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Well, you're right about not wanting to breaking things

But there was no 'naming convention' for network cards. And people can and will have more than one network card, with different names.

And it was changed for a very good reason https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

But of course people who do "license management" stuff only cares about this when it breaks.
This article was frustrating for me; I didn't find much disagreeable, but actual take aways were lacking.

> Specific strategies for sociopathy are outside the scope of this metablog post—and the scope of this book.

How are they out of scope if that's what you're advocating?

A bit TOO meta for me; with little actionable takeaway. But not a bad topic to chase down, i just wish there was more meat to it. Maybe I misunderstand it's context.

UPDATE: flipped through the rest of the site... where's the meat? It's all meta analysis and talk but really I am not seeing any useful take aways. Has anyone else found something actionable? I feel like the author would be a good chap to talk to and would have a lot of good things to say, but there's no clarity or purpose in his writings.
I would mostly like to see a mobile version of agar.io
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Have a look at the English legislation for an idea of how this is handled by criminal law.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/12

If you are over 18 and if you show an image of sexual activity to a child (someone under 16 that you don't believe is over 16; or someone under 13) then you've committed an offence.

Running a server in which other people show children images of sexual activity doesn't count.

It's unlikely that Minecraft dong-towers would count.

I'm also a bit wary of removing parental responsibility. Depending on the age and maturity of the child you should probably be monitoring their first interactions and giving calm safety advice. Suggesting that the providing company takes all that responsibility is odd.
There are a few reasons why this is hard:

* Lack of information -- in order to pick the right parameters, the system needs to know what you're trying to achieve (e.g., do you want to minimize latency or maximize throughput?). Communicating that more effectively than just specifying parameters is challenging.

* Instead of telling the system what you want, it can try to figure it out -- to some extent -- by observing program behavior and dynamically fiddling with value. The problem with this approach is that it creates feedback loops that muddle things beyond repair.

* Optimization over a high dimensional space is hard. As an example (even with just one dimension), see this bit from Doug Lea's talk about why dynamic tuning of spinning vs. blocking on concurrency constructs doesn't work: https://youtu.be/sq0MX3fHkro?t=39m48s

* Writing systems that never reboot[1] and are efficient is very hard. Dynamic variables usually require inserting checks at runtime that can't be optimized away by an AOT compiler. This is where a speculatively-optimizing JIT comes in handy, but JITs aren't appropriate for all uses, and even where they are, good optimizing JITs are notoriously hard to write.

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> Why does the JVM still need messing around GC settings to get acceptable performance/memory usage?

OpenJDK's HotSpot does fairly reasonable auto-tuning now (known as "GC ergonomics"). You can pick either the throughput collector and maybe set your young-gen ratio, or G1 and set a maximum-pause goal. Along with the maximum heap size, those are just three values, one of which is binary, another is often unnecessary and the third can be a very rough estimation. This should be more than enough for the vast majority of systems, certainly with Java 8. Much of the GC tuning parameters you see in the wild are old remnants from before GC ergonomics, that people are afraid to pull out.

[1]: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.il/2007/01/pinocchio-problem....
Ah, typical Linux article with an obligatory insult for Windows. Hope OP realizes Windows disables defrag for SSDs, and basically does everything described in the article without needing user intervention.

Next, you don't have to over-provision unpartitioned space AND preserve 20% of partitioned free space. It's one or another, the point is to have enough free space for proper wear leveling.

Hibernation can stay enabled, it just dumps RAM contents into a file, once. SSDs are much more vulnerable to small frequent writes (log files, browser cache, etc) due to write amplification and minimum write size (http://www.ni.com/product-documentation/10126/en/).
The practice of hypermiling is about burning less fuel to reach your destination. Likewise, avoiding unnecessary braking saves on replacement costs. It's certainly not needed for any car, but it saves money.
Rather, 'under the hood' it _is_ a lisp (that is, an AST). The powerful feature here is that you visualize (project) the AST into a more concise representation
Um... that's not how I read it. It's about controlling the failure modes. The pane with the hole is the "backup"--without the hole, it would be stressed roughly the same as the outer pane during normal operation. This has a major consequence: when one breaks, the backup will probably be in the same sorry state as the primary before it broke, so it will break soon too! Not a very good backup!

Sure, because they are sharing the normal load, it is less likely to break in the first place. But, you'd have essentially doubled the strength, but removed the backup. That's not a good trade-off.
Conflating opposition to child abuse with mere prudishness is very wrong.
> The time tested old school way to avoid this problem is to limit openness and impose internal structure. The long lasting subcultures of old, namely the ancient mystery schools and the fraternal orders that flourished from the Renaissance until roughly the post-WWII era, were initiatory orders with oaths, degrees, and governing bodies.

A thoughtful and interesting observation. I wonder how much truth there is to it. It also makes me wonder if "flat structure" companies face any kind of similar problems.
The absurdity is highlighted extremely well by Charlie Brooker, a UK news commentator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYXbWuJ7jnU#t=2m34s

Fox News displayed the entire video of the Jordanian pilot being burned alive by ISIS, yet censored the buttocks of a man featured in a segment on nude beaches.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739

> A reader emailed to complain about how this and other HN discussions often become derailed by off-topic carping about blog design. I agree completely. Could there be a more classic form of bikeshedding? It would seem parodic if it weren't sadly real. This has become more of a thing on HN lately. It needs to become less of a thing.

> I don't mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.
What does the JIT have to do with the GC? The two are completely orthogonal.
I don't know about earlier Windows, but Windows 8 does not attempt to defragment drives that identify themselves as being solid-state. It does invoke TRIM on drives that advertise that feature, and confusingly, this is done through the same defragmentation UI.
I can't say I'm too familiar with it, but this article says F2FS specifically targets the flash translation layer.

https://lwn.net/Articles/518988/
That's the price of Germany's success. Force women into wage-slavery, increase immigration from all over the world. Brave new economic world.
It's a fun chart but I wouldn't take it very seriously. Roughly the second half of his "Successful Systems" era is actually probably the heyday of both "associational culture" and artistic sects in the European-controlled world: the age of Freemasonry, teetotalism, Fauvism and pigeon-racing.
It rhymes with......
Just a nitpick: there actually are two subway lines in Rome too. They're building the third one and yes, it's incredibly complicated because you can't dig a hole anywhere in Rome without finding something of historical relevance :)
> "Europe is not a single entity and never will be."

Having lived in several European countries myself (Spain, Germany, France, Netherlands, Switzerland) I can only agree with the first part of the statement. It is not like California and Kansas are very similar either, yet they are part of the same country.

To me the current issue is not the people but politics, and the desire of sovereign countries not to relinquish power to a supranational entity. This is a process that takes time (and typically requires a catalyzer).

Whether the union will succeed or not, time will tell, but in the last 15 years Europe has clearly been converging (Schengen and currency being important aspects, to which I would add Erasmus programs and low-cost flights).

It is not there yet, and with the financial crisis from the last few years, the situation is more difficult at the moment; however, in my opinion if Europe wants to play a relevant geopolitical role vs the US, China, Russia, etc. it will be forced to step up its union efforts.
Reliable printing on curved surfaces wasn't possible at the time when "miniture" resistors were being produced, and a paper wrapper would be an undesirable extra element.
Some proponents of Turkey joining the EU actually hope that being part of a more global economic and cultural whole would offer more opportunities for the Turks and temper Turkey's potential risk of becoming more religiously extreme.
All programming languages are represented as ASTs under the hood. There's no need to call an AST a Lisp.
> I really like the model of movable desks.

Or laptops.
All drives fail. They fail catestrophically, and destroy your data.

Are you taking backups?

So long as you're taking backups you probably should worry about this kind of excessive noodling.
My advice is to moderate the people, not the content. Take a long view of users and see what they are saying / doing. Some may be perfect angels, others may have good days and bad, and still others will be toxic. Ditch the toxic ones and increase the attention on the inbetweeners.

Also, making things cultural versus rules is more effective, as the collective will help enforce a given way of things, to some extent.

Also, money. People who pay money are more invested and less likely to dick around. They paid money to be there, and will be more obedient of the rules and will enforce the same on others. But money is tricky of course, and can blow up in your face.
I don't see an option to change the view. Does this mean I need to be signed in to do that? If so, that's a really poor design. I should be able to delete photos just as easily whether or not I'm signed in. I'm not sure why the toolbar UI needs to change depending on signed in status.
That is a very interesting observation.

Edit: In the land I come from (south Italy) it was fairly common up to 50s and 60s for a couple to raise many children, as many as 7 or eight.

The reason is dead simple: being the economy largely based on agriculture and being schools not very common, more children meant more helping hands.

That need has basically disappeared.
All the personal data that Verizon FiOS uses to keep you from canceling
After the Glass fiasco, I'll be thinking twice before buying/taking Google's variant of FUD seriously. That was a waste of over 1.5K for me. Too bad there is no accountability (oh wait ... all the Google fans would just say I should have known it was unproven tech and I was an explorer .. blah blah blah).

I haven't been dissuaded from buying all unproven tech gear thankfully! Preordered the Apple Watch (as I have had wonderful experiences with the iPad on launch day and the iPhone) ... very satisfied with it.

I'm on the fence about HoloLens. While I have full faith in Apple and zero in Google, Microsoft is in the middle. The tech is extremely compelling but I Microsoft is known for incremental improvements .. I'd rather not get stuck with gen 1/demo hardware when a lot better stuff may be around the corner.
The curvature could be an artefact from the camera lens.
I stopped reading at that point - why buy an SSD if you're going to force everything to download over an internet connection to preserve it? Just use an HDD with caching, it'll be faster.
Why 'confusingly'? It's only natural to keep drive maintenance in one place. You don't ever need to invoke defrag/trim manually as they are scheduled to run whenever PC is not in use.
Supporting anecdata: I had a windows 7 gaming machine that saw a fair amount of use each day, with the pagefile on an SSD, and no tuning. Took about four years before the drive started failing (well, failing noticeably as a user).
A few days back, a small-time sitcom actor here jumped into a pond drunk and drowned.
I think the internet has just made me a little over-cautious, especially when being around so many smart people as there are on HN :)

So that pretty much answers what I was hesitant to suggest out loud - that even though the fuselage of an airplane is proportionately thinner, the soda can has to withstand a greater pressure difference. Thanks!
No.

EDIT: Hmm. If you are talking about things like aspergers and other "mild" autism diagnoses then I can see your point since I personally see them more as personalities.
I don't see it as treating however I more see it as elevating downsides of an "autistic" personality.
For anyone looking for an insider view into the crazy, early days of Jazz, I highly Recommend Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle and Mezz Mezzrow's Really the Blues, which also include many fascinating stories about Armstrong - like the time he improvised the song Heebie Jeebies (about Grass)[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmGt2U-xTE&pxtry=1
He's talking about her body temp, not the water temp. 13 c isn't _that_ cold a water temp for swimming. Plenty of people swim in 3 c water in the winter on Hampstead heath ...

13 c is however an insane body temperature.
Ask HN: Is it a good idea putting PostgreSQL inside container?
most of the performance tips include putting PostgreSQL (or any DB) outside the application server, but is it a good idea to deploy PG inside OpenVZ/Docker containers in one server? And what is the your best performance tips/links for tuning PG. Most of the articles advise using XFS for PG, how does it compares to EXT4 in SSD vs XFS in SSD
I'd actually like some sources that BTRFS is bad for SSDs.
When my money was frozen by 6 months (they didnt tell me duration back then) I rang the Irish Financial Services Ombudsman who resolve issues with banks and various financial services.

When I mentioned Paypal I was basically told they are a private company and they can do whatever the hell they want and I was the bigger eejit for using them (not in those words but more official wording of course...) and they could not help me and to go complain to the Consumer Protection service

I got my money back eventually. I still do not know why my account was closed years later and they refuse to tell me. every time I ring and ask I am told I will receive an email from someone with shitty Indian accent, but of course never happens as they fob me off. They still have my financial information on file which I suspect is actually violating Data Protection laws and rules here, i might make a call to Data Protection Commissioner about this now that I think of it.
It's terrible advice, especially considering the point of the page is about optimising your computer. "Now let's turn off something that speeds up your web browsing..." - yeah, thanks!
That was a great read with some great points! Thanks for sharing that.
From "Deforestation and net forest area change, 2010"

* Around 13 million hectares of forest were converted to other uses or lost through natural causes each year in the last decade compared to 16 million hectares per year in the 1990s.
* The net change in forest area in the period 2000–2010 is estimated at –5.2 million hectares per year (an area about the size of Costa Rica), down from –8.3 million hectares per year in the period 1990–2000.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/30515/en/
Did anybody ever believe justice was truly blind, particularly in the US? You've always had just as much justice as you can afford there.
JIT means Just-in-Time. In this context for native compilation just in time before execution. Production JITs are usually indeed self-tuning. But this self-tuning has nothing to do with memory allocation or garbage collection. JITs can allocate memory manually, many JITs don't have garbage collection at all.
When I Analysed Firmware and Found a Complete DDNS Server Fail
Enjoy your SSD carefree for years and years

18. Now you'll be able to enjoy your SSD carefree!

This should have been step 1. SSDs have a massive lifetime these days, you don't need to do any of the other steps, some of them will even slow down your computer.
Looks similar to how mathematica works, there you also type \sum <tab> and it will transform into the mathematical sum symbol and guide you to what should be filled in next with empty boxes. Really cool that they managed do generalize this and make it available for developers.

I'm mostly worried about copy-paste becoming troublesome, one of the biggest advantages of text editing is that it's so raw and if you know your tools you can transform a lot of it quickly instead of being constrained to repetetive clicking through clunky wizards and menus with your mouse.
If the world were a village of 1,000 people
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conseil_de_prud%27hommes_%28Fra...

You have 7 months to fire your employee without even giving a reason. That seems fair enough to judge someone.
> Politics: Needs to re-make the UN security council. Needs to work harder towards sorting out Israel/Palestine. Needs to disengage from NATO. The accession of Turkey to the EU needs to happen soon.

Not while islamists are in power. After another Kemal Ataturk style coup that enshrines secular character of the country, we could talk about it.
I think the key here is "outside of large business/cultural hubs". If you had hosted in NYC or Hamburg your story could be different altogether.
I don't know much about it, but I signed up while living in Amsterdam, and got to host someone who had biked from Lille in France across Belgium to Amsterdam in a few days—and was headed to North Cape. She was hoping to use WarmShowers as much as possible on the way, but had brought some camping equipment.

Weary travellers need to shower, sleep, and eat, so there's a custom of hosts providing some kind of food. But obviously that's up to the host. I cooked something simple with rice and beans and vegetables and it was very appreciated.
"in the night kitchen" by maurice sendak is the only children's book i've seen with a penis in it.
Yes it seems to be a way for people with no scientific background (or understanding) to feel like they have something to contribute.
Facebook also doesn't allow violent content so I assume you meant selective enforcement?
Ask HN: Is it worth competing with Google?
After Google's announcements in the last few days, it seems like they are leaving their competition in the dust.

They continue to dominate search. Bing seems to exist just to exist. There's no viable competitors.

The new Google Photos (coupled with the existing Google Drive) pretty much kills Dropbox/Box/etc at consumer level. Can Dropbox or anyone else match the search power in the new Google Photos?

Self driving cars are fast approaching. Will anyone beat Google at this?

Maps will have offline navigation soon. Why use Bing or Apple maps?

Android is everywhere. Google Now and their new Google Now features look great.

Is there any space that they are not in / won't enter?

My main point for asking is because I want to make a news website similar but not identical to Google News. If I made the site and IF it was a roaring success.. Google could just replicate it and because they have mountains and mountains of data they could probably do it better.
Labor costs and salaries are declining at a staggering pace. Workers get squeezed between declining wages, asset price inflation (Germany has one of the lowest house ownership rates) and taxation. The the same time, hordes of young, male, aggressive and uneducated immigrants who believe that they have a superior religion, flood Germany. Run as long as you can.
Ask HN: What's your development setup like?
> there's still many firewall features that one wouldn't want to reimplement app-level each time like rate limiting, network access logging

One of the major things that was learned in the NCP->TCP/IP transition was that it's better to put complex logic in the endpoints, rather than in the network.

> basic routing

Routing isn't what a "firewall" does. Routing is what a "router" does.

> I'm not sure what definition of "firewall" you all are thinking about.

I'm talking about packet filtering that looks at more than the source & destination addresses, stateful packet filtering, "deep packet inspection", etc., especially when they're set up as default-deny.

Application developers shouldn't have to worry that their packets will succeed or fail to be delivered depending on their content.
It's confusing to people who are told to disable defragmentation on SSDs. It's the same button for both HDDs and SSDs, and both TRIM and defragmentation are referred to using the same word, 'optimization'[0]. An unaware user would not know the difference.

[0] http://www.oszone.net/user_img/vadblog/ssd-defrag-bug-en01_m...
What if it is the idea, to let criminals deal with criminals. It's a circular reasoning if then the organizdd crime is said to be bad because it supplies drugs, that are dangerous and should be controled. I mean, if crime was only about drugs, the user would support the drug supply, i.e. the support. To support the support doesn't sound very unethical. The matter that is supported is the problem.

Sure, there is worse crime that may use drugmoney, but it might and does use legally optained funds after laundry as well. You might argue that the drug problem itself wouldn't flourish any less, if it was legal. I agree with the educational and medical perspective mentioned, but the medical moral is to not self medicate and the educational that the law is always right.