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Lol I got the first 12” macbook and was sad about ports. Bought the dongle so I could hook it up to a monitor for a week while on business. Fast forward till today and I don’t where the dongle is cos I never use it.
My own opinion has shifted along with the availability of my Bluetooth headphones. Before I owned Bluetooth headphones I thought getting rid of the headphone jack was a bad idea. After I bought a nice pair that does noise canceling as well, I became a Bluetooth headphone evangelist. After my girlfriend discovered how nice my (or as she calls them "the") Bluetooth headphones are, I find I'm dreading having to pay another 300-400 dollars for another pair of headphones now that my pixel is arriving in a few days.
This is great advice, thanks!

My question stems from the fact that I make about median market rate for my experience and location. I'm having trouble making a plan for how my salary should increase as my experience and career evolve. If I'm currently making median market rate, I'm unsure if it's reasonable to expect a jump into the 75th percentile for my next position during the negotiation process.
> I think a lot more people are likely to just decide to wait.

Not going to happen. I think the X is going trigger its own super cycle. People who have the 6s are waiting for it along with people who have 7 and normally would have waited. The only question is if Apple can make enough phones. They gave themselves an extra month to build supply so we'll see. Current rumors are they are already shifting iPhone 8 production over the iPhone X. My guess is every X made for the next 6 mos. (maybe more?) will be sold before it even comes off the assembly line.
Bluetooth is lossy. Replacements must keep quality of predecessor as a minimum.
99% chance someone used apache’s default configuration.
> Isn't it fundamentally impossible to learn to become more extrovert?

I don't believe that anymore. I believe that the type of "-vert" our society categorizes us in is an environmentally created behavior. Most of which stem from our birth, how we're treated and the expectations the people who raise us (parents, relatives, friends, school teachers) subconsciously place on us.
Well, aside from that, it was the only interface that used a standard connector and an unobtrusive driver library. You could run data in and out through the jack. But now all that's left is the proprietary lightning port and the wifi stack which could have all sorts of undocumented filtering or restrictive behavior in its driver. So it also locks the phone down further in that regard.
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This is maybe the thing I hate most about flying.

I carry my Leatherman everywhere, and it's helped me more times than I can count. Maybe it's just me, but I feel better knowing that I have a pretty complete toolkit on me at all times.

And no, it's not a security risk. In the post-9/11 world, passengers know that cooperating with hijackers is a potential death sentence and will fight for their lives. Cockpit doors are kept locked.

A group of people armed with pocketknives isn't going to be able to do much.
The fallacy is in the assumption that there actually are many eyes taking a critical look - e.g. at the level demonstrated here.

When it comes to security, there may be more eyes, in which case the fallacy is to assume that the preponderance of them are well-intentioned.

Here we have empirical evidence of problems being overlooked, yet you would prefer to put faith in a comforting aphorism?
I don't know about CFIA, but CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) can and does punish violations of the spirit of the law. That is, if a company finds a loophole that allows them to avoid taxes without violating the letter of the law, CRA is legally allowed to prosecute them anyway for violating the spirit of the law. It is not unlikely that such common sense discretions are given to CFIA as well.
Mosquitos pollenate plants. And they're an important food item for migrating bugs and birds. Less than 40% of them feed on blood, nor is it their only diet among those that do.

It's interesting how matter of factly you spread such a casual opinion about what our ecosystem does and doesn't need.
I can't type in here, using Chrome.
Not sure if pixel-perfect matters for consuming papers.
you still live in seattle because I smell it everywhere?
Only 140k left over!? How do they eat?
Really? I found losing the wires (that snagged, pulled them out of my ears, etc) to be a fantastic advantage that far outweighs the inconvenience of having to charge them.
That argument makes absolutely no sense when you apply it to a company that fought against and removed DRM from their music store many many years ago.
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I believe it's reconstructed from the Latex source, which is how every paper is submitted to the ArXiv. Not to diminish this site but I'm guessing that generating HTML from Latex is a lot easier than doing it from PDF format.
I don't know where he went but I've occasionally thought about Raleigh or Chicago as like, way cheaper than Boston, where I am.
http://tika.apache.org

Which I'm pretty sure can be embedded in Solr, has plugins for Elasticsearch and others.
Not just negotiating compensation, but they could actually be more valuable to the company. The engineer who is always wondering 'what am I contributing to the bottom line' will make decisions that typically are more company focused. A bit sarcastic example ;) is as an engineer thinking about work to do or argue to get done. Do they rewrite some existing functionality in the latest js framework of the day or add a new feature that may lead to new sales?
> To express a ratio of 1000000:1, you need at least 20bits.

You only need 1 bit if you declare an encoding scheme where 1 == 1 million. You need 20 bits to define 1 million DIFFERENT luminances. Their ratio is subject to an arbitrary scaling.
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For Bluetooth the problem is different. While most people will probably not consciously notice the poor audio quality after long hours of listening they will experience fatigue. This is less likely with lossless audio.
I definitely agree that it's a lot more demanding than smartphone apps - or most of the rest of what we call software development.

I'm trying to make the switch from backend development to machine learning right now, and even though I have a supportive employer I've begun thinking about going back to school because the math involved seems steeper and harder to avoid.

Disclaimer: My math level is high school since I self-taught my way into software engineering.
Thanks for such an insightful and educational comment, AriaMinaei! Really interesting stuff.
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I remember reading that the Bluetooth spec has about 300ms of latency. Far too much for games, which is why no current console uses Bluetooth for their headsets.
But the "fat is bad" idea is fairly recent as well, really only since the 70s.
That was a marketing strategy, not something that was necessarily important to Apple. Apple did that to enter a market dominated by downloaded mp3s. Now it doesn't need that position. And besides many people have left the company since then, so a decision change wouldn't be strange.

More recently, the Movies and Apps parts of iTunes are very much DRM encumbered.
Unbreakable-links – GitHub pages permalinks library
Flint did not suffer from lack of lead detectors! The EPA knew for some time before but largely failed to act. Saying this girl is changing the world is like saying that SAT/ACT tutors in silicon valley are enabling disadvantaged kids.
If you can telecommute a lot, I recommend Maryland b/w D.C. and Annapolis. You can get a 4BR house for what a 1BR apartment costs in D.C., you can be at a farm in 20 minutes in one direction and a downtown bar in 10 minutes in the other, and I've got two different fiber providers available (I'm getting 2-gig installed soon). Unfortunately, the tech scene in the DMV area seems to be mostly in northern Virginia, which is probably the most overrated part of the entire country.
I honestly don't care about a headphone jack on a phone, I do care about the wireless charging...which the Pixel 2 lacks. Now that every phone has it (including the iPhone now,) it's baffling that Google felt it necessary to leave it out.

I'm at the point where I'd be happy to see Microsoft make their own Android phone, use the Arrow launcher to hook into Windows.
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Mine last about 4 hours, and are up and running again for at about another 2 hours in as little as 15 minutes.

Apple's quoted battery life and charging times seem accurate to me.
I suspect that long-term acolytes of Soylent are victims of marketing, rather than having made rational nutritional choices. Their product does seem to be targeted toward a particular psychological niche.
And Windows phone is built by people who think their phone OS needs to be Osbourned every 2 years and then finally abandoned.
You got 80% of a nice house for something like 120-140k (guessing at interest rate and term here)? In the states, or a cheap foreign country?
Same here. Send me an email justin@nugget.one let's chat.
Robert Scoble departs his AR company following sexual harassment claims
Actually a more serious reply. I'm not special at all, anyone living in a rural area ends up with a pickup. I need to stock pile gas at my place for the chainsaws and the chipper and the log splitter, etc. I usually have 25 gallons when I'm "full". The gas cans leak a little, do you want that in your nice car? Nope, that's what a pickup is for.

In rural areas it's normal to get stuck. I pull people out of the ditch all the time, can your car do that?

I have to carry 4 trash cans a mile and a half up the road every week, that's where the trash gets picked up, can your car do that?

I have to haul concrete bags up here all the time, like a pallet at a time, can your car do that?

All of you folks who live on the coast and do tech work seem to have forgotten that there are a bunch of people who are farmers or whatever, who live in rural areas, their needs are different than yours. The idea that they could rent a pickup for the few times a year that they need it just shows that you have no clue what their daily life is like.

And that's why Trump got elected. Get a clue, figure out how the fly over people live and maybe have some compassion for their lot. Or not, enjoy Trump 1.0, you'll get Trump 2.0 until you figure it out.
Raleigh or Chicago aren't $500/mo mortgage for a nice house cheap.
They could just stop approving new office space. I've noticed a lot of the prices increases started around when Twitter moved to Civic Center and SOMA began to open up to tech startups. I think the number of jobs vastly increased.
Is there any standard as to how to do some of these thing - API versioning? actions like login/logout? doing a GET on multiple IDs? spinal casing? common response object format? application specific error codes?
>Rust is out because of their cultlike traits and their need to turn a language into a political statement.

If you're going to eliminate languages for that, you're basically out of options.
Dropping the floppy also sucked. They were ubiquitous, and practically free. You could re-write them. Copying a file onto them was fast.

Writing to a CD was slow. And cost about a buck. And didn't always work.

So, yeah, there's pain with going to wireless headphones. But in 10 years, we're going to forget that.
Presuming you have access to the money and/or some expensive insurance to cover them. Don't forget about 99%.
I have seen a nice 4 story house sold for under 60k in the US. It's really all about location, location, location.
Nice! We're just starting a project using ROS, so I'm busy wrapping my head around it all. Have the motors turning and the 3D camera delivering data.

When you say it's a thin wrapper around DDS, are you using ROS 2 already?
> Why not just mix skyr and heavy cream if that's the kind of meal you want?

Requires refrigeration, not shelf stable, contains lactose, which not everyone can tolerate, contains cholesterol, less convenient than bottles, not vegan, for those who it matters to, and more expensive than the equivalent amount of Soylent to top it all off. And that's without even trying particularly hard to think of reasons.

And, for the record, I don't even drink Soylent anymore.
Tesla's secret second floor (reading on why not to outsource)
Thanks. The people in the unit adjacent to one of my dear friends are serial evictees. At this point, they haven’t paid rent in 8 months, and the landlord is totally on it, working to get them out legally.
I just have to ask why this is news? Is this really something newsworthy?

Cambridge's network probably isn't as hardened to spikes in traffic since they don't get much traffic. But still, it isn't 1995. They should have some form of load balancing or distributed/clustered web/data/file systems to handle temporary spikes in traffic and data requests. Serving simple static data isn't something that should "crash the site".
I ordered a Pixel 2.

Some of these first batch issues can be sorted by adjusting the production and I am more than willing to return a faulty device.
A couple of years ago, my friend bought... IIRC, a 40 MB wireless connection to his and his partner's new second, weekend home in the Eifel Mountains of Germany. (There was no reasonable wired option.)

I forget the exact details, but again IIRC it was well under 100 € / month (40?, 60?) and unmetered.

I was jealous.

Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but it fell into my mental category of "Europeans now getting a lot more and better connectivity for a lot less".

Contrasted with a decade or two earlier, when telecom prices over there seemed to be quite relatively high (compared to the U.S.).

P.S. Pinged him to check the details.
thanks, just might do that too!
Well, it's not like they need to ship the list of email addresses across the company in a truck.
Floating Data – data cast into resin sculptures
BuzzFeed isn’t even a chunk of dirty glass, never mind diamonds.
No, but they have a livelier job market than, like, Rochester or Buffalo, and comparatively they still look quite cheap.
Midrise can be very dense. Think Paris. So can lowrise. Think rowhouses.

So no, sprawl is not the best way to make housing affordable. Doubly so if you account for transportation costs.
These variables were there from the beginning; the question is whether the raccoon's model of the world was taking them all into account, a question which probably requires more experiments to answer.

Understanding is not a binary thing, as demonstrated by Clifford Stoll's 'Why is the sky blue?' question.
That is a classic.

I re-read it every few years, and if we all spent the time to ask smart questions in every sphere of our lives, we'd all be better off. It's hard to do though, because it demands we expect more of ourselves. Sometimes it's easy to just post a question to the ether than to do the hard work of investigation/research needed to ask a smart one.
For those in this thread that are confused what the tech companies could be looking for with these cleared people, let me give you an example. I used to work for a company that ran DNS services for public utilities i.e. "critical infrastructure". Every week we would get a classified list of "bad" domains (usually domains that malware would phone home to) from a 3 letter agency and we would notify the utilities if we saw any DNS requests for those domains from any of their computers. Only cleared personnel were allowed to see the list or touch any of the computers that saw the list in any way.

A tech company that wanted to work with a 3 letter agency to see such a list in order to protect their own infrastructure would need cleared personnel and a SCIF (the windowless air-gapped rooms that cleared people work from) to even talk to the agency about a list.
Ask HN: I just struck out on my own as a consultant. What do I need to know?
As the title says, I just took the big leap of working on my own as a self-employed freelance developer. It has been one of my dreams for a long time, and I finally got the urge by accepting a 1 year contract engagement.

Fiduciary and legal considerations have already been considered (C-Corps/LLCs, health insurance via my wife, quarterly taxes via accountant).

I just want to know all the more subtle things they don't tell you about going freelance when you start out. Like for example, my first job on my own is a relatively safe subcontractor role, but most engagements are much shorter and riskier. How soon before my contract ends should I begin lining up other work?

What about marketing myself? I know consulting firms generally only work 4 out of 5 days a week for their clients , how should I spend that 5th day?

Any other suggestions would be great. This is both an exciting and terrifying time for me, and even though the contract is signed, I am freaking out a little bit.
U.S. Congressional Auditor Urges Action to Address Climate Change
Just checked out Insomnia. From a first run through with a few endpoints it does seem beautifully done. I have been dismissive of electron-based apps in the past. VS.Code started to wear that down - I never took to using it because IntelliJ & emacs cover my bases, but I played with it enough to see its excellence. Now there's Insomnia. Perhaps I need to rethink my attitude to electron apps. I am uncomfortable with their size (eg. Insomnia @ 170MB), but given the quality that's clearly possible, I'm starting to distrust that discomfort.
I agree with all of this, but the knock on bluetooth sound quality doesn't fall into this category of audiophile foolishness.

It's real & severe downsampling, and incredibly noticeable.

Bluetooth 5 should have the bandwidth to solve this problem.
One that runs on X can be tunneled.
The Difficulty of Being a Beginner Again
I used to live in Canada, now back in UK. Canadians won’t push for reforms. They’ll accept it. Incredibly docile population. Also they have more pressing issues, online purchases from outside Canada are charged duty if the purchase is over CDN $20. In the US the duties apply only after USD $800. See: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/duty-free-limit-america-1.34... There are countless other ‘controls’ of this sort in place across a range of issues.
I didn't know anyone was afraid of dietary cholesterol in 2017. Remember, I'm advocating:

> Pasteurized Whole Milk, Pasteurized Cream, Live Active Cultures

Over:

> Filtered water, soy protein isolate, maltodextrin, high oleic sunflower oil, isomaltulose, canola oil, rice starch, oat fiber, isomaltooligosaccharide, soy lecithin, potassium chloride, calcium phosphate, magnesium phosphate, natural & artificial flavors, dipotassium phosphate, salt, choline chloride, gellan gum, sodium ascorbate, dl-alpha-tocopheryl acetate, ferrous gluconate, zinc sulfate, d-calcium pantothenate, niacinamide, sucralose, thiamine hydrochloride, copper gluconate, manganese sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin a palmitate, riboflavin, chromium chloride, biotin, folic acid, sodium molybdate, sodium selenite, phytonadione, potassium iodide, vitamin b12, vitamin d. contains: soy

I guess it is less convenient.

> more expensive than the equivalent amount of Soylent to top it all off

Somehow I don't think penny pinchers are Soylent's target audience, but maybe I'm wrong.
Northern Virginia has very low unemployment and high paying jobs. The area also has all 4 seasons fairly balanced, zero significant natural disasters, plenty of rainfall to stay green in the summer etc. Granted, you may not like that tradeoff, but it has a lot going for it.

Sure I moved to MD due to my current job, but I am seriously considering moving back.
Show HN: 75,000+ US Executives by Job Title
PCIe fabrics exist but they're not as great as you might expect. Because of the slow 8 Gbps lane speed the cables are enormous and the switches support very few ports. And the DMA engine may not give you the performance you expect if it doesn't have NIC-like features.

https://www.broadcom.com/applications/datacenter-networking/...
> I copied and pasted from their website, they capitalized everything, not me

Feel free to lowercase it yourself. HN readers will appreciate it!
Would like to say: If you would like to reverse these trends, or live in the SFBA and would like to be able to afford a home or condo without needing to commute from Stockton or hit the startup lottery, please pay attention to your local City Council and their zoning/land use decisions. Local decisions frequently don't get that many comments; your voice makes a difference.

- Brisbane may approve 4400 units of housing, or zero. 4400 units would be close to how many the Bay Area typically produces in a year.

- Cupertino and Sunnyvale residents frequently oppose new housing.

- San Francisco has a strong contingent of people that oppose large projects. There is one project near Glen Park BART, and another one with 1200 units at 700 Innes, that could use support in the coming months.

If you're not sure where to get started getting involved, contact me and I can point you in the right place. One good place to start would be to push your executives and VC's to actually work towards making housing affordable here in the Bay Area; for too many it's an afterthought.
> I used to know someone who had built a javascript version of the viewer.

Fellow former TGer-

Alpha Zaius/Ming Chen, I think? (Andy Ortman and his brother - featured on the news back then)

I think they post here.
The main census is only every ten years, but there are other datasets updates more often, as well as extrapolated data. The issue for me wasn’t data being out of date, it’s just that the structure and content is fairly arcane if you’re not well versed in census - I assume much of the structure has been carried forward over the decades as there’s an obvious need to make sure data is comparable across different census.
Why did you write that comment instead of doing 20 pushups and burpees? Granola isn't that great for you either, why not just eat raw oats? Best to mix it with water so that you can hopefully ween off your dairy addiction.

-- Just seems like empty one-upmanship on the internet.
> Wouldn't transient I/O error get corrected by block driver itself by repeating the request a few times?

I am surprised at the seeming assumption here that errors are always transient and you shouldn't worry because the retry will fix it. Sure that probably won't hurt, but it won't address the case where retries fail.
So they say. But the EU and Japan also banned it. I don't know who's right.
I just bought three 5x's on eBay refurbished for my family, each for $160-200, to run Google Fi. They'd all boot-looped-to-death on their previous owners, who had sent back to Google/LG under warranty but then moved on to new phones.

So far so good for me. Their screens have minor scratches, but they have new batteries and logic boards. One has a non-working headphone jack but is otherwise fine. Wait, actually that was the fourth one, that we sent back under warranty.
Fruit Walls: Before Greenhouses, Garden Walls Created Urban Micro-Climates
Note that many of the systems engineers are not working directly for the government.