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You are right about that. I'm hoping eventually this will become popular enough that cities will open more dedicated bike paths separate from traffic. I've even heard rumors of our city closing and dedicating the main street downtown for bikes and pedestrians.
Hey, I'm just wondering if you're only looking to make FTE hires, or if you're interested in contracting any of this work. If you're specifically looking for FTEs, you can disregard the rest of this :)

I run a small 5-person software agency here in Seattle (our employees are remote, but me and my co-founder work out of offices in the U District).

Our agency has a pretty strong skill-set fit for the Full Stack Developer position (we do a lot of web-development, along with the infrastructure engineering for applications that require HIPAA compliance). We've worked with medical and non-medical labs fairly often.

If that's something you'd consider, I'd love to setup a quick call or a coffee. Our agency is Apsis Labs (https://www.apsis.io); our offices are on 45th and the ave so it'll be easy for us to come by. Feel free to reply here or send me an email at: noah at apsis.io
> I do product at MEGACORP and love product strategy.

Where should one go/read/listen/watch to learn more about product strategy?
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>When your router receives a non-static DHCP assigned IP address from your ISP there is a pre-defined time limit built into the assignment, this time limit is called a DHCP Lease. The typical lease time for ISP’s in the United States is roughly 7 days. However in most instances your router will renegotiate this lease prior to its expiration. During the lease renegotiation, it is very common for the same IP to be reassigned to your router. In fact our research has discovered many homes that have theoretically dynamic IP’s, but have held the same IP for multiple years. Because of this recursive reassignment the typical location targeted by El Toro has held the same IP address for 7 months.

https://www.eltoro.com/how-long-does-an-ip-address-stay-atta...

It seems a typical location has the same ip address for around 7 months and can indeed have the same address for far longer if your service isn't interrupted, you don't change or reboot networking hardware, and you don't try to connect to the game from your laptop at your friends house.
This is changing. Medicare, medicaid and to an extent tricare are switching away from pay for service models, so there is a financial incentive for providers to improve health outcomes.
The AMA is hardly restricting the supply of new doctors. Exam fees are a tiny fraction of medical school tuition.

The real supply bottleneck is in federal funding for additional residency slots. Every year students graduate from medical school but are unable to practice because they can't get matched to a residency program. The AMA is actively lobbying to fix that problem.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...

There's nothing wrong with forcing you to wait a few hours in the ER for a minor problem. If your vital signs are stable then you can wait.
Hi littlecranky67,

Would you be interested in helping me do another run of this test, but with more realistic settings? I care about the results and getting this right but you clearly have a better understanding of how to set this up
Conversely, you cannot validate product market fit without a product. Validation via “Is this something you can see yourself paying for” isn’t really a substitute for actually getting people to pay for your product. At best it will filter out just the worst ideas.
Likewise here with a Samsung Galaxy S that lasted 8 years, without a case or cover. Plenty of dropping on all sorts of hard surfaces, no cracked screen. Some of the finish started smudging off on the back though. I have no idea what people are doing to cause such damage.

(Only ended up replacing that phone because it started just not picking up calls and texts for days at a time)
In some sense this is true—I like to believe the benefits of exercise outweigh the increased exposure to air pollution. However, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that bicyclists are often breathing deeply next to traffic that can, in some cases, be putting out a lot of bad stuff.

I knew some researchers who were specifically looking at the question of bicyclist exposure to air pollution by pedaling around town with nephalometers (IIRC). I don’t remember what their conclusions were, if any. I should look that up.
I'm surprised Big Pharma hasn't done something like this for free for doctors. They already spend tons of money marketing to doctors to perscribe their drugs and even club together and spend billions monitoring the perscription data with IQVIA (IMS Health basically). Maybe it's just that I've recently finished reading Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre, but this sounds like it's right up their street to help manipulate doctor's perscribing.
You won't see much difference with high-end hardware because the OS license is a smaller percentage of the total.

The big price differences are on low end hardware where the greater resource requirements of Windows make it uncompetitive.

I use a Chromebook as my daily driver, and I'm happy to spend on good hardware. For my needs, Chrome OS is far superior to Windows and Mac. Hard to beat the security, Linux integration and battery life.
It's politics. More, it's the kind of politics that's likely to generate a discussion that's a nationalistic flame war. (Reading the comments so far, the discussion here looks pretty good. This type of news often turns into a lousy discussion, though.)
I agree with your points. Maybe a better word for a "leech" would be a "freeloader?"

I agree that if projects such as curl wanted payments, they would use different licenses. However, to me at least, it feels wrong when successful companies, e.g., BAT FAANG, use free software without giving anything back.
People are still playing half life 2 deathmatch.
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I was at Fry’s on Garland Rd in Dallas a few years ago and it was horrible. I wanted to pick up a hard drive that day rather than order one, but (and I am not exaggerating) literally every single hard drive on their shelves had one of those “this product had been opened/returned” stickers on it. Ridiculous! Fry’s is such a dump.
If you compare it to other free things, it does seem odd. For example, kids are making a small living, sometimes a small fortune, playing video games live online with much fewer viewers/users than many open source projects like curl.
This is a decent write-up. I would only add that it is missing references to DHA, something that vegetarians are also often lacking. Some vegans get DHA from Algae.
Doesn't PulseAudio have major issues with latency?
Ya, I'm surprised it's not just a static landing page for consumers with ads. At .50 cents per user, that's only 80k users required to break even (ignoring the time variable there)
A Tile has a speaker, so once you're in range, you can hear it. An RFID tag on its own just peeps out its own data, but that doesn't help you locate it without additional equipment. You can use a Tile with just your phone.

They do make slightly smaller Tile Stickers, which aren't as loud and don't have replaceable batteries.
Semi-old pilot adage: "8 hours from the bottle to the throttle and 8 hours from the toke to the yoke." Personally, I am skeptical that this is enough time in all cases.
And there's a world of difference between not inhaling smoke vs only inhaling smoke when you're drinking.

Inhaling smoke isn't good for you.
i think there are very many folks with that stance. that is a very far cry from “unethical”.
I don't understand why some people don't like C++.

It almost seems like they forget what it means to compile to machine code.

I can say I have some sort emotional attachment to python, but I can't deny that C++ is just a more capable language, but at least I can admit that I'm just not always competent to always write C++.

Like most people say "just use the parts of C++ you need".
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Artillery. Bombers. Naval torpedoes. And worst of all, land mines. We've had this problem for a long time. If anything, drones have the problem less than land mines do.
Is it so bad to make guns as hard to own as a car? Simple licensing would go a long way to reduce the risk of guns.

https://www.vox.com/2019/9/11/20861019/gun-solution-backgrou...
I'm going to agree with this. After playing with an Oculus Quest this holiday, I'm confident it's taking off. Pretending to be Neo in SuperHot, Beat Saber being the new Guitar Hero, the lack of cables... VR is here. And with the 2.0+ versions it's only going to get clearer, more powerful, and even more fun.
Was going to suggest this too.

I'm build a distributed system with RabbitMQ just now, where producers may be offline due to transient networking issues. I write messages to a local SQLite database, with another thread responsible for sending them to RabbitMQ and deleting them on successful delivery.
For those who have e-bikes, what are your thoughts on riding them without the motor assistance? Is it heavy and difficult? Do they have battery regeneration from breaking?

I've been on the fence about getting one, and normally ride a crappy hybrid bike to and from work every day, which an e-bike would be useful for. But I also do 40+ mile trips on weekends and am afraid that if the battery dies, I'll be lugging a heavy bike around and exerting extra effort compared to a bike without a battery.
WIndows 10 can, roughly, be around 4 GB, using quite a few tricks (VHD and Wimboot).

There are a few projects/ways but I doubt that updates work on such a minimal setup.

Here is one, if you are interested:

http://reboot.pro/topic/21977-vhd-wimboot-apply-and-capture-...
Watching that store spiral downhill has been very depressing.

The roof leaks water everywhere, so they have shopping carts with buckets all over the store; the computer section is now entirely empty ("we're switching to a consignment model") is what one employee told me; just very, very sad.

I'd guess perhaps they spent too much on real estate (that store could be 1/3rd its size and still fit everything) but no idea.
I like the idea of cheaters raging because they play against each other (i guess it could be legit competition lol).

But works only if all the gaming is centralized. We loose the beauty of self-host games which is how some of the games survived more than decade.
That is not bad. Even if the scripts are disabled, or if images are disabled, or if the server is unreachable, a link to it is still usable, since the URL contains the FEN code. However, a suggestion is maybe you might want to add <noscript><img...> so that if images are enabled but scripts are disabled and the link is not directly to the picture, that it is still displayed without having to alter the URL (although even the way it is now, the instructions for altering the URL are available on that web page, so it isn't so much of a problem).

My "Farbfeld Utilities" software also can be used for making a chess board, if you have all of the pieces pictured in one file. So when you want to do it locally rather than adding a link on a web page, this can be done. (You can alter the colours and metrics below as needed)

ff-chess 8 8 32 E5E5D7 001000 \
| ff-composite <(pngff < pieces.png \
| ff-text +PNBRQKpnbrqk 32 32 `sed 's.7.43.g;s.6.33.g;s.5.32.g;s.4.22.g;s.3.21.g;s.2.11.g;s./. .g' < board.fen`) 0,0,0 \
| ff-border 0020FF 8
Anyone have a non-Verizon source? I refuse to use a site with obfuscation and anti-patterns in their privacy options.
They do so for very good reasons as you can easily cheat in multiplayer games using those technologies.
Which are: VSTO plugins, pivot tables, equation editing, database connectivity, import-from-file, document protection, ... The list goes on. Excel on web is not at feature parity with Excel on desktop.
I wondered if that Fry’s was some kind of dumping ground for returned shit from all the other Fry’s or something. It is so bad.
That's in the context of Elm, Evan gives his reasons but in the context of Haskell such multi-line equations are very common and normal Haskell style.
While my Dr of course wants to know, my employment based health insurance plans in the US have never once asked if I was a smoker. They don't really ask anything, other than "which plan would you like?" - if you pay for it you get it.

Happy to be corrected by someone who knows more, but my understanding is the major deciding factor in the cost of a workplace plan is average age of the workforce at the company, basically little else. For companies I've worked for, the individual health of those who work there was not factored at all.

I'm willing to bet that if you tell the insurer "we don't hire smokers" you likely get a better price though.
Show HN: Build your own ridesharing, gig, on-demand apps Firebase and HyperTrack
it's confusing when you write that XPS 13 starts at $1000 (900€), because in USA you're used to write prices without tax and in Europe we're used to write prices including Tax, which you have to pay when you're buying it as a consumer, at the time of purchase.

So let's look at the actual prices: In the US XPS 13 9380 starts at i7, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD for $949 listed price. In Europe the same configuration starts at around 1200€, but they are also lower configurations (i3, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD) priced at €949, just so that they can list a lower "starting" price, even though that configuration is almost unusable.
OCaml, F#, ReasonML don't support that, I think it's unique to SML in the ML family.
Apparently quite a lot. Poverty has gone down six-fold in a generation: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY?end=2017&lo...
Beyond Explanations for All Choice
> Pre-rendering the scenes on the server and then sending those is just not really possible today due to latency -- even google can't get it right with Stadia so far.

Ah, but Stadia (and Playstation Now, and Geforce Now) are trying to solve a different problem: moving all the compute to the cloud, so that the game console can be wimpy (or of a different/incompatible architecture, in PSNow's case.)

If you remove that requirement—or rather, impose the requirement that the client hardware must be just as powerful as if it were running a full game—then you can do something clever by splitting the game not into "renderer on the server, frame buffer on the client" but rather into "game and projection matrix on the server; display-list renderer on the client."

In other words, the server (or per-client server-side agent) would be responsible for doing all the evaluation of local physics (e.g. soft-body dynamics, constraint-resolution during rigging, etc.), lighting calculation, and all the other stuff that currently requires the client to "know stuff" about the world; and then it'd output to the client, on each tick, just a display-list—a bunch of loaded-model references, their positions in space and the positions of their rigged limbs, and the reflected-light amount on each of their polys; any temporary particles that exist for that frame, and their positions; etc. This would all be culled down to a virtual viewport.

The job of the client would then just be to receive this display-list, each frame, and draw it. It would also perhaps be responsible for doing client-side visual lerps between server ticks. (Probably each rigged limb would be annotated with linear+angular velocity properties.)

In other words, this would be a recapitulation of the X11 protocol, but where the primitives are 3D objects rather than 2D ones. (It'd kind of look like the protocol between games and OS display drivers, but at the same time higher-level in some ways and lower-level in others.)

This would be highly bandwidth-efficient (and jitter-tolerant!) compared to what Stadia is doing. You'd probably be able to play a decent game through this on 3G, even. But you'd need a computer that could do the final rendering passes.
> So let me put this in another way, neither OpenGL or Vulkan are a common API

OpenGL is legacy case, so no point in bringing it. Vulkan is the only common API, there is simply nothing else for that role. With all your talk about how "great" proprietary APIs are, none of them ever can be common, because they all are the total antithesis of it - their goal is lock-in in, not something that helps developers reduce their work duplication by providing the standard.

So so much for "great IP". They are DOA basically in this sense, and exist only because walled garden owners force developers to use them by not providing them a choice.

Your personal advocacy for lock-in is also more than questionable.
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I'd expect the same, especially given Valve's multiplayer games run natively on Linux ;)

To be honest, other than having better communication on the issue, I'm not sure how I'd handle this one differently than EA...
> I'm not convinced that's much of an advantage.

Their competitors certainly claim it gives the USPS a significant advantage, if you check the info I provided. They also give reasons for their view. Are there any particular reasons you think they're wrong?
Although I'm a Prime member, I would actually pay a slight premium to have the assurance that I'm not getting counterfeit merchandise on Amazon.

I don't buy anything complex on Amazon anymore, just books and stuff that I don't care are fake.
Here is the source code for driver and rider side apps on iOS and Android focused on live location tracking of pickup and drop. May be reused by developers building ridesharing, gig economy or on-demand (à la Uber-for-X) apps. Rider initiates request, routes to driver via Firebase backend, driver accepts, and then pickup and drop get tracked in realtime via web URL or in-app. The order management back-end is on you. Disclaimer: though apps are open source, location tracking is powered by HyperTrack SDK/APIs, which you need to pay for after 14-day free trial.
This should be no surprise if you played the previous games in the series. I can only assume that it’s a high level business decision at EA to not do anything about cheaters.

The only way to play the game is on a server with admins in the game 100% of the time, or at least votebans.
You could also just use the release date as the x axis. It would be a potentially more useful but definitely less humorous chart.
I would also add that Santa Barbara generally has some of the most delicious air i've experienced in a place that still has restaurants, stores, jobs, etc. It surely gets worse with proximity-to and volume-of car traffic but overall the air quality here vs. other places i've lived is noteworthy[0]. (0: except when there's fires.)
Here is the thing. Google has one primary source of revenue. Ad tech. If Ad tech fails, all their other sources of revenue won't be able to pay for their other services, so the fear they'll cut them is warranted.

Disclaimer I use Google services, but I'm definitely looking for alternatives.
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One consequence of this is that you're by definition far away from the product and the end user. This is not necessarily a direct problem, but it is worth considering. For example, a coworker has been hacking away on our infrastructure pieces for forever. Their work is in support of our large React app, but this person basically never writes actual React code.

It's possible to end up in a situation where your skills and abilities become "purpose-fit" to the situation you're in, which can be tricky to transfer elsewhere. Whereas most organizations can appreciate the work and abilities of a "product engineer", or whatever they call it. So there is some risk to this approach.
We’d call them the Tibetans but then China would deny they exist too.
RSA animation of this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI

First time heard of this, very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
They might have reason to suspect governmental support to deploy hydrogen infrastructure. It might be there following the Fukushima disaster.
Years back Micro Center was a bit pricy, but they really stepped up their game to be competitive with online. I'll still price compare, but if they're within a few percent (and if there are any ongoing specials they can be cheaper) I'll chose the local pickup option. (Especially for something like a case, which always seem to get damaged in shipping.)
The point of healthcare under capitalism is to profit from sick people, not to heal them.
I don't hold any extreme beliefs (I think) but that's probably what an extremist would say. I do hold beliefs that would make me unpopular on either the left or the right.

It takes more courage to not fit in, as any teenager can attest.
I would like to expand it so you can build whole components (like cards or navigations) and get the classes to copy them.
It's quite difficult for me to predict the future because I live in a small town of a third world country where things move so slowly that any future I could imagine won't materialize.
Another +1 from me for Central Computers - I've bought assembled desktops as well as components there. Prices seem recent (they need to keep up with online price matching) and the service/knowledge is really good.
The kinds of people who rely on Excel to do their job assure me that Google Sheets is not even remotely sufficient and the web-based Excel isn't quite there either.
When I was living there, I remember shopping at newegg.ca, ncix.ca, tigerdirect.ca and Canada Computers used to have b&m stores with surly service but generally low prices.
IV TBvaccine antigen response/disease protection in monkeys better than ID route
Honestly even if we're far from FP as mainstream (which I don't even wish). I woudln't have bet a dollar that so much features from lisp/ml would have crossed over this fast (I mean destruct, lambda, rest args, immutable let by default, option chaining ..).
They'd work better, but wouldn't be perfect either since they had some arbitrary jumps. For a long time, release build version numbers were divisible by 400 - they had to be divisible by 16 for servicing reasons[1], and divisible for 100 for marketing reasons (to look nice) [2] so build numbers were divisible by 400 for a long time.

This meant that the final versions had some correlation to how much time had passed between versions, but it wasn't reliable. For instance, Win7 RTMed on 2009-10-22 as build 7600. Win8 RTMed on 2012-08-01. At one build a day, you'd expect a build number of 8614....and internally, we were pretty close to that, but the actual release number was 9200 (so we instantly gained almost 2 years of build numbers). For the story of why 9200, see [2].

They eventually got rid of both requirements, which is why the latest Windows release is 18363.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160330-00/?p=93...
[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-m...
Looks nice.

There's a typo on the front page:

> Delete your retro once you're done
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Nope, no idea.