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> The exact lifetime depends on how much current the pacemaker takes to operate.

Not so sure. I don't think the plutonium decay is affected by the current drawn via the thermocouple - it'll just keep putting out the same power (well, the same decaying power curve anyway) no matter how much current you try and draw. I suspect the thermocouple's voltage will just sag so the maximum drawn power will be the thermal output less the efficiency of the conversion (which, I guess, might be non-linear with current?).

But I'm pretty sure whether you draw zero Amps or short circuit the output, you'll still have precisely 50% of your plutonium left after 88 years, right?
There is another nice project which just copy pasted others papers to get own white paper: https://www.cubeintel.com

A little more analysis about cube: https://medium.com/@ak239spb/how-to-build-fake-ico-9f837a4eb...
And a better take on Simone's work from Daily Beast:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ces-was-full-of-useless-robots...
> The fast rail between LA and SF is really about not having to expand a dozen airports which are near or over capacity.

No, it's really about reducing the growth in North-South personal and passenger freeway traffic and reducing expected capital and maintenance costs to handle that; that's pretty much the entire basis of the cost justification.
Natural does not refer in this context to origin but to a pre industrialization diet?
Pingtype's keyboard uses character decomposition data that I generated myself based on cjk-decomp-0.4.0.txt.

https://cjkdecomp.codeplex.com

Just type a character in the text box (using handwriting recognition), then if the character isn't the right one, click on the parts to break it up and rebuild the one you wanted. Then click Insert to copy it to the text translation area, where it can be translated into pinyin, bopomofo, etc.
Off-topic probably:

This timing!

I'm going to interview on Tuesday with a startup in SF.
I've spent better part of last 3 weekends studying and solving DS&A.

Any advice from HN on what could I do in ~14 hours of prep time?
Somebody in my family has a pacemaker, and is fully dependent on it. I can confirm this part:

> Easier to replace the whole pacemaker than the battery

unfortunately, this statement:

> As for how long the cells last, modern Lithium Thionyl Chloride cells last 5-10 years depending on the pacemaker. They probably actually last longer, manufacturers are pretty conservative with lifetime estimates.

only partially applies in this case. That pacemaker has a lot of work to do (stimulate every single heart beat), and depending on the quality of the electrodes on the heart, and the cables that lead to them, some needed to be replaced after two or three years. If one lasts 7 years, that is a very welcome respite, but quite the exception.

That said, pacemakers have come a long way. The first on that this person had implanted had a fixed beat. The current generation has sensors for oxygen saturation and movement, and be configured and maintained through a wireless interface, they log unusual events etc.
More like criminal.
Which Android version do your phones run?
I'm not clear by what you mean; I'm new to the eink hardware scene and I don't know a lot about graphics rendering or how duble buffering works. It seems that from my understanding that you transfer the parts memory frame from the mcu to the memory on the eink display driver then you call the display driver to update the display and run the LUT tables and analog signals to do the stuff with the ink based on the current memory on the eink driver. However I am probably not right in some regards because not all eink displays have drivers and this process might not be case for all eink displays or I'm just misunderstanding how it works.
> FoldiMate

Is this a joke? A machine that, when you take a piece of laundry and after de-tangling each piece (fixing inside-out/sleeves/etc) and then orienting it properly, insert it into the machine in a specific way, will fold laundry in "a few" minutes. All this for the low price of $1,000 USD and they claim to deliver in two years (which we all know will slip).

If this machine let me dump a dry bucket of laundry in the top and came out folded, that might be useful but expensive.

If it let me dump a dirty bucket of laundry in the top and it came out clean/dry/folded, that would be super useful and cheap!
Aww man you mean these alternative cryptocurrencies are just copy pasting from github and giving them a new name?

I like that people publish their code and then cry when people take it. The area between FOSS and proprietary software is a purgatory for people with analysis paralysis that can’t pick a fucking side.
When set to true, lets you middle-mouse-paste into the content area to load the url in the PRIMARY selection. That way you don't have to worry about whether selecting the text in the URL bar so you can replace it with the URL will clobber PRIMARY.

Only relevant on X, where there is a PRIMARY, of course. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/139193 for a quick description of what PRIMARY is and how it differs from CLIPBOARD.
Setting up Deplicity and BackBlaze for automated backups
The Bay Area is already incredibly glutted, and is the site of most of Amazon's competitors. They already have a presence there that can be gradually expanded upon. There is no reason to build an entire second headquarters there unless they wanted to bring about even further hatred and rancor on the part of those who detest growing CoL. They would only fan the flames of anti-tech discontent. It also makes the entire HQ2 contest completely pointless, as the mayor of San Jose has already rejected it to begin with: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/05/san-jose-mayor-no-swee...
With <30 transactions/s, which is state-of-art, they don't have any future. If a better protocol keeping Satoshi's goals but more scalable is invented, then we will see something that might not be just a bubble.
You should get a ThinkPad, at least, one of the models with an under-keyboard drip tray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U5n2WaMMHo

I think Apple have the same basic design, just they use the motherboard, which has to be replaced after each spill ;)
> But I'm pretty sure whether you draw zero Amps or short circuit the output, you'll still have precisely 50% of your plutonium left after 88 years, right?

True.

The power requirements can still vary between patients (due to varying quality of the electrical contacts, which tends to deteriorate over time), so there is an individual component, it's just not based on the power drawn from the battery.
The code seems most heavily copied from ethereumj
Indeed. They took a bunch of smaller words and spliced them together to fake his voice print. Cambridge Consultants are clearly harvesting our voice prints for the CIA. ;)
bitL, check out raiblocks, byteball or other DAG based coins.

For blockchain based coins, bitcoin-ng does provide ways to improve current way.
> For those who are whining about this issue. All these issues are common in development. If you say it's not, you haven't worked on serious projects with so much pressure to deliver.

Don't most "serious" companies have lawyers that will spit venom at you if you even think about looking at code that doesn't have a permissible enough license?
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I get a real kick out of getting home after the vacuuming robot has been doing my housework while I'm out :-)

I'd love a similarly simple way to press a button and have my laundry done - I've seen combined washer/dryers, but I'd love something that sorted and folded everything for me...

(Interestingly, I live alone, and do not have any motivation to buy a dishwasher.)
As you clearly demonstrate, intelligence has a genetic basis. However, it does not follow that there is variation among humans at the relevant genetic loci. The variation may have become fixed in an ancestral population of modern humans.
Note that this is almost certainly less efficient in terms of time, water use and energy use, than using a modern dishwasher.

The other benefit we find of using a dishwasher in a family is that the dishwasher produces a consistent and good result as compared to a 8-12 year old trying to hand-wash, and kids can be trained to competently unload things if you store plates and glasses "low". So the aggregate effort for parents is almost zero.

I'm thinking that the bulk of people giving advice like yours live in smaller-scale households and don't entertain, or don't entertain in a way that generates any dishes. I think a dishwasher would probably be a bit weird if I lived alone, as it would take ages to fill with dirty dishes and I would probably wind up having to retrieve stuff from it all the time.
It's nothing new when it comes to competitive programming, which whiteboard interviews are just watered-down versions of. Russian/EE/Chinese universities are doing that for ages:

https://www.edx.org/course/how-win-coding-competitions-secre...
Not saying I fully buy into it, but this shift is exactly as predicted by Strauss–Howe generational theory.[1] The younger, more conformist Artist archetype generation ('Gen Z,' b2005-????) shows different behavior from the older, more individualistic Hero archetype generation ('Gen Y,' b1982-2004).

The cutoff isn't exactly distinct (some people put it after 9/11/2001), so depending on who you ask either Gen Z is just entering teenage years (2005), or most teenagers are already Gen Zers (2001).

Heck, it even predict HN's (Gen Yers) general reaction of disdain for the "overprotected" and "timid" generation. Take comfort though: it also predicts that Gen Y will be a dominant generation ("independent behavior + attitudes in defining an era"), while Gen Z will be recessive ("dependent role in defining an era").

Here are the descriptions. I added the actual and projected dates of the latest cycle in parentheses:

> Hero generations enter childhood after an Awakening (1961–1981), during an Unraveling (1982-2004), a time of individual pragmatism, self-reliance, and laissez faire. Heroes grow up as increasingly protected post-Awakening children, come of age as team-oriented young optimists during a Crisis (2005-2025), emerge as energetic, overly-confident midlifers (2025-2044), and age into politically powerful elders attacked by another Awakening (2045-2064).

> Artist generations enter childhood after an Unraveling (1982-2004), during a Crisis (2005-2025) a time when great dangers cut down social and political complexity in favor of public consensus, aggressive institutions, and an ethic of personal sacrifice. Artists grow up overprotected by adults preoccupied with the Crisis, come of age as the socialized and conformist young adults of a post-Crisis world (2025-2044), break out as process-oriented midlife leaders during an Awakening (2045-2065), and age into thoughtful post-Awakening elders (2065-2084).

"History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss-Howe_generational_theo...
Wow. Thanks for the sources.

His Twitter profile says

"@Forbes Asia 30 Under 30丨the Only Millennial Student of Jack Ma from @alibabagroup"
I move my vacuum robot up and down stairs as needed. I'm not _quite_ lazy enough to buy a second one for upstairs (but I _have_ considered it, I use an inexpensive Chinese knockoff, not a brand-name-priced Roomba...)
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Still, Voyager 1 is slowly shutting down its scientific instruments due to decreased power supply.

I highly recommend this podcast episode with one of the Voyager project managers: https://www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/2016/8/5/episode-5... (about 20 minutes long, iirc)

(In fact, I'd highly recommend the whole podcast, not just this episode, but this one actually talks about power consumption and battery life of Voyager).
I understand this encourages an imperfect system, but I would have really appreciated this as an undergraduate who didn't understand how interviews worked.

While the system is admittedly problematic, does it really come as a surprise that for extremely competitive jobs at the entry level, such artificial hurdles need to be used to filter the plethora of black-box applicants? I can't speak to more senior roles, but for entry-level, this only seems like a natural (and practical) response. It happens everywhere, not just CS:

For any competitive school admissions, SAT/LSAT/MCAT what-have-you are all poor indicators of student performance, and boil down to trainable tests.

In finance (both quant finance/and positions like sell side banking, private equity), people constantly practice math/financial modeling/accounting, for interviews. Many of the more selective quant shops (for undergrad hiring, I should mention) have much more difficult problems than MS/GOOG/AMZN technical interviews, and I would argue the type of competition level math/probability are just as unrelated to their jobs.

In management consulting, people spend hundreds of hours practicing for case study interviews. Just search consulting interview prep, and you'll find an egregious number of prep companies.

Some people brought up law and medicine. First, I don't think the grueling nature of the medicine certification is even close to what it takes to be an entry level developer. In law, while "technical" interviews are rare, often times employers filter you by much cruder means: pedigree (both the school you attend, and at top echelon law firms, clerkship status, and top-top grades within those schools). Is that any better?

The common denominator here is the high demand for all of these schools/jobs, and the problem always seems to come down to, how to optimally recruit -given- resource constraints. Maybe I'm cynical but almost any reasonable entry-level interview can be "gamed" or trained for, and most firms are either small and lack resources to extensively evaluate their applicants holistically, especially if they're only in undergrad, or they are large and get way too many applicants, so some proxy is necessary.
I am confused. Wasn't this part of the statement in the Godfather with what happens at a fruit stand on the street?
All you need to do is to enforce functional programming everywhere and only CS academics would stay ;-)
Received a google home mini for xmas, was curious to see what I could do with it. On trying to play music, would not make http requests to youtube for me, wanted me to have Google Play account. Then I tried to query 'closest open pharmacy to my house' a dozen different ways but would not do it. If I could make queries of the nature I stated, and if these voice assistants would just stop trying to get me to download their apps and make http requests to public sites for me, it would blow things wide open!
The first can be relatively rigorously defined. The second is more of a shared feeling on morality.

In any event, I don't see Harvard or MIT awarding lottery slots in their entering class to working class kids and minorities who scored 900 on their SAT (or more likely, didn't even take it).
A competent team would take it seriously. That said, you can be naive about it all too and not realize how serious licensing is to a company. So in my opinion it must be a company directive, and part of induction to make sure your developers understand the issue properly.
If your time is that valuable, just hire someone to come once a week for a couple hours to do those things. In your lifetime, it will always be cheaper than a robot. Plus a real human being will be more pleasant to converse with.

Alternatively, multitask and listen to the news or an audiobook while you do your household chores.
I was kind of expecting something to do with the classic economics paper "The Market for Lemons", but in this case it seems to be actual literal lemons, for what it's worth!
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All you mentioned still might not be sufficient if people don't like working with you or if you are so good that interviewers feel threatened by you regarding their future career prospects if they let you in. Happens all the time.
What company? Tron? I do not believe it really exists, or if they do, they are serious.
Wow this is great news! As someone who finds GitHub Pages with Cloudflare nearly perfect for my simple site, this change would make it even more so!
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If you would add some kind washer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_drying_cabinet you would get this.
It’s mostly a copycat culture. But the best companies today are getting smarter and using more realistic interview techniques that accurately reflect the work.

I’m also working on the space with www.onsites.co to solve how broken the interview experience is.
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Household of one checking in. I eat at home maybe 6 or 8 times a week.If I eat breakfast at home, I'll usually just drop the bowl or plate int he sink and fill it with water, then wash it while doing my dinner plate if I eat at home that night, or while waiting on the coffee machine the next morning. Mostly I wash dinner cooking utensils as I go, and my cutlery and crockery after I'm done (Friday or Saturday nights if I've eaten at home, they'll sometimes sit in the sink overnight...)

When I entertain, I deal with things as required. (Admittedly not often...)
As an aside, what is the range for "low six figures?" I hear this term a lot, and it seems ambiguous to me. If I hear "low 90's" I can reasonably assume between 90-93, but what does low six figures mean? Is it 100k-103k as an analogue to the 90's example? Or is 100k-300k? If the former, than it's probably most useful just to say 100k. If the latter, then that range is too wide to mean anything.
Miners have proven to be unreliable. F2pool has been accused of manipulating Status ICO:

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@dhumphrey/f2pool-manipulates-u...
The two dishwasher thing is getting traction. Cupboards are just another place to accumulate things you don't need.
Do Codelab at Facebook, sleep, avoid jetlag.
would you settle for a drip dry shelf over the sink? it solves the dry and put them away part and just leaves the washing part which can be made a lot easier by doing the following:

- before you leave anything in the sink, quickly rinse it if there is anything on it that will go hard

- washing with gloves on is easier since you can have the water boiling hot which means in turn does most of the work

- or install a double sink. leave things soak in 1 sink so most stuff will just fall off, then in most cases all you have left to do is rinse it

- if there is still some gunk left on them then one of those jet taps would help
Quants have insane interviews as well.
> I missed the boat

Why do you think you missed the boat? Yes, the 1st boat maybe, but I think there is still time and room for the rest of us who haven't invested. Only we can't expect the 10000% gains in 1 months like the early adopters and risk takers did.

I say that because mainstream brokerages are slowly getting into this space. Goldman Sachs said it will open a Crypto Trading desk this summer. Bloomberg has already added Bitcoin, Etherium and Ripple to its Quotes Terminal.
I've ended up really liking them there for the easy ctrl+pgup to flick between browser/terminal/etc. tabs. I don't tend to hit them by accident though, can see how that would get frustrating.
There's an even easier way. Work at home naked.
I think there may be a case of plea bargaining behind that, assuming it's true. Many prosecutors like to offer suspects the option of pleading to a minor crime with minor punishment versus going to trial for a more serious crime.

In the ideal case, if the suspect is actually guilty, they save the prosecutors office time and money in actually preparing the case for trial, and the defendant gets a lesser punishment and doesn't spend their money on a trial defense either.

In the less ideal case, say if the suspect is actually innocent but is not believed or can't prove it easily, the suspects are put in a tough position - plead guilty to something they didn't do, or a long and expensive trial with uncertain outcome. It gets particularly dubious when the prosecutors try to tilt the scales towards the plea side by threatening to go for the max punishment on the most serious crime they could possibly charge if the suspect chooses a trial. It sounds like this could be a case where this threat was carried out and the prosecutor is going for a knowingly over the top punishment to punish them for daring to not take a guilty plea.
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I don't think most people have a problem with the class itself. It's more that the technical interview has gotten away from a practical method of showing what you know, and is now becoming a skill to maximize itself, whether or not it actually demonstrates if you can do the job.

To take an absurd example, imagine if for some reason Law firms started requiring an Irish Stepdancing component to their hiring process. I'm sure broadly speaking, you'll see the most dedicated lawyers practicing away on nights and weekends, and the best Law Schools with the best students will hire the best Irish Stepdancing teachers. But at the end of the day, Irish Stepdancing has very little to do with practicing Law. Similarly, if solving stupid whiteboard problems has so little to do with being a Software Engineer, that they can't be learned in the 40+ other courses or internships/PT work, that a student will have to do in their time at University, then the question is why are they even done?
Canada and some European countries have a merit based immigration, it seems to work better for them than the American system that they eschew.

Immigration should be based on supply and demand - this is an objective measure and not based on someone’s arbitrary definition of fairness and social equity (they are different for everyone).
Certainly here in Portland that's what people complain about. The rent here isn't as bad as, say, New York City or San Francisco. But it does mean that over time people can no longer afford to live in the neighborhood they grew up in, and it means change that the existing residents don't want.
I probably should have just flagged and downvoted their off topic

You did the right thing.
But it works for every other case.
Saying along those lines used to be a popular joke among Soviet nuclear scientists.
Now let's think about the feeling of people in other countries when be attacked by US missiles.
The sandboxing between apps on non-jailbroken iOS (and to a lesser extent un-rooted Android) is such that having the secrets stored in an app's database renders them secure against basically any attack that doesn't involve physical access to the device.

It's best not to rely on just one mechanism. Sandboxing mechanisms are also prone to exploits and bugs. For something as important as Two-Factor, Google engineers should be practicing defense in depth.
you mean trees don't grow to the stratosphere?
I have a very similar setup and similar lack of issues even in a pretty challenging WiFi environment. Ubiquiti is so good for the price, I'm always amazed when I run into technical people who are running something else. It just seems like such an obvious choice to me...
> The only thing we know is that we won’t ever receive the truth.

How do you know? If you never get the true.

> Can you imagine how much worse it would be if the story were “US anti-missile defense destroys weapon headed for Hawaii”?

For the Trump administration? It will have been a blessing. Forget about porn stars, Russia, tax reform for the rich, ... just talk about war.
I thought that too about vacuuming before I got my Neato Botvac D5. Life changing. Now I just tidy up the floor, and push a button.

Their latest update lets it map your home. While some might have privacy concerns, it is admittedly a very cool feature to me as I can see exactly where it did and did not clean.

Ultimately, it saves me time, and my time is valuable. So I'd rather spend less time cleaning and more time doing other things, even if I technically am capable of doing the cleaning.