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At 6'2", I wish I had either gone up to my projected 6'8" (I think based on the double at two metric) or stayed down at a mere 5-10"or 6'. Everything is too small for me... Long airline flights are excuciating, and even the height of common kitchen fixtures is really too low
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Not for a high school student. School networks tend to be very insecure, and the students tend to see them as just another resource in their education.
Does anyone happen to know how MS actually charges per core these days? I found: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Licensing/learn-more/brief-l... which points to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=229882 -- taken together, it looks like AMD hex-core+cpus count at .75 cores, single-core cpus count as 4, and dual-cores count as 2. Given that you need to buy 2-packs, it appears you can get a single 2-pack for a single dual-core (hyper-treading appears to be ignored), 2 packs for a single single-core cpu, or 3 two-packs for 8 AMD cpus?
The universe is a really inconceivably big place. In fact they (the smart people) are not entirely sure that it isn't infinite.

Drake equation or not, seems such a big place that it seems hard to imagine that this tiny little spot is in some way unique.
Damn you.
Specifically because iOS TEN is coming out, so they have to get rid of OS TEN
I mean, you still have a lot of people doing operational work at Netflix scale, regardless of where your infra is
Ha ha, excellent point until we have ipv6. Less late nights for me.
The rear visibility in my car isn't great. Saw the homepage and thought, "Sold!" within about 10 seconds. Clicked "Pre-Order" to be disappointed by the price point. Was expecting something in the $249 or $299 price range.

$500 ($650 CAD) is way too high for me. Disappointing.
The Logitech MX518 mouse is quite possibly the best mouse I've ever used, I've had it for almost 8-9 years now still going strong.
Technically if they weren't standing up, wouldn't that be getting longer?
Really? Because Amazon, Netflix, Facebook, and Google all have stake in the MySQL ring (google least so). MySQL has a lot of good knowns at scale, too.
> therefore it invites obscure solutions that hides the real meaning behind layers upon layers of low level, irrelevant details

And thats exactly why I said "mostly agree" with my coworker! This is my exact gripe. Basically its the same idea, taken to an extreme to the point where it no longer matches the original reason.
How do the chaebols like Samsung, Hundai, or LG in Republic of Korea handle financial matters like this?

Also Apple regularly fronts loans to its suppliers to purchase the equipment needed to produce the devices that Apple then purchases from them, right?
The US is fixing that problem. Starting December 2016, a vet must examine and prescribe antibiotics for each animal; it will no longer be allowable to preemptively dose an entire herd just to enhance production.

http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/DevelopmentApprovalProce...

Obviously it doesn't fix it for China though, which is where a lot of the drug-resistant bugs are coming from...
Housing costs would skyrocket - there would be nobody to build new housing, and the current housing would slowly become uninhabitable as it got dirty and light bulbs burnt out.

The problem with cheap labor isn't the people looking for a better life. It's that the rest of society ends up thinking they're above needing to know how to use a screwdriver.
I'm pretty sure based on your answers you have no idea how things work in the real world. Reading "The Lean Startup" or "The Art of the Start" doesn't really qualify you to make such nonsensical statements about how a multi-billion-dollar publicly traded company should behave. A startup burning through $10M of VC funding is completely different from a publicly traded company burning through $2B in funding. You can't even justify it at this point. Tesla Energy is a dream, you can't waste $2.6B on an unproven dream and then buy a completely unprofitable cash-bleeding company when you yourself are bleeding cash. He needs to have much better sense than that as a CEO, his duties to his shareholders demand it.
Tesla will be picking up an additional $2.6 billion in long-term debt, and only $413 million in cash, if the deal completes. They'll also pick up the interest tab at about $120+ million per year in fresh red ink.

It'll bring Tesla's total long-term debt up to $5 billion or so, and push their net tangible assets negative. They'll likely get some debt downgrades out of this.
> rather than make a format which is harder to read

Do you really believe that this is harder to read than JSON lines? We use both, and I've never heard a user complain that CSJ is hard to read, but the JSON lines has a lot of clutter.

{"age": 45, "name": "Kirit Sælensminde", "job": "Minister Without Portfolio"}
{"job": null, "age": 5, "name": "Freyja Sælensminde"}

That seems fine for a low number of columns, but gets much harder as the column count goes up. Especially so as you lose control of the key order in the line.
>>he actually employed a lot of women in high-up positions

Yeah, about that... if you ever get the chance, you should look into how he treated those women.
The census and 5 years estimates shows the picture very differently. 9,572 was the total population in 1990. The 2014 estimates are 4,568. The black population living in the neighborhood declined 65%, white population declined 33%.

3CDC and Cincinnati are creating a vibrant neighborhood for affluent whites. Just recently has the population started to increase for the white population. As the whole the neighborhood is declining in population and becoming much more affluent and much less dense.

Graph with population numbers. http://infogr.am/o65l3dVQjEXPYKWO
Port Canaveral proposes a $500 per ton warfage fee on SpaceX [pdf]
>What happens when you build more supply, but increasing amounts of people just buy up the units not to live or rent out, but in order to run virtual hotel businesses on Airbnb?

Then airbnb prices decline or units go empty so listing on airbnb becomes unprofitable. Supply and demand is very real, it's not like some ideology that hasn't been demonstrated day in and day out. Please read up on an intro to econ!
With YNAB moving to the cloud, a good old fashioned desktop budget app.

Write it natively for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android and Windows Phone so it performs well.
I think you believe a little too much. There are far better alternatives out there. The first thing that comes to mind for a truly decentralized web is IPFS. As for comparisons to the internet you're giving Ethereum too much credit and not enough credit to the original architects of the internet. Those folks were geniuses and academics, not web 2.0 up and comers. There is a world of difference between the two. One kind can do rigorous and scientific thinking and the other one can't and instead cobbles together a VM for a turing complete language to perform arbitrary computations in an untrusted, bug ridden, informally specified environment. As Alan Kay once said

> The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. -- Alan Kay.

Ethereum is of the web kind. It's amateurish.
Another problem: ultra-tall humans competing for space at the poles. I think that the height limit (due to c) works out to be 4.12E+12m / cos(latitude).
> the majority of the violence is perpetrated by the protesters that show up to Trump rallies and not the other way around

So what? The point is not the protester's behavior -- it's the fact that Trump encourages them.
What are the benefits of using this over Hack -> PHP, TypeScript -> JS, or just Python?

I'm not necessarily asking about the benefits today. What are the theoretical benefits when the language is mature?
Ahhh, now it makes sense. Thanks for answering.
Another interesting twist looking at this from Norway. Here 3 months notice (goes both ways) is the norm, 1 month the minimum. I'm honestly not sure how 2 weeks notice is meaningfully different from no notice at all.

After all, you will have to be able to cover someone if they are sick (typically short time, no notice) - while presumably replacing an employee fully will take longer than two weeks anyway?
The usage of DRDB somewhat eliminates the need for built in master/master replication, since its handled at the block layer. The two disks are always in sync, thus you don't need mysql's master/master setup. One of the main features missing from Postgres is that feature. Since it's not being used in their Mysql setup many people might ask why they wouldn't just use Postgres.
yeah. pretty much every ad nerwork blatantly ignores it nowadays. They rushed to disable it when microsoft pulled that.

enable it and visit amazon. See if their network will or will not show you tons of ads of what you just saw there.
> ... who think of LA as a city of single family residences

I don't know that the word "think" really applies to such a blatant contradiction.
Fronting loans to suppliers isn't even remotely in the same legal or regulatory ballpark, unless Apple owns a meaningful stake in those companies. Fronting loans is extremely common; what Musk is doing in commingling, and at the scale he's doing it, is extremely rare today (it used to be a lot more common pre ~1970s or so, the vast expansion of financial regulations and increase in the SEC's powers, have limited it in recent times).
So when your "AI" makes a recommendation, it recommends some encrypted symbol?
How does this contradict GP? All you've said is "carbs don't help me feel full", which is a far cry from "I must have a ketogenic diet".
I don't think this is true at all. 10,000 people are just going to have more ideas and better individual ideas than 100 experts. The impact of that much creativity and perspective can be exponential, and it's hard to duplicate.

When I'm designing a system, I hate to have to try to out think everyone on the internet. If you have a known set of opponents you can predict what they might do. When you're up against anybody from anywhere, you never know what you're going to get. Global scale collaboration is a very powerful thing because it allows a complete exploration of the solution space, and it's difficult to stop.
redis by default does not fsync every change, instead it syncs every second. So no it's data reliability is not on par with Postgres in the default configuration.
At Facebook, it's Zuckerberg's way or the highway, experts say
Paranoid little Mark Zuckerberg covers his computer camera with tape
This is making the assumption that AGI is computationally expensive rather than just requiring of a particular algorithmic approach. It may be possible (and in fact I'd expect it to be so) to replicate general human-level intelligence with significantly less raw computational power than that embodied by the human brain.

Evolution does generate highly optimized systems but generally only when those systems have been around for tens of millions of years. Human-level intelligence has only been around for what, 50k - 100k years? We're probably still more in the 'just works' phase rather than the 'streamlined and optimal' phase.
Work for a consulting firm. They'd love to have you, would do the sales and billing, and let you move from fire to fire without the agony of job switching.

I have no idea what consulting company is a good fit, but Google around a bit.
Pretty much every average person I can think of (average in the sense of their media consumption or general awareness of what's new / hip / interesting), is aware of Tesla cars at this point. They've been constantly in the mass media news for years now. Everyone knows they make electric cars. They're absolutely a household name now.
I do not believe the sentence "No more black people, and no more gunfire." indicated removing certain types of people was a solution. Just that a company invested money in an area and now there is less blacks and less gun fire. That can be a pure statement of fact.
Apparently at Oculus, too, going by the latest a-hole moves of locking down the platform.
Bluntly, yes. As long as the market is poorly supplied, people will keep coming up with creative ways to get around regulations to extract the market price out of their assets. Fighting that is like trying to convince a lion not to eat you by yelling rather than giving it a steak.

If the market price is kept low enough through continuous supply, Ellis Act violations would be a non issue. There is a reason this isn't a big problem in unconstrained cities.
You said "Getting a job is simply not what a CS degree is for" and then said "Just know that it's not only for a job"
I think one of us is confused, you want a Software-as-a-Service desktop app?
I absolutely disagree. I'll take the word of 100 experts over 10,000 amateurs.
They should be required when asking for something to state whether it is a lawful order or a request.

But the real problem is that the government would lie anyway and can't be trusted. It's sad that our "protectors" have become so corrupt and dishonorable.

Oh, also there should be real consequences when agencies are caught lying or being dishonorable. I can dream, right?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11949278
Feel free to make it with Lead Free solder. See RoHS standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_of_Hazardous_Subst...
The question is, would you have had higher returns investing in a large-scale solar project?

I have achieved breakeven over buying some produce from the grocery store by growing it in my back yard, but that doesn't mean it's the future of agriculture. I guess it would help if the local Whole Foods were required to buy my excess lemons at the $1/each sticker price.
Capacitor Plague
> What social bonus is awarded to victims enough to justify speaking out?

Particularly in tech, from most to least common:

1. An outpouring of sympathy

2. An outpouring of attention

3. Mobs of angry people ready to fight on your behalf

4. Job offers

5. Conference speaking offers

> they'd be thrashed mercilessly in the media

Yes, they would.
The U.K., U.S. and Russia have already bombed the world with hundreds of atmospheric nuclear weapons in the mid 20th century.

In effect there was a nuclear war, it's just that all the bombs were exploded on "friendly territory" like Australia, the pacific islands and Nevada.
How to Hire a Programmer
Really great information here, thank you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938009
So Airbnb is now responsible for enforcing local laws for all it's applicants, even though a huge majority are up to no such shenans?

This is such a non-problem it's ridiculous. The regulation to prevent this not only was proposed, not only was enacted, it's now being enforced by the city with damages likely to be awarded to the fouled renters. This is literally the best case scenario for one of these "grey area" startups causing some problems for regular people that has already been covered by proper regulation.
This comment is so annoying - the perfect HN mix of pretentious and nihilist.

If you really think that average people trying to create anything will make things worse, then you're probably fine with the entertainment-addiction cycle in the first place. Maybe you work for supercell.
I didn't say it did mean that. I said it "would usually be considered unacceptable in mainstream American discourse", which I am sure you agree with.
I agree with your skepticism. They will not detect a performance regression when there is a change in instruction mix or cache miss ratio.
You put the mood into words quite elegantly. I just couldn't find a way to explain it so thoroughly...

It's terrible when this happens in person, such a painful way to agree and yet become separate.

I don't think we all lose, though. I think these situations result in someone hurting themself more than they realize. I've been there, but I failed to frame things properly.

In person, it's about being as honest as possible, if quiet when there's a complicated issue. Being honest, you can learn in-situ when issues arise, which is very much what Jaquesm supported.

I've felt terrible seeing great engineers leave meetings upset over minor issues.
This is probably the most often forgotten rule among engineers, software developers etc:

> Rule 5: Statistical Analysis Is More Than a Set of Computations
>>Prove it. I had an argument with my last company about this very issue. If Amazon's primary business was video delivery, then that would make a lot of sense. But where does Amazon's primary revenue stream actually come from? That's right, it's AWS.

Let me try. Earlier Amazon's primary business was selling books, then it "became" selling almost every object that can be legally sold, and now you are saying that it "is" AWS. What about tomorrow? Tomorrow, it easily may "become" selling videos too. With Amazon it's very much possible.

So, it's not just technical issue, it's a political/business issue too.
Of course, as you have said, they must take into consideration the trade-off. If the trade-off is more like "killing yourself under the technical burden of setting up a good network" vs "potentially allowing/helping Amazon to take advantage of your hosted service on their AWS and thus to become a future competitor" then they may go to AWS and/or other cloud provider(s).

edit: allowing/helping
I think that's a feigned concern, and that HN's cynicism about the term "rock star" far predates this post.
> Reading "The Lean Startup" or "The Art of the Start" doesn't really qualify you to make such nonsensical statements about how a multi-billion-dollar publicly traded company should behave.

I've read neither, I do have a degree in economics though... does that count?

Do you have a short position on SCTY? If so, then I understand your "comments" and why you're pissed. Sorry? LOL

> He needs to have much better sense than that as a CEO, his duties to his shareholders demand it.

Last time I checked, he recused himself and the shareholders have to approve the deal ... what are you going on about?
"naturally vegan" seems most appropriate, no?
Though it does not meet all your criteria -- it's not standardized by an institute -- BLAKE2 [1] also supports tree-hashing, is expert-crafted from a SHA-3 finalist, and has seen adoption in the last two years.

Notably, on recent architectures, it's faster than SHA-3, SHA-256, or even SHA-1.

[1] https://blake2.net/
correctio:

> a collective memory of having once DESIRED to fly in ancient times
IMO they should be allowed to ask for whatever they want, but they must also clarify if it is a lawful order or a request.

Then it is up to the requestee to decide whether or not to comply. That is the whole point of living in a democracy and not a police state, correct? Also that is the actual law.

Tricking people into doing more than required by law is fraud in my opinion.
San Francisco isn't a success. The quality of life is garbage unless you are rich (>150k annum). The crime (car breakins) and hostile homeless people make it feel unsafe.

The only thing that people want to preserve there is their property values. Constantly voting against new housing is just a "fuck you, I got mine and don't want to share" stance that is extremely close minded. It's basically a giant country club.
U2F is a good addition, but the current incarnations suffer from two issues.

First, most of us need access to our phones (no USB reader) and our computers (no NFC). Yubikey have a combo device, but it costs $50.

Second, they cost way too much given that most of us probably need two or three tokens in case we lose the primary one. $50 is fair enough for employees of large banks, but until they cost under $5 I doubt they'll take off for personal use.

If anyone knows of good value combined USB/NFC tokens, please enlighten all of us.
I'm not offering this as a solution, but Touch ID reads subdermal features and therefore works on literally any exposed area of skin, not just your finger tips. People have tested with MANY parts of the body. (Seriously.) Perhaps you could use some other part of you to train the sensor?
There are a lot of other comments here about margin calls and short sellers, but ignoring all of that, if Tesla had some financial interest in SolarCity, and Elon wanted to buy SolarCity, it may be a conflict of interest if Elon Musk personally attempted to acquire SolarCity instead.

During the most recent Berkshire shareholders meeting Warren mentioned that he tries to never personally buy anything that Berkshire owns or would have interest in owning (and he does personally own financial assets outside of Berkshire.) It is a pretty clear gulf for him and fairly easy since Berkshire operates as a holding company.

The whole view of conflicts of interest can not be fully be evaluated without untangling the exact details and facts of both Elon's ownership interests and Tesla's.

I own a tiny amount of both companies but I don't know enough concrete details about SolarCity. Conceivably if Tesla is moving heavily in to the battery/energy storage business SolarCity could have assets that are much more valuable to that business. I don't know if there is valuable IP, or maybe even the current SolarCity customer base is worth a lot as battery pack customers. Presumably a Tesla battery pack/powerpack doesn't make a lot of sense if the customer doesn't have solar power? If there is an overlap between customers and SolarCity is in bad financial shape, then the acquisition could make sense.

There is a lot of guessing here, and its probably something that may be really obvious either way only years from now.
Different approaches to compensation
Passwords are the worst form of authentication, except for every other form.

If you want to ALLOW me to authenticate with biometrics, fine. But please for the love of security don't FORCE me to do it... And certainly don't make me use it without a second (non-biometric) form of authentication!
I think this highlights an upside of the deal - Tesla customers are uniquely willing and able to pay for a pricey solar installation up-front.
HN silences people/comments with show dead, I set show_dead=true and observe them because I am human and not without bias and I strive to be open to opinion or vocal/internet (perceived) conflict.

But when you are trying to maintain an image for certain reasons, it's easy to sweep things under the rug… but that only last for so long for there is only so much rug… and considering most mainstream general discourse is more vapid banal bullshit it's not surprising to see how that might effect most viewers/admins apart of crafting such when they make the decisions they do.
Natural languages like English imply much more through context, and trade precision for succinctness. This is less true for legalese but still the case. Computer programs need to be explicitly defined and precise because there is no intelligent interpretation.
It's rather more principled than "shameful". You need only look at what happened to Jian Ghomeshi to realize this kind of stuff can be coordinated by people with their own agenda.

Without an impartial investigation, we on the outside know nothing but what has been alleged.
Backpropagation in Artifical Neural Networks (ANNs)
I know you're joking, but you do have ten of them. They're all different.
Thanks! also, thanks for actually reading my explanations :)
Do you really depend on illegal labor to change a light bulb? Also, the construction workers that built my parents home up in northeast US were all locals (or managed to have impeccable English), so I find it hard to believe the rhetoric that there are no legally employed laborers.
How about a nice compromise where if the person asks whether they have to comply to a request, the government has to respond truthfully? As far as I know, there are no such requirements.
The Process of Making Graphene Is Absurdly Complex