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I remember specifically the same video the author was talking about (http://youtu.be/1PGm8LslEb4), and I also cringed when Destin read the ad copy for ExpressVPN.

Commercial VPNs are the homeopathy of the Internet.

They're selling snake oil. For all but the most impossibly pathological customer scenario, nothing that a commercial VPN can give you will actually protect you in any meaningful way. But they can hurt you. Since there's no quality control of any sort, and since their customers are self-selecting for dangerous behavior, it's a horrible environment to go mixing your traffic into.
This reminds me of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
It seems like the fix is in the making, and could be out in a few weeks.

Meanwhile, there is a forked version of the compiler with a hotfix for the debugger that works for most applications, even medium and large ones: https://github.com/elm/compiler/pull/1850
Read up on prostitution in the past.
I really like the TLDRs for each section in the table of contents. Pretty neat idea. Maybe I don't read enough, but I haven't seen this in a lot of books.
I see 99 ways this approach would fail, except one case, it could work if my product is able to hit product market fit. PMF is why most startups fail, not because they couldn't figure out how to sell... Even we assume Saas, FinTech, Dev tools, Uber for dogs are in the same bucket of sales variety, then applied this battleship approach, you'd be dead in the water before you realize your product isn't solving a problem you can charge money for yet most people you ask would tell you if you added certain features it could be useful, or if you tried this other segment of customers you could make it.

Plus "buy my book to learn more" didn't work for me. I'm a founder. Just saying.
Wat. Do you know a language that offers a better std library? Rust doesn't even have a standard tls or a random crate.
I don't like the trend of Electron being used anywhere but I've really struggled to match my productive in VS Code in Vim or Spacemacs. I've certainly tried! I even spent a month or two last year using exclusively OpenBSD and nvi as a bit of an experiment - I did enjoy how quick my text editor opened for example, but I am still a lot more productive in Code. Any suggestions for someone wanting to learn without their productivity taking a dive? Maybe finding a Vim plugin for my existing editor and learning there before switching to "real" vim... I'm not sure.
Well, yea, that was kind of implied...
Because the platform offers user content without any claims of correctness.

Education about handling media is the better approach to banning. It is naive to think politically charged content would be exempt from ambitions to ban it.
Sure, they're testing the new UX's ability to increase their ad impressions. I'm sure that's going swimmingly.
> Some people take this to the next level and decap the processors and then use liquid thermal compound instead of the paste.

They're probably deliding the CPU (removing the integrated heat spreader (IHS) to put the compound on the die directly), not decapping it. I can't imagine a CPU surviving the latter.

The CPU in the article is lid-less so that's not a concern.

And some CPUs have a soldered heatspreader, this allows for much better heat transfer to the IHS but means delidding is destructive (though way less necessary to be fair). Ryzen chips are soldered.
Clearly caused by the same (unknown) thing that's been causing the double-digit decline in testosterone levels of Western men for the last few decades, regardless of job market or dating apps or whatever. So I'm leaning toward physiological explanation, not social.
- Sport activity (running, endomondo),

- Web traffic (cloudflare analytics),

- hours spent on gaming (steam/ps4 stats),

- Github daily contributions
>> Facebook could employ thousands more to moderate and supervise - without destroying their ability to make profit

You're underestimating the scale of this problem.

Facebook users create billions of new posts a day. And, tens of millions of these posts get reported for moderation per day.

"Thousands of more" employees isn't going to solve the problem. Assuming each posts takes 10 minutes of labor to review, you would need an army of 200K individuals, and this amount of labor would cost many billions of dollars per year.

>> Pretending the problems don't exist, as all the platforms have done so far

You must be joking. Facebook has already made massive investments into moderation. It's their top priority for 2019. In many ways, they are doing the opposite of pretending this problem doesn't exist.

>> They - or any other social media company - don't have a right to exist.

Nobody is arguing that FB has an inherent right to exist. The only point GP made was that (as made evident by your comment) many people are underestimating the associated costs with manual moderation of content.
My comment was aimed at typical HN readers who cannot be bothered to visit the link...
>Class suit of this kind is easy.

...in US
Is Ronaldo 10x as likely to get a hat-trick to send his team forward in Champions League when they needed 3-0 to progress? He's not running 10x as far but he is so much better due to little things, such as being in the right spot at the right time.

Compare this to programming. A programmer who makes good decisions early on the project will likely save his company a lot of money down the line. A few poor decisions here will cost them a lot of money.
To me (and many others) this topic is political in nature and controversial.

How so? It's not about political decisions one way or another but observing a new phenomenon on the market for sex and relationships. There are tons of scientific angles available for approaching the issue. Why is this happening? What has changed? What factors can contribute?

Flagging comments such as "that's good, all sex should happen in a marriage anyway" would be contributing to the discussion, flagging the entire topic would not be.
My country does employ active discrimination so I think this idea is terrible.
Market Leaders in India’s Solar Industry
Or for insurance companies to form an association that comes up with policies that would benefit all of them if they all did them, and then requires all member companies to implement them. Not sure exactly what carrot or stick they could use to ensure that any remaining insurance companies have an incentive to join the association rather than trying to free-ride off what they're doing, but one might be able to come up with something.
In 2018, India was again the third largest solar market behind China and the United States with 8.3 GW of solar PV capacity installed in the year. Mercom’s newly released India Solar Market Leaderboard 2019 report reveals the market leaders that emerged during a challenging year for the solar industry. The report covers market share and shipment rankings across the Indian solar supply chain in 2018.

According to the report, the top 10 solar PV project developers in the country accounted for over 60% of all large-scale project installations in the 2018 calendar year. There were over 300 utility-scale project developers in the country with projects of at least 5 MW or more in operation. Currently, there are around 80 large-scale project developers with a pipeline of 5 MW or more in India.

“Much has changed in the Indian solar industry over the last year. There was some re-shuffling when it came to suppliers after the imposition of the safeguard duty while others have consolidated their positions,” said Raj Prabhu, CEO of Mercom Capital Group.
Punk rock, dubstep, electronic, drum and bass.
Or, it literally means, "we don't know what you found, so please point it out."

Not every response for help is a "fork off."
> The best course of action here is to flag the offending comments, rather than the entire thread.

The best course of action for my mental well-being is to flag the whole thread and move on without reading the comments. Unfortunately I'm already in here, so I am flagging the particularly egregious comments, as well as vouching for the dead comments that I think were unjustly buried.

> Just because something gets trolls, doesn't mean the whole thing should be destroyed or censored.

One flag doesn't destroy an entire thread. It's a numbers game and I'm adding my vote to the pile. If the thread dies, people who think it is valuable can vouch for it.
> What is the down side?

The gain is low, it increases costs, and better thermal pastes are electrically conductive so applying them industrially is a more complex endeavour (as you absolutely can't risk leaking/spreading them to any component). The risk/reward just isn't there for manufacturers.
China Has Recorded a Record Number of Searches with the Word “Bitcoin”
It’s easiest to see it as what it is: a textual format that evolved allowing binary blobs inside it.

You can write a PDF in notepad, or every text editor, and, if you know your postscript, it isn’t that bad of an experience if you forget about modern features, except for that table of contents at the end of the file.

See https://brendanzagaeski.appspot.com/0004.html
Well... Software render on zDooM keeps shining. Even handles some quirks better that OpenGL renderer.
What the EU could do for startups
Wait. How many knife attacks are there been in London? I thought it was only a few times?
I love that it looks literally like a dust bunny.
It’s not the same thing at all, Facebook is a social media platform that enables distribution of material to a broad public. Terrorists clearly use social media hopping it will reach as many as possible. Remove the non-moderated access to distribution to a broad public and the incentive is lowered.
Because I'd have to fork, wait for the Github client to process the fork, find the source file that produced the error, fix it, commit, push, then go back to Github to create a PR. PRs are overkill for typos on a project I don't develop on.
No no no no, people are absolutely _not_ super aware here. Sure they might mostly stay on one side on the escalator, but that's where it ends.
The short story about the green padlock stating your connection is ‘secure’ is also not true. It depends on the encryption type they use. I don’t have time to go in detail, though for outdated browsers ssl 3.0 is still stated as green...
Excerpt:
"Since borophene’s synthesis, chemists have been eagerly characterizing its properties. Borophene turns out to be stronger than graphene, and more flexible. It a good conductor of both electricity and heat, and it also superconducts. These properties vary depending on the material’s orientation and the arrangement of vacancies. This makes it “tunable,” at least in principle. That’s one reason chemists are so excited."
How is this private? You literally get a private IP directly tied to your AWS account, and by extension your CC.

An actual attempt at privacy would involve chaining at least two VPNs and paying anonymously. Starts to look a lot like TOR, doesn’t it?

This issue with VPNs is, as the article states, people will just use them to log in to Facebook. It’s like putting on fake nose and glasses while at the same time wearing a t-shirt with your name and social security number.

However VPNs are brilliant for getting around horrible ISP, e.g. to participate in P2P networks. In that case, paying for GB is not very ideal.
You are free to break down your theory on what’s happening rather than mocking OPs methodology...
That honestly hadn't occurred to me; I'm much more familiar with fields where most of the important details end up patented. I generally view all forms of intellectual property (patents, trade secrets, copyrights) as nothing more than mechanisms by which to exact funding.

I suppose a trade secret would prevent circumventing IP law by heading to a more permissive jurisdiction and is potentially indefinite. But then again, if anyone ever successfully reverse engineered it (or it leaked) my understanding is you can't patent it in retrospect? So it seems like a huge risk to me.

From an ethical standpoint, I'm not seeing where it would be any worse than a patent (one that's actually enforced). Unless you're concerned about the possibility of the knowledge becoming lost to humanity? Or something else?

An aside: I wouldn't be optimistic about the usefulness of trade secrets on their own in the biomedical sciences. It can certainly be tedious to reverse engineer something, but my impression is that it's generally the IP laws that stop your potential competition.
So like most Android ones these days? I don't find any of these features special. The only noteworthy difference is that the clock is not shown on my current alarms screen and I'm happy to be able to have the extra screen real estate as I have dozens if not hundreds of alarms so I don't have to set it every day again but can just scroll down to the right time and flip a few switches.
This makes a lot of sense. Going from two monitors to ultrawide, I miss the easy context switch of swapping between monitors. Being able to compartmentalize different tasks to different monitors is practically ingrained in my DNA at this point.
Don't swing too far.

Facebook needs some blame too.
"Please stop thinking there are 10x programmers"

I don't really agree, since I consider myself a 10x engineer.

I have countless of examples of guys struggling for 2 months on some project. They get stuck, ask for help and I look at it and build it from scratch in a week.

It's not I'm typing faster, it's more about choosing the right architecture and libraries. You can save insane amounts of time by making the right descisions.

Besides the overall architecture descisions there are a lot of small day to day choices to make. If this value is not valid, do I throw an exception, or silently log something?

In both the small and big design descisions there is always a tradeof. Talent and (years of) experience makes that these descisions come from intuition, which can make you a 10x developer.
CENSORSHIP
Alternatively, you can write in Typescript from the get go with most of the strict checks disabled, then only enable a certain check when you see the need.
Asserting a Coding Style
Sixty Symbols, which is a great channel for these kinds f topics, did a great video on primordial black holes a few years ago: https://youtu.be/gs3mtZPySeM
I love it how people hate and spit on the idea of code generation, but, in their daily lives, hit short cuts on their keyboard, especially in OOP environments, to generate 1000s of lines of cruft and even seem to enjoy that because it looks like you did so much... File after file appear with 10+ lines in it and checking into git looks like you did herculean work today! It really makes people feel better so I guess why it is liked and popular. With more terse languages (usually some form of fp or apl or forth or a mix) you can easily end up after a day with an empty screen with a blinking prompt; you might have done a lot in your head and on paper but you have no proof for your boss and even you yourself feels like a bit of wasted time.
Hitting a car is not the same as hitting a wall.

All three of these do similar damage, if the cars have equal mass:

* 70mph car vs. 70mph car
* 140mph car vs. parked car
* 70mph car vs. wall.

The only real question is whether you consider "140mph impact" to mean "vs. a similar-mass car" or "vs. a wall". These are wildly different impact intensities that should not be confused.
I'm surprised the author didn't mention learning about programming. Programming did come out of the field of computer science, after all.

Not that I think one should never do any hands on practice, but if you spend a large chunk of time learning the concepts of different mathematical fields related to programming, as well as the teaching of other programmers, you'll become a much better programmer than you ever could otherwise.
"3. Non intrusive arbitrary function and class mocking: No need to use virtual function interfaces, mock classes, and dependency injection, which couple your library design with the way the mocking framework works. unittest uses monkey-patching through elfspy so mocking is as transparent as possible."

I think such an approach is short-sighted. It means that unit tests only end up testing your code from a functional point of view.

By using dependency injection/mocking, unit tests also become a way of validating that the API of your code is pleasant to work with. If your code can be tested through mocks, it means you've written something that can be reused, embedded and extended.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID
Seems to be like Papaly. They haven’t updated much or at all in a few years. So the market just seems hard to get in to.
But OP doesn't need AD semantics: he wants centralised auth for a bunch of apps hosted on linux.

This is ridiculously simple with OpenLDAP. The only part that's 'missing' is a self-service web UI.
I've been on a ketogenic diet for a year now and sleep has been the biggest thing. I was a light, restless sleeper and I noticed very quickly how how much better my sleep got. I'd fall asleep quicker and it feels (and tracks) deeper. I don't wake as much, sweat nearly as much when I sleep and wake up feeling far more rested.

Sleep aside, I don't sweat nearly as much during the day and I've shaken almost most all the IBS related problems I had. Feels a bit like a miracle. Trouble is, I wish (much like the article) I could understand exactly what it was that I cut out that made the biggest difference. Bread? Alliums? Fructose?

I guess the only way would be to reintroduce things slowly and test, or revert back to a carb heavy diet and remove stuff one by one... But when you're (finally) feeling great you don't want to mess it up :-/
wow! That's a lot of 'felt'.
adequate restraint or control is a subjective impression most users probably do not agree with.
Do you use Larder for everything?
‘What a horrible idea — interacting with other humans face to face - I’d be so uncomfortable’. I see it as a weak social muscle that hasn’t had a lot of workout time and is leaning on a crutch of modern lifestyle staying indoors on screen time. Just like how gradual exercise will make someone stronger , lose weight and take a burden off of the public healthcare system — social exercise will benefit society as well instead of infantalizing and nurturing a generation of socially crippled human beings lol.

As for the extroverted person , maybe they only go to bars to pickup people for quick lays, they don’t contribute to community like helping build a house or work on community plots of land or help paint a mural etc , it could balance it out
I’ve been involved with hiring and I do part time work as an examiner for CS students, both those who go straight through their education, but also on diploma degrees where people upskill after having worked for a while. Kind of like a masters but at bachelor level.

I’ve seen one or two rockstar developers in my time, but even they, would have had trouble keeping up with the silver foxes I know.

I think young programmers have an easier time picking up X framework because they have more time. That’s not really as valuable as knowing computation though, and I frankly think a lot of the YouTube and MOOCs you praise are to blame for the general lack of CS knowledge among a lot of young programmers. Some of them (the college ones) are great introductionary courses, but the majority of MOOCs are amateurs teaching amateurs.

Maybe that works in software because software is in high demand. I mean, I build a RPA process in a few days by google programming. It certainly works, sure, but I also know that it could have been build a lot smarter and more efficient by someone who knew how. That’s the thing with software though, you can get by if you deliver something that works okish. At least until you have to work in a field like medical software, where you code is quite literally never allowed to fail. Because someone will die if it does. At that point you’ll want the 25 years of experience, every time, and if that’s true for medical software, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be true everywhere.
As a matter of fact, your lived experience is nothing and count nothing in this contest, because the article talk about statistics and statistics don't care about your personal lived experience; so your rant is totally misplaced and your flag was just showed the snowflake you are.
What about behave like a mature adult and take the figures and numbers for what they are and not as a personal attack?
"incel narrative"? Really?? Are you a sjw reeeeeeing for whatever, by any chance?
Go get a soy latte, some homeopathic sedative and some yoga, you oversensitive snowflake.
"lazy" and "eager" are the pre-existing widely used terms for this.
No mention that Pinboard archiving has been flakey for a while. As well as the service in general? Lots of bookmarked links with random status code issues. When the sites are fine.

I have 20K+ bookmarks and bookmark a decent amount so maybe the worts appear more for me.
if they don't accept bitcoins, then it's not anonymous.
The answer to that is the concept of "can't" does not exist for God.

Same as how the concept of alphabet does not apply to a number, or how you can't divide by zero.

It's simply not a concept that can be applied.
I think there is a lot of value in fiction. Reading some classics like the sibling commenter mentioned: Shakespeare, Homer, Tolstoy, etc. Even if the fiction is a lie, you learn a lot about how other people think through fiction. "Fiction is a lie that tells the truth" or so they say [1].

Even with Star Trek beyond TNG, the show fundamentally reflects Gene Roddenberry's ideas of what a post-scarcity society (symbolized by the replicator) looks like. Unlike our society that prizes money as what others judge you based on, in Star Trek, there is no money. People have the right not to work if they don't want to, but to gain prestige you need to contribute to society by joining Starfleet where values like morality and heroism are highly prized [2].

[1] http://edteck.peterpappas.com/rothberg/fictionisalie.htm

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27040338-trekonomics
Write a polyglot shellcode for x86, x86-64, arm32, arm64, and MIPS
Multiple parties can be to blame for a problem, friend.
> If types are really that big a deal that you have a hard time writing an application without a compiler checking your types, you should reevaluate what you're doing.

Speaking of software snobbery, what does this statement reek of? This attitude is just as condescending and utterly non-constructive as the fanboyism you're describing.

I'm currently building a fairly large application using TypeScript both on the front end and backend specifically because I "have a hard time writing an application without a compiler checking your types". It's working great but according to you this is a valid reason to reevaluate what I'm doing?
What you see as bad faith is actually a direct reflection of the benefits these VPN providers are claiming to provide -- if not explicitly on their own site (publishing false claims in writing often leads to bad outcomes) then at least in the ad copy they give to the Youtube hosts to read.

In ~100% of cases, you're safer SSH-tunneling your traffic to a cheap server at a cloud hosting provider.