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Ok, I see that I misread it, but I still don't understand. "active when swallowed immediately"? Immediately after what? I don't get it. Could someone explain that full sentence for me?
I have had so many Micro-USB cables get worse and worse at keeping a connection, until I'm reduced to trying to prop the phone up in a specific way to charge. I suspect the "10,000 cycles" thing is overrated.
10 years of a life...
Indeed. I do wonder what the right offset would be to minimize the impact on government revenue.

In any case, unfortunately, I've yet to hear the political advocates for corporate tax reduction/elimination argue nearly as vociferously for an increase in capital gains taxes.
A lot of the specific term in English comes from the common French vocabulary and are still very (very) close to the common words in the French spoken today. The common vocabulary in English comes from German origin. Actually I think you can basically speak about anything using only German origin words.

In order to learn French and its vocabulary, English speaker will found a lot of similarity but from the more formal side of their vocabulary. That would lead English speaker to think French is more precise, I don't think the French have something to do with this.

That's BTW a common mistake English speaker make when evaluating some French speaker proficiency. The fact that I use rarely used words does not mean that I have a large vocabulary, it is just the opposite.
To add onto this, college meme groups on Facebook have largely replaced Yik Yak's niche in the past year or so. And those don't require millions in VC funding!
Lob (YC S13) is hiring Senior Software Engineers
And counterpoints:

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Desaietal2007.pdf

"between and 45 and 75 percent of the burden of corporate taxes is borne by labor with the balance borne by capital. "

https://www.kansascityfed.org/Publicat/RegionalRWP/RRWP07-01...

"Using cross-country data I estimate that a ten percentage point increase in the corporate tax rate of high-income countries reduces mean annual gross wages by seven percent."

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/tax-policy/tax-anal...

"While further research is necessary to draw definitive conclusions, these studies suggest that labor may bear a substantial burden from the corporate income tax. Overall, the recent empirical evidence, the open economy computable general equilibrium models of tax incidence, and the sensitivity of the amount of capital investment within a country suggest reconsidering the assumption that the corporate income tax falls on the owners of capital; labor may bear a substantial portion of the burden from the corporate income tax."
Easily the book I have re-read the most times.
How about gear it further down behind a smaller motor for starters? It's not like you're about to start wood turning, there is already a gearbox in there, with the right ratio a much smaller motor likely would suffice.

That thing is so over-engineered it is almost as if it was a joke.
This isn't true, if you make regulation a democratic process then the only way to influence the arbiter (assuming laws against propaganda) is via the public good, which was the whole point all along.
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I read the title and call only think of Frank Reynolds.
Tribute bands seem to get away with it.
I don't remember how I came across it, but I remember reading it early in high school - 9th grade, I think - and loving it. While the philosophy was a great read, the ideas of understanding and caring for your equipment influenced my thoughts on all the technology I use, even if I'm not a mechanic.
On the other hand, while I love F1&2 I would not like to see such visuals anymore. It drove me crazy not to be able to easily explore some places because of fixed perspective - and I am an explorer. They were great for their times, now FNV is what I consider the best of series. Haven't tried F4 but judging from reviews it won't dethrone FNV.
MaRS seems to be much bigger in science and medical startups, and unless you look for what they've been supporting it's like you mentioned most won't have heard of them because they aren't consumer facing.
I think I mentioned elsewhere -- Shopify and 500px (I've applied there and failed lol) are some of the unicorns here. Good companies with good products and good talent. I'll have to check out AgileBits.

I work for a company that sometimes deals with other smaller startups but they can be fleeting in lifespan.

I would love to find something viable to join in on vs. the enterprise environment I find myself in now. Though I honestly haven't had my ear to the ground as much lately.
I would actually argue that it is _bad_ for graphics. The GPU abstraction that OpenGL represents is now 30+ years old, and not at all representative of how modern GPUs (desktop or mobile) work. I'd even argue that OGL obfuscate the GPU machinery to all the budding graphics programmers who use OGL. OGL was never meant to be a graphics toolkit/middleware, but that's what it's become (at least the compat profile).

As far as the value to you, to be perfectly frank, you would not have compatibility profile if it wasn't for workstation ISVs demanding OpenGL 1.1 still be supported for their legacy applications (and shelling out the big bucks to maintain that support). There isn't a singly IHV who is keeping these legacy features on for any hobbyist or learning programmer. Not one. The IHVs know it's bad, but there's a lot of money in keeping it around.

I don't even know if there's value in mentioning this, but I used to be an OpenGL driver engineer, and then when I worked on it, I realized "Hey, wtf, this has nothing to do with how the GPU works!" I'm still happy/proud about the work I did, but I don't think it advanced the graphics state-of-the-art (for the most part, there are some cool things that showed up first in OpenGL). And then as far as the cruft I mentioned...it's just a psychotic maintenance nightmare.
There was actually a bacteria isolated last year which digests PET plastic: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1196
I'm also a European founder who initially came out to Berkeley for school. Before my student visa expired I put together an E-2 application that ultimately got denied. It's a complex visa that requires a lot of documentation, so highly recommend you get an experienced immigration lawyer who can guide you through the process, understands the business side of things and can help you avoid any pitfalls. Some things to consider for the E-2 from my experience:

- You need to own >50% of the company at the time of application or if you have co-founders from the same country, collectively you need to own >50%.

- You do need to invest your own money in the company - there isn't a defined amount but your company needs to have a plausible path to financial sustainability, generating profits and ideally hiring US workers. Like you say, IP can count toward this investment. I invested my savings in the company, but they weren't convinced it was irrevocably committed because most of it hadn't been spent (!)

- If you're investing money, make sure you show where the money came from and how it was earned (in my case, some was gifted by family through inheritance and it got super messy especially as we hadn't been clear from the outset)

- The E-2 is time limited and doesn't have a path to residence - meaning it is either issued for a 2 or 5 year period and has to be renewed. At renewal you'll need to show that your company is still going strong, otherwise it could be denied. You'll need to find other options for a Green Card / Citizenship.

- You can apply in your home country or in the US as a change of status. Better to apply in your country as this gives you a physical visa that allows you to come and go. If you only have a change of status, if you leave you'll have to apply for the E-2 in your home country all over again.

- US Embassies in different countries have slightly different approaches around the E-2 or requirements in how the documents are filed. Take a close look at their website and ideally get a lawyer who is familiar with the embassy that you intend to apply through.

Get some good advice, most lawyers will give you a short initial consultation for free. Avvo.com was a life-saver. Peter Roberts who advises a lot of YC companies is also highly recommended.

Thankfully my wife ended up getting us green cards through her own employment... I think there's some truth to the other comment about not moving. Living costs are very high in the SF Bay Area, talent comes at a premium and it's increasingly difficult for smaller startups to recruit great people.
Spoiler alert?
I was also shocked but come on man, spoilers.
You can make a good argument that's exactly what Uber did. They tried to obtain field data to make competitive decision.

Market intelligence, market research, competitive analysis, swot, opposition research, take place everyday.

The way they went about it does seem to have put them in hot water. Question is did they cross a line with serious legal and business (as in cost) ramifications?
It's unusual for them to be entrepreneurs in anything with a high barrier to entry. Instead they have to become entrepreneurs (and take on extra risk) because they can't easily get other jobs.
If anyone else has read a bunch of Daniel Pinkwater, there are some interesting coincidences. I wonder if they ever met...
Extremely strong economies of scale are probably the single biggest argument for government monopolies in my opinion. That being said, governments are horrible at providing end-user level service, so it would make sense for them to lease out capacity to private firms who service end users.
It doesn't include appengine, but it enables appengine flex to one day support it.

Also FYI Appengine Flex does support HTTP2 Server Push.
You just got to do the following:

Set Headers to:
Content-Type: text/event-stream

Cache-Control: no-cache

Connection: keep-alive

// https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/x...
X-Accel-Buffering: no

And use your favorite http2 server push framework.
Are you kidding?

The idea that companies hire linearly with revenue growth should be dying by now no? Is this not hacker news? We think that will continue for the foreseeable future?

Corporate revenue follows a power law distribution, and the top companies are not growing by hiring as many people as they can.

Apple earns about $1M/US employee in profit. Federal tax rate (~30%) on that number is say $300k. Payroll tax is 12.5% of salary (~100k) or $12.5k. So Apple would need to hire 12x the employees overnight to make up the tax shortfall if we suddenly halved their tax liability to $150k. That's if they actually paid the nominal tax rate (they dont).

This is all besides the fact that an inverse correlation between tax rates and economic growth is purely theoretical.
Really enlightening book. Definitely among my top three of all time.
I think you're forgetting the most important reason:

- The board members and CEOs are all part of the same club and is looking out for each other.
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It takes grit to get up everyday at 4 a.m. just to drive a truck or work at a warehouse or be a nurse etc etc etc
Not a fan of the book (it calls to mind an acid trip - the author sounds like he understands something deeper, but there's no clarity to it), but the author undeniably had a thought process different than the mainstream, which is always valuable.
The parallels with my life as a software developer / entrepreneur are disturbing.

I often think of my development projects much as I think an artist must think about their art.
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Apparently the press already takes ~2.5min to make a glass of juice. A smaller motor would probably take even longer
Snap! - your programming life (and age and timeframes) matches mine almost to a 'T'.

Totally agree about constantly learning new stuff, but also doing it the right way (i.e. real world apps rather than another 'Hello World' or simple blog post/commenting app).
afair what you say is not correct - please correct me if i am wrong

* getting a B1 is very easy (you essentially just need to provide a valid reason - eg fundraising or sales for your company)

* everyone can own US businesses afair - you are just not allowed to start a individual business or receive salary from it

* s/he might just get employed at the european entity

b1 is afair even suggested for this kind of case - get an b1 - see if you can get more funding - if yes go for long term e1/e2

afair the e1/e2 is issued by your local embassy directly - so you can discuss w/ them your actual investment - might be easier than O1 for your own company

PS: most importantly: as seen in this thread and mention by comment above: rely on lawyers not on contradicting forums posts
I am really surprised this is actually being debated on this forum, so I am glad that I am able to help. (edit: referring to a sibling comment)

Most psychoactive substances may potentiate and escalate some condition, the simplest example would be to get a full cup of strong coffee after a long period of abstinence (if you suffer from anxiety).

In the case of LSD and many other HT2A-receptor agonizing substances I can attest that it has indeed an effect that may result from simple paranoid delusions (I can read what people are thinking of me) to full on panic attacks (They are coming to kill me).

The substance in itself is not what really triggers latent disorders but what stimulates an environment in which a condition may deteriorate very fast, that's not to say that in a controlled, safe environment with the appropriate mindset this may be attenuated or even non existent.

I could digress about anecdotes here, but I don't feel comfortable, so I'll share a link [0] to an irc network where you can probably find someone tripping on LSD right now, just check if the user has |LSD appended to the nickname.

At #drugs people will be glad to talk with you about it, and you may possibly find very helpful information. Just don't do it on #sanctuary or #tripsit as these are there to help people in altered states.

[0]: https://chat.tripsit.me/
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Just to be clear, I don't want to claim expertise I don't have: I'm only just a bit past that stage in my career and have had a lot to learn in the past few years.

Just a stream of consciousness set of notes from my reading of the article though:

* The design of the interior machined parts looks like a classic case of why machinists make fun of / mildly dislike engineers. "As long as I can make it in a 3D model we can make it out of metal, right?" They're beautiful, but if a part is going to be hidden from your end user, maybe think about how much manufacturing time those artistic rounded fillets are going to take up and design something that can be run on a 3 axis machine instead of a five axis machine.

* That injection molding. Wow. I'm kind of in two minds about that, because I can at least get behind the idea of spending time and money on the part of a machine your customers will be touching and seeing every day but good lord is it expensive, especially for low volume boutique products.

* The gear system. I'm surprised to see a set of spur gears in there vs a planetary gear set. Planetary gears are quiet and space efficient while also being able to transmit large loads. I'm surprised there actually wasn't a gearbox manufacturer from the cordless drill industry (another high input speed -> high output torque device) that they could tap to get a already designed and mass produced gear-train for much less money.
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I've lived in Taiwan for almost 3 years, and tried many ways to learn to read. Studying characters is almost a distraction. Even if you can read half a character, you can't guess the pronunciation or the meaning. (but with my upcoming program, you will be able to find the combined character from the parts).

Words are much more important. Chinese has words, there are just no spaces. "如果" is a word. The meaning of the characters "如" (such as) "果" (fruit) is totally different to the word (in case).

Soon I'll be releasing a program to do automatic word spacing, literal translation of each word, bopomofo, and more. The code is finished, I'm just writing the documentation now, and then put it onto my Facebook. When I get simplified characters working, I'll release it here on Hacker News.
I remember -- belatedly, after a few suggestions to do so -- reading "Zen" the summer after I graduated. I rarely notate in a book, but that copy ended up full of notes in the margins.

At the time, I thought it was one of the most significant things I'd read. Of course, I was young, and it was a long time ago. (And then, life and injury and illness and... well, a distinct lack of quality happened, and I never got back to it.)

I've been meaning, intending, lately, to reread it. Last year, I was invited into a book club. I've considered suggesting it -- I think I will.

Quality. Eloquence, in a word.

P.S. I've been thinking about getting a bike and riding for a summer. Adequate, but not overdone -- and quiet.

Piece by piece, this rough idea has been sketching itself in.

Don't know why I'm telling HN, this, or why you should care. Except that we all should care about quality. And about a man who thought and felt hard on the topic and in turn gave us much to think about. Reflected much of ourselves, to ourselves -- giving us eyes and ears into ourselves and our choices.

Anyway...
> "And what is with requiring hardware RAID?"

Intel doesn't really do hardware RAID, just software RAID that the motherboard firmware has a compatible implementation of for boot purposes. There is one hardware feature that Intel relies on for RAID or caching involving NVMe drives: the PCH can remap the PCI registers of NVMe drives so that the NVMe drive is only accessible through non-standard interfaces on the SATA controller. This prevents non-Intel NVMe drivers from binding to the NVMe drive and getting in the way of their caching or RAID. It's a hardware hack Intel created to work around poor software architecture.
No one said R&D needs to stay in product world. It's "business practice" R&D that rakes in the big bucks!
People have reality-dampers.

It’s a popular fact that nine-tenth of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary grey goo if its only purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

It is used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual.

Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins, similar to those worn by certain remote tribesmen who occasionally get raided by the authorities and have the contents of their plastic greenhouses very seriously inspected. They’d say “Wow!” a lot. And no one would do much work.

Terry Pratchett - “Small Gods”
Which includes what?
The competition (hand press, bottles) and so on are way ahead of them then.

Maybe we can out-do them and build a hydraulic version: "Now with 50 tons of pressure". I have a hydro pack lying around here somewhere with a really neat 3" puck piston. I'm sure that would do the job just fine and maybe even a little bit quicker.
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Thanks for this.

I do like the idea of centralising the generation of electricity. But while I understand the economies of scale aspect, I still think that we may be over-simplifying the whole picture. Sure, we may have greener cars. But what are the costs of this? You know we're talking about changing the whole infrastructure - and that's messy, and painful, and can take many years. And there's a few other questions which are too loosely connected for now but nevertheless still quite nagging, like nuclear as a resource and the growing global population which inevitably means more drivers..
How is this not the purest form of corruption?!

I thought we had laws against this kind of obvious crap.
I think the tech in the drive train, battery and other electric components play a big role in the mileage equation.
So if you forgot to lock your front door, everyone can walk into your house and help themselves to your properties?
what? no.. you can't take away their bonuses. that would be unfair:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/business/15AIG.html
I've worked professionally in both fields now, and luckily mechanical engineering seems to have a much less toxic attitude towards for older engineers. The amount of ways an experienced engineer will know not to do something is mind boggling and I am definitely still learning.
FWIW, i read and old copy, it lacked the afterword. I found out years later when talking to someone about the book. I get your point, but it wasn't part of the original work.
I blame modern VCs for this. VCs love continuing revenue streams and monopoly suppliers, and this crazy thing had both of those in spades. The funders must have been salivating so much about those factors that they never questioned how stupid the device ultimately was. There has to eventually come a tipping point where consumers just get sick of devices that require constant rent payments in order to continue functioning, with no choice in suppliers. Not to mention ridiculous amounts of packaging waste.
SF rent prices are unsustainable
This is not an option...investors want that I move
> It was nice that Microsoft had already fixed a bunch of them (almost like they were told ahead of time they were coming).

Hmmmm.

I wondered for a minute, then remembered that the leak was dropped, encrypted, onto torrent sites.

So there's your "it's out there". And you have a file size.

From there, well, Microsoft is yuuuuge, so it's entirely feasible that some nice person with connections to the leak in question could probably drop "well this and that was in it." From there it's not too much of a stretch to imagine a response team quietly forming to prioritize fixing everything "just in case".

It's entirely possible Microsoft ended up fixing more things than have been disclosed here - I vaguely recall the core leak involved hundreds of GBs of stuff, but that only a part of the data/code actually escaped. If that's true that's almost funny.
Hey, good reply. Thanks! I think this convinced me.

My issue was that I see myself as a pretty moral person, but if I were working for a startup and was tasked with "Implement a way to know how many Lyft drivers are out on the road," I could see myself doing something very similar to what Uber did, and also feeling mildly clever about it. Isn't that what we call out-of-the-box thinking?

It seems like there's a fine line between being clever and being morally bankrupt. Clever hack: Using a language feature in a way it wasn't intended. Morally bankrupt: Using a competitor's API in a way it wasn't intended.

So it was really hard to work through these concerns, or even begin to address them without talking publicly about it. But bringing it up publicly seems to entail people talking down to you (see the replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14189381 in this thread). Just an interesting situation.