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> I do worry that at some point in the future my opportunities could be restricted by not having a degree.

The longer you've been actually doing the work, the less people care about your degree. Don't worry about the conversations around you. Worry about the hiring - and in hiring, having a proven track record beats having a piece of paper. (At least, for most employers. The employers where it doesn't are thinking that the degree matters more than the real-world experience. You don't want to work at those places, whether or not you have a degree.)
Is there something inherent in the A380 design that makes it less fuel-efficient, or is it just that the engines are of an older design than the newest planes?

I have read that the Boeing 747 sits at some local maxima in design space, and to get larger, the Airbus A380 compromised by having a higher wing loading. This would reduce fuel efficiency a bit.
But postgresql gives you not just the standard SQL database. It also does pubsub, timeseries, and lots more. It's fairly lean in itself and does not induce much overhead. Can run locally just with a unix socket and thus be just as easy as sqlite.
Is that stable coin?
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That's pretty close to my routine as well, and by the end of the day I was a lot of the time too tired to put much (if any) effort into my side project.

As a New Years Resolution, I've been getting up at 5:30 each morning to get 1.5 hours to do my own thing in the mornings, and so far it's been going well. I would still like more time, but constantly getting small amounts done is a great motivator.

I also start a new job in a few weeks that is 4 days a week so I can spend a full day each week on my project. I'll take a small financial hit, but I'm hoping that will be enough to get something worth shipping out the door. If it all goes up in flames, I can always go back to full time without having risked too much.
Probably zero; NYC is very good about generating its own businesses from the population. It's a big city with a pile of opportunity.
Although it's fictionalized, the TV show, Boardwalk Empire, does a pretty good depiction of what AC must of been like in the early 20th century. Of course, the place was completely mobbed up and one had to become enured to the occasional dead body dumped in a vacant lot or washing up on the beach, but, otherwise, the place was relatively free from street crime.
I wanted to reply to my above comment to clarify because people are somehow thinking that just because I wanted to take the time to explain what this is that I support it.

I probably don’t. This is an internal accounting system used by JPMC and potentially other banks. I don’t give a crap about what they use for accounting unless it works well and provides consumer benefits. I don’t care if it’s MySQL and PGP or a person with punch cards.

Whether or not I support this depends on if JPMC:

1. Gets adoption so this works with a bunch of banks and people and businesses can send me or I can send them money

2. Results in a reduction in settlement times versus ACH and wire

3. Comes at a lower cost to the consumer than wire or ACH

4. Comes with the same guarantees

I’m pretty skeptical as services like Zelle and Venmo provide way less guarantees than wire and ACH
I'm disappointed that Bloomberg published an article that points out all of the problems with unregulated social media but doesn't purpose specific regulations that could be helpful for most of the problems they point out.

What can the goverment do to help prevent foreign interference with domestic elections via social media? If Facebook is a natural monopoly what regulations would make it's use more fair? They suggest a user's bill of rights, but only one item that would fit in it. A bill of rights naturally would include multiple items. To make matters worse the ToS lets users know how their data might be used which is the only item suggested for the user's bill of rights.

All companies in the United States are subject to a barrage of regulations. In my opinion some are good and some aren't. Purposing more regulations without the details of what those regulations are is like a blank check.
And millennials make babies.
Good for you, man. That was one of the reasons I stopped using OS X.
> If federal officials are going to regulate social media, they should be independent of the president. The simplest course would be to give new authority to the FCC rather than to a whole new agency, though the latter option also deserves consideration.

I was just thinking I hadn't seen a picture of Ajit Pai's ridiculous coffee mug for like 15 minutes now.
The Ringworld was kept stable artificially if I remember.

Also it rotated extremely quickly which prevented it from getting squashed like the steel ring in the article. The rotation was so high that it created artificial gravity and so was also high enough to counteract star's gravity. In effect, the ringworld was in constant tension.

Since it was made from some pretty exotic stuff it is difficult to say anything about the tensile strength of the material.
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I am also on the same boat. Based on my learnings and experience from running failed startups, here's a system I am experimenting.

Step 1: Observation

There are oppurtunities around you; some people are good at finding them and exploiting it to build profitable ventures.

The intended outcome is to find a problem people are struggling with and help them solve it.

Here's how I find problems.

1. Most Voted "Ask HN" Queries: I have already noted your question as a story idea for my medium blog. Since this is something, people need help in figuring out.

2. Comments Most Voted HN Posts : Not all posts have comments where people talk about their problem, but some post has insightful data.

3. Comments on Top-Listed Products on Product Hunt : Find out the top listed products on product hunt. Go to the comment section and check out for the 'cons'.

4. Conversations : Go out and talk to people who have a different perception of the world. Try putting yourself into their shoes. Then try to if you can bring a solution to their problems with the knowledge you have.

5. App Store Reviews / Amazon Reviews: These reviews contain problems with current product users have.

Step 2. Study

Now that you have got the puzzle, you need to find a cheap and efficient way to solve it.

I mostly try to see how people in a different field solve this problem. Later, try to see if their solution can fit into the issue I selected.

I also find solutions in books, research papers, hackathon projects, etc.

For now, you only need to find a theoretical way to solve the problem.

Step 3: Shadow Testing & Writing

Make a landing page about your ideal solution. Make sure you include good graphics such that your product looks ready.

The landing page also won't be enough to attract people. Write about your learnings on Medium or your blog. At the end of your blog add a signup link to your landing page.

If you are new to copywriting, please read the book "How to Write A Good Advertisement" by Victor O. Schwab.

If people can relate to the problem, you would be receiving signups. Ask them to join a slack or a telegram or a WhatsApp group.

Step 3. Validating with the Early Adopters

These people are a boon. They have extended me so much help in my earlier startup. They do this because they would like to see their problem solved.

Start having a conversation with them, build prototypes. Incorporate their feedbacks. Make sure what they are willing to pay exceeds the production cost so that you can make profits.

I hope this helps.
There's also specialists (mostly epidemiologists, statisticians, etc.) who view their "special data magic skills" as often actively dangerous.
Author probably has one or more of the following:

- a non-strenuous job

- sacrificed health and well-being

- great genetics allowing for ample energy with minimal sleep

- no life responsibilities (possibly wealthy or can afford
paying others to take care of mundane tasks)
> A private database is not public to the customers. Customers

The article describes a private blockchain which is not public to customers, so your example does not work here. I'm willing to consider any other specific examples you can think of.
News to me kansas city is popular in the tech world now.
I would go much further. Break up Twitter into a bunch of Mastodon instances. Break up Facebook into a bunch of Diaspora instances. The internet should be open. Imagine if email or HTTP was proprietary like Facebook and Twitter are. This is a nightmare and we should end it.
I also like setting my history so that it appends to the history file after each command, so that they don't get clobbered when you have two shells open:

shopt -s histappend
export PROMPT_COMAND="history -a"
The USCF rules state that the TD can require players to use a specific scoresheet. It's not generally used in most casual tournaments, but almost mandatory for tournaments that matter.
The flaw is an implicit assumption that no alternative opportunities exist. Or in other words, the well-known concept of pricing.

It is exactly like a pushy customer demanding a discount on their groceries, saying: "Well, if I don't buy them you won't get any money at all!"

If you are confident you can sell enough groceries at the regular price, the economically correct decision is say "I don't need YOUR money" and laugh in their face.
Were they able to get the patent in question invalidated? I know that's often one of the main outcomes hoped for when taking a stand against a patent troll.
It's surprising to see how much many posters on HN want more government regulation over a tech
company.

It's about how so many are in favor of "taxing the rich", not realizing that to Middle America with an average household income of $70K, if you make over six figures, you are "the rich".

And from the political skew of HN, I wonder how many actually trust this government with more power?
It’d be cool to see a whitepaper on this.
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https://status.salesforce.com/
Oh, okay. I guess I'm just not familiar with them because I never sought them out. I was assuming if they were common the installer would say "here's the quote for installation and here's the quote for leasing"
In a time where most sponsors for FOSS software are moving away from GPL.
What gets me is how often these conflicts of interest go sideways.

I'll give you another one, in the UK there is a panel of civil servants who get to decide if another civil servant would be entering a conflict of interest by working for an organisation he/she used to oversee.

I.e. a civil servant in the ministry of defense retiring and going to work as a non-executive director for British Aerospace.

Of 450+ decisions they made, 0 where considered a conflict of interest.

If you ask the other wolves if the first wolf did anything wrong by attacking the sheep you can't be surprised by the answer.
> Attorneys who work in civil and criminal law can be defending the powerless, keeping the powerful from facing justice, or somewhere in between.

In this case, the lawyers were representing themselves. They not only represented the troll business, but actually are the troll business.

> It depends on the particular case.

I think that's what this thread has been saying.
How about Google? Force them to give us a search engine for 50$ a month and Android for 100$ a piece?
Status board is green: https://status.salesforce.com/
But reports of log-in issues are slightly up: https://downdetector.com/status/salesforcecom
That block was previously occupied and was cleared out for HQ2, so...almost immediately?
> I genuinely don't understand what the blockchain does here that couldn't be implemented by any random database system.

A blockchain is...well... a database system itself!

There are many different types of database systems, eg. Relational, Graph, Object orientated, document (eg elastic search) and so on.

Generally you want to pick one that fits your problem area well, so picking a random database system would not be a good idea.

One of the most important data structures they need is a tree for the Merkle proofs to confirm that the data hasn't been tampered and contract execution happened correctly. Tree structures are notoriously difficult to implement in a relational db for example.

(BTW, I'm also skeptical of the hype around 'blockchain' just as before when the 'noSQL' hype came around. You will surely have some devs pick the blockchain as their database system for the wrong reasons, just like back in the day when you had devs pick noSQL because it was cool.)
Well without reading... i guess we already know that - i am pretty sure religion was a big factor in the metrics which 'conservative' people to target in ongoing russian social-media propaganda campaigns. They are optimal targets, as they seem to not question or being subservient to authority - some of them are adults that haven't found out santa isn't real.
Seattle has a housing crisis because it has large amounts of the city with extremely restrictive residential zoning and refuses to compromise. They have large areas where multi-tenancy housing can't exists. Additionally, in the US everyone believes housing is not a depreciating asset. There is a reason Tokyo is the largest city in the world while being significantly cheaper to live in then similar cities.
I wonder how people would feel if the VC's that they rely on were broken up for having "too much influence"?
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There are plenty of other bad players you don’t know about. We need enforceable rules so people know that a company is following certain standards .
To any legal experts present: at what point can patent trolls be charged with extortion?
If you've got pageviews, you've potentially got revenue.
I have no experience with handwriting recognition, but intuitively it seems like the facts that:

a) the grammar for chess move notation is fairly limited; and

b) each move must be valid relative to the current game state

can be used as contextual clues to resolve ambiguous characters. Of course, this means you can't use an off-the-shelf handwriting recognition package that recognizes whole words like you describe, but requires a custom per-character recognizer. (But then, isn't that what you're doing already?)
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> Oh, and that language switch from bash to python is a huge risk.

I was thinking about that and I came up with

sed 's/^0*//'

as an alternative to the Python program. Another option that works for the same purpose is

xargs -n1 expr 0 +

Edit: There's an earlier subthread with several options for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19160875
They don't need to build housing directly; local government controls zoning and development, so all they have to do is insist that higher-density and more affordable housing be built than what is currently happening. They don't do that. SanFran is a better example of this really, but other places in the US have the same problem to some degree. This isn't "pie in the sky internet ideology"; other countries don't seem to have such a problem with development, it all just comes down to having decent government. Here's an article about how housing prices in Japan have been very stable despite similar increases in urban population; largely it's because the national government has taken away local governments' ability to restrict construction the way it happens in places like SanFran.

https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...
You can actually use postgresql for pubsub and thus instead of redis in some use cases.
As someone who grew up on a farm: there are entirely reasonable ways to define standards of livestock welfare that don't require veganism.
> If people are moving from NYC to LA/Seattle/etc., your argument doesn't really hold much water.

Gee, I don't remember mentioning "LA/Seattle/etc." by name. Unlike some other cities that I mentioned by name. Did you see the part where I mentioned cities by name?

> As far as I can tell, NYC has had about a 6% population growth since 2010. It actually matches the US overall population growth pretty well

Great, now compare that to the growth rates of Dallas or Nashville or etc.
In my mind the only reason to work crazy hours is when you find product market fit: the ball is rolling down the hill and you're chasing it. That is supposed to be what it feels like. Customers are breaking down the door because they want your product and you're fighting to keep up with demand. And yes the "best" teams work crazy hours because they already have product market fit.

I've worked at a startup that very clearly had product market fit and one that very clearly didn't. In the former example the early employees worked a ton to scale the product and keep up with demand. In the latter example, the founders felt they needed to work nonstop in the mindset that hard work for the sake of hard work would produce product market fit. I think it resulted in a lot of thrashing. They kept focusing on minutiae in the product when probably taking a step back, letting things simmer, and evaluating from a higher level would have been really beneficial.

I think successful product development requires a lot of creativity, and you don't get creativity by sitting in a seat for 16 hours a day because that's what your investors tell you their best teams do...
I don't really think a lot of people think of socialism as a "solution", but rather as a alternative to try again vs hyper capitalism that evolves into "gig economy" aka "freelancers shoulder all the entrepreneurial risk, get paid below minimum wage, have to provide the capital to buy cars + gas themselves, are then stiffed on tips, get no health insurance and will be thrown out if they ever so much as look at the CEO wrong". People appear not to like the US/Silicon Valley style (including "too big to fail" socialized losses for corrupt companies), and since they don't get offered a "capitalism with rules" as an alternative, they're willing to consider other things.

In the end: communism might suck, but being one hospital visit away from bankruptcy, being spied on 24/7 by a corporate-state-hybrid, and working for $10 an hour while a small apartment costs $3k sucks too. And who knows, maybe "this time" it'll work. You know, now that we have block chain or whatever some lunatic thinks will change human biology.

Offer them a chance and they won't grasp at socialist straws. But offering them a chance would cut into profits, so that's not an option, obviously.
> Actually no, gentrification causes existing homeowners to increase their property values.

Property values are not necessarily wealth. It is entirely possible to gentrify existing homeowners out of their homes despite increasing their property values -- this moves homeowners down the economic ladder.

Yes, selling their house technically puts fresh cash in their pocket, but only by drastically increasing their cost of living and by making them search for new housing (which by definition will have to be somewhere cheaper than their current neighborhood, since by definition they can no longer afford their current one).

All of this is usually a large net loss in total wealth, despite the sale of their property. Owning a gentrifying home gives you the illusion of wealth building, but if you live in that home, it's really just lifestyle inflation until you sell out.

None of the above is a hypothetical, either. That is an accurate description of how real-world Gentrification usually plays out in Midwestern/Flyover USA today.
That black or white worldview absolutely ignores a middle ground use case for a bunch of collaborative entities that _sort of_ trust each other, are ok being non-anonymous, and want to work together on a shared ledger. Ten firms working towards a common goal can do so without an insane amount of redundant double entry accounting at each firm, they can do the work once and share the results, they can audit and verify the log. And they arent all just accessing one databased stored at one firm.

Im not sure people really understand the implications of a team of companies that collaborate often banding together, and eliminating the need for 3rd party audits and 3rd party fund settlement.
NYC is very political.

Surprised AMZN had such a thin skin.

And after all this, they are going to move into vacant office buildings in DC near the airport, and in Nashville.
Smaller code size makes your caches more effective. L1 instruction cache is size limited because it's on a critical timing path. Increasing its size limits your operating frequency.
That's why I have a lot more faith in RISC-V's ability to take on relatively high end embedded tasks than lower end ones. I'd expect compression to be too expensive, transistor wise, for many roles where you'd use an ARM Cortex M2 or such and program memory is at a premium in those places.
This particular case is explicitly non-precedential as is indicated on the top of the first page. The decision was made under Rule 36 of the Rules of Practice of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which allows the Court to enter a judgment without an opinion. The case might be precedential in the business logic sense in that potential trolls will have to alter their calculus to take into account that companies will no longer roll over and pay token amounts simply to exit litigation. Also complicating their calculus is an earlier decision from the Supreme Court (Octane Fitness, LLC v. Icon Health & Fitness) which effectively made it substantially easier for a prevailing party to recoup their legal fees in patent related matters.
That teeny little player profited from the contributions from IBM, Intel, Compaq, Oracle, and nowadays even Microsoft.

Non-copyleft UNIX clones weren't so lucky.

Even if RISC-V succeeds in the market, there isn't any guarantee that we won't have a plethora of incompatible extensions.
Or maybe we shouldn't be voting for people at all, but instead parties. That's how it works in Europe, and they don't have the two-party system we have because of it.
Besides being infeasible for multiple reasons, how would that help with any of the problems pointed in the article (except the monopoly part)?
1) How can the broader community help end this sort of nonsense?

2) Do you see any potential for a company to offer patent troll defense as a service and drive costs down, or does it seem too big a problem to productize/scale a solution for?
Or you can also outsource some of the work you do while you work and commute.Outsource 3-4 hours a day, pick up 2-4 hours if you can. Then your project moves 5-8 hrs a day. I do this, using my income for someone else to build by muse.