simplest explanation is that you are the problem, not the moderator.

But nobody can be perfect all of the time. It’s inevitable that mistakes will be made, and it's worrying that Dan tries to seem like an omniscient, benevolent steward who makes no mistakes. If you try to disagree with some of his decisions publicly, you are eventually banned for doing so, regardless of truth. But for better or worse, that’s his choice to make.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18153219 is a pretty standard example of what happens when you try to appeal a decision, or merely ask "Why?" publicly. (All of my emails to hn@ycombinator.com addressing Dan have been ignored for months, so there was little choice but to try asking on HN.)

Feel free to privmsg me on lobsters if you want to chat further, or email (see profile).
PCO350 and PCO500. They're on the loud side, but they work well.
> This happens all the time.

That doesn't make it less scary or dysfunctional. It undermines the health of politics and society when this is acceptable behaviour.
> use CSP's disown-opener to fix this globally

Except no browser supports it yet (see table at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP)
[Edit] found the source article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/business/on-thanksgiving-...

<snip>

This is a change from just a few days ago, when Facebook wrote on Nov. 15 that the Times report was full of “inaccuracies.” The same day, Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer, posted on her Facebook page that she had no idea the company had hired Definers.

“I did not know we hired them or about the work they were doing,” Ms. Sandberg said, adding, “I have great respect for George Soros.” But in the Thanksgiving eve memo, Ms. Sandberg issued an about-face, acknowledging that the Republican-oriented company’s work had crossed her desk.

“Some of their work was incorporated into materials presented to me,” Ms. Sandberg wrote, ”and I received a small number of emails where Definers was referenced.”

</snip>

So just to recap, this is Sandberg admitting that he had some, limited knowledge of the plan, after she had previously publicly claimed she had no idea about it.

This is really one of those times that calls for a “cool story, bro.”
>people like the recent bomb maker.

You actually believe that was real?!
Ok.
Per this: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.99713

Superconducting transition occurs between 86K to 94K, so liquid nitrogen would be more than sufficient for the task.
He was one of Obama's first funders, advisers and public fundraisers, way back when Obama was still a senator. It is very unlikely that Obama would have become and then stayed president without Warren Buffett's initial and continued support.

Warren Buffett is a liberal, very politically involved billionaire philanthropist, very much like George Soros, but with quite literally ten times as much money and political influence.

Furthermore, he has promised to spend all of this money on fluffy liberal causes and social welfare programs and all sorts of other scary commie-sounding stuff before he dies. And he is very old.

Yet, where the hell are all the Warren Buffett conspiracies? He must feel really left out.
What is really funny is how as a pup they are super friendly, enjoy cuddles and a good belly scratch.
Then at 18 months or so they mature and revert to being completely wild and can be very aggresive.
> This font is also known as Staccato 555.

It’s mentioned in the article that it was packaged as part of CorelDraw under this name.
>Soros is a very wealthy person who uses his wealth to push a leftist agenda all around the world. There's no doubt about that, you just have to take a look at the "Open Society Foundations" website to see it. Discrediting all of his detractors as "antisemitic" is merely a tactic used to delegitimise them.

This.
Precisely. 10 bucks says this guy got a substantial increase in severance package directly tied to him taking the fall for this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18510478
They could charge more the less you get done. As you become more productive the price goes down.
Number of users asking for headphone jack >>> Users asking for waterproof phones.

Besides, it’s not an excuse. Samsung can design a waterproof phone with headphone jack. Why can’t Apple?
That was explicit in my post. You increase the labour pool by increasing wages. But when supply is constrained, you get a less than linear increase in output per unit of wage increase.
Off topic: I watched[1] this recently where Larry Ellison talks about Amazon.com still using Oracle DB and that when they tried to stop using Oracle they had huge problems.

Anyone know to what extent Amazon.com still uses Oracle DB? I know they said they would be completely off Oracle by 2020. Is Oracle really that good for mission critical applications that no open source DB can match?

[1] https://youtu.be/xrzMYL901AQ
USB-C power has resulted in my laptop being thrown onto the floor several times since the first USB-C MBP which I ordered day 1. It is a major step back from MagSafe, regardless of your assertion. I never had a single laptop on floor incident since the invention of MagSafe. Major step back. Would kill for a MagSafe MBP again... along with a keyboard that does not break four times a year and a TouchBar free existence. After 14 years it is time for me to move to something else. (Maybe Dell or Lenovo with Ubuntu.) Massively disappointed.
lol, I knew social media was going to be mentioned as a factor.

I will say that it's hard to even discuss issues like this because it brings up a lot of... complicated territory that takes nuance and care to navigate.
Being Jewish isn't his only defining characteristic. There's also the fact that he's a billionaire who is politically active.

I would argue it's extremely disingenuous to not recoginize that the crowds that blame Soros for everything could very likely have a distinctly anti-billionaire streak.
This is truly novel and fascinating. Great work. As an aside to the brilliant thinkers out there who aren't especially interested in or concerned with design, as a general rule it's not good or necessary to center-align paragraphs of text. I always see this on really cool projects like this and I know it's somewhat trivial but part of me hurts on the inside and I just needed to let it out.
The Truth Behind How Venture Capital Chooses Startups
Erm... they opened a locker that contained some (nifty but that's beside the point) floppy disks. This is decidedly not what the article title implied at least to me: the ISS is like the Nuclear Command controlling the nuke launching sites with floppy disks.

OT but I still use 3.15" floppies on a weekly basis though, moving things from my Win7 64 to a Win 98 AiO Compaq with a 13" CRT
I've come to the realization that Amazon is very good at optimizing, but what they're optimizing for is not what I would optimize for and may be less than obvious. Sort by price for example clearly does something, but it's not sorting by price, especially if you've filtered down to a single merchant already.
I'm glad the Air line is back for those who prefer the portability. But, make the pro great again. Give it better cooling and expandibility even at the expense of size.

Agree Touchbar is the most worthless feature ever invented. Just give in and add a touchscreen already Apple!

What is new with Air keyboard that makes it better? The old school MBP had the best keyboard before these butterfly switches.

Never had issue with battery in the new MBP. I have the 2018 i7 w/ 6 cores and I can work pretty much all day (8 hours). I use VMware Fusion and Chrome which are battery hogs.

As for the size, I was happy with the MBP 2015 where I could replace parts. It was the perfect size for the expandibility it provided. I'm not a big guy and I never thought this MBP is heavy.
I have long held that Amazon(.com) has some of the worst UX I've ever seen, and it still is able to sell massive amounts to consumers.

We are left to consider that perhaps UX, particularly to the mass market, really doesn't matter. Or maybe that Amazon has such an entrenched lead, mindshare or other, it can weather some horrible, horrible experiences.

Considering that AWS is almost identical on the cloud front, I'm not sure really what to think here.

I'm a programmer. I use cloud services everyday. I have actively stayed away from AWS in the past few years b/c it has such a bad UX/DX and yet....it grows.

Azure is better. GCP is better. AWS, when compared to those two objectively, is downright terrible. Their services are disjoint. Their command lines don't work together. Their web console? Hooooooollllllly mother of god.....

I guess I don't know what to make of Amazon. Developers seem to fawn over things like Heroku, Zeit, GitHub and they are hugely successful in their own right....but still AWS is used by developers and, IMO, it shouldn't be anymore. It's 2018 and AWS is very clearly stuck in the 1970s/80s DX. They just don't get it, or maybe they do? And DX doesn't matter to most developers?

If we are honest with ourselves, AWS should be in third place in 2018. And it shouldn't even be close. Their services are comparable to the point of no real differentiation to their competition, and they have worse billing, worse experience, worse DX, worse support and overall worse nearly everything.

And yet they grow.

So yes, Amazon.com and AWS are terrible. And for some reason it doesn't seem to matter. I would like to live in a world where it does, particularly for developer tools where I hope that developers have more taste and sense than the choice of AWS shows.
That interview is with a different son (Daniel, not Aaron).
I don't want to trigger a war - honestly, it's probably just personal preference (and I now almost exclusively work in Azure, so things may have changed in the last 12-18 months).

My gripe was mainly about the density of the UI elements - it always felt like there was a lot of text/images crammed into a small space, so I had to inspect every single option before I found the one I wanted.

People have made similar comments about the Azure portal, though, but I never felt the same, so YMMV. Like I said, personal preference.
They're cooling it to about 30K, at which point nitrogen is frozen solid.
> According to the state-run news outlet Global Times, as of May this year, the government had blocked 11.14 million people from flights and 4.25 million from taking high-speed train trips.

> Punishments are not clearly detailed in the government plan, but beyond making travel difficult, are also believed to include slowing internet speeds, reducing access to good schools for individuals or their children, banning people from certain jobs, preventing booking at certain hotels and losing the right to own pets.
I did this for a while. Too annoying for the long term. But definitely a work around.
I agree. The most readable syntax for sequence comprehensions that I know of is C# LINQ and XQuery FLWOR, and it's no coincidence that they put the projection clause ("select" in C#, "return" in XQuery) last - it follows the overall flow better.
If they cared, they would have made a move.
This is an extremely disingenuous guilt-by-association argument that groups together "generic conservatives who gripe about billionaires financing their political adversaries" with "anti-Semitic nutjobs".

There are anti-Semites in many movements, both left and right. Louis Farrakhan has been openly anti-Semitic for years. Jesse Jackson has referred to New York City as "Hymietown". Should we dismiss the entire black civil rights movement as "crowds with a distinctly anti-Semitic streak", or should we condemn Farrakhan and Jackson personally while acknowledging that not all of the people they work with share their most repugnant views?

Should we dismiss the UK Labour Party as a "crowd with a distinctly anti-Semitic streak" because of Jeremy Corbyn's uncomfortably friendly comments about Hamas?

Let's also not miss the facts that (a) much of the criticism towards Facebook has been directed at Mark Zuckerberg personally, (b) Mark Zuckerberg happens to be Jewish, and (c) there is also no shortage of anti-Semites who make the connection between A and B. But, because it doesn't serve the media's vested interests to protect Zuckerberg the way they protect Zuckerberg's critics (remember that Facebook is a direct competitor to the mainstream media), they don't go out of their way to point out this connection.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-facebook-...
What's the difference between a for-loop with an if-statement in it and the comprehension above? Even syntactically, they are almost perfectly matched on tokens. Except with a comprehension, you immediately know that not only it consumes a sequence, but it also produces one (whereas a loop could really do anything).
I'd be interested in a comparison of the cost and efficiency of this type of generator versus using an induction generator. Induction generators don't need magnets either.

I'm also wondering what type of generator they built. Is the superconductor in the rotor or the stator? Does it carry a DC current and, if so, is it operated in persistent mode? Or does it carry an AC current like an induction generator's rotor would?
There is definitely plenty of things to play around with an experiment in the Dat ecosystem, however their Rust platform is still early stages.

http://datproject.org/
https://github.com/datrs

I'm working on a P2P app built atop Dat right now myself, archiving of police radio using software-defined radio and Dat Hypercores. Maybe the codebase can give you some ideas / inspiration, this is developer-preview level for sure:

https://radiowitness.hashbase.io/
What happens when the electricity supply is non-existent for weeks or even months?

What happened in Puerto Rico and in New Orleans?

No electricity = no money.
(I work on Let's Encrypt.)

Let's Encrypt doesn't ever possess your private keys, doesn't know who connects to your site if you use OCSP stapling, and doesn't control what kind of cryptography you use when negotiating TLS sessions with your site visitors. Let's Encrypt also doesn't need any contact information from you when you obtain a certificate.

Let's Encrypt certificates aren't trusted by Chrome without a proof of inclusion in public Certificate Transparency logs, so all issued certificates have to be disclosed.

As I've said in a number of HN comments, the people working on Let's Encrypt generally still think that the CA system is too powerful, and are happy for your suggestions about how about it can made more transparent and less powerful.
One would argue that forcing long conditions to be split up, and intermediate steps named, is rather encouraging readability. ~
It's easier for each side to have one designated boogeyman. Why do the Koch Brothers take all the heat from progressives when there's still Sheldon Adelson and Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel?
I am thankful for my parents because they raise me up and fully support me in the journal of startup.
Shit, I’ve been considering paying someone $1k a month to basically talk to me 1 hour a week and keep a running todo list for me.
> And DX doesn't matter to most developers?

I'm a developer and don't know what that is.
You probably don't have showdead enabled. Unlike other places bans come with an explanation - so I see them fairly often following flagged posts.
It really does say something about the design if you need an external keyboard with your laptop.
MBP heating issues are from the fact that the dedicated GPU doesn't get enough cooling, the frame is too small.

Add https://github.com/0xbb/gpu-switch - run the integrated gpu only - and you will never listen to a fan again, and prolong the life of your MPB.
Back when I did a lot of WP sites, the WordFence plugin pretty much did exactly this...

Looks like it's still available and recently updated: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
Can't say I've experienced this, he treated me pretty badly in the past. Most times he is OK though.

By all means downvote me, btw. This backslapping post on the front page only wants to hear about how amazing the mods are, so the bias is pretty evident.
It would be an interesting test of what is actually "must pass", though.

I also think it would encourage less partisan and more consensus-built legislation if the number of votes it passes with extends the amount of time before it sunsets, esp. if the relationship is not linear. Right now, if you have 50%+1 vote in the House, and 60 in the Senate, you don't have to care about the rest, so you can make legislation as extreme as you can while remaining within those boundaries. But if the difference in getting extra votes is a renewal vote in 25 years (with, say, 3/4 supermajority passing) versus just 5 years (50%+1), those extra votes may well be worth fighting for with some concessions.
I work with a woman who is a “fairy god mother” who does Project management, light ideation and strategy, accountability and some PR consulting.
I switched to a MacBook Air 2018 from a MacBook Pro 2016 (15”) and I couldn’t be happier. The new hardware is plenty fast enough for my needs, the keyboard and trackpad are better, the battery is better, and the screen is still great... I also switched to a new Mac Mini desktop and upgraded the RAM to 32GB and added an LG 5K. Totally life changing...
It would be better if you could simply entirely permanently disable it so that it was exactly like a keyboard with conventional F keys. But goodness forbid Apple let anyone who lives day in and day out with a huge suite of software that extensively uses F keys make that choice.

Or, heck, let us opt out at purchase time, and of the TouchID too. No way I will ever use this.
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They shouldn't. I'm not saying that Git doesn't have commands that can be hard to understand fully, but the whole point of any abstraction is to hide the "insides" of any operation so you don't have to think about them.

Having commands for each DAG operation will just add more complexity and expose a structure which you shouldn't be handling manually.
Which US citizen(s) including minors did the Trump administration assasinate?
I do not think the best way to fight anti-Semitism is to widely publicize every anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, publicize the Jewish ethnicity of every controversial figure, and accuse as many people as possible of being anti-Semitic.

I do think that's the best way to convince yourself and those who already agree with you that everyone on the other side is a Nazi.
Zuckerberg and Sandberg need to own the hiring of the PR firm. It does not matter whether they knew or not. Most C level executives don't know what most of the company's employees are doing but the problem here is that Zuckerberg and Sandberg have created a company culture where this type malfeasance is accepted. I'm sure there were plenty of subordinates to the policy chief that knew about the hiring yet they never notified the executive team.

Not knowing is not a pass. They need to own it.

But I think one of them knew.
To me this seems more like "common sense" than an unpopular opinion. As such I hope this isnt an unpopular opinion!
Yes, since SEC v Materia (https://openjurist.org/745/f2d/197/securities-and-exchange-c...).
World's first 'Ion Plane' has no propellers, turbines or fuel pumps
Reaktor Space Lab: Hello World
The real problem is people who understand machine learning don’t know how to describe it in terms of anything except math. You don’t really need math to do it just like you don’t need math to understand neurons or how they function. Every concept in machine learning can be demonstrated in simple programming without any math. Why it is not is because most people who are doing it at the experimental level are at a university and they don’t start learning it until they already have a tremendous math background but to say it requires math is ridiculous
In terms of the modern surveillance state, East Germany and the Stasi have probably been the best studied example.

Fortunately, that surveillance didn't scale well, despite the stereotypical German attempts moving towards industrial efficiency.

In fact a number of articles were produced around how the Orwellian surveillance state didn't scale well using the East Germany/Stasi example. It required far too many full-time and part-time humans at too high frictional cost.

So I wonder how we will look back in a generation at North Korea(if it falls/opens and can be studied) or more scalable Chinese social scoring and surveillance systems(as well as western systems).

I've seen enough exponential abundance charts to last a lifetime.

But I have not seen a chart with an anticipated date for when price/performance makes total surveillance viable.
I recently had to do this and after a lot of frustration with wget, httrack and some other commercial ones too, I ended up settling on the results of this free product, WebCopy.

https://www.cyotek.com/cyotek-webcopy

Background: We couldn't keep the existing platform running, so had to transition to static html files.

I used the WebCopy scan log to create the apache rewrite rules to preserve the existing link structure.

Where I say WebCopy was better, it was this simple log, but also the file structure it was producing was much cleaner with less junk pages and duplicates. (the site was an absolute inconsistent mess to begin with)
Google Talk is my all time favourite. The UI is cleaner and it just worked everytime.

Picasso is also a good photo viewer when I was using Windows. It's a shame really.
This is beeminder.com
I think the differences would be the following ones:

- You wouldn't have to bother with JS files, they are removed from saved pages by default.

- You couldn't (easily) de-duplicate resources because they are embedded in base64 into the page. However, SingleFile can detect all the hidden elements and unused CSS rules/declarations (by computing the cascade). So the HTML and CSS are optimized. It is also able to group duplicate images (by using CSS custom properties). There are other options to make the document size as small as possible. Most of the time, pages saved with SingleFile are smaller than Chrome MHTML files.

- The saving process would be much more simple, reliable and could be automatic.

- Videos wouldn't be saved (by default), a snapshot of the video would replace each video.

- Maybe the "filename template" in SingleFile would help you to organize things.
I wonder why we don't use vacuum freeze-drying of clothes.
If you are interest in a more premium offering, I work with a “Fairy God Mother” who offers project management, accountability, productivity coaching, etc.

She’s good, but much more than $25/mo.

http://thetalentsquad.com/consulting/
> can made more transparent and less powerful

Looking forward to it. I imagine, when SSL becomes mandatory by browsers, it can be used for censorship.