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Python doesn't already have parsers for all SQL variants. There are several important projects I can't do in my current job because I don't have Hive and Impala parsers. It would be ideal to have them in Python, but a binary that could output a digestible representation would be huge for me.
So true. I wouldn’t argue against your point, especially when you’re talking about straight dollars.

I was trying to be more general though. Forget money, think effort.

For almost $0 dollars there is a ton of opportunity out there. Let’s just take something we know, tech.

For effectively $0 you can learn everything there is to know about coding.

You could go to the library, get one book about html, and try being a web developer in two weeks. That’s probably not going to go well, but not because you’re unlucky.

Or, you could spend every waking moment consuming fundamentals of programming, read everything, forums, blog post, write tons of sample apps, contribute to open source and become a bad ass programmer. Chance of success is very high.

That is not about luck.
I don’t see any of the these competing with Uber/Lyft. They may be suppliers. Where is the conflict?
This makes sense to me. Even with managing orbits you are still having a huge part of the fleet over empty areas. If the idea is to manage high bandwidth needs of autonomous ships, trucks, trains, planes, etc maybe it makes sense...
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Have a friend who did it for a couple of weeks and said pretty much the same thing. It's literally a race to the bottom, heard stories about drivers who come into the big cities and sleep in their cars for this wage. Uber & co calling drivers entrepreneurs makes me sick.
Did you read the article? It says right at the top:

> There is something extremely simple Amazon could do about it. If you have a registered brand in the Brand Registry and don't sell the product wholesale - there could be one box to check for that.
Yeah, it's pretty insane. Makes me miss my hometown back in Turkey, where most restaurants deliver to the same neighborhood for free, and there is no mandatory tipping culture (although most people still tip if the delivery is quick).
No, the biggest missing is native compression.
Basic algorithmic knowledge questions are not puzzles, and whoever is calling them that is wrong. Those questions still can be stressful, especially for people that don't do well in interview environment, but puzzle is something else. Puzzle is something that requires some non-trivial insight or trick to solve, usually one that the person has no experience with and it is not obvious even for a person with the knowledge of the basics. That's why they are puzzles - they are "puzzling", which the dictionary defines as "confusing" or "baffling".
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Personal drivers. Prices might be higher than in the US but it's hard to give an exact price or even a range because it varies a lot by vehicle type. I'm paying about 600€/year for a small and older VW. But a bigger car doesn't necessarily need to be more expensive because the parts to repair it could be cheaper or it's less likely to get into expensive accidents due to break assistance.

I'm also covered for accidental damages caused by me outside of my car for up to 100 million € and that costs me only about 70€/year.
That's pretty good. Can comprehend the syntax pretty easily. It also seems to be a tad bit similar to Jinja's syntax which I'm familiar with so this shouldn't be a problem at all.

Thank you for the detailed explanation though. I appreciate it!

I wasn't even aware that Emacs has a detailed reference built in for Org. Oh well! I should start using Emacs more I guess.

And once again, thank you for all the links. The information dump is great, actually. I've got enough material to put things in place and start working with Org mode.
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It's an extremely one-sided article. Sure, Bitcoin mining aka block solving uses lots of energy. But the article ignores the fundamental rationale for cryptocurrencies: decentralization (and consequent resistance to attack). That's what the energy input actually pays for.

Also, the huge energy usage just reflects the proof-of-work approach to adding new transactions to the blockchain, which involves competition among miners. And there are alternatives, such as proof of stake.
I read some articles, but I'm still pretty confused.

Aside from being fun and interesting, what is the utility derived from this?
Absolutely right. Here's a major disease that had a medically recognized free, safe, treatment which anyone can do.
Though there's a lot to be said for the old HP plotters, if eBay is any indication, there's a very thin supply and any uptick in interest is going to cause them to dry up and prices to increase. It looks like that may have already happened.

One alternative for people who just want to get started today is to buy a modern version: they don't sell them as "pen plotters" exactly, anymore, but they do sell desktop vinyl and paper cutters (sometimes a/k/a "die cutters", although that's an inaccurate name used by papercrafters for historical reasons) that are very, very close in terms of operation to a 1980s moving-media pen plotter. And most of them can be trivially adapted to use a pen or marker in place of a cutter blade.

I have a "Silhouette" brand cutting plotter, which can take two tools, and it cost me about the same as what used 7475As are currently selling for and worked via USB out of the box. It'll never challenge the old HP on its great 1980s aesthetics, and the paper traversal speed isn't quite as fast, but it produces output that seems equivalent and I can jam pretty much any type of pen I want into its toolholder. It uses a variant of HPGL that's supported by several open source tools in addition to the OEM software.

The one important note is that you must absolutely avoid "Cricut" brand cutting plotters, which are unfortunately the dominant modern manufacturer. They have an awful razors-and-blades business model that revolves around selling the machines at a discount and then charging users for overpriced vector drawings through an "app store" type system, and they enforce this by obfuscating the communication protocol used by the plotters, and abusing the DMCA and engaging in other bits of sharp practice to discourage 3rd-party software. Unless you're buying one to reverse-engineer, they are best avoided.

The Roland STIKA line is very well-regarded if you want to spend a bit more. Can't speak for many others.

I'm hopeful that the current resurgence of interest in plotters will result in more third-party, open-source software for these current-production commercial machines, in addition to the older surplus ones. Once the parts supplies dry up for the older machines, these newer ones will be the easier path forward for people who want to start playing with this technology.
Yep, already have it running locally and exploring what it's capable of!
> I followed the instructions from John Yates' "The Mind Illuminated" book

Can confirm: this is a very clearly written book. It reads like a reference manual for meditation.
Yeah, the biking model seems fairly easy to speculate on, but sort of hard to pin down. Here's some speculation from a per bike perspective.

Revenue

daily rides*365*$1

Costs

$250 per bike
+ $15 per month for maintenance
+ 20% chance of catastrophe amortized over the fleet
= ~$500

+ rebalancers + insurance + overhead?

So maybe 2 rides per bike per day gets them in the green?
Stop. I suspect you are replying to a shill or troll.
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It would be lovely to live in a world in which telling obese people they should "just eat less" reliably allowed more than a tiny percentage of them to drop to a "normal" weight range and stay there for >5 years, but alas, that is not the world we do live in.
Heh, Netflix if anything probably is desperately relying on DVDs still...this time selling them. All their original series, $20/30 a season; I doubt the revenue solely from streaming could even pay for the production costs otherwise.

And Uber...their whole point was being an annoying, even predatory middleman who shunt all their costs onto their "workforce"...you think they are going to thrive when they need to bear all the risk and expense themselves, as well as be unable to break laws?
What does an incident like this cost to Github in terms of the extra capacity added? I guess the potential loss of business is way higher, but still very curious about the magnitude.
A MBA below a certain level is worse than not having a MBA at all, people just assume you couldn't get a job.
This demo has only 70 lines code.
WHY CNN HAS AVOIDED INVESTIGATING THE ORIGIN OF AIDS AND EBOLA
And given the prevalence of Russians associated with the government in the security space (to be fair--a lot of security people are associated with their own governments), I suspect that it has a tight feedback loop with the troll factories.
You're right about the minimalist approach. I just want something quick and easy. I shouldn't dread to use it else I will end up dropping it altogether.

I'll be picking up Go as I'm unfamiliar with React and Go seems to be easy to grasp. Thank you for suggesting Gatsby though, I'll give it a shot once I learn React, which should happen this year.
Too bad this is just five "clusters" of characteristics that people with not-type-I diabetes can be grouped into. No clear underlying mechanism for the cause of each of the groups diabetes. Maybe more in the journal paper? Or now focused studies can be done on each group to find out the root cause? I hope so.
How is 10Gb/s achieved and how reliable is that BW in the presence weather? What is the practical coverage area of the satellite and what would the typical user BW be on a clear day? How would the BW change on a rainy day?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16499582

It's pretty easy to do so much damage. Imagine turning left without looking and an oncoming truck tries to avoid a collision and drives into a store front. Property damages will be very high and the injured people inside the store will need medical attention, too.
Slack gets pretty resource-intensive when the user is part of multiple workspaces. I know one of my co-workers is part of three or four, whereas I'm only part of the main company workspace. Co-worker's Slack memory usage is around triple that of my own.
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I was surprised to learn on reading this that the Type 1 classification always means "autoimmune disease". I was under the impression that the two type classifications were "1: unable to produce enough insulin", and "2: producing what ought to be normal amounts of insulin, but for some reason resistant to it"; naively, those seemed like much more natural classes for classifying a syndrome. Having a finer-grained analysis can't be a bad thing; for example, the paper identifies some increased risks for the individual clusters.
Privacy used to be a hobby for people with tinfoil hats or the monicker 'cypherpunk', but soon even Grandma will be going through a key signing ritual while muttering something about a return to the gold standard.
Self driving cars have nothing to do with what Uber has been up to, and having a lot of cash isn't really a competitive advantage when your competitors are Google, Tesla and other car manufactures.
Yeah. Do you think that depreciation shouldn't be 39 cents a mile for an old bucket? Or do they have requirements for the age of your car?

If you have like a 2000 camry (which runs forever) depreciation seems to be virtually 0, especially if you buy the car used and only pay like 1 grand.

Also, I can imagine if you're just shuttling food around instead of passengers, you can get away with a worse car. Nobody wants to hop in a bucket and go somewhere, but food delivery doesn't matter.
Yeah, but the taxi driver had to finance both his/her medallion and the car, which in most cases would not double as a personal car for everyday errands (as somebody else would drive it during their shift). Those costs have been driven down as well.
I wonder if it's time for providers like Amazon to provide configs by default that block all ports besides TCP 22, 80 and 443. You want to do other stuff? Configure a firewall. Don't know how? Hire somebody who does. This scenario with cheap insecure things being put out on the internet repeats again and again. IoT, PaaS, etc.
With a paint program I can color code. With ASCII diagrams I can actually draw a straight line. With paper I can have eraser marks everywhere.

(But I do use paper some - focus reasons, and easier to manage than terrible phone interfaces.)
A friend of mine has had an illustrious career in I.T. with many successes in the last decade. Right before he struck out on his own to build his brand he was unhappy with his then job and decided to work with a recruiter to find a new role.

The recruiter got him a job with a large bank going through a transition from a major platform from a third party that had been long neglected. The platform was on what we will call version 5 of the software while everyone else was running what we will call version 9 of the software.

My friend was hired as a technical project manager. He worked there for less than a month before he struck out on his own and got to realize his full potential.

In that brief period of time he learned the following:

* The bank had not started to put together the requirements for the new software to be integrated.
* The software vendor had no upgrade path from the very old version to the new version.
* The bank needed the migration done in under ninety days or they would start getting fined millions of dollars by regulators.
* The project had already committed to spending $3M / month on a five year commitment with a hosting partner but they didn't have any developers working with them yet.

What I took away is that when big companies do stupid things they are big stupid things. I'm not surprised that government being as big as it is would also do stupid things on a larger scale.
The templated do look slick! I'll see if I can find any counterparts for Hugo or rebuild any of them as I currently leaning towards that. Thank you very much!
That's still a win for consumers, because they certainly raised the bar for customer experience. They run leaner than old-fashioned cab companies and can keep prices lower at the end too.
> throws a promise

> ...

> It's...promising to say the least!

^ this guy :finger_guns:
He is sharing his observation of inefficiency.
Negative feedback like that allows people to improve.
Have you met your local politician who is trying to make decisions on things they don't understand?
I'm not so sure about the interviewing part. First, I am one of the few who does not use a pseudonym on this site, most do.

I have also seen people say some pretty absurd things using public Facebook comments that have their real name and details attached to them, I don't think people are considering that they may be making some career limiting moves when they get mad in comment sections. I also think that tech people have a lot more job options and freedom of movement between companies than other careers.

Sites like reddit that gather karma also create a "reputation" scenario for users, yet it still contains trolls, so I don't think it's that either, but it may be a contributing factor. That combined with the broken windows theory and the very specific target audience may be what make the comments mostly civil but certainly not immune to parody.
I’ll dig through Themeforest HTML section for one pagers costing no more than $7-15. Surprisingly great..
So, why does it make sense in this situation ("you can all do what you please with your data") to mandate something technical ("but starting today you all must use UUIDs from now on") across all groups? What's the value of this change if using UUIDs is now literally the only thing they all have in common?
It's actually sad how so many people don't care about their privacy, sure you can give a little but it should be an option not mandatory and in many aspects it is mandatory or done without the person knowledge.

The least thing they could do is ask for it...

Edit: I shouldn't write early in the morning, tons of grammar mistakes.
https://about.gitlab.com/roles/engineering/developer

If you scroll down about 2/3 of the way, you'll see it.

It's not competitive for me at all. I'm right beside Vancouver (Canada) where living costs are about 95% the same as Vancouver, but if I enter that, It says my salary range would be considerably less than I earn now. This seems like a really cool opportunity and I want to apply, but my family can't afford the hit (I'm the only source of income we've got and this place is crazy expensive). Kind of a bummer - it's hard to find jobs doing cool things and also earning decent money.
Obesity should be taxed, but indirectly. Taxing people with an eating disorder seems mean. Let's nudge them in the right direction by adding a massive federal healthcare tax to sugars at the wholesale level. Let's see how many Oreos you eat when they go from $2 to $20 per box.

This is politically challenging because people hate taxes and farmers & processed food companies like money and they're organized. That said, we managed to tax cigarettes despite tens of millions of smokers and plenty of tobacco farmers and even RJR Nabisco.
Isn't the whole point of CSS-in-JS that you don't need a toy language to do preprocessing if you have a real language like JavaScript?

I haven't really used SASS et. al., but my understanding is that they were hacks to get shared constants, functions, and derived values in a CSS that predated custom properties.
Chinese tourists spent $115b overseas in 2017
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... if they have valid insurance and if they don't flee the scene.
You are lucky.

I hold a Chinese passport, which is one of the worst when it comes to visa restrictions.

The only upside I is I never make any visa mistakes - it’s hard to find out last minute you need a visa, when you need visa to practically anywhere!

Every international trip requires careful planning in advance. What countries I am visiting? What kind if visa should I get? When is the consulate open? Is there still appointments available? This is especially frustrating when visiting border regions - I had to skip the Argentinian side of Iguacu Falls because I will need another visa. This also makes it hard to go on spur of the moment trips.

Each visa application requires two trips to the consulate (one to send in the application and one to pick it up. a few issue them on the spot, but you will need to sit there for a couple of hours for them to print it), and around $100 in fees. The application form is very tedious and need all kind of supporting material. They usually require you to book the airfare and hotel, but are not responsible for any non refundable purchase if the visa is denied. Medical insurance requirement for Schengen Area is the most annoying. My health insurance covers emergency treatment abroad, and credit card insurance covers accidents, but they cannot give me a letter that says the magic word the consulate wants ($50k coverage, no deductible, covers treatment, evacuation and repatriation) so I have to buy commercial insurance that I don’t need (there’s literally tons of businesses selling insurance and letter as a package). You also need to provide pay slip and bank statement, but comparatively they are minor annoyances.

So what kind of visa will you get? It varies by consulate, and there’s little you can do about them. UK issues two-year visa in China, but not in the U.S. (technically they do, they just cost an astronomical sum) Japan issues five year visa for H1B holders in Detroit and San Francisco, but not New York and Washington.

Do you have a question? Good luck finding someone who can help. Visa section typically don’t have phone numbers, so you have to send an email and hope for a reply (if you are lucky they have published their address) or go in and ask.

An often overlooked problem with needing so many visas is your passport run out faster - each visa takes two pages, one for the sticker and another for the stamp. Replacing passport is, of course, annoying and costly.

So yeah, it is miserable. Hopefully this encourages you to travel the world more, knowing how lucky you are with your passports :)
I certainly understand the bias to host it on your own infrastructure, but I really appreciate that I can download from YouTube for offline viewing on the metro. Couldn't find a way to do that with the official version.
So... You claim that everyone trapped in these situations deserves it?

That sounds a lot like admitting the people whose existence you've been denying do exist after all. It sounds like you know it and have always known it. It sounds like you're telling me they don't count because they're only getting what they deserve.

I guess there's no point in me attempting further explanations - you already know all the same things I do. All I can do is beg you to take a few minutes to deeply and critically evaluate your position. Is shrugging and saying "supply & demand" really the best option we've got? Is there any chance at all that it's better to address this failure of the labor market instead?
I was stoked for a sec. I'm a gamer who overuses video games, for sure, and especially late at night.

But it'd need to cope with my (evolving) Steam library. So far in 2018 I've spent meaningful late-night play time on half a dozen different games. Mostly single-player. Another year might see another pattern.

I look forward to hearing about your progress. Good luck!
Cross-posting a comment I made from 7 years ago when NYC's payroll project blew up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2716319 which I last cross-posted to the thread about Phoenix's payroll project blowing up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303555
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> It would be lovely to live in a world in which telling obese people they should "just eat less"

Why would it matter? Telling cigarette smokers to just smoke less didn't work either, but it's just as prescriptive. People rather fail than change, so there's really no reason to lump the funding (type I vs type II) together.

I welcome the discerning scrutiny in research, described which should properly aim the funding.
Censorship is something sovereign entities do. When anybody else chooses what they will or won't say we call that Free Speech. Nazis don't have a right to make other people say what they want.

The fact that American TV networks weren't allowed to say "shithole" in reporting what the US President said is an example of censorship. The FCC, a government agency, requires that they not use certain words. When Fox decided to get rid of O'Reilly that's not censorship that's just basic ability to read how the wind is blowing.
I love the ones from HTML5UP, they are free, open source and really beautiful
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