skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> zero-sum competition for inflexible goods

if you consider good housing to be only within a certain distance of some CBD, then yes, housing is zero sum. But there's lots more space available than humans right now, and relaxing the distance/centrality requirement will greatly increase the pool of available housing (and hence, "cheaper").

The only winner when everyone tries to outbid for a small amount of housing is the original owners.
The anti-microbial coating (aka the small matte bumps on your standard keyboard) impair bacteria growth and slow oil accretion on the keys.
It is unique to the laws of physics in this universe. If you look around, you'll find video of exploding flashlights, and it wasn't Apple that recently had airlines forbidding you to bring their devices onto planes...

So, that's drivers, batteries, and keyboard-coatings; what's next?
Isn't the back glass to allow for wireless charging?
Free and non-free AV are liabilities at this point (for Windows). Microsoft has never had an official way to let AV hook into the system calls needed, so they all relied on hacks and shifty stuff.

Surprise, surprise, now there is more attack surface available since AV is kernel level. And so now we see attacks getting root or kernel level access via AV vulnerabilities.
Probably because years after release they still get a wow out of most.
The trick is that any non-illegal investing strategy has finite potential, because it is exploiting some sort of mispricing by the market. Eventually either your buying and selling will correct the mispricing, or other investors will catch on and start doing the same thing, spreading the profits thinner among a larger crowd.

This means that if you want to continually beat the market, using any strategy beyond an impressive gut, you need to be continually developing new tricks and strategies, finding new market mispricings to exploit as your old ones dry up. It's like juggling: someone who is skilled or lucky can keep the balls in the air for quite a bit of time, but eventually you're going to run out of tricks, and the best you can hope for when that happens is returning to average returns.
here's a list of side project marketing ideas:

https://www.sideprojectchecklist.com/marketing-checklist/
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As far as I know, once the project name is taken, that ownership belongs to the account first created this package in PyPI.
I have heard from people that military strength (including force projection) and intelligence gathering benefits a nation.

Releasing the code (and thus methods) related to that strength would decrease some of those benefits.

I am not trying to comment on the validity of using military and intelligence gathering as tools in national benefit. I do, however, consider the US federal expenditures on military and intelligence gathering as a partial proxy for others' thoughts.
Here I thought 15 hours straight from New Delhi to Newark was bad. 64 days is just not even believable it's so insane.
Justifying poor journalism by referencing more poor journalism is not a recipe for success.
Must be nice if you don't have to pay for it...
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I disagree. The two are related, but not synonymous.

The classic network effect example is the telephone - the system is is of zero utility if no-one you know uses the system.

Reputation effects are more decoupled and fuzzy. A tiny niche journal with small readership can nonetheless have a high reputation if it only publishes highly regarded articles.
I recall reading somewhere that one of the best predictors of employee turnover is commute length. But that was for call center employees, and I can't recall where I read that, so take it with a grain of salt.

Anecdotally, I once moved from having an hour long commute to a 5 minutes walk from work. I did end up leaving, but I feel that I enjoyed life much more living close to the office. Getting an extra two hours every day allowed me to enjoy life much more.
FWIW, you can buy a panel separately and retrofit it. I've done this a couple of times and gotten much nicer hi-res screens for around $100-150.
We're all quite familiar with the idea that working long hours gets you brownie points with your managers. The point that's being made here is that companies should not be so proud of this quid pro quo, because on paper it is quite literally a devaluation of your time.

You feeling you need to work excessive hours to progress in your career does not make anything about it right, quite the opposite actually.
It only takes one event not being as he described for that to be false. I've been to dozens.
You can progress in your career very rapidly by doing 40h of high quality work per week. I know many young people (my generation) who are in their late 20s or early 30s and have made a very fast career progression already and didn't need to work 80 hours per day at all.

Also for software engineers you have to take into account continuously upskilling yourself to know the latest tech is something which takes a lot of time and is mostly done outside of work as there's never time at work for that.

So most great software engineers I know might work 40h for the company per week but in order to keep on top of their game they spend portion of their free time for that.

Just as you said "I want to know more about all facets of the firm", most good engineers want to have a deeper understanding of specific tech and finer details.
Henry Feinberg Demonstrates Using Light to Transmit Sound Waves (1978) [video]
Yup. It's one of those case we want something to be true, but really, it isn't (always, anyway). Sure, some people are absurdly productive on 25 hours a week. Good for them! Keep at it!

Others though, not so much. In programming, you also get better by doing it more. So even if it's not "for work", if you have side projects, you will (generally) be better than those who don't, from pure practice. The super high salaries don't just reflect a higher demand: they also reflect an expectation of higher expected output than in other professions. It's implied that you'll spend the time to stay on top of things, stay up to date with technology and other things that may require more time than your weekly allocation of jira tickets.

There's a guy in my team who probably works 60+ hours a week. I warned him about burning out, told him he didn't have to (as his manager), etc. He does it for fun. Because he enjoys it. And he's amazingly productive. He's not doing it for a promotion either, he's already pretty much at the highest level the role can be.

And while a lot of people SAY they are "more productive" working less, often it's not true. One of my buddies keep spouting that, and honestly doesn't get much done. Another also repeats it AND is the most productive person I know.

Essentially, your millage will vary, but only rarely are people at the very tip top manage to do more with less time. Some do, but they're essentially gods among mortals (or lying to themselves about it).

Personally, I generally work about 40 hours a week, but I don't pretend I'm doing more than others. I just do what I feel I'm paid for while also pursuing my career goals to go up the ladder by doing what's best for my employer.
I look forward to the debugging cycle of such an AI. After a few failures it will work perfectly:)
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Unfortunately this doesn't work in public education where it is most needed. All the companies pushing content to the kids, e.g. i-ready, st-math, while they may be "non-profit" do not share their code or source materials. What's worse is often their licenses only last for 1 year and have to be renewed again.
Google captures the world, good luck Google.
Sadly some vendors/stores don't even accept Debit/Credit here in the USA.
Apologies for munging the title! The title from the video is…

Henry Feinberg Demonstrates Ways of Using Light to Transmit Sound Waves

… which was too long for HN.
Fabulous list, thank you! That's going in my faves for later.
PIT was the hub for US Air (originally Allegheny Airlines) back when that airport was built. It's pretty vacant now that USAir changed its name, moved the hub to PHI and merged with American, but PIT used to be quite busy.
The latest Win 10 has a new setting that vaguely indicates it will look for and delete temporary files automatically. On my machine it was not turned on by default.

No idea how much it gets vs. leaves behind and since turning on it hasn't thrown up any obvious notifications lauding itself.

This is on a secondary machine. My primary machine isn't Windows.
Deposit to put money, withdraw to take it.
Question: I get my CCLeaner installers through Chocolatey, so it always installs the 64 bit version.

Obviously, this gave me quite a scare, so I downloaded and ran both MalwareBytes and Immunet - both came up negative. I checked my registry for the keys mentioned in the article, and found none of them. Can I assume I'm "safe" (well, one never is, but relatively speaking), or should I revert my system to an August image?
Impostor syndrome is not incompatible with being smart. Quite the contrary.
It could be an extension of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
The more you know and understand something, the more you can judge your performance and notice your failures, thus making you feel like an impostor.
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> I become involved in more and take on more reliability because I want more responsibility I the future. I work twice or more what I'm paid to work because I want to earn at least twice as much in the future.

Noble sentiment, but in reality you are just marking yourself as a fool, especially to everyone above you. You seem to think that over achieving now will translate to future gains in either salary or position, it won't. You'll simply be exploited and marginalized by those who play the political game better than you. If you're goal is to move into management, then you have to play the politics where day to day competency is just a formality. Actually you don't even have to be competent, you just have to have perceived competency.
The problem with crypto as a solution is that there isn't much money to be made from the pool of crypto users, they are a small niche and notoriously low spenders (a fact that anyone who has accepted bitcoin payments for legal products/services can attest to). Of course, more money is better than less money, however we're talking about a drop in the bucket, not a real solution for publishers. Finally, there's also a strong political ideology that tracks pretty well with crypto-users that would make it additionally prohibitive for many flavors of journalism.
We don’t need people to start internet companies in areas that are no longer viable. And yes, you are paying for those rural subsidies personally. Literally, through a tax on your telecommunications bill each month. Also, the original idea was to give telecom companies monopolies to allow them to use above-market returns to subsidize rural areas. This was a terrible idea and gave us the entrenched incumbents we have today. In the 1990s, Congress realized this was terrible and got rid of that arrangement, shifting to explicit cross subsidization. But service and build out requirements continue to stifle development of competition. You can’t, as a new entrant, do stuff like pursue a profitable niche (startup 101 advice). And a special tax is levied on your product, as if it were something harmful like cigarettes.

There is no free lunch! If you force urban areas to cross-subsidize rural ones, either directly or indirectly, you’ll get lower quality service at higher prices in urban area.

Look at the regulatory regimes in places like Sweden. They don’t have build out requirements or cross subsidies. To the extent the government wants connectivity in rural places, it doesn’t distort the market by having high-ROI places cross-subsidize it. It pays for it directly.
I don't think it would be practical as a backend in Python, but for a Clojure equivalent of TensorFlow - certainly.
"Get early access"

Why do sites do this? Flattr has been around for almost a decade.
GeoNotebook: A Jupyter Notebook extension for exploratory geospatial analysis
Let's all be real here. Trying to impress your boss by working long hours (or whatever pointless shit) is worthless. Promotions don't exist and when they do they pay you less than actually just quitting the job.WTF do you get from trying to be the best employee of your silly company? Fucking nothing. You need to impress your co-workers who can give you recommendations on jobs in the future not your fucking ass shit boss. It's naive to try to impress your boss try to be the perfect employee. It's smart to try to be the best professional who happens to get paid for your work hours. Fuck employers.
They only made that mistake for one generation. We have to assume the rationale for the *40 models was "look, apple is doing it, clearly we can make this clickpad thing work".

And then the rationale was "holy shit literally everyone who uses this hates it".
Trading content for processing power seems like a logical and satisfactory solution to an age-old problem- people wanting free stuff, businesses wanting to stay in business. I think it's a beautiful example of new economic models enabled by tech. Are people's main concerns battery life/power usage?
> Before enabling two-step verification, you'll receive ten 8-digit backup codes. It is very important that you write these codes down and store them somewhere safe.

Do any of your other systems handle recovery like that?
Except we both use the same computers, so I expect it goes beyond user just to habit.
I.e. you're generalising about all events, thus making a broad claim. You can't say the other person is wrong without yourself making a broad claim.
We use Pivotal Tracker, and it's pretty easy to see how many bugs are popping up and how often.

Code quality shows up in your velocity over time. My favorite saying right now is "quality is future speed". We also do regular reviews to assess things like cyclomatic complexity and how well SOLID principles are being followed.
> I would definitely pay for such a news service.

I think the question then becomes, how much are you willing to pay vs how much does such a service cost. Does the economy of scale factor in here? Right now most of those services ask for ~$10 a month. Expecting all of it for $10/month seems unlikely.

I could see a full service on-demand news service like that would (with the current pricing structure) run at least $50/month, which most people won't pay.

I think the music industry transitioned to streaming so well, because the recording companies were already dicking over the artists from the get-go.
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you're not wrong, Buzzfeed is profitable while they do some truly amazing journalism as well.

But I really can't see WSJ or NYT creating clickbait personality quizzes just to fund their business.
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It's only admirable in retrospect. What if Mt. Gox shot to the moon and decided to pay dividends, but your friend threatened you not to buy in?

I've been threatened by inlaws for subscribing to practices that will end in my damnation -- something much more significant than losing savings. They genuinely believe this. And I still don't think that's right, and it wouldn't be right if everything they said turned out to be true.
Definitely test drive a couple of Linux distributions. I do so periodically and love seeing the progress.

There are really only two things keeping me on Windows.

1. I run some Windows-only applications that don't work with Wine.
2. A lot of Linux software often doesn't work well on a hi-dpi monitors.

Aside from that, since Windows 7 (and later versions of Vista), Windows is fine. IMHO, operating systems aren't terribly interesting these days. Everything interesting is in applications on top of the operating system. Windows, macOS, Linux? Whatever. If the application I need runs on that operating system, then I can be productive.
This is on point, GCP is modeled after Google's infrastructure not how Google itself is run. Whereas Amazon runs on the same technology just not in the same datacenter.

(My impression is that Amazon operates out of a different region than the public AWS. Much like GovCloud isn't the same as the public regions. Hence an AWS region being impacted doesn't necessarily impact Amazon itself since their separately operated.)
At the US federal level this already occurs. Any code written by government employees exclusively gets released to the public. Just the other day I came across the NIST biometrics matching stuff which was made open for exactly this reason.
Q: Did he get fired?

Q: Who won the Amazon-Hachette dispute?

Q: How was the situation at TNR different from all the other newsroom-advertising dept. conflicts?
Browsers won't let javascript that's running on a webpage access random TCP ports, at the very least you'd need a server component that could act as an IP proxy for you, perhaps tunneling over websockets.
If Bluetooth is on, and the kernel isn’t patched, the device is vulnerable.

Doesn’t matter if Bluetooth is connected to something. Doesn’t matter if someone tricks you into connecting to a specific evil device.

Is Bluetooth enabled? You’re vulnerable.

It’s BAD.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/bluet...
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Agreed. The architecture diagram [1] describes a flow that is identical to how a user on Ripple buys IOUs from a gateway, trades or spends them with other users, and how a receiver redeems them with the gateway for the original currency.

Ripple captured my attention for years, but its backing company has taken it in a direction of commercial adoption which is good for them, but antithetical to the applications I was excited about.

If GNU Taler is going to revive that vision, then that's really exciting!

[1] https://taler.net/en/architecture.html
Think Less About Foundations [pdf]
OK, replace "forced" with "mandatory", and "prose" with "issue tracker".

"We have mandated that every task be tracked in Jira, with a predefined set of fields filled in."

Does it still look unreasonably oppressive? Is this an example of treating engineers like children?

(To me, expecting a person to write concise, mindful, well-structured prose is expecting them to show qualities of a well-developed grown-up.)
Thanks. On phone. Swype "comm" and just accept what it gives you.
Similar with potentially smoother UX:

- https://github.com/fat/zoom.js/ (jQuery)

- https://github.com/nishanths/zoom.js/ (fork with no dependencies)
This is the same code most big companies run on. It definitely would be good to make it public.
How do you know how much responsibility he has? Plenty of senior people work less than 40h but have a lot of responsibility.
I will not say it is safe for you to use or not. But the reason for that and many of the "don't let children near it" is better be safe and make it user error than take an useless risk. In particular, I'm sure there are very little if any studies on the effects of that tech on children, for obvious reasons.
Definitely.

I saw the title and immediately thought: Oh, wow! Somebody set a new continuous flight record (since the old one was in a 172, decidedly _not_ a biplane).

AFAIK the 172 in question is still on display in the baggage claim area at McCarran Internation in Las Vegas.
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Pfft. A man-hour of labor is a man-hour of labor. Which is why I fully understand why my employer is requiring me (and the others on my team) to make up the 48 hours of labor I lost when I evacuated due to Hurricane Irma (even though the office was of course closed for much of that time).

I'm spending the extra hours perusing/posting on HN and looking at job listings :|
Yikes, I guess I should be ashamed of myself for even asking...
IDK if there’s a perfect (or even good) solution out there. There are and were many ways of funding publications, each with their own problems. Nothing consistently yields good work.

A pattern-like donations system has biases of its own. Where big national dailies tend to have centrist-conservative leanings, donor supported journalism would tend to favour political wings and fringes as they play to their supporter silo. In both cases, there’s a big incentive to do opinion, talking heads, and less incentive to do first hand investigations.
Good point. The cold storage procedure is also impressive, but not as impressive as full insurance.
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Relative grading all the way up to the last school year, then a final test assessing objective performance.

Couldn't the lack of absolute feedback lead to uncertainty and therefore overcompensation? I'm thinking of my school colleagues who were set on entering college courses with very high entrance requirements. Without a clear idea whether they were doing enough, I could see them absolutely burning out.
Similarly, I want the ability to make a channel not ping the browser tab (no * next to it) but still display the channel name in bold if there are messages. I find it hard to ever remember to check some channels, but don't necessarily need to check them immediately (or even very quickly).
RAD Studio Roadmap September 2017
I'm not convinced it's optimal! However, it's a "known good" number that's easy to convince people to follow along with. Running experiments is hard and expensive, so we just haven't tackled that yet.

My personal suspicion is that optimal is probably in the 35-45 range, but I'd love to have more data.
One step closer to GNU Hurd hegemony!
So... SELinux?
The main downside is that mine got kinda mushy / misfire at the one-year mark.

I'm currently living abroad, but ideally I'd be able to bring my Macbook Pro into the Apple store next time I'm in the States and get all the keyboard switches replaced.

Is that possible?
Saving your email you used for iCloud to the UEFI in plain text and providing no way to wipe it? Could take a sledgehammer to it...

Never said that battery failure was something that only occurred with Apple, just the way they fail (puffing up) was something that has happened to myself and two of my friends, meanwhile these 5+ year old battery packs from HPs and Dells that I've been pulling apart had a cell or two fail to retain a charge, but they don't significantly expand in size usually.
again I have an x200, I think at the time Lenovo offered less options, if at all. They changed after too many complaints, and I believe that's why 220 - 260, ... have better screens and more choice
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with extremely low transaction costs

Does anyone here happen to know what the pricing structure is?
I have T460s. No PWM on mine. There are two different model screens that come with the T460, ironically the higher spec screen uses PWM. there are loads of comment forums discussing this. I did lots of research for this machine and can tell you it was a massive difference over my previous X series which had PWM and gave me horrific headaches