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I've switched from Brave to Bromite [0]. All of the same features, but no "business" involvement behind it -- just a clean Chromium with sane patches for privacy and security.

[0] https://www.bromite.org/
In the order of increasing complexity and/or volume: Pinter, Fraleigh, Rotman, Dummit & Foote.
I appreciate that this monument is in the northern hemisphere and so the discussion of Polaris is entirely appropriate. But still some universal statements are made which are simply false when we remember there is one half of the world that looks to the other celestial centre in the night sky. One example:

> The reason we have historically paid so much attention to this celestial center, or North Star, is because it is the star that stays put all through the course of the night. Having this one fixed point in the sky is the foundation of all celestial navigation.

The Polynesian navigators, who achieved amazing feats of open water navigation, managed to sail deep into the southern hemisphere (as far south as New Zealand) where Polaris is simply not ever visible. But they still practiced celestial navigation without this 'foundation'. [1] The European explorers, who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and through the Strait of Magellan and across the Southern Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, also likewise had to do without this 'foundation'.

When you come from the southern hemisphere you notice this casual, unthinking "northern hemispherism" all the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation#Navigati...
Trader Joes used to have 2 machines in the late 80s which were Fresh Peanut Butter and Orange Juice. Both machines ground the ingredients fresh on demand. Peanut butter went into little tupperware like containers. OJ went into jugs. It seems all current commenters who might frequent TJs are too young to have experienced these things. The biting tart flavor of fresh squeezed OJ is often what is attempted to be imitated by homestyle or tart labels. Trader joes non pasteurized is still not the same flavor.
Leaving aside what we know for a moment — wouldn't I be addressing a social issue and looking for justice in a hostile (warrior) way because of something that happened to me?
Maybe I am alone in this but goood ol fashioned profit sharing has again and again been a better long term value for me

I have found employees & employers tend to do more favorable in a number of ways:

* All levels of employees get to participate in compensation

* do in part to that, participants (in my albeit subjective look at things) tend to work equally as hard

* there seems to be a natural tendency to reduce waste of resources everyone gets some of the revenue slice

The only real down side I can think of is the same ones stock options have (except for the vesting period, to be frank): the longer you have been with the company and or the higher you climb the ranks usually the more you get.

Also it is true that in profit sharing a lot of times a buyout may not always be spread around, unlike with options (though it happens with options too)

To me at least with straightforward profit sharing the gains are realizable In a consistent and judicious manner
The domain name is painfully ironic.
How is that HN didn't de-duplicate the URL?
You don't share any links, but how would you reconcile this with the claims that amyloids are widespread. I posted about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129157

Is it really the case that PRNP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRNP) is the only known amyloid to be infectious?
Caused me a moment of confusion also.
I suggest being careful about using the "social justice warrior" label, it does not seem to have settled on a solid definition yet.

So far I have almost exclusively seen it used to attack women in computer games. This is the first time I have seen it used to refer to people 1-staring reviews.
Accepted by whom? Information about ancient concrete and other types of cementation can be found in various books, e.g. [1].

I saw picture of cement klin (oven?, non-native speaker) in Peru, built more than thousand years ago, which looks _exactly_ like freshly build cement klin near to my home (Rivne, Ukraine), but labeled as "an ancient temple, filled with dirt".

[1]: Lea's Chemistry of Cement and Concrete
Pinter's A Book of Abstract Algebra.
SFO is prone to weather delays. I've never flown through OAK, because it was always less convenient than the other two (for me, living in Sunnyvale and San Jose), price was about the same and no better routes. It might make more sense to expand one of San Jose's municipal airfields to replace SJC than to just abandon it.
Random question ever think of selling your voice library as a product as well? You can put "Powered by" for free users and for paid users it can be shown in an "About" page instead.
Whatever "Operations Plan 8044" is supported by / implemented in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_of_the_United_...
Some Sleeping Positions Might Help You
Easy, limit their backpack space.
Why not on the way in then and avoid all the mess?
From what I've seen, if a story hasn't gotten significant votes or comments (and I think there's a time interval involved as well), it isn't considered a dupe.
> wouldn't I be addressing a social issue and looking for justice in a hostile (warrior) way because of something that happened to me?

> I think we're losing the point here

The point of this thread is that in the real world, the actual use of the term "SJW" is overwhelmingly by conservatives using it to dismissively label liberals, and using the term suggests a blatant political alignment that detracts from the substance of the article.
farmersonly.com has a lot of cows too ;)
it's fine for hn to exist and cater to this group, right? yet here, humor, satire, and a variety of "OK" things to discuss and share are considered off-topic and not permitted

I think it depends a lot on how you discuss things.
I'm at a FAANG and I find it difficult to believe that people at the VP level make less than software engineers.
> when and how a certificate also contains a private key (and when that private key is "exportable")

There is a file format called PKCS #12 which lets you bundle things together. It is very common, particularly on Windows systems, to see this format used with files (often names ending .PFX) to bundle together a _certificate_ and a _private key_. This is presumably "convenient" in some sense, but since the security requirements for these two things are utterly different (a certificate is a public document that can be shown to anyone, a private key must not be seen by anybody else) it's a hazard in practice.

It's especially problematic that the resulting bundle (which you mustn't show to anybody) is often labelled a "certificate" when by far the more important thing inside it is a private key...

The same bundling idea can be done in PEM (the big blobs of Base 64 encoded stuff more often seen in Unix systems) by just concatenating a private key PEM to a certificate PEM. But at least if you look at it in a text editor you can see what somebody did, whereas in PFX it's a bit opaque without specialist tools.

Bundling these two things together most often happens in the context where somebody _else_ makes your key (and issues you a certificate). This is bad practice, not only is it patronising ("Poor dear don't understand crypto, we'll just give them the keys ready made") but it means the end user is vulnerable to copies kept nefariously or by accident. Avoid.

Certificate Authorities are prohibited from doing this for certificates in the Web PKI ("SSL certificates") but their resellers often still offer it as a "service". Say no. In fact try "Hell no".
All of those were posted by different people. It is indeed common for articles to get posted multiple times, sometimes making the front page and sometimes only getting a few points.
That’s a great idea, but I’m thinking of giving that away for for free say up to say 1k listens.

We’ll see it’s a ton to build as a side project.
You are right that UX was a problem for P2P systems, but there is no technical reason that the UX problems could not have been solved had serious effort been devoted to it. The problem is that the technology had become de-legitimized and it was too risky to work on. Imagine if iTunes had natively supported P2P downloads with all of Apple's UX expertise going into it -- do you doubt that Apple could have designed a good P2P UI?

Blockchain is indeed another P2P application, but as you say, it is questionable as far as mainstream adoption goes (though it is likely to see use in non-consumer, business-to-business applications where the hard technical problem of identity is easier to manage). The thing about P2P filesharing is that it was very popular and was starting to enter the mainstream, and we are sitting here arguing about whether or not the UX problems were a cause or effort. Blockchain also came after years of stagnation and missed opportunities in P2P because the first killer app was snuffed out.
I'm not religious but I love reading about the history and philosophy of religion. Piggybacking on what you said about Karma — it's the golden rule. The intersection of all religions, the bit that's in every. single. holy book.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do good and it'll come back to you — you're not the one to keep the bill.

As you said, it's something to be taken out generally in life. I wrote about it in another post, addressing publicly the tech CEO and how she/he should not keep the tab. Do have a read if you're interested: https://chagency.co.uk/blog/general/dear-ceo-dont-keep-the-t...

(Please let me know if linking your own stuff is not ok on HackerNews, I just joined the community and it seems lovely)

I'd need the opposite of what Articulu is doing — transcribing my video's audio into written word. Had a look and it looks nice, will give it a try!

Let's connect, how can I reach you?
It is strange that the typical window is so short, or that employees accept the ability to buy something as compensation in the first place.
You could drop a bit of No-Doz in your juice, might make it taste bitter though.

Personally I hate pure caffeine. I find cocoa powder way smoother / less jittery, and generally less fatiguing.

Edit: sorry, I see, now, you wrote whole. Just swallow the No-Doz. But, again, while cocoa beans or powder for me.
It's not shocking content providers want money. It is somewhat shocking that their way of making money is making user experience worse and essentially engaging in low-grade war with their users - not outright war, but sneaky cold war stuff, where you officially friends with them but unofficially spy on them, steal their secrets, subvert their actions to your benefit, make their life worse if it can make yours a bit better, and so on. It's not exactly how we commonly view customer-provider relationship.
I left my previous company before their ladder (~14+ months of work) was finally released so I'm not sure how it has worked out but one of the first drafts I saw had a rubric for gauging your growth / fit for the roles.

One of the biggest things I took issue with was that you had to have some sort of "community involvement" but management had to approve your speaking engagements to some degree (be it time off, messaging approval, etc) so it was quite easy to put up a lot of blockers to achieving that. Who knows- they may have dropped that part.

The most striking thing to me, between this article and what happened in my personal experience, is that I was told "your technical skills are senior level" "but you are too emotional" to promote. I don't deny being emotional but as a reason to deny promotion on a tech track? Would they have said that to a woman or is OK since I'm a man it's not an inappropriate comment?
A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes (2018)
Parameterized Functions
See also: Any cable/internet service. Just try to go onto the Comcast website and close your account, or even move to a lower tier of service.

They will happily let you add new services to your account, but to remove or cancel anything? You need to call or visit a service center.
Does it include the fix for apt's recent mirror redirect vulnerability? If not, any update to a fresh system would be trivially susceptible to a MITM attack if redirects aren't disabled. This includes docker images as well: https://justi.cz/security/2019/01/22/apt-rce.html

Canonical really should enable https as an additional layer of protection. This isn't the first time a bug in apt's authentication was found and it's unlikely that this bug will be the last.
If you want to break each word down individually then yeah, sure. But you can never divorce a phrase/words from their social meaning. What is implied between the lines carries just as much weight, if not more than the literal text.
Show HN: Hypehop, a video service that pays you for your attention
I think the majority of the voter fraud in US would occur
if the following 3 gates are not enforced

a) eligible to vote
b) voted only once
c) it is the person that voted and not his/her proxy.

It would be much better to use some biometric, verified
by 3 independently developed databases.
As those would be hard hard to fake
I didn't want to contaminate readers with my understanding. But enough time has passed now.

OP says:

> The computers for which UNIX was intended had a very small address space; too small for most usable end-user applications. To solve this problem, the creators of UNIX used the concept of a process.

My understanding is that processes were designed as a way to isolate users on a time-shared machine. Limitations on RAM were certainly correlated, but not the direct cause for the design of processes.

> A large application was written so that it consisted of several smaller programs, each of which ran in its own address space.

Pipelines don't save you space. All the processes in a pipeline run concurrently so their memory usage overlaps as well. If anything, splitting up into processes increases memory usage, because each process may not use all of the memory allocated to it.

Pipelines were designed as a way to reuse a small vocabulary of shared tools. Efficiency was only a secondary constraint. The primary goal was easily creating elegant programs for simple tasks.
IMO, the example would be clearer if you left off the cofounder bit. Otherwise it puts the focus on their relationship and makes the rich guy seem like a jerk.

I still don't see how this anecdote is particularly responsive to the various comments it was used in reply to. So you're saying millionaires want to grow businesses responsibly? Great! What does that have to do with whether you feel joy in paying them money — which was what my original comment was about?
You’re affiliated with Stanford? If so, also with the developer of Terra?
Regarding the dynamic pricing, that's what I address in the next day's article, following this. I was saying that I'm hoping this way of conduting will be the standard more and more as:

1. It’s absorbed into culture as good practice.
2. It’ll be easier to accept micropayments, which I’m sure cryptocurrencies will take us to.

Emphasising point #2.

I got your email, I'll answer in a bit, thank your writing!
Speaking of tiling WMs in general - is there any tiling WM that can be controlled entirely by mouse? I find that I have to do any sort of window management rarely enough that shortcuts aren't worth learning, but I do like tiled windows, so if there's something where you can e.g. lay things out by dragging them around and having them snap etc would be much preferable.
A 25-Inch Plot of Land in Greenwich Village Embodied ‘a Resistance’
Perhaps "pyramidscheme.cash" was already taken.
I think you can agree that being able to see the code, and detect patched builds, makes it much more risky to pull something like this.
As long as your posts are useful and insightful I’m pretty sure it’s allowed.

You can reach me right on the website, I put up contact info and it works.

Edit: excellent post by the way, loved it and shared it with some friends. That word of mouth thing is 100% true.
That's exactly what I'm advocating against! I do see this happening every time in dying industries: when they know it as well (they do, trust me), it so happens that they're clinging onto every single penny they can do. And I understand why.
Dude, just drop it.
Rename it to Internet vigilante or whatnot but clearly this is the wrong combination of words + context.
I specifically chose Ecobee for two reasons:

1. It works like a programmable thermostat when there’s no network

2. The additional remote sensors (our original thermostat wiring is in a crappy spot for keeping the house at even temps)

I’ve suffered through internet outages (some of my own making) on very hot and cold days and my thermostat keeps humming along on it’s programmed schedule for AC and heat.

I’ve even got an “exotic” config with only reading sensors in certain rooms at certain times of day (like ignoring downstairs when we’re all upstairs sleeping), a cycle of warming up before wake up times, a cycle of cooling down after bed times. This has all just worked for 3 years, through storms, snow, ice, and internet outages.

The Twitter user seems unreasonable in their assignment of blame here. Yeah, they had a crappy time- but a little self reflection here might be better than the lashing out.

They installed their HVAC controller in a spot they can’t access 24/7? What would they do without an Ecobee or similar? What’s up with their default schedule being so wonky that the heat shut off or wasn’t running hard enough?

Obviously, it’s best if Ecobee doesn’t have to take their servers offline but it really seems like a combination of user error and bad timing.
>"In the hands of a trustworthy government".

Is there such a thing as a trustworthy government?
Let's respect the guidelines and not go into politics. I didn't want to touch down on politics and I think using SJW can be non-political. I understand you don't. Discussing that would be political.
I really, really do. I’d also like a side of Dyson Swarms, hold the butter. Seriously, how amazing would an O’Neill cylinder be? People live inside, and outside you’d have industries using the vacuum to do things that would cost a fortune on Earth.

Just a teensy little upfront investment is required, but with SpaceX it might not be so crazy someday soon. If the cost per kilo into orbit drops enough, a lot of sci-fi could become real; not the Dyson swarm, but orbital habitats and industries sure could.
I’m not by any means an Android fan, but I have to admit that AOSP has done more to make computing accessible to almost everyone in the world than any other platform.
Your reasoning is valid, but it only explains virtual memory, not processes. Processes are primarily a means of isolation. If anything they're liable to increase memory usage, because the lookup tables need to be saved somewhere.

See also my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19121443#19129363
They only studied 10 languages. That doesn't seem like enough to call it "universal".

What about those African languages made up of all clicking sounds?
Can you name an existing, large business which depends on ML for its existence?
I think they were serious, and very much a product of the malthusian ideas that dominated that era. I remember reading futurist books with these images in the 6th grade in the early 90s.

Back in the 80s and 90s Malthusianism was the dominant thing. Most people believed the global population would keep expanding beyond what the world could sustain giving the impetus for things like space stations and ocean colonies. And population graphs in the 70s and 80s and even the 90s suggested that this was true.

Also in the 70s the idea of the green revolution wasn't fully cemented in the public consciousness. Nobody had any idea that it would double wheat yields between 1970 and today so people were projecting slow linear growth, or worse static farm yields and available resources against a growing population. The projection for the future was a dark one back then, and things like these space stations, along with things like ocean colonies were seen as a desperate way to prevent that fate.
I would think it is a good idea to assume they are a symptom but could also cause further problems.

Just like sneezing/coughing does occur normally, but is also a symptom of many different health issues, and in the worst cases could lead to broken ribs, etc.
The Trouble with Autism in Novels
Hashing for large-scale similarity
But not having a solid definition shouldn't stop us from thinking for ourselves, right?
As I read through the way payment amounts are handled I can't help but remember the owner of a company I worked for a long time ago saying, "there's money in confusion".
38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types
> The challenge I have interviewing people for very senior engineering roles is how to tell the difference between somebody who was nearby when some interesting work got done

When I was a technical recruiter, I could probably have faked my way through some technical interviews without much understanding of how to code. Now as a senior level engineer, I could probably do a pretty good job of sounding like I was the one who did the work that I saw someone else do.

> When telling that story in an interview for a principal engineer role, make sure you clarify your role.
> Convince me you are a differentiating factor in successful projects and we’re going to be interested in hiring you.
> As an interviewer I try to dig towards these things but it is hard and honestly

I haven't tried to hire a principal engineer, and I don't consider myself to be one, but if I had to guess how to interview one, I'd probably try something like this...

- prior to the interview, prepare specific reasons why we need a principal engineer in the first place, including answers to questions like "what do we expect from a principal engineer that we don't expect from a merely senior engineer?"

- I'd budget enough to time candidly talk with the principal engineer about what we're trying to accomplish, especially getting into details about what sucks & where we're lacking principal level help

- I'd ask the principal engineer for their thoughts on how they might be able to help, including how they'd go about establishing themselves as someone who could be successful in the role, asking them to go into as much detail as possible

- After that, I'd ask them whether they'd even enjoy doing that kind of work, to share some examples about having done similar work previously, and ask what they'd need to be set up for success

- I'd ask them to think about the position I'm in, and whether or not they'd recommend I hire them, and why they feel that way

Basically, I wouldn't try act like I know how to spot a good principal engineer. I'd do the work to communicate my needs for one, and let the principal engineer candidates help me understand what I'm looking for. If I didn't find a principal engineer amongst the people I'd interviewed, I'd have to trust that I'd have a way to feel that.
I'm super appreciative of my current role for this and other reasons. I'm the sole software developer on a team of 6 people in a mostly isolated corner of the code base. I'm getting a ton of experience making calls and collaborating with non-engineers, while still getting to be involved in some broader discussions.

A company of 20-50 programmers seems ideal to me now, with an overall company size of <300. I feel larger might require too much bueracracy and smaller might lose out on QoL and scale of work that can be accomplished.
What percentage of people have the requisite knowledge to do that? The Heartbleed bug was in open source software for over a year before anyone noticed it.
I think I would engage in a much healthier fashion with this site if that number was hidden (along with comment upvotes, clearly invented by Old Scratch himself). But since it is prominently displayed in the header I assume it is intentional.
You're right. Downloading now. Thank you!