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VPNs aren't really private. They can see everything that an ISP could see if you weren't using one. It's just a level of indirection.

I trust ISP companies more than I trust VPN companies because ISP companies are in the USA and are much larger (so engage in less risky behavior), so they at least have to sell data in aggregate and scrub PII
Touché! - the surprise on my part is genuine, though maybe it should not have been.
No, from the article, it's £6,400, and $8,000.

It does seem like a small amount of the amount of damages that happened.
There should be a separate "AirBnB for parties and events" option. If I had a space designed for such activities, being able to rent it out on the same platform would be great.
I wasnt the person that made that claim. I was answering where the "source was" aka the article you are replying to

your inadvertantly thing doesnt make sense.
Try Google Drive and Google Photos. Google Photos offer unlimited space for high-res photos.
On the other hand, if you could do it, you'd probably have invented a convoluted speech-to-text (where text is a index into a dictionary of words). Note that you would also likely lose things like inflection, voice, accent etc - so while it might work as a texting system with voice input - it would be a poor substitute for voice chat..
No, compression was used extensively. Just often hand-rolled and for specific things. https://multimedia.cx/eggs/nes-compression/ has a link to an RLE implementation used in some Zelda game.
You are both a troll and an asshole.
Nope, 8k is already adjusted for USD.

> which came to a total cost of around £6,400 (about $8,000)
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I have started many projects and needed to figure out what services to use without breaking the bank. I put together a checklist to get started. I noticed that even when following the detailed checklist each project setup is long and tedious and takes away from the momentum and excitement of working on a new idea. I created this website to reduce the barriers of working on new ideas. Let me know if you think it's interesting and useful.
And what do they call a soldier who graduates last in BUD/S class? Graduating is itself a big feat.
Agreed. Assuming the ISP would let you buy all data on men in DC between 40 and 70 y/o, that have moved there within the past 6 months. You could then easily deanonymize it by sorting out which users have gone to which local newspaper website (ie Someone from dallas is likely to have gone to dallasnews.com or www.nbcdfw.com). Should be pretty easy to find a few congress members, or at least congressional staffers.
if i had such an urge id book a therapist at 5pm every day until the urge went away, if only because the habit to leave the office was formed by having to see the therapist
Which even that isn't close to enough.
Similar to apps like Focus and Awareness, there's a piece of hardware called Saent [1] that serves the same purpose as well as indicating to others when you're working deeply and shouldn't be interrupted. I haven't bought one myself yet but have heard good things and considered it.

[1]: https://www.saent.com/
> That said, if your life goal is NOT about being successful but more about living a balanced life with happiness, then go live your life whatever way you want. In fact that's how 99% of the world live their lives.

Maybe you should re-phrase that as "about being financial successful". I for myself find a "balanced life with happiness" as very close to what being successful in life really means, for the simple fact that I've gone through periods when I would have given half of the world just not to be miserable anymore. The black hole of depression cannot be filled no matter how much money you have, and it can reach you even you're the most financially successful person in the world.
I don't think it makes any sense to call that a 'view' - other than the trite philosophical sense in which everybody's worldview is their own. Not sure what part of Marx's analysis of class struggle would actually depend on personal opinion in any meaningful way.
Tangentially, as a guest, I've found a new (to me) use for Airbnb -- renting places in areas I'm considering a long lease or purchase. And for "work from home", it's actually possible to check with hosts and verify good Internet (in WA, Wave G or Frontier FIOS or something), which is a lot harder in hotels.
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Is there a way? My boss uses me as a driver, so I am here early and sometimes am not off until 7:00. The no overtime is great!
But all else is not equal. And the argument is not that the tax prep companies are out to complicate the tax code, qua liability and subsidy, but that they have frustrated efforts to allow the IRS to offer a simpler filing experience to the public. The usual argument is that if the IRS were to simplify the submission of taxes and offer its own tax prep app, it would be perversely incentivized to maximize its take rather than minimizing taxpayer liability.

Of course, Congress could just pass a law mandating that the IRS take as little as legally required, but as you are surely aware the instant conservative view is that administrative agencies are rapacious out-of-control behemoths restrained only by the heroic efforts of a few valiant champions of liberty etc. etc.
Why would you not be happy if you achieve what you want in life?

Sure it's a stressful journey, but if you ask me if i would pick between a life that actually served a purpose vs. a life I just lived because I lived, I would pick one that aimed to serve a purpose any day, no matter how stressful it is. You may think living a balanced "happy" life is happiness, but when you're at your deathbed and think back at your life, you will regret not having done all you could have done.

Speaking of, check out Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I didn't believe in it when I was very young because I was down there in the pyramid, but now I realize that's not the case. You may say this is luxury for most people, and that is true. Most human population are not in a situation where they have the resources and ability to climb up all the way to the top of the hierarchy of needs, but I think anyone from HN community should be able to.
Interestingly, I thought of doing this, and still might.

The biggest caveat is that you still have to rely on the buggy conference templates (or spend a lot of time recreating them).
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a very important point is that 70k point is probably very variable, but exists somewhere in everyone except for the truly exceptional billionaire types.

personally i always need a sports car because i'm a gearhead, so maybe mine is a bit higher, but it surely is there.
The best book I know about research is "Apprentice to Genius: The Making of a Scientific Dynasty":

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Welcome to running a hotel. This is one of the reasons why, in a condo, your neighbours may not want an AirBnB next door.
Sure I am not denying that (though a bit of good luck doesn't go wrong). It was mainly a response to the line:

>In fact, you know what? MOST successful people work very hard. Surprising right? Duh.

There is even a link on HN today to this article "Untalented rich still earn more, says Greening":
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-39444993
Ok, seems like an interesting article but what the hell is up with those share icons. On your mobile if you rotate the screen to read the interesting table they cover up the first damn column. Then you rotate it back to portrait and they don't move back.

Fix your website. Remove those silly icons!
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There's some pretty good, interesting work in this area.
Ahh wow thanks for the info - I didn't think about the dot replies. That's actually a real bummer...
It's pretty clear that doing the 80 hour week is something that works well if you're, say, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. A difficult job, to be sure, but not top-notch in the grand scheme of things. You're not inventing quantum mechanics, you're figuring out ways for people to share more cat pictures.

But if you are operating at the top of the pyramid of knowledge, like some of the people mentioned in the article, that's a different kind of effort. The 4 hours a day schedule, with plenty of breaks, seems to work best.
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TBH, I really really admire those ancestors of our past who jump a ship and sail into the unknown. That takes serious balls.

If you meditate on this you will see that the amount of gumption doing this, especially when info was not so easily begot and Safeway didnt exist... jesus - humanity was REALLY tenacious in the past. So, if given the opportunity to go on a craft to mars with even a single digit % survival probability - I would do it, if anything just to honor those who have done the same in the past...
You still pay per TB. So yes, if you pay, you can have "unlimited" storage.
The BSD coreutils that macOS uses are much more "traditional UNIX" than the GNU coreutils.
If you want to leave at a consistent time, one technique is to make a fixed-time commitment after work, eg, schedule the gym from 6-6:30 M-F. Then stick to this consistently and make it clear to those you work with.
A lot of confusing points to this story. I'm not defending AirBnB, but this story does baffle on a number of levels.

> (they came with a professional sound system)

How do you not see this coming, from a host perspective? Big red flag. How this get anywhere near as far as it did? "Well I figured the professional sound system was going to be fine in my apartment complex."

> Neighbors called the police five times and some partiers left, but most remained and locked themselves inside to continue partying.

If the police want to enter a home, and the owner of the home agrees to it, since when do the people in the home get a say as to whether or not the police can/cannot enter?

AirBnB handled this very poorly, but why is AirBnB fully responsible for this? I get that they're trying to attract people to put their homes on their service, and they offer to be responsible, but why can't Dinulescu go after the idiots who did this to his apartment directly? Why can't AirBnB do that?

How can a person go into another person's home, as a guest, do something like this, and not be held responsible, either civilly or criminally?
All of advertising is selling possibilities, not actions at (relatively) super low rates. So that means there is more competition and a broader playing field.

My guess is that prices would go up dramatically if you started selling on CPA - and the ad tech business model would change significantly.

Seems like the best way to do this would be to hand curate targeted advertising and then charge a huge premium.
And hopefully no one uses the phrase "...therefore, it is trivial to say that..."
can you point to some examples where the resisted critical feedback? I've heard people mention this but haven't actually seen anything convincing yet
http://venom.crowdstrike.com/

There have been others. In short, no VM is completely safe.
OK, thanks. That is more substantial.

(And rings true.)
Agreed. If there's a benefit to the new interface people can adapt fair quickly. Videogames deal with this challenge as a matter of course.
My girlfriend bought me some of these. I like them.

I try to wear low-power reading glasses while at the computer, on the advice of my (retired) optometrist friend, to avoid nearpoint stress, despite having 20/20 vision.

She bought me a pretty simple-looking variety, with amber lenses. I don't really care about the tinting, I primarily want to get the assistance for my eyes.

They fit well and I can wear them comfortably all day.

FWIW I am a remote developer (at home).

I read some bad reviews on them, but nothing that affects their usage as I've stated it above. It's possible they claim more benefits in their marketing, I don't really know.
physical disability affecting ability to walk upstairs and downstairs? i doubt that

according such statistics it's also half of the women experiencing domestic violence, when you tell your wife you wanna watch different TV show than her, it's some verbal abuse or violence and similar crap with rape statistics in Sweden
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> The PR hit from this article is probably $500k already?

I highly doubt that.
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We do have rate limits on some of our more crucial services (we don't use microservices per se, more like macroservices).

One difference for internal rate limits is we set alerts whenever they fire so that we can track down the client and see what they were doing. It is much easier to do that when you own both sides of the pipe.
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Ask HN: Has anyone at Google worked on Google Finance in the past 7 years?
Seriously. The product still uses the same garbage flash-based charts. I seriously doubt there's been any meaningful updates to it in years.
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I wonder if the maximum aspiration of any scientist is to be famous, or even "successful", for whatever definition of success is out there.

I would imagine a scientist as someone who wants to make a positive impact on the life of his fellow human beings by investigating a field of science, or maybe is just curious about said field and just works to find out what intrigues her.

Whether she becomes famous in the act is only a side effect, and maybe not even a necessary condition to fulfill her desire. I have the impression that just aspiring to fame is not conducive to "good" science.

This said, I'd like to see articles comparing the working days of people who accomplish something important in science, regardless of their fame (or lack thereof).
Trade mastery really does feel wonderful. But its important to remember that in the context of employment, it doesn't matter at all unless you're allowed to practice it. Every team I've been on for the past 15 years has systematically put figurative ball-and-chains on every developer, regardless of seniority. It's spun as 'engineering discipline' but that's typically a joke, and really the management is just nervous about commits in general.

Without autonomy, mastery is just a private thing you have, to use on personal time.
> I'm just saying you can't win against people who have the same ability who decide to go all in.

You're really killing it. <3. I'm loving it because people who say these pretty obvious things are just so few and far between. Instead of listening to John Carmack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882202) they choose to parrot these articles by random people who've never done anything except produce clickbait.

Also I like people who say: "don't you need to exercise, go for walks, relax?" Of course! But these things must be deployed as part of your effort to achieve your goals. The odds are stacked so hard against you. You need stable finances and health, for one thing, to accomplish anything. Then you need patience, support from your friends and family, vision, a good idea... not to mention some talent, too. It's really hard. If you're not all in, you're not going anywhere in terms of producing something new and interesting. Which is fine, just don't try to sell people on the opposite.
I have small children. Often, they need to be picked up from where they are. Not infrequently, I do another hour of work on the laptop after bedtime, but that too is limited my awareness that one or the other of my kids is likely to wake me up in the middle of the night and I'll be useless the next day if I don't go to sleep soon.
Airbnb is at fault because they do nothing to discourage partying on the platform. As a host, I am in a never-ending battle to keep partiers out of my home.
Either your boss is paying you legally or not. If not being paid legally, why do you not feel you can advocate for yourself, or find a different job? You may have reasons, I'm just curious. You should not have to drive your boss around for free. Or work more than 40h a week without overtime pay, unless your position is exempt from overtime.
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> but why is AirBnB fully responsible for this?

Because they are literally committing to it as part of their service offering:

>We’re committed to creating a safe and trusted community around the world. Though property damage is rare, we understand you may need protection. The Host Guarantee will reimburse eligible hosts for damages up to $1,000,000.

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https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee
Who would want to come across as a greedy monster instead of someone who loves their work?
The best phone voice quality is still ISDN. Digital all the way to the handset, and rigidly clocked with fixed delay. Switzerland has ISDN phones, and the voice quality is impressive.
They're not lower class, but not truly upper class either because they have to work for a living.
It's sad that you abuse your neighbors by treating your home as an unlicensed hotel and allow random people in for short-term rentals without proper vetting or supervision. If I was your neighbor I would certainly complain to the HOA, complex management, or city code enforcement to have you fined or evicted. Hopefully you at least paid for the cleanup and repair, with some additional compensation for their trouble.
Do you stick a budget for your WFH rentals? How long do you rent for?
The business is not the user for SSL. It's the human logging into the website. Maybe Bank of America will care if the padlock in the URL bar is gone, but John Doe couldn't care less and probably has never noticed the green padlock and word secure in the URL bar ever.
Sure, me too. These are huge decisions. At my previous company I greenlit building our own CDN on bare metal. Sounds crazy right? But factor in limited content library, on-the-fly DRM and packaging, and long tail of global users all of a suddent it is not so crazy.

The fact is whether to use some random NPM library is a strawman, in the case of left-pad it's trivial either way. The more interesting question is how you assess the stability risk of NPM.
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Spot on. I'm currently working from an Airbnb in Sedona to escape the snowmelt in my mountain home town. Host verified internet for me and it's great.
There are a large number of VPNs, commercial or otherwise, that someone can use. Where I live, I have a very small number of ISPs to choose from and they would all have my billing information if I used them. Some of the VPNs offer connections in other countries, and some of them claim not to log. The VPN's ISP would see my data move around, but wouldn't have my billing information. The VPN would, but if it's commercial I can likely sue them if they do something egregious with it.

In my opinion, VPNs help more than hurt privacy, assuming you choose a reputable one to use.

If a person wants anonymity, then go for Tor or Freenet.
I've witnessed this scenario before, almost verbatim.

Clearly the manager was wrong, but so was the employee. The issue here is that the employee is doing everything "right" from their perspective, without understanding the negative impact it has on the rest of the team. I'll spare my theories on how to "resolve" the situation, but suffice it to say, toxic employees can destroy companies; especially startups.
> Also, if you want to succeed, don't listen to these idiots. Statistically those who work harder succeed more. Period.

Here is the absolute crux of the problem. Putting in hours of toil is not how you get ahead in most fields. It's not an XP system, it's non-linear. More hours isn't better. More drudgery isn't better. You need to be putting in an appropriate amount of time but you also need to be using your time well. If you show up and you're just punching a time card you're not guaranteed any progress whatsoever. If you're working long hours chances are high that you're not putting in your best work, that a lot of the work you're doing is just rote, autopilot stuff, and that a lot of the time you're "working" you're merely being present in a work environment and not actually working.

Concentrate first on understanding what you're working on at a deep level, being present/mindful in your work, being adventurous and curious, and accepting of feeling like you're struggling. That takes a lot of effort and a lot of courage, it's always a struggle to expand your mental horizons or to explore the unknown (to you and to humanity in general). But it doesn't necessarily take much time. If you use your time efficiently you can absolutely get ahead, far ahead, of others who are working more hours and making less progress.

It's not a tradeoff, it's not a binary choice, it's a matter primarily of how effectively you use your time.
That report is better than most but it relies on the assumptions that 1) the grid can route power nearly instantaneously from LA to NYC with very low losses and 2) on cuts in per person energy use by 30-50% (primarily by switching to electric cars). I see both of those assumptions being even less likely than 3) we cover 6240 square miles (5 Rhode Islands) with solar panels.
That's real innovation and deserves an article. Oh, wait...
This is complete nonsense. You need to understand the problem you are addressing even if you plan to use deep learning methods for them.

Saying you don't need to know anything about TTS is like developing a self-driving car and saying you don't need to know anything about the rules of the road. For one thing, how are you supposed to know when you got it wrong? And what things it is important to get right?
There is not much useful data to gleaned from an encrypted VPN connection. If you're referring to the ISPs monitoring what the VPN proxies for you that data would be useless as well since it would be the aggregate over everyone using the VPN. It wouldn't be possible to build browsing profiles if every request originates from the VPNs IP address.
Why would you assume that the phenomenon is based on human behaviors? The phenomenon is a result of a physics constrained response to an impetus. It can be replicated without humans present. In real life, that impetus may be human behavior in some cases, but most definitely not all. Imagine a dog running into the road, or a piece of litter obstructing a lidar sensor. And if you're driving closer together and faster, the phenomenon is worse. You can replicate this behavior using any traffic simulator with those three constraints alone (non-zero reaction times, slower acceleration than deceleration, and an impetus that causes braking).

Either way, I'm not sure how you would come to the conclusion that it would be unsafe to assume that traffic waves won't go away. Maybe you could offer some scenario where we actually would be safer to assume they'll go away.
How are you certain that the host has not gone through the local permitting processes and is in a building that disallows STR's?
I think this is making the same mistake that you see from a lot of new programmers asking "what should I write?" Unless there's a specific group you want to follow, maybe Twitter isn't for you.

On the other hand, if you have some interests and you know some people who are active online about those issues, odds are extremely high that they're on Twitter. Follow them, then follow people they retweet, then follow people they retweet, and so on. Don't hesitate to unfollow people who are crapping up your feed with stuff you're not interested in.

Twitter is a beautiful web of connections, and you really only need a handful of starting points to build a feed tailored to your interests.