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Reliable staff for just about any task. Before managing remotely I would have two reliable contractors for every type of job you might ever need: plumber, general contracting, cleaning, management, accounting, and legal. Having a trustworthy manager (and a backup) who can respond to emergencies is a huge help, and worth paying top money. Someone gets stuck without a key at 2am and you want to avoid the renter breaking a window or door? A good manager can resolve these types of things and you won't even know until the next day.

When we did short term rentals we even had the manager greet the new tenants, and take pictures in front of them, as well as meeting them for departure.

It's also worth it to set up a local telephone number that forwards to your remote number so everyone can still reach you. Unpredictable stuff does happen, and if it is something costly or big, you want to be in the loop.

Some people are going to take advantage of you, or at least try. Budget some extra money for this. Insurance may replace things eventually, but if you want to keep renting and your property description says there is a TV, you'll need to replace the stolen one right away.
Google Docs works well too, I think. Just create a spreadsheet and log in your to-dos as needed. Makes it easy to go back over and track what you were able to accomplish. I spend 5 minutes every morning thinking about what I want to do that day, type out 3-5 key goals, then at the end of the day I copy and paste what I was able to do (with any amendments if I think of other things) into a Google Sheet. Easy to add things like "time spent" or "project" if you want -- just add rows or data validation to the Google Sheet. Then pivot table that as needed.

It's always a good idea to track your time. If you were looking for a more automated approach, Harvest integrates with just about everything and makes adding notes as you do commits or close out tasks pretty painless. Free for single users too.

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Same here, I saved mine to show to my kids some day. "Hey look kids, your dad was summoned to a Japanese district court over the loss of 0.0001 bitcoin!"
Thanks a lot. This is fixed now!
"Wireshark Network Analysis: The Official Wireshark Certified Network Analyst Study Guide"

Either I'm more of a nerd than I thought, or this is actually pretty well written. I'm really enjoying it.
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Don't know why you got downvoted for this on a hacker forum.
If penny stocks are the cocaine of the finance world, bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies are like freebasing crack.
Oh man, thought it was just me. Always hated that 'feature'
There was a talk about the state of nuclear fusion by some MIT folks linked here on HN a few days ago. One of the biggest takeaways was that many fusion efforts are very far away (3 to 6+ orders of magnitude) on the most important metric, Q, which is energy_out / energy_in. Additionally, much press and public discussion completely fail to discuss this and other core factors that actually matter for making fusion viable.

I remember Tri-alpha being listed on one of the slides near the bottom left of the plot, 4 or 5 orders of magnitude away from break even, where Q = 1 (someone please correct me if I'm remembering incorrectly).

Is the 50% improvement described in the article meaningful, as that would only be a fraction of an order of magnitude?

I understand the broader concept of combining experts and specialized software on complex problems is a powerful idea -- I'm just wondering if this specific result actually changes the game for Tri-alpha.
Lots of people in Bitcoin hate KYC and AML laws, and consider them invasive. I am one of these people.

In itself, it's not an indicator of wrongdoing.
Many companies large and small already pay penetration testers to try into break into their Linux-based servers on a regular basis.

I was personally involved in a case where a recognizable brand's pen testing effort lead to a fix a well-used piece of open source software.

There is a lot of open source is already being fixed thanks to commercial interests.
How to Avoid Jet Lag FOREVER
So manual then?

To reach the ethereum genesis block programatically, starting from an erc20 token I give you, you need that "need the contract code" part which is centralised.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The line of thinking on age is as follows: As you age, you have a probably smaller number of future years for which you need to worry about survival costs. And by "probably" I mean the probability is pretty well established based on millions (billions?) of data points. Death is coming for your ass. If you're 102 years old, you might live another 20 years, but I'm not wagering heavily on that. And if you're 15 you might die tomorrow in a car wreck, but the odds are that you can "expect" your "life" to be a certain length - your life expectancy.

This comment is only on survival costs and age.
Legacies are outside the scope of this comment.
William Shatner's survival costs, having been paid-for long ago, are outside the scope of this comment.
I am reading the Dark Tower series. I have been meaning to read it for a long time, and with the upcoming movie I figured I should read it before someone spoils it for me :)
In software jargon, this is called a "Wizard" (i.e. installer wizard, calibration wizard, etc. that guide you through a process that is more complicated by asking a series of simple questions) and is an idea that dates back decades.
Sure let me pack icing, maybe some cupcake molds, and a pie dish too?

It's impractical.
The Nix by Nathan Hill. It's excellent.

Review: http://www.npr.org/2016/08/31/490101821/the-nix-is-a-vicious...
Funny, I always thought of Redux as offering greater simplicity and MobX being more powerful.
Game of thrones - a storm of swords.
I have no experience in the travel industry, but I see the value in priceline (name your price).
They provide hotels a way to keep the rooms filled without disclosing to the public the low rates. It also provides a way to reach a different market.
Source: I use priceline (name your price) at least once a year. Pretty happy with them.
You know people that would not recognize any of those brands?
Courage by Osho.
Ah, that makes sense. Make a law that is unenforceable at scale, but can be used to punish individual entities that have pissed off the government in some other way.
You're being told exaggerated lies by the media. We're not perfect, but the experience for employees is comparable to the other tech giants.

I've been at Uber for about 3 years now and it's been the best place I've ever worked by far. Based on what other current and former colleagues that have worked at other tech giants, it's actually better than most in terms of quality of life.

All those that are formerly Amazon, Apple, LinkedIn engineers far prefer it here at Uber, hands down. It's especially better than LinkedIn and Amazon.

For Google, it's a mixed bag. Some liked Google better and some liked Uber better. Which you prefer depends on your personality and what team(s) you worked on at each of these two companies.

For Facebook, it's actually pretty comparable. If you like Facebook, you'll like Uber and vice-versa.

The only big company that I think truly treats its engineers better than Uber across the board is AirBnB. That said, I personally would never trade the engineering problems I get to solve here for the engineering problems I would be solving at AirBnB. The engineering challenges are more than an order of magnitude more interesting and fun at Uber and the room to grow professionally as an engineer is far greater. Between Uber and AirBnB, both are good choices and you should optimize for the one that best meets the needs you want to satisfy.
Supervision of cleaners, maintainers and repair contractors is a job for the business of property management.

Those people can't slack off or do a crap job if they have to report to a management company, with which they aren't affiliated in any way.

Property management is a solved problem; it's a problem that the very rich have (or big corporations) that own many properties in many locations. Even if you own a bunch of properties in the same metropolitan area, the same one where you live (so technically not remote), you can't be personally checking on everything that is going on in all of them; when on Earth will you have time for afternoon golf?

It's a special case of the structure of any big business. Someone making fries at MacDonald's cannot slack off simply because the CEO of MacDonald's is on the other side of the world somewhere.
Eh I didn't get the "sorry for being caught" vibe. They admitted they failed to listen to early customer feedback.

But still it sounded like a marketing piece as much as an apology, which is bad because authenticity is everything after a PR blowup like this.

Repeatedly highlighting their open source creds didn't make me want to trust them more, it made me question how they didn't know it was a bad idea in the first place... and if business people were the ones making the calls instead of the OSS developers.

This was a risky thing to do, even despite the luxury of looking back in retrospect, this seems like something you have to do very carefully if you are going to integrate ≈remote cloud services into text editor plugins, let alone commercial backed features.

Clearly there was going to be a wide gap between the users expectations of a static local OSS plugin (as they almost always are) and what they changed it to. It had to be handled very carefully - if at all. They should have made a separate add-on plugin IMO and pushed it via the documentation of other plugins they own...
My dog won't use a laptop
I'm reading a few. The Power Broker (really good, but really long). The dictators handbook (good, but repetitive). Deep thinking (easy and enjoyable if you're interested in AI). Investment Science (very good if you're interested in math finance).
Just FYI, the text still has the rounded number too:

> You are charged $0.000013 for every Core-s used
I think that a very stringent threshold for p values (it's going to be a lot harder to get to p < 0.005 than p < 0.05 and it's going to encourage a lot more gaming of the system) is not the solution. At best, it will lead to smaller numbers of much bigger studies with more authors and fewer interesting results.

I'd suggest that a better, broader, and more practical solution is to provide a public clearing house for studies and associated data -- let's assume it's a website.

a) When you start a study you must describe your study, methodology, and hypothesis, and publish these things on the site. It should be possible to find the study the same way you find any paper that results from it.

b) All data must be stored in the same place (but not made public) as it becomes available, and this must be demonstrable. This data should be available to anyone trying to replicate, review, etc.

c) Final data sets and analyses must also be also be available, ideally with the code used to do the analyses.

All of this should be prerequisite for review and publication, but also for anyone working in the field should no papers result.

This solves a lot of problems, including making it easier to conduct meta-analyses when looking for effects that aren't significant in smaller studies, and also address the lack of availability of negative results, and even help combat theft of methodology (e.g. where someone sees work in progress and is able to publish using the methodology). It would make meta-analysis easier, and allow researchers to better take advantage of existing, unpublished results (e.g. to hone their study methods, etc.)
I know and I deliberately put a google search query instead of a specific link, because I read all the google links and this cannot be done decentrally.
Google flights is the best airline aggregator.
I don't get how - if MS will give them support until 2023 then it means 10yrs support which for those low end PCs is enough. And if somebody wants to use it after that date - LXDE/XFCE might be better anyway for this type of HW.
I figure this is a bit of an usual selection for HN, but here's the top of my in-progress list:

Moral Boundaries -- Joan Tronso

Known and Strange Things -- Teju Cole

The Feeling of What Happens -- Antonio Damasio

The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems -- Kofi Awoonor

And I just started Neil Gaiman's "Sandman".
I explicitly acknowledged that this is an important factor for a minority of people in my comment. This caveat is not particularly relevant to the claim that people spend a baffling amount of money on cars.
Step 1. Fix Rakudo on the JVM

Step 2. Fix the perl5-in-perl6 work

Step 3. Retreat to a corner and sob until you recover some SAN points
> Can't wait to get my refund :)

There's no chance of that, right? (Hence ":)")

At the time of the MtGox implosion I was bummed to have lost a few hundred $ worth of BTC. Now I'd be very interested in recovering that balance ... in BTC.
This is like how Germany banned nuclear power?
> In fact, none of them were/are programmers

Bill Gates wrote a BASIC interpreter in assembly, he was more of a programmer than the majority of professional programmers today.
If Our Bodies Could Talk by James Hamblin. There was a passage from his book hosted on The Atlantic that got to the front page of HN. It went over a crash course on sleep.

The book only has a small passage on the topic. Instead, the book goes over random topics from STDs to popping zits with the same depth that his sleep article followed. I started reading it, but gave the audiobook version a try. The author makes the book even better and would recommend that form instead.
>> Largely backwards compatible

> how exactly in the case of IP?

For example, introduce two special IP options that would act as "page selector" for source and destination addresses respectively. i.e.

SRC: 1.1.1.1, DST: 2.2.2.2, no options ->
from 1.1.1.1 to 2.2.2.2
(backwards-compatible packet, classic IPv4)

SRC: 1.1.1.1, DST: 2.2.2.2, opt.X: 1.1.1, opt.Y: 2.2.2 ->
from 1.1.1.1.1.1.1 to 2.2.2.2.2.2.2
(our faux-IPv6)

SRC: 1.1.1.1, DST: 2.2.2.2, opt.X: 0.0.0, opt.Y: 2.2.2 ->
from 1.1.1.1 to 2.2.2.2.2.2.2
("old" address communicating with "new" address)

Last example of three is impossible with IPv4/6 dichotomy, and is most important for backward compatibility here - yes, "old" IP holder needs to upgrade their software too[1], but they don't need to get a new IP address, and as a result you don't end up with two isolated "Internets", a.k.a. dual-stack.

Say, for ease of processing on router, require that X and Y would appear only together, in that order, preceding other options (which is a bit of an exception as far as IP options go, but again, a backward-compatible one).

Now, I'm not proposing this seriously of course, but you asked for example - here you go, a plausible, backwards-compatible "IPv4.1", if you like.

[1] All major desktop OS support IPv6 for last 10 years and major mobile OS for last 7. Let's face it - software upgrade turned out (surprisingly) not to be the biggest obstacle.
I know it's just an example... But the Slider code is ridiculously overwrought.

Building this type of image carousel is trivial with just plain HTML+CSS+JS. This example uses "actions", "reducers", "selectors", weird functions from something called "redux-saga/effects", a "promise-based timeout" library AND generator functions to produce the magic ... of switching between images.

If someone I work with came up with this code, I would assume that the person is extremely bored with her job and wants to spruce up her résumé with buzzwords.
> Parent's point is that they don't care. It's not their security being compromised, but the site's.

He'll care plenty if his hacked account posts a threat against the president and he gets a visit from the secret service.
I would be insanely interested in a thorough write-up of this. My mother is getting married in a few months and it would be incredible to build for her and her fiance!
driving carefully != driving slower.

If you don't care enough to slow down then I don't know why you'd bother evading speed cameras, and if you do care, slowing down is probably a smarter option.
> Capitalism did all these things with very little help from modern advertisement since the "invention" of capital.

Media advertising exists at least since 18th century (in our common modern understanding, commercial and political writings that can be reasonably considered ads were found on the walls of Pompeii, and probably exist since writing was invented). So there pretty much was never a period where modern capitalism existed and advertising didn't.

> How would overt modern advertising have fixed that?

It is not fixing that, it is a direct and inevitable result of abundance of resources. If you have surplus of resources available for consumption, you will need to choose which ones to consume. Thus, advertising - i.e. speech that is intended to make you to choose one particular resource - becomes profitable.

> Does advertising even help with finding decent food

Depends on advertising. Some does, some doesn't.
(Disclaimer: I work at Nexar)

Nexar just released Nexet, a large dataset of 55K road images (5K of which are labeled). I think it's an interesting one as the images were captured by mobile phones (setup as dashcams), so you get "real world" data. Of-course there's an accompanying competition coming up: https://www.getnexar.com/challenge-2/
The SEC has chosen not to regulate securities that meet the conditions in that document. If it wishes to, it can change its mind.
Bitcoin exchange chief arrested amid new questions about Mt. Gox theft
Agreed. I find Waze has more aggressive rerouting. Maps tends to stick to simple navs at the expensive of a few minutes. Waze will zig-zag me around town. I do find both apps make my phone hot and gulp battery though.
You aren't alone in thinking that.

http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2017/07/the-hot-new-...

https://github.com/perl6/marketing/blob/master/TablePosters/...
Why is that surprising? Look at individuals... they work for money so that they can pursue their own ambitions. It is rare to find an individual with the luxury of pursuing their own, exact ambitions to also earn money.

Kudos for Google for using their vast funds to finance their ambitions rather than just hoarding it away.
That sounds like an excellent reason to throw a lot of money at doing epidemiological studies then, doesn't it? I must say I'm very tired of naysayers with no positive proposals of their own who invoke the scientific method as a way of waving away problematics rather than engaging with their evaluation or mitigation.
Ian Morris: Why the West Rules - for now
Richard Baldwin - The Great Convergence
This is the age of AI infrastructure.

IBM, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google will all buy these types of companies until they have what they need in house. Other bigger FXXX companies may buy a few as well if customer pilots go well.
ChromeOS is not a real OS. It's an embedded appliance/cloud OS as a gateway to the web and Google services. Anyone can make a machine boot fast if it has nothing to load.
If you go into any local store, you wont find a single one that produces their own goods. Some people like making stuff, other people like selling it, and selling it is actually a lot of work. Now what if we could make a discovery service so that makers could sell directly to the buyers, without the middle hands !?
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I'm planning on doing pretty much the same thing. A couple of questions:

1. Why not just run InfluxDB and Chronograf on one of the CHIPs?

2. How are you sending data to the Pi?
ChronoPill is a DIY Time Capsule alternative for Raspberry Pi. I used Resin to make it ultra reproducible. MacOSX can backup to this networked drive just fine.

https://github.com/amingilani/chronopill
I am going to try that this next week. I live in a third world country, and here most days there's no water coming from the pipes.

So I am going to try and monitor the water levels in my house.

What I bought to do that: A ESP8266 board (it's like an WiFi arduino), and an ultrasound distance sensor.

My plan is to point the sensor vertically towards the water. It emits sound and then measures the time it takes for that sound to bounce back. I think I can use to measure the level of water.

Then the results will be sent (using MQTT) to my Raspberry Pi that is running Home Assistant.
You're agreeing, but not really. gncb was correctly stating that the red flag is asking too soon (the first interview) rather than the first interview being too late.
>You won't believe what this team did to the word significant!

>10 significant things that WILL shock you, #7 is this team

>THIS crazy trick that will make significant much harder [teams hate him!!]

>This finding prank gone significant [gone sexual!?]

Sorry, it was such a click-baity title for no reason.
It's parallel because AWS Lambda is inherently parallel? Or are you referring to within JavaScript?
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"Housing is insanely expensive on the east and west coast because those are the only areas of the country seeing economic growth."

The gulf is not the east coast nor the west coast.
Nice post, but one has to wonder if it is self defeating. In the end "speed" is just a matter of expectation management. Suppose you had a website that could complete all actions instantaneously. At this point I imagine speed would simply be redefined as the amount of time it takes you to find the desired action.

Surely there's a point where it's easier to just create a culture of patience than to pursue diminishing returns of shaving off nanoseconds.

TLDR: Is the better experience carefully crafted expectation management or simply being faster?
>The burden of proof is on the one making unsupported claims, not on the one questioning the unsupported claims.

When public health issues are concerned, the burden of proof is on the ones saying exposure does not present any risks worth worrying about. The FDA doesn't usually come in with the approach that we should just try everything out and see how it goes.
a post on hackaday.com led me to a lightning sensor breakout board that connects at 3.3V which is perfect for a rpi. since I live in florida I jumped at it. just got it hooked up the other day, unfortunately NOAA's lightning strike database is a few days behind so in a day or two I'll be able to check the accuracy of it. it's my first electronics project with the rpi and I have definitely learned a lot already
Deep Thinking really sounds fun! I agree, The Dictator's Handbook is really good, but sometimes really repetitive and it takes a bit of dedication to finish it.

As for my current one, I'm really enjoying Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others.
Point of order: the PDP-7 had 18-bit words (and no smaller addressable unit).
And yet priceline has screwed my work/personal trip bookings left and right.
Instant is great for atypical searches: when doing conversions or using Google as a calculator, then instant-search would give the result in the suggestion.
For 30k req/month heroku could a better choice.
The cost here is maintenance and backup.

Note: I'm still hopeful that things like k8n will make running stateful containers on random metal easy without huge investments in configuration for backup and reliability.
You mean the 22 years of bookmarks I've collected on at least 30 computers? I usually ignore them and just search for what I want to find, again.
It's of course based on what's more important for you: Running tests non-stop and perfectly utilizing a compute instance vs having the tests executed when you need the results as soon as possible. I might argue that in most cases the latter is what you'd actually want. Especially given that you're getting billed on a millisecond basis.
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I think the parent was pointing out that you can't just run the resulting urine through a sieve to filter it.
Love that book.