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Ask HN: Mechanisms for safe shutdown of electronic equipment?
Hi, I was wondering if there are any standard protocols or UPS implementations that allow safe shutdown of devices ( especially those that run an Operating System/RTOS eg. DVR, NVR, IoT devices etc.). Even with UPS there is no input sent to these devices of the time until shut-down that results in eventual power off. This can be hazardous for memories and other components in the long run and considering that these have almost no regular user intervention justifies the necessity for a mechanism like this.

The idea is to have a trigger (can be a pulse/level) sent whenever the UPS power level falls below a certain threshold. APC managed to do this for Desktop PCs over a USB interface but the same may not be available for other low footprint devices.

Do you know of anyone working on a protocol/mechanism to implement this? Since it would require the equipment as well as the UPS to understand what that trigger means.

DVRs have large mechanical hard disks in them. Isn't it harmful to cut off power abruptly to that while writing (in use)? My concern here is not the data at the moment of cutoff but the general reliability of the system in the long run. Also I specifically mentioned OS/RTOS devices because, I have run into a lot of issues with the power to a Raspberry Pi/ Intel Edison cut off abruptly. I tried this experiment multiple times because I was surprised that these devices failed to boot quite frequently and then I realized it was the power supply that caused the linux fs to corrupt. I had to flash the OS again every time that happened.
Ok... so most mental “disorders” with high functioning people aren’t actually disorders? The definition seems useless without meaning simply “nonconforming”.
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No, it is not. But grand parent comment was giving this advice based on the quoted specifics and not for everyone.
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>The reality is that roads provide something people want - the ability to get around quickly, on one's own terms, without dealing with waiting times or trip planning, and without some of the unsavory experiences that can sour public transit (e.g. https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/BART-takeover-robbery-5...).

Build public transit out enough, and you get that as well. And funny enough, cities in developed nations other than the United States don't have issues with crime on public transit. Is it a problem inherit to public transit or is it systematic underinvestment?

>Building roads doesn't "induce" demand. Rather, it _fulfills_ demand. There is a limit to that demand - it's not like supplying infinitely more of something would infinitely scale the associated behavior. There are only so many humans and only so many trips they are willing to make in a day. And an area that is 100% roads obviously would not have any destinations worth traveling to (leaving aside edge cases like race tracks).

First of all – building roads absolutely does induce demand. In fact, _any_ sort of transportation infrastructure, _including public transit_, induces demand. This is pretty well-known. Induced demand isn't about creating larger trips - it's about creating demand through trips that were once not possible. For example, a new train line or highway out in the suburbs will induce people to move close to that piece of infrastructure. This is a well-documented phenomenon, and it happens even for public transit.

The problem is that roads for one-person cars don't scale. Downtown Seattle, in particular, is constrained by Elliott Bay on one side and Lake Washington on the other. Amazon is building out tons of towers in the last bit of open land near downtown Seattle. If every Amazon worker were to commute by driving alone, it just wouldn't work because there's no place to put in new highways! Public transit (or living close to where you work, or not commuting at all and teleworking) simply scales better.
Similar drowned young men cases in Europe recently.
"Significance

The decrypted messages gave important insights into Soviet behavior in the period during which duplicate one-time pads were used. With the first break into the code, Venona revealed the existence of Soviet espionage[23] at Los Alamos National Laboratories.[24] Identities soon emerged of American, Canadian, Australian, and British spies in service to the Soviet government, including Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May, and Donald Maclean. Others worked in Washington in the State Department, the Treasury, Office of Strategic Services,[25] and even the White House.

The messages show that the U.S. and other nations were targeted in major espionage campaigns by the Soviet Union as early as 1942. Among those identified are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Alger Hiss; Harry Dexter White, the second-highest official in the Treasury Department; Lauchlin Currie,[26] a personal aide to Franklin Roosevelt; and Maurice Halperin,[27] a section head in the Office of Strategic Services."
Explaining how changes to transportation patterns effect quality of life in general was way outside the scope of the article. It’s claim was limited and it argued it well: road closures don’t necessarily cause traffic congestion. It’s unclear if to me if less automobile throughput is a net positive or negative to quality of life, but that’s a separate discussion.
So sample the impulse response of the auditorium, at as many locations within the auditorium as you like, and apply a convolution reverb to the dry samples of the violins. If you sample both the violin and the auditorium together then your virtual violins will always have to play in the exact same location they were recorded. You're losing flexibility for no good reason.
It really steams me that they killed the gator. The gator didn't do anything wrong, and considering that it was the first lethal gator attack in the state in two centuries, the gator almost certainly did not represent a significant hazard to any other people, almost all of whom would be more respectful of it. Suggesting that there was something wrong with the gator, like it had a moral deficiency or something, is just absurd.
Google VP told employees to stop using the word “family” after staff complaints
That reason is probably to discover AirPlay speakers on the network, right? Sounds useful to me
I often have that disappearing window issue when trying to use multiple monitors. My bizarre workaround is that the hidden window seems to flash while the main window is being minimized, so I hold shift when minimizing it to make it go in slow motion, giving me time to reposition the hidden window somewhere Inkscape can handle.

There's also a MacOS setting "displays have separate spaces", under mission control; disabling it can help Inkscape in some of those cases, but I ended up toggling it back since some other apps had issues with it off.

As for getting to a native version, does anyone know what that process is, and if there's a roadmap for doing it? Based on what I've read online, Gimp is based on GTK as well, and runs reasonably well on Mac, so I imagine it's doable.
just buy yogurt with live cultures. back when I used to make my own yogurt I would just put a tablespoon of dannon into a gallon of whole milk.
It sounds like you're caught up on the terminology, do you disagree with the underlying concept?

https://www.ibtta.org/sites/default/files/Generated%20Traffi...

Coming from a chemistry background, the idea of traffic and travel choices being an equilibrium process is a very natural and easy concept to grok.
It gathers all articles that made it to Hacker News home page and keeps them for 8hrs.

heroku dyno is just up. To see it working comeback soon.
You appear to be missing the nuance of class knowledge vs individual knowledge.

You might discover that 99.9% of Ashkenazi Jews have Eidetic Memory. When you come across one on the street, that knowledge about the group tells you precisely zero things about that individual.
As cities grow, nations will fade
Most tech companies aren't looking for people to reimplement a dozen new variations of quicksort everyday. I mean, some companies really do need people who have countless algorithms ready to go in the back of their mind and the ability to apply them to new and interesting situations all the time, just like some people do need bakers who never need to consult a recipe and can devise new cakes for important events on a whim.

But most restaurants are looking for someone who knows how to cook and use the tools in the kitchen. A chef who doesn't specialize in cakes will still probably be fine if you give them 5 minutes to look up a recipe and make one. In the same way, the overwhelming majority of tech job openings are in need of programmers with some degree of specialization and the ability to know how to look up what they don't know and the experience/knowledge to know how to put that info to use.

The state of programming interviews for the past few decades has been to find people who've memorized all the "recipes" of CS. Most of the jobs, though, are about using some Javascript flavor of the month library and making it work with some other popular library and writing a bunch of interface code. Someone on the team might have to write an implementation of breadth-first search in their toy language, in which case they look up "bfs" on wikipedia and just rewrite the algo given.

Companies are testing employees on how to make cakes when their job will be all about making burgers to order.
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No one wants to pay upfront.
Indirectly sure, I’ve certainly racked up costs from using the AWS cli
> That we're discarding any vestige of track record and accomplishment...

It's not your job as one of the five interviewers at Google to evaluate anything except the candidate's performance in your interview. The Hiring Committee (HC) then takes the feedback received from all the interviewers and combines it with the interviewee's résumé, any recommendations they've received, etc.

Source: gave over 100 interviews at Google.
Learn sound design for user interfaces by example?
I am afraid I am risking to be misunderstood, but I think, it is a question worth asking and considering.

One's outlook and productivity changes with time and age, just like an athlete's fitness. I suppose the hard question is, if a productivity and alignment with organization attitude and culture index correlates indirectly with age, what is to be done?
50 shades of C++ - Nicolai Josuttis - Meeting C++ 2018 Closing Keynote
Facebook Faces Potential Record U.S. Fine on Privacy Violations
It's a good thing that family friendly isn't parsed as anything other than two words with no implied context. It doesn't sound less awkward than everyone friendly. After what's the difference between kid friendly and family friendly.
You make it sound like farmers make a lot of money. Most don’t. They have to squeeze every penny to survive—and that’s in the good years. They often run in the red in bad years.
It's much cheaper to get a large tub of plain, unsweetened yogurt and add jam/honey/whatever to taste.
It isn't possible to create a database storing all the possible tones a non digital instrument can make.
NSA Puts Phone Charging Booth at SchmooCon in Plot to Go Viral
I wonder if the difference in results is partially due to a difference in measurement strategy: a naive way is to wait one minute while counting the pulses which will necessarily be slower in response (it could still update the screen at a faster rate of once per second by having 60 different integers but each integer gives the count displayed on the screen when it's last second has passed, but that would still have a slow response in the sense that given a hypothetical heart rate change from a fixed constant initial rate to a new fixed higher rate, like when you got scared by say unexpected fireworks, it would still take a minute for the final rate to show up).

A faster response could be got by measuring the time between heartbeats (probably a low but even number of beats).
I was discouraged from pursuing any sort of programming/computing-related degree in the early 2000s when I went to college because my parents (who are quite old and do not use computers for any meaningful work) saw it as a secretarial position.
Woah, I can't believe I missed this 12-ish days ago, but just went looking for a note-taking app today and I have to say this is the best one out there by a hundred miles! It's incredible how exactly and perfectly it works in line with what I needed it to do!
Well, make people live not too far from their workplaces, schools, shopping, and recreational facilities.

That's this stupid simple. I'd guess 80% of American gridlock is due to that not being done.
City Observatory is a publication that lobbies for urbanism. So you have to take that into context when considering their argument.

Their argument is not that removing roads doesn't reduce quality of life – their argument is that cities _adapt_ and that tearing away infrastructure for cars in favor of housing and "human-scale" neighborhoods won't necessarily result in doom and gloom.

Of course removing a highway will result in some temporary issues. But cities are living organisms and they can adapt. America is after all a free-market economy. If a road trip to a faraway store becomes inconvenient, a new store will open in due time. If it becomes impractical to drive around, neighborhoods will reconfigure to serve customers within walking distance. And if a hypothetical highway closing permanently were to cause single-car commutes to become impractical, companies will respond by moving offices, encouraging telework, and subsidizing public transit commutes.

We all think we need our cars, but somehow the majority of commuters in cities outside the United States manages to commute via public transit just fine.
I'm surprised a sport like basketball would allow players to wear apparel which improves their performance using electronics and a motor.
No I don't think it's exclusively American, as I said I was familiar with fruit yogurts (which is basically yogurt + sugar + "fruit flavors"). My American roommates would add sugar to their yogurts "on the fly", like one of them added cane sugar, and the other added honey.
My read was that it'll improve safety and recovery more than enhance performance.
>Only realtors who carry no liability compared to the above, they still enjoy top dollar. This is a rigged market signal.

Realtors are among the most sued profession out there... I'm not sure why you don't think they carry any liability.
In good proto2, all fields are optional, that doesn't negate the uses of one of, which provide compile time validation instead of runtime, which is the important part.
Google Maps is about to get one of Waze’s best features
> the whole Stradivarius mythos is unscientific [1]

Seems to me a lot like new Coke. In blind tests people prefer new Coke, but if you tell them what they're drinking...

I suppose so long as people can tell the difference, recording the sounds of the Strads makes some sense, even if people prefer the new violins in blind tests.
Sadly they are looking for the most precise and optimum answer (at least at FB they do)
TRESPASSAH!!!
You can eat raw chicken at many if not most izakaya (Japanese tapas) in Japan. Tastes great!!

No idea if that means Japanese chicken production is safer or if it's just their food culture is more risky like France's
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Unless someone inside Google wants you that _bad_, you can't by-pass the interview session.
There have been the occasional Inkscape builds over the years which use the native macOS er.. window manager instead of needing an X server.

Saying that because I used to use them, and they worked fine (for me).

If you're ok with using a slightly older Inkscape release, you should be able to dig up a few builds that work. ;)
This is already the reality our food animals live in, so I think it's already pretty clear such a thing is possible.
Interesting topic. Like a lot of things, it's easy and enjoyable to unload some quick snark on Twitter, and certainly anything even related to IoT is a worthy target of all the snark we can muster 99.9% of the time.

On the other hand, the article points out that pro athletes have different needs than others, and these shoes (arguably!) address those needs in ways that other options do not. Also, the implementation isn't as dumb as the cynical might have assumed.
I think you mean inversely.

The question is a bit of a red herring. By all means, get rid of unproductive and troublesome employees. But if you try to use age as a simplistic predictive proxy for productivity or attitude, I think evidence shows that you'll fire a lot of the wrong people, as well as court the wrath of labor attorneys.
Sadly, you are unlikely to get much choice in the matter.
Very interesting, I would appreciate a bit more docs though. Not really sure how some of the functions are supposed to be used.

I do like this idea though and think I have an application for it.
If the milk is good,almost probably good milk can find in Australia,, if that is your wish ate certain point, you can heat it until is hard(it kind of start to feel burn), to stay more than 10 seconds or around with finger immerse in milk.

Maybe for 3 liters of Milk you can use 2 around 200ml plain "natural" white yougurt cheaply sold.

I add honey most everyday, once a month brown sugar, or for variety aswell sugar cane syrup(what is superb, I have to say) on ocasions. First time better use only 1 liter of Milk only, to avoid waste if the mission goes unplannedly, for lack of training.

:for flavor: Is good for kids add redberries, or other color small berries, for adults, for magnesium, Almonds.
Not for me. I prefer manual shoe lace. Sometimes i think the world is going dumb
That would also help against the (hypothetical?) possibility that data mining sector creates "DNA testing" front companies, which do no testing whatsoever, and simply sell you a pretty printed conclusion from your cyber profile... without oversight anything goes
> he has demonstrated very good product management aptitude on the other hand

Not to diminish his accomplishment... he could be a good candidate for PM but his tool is more of a dev-tool (so I suppose this is a niche-ish?)
I rather suspect this is because the market for butter creates a complementary market for skim milk.

Skim milk isn't great, so the producers have little choice but to heavily market 'low-fat' products.

There's only so much ricotta that the market will bear.
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... and no added sugar, or "fruits" in it...
The point is to record the violins in a hall that was designed for them in the town that they were made. Think there are already enough clean studio samples available.
Would a player trip if their shoe was hacked to suddenly release tension?
Stop tying compensation to seniority, and start giving it upon completion of tasks/improvement of business...?
I'm glad Whole Foods has this - https://www.instacart.com/whole-foods/products/163404-white-... - it's pretty much the only reason I go to Whole Foods, as prefer Trader Joe much more (but they don't have it there)...
McCarthy's claims were far broader than that (and virtually all spurious). From a specialist historian:

> But if McCarthy was right about some of the large issues, he was wildly wrong on virtually all of the details. ... virtually none of the people that McCarthy claimed or alleged were Soviet agents turn up in Venona. ... The new information from Russian and American archives does not vindicate McCarthy. He remains a demagogue, whose wild charges actually made the fight against Communist subversion more difficult.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/212053/setting-record-joe-m...
The over dependence of academia on MATLAB when (atleast partial) FOSS solutions existed is what prompted the setup of the FOSSEE project in India https://fossee.in/.

They've been conducting several outreach programs to move academics and students off expensive and proprietary (and therefore often pirated) software to free alternatives (mostly around the Python ecosystem).

The project is quite successful from what I know.
You should try to find this one - https://www.instacart.com/whole-foods/products/163404-white-... - I'm bulgarian, and this one while not perfect is pretty close to my taste.
I only print out code and read it when hunting for an elusive bug. This is a last resort effort and often successful.

Also, going through big blocks of code on paper in stead of a screen is easier on the eyes.
That would be comforting, but I can think of no evolutionary purpose for such a mechanism to emerge...
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If that happens commonly, the original password with a 1 appended will probably eventually appear in a future HIBP database. In fact, the user could continue adding 1s until they either give up and try something different, or until it becomes uncommon enough.
But now you know of "Cremona", and that "Antonio Stradivari" made some violins there (and some other things), and that they have the "Museo del Violino", and other things.....

Yes, if the background noise from down the street is a problem, then how come the players heart beat, other body noise and the chair noise are not an issue.
Sure. I think Intel's RDRAND, using thermal noise (or whatever) makes more sense, because you don't have to hook up some antenna -- I'm no physicist but my guess is it gets substantively affected by atmospheric noise.
Where is the energy supposed to come from if there is neither fat nor sugar?
This is balloney. For a regular user google is 10x better than it ever was. Search intent, voice search, user based predictions. Get real. I understand quote searching for lines of code doesnt work like it used to but thats not where google makes money
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> Or a licensed professional engineer to retake the PE exam everytime they change jobs.

Yes, just as you retake your driving exams every five years, you should retake your engineering exams (unless you are an accredited engineering instructor, in which case the license becomes permanent) every ten years.
For me it's not overkill at all. It makes perfect sense on the safety/medical benefits alone. I walk two hours a day. In my prime I ran 5 miles or more/day and biked three times that. My feet pronate and I have to wear orthotic insoles.

For whatever reason I've never been able to keep my shoes stable. They either start too tight and have to be adjusted or are a little too lose, thus reducing ankle stability. I would welcome these on strictly utilitarian benefits. Since I spend $300 every six months on shoes that don't wreck what's left of my fallen arches, this would be a lateral move financially anyway, I suspect.
I'm from Bulgaria, and as kid my grandmother would add sugar, but then no longer. Some people put salt...

Here are other things you can do: Just take yogurt and mix it with water 1:1 (or try different ratios) - shake it, or use a spoon - and make sure it's cold (tastes better). Now this drink can be found (usually persian stores), and some of it might have added salt.

Then add some mashed garlic, cut cucumbers + some more things and you have TARATOR - https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/233760/bulgarian-tarator-c... - also some people like it more watery, some not.

Then you have the greek Tzatziki, or if you like mousaka (greek, bulgarian, or any kind) you can have on the side yogurt to dress.

Best is, but I avoid it now (due to my lowcarb diet) - BANITSA (or spanakopita, or similar) with it - or pastry.

Or just have it as morning drink...