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"Opportunity cost of working on wrong ideas can set back growth by years."

I feel like this is spoken by someone who hasn't seen more than one technology cycle come and go.

What I've observed - having started my career back in the Java-will-eat-the-desktop days and then adapted through webapps, big data, mobile, and now AI - is that the people who are best positioned to capitalize on an emerging technology wave are the ones who started working on it before anyone realized it was important, just because it was interesting to them. They're the ones who write the papers and software that everyone else evangelizes, and then get multi-million-$ signing bonuses or stock grants (or billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency) when corporate interests catch on that this is a new technology wave. But at the time they start working on the idea, it's both useless and unlikely to work.

You can make a decent living always being on the look out for a new technology wave and jumping on it as soon as it's clear that it's hot. I spent much of my 20s doing that, and made enough money doing so that I can take it a bit easier now. But it's exhausting, and you'll never be the one actually driving change.

It's also usually not clear what's the "wrong idea" except in retrospect. DropBox is rsync with cloud storage and some pretty slick desktop app integration, done at a time when everybody thought that desktop apps were dead and Drew's Windows hacking skills were old news. But it's that familiarity with old technology that put him in a place to realize that new technology could make the old technology dramatically more useful, to the tune of a $10B company.
In my experience, most of the theaters in NYC are covered (including all the AMCs) but there are a small few arthouse theaters that aren't covered. That said, there are plenty of arthouse theaters in NYC that _are_ covered, so it's not a problem at all for me.

A bigger issue (for some people) is that it doesn't cover 3D films and other such fancy versions of films that also have regular versions. I personally don't care (I don't like the 3D ones) but I imagine that could be undesirable. Though, technically, there's nothing to stop you from using moviepass to see those kinds of things, but it's against their rules, so if they catch you they could cancel your subscription. I'm not sure how aggressively they check up on those things though.
Definitely doesn't sound "upper middle class" to me.

According to Wikipedia, an "upper middle class" household has about U$ 120.000 in income - that means that splurging on a Michelin meal for 4 would be 4% of the monthly budget - definitely doable for a birthday or anniversary if you want to. Many people spend that much or more on a gift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_middle_class_in_the_Unit...

Maybe you're having the same problem many people have, where they have price anchoring on some points in the past - $130 now is about $80 in 1997.
A lot of the theaters around DC now sell booze. What took them so long?
People who view being eco-friendly as unmanly are idiots, I don't care what gender they are.
Except in some countries where movies are forcibly split into 2 and people are forced take a 10 minute break. Plus people compete with each other on who can make the loudest sounds while chewing their popcorn, burgers or gums. As someone who has misophonia or misophonia like symptoms, going to movies can be a daunting experience at times.
I'm more surprised that it wasn't allowed to begin with. I mean, I see where they were coming from with the original law, but we've had drunk driving in the "bad" bucket for how many decades now? Seems like it took them an inordinate amount of time to catch up with the times.
You can get a refurbished x220 for $200. It won't be the best laptop ever, but probably enough to learn Linux.

Had multiple co-workers going this route and now they are full-time ThinkPad users.
See - even this woman who studied CS and got a job in the field ended up regretting it. And that's hardly an isolated example. I'm not saying all women who study CS regret it - far from it - but maybe James Damore was onto something?
Isn't this normal?

Doesn't radio advertising have a similar duopoly? Same for outdoor advertising?

The internet never delivered disintermediation, it only changed who those intermediaries were.
Musk seems to have different plans: http://fortune.com/2017/12/16/elon-musk-public-transport/
But there is documentation for LibreSSL. As an OpenBSD project they take documentation just as seriously as code. I just don't get how the article makes that claim when there are links to any man page you need here: http://www.libressl.org/
How I made 10k this year as a freelancer (and a stay at home mom)
> Thousands attending Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara in 2016 didn't have options to get home safely after drinking

Pardon my humor, but do designated drivers exist anymore? or was that just a fad that went out of style?
I don't think homelessness is normally related to housing crises. Maybe in SV, but not most other places, at least.
My initial response probably sounded like I took it that way—sorry! I often only notice that later.
Sales tax is not VAT, and even what in the US is called a “general” sales tax applied to a far more limited set of end products than a VAT would usually apply to.
He could, but you seem to be expecting him to do this work for free. The article he’s written is useful, informative and free, so you seem to have a catch-22 when you criticise him for not going further.
That's very inefficient and against human nature. After dealing with several individuals of a certain group, they will get assigned a rating, and any further interaction will either be welcome or undesirable, but if unavoidable, will be judged individually, still with a bias.

Everyone does this, whether they admit it or not.
"useless and unlikely to work" -/-> wrong
Theatres here still have kids and cellphones going off.

Combined with ushers walking up and down the aisle, people scooching by to go to the restroom, employees checking the emergency exits at the side of the screen and there's no clear winner.

There's still some movies I want to experience on the big screen, with insane audio, and D-BOX seats.

But for the most part movies at home still win due to the ability to pause and agoraphobia.
Modern ssh implementations won't let a user with a shell that isn't in /etc/shells access via ssh.

Clearly you'll only be accepting public key authentication too.
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Foreign hackers hijacked most DC police security cameras before inauguration
The reality of group projects is that all too often, one person ends up doing most of the real work.

Group projects don't need to be more infantilising, they need to be more "shape up or ship out!"
Cofounder of successful mid-tier competitor in this space (www.publir.com). Can confirm.
Your observation is a key reason why taking the time to define your impact and to measure it is so important. As Drucker says, what gets measured gets improved.

In business contexts, your engineering impact generally ties back to the business value you create (i.e. revenue and profit). If there is already some model for translating your area of work to revenue (e.g. increase users -> increase revenue, reduce fraud -> increase revenue) then that can also give another proxy metric to optimize for. So for example, when working on Google Search Quality, we would often just optimize for long clickthrough rates, knowing that strategically, the ads team would take care of turning returning searchers to revenue.

It gets harder when you're working on areas like bigger bets (where you can have high impact but it is unknown for a long time) or in trying to understand an infrastructure investment in terms of its business value to the company. There, it may be sufficient to just know that something is of strategic value and then measure your impact in terms of those strategic goals.
You may want to read Cal Newport blog (the guy that wrote the book "So good, they can't ignore you" - he has some great insights. Also, he is starting an experiment in January - 'digital declutter' - it may be a great opportunity for you.
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We also suffer internal transaction costs by having to deal with 51 different legal systems.
The article features an image of the KFC "double down." The idea that this should be the emblem of the obesity crisis has no credibility with me, because the true cause of obesity is sugar (specifically fructose), not lipids.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM - fructose specifically dysregulates appetite feedback loops between the gut, liver and brain. The only healthy way to consume fructose is when it is trapped in a great deal of fiber, which limits this effect. And the only way to do that is to eat it in the form of fresh fruit that has not been processed in any way (i.e., frozen, chopped up, etc.)

So the primary thing wrong with the KFC double down is the fructose in the bacon and the mayo-like goop they put into the middle. But compared to a milkshake, or a Big Mac, it's actually pretty healthy, if you ask for it without the bacon and "sauce." At least as of two years ago, KFC's original recipe batter had no sugar added to it. (NB: The "extra tasty crispy" batter does contain sugar!)

Also, did you know that food labels routinely lie about sugar content? Turns out that the USDA allows anything <1g per serving to be rounded down to 0g! Do this with enough servings, and you'll run well past the safe daily fructose limit. Also they permit fructose to under something like 60+ different names. My way of dealing with this is to refuse to eat any food containing any amount of it, even if it is at the very end of the ingredients list. And when in doubt, I ask the restaurant/grocery store/relative about what's in the sauce. Don't leave anything to chance!

The result is that I'm quite fit at age 37, and I've managed to stay this way for about a decade. Many other people my age have rolls of fat hanging off their bodies, and they are very sad about it...

At any rate, there is no substitute for educating oneself, studying chemistry, biochemistry, reading labels, keeping up-to-date with the facts. If you don't put the effort in, you're not going to get the results you want back out.
Also, YouTube.
I have had a college class on Homelessness and Public Policy through SFSU. As shocking as it seems to be to many people, lack of affordable housing* actually promotes homelessness.

* For clarity's sake, I mean that as literally as possible: lack of housing with a low enough cost, not lack of government sponsored etc housing. Adding this because it has come up on HN in the past as an issue.
While I wouldn't call macOS "shit" you're not wrong. On a Slackware 14.2 box and an OpenBSD 6.2 box I just tried both man openssl and openssl --help work fine.

edit: Actually --help does start by saying --help is an invalid command but that's easy to miss because you then get a standard usage command with a basic summary to get you started.
The brain has a couple of regions (the somatosensory context, the primary and supplementary motor cortex) with maps of the body. You'd need to add the limbs to those maps. Brains have enough plasticity to re-allocate the area responsible for limbs or fingers by a minor amount, but nowhere near enough to add a new limb, at least in adulthood.
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A cryptocurrency-backed tipping model (extremely low friction in tipping compared to any non-crypto alternative) is starting to look very promising.

Take a look at http://steemit.com/ for instance. It's kind of a Reddit clone based on that model. I think it still only has fewer than 1 million users, which means the quality of the user-generated posts won't be as good even as that from the (much larger) Reddit right now. But the tipping itself seems to be (largely) working.

I say largely, because last I checked months ago, I still thought it prioritized a sort of feedback loop for the "rich to get richer" on the platform. But this is easy to change with an algorithm update. My guess is the main reason they don't do it is because having people earn "$1,000 per post" is getting them a lot of publicity and word of mouth promotion, compared to if they made it so "almost everyone can earn at least $1-$5 on every post".

But as the platform grows (and the money on the platform grows with it) I would like to imagine they won't allow the "famous posters" to make tens of thousands of dollars on every post, and they will try to redistribute that to the rest of the platform users. If they don't do that, the platform will fail under its own weight anyway, and another competing cryptocurrency tipping platform will take its place.

But overall, I think this sort of platform has extremely high potential. I've seen many smaller-time Youtubers start using it, because it almost immediately allowed them to make more money than they made from YouTube alone.

Oh, and perhaps the "secret sauce" of the Steemit.com site is that it also spreads the earnings with the upvoters/downvoters as well as the commenters, which is basically paying for the curation of the platform, thus offering real monetary incentive to do those actions properly (although I imagine there may be some who try to abuse it, too).
Well, more than just an anecdote for us though.

We have 20-30 engineers all running the exact same hardware spec as engineer #1. So, it's sufficient evidence for us.
APFS. That's the big addition. I've had a few horrific problems with High Sierra, two of them leading me to do full disk wipes. My current problem is this odd occasional screen scrambling bug, that happens for a split second a couple times a day. Could it be related to the random colors that show up sometimes when I wake my MBP from sleep? I have no idea.
Since the parent was commenting a quote about "billions of poorer people across the world have seen their wealth standstill or decline", it is rather obvious that the Guardian was commenting not on US poverty but global poverty.

And was really wrong about it.
> I'm sure it feels like a haircut to those employees who just sold their stock at a $49B valuation.

Probably not. The strike is likely at a much larger discount.
https://github.com/transloadit/uppy

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/7mlnoh/next_open_so...
>Once anyone can afford it, it's no longer a status symbol.

I completely disagree. There are plenty of things which are status symbols that aren't overly expensive. "Status symbol" doesn't mean "unobtainable", often people get them just to fit in with their perceived "status" among their peers.
Living in Shenzhen, it feels like probably 80% of the taxis are electric already. Due to government subsidy the blue electric BYD cabs are more spacious, cheaper (no 2元 fuel surcharge), newer and cleaner than the older red cabs, which are generally clunky dirty squashed VWs. However, the drivers pay more to buy them even with subsidy, and you need a conventional ICE vehicle to get out to the factories in Dongguan, or to cross the border to Hong Kong.
"Solution to mystery" kinda annihilates, just like antiparticles and counterparts

It's interesting you've invented your own quantum chromodynamics of English but, really, that's a perfectly normal, pedestrian (stable, if you prefer) and widely used phrase with a clear, unambiguous meaning.
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Maybe 'constexpr' has been added rather to express the intent (for example, for library development)?
> when you consider how many SKUs there are for a lot of their devices

It's always the same OS, with constant nagging if it is not the newest OS. On iOS, no choice between app stores and unless you don't like distributing source around and compiling yourself, no sideloading (to ensure Apple always gets their 30% cut). The hardware choices are not really choices either - it's like packages in cars: no way to get something really adjusted to my specific needs, Apple always thinks they know my needs better than I do.
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Simple and straightforward article that exposes one of many usual misbehaviors of so called sysadmins these days: they think they know their tools, but haven't even completely read the manual for the programs they rely on production environments. Systems administration is something to be taken seriously; recently a friend of mine, that knows nothing about network perimeter security and didn't enforced adequate credentials on production environments, got a RANSOMWARE on a machine with a critical for business instance of a CRM database, chiefs on the organization refused to pay for the bitcoins asked, and probably my friend will be fired for incompetence; the infrastructure department personnel doesn't even have backups of such server, it's clear the information is lost forever.
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Lot of very selfish anti team ideas here. Shipping requires doing grunt work. That’s the person I want to work with and that’s the person I think is valuable.
On Linux Mint 18:

> (bso) larrik@local:~/bso$ openssl --help
> openssl:Error: '--help' is an invalid command.

It lists a bunch of valid commands, though. Of course, you can't do `openssl help genrsa` or anything sensible like that.
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>An attacker who has visibility into the client that has the salt can already see the plaintext password.

There is no way for the server to distinguish a legitimate user trying to login from an attacker trying to hack someone. So if the salt is sent to a legitimate client, the salt will also be sent to attackers.

I'm not sure if sending the salt to attackers is really a vulnerability though.
Disable root authentication over ssh should be the default too. This is literally ssh 101.
Why is this downvoted? Has nobody used iOS 11? It’s caused nearly as many problems for people as High Sierra.
The article covers why it might not be a great idea.

That said, people not having any options to get home ignores the fact that people are heading out to spend money on alcohol to begin with. Budgeting for a cab ride home seems beyond everyone's thinking, in this article...
I've heard multiple similar arguments in favor of the word "synergy" or "paradigm".

Let me turn the tables: Why is "leverage" acceptable to use but "synergy" engenders scoffing?
Some background (I live in Dunedin the city that this study is based) - this particular study is part of a much larger multi-disciplinary study where every child born in one year has been followed throughout their life - they are 45 years in at this point - it's one of the very few such comprehensive studies worldwide

So you're seeing one profile of lead exposure (the one experienced by people born 72-73) over their lifetimes - NZ removed lead from petrol later than the US did, however Dunedin is a relatively small city (~120k people) without giant freeways/etc so lead levels are likely lower than those in some places in the US

Here's the study's home page
https://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/
I think you're missing the main point here. What we really need is a better way to pay for the web. If everyone blocks all ads without solving this problem first there won't be any content left to block ads on.
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That's where the BFR (Big Falcon Rocket) comes in. I think Musk said that it could carry a fully loaded 747 as cargo to space.
A similar case is the Finland-resident Japanese pianist Izumi Tateno, who lost the use of the right half of his body after a stroke and then began giving concerts solely with his left hand.
Clicking on OpenSSL takes you to OpenSSL wiki, and he talks about the wiki vs. man pages at the very beginning of his article.

Other links take you elsewhere. Like OpenBSD man pages for libs. He didn’t need a lib.

Yes, the LibreSSL pages contains in total 0 man/docs/wiki pages. Instead it points to external websites.
Agreed that throwing Flow/TS types on top of a library that wasn't built with them leads to frustration.

There is, at least, an ongoing effort to use TS internally in MUI: https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui/pull/9561
it's not stated why they felt that way. i'm a guy and have thought that at times myself... for me, mostly because it seems (from this angle) that MBA types can get a great/better salary and have a FAR higher income/status ceiling, all while seemingly having a much easier life than engineers (grass is always greener :P).
The person you are replying to didn't say exploitative competition. They just said competition.

Indeed, exposing vulnerabilities (of the personal kind, not the security kind) can be imposing in a very inappropriate way.

Your colleague is not obliged to be your free therapist. Don't impose emotional labour on them if their body language or response indicates they don't want to be having this conversation. You don't know what issues they are dealing with, which may be much worse than your own. Talk to a friend or family member, or pay for a therapist.
There are quite a few implicit assumptions here that make it a dubious example, though.

For example, there's an assumption that what works well at Google would work well for other tech firms. And yet Google is in the rare position of having gained so much from its early golden goose that success in terms of producing viable, valuable products and services has been almost irrelevant among most of its workforce for most of its existence.

There's also an assumption that the staff at a big, famous organisation like Google are generally better than those elsewhere, and therefore that being successful in such an organisation is something to be emulated. Working at one of the Big Five seems like a default aspiration for some parts of the tech world, and there's definitely an element of hero worship for those who have made it. I can't help wondering whether that is simply because of the amount of money they can throw at new starters in the hope that they attract some of the best people among the catch.

What I see here is that if you're in an environment where being good at walking the walk isn't always necessary, talking a good talk becomes the path to recognition and success. While this is almost certainly true, anyone who's ever observed the phenomenon of middle management could have told you that, without reference to any specific industry. What it doesn't tell us is how much being able to walk the walk matters in most other environments where it is necessary for success.
> Feels a little clickbait-y to say the valuation took a haircut when we're talking about different classes of stock

An investor from March 2016 Series G would have sold, to SoftBank, at a lower price per share than that at which they invested. That’s a haircut.

Pricing for preferred versus common, or even different classes of preferred, does diverge. The degree to which it does reflects proximity to liquidation, amongst other factors. A 30% discount for a late stage company between any two stages of preferred is not healthy nor common (no pun intended).

Not sure why every time a story about people selling Uber stock for less than they bought it this naïve financial interpretation comes out in droves.
I actually think Jobs was responsible for this decline.

If you read stories about the iPhone's development, you come across anecdotes that Apple tapped its top engineers to get the iPhone out the door. They worked long hours and weekends. Many lost spouses and relationships. It was extremely taxing. Again this is another anecdote, but it seems many of these engineers left around the release of the iPhone 4. The iPhone pipeline became a never-ending treadmill.

The tax of losing much of the top talent across all engineering functions has slowly taken its toll on Apple since. I would not be surprised if the institutional knowledge of OSX has either left or been promoted up the ladder, leaving that team with new hires unfamiliar with its inner workings.