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> I don't understand what's wrong with the article headline.

"Crack Wide Open" implies, to me, that this discovery somehow shows that particle physics is on a wrong track and needs to drastically change course. (In other comments I've pointed out statements in the article itself that give the same impression.) That's not the case at all. Particle physics has been stalled because of the lack of new experimental data to help theorists extend their models. This discovery, if it pans out, will help particle physics to start up again, exactly as particle physicists have wanted to do for quite some time.
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So if that's the case, how long do you think it'll last? At least till the halving event?
Why do you need a DAC? Only "high end" headsets should have those.

The rest I imagine will simply be replacing the barrel connector with a USB connector and using USB-C's analog audio output over the proper conductors.

Not sure why this is that large of an issue - the only problems here I can see are of course the transitioning of the physical connector type which is truly painful - and I suppose vendors could choose to disable analog audio support on devices in favor of more lock-in.
Agreed, also, customers value different things at different times: when buying a plan ticket, they value money more than comfort, but when actually flying, they usually regret that decision.

Also, when buying a smartphone, they rarely think "I should go for the uglier one, with a bigger battery", but after they notice how often they run out of battery, they'll buy an external one.
I do the same and have the exact same thoughts about corners dead ends etc. I also cant seem to find the "consistent mental model" seems very scattered.
Here is an interesting answer: https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-to-learn-Haskell...
This was my point and you've phrased it well. How should someone try to identify companies they may want to work for (especially if geography is at play)?

You can search open jobs, but everyone is doing that.

If you want startups, you can look into PR and press releases about funding.

LinkedIn is great for this. As I wrote in another comment, go to LinkedIn and do an advanced search for some word that applies to your background (say 'Python') and within 30 miles of Philadelphia. You'll get a lot of profiles that come up, and many will currently work for companies that are using Python in your area.

Do a bit of research on those companies that come up, find an employee that does what you do (or a level up, or even a CTO at a small shop), find their email address (or ping thru Linked) and make a simple approach.

"Hey, I am currently exploring some new opportunities and while doing some research I came across $COMPANY. I'm not sure if you are currently hiring or not, but based on what I've read (ADD SOMETHING SPECIFIC HERE TO SHOW YOU DID AT LEAST A BIT OF HOMEWORK ON THEM) I'd certainly be interested in learning a bit more about the company. My background is $BRIEFBACKGROUND. If interested, I'd be happy to buy you a cup of coffee to learn some more."
I have no idea. Us means HN readers. Maybe someone out there will create a startup based on this idea. But I am hoping influencers, say someone at google, will start a conversation with people at $TOP university.

And from there, who knows?
What3Words is incorporated in the UK.

I don't disagree with what you are getting at, but there is a difference between it being in their best interests to maintain their relationships and the company having enormous leverage over them. I think even if What3Words were a US company, the US gov. wouldn't do a whole lot about it if Mongolia just decided to stop paying them and use the locations anyway.
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HN generally isn't a fan of extrapolating from a single data point.
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> Bitcoin has gained no consumer adoption

https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins

How do you explain away the increased adoption in nearly every country listed there?

And Bitcoin ATMs are growing at a steady clip:

https://coinatmradar.com/charts/

These are two metrics of real growth that goes against what you're describing.
gdb wrote a brilliant post about his experience that you should definitely read: https://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out-the-cto-role-at-s...
LinkedIn is a static and largely useless platform. I have been on it for many years, there has been no innovation, and I can fully understand why its share price has taken a beating.
Microsoft are desperate and deluded. Who would want to own Microsoft shares - this company is finished, surely.
If this doesn't indicate a bubble in tech, I don't know what does.
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You used to be able to go through without showing any documents, and so friends and family members could come through security to meet arriving passengers at the gate (or say goodbye to departing passengers at the gate!).

One time as a non-passenger I went through security at BDL two or three times either because of confusion about where to meet someone or just in order to buy food on the other side. The security guards didn't seem to think this was improper.
I received an application from a guy that was getting back into programming after not working for many years. We brought him in because his resume was very interesting. He worked for IBM in the mid 1970s and he started working for MSFT in the late 1970s. One of his notable projects was porting Basic to Mac OS, his direct supervisor was one Paul Allen.

He was totally legit, but ultimately wasn't interested in what we were doing. He was fascinating to talk to.
It would probably be the other way around, less expensive cards have a higher likelihood of fraud, so they would be charged a higher fee.
The best translation I ever heard for "CTO" was "Chief Talking Officer" (from someone who had been "promoted" into the position.

Several different jobs can be assigned the title CTO but they are all technical leadership positions, not direct execution. The company should be getting leverage from your position -- you should be enabling the growth of the company, by being th external technical face of the company, by helping direct technical development internally, by representing the technical / architectural issues in the management team, or by defining the technical direction based on the exec team's decisions on company direction. Different companies need different mixes of these. BTW it's often a way to retire a founder without losing their technical input, or to keep them from meddling :-).

In your case you were hired on, so they wanted you to use your technical expertise to help guide the company (or keep the tech from getting into trouble -- but even on the execution side, that's the VP of Engineering's job).

So if it turns out this isn't what you really like doing, there's no harm in that: you should find something you would enjoy more, and help the company find someone else to do the job they need doing.
> Peter Schiff has been out there calling each of these economic bubbles every time. Not with date setting of course

No, he's been predicting a series of crises for the last ten years, and other than the home finance market collapse that he got into predicting late, not one of them has come true.

> we do know The Fed's policy making create booms and bust cycles

We know that positive feedback mechanisms within the market which run into limits create boom and bust cycles; both monetary policy at the Fed and fiscal policy by Congress could either exacerbate or mitigate the intensity of those cycles.
> is an ability to push asynchronous messages/events there (usually from different threads), and to get them back (usually from one single thread) – in FIFO order, of course.

It is worth noting that FIFO only holds for messages coming from a single thread. If you have one thread posting keyboard events and another mouse events it is very possible that the reader will get them in the "wrong" order, even with tens of milliseconds separating them from the user's POV.

Now it seems obvious when I say it, but it is easy to forget that when you develop the reader side, especially since most of the times the ordering will hold. This leads to intermittent and non-obvious bugs down the line.

On the other hands, if you fully acknowledge the lack of ordering guarantee, you can use that to make a more efficient queue by using one-buffer-and-lock-per-thread. Each producer fills its own lock-protected queue, and the reader just needs to find a non-empty queue, lock it and pop an item, without any penalty for the other threads.

Of course, the inter-thread ordering will be even worse but you keep the ordering of events from one producer, which was the only actual guarantee you had to begin with in the naive version.
The non-circumvention clause lapses after 24 months (from the date you first "identify" that person through the site.)
So, kinda bad but not terrible
https://www.upwork.com/legal/
(There is a buy-out clause, but it's pretty expensive.)
The audiophiles disagree on this one, I'm afraid. The iPod absolutely did have audiophile quality sound. Then it compromised on this when they were going for growth (and using cheaper parts). It returned to form by the time of the later iPod Classics.

It's difficult to find cites from that far back, but the types over at head-fi appear to broadly agree http://www.head-fi.org/t/580987/has-ipod-changed-their-sound...
Nailed it. The problems they're trying to address are entirely in the realm of corporate governance. None of their stated aims require a new exchange.
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> you have datatypes and functions and that's it

For a "Hello World", maybe. Developing a non-trivial Haskell app or library will require the equivalent amount of knowledge (if not more) as developing a Java app or library.
Well, they gave a good college try at interfacing with existing social networks. When Windows Phone 7 launched, the MS web/mobile infrastructure had fantastic interoperation with FB and Twitter - FB messenger was even their official supporty IM (kind of a snub to MSN Messenger or whatever it's called isn't it?) Then they bought skype and APIs shifted and things fell apart, but for a while it was really neat.

I'm not surprised to see MS say "screw it" and just buy their own.
This is obviously a personal question, but as someone looking to transition from an engineer to more of a technical business leader, what would you consider the most direct and fulfilling path? It sounds like the ultimate goal is becoming a CEO/entrepreneur, but do you think the"increasingly unfulfilling" years as a CTO are necessary/unavoidable? How do you continue to get the sensation of building things, as you become further removed from the actual execution?

Thanks for your comments here, as an engineer considering an MBA and general career trajectory, this has been really helpful.
I wanted to create one of these out of a Kindle.

The easiest way would be to display a custom page in the Kindle's browser and use the meta refresh property to reload the page periodically. This would not have good battery life.

A better way would be a custom program running on a kindle that would: enable the wifi, load the content to be displayed from a server as an image, disable wifi, save the image as a custom screensaver, turn off until it's time to redo it. The custom screensaver is displayed with the Kindle turned off, which would lead to very good battery life. There are people building custom firmwares for the kindle, I wonder how difficult it would be to code this.
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How do they prevent/monitor phone calls? It almost seems like the nature of the beast for this type of organization: you help establish the relationship and take a commission. If they want to take the relationship "to the next level" then you just have to accept that.

Of course, it's not that easy, especially if you feel you're being cut out of money you are "owed."
This first part of this talk is relevant-- about the viability of SST and subsonic commercial flight actually being "good enough": http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm
> while you were an employee

Only a "handshake deal" employee with no wages, though.
There are very good arguments in favor of the existence of patents and copyrights. Copyrights and and patent reward creators and innovators for their work. Of course giving these legal rights too much force (eg indefinite copyright, overly broad patent licenses) is harmful since it restricts further innovation and increases the price of consuming creative goods. But the question is not whether patents and copyright are pure good or pure evil, but how we should make use of these legal tools to improve society.

http://economics.mit.edu/files/7720

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10887-015-9114-3
> building something in the social media space (which I'm not crazy about). I have some doubts about the viability of the idea and the future prospects of this company.

Being able to buy into the company's near/long term vision is vital for start-up life. That vision gives you juice!

Areas to consider-- which role will provide greater career leverage 24-36 months from now? Which role will truly stretch you professionally?
And either way, as an MS and LI user, I want MS to meddle. I want them to fix the dumpster-fire that is LinkedIn. Nobody likes LinkedIn except recruiters.
The library used by Doom is REALLY common. The sound DSBOSPIT (sound of boss demon spitting a telecube in Doom 2) in particular is so overused it's not even funny. You hear it everywhere: in budget movies when a house or plane explodes, sometimes in other video games.
We've been fooling humans for years because the humans in question were conditioned by tropes on TV: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheCoconutEffect
I don't think it's quite so cut-and-dried. A lot of the anti-EPIC sentiment I hear (digital health founder here, wife is a physician at a major medical center) is kept pretty separate from the anti-notes sentiment (which is equally loud).

Instead, the EPIC complaints are about the UI and workflow, which was modeled after the typical paper H&P (history & physical) forms clinicians would traditionally fill out. It comes down to the same UX lessons we've learned about most offline-to-online form transitions: directly porting a form is rarely the answer.

The anti-note sentiment has to do with the fact that they're copying-and-pasting from previous notes (often the vast majority of a note's content is pasted in), they're using MS Word to draft the notes because of a buggy editor UI, and then when they're in a situation they actually have to read the note, they're sifting through a pile of duplicated, pasted content.

There's a ton of opportunity for change here. There's an equal amount of risk involved, and selling these types of products into healthcare is about as fun as removing your fingernails. That's the piece EPIC does well, and why they're still a behemoth, even if their product is a five out of ten.
Same here! This is now just a place where people gripe about whatever they don't like about web pages.
dang (mod) addressed this misplaced belief that there's MS bias a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844253
One of the few companies that can benefit in a non-financial way. For a core service like telecom, the scrutiny in being public is comforting to prospective enterprise customers. Company is almost 10 years old so pretty reasonable, if late, timing.
All these points really hit me.

Sleeping enough (but not too much) provides me with a sense of well being. It's a really drastic change when I can't get enough sleep.

Removing processed carbs contributes to a healthier self and as such improves my quality of life.

Weight lifting gives me that boost of self-confidence.

stoicism helps me cope with the urges of materialism/hedonism and makes me feel happy about what I have

having fu money or a good nest helps me worry less about money, losing my job, having an accident, etc.. peace of mind = happiness

good points!
Is Oracle cooking its cloud books?
From the first pages, a huge middle finger to new investors:

"We have two classes of common stock, Class A common stock and Class B common stock. The rights of the holders of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are identical, except voting and conversion rights. Each share of Class A common stock is entitled to one vote. Each share of Class B common stock is entitled to 10 votes and is convertible at any time into one share of Class A common stock. The holders of our outstanding Class B common stock will hold approximately 98.6% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock following this offering, with our directors, executive officers and significant stockholders holding approximately 66.2%."
Managed to stay away from LinkedIn, don't post on Twitter, FB and still get calls once in a while. They probably scour language / platform specific mailing lists or look at conference attendance lists.
Or better yet. Do you know Dave? Connect with Dave.

Dave died two years ago. Really don't want to contact his widow to make this stop.
Could you please tell more about your experience with Craigslist?
Recruiting on LinkedIn is huge. Very, very, very big. This is really a not dumb deal by Microsoft, believe me. I don't know but I've heard from hundreds of people who've told me this is a huge move. It will be amazing.
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1) ISIS Taliban (Religious Ideology Iraq and Afghanistan) (We haven't gone to war with other Oil Rich Countries and Afghanistan doesn't have oil)

2) Vietnam (Cold War Communism) don't see an oil attachment))

3) Korea (Cold War Communism) don't see an oil attachment))

4) I would argue WW2 Japan and Hitler was an ideology more then a grab for oil. Killing of Polish, Homosexuals, Jews and Russians was not for oil

5) WW1 - http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/causeww1.htm Too long to comment on this but it was certainly not about oil

I find the wars for oil in the conspiracy realm. People will say the American Revolution and Civil War was over commodities but I HIGHLY disagree i.e. French Revolution happened over the same ideology.

War fought specifically around oil (Iraq Kuwait) I fail to see other examples. http://www.businessinsider.com/nine-wars-that-were-fought-ov...
The "deliberate practice" the article mentions is the "ha" in Shuhari.

> In shu, we repeat the forms and discipline ourselves so that our bodies absorb the forms that our forebears created. We remain faithful to these forms with no deviation. Next, in the stage of ha, once we have disciplined ourselves to acquire the forms and movements, we make innovations. In this process the forms may be broken and discarded. Finally, in ri, we completely depart from the forms, open the door to creative technique, and arrive in a place where we act in accordance with what our heart/mind desires, unhindered while not overstepping laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari
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I've gotten out of SFO in 30 mins (post-9/11), no checked bags obviously, boarding pass in hand, with most of that time spent in screening. This is also a good way to be the last person on the plane or miss it entirely.
Getting a quality 7 hours of sleep every night, 7 days a week...oh and giving up alcohol(or at least drink only on weekends) which is easier said than done.
> it was replaced with a common and better standard.

Bluetooth.

Wireless. Allows play/pause button, forward and rewind button. Even transmits song titles to your car stereo. Exists on all PCs, Macs, iOS phones, Android phones, late-model cars, and even some home stereos.

A few people will shout loudly about this jack being gone. Everyone else will get a cheap Bluetooth, wonder why they futzed with a cord this long, remember to charge it every now and then, and otherwise not think about it much.
All local ATMs I know closed down...
There are many browser extensions for HN, and thread collapse is possibly the most common feature in them.

I'm of the opinion that HN doesn't implement features like this on purpose, because they expect you to find a way to work around the limitations that works best for you, and that will likely result in a more customized and comfortable experience than them forcing their opinion of how the content should be presented on you. HN is somewhat notorious for having these soft limitations (such as not showing reply on very active threads for a few minutes, which also has an easy workaround for those that know).
> just before the next recession

Citation needed.
I think it also has to do with their view on business communication. (lync or whatever they work on now, you catch my drift)
With linkedin they can integrate that into their system and have a(nother?) unique selling point.
They probably used google docs.
There's a simple enough reason for that: there's no confidence interval on the firm's tax obligations.

The firms specialising in asset valuations the firms use as independent justification for their accounting values are usually more than happy to provide confidence intervals or upper and lower bounds[1], and equity analysts are more than happy to note that a large portion of a company's valuation comprises assets sitting on their balance sheet that might be vulnerable to a sharp drop in valuation in a downturn. There's a sizeable haircut (essentially the lower bound of the lenders' accepted confidence interval) applied on any assets a firm tries to use as collateral too.

Just because the retail investor isn't presented with a nice little table of upper and lower bound measurements on a firm's balance sheet doesn't mean it isn't taken into account in a publicly listed firm's price. And ultimately, if a firm is more vulnerable to uncertainty about values of its assets than uncertainty about how big its future revenues might be, it as bigger issues than the clarity of its accounts.
I've wondered about the idea of a wiki of wars that focuses on discussing what the wars were "about" according to different people. Wikipedia doesn't exactly do this, because they usually focus a lot more on what happened during and after the war than on views of participants or others about reasons and justifications.

There is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Causes_of_wars

and some of those seem fairly thorough, like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_the_War_of_1812

But most wars don't really get this treatment.
Love this, from the table, "Suited For ... World Domination"

8 sockets x 24 cores x 2 threads... wow... that is a beast of a machine to say the least.
When this hype wears off, it will sharply fall. If miners don't find a way to mine efficiently, the whole thing will die.
The thing that makes EMRs actually hard to pull off is that each hospital wants to implement its own workflow. So EMRs are less off the shelf software and more a toolkit that an army of implementers can use to encode a hospitals workflow into software. I don't have any experience with EPIC but got to watch a slow motion train wreck that was a Cerner implementation. Every department wanted everything customized just the way it wanted and there wasn't any introspection into if what they were doing was even the "right" or best way.

The problems with EMRs are really just a symptom of a real problem in medicine which that every department head wants to do things their own way. And there isn't really a good way of selecting which is best amongst the various processes/methods. The more prestigious the institution the larger this problem typically is.