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> Was it that he was avant-garde for the time?

I don't think that's it exactly. It's very hard to put a finger on. He was often baby-faced as in this interview, but he was a vicious prankster under the hood.

He once surprised an audience by refusing to do any act other than reading aloud The Great Gatsby. After seven minutes (!), the last 4 of which saw him being heckled relentlessly, he asked the audience if they wanted him to play a record instead (presumably many thought he was going to do his Mighty Mouse - one of his most famous routines), and of course they cheered. However, he had already had a vinyl pressed of him reading the The Great Gatsby - picking up right where he had left off.

He continued to read the entire novel as the auditorium emptied over the course of the next 2 hours. He was already a mega star at this point, and finished reading the novel to an almost empty house.

(The first part of this was captured on video, here: http://www.teachertube.com/video/andy-kaufman-reads-gatsby-1...).

edit: Actually, I'm not sure that this clip is from the same event at which he read the entire novel; this one might be where he just did the first 8 minutes of it on SNL (which is also insane).

second edit: You know, now I'm questioning whether he ever did read the entire book to an audience - I have found a website which claims he didn't, but that his publicist just spread a rumor that he did in order to put the audience on edge before the SNL thing. Perhaps I'm confusing it with the depiction in Man on the Moon, in which he does.

> Should I go watch Taxi/Man on the Moon?

Oh yeah. Man on the Moon is a great film; some of Jim Carrey's best work.

> What is quintessential Kaufman?

In my opinion, Tony Clifton. Absolute brilliance.

He was a terrible lounge singer who went to "meet the audience" during his set. He picked on a single person and horribly abused them - throwing their dinner away, pouring water on their head, making fun of their ethnicity, etc, until the audience was enraged.

However, this single person was always a plant - often his brother or his long time writing partner, Bob Zmuda.

Also, his commitment to character was extreme: by all accounts, Andy never, ever smoked cigarettes or drank alcohol (though he did say that cannabis and LSD had been influences on his thinking).

However, as Tony Clifton, he actually drank and smoked to excess. It's bizarre to see. I can't think of another performer who actually changed something so crucial about his diet just for the purposes of being in character.

It's stuff like this that made Andy so memorable.
Honestly, this is a long article, but it's worth reading. It's written somewhat in response to another article by a millennial wanting her older colleagues to share more.

Part of that is quoted in this article, including this passage:

> Most of my new colleagues are at least 10 years my senior. Several of them have children, spouses, and mortgages. They are adults. Comparatively, I am a child.

This really hits home, because I'm on the flip side of this now. In my current role I'm a lead on a team and am one of the oldest team members (late 30s). Most of my coworkers are 10 years my junior, so it's weird structuring conversations that don't involve in-depth discussion of kids and spouses and homes and school, etc. Not that it's all I want to talk about, but it is a pretty common place to go to when you're talking over lunch in the cafeteria. Now more of my conversations are back in the beer, sports, and video games realm, which I also enjoy, but it's just different.
How is the Dell laptop in general?

I'm about to ditch apple and was thinking to get either a Dell or a ThinkPad.
What's so surprising about Markdown?
Nice blanket statement, i don’t think you speak for any die hard Apple fans here. I’m a die hard fan, and I still use all their native apps. I’m not sure how you say they are bloated, notes is probably the best in class of notes apps out there. The calendars and reminder features are stripped down to a fault, but still useful because it just works for me. The stability of the software is getting worse, but with any issues, people are 10x more sensetive than other platforms that have all the same issues.
SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber
How IBM builds an effective data science team
Bad government in the US is a self fulfilling prophecy and has been for close to half a century.
Have adults ruined children's sport?
HN has a surprisingly strong alt-right contingent, they’re just more subtle about it than Reddit.
Do they have kid menus? $130 for 4 people would be $520. That's insane.

That's the monthly rent for a many bedroom flat in France (outside of major cities). The after tax income is twice or three times that number. Don't expect a middle class family to eat there.
When a question is closed only a single reason is given, even though each vote may have used a different reason. It's not always informative.
I studied applied mathematics and I often point those (few) people who ask me questions about abstract issues towards their articles (e.g. about symmetry and group theory). They're excellent in that regard.

Regarding other subjects, I'm no expert, but I appreciate their style (and I have to say their infographics are very pleasing on the eye). I never watch videos or multimedia content so I can't vouch for the videos either (which others in this thread have expressed appreciation for).
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In 2017, you received 0 birthday wishes
Pretty good for me:

My battery life is around 10-12 hours (watching video drops to about 6-7 hours)
I did the following out of the box:

- Use the Intel graphics exclusively

- TLP

- Powertop adjustments

I also have the screen set at a low pretty brightness level as I find the 9550 screen pretty bright (too bright) at mid-high levels.

SPECS:

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Ubuntu 17.10

Dell 9550 XPS

i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz

non-4K screen (doing this will really save your battery)

16GB RAM

Intel® HD Graphics 530 + NVidia

512GB SSD
> Isn't it a contradiction to say it's below market rate when the market determined that the wage being paid is fair?

Circular logic / begging the question. The crux of the debate is whether the free-market is a good arbiter of fairness.

> Teen/single mother pregnancy is the best predictor of poverty.

Poverty is the best predictor of teen/single mother pregnancy.

Circumstances of birth are the best predictor of poverty.
No. While it’s impossible for imperfect humans to completely separate the meal from the overall experience, Michelin claims that its star ratings are solely based on the cuisine.

On the other hand, diners often have a certain level of expectation of the service and ambiance surrounding a meal that costs as much as is typically required to economically produce Michelin-ranked cuisine.
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Wouldn't you want them to stay if they are contributing to the good of the village?
Yes, "high-leverage" is a phrase I use in the book. I learned about leverage when I read Andy Grove's High Output Management.

Why the word leverage?

Time is our most limited resource. And so the way to really increase our impact (say by 10x) is not to increase the number of hours you work, but to increase your rate of impact, which is how I define leverage in the book.

Another way to think about leverage is in terms of a lever, which lets you apply a little bit of force, have it amplified, and then move large boulders. Many of the stories and strategies from the book talk about these leverage points in engineering, e.g. investing in iterating speed or validating your ideas early and often, where small bits of effort end up having a disproportionate impact.
Wow, thanks for this suggestion! I was having some major graphical issues on a 2013 Macbook Pro with a GT 750M to the point where I was disabling GPU hardware acceleration in everything, the worst being flashes of an old framebuffer when trying to playback video. The NVIDIA drivers definitely seem way better so far.
Frilled shark
Try to get paid for it, you can get immediate and real feedback.
The quoted top speed for micrometeorites has to be wrong. Perhaps missing a 0? 45 mph is silly low, there's no way Martian atmospheric drag could slow them that much, let alone the case of the moon.
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There are a lot of arbitrary rules baked into the code to theoretically improve the quality, as the original designers (particularly Jeff Atwood) believed that overall site quality was crucial to the long-term viability of the site. Unfortunately there's a lot of collateral damage.
I'm an historian of Europe in the 1500-1800 period and I have to say, respectfully, that your assumptions about the continuity of ethnic identity are just factually incorrect. As an example, 'Spain' was not just a single ethno-state in earlier periods - it was a patchwork of different kingdoms with distinct languages and customs. In fact Spanish identity is not even a single formation today, as any Galician or Catalan or Basque would be likely to tell you. And indeed there are many parts of Spain that have more in common with neighboring regions in France (or Portugal) than with other parts of Spain. This was the norm up until the 19th century when ethnicity became fetishized. I can point you to many books and journal articles on this if you're genuinely interested.
Yep, it's hosted on Zeit.co's Now service (https://now.sh), and they are experiencing a major service outage today. :( Most of the information on the site can be found either on themer's readme (https://github.com/mjswensen/themer) or the GUI wrapper app's readme (https://github.com/mjswensen/themer-gui).
> testing Linux kernel variants and their stock OS configurations/kernel scheduler setups, and FreeBSD was tossed into the mix

For a lot of people who don't have time/understanding to play with things much beyond using stock versions and configuration, this could still produce a useful benchmark. People who have the knowledge, confidence, and time, probably won't be reading the article at all as they'll have already performed their own less artificial tests (i.e. benchmarking with their own application using live-like data and load patterns).

Though that is my argument against any benchmark like this: it is at best an indicator of peak activity under very specific conditions, a starting point but it doesn't really represent my application with any precision nor accuracy.

> it wasn't clear if you had a warmup period to your benchmarks

I would agree that is a significant point.
I don't understand this, AFAIK a problem is NP-Hard or NP-Complete (or P) in _general_, that is, over all instances. But not so for a specific instance. Wouldn't these games count as just one specific instance of the problem?
If capitalism is to blame for this profit chase, then who’s to blame for capitalism?
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Code generators at our place are most often written in java (xtext, xtend), rarely in other interpreted languages, almost never in C++. Of course, there are grey areas when the price of using another tool, integrating it into build system(which itself sometimes is non-trivial task, if done properly) has to be carefully considered against obtained pros.
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Everyone is fully aware of that, just like how you can open a text editor and write a bash script that will work too.

But building an entire application like that would be insane!

There's websites, and there are web-applications, just like there are small scripts and there are full "applications". Yelling about how it's unnecessary complexity that someone made a python3 program with pip, tox, pyGTK and more when you could just open a text editor and write python 2.7 sounds silly doesn't it? Would you go to the maintainers of a large C project and tell them that CMake is unnecessary when they can just compile from the command line? Or just use make?

You can do that, but having these extra tools, this extra complexity pays off later when the application is larger, or when it needs to be maintained for many years.

Yes, I could just open a JS file and write JS, and I do for some websites, but for larger full applications, I want to use the newer language features, I want a compiler that will translate my code into something that all browsers can run, I want a compiler/linker that can do tree shaking and reduce the code size, I want a framework that makes it easier to architect a full application, I want a CSS module system to help manage the complexity of styling, I want a minifier that can optimize and reduce the size of my code, I want a unit testing framework that can help me prove my code is correct, I want to write in a dialect of javascript that can do type checking, I want a system to compress images to their smallest size for performance during the build process, I want to use packages that others have written, I want to have a cross platform task runner that makes it easy to develop, I want a "hot-reload" system which makes iterating through changes significantly faster, etc...

I want all of that, because the extra hour or 2 setting something up now will pay off when I need to maintain this application for the next decade or more.
For folks who live in the general area but not necessarily that particular town, I imagine it easily could be. For folks who have to fly across the world and take significant time off from work, probably much less so.
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Photos of a recent capture in Portugal:

https://www.ipma.pt/pt/media/noticias/news.detail.jsp?f=/pt/...
I don't disagree with you about researchers being unwilling to share their raw data if somebody is not a known researcher in the field, but I consider it rather despicable behaviour.
I thought that backlash already occurred in 2016 with a certain election.

I find it a little scary to see how much worse the backlash might look like.
What do effective engineers do then? Based on your experience, what practices do they implement?
> 10M iterations took 8 minutes for a single hash.

~: time node -p 'crypto.pbkdf2Sync("password", "salt", 10e6, 32, "sha256").toString("hex")'
3c0873fa17659d22450cfcc4a7dd8e51e66db276a0d594cc729baba5af5cedd8
node -p 6.55s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 6.576 total

10 million iterations in 6.5 seconds on a cheap laptop. Not sure what caused your numbers, but spending a few seconds on a password hash is not “idiocy”.
Not exactly, there exist various approximations for some problems which give a better solution than brute force.
Is your quote in support of bubbles being around for a while, or simply that politics are bad?
nail->head

Cheap-fast options put money into the pockets of those who provide those options. The markup is ridiculous. The staff make little to nothing.

It wasn't until the 2015 Dietary Recommendations for Americans that any agency that fresh food is better, in many ways, than packaged foods. This was a glimmer of hope. But, while the American government continues to benefit corporations and not individuals we will probably see little improvement.
Ah. Khm. Now I looked at the username blushes. Um, TBH if I didn't read you here I'd assume the line in "non-goals" means you actively don't want me to use it in pretty much anything I ever do, and follow that. I'd probably have to roll my own binding anyway, but now I'll at least pay attention.
When people talk about AI and Robotics, I don't believe there is na understanding about how complex those topics are and how difficult it is.

AI: There's a lot of active research, and there has been a lot of aggressive pushes to be buzzword compliance there. I think this has a lot of potential to make improvements, but with AI you have to understand what you're doing there. (To be effective) I think there would be a lot of value in having research institutions on AI (and a consultancy).

Robotics: We've seen a lot of improvements on this, but I'm not getting the feeling that it's a mature technology. We're still having difficulty getting this to be easier to implement and working with it. The algorithms behind navigation, and motor control are intense and have taken a lot of research.
Bilingualism might be good for your brain, and Esperanto takes a fraction of the time to learn as typical natlangs.
Will he still lecture the common person about global warming ?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/tim-cook...

I find it supremely hypocritical when the super rich lecture people about their electricity usage when they use an order of magnitude more.
I've gone to Google for answers quite a few times, but only because I'm truly interested in the question and/or answer. Internet points don't motivate me, being helpful does.
Microsoft OneNote is quite good.
Best of Word and Excel, plus has good sharing features and change history.
[meta question] Are most HN readers subscribers of wsj? I never see anybody mark these posts as pay-walled.. Either way I'm considering buying a subscription.
Add "securely" to the features for this one. Because if it's going to log on to all your accounts, it has to have names and passwords for all your accounts. If it can be compromised, the attacker gets all your stuff.
It seems to me that most rules will stop applying after some amounts of points. The founders and early users are never subjected to them, while it's a major hassle for everyone else.
If the MBP without TouchBar that they are currently selling came with the same SSD/CPU options and 32Gb of RAM I'd buy it in a heartbeat. I also know I'm far from alone in that.

Argument #2 is parrotting what Apple said. Laptops that get smaller and smaller tend not have the same power efficiency either. Blaming 'more memory' having lower power efficiency is a weak argument when you look at the whole picture. As for transfer speeds, its not true that more memory = lower transfer speed; it depends on a number of other factors (type of memory, clock rate..)
You're both technically right, but you're writing in a way that suggests his article is somehow without basis or not something to worry about; but it's just the opposite.

It seems he's pointing out that, even if you turn off location services, any app can just get around that by locating you via wifi. Isn't that worrisome, even if not unique to Uber?
what? who is the junkie in this metaphor?
Probably should be meters per second.
Yeah, I think that would be a reasonable alternate approach. It's not really "safer", though.

None of the replicas are guaranteed to have all of the messages that reached the old leader (some of those might never have been replicated anywhere). So clients that didn't receive acknowledgements might need to retry on the new leader, no matter what. Since the clients have to have retry logic anyway, there's no safety issue with discarding some of the messages that weren't yet acknowledged.

Your suggestion would try to minimize the number of necessary retries, but at the cost of adding delay and complexity to the leader election process.
How Two Italian Brothers Created a Fashion Startup Named 'Steve Jobs'
It's actually a good time for that, since it's at 50% discount.
I find it endlessly hilarious that nobody in the US is asking

WHY

Why are people taking drugs?

The country needs to do some serious soul searching. Won't happen though.
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There is a backlash to this ancient mode of thinking. It's called Conscious Leadership and it's predicated on the idea that vulnerability brings better results and that you need a safe environment for the dynamic to flourish. Some of it sounds very new-agey but from what I've read and experienced it has really good fundamentals.
They have lost their way.

Mobile should be a separate brand, or perhaps the other way around.

They're all about content consumption, at the expense of creators.
It's more likely they don't want to go to court because they know the accusations are bullshit.
After updating to High Sierra, my screen freezes and then glitches with psychedelic patters for a couple of seconds every time I log in. Not sure if it's just me.
Speck of dust in a blink of time
Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Affecting Windows Thunderbird Fixed
Why the SAFT is important for blockchain projects
In my experience, babel is the single most unreliable and unusable piece of the build machine.

The issue to blame is https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/12590 which has been "iceboxed" and not fixed. In short, I have to patch metro each build, to increase the time it waits before killing babel, since the 5 minute timeout simply doesn't cut it.

Debug builds would take over 30m to transform with babel.
I generally use words only when I need to communicate. I have different forms that I think with depending on what I'm doing. For example, when I'm coding, I think in terms of methods, objects, and data. The process of selecting words to speak or type is very much like finding the right code pattern.
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If the duplicate doesn't answer your question, you're supposed to edit your own question to indicate why the linked question wasn't helpful. At that point you're supposed to magically attract enough attention to get the question reopened. Unfortunately it rarely works out that way.
Based on that response, I don't think you are understanding how it works (or I didn't explain it well). This is for emails originating from insurance companies.

Software intercepts any queued or targeted outbound email, then:

1. Replaces the body with a hyperlink to a web site and instructions, removing all PHI.
2. Hyperlink instructs recipient to login create account / login to view mail over SMTP.
3. Recipient logs into website (with TLS obviously) and reads email with PHI over secured channel.
4. Recipient can now read and reply using the website.

Pretty simple. As far as physicians communicating with each other and pharmacies, they typically use faxes and phone calls.
That's actually decriminalization, not legalization.
The title suggests that a discovery had been made that explains why the universe exists.

Can you come up with a more grandiose title?
> Why is Apple software so terrible these days?

This is nothing new. This is status quo. It's been going on for years. Even when Jobs was around. Thinking it wasn't happening is akin to someone now saying, "I don't see any issues."

> They have enough money to hire the very best programmers, why are they skimping on the most important part of their company?

Ask them why they colluded with other tech companies to keep salaries low and thereby affect an entire industry. They've chosen not to invest in their developers.

> It's really gotten very evident that the quality at Apple is slipping big time, a lot of resters-and-vesters instead of people who love their job.

Again, this is nothing new. Apple has a long history of failures and horrible software that people conveniently forget about as time goes on.

> such a rich company who can afford the very, very best.

Again, they worked hard to ensure they don't have to pay it. Enough so that they were taken to court over it, and lost.

But don't believe for a minute that other solutions are somehow better. Or that other companies don't benefit from Apple's collusion, even if they didn't take part.
What about use taxes? Given it is a voluntary exchange, the government has the right to it, right?
Yea, in space it's 10 km/sec. My guess is that it's still many m/sec by mars surface.