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Millennials started getting the vote in 2000. Many crucial elections since then have been extremely close. They had the opportunity to have the decisive say in outcomes. How's their track record of choices working out?
> In the "old" world of job-for-life employment I would be complete outcast

This is not the case. The old world also had job variety: you could join one of the many ad agencies or one of the many manufacturing companies. Consulting was also a thing. Today's GDP is occupied more and more with startups, not companies focused on the long term.
FT would have been Jemima Kelly. https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/08/02/1533182400000/One-for...

If I'd gone I'd definitely have tried for the McAfee interview. As it was I just made sure Laurie had read my book first.

(of course we know each other, it's the worldwide SJW conspiracy)
What makes Invision - a mockup app - worth THAT MUCH??
I spent two hours one time transferring all my domains (~10) to Google Domains. What a relief to be done with that company. There is not one honest step in the GoDaddy flow, you really have to keep your hand on your wallet.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, no interaction with the domains team though.
I remember clearly that most people were holding off for a PS2, despite the fact that the initial release of games on the PS2 for that first year had graphics that were actually sub-par compared to the DC because it was so difficult to program for and had a weak line up of games that first year compared to what the DC had the first week it was out (a Sonic game and Soul Calibur).

I ended up owning both, but I got more mileage out of my DC that year or two I owned it then I did from the PS2 for a while (I don't think the PS2 really hit its stride until the 2nd year it was out).
With drives you used to be able to rip off a controller from an identical model and wire it back on to read the data.

With SSD or NVMe the controller isn't really a separate component you can just replace. Maybe it's possible to saw off the broken part and bodge-wire it to a working surrogate, but that would be extreme.

A tear-down of a broken SSD might reveal more about what could be done.
The law has existed since the '70s, I'm pretty sure these issues have been settled before.

"Access 24/7?" in particular is one of the point in the discussion: the law says he can change the hours, but must get a permit, which he refuses to do.
In contrast to the other comments about how 2049 was slow etc., let me say that I took my wife and daughter to see 2049.

We watched the original "Final Cut" Blade Runner a couple of weeks before 2049 and both wife and daughter felt that the original was slow but they respected the movie.

After seeing 2049 my wife said she enjoyed the movie better than the original but wished it could have been an hour shorter.

My daughter was ecstatic and said that 2049 could have been another hour even longer and she would have been happy. But my daughter is a cinematographer, so possibly that's partly why she loved it.
More like once someone has proven to be untrustworthy and evil a million times, not to mention threatened to retaliate, then it's okay to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, especially when the timing is so suspecious to say the least.
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I had the same issue. And ordering the same product (even from the same "seller") is hit or miss.

It's a weird story but I ordered a kids plate from Amazon. I ordered 2 that were totally fine but when I ordered a 3rd one, it was completely different quality, seemed to be a different material, and had a weird smell to it. It was "Prime" but almost immediately, you could tell it was a different product.

This has happened to me a bunch and I've heard crazier stories about people ordering supplements/vitamins and getting fake bottles :(

I don't trust Amazon as much either outside of a few products I trust + majority of common electronics. I wouldn't buy an HDD from Amazon for instance due to their crazy shipping shit.

Also, their shipping is so fucking unreliable. I get delays on my packages at least twice a month, and they've lost packages before :(
Seems easier to fix than that -- just change the incentive. Instead of paying more for scooters that are hard to find or have been dead longer, pay more the faster people pick up, charge, and return the scooters to service. Pick-up, charge, return within 2 hours = $20. If it takes longer than 8 hours, pay $5.
The clock should really start in June 1944, with the first rocket to cross the Karman Line: a V2 ballistic missile. In many ways the moon landings (and plans to nuke the moon) were the continuation of the war effort's tremendous pace of technological improvement. The early rockets were primarily designed as ICBMs with peaceful payloads as secondary adaptations.

If you look at the early space programme it can really be seen as a set of milestones directly aimed at the manned moon landing - orbital manned flight with safe landing (Mercury), two-man operation (Gemini), space suits, EVA, docking, and so on.
Check out the third season of Twin Peaks from Showtime. It's more or less an 18 hour movie, with slow, seemingly-deliberate (or not!) pacing. A truly fascinating work for this age.
Which it turns out not to be. Too much salicin can still cause stomach bleeding, says the internet.
I wouldn't, but I also wouldn't expect a reporter to publish this info without finding anything corroborating. This whole story is about physical sabotage devices, supposedely planted in large quantities, why couldn't they find any of these devices or a single person willing to state they saw one?
Those people are crazy... acting like territorial animals...
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If I were Invision, I would either invest in or buy out Figma, and have it replace Invision Studio. Figma is on the up and up, and from what I heard Invision Studio looked good, but the execution was poor.
I've mentioned elsewhere that I dropped eBay because of a series of bad experiences with sellers. I switched to Goodwill, which was OK, but sometimes you just want to buy something used actually that works and doesn't smell like cat vomit.

Last week I tried Mercari, and it was... OK. Better selection than Goodwill. The shippers don't seem to be in a hurry to get things out. Both sellers offered excuses when they missed Mercari's three day window. But the stuff finally got here.

Can anyone recommend another marketplace? Something not Alibaba or DX.com?
From the article, sounds like good old fashioned customers who need a mock-up app and are willing to pay.
>What could cause an entire SSD to die at once?

A component failing? Electrical components fail. Sometimes it's a manufacturing defect, sometimes a design defect, sometimes something under or over-volted and it was enough to cause damage to any given component.

Could be an IC, could be a capacitor, could be a poorly laid trace. A poorly shielded RF source could even damage any number of components.

I mean, in theory a single high charge particle from that rare cosmic ray that reaches the surface of earth running full-steam-ahead through an IC could cause just the right amount of damage to make it fail although this would be an incredibly improbable scenario.

Same goes for HDDs, televisions, your clock radio, whatever.
The libertarian mindset is pretty clear: There should be a small number of regulations, with a specific scope (e.g. protecting against physical harm and protecting property), which are clearly enumerated so that anyone, across most levels of education, can easily and reasonably determine if the regulation is fair or not.
A lot of people got hung up on the photos, but did the text actually state what they were or were they just "for illustrative purposes" like stock photos?
In case you're interested, Steve Yegge had a recent post about the origin of the marketplace: https://medium.com/s/story/jeff-bezos-jack-ma-and-the-quest-...
Going to get a little off-topic here, feel free to downvote if you feel it's out of place.

Many HN users presumably saw the public launch of sr.ht a few weeks ago. I've been thinking about directions that it could be expanded in the future, and the use-cases which fit best are both (1) things I need to do to maintain sr.ht anyway, and could make into a service available to users; (2) things which are annoying to do elsewhere. To this end I'm thinking about offering domain registration. Since users pay a monthly/yearly subscription fee for sr.ht, I can just sell domains at wholesale prices and take no margin. Then you get to use the nice UI and API and so on sr.ht offers for doing DNS and domain registration (DNS probably through just pushing zone files to a git repo).

Thoughts?
It doesn't need to come from the towers as we recently saw from the whole Qualcomm thing. There's not really any use burying a Chinese company in a "PR nightmare", because A. they don't care and B. if it becomes a real problem they will resurface with a different name. That being the case, you can of course fight here for a meaningless victory. I cannot imagine a reason to, however.
cost savings/increased efficiency is the name of the game, and first world regulations are costs SV can ignore. sometimes the quasi employees suffer the burden (but get increased flexibility), sometimes the consumer suffers (lower price but increased variance in quality of goods/service)
I had a similar experience after taking my girlfriend to see the original. But after watching a movie we always sit in the lobby to discuss the themes, motifs, plot, etc. (one of the things that endears me to her) and after that she began to appreciate it.

“Like tears in the rain...”
SSD's FLASH has plenty of wear and tear. It just has a different format from what happens to mechanical products. It's more similar to some metal that gets scratched on use, and will rust faster or slower depending on the amount of scratches.

What we have is that the software is currently less reliable than the memory. There is no fundamental reason for that, it's just that manufacturers put a huge amount of engineering work on reducing the wear, and not so much on programming practices.
> A good programmer plans ahead

The comment above said the opposite, that the future was irrelevant.

These days there are tools that can help in a lot of languages; it's not a time consuming operation to press the Resharper "extract into abstract interface" button.
How does Amazon expect people to use stuff like the dash button when prices can vary this much?

I have a couple of Dash buttons for Gatorade and pistachios and such. I stopped using them because I couldn't be certain of a reasonable price, or that the products wouldn't be fakes.

Safety > price > convenience, Amazon.
I think I saw your post long time ago and switched from GoDaddy to Namecheap because of it. Now I'm using Google Domain. Thank you for your contribution!
It's not a hardware VS software thing since modern ports of software renderers for DOOM are not very demanding and can easily get upwards of 1000fps (yes, thousand). It's more to do with assumed memory constraints of the original DOOM.EXE on DOS for PCs which placed constraints on renderer related resources available which in turn limited level complexity. With modern ports, those constraints have been loosened quite a bit and more complex levels can be made.
2001 is also one of my favorites but I also loved Interstellar.

The fact that it was was a fairly authentic representation of astrophysics and relativity made it compelling to me. Much more than any other movie, with the help of Nobel laureate astrophysicist Kip Thorne, it stuck to mostly credible physics and relativity and avoided falling too much into a fake magical sci-fi space.

There is so much that is incredible and interesting about real physics that it is sad when movies too eagerly jump to phony physics. The attention to details related to the effects of approaching a black hole were great. They included a realistic simulation of a supermassive black hole that took up to 100 hours per frame to render and generated 800 terabytes of data and resulted in the publication of three actual scientific papers.

Which other movie do you know lead to academic publications and advanced the state of knowledge of astrophysics?

Maybe a weak aspect of Interstellar, compared to 2001, was its exploration of robotics and AI. The weird minecraft-like blocky robot was out of place.They should either have left that out completely or gotten hold of the same level of expertise as they got for the physics. Too bad they didn't go for the latter. Given the recent popularity of AI, experts are widely available and the subject would have been ripe for an updated cinematic treatment.
Remote work was a life changer for me too. The pay is far better, the hours are better (if you keep yourself in check at least), and... Well, I spend a lot more time with my family now, so there's nothing worse to say about it really.

In the past I worked for a lot of "performance marketing" companies, but also a few more legitimate companies like Checkfront. Even Checkfront left me feeling deeply unsatisfied despite being an good group of people and decent work. I think there's just something weird going on when companies identify as startups, especially if they're seeking funding. Things deteriorate as they grow, "perks" you mentioned like dogs in the office don't make you feel any better about not seeing your kids after school, and the free coffee tastes like shit anyway.

Worst of all though, you're blowing 8-10 hours a day on Canadian pay. If you're in the west like I am, this is a giant fuck you to your bank account. Going remote was an immediate $25k raise with better hours and no commute.
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I'll second this. Namecheap is amazing company! Been using them for domains and DNS (smaller scale stuff) for years.
This is a known trick of many registrars, but GoDaddy has to be the leader. Happened to me on two occasions as well.
Recently it's supposed to be a bit cracked down on as they have strict quotas on how many domains they can reserve without outright buying.

As for my case, it was a couple years ago where they would also host a small site redirecting to the auction. It states that it is owned by some XYZ entity, but if you peel enough layers of the onion scheme you can get to their name.

You can read more about the practice and measures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
Ask HN: Hard Drive Development War Stories
I'm studying for an operating systems final and we have to know things about hard drives. That got me thinking about the development of the hard drive. So apparently the first one was created by a team led by Reynold B. Johnson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_B._Johnson) So does anybody know any stories about that development what challenges they faced and how they overcame them?
> [T]hey're not expected to have subject-specific background [...] Their judgement comes in considering the credibility of the source.

Which they are unqualified to do if they do not have subject-specific background.
Upvote for the metaphor I’m going to steal one of these days. Credit to the Dallas council for at least the appearance of progress, debit for not thinking through the externalities.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong (I'm a bit rusty on A records and C-names) but just because 2 addresses show the same content, does not necessarily mean they are the same website. domain.tld is a different address from www.domain.tld and by all accounts, could point to 2 different contents.

Most will re-direct to the other. So if I chose to use www.domain.tld I may redirect domain.tld to www.domain.tld or vise-versa.

If you want a certificate that covers both domain.tld and www.domain.tld - those are called wild card certificates and can cover totallyrandom.domain.tld and superhappyfuntime.domain.tld and anything else you might need (email., webmail., catslol., etc...)

So a non-wildcard certificate placed on both www and non-www is in fact, not valid because a regular every day certificate is only valid for 1 url.
> but SSDs are a perfect example of an entire computer that you attach to yours, and speak with through one of the (many) storage-oriented protocols.

These days most of what we call a computer could be described this way. Even your compiled machine language is ultimately far more abstracted from what the processor actually does than it was on, say, a 6502.
From romerogames.ie:

Q: Are you in touch with the original DOOM® team?

A: Yes, we talk from time to time. I see Adrian a fair bit since he has a place here in Ireland (The Heritage in Killenard). I also talk with Tom (Hall) and American (McGee) every once in a while. I’m in contact with John where there’s something specific that we both have interest in.

Reading between the lines: no, they're not friends.
Kind of. My workflow is whiteboarding to Sketch to Invision, and you have to manually select assets for export in Sketch in order for it to show up in Invision. However, this is only or elements such as icons. For elements such as text, you can simply click on it in Inspect mode to view the font family, style, etc. You can also toggle whether you want to view the code in CSS, LESS, SASS, etc.
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How much money were they offering? I definitely would have taken it, and then re-posted the same review a day later.
Absolutely! You have to do something really, really right to have the confidence (however misplaced) to think that you can tell the world you're going to make everyone your bitch and have people believe you and only be upset when you can't deliver.
I don't see the problem. Since the scooters are up for grabs, you're allowed to take one and park it at home. Whether that looks like stealing or just making sure you have it available later when you need it is a gray area that requires interpretation on a case by case basis. That's probably why the police don't care.

If the scooters are indoors, that is good for the scooters, by the way.
On 1): It's because each cell is essentially a consumable with a limited number of state transfers. It's similar in that way to how a solid state accellerometer still has a moving part inside it that can break or wear out over time.

EDIT: More reasons and methods for failure of "solid state" circuits and systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14765868
> Is it easy for frontend devs to recreate the designers' prototype in code?

No. The designers have to build the designs in a very particular way in order to get anything useful from invision. Good luck telling your design team that the way they build their sketch files is all wrong.

I have used invision professionally for 2 years now, it is a glorified screenshot host. It's biggest pitfall is that you have to use it in a very particular way, otherwise it's totally useless.
Maybe Super Micro could demand a full-page retraction, just to put the record straight in public. Either that or Super Micro could sue them for $1 just to get a point across. If Bloomberg were wrong they need to admit it.
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It's not even clear that these scooters are really stolen - Bird asked people to remove them from the street to their own property and charge them, it's just that people are being slow about it.

Most theft laws require "intent to permanently deprive" or similar.
Speaking of conspiracy theories, Kubrick's skills were so highly thought of that many people believe he had a key role in "faking" the moon landing.

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/stanley-kubrick-moon-land...
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On HN, it is well known what an Outline link is for, especially on WSJ articles.
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Amid all the fake news / paid troll armies dramas, "anonymous government agent" is a pretty old-school approach.
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"It's capitalism, let's all compete. But wait, if you're getting better than me you're the enemy. "
It goes both ways. US Capitalism vs meets Chinese Capitalism with C.

Does anyone pay attention to the media in China? It's an equally bad actor.

Now seriously, Bloomberg lost a lot of credibility publishing this. Let's see if they say anything about it in the coming days.
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It's not like the US or other Western countries arrested someone and then found a reason to make it stick. Nations are very much alike here. I think the core problem that was tried to address is the mentality of "China did it, so it must be with bad intent".
If you are trying to write Java in Scala, you probably shouldn't be using Scala.
The used car market is pretty bad. To get a relatively decent used car of a middle tier model, 3 years old, typically has 60,000 miles, they are often 12k to 18k (when I was looking a couple years ago). That is the price of a lower end new car.

If you get a used car that cost 3k to 5k, often they need a lot of tlc, and to me they are in the same condition as a $500 car was back when I was a teen (30 years ago). So my choice over the last 3 car purchase cycles has been "might as well buy new", and my last new vehicle lasted 17 years before I got rid of it.
I don't think that's correct. A business has the right to retain records that are necessary for them to do business. From the lawyer that advised us in this, his call was that Order History data doesn't need to be expurgated even though it contains the person's name and address, etc. There are any number of business reasons dictating that we need a record of this stuff (e.g., auditing for sales tax compliance; being able to handle customer returns in the future, or fraud claims from the credit card processor).
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My personal experience. I've worked in an out of Seattle, working for some big-name companies. Shortly after turning 40 and got laid off. No big deal, I thought, because my resume, open source contributions, customer skills, and deep experience should land me a job pretty quickly, right?

Well without getting into too much detail, I was told more than once "I am not a culture fit". The whole experience caused me to rethink my career as a pure software developer, and I've since pivoted to become a cloud architect.

I'm not the OP on this thread but I do agree, when I hear "culture fit" I feel in a sense it's a veiled way to discriminate in some way, age, gender, or otherwise.
That performance is snappy, indeed. Good stuff, SnappyData!
Is your question:

"Can law enforcement determine the real source IP if I use a VPS as a VPN gateway?" If so, the answer is yes. Either with a scary email or a warrant, they can dump the memory contents of your VM. In some cases they can live migrate a copy and do forensics on it. They can also capture traffic flows to and from your VPS node.

If your question is: "Can the average internet server determine my source IP?" The answer is no, provided that you force all traffic, including DNS queries, over your VPN. There are sites you can use for simple leak detection. [1] [2]

[1] - https://ipleak.net/

[2] - https://browserleaks.com/
> Pity they didn’t learn the lesson and maybe Columbia in 2003 could have been saved. But again, mission controllers and engineers ignored the information as “insignificant".

That was in the comments. That is the best part of the article. We have a long road to go about learning from things that worked ok by pure luck. But, as usual, we barely learn from mistakes...
We're going to look back on these days as a modern tulip mania. So many of these companies (and serial startup employees) are not even living "fake it until you make it", they are on a new and better plan: "fake it here until you have to go fake it somewhere else, with someone else's money"
I use domainr.com for this very reason.