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There is no way Jeff answers his own "public" email anymore. It is a far too well known trick at this point.

I'm nobody and I get way too many solicitations as it is. I can't even imagine the volume received by the wealthiest man on Earth.
Could I maybe get a better comparison to the regular piano? I'd like to know why some keys are labeled non-tonal.
Stephen Wolfram sold a book about it.
...or on top of an existing building.
> I assume anything less than 5 stars is going to kill their work so I just give 5 stars

I do the same. I feel like Uber drivers are already living in a world that's way too close to that Black Mirror episode, and as someone who probably makes a lot more money than they do, I'm not really comfortable having that kind of power over them. I feel like rating them 5 stars is the least I can do for someone who's doing a difficult and low-paid job and doesn't really deserve to be under constant scrutiny.
It's unlikely they can sustain the Twitter level of response time and lavish personal attention for the more normal support channels.
The IBC? As in the International Building Code? Where is grass height in there?
Terrible advice. Similar to telling someone to find their soulmate...Just not going happen for everyone, and if you one of the select few, understand it was more luck than your superior self awareness.
what should we call this new form of web log ? c[ommit]log ? v[ersion]log ? g[it]log ?
> Now you're doing something boring, but in service of a cause that is meaningful to you.

I think this is a good balance.

Another way to look at it is from a "theory of change" [1] mindset. I discovered this idea a few weeks ago, from a HN comment, I believe. You envision some type of change that you want to bring about in the world, and then you work backwards in concrete steps in order to figure out how to make it happen. What's cool about this is that it gives you a clear purpose for going outside of your comfort zone and learning new skills. E.g. maybe you're a programmer, and you want to get the US on renewable energy. You're good at programming, but through your analysis you realize that persuading people (politics) is the most likely path to your goal. So you start improving your interpersonal skills.

[1]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange

As far as growth mindset, it's strange that the article said "Beyond that, there's not a clear way to develop a growth mindset about interests." The canonical book on the topic [2] offers many more ideas on how to cultivate growth mindset.

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0...
I don't understand Twitter well enough I guess... how does this help them?
Do you not read fiction or is it just that you haven't read any good fiction lately?
The limitations are mainly around nested arrays of tables. As has been mentioned here already, the [[array-of-tables]] syntax that currently allows this can be super confusing, and is definitely the worst part of TOML right now. Even so, you can often work around this weakness by reworking your config file to pick up on a specific naming scheme (perhaps every "server-*" table is interpreted as a member of an array) or maybe there's an array of strings that contains the names of the tables, each of which becomes an array member in that order. But these are hacks, and it would be nice to have a first-class way of dealing with nested large tables that was easy to scan and not too repetitive.

That said, the alternative right now in other formats is basically a { bunch { of { braces } } which is also not the most amazing thing for long nested tables.
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Sure, we can do all of that. But where is the cost analysis to justify adding more safety?

I don't see how this couldn't be done whith a Python library. More people knows Python syntax, and more projects already have Python as a dependency.

If that idea doesn't already exist in Python, is there even a need in the first place?

Edit : downvoters are losers.
You don’t want to kill their work, they might actually kill somebody.

I’m all for the sharing economy and helping people out but I draw a line at safety. If you cannot drive you will get a bad rating. Sorry.
At least a simplified complaint bot. In Sweden there is a bot that automatically makes a complaint about faulty parking tickets for you by answering some questions. https://botboten.se/
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RSU is "restricted stock unit"?

so basically you get equity worth 250k. But what is the actual take home pay amount?
Preference for less regulation is a normal cultural and personal characteristic, nobody had to implant anything. I don’t view big business as some amorphous entity but rather a collection of people that will do what’s best for them. It’s the same as with politicians who will do ANYTHING to get elected - even pass solid laws that benefit everybody. As long as your goals are aligned, it’s not a problem that they don’t actually give a fuck about you.

EDIT: Downvote if you disagree.
The reason the wealthy don't spend their money isn't for lack of things to spend their money on.
Another option for users is to file a complaint with the appropriate regulator, screenshot their submission and provide it to the company in question. For companies that, like AirBnB often operate in the gray area WRT regulations (and for which regulators often appreciate extra firepower) this could elicit a quick response.

It is sad that you have to do this, but it might be the most effective option. It might also help others in the same situation.
> Maybe a great idea for some conflict resolution startup? :)

My inner cynic can't help but think this would be filled with the digital equivalent of vexatious litigants with the end result being yet another firm that will ban you at the drop of a hat.
The option is to buy it fully specced. A new 6-core i9 with 32 gigs of DDR4 amd 4TB of flash storage will probably keep you happy for the next 5 years. That means your budget is slightly above US$ 1200/year of happy computing with a Mac.

If you don't need macOS or an ultra-elegant thin computer with an incredible screen, you'll probably be happier with a PC from Dell or Lenovo with similar specs and an updated machine every 2 years. But they are neither elegant, nor thin. At least they run Linux very well.

My current personal laptop is 4.5 years old and I am now considering replacing it with a machine with specs similar to the PC I described - non-thin, non-elegant, decent-but-not-incredible screen, a non-bleeding-edge CPU, as much memory as possible, some flash storage and a hard disk and I don't expect to upgrade it in less than 5 years.
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> from THE MASTER BRANCH

to be fair, there's nothing particular about the branch called 'master'.
In this case it would be transferring the money from the rich to the richest.
I bought Yamazaki 18 for $200 several years ago and I thought it was worth the price. It's certainly not a daily whisky, maybe a Friday evening kind of whisky :)

I miss the Hibiki 12 though. I remember when I could afford it :(
What about fanatical liberalism, though? How things have changed since this article was written. What is this "calm search for truth" they spoke of? :)

relevant to this topic is a new, controversial book called, "Why Liberalism Failed": https://www.amazon.com/Why-Liberalism-Failed-Politics-Cultur...

the author spoke with Russ Roberts on EconTalk this week:http://www.econtalk.org/patrick-deneen-on-why-liberalism-fai...
I'd expect word of people being banned with no explanation to deter others from using my service.
We considered property on Hatteras Island in the NC Outer Banks, but decided against it. The impact of salt water on vehicles was a big reason, as was the flooding and vulnerability to hurricanes - but honestly, the lack of reliable, fast Internet access was what disqualified it for us.
Then I don't know what you want to do: are we just going to live in a world where plastic straws need to exist?

In the long run, that doesn't work well for ANYONE.
If you will keep pestering them with an email about what you have done to correct your book (make up some stuff based on their guidelines) and send it over and over and over (waiting until they respond each time), changing it up a bit each time, you'll usually get through to an idiot that will unblock you.
Wabi in Venice Beach had a good selection when I was there. My biggest gripe with all (non American) whiskey is price. Kind of hard to experiment when you are looking at $20+ a glass.
I use goodreads to keep track of the books I want to read, books I am reading, and books I have read.
Hah, that about explains it then.
To see how trendy Japanese Whiskey is, I did a Google search with keyword "Why Japanese Whiskey is..." and there are at least a dozen articles from different media writing the same thing as this OP's article.
What should I drink if I loved sipping on Hibiki 12 but my wage hasn't grown in pace with its price?
Yes, it is, but there exist an alternative approach called automatic differentiation which is more imperative and flexible in nature than symbolic differentiation.

The idea is to keep a tape (you can think of it as a list) and then record all the operations on it as you step forward through the program. Then at the end you execute the operations backwards from the tape.

I take this approach in Spiral's ML library.
Sounds like the perfect time to stop using AirBnB. You are not required to do so and they are not required to serve you. I don't see a problem other than you being upset by their rudeness.

I only first used AirBnB 2 weeks ago. There's a single one in my town. I've never seen an uber. I think many on hackernews overestimate how many people use or depend on these kind (uber, airbnb, etc) services outside of high population density areas.
From a time back when "Liberal" meant in America what it still means today in the rest of the world.
I know food is transient, that's why I used it as a comparison. And really, really good food is just good. On a very primeval and satisfying level.

I get collecting. I love it. And at that level I understand. But from a pure enjoyment level I do not.
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> Do you ban one of the parties, or both, or neither?

If banning is your go-to conflict resolution strategy, then there's a natural incentive to take the side of the host and ban the guest. The hosts are fewer in number, so each brings in more profit.
I meant a work or works by Milner
Highballs are very popular in Japan, so much so that you can buy a highball in a can at vending machines, train stations, etc. Indeed, when I toured the Yamazaki distillery a few years ago, they served Highballs to the guests. Best highball I've ever had.
> the need to retrain people

Last I checked, we stopped doing that back in the early 90's - learning new things is your problem and you better know all of them by next Tuesday, or we'll replace you with somebody who does.
I was a Starbucks Barista for awhile in college. I'd try to use peoples mugs when possible. But so much of the process is designed around that cup. Your name is written on it, the exact ratio of ingredients is measured in it. It fits in the machines well.

Starbucks really needs to reinvent the whole process for people who bring their own mugs. Like having a reusable Maker cup behind the counter or something.
In Boulder the recommendation is to add pizza boxes to the city-collected compost. This is even better than recycling since compost is more likely to be handled locally.
For a (quite plausible IMHO) "conspiracy theory", look upthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522791

and downthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522820
Never stumbled upon it in my research. Thanks for the reference.
Yes I think the whole point of Zoph and Le's research is to empirically demonstrate the desired trade off of compute cycles vs feature engineering
As of 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006

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> Rural internet can be crappy, but LTE has made getting high-speed internet in the sticks much easier.

I'm not sure I'd be able to deal with LTE at home, since I play online games quite a bit, but I'm very impressed with it for work. I often drive out to a lake or river and work from a hammock, tethered to my iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth.

It's incredible to me that I get 50Mbps in a hammock, when it seems like only a few years ago I was paying $80 / month for 128Kbps ISDN only a few miles away.

OK, maybe that was twenty years ago. Maybe I'm just getting old :)
To me the comparison just isn't there. The user experience here could be identical to how it was in the '90s. It's certainly something to marvel at to some extent, but a lot of us could get a pretty high level of elegance in our backend if our user experience had no reason to change for 10+ years.
There is a Black Mirror episode of this. People run around "rating" each other positively in fear that they might get a bad rating.

Only when someone shows weakness does the hive mind pounce and pile on the negative reviews.
Progressive supremacism is a far more accurate term, denoting the outright hostility towards even tacit opposition or signs of hesitation.
My video conference rig is a Micro Studio Camera 4K, Video Assist 4k, and Arduino shield all going into a Decklink card on an Ubuntu desktop machine. The Studio Camera, Video Assist and Arduino shield all get pretty hot, so I don't run them continuously. The Video Assist does weird things when it's hot like having the audio meters stop working, even though it's still transmitting audio to the SDI output just fine.

That said, the Decklink has been rock-solid in the 5+ years I've owned it and we had a VideoHub at a past workplace that worked great. I actually recommend all the Blackmagic stuff I've worked with, but have seen heat consistently been an issue.
Dhall was such a godsend to make our infra configs more safe & modular (we jointly configure Kubernetes & Terraform with it).

If you need some example of use cases to see if it might help you, check out "Dhall in Production" [0]

So far I'm a maintainer of dhall-kubernetes [1] and we'll soon open source some of our integration with Terraform.

And because it's absolutely safe to distribute Dhall code I'm toying with the idea of making some kind of Dhall-Kafka pubsub, in which you can safely distribute Dhall code and data, with automatic version migrations (check this out for more info on why this is possible [2])

[0]: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/wiki/Dhall-in-produ...

[1]: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes

[2]: http://www.haskellforall.com/2017/11/semantic-integrity-chec...
Curious. In order to be part of one of the tables in the [[something]] array, a table would need to be named [something.X]. What parser are you using? it's possible that it's behaving improperly in this case.

See the relevant part of the spec here: https://github.com/toml-lang/toml#user-content-array-of-tabl...
Whatever you do, in the beginning, has to provide enough interest for you to want to improve.

Beyond that, all I can tell you no matter how passionate you feel about something now, you will feel more passion about it some days, and on some days (considerably) less.

To me, that's a sign you're on the right track.
It depends on what you liked about Hibiki 12. You could try Nikka Coffey Malt if what you liked was the spirit itself, or you could try any wine-casked single-malt if what you liked was the aging characteristics. A thing I think is true about Japanese whiskey is that you have to go very high-end to get serious sherry/wine cask effects --- but the good news is that if that's what you're into, you can get that cheap from Scotland (try a Dronach 12, or an Aberlour A'bunadh).
IANAL, but besides the protected classes that have been linked below, the United States regulates the hospitality industry on a federal, state, and local level. For the guest, that means a legal recourse, and not a medium blogpost.

We can quibble about the word “banning”, but the fact remains that, for hotels, there is a body of laws “against [guest] injury, whether accidental or intentional“. For the tech giant that pretends it’s not even in the same industry, there’s just a patchwork of guidelines.
lol, I'll take "how to make drastic moves and bad investments for $1000, Alex"
But what are the damages? The calculable damages are likely the cost differences between Airbnb and hotel for the proportion of time you spend in travel.

So maybe a few hundred to a few thousand over a few years? I’d think the cost of the lawsuit would really dwarf the value of the lie.

Are Airbnb accounts tied to anything truly identifiable or can you make a new account with a new email & different credit card? (I’ve never signed up for Airbnb so don’t know how rigorous they are)
People? This seems to be a cultural trend in the US in particular.
In many other countries the value of laws, social services, anti-trust and anti-corruption regulations, and so on, are rightly seen as necessary and desirable.

Unfortunately the US is very influential globally, in various ways. eg trade agreements, or just brutally implementing neo-liberal economics on weak countries they can coerce economically and/or militarily.

The US has also (having effectively no anti-trust for decades) has let many corporations based or founded there grow to unprecedented sizes and power.

Theres also other countries /areas (Jersey, Cayman Islands, etc.) that make a business of tailoring their laws to allow corporations to avoid paying taxes, pollute, hide data, censor journalists etc.
Things have to change at some point, that's why Guido is taking a permanent vacation.
Man, I'm so happy to read this, exactly how I feel regarding pretty much everything involving a subscription.

- Company abuses contract (imo fraudulently but they can always say it's negligence)

- Company waits to see if user is motivated enought to take action against them

- As more and more company do this, less and less people are capable to keep up with the extra work (support calls, letters, judicial action) and less and less "honest" alternatives exist.

=> Today's world

It's kind of a capitalist darwin selection.
There's risk in everything.

Own a place? Even if you find another local job, there's no guarantee that you'll like the new commute.

But you live in the Bay area you say and can get a new job on your lunch hour? Maybe. Maybe not. And you're paying a huge housing premium. Nothing against the Bay Area if that's your preference but spending a huge chunk of take-home pay on housing carries its own risks.

And maybe an opportunity comes along that's so compelling that you'll be willing to relocate. Lots of people move around for work. Just because you work remotely doesn't require you to do so forever.
Ask HN: Do you have problems solving Google reCAPTCHA?
About once a month I must login to a website where login form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA mechanism. I did not care much about this, because it took about 20-30 seconds to solve. Acceptable for me. And of course it added some protection against bots.

But last month it started driving me crazy. Now I have 10+ tries until it accepts me as a human. I'm clicking images for about 5-10 minutes just to login to a website! I'm clicking all roads, all road signs, all cars and still failing the test. I live in Europe and the funniest thing is after 2-3 failed attempts I'm starting to get images from more exotic places like China. I have very big problems problem with distinguishing between road signs and ads in China because I don't know how road signs look there and what is written. So failed combo just continues...

As a web developer I really like this mechanism, but as a user it became the wall hard to get through (at least for me).

I'm wondering is just me? Maybe someone else have similar problem with solving reCAPTCHA?
Season 3, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive [spoilers]
Thanks for the feedback. This is how the auth scopes are defined for the GH API. Anything less wouldn't allow it to pull the repo info when using http://icodedis.tool.cards/#/submit
> But who regulates the regulators? As bad as this example is, have you never heard of the nightmares people fall into dealing with government bureaucracies? If anything, they're much much worse than the worst that companies inflict.

I think that last sentence could only be honestly written by someone who's lived their whole life in a society protected by strong regulatory structures. The massive benefits of regulation are taken for granted and forgotten, but the problems of implementation that still exist are magnified out of proportion.

Government bureaucracy is certainly not perfect, but lets not kid ourselves that it's worse than the alternative.

And the answer to your question is: a functioning legislature that's accountable to its constituents, and competently exercises its oversight role.

> Regulatory capture is a real thing too.

But rather than a call for less regulation, it's really a call for better oversight of the regulators.
TOML and YAML both have kinda weird names because both were initially incorrectly said to be a "markup language" and then subsequently renamed. The original names were "Yet Another Markup Language" and "Tom's Own Markup Language".
No, it is not. $250 will get you a profoundly good bottle of Scotch, or a Buffalo Antique with enough left over to spare for a GlenDronach 15.

I bought an Yamazaki 18 a couple years ago and liked it, but I've had $70 bottles of Scotch since then that were far more memorable.
Our DBAs loved the DAL. There is a trend today to let developers run all over production doing what they want and it has direct impact on systems.

The complexity of the modern stack is ridiculous. You run java containers inside docker containers inside virtual machines and call it optimized.
> Every triangle can tile the plane. Every four-sided shape can also tile the plane.

The triangle case makes sense to me, intuitively, but the four-sided one makes much less sense (maybe I need a sheet of paper?). Does this also have a “trivial” proof?
Given that fanatical liberalism is a subset of fanaticism, the best answer to fanatical liberalism would also be liberalism.

I believe the decalogue by Bertrand Russell supports this premise, since what it describes would be contrary to fanaticism of any particular stripe.
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Yeah, this is not a clear win or loss for Starbucks until someone does the math.
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Not sure about Vodkas, wines, or champagnes as I can't really tell the difference. But I could instantly tell the difference in smoothness between the $60 scotch I have at home now and the $150+ bottle I recently sampled at a friends house.
$250K salary + RSUs? Or $250K total compensation?

Because the latter isn't that great with the COL in the Bay area. Also, if the company isn't already public... then forget about the RSUs!
Makes one wonder what it take to become an "ameture" mathematician? And how does this signifier provide any credit to those who've been given this distinction?
That's because the early version of the Kinect was a gimmick at best. A keyboard/trackpad is not.
Fanaticism - subjective word associated with being in the wrong, and can be subjectively used to accuse the other party when they don't agree with your groups solutions on most important issues.

NY Times selling liberalism is akin to Google giving away "free" OS.
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