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> I don't even see why it's considered a hack.

It seems straightforward, but the alternative would have been to establish a network of local photographers with contracts and agreed rates, scheduling software, performance management, QA, etc...

That would be more scalable, so if you just do it yourself instead of going for scale its a "hack".
Just evolution whispering “kill, consume, multiply, conquer” to the cells in your body in the normal way that evolution does. It's pretty common for small mutations to occur in your cells from time to time. Cancer requires several mutations to line up in ways that allows cells to start multiplying without constraint - evading normal growth controls and apoptosis and the immune system and such. The cells where the mutations don't align and which start multiplying with everything else you never even notice.
I'm looking at a $400 bill after insurance for a 15 minute doctor's visit. Nothing fancy he took my blood pressure and listened to my lungs and sent me on my way. I'm fortunate that I can easily pay this, but what if I was living paycheck to paycheck? It would crush me. When wealth is so fleeting as to be taken away by such a minuscule stroke of bad luck, why would people bother chasing it?

I'm literally going to have to "shop around" for my next appointment should I need one.
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This doesn't change anything right now -- it allows the California legislature to pick either PST or PDT:

https://votersedge.org/en/ca/ballot/election/area/73/measure...

The way it is now

Federal law sets standard time zones for each area of the country. California and other western states are in the Pacific Standard time zone. Current law requires the time of each zone to move forward by one hour from early March to early November each year during a period called Daylight Saving Time. During this period, sunrises and sunsets happen one hour later. Federal law lets states choose to stay on standard time all year long, but prevents states from having year-round Daylight Saving Time.

What if it passes?

Prop 7 would allow state lawmakers to vote on changing Daylight Saving Time. Lawmakers would be able to choose year-round Daylight Saving Time, if allowed by federal law. Any change would require support from two thirds of California’s Legislature. Until then, Prop 7 would keep California’s current Daylight Saving Time schedule.

Budget effect

Prop 7 would have no immediate effects. Impacts on state and local government would likely be very small.

edit: I think it is more of a referendum that Californians want a single timezone rather than they specifically want PDT.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?
I'm always gathering links for articles, be it a blog post, or an academic pdf article.

Currently I've been using pocket, but it seems that I've been losing some articles.

Also, there are some features I'd like to have such as searchable content, or the means to save tweets and facebook posts.

This kind of sounds like Evernote, but since the changes to their payment scheme I haven't been following them.

But custom solution ideas are also nice...
Cue those who want to cut minimum wage and public assistance so unemployment is even more dire.
Starship Tropers the movie is a brilliant "anti-anti-utopian" story.

To my puzzlement, some people don't notice how ironic it is, throughout.
Your tax dollars helped pay for the development of the Internet and many of the technologies that those sites and services use today.
I value liberty above everything else, partly because without liberty everything else also goes away.

You mention a trade-off with money and health, but the very idea of taking from some to give another is a violent expression. You might justify to yourself that is fine to rob and murder for the sakes of others. Others will think the same way.
But courts actually... do stuff.
If more people voted, we'd have more liberal votes. I thought this was a well understood phenomenon.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-would-it-look-like-if-e...
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Google says Android will natively support ‘foldables’ to limit fragmentation
There surely is a middle ground here between living paycheck to paycheck and not making work the most important thing in your life.
It's what Baden-Powell would have wanted.
The Collison technique is that you ask people if they want to use your product, in person, and then set it up for them if they say yes. Nothing unethical about that.

I'd heard that one technique another startup used was to go to all the local Apple Stores and set the home page of Safari on each computer to their website. That seems borderline unethical, but that's not what Stripe was doing, nor would it really work for their market.
Competition Finally Comes to Datacenter GPU Compute
I feel very fortunate. I don't see many/any ads on the internet because I run multiple ad blockers. I don't see any ads on the way to work because I work just 2 miles from my house and it's almost all forest between my house and my work, so no ads. I don't watch much if any video content (I prefer to read). I don't listen to radio stations (I prefer audio books). I rarely drive anywhere where there might be ads since I mostly just have things delivered from Amazon.
Yup. I've been using linux/unix since before package managers were common and debian was like a breath of fresh air. Even with RPMs it was generally always just easier to build stuff from source than to deal with RedHat's funky package system. And APT? APT was easy mode, it worked like magic. If you needed something you just installed it and the OS picked up the latest package and all the dependencies and installed all of it for you. It seems trivial today but back when always connected broadband internet was not the norm it was transformative. It took years and years for RedHat to catch up. I still have a sore spot about RedHat because of those earlier experiences.

Things are so much easier now in so many ways. For one it's a lot less common to have a computer that can't access the internet because it doesn't have the right drivers already. For another it's a lot less common to only have one computer (including smartphones) and thus only one way to download stuff. Computers are also way faster so doing anything that requires installing or compiling stuff isn't as big of a time sink.
Err, I’m not confident to give you examples of questions that relate to being a man, because I’m not a man. It’s a shame that some guys can’t see there is stuff that they just wouldn’t be able to help a woman with. I’m sure you have an idea of questions that only another guy would better be able to help you with. Maybe a problem with your penis? Or something intimately related to being a guy that women will not have experienced?
Good point. I wonder how many people out there look at a $12/hour job and realize they can't afford to live off that after loan payments. Maybe they are holding out for something better, or perhaps are exasperated and given up?
chevrotain's playground tool - https://sap.github.io/chevrotain/playground/?example=JSON%20... - is sure nice!

What parsing algorithm does chevrotain use under the hood? Does it allow left-recursive and right-recursive productions/rules?
Egotistical bragging is pretty easy to spot. Good team players are easy to spot, too - they're the ones giving credit to leadership and co-workers even for work they take personal pride in. When I see a candidate's eyes light up talking about the manager who led them through a challenge into success, I know they respect others, and that matters.

It's hard for a lot of people to speak well of themselves, which makes the whole interviewing process difficult much of the time. We're trained to a beat-down that gets called humility, but it's not. Asking about successes is a way past that - it's giving them permission to say something good about themselves.

But to be fair, a lot of what I'm after is inflated claims on a resume, which are common as dirt, because people are much more comfortable deceptively bragging on paper than they are in person.
The article does mention, "They hemorrhaged high-paying jobs after technology and globalization hit manufacturing and mining." Many jobs staffed predominantly by men (as opposed to jobs like nursing, say, staffed predominantly by women) never recovered after the recession.
The one good thing about not having an on-prem Slack is communications after your company network goes down.
It's pretty cool that he included the output of

git shortlog -ns

in the release announcement.
Researchers Turned on the Most Powerful Neuromorphic Supercomputer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
How to Plan an Engineering Project in 5 Easy Steps?
Foss makes regular surveys. Most open source developers are paid.
Assuming they did good, valuable work, then telling the truth is an excellent way to answer in a way that looks good without lying.
Anymore, the ISPs and the entertainment industry are the same entities.

AT&T owns WarnerMedia, formerly Time Warner, which owns cable networks, movie & music studios. Most of the entertainment Americans consume are owned or produced by AT&T or a subsidiary.
What is the tax rate on advertisements? We tax cigarettes and alcohol because of negative externalities. We don't need to get rid of ads, we just need less of them.
It is a very bad precedent to cut people off a needed service to live today, and it needs to be stopped immediately.

The problem is ISPs and content providers, or both, are prioritizing their needs over other industries.

Say someone does pirate something, and the cost of that is a few hundred or even thousands of dollars that they wouldn't have bought anyways in most cases or couldn't afford. Well they also use the internet to purchase products, pay bills, and the internet is part of daily life now. Cutting someone off from the network utility because of even large amounts of digital goods being pirated is the wrong approach as it has collateral damage to other products/industries, survival of the person and possibly their family and more.

Should the person pay a fine? Yes. Should they lose their internet? No, unless ISPs and content providers, or if they are one in the same, are more important than every other industry. ISPs/content providers aren't more important than every other industry and ISPs are more of a utility that needs to be always available, other methods are needed, cutting someone off from a needed service to live is cruel and unusual punishment.
Is this even legal? According to Wikipedia, DST observance is regulated at the Federal level by Department of Transportation. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_the_United_States
> PyTorch, you still do have to define the backward function and worry about bookkeeping the gradient, clearing gradient values at the appropriate time, and explicitly calling to calculate these things in verbose optimizer invocation code

I’ve definitely never had to do that. Where do you get this from?
Are you asking if it would be feasible for companies to take in well-educated people, and teaching them the programming/dev-craft?

I don't know. But right now, companies are trying to solve the problem in other ways, which is ultimately not addressing their core need.

I just feel like some sort of educational system (bootcamp'ish) would be able to make a good business case for most companies.
Anybody knows why this over rocketchat?
I love this, that is a great assignment for a Home Economics class.
Literal definition of extortion there.
If you're in a western country, I'd get into washing windows and cleaning Venetian blinds.
Yes, STAR mixes rank and range to create a balance.

I still don't buy your assertion that no one knows what scores mean. That's no stronger of an argument than the opposing critique of ranking: nobody knows in a rank ballot whether it's a slight preference between two supported candidates or a huge difference between a liked and a hated (but maybe some other candidate is even worse) situation.

In both ranking and scoring, the ballot does not give a transparent view of the voters' beliefs. They only mean what they mean on the ballot, that there are relative scores or a ranked order. We can't and shouldn't assert that we can know more deeply what's behind those marks.

Condorcet is not a bad principle per se, but it's not the absolutely most desirable. If it were the only factor, nobody would accept IRV. And Condorcet means that a candidate who is 2nd choice of 100% of the voters, maybe even a strong 2nd choice (rankings don't carry that info) will always lose even in a case where all the other candidates are grossly polarizing and will lead to civil war. There are at least cases where a consensus is superior to Condorcet.

> It would be better to use ranked voting first, then range voting to resolve tie-breaks.

How does this proposed idea work? What actual system are you suggesting that would do this? EDIT: I see this referenced in your other post.
Hetzner Nextcloud as a Service
hit a lick. if you don't know how, just watch the wire.
Why doesn't anyone try to simply sell free software?

You want me to give you a copy of the software? Pay for it. And here's a gratis sample to see what could get, but it doesn't have all of the features I wrote for it.

You want access to login to the web platform? Pay for it.

You want the source code for it, so you can modify it and/or redistribute it? Also pay for it. The GPL has explicit provisions for allowing access to the source code only if you pay, for example.

Surely some money is to be made this way. Maybe not enough to create a giant monopoly that completely dominates the market, but enough to make a living. Not everything has to be a winner-takes-all unicorn.

If we are to believe that the copying of non-free software that happens right now happens and companies are still profitable, surely explicitly allowing that copying wouldn't make it any less profitable?
That sounds like some interesting shit
GRPC Load Balancing on Kubernetes Without Tears
While I recognise a lot of truth in this, I don't think there's ever been a time when I'd have wanted to date or marry a woman 20 years my junior. I have some lovely friends in that range, but they're socio-culturally so different from me (as a reasonably successful, well-off middle-aged man) that it's hard to see them as partner material.
People love to talk about privilege, but being a male millenial in 2018 is anything but that. The media says you're a sexual predator. They say you're toxically masculine. That is, the very hormones imbued within you are to blame for a host of problems. If you're white they say you are constantly oppressing people of color. If you're in tech, then you're worst kind of man possible - a tech bro.

Couple the prevailing sentiment with a change in the type of available jobs. Physically demanding work is less common now, and manufacturing, long a mainstay of male occupation, was moved overseas. Office work is more about people relationships, which generally favors women. Our education system is similarly biased against men these days.

I'm at the old end of the millenial generation, but if I was 25, I don't think I'd be too motivated either. I'm not surprised when these young men favor sitting in a basement playing video games over getting a job. Or watching porn instead of going after a girlfriend. The culture has shifted. For some people it's a huge win and there are a wealth of new opportunities - but it is a zero sum game, and now we're seeing the losers.
Yes, Equifax. I would correct it, but it appears the edit time period has elapsed.
if he's not contributing to family life while he's studying then you're right, he's not. He may be aspiring to be a "good partner", but if he's _only_ working on bettering himself that is exactly what most people do not want in a partner.
as someone who lives on the other end of the continent, this system was utterly confusing to me because streets are very long in US cities.

Like, alright, ending up at 90th street is relatively easy, except that i ended up at the wrong end of this street, and the walk to the correct house is 2 kilometer...
Sure, the development of the technology, but not the actual services themselves. The difference with the local ISP is that my tax dollars actually helped pay for the physical plant. And through my gov't I give them actual physical right-of-way to lay cables and maintain them. This is a very important distinction that does not apply to a soft service on the 'net somewhere.

Now, if my tax dollars helped pay for Twitter's datacenter, then now we have something to talk about. And perhaps in the state where Twitter is, they got tax breaks which amount to effectively a subsidy from the citizenry. In that case I think it's time to take the case to court.
CSV is a machine-readable format. I've never heard of a machine-readable format that treats combining characters as significant when parsing syntax. Certainly the CSV format doesn't.

Trivial proof: If it did, then it would be literally impossible to represent a field starting with a combining character.

Also, the set of combining characters has changed over time. Machine-readable formats in general do not change as Unicode does. A CSV that parses today should not fail to parse next year because a field starts with a codepoint that today is unused and next year has been assigned to a combining character.
There's a lot of weird conventional wisdom that is all based around the hypothetical VC lottery ideal: grow a business from nothing into a multi-billion dollar "unicorn" in a handful of years, and reap massive RoI for the investors in the process. This is great if you're a VC investor but it's often harmful for everyone else. You don't need a billion dollar startup to be financially secure or to have a robust and rapidly growing business.
Thank you, will try to implement this with Dyn
They aren't cackling like saturday morning cartoon villains; they're applying a rational choice to minimize operation costs.

This is less true the closer their personal connection to their employees is, I suspect; but many minimum wage employers have a bureaucratic buffer/barrier between the minimum wage employees and those making the decisions about operational costs.
My worldview might be skewed because I am normally looking for short contracts (6 months or less), not long term employment. I get bored with never-ending projects; I prefer projects with a clear finality. Given that, I am highly unlikely to care much about team dynamics - I want to do a (good) job and get paid for it.
Antibiotic resistant superbugs ‘will kill 90,000 Britons by 2050’
What context or data would constitute a helpful error message in your opinion? Do you have an example of a recursive-descent parser that generates particularly good error messages?
Sounds like an "opt-in" to know who has "opted-out".
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Absolutely. That's why you have a control group which gets a placebo. Then you can test if the medication is more effective than the placebo.

At least that's how it worked until someone looked at the term "placebo effect" and got confused into thinking that's anything other than regression to the mean.
That's a great example. I remember having lessons in school where we analyzed ads to decide what persuasion/propaganda techniques were being used. I hope these types of lessons are taught somewhat commonly. However I don't remember being asked to point out how the ads were deceptive.

My youngest siblings were homeschooled for a couple years and my mom made sure to go through logical fallacies with them. Cognitive biases is another area worth studying to understand how we respond to media input or in our interactions with others.

I'm not sure we need a special 'media literacy' subject taught. There are more broad subjects that can provide the same benefits.
They stop screaming at 10+ years.
For those interested in contributing to research on intermittent fasting, UCSF is doing a study and is taking participants https://clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu/trial/NCT03393195
China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk
> If employers have job openings they can't fill, while workers are idle because they won't work so cheap, then shouldn't the market-clearing wage increase? If not, what's preventing it?

Other workers will work cheap. See, it doesn't matter what you think your time is worth. The supply of people willing to work is what determines what it is worth.

Minimum wage jobs can literally be done by almost anyone who is not mentally or physically handicapped. You can "refuse to sell" your labor at that price, but when you have nothing in the way of skills or experience to offer, you really are just choosing to be unemployed.
Pinboard.in. Very simplistic but it works: I use it through a bookmarklet, the form to add links has a “read later” checkbox. Later you can see the tagged list of links to read in chrono order.

Also, the https://www.one-tab.com/ extension can help managing many open tabs in the browser and can create a list of links web page that you can “share with yourself”, and add to pinboard.
Why would a sizeable portion of people start at 22? 18-19 plus 4 or 5 (there are plenty of 1-year masters - maybe not in Denmark, but elsewhere in Europe) is 24 at worst.

It's true that 10 or 20 years ago it was normal to spend 6 years on a 4 year study. Times have changed. And if they haven't yet in Denmark, they will in time.
My first exposure to RedHat and linux was playing with a Toshiba Magnia sg20 internet appliance. I found out I could telnet into it and get root access where it was running RedHad 6. I messed around with it a lot, just learning things and trying to get as many cool console apps on there as I could find. The pain of doing manual package dependency is why I jumped over to Debian (this would have been around 2003 or 2004). Though I do consider the experience I gained in doing manual dependency resolution valuable.
Nah, my audio interface is more exotic. Thunderbolt MOTU 16 channel in and out, 192k/24. So I love that it has so many thunderbolt ports, because they're spoken for. I think you might well be able to run two MOTU 16As and have 32 in, 32 out. You'd start to have issues with drive space but the computer can probably handle it.
I posit that the overwhelming majority of HN'ers do not work for FAANG (though a fairly large chunk may well aspire to).

Edit: in fairness, that would exclude Twitter. What I'm really getting at is that, for all the companies that get a _ton_ of chatter on here, tech is a lot larger than just BigCo's, and I'd expect the overall population here to reflect that.
I am saying that the climate debate isn't primarily scientific but poltical as most people (including many of the "climate scientists") are not actually engaging in a scientific debate but in a political one.

This is a very important distinction because most people debate it as if they are debating science.

The 97% is not agreeing that the world is going under in 20 years if we don't do anything. In those 97% there are plenty of so called "climate deniers" who are agreeing that the climate is changing, heating and humans have some effect.

However how much and how catastrophic it's going to be isn't even close to being a consensus or for that matter scientific. The actual science is a small part. The larger part is speculated not demonstrated.
Title is somehow linking to the blog instead of the actual product page (https://zulipchat.com).
The informal report from the RFC 1149 event (2001)
This is why I said "without quotes". The same issue happens if you write a parsing routine that handles quotes too of course, it was just a lot simpler to demonstrate it with a single split() line than a whole parsing loop.
Plenty of legitimate usage, I'm talking about the fact that masking your traffic with a VPN isn't really protection when these 'courts' can demand you prove you weren't pirating content in order to restore your service.

So getting away with piracy by way of plausible deniability is much harder.