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In my own experiences, the key to writing essays quickly and expertly is just writing a lot of essays and consciously trying to hone your craft. Writing is a complex skill that takes lots of time and attention in little incremental steps, and the further you go the faster/better you get.

It's more than just practice though. It's also momentum. I find that the more I write, the more my brain passively seeks more material to write, and so I get faster at generating ideas and putting them on paper. This happens with programming too - the more I do, the faster I get at coming up with ideas and prototyping them. Same with sports, gaming, really everything that combines skill and creativity. I get more creative by just doing it more.

Certainly there's real technique to writing quickly, but I've always found that my own biggest barrier was having something meaningful to say, and the fastest way to get into a rhythm of actually coming up with meaningful things to say was to just start putting words down in the first place. Which leads to the paradox: you become prolific by trying to be prolific.
> Population increased also. And consumerism. And debt. And a lot of laws have been added.

These factors are irrelevant when compared with the fact that the active population essentially doubled since WW2 with women entering the workforce.
HN comments are full of terribad startup ideas, but this has to be a new record

It's an extremely niche saas business. You have to build billing and banking integrations. You have to make a bunch of enterprise sales. And all your potential customers are by definition on the verge of bankruptcy, already behind on invoices

You've found it; the Worst Startup

Not hating, I just think it's hilarious, happy holidays
The requirements were relaxed because the intention was to have an entirely market-driven mechanism for frequency control. The system reliability impacts were an unintended consequence.
But isn't it possible to design multiple models, where the judgement of the "best model" is dependent on your goals (e.g. reduction of false positives vs false negatives)?
The bane of nuclear energy is management: everybody working at EDF knew Flamanville was going to be more costly than budgeted, and everybody[1] know HPC is a bad idea, yet the management (especially the CEO, Jean-Bernard Lévy, who never worked in the energy industry beforehand and became CEO because of its political acquaintance) decided to go all-in on this.

I guess it's easier when you can't lose anything if things go bad: the former Areva CEO, Anne Lauvergeon didn't have any problem becoming board member in many big corporation[2] after her terrible management lead Areva to bankruptcy ...

[1] : the CFO resigned to protest against the deal, and the trade unions were strongly against

[2] : Suez, Total, Vodaphone, EADS ... https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Lauvergeon#Mandats_sociau...
> don’t need MadVR.

I don’t need MPC-* either. MadVR and LAV filters are the two reasons typically cited for switching from VLC to MCP.
Odd, because people I talk to from Berlin are horrified at the cost of living here. I'm not sure you're comparing apples with apples.
It's a mess of a deal, but what was the alternative? On a nice windy day we're getting away with no coal, relying on a mix of ~8GW wind, ~25GW gas and ~7.5GW of existing nukes, but on a cold still day we're pretty much flat out on 10G of coal, 25G of gas and 7.5GW of nukes, so until someone can find an alternative for ~17GW (coal+nuke) or a way to store ~30GWh worth to get us over the evening peak without coal+nuke then we need to keep nukes going. Of course it's going to be a cost overrun, but I am glad that Flamanville etc are being used as the debug points first.
The $55k are pre-tax, and the "free" healthcare in contries with public health care are mostly paid out of those taxes.

There is probably a point in there about shorter work days and legally mandated overtime pay, but it doesn't add up to 40k per year.

Honestly, the more I look at this, the more it seems like there are hidden mechanisms that keep pay below market value in many European countries. E.g. wage collusion and the like. I am almost certain that this is part of the picture, although there are also other factors at play. (Smaller, less homogenous markets than the US, more restrictive laws around business ownership, fewer gargantous and profitable companies that compete for talent, etc).

The High-Tech Employee Anti-Trust Litigation looks very curious to my Norwegian eyes. Cold-calling employees at competitors for recruiting is widely considered inappropriate behavior. I would not be surprised to find out that there are eerily similar unwritten agreements between large employers here.
Is it just because it's virtually hosted?
https://www.sunsed.com/policies/until-the-end

> Our promise to you ul.[sic] We are dedicated to supporting our products forever (or until the last customer turns off the lights). ul.[sic] If we create a new version of SunSed that breaks backward compatibility we will support the older version forever. p.[sic]
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Jokes aside, interesting and well thought-out list, thank you. Going to try some of these as I am visiting very opinionated, ornery family this week.
They're in the bottom 10th percentile of doctor salaries in my metropolitan area (middle of the country, not very high COL).

Recruitment of docs at the VA isn't funded like recruitment in private practice, so they can't advertise as widely and can't pay for prospectives doctors' lunches (much less whiskey tastings). Credentialing now takes six months, due to the previously-mentioned high profile hirings of people without credentials. There's reasonably high satisfaction among docs actually at the high-performing VAs, but people tend to work there because they believe in the mission or don't want to deal with insurance company rationing of care, not because they want to earn lots of money.

source: family member is VA doc attempting to hire more docs to the VA. If you know internal medicine doctors who are looking for a place where evidence-based care is prioritized and insurance status isn't a factor, tell them to apply to their local VA or one of the high-performing ones they might want to move to! (https://www.va.gov/qualityofcare/measure-up/End_of_Year_Hosp...)
Not everywhere, but in SF, LA, San Diego, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Oslo, Stockholm, London....
I think you haven't been following the scene very closely.

There's already multiple solutions to these problems. Take a look at RaiBlocks (raiblocks.net) for example, which has instantaneous zero-fee transactions with very high throughput (hardware limited) without losing decentralization or other security properties (not proven atm). RaiBlocks uses delegated proof-of-stake with a block-lattice architecture.

Another example would be Cardano, which has the first provably secure proof-of-stake protocol with same security guarantees as Bitcoin, and is also secure in a scalable setting with blockchain sharding (as is planned in Ethereum too). Proof-of-stake doesn't require energy to mine blocks and can be scalable but is very hard to secure.

There's multiple other solutions as well, such as IOTA, Byteball, Steem, BitShares and others which might be more centralized and less secure to achieve scalability. Then there is Bitcoin Lightning Network almost ready, and also MimbleWimble coming out soon (http://grin-tech.org/). Lots of things are certainly happening faster than you can anticipate.

Additionally, there's projects like Enigma and Aion, which add scalability, privacy and interoperability on top of existing blockchains. This territory starts to get a bit complex for me.
You know, books, records, imported Japanese food, and camera equipment are all mass-market products. There is no argument to be made that New York City offers a unique, irreplaceable "shopping for Japanese products" experience.
Not everyone around here is a 20yo child.
You sound lucky, not to have tried arguing someone down from building a platform that would be able to implement both the system you're working on and any related hypothetical future systems as well.
Ask HN: What is the first Bitcoin video on YouTube?
Youtube research is a nightmare. I am trying to use 'site:youtube.com bitcoin' in Google, and customising the date range, but there are so many false positives.

I have this one (15 nov 2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGCuyRJe8s. But not sure this is THE first one.

Is there a good technic to properly search Youtube videos ?
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Amazing how many people apparently are happy with this different take on starting a business. HN really is a start-up bubble.

Most IT businesses are started without external funding. It makes you grow slower, but that's not as big of a problem as people make you believe. Also you don't need to answer to investors.

It does pay to have a mentor though especially the first time.
So imagine Apple starts to show warning messages saying "your battery cannot hold sufficient charge and is EOL - you should replace it now".

We would have a different spin on Batterygate where Apple is greedily telling people to replace their batteries when they allegedly still work just fine, because all they care about is selling more batteries and making more profit.
To me,

[a, b, c].count(x -> x > 4) > 1

makes the intent of the code more immediately apparent.
All the spaces I'm familiar with follow the Tuesday pattern. It's sort of funny.
Whether or not Apple alerted users is still missing the point.
If only there were some really simple standard for text and rich media syndication...
Because capitalism optimizes for production and consumption - not welfare. Often welfare and production/consumption are aligned (e.g. producing enough food for everyone). But in the case of labor/life balance, they are not aligned. It's actually kind of odd to me that serious people (e.g. John Maynard Keynes) would ever have thought that work hours would decrease. There is no term in the economic fitness function for 'work-life balance'.
I like your optimism.

Personally, having sat on 'watson for healthcare' presentations by top architects, and having had conversations with them, I'm far less optimistic about the whole AI in healthcare approach.
> How could the government strike such a bad deal

If the project has some amount of delay (which is likely when you see Flamanville or Olkiluoto) it's going to end up as a really good deal for the British Government because there are high penalty fees in that deal. For EDF, not so much, that's why the project met that much resistance inside EDF.
Lots of options, but here's one: $20B buys massive amounts of HVDC to interconnect and trade with distant parts of the continent and enable trade in both directions for intermittent renewables. HVDC has shorter lead times and lower cost overruns too. Multiple lines are important too, because those massive inverters don't work 100% of the time.
Don’t worry, we know.
One more deleterious thing which occurs when you have codified laws for every edge case is that you don't get the benefit of the doubt, or leeway, or ad hoc judgement.

It would seem to result from over litigiousness. That one time someone made the wrong call and it ended up in something major. Like for example, 'three strikes laws' or any number of other over rigid interpretations leading to unfair outcomes.
>a professional sales org, marketing machine, etc.

All this costs money. We have a competitor, a big VC-funded company. They have very aggressive marketing and lots of sales people. But it all comes at a price. They spend 75-80% of their revenue on sales and marketing. We don't and it lets us keep our prices 8-10 times lower. For a similar (although, a bit more lightweight) product! We beat their product hands down every time we directly compete with them. So my point is -- it's not all black and white. It is possible to survive on a market with big VC-funded companies.
Sorry, I think I got a bit sidetracked in my response.

I do hope that your current situation gets better or that you find somewhere that isn't so preoccupied with navel gazing.
agreed. further reading: http://langsec.org/papers/Bratus.pdf
Based on my experience, it's totally reasonable that a strategy could require under one transaction (new order or cancel order) per second at quiet times, but over 100x that in a frenzied period.
For anyone who doesn't know, Ken Thompson was an important figure in the '70s computer-chess movement http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/brute-force-vs-knowledg... .
I don't know. For addressing individual content via a hash, yes, but I've not been impressed by the underlying usability.

My view of IPFS is that it's an address/directory-level piece of infrastructure that requires a UI/UX layer on top of it that abstracts out the hashes, which are not particularly human-sensible.
I don't understand how you could get downvoted on this, it's not like you called it fake news or anything ...
Declarative programming is the attempt of reducing programming to equations.

Functional programming is a way of organizing code as chains of functions...
From 2014.

Interesting discussion from back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8616952
In most organizations the difference is clear: marketing provides a clear benefit to the business in the form of brand recognition, sales, and stickiness while engineering is a cost not unlike the costs a retailer incurs sourcing products: sometimes it delivers substandard products and sometimes spectacular ones.

There is a relationship between the two, but they're different disciplines with different goals and different methods to achieve them.
I think using your analytical mind to affect your attention and behavior in social situations isn't the best way to learn social skills, because it's too easy to come across as creepy if you don't have the right "feel" for doing these things. My own approach is more about unlocking another part of your mind, to which socializing makes sense natively. It's a bit more inwardly focused, but still supposed to be used in social situations, so you can see the automatic change in your outward behavior. It goes like this:

Learn to notice and nudge the emotional state that your entire body is actually projecting at any given moment, using slow breaths as a focus.
This is the quintessential example of “bike shedding”[0] is it not? Only this time reason failed and we bike shedded the nuclear power plant instead?

[0]: http://bikeshed.com
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That’s very true. I’ve seen code review when it’s a bit more relaxed and most of the reviews are comments about style - only a handful of people provide useful comments about what the code does.

In your defence, it’s hard to find out a way to fix a bad code review process with a team. I’m unsure how to really tackle that.
Nice writeup -- I feel like salt has a missing manual on how to stitch all the pieces together. It's kinda daunting getting started.

And I've always preferred just using mako templates -- jinja2 has a python-like DSL, but it's not python which I find annoying.
I imagine it will be useful only for prioritization.
In the analog days it was hard to delay a television signal, practically you would have to put it onto a film loop, tape loop or possibly some kind of analog delay line. Back then, live TV was really live with almost no delay.

In the digital age, it is easy to delay a television signal. In fact, if you watch the same broadcast through different paths (OTA TV, cable, satellite, FM Radio, ...) you will see that the broadcasts are perceptibly out of sync with each other.

In the case of internet streaming, there is often a large delay introduced by the encoding process. Remember AMZN has to produce streams at several different bit rates, possibly supporting different compression methods for different devices. They encode it in one place and send it out over a content distribution network (at least to other AWS nodes) Each step in the journey adds some latency, particularly due to the use of buffers.

Football is particularly challenging because of the high-complexity and high-action and rapid cuts. Variable Bit Rate helps a lot because you can take advance of times when they show graphics and talking heads to send data for the complex scene that is next to come. That adds latency (the coder has to be 10+ seconds ahead of now) but really helps with image quality, reliable streaming, low bandwidth requirements, etc.

Most people won't notice the out-of-sync unless they watch two streams at once or if they do real-time sports betting. Thus they prioritize the other characteristics, which customers will notice.
I'm a bit confused. The article says that archaeologists thought that pre-Iron Age iron use came from isolated early development of iron ore smelting, because archaeologists did not believe Bronze Age people understood that meteorites were rocks that fell from the sky.

So what? Iron meteorites differ from "normal" Earth rocks in several ways visually and they are denser [1]. All a Bonze Age group would need to learn is that rocks that look a certain way and weight a lot are good places to find iron. They don't need to know that they fell from the sky.

[1] https://geology.com/meteorites/meteorite-identification.shtm...
If I understood correctly there's no evidence for such a football game. In the new Doctor Who episode from today – funnily being set around this event – they show a scene in which soldiers play football together.
That is not the only homomorphism. You could just as well have 0 ~ True and 1 ~ False, where && and || are addition and multiplication. Booleans don't have enough algebraic structure to nail down a unique embedding. Integers and reals don't have the same problem, because there's a unique ring homomorphism between them.
Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage
You realise you just validated my point, right? :)
"English is not my native language"

English *is" my native language. I assure you both #3 and #4 follow accepted usage patterns.

Examples of #4: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/one_swallow_does_not_a_summ...

Example of #3: http://support.three.co.uk/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBISAPI.DLL?Command...

"but people don't use metaphors as it is across industries"

When I was in primary (elementary) school, I was taught that a simile is when you say 'x is like y' and a metaphor is when you say 'x is [an example of] y' even when it's not literally true. (Back then, the word 'literally' meant something like 'technically correct', although I understand that its meaning has changed now.)
well a capitalist society is also a society bombarded by marketing experts who are in every part of a person's daily life working to convince them to spend more which in turn drives them to work more or go into debt pushing retirement further off.

consumption is high because marketing is that good. go read any of the popular brand subs on reddit and you will see people making stupid purchasing decisions daily and many seek justification. Its really scary when people are trying to save fifty or less on a one to two thousand dollar purchase because it then costs too much; the clue that indicates the purchase at the lower amount is too much escapes them
This is where understanding the difference between theory and practice is important, by its nature anything in the heap is not going to be in L1 cache.

That means a difference of ~300 cycles before you can even start working with the cache line you pull from main memory.
the http-types library broke 26 packages to fix a typo in a joke
Fortunately we've already got ~5GW+; but cold still winter days are tending to affect large areas at the same time for extended periods of time; those are the days when everyone is at peak usage and has ~no solar. The last time the UK power grid had to raise a warning (a few years back) was a cold still February when the whole continent was low on wind generation, and you could see that a couple of weeks back where we were running coal generation and exporting to France (well the EU grid) at the same time.
I wish I felt that way. I’ve seen so much silly overcomplicated junk in my career, my inclination is always to keep it extremely simple.
You're not alone, the narrator is a very critical experience of listening to audiobooks. If the narrator's voice, tone, or style aren't appealing, it'll ruin the entire experience. The problem is that this is largely subjective - there won't ever be a narrator that'll make everyone happy but like you said, most are good enough with the occasional bad apple.
I enjoyed this article; it solidified some things I had a vague idea about in terms of how articles are structured.
What a great idea.
>How to type APL characters

They are unicode characters. Type them the way you would type any unicode character. If you have not yet found a practical way of doing it, there are plugins for editors to help you type APL characters with no hassle.

>How to learn APL?

There's a Dyalog APL manual which is quite clear, Google it. Also, you can use the GNU APL interpreter.
I would recommend learning APL first, only by reading the Dyalog manual and writing programs with pencil an paper, then learn J in detail.

> How do I learn J?

Jsoftware provides a free interpreter. They also have a sleek interpreter app for Android. I would recommend to download this app and go through the project Euler problem set. Jsoftware provides all the documentation you will need in their webpage

http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation

> what good will J do for me?

The best would be to learn it and see it for yourself. Sadly, you find yourself in Paul Graham's Blob Paradox.I can't get you out.
Quite strong arguments.

I wonder why the entire history must be saved. 1 year or a finite amount of transactions should be enough as a requirement... I guess.
The Euro is also a big part of this. It’s undervalued compared to Germany’s economy and inflation rate (meaning cheaper and more competitive exports), but overpriced compared to the countries with trade deficits (PIGS, France, etc). This actually leads to internal devaluation of their economies (and unemployment) to achieve what would normally just be a bit weaker exchange rate.

This isn’t a problem for the US states sharing a currency because they have the federal budget spending balances most of this out.
Wash trading is any trading with no change in beneficial ownership. The type of price "manipulations" being discussed are potentially the result of wash trading, but fundamentally the goal is momentum ignition, so the igniter can coax other participants to bid large size at a high price (or buy at even higher prices), and sell to them. You don't have to buy from yourself to show the world that you are buying new highs.

Momentum ignition and wash trading may overlap in a single circumstance, but they are distinct concepts.
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Getting an expired certificate error.
Would the same be true for the manual version of the same procedure I outlined? If so, what are the risks you are concerned about? If not, why would the computerized version be different?
Has anyone here used BlueOcean and have anything to say about it good or bad?

https://jenkins.io/projects/blueocean/
I wrote a python tutorial on L-systems a while back if anyone is interested: https://bitaesthetics.com/posts/fractal-generation-with-l-sy...