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Easy to find examples:

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2017/08/23/remain...

Start at the top and start firing.

"Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin, who headed America's Asia-based 7th Fleet, has been relieved of his duties following the damage to the USS John S McCain."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/world/asia/fitzgerald-col...

Next up is the commander of the ship and the senior officers.

Being relieved of duties doesn't mean firing though. Could be that they become paper pushers. The next step would be court martial.

But yes, there are career ending mistakes. Especially when they cause the death of 7 people and takes a 9000 ton, $1.5 billion ship out of commission. The Arleigh Burke class also forms a good chunk of an aircraft carrier group's defensive perimeter, so by taking out these ships, these mistakes (whether one mistake or many mistake doesn't matter) puts approximately $30 Billion worth of military assets (not to mention the 5000+ people) at risk.

How's that for a career ender?
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I had the exact same complaints about the Clickpad on my T440s, and replaced it with the pad from the T460s. You can find the part on eBay for around 45-60 USD and instructions to replace. It's a bit fiddly of a replacement, but mine works great!
I think it's shocking how normative the culture is today. Fringe media says exactly the same things - pro-social justice, pro-a large social safety net, deep concern about climate change - as the major media. The only actual "counterculture" seems to be Breitbart et al, which is ... a change.

Paper Magazine, the New York Times, and Gothamist now mostly reflect the same cultural ideals. It's fascinating. Was this what the 80s was like?
The claim to be answered is not 'people can't be productive working more than 40 hours a week'. It's that people would be more productive if they worked less. We don't have to rely on vague anecdotes and 'what about people who are really really sure and feel it very deeply that their personal sacrifice wasn't counter-productive? Shouldn't we just believe them so they can feel their exertion wasn't wasted?' We've got research.

But its quite important to make a distinction between manufacturing work, repetitive physical labor, and mental work. Different organs are involved and they function differently. As nice as some might imagine it would be to only employ machines, in reality we still have to put bathrooms in the workplace, give people a lunch break, and admit that they're sacks of meat. They've got limits, and ignoring them will never be productive.
There are certainly fields and/or companies where ones pay and position can be commensurate with their effort. Most would agree that these are the exception not the rule, congratulations if you happen to be in that position.
Technically, the true value of any currency as time -> infinity is zero. I have no doubt that at some point in the future, USD will be worth less then the paper it's printed on.

The problem is that most of us can't wait until time -> infinity.
I agree that the author is embarrassingly proud of his naïveté, but if you can't read past the author's personal foibles, you'll miss out on an important story.

(Also, if you're looking for knee-jerk reasons to dismiss the article, his cringeworthy self-presentation is a pretty silly one. How about the fact that he's using it to promote a new book subtitled The Existential Threat of Big Tech? That's a more plausible excuse for not engaging with the substance of the article, but still not good enough, in my opinion.)
Portier basically uses WebFinger and OIDC under the hood, with some UX tweaks to make it easier on users to fall back on email auth.

One of the best-case scenarios for Portier is if WebFinger/OIDC were to become widespread and Portier itself somehow obsolete.

I am affiliated with the project but have been putting in much less time than I'd like, admittedly.
right, but how many logical first steps down this road has Google taken in the past...? This seems like the fourth or fifth.
Anyone with the appropriate level of SIOP access (these days called OPLAN 8010-12) won't be talking.
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It would be fine if advertisements weren't intrusive and obnoxious. I don't want to start reading a page, then three sentences in have my whole screen jump, then a few more sentences have an overlay pop up, then have some inline text that looks like it's part of the article but is actually an ad, finally to accidently mouse over some text that pops up a video with sound. That's how I experience much of the internet without ad blocking, not to mention how much slower things load. I disable on sites I frequent that don't do that.
All the best jobs are in the big expensive cities. Everywhere around the world, if you want the best job you will need to go to New York, SF, London, Tokyo, Paris, Munich etc. That's one reason why everybody wants to live there.

Second reason would is to be close to a large number of people which greatly increases social activities you can do. In a large city even a niche hobby will probably attract enough people that you can find a group of buddies who like same things.
Absolutely. The longer I can avoid opening a GUI the better.
Being disciplined is what you never learned.

It's hard to teach it to yourself (I'm the same way, so I don't mean it as a slight).
As someone that does research into Bitcoin privacy I can tell you that strong privacy guarantees are extremely hard to achieve in Bitcoin.

1. Your IP address can often be associated with the Bitcoin transactions you create.

2. TOR can make this harder, but fingerprinting a particular Bitcoin wallet between TOR and clearnet is very possible.

3. Almost all tumblers in current use must be trusted not to violate your privacy, that is they know who is who and must be trusted to not tell third parties. I would suspect that some tumblers are run by LEOs. Even if a tumbler is keeping your secrets they may not offer that much protection against blockchain analysis. It is hard to tell that a tumbler is actually providing any on-blockchain privacy.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency privacy is likely to dramatically improve over the next five years, but right now there isn't much actually deployed.
> Disk Cleanup" removes stuff that CCleaner doesn't, so I use them together.

And vice versa if you use CCleaner combined with CCEnhancer[1]

[1]: https://singularlabs.com/software/ccenhancer/
Neat! I'm of the opinion that journalism, open source development, etc. would be much closer to self-sustaining if only users had the option of dropping a quarter in the hat — performing a one-click micropayment — when visiting a webpage. I'm not likely to subscribe to the NYT, but I'd gladly pay 25 cents after reading a great article if it didn't require entering CC info and bouncing between three different webpages. Unfortunately, this would require immense coordination between web standards, browsers, OS vendors, and banks to implement. Taler sounds like it's targeting a similar use case; I hope it sees wide adoption so that at least the idea could be tested at scale!

(Sadly, with most traffic coming from mobile these days, I'm not sure how well the wallet concept would play with iOS's closed ecosystem. Is it against the App Store guidelines to release a wallet-type extension? Sigh, I miss the days when hacky tech like Napster and BitTorrent would set the world on fire without anyone having to gatekeep...)
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kids that cheat are more likely to be praised for being smart.
I would guess at least number of backend services for Xbox One titles. I remember seeing an advert for Titanfall being run on Azure. That was a few years ago so my memory may be flawed.

I suspect 343 Industries (Microsoft Studio behind the latest Halo games) also uses it. They are one of the big users of Project Orleans https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/, a C# distributed actor framework. Most of their documentation and samples are shown using the framework in Azure.
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I would love to see a double-blind RSI study where they randomly assigned different people different keyboards with different amounts of travel, etc.

I think it's fair to say that typing style can be worse than the keyboard, but I also suspect that a keyboard where you "never have to even lift your fingers" causes more RSI than one that requires more activity.
If they had only used 4 digits, then in eight thousand years or so, longbets.org would have felt really stupid about having to hire a historical programming re-enactor to show us how our ancestors used to adjust the width of a database column.

But luckily they used 5 digits. 5 digits should be enough for anyone.
I completely disagree. I think the current MBP keyboard is one of the most satisfying laptop keyboards I've ever typed on. The minimal travel takes some time to get used to but I love how tactile it is. This is coming from someone that spends most of their time typing on Cherry MX green or clear switches.
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> Pfft. A man-hour of labor is a man-hour of labor.

Not all hours are created equally.

I do my best work with hyperfocus.

I don't just mean more work, but far higher quality work that's at the edge of my intellectual capabilities.

This is the work that's most rewarding and gives results that I'm proud of.

But I can't get significant time "in the zone" on a 40-hour week.

All the normal but necessary distractions take at least four hours a day, and I need at least an hour or two of "non-zone" work before I can hit my stride and achieve flow.

So I find 60-70 hours a week is essential to doing my best work.

But I can't sustain that level of effort continuously for years.

So I balance that out with a week a month of low-intensity "work" (slacking/procrastinating/socializing) plus at least twelve weeks per year of contiguous time for uninterrupted travel, long-distance trekking, rebuilding relationships damaged by hyperfocus, etc.
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Exactly, just because I love programming in my free time doesn't mean I want to work on enterprise Java company code on Sunday. No, thank you. I have much more interesting personal projects to work on that actually excite me.
I see people say this on HN a lot. And even people saying they have the same behavior but with the opposite impetus, like one of my comment's siblings.

I think it's more likely that praise had little to do with your behavior, and you would've been the same regardless. I think it's tempting to backsplain our behavior with things we happen to remember from our past.

For example, pretty much everyone struggles with their own attention span and learning new things.
Setup a viral waiting list or a referral campaign in minutes not days
The historical problem was that the state controlled all media. The only message available was propaganda.

Now you can get any information if you want it and the problem is that propaganda still exists and some people still believe it.

It's not perfect but it's better.
There's life outside "consultancy companies" (which in Spain are basically just intermediaries that resell your work for a higher price without any added value).
You might be unaware of some of the good journalism on non-music current affairs that they have published, e.g. Matt Taibbi.
Researches have shown over and over again that the best, most profitable and sustainable marketing channel is word-of-mouth. Companies such as Dropbox, Paypal, Airbnb and Uber have become household names because they knew how to leverage referral marketing at scale.

Yet, most companies rely on inefficient marketing channels to attracts new customers, such as advertising (expensive and complicated), content marketing (slow) or do nothing at all because they think that referral marketing is the game of the big guys and they can’t afford it.

So Maitre built something simple that everybody can use, without being a developer — a tool that makes it easy to grow your business through referral campaigns.

We interviewed Manuel Frigerio, Founder of Maitre to know more.
Unsure on how Venmo works, but I can explain Zelle / clearXchange some. (I've done this a lot on HN; it's nice to see someone else taking up the mantle on this thread!)

With Zelle, everything is done through your participating bank. So customer service is managed through your bank, and fraud is probably the same way.

You register with Zelle through your bank, which means your bank associates your email and / or phone number with your account within the Zelle system. After being associated, other people with a participating bank can send you money using that email or phone number. The money is instantly deducted from the sender's account, and is typically in the receiver's account within minutes or hours. Since you can only initiate payments through Zelle and not withdraws, fraud is likely managed the same as wires or bill pay.
> Does it have a CVE?

> CVE-2017-9798. -> https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9798

The CVE is still in RESERVED state. I'm frequently concerned about "responsible disclosure" in such cases.
Your 60+ hours per week guy probably doesn't have much of a life outside software engineering. He'd be working between 8,5-12h/day, depending on how many workdays he puts in.

At that level of time investment, he doesn't have time for a romantic relationship. Almost no one would be crazy to accept so little attention, but even if they would it would be a weak & shallow relationship.
They probably don't have time for friendships or even spending time with their family and socialising, which will take its psychological toll.

Unless they magically find time to do some sports and take care not to sit in a chair all time, they're stressing their body a lot, which could lead to a weaker immune system and potentially musculo-skeletal problems.

In conclusion, one can behave like a machine and work 60+ hour weeks, but they're literally trading away their life in order to achieve that.

Get ready to search for a replacement or two for when/if they burn out.
Nope, I'm one of those people who "thinks different" and doesn't have an iPhone.
1997 called... it wants its http server back?
Where do you buy them? I can't find any for sale.
> it's essentially implausible for hedge funds on average to generate alpha.

Only if they're playing fair. But, wink wink, you should really wink wink invest in my uncle's fund, he knows a wink good strategy, but if you enjoy plausible deniability you'll just fork over the dough without asking too many questions.
Is anybody still using Apache?

I'm really iterested on the whys (in addition to the obvious legacy reasons).
I really do think that is true of most field though. And carry that attitude around is the easiest way to make it true.
Isn't Popcorn Time using Bittorrent? I'm guessing it's apps not participating nicely in P2P networks.
In continuous use? Or just sleeping?
Seems like a decent life lesson though. I wonder how this would have played out if you communicated with your teacher. Either telling them you were having trouble being productive in class, or When you turned in your work by telling him how much work you put in at home.

It's important that you tell people how much effort you spend on things when they don't see it happen. It's true in so many ways; you learned it early.

Also I'd add that something like art class is particularly hard to grade because you don't want to let the naturally gifted coast through. You want to hold everyone to higher individual standards. The teacher may have thought this must have been easy for you and if you put in more effort it could have been way better. Not always right, but sounds like that was the info available to him.
That's more of a pedagogical question than one with a concrete answer. To your last point: I don't think being the best is something that merits praise, necessarily. A 10000% improvement, whatever that means to you, is probably more "impressive" than being the best, but only seeing fractional gains.
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I've been using ABoards for Trello on Windows 10. Is there any reason to try this instead of ABoards?

http://abdev.ro/trello/
> However, there remain two serious
problems limiting wider deployment of SSDs: limited
lifespan and relatively poor random write performance.

This is a 5 year old paper which is an eternity in SSD engineering. Anyone know if ssd firmwares today handle this better? Last gen consumer SSD was hitting nearly 100K IOPS on random writes which is 3-4x better than a spinning disk. On random reads you're looking at least 50-100x difference.

As far as limited lifespan goes, a fairly popular study from 2014 showed that even a consumer Samsung SSD could hit 2 petabytes without fault.

A 2016 study by Google showed that the write endurance of its drive isn't correlated with failure, but its age. So these things are aging out moreso than exhausting its writable NAND. That's on top of a lower replacement rate than spinning disks.

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/storage/t...

Not sure what current gen is doing, but I imagine its even better. It seems like there's been a lot of work towards write leveling and extending endurance lately and in our own data center we're seeing a lower fail rate of SSD's than we did with spinning disks. Not sure of all the black magic involved here, but from both a desktop and server perspective we never experienced the SSD doomsday scenarios often listed out in the early 2010's when SSDs began to dominate. Curious to know if modern SSDs have worked around the worst issues with flash-based media. It seems they have.
It feels like the material is a little rote and that I can learn it on my own. I have a much harder time learning math on my own, and I figure it might be more worth my tuition to do that instead.
Depends what you’re trying to calculate.

If the idea is that independent small job (less than a year) contracting results in a 50% loss to overhead, then yes, just take hourly rate in thousands. This helps convince people to stop messing about with self-employment and just work for the man.

If you mean how much money is in your bank account after a year of work for one company, contrasting a 1099 to FTE for a regular company, it’s the 2x + 000s formula. Unlike comments above, if you have your own LLC consulting business and run the 1099 payments through that, you can pay less tax as self-employed taking care of your own insurance and benefits.
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What methods are you good at?
The major difference, to me, between Slack and Office is that Slack lacks user lock-in.

Companies that make heavy use of office would find it very difficult to move over to another office suite (if they could find one that meets their needs), whereas moving off slack to one of the many alternatives, doesn't seem that hard.
You might also be interested in GeoNotebook, a Jupyter Notebook extension for geospatial analysis

https://github.com/OpenGeoscience/geonotebook
The switch to the low-profile TrackPoint ruined them for me.

Instead of 3 options for the TrackPoint nipple, there's only one, and I was a Soft Rim user.
The X230 is great. With a new battery, an SSD, and 16GB of RAM, I'm not sure there's a better laptop. I run Xubuntu on an X230T and it's fantastic.

I actually only came to it because I was so frustrated with the new Dell XPS 13 my company provided that I went and grabbed an old Lenovo out of storage.
You could see if you are a good fit for the organizations that DataKind[1] represents.

[1] http://www.datakind.org/
I agree automated filtering technologies are broken, but I disagree with the author that wider use of flawed automated filtering technologies will necessarily be the result of SESTA.

If platforms are now responsible for illegal conduct over their networks unless they adequately moderate content, automated filters will not be adequate. The current status quo is that these platforms tend to have automated filtering, and have decided that's "good enough". They know that illegal activity takes place on their networks, but since they cannot be held legally responsible for it, there's no reason to improve.

Either companies will need to employ more humans in the moderation chain or automated filtering will need to get substantially better. I don't see a particular downside to this: Making these companies liable and responsible for content on their platforms will incentivize them to improve how they operate their platforms.
AOPA has a much better article about this flight:
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2008/march/01/e...

They also know better than to call it a biplane ha
Most laptops are terrible. We should celebrate that this one might not have a terrible keyboard.
Even if communications network were destroyed the early warning burnkers could launch rockets that would fly over silos and broadcast directly the launch order.
I don't block ads to "get the news for free." I do it to marginally protect myself from an increasingly omnipresent surveillance apparatus that's tracking my entire path across the internet, across devices, as well as in the real world.
Except this is exactly how Android Pay and
Apple Pay work: they store the billing
information on the client side.

No, Apple Pay does not. And I'm pretty sure neither does Android Pay. What Apple Pay does is produce encrypted tokens based on the account holder's information and the device(s) authorized to use it. It is only this encrypted token which is stored on a client device and it is verified on each transaction as well as periodically replaced by the servers.

The PAN and related data is stored securely on Apple's servers (or, more likely, PCI compliant servers provided by Paymentech). This is why merchants have to accept these payment methods specifically and not treat them as "regular" card-not-present transactions.
You might want to try the Matias Ergo Pro. I switched to it after 15 years on the MSFT Natural 4000. I still slightly prefer the 4000's layout and wrist rest, but the overall typing experience on the Matias is much better.

http://matias.ca/ergopro/
Personally I find it rare - usually it's because of infrastructure (e.g., the farmer's stand doesn't have a credit terminal to process payments), or tax evasion (e.g., a restaurant gives you a discount for paying cash and it doesn't report that income).
What in the name of all that is holy is this?!

Is this some kind of algorithmically generated text? Trained on what?! And why the heck has it been posted here?!

I'm genuinely... puzzled.
I got a parking ticket for parking on the wrong side of the street during plow season (even days one side, odd the other). I had habitually moved my car on the 31st-1st transition.

The judge or magistrate reduced the fine by the maximum amount they could when I explained that I had made a simple error while trying to follow the parking rule.
As a side note, my impression is that cultural exports from Hong Kong have declined a fair bit since China took over the island. (Japan and (especially) South Korea seem to dominate Asian cultural exports at the moment).

I think a big issue regarding China and culture is that, with their need for "great firewalls" and the like, they've effectively removed a huge channel for people to communicate their ideas and culture outside the nation. I'm sure there is a lot of stuff going on in Chinese culture that we don't know about; the problem is, with many Western social media channels blocked inside the country, it is probably much more difficult for Chinese to obtain a non-Chinese audience online even if they wanted to.
Are there tools for Node.js that can create standalone command-line apps? Can you recommend any in particular?
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