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>Cars are a special type of awful

Bluetooth pairing always seems a bit unclear. Do I start the scan on my phone or the device? Cars seem to be particularly bad in making this clear or otherwise don't work reliably per instructions.

If you want a really bad Bluetooth experience, see Acura. Calls can require active "transfer" to Bluetooth devices when you're streaming, and there is otherwise clunkiness and competition for the car's audio system, for instance if you try to use car nav.

And, woe be unto you if you have multiple in-range devices. There's a pretty good chance it'll vomit and you'll end up with mixed pairing profiles that essentially require you to restart the car and/or disable Bluetooth on one device.

Not sure how they managed to get Bluetooth so wrong, but it's a solid contributor to an overall poor infotainment center design.
Stupidly I don't know how

If you like, we can become email friends, just to keep in touch. I may or may be able to relate to you, but I promise to try sincerely. I see myself going the same route, so...

On a meta level:

Do you have any ideas on how to think about situations like this? Surely, there must be millions of people who feel the same?
Then you're normal?
So make the phone 0.5mm thicker or so, and you can make the battery thicker and shorter to make room for the headphone jack (with higher capacity than it had before)

I don't know who is pushing for wafer thick phones that are increasingly fragile with shorter battery life.
Yes, it does sound a bit shitty, but only because it seems to shame the founder rather than just point out that the venture capital business is run a certain way (including with each one advertising and buiding their own ecosystem and network and brand). Why do you think there is a constant culture of blaming of startup founders for not working 20 hour days or not having enough “hustle” skills or “tenacity” because they didn’t get through to a VC or land VC funding? In the 1960s-90s that was a bit like blaming musicians for not being discovered by the A&R department of the record labels. Only a few can make it that way, the rest today use Spotify / Patreon / YouTube etc. and are discovered and approached later.

I like A16Z a lot. But I am curious, what is your background, did you have the founder tenacity, do you know founders that had it, that easily got meetings with partners of VC firms? Do you think anyone could do it if they didn’t live in the Valley? To me, a compelling way to be introduced is to have your app already out and being used by everyone and making money. Before you approach a VC.
...smoking protein gives you headaches? What? Why?
I don't think a 10% tariff would account for the entire increase. It may be part of it though.
I am not disabled, my family member is sick, so I have to take time off to support them.
Review what I quoted and tell me if that statement alone is true or false — without simply repeating “false dichotomy.”
It's not that insightful, since it's obviously false. The fact is that the much-improved water resistance made possible in part by ditching the headphone jack has made a lot of users' lives much better, because they have dunked their iPhones in water and the result has been no damage, as opposed to the expense and inconvenience of replacing their phones.

It would have been more effective if the author didn't cherry-pick only the facts which support his argument.
An important point about this result: the significance is high because they had a huge population to test on, but the effect size is very small. The effect size is 0.001 which means that if one of your friends posts something negative (or positive), you have a 1/1000 chance of also posting something negative (or positive) as a result that you wouldn't otherwise have posted.
That's really interesting. Was there any drop in overall productivity/delivery pace as a result? There are definitely times when I wind up cranking out buggier-than-usual code later in the day/night to meet deadlines or get things done that otherwise wouldn't (at least, not on schedule). Sometimes when I timebox myself too much like that and it winds up dragging projects out days or weeks longer than they would have been had I not just blocked out a few hours to get the dang thing working and then cleaned it up afterwards; this is particularly true for complex projects where it can take a large portion of the day simply to build the mental context necessary to actually start executing on what needs to be done. If I cut myself off at a certain arbitrary time, the time spent building mental context earlier is totally wasted.
That's not quite right. Google Cloud is basically everything, including the Google Cloud Platform (cloud computing), G-Suite, Maps, Chrome, Android, etc.

Firebase and Stackdriver are underneath GCP.
Very exciting! I’m curious what type of workloads these will be used for.

Will this be much cheaper than Intel instances?
Cloud Repos and Cloud Build are very lacking. I wouldn't recommend for anything other than side projects.

Github, Gitlab, Azure DevOps are also either free or very cheap and have 100x more features and functionality.
Such questions may seem off topic, but usually require application of concepts taught in the course. Look deeper for an implicitly given challenge which can be solved with course material.

Despite my comments above, there are a few tools pretending to be educators who pull test items out of their asses, making sense only in a twisted mind.
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Yeah Bluetooth almost never works reliably for me. If it isn't connection problems, it's dead batteries. I refuse to buy or use wireless keyboards, mice, microphones, speakers, or headphones.
Its not that I "want" to use them. The difference is that I could use the same headphones to record drums, drum machines, guitar, Vox, or even my iPhone. Bluetooth is great! I use it in my car for phone and audio all the time. Wireless headphones are at a fundamental disadvantage in that they have less battery capacity than a phone. Those AirPod thingys you like? great. They don't fit my weird ears. My problem. but ear buds and I don't mix. Sorry, wireless and small are at odds with each other.
i don't get how is this a compiler?
Not a good idea if pesticides were sprayed.
> need to include a DAC in the device

How does the earpiece and speaker work without a DAC in the device? That's there whether there's a jack or not. :)
For most of us hacker-types, that's a good role for hackerspaces to fulfill!
You're more than welcome to email me to chat. I too live abroad and have for several years. I absolutely get what you mean.

My email is my username at gmail.
Amazon making their own CPUs? Damn.
Looks like if you run Python or other scripted languages you can simply port your code over...Nice!
> If you don’t include story points or some equivalent, this might be the most misleading metric you could use.

I'm sorry, but if you think "story points" is something useful, your organization is already doomed.

Story points is an inflationary currency. When your developers realize that somebody important in the company cares about said currency, they will make sure that their work has more of these "story points" in "sprint planning".
To me, it's not that clear that you are talking about a family member.

Do you work in California, New Jersey, or Rhode Island? You may qualify for paid leave.

edit: if not FMLA may protect your job for 12 weeks, though it is unpaid

https://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs28.pdf
Ah, so it's Google's Visual Studio Online/VSTS/Azure DevOps[1]

[1] Microsoft name shuffling is so much fun...
So, don’t bother thinking about applying if your IQ isn’t over 250?
It'll be interesting to benchmark these against existing instance types. Also, there hasn't really been anything in AWS for low sustained load but these seem to fit the bill perfectly.
Very interesting. Looking forward to benchmarking these for NodeJS API workloads. Does anybody with experience running node on ARM have any advice/warnings?
They can waterproof the dozen or so connections of the smaller USB-C, but not the three or four from the jack? Somehow Apple can't emulate something Sony and others have done for decades?

I have more faith in Apple manufacturing ability.
Someone called this selfless but I see a very strong selfishness in this approach, sure you're at the center of your life but if we all stand by our own fires, nobody meets anybody and it is important to recognize when you go sit by someone else's fire because that part is dearly missing from your description.
I’m not sure it directly helps anyone’s argument here, but 5 minute’s searching gave this study of water service in Nigeria, with a mixture of public and private services competing to provide potable water using different strategies.

http://file.scirp.org/pdf/JWARP20120700002_74310948.pdf

I think two responses to this would be a) that sounds like terrible public and private provision, and b) the competing water providers don’t all use pipes — they use boreholes, tankers, and rainwater collection, so they don’t count. But that’s probably how competition against an apparent natural monopoly would work: what might undermine Comcast, say, isn’t another cable company digging up the road, but a wireless broadband provider, or some technological alternative that circumvent the apparent advantages of the monopolist.
I think that, when Raptor were demoing the blackbird at OpenPOWER Summit EU 2018, they were using a Lian-Li PC-05 case w/ the 2U HSF. You'd want to check with their sales/support for recommendations though.

Edit: It was a Lian-Li PC-06SX and not an 05!
Google is investing in fusion energy: https://ai.google/stories/applied-science/
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Sadly, that will remain true digitally too. It is just not hard to tap the signal.

I think you are right about the DRM.

It will prove to be a waste of time. Audio is too easy. Seriously.

Heck, I can make something to just write the stream to a file, and doing that is not hard. Costs less than a CD.
Thanks for the full article link.
Bouncing off this comment with an example from the last job I worked at (a startup).

> Do I trust the founders?

At first, I did because I was too green about small businesses. I thought the worst they could do was pay me lower wages. Oh, boy, was I wrong. Not only did I get 1099'd, but also had my hours and wages cut two months in. (The 1099 was resolved, though, thanks to the IRS's contest process.)

> Can I have healthy debate with the founders?

I found out after joining that the founders were married. So no to this one.

> Will my feedback be considered by the founders?

It was, but then promptly discarded since the founders lied about their technical skills (they knew enough to sell tech but not to build it). So everything was a game of "why can't you just drag/drop this X thing like we can in Photoshop".

> Am I compatible with the founders?

One of the founders sold me on the fact that he played guitar. But then I found out that they blasted the office with very light AM classical music for the whole day. So nope, not compatible.

> Are the founders compatible with each other?

They were married, so no.

> Are they able to work together constructively?

See the above comment.

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Anyways, my experience is only anecdotal. But yeah, really dive into the founder's dynamics to see if you can tolerate them or not before accepting a job.
Excellent Post!

You should do a Netflix series, Phil!

Plus: GPS, Combustion Engine, The Web / Networking, Plastics/Chem revolution, and maybe soon AI?
When Apple first removed the headphone jack I was a big opponent of what they had done. It didn't affect me personally though, as I had an old laptop and phone both with headphone jacks and no plans to upgrade. Still I was quite vocal about how stupid it was to remove them.

At the time I was working at home, and had an old set of Sennheiser headphones with a 3m long cable that I usually used for music. Occasionally I'd end up tangled up in the cable, all attempts to prevent it failed. For calls I had a cheap Sennheiser headset which did the trick, and did (what I thought was) a pretty decent job of blocking out noise when travelling.

Earlier this year I went back to the office, and needed some noise cancelling headphones, so got Sony MDR-1000X which are Bluetooth. The noise cancelling really puts the old headset I had to shame, when on an aircraft if I play light music I literally can't hear any outside noise. They are comfortable to wear all the time (a few times in summer my ears did get a bit sweaty) and I usually charge them once or a maximum twice a week, even though I'm using them most of the day. When they say they are low I still get a few hours usage, so just put them on charge at lunch when it first warns me.

Compared to my old headphones the noise quality is about the same, but these have built in volume and track controls, and a microphone. Bluetooth just works for me, and the range is not a problem. I can easily have my phone on one side of my apartment, and listen to music on the other. I have them paired with my phone and computer, and can easily switch the source without major issues. It just works (apart from some weird Linux bug where it uses the wrong audio profile, but on other OSes it's fine).

A few months ago I got a new phone and it didn't come with an audio jack. I tried to find one that did, but this had the best specs for what I wanted, so it was a sacrifice I would have to make. The phone come with a dongle, but I haven't even removed it from the packaging in the box. I just haven't needed it, and don't care that it's gone.

Same thing on my laptop, it has an audio jack (output only) but I don't care if it's removed as I never use it now. On my PC I had to buy a cheapo USB sound card as the built in audio jack had lots of static, so I don't really care if that's removed either.

Bluetooth is good enough, it's just going to be a while until a $15 set of Bluetooth earphones are at a similar quality level to a $15 set of wired earphones. I do agree the execution could have been done better by Apple (e.g. lightning headphones, which you can't use on all Apple hardware) and it was possibly a bit premature, but eventually we would have reached this point.

As for the so called audiophiles who need it, wouldn't you be better off with an external soundcard, rather than relying on whatever $0.50 chip the manufacturer can find?
Doesn't surprise me, younger millenials won't have a home to sell and will thus have a hard time affording a home in an inflated market. Compounded with the fact that median wages haven't increased that much the last 30 years. Prices have to fall for that group to afford a home.
On demand pricing starts at roughly $20/month. When they said low cost I was hoping for something in the ~$5 range.
Does vCPU on the chart refer to a physical ARM core and any clue how they stack up against a modern x86-64 core?

If they’re significantly cheaper to run at similar perf this is an easy win for arch agnostic things like bastion servers or purely interpreted scripting languages.
Then leadership isn't capable.

I wonder if it's simply the balls to tell top management that we need to invest in training, refactoring etc. And selling it that it will payoff.

The usual answer I get when I propose this, is that "we're too busy with projects".
Comparing the large instance (16vCores, 32gib ram) to anything else "large" in N.Virginia, the price seems more affordable than what was purchase-able until now
The Galaxy S9 has the same water resistance rating as the iPhone, and it has a headphone jack.
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Ableton is literally the only thing keeping me tied to Windows. Also I don't like Apple with all their user-hostility, so I'm not sure what I'll do later.

I don't want to dual-boot. I investigated running Ableton in a VM but I'm just not convinced it'd work well, Linux support for audio is so flaky, I can't believe it'd handle low-latency ASIO stuff.
I am not in the US :(
My dad has some insurance coverage, which will run out soon.
Fully agree but the same could be applied to solar and energy storage as well.
tl;dr

- supervised learning requires labelled data

- some companies specialise in labelling data for other companies
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This story happened in 1991. Like a lot of kids in high school I tried to smoke banana peels. They're wet and mushy and it was not at all obvious back in the days before the internet how you were supposed to process the things for smoking. The first time I tried it nothing happened, so I was pretty sure it was a hoax. But the second time me and a friend were bored so he had the idea to first boil, then microwave, then scrape out the soft bits and pan fry them until dry enough to smoke. We smoked this awful stuff and coughed for quite a while, but then discovered we were both extremely high. In 1991 I was very familiar with marijuana but this was quite different. Its been ages since I did stuff like that but I'd say it was like a less intense nitrous oxide, and it lasted for at least 4 hours. We tried several times after this to reproduce the recipe but had no luck. I have no idea how or why it worked that one time but it really did.

I know my friend didn't sneak something into the pipe because there is just no way he'd waste hours mucking around with banana peels if he had some drug to smoke laying around. Also I saw him attempt to make it again several times, cough his lungs out and get no happy results. It wasn't a contaminated pipe, we used a pipe freshly made out of a Coke can because banana peel will ruin anything you smoke it in. It really happened but I have no explanation for it.
Okay, how does this doom a project? It's just an arbitrary score to begin with, so what's wrong with inflation?
Maybe we should instead link to the original post on medium at https://medium.com/trust-bob-blog/serverless-quick-tip-1-don... ?
"Some home builders are so desperate to attract interest they are offering agents the chance to win Louis Vuitton handbags or Super Bowl tickets with round-trip airfare, if their clients buy a home."

That seems like a serious conflict of interests.
I would argue that the condition that you provide sources to your users is something you owe the author. But perhaps I'm over-philosophical.
Not sure why this is trending now: this went GA back in May 2017: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/cloud-source-repo...

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14413035

However, Google has recently launched a raft of new CSR features, including semantic code search: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-developme...
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It's not like the old headphones can't be used without a headphone jack. The 3.5mm-to-lightning or 3.5mm-to-usb-c dongles are small and relatively cheap. I just keep mine hooked up to my wired headphones.
Yea, I think the fact that it even has a medium instance type is the biggest win for apps that don't need a lot of RAM. c5 and m5 start at large with 4GB/8GB respectively.

To me the most interesting thing will be comparing against t3, which gives you a surprising bang for your buck in scale out workloads, even when you factor in the fractional baseline credit allocation.
Oh I'm sorry! I missed that part in the parenthesis. Good luck.
1. Clearly anecdotal evidence

2. correct

3. Multiple countries? You would need a court order from Switzerland. I am not even sure they can access your messages if they wanted to.

4. Irrelevant because it is a client to an open protocol. Which client you use does not matter. I just named mine.
They're 32-bit IEEE floats (i.e. a typical "C float"), so the subnormal range is below 2e-38. Also, it isn't printing exact values, since for any non-integer value, the last digit should always be 5, though I agree it would be nice to have.
I'm not sure what you mean with "reducing total code instructions" and "lean code", but I'm not sold on the idea of making code less readable which often happens when you try to reduce code by being smart.

Reading code is mostly way harder than writing it, especially if you read code from someone else. Optimizing for readability is the game changer for maintainability.

* Use expressive function and variable names.

* Have clear consistent structure across your project(s).

* Use simple code where possible.

* Do not write one-liners that do multiple transformations. Each line should have one purpose.

* Document design decisions in code. Don't document "what" your code does, that should be readable by itself, but why you made the decision to do it like that.

* Documentation library style comments for complicated functions helps a ton to know what the function is supposed to do.

* Add tests that specify the expected behavior. This not only helps when changing code, but also when reading.

It's not readable code XOR documentation, it's both. Readable code is the "what", documentation is the "why". Even if the docs get outdated, the why can still be insightful.

Non of the above suggestions usually reduces code, but it will help everyone else, including future-you in 6-months, to work with your code.
Cloud Source Repositories PM here.

A project as described here refers to a "Cloud Project" which is the basis for creating, enabling, and using all GCP services including managing APIs, enabling billing, grouping resources, etc. Within a project, one could have tens or hundreds of repositories. With 6 users on a single project, you would pay $1/month total (because the first 5 users are free) and all those users would have access to every repository in that project.

I appreciate your feedback that you find the pricing model and project concept difficult to understand. I'll bring this back to the team and we'll look at different ways to improve this.
I guess the only real valid question that you can ask in this situation is "Does anyone here currently contribute to the code?". If the answer is yes, start asking questions about the dev process. If the answer is no, then they're trying to use you for a cheap "computer person" and you should move on.
Its not a conflict but its sort of weird. Sellers pay the commissions.
It is, but incentives for the buyer's agent are already messed up. They want to close the deal, they don't really care about the price because the bump in their commission for a few extra thousand is nothing compared to the risk of not closing. Buyers will talk up their clients and seller will talk theirs down.
Sorry, I thought the confidence in your original post meant that you worked for Apple and had insider information. Pardon my error.
It's a technical problem in it's own right, it also has significant in the moral argument.
Not a single mention of WebDAV here, sad.
What type of applications would need this amount of bandwidth?
Typing doesn't have to be static (or strong) to be there. When I write `a + b`, I intend `a` and `b` to be things such that the `+` operator makes sense for them. Might be two numbers, might be two strings, might be a string and a number if I'm using js/php, the point is that I always have an intention, implicit or explicit.
standard comes and go. ethernet is not a standard anymore these days.

heck even if my laptop comes with a ethernet port, i still couldn't use it at my workplace.
So if you ask questions about the company, you won't get hired?
Fucking Nato. . .they only exist to piss the worlds money into an ego fuelled dick waving contest.
Why does HN allow intentional bypass of paywalls? It’s no different than providing links to pirated software. On the one hand, we complain about aggressive advertising while simultaneously doing everything possible to ensure publications don’t earn any money.
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