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And many of those economic reasons were caused (or influenced) by regulations.

The Concorde was only allowed to fly supersonic over water, making many potential flight routes are impossible. The New York to Mexico City route Required it to drop from mach 2 to mach 0.95 while flying over Florida before accelerating back up to mach 2, wasting a huge amount of fuel in the process.

Originally it wasn't even allowed to land in the US, with Congress banning it outright. It wasn't allowed into New York until a year after its introduction.

Sure, the larger issue was that it made too much noise in supersonic flight, maybe you could fix that in a newer aircraft. But with all the regulatory issues Concorde faced in it's lifetime, companies are disidentified from trying.
The title overpromises and under-delivers. FB's mobile app prefetches articles that are published with the 'Instant Articles' feature, a publishing platform similar to Google's AMP. This avoids the page-load pause that would occur by visiting an external link on a third-party host in an external browser.

Of course, this prefetching isn't free -- the user is paying in increased data and battery usage. The content publishers, and the users who do read the content are happy. The most informative portion of the article is a picture showing better conversion rates using 'Instant Articles', but image is directly lifted from Facebook's marketing of the feature.

It's ironic that the article states Instant Articles "may lead to a reduction of spammy 'content marketing' that dominates the Internet, where we see unoriginal listicles churned out with an underlying purpose of making conversions and sales", even though this article is essentially content marketing for the purpose of promoting conversions and sales. But the takeaway for me was I didn't know Facebook has a competitor to AMP.
This work looks very cool from the demo video. Have yet to read the paper, but the parametric inversion for generating sounds from features seems very intriguing.
I looked at the website, and couldn't figure out what makes this a good idea... Especially compared to geohashing.
I've been in those shoes and still feel a bit of that. Would love to chat and share some personal notes if you want to reach out - dangoldin@gmail.com
How do you advance to leadership roles?

I try to pursue it when it seems like it appears in companies I'm around but it feels mostly like crapshoot.

My other best guess is start my own company, which I think about all the time.
I dedicated all of my free time to building poker bots from 2007 to 2009.

I was a part of the winholdem community, which a large group of us eventually got upset with the developer of the software and then rebuilt the software and called it openholdem.

The only ones that were successful back then was this small group who had their bots dump information about all the opponents at the table into a large database and built up profiles of everyone they encountered, and then programmed the bots to use these player profiles to figure out how to play against them.

Eventually this group stopped sharing their results with anyone not directly involved in their little project and went even more behind the scenes.

I imagine these things would be hard to detect since the botting software is running on a completely separate computer and only sending mouse clicks to the computer that is playing poker.
I think you're misremembering or are thinking of the later models when you think of "oldest". The first iPods used Wolfson DACs and were hugely well regarded. Apple changed this for the 3rd gen iPod, which was a duffer in nearly all respects (not just audio). Things started to get better again from 4G on.
Today I see less and less people outside listening music either using phone or dedicated player. Maybe that's the reason: companies found out that too few people use headphones?
> I use the 3.5mm jack to send audio out to my car stereo (which is up to date enough to have a 3.5mm input but not up to date enough to have Bluetooth input), and it's a pain in the rear, and I go through five or six cables a year.

Dude, what are you doing? I've been using one cable for several years for exactly that purpose, and it was a nothing-special cable I got, IIRC, at a drug store. I go through phones more often than I go through 3.5mm cables.
Yes, I do live in the US. Even here there is a lot of variation on how speed limits are set.

A good example happened near my home recently. A road that connects a small town (population 8,000) to a larger town (population 40,000) was the subject of quite a lot of debate. The road is a rural two lane roadway that sees about 10,000 vehicles per day. Speed studies were performed by three different groups (the small city, the large city, and the State Department of Transportation). Each of the groups determined their own speed limit recommendation, each was different. Ultimately, the State had final say on the matter and split the difference between the three recommendations. The State had originally wanted the highest speed limit of the three. The two towns wanted lower speed limits citing safety concerns and a desire to force alternate routes that would take traffic through areas with better infrastructure for the traffic load.
Applying security updates by default would solve that problem just as well. From the user's point of view, there is no good reason to force updates against a user's explicit decision, and there is no good reason to push non-security/stability updates even by default.

The only time forcing all updates in that way makes a difference is when Microsoft wants to override a user's deliberate preference not to have their system changed in that way. This cannot possibly be in the user's interest, only Microsoft's.
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Regarding "Removing locks completely", the author laments not knowing of any readily available library providing the blocking-on-necessary support.

I suggest looking into Event Counts, which can be used to non-intrusively add blocking behavior to most lock free queues; they are the non-blocking world equivalent of condition variables. Facebook's Folly library provides a readily available open source implementation of Event Counts.
> They clearly feel that the advantages of TPP outweigh the drawbacks.

The problem is that's always how this works. You take a thousand people who each want something that will help them a lot and hurt everybody else a little. If you only look at them, they come out ahead, because they get +1200 from the thing they wanted and -1000 from the sum of all the little harms everybody else wanted. But everybody who isn't a huge corporation with the ability to shovel the thing they wanted into the treaty only gets the -1000, which makes the treaty a huge net negative because there are a lot more mortal people taking the big hit than there are huge corporations eeking out a little at the margin.

> Author cites expansion of copyright and corresponding limitation of free use as specific problems with TPP, but Google comes out in support of those points. Analysis of other problematic provisions of TPP would serve to make the article more persuasive, rather than stating that Google is wrong on those grounds.

Author links to their explanation in the article:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120804/00173819933/tpp-t...
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No team gets rich without trust because “no man is an island”
> The end product that was visible to the customer was good

This would be news to my wife (a surgeon), or any one of her coworkers. The software is universally viewed as terrible by everyone I've talked to. It actively results in worse records because (at least as configured) it's so cumbersome to use that many notes are frequently kept out of the system. A management plan that takes seconds to explain verbally requires minutes of data entry.
With coast-to-coast travel, time spent in the airport is a much lower fraction of travel time. That's why the coast-to-coast flights make sense for supersonic travel.

We don't know if the cost/benefit math works out until people are able to try.
One thing I've noticed nowadays is that 'AUX cord' is common nomenclature whereas there used to be a time when people would just look at me funny when I said it.
You could also heat the airstream after the compressor.
You have this wrong.
This is how microsoft plans on spamming the remainder of people to upgrade to windows 10
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> It looks to me that it is rather another pathetic attempt to lock people into their hardware, with only Apple approved earphones being compatible with the iphone, etc...

It reminds me of a much more agressive attempt apple made way back with the ipod's headphone jack being slightly deeper (if I remember correctly) effectively making many headphones not function correctly.

Maybe back then that was more branding than control - seeing those white earbuds told everyone you owned a ipod and not one of the other brands.
Fascinating, had no idea the common door handle was designed by Wittgenstein!
You already can: http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/
There's also negative press as well that's immortalized on the internet, such as the anti-poaching NPO in Africa where the update took all their bandwidth and crashed their machines - effectively blacking out their surveillance on the poachers for a time.
Team makes hobby drones crash to expose design flaws
Satya & Weiner (there's your sitcom title) were just on Bloomberg and explained the acquisition. I'm not exaggerating when I said I really could not understand what they were saying. It felt like they were just saying buzzwords without any verbs in between.

I feel like I am in a strange wonderland.
Everyone knows that if you fall while dying you make a Wilhelm scream. It's a clearly documented scientific phenomenon with earliest records dating back to long, long ago.
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It's not clear to me from the summary whether or not you are currently getting paid. If you are, perhaps an option is to keep working while you find a new job. I don't totally understand torpedoing the company so you can get your unemployment insurance.
The enterprise world loves LinkedIn. Guess who makes a poop ton of money catering to the enterprise?
Oh great. Thanks for the pointer to mbasic.facebook.com, I didn't know about that one yet.
> Why would any one else pay for their retraining?

Because otherwise we have an entire industry's worth of people who provably want to work (or they'd be on the dole already) who very well might not be able to.

> If they can't do anything else, they drop a resume at mcDonalds

It's actually surprisingly difficult to get a job at McDonald's if you're not a deadbeat who has no future and has done nothing in their life.

> that's what happens when you pin your career on a failing industry with no backup plan

Believe it or not, not everybody is in a position to up and retrain on a whim. Some people actually have hard jobs and families and have neither time nor money to do so.

> The government didn't kill steel, why do the steel workers get better treatment than anyone else who loses their job?

Generally speaking, we don't lose industries very often - people can find work that's somewhat similar elsewhere. When your IT company shuts down, you'll no doubt find another IT company to work for. When we do lose industries, there's a problem in that suddenly, a whole lot of people's experience counts for nothing, and that's a special case that needs to be treated specially.

> Who knows - do you?

Because apparently it's more reasonable to outright give money to businesses than to people, and people defend the Government on this.

> And not wasting money excessively is different from "spend[ing] as little money on actually helping people as possible".

How is subsidizing an industry that can't exist on its own not "wasting money" by your measure? We could buy steel from elsewhere just fine, and obviously we were, or Tata wouldn't have exited the industry as they'd be making tons of money.
I was hoping to see people on Hacker News rebut this article, or at least comment on it.
European bohemianism predates Picasso. I've always assumed that attitude was just another flavor of bohemianism.
Of course it was important, but discovering hints of physics beyond the standard model at energies we have a chance to probe is a Big Deal.
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In the announcement Hoffman is described as the "controlling shareholder". Presumably this controlling interest [1] gives him the ability to agree to the sale without necessarily having the agreement of the other shareholders.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/controllinginterest.asp
I can't help but think that a blog post about crowdfunding in Iran and how it differs from what is typical in other places might make interesting reading. I mean for US residents [and perhaps those of other countries], there may be legal complications when sending money to Iran [which is not to imply anything about whether there should be complications].

Anyway, Good luck.
My thoughts exactly! Not that that's the main idea, but it is an odd coincidence that the announcement was today.
biggest hack being credit card reading dongles
I know neo4j is the 800 lb. gorilla in this space, but it's interesting it has way more stars (almost 8K) than neo4j's almost 3K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

"This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no." The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it."
That or follow the link given with the very first mention of "ag" in TFA.
Why english?
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> The DACs in Apple products have a very good reputation going all the way back to the early iPods

I don't remember this being true at all. I was in the camp that bought iRiver's H3x0 series + other companies' offerings because Apple's products had comparatively worse audio quality.
Given these already strong lists, I'm curious why OP decided to start another vs. build upon them. We've seen several emerge in the past year or two, though unfortunately they're fragmented like this.

It's nice that RemoteBase is adding more structured data with filters to the mix, and while I'm not totally sure what "open database" means, I hope they're be an API.

It'd be really nice to have one authoritative source for referring to remote jobs, which as OP pointed out, for most interests really means remote companies.
Basing on my experience, there is no such thing as "gentlemen's understanding" (or "gentewomen's understanding").

Gentlemen/Gentlewomen take responsibility for their actions/agreements and sign contracts.

Again, basing on my experience, if somebody does not want to sign a contract, they're already planning on taking advantage of you. In this cases, my approach is to backtroll and say: "okay, I'll work for you without a contract, but you have to pay me in full, upfront and in cash". This suddenly puts them in your position (all risks and no guarantees) and usually ends the discussion, with them either agreeing for reasonable terms and signing a contract or stopping wasting your time (in any case, it's a win).

Note: I have to admit that "they" agreeing to pay in full, upfront and in cash never happened to me, and if that happened I don't think I would agree.
Not saying it couldn't be, but as of late the overall market seems to be more pessimistic and therefore discounts prospects of future earnings more than usual. That said, I'm no expert.
He is claiming to be a coach. Coaches don't have to be master players to be good coaches. The rest is stuff you are making up because you have an axe to grind.

Which, fine, grind your axes. But maybe you could stick to ranting about what people have actually done and written rather than just barking about things you imagine. For somebody very concerned about the credibility of others, you aren't working very hard on your own.
Honestly, I don't know why people complain about stuff like this.

Please expand upon the tonne of downsides, because in practice, none of the issues you have mentioned have ever impacted my use of the jack.

Keeping a small cable sized DAC attached to my headphones (once they finally exist) is not my concern. The concern is getting manufacturers to agree to a standard. So instead of one DAC, I'll need more than that, or some set of adapters for whatever that plug ends up being.
That's an excellent point. For the price of a ticket on a supersonic transport you could probably charter a Falcon 900, Citation 10, or Gulfstream 4 to get you there much more comfortably and reliably albeit a bit slower. I would be willing to be home to hotel door times would be comparable.
"Hiring Haskell developers is not hard", it's already hard to get good Java developer can't imagine for Haskell...
Good point. That really should be "financial institutions and investors are pretty good at calculating value". The value before and after purchase would not be obfuscated in any way. It is no more an estimate than the commission fee or tax is an estimate.
Users can look up these three-word locations,
which have been translated into Mongolian,
for free on the What3Words website or app.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words#Design_principles
I get the impression that this is a young guy. CTO of a startup means something different than CTO of an established company.

Most likely, it's a bunch of recent college grads working on someone's pipe dream, but there's no real leadership that would translate to a company.
Experimenting with their map, You get a new set of words every square foot or so.

If you don't like the 3 words it gives you, just offset the location by a foot or two until you find a set of 3 words you like.
That's the number I came up with after doing some calculations too.
1% VISA
2% Bank charges
Whenever possible, I try to avoid using the cards.

All those promotion gimmicks they give to people to sign up for the cards, and all the spend-this-get-this-gift are all cheaper than the fees. Go figure.
There's always the opportunity. You could start a terrific technology company in Toronto (and stay there) right now, but you'd be an outlier. That said, I think it'll only take a few high-visibility 'anchor' companies to seed the city and start pulling people back in. And that could very reasonably happen in the next 5-10 years.
Can you not simply use overdrive gearing to keep motor speed down?
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I highly recommend following Camille Fournier's blog, she writes/speaks extensively about being a technical leader and CTO. Priceless lecture especially that it comes from someone very experienced.

Check out this post about transitioning to hands-off position http://www.elidedbranches.com/2016/04/ask-cto-navigating-han...
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Nowadays verbatim mode may be synonymous with quotes, but it wasn't always. Google totally nuked it's verbatim search... just try searching for some command line option flag, e.g. "vagrant --debug" or something even more esoteric and watch it fail.
Important little side note.
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That's a great point - though I bet there are many microclimates within Microsoft :)

Would love to read some of these management studies; it sounds intuitive but (as always) it's much easier to grok the bigger picture with concrete examples. Can you point me to some of the literature?
Coast-to-coast is definitely the best case scenario. I recently flew SEA->ATL, and it took 4.5 hours at mach ~0.7. So with airport time, let's say ~6 hours total.

Even ignoring differences in sub/supersonic flight (i.e., being unrealistically conservative), doubling my cruise speed to mach 1.5 would've increased fuel consumption by 4x while bringing my total travel time down to around 4 hours. So it'd be (probably significantly more than) 4x the cost just to reduce my travel time by 30%. Again, that's for the "best case" of coast-to-coast travel.
Personally, I didn't think Rage looked all that - I thought it was muddy and bland (and not in the good, post-apocalyptic way) and graphically as mediocre as the gameplay.
Windows 8 was released in late 2012.

What can't be fixed by security updates, as opposed to OS upgrade?
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Yes, the Concorde actually flew with afterburners, which are notoriously fuel-inefficient. Modern engines can do Mach 2.2 without afterburners.
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I think cost/benefit is pretty well known. Getting empirical data though flight testing is definitely a large portion of building full performance numbers for the manual, but Boeing and Airbus has some solid expectations on performance numbers before the first rivet is ever put into place. I don't believe there are any real big "wait and see" mysteries on supersonic cost/performance.
I don't doubt your experience. I'm just saying that my experience has been violently the opposite -- for both large and small teams in large and small companies, all of which had done extensive training about Agile and had used Agile for a long time. Also, and this is not an exaggeration, literally every software colleague or contact or friend I know also has had the experience I have had.

We acknowledge there are amazingly rare companies like where you work that don't suffer from this -- but they just seem to be so, so, so extremely rare that they don't really factor into any true understanding of what "Agile" means in practice at the overwhelming majority of companies.

Also, in almost every case our standup meetings went on too long because people talked about irrelevant things, personal anecdotes, weekend plans, etc. Many times they thought what they were saying was relevant, but it wasn't. Scrum leaders were often the ones doing this the most.

Over time it basically fractured the team into two groups:

(1) the "boy scout" group who wanted to appease the Agile process and look like good, obedient workers, and so never minded the irrelevant and time-wasting meetings and acted chipper and happy to engage in all things Agile.

(2) the disillusioned and burned out group, for whom (over time) the irrelevant banter of stand-ups became like having someone grind your eardrums with sandpaper, and led to frustration, lack of energy to participate, and resentment, and a ton of turnover.

I've seen this dynamic develop in a lot of companies too. Sadly, the answer they usually come up with is a sort of Agile eugenics: let the people who get understandably frustrated by Agile leave -- regardless of how much experience in the company they have, how critical they are to their team or product, or how good they are. And then change the hiring process to screen virtually solely for Agile enthusiasm and end up shifting the workforce to a pro-Agile monoculture -- and then, regardless of whether it's objectively true or not, declare victory and talk endlessly about how much more productive you are now that you are uniformly Agile.
Yes, but speaking from experience, that change resulted in a huge improvement in call quality. The P2P architecture is nice but leaves you at the mercy of your nearest node's internet connection and usage.
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I really don't understand why business people use so many buzzwords. Do they really think we're all like, "Yeah, man! Cool!"? Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows sentences filled with business buzzwords are meaningless bull poop.