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I agree, so maybe mobile is a bad example, but look at how different the field of data infrastructure is today than it was ten years ago. While yes, many of the old concepts still exist. A person who worked with big data for 5 years with modern distributed systems is likely more skilled in this space than someone who spent the last 10 years doing ETL jobs linking standard sql databases to columnar stores.
Start investing $5k/mo while keeping my day job.
There's also gulf a between what companies think they need, and what they actually need. Almost everyone hires on technologies and not the abstract skillsets required to learn said technologies.
Monopolies rarely profit the consumer, but hey, "Welcome to our new overlord Bezos." ...
Likewise, you knew what he meant. They did something unpleasant and he left and your response was "they're all that bad" as if technically minded people aren't aware of that? What were you contributing exactly?
Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way
Payed shills more like.

America is a big country and surprisingly isolated and intellectually lazy so most folks won't even notice what net neutrality is like beyond their borders. Enjoy your Verizon net.
There are a lot of literalists in this thread.

The average wage is dragged down because the age distribution leans so far to the left. That is, the average wage disguises the wages made by staff/principal engineers, which can be 3-5x the comp numbers commonly tossed around for SV engineers.
It also shows that you could do that for several years, following the rules set by someone else, and passing.
It’s mostly just very high gain antennas in both directions. You don’t need all that much power if your data rate is very slow and you have a very narrow beam.
Pedants get snark. Got a better idea?
Litigation holds are a thing in civil law. Evidentiary rules in criminal law are, AFAIK, a different beast.
If assuming that everyone was also receiving $5k/mo "UBI"...

Nothing different, because the cost of everything I buy will go up by a total of $5k/mo. Hence why UBI is flawed.
My total purchasing power will be unchanged.

Edit: Maybe I missed it but... I can't find this post anywhere on the HackerNews pages anymore. That's rather funny. It was quickly pointed out how flawed a theory UBI is by multiple commenters and then poof. Funny...
It is if they lose faith in your ability to make a profit. Better to force you into bankruptcy and auction the IP and tangible assets than let you ride it down to zero.
Work part time for a NGO
In the spirit of what this community's name suggests it's about, how hard would it be for someone to hack into the spacecraft by sending it a signal to turn on its thruster too soon given the technology is 40 years old?

Has anything like this been tried before with other spacecrafts?
Sometimes* the best way to learn things is to do them, a lot.

- Graduate of the North Avenue Trade School

(* Most times)
even pubg, you're not obligated to stick around to the end - you just start a new game with new people.
the root password hack also required physical access, or some sort of proximity access on a network LAN, to be able to work. It’s really not that much different than snooping on someone sitting a few seats away from you at the bar
It doesn't matter if he's happy about it. The owners of the land are doing what they are legally entitled to. Right to light is repudiated in the US.

If having a garden is a high priority for him, he has several options. He could buy the plot of land from the developer for $1.4MM or he could move to an area more amenable to gardening.
What are you talking about? They're not controlling my plot. We each build our houses on our respective plots -- live and let live.

They have regulations for this in NYC: if you want to control what can be built next to your building you can buy the airspace surrounding it. For large buildings this is usually done in a deal that involves a concession such as a public park. If you don't want to pay to preserve the open space next to your building you don't get to keep it.
Here’s a more recent version of that data, which seems to show those populations slowly merging: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/natur/wie-der-waschbaer-na...
That could be true without the qualifier "Interesting." Then it becomes a game of I know more than you.
I just meant vocative since it's a proper case in other Slavic languages. A technical question - how do you type stress accents? Phone?
Actually, I suspect that it's the middle class (or middle classes for cultures with more than three classes) that are most anxious about being mistaken as lower class. Actual upper class members don't usually care – they're not relying on university attendance to protect their positions.
Consider how stable it is. Save it for now. Consider whether I might move up retirement.
> The tech industry is fundamentally unserious about how it recruits, hires, and retains candidates. About which I have a lot more to say than could fit in a tweet, but, a good thing to know.

Would love to read more about that. I'd be willing to bet most SMBs are terrible at hiring / retaining developers.

My last company did literally nothing to help devs learn and grow (or to reward those who did so on their own), which created a department full of miserable, unmotivated people. The only reason most of them are still there is because they haven't found a new job but can't afford to leave.

They're trapped, essentially.
Taken with the rest of his comment, the meaning here is to ensure that you build a viable, sustainable business.

The norm for techies is to underprice their offerings (based on underestimating the difficulty and expense of creating, selling, and supporting software). This leads to even "successful" companies closing because they weren't built to be financially sustainable.

One way of making a company sustainable is to charge a sustainable price (which is typically "more" than initially apparent).
I have! Twice :)

https://pivottable.js.org/ and https://react-pivottable.js.org/
Could you walk through that threat model? I don't quite get it. In what scenario is an antagonist in control of my (untrusted) browser but not also in control of my (trusted) laptop? Put another way, doesn't that antagonist always see the 2fa code, and then enter it?
I guess along with knowing the signal protocol you would need to know the exact location. Security via obscurity?
The real problem is that people don't realize how expensive all that infrastructure actually is: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

The suburban lifestyle needs to be subsidized in order to be sustainable, but good luck getting people to keep up with proper infrastructure investment. Even cities are failing at it (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/nyregion/new-york-subway-...), but suburbs have even more infrastructure to maintain with a much smaller tax base.
The way to do this is to create a platform that takes care of the boring stuff and hosts the code in exchange for the right to invest in it. Then you just invest in whoever's algorithm works best... and you certainly don't require the algorithm be open source.
Hey, but with the right ship you can make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
Sure you can. Henry Ford didn't come up with the idea of the car, nor did he invent manufacturing by building many copies of the same identical thing in a factory.

But he sure did execute doing both together well.
I have about 7 different business ideas in my queue. I would pick the first, related to increase charitable giving, and would commit myself to that.
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https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9824/how-much-rf-t... A good bit but not a ton seems to be the answer. Maybe in the range of a radio station.

The more interesting part is that Voyager can send signals we can receive (with giant, huge radio dishes, but still).
I had to write real proofs (tho I didn't fail completely if it wasn't free of errors) for my U.S. math undergrad degree.
On top of what others have commented, you simply can't get anywhere if the only data you have is historical prices
Try to hedge against the inevitable inflation, as suddenly there is more money chasing the same amount of goods and services.
Generally good stuff, some quibbles:

> Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution.

Good advice in the main but not 100% accurate. Some ideas are novel and good. In fact, many are. But communicating even good ideas is difficult bordering on impossible, more so for truly novel and innovative ideas. Think about how often an adaptation of an excellent novel translates into an excellent movie. It's rare. But that doesn't mean that novels (or idea) are worthless. It means that execution is hard, it means that communicating ideas is hard. Even if you can spend years turning an excellent idea into a fully fleshed out idea (a novel) it will still be hard to execute it faithfully. And by the same token, most books are pretty mediocre, for example, just as most ideas are mediocre. Trite, repetitive, hackneyed, etc. That doesn't mean all ideas are valueless, just most of them, and it can be difficult to figure that out until you've gotten to execution.

> There is no hidden reserve of smart people who know what they're doing, anywhere.

This is also mostly true but a bit misleading. It's nice to think that everyone is just struggling along half-assing things the same way you are, and that's true. Mostly. But there are actually a lot of people who really do have their shit together, really do know what they're doing, and are just better at their jobs by a significant margin than most people. It's comforting to think that such people are an illusion, but they are out there, sometimes they aren't even doing glamorous work. The fact that they exist isn't really terribly important (if you're really lucky you might be able to hire them, but you probably won't be that lucky).

What's more important, I think, is that there is no excuse not to try to do better, constantly. If you want to really have a competitive advantage don't worry about hiring the top 1%, rockstars, ninjas, or even necessarily the "10x" workers. Concentrate on fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration. Learn about best practices. Apply them. Build policies, processes, and culture that support doing better. Study what works and what doesn't push towards an environment that fosters doing what works and abandons bad practices. Stop firefighting start doing root cause analysis. Do code reviews regularly, get better at it. Test your code, increase automated testing, increase the quality of testing. Keep moving the bar higher in terms of quality. Figure out how to accelerate development velocity. Move error detection closer to the point of checkin. Never give up raising the bar. Decent developers working as a team with a good process focused on continuous improvement will out-perform rockstars stomping on each other's toes all the time every day of the week, by orders of magnitude.
My point is that while we can make a value judgment on the kid's spending, we can't say with certainty what the broader economic effect is.

There is about a metric fuckton (TM) of data that shows that when people are handed a big check that they didn't work for, it typically gets spent differently than it would have been had it required blood, sweat and tears to get the exact same amount of money. And the way in which it gets spent differently is typically consumptive, usually with little or no long term value and potentially a lot of long term harm.

This is a thing we can know with a fair degree of certainty. It is part of why the NFL tries to provide some kind of financial literacy for its players. Most of them will have a very short career in professional football. Probably most of the ones who aren't there very long will never make that kind of money again. They are trying to make sure that if some guy only make a quarter of a million dollars one year of his life, it pays for something of long term benefit, like a house or some retirement savings.

Don't give up, you're actually pretty close.

This suggests you are the smart, knowledgeable person here to educate my less smart, less knowledgeable self.

I was describing a communication gap due to differing mental frameworks for the issue. I was not suggesting one of us was "dumber" than the other.

I moderated a smarty pants email list at one time. I am all too familiar with the tendency for smart people to think they are smarter than the person they are talking to. That attitude is not constructive and it is not something I care to keep engaging with.
Anyone who loves free market competition should oppose this blatant power grab by the corporations behind this.
Your average undergrad program... CS degree never doing anything novel in CS

Is this different than any other field? I was under the impression that most BS programs do not require novel research. That doesn't come until post graduate courses.
That's actually the plot of the first Star Trek movie (without the seduction part).

[Spoiler below, hopefully not a huge deal for an almost forty year old movie)

Voyager returns under the name v-ger.
That's actually linked in some of these comments. Yup, there are some differences there too : )
The problem (other than your inner hippie :P) is that it can be quite difficult to accurately value a software product. Most physical goods are valued based on the cost of materials/manufacturing. However software is an intangible good without those fixed costs. The closest thing is hosting.

For B2B solutions, value is more tied to how much it would cost a customer to implement your solution instead of buying yours. But even a startup founder who's been an engineer for many years might not have a clear picture of how much the previous projects they worked on cost their employer. They only see their own hourly rate or salary (which already might be low) and don't see the total cost of development, the cost of infrastructure, personnel for ongoing support, etc. Engineers notoriously under-price startup offerings because they lack the broader perspective to accurately value their creations.
Yes. I haven't seen anyone on the left disputing or disparaging it.
> Likewise, you knew what he meant.

Clearly not, and here's why:

- I would have expected someone who knows that the major carriers all have something to gain from this Decembers vote not to list that as a reason. Listing that as a reason makes T-Mobile look "better" in the realm of NN, when that isn't true.

- Raises awareness to other HN readers like yourself that T-Mobile has also taken advantage of their position of power.

- Sure, there can be plenty of other factors of moving carriers as a consumer, but this shouldn't be counted among them.

> and your response was "they're all that bad" as if technically minded people aren't aware of that?

Bingo. Yet, here we are where I'm having to explain that this is the case. The comment added plenty to the discussion, you just wanted to attempt to slip some snark in.

This is where I'll go ahead and stop engaging with you in comments, because this is an explained point and you have no interest in having a meaningful conversation around it.
Meh, IQ is potential, not capability, to do a job. I don't find this argument convincing. What about all the literal geniuses who have no interest and never studied CS?

At least the graduate can show that he/she can commit to a multi-year long, sometimes boring, project successfully. A high IQ person could just leave your company after 6 months because "they're bored".
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This is great news! I stopped reading Linux Journal once they went all digital.
And because knowing patents are valuable, Amazon will freely file for far more than they need, and employees will be rewarded for coming up with them even if they are dumb. This specific patent is likely the second in spades.
It's way too slow :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s
Russia says it will ignore any UN ban of killer robots
So? OP clearly wants a challenge :-)
Did those proofs have to be novel, or were the proofs of already known concepts?
What do you mean by "when not acted upon"?

No one is arguing that the OP shouldn't be allowed to _hold_ this opinion, privately and in his own head. I do argue that the _act_ of sharing the opinion with a colleague at work is harmful, since by doing that the OP is revealing that he does not respect the identity of his colleagues, and further strongly implies the OP will do whatever is in his power (by way of voting for political candidates, for example) to limit the ability of his colleagues to have rights based on these identities.

I don't think you have to physically attack someone to be actively harmful to them and their existence.
I actually can understand this. I would be fine living in a cave but my girlfriend loves sun and plants so if the house was overshadowed that would actually be a big deal. Lack of sun even really effects her mood a lot.
Not true, the voyagers can be in-flight reprogrammed: https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html
That may be. But I think the left will be even unhappier with Mr. Pence in office.

Remember, Trump was a Democrat for a long while before he was a Republican. (IMHO, he became a Republican solely because it was the easier party to hijack at the time.)
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It's the denser urban cores that pretty much pay for everything else. People have studied this stuff:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11/20/mapping-the-e...
Not really. I think of the SAT as a great equalizer since a brilliant kid in rural Nebraska will do well and be able to go to an elite college, while a silver spoon heir will spend thousands and maybe improve their score but certainly not max it out.

Not to toot my own horn but I got a perfect score on the math part of the SAT with little prep, and I've tutored others on the same and only managed to eke out a little improvement. (In contrast, I've tutored math course work and had more success there.)

The math isn't very advanced, it's just a matter of doing it quickly and accurately.
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But that's what all this YIMBY stuff is: People wanting to drive bulldozers into existing suburban neighborhoods with 1/2 acre lots and single-family homes, and urbanize them with apartments and townhomes.

But you got yourself a deal: I won't argue for building single family homes in downtown San Francisco (really, who is?) and you don't argue for building apartment complexes in Tracy and Gilroy.
I don’t think I follow you.

> So I shall collect for you all the things we have been talking about when we have said "this is conscious!". And you do the same. And my claim is that everything in this group is in this group... because ... it has a nervous system.

That would be great if we were in 1930 and asking which pre-existing creatures are conscious, but you are asserting that no members of a group which was created to implement all the forms of intelligence that have yet been made quantifiable (as opposed to qualitative judgements of intelligence) are in your set.

I assert that you have a list, and that you have merely defined your words to be a shorthand for that list, rather than made a hypothesis that those words are descriptive properties that allow us to even ask if other things can be in that list, nor to ask if all members of that list truly belong there. (I.e. “is a dog intelligent?”)

For example, you now assert the list is synonymous with “nervous system” (previously “conscious”, previously “intelligent”) without explaining why a digital- or semiconductor-based nervous system would fail your test.

> To believe that an electrified piece of metal could ever belong in the group of things united by their common feature "consciousness" is profound bizarre to me: what exactly is that thing meant to possess that I have?

That’s my question, too. What is that thing which you are meant to posess which supposedly cannot exist on artificial substrates? Why is a biological neuron fundamentally better at thinking than a computer simulation of a biological neuron?

Still, I’m not sure I actually follow what you’re trying to say, because your last three paragraphs seem to be distorted by either autocomplete or google translate. Either way I just cannot extract your point from them.
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