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I just wanted to thank you for writing about the doldrums, and about continuing slowly through them anyway. THAT piece of advice seems so universally applicable, and I don't personally don't run across it so much in places like HN. I loved that you didn't just stop, just maybe slowed down, and that the little steps just kept adding up anyways.

p.s. I remember originally hearing about ChurnBuster on Our Own Little Accelerator. Why'd that show die?
> Is looking at your watch whilst driving also dangerous?

You never need more than a quick glance at a normal wristwatch.

> What about using your arm to change gear?

If you need to look at the gear shifter you're doing it wrong... (I drive a manual daily btw)

> How do you use dashboard SATnav if you shouldn't look at your GPS whilst driving?

You don't 'use' it. You take a quick glance to know when you need to turn. I'd say it IS dangerous to program your next destination while driving.

The issue isn't looking at your wrist watch, it's shifting your attention to your wristwatch. If the GPS on the watch had a simplified interface with say, only an arrow when a turn was coming up, I'd say it's a great idea. If it's a full map, you'd need to take your attention off the road for far too long while you loop at the map.

And again, all of it is more complicated and less effective than simply using the voice commands that any phone can already send through your car speakers...
> Could you achieve a more high throughput version over voice?

The issue is that it quickly ends up costing about the same amount as a data connection would in the first place.
it can be done! You can disable cores!
Seems like a great fit! I saw a talk given at HeavyBit from Marten Minks about Open Source Business models. Really good stuff.

http://blog.heavybit.com/blog/2014/7/21/video-release-former...
I may be wrong but aren't we going backwards here...
data over voice=dialup right? 56kb/s ideal? Still possibly useful but this just reminds me of the wep browser days on my old nokia
Similar in Canada:

1) Call doctor or drop by an evening clinic to see the on call doctor (who could be your doctor)

2) Doctor diagnoses you, write prescription

3) The pharmacy is usually in the same building

All that is free except the prescription that's what gets you here if you don't have private insurance but universal pharmacare is supposedly something the government is considering.

And specialists are hard to contact since you have to be referred to them by your family doctor if you have a family doctor. My last doctor who passed away had 7,000 patients he cared for he'd have to see three or four people every hour every day.
I always thought wearing baggy clothes meant it was easier to conceal weapons.
In many "teen movies" of the 80s you can feel the scriptwriter working out his/her issues with authority. John Hughes was pretty bad about this, however iconic those movies may have been. I learned to be thankful for movies where teenagers were depicted as whiny, know-nothing, irresponsible kids -- and celebrated for it.
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Since when these FemiNazi sites became source of referral ? When was last time you read something men favored on HFP and telegraph. Go in you cave.
I had a browser (WAP) on my Nokia 7110 that supported browsing via a SMS bearer; 1999. I tried it once and got billed up the wazoo, SMS was expensive back in those days.
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I've been scanning my monitor and sending the articles via mail to my friends and family in order for it to gain traction. I think I'll try your way from now on!
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I think something more focused would be better. The biggest problem for me is not to meet people, but to establish long-term relationships, and that is hard if you are not around them a) frequently and b) long-term.

I do think that something like OP would be too formal, as it doesn't give you the flexibility to deviate, which is why I think a more liquid network of at the start just several locations would work.

Btw, I liked your approach above very much, if you have a majority of the group do that (allowing individuals to divert), this could totally work
Good on you, and I mean that nicely. My insurance monthly is 1/3 of my salary after taxes. Blue Cross through my employer. I tried to fall back on something from the ACA Web site, but because my employer offers insurance, I don't qualify for the better rates. Stupid rules.
Rather then just fingerprinting recorded audio can this thing fingerprint words and passphrases that the user just says outloud?
SCTP might be more interesting because it was originally created for telephone switching with fixed packet sizes.
Interesting to compare this to the ford fusion battery[1], which uses clever construction to prevent a technician from being exposed to high voltages during construction and teardown.

[1] http://www.etotheipiplusone.net/?p=3109
Talk about living on "Hard" mode.
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I heard it originated in prison, but differently. Wardens would give out ill-fitting clothes to humiliate the inmates. So people on the outside made saggy clothes "cool", that way the badly-dressed people on the inside would feel normal. It was just solidarity with ill-treated prisoners.
I first heard this mantra at Google, which was far from a startup even when I joined in 2006. It could easily afford to try and find the right fit for people. In fact it took the opposite approach: you were only allowed to move around and try a new job or position if you already were doing well in your existing position. Internal transfers were seen as a reward for good behaviour, or perhaps it was to avoid bad employees avoiding detection by constantly moving around between managers.
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I know that in the past in US and Canada carriers billed incoming SMS, but I thought that alongside with the new age of messaging apps like WhatsApp and iMessage they dropped this nonsense.
In Europe even when in Roaming there is no cost for incoming SMS.
You would think Indians are lucky in this regard. It's actually the opposite, despite being a software developer who earned reasonably well (compared to the norm) I dread the thought of going to a good hospital. I just don't have the sort of money they ask for. I cannot even imagine what it is like for a poorer shopkeeper or factory worker. For comparison, I earned $1000/month after 6-7 years of experience. $1700 after a decade of experience and ability to program in 3-4 languages. Most jobs will earn you around $500-$600/month.

That is why in India people save money because the parents tell them from childhood that hospitalizations / accidents can cost a lot of money so better save up in case you get sick.
>Using Node.js allows you to use the same language on the client, on the server, and in the database. You can keep your data in its native JSON format from browser to disk.

Ok. Now tell me why that's necessarily better.
Just a warning about running that much: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/too-much-running-tied-to-shorter...

They say it's the first five minutes per day that give the most benefits: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-five-min...

Maybe you should consider trading some of that running for walking instead.
Okay. Wow. That actually is pretty cool for the time.
It came after I had stopped playing around with palm dev (1999).
> Mini vMac requires a ROM image file to run, and so can be legally used only by those who own a 680x0 based Macintosh.

Dangit.

So is there any way to legally buy an old-timey ROM image, the way you can buy a legal Amiga Kickstarter ROM from Amiga Forever (http://www.amigaforever.com/)?

Knowing Apple I'm guessing the answer is "hahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa o my sides", but hey, you never know...
I've looked into ZFS before for distributions like freenas, is there any solution on the horizon for the massive memory requirements?

For example, needing 8-16gb ram for something like a xTB home nas is high.
I know lots of people who don't want to get legally married, hate that their lives are built around making money, and can't stand the thought of staying in one place for too long. Traditional adulthood is obviously not very appealing to them, and for good reason. We also aren't too keen on abandoning our childhood dreams, hobbies, and aspirations. Some of them want kids, but having kids tends to make living an alternative lifestyle a lot more difficult. I don't know if any of this has anything to do with patriarchy or feminism, but I suppose the people I surround myself with do hold rather egalitarian views.
I feel like a CS education should prepare one for this kind of field. What's a good way to get started learning more about evolution?
Does Chrome OS actually store anything like contacts, social data, etc, natively? If not, then I don't see where it could even poke any holes.
It's interesting how the dynamics work these days, and how Amazon just doesn't seem to be getting it.
People are perfectly happy to sign a 2-year contract on a well-designed fully-rounded functional phone, they do that by the tens of millions. They even pay $200 to get the phone. The phone has become personal, and also a necessity as you go through the day. Going through 2 years on a badly designed phone just because somebody gave it to you for free doesn't really makes sense anymore.
Did they seriously spoil the ending of breaking bad in the first sentence?
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Why does it really matter if the setting is more-or-less consistent with now or with recent history, vs older history or extrapolated near-future, or speculative advanced technology (sci-fi), or magic aka "sufficiently advanced technology" (fantasy)?

I'd think the part of "subject matter" that would matter, would be what the problems are. Are the characters trying to stay alive, trying to keep their jobs or get promoted, trying to find the best parties to go to, trying to sneak around while avoiding their parent, etc.
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Twitter has a vastly user experience than Wikipedia. Imagine if hostile Twitter users could trivially untweet/hide your content.
Updike dealt with infidelity and so did Don Draper. The author contradicts his thesis in the last paragraph. Did you have a point, he didn't.
They're using Twilio. Each SMS they send costs them $0.0075.

However, simply stripping the junk out of web pages for mobile delivery has real promise. Just put all third-party content on "load on user request only", like mail attachments.
This probably won't be well received, but I think posts like this, with lines like "a list of objects of type X is an element from the free monoid generated by the set of elements of X where the monoid structure (a unital associative binary operation) is given by concatenation", go some way towards explaining why functional programming won't ever become mainstream.
> who cannot afford the market rate.

Any sources for that? As far as I have seen, admittedly, a fraction of the massive population, cost of healthcare is not the issue. Some of my doctors charged me rather high amounts and explained that they use it to offset the cost of treating poor people for free. Drugs are extremely cheap, and many docs give it away to the poor. India has problems with access, sanitation, hygiene, and education. As far as I have seen, "cannot afford the market rate" is not a common issue.
> In the past year I have seen both a dermatologist and an orthopedist for the first time. I never had to wait more than a week.

Appointment times vary by type of specialist, location and luck. I've never got any specialist's appointment before a month here in New York.

> Mine have always gone to the local pharmacy of my choice. Same for my wife.

I tried sending the prescription to local CVS pharmacy. CVS said that my insurance only approved medication for 1 month, while my prescription was for 3 months. Moreover, they were charging me 4x copay than the mail-order pharmacy that works with my insurance company. I guess this is another tactic of my insurance company to maximize their profit by forcing us to buy medication from their partner pharmacy.

> I rarely get bills after the fact, but they always itemize and explain the charges. I also get statements showing what my insurance company paid.

My Insurance company's partner pharmacy keeps charging me random amounts for same mediation. I've been getting few medications for $37 each since past 6 months, but now they suddenly starting charging me $185 each for the same medications without any explanation. I could buy the same medications in India for less than $10 each.
From what I've read these packs have around 7000 3100mAH NCR-18650s. Over the years I've used these NCRs (or lower mAH versions) individually in special flashlights - and while they seem to have good reliability overall, one did fail on me while charging. Thats why often hobbyists charge these outside in fireproof bags.

I would be terrified to drive a car with this technology.
Given that the tech sector celebrates having fireman poles instead of stairs, colored ball pits, giant bean bags for chairs and webcomics as regular features in slideshows and the revealing contents of 'intership swag' posted to reddit from various tech companies (NERF guns, USB turrets, etc) - I would tend to agree.

Beyond that, the tech sector is made up of exactly the sort of Louie character described in the article. Mostly pale pasty males that feel obligated to sex with women more attractive than them. Boyish-men that try to out-novelty one other and whose boyish hobby (computers) just happens to be something that makes a _lot of money_ - it's like if we discovered that LEGO construction somehow helped corporate bottom lines. A culture that buys into the myth that computer pioneers,serious and careful mathematicians and technicians all, were 'geniuses' rather than driven and hard workers and that they, by knowing how to code in Python and Angular, are somehow too in that rank of elite men.

The tech industry celebrates adolescence and arrested development. It claims with a straight face it has engineers and is doing engineering, but just look at the difference in ethical standards and responsibility Software Engineering has compared to, say, Civil Engineering or Architecture. Software Engineers have no licensure. If your software kills someone (Therac-25, Great Northeast Blackout) or causes widespread instability (Black Monday, Flash Crash) or has ethically questionable goals, where are the repercussions? As a tech industry member you are shielded from your own ignorance, laziness, and carelessness. (Sure we build software faster. We could build bridges faster without licensure and regulations as well).
In five years I'm sure it will be like "spoiling" the plot-twist in Empire Strikes Back: no one will ding you for spoilers because the plot will be common knowledge.
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Maybe, but I would think you'd be much better off with a proper VPN or proxy.
The only legal way is to buy a old Mac and extract the rom. Of course this is the internet, so ...
Kudos to Mozilla for tackling a huge pain point (having to learn three sets of dev tools because each browser speaks its own protocol sucks).

I'm most familiar with the WebKit/Chrome Dev Tools, and found this awesome project via Mozilla's post:

https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy

If it works as advertised, it'll let you connect to iOS browsers from Chrome Dev Tools. Honestly, I'm surprised they don't have a version of this compiled into Chrome for iOS.
Except that many contracts now have 'unlimited' voice minutes.

Unfortunately, voice calling uses lossy compression, so your data rate would be somewhat limited as you struggle to be 'heard' over that.
So much nostalgia.
Fair enough. I obviously meant a typical desktop/laptop/smartphone/server/whatever.
How do you think prices can be so low, besides not paying for R+D?
You are living in the past, when Windows was the holy graal for the software companies. Today Android is waaaay outselling Windows. Its like advising Ford to change his cars in such ways as to allow clients to use horses, instead of motors. And yes there are markets for horse cars and laptops today, but those are not the markets where the big profits are.
I'm a fan of the view that evolution should be viewed as an information transfer process. It transfers information about the fitness landscape into the genome.

Similar environments will give rise then to similar information. There will be variance, of course, but it's going to be a lot narrower than the random walk interpretation of evolution would predict.

There is evidence for this from several places:

* Convergent evolution on Earth at many scales

* Digital evolution experiments showing similar endpoints in similar environments and against similar fitness landscapes

* ... and now this series of experiments showing convergent evolution in the lab even down to the genetic level

There's a lot of interesting implications here. For example: can we really say that another planet very similar to Earth that is of similar age might not harbor another bipedal warm blooded sentient species physically similar to ourselves? I'd be really surprised if we found Star Trek levels of similarity (e.g. biological and sexual compatibility), but some level of similarity in areas like basic anatomical structure would not shock me. Perhaps the anthropomorphic alien depictions in sci-fi (Giger's alien, the "greys," etc.) are not terribly implausible.

Of course a radically different world harboring life might yield something radically different for similar reasons.
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Seriously. Thanks a lot, jerks. Well, I guess I can cross it off my to-watch list.
What does this mean in layman's terms?
OK, so Linux can run Windows apps (Wine) and Windows can run Linux apps (Cygwin). When do Microsoft and RedHat merge their platforms?
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Re: [1], isn't that far too many drives in one RAIDZ? Referencing this: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Prac...
Yea, maybe, I don't even know. I develop on Windows and only deploy to Linux.

Let's just hope that with the release of VS2014 and K Runtime all those things will get solved like MS promised.
> If people don't trust machines, it's because they're surrounded by machines that break and malfunction constantly, systems that don't work, networks that fail - and autonomous cars implies a level of faith in all of that working flawlessly most of the time in spite of demonstrable reality.

People are falling to a very common bias. They see machines that break and malfunction constantly because those are the only ones noticable. They don't see many more machines working flawlessly, even though their very lives depend on them. Auto-pilots on planes, HVAC automation, gas delivery automation, lifts, food processing machines, electric grid, the Internet - all of this works almost perfectly, but we notice only occasional hickups and failures. The demonstrable reality is that most of the time things really do work flawlessly.

Still, it doesn't matter. People need to understand that it doesn't matter if the machine isn't perfect. What matters is if it is better than human. And for self-driving cars, outperforming human drivers isn't a distant goal.

> While I object to autonomous cars mostly because they remove human autonomy and implicitly limit freedom (as a tradeoff for safety and greater efficiency), I think it would be a bad idea in any case to come to the point where having a steering wheel isn't even an option.

Well, but that's the exact point of having self-driving cars. Because humans should not have the "freedom" of driving around on public roads and killing each other all the time. Or, in other words, as a proponent of self-driving cars I want to be able to exercise my freedom of not getting killed by myself or another driver, because human reflexes and cognitive skills are not up to par with the requirements of driving a motor vehicle.

Public roads are infrastructure, its goal is to let people move from point A to point B. The requirement that people do the moving themselves is only there because we didn't have self-driving cars then, and cars are more flexible than trains. Sure, let's drive all we want on private property. Have our freedom. But the infrastructure works better when humans don't mess with it.
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18650 is the form factor. These cells don't use the usual chemistry. Do you really think that the form factor is dangerous?
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I might be slightly off. But not by more than 1.5 - 2 times. It's not a really bad salary, I agree it's not awesome either.
Loan Twitter money now. They'll pay back in 2019 or 2021, with interest.
How well would this work for spoken word instead of music?
Americans are most money hungry people I have encountered in my life. Seriously. Every single opportunity, heck ,even life and death is seen through money. I lived in Europe, South Asia and US. Europe is sort of similar but much better.
I had came to US in 2004 on H1-B. People will literally say H1-Bs are reason they are out of job. Well, that's not true in many cases. Even if it was, what about hundred and thousands of lives saved by Indian Medical facilities ? Every time I go to home ( India) I see thousands of people coming to India ; many for medical tourism.

Also, FUCK this author for publishing costs. Next time think about poor people back home before going fucking social over it.

Because lots of people from fucking US and Europe are coming to India for medical tourism cost to treat people at home are skyrocketing.
You motherfucking bastards count it in dollars and think , well fuck its just 3K , look how cool and cheap treatment it. Point is , it is 150000 for Indians at home. A well round software engineer earns between 600000 to 800000 after 3 or 4 years.
Because now many hospitals know that foreigners are fucking bastards tipping and lavishing them with money they refuse to offer same level of treatment at home. So disease created by US of money hunger ( hmmm hmmm capitalistic fuckers ) is spreading in India fast , very fast.
Fuck everyone taking advantage of our not-so-low-cost medical care with your fucking dollars.
Though obviously it's not the reason it was adopted, it is kind of neat that using a dead language for scientific terms disambiguates them cleanly for the purposes of searching.

Any live language would have accidental matches (even quoted) where it's just the obvious thing to say, a la "born without a cerebellum".
The great thing about common core is the disappearance of multiple-choice tests. Anyone who grew up outside the US will tell you that having to show your reasoning is much superior to picking between ABC and D.
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I got down-voted for this!

After n years. Time to sign out from HN.
On Quora, the Eucalyptus CEO was once a big openstack critic. He slowly seemed to mellow down, and finally seems to have joined the other side :)
They'd rather take on debt than issue equity. Convertible debt turns into equity in the future unless it's paid off on some defined schedule.