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Show HN: Rick Roll Pull Requests
I know the U.S. Navy permanently retains the deck logs of its commissioned ships. The ONRL has some logs dating back to 1776.
When someone complains it's too slow.
It's important not to underestimate the value of zoos in conservation. The southern white rhino, arabian oryx, and Przewalski's horse were all extinct in the wild, and conservation efforts on zoos and private preserves have re-introduced all three of those species back to the wild. The Przewalski's horse is still listed as endangered in the wild, but the oryx is now vulnerable and the southern white rhino is not threatened. That's three species saved from extinction via zoos that I can name from a few minutes of research (technically the oryx and rhino also involved breeding programs on private preserves, but zoos played an integral part of the reintroduction).

There's also ample research opportunities available in zoos that would be impractical or irresponsible to do in the wild. This research not only improves our understanding of these creatures, but can provide highlight the importance of protecting them, and even provide insight into how best to protect them.

I won't deny that there are zoos in the world that mistreat animals, but there are also some truly spectacular ones. In the US, I highly recommend the DC Zoo, the Omaha Zoo, and the San Diego Zoo. These zoos provide ample space for their animals, and manage them using only positive feedback. In the DC Zoo, I know that medical services like vaccines for the Orangutans, for example, are entirely voluntary. They don't capture or sedate or force the Orangutans to get shots, but rather coax them with a reward (in this case, the zookeeper told me the reward is a cup of honey).
was just going to suggest this. I learned a lot using firecalc.
That isn't how a trust / will works. Your friend won't know about the account information until you have passed on and your lawyer contacts them. You could certainly make them aware of the fact this will occur ahead of time so they don't ignore the legal notice or phone call.

As to whether you can trust your friend or not, that is a different matter all together. You have to pick someone you can trust. If no such person exists, just close your FB ahead of time.
Sure. Usually for sales you enter in as an entry level role, and then progress based on attainment and success. After a few years it's easily possible to be a Manager, Senior Manager, or even a Director (if you're amazing).

I actually provide one-on-one consulting for tech freelancers and founders, if you're interested.

[1] www.sellsomemore.com
We need to go from it being special to open source code for a paper to making it almost seamless to interact with a presented idea, to try it in new contexts, to build upon it, and, yes, to falsify it.

When we introduce examples into an article we do so to make it easier to understand our message, but this opens us up to criticism of cherry picking our examples. We take a first step by allowing readers to choose from a set of examples, but real progress is open sourcing the code behind each diagram, and making it seamless for readers to run.

If you primarily care about finding truth, then you don't only need to make reproduction and falsification possible, you need to make it easy.
I tried to show this by actually submitting a Rick Roll'd PR and it got flagged so fast, this time I'm being more up front about it.
> On a related note, could someone explain to me how Russia manages to stay a threat with a military budget that's about 6% of the US budget?

It doesn't make sense to compare amounts directly - labour cost (and cost of life) in Russia is way cheaper.

And if we will compare %% of GDP - for the last decade Russia is spending same percentage (or even more) compared to US.
Why do those distinctions matter when considering retirement? They all go into the same pool in the end.
"I love re-reading notebooks from elementary school not for the content, but for the little scribblings I did in the margins."

But when you're dead, there's no guarantee your descendants or next of kin will have any interest whatsoever in the minutia of your digital life.
yay the future is here

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gv3vvx/logan-subt...
This makes sense and it's good for the courts to step in on this. The point of the law is clearly that there's a limit to how much the government can take from a person which is fair and just. There needs to be a rational-thinking person in the room who knows it's wrong to take away a person's car when they're currently living out of it because of economic troubles. It's always good when common sense and decency wins out in a court of law.
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You should consider Android One [1] phones. There's plenty of them now, including all the latest Nokia released ones. They have vanilla Android and receive all updates directly from Google.

I personally own a Xiaomi Mi A1[2] that I purchased from Amazon for under CAD$320. Solid phone and overall great specs for this price range. The only thing missing is NFC, but I don't miss it too much since the rollout of Android Pay (Google Pay) in Canada extends only to few financial institutions.

[1] https://android.com/one

[2] https://www.amazon.ca/Xiaomi-Android-Cameras-Unlocked-Versio...
> Isn't it a bit unfair to fault them for not including generics from the beginning?

No. Because that would be much easier and was the only obvious answer.

They took a shortcut, hoped nobody noticed and later when people started complaining about this obvious omission in a modern language, tried to weasel their way out of with some “complexity” bullshit and how “people wouldn’t understand”.

So I can fault them for both not including it and then later being disenginious about why.

For this glaring omission the golang designers deserve nothing but ridicule.
>You can follow all the textbook advice, have a budget, max your 401k, pay down your debt, buy a house, blah blah blah, and after 20 years still only have 1x or 1.5x your salary in total savings [ask me how I know] due to bad luck, unfortunate market timing, lack of skill in investing, emergencies, etc. I hate all this simplified, incomplete advice. If successfully saving for retirement was so straightforward and deterministic, there wouldn’t be an entire industry, with consultants and books, built up around trying to help people hopelessly navigate it.

You can follow all the textbook advice, study hard, fill in your applications on time, get good grades in college, and once you graduate you could still not have a job for years due to bad luck, unfortunate economic conditions, lack of skill in picking your major, emergencies, etc.

What should I conclude about all the advice on studying?
Every American phone is underwhelming compared to what Chinese manufacturers are doing.

They make all of the phones, actually. You have to pay hella licensing to get a cell chip that works in the west. Then, they sell that phone to the company wholesale. Then the American company upcharges for retail.

You can get a Samsung S whatever for 1/3 the price if you don't want to connect to a cell network and don't mind waiting 3 months for it to ship.
I'm confusing it (on purpose in this case) because the usage is confusing.
I worked for a startup that helped to track and store your digital assets, as well as standard ones like insurance and bank accounts. The platform allows its users both to share access and set up a chain of custody for your account in case of death. https://www.zokuvault.com
Why do you assume no returns in those 25 years of retirement?
“If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there'd be riots in the streets”
A Case for Wild Flamingos Calling Florida Their Home
That is a beautiful website! Congrats on the launch and good luck with your project!
The line that got me:
"choosing the optimum time to commit the Reserves, when the enemy losses had opened the door to a powerful counterassault. "

1) He was asking for an additional 206k troops, which was unpopular. Who cares if he asked for them before the offensive? It was unpopular to mobilize reserves either way.
2) What evidence is there that "the door was opened to a powerful counter assault". The war went on for six years including bombing Cambodia, invading Laos, etc. We didn't quit in 1968.

I never thought I would live long enough for people to forget the lessons of Vietnam. It was a disaster of a war.
According to the copyright notice, development started in 2017, so it is possibly the first release.
For people who don't know -- earth's orbit is more like a circle than an elipse. The tilt of the earth is responsible for most seasonal variation we see on earth. IIRC, Mars has more of a difference between ahelion and perihelion and that impacts seasonal variation there much more.
The good devs in Europe are being hired as cheaper alternatives do the crazy expensive devs in SF/NY/London, and they are as good. If you have a couple of years experience and are earning 1.5 post tax, and you know what hacker news is you are doing it wrong.
Hmm. Just started something in the creator space over Christmas vacation, and its already profitable with over 180 brands signed on... the standard deal fits my budget and needs... but SF is a problem for my cofounder.
What a coincidence we're actually working on similar things at the same time
Ok, we'll change to that from https://socialhome.network/content/1198667/socialhome-080-re... for now.

We also changed the title to a description taken from that page, since the project doesn't seem to have been discussed on HN before.
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The notion that the Python core devs get to decide when Python 2 should stop being used is not cool.

Under the freedoms provided by Free Software licensing, users who have a need to continue to use Python 2 should be able pool their effort to continue to support Python 2.

There was an effort called Python 2.8 to do this, but the Python Software Foundation made it change its name and I don't recall what the new name is. It's not particularly nice that the thing that's compatible with what was called Python to begin with is the one that got renamed.
>What if you couldn't access critical financial accounts or didn't know they exist?

There are already procedures for an executor or heir to assume control of a deceased's financial accounts and assets, and part of that process is determining what accounts the deceased had.. You don't need to dig through Dad's Gmail for that.

Like the first poster said, anything actually important either already has procedures in place or will be figured out in the probate process or otherwise.
I think about this a lot. At one point I almost built a Keybase-like application for Shamir's Secret Sharing to see if it would be useful for automating at least some bits of digital will/trust escrow, but that idea ran aground of 1) not enough attorneys/solicitors are technically competent to see a need for it yet, and 2) the general legalities of digital assets as a whole is a weird, currently untested in the court system wild west rabbit hole that attempting to educate on (1) quickly falls into (2).

I think at some point we may need to sit down as a software industry with the law industry and draft better laws protecting digital assets as inheritable assets.

Some easy examples:

1) Digital movie unlocks on platforms like Ultraviolet and/or Movies Anywhere. Are those unlocks inheritable? The service agreements are unclear, and the "family account" adds additional gray area.

2) Software Licenses and Software Subscriptions/Accounts. How many EULAs bother to mention inheritable rights other than to squash them or send them to mediation? Which of the App Stores support family sharing? How many have yet thought ahead to inheritable rights?

3) Are the GDPR Rights (Right to Erasure, Right to Rectification, Right to Access by the Data Subject, et al) inheritable? Right now the easy answer is that they don't mention the idea at all, and at least some of the GDPR implementors' heads might explode if they thought they would also need to consider survivors' access to those Rights.

There are likely to be some huge coming legal battles over some of this stuff, and its something that I feel surprised not enough legal minds are even considering today.
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"In order to get a good understanding of the purchasing power of your future retirement savings for today, you can do a “simple” calculation: Take your total retirement savings and multiply it by 3%. For example, if you have $1.25m (retirement savings), multiplied by 0.03% (inflation), you get $45,000 in inflation. Then you subtract that number from your total savings: $1.25m - $45k = $880k. This will give you a baseline to understand your financial situation."

Yeah, so $1.25m - $45K is NOT 880K.

Also, the effect of inflation compounds every year. So maybe you want to divide the nominal answers you are giving out by (1.03)^num-years-from-today to get the real value (in today's dollars) .

Please do better math.
On the other hand, it's going to be difficult for any other CNCF project to emulate Kubernetes on a lot of dimensions, even after you exclude the toughest one, popularity.
Perhaps consider making multiple copies to optical media using parity data on each volume. Writing rar and par files to multiple DVD's should suffice. There is of course the risk that not many people will know what a DVD or rar/par file is in 150 years.
Wow, that looks very cool! I've been following Graphcool since (before?) its release and my biggest criticism back then was "you are giving up control of your data if you are not controlling the database". This now completely flips that on its head and puts control over the database first.

Sadly I'll probably won't be working with a system involving GraphQL for some time, but when I will again, I'll definitely check out Prisma!
Perhaps his dog licking the cover is good enough?

https://io9.gizmodo.com/fantasy-writer-terry-goodkind-now-cl...

Edit: direct link https://www.facebook.com/terrygoodkind/videos/10155080253756...
If you spend more than 6 months here, yes, it's a progressive tax scheme and you end up paying up to 40%+ (if you are a perm the company also pays tax).
How are people dealing with crypto/bitcoin inheritance?

Dead man's switch (or euphemistically, "Google Inactive Account Manager") that emails inheritee(s) with instructions for retrieving encrypted keys from a safe deposit box or other location, along with password for decryption and distribution allocation?

Just giving private keys directly to your lawyer, sealed in your will, or encrypted with some type of challenge that only inheritees would know?
One of a Kind, Futuristic, Machined Metal Sculptures by Chris Bathgate
That would require a quantum-optimized algorithm for tracking our every move - such a thing may not even exist yet. Perhaps the likeliest application in that domain for quantum computers would be machine learning processes for guessing what our moves are going to be.
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>You have the fake notion that “employers pay half” (no, the worker pays 100% of it truly)

You have the fake notion that if we didn't have SS, employers would pay you more.

>you have the fact that it’s sold as a sort of insurance/retirement account when in actuality it’s neither.

It is in actuality neither. However, because of it, seniors were the age group who were least likely to be in poverty during the recent recession. During those years, it really acted well as a safety net.
Thanks for engaging, and hats off for a solid product.

Regarding costs, the quota was hit pretty quickly due to the trial and error of deciding the best way to structure my data so likely a once off spike in DB reads. But good to know I can reach out.

Tbh, I'd trade all my concerns for a timeline on when we'll see collection group queries ;)
I started running RescueTime in the background on my work machine, and I like it as a reality check mechanism. It's not enforcing anything or firing off crazy alerts if I get off task, it just silently records. Then at the end of the day/week/whatever I can see how much of my time was productive vs unproductive.
Not really.

Anything remotely close that comes to mind is phoronix, but that is in an different class entirely.
Yeah, been there. Kinda too bad that it's just a one time thing. But even if it wouldn't be, I forgot that unlike index update it doesn't have to block transaction, it can be updated whenever later and doesn't have to be done after each insert.

Anyway, postgres team is doing awesome things. So much great functionality while keeping it rock stable. Kudos.
Everything will be as good as deleted since nobody will have my password - nor do I want anyone to. I do not concern myself with post-life as there is no evidence that I'll care when I'm dead. The few social profiles I have will just one day stop posting as if I finally decided I had more important things to do with my life, nobody knowing if I've simply left or if I've really left.

I have no friends and the only family that would care will, assuming we all die due to passage of time, have already passed years prior.
Dumb HN-tier nitpick, but when people use the words "modest proposal" do they know where it comes from? The original modest proposal was satire and it's a little bit of cognitive dissonance for me to see it used seriously in a title.

Regardless, I find the amplification part of twitter to be the best part, although I don't really feel like I see more outrage than joy or just humor. I think it has a lot to do with who you choose to follow.
Hi Chris!

(Apologies if it's putting you too much on the spot, but I'm actually curious in hearing about this...)

My question for you is how you personally navigate the ethical issues that are raised by today's news about Google working with the U.S. military to help classify imagery from drone footage. (1) (2)

In your tweet about this paper, you write:

It qualitatively changes the questions we can ask. One basic example:

neuron 426 fired ~= useless

[floppy ear] fired = very interesting!

But one can just as easily imagine:

neuron 183 fired ~= useless

[young man fleeing] fired = very interesting!

Are there conversations within Google Brain about the appropriate applications of this research you can share with us? Do you feel like this class of military technology is going to be developed one way or the other, so there's no use in worrying about speeding it along?

1: https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-...

2: https://theintercept.com/2018/03/06/google-is-quietly-provid...
4. Price match. This can be a double-edged sword and it may be unsustainable but if I'm the shop owner I'd lose a bit of margin rather than the entire sale. As a customer, who wouldn't want the item now vs. waiting 1-5 days for it.
Emperor Xi's China Is Done Biding Its Time (Q&A with former Australian PM Rudd)
Sorry, but .+@.+ isn't going to cut it if you want to confidently accept deliverable email addresses. Regex valid, but not email valid:

codetrotter@example

code@trotter@example.com

code trotter@example.com

codetrotter@example..com

codetrotter@example.com.

.codetrotter@example.com

My company runs a website that has elderly people signing up for newsletters. The client is paranoid about not getting every last drop of possible data, and raises hell for every email address that isn't deliverable. There are LOTS of ways to easily ruin a simple email address.
Finland and Norway intelligence services collaborating with the NSA since 2004
Tech salaries are getting bimodal, If you are on the right (pun intended) side of the curve you will be fine. you will end up working for a foreign company or remoting.

I do hope rent goes down, it's fugly to see working class people being driven out of the city...
I mean, you get 300-400 items a day? Do you read it all? I think the best method is just to not read it all. Just scan for a few minutes until you're bored then stop.

Do you read every HN post? Much less should you feel the need to read every tweet.
A permanent retention policy wasn't, apparently, the reason ONRL has those logs, as those records are identified as “records acquired from private citizens”. [0]

[0]
https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/0...
I'm fairly pragmatic when it comes to tech. With my last job it was heavy on HTML and CSS which I was fairly green at (alright -> decent at now), and there you could say I was a little over my head, but I don't think there were any conceptual issues I couldn't grasp. Obviously you can spend a lifetime learning on how to best rendering pages and modern browsers.
Long story short... everyone wants programmers that are young and want to change the world. When you're over 40, that doesn't go well, however that doesn't mean you have to get out of tech, just shift you're focus like I did :)

I became a security analyst. It's a way easier (though be it, less exciting) gig than being a programmer. Also being a programmer gave me a boost in a bunch of the domains (CISSP talk there) that cover the profession.

A bunch of other people I know have moved to other areas like:

Database Administrator,
Network Administrator,
System Administrator,
Quality Assurance Analyst

Point is, you have WAAAAAAAAY more talents in those bones of your than you are willing to give yourself credit for... Don't give up yet!!!
The daily stand up concept was popularized by Scrum which is pretty opposed to micro management and treating people like children. Maybe it gets used that way in some companies practicing cargo cult agile but it's not the purpose.

I've been the person not liking the accountability in the past as I've struggled with very 'bursty' productivity and so the original article resonated with me. I've also come to appreciate the accountability as the parent commenter has.
Is there any edu/golang version of this?
Thanks to adventured for finding this [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16531076
I've been stuck in a C# shop for a while but last I knew python 3 was/is dead and most developing opensource packages were not being converted.

Is there something useful that's only in Python 3?
Maybe; I mean, see [0] where an accidental experiment was made when a container with >28k rubber ducks and other floating toys, tipped. New evidence for some models was discovered using roughly the same idea—by tracking the floting toys to their final locations.

——

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees
Would really like to know what kinds of things end up benefitting from this. Crystals are great.
The degree is the difference and it's a big one. We all trade privacy for other benefits all the time. If the right to privacy is fundamental, then surely I can claim the right to trade that privacy for something else, too.

(Note: we all do this all the time in both explicit and implicit ways. We give away private data to obtain loans, we invite people into our homes and to view our bodies, we tell important secrets to build relationships. Privacy is valuable, and we use it like it's valuable. That's what's going on here, too.)
Did you not like programming, or not like something about your employment other than the programming? Do you like programming on your own, as a hobby? What the right thing to do is depends a lot on which thing you disliked about your previous jobs.
I love "retirement end year" in this...aka death.
Good. That also tells you that your server probably needs some DOS mitigation. Because if their service almost takes it down, so can a trivial nmap sweep.
Got a couple of quick examples where Python 3 is easier?

Is it that it is more consistent in places?
Well, good (except for the potential war part). It would mean more work in the west.