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I _really_ like writing prose while high on editable cannabis. The end result is rarely useful except to document my stream of conscious. I have a private hg mercurial version control repository called "journal" that I have used for the past 6 years.

It is very therapeutic and lots of creative ideas are stored away. Each year gets it's own text file and I write in ReStructured Text just in case one day I decide to make my journals public in PDF form or something. Not all entries are influenced by mood enhancing drugs.

I have been known to read what I wrote the night before and swipe some of the cooler ideas as a tweet or expand the idea as a full post on my public blog.

When I drink I don't usually find myself drawn to writing or coding.

I think the more inclusive version of this advise should be:

Write crazy, Edit sanely
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The biggest sites that are ad-dependent are in the digital media space, and they are undergoing a culling like never before. Mic.com and Mashable recently sold at distress sale prices, and Buzzfeed and Vice are also struggling to meet revenue targets.

> The truth probably is that most websites would fail if users had to pay for them.

I agree with you here, but the implication of this is that if the user isn't willing to pay for it, and ads aren't enough to sustain the business, maybe they should not be in that particular business.

Or, they could try to rise to the challenge and build a brand people are willing to pay for. The Guardian in the UK recently hit a million paying digital subscribers, so it's certainly not impossible. Most sites do not need a million subscribers to make payroll.
>Your comment makes it sound like the two mistakes are equivalent.

It's a TL;DR. Of course it sacrifices nuance for brevity.

>They might have been overconfident, but if the misleading marketing leads to deaths, I don't think the finger should be pointed to "overconfidence".

I generally agree with you but there is a good argument to be had that the driver is responsible. These were personally owned vehicles, not rentals. It's not like the owners who died didn't have time to become familiar enough with the system to reach the same performance conclusions (i.e. "it's basically just really good lane keeping and adaptive cruise") as Euro NCAP did. I get that products for the general consumer are supposed to be stupid proof but everyone knows that marketing bends the truth by only ever showing the ideal case. Nobody expects fancy AWD and electronic nannies to let them navigate snow covered hairpin roads with 100% accuracy every time like in the car commercials. Nobody expects to rely on automatic braking or cross traffic detection to not get in accidents when backing out of a driveway. The same goes for Tesla's autopilot. It is unreasonable to expect Autopilot to perform the way the marketing implies in 100% of circumstances.
It's not like features you don't use slow you down, or that the < 1 MB of code they take on disk is important.
We really, really need more data on the responses of living creates to 1/8g. We've got all the 1g data. We've got a considerable amount of 0g data from ISS experiments. But we just don't know how living creatures respond to lunar or martian gravity. And knowing that will be very important for future colonization efforts.
One defender you may find useful. At least, the recordings are very entertaining:

The Jolly Roger Telephone Company

https://jollyrogertelephone.com/
Too late for China.
There are many reasons why Chris might have been rejected. Maybe indeed Yahoo was not able to recognize his talent. But maybe the company was hiring for a specific role and found someone better? Maybe despite his skills he didn't perform well in that particular interview?

Hiring is very difficult. Your have limited amount of time with the candidate and based on some coding task and a few hours of interview you need to predict whether that particular candidate is going to perform well in the role you're filling. It's hard, and I'm sure I passed on a few good candidates just because at that point of time I wasn't sure enough whether they'd be a good addition to the team or not.
I use both firefox and chrome. Chrome does have user profiles, and I can have multiple open at once. Separate cookies but ALSO separate extensions.
They are competing and think theirs is better. They are trying to get people to look at the competition. That’s not ruining anything for anyone
They don't all have it. They are supposed to be accountable to boards etc. Look at how Ballmer was made to leave in the current decade, to cite a tech example. Zuckerberg has broken and circumvented this by concentrating power.

Now, your original point that small indirect suggestions can be amplified greatly by the network of reports eager to execute on the boss's mandate... This is true and I have seen it in large and small scale. I am merely poking fun of "absolute power".
I apologize if it felt that way.

That was not the intention but rather to showcase and make sure everyone understands the tradeoffs of each of this projects :)
Teradata a competitor at the high end and Microsoft SQL server is an example at the low customers still want significant support. The enterprise market is not competitive the way gas stations are, but major vendors do compete.

In many ways Oracle is the low end of these solutions, but few companies actually need giant databases with thousands of drives.
He's probably referring to the likes of this:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13683/intel-euvenabled-7nm-pr...
Whenever AMD's CPUs have been price/performance competitive they've always been a fantastic choice. Especially now, when with Ryzen/Threadripper/Epyc you not only got more cores for the less money, you also got better security.

AMD's GPU drivers have been perfectly fine since the 9700 Pro. That's a 16 year old myth at this point, let it go.
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
Hmm, maybe its something parents can take into account: prepare your kids for some inevitable failures.

I could also be on the site btw, I was told during my first assessment interview that I might at some point be a decent supermarket stockboy, not now, but maybe over time.
I spent most of my college evening getting drunk with philosophy majors and pretending my math degree meant more than my CS fallback -- but I haven't found the corporate interview system to be that terrible.

I do however think it's a game that conflicts with certain personality types, including myself early in my career.

I'm always curious what you (or anyone else!) think could be done better.
Front end. The back end architecture hasn't changed much in decades.
Sure, you could say it is all politics, and it would be hard to separate out any biases and political views form these organizations.

But I think most can read between the lines. These things are on a scale, say from 0 to 9. At some point in the past - bias and political charged reporting and news was was closer to say a 3. But today our news organizations have cranked it up to a 11.
whole lot of "suck it up" type of rationalization here, over a system that is quite obviously broken.
NASA’s next Mars rover will use AI to be a better science partner
If you want to use Rust 2015, just do so?

I fail to see how Rust editions could be much smoother managed. Or should they never fix anything in the language?
Normal DNS is autoconfigured via DHCP.

The browser doesn't have access to the DHCP data because it usually happened during the OS startup way before the desktop even becomes visible.

That doesn't stop you from using a custom DHCP option.
You appear to be conflating ethics and legality. It is perfectly legal (for now) for social media giants to spy on their US users in increasingly intrusive ways, but many would argue there are lines in there that cross into unethical. Perhaps legislation will follow to enforce this ethical stance over the coming years as has happened in the EU, but the absence of such legislation does not preclude it from being unethical. The objection to Google's interest in the Chinese market is another example where ethics and legality don't match up.

Anecdotally, I personally find it ethically indefensible to abort a child due purely to sex, despite otherwise being pro-choice.
Yes, but the usability was pretty poor as it had very specific requirements that far-flung people would have trouble meeting.

Needing SSH access, valid user accounts, and various permissions meant it was always viewed as a hassle rather than benefit.
Not that anyone will see this, but unfortunately for all of us, what is totally missing from this line of thought is the religious restraints regarding jealousy and coveting that are direct responses to the most primitive impulses of humans, that the more you have the more it's not enough, especially when you didn't work for it. It is just as true for the elite who don't work for what they have, as well as the parasitic savages that have been allowed to infest the civilized world (ironically, to enrich and empower the elite) that become ever more greedy and covetous with every bit of thing they are given without having earned or deserved it.
I shamelessly copy. I have a lot of respect for the UX and design people I work with, and I know those skills take hard work to develop even for people with talent. I know I'm never going to finish a side project if I force myself to acquire those skills myself before I do anything, so I copy existing designs that look good to me.

If a side project turns out good enough that I think it could be a real product, I expect I will try to find a partner.
Yeah, surely the solution to the opioid epidemic is making fentanyl available at CVS.
Can you point me to this specific course? I am interested.
At Sqreen, we love SaaS! We especially love making SaaS companies more secure :-)

The SaaS Security 1000, is a security overview of the world's fastest growing SaaS companies. We run a few basic security checks to identify network and application security issues.

No SaaS business has been harmed during that experiment ;-) (information gathered with fully passive & non-intrusive tests)

Have feedback or question?
A near monopoly
I wish windows would adopt something similar to chrome://flags for configuration. Easy to search and all in one place.
They stumbled on 10nm is what happened. They expected their manufacturing prowess to continue to let them build massive dies.

So now they're stuck with CPU architecture designs that mandate huge dies to scale up the core counts, which they can't manufacture with anything close to reasonable yields on 14nm.

Rock meet hard place.

AMD by contrast designed with the expectation that they couldn't make big chips, so went with a "glue a bunch of small ones together" design. Which seems to have played out stunningly well for them. Now they can bin the golden cores, slap them together, and ramp the clocks.
>Ever try redesigning a Wordpress site?

Yes, me and tons of others people over the years.

>*
All those plugins are just a Big Ball of Mud, and trying to figure out how to apply a design to it, without breaking everything is kind of impossible. Change a theme? Lose settings, styles, major layout choices, menu locations. I can go on.*

Depends on how you wrote the theme (or which theme you've bought) and what you want to change. Like on any other platform. It could also be a totally seamless experience. If your whole IA was based on the way the theme did things (custom post types, meta boxes and so on), then you need to port that too.
With Indonesia's heresy app, religious harmony hasn't a prayer
> buying a t-shirt, coming to a concert

Aren't there also middlemen, credit cards etc, involved in those too?

I'm sure a big part of ticket sales goes to the venue, and of t-shirt sales goes to the manufacturer.
Have you evaluated cryptoquote.io? Take a look at their real-time level 1 and level 2 websocket APIs. They seem to understand market data and have navigated the non-standard connections to cryptocurrency exchanges well.
It doesn't "just" mean that. You aren't arguing in good faith when you choose to selectively use and ignore dictionary definitions of common words as it conveniences you.
You could get an old macbook that still runs iMessage, hook a KVM switch up to it and use it as if it was local (through a connection over a VPN or something). It sounds like a lot of work, but if you really must have it...
I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups.  AMA
I’ll be here for the next 2 hours and then again at around eleven for another 2 hours. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!

Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts
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There is a clear distinction in my opinion, I've outright rejected candidates because they simply didn't have the skills. And not selected a capable one because someone else edged them out. It's not semantics. There was a decision made based on the individual.

The end result is the same but there is a distinct reason for the decision.
Ever heard of the HN "hug of death"? Sites load slower if there are a high number of concurrent connections at the time you're trying to visit.
Used Windows for years, from 3.11 to 7. Switched to Mac couple of years ago. I don't think I would consider using Windows ever again, unless they go back to 7 and create a new reasonable iteration out of it. Everything after 7 is just not worth the frustration.
[meta] Whenever there is something remotely critical of Tesla, the comment section is a mess. Downvotes left-and-right, people are divided on bullshit semantics, etc.. I really don't get why. Same thing (but worse, actually) happens on Reddit.

Is Tesla PR so 'well connected' to astroturf basically everywhere or did their marketing succeeded in creating an army of people who emotionally associate Tesla with the future of humanity? It's just a car folks, take a chill pill.
It could mean though, that he's a very good tech entrepreneur, but Facebook was hiring him for software engineering, and he didn't meet the standards.
>We believe it’s important for governments in 2019 to start adopting laws to regulate this technology.

We worked on facial recognition for decades, recently added it to our console and Windows10 Hello, we built a decent API into our cloud.... but um now we need governments to stop us, please?

Ok, I mean... I guess I don’t understand big company speak. I didn’t see anywhere they are shutting down their own offerings.

The concerns for “race to the bottom” of tech are interesting. A cynical person might think MS was plenty ok with it when they had little competition but now that just anyone can do it they see the problems, as just a sign of self-interest.

Not that I disagree facial recognition can be abused, it will if not already is. They got it right with genie in a bottle. I don’t trust government to regulate themselves and expect the largest abuses from them. I highly suspect my time this year in Singapore was ‘heavily calacuated’ everywhere I went.
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Pardon if this is the wrong place for this, but just maybe a Twitter employee will see this. I’ve exhausted all other avenues to regain access to my 13 year old account that I used fairly frequently.

It’s twitter.com/ryanspahn

I’m ryanspahn<at>gmail but that’s not the email for my account and the one I used I don’t have access to anymore or forgot which random email it’s under.
I understand the argument that Tesla is generally misleading is their selling of Autopilot. I can also understand the argument that no company should be selling this type of semi-autonomous tech that can result in the worst of both human and autonomous driving. But I simply don't understand the argument that the only problem with this feature is the name. It just makes the whole thing seem silly.

We already put numerous requirements on people before they are allowed to legally drive. Why are we not blaming drivers for knowing nothing about their cars beyond the simple name of a feature? You literally can't turn the feature on in a Tesla without it warning you about its limitations. Doesn't the driver have some responsibility to pay attention to those warnings or at least spend a few minutes learning about this feature before they trust it with their lives (and the lives of others)?
Isn't that what the registry was supposed to be before it turned into a monster?

Personally, though, I've always preferred Firefox's (and old Opera's) about:config instead. It's far more flexible than Chrome's flags.
That article is now two months old and a lot has changed and improved since then. You also have to compare apples to apples: don't just compare writing in a single text area to manipulating complex blocks, try to accomplish the same task (like putting two captioned images side by side) in both interfaces.
So is the idea to take a page from the RISC and VLSI playbooks and outsource the isolation and security to the compiler/JIT VM?
Shhht, don't break the spell.

People enjoy complaining, more so in groups.
AMD was essentially dead in the water in the CPU market, and struggling in the GPU market.

Then Zen happened, and this current resurgence.

Companies aren't dead until they're dead. Intel has fingers in a lot of pies and good revenue streams from all over the place.
I love git gui. I've used it for more than 5 years now. Has an ugly UI, but it's very functional and complete.
Seriously, what a fucking mess they made with the new settings screens. I find myself clicking through 5 screens just to finally arrive at the old control panel for network interfaces to toggle my ethernet off.
>I don't know why this is and would love some pointers on how to improve my (and others in the same boat) writing skills.

Read a lot of different kinds of writing and keep on writing yourself. Eventually you'll develop better skills.

If you mostly write on a particular subject, read how others express things in that domain.

Try to describe something complicated and then compare it to how people regarded as great communicators approached the same subject.
If you keep engaging in tedious political flamewars we'll ban the account. Hacker News is not a tedious political flamewar site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is this serious advice? Because this sounds to me like a great way to get burned out...
My father lost $10K from a phone scammer. The scammer dug up personal details from various public records and weaved it into a plausible scenario. Dad thought he was saving his nephew from being framed for drunk driving by a crooked small-town cop. They even got nephew's voice impression correct, or at least good-enough. His mental facilities for judgement & scrutiny were waning.

It appears they dug up minor details on various elderly and cold-call bunches of them. If a call receiver shows curiosity, they hang up, collect more personal details, and call back days later with a more complete scenario. Thus, I don't think they actually practiced voice impressions, but use shere mass fishing/phishing to see who bites, and then focus on the biters. They leverage coincidence via mass trials.
It's not so much Intel were ahead in terms of architecture design, but rather AMD was way behind. Bulldozer was a disaster, and Zen is a ground-up redesign that means AMD have a decent core at the level of Intel's again.

But AMD have two advantages Intel don't. Their Zen architecture is designed for multi-chip module scalability, so they can deliver higher core counts at much better yields (especially important on new process nodes!) and thus manufacturing costs than Intel's monolithic designs. And AMD uses 3rd-party fabs that, unlike Intel, are already doing great on the new process node.

2019 will be a reckoning for Intel.
Wow really cool, thanks for mentioning it :)
this only works if there are comments.

on an article without any comments, there doesn't seem to be a link to the comment page.

at the top, just below the headline of the article, an additional link to the original comment page would be useful.
I genuinely don't get this. WSL's backing filesystem (NTFS) completely runs like ass. It's dire. 10x the latency on everything at least compared to Linux running natively on the same hardware. This is because all small writes end up in MFT contention and the entire of Unixy type things are based on lots of small writes.

Plus on top of that, everything is rammed with telemetry on windows now, the QA has gone down the toilet leading to a hosed machine at least three times in the last two years for me and there is no clear direction they are going in other than "throw poo on everything and see where it sticks". Any bets you make are risky.

And honestly when I read about powershell and chocolatey used there I laugh because a huge amount of friction for me came from that direction. powershell's principle is based on the principle of most surprise. Like when I tell it to download something, I don't expect to have to futz with IE browser settings (WTF?!?!). And chocolatey sucks - the repository it pulls from is full of abandoned and broken crap and missing packages (.net SDKs are my favourite pain point here) where people have thought "hey it'll be good to port this" and then leave it to rot.

That's the status quo for me and I'm not happy.

I'm going the other way to OSX. It mostly just works and that's all I want and there's a local support network for the hardware which is decent and doesn't involve me shipping it off to some third party and losing it for 2 weeks.
For large companies, I think the "justification" part is for documentation in case they get sued for discrimination, etc.
This is a company, and as such their core driving force is money. If you are framing them as having different driving forces that will make their behavior on occasion seem really weird.
I always kinda chuckle at articles like this - for a creative individual such as myself that's very locked into Logic Pro X and Final Cut X, and a full-time iOS developer, ditching a Mac would mean losing ~15 years of backwards compatibility for my media, and being stuck with far less-than-ideal virtualization solutions for Xcode.

Even with their pitiful current hardware offerings that almost seem like a direct insult to long-term dedicated fans, I'm still locked into their excellent software.
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When I was in university one of our dorm mates went home at thanksgiving only to find his parents had moved with no forwarding address. He tracked them down and his parents basically said "you're 18 now, leave us alone". He was traumatized.

I said "Why doesn't he just tell them to fuck off" and one of my other dorm mates said "Parents who raise their kids to have the guts to tell them to fuck off also don't fuck them over". That has stuck with me ever since.

So, it's too late?
You might consider trying the "GodMode" trick - still works in Windows 10 and has quick access to settings all over the place.

I just remembered it after posting about digging for the network dialog and sure enough, network settings are right there, easily accessible.
You're not required to buy the $1500 license unless your company has already made $200k. If your first game goes bonkers and sells $1 million on the free version, you do not have to pay $1500 for the Plus version unless you make DLC or a new game after your bonanza. The license is prospective, not retrospective.

Other than that, you've just restated what I already said. Unity provides the tools on subscription, but does not charge a royalty anymore.
Sure that was one reason. I think the lack of support for multi-tenant applications was just as serious an obstacle for SaaS.