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I believe it would depend on the liquidation preferences and the preferred stack. This would allow them to potentially own most of the company in the event it was acquired for a worse valuation, went bankrupt, etc.
It seems Berberine and Metformin have different activation paths (Berberine might not lead to AMPK activation) and don't necessarily have exactly the same effects. Is there any research on the two being comparable for longevity purposes (other than lowering tumor risk)?
Isn’t that simply a sign of deeper problems in the organisation?
The complaint is that that the server now needs to know the difference between the types of messages passing through it.
>In general, reviewers should favor approving a CL once it is in a state where it definitely improves the overall code health of the system being worked on, even if the CL isn’t perfect.

This is a great rule of thumb
Slack is sticky and their competitive advantage will be (1) making it stickier and (2) expand the enterprise features (e.g., make it easy to implement a company Data Storage policy, SSO integration, etc).
Please, please, please go as fast as possible.

The quicker we get rid of the "tech bros" the better the world will be.
> Yes, the overwhelming impression is that they'd like to avoid being like WhatsApp in that they don't want to have any users.

What makes you say that?

> Even if you are hoping to contribute, the "Getting Started" section which actually details what exists of the project is buried down at the bottom of the page - and that section is the closest the site comes to giving a proper explanation of what secushare actually is in terms of technology. The rest is waffle.

I suspect your issue stems from your approach to the project. I found the website tremendously informative. I spent a great deal of time on reading from top to bottom, and I followed the links, even links outside of Secushare.

The website tells you exactly what Secushare is, it goes into detail, you just have to go through "Navigation", and for example when you encounter an unfamiliar term in the context of the project, click on it to gain understanding, then continue.

You may want to start with https://secushare.org/, then go to https://secushare.org/introduction. You will reach section
"Buzzwords to Dig Into". Go through them one by one, or pick whichever you would like to know more about. You could go to "Navigation -> Answers" instead as there will be links to the same pages. There are many different ways to go about this, but it essentially boils down to taking the time and effort to do so, and an open, curious mind.
All my data is in Dropbox, with a few helper bash scripts that I run from time to time to sync a couple choice filters. Otherwise, I interact with it on the website. Ransomware would have to be extremely targeted just to me to cause any issues. Security by obscurity. :D
If you live in CA, you're good to do it:

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/labor-code/lab-sect-96.html

as long as you do it on your time, using your own resources, and do not compete with your workplace.

The fact that google (or other employers) do not go out of their way to tell you this is, of course, understandable.
I suspect they want to be able to brute-force passwords if they really need to, in the event of a uncooperative or malicious employee, and these rules allow for that.
What's to stop me from just adding everyone I come across to mine this data for myself?
> The OS/2 personality shipped?

Well, apparently it did: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-warp-powerpc-edi...

Some "abandonware" website is even offering it for download: https://winworldpc.com/product/os-2-3x/30-powerpc-edition

> well known for being hideously slow?

I don't think it was "well-known" for anything :) But, not having used it myself, the blog post I cite above says the performance was "surprisingly good" and that "all things considered, responsiveness quite good for a 100MHz CPU"
IBM then was essentially "the loudest person gets to be in charge." Larry Loucks was very loud.

After spending some time with the OS/2 Workplace Shell usability group, I spent time with Taligent and then the Workplace OS. I'm having "DASD" flashbacks typing this. Then I left for grad school and UT Austin for a good ten years, going back to IBM to work on something called xCP and digital media encryption. That was mostly after IBM became a pure consulting company, and was a cluster fuck, too. (The entire Pervasive Computing division went down with me. My boss ended up in the Lotus division.)

Don't work for IBM. Don't buy IBM. After I get done here, I'm washing my cell phone out with Listerine.
At the time Netscape's revenue came almost largely from corporate customers who paid for Netscape's client and server software products. Microsoft offered to give these companies a discount on their Windows licenses if they agreed to cut ties with Netscape, thereby severely limiting Netscape's revenue.

Shortly thereafter the Netscape client software was the spun off to mozilla.org, and the rest of the company was sold to AOL.
> This such a click-bait piss-poor paper I can’t believe it’s in Cell.

There's a lot of politics in what gets published in prestigious journals like Cell (also, this paper was published in Aging Cell, so not quite as prestigious).

Amusing anecdote: In grad school, one of the profs in my department submitted a manuscript to Cell (this was back in the 1990s). His lab had done an amazing genetic study. There was a more famous lab at another University (run by a future Nobel prize winner) that had performed a complementary research study using an in vitro system. Both labs submitted their papers to Cell "back to back." Ben Lewin rejected the genetics manuscript (one reviewer said the genetics research belonged in a more 'archival' journal).

Lewin accepted the manuscript describing the in vitro work of the more famous lab.

A few months later, the anonymous reviewer was visiting our department (to give a talk) and he revealed himself as the reviewer to the professor who had submitted the manuscript. Professor asks, "I was honestly shocked by the review. <famous lab's manuscript> was just dotting the Is and crossing the Ts of our research."

Reviewer responded with, "I thought [rejecting your manuscript was] what Ben wanted me to do."
Probably did not help that the reviewer had been a post-doc in the famous prof's lab.

That's just one story that I am pretty familiar with. I have heard many others (e.g., famous prof telling editors stuff like "<shitty> paper gets accepted or we will submit our next groundbreaking paper elsewhere."
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I rewrote an app that used to only deploy on weekends because we do a lot of processing on weekday afternoons and nights. I changed the deployd to the mornings.

I justified as saying if something breaks we have everyone there to fix it. Plus I'm not going to spend my weekend working if I don't have to.

My app has global traffic. Sometimes stuff breaks Sunday night and Asia is the first to find out.
With the placebo being so strong, sample size of 9 is too small for any conclusion.
They acknowledge this and include the same link in the readme linked by OP
Not to nitpick, but a quick check shows Square has way more stars overall. (233,343 stars for Square repos and 30,982 stars for Stripe repos.) If you’re talking about Square’s brand new SDKs, they of course start with zero stars and some are just weeks old.
Thanks For The Feedback[1] is a pretty decent book on the subject. Highly recommended if you're interested both in the mechanisms and improving how you receive/give feedback.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Wel...
Ask HN: Open-source security camera solution
I'd like to install a few cameras around my house. I did a few installations on ubiquiti cameras, and while it's an OK solution, it is closed source.

I was wondering if you had experience and recommendation in an open source system.

The software is the most important component to be open source, but if the hardware is also open that would be a big plus.

I need live streaming and recording of motions.
Amazon is directly putting additional vehicles to the road as a fourth shipping carrier, where USPS, FedEx & UPS already run trucks through these neighborhoods.

If Amazon wanted, they could expand their use of existing infrastructure, namely USPS (which is legally obligated to service homes and businesses) rather than create redundant, poorly maintained secondary infrastructure.

Amazon's FBA program is entirely focused on paying as little as possible to get parcels delivered. There are no living wages, or properly maintained delivery vehicles to be had for the workers that carry Amazon's parcels.
This is a great answer. People have different learning styles.

Some mentees will also likely have a desire to impress you so they'll get good at doing things exactly how you want them to do it. This is also learning, but not the learning you want.
This is actually huge. I saw a proof of concept of something like this in Haskell a few years back, but it's amazing it see it (probably) making it into the core of a mainstream language.

This may let them capture a large chunk of the ML market from Python - and hopefully greatly improve ML apis while they're at it.
It seems like the article ends up a bit focused on the wrong things here and there.

Of course Apple is going to build features their customers want and those feature are going to line up to some degree with what is available on the app store. This, in itself, is not a problem as any IP theft here should be covered under IP laws.

The real issue is that when Apple does release an app (especially a paid app like Apple Music), that they don't compete fairly. This happens in three ways which are mentioned in the article:

API parity:

>> the in-house version often benefits from functionality that outside developers are prohibited from using. Apple Music, for instance, is the only streaming service that is entitled to take full advantage of Siri. Apple says it plans to change that policy in its new operating system, iOS 13. Apple’s walkie-talkie app, which launched after independent apps had proved the appeal of the concept, is the only one that can operate on Apple Watch.

Information Parity:

>> what makes Apple’s practice different is its access to a trove of data that nobody else has. The App Store, where the original apps were offered and competed for downloads, collects a vast amount of information on which kinds of apps are successful—even monitoring how much time users spend in them. That data is shared widely among leaders at the tech giant and could be used to make strategic decisions on product development

Power imbalance and IP lawsuits:

>> They generally don’t sue Apple because of the difficulty and expense in fighting the tech giant—and the consequences they might face from being dependent on the platform.

You said:

> Whether copied or not, I'm extremely skeptical that App Store analytics are influencing OS features. It's never been Apple's style to be analytics-driven.

Do you have a basis for this? This seems to be contradicted by this quote:

>> That data is shared widely among leaders at the tech giant and could be used to make strategic decisions on product development, said Phillip Shoemaker, who served as Apple’s director of App Store review from 2009 to 2016. “I think Apple gets a lot of inspiration from apps that are on the App Store,” he said.
Its not that the choice can't be made.

But if that choice is harder to make, the world is probably worse. Its that more people on facebook, feeling its a requirement, is a bad thing.
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The EU has grumbled about platform owners also being publishers so hopefully they intervene at some point.

Look at how well-behaved Microsoft the iOS publisher is, compared to where and when they have dominated as both platform and publisher.

I think we will all be better off when the iOS app store has a mandate not to compete. Same with Twitter on their platform, Amazon with theirs, Facebook, Google etc.
We're nowhere near ‘post-Moore’ in persistent storage, though. Although Dennard scaling for CPUs has faltered (if not Moore proper), storage is still getting faster and denser at the same time... it just does the speed upgrades in discrete jumps. SSDs were massively faster than HDDs, and when Optane DIMMs actually become available, those will be another huge factor faster than SSDs. (And if not Optane, then QuantX or MRAM or NRAM or ReRAM or...)
No, because that would require you and your friends to be in each others crush list at the same time.

Unless you and your friends only have 9 facebook friends each, you prove nothing with this bizarre hypothetical you've constructed.
My fortune 100 company has the following internal account password rules:

-Must be 8 characters

-Must be all lowercase

-Must contain $ or !

-Must contain letters and numbers

I'm not joking.
But people would see that the best bid is too low, so they would hold that part of their portfolio. (Because there's no point in realizing that huge loss.)
Now do automatic integration.
"Studies have shown quality control of this supplement to often be low." [1] -- which one are you using?

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-dhea/art-203641...
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The way Google uses it, a "CL" means both "a thing you sent out for pre-commit review" and "a submitted change". It's very similar to a GitHub PR, if you use a master branch and always squash your PRs when merging to master.
If you’re trying to make a living off a flashlight app, I’m not going to be very sympathetic to your plight.
> I think the solution that lets us keep ad supported content and easy ad placement would be for Google to force companies to provide bots they could run internally so the profiles never leave Google's datacenters

Honestly, that wouldn't do much to alleviate my privacy concerns, as it does nothing to protect my privacy from the likes of Google (or other ad-slingers).
All the WeWork spaces I've been in advertise a happy hour. In the office space. Starting at 5 or 6, before most professionals are out of the office.

Meanwhile, Regis has quiet facilities, with dedicated offices, cubicles, and conference rooms. It may not be sexy, but it's not trying to be.
Isn't that the "OSF MkLinux" thing?
Yes, Redis requires more manual tracking of such things. What you have to understand is that it is incredibly fast: You can easily do hundred of thousands of sismember lookups within the time it takes to serve a usual request.

> or is everyone just ignoring all non-str datatypes and storing everything as JSON

I doubt it. I've been surprised by how many of the datatypes I have found uses for.
This is a great answer. To echo and add: why can't I open maps links in Google Maps or http links in Google Chrome.

Security may be the easy answer, but there's little doubt that there's an imbalance.
I remember one of my acquaintances on Facebook shared a sad story of how the app they developed was stolen by Apple: it trackedyour iPhone activity.

They went in detail about the “revolutionary” tech behind it: they made you set up a VPN on your phone so that they could track all of your net activity, from that they would estimate your screen time with the apps.

There was a long set of paragraphs on how Apple is taking advantage of independent developers.

I mean - I hate the fact that I can’t change the default browser to Firefox, too. But making the users set your logging VPN under the guise of “making your life healthier by knowing how much time you spend on the phone” is another level.
What do you mean "could"?

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w...
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That's from when Google still ran on Perforce. Around 2012-2013 we moved over to an in-house system that provides a similar interface (see link in sibling comments).
Russinovich quite literally wrote the book on the internals of Windows.
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>It's good to see tax money spent on such a comforting program.

I think that 'comforting program' is what might be called a sense of community. And the wisdom of investing in a future. Something which, in many so-called 'advanced' countries, has been under attack (by ignorance or deliberation) for generations.
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> do not compete with your workplace

Google does enough different things that this is often unclear. The IARC program lets you get a clear opinion from the company on whether they consider your work to be fully separate.
I once worked on a team that specialized in very long littanies of code review comments... but they were able to bake this into their culture in fundamental ways such that it ended up being one of the most positive experiences in my software engineering career.

The basics of how they accomplished this was:

- The obvious- no personal / destructive attacks or insults, no cussing, no comments on any person's abilities.

- Having your code picked apart is a badge of honor, and you were expected / required to do the same to the most senior of your teammates when they submit code.

- Collective ownership- it's never "your" code, it's the team's code.

- Constant acknowledgement that our system is hard and complex, and it is really important that it works as expected / promised.

That last part was an ingredient I never found anywhere else. The opposite seems to be more common- every other team I've worked on tended to underestimate or even trivialize the difficulty and complexity of the systems they work on. By acknowledging that this work is hard for everyone involved, and that despite this, it must be well-done and function properly, the code review and the ensuing discussions became a very welcome and encouraged part of this process. It also helped defeat newcomers' imposter syndrome because this mentality was effective at making everyone feel like they had an important role to play, and that even the most senior folks often felt like a noob when they screwed up.
Yeah, I was going to say: the last company I worked for sent their backups off-site on a nightly basis. They were also often requesting old tapes to be pulled in for the next night's delivery/pickup so that they could test against old data.

It would be pretty hard to get your ransomware to encrypt all those offsite backups sitting in a vault somewhere.
Just because you can say something in four words, doesn’t mean it is simple.

You eat, you live. Sure. But why? What happens to the things you eat? What can you eat? What/how/why is the pain in your stomachs?
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Node.js, AWS, Unity, Vuforia, Xcode, Android Studio

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oq7m4eIJDgaNT8Ypm0F84Bk4o9...

Email: Brittany.R.Hasty@gmail.com

I am a junior programmer, and I have been working diverse jobs within the past two years in order to get a taste for different work. I absolutely love programming and am constantly seeking to learn new languages, use new technology, and experiment with upcoming devices. I recently moved to San Francisco so that I could see and develop the newest innovations at the source, and am currently seeking full-time work in the San Francisco Bay area or remotely.

For example, this past year, I was the sole programmer on a team providing new technology to the US Air Force. During that time, I designed, built, and debugged two seperate augmented-reality apps for iOS and Android on a strict deadline, despite not having any prior experience with the software for their development.

I learn incredibly quickly, and I am willing to learn everything from the ground up. If you want someone to help out for an upcoming deadline, or provide additional support for an ongoing project, please don't hesitate to email.
I'm a heavy user of Stripe with 3 businesses >50k MRR and for me charging 10% (even if it's 1 year loan), let alone a >25%+ APR is RIDICULOUS. I'd certainly never use it. I mean this as constructive feedback. I'm actually very disappointed by this ridiculously lousy offer for customers, because that's the opposite of how I've known Stripe: friendly and customer-oriented.

Cut your fees by 5X and then you have a product we're talking.
There is actually a <noscript> element, but it isn't showing because the CSS opacity of the <body> element is set to 0. That's a fairly recent change which inadvertently broke the <noscript> text. We'll need to look into what we can do to fix it.
Why not enact into law a limited immunity for any such ransomware that (a) only charges a modest amount for decryption; (b) never exfiltrates private data to elsewhere; (c) after payment, reveals all security lapses that allowed penetration?

We can't even hold commercial software developers to enforce secure coding standards, yet we're expected to trust anonymous malware writers to write code that is proven to not exfiltrate data and trust that they are ethical enough to reveal all of the weaknesses they found?
Where does that define CL?
I don't think my router's 16MB of flash are optimised for performance.
Additionally, i will need an implementation for windows, an implementation for Linux, one for openBSD. Then there are many different kinds of flash memory on the market, do you really want to debug why your OS is loosing data with a new SSD that uses some weird flash memory?
Think about the software you work on and maintain day to day: how much of it runs so fast that any further improvement in the code would be pointless? Truly we have strayed far from the light...
This is why Little Snitch is fantastic.
I think it might better to make the insurance illegal. That way the money or losing the data really stings. You can't just pay a premium and ignore actually having good security and reasonable backup systems.
This is a usefull and relevant link as well.

https://github.com/BusPirate/Bus_Pirate
I’m surprised f.lux isn’t mentioned here, if I remember correctly not only Apple copied its functionality but it also prevented the app from being published on the App Store https://justgetflux.com/ios.html
I've started a few successful businesses, and all I can say is what's worked for me.

I've never needed to turn to Google or other ad-slingers. Instead, I've done things the old-fashioned way, by going to where my potential customers tend to congregate and engaging with them (this kickstarts word-of-mouth, which is still the best advertising you can get), hosting my own online forums for customers, going to trade shows as appropriate, and supplementing everything with a few direct-placement ads in carefully selected media.

Yes, it's more work -- what Google et. al. are actually selling you is convenience, after all. But the rewards in terms of of ROI as well as fostering a real community, complete with evangelists, are more than worth it to me.

Of course, ymmv.