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I have this notion that they invented work to keep adolescent boys from getting up to trouble. Then work turned into this thing that became respectable. Then they pasted capitalism on top of it. After a while, women felt left out and wanted in on it. Now we're all working and stressed out and it feels awful and absurd. Yet we gotta do it or left to our own devices might get up to trouble.
At least he got that promotion, though.
Putting together what a bunch of different people have said, it's not just this (although it's this too). It's that you get promoted by producing a high profile, popular product. After which you've been promoted and you're working on something else, and so the product you got promoted for gets neglected, languishes for a bit and then dies.
So... When do you reach the point Where it's better to just use a hashtable in ram? Super high speed "in memory" databases are still beat by manipulating the data structures yourself.

I feel like there's very limited applications where all out speed is important and it's better to use a database than just do the operation yourself in ram and save the network overhead.

You can insert billions of items per second into a hashtable, and when you're working in your own app memory transactions aren't needed.
Ask HN: How do you trust a developer to develop a lucrative idea?
I am not a developer, and I have an idea (for the purposes of this discussion, let's assume it is in fact, very promising if executed properly). How exactly can I trust someone I hire not to steal it? I was thinking of using https://gigster.com, and they've assured me that all their developers are top-notch and bound by NDA. I'm just worried one of them might see how awesome the idea is, and still try to do it on their own.
ROWE - Results Oriented Work Environment. If only the world were so simple that everyone's contribution can be put into a nice neat box. When work can be so well defined, it doesn't get outsourced to a 1 bedroom in San Francisco, it gets outsourced to the cheapest spot on the planet.

Creative work (R&D included) can be hard to define. It depends on random interactions between people. It requires both collaboration and periods of quiet. And the outputs can be very hard for a CEO to define in advance.

Remote-only can work ok for "Designed for remote-only" companies, but they are the exception not the rule.

100% remote can also work for employees who spent a lot of time in the office building their networks, reputations and relationships.

It's ok for people to say "I'll only ever work remote" but you can quickly find yourself in a very tight box.
Forstall was the closest thing they had to Jobs, after they lost Jobs.

He was fired, according to Tim Cook, because he was acting too much like Jobs -- he was "difficult" and "political" -- which didn't fit into the streamlined Apple culture that Cook was trying to cultivate.
When weighted against cost and expected lifetime, it may not make sense to do this over e.g. solar + molten salt.
Yohimbine is a horrible experience. Used clinically to induce anxiety attacks, and does so very well.
Maybe it's a personality thing (based on the wide variety of contributions here), because I'm totally with you, and the others who say they prefer freedom and no "work." I like my area of specialization (data science), and I have a great employer, but I always crave freedom. I will hopefully eventually do my own thing with enough success that I can have lots of time to read, spend with family, explore the world, sleep, eat, relax, write, design board games, and basically just march to the beat of my own drum.
An alternative line of thought is, making the right noises for the customers while also keeping the bribe budgets liquid, to put it crassly.

Putting my security researcher hat on, maybe this tiny little group's purpose is to figure out and get intel on what directions customers are actually looking in, so they know where to hide stuff.

Not comfortable talk, I know. I'm inspired by http://video.fosdem.org/2014/Janson/Sunday/NSA_operation_ORC... (46:05, well worth watching; 357MB)
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My 2C.. Our system doesn't provide the testing and data to make accurate, choices to build upon. We are at the mercy of over worked Drs, who look at basic tests, and often just have a minute to review at most. Our health is bound to the sheer luck of drawing a Dr who reads between the lines and can spot/sympathize/analyze our various issue(s).

My hypothesis is that there is too much variance in day to day life, activity, stress, food and liquid intake. In order to really test something I'd like to limit variables by using health apps for BP and HR, limiting diet by using something like Soylent for a month. That would establish the baseline test, then implement the change/drug/supplement, and test daily or weekly.

FWIW Yohimbe made me feel like shit. I would caution anyone looking at quick fixes without reading and setting up groundwork to accurately test yourself, even if its only anecdotal.

Why do I say we need to personally track things? There's a lot to learn.
Is your system starved for, or already flooded with the element you're about to consume? Is your system lacking a precursor? Is your system failing downstream to break something else down which is causing a cascading build up? Everybody up-regulates and down-regulates stimulants, catacholamines, etc at different rates. Are you able to break it down from it's required co-factors upstream or downstream? As for Yohimbe, our adrenergic receptors are part of the puzzle there.

Many people have metabolic enzymatic variances, deficiencies, to full blown impairment and we all have changing levels of receptors. Some elements cross the blood brain barrier, some don't. Some people can benefit from a supplement, or an enzyme but to others it's actually detrimental since it may block another pathway. Even commonly known Dopamine and Serotonin require various ingredients that may or may not be present in our systems such as dopamine beta hydroxylase, LDopa, BH4, etc. Various receptor density in any area can impact both the uptake and down regulation, while cascading their impact neighboring systems.

We as humans, are all very different on what works, and what doesn't. It sucks, and it's amazing.
Similar thing could've happened to just anything. Modern computing is a disaster.
>it's incidental to the main issues of how non-white populations are perceived/treated in this country.

I totally agree.
I have and always will despise WebEx. It's the most non user friendly enterprisey garbage I've ever dealt with.

Good luck using it if you have a single non technical client on call.
I have literally no idea what products Google has in this space. I think I've used all or most of them, but they keep changing names, apps browser integration, etc.

Google still insists on using their terrible app-in-a-browser UI for everything (what do you think I have a window manager for??), the various extensions and plugins are inevitably crap, and the feature set is lacking. I can't mute a conversation on a specific device, I can't schedule when I'm on hangouts.. it's just a pain, so I leave my phone signed out even though we use hangouts at work.
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1. Fall out of love with your idea. Recognize that execution is vastly more important, and that even a killer idea in a killer app will die on the vine if it is not supported, marketed and managed appropriately. What you bring to the table >other< than your idea is invariably more important to its success.

or

2. Bring on a technical cofounder, and explicitly divide your company between you.

or

3. Learn to code.
I am the company owner. I had the bizarre experience of net productivity going UP by firing the warehouse manager. Apparently he had the habit of telling the same long-winded story to each of his 8 co-workers, individually.

Once he got done telling them all about the strawberries that were 50 cents a pound underpriced at Safeway, `15 minutes later they could get back to work. He not only wasted his time, but also his co-workers.

Productivity noticeably went up after his departure. Nobody had complained about his time wasting stories until AFTER he left. Somehow they assumed I knew everything but didn't care (bizarre, since I am fairly frugal) .

So as the Boss in this scenario, sometimes it is hard to tell what the truth really is. My staff was trying to be nice, and not cause problems in the workplace. Thus causing a problem in the workplace.

Occasionally I do the Toyota 'stand in a circle' exercise in the factory to get a real sense of how people move around, how they spend their time. It is always surprising how my assumptions are often wrong.

http://theleanthinker.com/2007/07/09/the-chalk-circle/

I also watch for the "delegate to peers" routine. If I assigned it to you, I wanted YOU to do it. If I wanted your co-worker to do it, I would have assigned it to THEM.
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We haven't quite reached the point where performance is seen as core functionality. What I will say is that if they've built the site sensibly it should be a case of optimising templates and views rather than yak-shaving-optimising every single page, which is a much more approachable endeavour.

I'm probably going to get flak for this but tracking aside, and I can understand the arguments for that, from my experience a lot of poor performance is down to cargo cult development on the client side.

On the flip-side, if you want an example of a content heavy media site that gets it right: http://www.bbc.com/news.
> But it's hard to argue against an average of 1 day of precipitation per month in June, July, August and September...And if you live in the right neighborhood, it's also sunny from 10-4 every day in that period as well...

Nah, it's easy to argue against that, you just have to had lived in SoCal where it's sunnier and a nice comfortable bit warmer :p
I agree. Employers don't pay for a number of other insurances, why should health be different?
What's so interesting about the year 1985 that makes you single it out for an alternative world history?

edit: Oh, BttF.
You do realize that efficiencies in agriculture means our country alone has more than the capacity to feed the entire world?

Second consideration, no one opts in to capitalism. You are simply born into a situation with scarce access to natural resources (fenced off by the rich and powerful). Now, it only seems fair to me that a person has to ability to opt out, if we wanted to level the playing field between workers and owners. That is the price of civilization.
"I agree with this, too. Most of the super rich have wealth and resources that matter in a stable global capitalistic economy/society, but these will have no value with the breakdown of that system."

Thinking about this doing some PT this morning. Super optimised for our technological civilisation but not not much else. The important skills in my view is working out how tribes work and be part of one. If your competitive advantage is money, how do you operate when money has no value or the biggest group in the block comes along and takes it?
FWIW TAWK and Thompson Toolkit (and competitor MKS (Mortice Kern Systems[0])) offered this functionality (awk and other unix commandline tools for DOS and subsequent MS OS') beginning in "the dialup era" (your purchase bought a box containing a manual (book!) and floppy disks). I would not be surprised to learn that the advent (and easy accessibility via high-speed internet) of Cygwin/UWin etc. killed these commercial tools markets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_Inc.
> It got fixed.

Just so that nobody reading the comments gets the wrong idea: read the whole discussion. Fixed here seems very subjective; they only seem to have limited the extension to the webex.com domain. In particular,

> although this does mean any XSS on webex.com would allow remote code execution

and

> doesn't use HTTP Strict Transport Security, either as a header or by being preloaded

My understanding is that this means that not only would any XSS on webex.com lead to possible exploitation, but also that anyone who can MitM your machine, such as in a coffee shop, and use that to gain remote execution by intercepting and faking a request to an unsecured webex.com. (Since no HSTS is in place, the browser would allow it.)

The latter is less likely, but nonetheless, this extension seems to allow anyone who can talk to it an RCE, which seems far from fixed.
Single payer.
Apple wanted to open it up, supposedly, but I read somewhere that they were apparently blocked by lawsuits with VirnetX (an apparent NPE/patent-troll), ongoing since 2010.
Pittsburgh doesn't really get hit with bad winters - not the way that, say, Buffalo does.
I'm going to compare this plant to the largest pumped storage plant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...).

It has a listed cost of 1.6 billion USD built in 1977-1985, a capacity of 70,000,000 cubic meters of water (the sum of the lower and upper reservoirs on the wikipedia page) which at the max flow rate of 51,000 cubic meters per second is ~24 hours of generation at capacity. The page lists the generation capacity as 3000MW and so you can calculate a storage capacity of 72,000 MWH.

These numbers give $533,333/MW of generation capacity and $22,222/MWH of storage.

The article seems to show the cost for the Tesla station at $38 million. This gives $475,000/MWH of storage capacity and $1,900,000/MW generation capacity.
Exactly. Plus, it violated Article 1 Section 7, which requires that revenue bills originate in the House.

Then, the Democrat leadership argued that it wasn't actually a tax, so Clause 1 didn't apply.

Then, in the infamous Supreme Court case, they argued that it was a tax and therefore couldn't be challenged before collections actually begin due to the Pre-emption clause.

The process of taking a bill in progress and completely rewriting it (while retaining "credit" for those procedural steps the original bill completed) is commonly known as "gut-and-amend".
Interesting! I was under the impression they were solely in control of the cache and the content. I will look further into this. Thank you.
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I was unaware of this. Thank you.
Two elements of rhetoric here that I object to:

- "We as a society" claims, painting your opponent as out of touch with society. I'd say instead that the ecosystem of recent U.S. politics has been favorable to actors gaining power on those grounds.

- Equating opposing surveillance to pretending the costs of liberty are zero. I didn't see anyone else claim that above, though maybe I should go back and reread it all.
I've used a couple generations of them and have an older one in my basement. IMO, they're better than nothing but still a very great gap between these and a shared single-location whiteboard.

It's hard to capture the dynamics between people. (Reading the room for understanding, quickly collaborating on a drawing, etc.) Smartboards always felt like taking turns playing some laggy VR game.
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Turns out that if you create an excuse to leave on time (kids, gym class, whatever), people will generally let you leave on time and won't question it.

If you disable notifications you won't feel the urge to reply to messages. You can't reply to what you can't see.

If anyone questions your loyalty, explain that jobs come and go, but you [and your family etc] are forever. If they keep pushing, explain that you will gladly behave like a cofounder in exchange for a paltry 20% stake in the company.

They usually leave you alone after that.

Caveat: this only works if you're good at what you do and difficult to replace.
Apparently the Mac is not an Apple product...
There are many philosophical principles here, but not much that seems related to the reality of people, businesses, or governments. I'll just say this:

Theory is a useful servant but a bad master, liable to produce orthodox defenders of every variety of the faith.

- Harry Guntrip (attributed)
Is there that big of a security risk if they can read the contents of your clipboard? The only example I can think of is if the app is a webview that you use to login to sensitive accounts and it scans the page for a login/password field and saves the login and sends back the clipboard info if found. It seems like reading random clipboard info isn't going to get linked to anything though (please correct me if I'm wrong).
IIRC Google already does this. But it doesn't solve the same problem as AMP does.

With your solution, site A can load at 2s and site B at 3s, and site A will win. With AMP, sites A and B can both load in 200ms by easily integrating with an open standard.

Also: all this talk of "lock-in" and "centralization". With the approach you proposed, the publisher with the most money to spend on dev resources wins the highest search ranking. Isn't that counter to decentralization? Isn't an open, simple standard like AMP a better solution (though not a perfect one)?

What I'd like to hear from an AMP critic is: how can we achieve what AMP achieves--lightning-fast speeds that users love--without the "evil" AMP approach?
> On the other hand, he and the Obama administration didn't do much to prevent mergers like Charter + TWC, etc.

The Charter/TWC deal was preceded by the (much more significant, if it had been successful) deal with Comcast and Time Warner Cable. The FCC did look into that, though the deal was called off before the FCC would have announced any action (if any at all) that they would take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_purchase_of_Time_War...
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That's fantastic.

https://www.google.com/googlevoice/images/sms-to-email.gif
Generally, ideas are either good, xor unique. If it's a good idea, someone's already done it. If it's unique, it's probably bad.

Companies are 10% idea and 90% execution. You could probably post the idea here and nobody would steal it, just because it's so much work to develop a company, and if it got big you would Winklevoss them.
It's sad that the hysteria over the small number of deaths that may eventually be attributable to the Fukushima power plant tends to overshadow the other ten thousand people who died in that catastrophe from less media-friendly means.
Facebook has at least two (Facebook messenger and Whatsapp.)
You're going to the extreme case of catastrophic coverage. For the majority of common conditions such as appendicitis, broken bones, even some types of heart disease, this type of plan worked quite well.

It's true that a catastrophic case could blow through the lifetime cap, but then there was something else called catastrophic coverage for not that much more. I chose not to get it, but maybe should have.

I suspect it's not so much that the coverage was prohibitive but that people simply didn't, and don't, understand the economics. A lot of people were knowingly going "bare", i.e. foregoing coverage altogether. Even today, people are consciously choosing to pay the personal penalty.

Your claim that "you could reject everyone" pre-ACA is completely false. In fact, insurance companies were required to carry a certain percentage of high liability customers. It varied from state to state, though.

Finally it's also worth mentioning that even for people with no coverage whatsoever, hospitals were (and are) required to care for them. If you stumble into the ER with any condition, they are required to provide care, or at least transport you quickly to a place that can. The poorest among us will get excellent care albeit they may not have the wherewithal and knowledge to actually go seek out that care.

The ACA sought to rationalize this fragmented and confused system and deploy a universal system throughout the country. It will be a subject of debate for decades to come whether this law would have worked.
One factor that may explain the reduced correlation between salaries and rent growth is the increase in dual income families.
I know a EVP who is #2. He is worthless as they come, knows far less than he claims, and soaks up mad resources. He's hated by everyone below that level, but very popular with his peers because he hires very competent people and rides on their accomplishments. And he has a great managerial presentation and personality. Ugh.
And people are worried about Bitcoin...
Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.
I think the amp partner term is silly. If akamai wanted to, they could host their own cache. There is no evidence that Google is doing anything but encouraging cdns to do so.
> What exactly do you mean by that?

She literally listed herself as "white" on her voter registration form[0][1].

[0] http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/07/indian-nikki-haley-s...

[1] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-07-28-sout...
That's great! Simpler solutions are most of the times better.

I needed to squish start dates and deadlines, task scheduling, 'waiting on' + 'someday' lists, project pages, weekly overviews and better migrations into mine which took a good amount of trial and error to find something that sticks and is intuitive.

On the other hand, I am trying to literally plan everything in my journal. I don't want to rely on any other app and thus need to come up with modules that make it possible to get rid of app dependencies completely.
No, allowing apps to require "Always" isn't fair at all and that's not a reasonable explanation or apology.

And yes, I can surely fault Apple and iOS for that.
He claims there's no migration guide, but when I google on the phrase he used, "Migration from Python 2 to 3 Guide", or any variation of that phrase, the first hit is https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html
I wonder why he didn't find it.
People high up are aware of it; nobody seems competent enough (at management) to do anything about it.
An extremely relevant (and timely) XKCD about having too many phone numbers: https://xkcd.com/1789/
Wheeler's lobbying days were decades ago. Pai's consistent anti-consumer, pro-industry approach on nearly every issue is incredibly recent.
> Tap HERO's revolutionary Bolt button to enter a SPACE, or double-tap it for period+SPACE. Hold or 3D-touch the Bolt then drag for superfast access to numbers, cursor control, and your recent emojis and symbols.

What's revolutionary about this? These features have been implemented in iOS for very long.

> #winning / like a boss

It would be nicer without using "meme-text".
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> regulate the hell out of Uber and turn the unicorn into a donkey

These are the words used to describe a hypothetical situation of your own creation. It seems hard to escape the term "hyperbole".
Yes, "Netflix Original" can be very misleading. In most cases, it just indicates that Netflix owns exclusive distribution rights to a show in your particular market. They may have had nothing to do with the production of the content.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#2010_gubernatorial...

To quote the relevant part: "Nikki Haley identified herself as 'white' on her voter registration card in 2001"
Guys, that's not true ;-) please install Uber and Waze and check for yourself.
I see, that makes sense. It'd be indeed worth it if we can apply a model trained on controlled environment to a more challenging one with little to no modification. Good luck with the project and keep us updated!
I've never really seen breakfast the same way since I read Bukowski describe it as 'force-feeding'...
Which is why you should pay for most of your less expensive visits to the doctor so we can pay for the really serious things.
Before I quit I used patches for a while with only minor side-effects - slight upset stomach and night sweats, which are certainly no worse than any of the various amphetamine analogs I've been prescribed. I quit nicotine completely though because I always went back to smoking due to the extremely fast uptake. I'm not sure about whether I want to get back on it, or whether it would even work any more.