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It's very inspiring that you were able to build out an idea like this on a hobby level and get it into YC.

Don't let the negativity in this thread get you down. You will work out all the problems listed in this thread, and zoning change is on the horizon all across the country.

There is a real need for housing like this. Pre-fab housing is a proven model, my father developed modular home projects starting in the '80s and swears by them.

If you ever have been on a stick built job site and have gotten to know the workers well socially, you can see the advantage of indoor, factory precise, standardized construction that is supervised.

There is a lot of substance abuse, laziness and the contractor relationship and payment structure very often goes south in home construction.

I think the best decision you could make today is to ditch the shipping container as the starting point.

Just build them out of wood. It's the cheapest material there is besides some composites perhaps. You already are building a wood framed wall inside the metal container. They could still be made the same size, and shipped the same way.
The thing is, if you're the kind of person who always pays their rent on time despite being poor, you won't be poor for long. So the population of poor people ends up being self-selected for the personal qualities that lead someone to not pay their rent on time.
> The engineering work was already done, and doesn't change based on the number of instances that are making the cert request. It certainly isn't labor.

And what pays for that engineering work? The money you make from having the feature.
So far incidents like these are rare. We won't stop selling drm-free e-books and our sales have gone up every year for the last 20 years. This is clearly a problem that needs to be solved and with enough attention paid to it by consumers I have to believe that Amazon will begin to do something about it. At least I hope so.
Just a quick correction my dear friend.

Let me do the math for you.

55 tv series
20 episodes per season
6 season per series
30 minutes per episode

3.300 hours of English, with English Subtitles most times. And I was teached English at school. I did not start from zero.

;)
When I was at google they said "we have a standard contract we'll most of the time be happy to sign that says we claim no interest in your outside project. Submit your project here and we'll get back to you ASAP".

They often put out memos about the types of things that were not okay and later when they were ok. For example then they were exploring games in google plus back during the Farmville crazy they said "Sorry but for the time being no games please .. unless of course you want to make open source demo games for our APIs/Platforms". A year or so later they said "okay, games are fine now so feel free to submit to get your contract signed"

The best thing about that is there's no ambiguity because you have a contract for your project. Github's policy is awesome but you're still at their mercy if you thought your side project was unrelated but they happen to think it is. In fact the larger any company gets the more likely you don't know all the things being worked on. A contract for your side project clears that up.
I didn't see anybody mention compile times. Today, it is instant -- click to run.

My first programming job - our product was a CAD package for Windows 2.1 and the new v3.0 beta. It took 9 hours to do a full recompile on our fastest computer, a fancy new 486dx-33 with 8MB of RAM!

NINE HOURS TO COMPILE.

Now I get impatient if it takes more than 15 seconds to compile, build the firmware image, download it to hardware and reboot.

It's a different world, for sure.

I think it makes us a little careless. The approach to coding is different. THEN there was a huge penalty to break the build, and we tended to think through a solution very carefully before implementing it. Now, I'll confess, I'm just as likely to plug in some magic numbers and see what happens, or set a breakpoint down in the guts of some heavy code and see what's happening as I am to very carefully think through all the permutations and be sure of everything before hitting Go.
That doesn't match recruitment data for the US Army. We have a volunteer professional military with standards for recruitment that require above average individuals.

There are still plenty of poor people in the Army, quite frankly I can't think of anything better for poor people. Where else can you get housed and fed and your college paid for? Only a small portion of the military is war fighters. Most are doing boring relatively safe jobs like filling gas tanks and counting bullets.
Deltas are great for accelerations, you pay for it with the almost requirement of using a bowden style extruder which makes using some filaments harder (or impossible). There's also additional complexity in bed leveling, though with automated bed leveling probes and smarter controller boards this is getting easier.

I'm really looking forward to when more printers are running CoreXY. One of the two things I hate about my Prusa Original Mk2 is the fact that my Y Axis moves my print bed instead of just the extruder. The other is the stupid zip ties holding my bed on but that's been resolved in the Mk2S revision and is a pretty simple part to make anyway.

I honestly want the next big innovation to be slicer or design software that helps design for what is 3d printable. Or at very least a slicer that will tell me "hey dimwit, this is gonna result in a spaghetti mess of plastic on your print bed and you spending the next 5 hours cleaning off your hot end" You get that with experience but if it's EVER going to get to the masses we need software to stop people from making expensive mistakes.
Since going to the pharmacy is a monthly deal and an expensive one, won't people be willing to settle on retail locations and density, to save significant amount of money(Maybe doing a family purchase) ? So that takes care of all the store fixed costs. And such a store would get an high density of customers, so it could always sell them something else.

And as for the cost of the pharmacists, in a well run pharmacy, with lower cost employees helping as much as they can, pharmacists can do their jobs very fast, a few short minutes per customer. And even if their salary salary is $1/min(six figures), that isn't much money.

EDIT: and btw, in Israel, with our national healthcare, pharmacies are pressed on margins by government/HMO's - and they lose money on drugs(or so the newspapers claim), but profit by selling other stuff(OTC/herbal/cosmetics/etc).
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>But I have MS SQL Server skills, not PostgreSQL skills!

>You'd rather stick with a clumsy, awkward, unreliable system than spend the trivial amount of effort it takes to learn a slightly different dialect of a straightforward querying language? Well, just hope you never end up in a job interview with me.

I imagine anyone who easily dismisses MSSQL would be an easy interview. A good engineer will recognize the pros and cons of each database and make their decision based on their requirements. To dismiss MSSQL outright is pretty noobish, even for a lowly data analyst.
If I could work on GPL'ed software, I'd do it just for the sake of the political argument (yes, I'm that far :-) )
Pharmacists actually have to mix some drugs and that's part of the training.
The edit window just expired as I attempted to amend my original comment, so I'll amend it here:

Those links were the result of a few cursory Google searches. It wasn't intended as a comprehensive representation of Cisco's CIA ties, nor to imply that anyone mentioned was directly involved in backdoors. Rather, the point was that when a security-oriented organization employs ex-spooks, it increases the likelihood of spooky things happening. At the very minimum it fosters distrust.

>2. Why would the ex-CIA guy hurt his current employer to help his former? Don't people do it the other way around?

While I didn't mean to imply any specific individual, I'll address the underlying rationale: When someone's former employer is a powerful government spy agency built on secrets, the loyalty dynamic is a bit different than that of normal private sector job hopping.

Moreover, I'm sure the CIA isn't stupid and tends to maintain relationships—intentionally or not—with former employees that cross over to private sector work, especially high-level people since they're already trusted, reliable, and may be taking positions that later prove to be beneficial to CIA interests in the future.

>3. Good luck finding a single Fortune 500 company that doesn't employ someone that used to be in the Intelligence Community.

This is a fair point. Given the nature of Cisco's products, and combined with recent leaks detailing the pervasive nature of US offensive cyber efforts, it should raise more suspicion than normal when former IC people go to work for a company dealing with network hardware.

That said, I'm not sure how you'd quantify the number of former IC people Cisco hires versus a normal Fortune 500 company. For all I know it could even be lower than average.

>... and backdoor dependent on physical sabotage (interdiction) ...

This approach is far superior to baking vulnerabilities into entire product ranges (or even standards). It doesn't compromise the private sector in the process, beyond perhaps supply chain integrity. The flipside of course is that physical implants don't really scale well, but at least the blowback is relatively minimal when things go wrong. Not to mention it's just badass in a James Bond kind of way.

>It's a common HN meme that Cisco and Microsoft help the U.S. government spy, but there isn't credible evidence supporting it. They actively resist government espionage attempts.

While that's true, it's also possible a company can publicly say or do one thing—genuine or not—and actively do another because of either connections, or that they're being compelled against their will by NSLs. It's also possible to have factions or even individual employees within a company that are actively subverting security with the addition of backdoors, unbeknownst to management.
I must be a terrible sysadmin, because I have never in my life have deployed anything in under 30 minutes, unless I have already deployed several instances and have it scripted. If I can get something up and running [and actually doing what the tool is intended to do] in my infrastructure in a day's amount of work I call it huge success.
i'd love it if they could do this in a way that ensures quality. my biggest problem with amazon currently is even with things as simple as cologne or cookware, you can't tell if what you'll get is real or a cheap knockoff.
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Having briefly interacted with a few of them, and following their work in general:

1. They have a phenomenal intuition for where developers get lazy, tired or simply incompetent in security-sensitive code,

2. They have, in aggregate, a vast knowledge and understanding of past vulnerabilities and how those might be repeated elsewhere or imperfectly patched,

3. They practice a lot and they read a lot (i.e. relevant research, etc). It might be more accurate to say that they have a lot of practice because of their work, not that they actively practice outside of work.

4. They are good at the general process of security research - long hours of mostly dull, complex research interspersed with brief eureka moments and bouts of euphoria.

They're an extraordinary team, for sure.
Man people in this thread are really biting hard on the extreme straw man arguments. It is really pretty simple:

(Poverty is profitable for some people) + (Doing anything about poverty is not profitable for most people) + (Poor people are disempowered) =>
poverty
This is terrible. The infuriating thing is if Amazon actually does anything, the scammers still get off with no penalty other than having their seller and Createspace accounts suspended.

If you don't mind me asking, is there a POD block printed on the bottom of the last blank page? Typically it's a barcode and something like "Printed in USA, Lexington KY" and the date.

Also on the Twitter thread someone mentioned that the contents were copied from a PDF you sell on the site -- are they the same press-ready PDFs used for the book, or PDFs formatted for 8.5 x 11? I ask because we sell PDFs too for letter-sized paper, and I always assumed it would be difficult to pirate for a 6x9 how-to guide.
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>If your mental model for how the economy works somehow doesn't allow the situations

My mental model certainly allows for the situations such as evictions and landlords making money because that much is obvious just by looking around.

However, my mental model will not accept the journalist's headline claiming that "the Problem of poverty is that it's Profitable". That makes no sense. To test the journalist's assertion, just flip the words around: "the Solution to poverty is to make it Money-Losing!"

This means that to "solve poverty", the landlord charges less than the cost of maintenance / property taxes / interest on loans / etc. Eventually, the landlord's bank account leaks away until the landlord herself is in poverty. And who then steps up to lose money to "solve" the landlord's poverty? The city accepts less property tax payments than it costs to maintain roads, schools, and salaries of the government staff? The grocery store accepts less payment than the cost of milk and bread? And who solves the poverty of the workers of the city government and grocery store that were laid off? How do we keep this chain of everybody losing money going so poverty is solved?
Given that science is done with models and instruments I am confused what answer you expect. Those models and instruments are validated in thousands of different experiments, at different energy and length scales, from astronomical observations to man-made particle accelerators. Each of the experiments and observations testing slightly different part of the theory, all of them mostly in agreement. It is the rare disagreements that are actually most exciting, because they pave the way forward to pieces of the theory we do not understand yet.

Here are two independent examples that agree in their results: experimental measurements at the LHC; theoretical​ predictions from QFT.
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> Sort algorithm broken in Swift

I really want to believe you, but I can't find any information on this, what are you referring to?
Asking people to act against their own interests voluntarily never works in the long term. It is safer to assume that businesses will act in self serving ways. Where we currently fall down is with legislators completely failing their mission of protecting the public. Your congressmen shouldn't be representing corporate interests, in a capitalist society their interests will always be well represented. The congressmen should be protecting the people who don't have the money to represent their own interests. That's one of the most important jobs of government in a capitalist economy--to prevent the wealth from accumulating entirely at the top as will otherwise naturally happen. When government fails at its job you end up with times like the Guided Age, which can typically only be corrected with massive social upheaval or devastating war.
The term 'flagship' is confusing for Android, as each manufacturer that ships an Android device typically has their own flagship phone as well.

However, I think most Android consumers don't care about whether a phone is flagship. I imagine most tend to be more interested in finding a comfortable balance between price and features.
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Yep... I know people who were affected in the same way you described -- encouraged to work remotely, so they bought houses in other states years ago, and then told 3 months in advance that they would need to return to the office. Of the people I know, one chose retirement, a few chose to leave, one chose to relocate, one was allowed to stay remote.
I will never go back to neither logs nor stacktraces.
You make this sound bizarrely difficult given a defined price range you could probably pick a decent laptop based on amazon reviews in 15 minutes and be pretty happy with it.

If you want to play real pc games get a desktop or a console unless you have a lot of money to spend.

How do you deal with the rest of the consumer universe? I'm betting you get along just fine.
Exercise as a gain reminds me of indoor plumbing: Indoor plumbing is perhaps responsible for a larger gain in life expectancy and preventive health than almost any other medical innovation in the history of mankind (also conjecture ;) ).
Reminds me that about indoor plumbing. Indoor plumbing is perhaps responsible for a larger gain in life expectancy and preventive health that almost any other medical innovation in the history of mankind (also conjecture ;) ).
It's not that everybody falls into those two categories but if you're a middle class household and sock your money away rather than spending it as disposable income (TVs, toys, cars, vacations, steaks, ...) then you're expected to spend it on your children's education.

I find it stupid because it disincentives saving and being responsible.
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This info is old. Right now the goal is to deprecate X and move everybody to Wayland, except for legacy Motif apps and the like which can't be migrated. The major modern toolkits -- GTK and Qt -- will remove X11 support some time in the future.
Beyond getting a complex number as output: which complex number? (For example, is `i` or `-i` the correct answer to `sqrt(-1)`? If that seems too easy, how about the correct answer to `sqrt(-i)`?) It would be interesting to see a calculator that handled multi-valued functions properly, but I think that would require some major UI (and possibly even theoretical) advances in order to degenerate gracefully to the single-valued case.
People in India pay their taxes? That's news to me.
MSSQL's SQL syntax like that found in MSSQL 2012 is very outdated. Many old rusty parts of MSSQL date back to the Sybase, MSSQL is a fork of it. Also WinNT (incl Win10), MSSQL and most other MSFT software is UCS-2 which they often mislabel as UTF-16. UCS-2 cannot manage emoticons and other newer unicode characters. Whereas everyone on the planet decided on UTF-8. So everything OP mentioned in the article is true.
I don't use my iPad much these days, but when I did, I used nPlayer: a media playing app which got around many of the iOS restrictions. Plays many different formats, has its own integrated file manager, and provides ways to copy files directly including Windows file shares or streaming files
Sorry, typo. Should be "request bodies"!
I'm not sure what point you are making. Even if competition in the payday loan market is so fierce that there's zero margin, it still remains that the rates will be high enough to help trap people in poverty, and having people need to take out payday loans is the solution the capitalist system has devised for this situation.

To pretend that this is not a failure of the capitalist system seems very narrow-minded.
Making 5 sales and $450 is not a "profitable business", it's just some cash. With all due respect to your work, the title is just a clickbait. It's to early to conclude you'be built a profitable business.
> I implemented Raft in a couple hundred lines of succinct JavaScript

But is it production-ready? :)

None of the extra complications described in the paper were inherent to C/C++. It covered things like leader leases, log compaction, handling disk corruption, and group membership changes -- optimizations that weren't intrinsic to Paxos itself, but still crucial for running it in production.

Another choice quote from the paper: "There are significant gaps between the description of the Paxos algorithm and the needs of a real-world system. In order to build a real-world system, an expert needs to use numerous ideas scattered in the literature and make several relatively small protocol extensions."

Also, a random data point: etcd's Raft implementation stands at about 4000 lines of Go right now, not including tests.
Following your introduction now, it is a great quick-start tutorial, thanks for creating it.
Building a wood structure with the same size of a container would cost more than the $2,000 price of the container?
Alternative title: The Chicken Little of startups sees a downturn coming every year for the last 25 years.
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"Android" is not a hardware manufacturer; each manufacturer has its own flagships, just like Apple does. That Apple is also their own (and only their own) OS vendor doesn't mean "flagships" apply per-OS.
This isn't a lock up.

If you read the source (TechPowerUp is terrible why it isn't banned is beyond me) it is actually an _illegal instruction_ error. Which just crashes the current application.

Also if SMT is not disable the error doesn't occur. Also if the chip isn't over clocked the error doesn't occur.

So it is very clearly power related.
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I don't really know,

it might be a function of them having better confidence in the screening of people on watch lists in other countries

or it might truly be security theater

or maybe it is economically motivated

the people who make these decision are working with non-public data, so its hard to know
Driver compatibility could be hell in windows as well if you're cursed with a "switchable" graphics option. My last lenovo could switch between on-board and dedicated graphics, but the latest video driver that lenovo provided was from the year before I even bought the laptop. If I used the card manufacturer's drivers, they'd usually work but killed the ability to switch to on-board graphics; but if I used Lenovo's drivers, games performed very badly due to how out of date they were.

Having one manufacturer and fewer models usually means longer and more consistent product support.
Seriously, can we stop fetishising old approaches and papers? Yes, there's some tricks we've missed along the way, but there's a thread of alchemical thinking in our community that is just plain unproductive.
There are large classes of product I've stopped buying from Amazon due to counterfeits or bad (expired or badly stored) inventory, even first party (Amazon.com LLC) things. Batteries and flash memory are high, medications are another.
Neither theft nor markets exist without property rights. And to have property rights you need a legal system, you need democratic institutions, law makers, an executive branch that enforces your legal rights, etc.

That costs money. It requires the work and agreement of others. You are not entitled to that for free and without entering into any sort of negotiation that involves give and take.

Your demand for protection against that thing you call "theft" is essentially a demand for the existence of a system of government, and that requires taxes. Therefore the claim that taxes are theft contradicts itself.
Bluetooth is a radio protocol, I was being being deliberately vague when I said "radio".
Alcatel vs Evan brown :

From alcatel's view point

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I found that with my original iPad. I sold it after a while as it wasn't getting much use.

Just last year though I got an iPad Pro 9.7 with the Pencil. That's been pretty game-changing for me as far as making these devices actually useful. Now it's like a journal/lab-book, with extra features, that I carry with me everywhere and make extensive notes in. It doesn't replace my laptop, it replaces my written notes.

I still use the laptop extensively for my work that involves programming. However a lot of my work involves sketching diagrams and solving problems, work that I used to do on paper but now can do digitally.