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Ask HN: Do I follow my dreams by risking my college experience and wasted time?
Recently, I learned that I’m high openness to experience and low conscientiousness. This basically means I’m very creative, yet not naturally hard working. All the advice I’ve found online basically states: “find something creative that you can jump into, and begin, it’ll help you become a better person.” I don’t disagree with any of this.

And, better yet, I know exactly what that project can be. I’ve been dreaming about it intensely for the last year or so. In May (for irrelevant reasons), I had to write out all the big themes in my life, and it honestly seemed like that this project was at the center of all of them. It’s a reasonable amount above my skill level, but I know that if I really focus on it, I can do it.

But on the other hand, I know how obsessed I get with projects. If I half commit to a project, I have a 20% chance I’ll get it done, but if I fully commit, that chance is much higher. But right now I’m entering my junior year of college, and I’m a little afraid I’ll miss all the experiences that come with that.

And the final, most complicating factor, is success. I’ve been down this road once before, I made another project. It wasn’t really tied to my identity as much, and was more just an attempt to make a success for the sake of success. And because of those reasons, it bombed. But this time, I feel like I've learned a lot, and really know how to approach a project of this sort. And if it is a success, I feel like that it would enable me to begin living the life that I want to live.

TL;DR
+ Builds character long term
+ Chance for a groundbreaking success
- Miss out on college experience
- Chance for big failure
i was recently looking for a good html to pdf solution and found wkhtmltopdf and weasyprint results to be... poor at best. turns out, you can do it on the command line via a call to Google Chrome and the results are great. Details here: https://weblog.masukomi.org/2018/05/25/html-to-pdf-on-the-co...
Whole two months!


As long as there are no missing security updates, I don't see how it's a deal breaker.
The Google SREs mentioned this in their book; the Chubby locking service had uptime that was so high that folks started to neglect making their own services resilient to Chubby failures: https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/service-level-o...
I was a teen when my father did most of the technical work (of course the actual building was done by construction firms and carpenters) for this (1978) exhibition in Florence by Dani Karavan:

http://www.danikaravan.com/portfolio-item/two-environments-f...

The artist actually sculpted everything in clay (in scale models) or made rather accurate sketches on paper, then they were adapted/modified slightly (and interactively with the artist) to make them actually "buildable" (either in wood or in pre-cast concrete) and transportable to the exhibition site.

It never came to our minds that the "art" in the scupltures was not entirely by the artist, my father considered himself an artisan, and simply executed (well and in practice) what the artist view was.
Yeah, no humans fell for that one.
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I use quartz schedular to do background jobs.
Extremely well put. Part of the reason I wrote my original comment was to see what the HN collective thought about my reasoning- as I have personally struggled to think of Dale Chihuly as being an artist once I found out that he does not actually create the works that bear his name.

Likening him to a composer directing his own symphony makes a lot more sense- no one would argue that Mozart wasn't a great artist just because he couldn't play the whole symphony by himself.
The metoo movement has gone too far
While I can definitely see it being a good business partnership since one supplies a captive market for the other. From a rider pov this makes me cringe and hope it doesn't make my rides seem like i'm standing in front of a kiosk in a mall.

If a rider just has a "menu" on the back of their seats with a couple things sitting there, and doesn't push it, great. Understandable, maybe I'd buy something if I were in a pinch and price is reasonable.
I'm tasting hints of berry, hints of oak, rubber hose, high notes of plutonium...
This is only true of a small portion of the sears with warehouse attached (aka the ones not in malls). Even then, I purchased my last two dishwashers there, and in both cases it took a couple days to deliver.

If you want something right now, go to one of the scratch and dent appliance places. Same basic deal as hd/lowes/bestbuy when it comes to appliances, just about the only ones those stores have in stock are the ones that got returned.
any idea where they get this info from?

imagine a more consumer-oriented extension that could list whether a given amazon product was likely to have commingled inventory or not - do you think this is possible?
> making something new from the ground up doesn't seem like a good idea.

It isn't actually terribly difficult, the most difficult part being driver support. By using Linux as a base, Google gained a lot of driver support by default, among other things like a well-known base environment.

> explain if a micro kernel makes his job easier or harder

Well, a microkernel usually has well-defined interfaces that allow drivers to communicate with the kernel, instead of these interfaces being decided by the compiler at compile-time. This in turn offers the guarantees of "ABI/API stability" that the Linux kernel usually offers to userspace programs: drivers don't need to be recompiled to work with a new kernel, so you can actually have binary drivers that continue to "work" long after the vendor stopped working on them. This also offers more room for stability guarantees (a driver that crashes can be restarted, as it's not the kernel panicking), and security (drivers don't have access to each other's data).

On the other hand, you trade a bit of performance and flexibility (from the developer's perspective) for this, by committing not to break compatibility. By now, advantages and inconvenient of microkernels vs monolithic ones are well understood and documented.

What's in for Google is mostly licensing-related: since they're making it; they are free to pick their favourite license. And I am pretty sure Google has been uncomfortable with the GPL for a while now. The same could be said about its hardware partners, and manufacturers that have to provide the source code for their drivers (when they comply at all).

Since a GPL kernel is one of the best things that happened to Android so far (allowing custom roms, open source projects, more transparency), I am extremely weary of fuschia, and looking forward to postmarketos as an alternative to android.
This reminds me of when companies like Valve say they are a completely self organized: It Is Never true.

Google historically at its core had a very arrogant PHD style academic culture. Venture Capitalists also tend to have this same kind of arrogance and elitism except turned up several more notches.

What they do to signal that they are special / smarter / better than anyone else is come up with narratives like this. We are Google Ventures so we are smarter than everyone else because we have magic AI algorithms to vet our investments.

No they don’t.

Every venture capitalist firm has models. You can put all this crap into excel macros and dress it up with AI big data verbiage but it’s all the same stuff.

I garauntee you there is an arrogant and dictatorial human who gets to decide when and where Google invests in anything. This AI machine bull crap may fool the media and the general masses but it doesn’t fool me.

It’s just arrogance signaling behavior, nothing to see here.
I think the reason is 2 part.

Part 1 being often these "junk" processed foods are cheaper to buy for more quantity. eg. a box of macaroni and cheese can feed a family of 4 on $2USD. Possibly mix in a couple hotdogs which on the cheaper end can cost under $5USD for 16. in the end your feeding a family of 4 dinner for under $5.

Part 2 being time. Typically in lower income families (I grew up on the low end of the "middle class") both parents are working. my mother didn't have the time or energy to come home from and 8-10 hour work day and then cook for the next 90 minutes. that same box of macaroni and cheese (with hotdogs) can be made in ~30 minutes with little attention to it. and once my sister and I were old enough to help out, it was something we could do for her.

Thats my anecdotal and oversimplified answer anyway :)
Are you asking me what is the problem with 100+ tons of reactor-contaminated groundwater effluent entering the sea on a daily basis? On the surface this seems like a weak attempt at a strawman, please clarify.

edit: s/irradiated/reactor-contaminated/
The counterargument I've heard to that is that ordinary people already get screwed by professional sharks, and when it becomes common the market will fill in the need (e.g. companies that track the value of your house, and insure against unexpected forced purchases)
Can You Monetize Everything You Do with the Right Technology?
Traces of the isotopes in question are detectable in the pigments used in recently produced art. Surface contamination isn't what's being tested.
I agree that they don't have a clear returns policy, and this is a huge problem IMO. Also, if you buy from a "marketplace" (aka third party) seller instead of Amazon, they can have a return policy that's different from Amazon's (or other marketplace sellers).

As far as items ordered directly from Amazon, I've found them to only give free return shipping if the item is broken or there's another issue that's Amazon's fault. They don't seem to give free return shipping if I just don't like the product. (At least that's how it is for my account. I've heard some of these policies are different for different account holders!)
I agree about the counterfeit items on Amazon. I'm a long time fan and user of Amazon. My account is from the early 2000s.

After getting a few counterfeit items from Amazon, I'm officially done with them when it comes to electronics.
Humans Show Racial Bias Towards Robots of Different Colors
Man I always liked Delpi, it felt like what the VB6 interface builder should have been.
Just a correction on this, 1 million tons is equal to around 240 million gallons [0], which is roughly the volume of 362 olympic sized swimming pools[1].

[0] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+million+tons+of+water...
[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(1+million+tons+of+wate...
Yeah, I wish they would point out that the pollution from China regularly swamps the radiation detectors in the US that are monitoring Fukushima.

"Bathed in a radioactive cloud" actually holds more for Chinese coal pollution than anything from a nuclear plant with the possible exception of Chernobyl.
For some context a Becquerel (Bq) is a single decay per second (note the graph shows mBq/l). One gram has an activity of ~3 TBq.

Though 137-Cs has a half-life of ~30yrs it has a biological half-life of ~70 days. (30 if you are treated with Prussian Blue). It fairly uniformly distributes through the body, though it has higher concentrations in soft tissues, which does pose greater damage (see Sievert).

That being said, these are such low quantities you'd die of alcohol many times over before increasing your chance of cancer by 1% over the course of your lifetime.

From Wiki they gave some dogs a dose of 140 MBq/kg and they all died in 33 days. When they gave some other dogs half (70MBq/kg) dosage all the dogs survived.
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Your examples all occurred after we suspended individual liberties and spent untold fortunes and lives to stop it. Would you conclude that to be a successful strategy?
well, I certainly think pluto is more of a planet than these are moons
I have no idea why you’re being downvoted. It’s the same thing as Borg/Kubernetes, MapReduce/Hadoop: some things just don’t apply or aren’t as effective unless you’re operating at a huge scale and with Google’s culture.
With (naive) ARC you can still get long pauses "seemingly out of nowhere", e.g. when a large object tree goes out of scope.
You mean there's a difference? Cause up here near Portland, it seems to be the same story only five years ago instead of in the 60's. And I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the same throughout the country. I guess HN doesn't like it when comments get too close to reality.
This is what happens when you hire computer science graduates as data scientists, you have incorrect data that you believe is correct. On the other hand those who hire statisticians are more successfull in collecting and analizing data.
Amazon wins a patent for robotic arms that toss warehouse items
@Florin_Andrei: Sure, but we have reasonable expectations of how bad things can get and our capacity to learn from them. Alter your perception and memory and those things go out the window, and that's way scarier than normal organic life.
Did anyone think maybe using a pinkish shade for a Second System codename is asking for it to fail?

Apple had a Project Pink back in '88 to be the successor to System Software 6. They hoped to release it in 1993, instead buying NeXT in 1997 and launching OS X in 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)#Pin...

Microsoft's Project Pink was the result of their Danger acquisition. It didn't fare well either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Kin

I wish Google the best of luck.
Well there are really only about 4 clusters of restaurants in downtown, (~6 if you count SLU but I don't, and that's as bad if not worse), and one is near Pike, one near the courthouse (both are lousy for parking). The ID isn't impossible but it's getting worse.

The city taxes parking spaces pretty heavily. So 70 minutes in a garage (you're gonna have to walk back and forth to the garage), I'm still only paying for half to 2/3rds of that lunch even if we eat someplace decent.

Personally I think we're just about right. Parking is tough but not quite impossible. But I'm also not averse to reducing car traffic in the core. Going east-west has always been impossible anyway. But I don't go downtown as much anymore except by bus because my SO -hates- the traffic and parking situation.

The bus situation is getting worse because the city loses something like $1 on every bus trip, so they cut routes during the last job crunch instead of expanding them, leading to very crowded buses. If you aren't travelling during rush hour there may not be any buses near your house at all.

Still twiddling my thumbs for the rail expansions to land. I'll be close to retirement (I think that's the first time I've typed those words and a little shiver went down my spine) by the ETA for my neighborhood, and I probably won't still be here by then anyway.
I have the 2016 version of the machine, base model, and it throttles. Not nearly as badly as anything else in it's thinness class, but the CPU can only run at 37w as measured by Power Gadget under p95 with fans forced to 6500rpm. PC manufacturers often throttle the CPU with the BIOS on purpose or set PL1/2 which Apple doesn't do.

Similar PC notebooks tend to keep the CPU at 85C and run them at 15-20W. Apple runs the CPU at 102C before throttling them, and there aren't apparent power limits.

They're trying pretty hard to solve this problem and to be honest there's not very much more they could be doing short of putting last-mm^3 heatsinks everywhere or making the fans even louder. I'm personally okay with the form factor they've chosen and they've done their best with that.
Seconding the XPS. I loved my MBP15 trackpad but the XPS is pretty good. The gestures are great for navigating the desktop. Honestly, the biggest failing is that there's no comprehensive way to gesture forward/backward in browsers or through tabs like you can on a chromebook
I think some people will always want to see high end products before they purchase them. Electronics maps well onto this idea. Good for Best Buy
> the Sun

Jupiter is in a stable orbit about the Sun, I don't think you can use the Sun as the 3rd body, you need another moon or other object.
I'm guessing you're talking about Adyen. At least I've had exactly the same experience integrating with their API. It's an awful mismash. I even get responses with bool = 'true' in their json, but only sometimes. That's the string 'true' sometimes and othertimes json true.
What Climate Change looks like in 2018
Truth. Had pigs for a time as a kid. When people spend quality time with them, pigs respond.

They like people.
A typical olympic pool (assumed 50m x 25m x 2m; the depth actually isn't standarized), contains 2500m^3 of water. 1m^3 of water has a mass of 1t (in typical conditions).

So 10^6 tons of water corresponds to 400 olympic swimming pools. That's quite a lot of water (still not much compared to the volume of the oceans, of course).
America is not the world.
The Google Android skeptics would prefer exactly that. Their ideal is that Android - as we know it today - collapses and Google loses its position with the product and in the mobile market. The fantasy is that then a truly free, pure, saintly solution can spring up and smite the evil money grubbing commercial interests. That's likely to have about as much success as desktop Linux among mass consumers (and for the same reason).

The sole thing that collapsing Google's Android position will do, is redistribute a lot of that market power and tech ecosystem benefit to a few other US tech giants, some Chinese tech giants and possibly to a lesser extent to some European players and Samsung. The US would net lose a considerable hegemony. As such, the US Government - State Dept, NSA, CIA, et al. - should get involved on a strategic economic security basis, and attack a very large EU company in a manner that is crippling (something worse than the Volkswagen emissions hit). We're in the midst of an economic war with the EU, the more vicious parts of the US Government need to start getting involved. At a minimum, find an excuse to perhaps take down eg Deutsche Bank, it's particularly weak, so a $10 or $15 billion invented magic fine would probably be enough to force its collapse and nationalization.
The character of San Francisco is currently homeless people everywhere, and poop and needles all over the sidewalks.
What the Tech Sector Could Learn from Anthropology
My largest criticism of GraphQL is that it doesnt go far enough. That is to say that I want my components to declare their data dependencies, but not all data comes from a server. Some data is computed, other data comes from different servers, and some other data is locally generated. For example, facebook has some user information that I want to add to my User object; in my case, theres no reason for the component to know that its data is actually coming from multiple sources but I have no simple way of coding that.

Another issue: there currently are a lot of servers that are REST and it would be really nice if there were ways of incorporating them in the GraphQL schema. One of the most useful features to add here would be ways of linking separate REST objects to each other in the GraphQL schema. This would help adoption quite a bit.
> Would you rather want free coffee, or hire more employees? (funny thing is we're not hiring)

Indeed, an amusing twist on the traditional false dichotomy: the truth isn't that you can actually have both, but, rather, that you can't have either one.
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I have had so many of these "free one-month extensions" from late Prime packages that I currently have six months of Prime membership credits applied to my account. I've been joking lately that if I were to actually pay for 2 day shipping, I'd get my package on-time.
This article seems to have gone through multiple edits to correct all of the incorrect technical facts, but it looks like they still have work to do.

Shifting away from using Linux would help Google’s legal case that its software isn’t reliant on Oracle.
FCC votes against Sinclair/Tribune merger, likely dooming deal
Perhaps you meant, "No planets are perfectly spherical"?
Alcohol? Almost none. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a teetotaler or anything, I just rarely drink. I drank a little more in my 20's (who didn't?) but I'd say for the past 20 years or so, I average less than 1 drink / month, and probably drink enough to get a buzz less than once a year.

Caffeine: If you poke me, I'd probably bleed pure caffeine. OK, maybe not really, not anymore. On average I'd say I drink 2 or 3 cups of coffee during the day, and maybe 1 or 2 cups of green tea. And a couple of 20 oz bottles of Coke Zero spread throughout the day as well.

What I don't do, that I used to do, is consume completely ludicrous amounts of caffeine... in years past, I'd drink 4 or 5 cups of coffee during the day, then after work go to Starbucks and sit there and drink a can of Red Bull, a triple-shot latte, and maybe eat a box of chocolate covered espresso beans. And I'd do that sort of stuff 5 days a week and something similar on the weekends. Then I had a heart-attack. My doctors say caffeine is fine now, but in moderation. I don't necessarily claim that the caffeine per-se contributed to my MI, but what I believe did is the sheer stress of how hard I was pushing myself during the period. So I don't do that anymore. Not to that extreme anyway.
Even as a remote outpost from the world, the population of indigenous people in California was devastated by epidemics before substantial numbers of europeans arrived there. Smallpox alone probably wiped out all densely populated areas.

They certainly weren't treated well, and I make no excuses for that, but the place was essentially empty by the time California started hockey-sticking.
World's Top 4 Auditors Join Taiwan-Led Trial for Blockchain Fiscal Audit System
iPhone SE is a more than decent phone, I’ve paid around 330 euros this winter for one, it does its job pretty damn well (good photo camera, reasonable hard-disk space, I do not perceive it as slow).
Of course stability and inequality go together, that's how the system has always been. There's never been a culture that was both a world power and also egalitarian. In order to have the wealth inequality vanish, you change the value of things. It upsets the entire market and valuation of goods and society as a whole. Governments tend to focus on fixing things the way you're speaking because they're A- strong, already established governments and B- they have capitalists helping to make the decisions that stand to lose the most from a change in the marparadigm

You can't have a non-capitalist society and also care about inflation, since inflation is a product of capital/money.

Remember, most of Marxism is based on a central pillar of "The cause of all the world's evils is the inequitable distribution of goods across needs." People are less likely cares about money/inflation if all their needs are being met.
this is one of the worst put together wikipedia articles I have ever read
What a horrible dystopian idea. No one should be forced to move out of their home on short notice just because they failed to set the value correctly. Imagine how wealthy people could abuse that system to punish their critics by purchasing their homes and evicting them.
"Not having any evidence to corroborate" is logical reason enough not to make a claim.
Show a demo on the landing page. Will drive more sales
No, but it attracts specific demographics and (forcefully) repels others. To find the kind of single-family houses you see in abundance in SF within 20-30 minutes of the center, you'll be an hour or more outside of urban NYC. People just want to have their cake and eat it too: they want a city vibe and short commute, but also a yard and a garage and an unobstructed view, etc.
If the change is invisible on a 0-based graph, maybe the change isn’t so important....

This one only exaggerates things by a factor of 2, at least.
Isn't that what a lot of Excel spreadsheets do? I think investments and acquisitions have used algorithms for a long time.