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That's true for fabs but I was talking HW development. Mainly, the EDA tools and the masks. It's why some companies can specialize in offering USB or whatever on certain nodes. It's just that expensive to develop something like that.
Yes, volumes are predictable, and no, it's still not really meaningful to talk about the cost of delivering a single item. You have to switch to network thinking -- and I'm sure there's plenty of C19th analysis to support it.

The real cost is the cost of running the network, not the cost of delivering an individual item. Think like that and you'll fail to understand why it's the same price to deliver a letter from Manhattan to LA as it is from Manhattan to Manhattan.

In this case, the problem is not the cost of an individual item from China. The problem is that the pricing incentivizes the sending of large volumes of items from China (where postal prices are low) to the USA (where delivery costs are high).

Unfortunately those prices were negotiated before (I assume) anybody realized it was going to be a problem.

On the good side, the USPS charges high prices to send items to countries with low delivery costs, so it's swings and roundabouts. If the traffic flows between China and the USA were equal, it probably wouldn't be a major problem.
> good, as a cop people will listen to him and he's in a better position to help change this

Yeah I had the same thought. Even if we don't rationally think cops are inherently more noble and honest than the average person, we know that the average person believes it. The news station knows that too.
Extensive discussion 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10490804

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881
>> if the US doesn't commit itself to do the same.)

By the stats I posted, it seems we're doing quite a lot actually. Unless you have other data that would indicate otherwise.
I don't understand why the public is so concerned with these valuations. Where was all the media coverage of over valuations of shale drillers that are now bankrupt?
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I seem to have inherited my small ear canals from my father, and once every year or two my ears get clogged to where everything sounds muffled. I use what's called an "ear syringe" or an "ear douche" to clean my ears: http://img.hisupplier.com/var/userImages/2010-07/26/tenhoo_1...

I'm very much curious on how these compare to Q-tips, etc, in terms of safety, though they are at least marketed towards the use I put them to. I generally fill a sink with warm water, tilt my head to the side and repeatedly douch my ears. It takes a solid 10~15 minutes, but eventually the warm water helps separate the wax and a few large chuncks will wash out and I can hear again.

Plus, "I douched my ears last night" is a pretty decent conversation starter for whenever somebody asks what you've been up to lately.
Wow. This is a really interesting article, just in the gratifies intellectual curiosity sense, and I can imagine quite a few Hacker News readers turning this knowledge into new business opportunities. The facts explained in this article about the Universal Postal Union and its influence on pricing of international goods shipments helps me understanding some of the otherwise completely baffling pricing I've seen for items I've bought on Amazon, for example. This is the most surprising and yet practical and informative new post I've seen on Hacker News for quite a while.
Can you point to the parts in the spec for the TextSecure protocol where this information is leaked? I was under the impression that a passive adversary could get

* Time of Tx to Signal server

* Rough message length

* Time of Tx of message from Signal server to recipient (assuming that they were listening on that path, too)

Is my understanding incorrect? Can a passive adversary inspect the data from a TextSecure/Signal client and determine more (or just the above) information from the data sent from the TS client to the TS server?
Take a look at the trend line and React still has a long ways to go to catch Angular:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reactjs%2C%20angular...

Having stated that I am trying to get up to speed on React in order to make a knowledgeable comparison to Angular 2. I've got friends who are way better JavaScript programmers than I am, ones with VC backed startups built with Angular 1, who are really struggling to learn Angular 2.
I support two YouTubers on Patreon - mainly because they dont get a ton of views but their quality is on point.

As a YouTube maker, AdSense money is an absolute pittance (1000 views+ for $1 or less). Patreon is a great way to support these video makers.
You are very much in the minority.
I'm reminded of the famous "discovery" that it costs $10 (or whatever) for a secretary to send a letter. Actually, the secretary costs $10 whether she sends a letter or not ;-)
The article is referring to ear candling[0], an alternative-medicine practice espoused by naturopaths and other such quacks. It's sadly quite common.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_candling
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I did the same thing on a trello board. Had some friends collaborate and add some potential projects too. Perhaps we could make a site which allows groups to form around these and contribute? Could tie it into trello, github, etc. If anyone would be interested in collaborating and building something like this send me a message :)
That seems really terrible. It basically gets banks or credit companies off the hook for fraud. It presumes Chip and PIN is secure (it's not, fraud levels dropped momentarily when it was debuted, but are high as ever now) but ends up being nothing but a way to transfer fraud liability to the consumer - who has absolutely no power to improve the system to reduce fraud and can't really be said to be to 'blame' for the fraud at all in the first place. Build a flawed system by cutting corners, but get the marketing spot on, and get yourself off the hook for fraud AND remove all pressure for repairing the system you cheaped out on in the first place? Wow.
2014. (Discussed here before, I think.) The article kindly submitted here does not represent a majority view among researchers, by the way. Another article you can see for free online (a book chapter by an author whose chapter was part of a book edited by the author of the submission here) presents what I observe to be the more mainstream view.

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cdeyoung/Pubs/DeYoung_Intelligence-Pe...
I wouldn't recommend an oil that dried or goes rancid, this is an opportunity to create a substrate for bacteria. Mineral oil would seem like a better choice, and since it doesn't dry, you won't accidentally make the situation worse.
I'll probably never get Jake to admit it, but until proven otherwise, I think being vocal about my own ideas is part of how CaseText came to be - and that was absolutely the purpose of putting it out there. If not me, then whoever.

edit: Have talked w/ Jake several times personally since they formed. Sometimes when I'm antsy I beg him for a job as consultant!
layout is questionable itself could go as a set of rules for karabiner though.
I'm genuinely curious how,why assembly failed. I really liked that project, it had alot of good people and potential imho.
arguably it's O(N^2) in spacetime, because it's O(N) steps on O(N) hardware (N parallel units).

You can imagine different hardware architectures taking O(1) steps on O(N^2) parallel units or O(N^2) steps on O(1) unit(s), or anything in between.
Do you happen to know if when the US gets chip and PIN it's also going to put the responsibility for fraud on the consumer when the PIN is used?
There are some good things on this list.

The real estate industry is a bit of a hobby of mine and the problem with trying to bring it into the 21st century is there are some very powerful vested interests who want to keep things as they are. It is also very local which makes it hard to scale. You have to unlock a lot of value or have very good local connections to get any where.
Context:

"Allwinner is joining the Linux Foundation to support Linux and to improve what we see as two important open source software development capabilities: collaboration and compliance," said Jack Lee, Chief Marketing Officer, Allwinner Technology. "These two concepts are critical yet difficult to master for new Linux community entrants like ourselves."

Is the Linux Foundation "supporting" Allwinner? Or is, as I suspect, Allwinner paying them dues?

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/Corporate_Membership
Not sure that's the solution as they'd probably then be paralysed to inaction in valid cases too.
> As you point out, the dog is a prop, a talisman.
> Here's where I disagree with you (but only in the details).

Oh I agree, the dog saying 'yes' was meant to be the officer using the dog to note on paper that 'dog said yes'.

As you said, in case of this group, they didn't have to pretend much at all. I imagine others would actually have a functional, probably somewhat non-obvious alerting signal. But this groups was getting good results without trying much.

I think they probably learned their lesson from this -- spend more time training the dog to actually alert and figure out how to make it do it reliably and out of the sight of the camera.
Well the fear with taking VC is that they now have an ever greater growth agenda, and it's either the moon or bust. No option of living happily on earth, so to speak.
For a while, when smartphones started tracking workouts and I got into cycling, I wanted to build a system that turned every single ride into a time trial where you compete against others. Then Strava happened. My only regret was not trying to get a job with them when I first heard about it.
It's not the cable that matters rather what kind of "controllers" on each end of the cable are connected and that causes a lot of confusion as people think of all those features as being "cable" based rather than controllers.
Today I learned that there are different kinds of earwax.
We've been using Angular on one project and for a new application we were considering using just React with Node or maybe those two with Angular 1 or 2 also. However, after getting started with Aurelia we may stick with it and never consider Angular again!
The valuation is likely something like $150mm. (20% ownership for the B round post money)
As a parent, you have an obligation to provide your child with the best, safest, environment that you are reasonably able to provide. More upscale neighborhoods generally have better schools, activities, opportunities, and so forth. It is absolute madness to disregard this solely because of some vague, unknown societal effects hypothesized in a policy paper.
It may take you even less time with Aurelia!
I went to the doctor with a bunch of buildup in my outer ear. She told me I wasn't cleaning my ears well enough and gave me a big syringe for use with water.

Of course, she had misdiagnosed me and I had to go to another doctor to treat the infection with antibiotics.
10 days is a bit short indeed, but...

Modern container ships travel at about 25 knots (unless they're doing fuel-saving slow cruise at 12 knots). http://www.sea-distances.org/ tells me that a 25-knot ship going from Hong Kong to Marseilles via the Suez Canal takes 13 days 7 hours to get there.

In practice, of course, there's loading and unloading on both ends (figure 2 days) and you're not traveling through the Suez at 25 knots; the traffic there goes at 8 knots according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#Navigation. That said, the Suez transit takes 11-16 hours according to that link, so maybe add half a day to the estimate.

The upshot is that a 16-18 day travel time is not unreasonable there. I was a bit surprised it's that short, but being able to maintain 25 knots around the clock eats up distance faster than one expects.

Of course if you go from Shanghai instead of Hong Kong, you need to add a day and a half or so. And if you go to Brest instead of Marseilles, add two more days.
Now you're moving the goal posts. It does help because it adding or removing from the chain will be noticed.
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It's likely that the economics of this don't work out. Most people actually do their online flower ordering by going to Google, searching [flowers], and clicking on one of the top few ads. (Indeed, I know about this because [flowers] was a very common test query we used when working on Google Search - it shows so many ads that if your new feature is going to break layout or look awkward on any query, it's probably [flowers].) In order to get people to click on the ad, you need to do your own branding.

Flower ordering has the same problem as weddings, funerals, job searches, ordering a plumber, etc: it's an event that you do maybe once a year, max. When you need the product that infrequently, it slips out of the consumers' mind, and they don't remember brands. So you can only build a viable business when the product costs enough that you can spend large sums on brand advertising (eg. cars, clothing, divorce attorneys, diamond rings) or large sums on search advertising (eg. [flowers], [mesothelioma], [digital cameras], [bingo cards]). Indeed, one of the main reasons Google has become huge is that they function as an aggregator for all the "infrequently needed, but too cheap to buy superbowl ads" products.

You're welcome to give it a go, though. The local florists would love you; many aren't terribly thrilled about Teleflora stealing all their customers and treating them as a commodity backend provider. It's just that you'll likely find customer acquisition costs way more than you bargain for.
A couple years ago, one of my ears had wax buildup that made it hard to hear; the nurse who treated me didn't use a Q-Tip, but rather a syringe filled with warm water. She basically said the same things as the article, that removing wax Q-Tip style causes ear infections and risks other damage because wax protects the ear. I think she suggested that people with chronic wax issues might consider getting the syringe thing for home use.
Awesome, this helps. Thank you.
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In addition to the sibling, there is only so much wireless bandwidth, and crowding it with several point to point mini wireless networks is a surefire way to get poor user experiences due to interference. Wires can use all the bandwidth with very little interference to other wires.
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Idealists made the world we live in, usually for the better.

In any case, I don't understand how "pro-freedom-everywhere" is in any sense a slur.
Do better at what? Handle more data? Of course, but computers aren't exactly struggling with handling enough integer math to move a balance from one place to another.

That isn't the problem with things like this. The problem is trust, transparency and accountability. The old "A rasberry PI could handle the same amount of transactions" misses the point completely.
Yeah that's the thing though. Meteor made the front end trivial. That's a vital piece to the whole pie.

Oh well, I guess we'll see how the next year goes.
It would be basically impossible for React to reach jQuery-like levels of adoption. The beauty of jQuery was that you could take an old, crufty pre-jQuery application, drop in a single script tag, and start writing nicer code immediately with no fuss (and refactoring old crufty code as you touched it).

You can't do that with React. I can't even imagine what it would take to migrate some 2010-era J2EE enterprise app to React, but it certainly wouldn't be just dropping in a script tag and writing your new code more cleanly.

Which means that React can only be the product of choice for new development moving forward; and even then, given how complex it is, only some subset of apps are going to bother with it. Nobody ever said "this application is too simple to bother with jQuery," because jQuery helped even simple apps, but there are legitimately huge classes of apps for which React is just massive overkill.
All the ear wax removal products on the market are just carbamide peroxide which is a mix of urea and hydrogen peroxide. Thats why they smell awful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide_-_urea
I may get downvoted into oblivion for this, but i do much prefer to pay and use Apple's Lighting Cable with MFi for charging.

The amount of absolutely terrible USB cables alongside with disastrous Charger are simply insane.

I hope there is a USB-C Certification, or Heck rename it as USB-D or something, that provide guarantees to speed ( USB3.1 ) and Power Delivery etc.

Personally I dont see much confusion with the USB -C cable, as long as you use it to plug into the same Logo Shown on both side it should be ok. The Logo being a display of Whether it is using HDMI / Thunderbolt etc.
No, that's a terrible idea. Not all devices need USB 3.1 speed or Power Delivery. Requiring every device to support both would lead manufacturers to avoid the standard altogether.
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I don't understand why HATEOAS is incompatible with JSON. There's not a link/form standard like HTML, but there are still the standard HTTP verbs, and if you include a URL for each resource does that not meet the requirement?

Stepping back a bit, I feel like people put Fielding's dissertation on a pedestal like it's some sort of perfect theoretical foundation that must be adopted in its entirety or not at all, but I see it more as simply exploring the idea of how to leverage HTTP instead of treating it as a dumb transport with no purpose but to add a layer of indirection like SOAP did. It was definitely a prescient thesis, but it also wasn't yet battle-tested in practice.

I think HATEOAS didn't make the cut as a universally adopted practice because it doesn't provide all that much benefit. Sure it's nice in theory to be able to navigate around an API without any external queues, but even if you have in-built hypermedia standards like HTML forms, the purpose of an API is to perform some function, therefore you will always need some external semantic description of what you are doing. Contrast this with something like SQL where there is a mathematical foundation for manipulating rows and columns that is completely independent of any semantic weight the data may carry.

I am definitely keeping an open mind that I might be missing some key insight, but to me there's just not a huge untapped promise of REST, it's just that we learned what works and what doesn't, and frankly it's worlds better than the bad old days of SOAP/WSDL.
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Can we really know if doctor #1 was wrong in not prescribing antibiotics?
> Then I shut up!

And most likely lose your license for a year in many cases and be charged with a civil offense. Maybe the officer can still "smell" it on your or see you drive erratically and so have enough "evidence" to pile on criminal charges as well.
In some states they could charge you with the driving under DUI as well.

It think refusal case is called "Implied Consent" -- you consented to it already by getting into the car and driving on public roads.

Not saying I agree with it or endorse that, just presenting it how it may work in some states.
With a bit of work, you can get similar functionality using off-the-shelf MIDI controllers and AutoHotKey. Here's my efforts:

- Map sliders and buttons on a Novation Nocturn to media keys (volume, play, stop, mute etc).
- Map a foot pedal (Behringer FCB1010) to a virtual joystick, for use in Euro Truck Simulator 2.

AHK is super powerful for Windows automation, so I'm sure you create more sophisticated mappings that tweak the "Saturation" value when a certain window or dialog is open.

I think given the range of MIDI controllers available, this would give you more options for physical inputs. Can you imagine using a "Yamaha WX5 MIDI Wind Controller" to control Photoshop?
... which just mixes and pushes it in more into your own personal fatberg...
As well as a variety of ARM microcontrollers, including the confusingly named MSP432:

http://www.ti.com/tool/MSP-EXP432P401R
"Not my problem" is a perfect characterization of ad blocking. Of course, so is recycling or voting or any number of choices you make. It doesn't actually matter if you do or don't personally use an ad blocker. Just like it doesn't really matter if you recycle or not.

But if everyone uses an ad blocker, well, things on the Internet are going to change drastically. At this point, I am in favor of us just getting it over with, enabling ad blockers everywhere, and making the transition to micropaying for content (or the less pleasant alternative of submarine advertising).

I'll totally agree that advertisers and content producers have brought this on themselves by allowing ever increasingly annoying advertisements on their sites. Hell, I vacillate between using an ad blocker or not myself. Nonetheless, I find that people that use an ad blocker and claim they're not ripping anybody off are being intellectually dishonest. The fact is that viewing ads and thus generating revenue for the content producer is the entire, if implicit, point of the free-content arrangement. It's like not tipping your waitstaff - sure it's voluntary, but you're still ripping someone off.
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You mean that's what made it so hard to get into bitcoin in the first place, preventing its wider adoption? I know when I originally bought some bitcoin (back when it was ~$3/btc) it took WEEKS. The US govt hadn't yet said 'we won't kill you if you follow the rules and work as a money-handling institution' so I had to create an account with Dwolla (badass service that needs to see more adoption), which required the 3-day wait to verify my bank account, then transfer money into the Dwolla account, which took another 3 days, then transfer from Dwolla to the exchange (MtGox but I luckily did not let MtGox hold my coins).

Not too long ago, there were companies formed that used bitcoins faster payment clearing to offer faster processing to some sort of trading companies, I remember reading about their IPO. That was before the time for bitcoin transactions to clear started growing significantly... according to an article I found on HN a week or so ago, that's what's going to finally kill off bitcoin. Due to not increasing the block size, either wait times or processing fees will keep growing steeply.
Remember back in 2009 when Microsoft released SongSmith?

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/song...
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