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> The business world is finally coming out of the place where everything it does has to be rammed through the Office/Excel/Powerpoint/Exchange funnel no matter how it distorts the outcome.

I am curious about the long term effects of this. We still exist in a world where many people believe the most efficient way to work with numbers is through an excel (no matter the form of the numbers).

One company I worked at 3 or 4 years did payroll for about 35,000 people in an excel spreadsheet. It mail merged and spat out checks in a process that handled about 1,000 an hour. A few times Excel hung and paychecks were late. They simply didn't know or want to accept that any of the plethora of open source databases could be made to do similar but finish payroll in an ten minutes (sans printing) instead of day and half.

And then of course obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1667/
Is the sum of small numbers greater than a large number?
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I'd bet it's inversely proportional to the number of things we have available to worry about. Kids and older people don't typically have (as) much to worry about as middle age people who are raising kids, caring for elders, paying debts, and trying to hold down jobs.
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Maybe there are developers who really just want more stuff. But I think there are people who would prefer it more if it were simpler and better documented, more stable, etc.
Your first demo link [1] to Swarm on your resume is broken for me.

[1]: http://www.b33hive.net/
I am the consummate jack-of-all-trades. It is a disorder. And it irks me EVERY day that I'm not amazing at one single thing. I am SO envious of people that possess a single-minded focus and the older I get the more I regret not finding that singular passion. The problem is...I get bored with one thing. Or at least, I'm never crossed that painful membrane of boredom to find bliss in single mastery.
>I think the Swedish (Nordic?) model for bringing internet connectivity to it's citizens is superior.

That's no surprise. The Scandinavian countries are superior nations to every other country on Earth, except maybe Switzerland. Every quality-of-life study ranks them at the very top.
Ah but that would be bad prose style.
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This whole discussion reminds me of how all MySpace content was destroyed in a rash corporate decision years ago. Just like that, five years of the most popular social networking site on the World Wide Web and all its history were wiped out:

http://activehistory.ca/2013/06/myspace-is-cool-again-too-ba...

Unfortunately, the Internet Archive was only able to get the non-logged-in version of the site. All those loud, obnoxious profile pages users spent endless hours working on? We only have oral histories now to remember them.
If I saw this linked from a resume, I'd throw the resume out. The projects are impressive and I haven't spent enough time with the essays to evaluate their technical merits, but the anti-harassment-policy rant is like a giant, blinking "DO NOT HIRE ME" sign. I wouldn't want this guy anywhere near my team.
Discontinued? It has over 100 contributors, and the last stable release was two months ago ... I think it is very much alive: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5
I like the simplicity of www.enrad.io
There's no reason a `.where` should be slower than an explicit loop though. Indeed it should offer more opportunity for future performance improvements, because it doesn't constrain the implementation with irrelevant details - the compiler is free to e.g. make the loop run backwards, or split the collection into chunks and parallelize, if it figures that that would be faster.
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The fact that people have to be buzzed in serves as a deterrent.
eOS is something I would probably recommend to my mother or my girlfriend if I wanted to give them an easy "introduction" to Linux. But the designers made several decisions that seem hostile to power users (you can't even add your own PPAs in Loki by default), and for that reason I'm not sure I'd recommend it to developers. Which I can understand, I guess--I've mentioned my problems with it to the designers directly and have been more or less told by Daniel Fore that I am not their "target audience". So, okay, you can't please everyone.

The Pantheon desktop is beautiful, and it deserves all the praise it gets. I maintain hope that the eOS team will work on disentangling Pantheon from the rest of eOS once they finish stabilizing the core OS so that it can be ported to other distros. Ideally I'd eventually have Fedora running on my laptop with Pantheon strictly as the DE.
>In some settings, AR could include a density of advertising -- passive or interactive -- similar to the real world without much trouble.

Occasionally I'll watch an NHL hockey game and on certain broadcasts I started to notice large banners on the glass behind the goals and thought to myself, "Boy, you pay for seats that close to the ice and you're looking at the back of a banner ad?"

When I noticed the ad changed during the broadcast I realized that it was a virtual projection for the TV audience[0] -- a sort of AR in its own right, since it appears so seamless that I originally thought it was part of the rink.

[0] http://www.sportvision.com/hockey/virtual-advertisements
This is pretty standard because it is a quick and dirty proxy to those who have most the internal experience. Sometimes companies will layoff people who are more senior because of cost, but the reality is most senior people are not making double of those who just joined. A 20% difference in pay simply is not enough to take on the risk accidentally getting rid of people who have key knowledge.
I would say "stay as far away from academic research as you possibly can" is the best advice someone can get these days. It is an awful, stressful waste of the prime of your life.

From what I saw in biomed only 1/10,000 or so will end up with the time, skills, and appropriately ambitious project to allow a decent job to get done. The rest will be forced to produce BS (literally, most of it is just misinformation at this point) or quit before even graduating.
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How could you possibly list worrydream.com when it completely breaks the scroll wheel?
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How does this compare to the rise of number of programmers?
> perhaps employees at Goldman Sachs understand and accept this

This is the banking industry as a whole. Unless you have events like 2008, major banks just trade employees. None of them really care all that much about being fired. It's more of an inconvenience.
I created http://convertcsv.com and make about $750 a month off google ads. I also have one affiliate link but it isn't producing much. I spend a few hours a week answering emails, and another 2-10 hours a month working on enhancements. As a developer I work with data a lot, and noticed the lack of tools for converting delimited data - so I created my own tools online.
Bah yea need to update that, thanks for the heads up.
http://www.gwern.net/

Does gwern fall into this category? While I'd need to know more about what he's like in person, the author certainly seems like a technically competent individual.
every politician IS corrupt in this world, usually on many layers by many parties at the same time.

I am sure there are few exceptions out there, but as described - few, and exceptions.
> Apple won the smartphone wars a long time ago.

This claim is made, but it's not very specific. In what way did Apple win the smartphone wars ?
Then look at the article about how acko.net was built. You'll want JS active, since like all of his work, it's usefully interactive.

https://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/
In the mid 90's, Caltech's David Goodstein predicted an impending "Big Crunch" in science, writing: "We must find a radically different social structure to organize research and education in science after The Big Crunch."

The essay is long but well worth reading: https://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html
wow. on my best days (which are rare) i hit 5k...
there was this $Billion penalty in China

http://www.wsj.com/articles/qualcomm-settles-china-probe-142...

followed by 'voluntary' investments and 'partnerships'. Intel faced similar fate and was forced to open fab and inject almost two billion into chinese consortium Spreadtrum.
But if you are down only 1.99% you get to stay and get a totally clean slate in a couple weeks. That is one incentive.

Also there is no go big or go home as you approach these thresholds, VaR scales back and trades are stop lossed to prevent exactly what you describe.

Some traders would just bet it all the first day and go home in January if they lost. Why wait till the end of the year? Do it now! Coin flips are coin flips. The finance industry has attracted people with gambling issues.

Risk Management rules are in place to prevent that kind of risk taking. But obviously some traders slip through risk procedures and lose huge amounts of money on bad trades, they also go to jail for it.
This message was released on their site, which I've submitted separately[0] - feel free to delete/bury this submission, dang!

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805387
My corporate firewall has your domain name on a shitlist, for the stated reason of distributing viruses and malware. Have you been told this before?
Don't forget video drivers! Those are still a flaky mess of closed-source and hacky solutions with unreadable errors.

Personally I still have issues with sound-cards from time to time (I use debian, while ubuntu is much better about the OOTB experience), but getting rid of PA still fixes that.
> huge endowment

Really? Some endowment sizes for world-class universities:

MIT: $13 billion

Caltech: $2 billion

Harvard: $36 billion

Stanford: $22 billion

Princeton: $21 billion

Yale: $25 billion

Cambridge: GBP ~6 billion

Oxford: GBP ~4 billion

Caltech is the outlier here for US universities, but it's also an outlier in size; its endowment per student is still about $1 million, which is in the same ballpark as the other US universities on the list. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit... for probably more data than you ever wanted. ;)

I'm having a hard time finding how much money YC has lying around, but I would be rather surprised if it's in the billions USD.

> pure & applied research departments; staff scientists

On a _tiny_ scale compared to a world-class university.
Everyone who maintains designs with NXP parts, please take notice: this is a good time to download and keep all the documentation on these components.

Qualcomm's track record on releasing and delivering documentation is among the worst in industry. If you are not a big buyer they vetted, they won't even answer your emails or send you the NDA. And after NXP bought Freescale, previously available documents went missing. So, all care must be taken.
I'd suggest reading the hybrid logical clocks paper.
Most CVEs have a pretty good descriptions. For example CVE-2016-6186[1]:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the dismissChangeRelatedObjectPopup function in contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js in Django before 1.8.14, 1.9.x before 1.9.8, and 1.10.x before 1.10rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving unsafe usage of Element.innerHTML.

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-6186/
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I believe NXP has an NFC chip in a few different iPhone revs.

But I think NFC chipsets are noise in this acquisition, I think this is all about QCOM missing the boat on automotive and buying their way into this market via NXP.

The real loser here is Intel who really doesn't have a compelling automotive story (aside from maybe Altera) and risks loosing to QCOM in handsets AND automotive.
Here's my three-second mood improver: Think of a major positive event in your life. Imagine what your life would be like if it hadn't happened. Sounds silly but it works every time.
For those reading this comment, I would honestly advise just picking up a psychology textbook that focuses on learning; the "Power of Habit" he refers to is just basic learning and behavior modification. The "Power of Habit" book is full of rambling anecdotes that do more to obfuscate the valuable content than emphasize it.
I think they may be meaning in terms of profit.
Sure, sometimes it's also good to be honest from the get go. They totally blew over the breach of the SamsungPay division acting as if nothing happened yet data was removed from the network that they couldn't account for. Only to say, it was a small issue. Well I can tell you it was not.

As far as I'm concerned the Brand should "burn" for the way they've handled this and their customers.
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I was highly surprised by that assertion too. If you take market share as a determiner, Google has basically crushed Apple: https://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
I plan on visiting many articles on the site. The one I did read was pretty long (even this one is long to me) so if they are all that long it will be a slow process but I liked what I saw.
Ask HN: Any companies for instant BTC payments?
I have customers that will pay me in USD and I want to store that in a BTC wallet.

I've looked into Circle and Coinbase, but they all require users to sign up, configure accounts, ..., which I don't my customers to experience.

I need a solution close to paypal/stripe. Customer put their CC information and quickly pay me in BTC.
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I know D.E. Shaw did something like this in 2009.
> most migrations don't need to be reversed

What do you mean? That's like saying "most commits don't need to be reverted".
I've never been successfully scammed.
The sale of smartphones? Concrete numbers seem hard to come by, but it seems unlikely that there are as many Pixel/Nexus phones out there as there are iPhones. Google has a lot more 'copycats' to contend with.
Ask HN: Use a law firm or LegalZoom?
Are the form legal documents on LegalZoom good enough for most tech company purposes? Or should a startup go and find a law firm out there? Are there any firms that specialize in startups?
... But that's precisely what a hybrid drive can be, except with more work to make it so the user doesn't have to juggle things by hand...

I am no longer a professional (as in, primary income) photographer, but I was and trying to keep all my work on the "right" drive was about as fun as weddings.

Btw sorry I said 2.5gb but that was mobile correcting 2.5in.
Except nowhere in this or the linked articles does it actually state this was a DMCA rather than a Content-ID takedown. I'd expect the EFF to know the difference.
Make some shell aliases to launch the programs in their own xiwi window.
The article mentions why Apple is the best: unbeatable hardware. It's that simple really...
It's ridiculous that you are getting downvoted. All news today is talking about how much trouble twitter is in. They are cutting 9% of its workforce.
Designer sunglasses can easily cost more than $130 and some 15-25 year old people do find the money to spend on them.

So the real question is more has Snapchat and its functionality built enough of a cachet to be valued as highly as something like a Ray Ban.

I do wonder about whether people will find the video-recording-and-sharing aspect creepy. It might help a bit that people don't associate Snapchat as "instantly on the web forever" compared to other services. We'll see.
Talking about worrydream.com
to be fair, Apple crushes pretty much every company out there in terms of profit. :)
791 on gnomes and salamanders ;)
how is this related to systemd(not just technically)? if anything.
A couple nitpicks:

- Virtual Reality - still hasn't demonstrated mainstream appeal. I'm pretty bearish on it being the next 3d TV's

- Resolution - Does anything north of 300dpi really matter at this point? Maybe for VR, but see above

- Privacy - as data breaches become the norm, where/how do you want your data stored?
When they took a massive 15% of the worlwide marketshare, of course. Thus making them the supreme victors over Windows Phone and Blackberry.

http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp
Almost certainly, but I might also let the person know, discretely and in careful language, depending on how close our relationship is.
This is trilateration, not triangulation. Triangulation works if you know the angles, trilateration works if you know the distances and uses circles.

Source: I've done this before and it is very accurate and creepy.

> This could be mitigated by rounding off coordinates to be coarse enough that it doesn't give their precise location before calculating the distance.

Reporting a slightly different location to users or varying the search radius per user search could help.
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I would recommend you start with something you're the most curious about and/or find the most useful in your day job. It's like this, you're hired to bring value to a company so it should make you productive if you know it better. Get to know that well, seek out edge cases and new techniques. If you put your time into it, you will gain that knowledge fast.

The important part is not to stop when you're finished. Pick up the next thing and do the same. After you go through a few phases you will have enough general knowledge to apply in many areas.

In this way you start a specialist and become a generalist. You'll know fully well what your tools and technologies will be capable of and you will be able to give reasonably accurate estimates.

As far as I can tell, unless you have an eye for design, it's generally easier to start on the back end and move to the front end. This way you can be productive and are able to move between companies. Front-end is still changing a lot. But there are a lot of promising releases/tools in the works that are making getting started a lot easier.
Reduction is different than the annual culling.
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on the topic of a nice GUI git client, what do people have to say about git kraken https://www.gitkraken.com/? It is cross platform for win/mac/linux
Something I do with my kids every night after bedtime stories: we each think back over the day and tell each other what the best part of our day was. I started doing that in a bid to get them in the habit of noticing good things through the day and it seems to be working. Also, they love it - more than stories or songs. We can miss stories and songs some nights if we're out late, but they won't go to bed until we talk about our day.
If I count correctly, the 2003-2006 Tweede Kamer had 9 party fractions in it at the start and had 5 split-off groups, so there were 14 fractions in the end. Maybe there were more somewhere in the meantime?

But of course I don't know what xenobioticants was thinking about.
I agree it's not passive yet, but with a blog, he doesn't need to do much automation. Once the content is up, there will be a fairly long tail of visitors to whom the content is new.

When I applied for my professional engineering license in Canada a few years ago, I blogged about the process because I found a total lack of such content when I looked for it. I haven't touched the blog since I got the license (over a year ago) and traffic and "income" (I profit $5-$10 per month, it's a very niche topic) have increased steadily since then. Almost everyone finds it through organic search.
> If companies had that much leverage we would all work at minimum wage

Yes, we would! And they try really hard to do that.

> I've seen non-competes in contracts with 150k+ compensation. Getting 150k to do something is not coercion, it's an exchange.

When you're generating value in excess of double that amount? It's coercion, you aren't get paid your worth. We've actually seen this with the big tech companies like Intel, Google and Adobe. They kept salaries down for over 4 years so that 150k and a non-compete actually is a huge hindrance and it is coercion.
The idea of savoring experiences is a good start. An even better technique is when your brain isn't otherwise occupied, actively look for things around you to appreciate or enjoy. Most miserable people's default behavior is to look for things to criticize, get angry over, be annoyed with, etc.
I wouldn't want to spread misinformation! It appears you are correct:

> (v) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

> (vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

So where in this system is the good faith belief actually evaluated?
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Could you give me any more information? My original site (years and years ago) was a PHP monster that got hacked briefly through a security vulnerability in my hosting provider (wasn't my fault, I swear!), so maybe the corporate firewall just has a long memory?
If someone sends a video of me masturbating to my mother, they probably wouldn't name the video "YOUR SON MASTURBATING.MP4".

And it probably varies by culture too, right? I would definitely be embarrassed if something like this was sent to my relatives and friends, but not €2,000 embarrassed. But I can easily see this being a very big deal in a much more traditional culture.

And now imagine that the victim is gay, and comes from a very conservative, religious culture, and both sides of the video are sent. (Or the victim isn't gay, but their masturbating video is just paired with another man's to make it look like they're gay.) Maybe they come from a culture where this means you're disowned, or worse.

I agree that we shouldn't worry about it, but we don't all have that luxury.
> I'm pretty bearish on it being the next 3d TV's

I'm actually pretty bullish on that, considering 3D TVs fizzled out pretty quickly.

Edit because I think I wasn't clear: I think setting the bar for VR as what 3D TVs accomplished is very pessimistic. VR seems vastly more promising, both moreso than 3D TVs did at their peak, and also on their own right as a very interesting and wide open medium.
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this is beyond one's personal dreams. only total anarchist/nihilist truly doesn't care about state of the environment where he lives. solarcity - cheap storage of solar energy for daily uses in household - not for everybody, but potentially for billions for sure.

space - indirect windfall of discoveries and improvements made in materials, manufacturing processes etc - it happened in the past with Nasa, it happens/will happen with them and others.

I drive 13 year old diesel bmw that costed 25% of a new one and probably will never buy a new car, so what? Mankind needs people like him, now more than ever.

It's not perfectly reasonable perspective. It's a perspective of an old, grumpy person who only cares about himself, and the world he lives in. Sure, we have plenty of those, but it ain't the best attitude to say at least.
I'm not sure if they've made it more difficult in a while -- they disabled mounting /system read-write but I was still able to copy the block device to another host, modify it, and copy the modifications back. At one point they disabled opening the block device (which was a partition) read-write so I had to open the containing block device (which was the whole disk) read-write and add an offset.

ChromeOS uses dm-verity to prevent this from being an issue, but I'm not sure Android does -- so you should be able to flip some bits on disk without being noticed !