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If you want to register and run a us entity it helps but most people don't want that kind of hassle. I've done it from Canada and Australia and unless youre planning on getting us investors is probably not a good idea. Though I haven't accepted my atlas invite yet so not sure how much better it'd be.
Do you have any evidence to support this assertion, or are you just making baseless insults?
Right. In some set of slides, James Hamilton has certainly said at least how many buildings there are for us-east-1 and it's a lot more than the up to four zones people see (IIRC, >26). Most customers will never notice the randomization of building => zone, but every once in a while you rely on a vendor like MongoLabs and its important you both are speaking about the same us-east1-b. The AWS folks let you tie yourself together in case you have multiple projects that need identical mappings.
Target CMO gets you 10s of millions ($7 million comp last year), or a bit over 100 million after a decade or so.

People are funny. Millionaires get billionaire-envy and are sometimes willing to risk jail to add the extra zeros.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajat_Gupta
How could MSFT have gained its monopoly position if anyone were allowed to distribute Windows without paying MSFT a cent? How about if they couldn't enforce patents on the industry at all? There couldn't be a more clear case of government being required for a monopoly to form than any intellectual property company.

I'm not quite as familiar with US Steel, but I do know that one of the primary reasons they became so big was because they were fully integrated through the entire production process. A substantial part of that was controlling the mode of transportation for heavy goods, railroad. That history of rail in our country is wrought with examples of government granted monopolies right from the beginning of the trans-continental railroad.

I know virtually nothing about Hearst, but it was a news/media company right? So that should definitely fall under the same category of intellectual property.
Uber has made some serious mistakes.

I myself was a die hard supporter of uber and its behavior of breaking corrupt laws.... up until the last month or so with the recent controversies.

Toxic is toxic I guess.
JRuby?
Grandparent poster is just making a snarky comment based on recent events. (Republican) congressman Jason Chaffetz recently suggested that poor people should be able to afford healthcare if they skipped buying the latest iphone.
They've said that "3D XPoint" is a resistive non-flash technology. But one of the things that makes me suspicious is that they seem to be going out of their way not to say quite explicitly, in so many words, that these Optane devices are "3D XPoint" devices.

For instance, take a look here: http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/architecture-and-te... -- lots of stuff about Optane, always just called Optane. There's a link at the bottom to info about "3D XPoint" but no explicit statement of the relationship between the two.

Also at the bottom of that page, a link to a video called "Revolutionizing the Storage Media Pyramid with 3D XPoint Technology". OK then. What does it say? It talks about DRAM, flash and spinning rust; then it says Intel is introducing new things; first, "DIMMs based on 3D XPoint technology" (OK, but that isn't what they're releasing right now), and then -- these are the exact words -- "Intel Optane SSDs, based on 3D XPoint technology and other Intel storage innovations" (emphasis mine). Hmmmmm.

I really hope my cynicism is misguided. But so far, everything I've seen seems to be consistent with the following story: Intel begin by announcing a new hardware technology called "3D XPoint", which works quite differently from existing flash memory and has amazing performance characteristics, and saying they're going to release products based on it under the "Optane" brand. They work on this technology but can't actually get it to work. But they need to release something. So they make the highest-performance thing they can based on existing technologies, release it under the Optane brand, and tread super-carefully to make sure they never quite say, in so many words, that this thing they're releasing actually uses the new technology they talked about before.

Now, mtdewcmu and you both say that existing tech can't actually deliver the performance Intel say this new product has, in which case it must after all be based on something genuinely new. Again, I really hope you're right. Has this performance profile -- whatever features it has that are impossible to replicate with existing technologies -- actually been demonstrated, or only claimed?

[EDITED to add:] Aha, no, looks like I'm either too cynical or not cynical enough. I found an Intel webpage -- http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/op... -- that actually does say, in so many words, that the P4800X uses 3D XPoint. So the story two paragraphs up isn't consistent with their current marketing materials, and I now think the story is more likely "3D XPoint doesn't work nearly as well as predicted" than "3D XPoint doesn't work at all yet and they're fudging".
Recently replaced a mildewy washer with the cheapest top loader LG makes. Fuck it. I'm not buying another expensive appliance ever again. The previous one was barely repairable.
I would suggest it's unlikely he was part of the problem, given that Uber type behavior would never be tolerated at Target. That may be because of ethics, or it may be because they were sued into ethics; either way, not tolerated.
I wasn't aware that 21.co had pivoted from mining bitcoing on Raspberry PIs to providing an email service that charges people to send emails to you.

This must be one of the most surreal and out of touch ideas that I have ever seen before but given 21.co's previous track record I guess that was to be expected.
"Has the technique of cooking food with heat, changed drastically since the 70s?"

Ovens? I guess not unless you go for very very high end.

I'd like to say a few nice words about my induction stovetop though: if anybody is in the market for an electric stovetop the induction based ones are vastly better IMO.

Heats pans faster. Does not heat if there is nothing on top of it. Cools down quicker.

Feels a bit magic.
Exactly. These systems are pretty foreign to most people. It has completely different vernacular, idioms and tradition.

It is very different than say backend development.
Still in operation in what, just a handful of markets? So it's the classic "works great for me, but the rest of the country forget em".

By those metrics Comcast is doing fantastic considering I've only had two outages with them while living on the West Coast, and they have a much larger market.

The google fiber (and customer service at Google in general) rollout is a complete joke for 2016, 2017 standards. Google has the time, capital, and resources to hit more markets. They got bored and the project is literally halted. Ask Louisville, they are still waiting for their "rollout" (which, odds are, isn't happening).
I think it directly addressed the point re. empathy in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13905286, and was no more or less off-topic than that comment.
I think attention alone is enough. Pure attention leads to 'magic'.
He only started 6 months ago, and was coming from corporate america Target the company.

Burning bridges with Uber is a benefit to him. He can use that fire to burn away the bad smell from them before it taints him permanently.
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> but only to maintain the current imaginary valuation. Where's the upside?

If you were offered the job of President of Uber, say at the same salary you make now, would you take it?

I'm sure a lot of people would say yes.

Success or fail, you would now have "President of a multi-billion dollar company" on your resume.
Right. It's a chicken and egg though. The Fed isn't just raising rates. They're also saying we have full employment, inflation is up, so we can begin to normalize. Rates are still low and the increases are measured. Keeping them low would signal the Fed thinks something is wrong.

EDIT: So far the small increases haven't had any adverse effects. If anything the opposite. So that's one counter-argument. The other thing to consider is that it's not the absolute rate or the derivative of the rate. It's the actions of the Fed vs. the market expectations. The expectation has been set for a long while that the Fed would try to normalize. If anything the Fed has not quite met the expectation. My last point is that the rates businesses borrow at are somewhat disconnected from the Fed rates, at times of higher perceived risk the premium vs. the Fed rate is higher. So the Fed raising rates doesn't necessarily increase costs to businesses.
This seems suicidal, what a terrible idea to change things in this way just when the idea was getting some traction. It will set a precedent that there is a lot more uncertainty in cryptocurrencies and hold back adoption.
Perchance are you a Unix/Linux admin?
I wouldn't dismiss trivia so ... trivially. Trivia has value.

Getting to know the capital of a country is like creating a tiny hook onto which other information accretes. It creates a sense of familiarity about a place, which sensitises you to other news about the area (for example, the #StopAdani movement which, tragically, is going to fail).

Five years back, I started playing these trivia games at Sporcle (sparkle.com). I mean, what is the use of knowing all the periodic table elements? Then it turns out, a niece independently fell in love with chemistry and the periodic table, which has opened up a nice new channel of talking to each other. And I'm looking forward to visiting Ytterby[1] this summer

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/elements/fe...
Top loaders have no need to lock when they are running for the prevention of putting limbs in them while they are moving. The moment the lid is opened the lid switch is tripped which shuts the washer off. Maybe you are thinking of a locking mechanism to keep someone from drowning in one?
Please don't use article titles to editorialize. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like [...] adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
That's the sort of thing I have wondered about. Chess continues to evolve since the famous Kasparov vs. Deep Blue matches, and from a quick look around human players do continue to draw matches against the strongest computers (even though they are regularly beaten, as well).
> Society as a whole isn't so different, and Feynman is not a good guide to civilized, socially conscious behaviour. Remember the time he got someone seriously injured because he wanted to unmask a perpetual motion hoax? http://hoaxes.org/comments/papparticle2.html
It might have been an innocent act on Feynman's part, but bear in mind that he was just trying to expose the guy for his own slightly arrogant satisfaction. Not a good look when that ends in serious injuries.

Interesting article, thanks for sharing. It seems like an accident accord the article? I wouldn't be so quick to draw conclusions about Feynman's character from some accident. He has done notorious things with the CIA!

I was just trying to make a point. It could have been anyone, not necessarily Feynman, that sought beauty in various dimensions...not just the tangible paint and materiality. This point of view says nothing about civilized society or not appreciating what Chuck Close did. What the OP did just adds to the beauty of it all, doesn't take anything away from whatever it is that you romanticized about, i.e. "in the labour, materiality and individual creativity." This kind of view point is regressive in my opinion.
I grew up in the San Francisco area, and I know a lot of people who are a much closer match to what the article describes as London-type people: they work for large, established companies for a regular paycheck, they have been here a long time, they are embedded in local professional networks, etc. Some of them even have to wear suits to work! I guess the author never heard of the established, large companies in the semiconductor and software industries that supply the majority of jobs here, not to mention health care, finance, etc. It's not all startups.

This is the funniest part of the article:

> San Francisco is 6 hours away from the US East Coast and even further from Europe and Asia. This leaves it a little isolated and less connected to other parts of the world. A noticeable consequence of this is that people seem to be less aware of, interested in and knowledgeable about world affairs.

The proportion of foreign-born people is higher in the San Francisco area than anywhere else in the United States with the possible exception of New York City. The San Francisco area is far more international than the author gives it credit for. By the way, we are closer to Asia both geographically and culturally than the East Coast is.

This article does nothing but repeat stereotypes, and it contains no original ideas.
Article gives a good background, but doesn't clearly answer it's own question. The simple answer (although not followed as closely as it should be in regulation):

Gambling involves the creation of risk where none previously existed, while insurance is solely about the transfer of risk from one party to another (or more than one).
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I love when sentences like that tell you everything you need to know without actually saying anything.
> For example, Audacity for Windows doesn't install with MP3 support. You have to download a plugin from Germany before Audacity will read/write MP3. Which I presume is because patents.

Presumably, yes. Although, coincidentally enough, mp3's patent expired recently as well. So you may not have to anymore.
The laws are corrupt. Best way to get rid of corrupt laws is to break them.
"would gladly pay $3000 for a washer"

Miele.
https://9to5mac.com/2011/03/07/how-steve-jobs-picks-a-washer...
Ok, we'll use that. Hope it's not too late to appease the knitting community.
I've read a few of this guys blog posts and they are generally fairly interesting. This one a little less so, but I had a good chuckle from the line about why he implemented generics in magpie. "Magpie has generics because I’m firmly of the opinion that a type system without generics is about as useful as a language with functions but no parameters." Let the go programmers pour hate upon this blog post
That's where we have a huge gap in device ecosystem. If you want one of the best displays on a TV, it comes "bundled in" with "smart" features. It's a shame that appliances industry doesn't let us customize exactly what we want (that lasts longer and hence would be comforting to pay a good price for).
Ive seen similar attempts to compensate, to de-toxify a base by adding on new activities. Im not a fan. It is the easy solution. The harder option is to dig out the issues. Debt. Count the number of payday loan places and casinos near the base. Drugs and alcohol. Count the bars. Then turn to the attitudes of team leaders. Petty insults to subordinates might be part of military culture, but that doesnt mean it has to remain so. The little things add up. Improvement in these areas takes real effort, far more so than a weekly bus trip. It requires commanders to act a bit like parents, something they used to do but these days do not.

My gandfather used to speak of "hats off" activities on the base he ran. Rank had no place during such things. He said he learned more about his people at the weekly "hats off" card game than he ever did while on duty. Those sort of back channels, without any risk of getting something on someone's record, are imho missing from base culture today. But to maintain such things you need stability of leadership. Today people move around so fast that commanders have trouble even keeping track of names.
I don't think you need to make it easy enough for an average person, but easy enough for a repair person to do repairs in about 30 minutes, so the service call is kind of reasonable.

Combine that with trying to keep parts compatible over years and you would develop a following.
I'd love to replace my nearly 20-year-old fridge, but there is literally no fridge on the market with anything approaching its build quality, not even for thousands of dollars. Everything is pot metal & cheap plastic, and I know that even if I spend quite a bit of money, I'm going to end up with something which breaks in just a few years.

I don't really know what to do. The current one isn't very energy efficient, isn't laid out very well — but it's better than any of my other options.

Is there some small bespoke fridge maker out there?
This isn't strictly true. A large number of employers (in America) of software developers do so under the umbrella of their "IT Department". This is especially true of businesses which don't think of themselves as technology companies but have a need for home-grown software developers (for internal or external facing applications).
It seems like Spark doesn't support "labels"? Only inboxes?
> a top-loader should certainly lock while it's running.

By law, though, as GP mentioned? That surprises me, given my recent purchase...

> You should double check that there's not something wrong with it.

I'm 10000000% sure that the thing isn't designed to lock.

> When that thing spins to drain all of the water out, it moves dangerously fast.

Sure. We don't have any kids or pets, and it's in the basement where visitors have no reason to be. NBD, for us.

> I'm amazed at how much water is used and wasted by a top-loader

I'll definitely keep this in mind if I ever move to a water-poor region or a city with bad infrastructure debt.
Thanks, best bloody thing our government has done in ages.
What has Kashkari done that makes you think he is a "chump"?
While this would remind one of planned obsolescence, this could very well be something less sinister- the sheer scale at which manufacturing happens. Families have grown manifolds since the golden age of quality manufacturing. More demand in the market leads to reckless research / planning / manufacturing, and therefore degradation in quality. There's a reason why craftsmanship is dying, and the reason might very well be that lesser and lesser number of people want it anymore.
Definitely respect that but a bit too extreme for me. Have you never had a vendor reach out with a potentially useful service?

Occasionally I'll find something useful. And sure I could have found it on my own if I was searching for that specific problem but occasionally something new comes across that piques my curiosity. Even then I end up looking at competing products (love relying on Google's autocomplete to do "product vs" and seeing what shows up).

The spam game is getting better and better too - I wonder what they're going to look like in a few years with some help from ML. At that point they will look personal.
That RS article is kinda gossipy garbage, the WaPo article that was written about him in 2009 does a better job illuminating Kashkari.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...
Perhaps. However I don't think they were built in mind for maximum owner repairability. I suspect they wouldn't be fighting the right to repair so hard otherwise
For someone who isn't "in the know" when it comes to Bitcoin, what is Bitcoin Unlimited and what does it mean for the average user?
> If you were to remove patent protections, the progress of science and useful art would not suddenly take a nose dive. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that patents stifle progress in art and science.

Why would corporations be motivated to promote progress in science if someone else could come along and get all of their hard-earned research and development for free?

It costs millions or billions of dollars to drive innovation, and there are very few (if any) corporations idealistic enough to spend that kind of money if they don't think they will be able to earn it back.
I could not understand this,
>>Submarine and unlisted/uncovered patents notwithstanding

How could a standard that is alive and used widely for nearly a decade now still has Submarine patents. I wish there is a rule if anyone dont come fourth within say 5 - 8 years when the standard is formed and used they could no longer claim these patents against the standard.
Everyone has the right to be an asshole. And everyone has the right to judge them for it.
> being second to market by a few weeks costs far less than the years of R&D required to build a truly revolutionary product

Can you point to a time where this has turned out to be true by your estimation? An example of a product where there was a tremendous amount of R&D required and the only thing saving the company from being destroyed by competitors beating them to the market 2 weeks later was a strong patent portfolio?

Even in the original iPhone presentation, there's a point where Steve is like, "Oh, and you bet we patented it, lol." But was that why the iphone succeeded? Was that why it could exist in the first place? Were it not for those patents, would Apple have been crushed by competitors mimicking them?

The pro-patent arguments are always expressed as hypotheticals, whereas there are numerous specific examples of patents hurting smaller companies unable to afford the cost of defending themselves. I'd be very interested in situations where the upshot is, "Oh boy, good thing for science and art that those patents existed."
It's the generic ideological talking point that's the problem. Those only ever lead to generic tangents, which are the wrong kind of tangent—plus usually flamewars.
Sorry about your luck bud... I'm feeling about the same... coming up on 20 years of borderline abuse/burn out.
But it seems that the extra money these days just buys more flashy bells and whistles that just increase the chance of failure.

Gresham's Law / the market for lemons.
Ask HN: I got duped into working on legacy code, should I leave?
I recently moved cross country to work on what was supposed to be a fairly nice, new stack. I love my new city but the job is killing me.

Its legacy code dating back more than 20 years. I'm afraid that my skills will rot if I stay too long. The code quality is also horrible and its making me hate coding.

The company talks about how we're just around the corner transitioning to newer stuff. After talking to some veterans, apparently it's been "right around the corner" for years.

I was hired for my React and Typescript skills/interest and it's been months with no signs of being able to use them. I'm not good with their current stack but I have no interest in learning it because its so obsolete. I'm beginning to think that they mislead new employees because otherwise they would ask for a lot more money or walk away.

I'm torn about my best course of action. I'm not good at my job because I don't know their tech. I'm not good with their tech because I hate it and I'm bitter that I was lied to. I can't mentally force myself to learn this ancient shit. On the other hand, they're paying me, so I owe them something right?

The best solution for me is definitely to just get a job somewhere else, but I've only been at my current job for a few months. Should I just stick it out and hope I don't get fired for underperforming?
No, that's not true. They will simply have a new baseline when they exit their secondary education.

Secondary education levels have been a moving target ever since we started educating people to the state-of-the-art. It's been a long time (centuries, really) since an individual could hold the complete state of science in their head so it is all teamwork now and nobody knows everything.

So if you do your education today you simply learn more of something narrower.
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