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> Sleeplessness is down.

Curious when you got your last cup of coffee usually time-wise.
E.g. I stopped drinking coffee after noon, my sleeplessness went down and consequently all other symptoms you described. And maybe I reduced some DNA damage by continuing drinking at the morning :-6
At the same time I'm sure the following statements would also be true:

"Those who know the least about the intricacies of lizard people conspiracy theories are most likely to deny it" or "Those who know the least about Bible-based curing methods or most likely to reject it"

I am pro-GMO and don't go out of my way to eat GMO free, but at the same time I think it misses a greater point that those who are against something for larger meta or ethical reasons of course are not going to know the exact mechanics of it (because for them that would be missing the point).
Illinois was never supposed to have an income tax, and didn't have one until 1970. Our property taxes are very high for that reason.
We used these at Aereo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrically_small_antenna
This is actually a great idea, as long as the government makes clear the plan to do this, and gives banks et al time to adjust.
https://www.fbi.gov/@@search?SearchableText=Unclassified+Sec... 9/11
There's a good chance my brother suffers from borderline personality disorder. My therapist has explained the biggest issue about PDs: the disorders make a person extremely unlikely to seek out help, as (to put it poorly) they believe the problem exists with the people around them and not themselves. This means that very little is understood, medically, about the disorders and how to treat them effectively.

The author of this piece is an extreme anomaly, not for having a PD (it is surprisingly common), but for having received effective treatment.

If you suspect that someone in your life suffers from a PD, I strongly recommend "Out of the FOG[1]." It focuses on what you can do to protect yourself and potentially have the semblance of a healthy relationship.

[1]: https://outofthefog.website/toolbox-intro/
Was it, or was it the year of graphql? The latter making the former more approachable.
Nice anecdote, but anecdotes are not data.

The vast majority of small businesses fail; wealthier people are more likely to start companies and more likely to succeed. (For some intuition, they can afford the float, on their living expenses, if nothing else, for longer, until they find market traction.)

Capital is indeed quintessential to capitalizing on market opportunities through business. It is in the name for a reason.

You make a sweeping and inaccurate statement that people who understand the dictionary definition of capitalism are all socialists who want to start a red revolution, which is just ludicrous and broadly offensive.
I see an exemption for "compensation", which I assume means "You can't pay out profits to non-managing non-lawyer silent partners, but you can do it for any non-laywer worker as part of their compensation arrangement."

>(3) a lawyer or law firm may include nonlawyer employees in a compensation or retirement plan, even though the plan is based in whole or in part on a profit-sharing arrangement; and
Many posts here mention the physical difficulties of the floor cleaning business, presumably from moving heavy equipment, etc. One person mentioned carpal tunnel syndrome from repeatedly working a valve on a spray wand.

So there might be even more money here for someone who can figure out how to solve these problems: lighter tools, ergonomically designed handles and triggers, etc.
I really like these two resources for learning git

http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html#loc=workspace;

Guided tour - http://gitimmersion.com/
I strongly agree with your point regarding Vue template strings and JSX being the future of Vue.

Coming from React + TS projects, Vue + TS is a lesser experience in many ways. Another such way is the community’s infatuation with exporting raw object literals for component definitions, and forcing you to defy common language idioms to support them hoisting this object literal into a component context.
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YouTube keeps presenting me French advertisements as a Flemisch person. So I guess "targeted ads" will remain not as targeted as you think.

Also, when I just bought some appliance online, maybe it's time to stop showing me ads for it on every page that I visit.
A scenario:

You're adding a feature to your proggie. That involves modifying the main bits to add the feature and, say, adding a couple of interfaces to internal library modules.

Split out the changes to the library modules into separate commits---it's safe because nothing uses them, they're logically separate from the feature changes (although they don't appear to have a justification without the feature), the log will be marginally cleaner, and git bisect will have more granularity.
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A lot.

Many of the early amp designs were either cribbed from radio amp or ham amp power stages--these are "clean".

"Distortion" wasn't a thing until much later. For instance, the whole reason why "fuzz" pedals came into existence is that a volume control on the preamp wasn't a common thing at that point--and were talking the mid 60's at that point.
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> But the ads I see are way off target.

The two sides see "off target" quite differently. If the baseline is 0.1% accuracy, and an ad platform offers 1% accuracy, then you see relevant ads showing up at 1 in a 100 rates rather than 1 in a 1,000 rates. You still feel like you're being spammed by useless nonsense. As an advertiser, my cost to reach my audience just dropped by 90%.
Or all the video games they played in their copious amounts of spare time.
But plenty of philosophers prior had suggested, if not argued, the contigency of knowledge. Kant famously discussed how knowledge is shaped and circumscribed by our faculties (e.g. sense of space and time).

Positivism was already well developed long before 1963.

I could on. I've studied enough philosophy to be comfortable with my criticism. But I'll grant that it may not have been until after 1963 that all these philosophical strains became predominate. But that doesn't excuse people from not seeing what's coming.
I agree with the others that are skeptical of this story.

The only justification I can think of for this is if the company felt they were defrauded.

Like if the guy had a great resume with years of experience in all the skills they want and he passed the phone screen with flying colors and then when brought on-site he couldn't answer a single question, maybe the company thought that he had someone else do the phone screen.
And the rest will go into salaries.

So?

Pensions are just deferred salaries. Do we expect scientists to work for free, or something?
> something that will do amazing things for science

Maybe it will, maybe it won't.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/01/particle-physicists...

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/cern-produces-marke...
Ask HN: How can you help kids focus?
Given all the devices and distractions in this modern day, it seems more challenging for younger people.

My child has lost some of her focus since starting school.

If you have kids, what have you do to help them improve their ability to focus?
Plant is a vague polysemic word. In this context I would take ti to mean as not animal or mineral, as it's not uncommon to divide things into those three categories.
But there is a politically viable choice for the Irish border!

That political choice is "don't do anything about it, and leave it without a hard border". And this is the choice that both the UK and Ireland want to take.
I'd support this if there was some notion of compromise, some sharing of the load between projects. Why not build the new ring to incorporate the current detector halls? Get the ring 90% done, then punch through into one of the existing LHC detector arrays. Use as much of the current LHC equipment as possible. Once those abilities have been maxed, then move forwards with costly new detectors.
Neat. I like how Geekflare shows their traffic stats. https://geekflare.com/advertise/

Its more convincing than paying $100 alone with the hopes of getting exposure.
> The vast majority of the country supports healthcare for all but it’s still considered politically impossible.

The party representing the minority opposed to healthcare for all has

1. a structural advantage granting them a government majority more often than the popular vote would suggest;

2. a wide array of obstructive tools at their disposal, including simply refusing to schedule a Senate vote.

The other party literally has universal health care in their platform, and secured a partial expansion less than a decade ago.
I agree with you. Another way of saying this is that corruption is a property of human nature.

It seems that the most persistent problems we face often are. We can change our system of economic organization and politics but in the end the system is made up of individuals. Individuals who have all the same sort of flaws and who struggle with their human nature. It takes a lot of will and effort for a person to behave honestly and ethically. The interaction of peoples behaviors and the system they are in is a two way street.

I guess what I am saying is that we need to do the hard work of behaving better ourselves if we want to make our industry, community etc a better place.
The last mile is a problem for many people who live in the rural areas but they're able to easier get FTTH because getting to the percentage for petition is much easier in small, local community. Many people get terrible DSL speeds and are doomed to use ADSL2 (if they can get that). Companies like KPN dropped the ball with FTTH, instead milking VDSL2 till it could no longer compete with Ziggo's cable.
Note that "database" does not necessarily mean "networked database server" to many people.

For example, using the Sqlite library counts as a database for most, and it runs in your process, in your memory. It is essentially a collection of functions for fast data structure manipulation.
That'll be leaked eventually, too.
Even an proficient English speaker can be mislead

I don't think so.

A human would understand context. AI isn't supposed to be simple string matching.
I laughed out loud the other day when I saw an Airbnb receipt that broke down the total cost and showed their Airbnb fee. It attributed the $100 fee to paying for 24/7 customer support during the trip.

Having experienced their horrendous support in the past (bounced from agent to agent over a 72-hr period, as you describe), I can attest that this fee is worth nowhere near that. The support is a joke, and when dealing with something as critical as housing, this is not acceptable.
The title of the article should be: "2 founders are not always better than 1 for Kickstarter"

Also, they didn't define success. I bet it was just getting the project funded. The bar for VC success and Kickstarter are very different. Kickstarter doesn't have growth and ROI requirements. This might be a proxy for a lifestyle business, but not VC funded companies.
I don't know if this effect has a name, but this sort of thing happens in every industry. I noticed in on a popular tourist trap boardwalk where every restaurant had a "barker" out front trying to tell you to come in. It's basically added costs for all businesses with more or less a 0 increase in net demand for the set of businesses as a whole, it merely redistributes demand amongst them.
Ask HN: Sensible security for Linux devices
Does anyone have experience shipping Linux devices? What is the standard way to secure them? Maybe random (but stored for troubleshooting) passwords during manufacturing? Or maybe no password but an SSH key per device?

Users should not have to access the root account on them (only a user account, which we could set to change on first access).

I'm not sure of a sensible method and really don't want to reinvent the wheel here.

EDIT (for clarity):
I am looking especially for root password strategies where company support reps can log in as root but users cannot.
I didn't say that at all. I said that a developer with passion has an edge.
Actually the NFRs are one of the best parts of MongoDB.

It is by far one of the easiest databases to administer, clustering is orders of magnitude easer than say PostgreSQL and it can be the fastest database by far for certain use cases e.g. cell level updates. Can you be more specific about what in particular is deficient ?

And if you look at their customers most of them aren't using it for front end work. Likewise I find it to be quite popular in the Data Analytics/Science space as a store of analytical features and for 360 entity views.
Did Ray Kroc personally buy real estate and then lease it to McDonalds to sublease it to franchisees? Was he on both sides of the transactions, leasor as owner of the property and leasee as CEO of the company signing the first lease?
35 ms isn't far off LTE's latency AFAIK. Last time I tried that I had ~60 ms, IIRC.
There is also a healthy debate over the degree to which personality disorders represent a true disorder, or just an extreme personality on the edges of normal distribution. If you consider it in those terms, then “treatment” amounts to having someone voluntarily attempt to change their personality at a fundamental level. Even if they wanted to, how likely is that to succeed?

All too often treatment for personality disorders, especially in Cluster B just train people how to better fake “normalcy” and to speak the language of therapy.
Another understated problem is the intellectual property issue. Saving seeds is usually prohibited (and those seeds might not be viable anyway), farmers have been successfully sued.

More and more staple crops are being hybridized (hyrbids whose offspring are sterile/nonviable), we're losing biodiversity in our crops, and large corporations are providing 'seeds as service' instead of agriculture being self sustaining.
Wouldn't the argument be the other way around, that capitalism is inherently corrupt?

Same as any other system which allows largely unchecked power.
You didn't provide a link. Is that what you're referring to?

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr...
I just use a GUI for that. I don't like using applications like Sourcetree for any actions, but they really are superior for visualisation of the commit tree, diffs between non-adjacent commits or between branches, etc.
A variant of the "Nigerian Price" (https://www.bbb.org/new-york-city/get-consumer-help/articles...)?
That is the thing, dealing with git issues brings back flashbacks of using Clearcase views on UNIX.
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It doesn't require the person who gets the card to have, or be eligible for, a bank account. You don't need a bank account to use a pre-paid gift card either.

I suppose they would have an account number within the organization that is distributing the money, but that's not quite the same thing, and surely has less overhead.
Artificial Intelligence Helps Track Down Account-Sharing Millennials
Is this another program which publicly exposes your IP address...and thus makes you vulnerable to copyright strikes from your ISP or potential legal action?
Ask HN: What are exemplary REST APIs?
There are many good resources about writing APIs, but I'm also curious what the crowd here would consider great, exemplary REST API's? Looking for things like well-structured URI's, great design of request and response bodies, useful error handling, useful and beautiful documentation - as well as dealing with real-world stuff that can make API's and REST hard (pagination, wanting to do RPC style stuff specifically long-running tasks, etc.). Any good API's you'd recommend looking at for inspiration?
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A hotel can be 90% empty and Booking could have only 1 left in their inventory to sell.

There's a difference between "Only one room left!" and "We only have one room left!"

It's called lying.
You've basically described the wireless carrier scene for the past decade. It is indeed zero sum, and the arms race in advertising resulted in increased costs for the end consumer.
It's hard to trust reviews when it's engineered the way it is. You're almost forced to leave a good review or else you'll get a bad review in return. People also don't like feeling guilty and transactions have been made personal. People do the same damn thing with ridesharing, really bad drivers somehow get 5 star ratings.
I don't get it either. I get even LESS the idea of renting out your home.

I hesitate to let close friends stay at my place when I am out of town. I can't IMAGINE letting strangers stay.
I see you got my devil's advocate gist. :)

Thing is, dealing with git feels like being in the early 2000's using Clearcase views.
The author's comments about the "positive vs negative aspects of narcissism" are interesting.

I remember reading[0] about how one of the most effective ways to determine if someone is a narcissistic is to ask them... "are you a narcissistic?". That surprised me at first because self-diagnosis is almost always a bad idea, but on second glance it makes sense that people who think about themselves all day could be more introspective than normal (or sometimes not: they could waste their day thinking about how great they are).

But if part of success is understanding your own thought process and working around your strengths/weaknesses, these are useful insights for anyone on the narcissism spectrum (see: everyone)

Ref:
[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/socially-relevant/20...
I'm just as cynical and misanthropic as the next HN poster, but I do wonder about this.

My hunch is that many people would indeed find something other than mindless TV if they weren't having their intellectual/emotional energy used up on a daily basis by a job. Not all people, maybe not even most, but many.

What they got up to instead is a whole nother question, but I do really think that the typical human would find something active to do, given no forced use of their time.
For free! Good one. Cause’ that’s whats really happening... right? With a straight face?

I was certain I had nothing more for you, but this is too much fun!

You clearly don’t grasp the difference between vertical and horizontal scalability which means you have never been subjected to a bunch of scenarios requiring the latter.

Dinosaurs taking the p*ss are the reason many enterprises opt to off-shore and out-source.
why should one post to Stack Exchange

Trollers just like to troll.
There were a ton of editorials in the NYT and WaPo to that effect a decade ago. I'm sure they're still online, but you'd have to dig through all the editorials from 2008-2010 to find them.
i'm not arguing about the performance cost of network. Comparing apples to apples would be more about embedded db engines or a db engine on the same machine using a "local mode", not a network mode, driver.
Every best practice has an exception
Do you know how that came about? It seems like a weird restriction. I can understand wanting to prevent shady firms from misrepresenting non-lawyers as lawyers to clients, but I don't understand why any of the rest of it follows.

This bit seems like a loophole:

> (3) a lawyer or law firm may include nonlawyer employees in a compensation … plan, even though the plan is based in whole … on a profit-sharing arrangement
That's not a good definition of effective. The advertiser actually cares about ($ spent / additional products sold that would not have been otherwise), which is much harder to actually measure as it involves a real causal question as to whether the ads influenced a purchase. Much of remarketing spend is likely wasted on customers who were going to buy the product anyways, especially so for people making a repeat purchase.

Its a not very well kept secret of internet advertising that it's so much more "measurable" than other types of advertising, but it's not actually measuring anything useful most of the time. There is the traditional quote that "I am wasting half my advertising budget, but I can't tell which half" With internet remarketing ads the answer might very well be both ;)
An even bigger lie is "we need them to feed the poor" -- when it's merely to control IP and increase profit margins.
Nice! I would like the feature to be able to comment on projects. But it's an amazing tool!
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Do you ask your kids to read a "real" book for 10 to 20 mins every school day? Our school "requires" parents to do so and it does seems to help with my kids time on task and focus. Note: "real" in the sense of not screen based. Anything with a screen is going to come with built in opportunities for distraction.

As a family, we also play games like "Exploding Kittens" and "Hearts". My youngest has asked about what it was like to play "D&D" and I think that they will be ready for something like The Princess Bride RPG. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/toyvaultinc/the-princes...

Really, any thing that encourages engaged thoughtful imagination rather than passive entertainment is probably going to help.
Who do you want to be? Do you want to be a guy who keeps his word, or do you want to be a guy who gets to work on his projects?

Look, I get wanting to work on your stuff. And I get how crazy it can make you when you keep getting interrupted. (Like, I get it from direct first-hand experience. "Please stop reading the internet to me. You're destroying all the space in my brain.")

But, bluntly, you sound like a very selfish person. You're measuring things only by the yardstick of what you want[1]. You need to start letting marriage change who you are, change you into someone who cares more for people than for things and projects. (In fairness, that took me a lot more than ten years.)

Don't throw your marriage away. If you do, for the reasons you said, I think you'll regret it. Instead, work on improving it, both from your perspective and from hers.

[1]: Yes, you've said that you asked her if it was OK with her. I think there are three possibilities: She's trying to put a happy face on it for you, she's mistaken about how much it's going to hurt her, or she's also unhappy in the relationship.
Most of the article is the author asking the person questions about himself; I'm not sure how anyone could give proper answers to those questions without using first person pronouns.
How can you be sure he's assuming any capital risk? It's far more likely that any downside would be passed on to shareholders.
I comment in these threads often correcting things, but it gets exhausting. Now that I'm not on mobile though:

Tons of comments here confidently say that the very idea of targeting clearly doesn't work based on their own experience or that it's a house of mirrors that doesn't work because of some obscure math.

I've managed over $10 million of ROI focused ad spend on Facebook and Adwords. You can test if targeting works trivially:

1) Use the platforms to target one audience that's a generic "All US Population" audience.

2) Test this against (for example) an algorithmically generated Lookalike that FB creates based on your seed audience.

The Lookalike will generally perform 3-20x better than the general population, depending on how specific the audience is your trying to target.

As far as public data goes, 90% of new ad spend goes to FB and Google for a reason - they're the best ways of targeting specific audiences online. And this is easily provable if you've ever worked on even mid-size ad campaign.
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