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I do mind sharing. You clearly have an agenda. You are desperate for validation. You found a thing that works for you, you want to think it will work for everyone and ... Sigh. I have barely engaged you and I feel tired.

Think on this: I am a potential ally, doing similar things. You are actively picking a fight with me and driving me away.

Ask yourself: Why is that?
I can confirm that it is broken for me on Firefox Nightly and Chrome.
I'm confused on how you think cryptocurrencies are responsible for getting people killed or hurt. Fraud is a definite concern, as is the case with any unregulated market.

Doesn't paper money "cause" people to get killed or hurt just as you say Bitcoin does?
WeWork is actually perfect for startups; they sell no commitment pay by the month office space that comes with desks and internet. They're cheaper than most sf office space and an order of magnitude easier to rent.

The sole drawback is they're an unmaintained dump and working in one is an utterly miserable experience. I had the very very unfortunate experience of working at 995 Market and these worthless idiots couldn't even get their elevators to regularly work, and just plain didn't give a damn. Who doesn't enjoy a nice 15 minute break while you wait for an elevator (both ways)? The offices are tiny and LOUD. Some other idiot decided to make the floors hardwood; a single person in heels walking down the long shared corridors goes CLACK CLACK CLACK. The walls are transparent glass so you are distracted by every bit of movement. There's no sound insulation so you get to listen to the office 3 doors down discuss their thanksgiving plans. I really can't say enough bad things about it.

But hey, there's lemon water in the kitchen! (In a leaky carafe that makes a puddle on the counter every day. Naturally.)
What are HN's impressions of WeWork? I haven't rented one myself, but everyone I talk to seems to say think that they're expensive, that the environment creates a super distracting workplace, and that they only make sense for tiny teams or freelancers who want to meet people.
To be brutally honest this is absolutely pointless.

It is basically confirming simple online etiquette produces best results.
in Chrome you paste window.location='https://facebook.com/l.php?u='+window.location in the Console.

Also you can follow the link https://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/go...

great tip, thanks
I also worry about the forced transition from incandescent to other types of lighting in the US. Save a little electricity but high temperature and non-blackbody spectrum LED lights are probably going to turn out to be not so good for humans in many ways.
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No one is picking a fight with you. You come across as very paranoid.

Again, you are very biased towards conventional medicine. If someone on an online forum spoke highly in favor of a new radiation therapy they underwent for some cancer, everyone would be cheering them and thanking them for the insight. No one would shut them down saying - "oh, that is anecdotal" -- "this worked for you, don't preach it as an end all be all" -- "so radiation is the new cult??".

Classic.
That is because of our English speaking skills. We can communicate better than the Chinese.

Also the fact that most people have good English speaking skills, means a lot of HBO and Star Movies watching as kids, which gives a good idea about American slangs, culture and other things in general.
If you’re in any iMessage-only group chats, you can’t really switch to Android. Apple will just silently fail to deliver any further messages to you if you try to shut down your iMessage account.

You’d have to coach each person (individually) in all of those threads to delete the thread and create a new one in order to be included again, which is a crazy barrier. Even more so if the threads are work related.

I suspect Apple is in violation of federal law in this:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511
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Electricity is complicated. Once a power plant is online, it outputs to the grid and there must be matching demand using it. Running a grid is about balancing supply with demand. Then wind starts blowing and you have unpredictable oversupply and nowhere to put it - or vice versa.

The trouble is that you can’t just plug a “reliable power plant” in or off the grid. It takes hours (that’s “quick” here) or days to power on/off.

You need batteries to cope (e.g. hydro power plants) and there’s not enough of them now.
Perhaps you aren't aware that the CIA sponsored some authors of fiction and this was known, at least in part, well before these books were written.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/18/books/how-the-cia-played-d...
GADDAFI’S EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA REMEMBERED BUT HE IS GONE FOREVER
>>They were coming back anyway because they want to work in India and build something here.

As a former NRI, who stayed in the US. Not one person I know has/or-is moving back because they want to 'build stuff here'.

Most of the times its unworkable visa situations, old parents or something on those lines at play.
DDG (from the browser navbar) functions in much the same way.

!hn => hacker news

!se => stack exchange

!w => wikipedia

!r => reddit

(Not all of these are forums, natch.)
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No, it’s not documented. I feel bad.

It’s basically four keys: name, image, min_size (optional), and config.

The config key contains the cloud-config, tutorial here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduc...

Example app.yml with more stuff: https://github.com/churchio/onebody/blob/master/app.yml
This seems to be a sour grapes article representing the grudges of online travel agencies (OTAs) against Google. This quote really caught my attention:

"OTAs earn a roughly 20% commission from hotels for each reservation they book, which covers their cost of marketing, inventory acquisition, customer support and payment processing."

20% is a ton! Later in the editorial, the writers complain about how Google takes "a 10% to 15% commission on net revenues from reservations booked through its meta-search. Google thus gobbles up most of the profits that OTAs earn".

But Google is taking on the marketing! To be fair, inventory acquisition and payments are also costs, but from running travel sites before, travel truly is a marketing game. As a result, their take makes sense given that they're really taking the place of the traditional marketing channel.

Google's concentration of power definitely is concerning. But the OTAs (who have been living off fat profits for years; see Priceline stock [1]) get none of my sympathy.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PCLN/; has outperformed Google stock over the past 10 years
From an economic standpoint, this doesn't sound very uplifting. Any full time servant you hire is probably going to have less social mobility than you, and less education. And they are necessarily going to earn a fraction of your wages.

Employing someone full time to clean and maintain house isn't really uplifting anyone in a societal sense. Option 1: 30 families eschew automation and hire a full-time maid. Option 2: 30 families own a vacuum cleaner and a dishwasher and hire a cleaner once every other week for 3 hours to maintain their house. The latter is what happens in western communities and it results in 29 more productive workers looking for gainful employment in the workforce. If you don't see why that is an uplifting thing for society, you should take a good hard look at your understanding of economics.

As for your anecdote of the family member with cancer, house nurses are indeed common and affordable in western societies, we generally call this service "hospice." And while I may not employ a cook, there are 150 restaurants in my city that will deliver meals to my doorstep within 30 minutes.
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I start by accepting the fact that being derivative is really not a bad thing.

If I want to create things but have no inspiration, I often look up project ideas on the internet that line up with my interests. Once I get started working on something, my brain naturally branches off into new, original ideas to pursue. Naturally these ideas are more interesting to me since I brainstormed them myself.

I do this everytime I want to create things but have no idea where to start.
Again, you are very biased towards conventional medicine.

No, I am not. This statement is evidence you haven't listened to anything I have said.
Most people would do this with TV before Netflix. The stats on adult TV watching back before the internet was amazing. 5-6 hours a day on average. Ads have always been intolerable for me and the recent streaming trend with no ads and all the year shows on demand is much more addictive.
I wish I was surprised that these platforms are moving more and more toward a sharecropper existence for developers. The mobile app ecosystems for iOS and Android are bad enough; you have very little control, but at least you know the terms when you sign up and if people buy/use your software, you get paid something for it (if you choose to put a price on it). It sounds like for this market, Amazon pays you whenever and whatever they feel like, down to and including "never" and "nothing".
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Thirty-nine percent of membership is "freelancers and independent workers" while another 20% are companies with 1,000 or more employees.

You can get a desk in Oakland for $340/month or a private office for $730/month. If I had a small apartment in a city and worked primarily freelance, I'd consider something like that, if only for the quality of life.
Yay anti-competition!

It's it impossible for any large company to simply make a better product any more and use that to compete? Or must it always be bend the rules, bend the law, lock people in to avoid competition?

Is there an alternative?
Uncovering British spies’ web of sockpuppet social media personas
Would you kindly provide link to the Berkeley MPC Lab work?
The purpose of most corporate jobs is to provide day-care for adults.
They are also projections by the unit of how they want to be perceived. They never show the actual realities of daily life. My strongest memory is of sitting around waiting for things. Half of us started carrying game of thrones novels to read during all the down times. I only wish I had pictures of playing cards against humanity in the field while waiting for trucks. Canada also mixes male and female, both recruits and staff. So it is a very different atmosphere than any movie or show I've ever seen.
I am not sure throwing more people at the problem will help. Developers need to stop making rookie mistakes. Parameterize all queries, question input coming from the client. Pretty much every major data leak was the result of someone doing something stupid like setting the permissioning to public on a repository rather than not being staffed to do it right.
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I mean is it any different in sophistication from what McDonald's has been doing expertly for decades now?
As someone who recently moved from USA To India this is the best thing that is happening to India.

Coupled with racist immigration laws in USA this is helping smaller companies like mine to attract far superior talent. I was engineer number 1 in a Machine Learning division of an American company. I negotiated with my employer that I will move the whole division to India, hire in India at American salaries and deliver results.

Since then our ML division is running pretty smoothly and I am able to poach the brightest kids on the block.

The imminent collapse of India's outsourcing industry will be good for India's homegrown tech sector as brighter kids will move to work on tougher and more India specific problems.

With falling birth rates in developed countries and racially charged environment I think the future of tech will be determined by China and partly India and not in silicon valley.
there was a comment on reddit

It's what bitcoin core developers prefer. They don't want segwit to bloat the blocksize before lightning is ready.
Yep, I had to "request desktop site" in Firefox.
Even common sense needs to be studied; some of it occasionally turns out to be wrong.
You can normalize against anything. Can we normalize Linux against the fact that millions of people potentially could have reviewed the source code, and prevented the bugs? You can bias things with proper justification any which way. At some point, we just have to accept an imperfect method :)
At a certain level of complexity, it's easier to simply externalize costs than to improve the product. Especially when you have organizations as large as Google, it's hard for any single employee to make decisions in the best interest of the user, as there are massive incentives all the way up the ladder to maximize short term profits. It's really on small, agile companies to innovate.
I also get the impression that they're lifted by these small teams in transition periods. No one plans to stay in wework for long if they can help it.

There's a reason why landlords like long term leases and I can't imagine wework is immune to the pressures of a down market.
I'd say very little of that work is for startups it's more for large financial companies, large established software companies, telecoms, hollywood etc.
I still don't get it. What does the scammer gain?

Can you describe your crypto holdings?
>This was true about 10 years ago. But these days I find indian teams are equally as talented as Silicon Valley.

If these Indian teams are equally as talented then where are all of the innovations created by these Indians?
Question to anyone here who is familiar with this industry. Would one be able to save even more by just going to a wholesaler? I mean, with the right know how, can someone just buy from a wholesaler directly?
Nice reads.

I have this hypothesis that thinking is layered on top of our two primal emotional strategies for stress: connection and aggression become diffuse mode (how is it similar?) and focused mode (how is it different?).
When i use the word “battle” I am suggesting repurposing aggression so that instead of directing it at each other in defense of our positions and ego (system 1 thinking) we are working together synergistically in a battle for the truth which will enable us to solve the problem (system 2 thinking).

i.e. Turning a zero sum game into a positive sum game.
> One of the most influential pieces of literature I've had the pleasure of reading, everyone should read it.

seriously ? i have had almost an opposite reaction to this, more in line with : https://jasoncollins.org/2016/06/29/re-reading-kahnemans-thi... (which was discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030791)
I thought of giving it a try at work, but it needs admin privileges to install (on windows) :(
Do you not need encodeURIComponent?
Somebody had fun with that headline.
Obama beats Trump for most admired in Gallup poll
I fail to see why is it relevant to the current issue. Its not like you know 100% that if the battery would be swappable easily, they would suddenly decide to tell you instead of silently slowing the phones down.

Honestly, it feels like people, who have grudge on manufacturers for making non-swappable battery, just need an excuse to bring the swapping topic afloat.

It is also important not to affect any potential lawsuits against Apple by implying, that swapping batteries on affected phones would solve the problem. Because it would not: Apple should also cover damages to people, who had to buy new iPhones after being misguided.
> In most of the US outside of the major cities it can be a struggle for experienced engineers to break 80K

A senior dev can make 80k USD in India (before taxes) working for American, non IT services companies
WW isn't just renting office space; they're selling a dream that YOU, yes YOU, are the next Mark Zuckerberg. They're a byproduct of the extreme fetishization of entrepreneurship that has happened over the past decade.

And the effect? Just about every WeWork I've ever been in is exactly the same: full of wantrepreneurs with extreme delusions of grandeur. Only problem is that the talent, work ethic, and product vision don't match. Walk through one at 7:30, 8:00p, the same hours that you'd expect a hungry founder to be grinding it out and it's dead empty. Maybe it's because the free cucumber water is gone.

Or, to put it another, perhaps more callous way: WeWork is what happens when everyone listens to Gary Vaynerchuk. And all the while WeWork trades at an absurd multiple over just about every other realty holding company.
There was a thread about it on reddit, please go and find it. The trains do not need LIDAR or image recognition. Going in straight line on rails is simple. You don't need to even brake (useless, stopping distance is way too big). What happens in stations and what preparations are done, that cannot (e.g. cost efficiently) be automated. Metro on other hand is mostly automated (see Europe)
What do you mean by wholesaler? You can certainly negotiate special rates directly with the hotels if you have the leverage. Wouldn’t be surprised if OTAs do the same. Same for Amex and the likes
I know that of the people that I know who moved to Germany everyone is making about the same as they were at home (which is obviously anecdotal evidence). I have no doubt there are some jobs that pay more at the same time I know people making that kind of money or more in Kiev but it's fairly rare.
I thought vampires were more about people who feed energetically on other people. Child molesters and the like.
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Yes, we have been using them successfully for quite a while. We only use it to estimate roughly what fits into a sprint.

No comparisons to time or between team members are made. I think that's really important. Management is on board with that. If it wasn't, it probably wouldn't work.
> Then I spoke to a few IT outsourcing/consulting companies

You get what you pay for. The quality of low level employees in IT outsourcing companies (not just the Indian ones) is at par with (or lower than) American minimum wage workers
Is that specific to WeWork, or is that just a characteristic of early-stage startups in general, and WW just happens to be somewhere you can find a lot in one space without the filter of having had investment?
Here you can find the no. of projects based on PHP and here is a chance to download PHP Projects material too...
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No, but whats more significant is that the industry went from YoY growth to flat\shrunk. Thats the scary part
I have used scrum in two completely different companies and it was working really well in both.

In both cases management was on board with scrum and knew what that meant. Everything was estimated by devs, not managers. If there was an external deadline, scope was adjusted to meet it.
Seems like almost every hotel chain nowadays pitches booking through their own Web site, often throwing some extra perks for direct bookings. They also try to rope the customers in with fairly generous loyalty programs, “unpublished” rates and credit card marketing tie-ins.

So yeah, seems like OTAs were okay with this as long as it was IHG, Hilton, Marriott, Accor, Choice Hotels and Best Western doing this on their own (or through fairly low-traffic sites like roomkey.com or pointshound.com), but now that Google actively promotes direct bookings, they’re feeling the effect.
This isn't about being paid. Gruber has too much integrity to do such a thing and a serious journalist would never risk their reputation. What Gruber isn't above is heavily criticizing Apple for fear of getting blacklisted because, for a pro Apple blogger, that would be a death sentence.
Boeing is too big to fail. The US federal government won't allow them to fall into bankruptcy. The same principle applies with the EU and Airbus.
For background on the laser technology that makes this possible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode-locking
I don't think GANs are being used to do anything very serious at the moment (I would love to be corrected on this), but they're very exciting in terms of their capabilities and promise. Some good progress has been made over the last year in making them easier to train and making them so they produce varied outputs
Haha, yep, you are spot on.
"Don't be evil", they said. "Do the right thing", they said...
Some of both. The cultural aspects of it are certainly not specific to WeWork. (See also: "Shark Tank", pay-to-pitch conferences, etc.) They do however leverage that fetishization to a really impressive degree; everything there is specifically designed to make you feel like you're on the first step to the fantastic Internet riches you've deserved all your life.
Forget impacting their productivity, we've already seen what happens when you defer these questions to the user. They always hit yes or okay. It's like it's not even there, people would view mindlessly accepting prompts like that's just how you're meant to use a computer.
I used to work in a WW and you’re absolutely correct. Also, that water is gross, I don’t see how people drink it.
> But the OTAs (who have been living off fat profits for years; see Priceline stock [1]) get none of my sympathy.

Any move that hurts Booking.com's revenues is a good move, by me.

I don't have an issue with them taking 20% commission, but I loathe all of the dark patterns they employ to make that commission.
How much savings would you expect from this? And whose job should be automated?
If you think about replacing one driver per train then probably the cost of automation is higher than his salary. Instead of paying one man a salary you would be forced to pay a maintenance contract to some IT/automation company that would charge you exorbitant rates just because this is industrial automation and you have no idea how to operate it.
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30 year old millennial here replying from my parent's basement. I think the future is going to be a lot better than the present, we just need to fix some stuff.

TODO:

1) We need low cost housing. Mobile home parks with $10,000 RVs for rent @ $200 / month. Here in Texas the lowest cost housing options are $600 - $700 a month. With radically cheaper housing it will be much easier to survive working the types of shitty jobs that our economy is currently producing.

2) Large companies need to start raising more capital on the public stock markets. Economic growth comes from people investing money to produce MORE goods and services than were previously produced. However, most of our retirement money does not go towards this purpose. The overwhelming majority of retirement funds go toward purchasing shares of stock on the secondary market which does not contribute to producing MORE goods and services at all.

3) We need to quit allowing healthcare companies to fleece our healthcare system. There's no good reason for the United States to spend twice per capita what Canada spends for healthcare.
This is the future of computing/software -- pure commodity of CPU+memory. Applications that build on top of these granular interfaces will largely the next wave of successful architectures.

I'm thinking of building something here for static sites as an open source project/spec. If anyone is interested in bouncing ideas on this, please ping me via email (in profile).
Discussed earlier here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16016046