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> marginally faster hardware

Not sure where your experience is originated in. It obviously also depends on what exactly you do with your computer. Mid 2015 Macbook Pro to Mid 2018 Macbook Pro got a 50% improvement for compute workloads according to Geekbench [1].

I work on largish (win/mac/linux/ios/android) C++ code bases and compile and test run times are definitely an issue. Switching to newer computers every few years definitely boosted productivity for me personally (and for my co-workers as well). We mostly saw that compile times halved for each generation jump (3 years) as a combination of IO, memory and CPU performance increases.

Not sure what marginally faster hardware means exactly for you, but for us it's definitely been significant, not marginal.

YMMV, but if you do the math of saving 10 minutes / day * $200 /h * 200 days that's > $6000 per year it becomes pretty hard to economically argue against investing in faster tooling of some sort.

Typing this from a 2.5yr old Macbook Pro.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks
Buzzfeed is?
That's exactly where I wanted to take the article, but, one step at a time.
London has OK public transit, but it’s atruggling in a lot of ways. Paris really does have a fantastic system, compared not only to the US, but UK as well. Japan has a very effective one, but good luck getting a group other than the Japanese to accept being shoved into a can like sardines twice a day.
Verizon is the parent of Oath (and therefore owns TechCrunch)
Well, suppose a miraculous breakthrough occurred and the life expectancy shot from, say, 75 years up to 750, pushing back the onset of debilitating age.

Surely it would seem like grumbling to dismiss it as: "Now they can keep you alive long enough to squeeze out an extra 675 years at your desk."

This might be rather millenial of me, but I don't view retirement as some long-deferred tasty dessert for being a good compliant worker who eats their vegetables... as much as a someday-unavoidable lifestyle transition.
That was published in mid-December 2017. Was there an update in mid-December 2018? If so, was it less optimistic about the profits of the news division?
Fake meat is for the omnivores, not the vegetarians.
If that means BuzzfeedNews has to shut down due to lack of money, it's a stupid idea.
I'd love to see a similar explanation of the most common routing protocols for programmers.
Great question:
-for older devices without a depth sensor, we do a combination of pure computer vision (detect landmarks in 2D, then solve for 3D, then apply a morphable model (3DMM). After an order is placed, we'll do photogrammetry to further refine the model.
-for newer devices with the TrueDepth sensor (used for FaceID), we build a mesh directly from that.
-accuracy is sub-millimeter.
-frames are 100% custom. For each frame, for each customer, we adjust over 20 different dimensions for a perfect fit. Down to the unique contours of your nose. It's all 5-axis CNC machined (for plastic) and laser-cut (for stainless steel)
(also sorry if I overstepped earlier. I'm just trying to be helpful. Long time reader, but first time commenter.)
Yes, that does sound horrible, but I’m not what one would call a suicidal person acting out of desperation. I’m also not an idiot. When the time comes, no one will be subjected to horrific images.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of this and it's an interesting project. One problem, though, is that if you're like me and a heavy user of iTerm2/tmux, Spectacle seems a bit jittery while it's trying to match the terminal window to the desired window dimensions.
Unstable (sid) is basically rolling-release. If you don't know how to fix a broken system caused by package updates, you don't belong on sid (same goes for testing, really).

Backports (https://backports.debian.org/) can relieve some of the age complaints in stable, but packages are pretty selectively included, and some packages (such as KDE or GNOME releases) are never put into backports.
Good. Their site is trash.

Sure, they do _some_ news well, but it's a tiny part of a much wider, broken system.
In related news, the C/C++ development community is finally catching up to what Java has been providing for over 20 years.
Honestly I think Fedora is by far the better workstation distro. Debian stable is great for servers though.
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It depends on how much time you want to spend on admin.

If you run stable it just runs, you don't have to do a thing, until the next update (1.5 years or so) and you can plan in advance to have a down-day.

If you run testing you'll have a bit more admin to deal with, whenever this or that changes, and you have to configure the newest and greatest. And you can't wait either, because changes are mixed with security updates.
Those hearing aids aren't even remotely close to the $3,000 hearing aids a full-time wearer uses. It's kind of like comparing a free solar-powered swag calculator to a TI-84 graphing calculator.

Although, much like the TI-84, $3,000 hearing aids probably are overpriced.
A replacement for the User-Agent header (notes)
Note that testing (unlike stable AND unstable) doesn't get security updates.
I know you're trying to be snarky but minimaxir has done a lot of great work with data science and visualization, particularly with his Reddit analysis.
An alternative to Facebook for maintaining relationships with friends and family is the popular Marco Polo app, at least if your family consists of people you actually want to have a relationship with.

Disclaimer: I'm a researcher for the app, but not a shill.
Elastic provides a much more scalable and fast search for freeform user attributes. Using the databases search works in some cases but when you have freeform data (for example favoriteColor), it breaks down quickly.

While Elastic can be a bit cumbersome, we have made bundles that make it simpler to deploy and manage. We have also worked hard to secure it.
You people not in Canada, Canada has a new food guide:

https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/

It encourages people to eat minimal amount of meat and dairy products. Change is coming and it's good they are embracing it.
For privacy minded people, is there an extension that detects textarea's and input boxes and overlays them with new ones and once you hit send that's when it inserts them into the real html inputs preventing this sneak peak?

Or perhaps simply the xhr requests could be blocked.
I vaguely recall hearing about some work on this front. I suspect however that latency may be an issue.
We use the production roles but you don't have to signup every single person, just those who file tickets and interact with support.

If you're very early then you can also try the older support pricing: https://cloud.google.com/support/premium/

If that's still too expensive then you can probably rely on the free support and forums until you have more spend and revenue.
What I never really understood is why does Microsoft Test Manager only come with Visual Studio Enterprise? Do only enterprises test their software?
Fair warning:
Zenni optical sent my password to me plaintext in email after creating an account with them (this was a few years ago now).

I would expect none of my data - profile, passwords, or banking info - is safe with them.
we build a 3D model of your entire face, including your nose. We then 5-axis CNC the shape of your nose into the frame, creating completely custom nosepads. We also use the unique location of each of your ears to craft unique left and right temples arms, each with custom length and drop angles to match the asymmetric location of each ear (everyone has a bit of asymmetry in their face). We also customize the temple arm angles based on the base curve (front curvature) of your ultimate Rx lens, so it all fits together as a system and will never stretch out over time. It fits perfect out-of-the-box, with no adjustments required.
... or if there's a bug, or if the bridge from the extension to the page content has a mistake that lets javascript on the page control it.

That's actually happened to all the major vendors like LastPass and OnePass, and to some of them it's happened the exact same way multiple times - a UI re-design re-introduces the same JS interop mistake.

some linky links:
https://twitter.com/taviso/status/941711305668411393
https://twitter.com/taviso/status/769378052254015488

I've promoted password managers for a long time! Just not fancy convenient commercial ones, those are a huge mistake.
That post leads in with:

> The media is in crisis. Google and Facebook are taking the vast majority of ad revenue, and paying content creators far too little for the value they deliver to users.

Buzzfeed had & still has next to zero original content creators. They have content re-packagers. Take images & thoughts from other websites(reddit/twitter) and puts them in a list.

Take ideas which smaller (& more original) content creators make and re-make it.

Disgusting.
as evidenced by these comments here

HN comments are probably poor evidence on which to base corporate or branding strategy.
Yeah, this has been my experience.

I haven't had a build agent disappear, but lack of build caching is very frustrating. The hosted build agents are slow to begin with, let alone needing 5 minutes for every build to restore packages.

AFAIK there's no way to "only run changed tests" too.

EDIT: Forgot to add that, despite the above, I'm pretty happy with it. The whole VSTS experience (Wiki/code/PRs/etc) is pretty great, it's nice to have everything in a single place.
We are calling BuzzFeed “journalism” now? If a business model based on “immediacy” means that BF can rationalize publishing false, or at minimum uncorroborated news, then good riddance. Even Woodward and Bernstein didn’t rush to publish the first minute of knowing something could have been askew with Nixon. BuzzFeed posted the uncorroborated Steele dossier when even The NY Times wouldn’t. They said Trump told Cohen to lie to congress when even Muller himself has declared that false. The Cohen story could have been a bombshell, but Buzzfeed couldn’t get anyone on the record, just “two people close to the investigation.” Journalism, real journalism isn’t bombastic publishing of stories with unnamed sources. In the Berstein era, secret sources were used as background, not as the only source.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/business/media/buzzfeed-t...

As far as “tough day on the industry,” perhaps if the industry gave themselves a strong look in the mirror, they’d figure out why. The NY Times is doing pretty well, as is Reuters. It seems that perhaps the youngsters these days are interested more than listicles and might actually care about legitimate news?
Show HN: MIT DeepTraffic 75.01 MPS Solution
Defined contribution plans like 401(k) are far safer for workers than defined benefit pensions. With a 401(k) you have a numbered account and you really own the assets in it. They can't be arbitrarily taken away. And if you want lower risks as you approach retirement just shift your asset allocation from stocks to highly rated bonds; in fact many plans now have a default lifecycle fund which does that automatically.

Pensions might appear safe but it's all an illusion. If the employer becomes insolvent then you'll only receive a fraction of what you're owed; PBGC insurance is very limited.
> Consider as a small example how schools are funded in the US, which is largely by local property taxes, so poorer places have poorer schools.

Varies from state to state. In CA, only about 25% of K-12 funding comes from property taxes: https://ed100.org/lessons/whopays

I know of several school districts nearby that contain nothing but relatively new $1mm+ houses and abysmal school ratings. I would believe that there's some kind of complex nonlinear correlation between property values and quality of school, but it is very clearly not an easy "more expensive houses == better schools" calculation.

> perhaps just maybe it comes from decades of lack of opportunity and systemic abuse?

A fine point, and certainly not limited to any one race. I'm all in favor of helping those with fewer opportunities growing up, and I don't really care what race they are. If they happen to be mostly $RACE, it doesn't matter to me.
Just to add a counterpoint, I handle a lot of customer service and the service provider I use happens to have this feature by default, and it drastically helps me to respond faster to customers. To date I haven't had anyone consider this an issue (even when I've accidentally sent a response before they even sent their message! - they just end up deleting their text and saying "thank you")
Three charts show how China’s AI industry is propped up by three companies
I do serve ads in order to supplement my income to fund outreach efforts I am apart of. Like I said, the lifeblood of entrepreneurs :P
I want to buy glass lenses, not plastic lanses. Plastic accumultes many fine scratches over time from cloth etc.
Which online supplier sells glass lenses?
Well they probably shouldn't make it public :-)

Not all union models have sector bargaining and it certainly doesn't work for professional unions - and I am not saying that European unions really get the needs of m&P members and need to change.
A man who helped found Soylent has a new startup
I suspect they will balance the annual and monthly charge.
So the monthly will jump to $65, but the annual will stay at $180.

Or maybe people are just too lazy and they won't have to bother. I have to say I'm shocked and amazed at how many families of modest means, generally pretty frugal, have cars that need repairs, and try to fix things themselves whenever possible, but happily pays $150 a month for cable.
I'm in the other boat, but I normally run sid at home and have had very little issues myself. I have been looking at fedora as an alternative as of late
I would fire explorer/finder etc. programmers on the spot
You're right, that makes sense.

But still glossy displays seem to have plenty to reflect right into your eyes.
The US Federal government has a pension plan for government employees in lieu of Social Security. None of this is any sort of Financial Wizardry. Mostly depends on demographics and demographics seldom surprises.
They were finalists for the 2017 and 2018 Pulitzer prizes, so the answer's a pretty clear "yes".
Except in theory the Visa is for people you couldn’t hire otherwise in the US.
World Economic Forum warns of AI’s potential to worsen global inequality
What if Obama's daughters don't find being more likely to be murdered to be a worthwhile exchange for whatever advantages you're offering them? It doesn't seem like a fair negotiation to not include them.
A optometrist I went to did my eye exam for $90, and then I decided I wanted the prescription to get my own contacts.

First, I asked, and they denied it. Then I literally had to pull out this law and they finally granted it. But they did everything they could to obstruct me. Literally they refused to scan it and wanted me to show up in person. Then while writing it, the doctor himself said "sad to see you don't support our business". (For people living in Boston, the place was Custom Eyes in Central Square.)

I was surprised by the divergence between the law and how pissy the doctor got when I tried to exercise my rights.
This is verifiably untrue.
FusionAuth is free. Less pain, more awesome! ;)

And it integrates with AAD and ADFS.
Not the GP, and I don't have any conclusions in this matter - but I don't think we can outright dismiss the role of livestock in maintaining a healthy environment.
For example:

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/reversing-desertification-with-l...

And many vegetables are fertilized with blood meal, which comes from animals...

Perhaps a more nuanced view is needed...
10 Lessons Learned Extracting a Service from a Monolith
> Nobody who goes on HN will be

I go on HN, and although I'm not surprised that this is possible, nor shocked that it's done, it is the kind of thing I could easily fail to think about, or assume is probably not actually being done by anyone I deal with.
My comments on Firefox Focus
Similar to Qt for WebAssembly:

http://example.qt.io/qt-webassembly/widgets/richtext/textedi...
An algorithm that mimics our tribal instincts could help AI learn to socialize
I think the overall experience is just okay. But since getting equvilent glasses (selection, coatings) can cost several hundred dollars it is worth it.
They ask the question, but any response is prohibited unless they cycle it through a pr department. It's about public narrative, and how it changes sentiment. So unless that response pays them, it's better to avoid saying anything than saying the wrong thing and pissing someone off, especially the wrong influencer.
The latency between the AirPods and the iPhone is too high for the iPhone to do any of the real-time work. I have no idea if the AirPods have a DSP that would be able to do that work.

But cheap, small, low power DSPs can do an amazing amount of work these days. Even if the AirPods don't have such a DSP, they're a good example of a reasonably complex piece of electronics with speakers and a microphone that sits in your ear, but costs an order of magnitude less than hearing aids. I think they're a good datapoint to argue that a truly free market could make much cheaper hearing aids.
What a nasty comment section. I'm not the target audience for Buzzfeed myself, but instead of crowing over people losing their jobs I just don't click their articles.
I'm not sure what you mean; are you saying an otherwise-creditworthy person could get denied a loan based on other factors?
What bothers me is you can't remove content you've already seen from the list. So you end up having to track what you've seen and it reduces the signal/noise of the netflix interface in exactly the areas you are most interested in. They obviously track what you've seen, they just don't bother to hide it.
This is quite different from a consumer messaging application. It's a website's customer support chat.
Interesting Freakonomics episode [0] about this, where among other things they suggest that the most efficient queue puts newcomers at the front, essentially LIFO... thus transforming the queue to a stack!

[0]: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-are-you-waiting-for/
They can't use a reverse mortgage to pay property tax?
Many of them a listed here: https://pharo.org/success/
I don't think that the company "exposed" in the article is a bad actor. Seems like a helpful and reasonable thing to do.
Why is this being downvoted? They publish a false story, corroborated by nobody, and that is supposed to help the reputation? And no, “unnamed sources” aren’t corroboration.

If these stories were about Obama, there’d be a lot more howling, but given it’s Trump, the attitude is that any story that confirms anyone’s bias is fine, regardless of truth. It’s disgusting and has made journalism into a tribal farce.
It is absolutely shameful that this comment was downvoted. Trump is a big boy, he can take it. I couldn't care less.

What of the thousands whose lives are destroyed by shoddy journalism who aren't famous enough to even be recalled? I sincerely hope all of these yellow journalism outfits go out of business. It won't happen, but one can hope.
They own Huffington Post and TechCrunch.
I use a chat service that has this feature on by default (for real-time chat customer support, not for general messaging), and never in the history of its usage has a person complained about it. For every 10,000 people that may not have an issue with it, 1 may have an issue about it, and with these numbers it's really up to that 1 person to guard their privacy better (disable JS, never step outside their house, etc) than to inconvenience 9,999 other people from the benefits.

The experience is all in the context, and since this is only general behavior for customer service chats (where you're expected to send everything you type and the other end is simply trying to help resolve an issue), it's not really a realistic issue in terms of privacy. I agree that if facebook messenger started doing this and showed the other person what you are typing, this would be unexpected and potentially unwanted behavior, but the likelihood of unwanted behavior in a customer support context is extremely rare.
> the doctor himself said "sad to see you don't support our business".

That I would want to question him about. Does he mean that the medical service is the loss-leader and that he gets a kickback off our purchase of eyewear?
They didn't have you setting up networks with real hardware in a LAB ?

Not sure that starting with http requests is a good idea you need to start at layer 1 and work up.
Basically anything is cheaper than salary. It’s why I don’t understand companies that do things like take away the free coffee to ‘save money’.

If I can provide free coffee to the whole office on my own salary alone, maybe that’s not a great way to save money.
What we really need is to bring in enlightened humanities ethics managers to teach these greedy engineers what it means to love and cherish people.
Wow seeing that I’ve been “in tech” developing professionally for over 20 years and a hobbyist programmer in assembly since 12, I think I’ve earned my geek cred...
Well Cognito is a different product from what fusionauth is. As far as I know, Cognito is not going to be what you want to use for SSO for example. It's more for consumer facing services. As for hard to set up, that hasn't been my experience. If you're familiar with aws already it's trivial and interacts with other aws services. Like you can let users directly upload to s3, authenticate automatically via api gateway. I got it working pretty quickly. The mobile app support is great too. Cognito is also much cheaper than okta. You don't pay anything for the first 50,000 monthly active users.
Yes an Android version is on our roadmap, but honestly it will be quite a while. It isn't just the depth sensor, but also the ability to know for each phone model the intrinsic calibration of the sensor, the GPU, the IMU, and the screen size. We're doing real-time rendering and some very heavy computation at 60fps, which really does leverage tight software/hardware integration iOS and Apple hardware provides. That being said, if you are excited about what we're doing and the only think holding you back is the phone you choose to carry in your pocket, contact me or anyone on my team via the website and we'll be happy to give you a discount for the inconvenience of having to borrow a friend's iPhone.
My sister has a 5-year-old son. I asked her what toy I should get him for Christmas. She said, "Oh, he doesn't play with toys anymore. He only plays video games." I was aghast. A 5-year-old who ... doesn't like toys? It can't be healthy. And the really sad part is that my sister doesn't see a problem.
The entire web security model breaks down in this case. No web hosting except the most hacked together system does this. They all provide sub domains or sanitize the content so it can't run any code. Like the sibling comment pointed out, you could just use JS to grab your login cookie from the other site.
It was signed in August 2017 and the FDA has 3 years to allow sale of hearing aids for mild to moderate hearing loss.
Maybe a better way to put it is that capitalist systems can produce enough excess to pay for rampant corruption, whereas socialist/communist systems cannot, since they are fundamentally crippled without the price mechanism to inform resource allocation.
I'm not questioning that.
I'd like to know what BuzzFeed used data scientists for and how well they must pay (or what hidden motive they have) for a person with self-respect to work there.