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Dynamic programming solution needed to determine how far apart drone charging stations need to be to ensure uninterrupted operation of a set number of drones in a given area. Drones' operational range without recharging will be a known quantity. Each drone will be tasked to move from a given point to another point, which may or may not be beyond a drone's operational range. Unknown quantity is what point-to-point travel will be tasked at any given time.
Generally I think million dollars won't make you happy. It will increase your mood for a while and then it will plateau. Past achievements don't bring lasting happiness. That's just how humans are built.

Therefore, happiness can be achieved only through things that you do daily. Hence, the million dollars can facilitate happiness if it allows you to do things which you like - like camping, base jumping, cooking - whatever you like. Or even your original job, if you were so lucky to have a job that brought fulfillment.

The key to happiness, is therefore knowing yourself and knowing what you like.
Ask HN: Book recommendations for CEO softskills?
I’ve worked in a couple of startups, and in both of them the CEO has possessed some great people skills. They’ve not only been great listeners, but have been able to speak with people very easily, coming across very personable and friendly.

I like to think of myself as a friendly and easy to talk to guy, but am looking to level up my skills in this area as I take a larger role in speaking to shareholders and stakeholders alike.

What books or audiobooks have you found most helpful in this regard?
Eh, it's Android, presumably it'll still run Kodi, and, hell, if I can't get my $800 phone to be supported for two years, I'm not going to mind my $60 TV watcher.
Good pair of suit
The energy isn't wasted, it is converted. The closest analogy I can come up with is that gold used to back currency isn't wasted because it is stored in an underground vault rather than being used for jewelry or as a component in electronics.

If you are creating a currency, then it has to be backed by something: gold, silver the cost of electricity, people's faith that the currency is worth something. A currency not backed by something will keep deteriorating until it is worthless (assuming a free market, the dollar doesn't collapse because only the us mint can make them).
I've made $64,000 so far this year working online and I'm a full time student. Im using an online business opportunity I heard about and I've made such great money. It's really user friendly and I'm just so happy that I found out about it. Heres what I do,
•••••••http://bit.do/www-joinmate2-com
I get paid over $95 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing,
====http://ow.ly/P0wk30aVXfN
It's certainly not my main source of happiness. I think I would be able to just as happy without having to work, if my needs where otherwise meet.

However, given that I do need to work to make a living, not being successful would make being happy much harder. I can't imagine happiness would come easy to people who experience failure after failure at in their job.
Judge sides with Google in its battle with the Labor Department
To illustrate how widespread the use of debit cards is - the Norwegian National Bank rolled out a couple of new bank notes in late May.

Only last week did I actually see one of the new 100kr ($12) bills.

Debet card terminals are everywhere, some churches have even put them next to the collection plate - and it is not uncommon to see street vendors using wireless terminals.
Please tell me what kind of services and products do they offer in those calls.
Water You Can Eat – Breakthrough or Bubble Burst?
If you are talking about independent alt-coins, such as Ethereum and Litecoin, they are completely separate from Bitcoin, and this would have no effect.

If you are talking about tokens on the Bitcoin network, such as MaidSafeCoin, they would also split.
I find this interesting, as I've been toying with similar ideas in head. In particular the messenger / facebook side of things is of great value to me. However implementing and more importantly maintaining support for this protocol seems like something which will require a vast amount of time and work. Could you briefly describe the status of this support and what hurdles there are to overcome. Messenger used to be XMPP right, I remember and miss the time when you could use pidgin to access this particular service!
Texmaker 5.0 released
>(I'm afraid to work out the actual timings because I'm pretty sure that I often spend more time coming up with the automation than just doing the task would take).

You can use this calculator to estimate how much time is worth investing in automating a particular task =)

https://c.albert-thompson.com/xkcd/
> Tapping the card to the NFC terminal is super easy. You don't even need to take your card out of the wallet if its in front.

The whole point here is how to entirely get rid of the wallet. your ID, your cards, receipts, parking tickets etc should all be digital. in fact, that is exactly what WeChat/Alipay are offering or battling for.

WeChat based ID card with approval from the Public Security Bureau:
https://www.huxiu.com/article/169540.html
Good resources for building modular services.
That's insane.

It is insane, but this is how this market operates. Do you feel strongly enough to not play along, at considerable cost to yourself? I'd love to stay and grow somewhere for 10+ years - haven't managed it yet...
Until recently I'd have agreed with you about much faster, I always found QR codes a bit clunky and slow.

However I think the image recognition processes must be improving as the last couple of times I've used them (for TOTP setup) recognition was very fast, < 2 seconds of the camera app. coming on as I was moving the phone into position.
> OpenVMS is more reliable than Unix, and bears a more sophisticated kernel design intended to handle real-world workloads.

So Linux is not intended to run real worldloads?
Concourse is developed independently, it is focused more on multi project workflows.
Show HN: (Python/Websnake) Fire tons of Web requests in an untwisted manner
I get mostly pharmacy products and vacation deals
The recent expansion of the industry mean that people with little or no experience massively out-vote those with lots.
> This looks like a lot of work for what amounts to very little end-user benefit.

Oh, but how wrong you are.

At London Emacs meetup Wilfred gave a talk about his motivations for this work. One of the big and most obvious benefits is this:

while porting some feature to Rust, he discovered a bug in Emacs, fixed it and got given commit access for his work.

You can read the transcript of his presentation here:

http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2017/04/30/remacs-talk-transcr...
Hotmail Login Problem, Hotmail Sign in Problem
1) Run your miner on green energy

2) Green energy demand increases

3) More green energy

4) Save the world
By like ... not using them?
do you think you gave your numbers out numerous times which is in some but-for sense an ultimate source of your calls (if you had never given your number out you would ultimately not be receiving these calls?) Or do you think everyone gets that many calls per day regardless of whether they've ever given their number out?
- Fruits

- Meditation training

- Books

- Head phones
Clicking! I wrote a powershell script for Windows which mimicks the autoclick functionality which Ubuntu has in it's accessibility options. I also added double/triple clicking by twitching the mouse a bit.

It takes some getting used to but I feel it helps avoid forearm soreness.
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Cool! I think we're building this into GitLab itself. I'll ask the CI CD team to comment.
> If you knew the technical details of blockchains, you would not think that. And yes, the process IS much more than wasing massive amounts of energy.

Feel free to elaborate...
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Its time Xerox gets the credits it deserved. Turns out Apple is a great copy cat company with just the best marketing there is.
Some of my own projects that I've ended up using frequently - you can see what they do from the command structure:

mkgithub ~/dev/new-project

fgit pull -- ~/*/.git/.. ~/dev/*/.git/..

~/dev/tilde/.screenlayout/right-tack.sh

And some less frequently used tools:

mount-image ./*.iso

vcard ~/contacts/*.vcf

~/dev/vcard/sort-lines.sh ~/dev/vcard/sorts/Gmail.re ~/contacts/*.vcf

img2scad < example.png > example.scad

indentect < "$(which indentect)"

qr2scad < ~/dev/qr2scad/tests/example.png > example.scad

schemaspy2svg ~/db

So yeah, automate all the things.
How Much Does an App Like TripAdvisor Cost?
What? Why isn't everyone using "our best available option"?

What are the benefits of thousands of different systems keeping a record of every single transaction, and how is this not a hindrance to widespread use of our best available option?

Crypto-currencies have utility and uses but they are rather niche and specialized. Crypto-currencies aren't a mass market system. And they're not structured in a way that they can be.
Sending the kids out of the house for a day. Best investment ever.
The country can still produce innovative things even if the people do not want to adopt them.

Its an attack from both sides, though. Monied established interests systemically manipulate the economy through the state to prevent competition and innovation from gaining traction, while the people are indoctrinated into anti-intellectual and anti-progress ideologies and thus personally resist change.

Both are done for a profit motive, so the real problem is probably the simplest to acknowledge but the hardest to solve - corruption.
This is true even when a company is hiring someone. They will try to hire you at the lowest possible tier. Of course there are exceptions to this.
"In essence, the private media are major corporations selling a product (readers and audiences) to other businesses (advertisers)."

― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988)
> Take the latest Google phone ad: it consists basically 99% of people doing (arguably) interesting things. It barely tells one what the product is and why it's useful. That's what ads are nowadays, attempts at emotional manipulation.

As a counterpoint: if you consider that emotional manipulation, then there are many people (myself included) who enjoy being emotionally manipulated. I often consciously choose to "reward" ads that captured my attention in the first 3 seconds by not scrolling by or skipping them, and letting them get their full impression on me. Good on them for being interesting.

I rather like feeling connected to the brands I enjoy.
Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen
Why to learn Python
Success is awesome. When I've been on successful teams, everyone is happy everyday. Even when people have things in their outside life that cause problems, at least they have 8 hours a day where they are successful. I was on one team that just couldn't lose. No matter what we did, it was fantastic. When you hear about "hyper productivity", it's a true thing. It happens. After that team broke up (after an unfortunate internal company reorg) I've spent the rest of my career trying to find it again. Came close a few times, but never nailed it like that.

Of course, that answers your question literally. I don't know if it's what you meant because my answer had nothing to do with money.
The average american has something like 10k in credit card debt.
Experience. Pure experience.

Once you work in a domain enough - pretty much any domain - you begin to intuitively understand the assumptions that others in the field make. In the case of reverse-engineering the API, he would be able to take an educated guess that eliminates 95% of the possibilities because he can think of how he'd design the API, which is probably close to how other competent people would do it too. That experience is invaluable in making rapid decisions that are going to be 'close enough' a lot of the time.

W.r.t the UI, if you have a package of choice that you use frequently enough, you begin to be able to piece together the building blocks quickly. You have all of the boilerplate code required to make it work more or less committed to memory or, at the very least, in other examples that you can just copy/paste and modify.

Uni isn't really about this experience. The coding you do is essentially just a domain-relevant conduit to help you learn and demonstrate competency over the theories. Uni is usually about the theoretical, not the practical, and that's why a common complaint is that uni teaches stuff that isn't relevant to the 'real world'. What this complaint misses, though, is the ancillary benefits you gain through understanding the theoretical, which isn't necessarily easy to quantify.

In summary, don't be disheartened by the uni stuff not reflecting what you see in reality. Think of it as (an important) half of the puzzle. The other half is the practical experience you pick up along the way. In uni, this is probably going to be side projects - stuff you code and throw in Github and then mention in your resume. In later life, it's your professional work experience. This is no different to other technical disciplines - mechanical engineering, for example, teaches you theory but then undergrads go and do Formula SAE or other undertakings to get that practical experience.
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Trips to the coffee shop with the wife for 'work dates.' Winter accouterments (good parka, gloves, hat, snow tires). My accountant, and any way I can trade money for time.
I'm still puzzled about why lost cards aren't more of an issue with paywave. Does the bank always refund the losses? If so, what's to stop you spending money for a week and then claiming to the bank that none of the transactions were yours?
It still is ;)
How to Permanently Delete Text Messages from Your Android Phone
Its all about architecture and requirements. A well designed monolith is way easier to setup then microservices. Been there, done that several times.
What do you mean where the heck is 3 percent even allowed? How do you think banks in the USA are issuing 2 percent cash back credit cards? Who do you think is paying for that?
There is no a priori reason to conclude advertisements are brainwashing people based on their profitability.
QR requires pointing, but NFC requires proximity; I can't imagine a street musician using NFC.

NFC requires special equipment. QRs can be displayed on screens and printed on paper which makes them incredibly more accessible and far-reaching.

NFC is invisible, which looks better IMO that a block of pixels with the occasional ill-fitting logo in the center. But tbh at the end of the day they are doing the same thing, the big difference being one is using some new sensors and electromagnetic frequencies to do the job, while the other is using visible light and a sensor that is installed on every phone in the world and everyone is familiar with already.
I've used MPC for quite a while in the past, but have since moved to https://potplayer.daum.net/

It's super feature rich, with (in my opinion) a much nice interface than e.g. VLC.
Job 2: 47% raise from base (10 months in Job 1)

Job 3: 30% raise from base (9 months in Job 2 - relocated to Bay Area)

Job 4: 32% raise from base (3 months in Job 3)

Job 5: 10% raise from base (10 months in Job 4)

Job 6: 0% raise from base, 25% raise from base in RSUs/bonuses (22 months in Job 5)

This is spanning 4 1/2 years, and even turning down up to as high as $400k in total comp between job 4 and 5, which would have been a little less than 200% raise over job 4. Some of my friends have even better results from job switching.

I currently make a little more than $200k in total comp (including RSUs). I could easily switch to get even more (I've seen as high as $250k base salary), but I am pretty satisfied with comp in the industry for myself, and don't really hurt for money. I like what I do, and I am happy with how things are going.
This might be corrupted because people who switch are willing to move geographically.
IETF moves IETF102 meeting from SF to Montreal due to US' immigration policies
Yeah, anecdotal evidence isn't winning an argument. We got the study out of Princeton in 2014 that showed, with evidence, how US officials do not act in the will of the people[1]. That is what you talk about when you discuss the crumbling of democracy in the US, not trivialities like how the electoral college is intentionally not an institute for popular majorities to always win (and if that would be ones sole cause of doubt... where were they in 2000?). It can't be about how the nomination process in political parties doesn't reflect the will of the people - because of course they don't, the parties are private entities and will nominate whoever their leadership wants. Those things are obvious. If the American people ever wanted to solve them, they would fight for it.

But having concrete evidence that those who you "vote" for consider your desires nil? Very valuable when discussing how undemocratic the US is.

[1]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
no, it means you should read everything couple of times before clicking buy now
That sucks. I've had good luck with the solenoid version of those. But I can see how the fully enclosed design can cause overheating if it's left in the australian summer sun.
Generally (and excluding AmEx), requiring minimum purchases is a violation of the merchant-processor agreement.
TCP connections are never dropped ETC

One thing I wonder now: how can this work?

Is there a physical load balancer in front or something?
As an alternative point of view, even if I netted the $25m at which point my quality of life peaks, I wouldn't stop working.

I love what I do. Money is nice and all but I'm an inventer at heart and all the money in the world isn't worth the rush you get by building something and getting people to use it.

I plan to make a lot more than my fuck-you-money goal of $25m because then I'll be able to do more insane things.
By using duckduckgo and openstreetmap. I've been using both for many years and they are quite good, I would say.
Whoa, 2.5 billion calls? That's a lot per capita.

I'm not sure how they do it, but here in the Netherlands I have received _zero_ automated calls in the past few years - in fact our landline probably hasn't ringed at all in six months. Two or three times a year I'll get a [human] call from my cellphone or energy provider and that's it.
Ha, this is funny. I rarely ever stay longer than 2 years at a company and every time I jumped, my salary went up significantly i.e. >10%+ HOWEVER, I've seen guys who have stayed with a company earning less for years, ending up as the VP/Presdient of the company eventually and their pay going way up.
You are not the product, your attention is the product. Companines like Google are not engaged in human trafficking.

Similar problems can be seen in management : thinking of human beings as resources. Human beings are not resources, their time spent advancing the company goals is
What the parent meant is that you get a paper ticket, even if you pay per card at an automated kiosk.

Online-QR-code-tickets bought per Smartphone are now common too though.
For me I would say travel increases my quality of life above all else. Being able to go somewhere even for a weekend and being able to clear my mind and relax is one of my greatest investments. Other than that saving up for quality products (computer, monitor, bed, etc.) greatly benefits my quality of life since I don't have to replace things as often, still using a keyboard I bought 10+ years ago.
Are there more great resources like this to learn finding, cleaning and structuring data? Would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in a direction.
yeah, and Walgreens will allow you to buy a 40 cent pack of gum with a credit card. They are surely losing money on that transaction. Your donut shop is losing over 30% when they let you buy a single donut for 1.50$ with your card. That's why sane merchants (often independent) will have a minimum. This isn't a NYC specific thing at all.
I write a browser extension so i dont have to click or type a lot on some websites.
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickr/
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clickr/kbegiheknic...

Also very usefull as web developer to test some javascript on a website.
Basically, most people walk around with inflamed highly sensitive status buttons that get triggered by any indication of relative power balance out of line with officially designated titles e.g. your interlocutor is pretentiously using large words. Kindness is acting like everyone is equal maximally, regardless of the truth of the matter.
I like to think that a 'developer' or 'software engineer' is someone who can program not to just make it work, but addresses other concerns as well.
Happiness is much more profound than pleasure, it is not simply long lasting pleasure.

We already have a constant orgasm machine, it's called heroin. However, heroin users don't seem particularly happy if you ask them, no matter how much pleasure they have
Best way to increase salary at current workplace? Get offers from other companies & ask for a meeting with your boss (or whoever decides your pay, so HR etc.).

Bring up the offers, discuss what you'd get from there and also go through the potential career you could build at those companies. For example: Consultancy X would pay me $k/mo and every 6months it will go up the ladder if I perform well.

With this kind of discussion you should be able to get a raise that brings your pay even above the competing offers.

Treat your current as one of the options you can make that day; make your employer fight for you every 6-12 months. And remember it's not personal, it's just business. Your employer would let you go and throw you under the bus if it made business sense.

tldr; don't get too emotionally attached to job; that's when they get you.
I get calls about buying a car warranty, I won some sort of cruise, or some one who is having trouble with their headset.
I've started to adopt a similar practice, although a somewhat more flexible one.

Whenever I'm at a restaurant, or ordering food for whatever reason, I will check the menu for an item that prominently contains mushrooms. If such an item exists (and it doesn't sound awful or ridiculously expensive), then that's what I'm getting. Decision made.

I started doing this mainly because I like mushrooms, enough that it felt like a really easy way to hand off decision making. It's also good in that, unlike the above, I don't get just the exact same thing every time (although mushroom burgers are starting to seem pretty same-y).
“provided more than 329,000 documents and more than 1.7 million data points, including detailed compensation information, in response to OFCCP’s 18 different data requests.” Ufff, that's a huge number.
Why do you blame the Chinese government when, if you want to prevent scam devices from entering your market, you should have your own customs and trade inspectors turn away counterfeit merchandise? The Us lets counterfeit products in. Likewise, if the Chinese government doesn't want to obey US law involving copyright or trademark, which is not an international policy, it is simply the law of the US, that is entirely their sovereign right to.

It would also, then, be the US' right to negotiate trade agreements knowing that.

The Chinese government does some fucked up shit, but not being under the foot of US global intellectual imperialism is not them being the villains, its the US for trying to force a global framework of IP, and especially US' idea of permanent copyright, on everyone else.