skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"People get worked up as hell and I frankly just want to have fun with my devices."

How is this entire post anything but "getting worked up as hell"? Seems to me to be a case of "when other people complain, they're whiny, but when _I_ get annoyed, heads must roll!".
How does that stack you up against average earners? High quality of life there?
It's not obstruction because of federal supremacy; given the normal level of voluntary cooperation, it's bizarre that there is no cooperation, and suggests that the fraud is not just an outside fraud on the FCC but a fraud by the FCC (whether originally or merely one convenient to and retrospectively ratified by the agency.) But there is little a state AG can do in that case except publicize the issue.

Well, relating to the identity misappropriation itself. Should there be litigation over the final regulation (as is near certain) and should the content of public comment and the FCC’s handling of it be an issue (as is also near certain), then things become a lot more interesting.
If AMD are at all smart they'll be attempting to contribute AMD-V support to https://github.com/intel/haxm ASAP.

Now that will be a fun pull request to watch.
DigitalOcean: $15 Droplet with 6X more RAM
Just received the announcement by email:

> We ... wanted to let you know of a new plan that is now available and provides 6x the memory for $15/mo. This new plan includes more memory and bandwidth...
Why shouldn't we pay more when we use more? I know that "unlimited" plans have great popularity in the tech community, but is that based on any principle, or is it based on the fact that people in the tech community tend to use the internet a lot more and thereby benefit from "unlimited" plans by effectively freeloading off their less technically literate neighbors?
Good time to get as much out as possible before the FCC allows ISPs to start shaking down Facebook.
Could you give an example of how it helped you figure out something in business?
No one has yet mentioned the shortcut keys, so I'll add this dimension.

When you show up to work on wall street, your new buddies will yank the mouse out of your machine and remove the F1 key. Then you can begin your apprenticeship with a fresh perspective.

The point is, you can be incredibly productive in excel against a very large problem space. It can't handle GB datasets, but once you have filtered down to a manageable size you can answer questions via ad-hoc analysis, automate financial reporting documents, solve multivariable regressions, run machine learning algorithms (see 'Data Smart') etc. with aplomb. I understand the objections to the data model and its inappropriate uses, but excel can take raw data from disparate sources to finished documentation for regulatory requirements and helps you automate most of that -- I don't think the finance industry is going to move away from it. I certainly don't perceive an understanding of the costs involved with building a different way.

>“I don’t want financial planning people spending their time importing and exporting and manipulating data, I want them to focus on what is the data telling us,” Mr. Garrett said

I hear this complaint all the time from business leadership, Mr. Garrett doesn't seem to understand that extracting/munging/preprocessing and then analyzing data is inextricable from the end product which is visibility and understanding at the business leader level. There isn't a follow-up to say Mr. Garret is hiring data engineers and software developers to serve the now-liberated 'data focusers'. I'm very skeptical that these sentiments are different than the past, or are a signal of changing times ahead.

Lastly, I'd to share the following funny snippet from the reprehensible though satirical leveraged sellout blog:

>I turned and tapped Josh on the shoulder to get his attention. I didn’t say a word, but my face said “Yo…yeah you, McKposer.” We locked eyes. I slowly and dramatically reached for my mouse cable. Staring him down, I methodically unplugged it from my computer’s USB port. The cable came out slowly but smoothly and with it’s final, climactic release, I heard Josh gulp with fear.

>I continued to glare at him as I started to “fly around.” My eyeballs burned through his unweathered, 60-hour-a-week-when-he-should-have-done-90 face as I hid and unhid sheets and conditionally formatted and applied validation to cells with triple nested conditional and indirect functions and then culminated by on-the-fly writing a macro that took my data and made it into a Marimekko (and we don’t even use that shit!). I never turned to look at the screen, and my eyes never left his.
He's not talking about trademark protection, but copyright permissions to the assets used in the logos. I'd absolutely expect to have explicit licensing to redistribute and modify a logo, and from the T&C, it doesn't look like you even get that.
Good enough for a 5% increase in Cerner's stock price.
I've experienced similar. My most pleasant experience with finding and launching applications is, surprisingly, in Linux. I think it's best in breed now. If you'd told me this 15 years ago I wouldn't have believed you, but it's gotten much better over the years and everything else has somehow gotten worse. I spend more time using Linux as a desktop OS than anything else these days, and it "just works".
> Google gave it a good try with their fiber service, but had to give up - probably underestimating how expensive it is, or they were blocked by the existing ISPs that didn't tolerate competition.

Google gave up partly thanks to ALEC lobbying and laws, probably lobbied for via the incumbent regional ISPs.
Is it worth contacting your local news station?

May be a long shot but the more people know about what's actually happening then the more pressure they can put on their congress critter to do something.
Good thing HIV is not too contagious.
GDAX is that you?
... down by the river. Matt Foley will tell you what his life is all about.
If we were to slow down the progress of self driving cars, would that not also be a bet on human drivers?
Smart people have better connected brains
Hmm, as a life-long high-performer I am thinking maybe slackers are right; meeting or accelerating deadlines never resulted in bonuses/appreciation, always resulted in more and more work; when it came to promotions slackers were fast tracked and work horses were kept where they were. Frankly, empirically it doesn't make any sense to exceed average team velocity unless you work on your own stuff. Being "too good" often brings resentment, fear and super nasty backstabbing from those that underperform, so why bother if rewards are out of place?
I'm still waiting for someone to come up with a compelling reason why that should be a thing.
It persisted for the whole month of the trial period. I rebooted multiple times during that period and also checked the Spotlight settings for a few times that they wouldn't exclude anything - and nope.
That would get you very cheap ISP with terrible speeds and a lot of downtime.

There is no incentive for investment if they have to resell at (or near) cost.

And we've seen this in action. DSL service was covered by Title II originally, which meant it had to be unbundled and resold. But cable internet had no requirement. Investment flooded to cable rather than telecom. Why would Verizon invest billions in a network that benefits third parties? Well they didn't.

It was only after Title II repeal that Verizon went forward with Fios. Because it didn't have to resell.

It's possible to do this sort of thing, but you have to build in a fat profit margin. But even then, the companies wouldn't have any incentive to provide good service.
I can speak to this too. Latest version of MacOS. I installed Spotify weeks ago, and Spotlight just never indexed it (it's in the /Applications folder). I use Spotlight to launch every app... except Spotify, which it can't find.
Still has the same ambiguity in my eyes. =/
That would be much better.

I was working on something like that based on https://postgrest.com/, but I'm now reconsidering the approach.
> Python leaves a readable instruction set

Not everyone structures programs in the same way, or puts functions in easily found locations, or names things usefully, or even approaches the problem in a way that makes sense to the majority of other people. For a concrete example, see this[1].

> Excel buries the logic in an opaque two dimensional grid of cells

It would be trivial to represent excel grid formulas as a set of predefined functions, or a special data structure that you register functions in, and then it could be in textual form. It wouldn't make it any easier to reason about, but then again control flow isn't always easy to reason about when a program is split into many different objects and functions, until you've internalized a fair amount of the program. Spreadsheets give people a very limited, but structured output and a very limited, but easily reasoned about way or processing. It's different than "normal" programming, but that difference allows for very intuitive use.

> I think this gives a better ladder for people to improve their skills to the point of not producing unmaintainable garbage.

How much work has been put into making spreadsheets easier to share with other people? I'm not sure the same culture has existed for spreadsheets as for programming, where people have needed to share and reason about complex algorithms and data structures. If it had, I'm sure we'd have much more in the way of how to structure your excel well so it can easily be consumed by others, or yourself in the future (if it doesn't already exist, which it may).

1: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Python-Charmer
Right, but I never said there were adequate residency spots. In fact, I think that there aren't[1]. So again, why are you replying to this thread in particular?

[1] however, from what I've seen it isn't a critical issue for US healthcare; we need more mid-levels and to expand their scope of practice more than we need residents. For residents, it would be far more effective to reduce the span of pre-residency training somehow, so that people aren't starting residency with $300k in debt.
I just keep a window open running "everything search". Insanely fast and actually works!. Cortana is worse than useless for my use cases.

The inability to find installed programs by name is laughably unacceptable. How they continue to push this stuff out is amazing, their management must be really awful.
See also "premature optimization is the root of all evil", which I occasionally see stretched to include any kind of thinking about the performance characteristics of your code, even down to basic design decisions like data structures or algorithms.
>Should one actually hope for a massive crash, just so the planet can be saved?

The only reason anyone would bring up BTC regarding climate change would be to distract from the harm caused by oil, gas, mining, and oceanic shipping companies.
Would be great if we have

1. Back button/link as well to go back and compare
2. Facility to short list icons and compare later to decide final version
Ask HN: Why haven't people moved on from Bitcoin?
I keep reading about how energy inefficient it is, both transacting & mining. Numerous banks and firms have labeled it a scam, yet they devote resources to trade in it.
Out of naive curiosity:

1) Why has Bitcoin captured mainstream attention and not other viable alternatives that have been touted to be better (say ETH, LTC etc)? Is it simply first mover advantage?

2) What would it take to replace it as the de facto cryptocurrency standard?
Ugh, no Hyper-V support kind of defeats the point these days...
Especially on Win10...
Maybe there'd be a way to do this for Hyper-V too
Ethereum's Proof of Stake will probably render all this moot eventually. For now, Bitcoin's Proof of Work electricity usage sounds high but how much electricity and resources are used by brick and mortar banks, armored trucks, etc.?
Base 2 doesn’t work well with military too:

http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
Absolutely right. Excel (and spreadsheets in general) are bad social media/groupware/workflow tools... who knew? This just in: word processors make for a lousy DBMS... film at 11!

Points for their SEO/clickbait headline: it hooked me... this time (-1 one added to my personal WSJ lifetime value calculation)
Here is the url when it was available
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gadafnnkijfmbbme...
Do you know anyone who bought a T-Mobile plan that allows them to "binge on" unlimited Netflix while charging a per-gigabyte rate for other data? That's zero-rating, which is against net neutrality.

The scary images of tiered Internet packages from Portugal and Indonesia that are being passed around are also about zero-rating. They are really no different from mobile plans we have in the US, except that their advertising happens to be more brutally honest.

People like net neutrality as an abstract principle when it's described to them, but many people will gladly personally give it up to watch a TV series.

To be clear, I think this is a bad thing. I think zero-rating is anti-competitive. But there are people who love it. That's what it means to be against net neutrality.
> It's better if there's only one place to fix it, because when you've fixed it, you've fixed all of it.

You've got one aspect, and the other aspect is that code factored into a reused function F is now reviewed more too, ie. whenever you're reviewing the callers, you work through the functions they call as well to trace the behaviour. So you're also much more likely to find any bugs in F.

It's a double-whammy for bug squashing, which is why DRY is such an important principle. Certainly there are some misapplications, but its benefits hold up pretty well in a wide variety of scenarios.
I have similar issues with Edge on Windows. When it auto completes a webpage, it will do a bing search instead and have that as it's top result.

Personally, I think it's done on purpose, as every time it searches, it counts as a search in Bing, and that way they can use that to show how many people use Bing to charge more for advertisers.
You then have to pay to park in campgrounds, and those fees are a huge added expense. Vans are absolutely horrid as houses, but they can hide themselves among normal vehicles to stealth camp on streets and same their owners money.
You might want to look at O&O ShutUp10 (https://www.oo-software.com/en/ShutUp10), which lets you disable a bunch of Windows 10 features along with tips on what they are and their importance and risks.
Perhaps this solves the Fermi Paradox.
It says the meetings happened at the UN, with which he has an official affiliation. UN headquarters has a special relationship with NY (and the US) and generally there is immunity involved and no ability for the US to refuse a visa. This was a key carve out for locating the UN secretariat in NYC.
Focus your energy on getting your town on municipal fiber. Muni fiber means anyone in your town can start an ISP, which means you'll have 20+ companies competing locally, which means Net Neutrality doesn't need to be regulated at all because there is actual market competition.
I've had the same problem with Spark and even Xcode, so very unlikely it's Apple willfully refusing to index. What fixes it for me is reindexing via going into Spotlight preferences and adding /Applications to the list of folders not to index, then removing it.
see also The Gervais Principle
So lets say I move to Vietnam with 100k (Ignoring logistics, just pretend i'm Vietnamese or whatever). That is like 15+ years worth of salary (ignoring taxes). Can I really live it up?
> 1. I don’t care about the work
> If you don’t care about the work, it’s going be a long and agonizing journey to completing this task and its descendant tasks in the future.

I'm sure there are some good life hacks to trick you into liking this or that work that you by default dislike.

I have a corollary problem to this #1. Not that I dislike writing per se but I like coding so much more. I have to really fight away not coding to put more time into writing. This may be because I've been at coding for a long time, so I am good at it, therefore the dopamine comes easier. There's probably some theory here that goes like once you're good at a thing, it's harder to get good at some other thing. When my noviceness/incompetence at writing frustrates me, instead of pushing through it's easy to go feel better about myself doing something (programming) that I have some good capacity for. Thinking out loud...
>Leigh Corfman told the Washington Post that she met Moore in 1979 when she was just 14 years old. The then-district attorney offered to watch Corfman while her mother attended a custody hearing, she said, and he asked for her phone number when he was alone with her. Corfman said that days later, Moore drove her to his house and kissed her.

http://time.com/5029172/roy-moore-accusers/

Your (and the author of that op-ed) opinion and my opinion of the definition of "child" differ greatly.
Airbnb Lona
The marginal cost is zero until you hit capacity, and then the marginal cost of the next bit is millions or billions of dollars. Then it goes back to zero until you hit the upgraded capacity, rinse and repeat.

This is a pretty common situation in many areas. The marginal cost of putting a package on a truck is nearly zero (there's a very, very small amount of extra fuel burned) until the truck is full, then the marginal cost of the next package is the cost of sending another truck. The marginal cost of putting another passenger on an airliner is nearly zero (again, there's a small amount of added fuel consumption) until you hit capacity, then it's suddenly huge.

In these other areas, we generally look at the cost as being the marginal cost of the whole truck or plane divided by the number of things it carries, rather than assigning the entire cost to the one thing that requires a new truck or plane. I don't see why internet access shouldn't be like this too.

Data costs should be pretty low, and should be much cheaper at off-peak hours, but I don't see why they should be zero.
What fixes it for me is reindexing via going into Spotlight preferences and adding /Applications to the list of folders not to index, then removing it.
Anyone know the answer or have good recommendations for this thought:

As a freelance (marketing but could be anything) consultant, I have 4 hours of client work to do a day, and 4 hours of side project work. The client work has to be done, but is less exciting or long term since I'm working for other people. The side project work requires self-motivation because no one is holding me to it, but has more upside in the long term, and I like working on it.

Is it better to do:

A) Get all client work done from 8am-12pm, then side project from 1pm-5pm
-or-
B) Side project from 8am-12pm, client work 1pm-5pm.
-or-
C) Some other method like Monday - Wed client work only, Thurs-Fri side project only

I had started with version A, but then throughout the day I look for an escape from client work so I go on Hacker News and read blog posts.

I'm thinking version B is better so I can pump out the stuff I like first, and get the ball rolling. Then the less brain-intensive client work I'll have a shorter window to finish, so I have to focus and get it done.

Right now, my client work expands to fill the whole day by having fragmented focus, and I can't get to side project work ever.
Thanks for providing the counterpoint. I would like to see Pai back his claims up in a more detailed manner, because I found them pretty surprising.
Don't you have to pay for tradingview?
I find it strange that, when arguing that we can't trust businesses to act in a neutral manner, you link to Wikileaks, a pawn of the Russian government.
> Do you realize that most power/utility companies in the US are private and do want to make a profit and pay dividends to share holders?

You're right, and I don't understand why the discussion here seems to insist that the two options available are having either no NN or having the big, bad gubbmint provide internet services. Among the solutions that lie between these two extremes are private, for profit, regulated utilities.

For example, where I live our electric+gas services come from a company named Avista, NYSE:AVA[1]. It's shareholder-owned, for-profit, and regulated by the state[2]. In fact this private, regulated utility is so private that it's currently busying itself with being acquired by a Canadian company[3], after which it will of course still be regulated by the state of Washington to ensure that the corporation continues operating for the public good.

"Avista's purpose is to improve life's quality by providing energy and energy-related services, as well as certain non-energy related services. We do this by safely and reliably delivering these services at a competitive price and by helping our customers get the most value from their dollar, while providing our investors a fair return."[4]

Fair return, not maximum return.

Our nation's economy, infrastructure, and access to government information and services now rely on the internet. ISPs, whether private or public, need to be regulated in ways that reflect that fact.

[1] https://www.avistacorp.com/about/Pages/aboutus.aspx

[2] https://goo.gl/y54zFV [utc.wa.gov]

[3] https://goo.gl/Av1vx3 [investor.avistacorp.com]

[4] https://goo.gl/fGAAW8 [investor.avistacorp.com]

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What are some examples of possible strategies specific to him at this point in the timeline?
Cheap, secure and fast – Ghost blog set-up step by step
What is "everything search"? Is that third party or does it ship with Windows? That sounds like something I need.
I recall seeing this comment as well. Measuring BTC in GWP is an odd concept - maybe I misread - but I take it that means 2 trillion worth of global world product is made in BTC? Or just that BTC price X coins in existence = 2 trillion?

Apparently today we consume 100% of our energy (hah!) for GWP of 78 trillion (nominal) [1]. So 2% for 2 trillion would actually appear to be more efficient. But again, I am not sure if this definition is even real, nor does this math apply.

Maybe this is up there with bitcoin "market cap" or "price to earnings" terminology... :|

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
I watched the interview with that Silvio Micali on Epicenter some time ago, and that impressed me, but I don't know if I should be impressed.

Anyway, people should take these new "consensus" algorithms, like Algorand and the Stellar Consensus Protocol and implement something like Ethereum or other, more generic things, on top of it, instead of just making a new simple currency.
Can't cancel Comcast. My building HOA has an exclusive contract. They came peddling a cheap TV and internet plan in exchange for a 3 year contract for every resident getting billed for it. And a plurality voted for it. Sucks.
I've read those reflective insulation doesn't do much with keeping out cold.
As I type successive characters searching for “update” it switches back and forth between windows update and java update.

Just awful.
Well, look at what is happening in the UK.

Calling people names who are making an argument is disrespectful.

Calling something a lie and requiring silence about the topic is immature.

Prove it wrong and you will make your point valid without making yourself look like that which you accuse others of.
Kim Stanley Robinson: We Have Come to a Bad Moment, and We Must Change
I don’t think these kind of comments adds much to the discourse, and we on HN try to not comment when we don’t have anything to add.

Do you have any evidence that the action here by the new leadership to disclose all breaches was disingenuous?
Something like 99designs makes a lot more sense, if you're willing to pay for a human-designed logo.
Agreed. I like to play dota 2, and sometimes I access it via search. Cortana will find it if I search "Dota" or "Dota 2" but not "Dota2", which matches steam instead of a direct link to the game. How is that possible in 2017?