skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's about 10 million per year in debt payments for the full $140 million investment. If you assume that 50% of households subscribe, and the city subsidizes rates so no capital is recovered from folks below the poverty line, that's about $686/year per subscribing household. Which is crazy high--the non-subsidized ARPU will have to be $140 to break even. (Which is also not out of line--Verizon will barely break even on FiOS at $110 ARPU, and that deployment was cheaper and had no subsidy component.)
Why is it critical for your enterprise to understand Blockchain technology and
The bigger picture is Boulder is attracting startups.

Having fiber broadband is a plus to that attraction. So a better broadband means a better economy: more activity, more jobs, more people, more taxes... The cost of that infrastructure makes total sense.
The biggest change in pharma in the past 20 years is that the FDA loosened direct to consumer advertising restrictions in 1997. Now 9 out of the top 10 pharma companies spend more on advertising than they do on research.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
I think it's more correct to say it was put there by State Street to promote State Street.
Yes.Actually all Private Pilot students spend a fair amount of time under the hood (a device that prevents you from being able to see outside the airplane) practicing unusual attitude recoveries.

Basically, you close your eyes while the instructor tosses the airplane all over the sky for a couple minutes in an attempt to get your inner ear fluid sloshing around to disorient you, then puts the airplane into a state where, e.g., you're in a deep stall, nose up, turning left, then instructs you to open your eyes and determine the airplane's attitude from reading the instruments. Once you have the attitude correctly described, then you return it to straight & level using instruments.

This was actually some of the most fun I had during pilot training. It was like a puzzle under stress (you only have so long before you hit the ground) figuring out what the airplane was doing and describing how to get out of the situation.

The point of teaching this to VFR students is to prevent the "178 seconds" situation so you will hopefully have enough instrument experience and calmness to turn the airplane around and get back into clear air.

The point of the article is to drive home the point that using your normal human instincts and feelings will kill you in that situation. You can be completely inverted and feel just fine. Only trusting what the instruments say will get you out of trouble (edit: and cross checking them to be sure you don't rely on a failed instrument).

And actually, the situation can deteriorate faster than you realize. I recall days with my instructor where, while it was technically VFR flight, it was so hazy that I spent a lot of time using instruments because I couldn't see the horizon very well.
Other discussion in the past 1-2 days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302830
The article is tautological. It basically says that only some people get blackouts because they tolerate alcohol differently. It's like saying only some people blackout because only some drink.

I thought some people can't experience it. It seems they just didn't get drunk enough.
I did technician work as a side job during college. It seemed like most dorms had data closets every floor/every other floor. Some buildings only had them in the attic and basement, but they were also usually limited to 4 levels. Are most large apartment buildings similar?
Netflix: Almost THRICE as big as it was last year
I have municipal telecom where I live in Vermont and it waaaaay faster and cheaper than the competition. It makes Comcast look like a joke. Hopefully, Boulder will have a similar outcome.
Could this kind of model registry enable efficient model search based on input/output queries, a la this paper about semantic code search? https://kstolee.github.io/papers/JSS2015.pdf

Perhaps the registry would need to be a lot larger before semantic search would be really useful?
It's waiting, the "tty" command which is invoked a "a.out" causes the tty to receive the sequence of characters specified -- in this case "id\n". The vulnerability here is that if, as one user, you switch user contexts and then later (10 seconds, in this case, hence "sleep 10") the command interacts with the tty over the file descriptor that had been given to the child process and not killed when you exited the shell that spawned it.
> New York on the other hand is more of a spaghetti mess.

Not really. Look at the map again. Everything flows through Manhattan. The entire system is setup to take you to Manhattan. If you want to go from the Bronx to Queens or Brooklyn, you go through Manhattan.

There's really only one line for which this isn't true: the G from Queens to Brooklyn.

Lines like the M [0] that could fairly easily have been designed as a full circle, are actually U-shaped, because it's really about funneling people in and out of Manhattan.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/yK4JtoG.png
And you can no longer cover payroll on your own credit card...
Ask HN: Best Docker consultancies?
What are the best, most well-known consultancies out there for training and migration to Docker deployment architecture? Who "wrote the book" on Docker?
What causes burnout and chronic fatigue syndrome?
Just tested this out, can confirm it works on Debian 7 as well. Genius little trick! Not sure about practical exploitation, though.
- Go to bed early and develop a regular sleep pattern, and don't fool yourself with the myth about being a "night person", you are not a cat, you have just offset your sleep/wake cycle from lacking proper routine.

- Exercise regularly. Aerobic exercise(whatever that means for you) that you can maintain without develop injury or over-training will be your baseline. Endorphin is what you are after, since it provides a boost of immune system, better sleep, less anxiety and increased overall health.

- Be outside in the sun everyday, take a walk or sit and read a book.

- Cut out any consumption of large amount of drugs: alcohol, sugar, nicotine...

- Talk to someone about your worries and sprinkle some Zen in your life.

- Help someone else for no personal gain, but don't let it consume all your time.

- Understand that all things are transient, nothing is static, and trying to be eternally happy is impossible and the quest for such a thing will make you unhappy.
As I remember, `login` program (that asks for your login and password on terminal) does a "virtual hangup" to prevent such things.
Hence my use of the word 'secretly'.

Also, it would only take one particular rich/narcissistic employee to make up all of it if he wanted to secure a few billion dollars of his net worth for the future.
I enjoy the state of the art sewer system in my city. It keeps the brown stuff contained and properly disposed of. And it cost billions, with a 100 year replacement cycle that is constantly in progress.
About that article: I assume that DT uses an index for that column while dplyr does a full search. If that's really the case the result wouldn't be that much a surprise.
Nonsense. I don't want my talent to go towards making some rich guy richer, as I'm stuffed full of pills so that I'm just aware enough to keep coding.

You may not realize the life sentence that serious depression is. Or the pseudo science that backs these pill pushers.
Please read the rest of my comments here. You're talking about a different idea of individual transport than me.

The problem is that you can't use public transport for cargo, for disabled people, for luxury rides, etc - there are many more use cases. Another problem is time - the bigger area and the more people your bus line has to serve, the less efficient it is for your customers.

There are better ideas than to minimize space (comfort AND usability) per person. E.g. optimizing your route in a way that you go from point A to point B as directly as possible, utilizing buses and shuttles on the way, taking people that need it. Bus lines are just like this, but fixed to specific pickup points, which would definitely remain existing, but the traffic around it would get optimized as well.

Why? Because with growing population, there are more and more people that need to go individually because of time constraints, comfort requirementa, disability or cargo. My solution supports your approach, just extends it to all vehicles on the road.
It was like someone massaged my thoughts or rinsed off my brain. Maybe it is more like a reboot. In any case, my brain felt good. So many thoughts that were negative just didn't have the same sort of affect on everything else. My worries had a different sort of framing on them. I could look at some of these things and make a reasonable decision about them. Some things, sure, I need to work on - but I was a bit more motivated to actually do so. Other things, I was able to make a decision not to be bothered by them. Since I had some time without so much mental stress, it wasn't so difficult to teach myself that those things were a bit ridiculous. I had a better sense of personal well-being and self-love that has stuck around.

I imagine doing this with an actual therapist would be even more helpful. I completely understand why it seems like a miracle for mental health in drug trials.

I've done other sorts of drugs in my life - lsd, for example. While they shaped some of my perception and thoughts about the world and life, nothing was quite like this. I couldn't describe myself as unhappy before, but now I'm really content with life.

I should now mention that I would urge folks to have caution. I can understand how folks would get addicted to it. And there is a risk of simply doing it too often and actually having the opposite effect. This is something to do occasionally, not every weekend or even once a month. The most profound change was the first time: I've done it since then, and it while (for me) it reinforces the things I learned the first time and still feel mentally refreshed the next day, it simply isn't as large of a change.

Another small sidenote: I've done it with my spouse. It also strengthened our relationship as well simply because we basically sat and talked positively for hours.
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Plus Google giving them SPDY got us the new http2 standard much more quickly and the benefits. Google controlled the two biggest clients and the two biggest servers and still gave the IP to the community. Love how they just want to push the broader industry forward.
Burlington Telecom for the win!
Not sure why you've been downvoted, unless it's for pedantry. The Earth is indeed spheroidal, in fact an oblate spheroid - flatter at the poles and bulging at the equator due to the rotation of the earth. Modelling the true shape of the Earth is central to geodesy.
> It seems far more likely, given history, that this estimate is low.

Which history do you mean? A lot of people have fiber to their house, that’s part of history.

If the cost has ballooned out of control, why? Costs don’t have to do that, and they haven’t always done that historically.
I agree luck is a factor. But you can increase your chances, by the choices you make, by perseverance ...
Content moderation became an industrial process
Funny Videos 2018 Stupid People Doing Stupid Things
Mindfulness and Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy did it for me. You need a framework for challenging your wrong thinking. Learn to take a universal perspective, root out the self pity and resentment, and foster responsibility for yourself. I found a therapist who worked me through REBT and connected me to a fantastic meditation teacher. Obviously you need to take care of your body too, with diet, exercise and above all, the most stringent of sleep hygiene habits (probably no drugs or alcohol either, sorry). Put me 5 hours of bad sleep a night and I'll be suicidally upset about "everything" at the end of the week.
I do this too. I found an iPhone on the sidewalk a few months ago. It was locked but I could see notifications. I was absolutely aghast at what people allow to disturb them. This phone had pages and pages of notifications. Countless random apps alerting you of pointless new events occurring. Things going on sale, enticing you to buy things, friends posting things, etc. It was fascinating to see how other people live their lives.
Wow, $2,500 is great. Can you share who that was? I had a small acquisition a few years ago and my bill WAS 4-5x that.
The whole set-up is such an interesting work of art.

If you asked a visitor who didn't know the background, "Which statue was installed by a corporation and which was guerilla art?", they would probably say the bull was corporate and the girl was unauthorized street art. And they would be 100% wrong.
Yes, but did it happen before InnoDB was widely used?
It’s a point of constant frustration for me when on call—i actually want three levels of notifications (most notifications show without alert, some vibrate, and pagerduty rings). When awake, i want more notifications to vibrate, but i want all phone calls to ring.

Thankfully the apple watch has addressed this by actually waking me up when i get a call, so i can just turn vibrate + Do Not Disturb on, but it’s so confusing how they market their mobile devices as being for professionals when their notifications settings feel like they haven’t been updated since they were introduced. The resulting notification system (especially Do Not Disturb and the vibrate physical switch) feels like a toy.
Generally 1 is considered the first natural number, except bourbaki.

The reason for this is the set {1...n} has order n, but the set {0...n} has order n+1, so you get lots of off by n+1 inelegancies or errors when order is important. It's better to be explicit at the set level when you need an {0...n-1} set, because usually the order gets passed around to later expressions and not the set element, so there's less algebra.

Zero indexing is great when your index is an offset, as it is for true arrays.
Welcome to Wall Street, USA. When it gets really bad, PERHAPS Glass-Steagal will be reimplimented. As bad as it is, apparently wage slave conditions must be worse before change is considered. Are 60 year mortgages a thing yet?
> Moderation or abstinence from social media, news, and most ad driven media

Amen to that: garbage in, garbage out
I think it’s appropriate for a HN thread title. A lot of us are here because we are into coding and may want to see OSS projects in the languages we use. For me at least, the rest of the world can be all about the use cases and end products, but HN should be allowed to get geekier and worry about the language it was coded in.

If you look on the GH read me the Golang attributions are not quite as prominent.
Sounds interesting, how does it help with Composer?
Arguably, the reason for Spectre, etc., is that people have failed to realize that at the scale of modern intel CPUs, these problems already are distributed systems problems.
What makes you think a therapist actually cares about your well-being? they don't even know you, and they only want to know you so they can get paid. Doesn't seem like a healthy relationship if you ask me. Basically this is the primary reason i never seriously consider seeing a therapist.
That was the initial reason I disabled them, because I don't want personal messages coming through, or even who is sending them. Now it's a sanity reason. All must go.
ah ok thanks

Out of curiosity, what other laptop would you have moved to? Another apple laptop or something different altogether?
It's considered courteous to explain downvotes. (So, er, thanks.)

My actual initial reaction:

Come on HN calling the GPL "viral" you're pushing peoples' buttons and you know it.

Do you want flame-wars? 'Cause that is how you get flame-wars.

I'm out.

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I guess you're the right person to ask - why hasn't this just been ripped out of the likes of OpenBSD?

edit: seems it already has! https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=149870941319610
Ask HN: Single Page App Feature Usage Tracking
Just joined a company starting on rebuilding their product as a SPA and we are sadly lacking in any real metrics on feature usage. The product is a SAAS B2B where some roles in our customers create content and others consume it. So I'm more interested in understanding which product features are being used than more page-oriented stats on content views etc.

Looking for input:
- on approaches to take to get feature usage metrics on SPA and how to analyse;
- SPA moving to VueJS, any plugins recommended to just make it easy;
- currently using Google Analytics (and some internal tracking when we audit API usage), any recommendations of significantly better services (SAAS or hosted)
This chart about effects of life events on happiness is quite informative - https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Life-e...
When I think about history, and try to come up with initial conditions in government that could have brought the native tribes on board rather than deporting and destroying them, I thought that maybe people could make a voluntary declaration of their cultural identity during voter registration and again while voting. The House of Representatives would have a separate fixed pool of seats for cultural representation, but the cultural groups would not be guaranteed at least one seat, like the states; if your group doesn't have enough membership to meet the cutoff, you don't get seats that election. Every group with at least one Representative would get two seats in the Senate. Only those declaring for a culture could vote in the races for their seats.

You'd end up with the Senator from Southern Baptist arguing with the Senator from Postmodern Counterculture, or the Representative in Hispanic-American seat 5 hashing things out with the Representative from Secular Scientists. Mergers and schisms could cause the representation to track with changes in the population. Perhaps Iroquois Confederacy would have to merge with Algonquian Peoples and Five Civilized Tribes to stay politically relevant. Anglo Male Landowners might split into Urban-Industrial and Southern Whites.

It never could have happened, though. The only cultural group with representation back then was Anglo Male Landowners, and they were unlikely to share power voluntarily.

Anglo Male Landowners are still over-represented in US federal government.

I don't think an "at large" position would actually represent the whole country. It would give more power to the one of two political parties with support of the majority that election. You really need a mechanism to ensure minority positions can get more representation, such that any majority blocs have to seek consensus with at least one minority bloc to get anything done. The two-party system is washing out a lot of voices that never even get lip service from anybody, ever.
As far as I'm aware, only their non-Thinkpad laptops have shipped with malware in the BIOS.

I personally wouldn't worry about buying a Thinkpad from Lenovo, but I would not buy any other laptop from them.
And Tim Cook is waiting for that moment to arrive, so that he can put an apple on every Tesla.
Probably less than drilling a new tunnel through all of Chicago.
Indeed, wider tunnels make maintenance much easier, and also allow evacuation of the train via the regular side doors rather than through the cab door.
$1.1m/year payback (20 years)

$1,100,000/year, 40,000 households, so $27.50/year mean income per household to service the debt.

If only 50% of households (you said people) subscribe, then $55/year mean income per household to service the debt. If, again, as you state, no capital contribution from households below the poverty line, then, using your math (which, btw, double counts these), we're talking $110/year, or $9.16/sub/month to service the debt.

Here in Austin, there are three providers of 1gbps/1gbps FTTH internet, and all are priced just under $60/mo.

I think someone can probably figure out how to build a similar service in Boulder, paying the City of Boulder $10/mo per subscriber household, and still make fat rolls of cash.
Comcast charges $160 a month for 1000 Mbps internet and $110 a month for 400 Mbps. The $100 per month you quote isn't terrible when compared to those numbers.
Yeah, big danger. I'm not super new to the whole startup / investor cycle and we got semi burned by that some years ago, i.e. wasting way too much time on something that turned out to go nowhere. My stance is to keep shipping and developing as if nothing is going on.
>Stop jerking off incessantly ?

yeah. there is even this entire #nofap thing.
I find it helps with energy level.
That could explain it. My fiber comes in from an above-ground wire strung on poles. They’re proposing to bury the lines, at high cost?
Using cat6 would mean you've just invested in the next 5 years, 10 Max before that all has to be ripped out. By going fiber to the last 5ft, you theoretically can use the same infrastructure for the next 50 years. If they had started doing single mode fiber in the 90s, upgrading us to 10gbe would be an optic swap in a pop, not digging cable out of the ground.
The Blue Line is already operating at the electric and signaling capacity of the line. There is no simple/cheap fix so you get the stagnation you see everywhere in transportation everywhere in the nation.

They are currently working on a signaling modernization program, but I don't know the details well enough to know if it will help much. New rolling stock that should offer a bit more capacity also starts arriving around 2020.

I agree it's frustrating to watch. I moved to Chicago in 2004 and my El stop on the Blue Line was pretty lightly trafficked. Now you are lucky to get on the train during rush hour, much less get a seat. As the neighborhoods continue to heat up along the line something has to break at some point, but NYC shows things can get really bad and there is not enough focused rage to get anything done even then.
Show HN: Serverless backend in the cloud
As I become more senior I spend more and more time thinking about how to solve 10X problems from root cause with 1X effort.

10X engineers don’t write 10X code. It’s not healthy to overwork. They get 10X problems solved for the business with elegant 1X solutions since they understand the system in a deep way. Sometimes you feel like they are taking longer than 1X junior folks but these are the engineers who solve problems from the root cause so they never happen again. Not only that, but they setup the system in such a nice way that it removes friction for other developers and makes them >2X effective. So all in all the whole team moves at multiples of 10X.

And that just comes with practice and discipline.
> I see Coinbase as "the Netscape of crypto".

That's just... I don't have words to describe this. You realize Netscape invented SSL? This "crypto" term you and a bunch of other people already existed and has a conflicting meaning since it is one the core functionalities of what your term uses. You and your gang need to figure out a different term. I suggest the term cryptocurrency or digitulips.
The headline is a bit confusing. At first glance it might seem to say that 1/3 of Americans take anti-depressants. What it's actually trying to say is that 1/3 of Americans take prescription drugs that have depression as a possible side effect.

Even that seems bizarre to me. What is the percentage of Americans who take prescription drugs... period? I'm a middle-aged man, and (knock on wood!) still haven't come down with any chronic conditions requiring medication. So I would probably assume that no more than 1/3 of Americans take ongoing prescription drugs at all.

Which means I'd have to presume that pretty much all drugs have depression as a possible side effect.
> Sociopaths, in their own best interests, knowingly promote over-performing losers into middle-management, groom under-performing losers into sociopaths, and leave the average bare-minimum-effort losers to fend for themselves.

HN discussion (2009): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881296