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> If you replace a thousand people who earn a thousand more than their replacements, you made a million right there.

Well, no, doing some quick research, because SAP annual license costs are substantially > $1000 per user, you've lost something like at least half a million and potentially several million in that case. Just considering license fees, and not other SAP-related costs.
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Shopping online is easier if you know exactly what you are buying. But when you are browsing (shoes, glasses, clothes etc), the ideal experience is the ability to filter by a hierarchy of attributes specific to that category. This requires tedious data collection and categorization.

Eg. Shoes - there are different kinds of attributes - high level shape, specific stylistic shapes, material, usage, price, brand. This categorization needs to be done cleanly. It can get messy fast. If I start seeing sandals when i searched for leather boots, I will get confused and refuse to trust the results.

My theory is that this is why online retailers focussing on certain verticals are able to get some level success vs amazon (Eg. Zappos), largely due to the level of detail available for the browsing experience, even if their prices are higher. Amazon's UX/UI is too generic and sometimes frustrating.
Where can I see the "crazier and crazier shared posts"?
Prop 13 means you're heavily incentivized to stay in your home as a retiree and not move (even if it is "too much" home for you). If you're going to move, its almost certainly out of California entirely – but that is often not a practical option given friends & family nearby.
It's not sarcasm. It doesn't actually matter at all if Google Maps "tracks" you. But this pointless legislation decided it does and now people have to settle for surely inferior alternatives.
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Asset management is not the same as owning the assets so I don't really understand that point. If you were to write up a balance sheet to measure the net worth of an Asset management company, you wouldn't really count other companies assets as their own.
I'd also add techno and albums/mixes of any genre which I have listened to a lot previously.
Addy. 5 mg. Every other day.

I know this will be down-voted, but I've been having issues focussing at work and completing projects for the last 10 years or so.

Visited a Psychiatrist (in Palo Alto). After listening to my situation, she followed it up with a detailed Q & A. She then prescribed 5 mg XR (extended release) of Adderall. Apparently "mild ADHD" is a thing with software engineers in their 30s and up...

The difference has been night and day. I'm completely focussed now, in the zone. I've even gotten side-projects that were languishing for many years, done and shipped over 2 weekends!

I take it only on days I need to focus and get something done. I also take weekends off and also take 1 week per month completely off. This keeps me from building tolerance.
Uhm, external analytics is exactly what we're trying to break here. And if you need an external API, have whoever is serving the Intranet page load that - that's how it's been forever. Websites loading data through JS from 20+ endpoints on a single page is very much a recent disease.
I have a pair of Julbo sunglasses I use for skiing - those would work great and they stay on your ears even during frenzied hacking sessions.
Ask HN: How you approach addressing PR comments in Open Source projects
Hello,

I have been a bit active recently on a Chrome extension repo that I found very useful with PRs and enhancements suggestions. However, sometimes I felt that the comments are very opinionated by the maintainers and at some point made me just stop trying to "contribute" and just maintain my fork. I am wondering if there are any best practices in dealing with OS collaboration.

On a similar note, I want to ask how people usually approach addressing PR comments. For example, for one PR I had over 10 comments and the Github page was flooded with comments that I wanted to address. It was crazy at some point to keep track of them as I dont want to push every commit for every fix I did so that I can see the `outdated` collapsable code block that Github shows. I have came up with this idea https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/pull/1407 which allows you to have a task-list like feature on the PR comments.

Would love your thoughts on this.

Thanks
As a kind of thought experiment I wonder how being the new "owner" of this would be anything other than a terrible curse. It's not really useful in any way to most people so you probably decide to hawk it. You have the full might of the DoE and other government agencies monitoring for it. Let's say you somehow establish contact with a weapons dealer or foreign government agent. They are just as likely to whack you and take it to clean up the trail as any other outcome. There's basically no way to win, and no zero sum in this game.
Classical music or alpha waves, with a pair of decent Sennheiser over-the-ear headphones.
>> The only services that actually need to shut down are ones that are monetizing based on personal data. Small SaaS services that aren't doing that can be fully GDPR compliant with a little bit of copy writing and self-service options for deleting/downloading personal data

> If what you are saying is true, why would a business choose to shut down their EU services until some later date?

> Do they hate making money? ...

> Seriously. What is their motivations from your perspective?

Don't assume businesses are making rational decisions just because they're businesses. Their motivations may very well be that their leader irrationally freaked out after reading some anti-GDPR FUD, overreacted, and hasn't yet reevaluated the decision.
I just tried it in safari and it generates something that doesn't open in chrome, and when I click on the file alone I get a warning that it "can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer".
If you have two industries, one that is highly carbon intensive and another that is less intensive, it doesn't make sense to say each country should have a "fair share" of both. Maybe country A is better at the carbon intensive one and country B is better at the non-carbon intensive one, so there's no reason to expect countries to be equal in how much carbon per anything they use. From the perspective of the entire world, somebody has to do all sorts of different things, so it's probably not fair to discriminate between legitimate industries. We do want to reduce the amount of carbon used by all industries, but that doesn't mean it makes sense to require them to be equal. It would be like saying a heavy truck has to use the same amount of fossil fuels as a moped.
Something no one has mentioned yet, could it be that the engineering force at Amazon is no longer what it used to be?

I can personally point to two friends who I consider top notch engineers and designers that have left Amazon because of its toxic culture. I'm sure I'm not the only with these anecdotal examples, we've all heard the stories. At the end of the day years of unbalanced work/life balance, overly aggressive management and frugal approach to everything makes for a weak argument for A players to stick around.

Could this be an example of crumbling engineering standard at Amazon?
I've also come to realize that this may partially explain why conservatives I know have been reluctant to engage in political discussion in these times. They're being backed into having to defend fundamentally indefensible positions.

Something I saw happen recently, was a conservative making positive ("the way things are") statements, and being treated as if he'd made normative ("the way things should be") statements. And being attacked for things he hadn't said, and pressured to defend positions he didn't hold, and effectively called a liar for trying to point out the miscommunication.
I've lost track of who owns whom, but would this merger create a larger and more effective competitor for Fox?

Does it compete with the wireless and telecommunications industries he appears to be most aligned with?

Is the opposition a smokescreen, to provide some "balance" to present and distract from all the rest that he is doing?
This report juxtaposed with some of the descriptions I was reading on a reddit thread about what it's like to be in SF on a day to day basis just paint such an insane picture. A place where the median house price is 1.6 million dollars and it's completely commonplace to see a person defecate on a street in broad daylight.

For a place that has generated such wonder, it seems like some kind of social anti-pattern born out of a hyper-capitalist society.
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https://musicforprogramming.net/?two is something that my wife uses with success.
The core flaw to most negative comments on HN since the Model S was first announced or produced is: the skeptics pretend there will be zero volume improvement and Tesla is going bankrupt soon. If you remove those two absurdities, their arguments always implode.

With the Model S it was routinely claimed that because Tesla got off to a slow production start, that they'd therefore never manufacture the car in any volume. The same ridiculous argument was then wheeled out again for the Model 3. It will be wheeled out for the next model that has a slow production start or production problems. Which points to the obvious conclusion: it's about attacking Tesla, it's not about logic, reason, facts.

The Model 3 starts slow on manufacturing. The skeptic says: see, they've failed, it's over, they'll never produce it in volume. The Model 3 weekly production moves up to 500 or 1,000 units. The skeptic says: see, they have no idea what they're doing, they can't produce it any real volume, and besides they're going bankrupt in 1Q19 or sooner anyway. The Model 3 weekly production moves up to 2,500 or 3,000. The skeptic says: yeah but the car sucks, they're building them in tents, and besides they'll never manufacture 5,000 per week, and they're going bankrupt anyway. The Model 3 production moves up to 5,000+ units per week. The skeptic says: yeah, but they'll never make 10,000 per week, and they're still going bankrupt, they can't make money on the car.

That's how the Tesla attack, goal post moving has worked thus far. And it'll perpetually continue to work that way, they'll just move on to the next thing to focus on as an attack.
Sigh, well if you really want to be depressed, I suppose it's a free country. Speaking as someone who used to be depressed, all that depressive realism stuff is total BS. When you completely filter out all the positive aspects of everything and focus on the negative only, you're just not seeing the complete picture.
From other sources, it does not appear that UK is actually excluded from this programme. On the other hand, Dassault are the lead in the Franco-German project - that could be an issue, I don't know.
Adjusted to handle small desktops better, and added the resets.
I try not to read/post on HN.
Of course. I would suspect that with Rust you would introduce less new ones but I just wanted to point out that finding bugs isn't evidence that the language helped you out.

Even though I am a believer I would love to see some solid evidence of Rust making code safer.
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I would say not really. For one thing, the early days of gaming held onto many elements from arcades where games were meant to be consumed in somewhat bite-sized chunks (Atari, NES, etc).

A big factor for multiplayer games is the somewhat modern obsession with matchmaking and character intro/pick screens. When I was a kid, I could hop into a game immediately for a 15-20 minute deathmatch session of Quake 1/2/3 in any semi-populated server then leave whenever it was time to do homework, etc.

Last I tried Quake Champions, the newest installment in the series, you spend roughly 1-5 minutes in a matchmaking queue then another 2-3 minutes (or more, it was pretty bad sometimes) in some intro/loading screens, then another minute or two in a pre-match warm-up. So even in the same genre's case you're already potentially 8+ minutes sunk into your 15-20 minute 'quick game' period.

To make matters worse (again because of matchmaking) you are penalized if you have to leave before the completion of a match or if you go idle. Usually this penalty is applied as a low-priority queue the next time you try to matchmake which just compounds the problem from above.
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It depends on the distance from your co-workers, how loud they talk, and how much you are willing to damage your hearing to drown them out.
Just like regular sports, you need to understand the basic rules, but that doesn't mean you need to know all of them. Most people don't know the full rulebook of sports that they watch.

And commentators can make it even more accessible; their expertise is there to help provide context and guidance.
53,339 vehicles, but only 28,578 Model 3 sedans or ~2.3k per week. The 5k per-week goal is for the Model 3, not all vehicles combined.
Unfortunately headphones and noise cancellation don't help with the fight vs. flight reflex that gets automatically triggered by foot traffic near your desk or especially behind your back. This is why reaching a state of flow and getting really productive is just totally impossible in an open-plan office setting period. The most basic requirement for being able to focus is privacy. Quiet is also important, but not nearly as important as privacy.

Many people also find the physical feeling of anything covering / touching / inside their ear to be too uncomfortable to focus, ruling out all possibilities of headphones, earbuds or earplugs from consideration. And even more, lots of people have sensitivity to music that distracts them or makes them feel tired very quickly. And in severe enough cases, someone can have full-blown misophonia, and truly need the ability to completely customize their workspace in order to totally control all sounds during periods when they need to focus.

I know your advice might help some people, but I really wish there was a way en masse that developers could communicate that headphones absolutely do not solve the problems created by open-plan office layouts (one of the main destroyers of focus). It's sad that as a collection of workers, we've allowed ourselves to be put into this position by not demanding private offices and turning down jobs that won't provide such a cost-effective tool.
The QC's don't completely wash out background noise. If you listen to your music loud enough (which is probably too loud), you literally won't hear anything around you. But normal use, I find that it muffles outside voices enough not to get distracted, but not so much to the point where if someone says my name I can respond. An added plus, is people will bother you less if you're wearing them. Sometimes I like wearing them without listening to any music, just to create a quieter environment.
If you have a public-facing site, how is using something like Imgix a privacy issue?
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pricing was fixed and is live now. also filtering by price works much better now
I just signed up for this, maybe that's the reason?
This reminds me of jackass and skating. There used to be a huge following for jackass stunts and skating culture. I was a part of that following and I loved it. Looking back I am confused because jackass just seems sad. Through the eyes of an adult it loses almost 100 percent of it's charm. I suspect that twitch is the same thing because I just don't get it. People seem to be completely oblivious to the horrible sadness of what they do -- from streaming to an empty chat and all the way to personality worshiping. The whole thing is just awful. I would say it will face the same death as jackass and skater culture.
My mother is Australian and my father is American. We (my two sisters and I) had a distinct Australian tinge to our speech which was obvious in elementary school. This caused me to actually miss test questions on syllabification in class, since a more typical US accent would say e.g. i-de-a but our mother broke it into i-dea. Mom actually protested that one to the teacher.

I've lost most of that except for a residual tendency to say eye-ther (either) and tomahto (tomato), which my Strine wife smirks at.
This is perpetuating a harmful stereotype of bovine culture. You should be ashamed.
It's in the "san francisco bay area".
It's very unlikely that it will be 20 million. However, it's likely that it will be worth around 4 million. That would be a 7 percent year over year growth.
Yes. If you want a cesium calibration source, you can order one online from United Nuclear.[1] Costs $145, plus $15 shipping. Anyone can order. "If you're ordering hazardous items, don't forget to sign the disclaimer on the bottom of the order form!"

Plutonium alpha sources are available from Eckert and Ziegler, and can be ordered in the US from Direct Scientific.[2] Call for pricing. They're a disk with some plutonium electroplated onto platinum on stainless steel. There's no window, because this is an alpha emitter and the particles would not get through.

As hazardous objects, these rank well below a steak knife.

[1] https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&c...
[2] https://www.drct.com/dss/sources/alpha.htm
They don't, mostly?

I see, anecdotally, a lot of anger, protests, denial, bargaining. There are the friends hunkered down in the small hopes that maybe due processes and impeachment processes (related to Emoluments or Russian Interference) play out as they should do and maybe not fix the mess, but at least stop some of the damage. There seem to be a lot of us seeking stronger depression medications (both clinical and non-prescribed like alcohol or worse), and/or counseling.

I know I'm not coping well. I'm in a cycle of procrastinating help that seems to only be making things worse personally. In 2004 I was under the assumption this might be the Darkest Timeline, and in 2018 this feels so much less like a joke and so much more like a shared psychosis.
Addy. 5 mg. Every other day.

I know this will be down-voted, but I've been having issues focussing at work and completing projects for the last 10 years or so.

Visited a Psychiatrist (in Palo Alto). After listening to my situation, she followed it up with a detailed Q & A. She then prescribed 5 mg XR (extended release) of Adderall. Apparently "mild ADHD" is a thing with software engineers in their 30s and up...

The difference has been night and day. I'm completely focussed now, in the zone. I've even gotten side-projects that were languishing for many years, done and shipped over 2 weekends!

I take it only on days I need to focus and get something done. I also take weekends off and also take 1 week per month completely off. This keeps me from building tolerance. Also 5 mg Addy is like the LOWEST dose dispensed, so I feel ok with it.
Slackware was my first introduction to Linux. I initially investigated it as a way to get around my parents setting a password on Windows. Thanks, mom and dad, for the (very unintentional) motivation that set me on the career path I'm on now.
Commodore Cave = Can this badly damaged Amiga 500 Plus be saved?
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Check this out https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/

Specifically the posts like this https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/19/why-we-use-prog...
I guess I was imagining that it was the kind that comes pure in a glass vial, but it's probably more like this:

https://www.imagesco.com/geiger/radioactive-sources.html

These are a lot like the description of the plutonium sample as well.
It's way too easy these days to identify some undesirable behaviour in a relationship and instantly jump to the conclusion that they must be abusive or toxic, despite the fact that many people have their ups and downs. Throwing an abandonment issue or two their way by ditching them at the first tough moment is hardly going to uplift them, and if you care enough about them maybe what's needed is some stronger boundaries while that stuff is going on.

You'll never nourish such a deep, loving friendship if you're expecting your friends to be basically perfect: happy, easy-going, not giving you any trouble. Going through some tough shit together can really strengthen that bond and open you up to a kind of positivity and happiness you'll never get from those who simply wear it as a mask.
You're not being pessimistic enough: likely 6 1/2 years, unless he _really_ tanks the economy, given precedent.

It's like watching the forest fires in California. It'd be really great if someone did something about this, but there's not really much you individually can do. Mostly I try to convince people to vote and be involved in local politics.

Long term, the Nordic countries look quite nice.

(Post-factum edit: I realize this may come across as glib, but take that as the true message. Gallows humor is really all many of us have left.)
>Risk assessments on GDPR litigation are blown wildly out of proportion.

Are there any precedents set for GDPR enforcement yet? No? Then how can you know that?
A friend bought his house in Sunnyvale at the peak and I think the trough was about 30% lower. The decline had no effect whatever on his life, before long it was multiple times his original price.
I wish my friend. I'm in Canada. I looked on autotrader.ca. Postal code C0A1Y0. Nissan LEAFs are going for > 30k
Edit: Seems I was mistaken, however I would have to drive to Montreal to get it. Worth looking at when the time comes I suppose.
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Many Americans are strongly partisan and have a strong fealty to one party or another. This means that most criticism of Trump is largely partisan talking points being repeated somewhat thoughtlessly as an act of loyalty.

In reality most Americans do not really care about the issues you mention. In most cases Trump's style is very different from that of Obama, but the meat of the policy decisions is very much the same.

There is not much enlightenment to be found in America's two parties. Both are forces of conservatism and protection of incumbent interest.

Trump's antics benefit him by distracting everyone. If he wants the media to get up in arms he says something rude, this distracts from the actual polices he's undertaking, which are typically fairly widely agreed upon by both parties.

For instance, congress granted the president the power to unilaterally define a "national security threat" that requires changes to immigration permission. Congress could easily undo this permission and make it harder for Trump to strike out at immigrants, but since both parties largely support the general policy, this won't happen.

If you look at a county by county map of the US election 2016 results, the vast majority of places in the US favored Trump. Why? Because fearmongering and blaming of minority groups and foreign countries for problems works very well politically. The US has had an anti-brown-people crusade going with renewed fervor since 9/11, and most of the foreign policy the US engages in promotes an agenda of American exceptionalism.

No, America's soldiers are not more brave than other soldiers, our politicians are not less corrupt, our people are not less greedy, etc. But Americans of all stripes will strongly disagree with those statements because they buy into the religion of American exceptionalism.

So to answer your question, Trump is horrible, but is more of a symptom of a longer-term process than a new phenomenon. I'm surprised that more Americans were not revolted by his rhetoric about immigrants during the campaign, but we are a mediocre, bloodthirsty people.

The worst part of it is that those who want to keep out immigrants are the ones seeking handouts from government in the form of cushy, protected jobs. They fear change and they fear competition. It's embarrassing to me that such cowardice is on full display for the world to see. Oh well.