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American cities are the worst when it comes to this.

Seattle just built a train to the airport (yay) but for bureaucratic reasons, it doesn't actually go in to the airport. It goes to the far edge of the airport, so you have to lug your luggage outside through the entire parking lot.

Meanwhile, everyone who took an Uber can step right into the departures area.

And, as you mention, New York is much much worse in this regard. The AirTrain from JFK costs $5, more than it costs to go from anywhere to anywhere else in all of NYC on the subway.
Overall I think the point is who cares what caused an increase in labor supply? It doesn't matter from where Marx's reserve army originates, just that capitalists desire and ensure that it exists to the detriment of the working class.
Ah, I suppose I didn't see that because Amazon Fresh is not available in my market.
those are just the stations, the tunnel is bore
I use the nirSoft CSVFileView utility all of the time. The near instantaneous load time is how computing should be.
Yep. This shoots me in the face at least once a week. Also two other problems:

1. The start menu latency is now so bad you have to forcibly wait 2-3 seconds before typing your search after hitting the start button. This is on a stacked E5 Xeon workstation class machine.

2. Search is crap. I can type "visual" and visual studio doesn't come up!?!?
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I don't think that's a fair comparison at all.

The profit your employer makes from your work isn't coming from an increase in demand [in the use of a transactional layer] causing the perceived value of a crypto-asset [USD] to go up, and therefore they also are profiting from that increased value -- that'd be "double-dipping" profit in a sense if that's the case, if they're also making money on the increase in demand of the currency.

Profit from what someone is willing to pay above actual cost vs. "profit" derived simply from an increase in perceived value because of demand are two different things; this is why I put profit in quotes to differentiate.

If you're paid in USD, USD being relatively stable and balanced with other fiat currencies, then you're not going to profit from fluctuations -- there are currency traders of course, however banks and governments try to limit this. It would be great to have a single global currency, where everyone is aligned, however

If you held onto your paycheck and didn't cash it for 5 years (assuming the check is still valid then), and the USD went up by 400% -- once you cashed it, that 300% difference in your buying power that you're depositing is getting covered by everyone else now (for no more work done by you). At the surface of it, does that sound fair? And that cash they were paid, it wasn't an investment.

If you're paid in USD, USD being relatively stable and balanced with other fiat currencies, then you're not going to profit from fluctuations -- there are currency traders of course, however banks and governments try to limit this, they decide how much the other currencies are worth in comparison (the exchange rates). It would be great to have a single global currency, where everyone is aligned, however not through reallocating wealth weighted to the earliest adopters -- you're taking advantage of the majority of society then.

The issue is whether reallocating resources/wealth unreasonably/unnecessarily is acceptable or not. I argue it's not. The incentivized structure is one way to get people working together, collaborating - at least to begin with - however at a certain "tipping point", let's say it's 50% -- everyone who adopts or must adopt the incentivized crypto-asset then is covering/realizing the cost of everyone who bought before. E.g. Their buying power is shifted weighted towards the earlier adopters, and if this is allowed then there will be a point where they will be forced to adopt it (and early bad actors are heavily incentivized to reach this goal).

One problem with incentivized crypto-assets is that USD isn't destroyed, instead it's being exchanged - given to someone in return for a digital crypto-asset. If USD was actually destroyed or rather transferred into a crypto-asset blockchain, that would be solving part of the problem.

If you see problems with what I'm writing, I would greatly appreciate hearing more of your thoughts - rarely do people engage with this line of thought on here, I seem to get enough downvotes though (to counter the upvotes I initially get).
I can't find the original link where I read about this, it may have been more theory than about specific games. These links seem to be relevant:
http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Sprite_overflow_games
http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=16299
I worked at a trademark search and brand-protection company for a few years, and we never used D&B.

We scraped from every secretary of state in the US and the federal patent and trademark office, and got some info from LexisNexis. We had a mess of regular expressions that had to be updated any time a secretary of state changed their website. But in the end, we had a reasonably complete set of information on all registered corporations and DBA registrations in the country, which was updated at least monthly. We certainly had a record for every company that had a registered trademark.

Apple could certainly do that work itself, at a fraction of the cost of whatever it pays D&B. Any Joe Schmoe in the country can look at a business name, go to the secretary of state of the state they claim to be registered in, and verify the detail, which always includes the name and address of the registered agent, and most of the time also includes the principals of the corporation.

D&B is almost completely pointless in 2018.
No, I wrote the post to document how an existing web app can be moved into the app store, the reasons for that, and the hurdles in doing so.

APIs: Yes, Google is improving the situation -- making more and more common OS APIs exposed to standard web interfaces. Meanwhile, Cordova is letting web devs access native functionality that the platform vendors don't expose. The story isn't perfect, but it's actually quite impressive even now.

Web apps: they offer all kinds of things native apps can't. Native apps require install. Native apps must go through approval process for every update. Native apps are restricted in what they can publish on the app store. Native apps are subject to the censorial whims of a single corporation (or government forcing that single corporation). Native apps only work on a single platform; the web works everywhere.

There are lots of wins for web apps. And I think PWAs only increase those wins.
I just use youtube-dl[1], which downloads embedded Soundcloud media just fine.

[1] - https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
I'd embed them into QR codes, print them out on high quality acid-free paper and put them in a fire safe.

I don't trust anything electronic to store data in the long term, I do trust that a QR code will be readable in 50 years even if you have to decode it by hand (or at least write a program to do it) (in a temperature controlled safe with no UV I'd expect laser toner to last 50 years).

Other methods I can think of would be etching the QR code into a stable material (glass for example).

That said I stay miles away from cryptocurrencies, I find the technology interesting but the actual 'market' hilarious.
The "blockchain is just a database" critique is an application of Conway's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law). The basic critique is: the problem being solved with the overwhelming majority of blockchain tech seems to be a political, not a technical problem. It's a critique that says the issue with this thing you are fixing isn't actually that the data layer doesn't match the existing political structure, it's that the political structure doesn't actually seem to support a demand for this kind of data layer.

The reason this critique is so prevalent on HN is because a lot of us just watched the last 10 years of the internet go from "that thing that is going to democratize technology and knowledge" to "a centralized management system for privacy invasion." The reason for this seems to be, loosely stated: "no one wants to run their own mail server." Because no one wants to put the effort in to dealing with running an email service, we allow Google, Facebook etc. to run them for us. The reason for this is because our economy is based on specialization of labor: it's by design. I can choose to spend my time running a server, but allowing someone to do it for me is orders of magnitude cheaper due to economies of scale, so unless I have a really strong demand it's probably not going to happen.

The blockchain allows for us the same effect as "running our own email servers," and most of us really don't think it's likely that people are going to want to host their own nodes in the blockchain, because, referring back to Conway's law, there are fundamental political aspects to our culture that do not support this architecture.
What’s fascinating to me about this history is that most of NYC’s subways system was built by two private competing firms, the IRT and BRT. The city then became heavily involved first by creating the competing but government financed IND, then with price controls, and finally a full takeover. Once it was a publicly owned monopoly the NYC Subway’s long decline began.

Pretty much the same thing happened in SF but with street cars instead of subways.
> The main people who are going to want to use transit are the people who work there

I live in Manhattan and regularly take the LIRR to Jamaica, from where I catch the Airtrain to JFK. It's a predictable-duration trip. It costs $10 to Juno to Penn Station, $7.50 (off peak) to $10.25 (peak) for the train ticket, and $5 for the Airtrain. And I don't get sick reading on a train like I do in a car.
http://forgotten-ny.com/1999/12/remnants-of-the-ninth-avenue...

This one would have been convenient for me if they'd kept it.
It's not. Even if you walked to your job. The additional money you would pay in rent / time / uber is not worth it. Just buy a car unless you live in an actual pedestrian city.
Transit to the airport is hugely helpful for travelers. A subway ride from LGA to a Manhattan hotel would be far cheaper and more efficient than taking a cab.
No worries, Let's Encrypt makes it really easy if you haven't used them before. Since you have input forms and links to app stores it might be a good idea.
How quickly and effectively our addicted minds rationalize our behaviors. Thanks to this we have plenty of studies that show slight benefits from drinking!

But our reasoning isn't sound.

- Participation in other risky activities doesn't justify drinking

- Alternative to drinking is not loneliness

We must be pragmatic about the society we live in, but societies can change and so can we.

Of course, I do have that bottle of wine to finish at home . . .
Is this worth it? Is this worth having the ability to pick between 10,000 different toasters via internet and have them delivered to your doorstep in 2 days?

Sometimes I look at society as a complete organ, with a hypothetical ability to make cohesive decisions for itself. And I think, it is making extremely self-destructive choices. All for the sake of satisfying the urge to buy more, at lower prices, with more convenience.

I wonder how much of the stuff in those warehouses is utter garbage that gets bought and used just once.
> we actually removed more lines than we added

At my old company we would have a small ceremony when someone left. Part of this was their team-lead listing some of their biggest contributions to the firm.

The one that always stuck with me was one engineer who was praised for having a negative line contribution count in the thousands over his time at the company!
Do you have a camera for photos? I have an LTE watch. That + written notes are the two big things I miss.

Also can't wait till all apps are phone independent. Right now most third party apps stop working without a phone.
That sounds reasonable. So with the OLPC's (pie-in-the-sky) design lifetime of 10 years, maybe it should be compared to 200-300 books.

But if you could get thousands of books on a laptop you wouldn't need to know _which_ 200 books a given child would benefit from most.
I'd probably run a "crowdfunding" round involving people at the level of billionaire - Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, Bezos, etc.

Get 50 of those to each chip in $1 mill - it's pocket-change to them.
> Companies have been moving to electronic logs to try and stop this. I don't know how successful this has been.

I hear there is pushback from drivers about this. Say you're 20 minutes from home, truck is not empty, and you've hit your driving limit for the day. With a paper log you might fudge the numbers so you can get home, see your family, sleep in your own bed. With an electronic log you're not making it home that night.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Truckers/comments/5z4f7l/can_we_tal...
It's been about a year, but I just lost the game.
I agree, but my larger more perplexing question is, what is encouraging (forcing is too strong of a word) governments and citizens to seemingly be utterly unaware of the potential national security and world stability risks this causes?
This was a mindblowing discovery for me when I flew into NYC for the first time. One of the largest subway systems in the world and some of the busiest airports in the world a few miles from each other but not connected was/is confusing.

Is there a well understood reason why?
> Note that $2mm of the $4mm for the 2nd Ave line

Billion.
On one hand, transit should be heavily subsidized and not profitable because profit motives in infrastructure choke the force multiplier economic effects of having said infrastructure. You need some kind of mechanism to disincentivize overuse though, so the 5 or 10c fare worked at the time for that purpose.

On the flipside, the NY metro is so decrepid and underbuilt for its demand if you didn't have inflating fares driving potential travelers to clog up other, less efficient transit systems the lines for trains would be out in the streets nearly 24 hours a day.
PhDs that have dedicated their lives to specializing in specific cancers, failed drugs, research that leads nowhere, failed clinical trials because of XYZ. It's all highly specialized. And if done with a rigorous protocol, it's all expensive.

You're not doing a lifetime of cancer research in hopes that you earn an average salary.

For the company, if you finally get somewhere with a drug that is affective, you have to try and recoup your investment. How else do you fund future research?
Valid point.. But I was skeptical about it's adoption in the live streaming arena !!
These are the people that I will allocate time to listen to, while they "perfect" their "minimum viabable podcast".
The NYT already did so: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Cut and Cover is cheaper, for sure. But tunnel boring is also cheaper everywhere else than it is in NYC. The problem doesn't seem to be the construction method so much as the beaurocracy and politics surrounding the construction. Moving to a more disruptive construction method might help projects get completed faster, just because there will be the political capital to complete the project quickly to resolve the disruption. but i wouldn't expect it to solve the cost problems.
I'm not sure either comparison is easy to make. With 100 books, you can provide for 100 people at once. A laptop can't do that. And in 20 years, how many of those books will continue to be providing information compared to the laptop?

I think both situations have unique benefits and drawbacks, and ranking which of those are worth more than others is something we don't yet have an objective measure for. As such, the comparison still seems quite subjective, even if we can give concrete numbers to a lot of the comparisons. The answer to which is best might even be situational.
We actually did. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/30/fast-bre...
But the real reason is the culture promoted by the founders.

Costco's Jim Sinegal steadfastly refused to cut employee pay and benefits to satisfy investor's demands. That kind of "employee first" thinking starts at the top and filters down throughout the entire organization.

Even if you're being charitable towards Bezos' attitude towards employees, it's clear that people aren't his focus. He's focused on automation, growth and performance. That kind of thinking also starts at the top, and filters down through the rest of the organization.

I remember reading a profile of Zappos around the time they were acquired by Amazon, that highlighted the differences between the two companies. Zappos built its brand on legendary customer service, and there are all kinds of stories about how the retailer empowering its reps to offer customer service that goes above and beyond. Things like sending flowers to a customer's hospital room.

In contrast, at Amazon, every time a customer has to interact with a human, it's seen as a failure. The goal is to remove human contact from the sales process as much as possible.

With that attitude, it's no wonder that employee wellbeing isn't a major focus.
I try once more:

I have a big shelf of books.

It includes my mothers chemistry book from before I was born as well as a few books bought second hand.

I have maybe one disk from the time I was a teenager.

Yes, fire will destroy a book (although parts will often be recoverable using low tech methods).

The same fire will certainly destroy disks and make them unrecoverable for everyone but recovery labs (if they are recoverable at all.)

Summary: books fail slower than disks. When they fail they often fail gracefully and you can still use them and even repair them using low tech tools.

Disks fail more often. In fact you rarely see working disks from last decade. They fail for a number of reasons and other times seemingly for no reasons at all. When they fail they might have tried to warn you but often they just fail with no warning and unless you work in IT you'll rarely see those warnings anyway. Also after they've actually failed you more likely than not need a recovery lab to get anything back.
You may be overestimating how easy cut and cover is. I live in the city of Antwerp where they decided to dig up the central crossing that connects the main shopping street with the main traffic hub, to redesign it so cars would go underneath and shoppers can walk across the crossing unimpeded. It was planned for 18 months, and now is projected to be closer to 3 years.

This is what it looks like when you do such a thing:

https://gvacdn.akamaized.net/Assets/Images_Upload/2017/08/18...

The stores in the neighborhood are complaining that they'll probably go out of business before the works are done.
>They work without power

Yes, but being able to read them at any moment in any place certainly does require power. Hard to read a paper book a night or in a room without windows.
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Leetcode is the right answer. The better question is how folks got to the point of nailing these questions without going to a top CS program or doing competitive programming.

I'm honestly beginning to think it's an inherent ability given how little folks from top schools struggle with interviews.
Here is Balaji's own writeup of the company's trajectory: https://medium.com/@balajis/the-turnaround-2d145589d814
The site of every airplane crash doesn't become an inhabitable danger lasting for multiple lifetimes.
> Bill is a guy who made more money on Microsoft Stock than on Sun Stock because he sold the latter and bought the former, recognizing that at the end of the day Microsoft would have a larger impact

That's an interesting revision of history to fit a narrative.
I remember having plenty of problems with hugepages on RHEL running Postgres. I guess this is something that is actually hard to get right.
An independently powered external HDD connected to your PC can also wake it up. I had this problem as well but haven't found a solution that doesn't stop me from using my current setup.
Isn't this the type of comment that's frowned upon at HN Attempting to put me down, along with no sustenance in it?

And for reference sake, here's a breakdown of the votes my original comment had:

After 4 minutes:
3 points

At 5 minutes:
2 points (-1 downvote or more with equal new up votes)

At 8 minutes:
1 point (-2 downvotes or more with equal new up votes)

At 14 minutes:
0 points (-3 downvotes or more with equal new up votes)

At 51 minutes (I was writing my response):
-1 points (-4 downvotes or more with equal new up votes)
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And yet it is about 100x as useful as most free software that does. One wonders whether that is coincidence or correlation.

I don't know Igor, but if 7z is anything to go by then he probably uses VC--I'm guessing here--6 for the same reason Sean Barrett does: It's way faster and less bloated than modern VS. I'm also guessing he doesn't use those security features because they're largely ineffective and just complicate things and slow them down.

I'm sure many will argue the last point, but it's hard to imagine that that mindset doesn't play a role in 7-zip being as great a utility as it is.
At the risk of rehashing other comments here, software devs at Amazon are profit centers - when they work the company gains exponentially more value than it pays them. A good engineer retained can often deliver 2X to 10X the value of a new hire. The company treats them them accordingly.

Warehouse employees are cost centers. They're replaceable pseudo-robots that are filling in the gaps until the engineers mentioned above finish building the real ones. A new worker at a cheaper rate is objectively better than retaining one, because the number of boxes packed tends to increase inversely proportional with age and tenure. The company treats them accordingly.
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I am sorry, that wasn't clear; That was the goal in the specific case of my family-member. The tumors would never fully disappear, and he would likely need more treatments later on.
I think it's been downhill from Windows 2000, XP was OK once you turned off the tellytubbies UI.

Frankly I can't think of anything they've added since 2000 to windows (except better security) that was an improvement.

I occasionally have to use Windows for work and I really hate Windows 10, it's just a chore to deal with when you only boot it every couple of weeks just on the updates.
I had same issue, no reason for wakeups at all.

Wasn't any device, like network adapter and power diagnostics returned nothing.

Solution: reset motherboard NVRAM. No more mystery wakeups!
> This is similar to the "barrier to entry" one above, but seriously. I've never met a developer who complained about needing a Mac to develop for iOS that has put forth an even halfway decent iOS app.

That quote could be in Wikipedia article about survivor bias as an illustration. Of course you haven't heard it - anybody for whom it is a problem is not developing iOS apps and probably doesn't talk to you about it. I am in software industry for decades now, and I have developed software for dozens of systems, but I wouldn't waste my time at trying my hand at iOS development anytime soon - one reason being because there are too many hoops to jump over. And I already own a Mac. Imagine same position where you may need to buy one.
> My email is constantly bombarded with ads like "[pick a artist] wants to say 'thanks' with presale tickets". I already get presale with Amex. Again, these ads can be placed in a 'shows near you' section vice shoved in my email face.

Doesn't CAN-SPAM legally require them to have an unsubscribe button on anything like that?