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Ask HN: What remote work setup do you use while traveling?
I'm about to begin working fully remote -- 100% away from an office -- and am curious to what hardware setup has worked for people before.

I have a laptop and monitor with a docking station for my home office, but I'm interested in how to take a similar setup with me on the road.

I generally prefer(need) another screen since I routinely deal with geospatial data alongside database tables.

My team pretty much has the software side of the remote work down well, so I'm mostly concerned with the hardware setup side of things and how to make my work station super mobile without sacrificing too much connection speed or screen space.
Since patents are entirely created by statute, if the government wanted to do that, wouldn't it be easier just to write in an exception to the law, e.g. giving Medicare usage of medical patents at a fixed-by-law royalty rate? The federal government trying to take back with eminent domain what it created itself seems pretty roundabout.
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I don't think you can call something a concentration camp unless it has at least 40 people. Did these?

They are still abhorrent, but the purpose of a concentration camp is to control some ethnic group on a massive scale, not to indefinitely detain people they are capturing individually. So, say you're fighting a bunch of Dutch guerrillas. You round up all the Dutch civilians into concentration camps so that the guerrillas don't have anyone to go to for food.
The only way to deal with confirmation bias is to know it happens, and consider that when drawing conclusions.
> Public service jobs paying $40-60k/year are insanely competitive, and attract the top candidates that could easily get a job at a large firm if they wanted one.

Maybe that's because the people applying for them and getting them were such strong candidates that they had scholarships and didn't have debt to begin with?

That's pure speculation on my part, but it seems like it could explain both your post and the grandparent consistently.
Ask HN: How to hire way better programmers/designers than yourself/your team is
Pretty straightforward question and I'm actually asking myself this pretty often. How do you hire people that are better?
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1. Memory isn't just slow because they went for capacity not performance (except vacuously), it's slow because of the laws of physics. c.f. L3 memory is made of the same stuff as registers but takes about 30 times longer to access.
2. No, adding lots of dumb cores makes no sense.
3. GPUs are useful because many tasks are embarrassingly parallel. Many more are not.
4. 'If we wrote better software' adding many more cores increases the difficulty of reasoning about software hugely. Many tasks are not easily performed in parallel, or the speedup is not impressive enough. Most operating systems (my guess is that OS X is included) will choke if you give them too many threads - performance drops hugely, or many threads are left totally idle. This is due to lock contention etc.
5. Of course no-one 'needs' that Haswell logic - but it's sure nice having my computer do stuff quickly. My top-of-line phone struggles to play through its animations properly, and loading websites frequently takes a while. Good-enough is not really a good place to be. Furthermore, greater performance motivates more demanding applications.
6. We dedicate everything to offsetting slow memory because it's the only way to get good performance from the majority of tasks. Sure if your task can be handled by a GPU, by all means run it on a GPU. For those that cannot, we have a CPU.
There's a reason why the iPhone and iPad only have two cores - it's not worth their while adding more but does add lots of cost and complexity.
Possible that I botched mental math at 3 AM, let me check if after morning coffee.
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The cycle of greed keeps healthcare prices high.
I just don't understand how this could be better than either looking behind you or a mirror. I guess I would have to try it though.
Forget the password... Those are broken.

Use keys and only keys instead...

http://www.chainsawonatireswing.com/2012/01/15/ssh-into-your...
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A public chat channel where everybody can write and read would be nice!
I've hacked my own Synology through it's "cloud services" setup, to the point where I uploaded a privlege escalation exploit (for the really old kernel). It was frighteningly easy, so now it's firewalled off on my local network :(
Do you mean people should stop working toward a more equitable compromise the moment a short-term solution is on the table?
mPath - Palo Alto, San Francisco or US remote.

https://github.com/mpath-development/hiring

http://mpath.com (new site coming soon)

- Web UI Engineer (React.js & Sinatra)

- Sr. iOS UI Engineer

We're building a platform that allows anyone to assemble native iOS apps. We have a small, smart team who's moving quickly to get our product in the hands of beta customers.

You'll have the opportunity to influence the direction of the product, and work on very complex engineering challenges.
Any contact email address?
>You also lose compatibility with every game and most major applications like Adobe

Just like they lost compatibility when they switched from PPC to Intel?

I think that's one thing that a lot of commenters in this thread are ignoring: Apple has done this before. They've switched from PPC to Intel when IBM wasn't committing to making the power efficiency gains that they were looking for, and they'll switch from Intel to their own homegrown ARM chips for essentially the same reason.
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Here some modern explanation of the phenomena: (I love the way they explain it) "How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0.
> To put this into simple terms, you could write a RemyCC for a 1Gbps 10ms link, and that RemyCC would still perform better (than other CC algos) through a range of 100Mbps to 10Gbps, and 1ms to 100ms.

No, pg 133 of the paper. They accept design time input variables as a range, differing by an order of magnitude. If the "assumptions aren’t met, performance deteriorates." Throughput and delay look horrendous when the actual characteristics dont match the model.

> That being said, implementing a few pre-baked RemyCCs in major operating systems surely would help. Say you had a mobile" (5Mbps 500ms) and "home broadband" (50Mbps 50ms) and "LAN" (1Gbps 5ms) RemyCC available in Lin/Mac/Win/And/IOS, TCP performance would be several times better than what we have today.

I'm also dubious of any actual adoption. However I believe youre underestimating the number of variant algorithms required. The consumer endpoints receive the vast bulk of the traffic, and are rarely contended on transmit. Its the large scale deployments of senders (CDNs, Streaming Services, etc) that would make a significant impact to global throughput.
The list of common formats is still pretty robust.

http://textract.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#currently-support...
It may work, just haven't had the opportunity to try it out :)
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Until quite recently I lived at the foot of this: http://www.valcanigou.net/IMG/jpg/canigou01.jpg
That doesn't help when the bits have literally fallen off the tapes.
I'm sure those who spent three years and $100k are encouraged that law school makes one twice as likely to pass the exam.

The 39% who apparently can't pass the exam after all that are probably even more discouraged.
Thanks Walkman. That is a good idea. We had thought of group chats and chat rooms but a public "broadcast to all" option is interesting too. Kind of like a default room that everyone is in. Is that what you are saying?
A lot of the "format" for many storage systems is effectively encoded in the hardware (e.g. the speed of a stepper motor, or some thresholding in a signal filter), so short of using, say, an electron microscope there's no way to even read the data in some raw format without the right hardware. At that point it may very well be economically infeasible to recover the data, and the physical storage might degrade before the feasibility reaches a tipping point.

Storing digital copies indefinitely is somewhat of a more modern invention. The digital copy still has to be stored somewhere, and that somewhere used to age out pretty quickly; CDs were seen as archival, but that's becoming less practical. Nowadays you can keep copies in cloud services, and as long as you keep copying them around then it's probably easier to have long-term retention, but you need to keep doing that indefinitely.
Er, or be skeptical, raise the moral issue, and build pressure on Facebook to proceed in a socially responsible way.
I don't have my copy of the game here to check but I remember there being an option in the game settings that let you choose the preferred date format.
Available on NHS, though.

http://www.ukmi.nhs.uk/applications/ndo/record_view_open.asp...

http://www.pharmatimes.com/article/14-04-16/NHS_England_to_f...
What does this use in the backend? Is this xmpp-based? Is it open source?
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No, you don't understand - it's not a usability issue for me, I can see it fine. Actually better than fine because i wrote a userscript for myself which undoes the effect anyway, so even dead posts come up in black text. I apologize if I gave that impression.

It is actually kind of an ethical issue for me. It doesn't matter that the initial effort to read the faded text is minimal, but that the site is putting that extra friction there to begin with. Users should be able to judge the quality of posts and comments on equal terms, not have the site predispose them to dismiss certain posts based on what may be an irrational metric.

I understand that it's probably not a popular opinion and it seems like a minor and petty thing but it just bothers me. I'm not going to push it, though, i'm sure it already seems like i'm ranting.
It is almost like using artificial IP rights to prop up supermassive R&D and then letting the company charge whatever they want for "their idea" is not the most sane business model.
This is one of the reasons Camlistore exists (http://camlistore.org). Its storage format was designed with digital archaeology in mind. If you can preserve the bits themselves, the format of the data should be self-evident.

The trick, of course, is making sure the bits are preserved. I hope that one day each of my descendants will keep an enneff.tar.gz somewhere in their files—much like the shoebox in the cupboard—so that future generations can see how cute my rabbits were.
I thought about channels, but the first would be a "public" channel where everybody joins by default and it cannot be deleted.
The question is, "What do you define as a 'problem'?" You need to answer that before you can make claims like "we can all agree..." and give an example of something that I don't agree is a problem (if you're saying what I think you're saying).
Shh, that's crazy talk.
The back end is golang. The client server messaging protocol is BrowserChannel/WebChannel.

https://code.google.com/p/libevent-browserchannel-server/wik...

We open sourced the BrowserChannel library here:

https://github.com/samegoal/wc

And have a chat room demo app here:

https://github.com/samegoal/wcchat

The code we used for this particular site isn't Open Source yet. We are still trying to figure out what we want to do with it before we make that decision.
Design culture is a frozen shithole
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Unidan's post that led to the ban:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/2byyca/reddit...
Well perhaps gilead will spend the money to cure HIV. The government on the other hand will spend it on bullshit road construction projects.

Or on wars.
I don't think they would snap their fingers and every Mac they sell would abruptly switch to ARM. If they chose to go with ARM they would almost certainly move more gradually and come out with only one or two ARM machines at first. Maybe an iPad "Pro" or something like that which leverages all the software already written for the iPad and iPhone but has a detachable keyboard can also run Mac software if it's recompiled... something like that.
While the "Ether" functionality is awesome, I don't like personally like SocialCalc. I was hoping for something better to be honest, as ergonomy-wise it's just years behind.

The main problem for our use case is that you can't have multiple sheets for one "document" (as far as I can tell). There are other small but important problems such as the weird formatting interface. All things combined make SocialCalc about twice as slow as LibreOffice for me so far. I still have to use it since there's nothing better at the moment, but I'm not really happy about it.
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Drug Costs and High Prices – Here We Go Again
Drug Costs and High Prices - Here We Go Again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8129695
When they launched here, two friends of mine basically rented a Lyft car for the night, driving around nearly non-stop. They took the driver to dinner.

Can't imagine what Lyft's burn rate is.
That sounds like duck duck go
MacBook Air 13", power adapter, Personal Router (NEC Aterm WM3600R, for WiMAX), short USB cable to charge my personal router, iPhone 5, Sony CP-EL Li-Ion battery to charge my iPhone when necessary, short USB cable (with iPhone connector), OTP password generator, notebook, and pen. Sometimes, I use a Wi-Fi spot (Starbucks is especially good for that), and don't need my personal router, but I always have the latter, just-in-case. Power becomes an issue after a few hours because my MacBook Air is old. It isn't as easy as you might think working on-the-road. Will you be leaving your laptop out in the open when you need to go to the bathroom? Noise can be a distraction when working in, say, a Starbucks that is near a residential neighborhood, as opposed to one that is near a corporate setting. Telephone / WebEx meetings are impossible in public settings.
It seems to me that in certain industries profit motive doesn't mesh with the public good. Isn't there a need for a publicly funded pharmaceutical agency that develops drugs for the public good in an open source manner?
Did you contact Synology to report the vulnerability?
It didn't mention color graphics either. The presentation is about game mechanics, not delivery.
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No, it's not hard at all. You imprison the people making it cost that much for corruption.

They are entitled to profit if you want to argue for that, they are not entitled to destroying society.

$80,000 for hepatits cure is only the start if you let them get away with this.
"The cycle of greed" also created a drug to cure a chronic disease, keep that in mind.
These personal memories already are often not valued by children and grandchildren. A lot of photos, diapositives and super-8 or hi8 films end being disposed every day after someone dies. And there is no museum or collector interested in conserving them either. So, there is no guarantee that physical media endures time.

I'd even argue that todays digital photos and videos capturing a "greater value for society" are more likely to survive because they are often already archived and published on the web.

Todays normal users are taking way too much (bad) photos and selfies nobody will be interested in in 10 months, much less in 10 or 100 years. Some pictures might be worth posting to Flickr or Facebook, but they don't have enough longtime importance to make physical prints from them. And most likely my children after my death won't browse in excitement through the 454 photos I've taken with my phone on my latest trip to New York, nor the tens of thousands of pictures rotting on my hard drive.
Point taken, although picking a lock is not much harder than making your own keys.
Socializing research for major diseases seams like a no-brainer to me since the end goal is so well-defined. It's not a question of "do you want the budget hepatitis vaccine or the deluxe hepatitis vaccine?", it's simply one vaccine. The demand is also well-defined: people will spend virtually anything to live a healthy life.

The polio vaccine was funded by federal money, which it allowed it to be reproduced freely.
I'm far more confident of the longevity of JPGs than your average inkjet photo print. You need to spend upwards of $1000 for a pigment printer, use acid-free fiber paper, use acid-free mat board, and place it behind UV-filtering glass to give it a good shot at multi-generational longevity. No mean feat.
The gov't kind of already does that for Medicaid.

Manufacturers have to offer a 23.1% discount, plus further discounts if prices rise faster than inflation. That's why some drugs have "penny pricing", basically Medicaid pays $0.01 for each unit of drug because of the mandatory discounts.
I'm probably an atypical game fan. The games that most stoke me are the ones that invent a striking visual universe.

For example, I really loved Proteus, and Kentucky Route Zero. Also Superbrothers' Sword & Sworcery.

None of these are realistic. They present highly stylized worlds, and that's what engages me.
That's why I like BMW's solution for their i3. It's a purely electric car, but if range anxiety is an issue, you can option a tiny petrol engine from a scooter that acts purely as a generator to charge the battery.
You can always wait 20 years until the patent runs out. Or just grant them a shorter patent in the first place. Or subject patent protection, as opposed to trade secret protection (which I don't believe is even a practical option for drugs right now due to the FDA approval process), to certain public-interest pricing restrictions.
This is pretty normal for ANY device connected to the internet. I configure all my servers (including my synology box) to only allow ssh logins from certain IP addresses.
Only because someone accidentally rode it into a lab.

The cycle of greed existed happily for millennia before science started being blamed on it.
There would seem to be at least two independent problems here:

1. How can you recognize that someone is actually a better programmer than you are, as opposed to someone who can bullshit beyond your ability to detect it? (It may be easier to detect that someone is a worse programmer than you are.)

2. Once you've found someone who you're convinced is a better programmer, how do you convince them to join a company where they'd be the most skilled programmer (and thus have nobody to learn from)? You might need to offer them extra compensation and a better job title than they'd be able to get elsewhere.

Also, I'd question whether you can actually rank programmers on a linear scale of better/worse. The best programmer I ever hired was better than me in some ways (could build complex systems faster than I could) but worse than me in other ways (the systems he built were less maintainable).

I don't really have good answers to these questions, but hopefully this might clarify some of the issues and help get the conversation going.
Where would the money come from?

Right now the NIH's budget is $30.1B. US pharmaceutical companies invest $48.5B in 2012. Note, that's only R&D expenditure, not all the capital costs (e.g. Pfizer spent $1B for a manufacturing unit in Ireland; the drug failed due to safety).
That switch took years and years and YEARS, and it was done for clear benefit. Desktops were one thing but in laptops Apple was way behind in performance. The new machines were so much faster that the emulated software didn't feel slower in normal use and you gained access to Windows software (which was horrendously slow when emulated on a PPC).

I'm not sure they could do such a transition again on the desktop. Other commenters ideas of making an 'iPad pro' and coming at it from that direction seems like a much better idea if you think any of this should be done.

Don't forget that Apple is up against Intel. They're called Fabzilla for a reason. Apple has a done an amazing job with their phones and tablets but when it comes to raw performance on the desktop I don't think they'd be able to keep up when Intel decided to start playing hardball.
If you need a JSON "API" to test it against, may I suggest derulo.json: http://gabebw.com/derulo.json
"3. The NSA comment is bunk, don't make martyrs of child molesters."

This is offensive and a low blow and you know it. You know this has nothing to do with the child molester and everything to do with google processing and understanding your email data, otherwise i would have not posted this link to a tech site.

NB: You made an account just to make this comment, why?
Wait a second! The older therapies, which people happily paid $80K for (but only cured 50%) of the people were OK, but now this company creates a drug that cures 90%+ and it's corruption? I don't understand.
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The term is "Swenglish". I am losing control. My Swedish use as much US/English idioms as my English use Swedish idioms. :-(

tunnelbana == tunnel + path/track

tunnelbanevagn == subway car.
Environment for working is something I research before traveling (making sure there's ethernet in the hotel room or finding a spot beforehand where I can take scheduled calls).

I guess I'm really more concerned about the screen setup. Are there any foldable or portable monitors (~13") that work well when traveling?

Anyone ever tried using an Android tablet as a second screen for desktop?

Added: The personal router is a good idea, but usually just tether my Android to my MacBook if I need to supply my own data.
But using a service that does it for you is much easier than either.
Well, unless you make keys like this: http://www.instructables.com/id/Key-copy/

Which is easier than filing down regular keys I suppose.
Awesome, just awesome.
Is it possible to use this algorithm in my machine and replace the existing one?
Would that be too hard?
They certainly don't "charge what they want". There are multiple examples (particularly in the EU) where the government says "no, we're not going to pay for that".

If you have a better idea on how to reward pharmaceutical R&D, I'm all ears.
Taxes obviously. I'd be happy to live in a society where medication research is based on public need instead of profit margin. A drug such as this would save money for the NHS or any other western countries public health system ( bar the USA ) in the long term.
It took a VERY long time for the large ISVs to switch, and while games aren't big on OS X many people like the fact they can boot into Windows to play them.

If Apple was able to get the performance of their chips up to the level of Intel chips, would they be able to save hundreds per machine? Intel has some very large economies of scale.

If Apple wanted to save hundreds per machine they could do that right now. Intel's marketing campaigns that Apple doesn't take part of (like the 'Intel Inside' stickers) come with large rebates. Apple could use that and not have to go through the huge pain of another architecture switch.
How could they possibly not be aware?
When I bought it, my HP MicroServer cost less than any equivalent ARM NAS, it has ECC RAM too.
Geopolitics and politics in general. Money.