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Oh, I love calls from telemarketers ;) It's a sport for me, a fun pass time.

I'm trying to sell them shit before they have a chance to finish their pitch.
Or I hang up on myself (hangup when I'm speaking) and see how many times they call me back (current record is at 4 before the guy figured it out).
Or pretend that I don't own a phone while on a phonecall with them.
Or ask them for their personal cell number so I can call during lunch and discuss this.

BTW Randy Pausch gets credit for most of those.
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I have a fun bit of anecdata. My wife and I are not Dutch but our son was born in Amsterdam. He was over 6' (183cm) when he was 13 and is now about 6'5 at 17 years old. I never reached 6' myself, and only a few cousins/uncles have.

One thing the Dutch do is give doses of vitamins particularly D to all children for the first few years.

It's vital for the darker skinned citizens (Moroccans/Algerians) but probably pointless for the 'average' white Dutch person.

My standard joke to Dutchies is that they grow tall to compensate for the fact that much of the Netherlands is lower than sea level.
Ford is probably ahead or at least in parity with BMW/Mercedes.

That you lump Ford in with GM is a huge red flag to the rest of your contentions.
I use Extreme Call Blocker for Android. Best three dollars I ever spent in my life. My phone doesn't make any noise or visual interruptions unless the number is in my contacts list. Additionally, it answers the phone and immediately hangs it up, which prevents the number from going to voicemail. I adore knowing that strange numbers are essentially calling a sinkhole when they dial my number.
It's one thing to talk yourself into an iPhone that costs a few hundred dollars more than the competition. It's another thing to talk yourself into an iCar that costs $50,000 more (assuming...)
If my girlfriend calls me and we talk for an hour, that "uses up" 60 minutes on each of our phone plans. We're both in the U.S. I'm on Verizon and she's on AT&T but the carriers don't matter, even if we were both on the same one.
I'm not talking about getting out of the hardware business.

"The factory that Jobs had configured to produce 10,000 computers every month produced hundreds every month. Because of the low volume, human labor was cheaper than maintaining the automated equipment."

http://lowendmac.com/2013/next-years-steve-jobs-before-trium...
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I think the mental pressures from confining people into completely dark rooms underground for hours on end might produce some false positives.

Probably wouldn't tell us much about the characteristics of the light either.
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Huh, that actually looks standard.

Approx $590.

I can't get a clear idea if this is 64-bit or not though.

Also, with this board, I don't see anywhere obvious to bolt a heatsink - and at 1.1GHz, I'd be be reluctant to do overnight compiles on the thing.
iiNet bought Internode (after buying Westnet and TransACT), then TPG bought iiNet. They own a scary number of Australian ISPs and infrastructure now.
People can hear single frequencies too
I don't answer calls from unknown numbers either but, out of curiosity, do you also not answer the door (of your home) if someone rings the doorbell but you aren't expecting anyone?
What's your source of single photons?
Indeed. I would be a little nervous if I were a traditional brick-and-mortar car dealer franchisee right about now. Because if Tesla gets the laws changed, what's to stop the big manufacturers from just selling direct as well.
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The company that created slack created games and failed at them and then stumbled upon slack. A large part of all this is just luck and it's easy to retrofit these argument.

I also don't think slack will be able to sustain it's 1B evaluation.
Not everyone bagged the GT86. Top Gear loved it. Prius on the other hand... not.
Forgot the margin of error! +/- 2 photons!!! :D :D :D
Yes. I know of a local empanada/pizzeria place, a burger place, a furniture store, and a taco place that have stops inside of them (that is, marked on the map as being inside of the building). Also, hotels and office buildings with indoor fountains marked as stops.

The radius of the stop is usually large enough that you don't actually need to go inside.
yeah the data is quite fascinating. Many people install the app with the intention of competing but then end up just taking their normal amount of steps. We're going to release an SDK soon with some sample data and let everyone create cool stuff with https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana
You are probably right. Doesn't seem that long ago to me but it really has been decades.
If you need that much sync in communication, either your methods of communication are wanting, or you have employees who can't figure out what they should be doing without having their hands held through every detail.

Nearly all necessary communication should easily take place in project/issue trackers and documentation. Developers should be able to operate without the constant need to bother others with questions - or being expected to drop everything and communicate with someone every time they are prodded without good reason. Office-dwelling employees need to train their discipline to work independently, and management needs to expect employees to learn that discipline.

If I have a burning question that absolutely needs a teammates' input, I can wait up to 24 hours for a response. If I can't independently work out an issue without assistance, and I also can't put that task on hold for a day to work on something else, I am failing at my job.

Managers should also operate under the assumption that every unnecessary meeting is detrimental to their business. Each block of 15 minutes spent in a meeting should be calculated as a loss of 2 man hours of productivity per attendee. Most meetings can be replaced by a single email or post in Slack or similar; so use those avenues instead. A meeting should only be considered as a last resort. The world would be a better place if everyone stopped and thought "Do I really need this meeting?" before clicking "Send".
Did the code ever escape in any form?
That completely ignores the documented productivity drop from working so many hours, though.
When I've asked why tech employers don't want to train people in the past, the prevailing answer was always that they didn't want other companies to get the benefit of the investment when they poach. This was what was behind the anti-competitive suit brought against Google, Apple, Adobe, etc
why not just use the ecg samples ? that would remove most sources of environmental noise that you have ?
Ask HN: Building an email killer
Hi

Need help in building an email killer app. The concept around it is taking the logic of collaboration tools and apply it to tame emails. Here's how we are thinking:

Step 1: We build a collaboration tool (done it already: https://comtify.com). It has a thread-like architecture wherein each issue is discussed in threads (just like email threads) and the logic of email (to, cc, folders, etc.) apply.

Step 2: We are in the middle of this. We are injecting the features of email import-export into Comtify. So it will work like this: A message thread in Comtify will detect whether an external user (email ID) is tagged into it. If yes, when a new message is posted in a thread, it will fire that message as an email to the external user (email ID). This email will be like a regular email with all other members of thread visible in To/cc (for whom, the email will be imported and ignored). Now if the external user makes a reply-to-all on the email, it will be imported, recognized and posted as a message in Comtify in the same thread. In case this user does not do a reply-to-all but changes the recipients, a sub-thread (within the master thread) will be created in Comtify.

So this should solve a much needed problem with collaboration tools (Asana, Slack, Wunderlist, Smartsheet) which is that they are only limited to use within an internal team and fail in external communication.

It should also solve the problem of single-user utility which no collaboration tool currently has - user wouldn't require any team to be first invited and even one user from a particular team can use it, while others might not.

Need deep thoughts into this on whether:

1. You think this is a big problem to be solved.

2. How exactly do you visualize the system to work.

Regards,

paekut
My point was that he built a great factory. That is not diminished by his inability to sell the product.

But, he is gone and as others note it was a long time ago. It's probably not very relevant, in retrospect.
Bookmarklets still work for me (and as andrethegiant said, you can re-enable it in the Develop menu)
mingw-w64 comes with a pthreads implementation that works on top of the Windows API: https://github.com/mirror/mingw-w64/tree/master/mingw-w64-li...
The other day I forgot my Github password. When I went to go through the password reset process, it must have triggered the 2FA because it asked for my code. I use Google Authenticator, but I had switched to a new phone since the last time I used GA with Github, and never scanned the code on the new phone.

So now I'm at an impasse. How do I get the code? Well, Github has a backup -- it will SMS the code to your phone! When it said this I just kind of chuckled to myself as I also had seen the h3h3 video. Sure enough, it texted me the GA code and I got back in control of my account.

Github actually provides a list of emergency codes that you can print out and use as a last resort. I had printed these before and actually had them available, but forgot about that process.

Github is trying so hard to have your account secure, but yet the SIM card cloning threat is still there.
I agree. This book is for beginners - very disappointed.
> No amount of domestic "anti-terrorism" law enforcement would have the slightest impact on any of this, not until you crank it to the level of a genuine police state with zero freedom.

Also remember that Allied resistance in occupied Europe during WW2 was able to bomb military targets, produce submachine guns from scratch and distribute propaganda, while under heavy physical surveillance by the Nazis. Thus we know that practically any police state will not be able to stop determined fighters.
I think it is crazy to say Yahoo was a sinking ship unable to be made buoyant. The number one thing they have going for them is Name/Legacy Habit. People still yahoo just because they still do. You could have let 90% off the company go, destroyed all the technology (but not the data, always import it into the new systems to not alienate long term customers) and started over.

Instead she decided she wanted to be a newspaper/tv channel, instead of a tech company. Look at the trajectory Medium.com has taken, or wordpress, even atavist. Vox Chorus and Gawker Kinja. Instead yahoo chose to continue to compete with about.com as a crappy content mill / 2nd layer newswire.

Yahoo Fantasy and Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Messenger and Flickr were all basically left to die. There was really no reason NOT to clone FBMessenger/Line/WeChat/QQ/WhatsApp. They should have been adding features to Finance and Messenger every week.
Applying convolutional nets to one dimensional time series data is a fairly common problem in medicine, and the techniques here can certainly transfer to other medical domains. Besides the plethora of opportunities in one dimensional signals (ECG, PCG, PPG, EEG, etc), many medical problems pose similar challenges to machine learning techniques. For example:

* Massive class imbalance -- we have much more data for healthy patients than for sick patients, especially at the scales required for deep learning.

* Heavy amounts of noise -- Medical imaging is a difficult feat and noise is a fact of life. Not only that, but data is hard to come by and some noise in the labels is likely.

* Long term outcomes -- trying to predict diseases or other long term results from signals is very difficult, especially when the outcome is not immediately obvious by looking at the input.

TLDR: Imagine that you have to compete in ImageNet, but the images are full of noise, half of the ones labeled "dog" are actually some sort of bird, and instead of guessing what's in the image, you're given an image and then asked to guess if that image, when painted in watercolor, will make a baby smile.
That article is all over the place. Centenarians in Japan are 4 inches shorter than 75-year-olds? No mention of controlling for diet during upbringing, nor that a human shrinks as they age. The taller half of Europe has fewer centenarians per capita than the shorter half? No mention of climate, which is more troublesome to the elderly in northern Europe. Scandanvians have more heart disease than Iberians? No mention of dietary control. Sardinian soldiers who reach age 70 live a little longer if short? What about if they don't reach age 70? What if more short Sardinian soldiers die in their 60s?

There isn't much in the way of apples-to-apples comparison in that article.
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Looks like it uses two Cortex A15s, which is 32 bit.

http://shop.elesar.co.uk/image/data/brief-ti22.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A15
> but can you show me any demo where a FP language outperforms C for parallel tasks?

Modulo rewriting your C so that it does exactly what the FP language (runtime) does, such examples are not difficult to come by. Stalin, Stalingrad and Roger Fateman would be good starting points.

Regarding rewriting your C to match what the FP compiles into (or executes on the fly), the point is its very hard to write such _correct_ C unaided. So you use the higher level constructs to write that machine code / assembly / C.
just like Silicon Valley. Locals save and save but when they get ready to buy, the prices have gone up due to all cash offers from Mainland China whose buyers are buying sight unseen for god knows what reasons.

The only solution may be to require such foreign buyers to publish their real names instead of some shell Hong Kong or Cayman Island companies. If the buyer is a corrupt official using bribe money or a crooked businessman hiding black money, making this information public to the PRC Govt/ people, could get them investigated. This should dissuade people using ill gotten gains to inflate house prices here causing a speculation bubble. If they are legitimate, then there should be nothing to fear.
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

They created terrorism in the first place by bombing and occupying other countries, removing dictators.
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Apple could easily make a branded car. The entire dashboard is usually manufactured separately and installed as a unit.[1] Apple could build those, with screens and Jonathan Ive design. This would come with a matching interior package and exterior logos. Like the "Ford F-150 King Ranch Edition".

The next step up would to have some car company, perhaps in China, build them a chassis, powertrain, and body, to which Apple would add their dashboard and interior, and possibly the sensors and actuators for self-driving. Here are 10 new electric cars from China.[2] Apple could help them open up the US market.

There's no reason for Apple to get into the sheet metal stamping business, even though Tesla did.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxeFEvEQKTU
[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/tychodefeijter/2016/05/18/10-new...
That's not even close to true. The west coast is not the entire industry, no matter how much it likes to think it is.
> They should be calling for secure, validated SMS.

Does such a think really exist?

More to the point wouldn't adding an (optional) standard push notification API to TOTP clients be a better solution. You login, your phone pops up a notification, you hit accept on the notification, done. Way less annoying than even SMS.
The problem is - none of the Telcos have any profit motive to provide secure, validated SMS.

For _them_ easy phone number porting, customer service reps being able to "fix" a paying customers message problems, and making it as easy as possible to have their customers send and receive more SMS messages are all directly bottom-line positive things.

Making any of that _harder_ for their customers will only reduce their profits and increase their support costs - at zero benefit to the Telco.

Your bank or ISP or email provider's security is not the Telco's problem - and they can't be expected to invest effort into it on behalf of non-paying 3rd parties...

This is what my local Telco Alliance told the banking industry here in .au back int 2012 (and 've kept it bookmarked ever since for all these discussions...):

"Stanton told iTnews that the telcos have decided not to extend the security mechanism protecting the mobile number portability database for reasons of competition and database performance.

Apart from making the porting process more time-consuming and less convenient for hundreds of thousands of Australians every year, additional ‘security’ may be seen as a tool to lock in customers, hinder number portability and thus be deemed to be anti-competitive," he said"

http://www.itnews.com.au/news/telcos-declare-sms-unsafe-for-...
If it's just you. TODO file works best. Other than that, trello works fine.
I suppose if you're a high profile target it's safer to not use 2FA and rotate your password on a frequent basis.
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I've seen very conflicting information when it comes to how dangerous unprocessed milk actually is. Many people argue that the ultra-bad bacteria is a result of the processing itself (homogenization of milk from hundreds of cows in a single vat, unsanitary conditions for animals, udder sores producing infectious discharge).

I'm not saying you're wrong, but my wife and I get our milk from a single cow. It's tested for harmful bacteria bi-monthly and we wash our own containers beforehand. Do we run a greater risk than purchasing pasteurized milk from the supermarket? Probably, but the flavor and nutrition make it worth it for us.

Additionally, the raw yogurt eventually does turn to curd if put in an environment > ~50 degrees F. If you strain it through a cheesecloth, you have a very soft cream cheese. We don't make a habit out of doing that though -- leaving milk out overnight seems like a bad idea regardless of the source.
My bank uses SMS based 2FA. I'll send them this link and reiterate they should support U2F, or at least TOTP supported by Google Authenticator.

If SMS is problematic for 2FA, why isn't it problematic for account recovery?
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Finding a solution which appeals only to Hacker News readers isn't a solution if you live in a democracy.
Most managers don't understand that a company is a group of people (employees). for it to succeed you have to make sure employees are happy and productive.

If you are not productive (tend to procrastinate) it's because you don't have enough incentive to work.

People you hire have feelings, hopes, and dreams too. Like you, they want to become extremely successful (and if they don’t you have hired the wrong people). Embrace other people’s feelings and help them fulfill their life with happiness.

How? Simple.

Instead of hiring 3 people and pay them average wage or god forbid minimum wage — hire 1 person and pay her 3 times more.

When you fulfill someones dream and help them achieve happiness you have no idea how much they become more productive and it requires zero effort to manage them.

Most managers run their company like dictators.

When my startup gets to a point where I have to hire someone besides hitting the right person I'll make sure I have the resources to fulfill his dream life and I'm sure he will be more productive than 3 programmes (just like me) and would never submit a question like this on HN
If you honestly think that living a real human life, with all the concurrent decisions that are simultaneously and relentlessly made on a micro and macro level throughout every second, every day is the same as a single game of chess, then by all means, go trade the stock market and show us how it's done.
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> A programmer should be able to checkout, build, run in minutes and then to start fixing bugs on day 1.

I have never met a programmer who could do that. I'm sure some of them can, in specific domains. But I'd consider expecting that to be a huge red flag: I've worked at exactly one place that expected a day 1 hire to match their veteran coders, and I wouldn't work there again.
I failed to find in the article the reason why it's frowned upon, are there reasons published in the guide?
"Some physicists have suggested that such experiments could test whether a superposition of two states could survive in a person's sensory system, and perhaps be perceived in the brain."

This sentence surprises me. I would have thought that maintaining coherence during the interaction with someone's eyes would be impossible. Does anyone know anything in more detail about this part?
I'm currently doing ~2d/w at our company. The arrangement was - I'd spend as much time working as I could and want. However a baby and the other matters tend to take their share of time, leaving 60-70 hours of work per month on the average.

There are a few other developers/devops in the same office who are working on the same arrangement.

I wouldn't think that this situation is unique to the industry.
Hi. First author of the bLSM (Yahoo) paper here. You've pretty much nailed it: The trick is getting latency and volume at the same time. If you're willing to wait an hour to look at event logs, then Hadoop is good enough, but where's the fun in that?

At the time, we were looking for the best of both worlds: Hadoop and log processing give high throughput writes, but latencies are much too high to act on user intent within a single session. We had a lot of applications in mind that needed low latency access to event log data, but didn't have a suitable storage engine to back them.

Existing LSM trees suffered from write stalls and excessive read amplification. We were targeting hard disks back then, and didn't want to pay for the extra seeks. We got random read access down to about one seek per read, and figured out how to eliminate write stalls. Surprisingly, we still ended up with good write throughput.

More importantly, from an application perspective, we provide efficient range scans, which lets you reason about groups of data with matching or contiguous keys. If you squint hard enough, this is all MapReduce really does, except it precomputes all the answers up front, and we do it in real time. On the one hand we have lower throughput, since we perform more random reads / sequential writes, and also do more thread synchronization. On the other, we only perform the computations for data that's actually being used for something, which means we do a lot less work for the right applications.

Thanks!
By the way, Bret Victor's worrydream website references this paper from this page on the talk "The Future of Programming":

[1] http://worrydream.com/dbx/
I am working on Comtify (https://comtify.com). We intend to kill email - seriously, no kidding!

Currently, Comtify behaves as an advanced collaboration tool. From a single page, you can do task management, knowledge sharing, file sharing, calendaring & scheduling, bug tracking in a highly intuitive manner.

What we are currently building is injecting the features of an email client into Comtify. This would mean that it would become the first collaboration tool which not only makes your intra-team work easy, but also inter-team communication (which currently happens over email).

This would also equip Comtify with a single-user utility - you won't have to invite your team to use it. So you can be a single person from a team using it, while other might not.

Your thoughts?