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Those objects are collectable, timeless and perfect for what they do. It's not like buying a laptop, which is useless a decade or two later. In my opinion, the older you get the more you appreciate stuff that lasts. Especially if you face hardship at some point and see the world for what it really is.
funny, Firefox is always the greatest memory hog in my machine. Probably due to uBlock.
Dude, without the USA, the world will do just fine. Sure, there will still be wars, but when are men not fighting over one thing or the other?

Have you asked the people of Libya, Iraq and Syria what their world would be like without the USA?
I think the distinction between "what" and "how" is a matter of perspective. The "what" is definitely the domain of management (even if decisions are made with engineering input), but where the "what" ends and becomes "how" is fluid.

To use your bridge example, the "what" is "build a bridge" and the "how" is type of bridge, where beams go, etc.

That could just as easily be reframed as a more general "what" of "increase traffic capacity from A to B". The "how" might be a bridge, or it might be a new road that routes around the lake, a tunnel, or some other solution.

You could also frame it as more specific "what" of "build a suspension bridge" where the "how" no longer includes as many decisions.

You'd see the same distinction form between a micromanager and a hands-off manager. The former leaving almost all of the decision making in the "what" and the latter leaving almost all of it in the "how".
weird... I don't have tinnitus, that I know of, but if I put earbuds in that provide a lot of sound dampening and clench my jaw muscles, it makes a pretty noticeable roaring sound, kind of sounds like the inside of an airplane.
Then why are developers outside of the higher pay tiers paid about the same as a unionized UPS driver?
First person to talk numbers generally has the weak hand in the negotiation.
I think Google Fiber is a good demonstration of why no company is excited about being a dumb pipe; Google is NOT trying to become a nationwide fiber network, and their strategy with GF makes that clear. They are only doing it in a few cities, and their real goal is to pressure the existing providers to improve their offerings. They WANT everyone to have fast and reliable internet so they can utilize Google services, but they know they can't make money by being an ISP.
Did you read the wikipedia article you linked? The wikipedia article is referencing blood transfusion and replacement as it relates to athletic ability, not prolonged life or aging reversal.
Tesla says that only the passenger side was opened at first, and the driver side was only opened from the outside. And yet the accident was on the right side of the vehicle, so if either door would have had trouble opening, it would be that one. If Tesla's information is correct--and isn't a sensor malfunction or similar--then my hypothesis would that the driver was not even in the driver's seat. However, we're also told that steering and braking happened before the car came to a stop, so is the idea that the driver climbed over to exit the damaged passenger side rather than the untouched driver side? Possibly while running from the noise? Alternatively, the logs are incorrect.

Tesla also says that there was an "abrupt steering action" that preceded hitting the first post, and that the car was not auto-steering at all for the other 11 posts. There's some fuzziness in Tesla's description. The implication is that the driver hit the brakes immediately, but it's only an implication. No timestamps are provided, nor clarifying language beyond the broad implication.

I'm generally thinking Tesla's information is probably correct, BUT I'm really, really, really tired of hearing about how two seconds of no-hands is somehow unreasonable, when the car itself allows for much, much longer. If you want to say that someone has to keep a hand on the wheel, have it beep and prepare to disengage after two seconds of no-hands, not 15 minutes. If you allow for 15 minutes, don't be shocked when people use all 15 minutes.
Futuristic electric straddling bus concept is now a real full-scale prototype
It does? I just upgraded to Firefox 48 and it's still the Firefox proxy settings dialog. Windows 10 here.
These parameters are not apparent to those with whom you share the shortlink, but I'd wager that the site stores a mapping from the shortlink to the session in which it was generated. Which may be OK for you; I don't know.
I wonder why mixing cns depressants is so common? Is it because opioids are so expensive / hard to get, and benzos/alcohol easier to get and cheaper? Or is it simply a better feeling mixing them...
Nope; either the information is not available to Javascript code at all, or the Javascript code can do whatever it wants with the info.

A security permission, or config setting, can/should be used to prevent access to the api that returns the battery level. But once access is enabled, there's no way to prevent the code from getting the level (which is just a number) and sending it to a server (which is just calling an ajax request with a numeric argument.)
Here we go again, claiming that the reason Linux is not on the consumer desktop is technical. Nope, it is squarely economical (and quite a bit political). when the OEM contract with Microsoft makes it expensive to do non-Windows PCs, the OEM opts not to.

Ever since KDE 2.x Linux has been just as good as Windows from a technical standpoint (and likely easier to fix once the inevitable error comes up, as there are few to none opaque binaries involved).

Ease of use is a smokescreen, as there is no "tabula rasa" users running around any longer.
This App Can Get You Anything (Legal) from Anywhere
What book? I'm on the lookout for a good math book.
Well there's also special code that caters for Android and Apple store development, so why not also Windows store. As long as there is choice, there's no problem. If the MS fork were to disallow any other target platform, that would be a problem. Otherwise I expect it to make it to the main branch soon.
Argh. Oh well. Massachusetts continues to be a state I have on my blacklist.
Strawman marketing alert: "The most common way to share data today is to post CSV files on a website". Maybe there are a bunch of people that still do that somewhere, but if so, they ain't early adopters of decentralized database technology and so not your target customers. It's always better to talk about what your most likely customers are doing now.
Hopefully they have some ability to manage a product, too. :) That's a skill that engineering helps inform, but a good engineer does not imply anything like time management, market knowledge, people skills, translating between designers and engineers, etc etc.
Meh. Nevermind.
Nope. Me too.
That window is completely different from the proxy window in IE11. At least on Windows 7.

It gives you the choice to use the System proxy, but gives you options to specify your own.
Princeton study: American government doesn't look like democracy for a long time
Instead of downvoting, please check the median salary for a PRINCIPAL software engineer on Glassdoor (it is self-reported, I believe) - it is 140K, nationally.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/principal-software-engine...
One of my friends had years of correspondence stored in a Yahoo Mail account, including letters from people who had then passed away.

She did a study abroad, and when she came home a year later discovered that Yahoo had closed the account. All of that correspondence was gone forever.
I think the more interesting questions would be:

- How to write a novel that is actually a worthwhile read?

- Why should you invest your time into an endeavour that will most likely fail and have no significant outcome?
Re: "reducing the cost of complementary good"

Ding ding ding!

Joel Spoksky wrote s great article on exactly this 14 years ago.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
Well, sure. But it's not their engineering talent alone that got them the job—hopefully that is not sufficient. The main reason it helps is to understand obstacles, time management, and communication, not because their job is engineering. Regardless, coding is certainly not a directly useful skill.
Exactly. If a company were to announce they were going to bump dev salaries up by 75K/year, they'd be flooded with people wanting to interview.
The reason is simple: Uber did not know the business well enough, at least not in China.
Uber's move away from PostgreSQL
Securely share small files/folders via AES from CLI

6 lines of Bash

https://github.com/codeotter/sharenow
Know When to Go for Pokémon Go
For the curious, you're likely using one or more extensions and thus multi-process won't be on when you update to it. Mozilla is rolling it out cautiously, so everyone with any extensions at all is excluded and everyone with no extensions either has it on or is in the 'control group' which will be used to judge the affect that enabling multi-process has on stability based on telemetry reports from both groups.
How is that a dick move? It's open sourced development that gives you better support if you plan to develop for their platform. They did the same for Unity with their VS/VSCode integrations etc. There was nothing negative about that, as far as I'm concerned.
Whew, I thought this was going to be about the results of Auris Medical's new tinnitus drug, AM-101. The results are due to come out within the next month or so. The drug is injected into the ear, so it wouldn't effect tinnitus that originates in the brain. I've had tinnitus for about 10 years now, and it sucks that doctors know so little about it. However, there seem to be a lot of companies popping up recently that are trying to attack the problem, so I'm excited.

Another company, Otonomy, is also working on a tinnitus drug that's injected into the ear (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19847455). It's an NMDA receptor antagonist (just like AM-101), so it doesn't seem like it would work for tinnitus that originates in the brain.
Yeah, that totally made me laugh. Good point about the target audience.
The previous page was just a crappy Google Doc embedded into the page, so they probably tidied it up before release...
They can just ask for a paystub.
> That seems to be what Google Fiber is an attempt at creating but the capital required is so great that only a hundred year old company like Verizon or AT&T is really in a position to execute on that well.

If Google wanted to become AT&T or Verizon, nothing is stopping it. It has the capital, and even on the regulatory lobbying front--Google is winning. While Verizon is getting pilloried for not meeting buildout requirements in New York, Google won't even agree to buildout requirements in Fiber cities.

But Google doesn't want to build dumb pipes either: http://www.techpolicydaily.com/internet/whos-making-money-in....
I've seen my devices give notifications about the battery level to me, but I don't think they notify the apps I'm running, and if I ignore the notifications until the battery dies the device just shuts down. The apps have no chance to save their state.

Often, that's probably just fine. But if I'm developing an app and I have a requirement to save state before my app gets shut down due to power failure, this api will allow me to do that. It's the equivalent to a drive flushing any writes before shutting down; normally they'd get flushed sooner or later, but if you have to shut down NOW, you'd better flush now too while you can.
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This is really interesting! What are some ideal use cases for the current implementation? I've seen Git is considered a competitor, but Noms also appears to be a generic database, so i would just like to hear some basic use cases, if possible.

Eg: If used as a database, what applications would benefit from Noms? Could/should this be used for personal storage? Could/should this be used for code versioning (ie, Git)?
T-mobile offers data-only plans starting at $20/month. I pay cash, and generally only make calls over Wi-fi. But it's nice to be able to receive text messages and access Google Maps etc while on the go.
Nobody wants to be a dumb pipe, yet most of the value creation in the world is based on utter commodities. Dumb businesses are the very norm.
wait, which one is strong enough under MD5 hashing? 80 bit or 80 character?
A similar issue exists with respect to illegal immigration and low-pay, low-status jobs such as crop picking, meat-packing, and janitorial services: if there aren't enough Americans willing to do the job at prevailing wages, then aren't prevailing wages too low? Sure, my tomatoes would cost more and cleaning services might be 200% more expensive, but that's just the cost of doing business.
Grandparent was suggesting that 80-bit, not 80-character, passwords were sufficient -- though I agree as a rule that more characters is generally better.
There a lot of jobs that pay that much in other comapnies in and outside of tech, although you will be expected to do more than just excel at a profession (read go to management).

There are also many more tech companies which will give such salaries to distinguished engineers.

edit: Reading your other comment, median is not the right parameter to compare in this situation.
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What are the chances that in this particular case, enforcing noise in the data actually leads to better economic results?

Technically less information can lead imperfect human reasoners to more rational allocation of resources, but you'd have to do a lot more work to prove that to me than some policymaker's "feeling".
It feels like we may need a site-wide HN reminder about avoiding gratuitous negativity. Especially in our current heated climate.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline
More likely, you're a resource being extracted by a monopolist that set up those barriers to entry.
Autopilot actually does better at night. Better contrast. I think it may use infrared, but whatever it's doing, it doesn't have issues with low light.

What functionality is missing that you'd expect it to have? For the small number of sensors Tesla has (one camera, one radar, a dozen short-range ultrasonics), the system is amazing, and it's the best one commercially available right now (as verified by many independent tests, that's not just Tesla talking).

The system is from Mobileye, which is currently the best in the business. I don't see why this would hurt improvement (the system has improved dramatically through software updates) or why it would make Tesla defensive. It's not like they've tried to hide the fact that Mobileye provides the camera and image processing hardware.

(Note that Tesla has parted ways with Mobileye and the next generation of Autopilot is going to be a Tesla product. Not sure why, but it sounded like Mobileye delayed their next generation hardware too much for what Tesla wanted. But not really relevant to the current hardware.)
Both, and 3. throwing caution/life to the wind..

oh, and 4. combining a stimulant with a larger/more euphoric dose of the CNS depressants so if the respiratory stimulating effects of the stimulant run out first, respiratory depression ensues
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There are certainly problems with unions, but they have definitely succeeded in raising pay for their members.
This adds additional penalties at the state level. I'm not a lawyer, but it appears to me to give a $1000 fine.
Same here, though in my case it was on my list of things to continue building.
Or for another "white-collar" example: the alleged "pilot shortage" in the US. There's no shortage of trained, qualified pilots; there is a shortage of trained, qualified pilots willing to accept the wages and working conditions that are typical when starting out with a US-based airline. That one ends up draining in the opposite direction: instead of working for airlines in the US, those pilots go overseas where the offered pay and working conditions are better, and end up flying for Asian or Middle Eastern airlines.
A disappearing network connection is a different case, because the app continues running. Imminent power failure is different because the app is about to be terminated, probably not gracefully. This is also different from the user shutting down the app manually, because that's probably a graceful shutdown which will give you a chance to save some state before termination.
Where municipal fiber is available, it is better than the commercial alternatives.
the beauty of open source though will let people develop UWP games using epic's engine against its founder's wish.
>and if it's so easy to become proficient then what prevents those "engineers who optimize compilers" to become proficient in JavaScript and compete in that market?

Because money is not the only motivator for someone to work. And besides that, from a macro perspective the "free market" is simplistic propaganda. I don't know why people keep bringing it up. Nothing in the real world works that way. Real world is messy, arbitrary, impractical and irrational decisions are made every single day by all human beings. Normal human beings don't sit down and try to "optimize" some cost function in their life/work.
Same, also getting drunk makes it worse for me.
CSS and JS makes for big sites...
That was just when they were brainstorming new ideas. The emphasis was also on the team lead enforcing this policy, which is definitely achievable if you are a good manager.

In all I thought this sounds extremely effective, especially compared to how they started i.e. "meandering product meetings where we didn’t write down our decisions".
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they decide place a path to iOS 9.4.1 jailbreak for iPhone 4
Planner here. Spent 3 years planning and 1 year writing The Golden Legacy (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPBYGFI). The end result is a fast-moving plot, a structure that works very well and is very self-consistent (no plot holes, etc) but somewhat "flat" characters, since I emphasized structure far more than character. Lessons learned, and will be applied to the next one :)
In this instance, appending the subtitle would be helpful:

"Printing with conventional rotary presses will create cheaper electronics"
As an American, I fantasize about the day when our 325 million no longer try to manage the other 7 billion. But, yet I worry that when that day comes, the ideas of American liberalism will be long gone.

The US has big issues and internal ideological conflicts and many inconsistencies, for sure. But, if you randomly sample the population you'll find that most of us want peace, freedom, success and happiness for everyone.
I disagree.

Verizon makes $10 a gigabyte from mobile data. Multiple news articles lately have pointed out that Verizon makes orders of magnitude more money from running "dumb pipes" than does EVERYBODY else in the mobile advertising ecosystem put together, including the content companies.

In fact, if Verizon rebated 5% or so of the data charges back to mobile web sites, mobile web sites would have a much more lucrative business than they have with advertising today. (And if Verizon did that, they'd have the media in their pocket, just as Google does today -- between the ad revenue Google brings in and the fact they can make your traffic go away, even the New York Times is afraid to confront Google)

The mobile phone and internet business is also highly profitable. If you believe the advertising you see you might think it is competitive, but it is not. Just try using satellite internet and paying the high cost per GB.

Google does not want to get into VZ's business because it is a capital intensive business. The great thing about Google, Facebook and such is that they have tiny workforces and a small amount of hardware -- if you can get your users to make content for free you don't have to pay writers, actors, directors, makeup artists, etc.

Telecoms buy spectrum in auctions for the same reason why Google hires so many engineers -- to keep them away from competitors. Wireless as it is is the perfect rent-seeking industry as it has government barriers to entry.

Overbuilding any kind of wired internet infrastructure is a brutal business today because of the latent competition; where I live Frontier charges $95 a month for something that makes cable look like the Jetsons. They are paying huge dividends to the stockholders because they can do that with 0 investment. They could afford to offer the same for $45 or less a month and they would if you brought in anything better.

The other issue is that companies do not enter into mergers rationally. Time and time again you see that mergers destroy value.
Sure, but drive-by contracts are not enforceable. You'd have to present me with the terms of use and let me agree to them before showing me the content.
"It's separate"

I don't think I misquoted the OP. He said "A and B help me with C" and I questioned how A could help with C, given the other claim that the OP doesn't pay any attention to A anymore.

"Or, in the case of a static language like Go, don't want to take the time to remove one-by-one and see if the compilation breaks"

That is a problem with perl, a language whose 'grammar' is about as free-form as it gets (aside: iOS is funny at autocorrecting programming language names: cobol => cool, perl => peril or pearl, depending on context), but not with go. The compiler can generate errors for unused imports; it easily could generate warnings instead.

I like clean code, but I also like it if a quick experiment doesn't require extra tooling to remove imports to make things compile, more so if it is not guaranteed that undoing such changes can be automated (adding imports isn't 100% reliable; if it were, why have import statements at all?)

In summary: Go is too opiniated here for me.

Also, this requirement effectively rules out ever using go in a repl. I think that is a minus for modern programming languages.
Supply and demand absolutely determine programmer salaries.

And what you neglected to mention is that there is currently a massive developer shortage of supply, and lots of developers are being suckered into low salaries when they could be making much more somewhere else.
I have! Followed the Snowflake Method relatively closely to write my first (and so far, only) novel, The Golden Legacy (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPBYGFI).
> Broadband is risky but very profitable.

All the reliable data I have seen shows the opposite.
Yeah... then what?

Police say "oh, you were doing 75mph in a 50? ticket!"... insurance rate hike, etc... how much liability would they be picking up if they exposed all of that, and how quickly would people be throwing a fit about privacy?

I know multiple people (in multiple states) who have been ticketed based on their youtube videos... im sure police would try to use the logs just the same...
Kenya Is Betting on EBooks and Digital Libraries to Revive the Reading Culture
Evernote -> git/plain text
High level executives at large corporations are a small enough group with enough common interests that they might as well constitute a union, and they have an exemplary record of preserving value for themselves.
I don't mean to be flippant, but can I suggest trying really hard to get over that hangup? I used to feel terrible for marring them, now I feel like it's not mine if it doesn't have my writing all over it. Writing in the books has been an amazing boost for my relationship with the ideas contained therein.
HTC Revenue Dip a Further 44pc Year-Over-Year – Diggle Tech
the bottomline is that epic wants to make money out of the engine so unless they are willing to lose marketshare to other engines (e.g. Unity) they will eventually have to accept that their engine will be used for UWP apps.