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I understand that 4G devices don't always use the 4G network for voice, they may either use 2 radios, or drop the 4G connection. The 4G network is used for data, and a 2G network for voice/SMS.

Eventually they will all start sending voice over the data link, but it isn't guaranteed.
As the example above (https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/microservices-and-the-...) this doesn't change anything. I still can't comment.
Ask HN: Best Android phone for developer?
Can't choose which android phone is best for development and daily use.
Nicholas Weaver on iPhone Security
Tesla Demonstrates Snake-Like Self-Deploying Charger Prototype
Hatred of most any language or set thereof is often a sign of inexperience. The only exceptions I can think of are production use of most joke/esoteric languages and Oracle Forms.
I also use ractive for everything i can. Everytime i have to work with something else i want to shoot myself in the head after some time.
You guys forgot https://medium.com/@Semantics3 !!
Typo. I think that

Having to protect a single laptop isn't that big a deal, Black said. "We get over 20,000 unauthorized probes on our system every minute," he said.

Should be (Black -> Blech)

Having to protect a single laptop isn't that big a deal, Blech said. "We get over 20,000 unauthorized probes on our system every minute," he said.
How much does a study cost? I think cost is the major problem here.
If anyone's interested, I know Telestream's Tempo (http://www.telestream.net/tempo/overview.htm), is super popular as it can actually cut and/or interpolate frames from content, to allow content producers to run more ads, without any perceptible difference from the viewer perspective.
Yeah, I've gotten some strange looks on planes for wearing mine. It looks exactly like a face-bra.

source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CCI4YU?psc=1&redirect=t...
In Ireland we voted on Lisbon until we got the right result. Makes a mockery of democracy.
I dunno. We had a lazy and shitty guy my year who got shitcanned after like 1.5 years.
I was about to say the same. I've made a lot of version 2 applications, and version 1 usually has this magic that always causes unintended side effects.

Even if it doesn't bite you, it will bite someone else.
> Systems and time sensitive languages cannot have GC.

This is not true, as not all GCs are stop-the-world, and all GC systems have some sort of pool system allowing you to manage/batch your allocations and sweeps. Root all your allocations for the inner loop, and unroot them/trigger a release when ready.
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True, but Dr. Offices are a business. And in smaller offices, the Dr. is the Owner/Manager. Frankly, for the vast majority of Dr. visits, you're there for routine or minor care, and a badly run business will simply keep me away.

I don't care how good a chef at a restaurant is, if it takes me 2 hours to order and wait for food, the silverware is dirty, and the surroundings are miserable, I'm never coming back.
Where are we in terms of being able to automatically classify music? [pdf]
Non-Magnetic Metals Turned Magnetic in Groundbreaking Research
Are there GC'd languages that can get to 350us?
From what I've seen of UK-based law firms, this is typical.

A young law-hopeful will face insane competition to get the relevant work experience and eventually get on a vacation scheme (2% success rate) [1]. Here they will do 2-4 weeks work with the firm they want to apply for.

Next, they need to apply again to receive a full training contract at that firm. Competition for these is even tougher (~0.5-1%).

Now, as part of the graduate intake (training contract) this person will be one ~100. Here are where well educated, nervous, fresh-faced young staff become the firm’s best workers - it's basically a two-year job interview. At the end of the two years, around 70 will be hired by the firm as new lawyers. From there another 20 will parachute[2] out per year. Of my brother's 35-person intake at a magic circle firm only two remain seven years on; many are in completely different fields. Around one person per intake will make it to the top - by this point they are the 1% of the 1% of the 1%. The entire business is structured to concentrate wealth in the hands of as few people as possible, with ludicrous hourly rates that junior staff never see, rigid seniority levels and the illusion of prestige.

Source: Brother at mid-sized magic circle firm + my own 3 months' subjective experience at two top-tier law firms before I decided to jump ship (I'm biased!).

[1] http://allaboutlaw.co.uk/law-careers/vacation-scheme/vacatio....

[2] A popular term in the field referring to the ease in which a lawyer working at a prestigious firm can move in to something less prestigious and a whole-lot more rewarding somewhere else. I met people applying for top firms with the sole intention of doing this.
Even better, you could CNAME your custom domain into the *.github.io domain, which is protected by a wildcard https.

So you traffic between CloudFlare and GitHub will also be secured.
It seems like many personal activities, such as meditation, exercising, cooking, and reading, share similar benefits.

They all claim to improve your life and mental happiness and it makes me wonder if those benefits don't stem from the actual activity, but from the common denominator. That common denominator is that you are taking control in your life, and setting aside time to improve yourself. What if that fact itself is what creates these mental benefits, and not the actual activity?

With that being said, I do participate in all of those activities and love them each for their own reason. Although, every one of them place you in the moment and drown out that loud stream of daily thoughts, which is the ultimate benefit.
> M.2

My impression was that M.2 is going out of style, at least for desktop - the primary form factor for the Intel 750 etc is an actual PCIe card. The alternative connector if you want a 2.5" drive form factor is U.2 (SFF-8639).
I think that the profitability in mature markets has a lot to do with how sane existing taxi regulations are. Even with the subsidized prices in Berlin, taxis there are so plentiful and relatively affordable that aside from heavily subsidized rides Uber didn't have a huge edge over the taxi+mytaxi combo. It was never really faster to get a car via Uber than with MyTaxi, or more often than not, just walking to the street and waiting 1-2 minutes. They've never had close to the same participation from Taxi drivers as MyTaxi and others have had. Incidentally, most Berlin Taxis are independent and pay only a small fee to get licensed. They must carry commercial insurance, but almost no one thinks that is unreasonable.

It's ironic because if the cities where Uber is madly profitable actually responded to their criticisms and reformed their protectionist taxi regulations, Uber would lose much of their pricing edge to competition.
I feel like Silicon Valley tends to think they can save money by skipping out on whatever big businesses have always done, until they find out later that it was a bad idea, and businesses did things that way for a reason. It's what happens, I think, when 20-somethings think they know what they're doing over experienced people with 20-something years of experience in the business world.
so how do you propose to measure this "social interaction" model? And are you really, seriously, running the "no mechanism" claim about RF induced bioeffects?
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CPUs seemed to hit their sweet spot around 2010 and have not made a huge amount of practical progress since. Up until about 2 weeks ago my gaming PC was running a i5 750 a processor released back in 2009 and still able to run all but the most demanding games on max settings GTA5 being the exclusion. Even my video cards (GTX660ti in SLI) are on older side having been released back in 2012/2013?.

Recently My PSU Blew and took the motherboard with it so I purchased a i5 4460/Z97 Combo for about $300 from Amazon which clears up the bottleneck in GTA5. This CPU is already a year old but I'm glad to see it's within 1-2FPS of the new chips in most games. Most likely won't even need to look at upgrading for another 5 years.

I think to some extent intel is backing themselves into a corner with this release, their last generation was so good (i5 4690k or 4460) that Skylake seems rather lackluster.
and dotTrace?!
Well, they miss a lot of higher quality experienced people (many with families) who just don't apply at Netflix because of this high turnover and risky experience.
Random, but I've discovered that "Buff" headwear (or equivalent, the fabric "loops" designed for outdoor sports etc: http://www.buffwear.co.uk/) over the eyes to be loads more comfortable than any eye mask I've tried, they're really soft and thin and do a great job blocking light out. Definitely worth a try if you don't like conventional eye masks.
I'm excited to see the TPP potentially become an election issue in the recently ignited campaign. Really hoping the NDP brings both this mess and Bill C-51 up front so maybe we can squeeze some democracy into the process.
The Android 'Stagefright' exploit: What you need to know
It's such an incredibly outdated way of conducting business. The podcast was really terrific in showing the underworkings of an industry that I would never even think twice about. Very interesting
What's the performance overhead of ECC come from? I know registered memory has a small but measurable latency penalty, and ECC modules are often also registered, but a simple parity check in the memory controller should be a pretty fast circuit.
Thanks for clarifying. I am generally not a good student of languages, so I don't typically get very far into any particular one to learn details like this.

But as for the "light blue" issue, what sort of shade are you referring to? Is it голубой (goluboj)? There is Azure--a Latin-root word that came to English through French--or Cyan--a word of Greek origin.
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Basically I just want to comment on a good article that came to my attention. If this triggers further discussion fine. If not not problem. I don't want to artificially reformulate anything.

I am wandering if someone else has this need as well. And what they did in this case.
> As I understand it individuals were stack ranked within teams

IIRC, when Microsoft stack ranking was in the news, there were people writing about sabotaging(!) and not helping each others in the teams.

You would need 10% failing every year in your team. Something like playing poker for real money, you need some chump which generally lose... :-)

(I explained basic command line handling to a new kid for half an hour today -- I have a few critical tasks in my stack, so that time will necessarily be out of my own time. That would hardly happen at Microsoft.)

Yes, I'm hellbanned. (Too easily trolled when I have allergy problems. :-) )
Tesla Model S car hacked, shut off while driving
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Propulsion systems are heavy, and would add significant cost to satellites.

Incidentally, if you want to get out of orbit, you don't thrust 'down', you thrust 'backwards'.
I don't propose to measure it, I don't really have a lot of interest in the issue.

I'm also not making a no mechanism claim.

I'm pointing out that the magnitude you stated is insufficient information to draw any sort of conclusion. You (apparently) want people to be alarmed at a large number. A large number is not a good reason to be alarmed. A large number coupled with an explanatory model as to the effects that the large number can have might be a reason to be alarmed, but the number itself just has a lot of zeros.
Obesity is an epidemic in the US.

The observable results are somewhat consistent with a contagious disease. Adenovirus 36 has been shown to cause long-term obesity in lab animals. Gut microbiome comparative studies have shown a marked difference between the intestinal flora of fat people and skinny people.

Additional environmental factors are in play. Car culture in the US reduces the necessity for daily exercise in comparison to walkable city infrastructure elsewhere in the world. The US uses a lot of chemically altered corn syrup in prepared foods in lieu of other sugars. Agricultural practices differ between the US and other nations, particularly with respect to allowable herbicides and pesticides. Real inflation-adjusted disposable income has been declining in the US since about 1970, and poorer people have less healthy diets. Parenting culture has changed since 1970, such that children left to play outside (aka exercise) without direct adult supervision may actually get a parent arrested. People have increased their consumption of sedentary entertainments, and reduced the time that they typically sleep.

The only way to really figure out which factors contribute most to increases in obesity is by objective analysis of unbiased data. That will lead to actual, testable hypotheses, which will in turn lead to solutions that actually work to reduce the public health risks represented by excess adiposity.

Telling every fat person "hey fatty, go lose some fat" may seem like a simple and easy solution on its face, but it really is a lot more complex and difficult than that.

No one is denying that fat people would be healtier if they were skinnier, or that they do want to be less fat. Very few fat people actually want to be fat, and most do take active measures to try to become less fat. But no one apparently knows with certainty why those measures--often the exact same measures employed by skinny people to avoid becoming fat--do not always work.

When people dismiss those discrepancies as "not trying hard enough" rather than "potential research opportunity", that does not advance the human knowledge in this domain that would allow us to better address obesity on a worldwide scale rather than piecemeal.
Some of the things I think Gauge does well:

1. Instead a BDD format, it uses markdown specification-style language. This fits well for end-to-end user-journeys, instead of a strict Given-When-Then which is more suited for very specific test-case style of testing.

2. If you have data-heavy testing, Gauge helps. It allows you to manage your data in files, apart from tables, and gives an out-of-the-box way to read from these files, thus making data management much simpler and neater.

3. Gauge is built with an architecture such that you have a core library, and then there are plugins to it. Every language binding is also a plugin. So, all the core features are in the core lib. Thus, if you change tech stack, and move from say C# to Java, the features you had would mostly be there ready for you. Thus a smaller learning curve (unlike Cucumber which is re-written from scratch everytime you change tech stacks).

4. Gauge also comes with out-of-the-box parallel running mechanism. It just needs a simple command, specifying the number of threads you want to run them with, and that's it. No additional plugins required.
Hope that helps.
It's amazing how fast people forget the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

It happens every time, if there a way to make money speculators will come into the market, take advantage of it. Or in the case of index funds, it will become overcrowded and inefficient and the market will move on to the next big thing. Just ask LTCM. It's the invisible hand of the market...

Honestly, anybody that down voted me is probably invested heavily in index funds because they heard something on a blog and listened to Warren Buffet once.
Of course, Uber could hunker down in one market and start making a profit. But they are trying to form a global monopoly in all the major urban markets. New capital is going to dry up pretty soon unless they are prepared to go public. Either Uber has to lower its sights to limited regional domination, or it has to go public. Given their MO I would think they are preparing for the latter option.
I haven't done any client-side routing. Normally each page is either static HTML/JS or is served by ASP.NET MVC on the server side. Then APIs are used to load the models on the client side and perform interaction. In other words, we're not making any effort to move to "single page" applications.
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Most of them know that DRM doesn't prevent lost sales due to piracy (as you said, DRM actually increases lost sales), and they as well know that it's futile to try preventing DRM breaking - it will be broken no matter what.

However DRM + corrupted anticircumvention laws give them various control and ways of writing their own laws without any democratic process. That way they can poison standards (HDCP for instance), ban competition (mobile devices locking) and attack individuals when they really want to (like Geohot case). I.e. they get a lot power as a side effect of DRM.

That's why they push so much for this trash. It's about control and has nothing to do with any piracy. And that's why society should strongly reject DRM and its kin (DMCA-1201 and etc.) as unethical and unacceptable police state approach.
Fuzzing a DNS parser written in Go
HN is becoming a free mechanical turk for reading.
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blueflow,

I created a GitHub account here : https://github.com/CaiGengYang/CaiGengYang#caigengyang

This is a site for hackers and programmers to collaborate on code and projects ? Cool ...

How to start creating a project ?
I want to disagree with you because what you propose is, at the very least, inconvenient - but you're 100% correct, we should vote with our pocketbooks.
I work in academia, where things move slowly. When lag is expected, turnover is expensive. Also, it being a university, my employer is much more concerned with educating us and broadening our skill sets, rather than discarding employees like a half-eaten slice of pizza that didn't quite have as much pepperoni as you wanted.
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Dang.. it never occurred to me how big the moon is.

Looking at this picture, it's hard for me to comprehend why the moon would orbit the earth and not fall into the sun.
There's something to be said for experimenting. Some experiments turn out to be a bad idea; other experiments end up making sense.

Always good to figure out which practices have a sensible reason, and which are just "the way we do things".
I would argue that both type of thinking have their places. Some assumptions are no longer valid because of how the society has changed. There are innovations like internet, mobile etc. in the last 15 or so years that have had high impact on society. It is really hard to get the correct rationale behind practices, which can then be evaluated. Startups help in trying stuff and innovate. On the other hand, economic stability that allows these startups to actually spend this cash comes due to these established practices.
Please fix Silicon Valley Bank.

They send passwords in plain text!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!
Erlang doesn't share data between VM processes (green threads) and each process has its own heap, so you don't need to stop-the-world. Your GC can run concurrently with other live processes while still serving clients. Erlang also gives you the ability to manually invoke the garbage collector per-process so you can run it at more optimal times of your own choosing.

Related: http://www.evanmiller.org/why-i-program-in-erlang.html
I can recommend the i5 4460 which is about ~$180. It's a locked 4690k for about $60 less but honestly is able to play even the most demanding games on Ultra settings (Witcher 3 / GTA 5) if pared with a good GPU. I would advise picking up a Z97 Motherboard to go with it so if you do want to upgrade the processor in a few years you have a path to the higher end of the Haswell line.
I tried telling a client once, "if you can't tell me what you want, how am I supposed to make the computer do it." Wasn't very well received.
Oh and Congrats!
I believe that streaming video can make use of GPU acceleration for decoding (to take some load off of your CPU).
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Hi all — this is our initial MVP. A fair way of describing it would be Meetup but with smaller groups forming around specific activities instead of a larger general interest group. Have a look and would be happy to hear your thoughts.

We tried to steer away from making another specialty dating app — though obviously some “primal” forces are always at play.

A big question for us right now is whether or not people are motivated enough to network when it’s not for work or dating. Or, perhaps a more interesting way of posing the same question: are most people only motivated to network within the comfortable context of a larger organization (school, work, industry event, etc.) or for dating; or is there some appeal to something that is more unstructured? We were joking that we could have called the app "last minute friends".
You can't paint all carriers with one brush like that. Any BYOD phone on a BYOD-friendly network should be upgradeable directly by the manufacturer (or by Google--it would be up to the manufacturer to set that up).

The issue is with networks that don't allow non-carrier approved phones. Don't let them shift blame. They've decided to be bullies in their sandbox, so if you get sand in your eyes, take your money elsewhere.

Verizon may have a great network (I wouldn't know, they won't let me bring my own phone and none of their phones interest me). It helps lock customers in, but their phone policies also leave then vulnerable (and roped into an expensive hidden-cost upgrade treadmill).
De Novo charters are available, but in very limited supply. I think there have been maybe 5 new charters since the crash. Prior to 2008, 100's were issued annually.

The problem with acquiring an existing bank is that for any tech company, you are likely to be changing the business purpose of the acquired bank, so you'll need to basically go through the de novo process again.

Either way, you're looking at 5+ years to get a charter that you can use to run any new digital banking business.

And then there are the capital requirements. The capital required to launch a Bank is tremendous. You need to have sufficient capital against your projected future deposits. Way out of the range of VCs. And only a limited number of PE firms play in that space.

And even if VC's did have the financial resources, the returns are dismal. Chartered banks, particularly new charters (either de novo, or acquired for a new business purpose) are limited in their growth. A very fast growing bank might grow 50-100% yoy. The return on capital equation just doesn't work out for VC capital.

It doesn't make much sense either for PE firms, given the limitations imposed by the Bank Holding Company Act.

tl;dr, this shit be hard.
Apparently he may have gotten shitcanned after just two quarters at Yahoo!
I lived in a tent for a year (long bicycle trip), and I started sleeping in a hat because it was cold most nights. I started pulling the hat slightly over my eyes at night, and my sleep has been better ever since. I probably couldn't wear a sleep mask, but I can't fall asleep well without a hat anymore.
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Working cultures differ wildly; not just nationally, but intranationally. Lessons learned in one environment are not necessarily applicable in others.