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He's said he won't provide documents for the trial, at which point Google's lawyers would ask for a judge's order compelling him to do so. His lawyer says he won't provide them in that case either. They skipped the step of waiting for the actual order.
Bricks have very low r-value meaning that you pay a lot of money to heat/cool them. Bricks is a bad choice for construction anywhere where indoor climate control is an issue.

American construction is strong enough to last for a few hundred years if you maintain it. While it isn't passive house efficient it is efficient (and it isn't clear that a passive house is even possible in our climate - many of them make other compromises which means they rot out in a few years).
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Fewer cryptic error messages

- DESCRIPTION: For example when on 64 bit Ubuntu and try to run a 32 bit program without yet having installed the appropriate stuff, you get a nice error to the tune of "no such file exists" (the same as when you normally try to access a file that doesn't exist at command line)

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Solo indie gamedev
I'm extremely scared of general anesthesia ever since, as a kid, I woke up after a general anesthesia and couldn't breathe because I had a full blown asthma attack.

So, I've had my wisdom teeth removed under local anesthetic and I've had an endoscopy under local anesthetic. The wisdom teeth is not so bad, it's nowhere as bad as an endoscopy.
Depends on the company, but this is the gist of it. There are frequently options outside of fax, as well. It's one of several.
Yes, but not in a binary fashion.

Someone with a MBA doesn't signal incompetence, just the way that a lack of a MBA means I should immediately promote them to CEO. Likewise, a CS degree from Stanford is good, but some scrappy coder from a flyover state with no college education might be just as good when you dig in.

Broad "filters" tend to have a lot of false positives.
Many non-sales jobs follow the same pattern, including law firms discussed in the original article.

One could certainly imagine a law firm matching their hiring practices to the prejudices of their clients, and having this actually be the rationally optimal strategy, i.e. the impact on customer relationships is larger than the inefficiency of rejecting many otherwise good candidates.

It would make sense if your lawyers roughly mirrored the demographics of your customers - having the same social values, regions, schools, hobbies, accents as your customers do. And customers of the expensive law firms are quite different from the general population.
If Twilio will sign a business associates agreement, this could be huge in the healthcare field. EMRs have terrible interoperability so doctors and health systems typically fax health records to one another. However, this service does not look HIPAA compliant based on the sparse documentation. It doesn't look promising that they will sign a BAA according to this document. https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223136467-Ensur...
Looking into options abroad.

I'ma software developer so I have skills in demand in Europe, but the language is a barrier in some places. My girlfriend is Polish and speaks a little German, and I have been considering taking German language lessons.

That said, a few people I know have moved to Germany without speaking the language and said they did fine and everyone was really friendly, so perhaps I could learn once I was there.
But it does. Follow the money - the consequences flow directly from the differing business models.

Verizon can't poison Apple's phones, because Apple profits by not selling out their customers.

Google benefits from surveilling their customers, so their OS is surveillance-friendly. By piggybacking on Google's purpose-built surveillance-friendly OS, Verizon's commonality of interest with Google benefits them.
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"I haven't seen, or figured out my self, how to make the vertical noise isolation equally effective."

1/2 layer of cork underneath the top layer of flooring is inexpensive and effective for noise isolation ...
Been watching CopperheadOS for a while, the best option as far as I know. I will be getting my next phone directly from them to support development.

https://copperhead.co/android/
They're just stating correlation, not causation.
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now if they could implement barcode recognition for inbound faxes and plug into taskrouter they would have a very compelling offering.
Reminds me of Ted Wassanasong from King of the Hill. There's an episode when Khan asks him why he doesn't see him at the Buddhist temple any more and he replies, "We're Episcopalian now. It's just good business."
The next step would be to have it actually turned into an actual canvas rendering, with the texture and such of actual paint. Could probably be done using 3d printer technology, inkjet, and/or robotics in some manner...

...in fact, I know you can already get photos printed to canvas - but taking it to the next stage of texture would be amazing - right now, I think the best you can get is to have a trained person "highlight" areas of the canvas with paint. From what I understand, there's a whole "village" or small city in China that specializes in custom painted images (which a lot of online places use); I would be surprised if there isn't an effort to automate this work.
You are wrong about focusing on the high end FPGA. There are plenty of FPGA's for low-level stuff. For example, one project I was involved in used FPGA for debouncing completed with the programming interface for ADSP-21xx. They replaced a dozen of different chips with one FPGA.
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Well my last job was working on simulations and I've only worked on performance sensitive system....

Making everything immutable maybe is silly, but it's still a very good goal to have in mind. A continuously evolving system can be designed in an mostly immutable manner as well without sacrificing performance.

In a big picture sense you are trying to have your system be a function of time. And while for efficiency you sometimes should preserve intermediate states, you can typically accomplish that with clever caching systems that are not exposed in the interface. So the design remains "immutable" in a sense
Note: I like TheDeck and what they were trying to do, not to mention I read and support sites like Metafilter and Daring Fireball, but…

Damn, that is a hilarious parody.
I'm not a big fan of MBAs as CEOs, but I think the evidence in the article is weak. There's never been a randomized study of installing different kinds of CEOs, so all they can measure is what happens to the kind of companies that hire MBAs fresh out of school as their new CEOs.

What kind of company offers the biggest pay package to an MBA fresh out of school? Large ones where the board believes the company needs a major turnaround. If they didn't have serious management failures, they'd promote from within.

It's the same phenomenon as discovering that the most famous cardiologists have the most patients dying.
If you can demonstrate that, you could use that knowledge to make a ton of money in various ways.

If you can't, bluntly, you're blowing smoke.

Which is it?
PhD is the new MS

MS the new BS

BS the new HS diploma

I should have stayed for my PhD 22 years ago, but back then it was only for acedemia track. These days there seem to be plenty of freshly minted PhD. Maybe that will soon be the minimum job qualification.
> Still, it can't entirely replace public broadcasting.

If you mean "public broadcasting" as what they do, I'm with you 100%. Nothing about podcasting reduces the need for not-for-profit organizations like this.

If you mean the radio-based sound delivery system part, this must transition to the open web, and that means podcasting¹.

> What a weird take on podcasting.

Amen!

¹At least for on-demand delivery. There's no live equivalent to the podcasting ecosystem right now.
Pico-8 is a good place to start.
I used to think that America was the land of free enterprise, capitalism and competition.

How have I had it so wrong for so long?
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A little bit of background. Me: Senior Software Engineer. Machine Learning, C++ etc. is my forte and have been doing this for the past four years. I am now teaming up with a good friend to start a company. My friend is the non-technical cofounder.

A few questions:

1. Our company entails a website with a secure login, connecting apis to gather data and a stable yet performant backend to store and process ton of information. It's been about 7 years since I did any sort of web design/development. Javascript and Python do not scare me but how do I get started? There's so many new web technologies that I'm lost at what my first line of code should be? I do want to think of the site architecture from the beginning and not just hack together a site. We had a decent WIX-style MVP that we used to validate the idea with customers but that won't cut it anymore. Do people still use CMS at all? Sorry if I sound like I've been living under a rock. Bonus: Does it make sense to take time off to go spend time learning state-of-the-art web development? Or will a learning-by-doing approach work?

2. What are the main functions of a non-technical founder when the product is being built? How do non-technical founders come up with their milestones/deliverables?

3. Folks who transitioned from never working in a prior startup to starting a startup/company, are there key lessons that you learnt in the process, that would help us be better prepared for?

Thanks in advance!
Yay one other person saw that. :D
I don't think it breaks down (as long as most of the data comes form the database). For example i know exactly how paymoapp.com (similar to basecamp) is structured , i consider it to be a fairly large system and i know for a fact that PostgREST can support that.
As for the "very similar be done for GraphQL", there is https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql which was based on postgrest ideas.
Another approach would be to build graphql on top of postgrest (my comment below)
This is so clearly a great opportunity for electric tech - Airplanes can be used on fixed trips of known distance, and shooting for the 150 passenger size seems ideal for the limitations that electric would entail.

Think SF-LA, there are probably 1000 flights / week between these two areas, and some of those could be handled by a plane like this.
"Economically rational" refers to the benefits and drawbacks that apply to whoever is making the decision, not to the benefits and drawback that apply to society as a whole.

If you want law firms to make their hiring decisions differently, then you have to change the incentives and rules that apply to them, not make false claims that they're being irrational.
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Gotcha. I wish at some point we could get to the point where I actually can uninstall things on the things I buy :(
I've worked at a company, targeting medical practices, where fax was/is by a very effective method of marketing.
I would much prefer the Windows behavior to what I see on Linux. Right now, if I open an app that doesn't support high DPI, it is just unusable because it is so tiny.
+1 This!
The right has religion. The left has post-modernism. One says science is false, the other says science does not matter. The end result is roughly the same.

>Sure, but the left treats its science deniers with equal levels of disdain and does its best to marginalize them.

I haven't seen any significant scorn directed towards post-modernist views from NYT, WaPo and co. At least not in the last several years. In fact, they seem to implicitly welcome those views.
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> Trump was essentially a five million dollar contrarian put option

See, this is what distinguishes the SV circle jerk bubble from Peter Thiel. Trump was not, in fact, a contrarian put option. Many companies are extremely hopeful about a future under Trump rather than Hillary; this is reflected in the extremely bullish market since Trump's election.

Everyone in SV flounders around thinking "how could Trump be a good thing? how could anyone ever bet on him? he's a sexist/racist/xenophobe!" Perhaps SV is right that Trump is truly [X|Y|Z], but they are wrong in thinking that it has so much weight on the economy. It is clearly not the case that the consensus is a Trump presidency will ravage the economy---good sentiment about a future under him is literally baked into the price of the S&P 500.

Peter Thiel's bet on Trump was only contrarian in places like Sillicon Valley.
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How much difference is there between GDDR and regular DDR? I think that GDDR runs at higher voltages and temps than regular DDR. I'm assuming if GDDR5 is available, then it's kind of inevitable that regular DDR 5 would be coming at some point.
Yeah someone made a comment about this but unfortunately deleted it before I could respond. I regret putting that in there and wish I could retract it now; I guess I got a little carried away. My parents (an inter-racial couple) copped it a bit, but I guess that was decades ago and things have probably moved on.
One part of the article caught my attention

> Starbird says she’s concluded, provocatively, that we may be headed toward “the menace of unreality — which is that nobody believes anything anymore.”

I think a cynical and distrustful populace is a threat to effective and functioning national institutions.

As an example, I was talking to someone I worked with who is from Iran about roads and driving. He was telling me that in Iran the roads can be very dangerous, because drivers don't follow the rules of the road, or the rules themselves are inadequate. In fact, Iran is in the top 10 countries for most dangerous roads[1].

I was shocked by what he was saying, surely if so many people were harmed, there should be some public outcry that something so simple as poor traffic policy and enforcement is leading to deaths. Where are the bereaved family members? Everyone benefits from safer roads. This isn't something that would fall across idealogical lines either. This seems cut and dried.

When I asked him why people aren't protesting or demanding change, he laughed and said if there was some sort of mass movement to reduce traffic fatalities, the first thing that would spring to peoples minds would be something along the lines of "What is really behind this movement, who stands to gain politically from this?". It is a degree of distrust and cynicism that leads people to organize into the smallest family units, because they don't trust any larger institution.

I think the United States could end up down this path as well, where we are all so cynical that we withdraw our participation and input from the larger institutions. Rather than try to improve a flawed system we would rather say "It only looks out for itself, so I will look out for myself."

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/06/07...
No, they've standardized up to 2400.

And they better have, because Intel already standardized 2400 as the recommended speed for Skylake.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Improved Unity launcher usability

- DESCRIPTION: As far as I can tell, you can drag/drop items to the launcher, and rearrange the buttons on the launcher, but changing the icon (or setting one at all) and getting the launcher to actually launch the thing you want is unnecessarily difficult, requiring .desktop file edits that I can never seem to get to work anyway. I still have to run /home/myname/eclipse/eclipse from a terminal on one of my machines because the launcher is not working/non-intuitive and I don't have the time/desire to stop what I'm doing and figure it out.

Also, expandable/group launchers (many apps under one launcher square/icon spreading into multiple items) would be nice.

Otherwise, great work! Love ubuntu and Unity.
I am a painter and did something similar. I took two images, one of nature and another of street art. Using style transfer, I combined a series of images. After identifying a few results that I liked, I used actual paint to make large canvases inspired by the digitally produced images.

Link: https://twitter.com/rememberlenny/status/825026441603592193
>"./configure && make install"

You forgot 'make'!

I'm tempted to turn this into a cheap shot about how the consistency obviously isn't worth much, but I won't.
> I see all sorts of things I shouldn't see when searching the pile of papers on the fax machine at a large company for my fax.

That's not an issue of the security of fax as a transmission method, it's a problem with your company's security at the fax endpoint.
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Instead of "5 times as many" look as "a difference of 4 samples" - in an environment where the expected sampling noise is something like +/- 4.

"Statistically insignificant" means just that - this data is not sufficient to conclusively say if lower class women receive less callbacks than lower class men; maybe they do, maybe they don't.
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Apparently you didn't read the sources of Pizzagate if you think it was all about the Podesta emails. That was only a small part of it.

I'm not really interested in arguing about details nor starting any kind of flame war and I certainly don't believe in an international pedophilia Democrat child sex ring run out of a Pizza joint. You can look into if you care to. But suffice it to say, there were real people and events that provided enough for the narrative to be built on. Well beyond the Podesta emails.

<edit>The other reason I'm not interested in discussing details is because I don't believe in the existence of a pedophilia Democrat sex ring and the details I'm talking about were largely innocent behaviors in my opinion and thus aren't worth trotting out in public where more people can go "humm... maybe there was something going on". Like I say, you can look into more if curious. But there was more going on than the mainstream news "fake news" accounts portrayed. Enough to build the narrative on.
There is a TON of faxing still going on
Do you mind if i ask why you used the "(PBUH)"? Was it sarcasm? (I know what it stands for, but im confused about the usage)
Unless I'm misunderstanding, I don't even see that as a bug.

Real hardware disks dont suddenly magically beome bigger. That ZoL doesn't notice/know what to do isn't surprising?
When he described the dentist climbing on top of him to get more leverage, then having to take a break to regain his strength, I think I'd have preferred to not be awake for that.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002997 and marked it off-topic.
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Media is an military operations domain, like land, air, sea, space and cyber. Few actors, and none of the MSM, have truth as their principle objective.
"What there is not is a serious right-leaning counter-weight to this"

What the right lacks in quantity it matches in quality. Claremont Books/Quarterly is as good or better in terms of long form journalism as anything on the left.

Do you think NYTimes is trending toward Breitbart or the other way around (in terms of objectivity, quality of journalism, business model)?
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Came up with a use case for this within our current product within 30 seconds of seeing this, love it!
It's kinda a soft ban though, and hard for any MD to enforce when they're the most guilty of it.
No, but more speed and less power consumption is good for laptops.
DDR3L is completely different than LPDDR3.
DDR3L is a low-voltage DDR3 version, while LPDDR3 is completely separate.
What's the use case for barcode recognition? Sorry I've never had to use faxes much myself so I'm curious.
Has this law still held over the past few years ever since Intel has been unable to transition to 10nm?
> Airplanes can be used on fixed trips of known distance, and shooting for the 150 passenger size seems ideal for the limitations that electric would entail

Yes and no. The major problem for electric planes (apart from the fact that the energy density of the best batteries is piss poor compared to Jet-A) is the weight does not decrease throughout the flight. This means you need more robust landing gear as the MTOW and MLW are essentially the same. More robust landing gear = more empty weight = less payload capacity = less paying meatbags/cargo.

There is also the issue of time to recharge. Short flights such as SFO-LAX that you mentioned would not require much in terms of refueling time (on the order of 20 minutes or so maximum). It would take a lot of good engineering to charge a plane this quickly.

Overall, I think all companies tend to underestimate the cost and time associated with designing a new airplane. Bombardier was billions over budget and years behind schedule for their C series.

Same for Airbus with the A350.

Same for Boeing with the 787.

tl;dr - Making planes is hard.
Why vs What in comments is such a hard distinction to make, that I suspect many professional programmers never reach.

In my past few contracts, the devs at each shop fell cleanly into the overcommenting or never comment school of thought. Many old time C coders hate or love comments for exactly the opposite reasons as new grads writing Javascript or Ruby, and when conversing most argued that the code should explain itself. It is very hard to make code explain why because it is doing what it does, and this tiny nuance is hard to grab.
"which is that nobody believes anything anymore"

The left will regret the full frontal attack on religion when they see what will fill that void (e.g. racial identitarianism).
I think you might actually need more sleep
Just saw the video and must say that it has really sparked my interest in Devuan. I heard of Devuan when the fork was first announced but never gave it much notice, now is the first time I try to understand what it really is. It seems like Devuan is much more organized and well-thought than I imagined. This is music to my ears:

Devuan will do its best to stay minimal and abide to the UNIX philosophy of "doing one thing and doing it well". It will foster diversity and freedom of choice among all its components and will perceive itself not as an end product, but as a a process, a starting point for developers, a viable base for sysadmins and a stable tool for people who have enough experience with computers. Devuan will never compromise for more efficiency at the cost of the freedom of its users, rather than leave that and the responsibility for
a secure setup to downstream developers.

I need to do much more research and of course testing, but Devuan could be light at the end of the tunnel.
> Send SYN floods from all your controlled computers

Seems potentially useful for stress testing. Especially if you're trying to make your service more resistant to DDoS attacks.
Who uses the latter form? I don't think I've ever seen that before.

Also, isn't the first supposed to be:

void*, size_t, size_t, int (*cmp)(const void*, const void*)

Or are you using some wtf version that hides the element size and count behind a void*?
Actually, they use LPDDR3, which uses even less than DDR3L
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I am not aware of anyone other Samsung has this

http://thememoryguy.com/samsungs-colossal-128gb-dimm/

But that was the end of 2015, we are into 2017 and i have yet to see this again on the market. And they are likely very expensive.

I really hope DDR5 bumps the spec to 512GB rather then 256GB. Unfortunately the DDR memory / GB prices is actually on the rise. The only thing i could see changes in the market is when all the Fabs from China goes online in 2018, and China continue to pour in tens of billions of money in it.
This is my big worry. I feel like "Fake News" is being used for news that people disagree with.