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Normally I would be inclined to agree, but where I live, in Ithaca NY, we have an all-volunteer online news source, The Ithaca Voice. It's probably more widely read than our two old papers. The Voice has been very diligent with reporting on crime, community developments, and as of late, the retrospectively obvious saturation of lead in our school water pipes.

So yes, while I agree that mainstream local news is broadly failing both itself and the general population, it is not an irreversible or geographically independent condition. Or maybe I'm full of shit and the only reason Ithacans read local news is because once you're here long enough you never leave, so you have some skin in the game.
Or, even better, the printer has a built in web interface which means you don't have to install any vendor supplied "utilities" (which are usually bloated and often come with unwanted crapware).
Anecdotally, I have a bonus linked to my company profit that are usually between half and full month of salary.

This does not motivate me at all. I actually always forget about it until I receive the amount each year.

This is seems counter intuitive but I work in such a big company that I don't even understand which profits are taken into account to calculate it. Is it the global profit of my division ? or all divisions for my country or region ? (I actually believe this is the latter).

So some year you deliver a project late and you get a big bonus and the next year, you are exceptionally on time and don't get anything.

I am sure it works for smaller company where you can measure very directly the effect of your contribution, but past a certain point, it is hard to measure or understand your impact.
I have seen the term "tenderpreneur" applied to those who become enriched through favourable access to government contracts, as in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderpreneur

... a tenderpreneur is a person in government who abuses their
political power and influence to secure government tenders and
contracts. The word tenderpreneur is a portmanteau of "tendering"
and "entrepreneur".

Could the meaning be applied here too?
I tried the Vivaldi version of this a few months ago and it unfortunately does not meet the feature set of Tree Style Tabs. It isn't a worthwhile alternative, for me.
So I did what they recommended and bought a cheap b/w laser printer, namely the Brother HL-L2340DW.

Since that day, printing doesn't suck anymore, and my old Canon Pixma sits unused.
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It's a subsystem for running Linux binaries, unaltered, on top of the Windows NT kernel. There has been no mention of additional Windows NT filesystem drivers, anywhere.
How much money did you get to make this wonderland story?
I was thinking of this in the context of trickle-charging by embedding the technology in the road at well-known bottle-necks, traffic lights, and anywhere where there is predictable very slow-moving traffic, as well as in the obvious candidates such as car parks and parking bays.

For parking bays on public streets in residential areas where on-street parking is the only option it offers an option without needing to add a lot of additional pavement furniture (charging pods).

Right now the capital cost versus utilisation equation probably doesn't look rational, but in 15 years or so when a significant fraction of vehicles are electric or hybrid it could make a deal of sense.

Not sure if it'll ever happen but the current experiments with (solar) power-generating road surfaces combined with this and local energy storage could be interesting. Top up the storage batteries during light traffic; discharge the storage batteries and charge vehicles during peak traffic periods and overnight.
People can repurpose hardware to work with a new backend, but only if the hardware is unlocked.
It looks a lot like the laser version of an active electronically scanned array...
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Its wireless all right, if you ignore thick cable hanging under the car, connected to massive plate suspended 10cm above ground, pretty much almost touching another plate. Did I mention they need to be perfectly aligned for efficient coupling? All of this makes wireless part pretty pointless, you could very well make those plates touch when parked.
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What about USB cables that are not included and you know this only after bringing the box home? )
In that vein, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416392 .
All phone platforms are viable, it depends on what you expect from them...
She needs time to "think"
Someone needs to do a Dyson on printers. Everyone knows they are all shit, and I think a lot of people would be ready to spend money on a decent small office one.

The whole industry is backwards and creating huge amounts of waste. All printers I've pretty much ever seen are flimsy plastic pieces of crap with nonsensical control panels that look ugly as hell.
This is one of the most widely misunderstood poems around. It doesn't actually mean what most people think it means: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misre...
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> The price is defined primarily by how much you ask for and what you can offer in return.

I couldn't agree more. I know a lot of developers that have the mentality to just accept what they are offered without negotiating. It's up to you to get a good price for the value you bring to the company. Negotiation is the best way to significantly increase your salary, regardless of your technical skills.

Patio said it best: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Actually, weirdos are people making such pages. There is no valid reason for the content here to be not visible without JavaScript on. It's laziness and/or stupidity.
Accurate, automatic descriptions of snapshots of peoples lives?? This is surely sending shock waves down the data mining community. Additionally Facebook are saying this was built as an aid for blind people, but this is surely just a cover for being able to take targeted ads to the next level.
Here are some details of the challenge that you have set yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376
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> Apparently there's multiple(!) groups of people who will pay $25,000 dollars minimum to sit at a table near Nikki Minaj for an hour?

Yes. There are tens of thousands of people (and most importantly, their children) for whom multi-million dollar annual expenses are fairly inconsequential.

There are also plenty of people who cannot afford such expenses, but who will nonetheless make them -- a fool and his money are easily parted.

And clubbing with celebrities -- especially for young people -- is among the best status symbols that money can buy. Not to mention that it can be fun, too. (The Lil Jon example in the article is good -- some celebrities are known for throwing really great parties. As with most goods, the really great is much more expensive than the normal stuff.) In a society that is greatly concerned with status and appearances, it is no surprise that this market exists.
This is a key component in autonomous vehicle networks.

Take fleet rental cars that patrol a city looking for passengers -- with traditional plug-in tech, you need some sort of robot on the car or charging station to plug something in. As well, if the car is unattended, there is not insignificant risk of someone stealing the cables.

With this, the car needs to just stop on a charging pad and get to charging. Simpler and safer.
Unwanted XHRs' aren't the only reason to block javascript.
My reconditioned HP LJ 5N (total cost to me so far: £50 including delivery) is actually pretty good, assuming you don't want or need colour printing.
I've had a HP LaserJet 1020 since 2005, when I paid around $100 for it. A refurbished one today costs $200+, which means it actually went up in value. It is small, fast, and works on third party cartridges that I pay 10-20$ for. Besides dusting it once in a while, I've done zero maintenance. It runs on Linux without any problems.

This printer is probably one of my favorite pieces of technology for the above reasons. I should add I print around 10-20 pages per day.
No, it really doesn't.

Computers don't exist in a vacuum - the environment is constantly changing.

Let me put a real-life example.

Say there's a new SSL vulnerability or zero-day discovered - you go and check to make sure all your servers and packages are patched. Or maybe there's no patch yet, and you need to run a mitigation.

You better go check all your logs, to make sure nobody got in already though. Hmm, maybe you should contact your NOC as well, just in case.

Load just increased - you better spin up some new servers. Whilst AWS might like you to believe this is all one-button and it works with no human intervention - it probably isn't.

Oh, drat, one of the uptream endpoints you rely on just broke their API. You better whip up a patch. Then you need to test it, and make sure your CI server passes all the tests for it. Oh, and then hire some testers.

The point is - things are more complex in the real world, particularly running at any kind of scale.
Not entirely true with the email as it was also (or only I guess) used as RSS reader by many people.
It is biased. Middle management makes usually less that senior programmers. His perspective is biased, he compare senior developer to VP/CTO roles. It way more difficult to become someone high in management structure. Since manager ratio is 5-10 to one manager, and high level manager is for every 50-100 employees you need to very lucky, in right place and time.
Not the best article I've ever read - yes, Printers can be a PITA, but I think that's inevitable because they are complex electromechanical devices which are required to be very cheap. And in many cases almost disposable - something which is a real crime. Got given a Laserjet 400Pro the other day, purely because it had a label stuck in the paper path so had been written off. I've fixed it (zero cost other than time), but I'd be surprised if I could get £30 for it, despite it working perfectly. Printers must be a serious environmental nightmare.

As for being happy, I must be the exception to the rule. I have a Laserjet 4000 here which has been sat on my home network since I was given it as part of a load of IT gear I was given in 2000. It has a page count of over 70k (it was the low mileage one of the two printers I was given at about 40k when I got it - the other already had 130k on it!), and just works. All I've ever had to to do it in 16 years of reasonably heavy use is to put paper in it, change the toner once (got 3 new toners with it as well!), and buy a new paper tray because the rollers were worn (£6). It's connected to my Ubuntu server and works on Google Cloud print as well as a locally shared Windows printer. Its only downside is the high (18W) standby consumption, but like my ageing central heating boiler, I'm not going to change it just because of that.
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Hmm. Well, okay, maybe I'm wrong, but I looked at the sources and in the renderer class it was using still legacy methods of setting matrixes, lights and so on.
I just got back from a conference in NYC about this and the interesting thing is that the stogier and more established a vendor is, the more interested it is in the blockchain.

For instance, the DTCC, which handles settlements for stocks in the US, is working on a system for settlements for gold in London and they seem to have a handle on it. They are thinking about how to get T+0 settlement (near instantaneous) working alongside the existing T+2 system (2 days) for stocks but that is a harder problem because of mergers, splits, dividends, reorganizations and other corporate actions.

The TLDR of it is that nobody is happy with the status quo, neither regulators, customers, or the banks that have to hold huge amounts of reserve capital against risks. Faster settlements and payments can make risk disappear rather than hide it, hedge it, manage it, or hold capital against it.

Incumbents don't want to blindsided and they also have resources to throw at the problem... Look at how vanguard is jumping into robo-advising with both feet.
They say that making money is easy but only so if it is the only thing in your life.

If you are willing and able to make tradeoffs that help you to focus on what is financially lucrative, then it's probably easy to find the highest paying path available. Factor in the rest of what's in your life and what you want to do; not so easy and usually it is "the money, and..." that people want.
The Brother laser printers are quite decent. Best printer I've had since the HP LaserJet my parents bought in the 90s - which, with a serial-USB conversion kit, still works today, amazingly. They built those things ruggedly.

It's a little weird for me to see that logo on a printer, though - Brother has been a sewing machine manufacturer for a lot longer, and my mother, grandmother, and aunts have had a succession of Brother sewing machines.
That's actually not off-topic. I wouldn't take web programming advice from someone who thinks displaying a blog article requires javascript.
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I stopped hating my printer after I bought a Brother laser printer for $100.
Does everyone think that the average person has the option to stop working for months (or even a year) at a time? This is merely celebrating the wealthy doing things only the wealthy can afford to do.
Err, no - anybody who actually works in software will tell you everything is changing.

Server and package vulnerabilities get discovered all the time.

And load is never constantly - it's not like you have 1000 users, and they do the same thing every day, 365 days a year.

And there are an army of script kiddies out there trying to break into your servers. Or maybe somebody more skilful, trying to break in and steal some PII (personally identifiable information).

Point is - the environment and your users are constantly changing. If you don't take that into account, it can blow up pretty bad.
Computers will look at everything and organize, link, collate, combine,and transform the mountains of data and metadata we generate.
Yeah, except, while that may be the intention of the poem doesn't make it true. Sometimes a poem becomes something more than what the poet intended.

Reality is, some choices really do effect our lives and don't lead to the same place.
I agree with basically everything you said, yet I take quite a few pictures during my trips; a cheap phone shot that takes as little time as possible, that may be awfully blurry and with horrible colors, but that is enough to get the relevant information. Which is:

- Get a quick access to references that are mentally organized (because of the trip), without having to take time to actually gather the pictures.

- The specific element might not be photographed, or not possible to find at least. Maybe it's the design of some doorknob that's really great, in the middle of the countryside. Good luck finding that on google. Even some painters in the rijksmuseum are impossible to find on the web, so...

- Nothing existing picture may be satisfying. Maybe the specific arrangement of shapes works best from a very specific point of view. Maybe it's because of the lightning conditions. There are many potential reasons.

- You can use the ref without fear of copyright infringement (well, orwellian states would differ, but nearly).
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I bought a color laser printer - OKI C301DN and compared to all my previous inkjets it`s a god-sent. With inkjets I had many problems with clogged heads and electronics going bad. I guess it is partially a consequence of me not printing regularly and using non-OEM ink.

But not with the OKI, it just works, always. I feel a little bad for using cheap Chinese toner but the discrepancy in price towards the OEM ones is just too large.
They should also least guarantee no whiteboard coding if you pass the game. That would be worthwhile.
Like you'd expect, almost like an art installation, the kindle version costs $2.67 more than the paperback. Thanks middlemen!
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Except that most of these products have proprietary components that are merely licensed. The company that goes bankrupt doesn't even possess the source code let alone the right to make it public.
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The basic answer is that generic methods rule in in Java because the compiler can do all sorts of inference over them even if generic classes drool because their types are erased.
The reason I buy a cheap piece of shit is because there is little difference between it and the expensive piece of shit.

I currently have a $60 printer which does just fine. Previously I had a >$200 fancy HP printer, but I got rid of it when I found out it would "expire" my ink. As someone that prints maybe a handful of concert tickets a year, that is bullshit.
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I believe that's cognitive coercion in action.

Obviously none of us truly believes that `convenience === quality`.
I miss when people spent more time looking at pictures than taking them.
I think if you can be that high energy contributor while you are in office and draw the line clearly stating your expectations, most colleagues can understand and respect that. 6 hours of high quality work any day trumps 8 hours of low quality work. Why should anyone expect that. The guidelines and rules are created for "everyone" who can't define their own schedule. If you can then more power to you.
How to make the best of meetings?
After reading this thread [1] I saw some good advices like: do a meeting on a room without chairs, cost in people hours, meeting with less than 4 people, make an agenda.

Do you have any other good hack for meetings?

[1] https://np.reddit.com/r/Nest/comments/4dbbgh/is_anyone_concerned_about_the_future_of_nest/
I honestly don't know if that is sarcasm or not.
Are you actually telling me you'd go back to your car manufacturer after 20 years, and demand they fix your car for free?

Or if you buy a shirt and wear it for 5 years - you'd go back to Kmart after 5 years and say, your shirt wore out, give me a refund?

The sense of entitlement in that statement is...pretty high. I'm just going to leave it at that.
No no. PC World - an overpriced chain here in the UK keeps USB cables by the checkout, and in a "would you like fries with that" manner tries to upsell every printer purchase with a USB cable.

It's a very long time since I was in one of their stores, but those cables were typically £20-£25 for an unbranded with a wholesale of about 50p.
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There's actually a lot of material out there on this I.e extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation.

Money is an extrinsic motivator. Interest and enjoyment are intrinsic motivators. There are healty benefits linked to working a job based on high intrinsic motivation. Using extrinsic motivators could actually harm intrinsic motivation in the long run too.

Long story short, rewards based on money may not increase but actually reduce work enjoyment. Though, if you enjoy making money in of itself...
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A little hard to take seriously considering the author works for Canonical. Even so the author didn't seem very excited about it, it felt more like an acceptable phone and not that it's better than Android or iOS.
Regardless of what they put back into the treasury the idea that they pay any tax is absurd. They collect taxes for the treasury and this is passed on in the cost of every sale and service they make.

About the only method to force payment of a tax on a sale or service is sadly through something similar to a VAT. Then remove any income tax paid.

Still a better solution would be a low, 15% or such, flat tax which has no deductions
> Lifetime support

Silly consumer, not _your_ lifetime, the lifetime of the product.

BTW, we just declared your 300$ gadget end of life. kthxbai...
I'd like to compare Facebook's image tagging with Google Cloud Vision API https://cloud.google.com/vision/ I think it would be interesting to see which one is more accurate or verbose.
thanks, posted it :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11438232
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In IoT, Raspberry Pi and a "polished consumer products" are two different categories. The latter usually looks pretty and comes in nice packaging, but it has little in terms of usefulness, adds some user-hostile features (like vendor's cloud dependance) and its actual hardware could be replicated by a hobbyist at 1/10 of the price with said Raspberry Pi and a short visit to Aliexpress.

Sadly, companies learn that spending money on sales&marketing has better ROI than spending it on making an actually useful product. And it seems to me that startups are bigger offenders than established companies here.
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I've owned a Dell Color Laser 1320c for 8 years.

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Color-Laser-Printer-1320c/dp/B001...

I had to buy a new toner cartridge once, which cost about 70 EUR. It gets frequent usage. It just sits on my home network and prints. I don't think it has ever had a paper jam.

Every single ink jet printer I had beforehand was an overpriced rip-off.

This Dell one has been awesome, and it only costs $112 on Amazon at the moment. Bargain.
Starting a business is fairly easy, especially one that is service-based with low initial capital requirements. Maintaining a business for the long term is an entirely different beast.
Until that particular test ends, and another one begins.
Are you actually saying that you'd be able to successfully take a company to court, because their non-smart heating controller stopped working after 10 years?

Heck, even 5 years?

All of this for some cheap widget? (I assume from your description it's cheap).

If you can find a single case (or similar case) where this happened, I will stand corrected.

If this was a $2000 laptop, I can absolutely see that - e.g. Apple Macbooks in Australia have a statutory warranty longer than the manufacturer's 1 year warranty. But I think you'd be hard pressed trying to claim after 3-4 years that it should still apply there. And this is for a $2000 laptop.
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That's an invalid JSON, and I didn't manage to make the validation and notify the user if the JSON is invalid or not. That's why it doesn't do anything :)
Its illogical to expect that Nest would continue to support and fund a product that they didn't want

Eh? Then why did they buy it? The continued support for this component should have been factored in the buying price.
whoa! for £25 you can get a baseline laser printer over here in Russia (and a USB cable for additional £1)...
Ah, the Twitter app for Android (beta version) recently added a feature that allows you to add a description to pictures you upload for impaired people.
The link doesn't actually make a good argument on why people don't think what it means
> Someone needs to do a Dyson on printers. Everyone knows they are all shit, and I think a lot of people would be ready to spend money on a decent small office one.

Maybe? Most people I know almost never print stuff anymore. It's almost worth it to buy cheap, use rarely when necessary and that's the end of it.

3+ years ago? Hell yeah give me a nice printer that's a little pricy and I'll buy it. I'm just not convinced there is a market for that today outside of business and there are many good but expensive printers for business.