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Most companies are eligible for the same incentives. These tax deals will still happen, but they will be for lower paying jobs. Just read the press release at the very least. These are programs that existed before Amazon announced anything.
I believe he's referring to a staging environment for changes on their side.
Well I'll say it a different way: the manifold hypothesis is basically a geometric restatement of the fact that compression is the same thing as forecasting.

If you couldn't map a metric space (or other distance measure) onto a lower dimensional manifold, you're basically saying you can't forecast using a geometric representation, or you have already extracted all the signal from the noise in some other way.

There are interesting problems where you can't do anything with metrics or quasi-metric distance measures, but you can forecast things. Geometry is easier to reason about than Kolmogorov complexity though, hence papers like the above.
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Smalltalk transcript, VB immediate window, Oberon (which inspired Plan 9), CamlLight, come to mind as my first experiences in such tooling.
Dallas is waiting yall.
At least JPMorgan is regulated like a bank because it is one.
> so letting the F500 CEOs select the President surely can't be any worse.

Oh, I really think it could.
This seems like an obvious consequence of globalism and the nature of the labor market. Also seems consistent with Picketty’s thesis about capital growth. The days when being a US citizen gauranteed affluence are coming to a close. To see the future look at California; refugees from Guatemala living amongst young millionaires, mostly immigrants also. A global community, sliced into ever narrower tranches by the invisible hand. It’s the future we choose.
I see what you're saying, but Amazon pretty much did that to themselves by making the whole thing such a public spectacle. Whether or not they were offered a special deal, that's the impression everyone got, and it should have been predictable that they'd provoke a lot more political backlash with this approach.
You are putting a lot of weight on "presumably." Someone has to pay for all that mining. Or, you know, skip the mining and your costs should be lower.
Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of when I read that everyone has 8 hours a day of "me" time. Nope, no we don't.

630a - 8a: get myself ready, get kids ready

8a - 630p: commute and work (yes, the author does say she eliminated her commute, but this isn't feasible for everyone)

630p - 8p: dinner, get kids to bed

8p - ~9p: dishes, general cleanup, pay bills, etc...things most adults have to do to live

9p - 1030p: 1.5 hours of "me" time if we're going for 8 hours of sleep...no, more like...

9p - 12a: really the only window I have to live. often spent doing more work and really, usually too brain dead to start a side project. again, adulting and parenting are hard and energy intensive. Netflix sounds really good at this point.

1030p - 630a: 8 hours of sleep (haha - i'm really trying to live somewhat of a life so 1130/12 is a more regular bedtime)

I've been considering the 10p bedtime/5a wake up so I can do side projects in the morning, but this still only adds 1.5 hours of time for a total of 3 hours a day.
I'm having fun with it, but I sure can't seem to change anything to do with aesthetics - font colours, font size etc? Is this possible or on the roadmap?

Otherwise, I'm impressed by the quality of the PWA (thought it might be React Native based at first) and the "it just works" factor.
Its a sad day for NYC I think. The only exception to that is Queens, I agree its not great to put a corporate office there, it should have gone to Manhattan like every other big office building.
Then why has Google announced a major expansion in New York City without making a show out of it? Did anyone protest about Google adding more than 7,000 jobs to the area? Amazon has clearly failed here to offer something everyone would be happy about.
Agreed. Having one or more side projects, a full time job, relationship, etc. is great. People are aspiring to become 'makers' and turning otherwise relaxed side projects (couple hours here, couple hours there) into fully-fledged effort is a massive energy sink that requires some form of sacrifice, and therein lies the struggle.

Slacking off at work is a solution, albeit one that (despite risking career, if that's a de-motivator) could move you closer to burnout via laziness and / or turn a simple dissatisfaction towards your day job into contempt for each working day.

Which is why it's important to either A) know you're the type of person who can slug it out for potential future reward, or B) work on an idea you actually enjoy, will continue to enjoy, and can slack off every now and then
Yes exactly. DHH is a great example. I feel like the only metric of success these days is unicorn or not. Again, a harmful dichotomy.
That's not true. I was a resident of TX for two years while still working for my SD company was not subject to CA state tax. If you're not present you don't pay.
Echoing what others are saying. This is a great tool and one few new tools to enter my daily workflow in years. For a long time, I saw very little improvement in development tools, but this and Paw, an API client, have given me faith in beautiful, native Mac developer tools.
Please don't get personally acidic in your comments to HN, regardless of how frustrated you feel with other posts.

It corrodes discussion badly, and we're trying to stave off that decline here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
God I hope you're not a manager. When you see an employee's pictures of a strenuous hike they went on, is your first thought that they must be stealing that energy from the company?
I have an Aurora PVI-6000-OUTD-US that's been pretty solid. I've also heard good things about the Sunny-Boy inverters. One thing I like about my Aurora is that there is a linux command-line tool that can pull data from the inverter over serial. I pull data from mine every 5 minutes into text files on my home server.
Forget everything else, it's First Past the Post voting that is the cause of many of our problems (e.g., no possibility of third parties).

If we had an alternative voting system (there are several good ones), people could actually vote _for_ someone rather than just _against_ someone, and there would be some criteria for voting other than who can put out the most inflammatory campaign commercials.

But again, the status quo would never go for it, and I suspect most voters wouldn't go for a system that can't be explained on a bumper sticker. I'm not trying to insult the intelligence of the average voter, just their attention spans.
Years ago, I got a video ad on my YouTube for the church of Scientology immediately after I had watched a few videos about it, so "bidding wars for some piece of your soul" really aren't new. It's refreshing that someone from the other side is doing something finally.

Really, though, I wonder if these things really should be a non-issue, and we should teach kids to ignore all advertising, and give basic critical-thinking skills from a young age.

Advertising and proselytization really shouldn't be as effective as they are; I think a large part of this is because (at least when I was a child) children aren't given the necessary skills to differentiate marketing from facts.
Had Bell Labs been allowed to explore UNIX commercially, none of us would be having this discussion.
Ok, but then that makes this a purely theoretical paper about something already pretty well known. Almost all interesting problems that DNNs are solving nowdays are some kind of classification problem (or with finite discrete outputs), which polynomials are really unsuited for (unless there are an infinite number of terms).
> it's a technology that reduces friction for things they are already doing.

And there lies the rub, because as far as I can tell, this particular (and no particular) blockchain implementation does not in fact reduce any friction for things they are already doing.
Google's NYC office is <1/4 the size of what Amazon's would be (and they're predicting 40k over time).
I worked for a Fortune 100 company whose backbone was intellectual property (involved in 100,000+ products) and as you might imagine, their view of what constituted "intellectual property" and any reasonable human being's view were quite different.

During onboarding someone asked about building a table and selling the plans and were told that "they would definitely need to talk to legal".
Out of curiosity, how much do your 23 year old solar panels produce compared to when they were new? 90%? 85%?
Oh I see. Yes the output got a bit messed up.

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You could use + if you want. I only do it if not doing will produce incorrect output for my given input, which happens occasionally but is rare.

Bear in mind in this case there is also _A.csv or _B.csv you need to account for as well which your version doesn't. Mine will still pick it up because I'm not specifying the end, as I'm assuming I've done the necessary preprocessing steps to get good data so it will produce the expected output.

I'm not usually fussed on being that strict when I write regex as I tend to do various preprocessing steps like grep -v ^$ to filter out any blank lines if I don't want them in the stream etc.
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Mugsy was fast because he worked hard to be fast, not because he was born with "fastness".
Not many corporations I know of get a deal brokered by the mayor and governor privately with multibillion dollar cut after a large spectacle. I realize you might think differently as an Amazon employee.
I just use a WIP label on the PR, keep it simple.
Which is easier for a rich person?

1) To pay off a few politicians

2) To sell a product/service to millions of people

I'd say it is usually the first. If you are already rich and powerful it is in your interest for the government to have more control. Eg, more red tape means higher barriers to entry to your (new and smaller) competition.
> stop the tool immediately

Okay, but, say you've configured the tool wrong and now it's destroying your work. You stop the tool. How soon is it safe to grab your work away from the work surface—i.e. when will it go from "it's too dangerous, let it keep destroying the work" to "it's now slow enough to pull the work off of the tool while it's still—slowly—running, to save the work from further damage"? That's a thing you have to figure out with your eyes (and ears).
> This tax deal was all about Amazon expanding very quickly.

Anybody who thinks that through should see why it's such a terrible idea. Not even NY can "very quickly" absorb 25k people in a small area without screwing up quality of life for the people who already live there. That's a great way to make real estate prices sky rocket and screw over the existing residents. And it'll completely screw up infrastructure and transportation, because there's not enough money to pay for them when the company causing the issues is getting a huge tax break and not paying their fair share, and they're not things that can be fixed quickly in any case.

> Maybe it works out great as other companies will lease those buildings and hire a combined ~20k employees averaging $150,000 in compensation, but that's likely not going to happen.

If the current residents are qualified for $150k a year jobs then they presumably already have one - it's not like there are 25k unemployed software devs waiting around for companies to move to NY.

That whole competition was a shameful money grab by Amazon and I'm glad it didn't work out for them.
ok lets suppose someone created a video of white noise in 1080p with a dolby 5 surround sound white noise hiss.
these are natural phenomenon, thus not copyrightable so i am told. now suppose someone then interposes a slight bit shift on the binary representation of this data [read as steganographic encoding] so that a piece of media is now a whitenoise stream, and a key or semaphore modulus stream. Yes it makes it bigger and adds overhead, but lets also get the blockchain in on this so that when the stego key is disseminated it cant be taken back, similar to the direction that torrent tracking is going in?
ill shut up for a while now, anybody else want to chime in?
The KJV is not a word-for-word literal translation, nor is the NIV a paraphrase.

There's a lot more nuance involved.

Reading the KJV gives you difficulty because the translation was made in 1615 and the English language has changed significantly since then.
I'm shocked your lawyers had an issue with a company stating they don't want to be held liable if they're somehow hacked and start sending out malware.

Seems pretty standard to me.
> any company moving into NY can get these same large tax concessions

Interesting if true, but I don't think people are going to accept it on your say-so. I recommend digging up a citation.
It's predictive, just not enough to make decisions on. You're not saying we don't let anyone under 6' play basketball, are you?
This is almost entirely for people with solar leases, and not solar loans or paid-off panels.

For panels that are paid off it's a great deal to pay a little more for the house. It just becomes a tax-deductible loan even though it saves you money each month.
I'm single and don't have kids and it still doesn't apply. I have to commute, shower, cook, buy groceries, clean etc.

I'm all about self improvement, side-projects, etc, but his numbers start with the bullshit assumption that someone who spends 8 hours at work is instantly free as soon as the clock strikes 5.
This explanation would have credibility if the announcement included BofA and Wells. Without multiple major players entering with them, it is only a wish.
I find it amusing to watch the political class eat its own on this one.
This! They are deferring the inevitable time when the subway is no longer sustainable. Are we waiting for another Sandy?
And even if they could that's more money into Big Tech oligopolies. Not something we really need to be supporting.
Commies and NIMBY-types just deprived people who actually work for a living the opportunity of a lifetime.
Do you also crave acknowledgement for your Prius, too?
I have plenty of examples where it works out. The town I live in gave large tax breaks not too long ago and it's working well. Nearby, sports facilities were financed with balloted measures at the request of the public, sometimes in conjunction with the local ISDs who share the facilities. The vast majority are benefiting from this public/private economic cooperation.
The only way I could comfortably answer that question is "Irrespective of greatness or potential for it, here's a list of projects I've done/been involved in and am proud of:".

The "adjusted for privilege" bit seems to be trying to discourage people from talking about where they went to college. It is definitely an awkward question and I think Bryan was right to skewer it.
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I am not saying SWIFT is perfect, but please enumerate these flaws and the ways in which blockchain legitimately solves these flaws without introducing an equal number of equally problematic flaws.
Thank you!

We will add more options to customize the look of the apps. It's important to us not to overload users with fine-grained controls that require design expertise to get good-looking results, though.
If you ever find yourself thinking "If only there were a product that solves my problem XYZ? I'd pay money for that!", then you already know what to build.

If you haven't had such thoughts yet, I'm sure others around you could make suggestions. You'll make even more money by building for a niche market that has been overlooked or underserved by technology companies. The more specific the market, the better, as these tend to be quite sticky.
Thank you Maneesh! Can't wait to see your new idea get off the ground!
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I hope they don't. I'm happy with my low-cost midwestern town.
Maybe JP Morgan thinks it's possible to improve on the DTCC. Your link describes some controversy over their handling of naked shorts, for example. Or maybe the new system would be cheaper, or JP Morgan wants to implement new features themselves, without having to convince everybody to trust JP Morgan to track their money.
> Unless it's for a football stadium.

You haven't seen the perpetual and energetic fights in my part of the nation about public funding for football (and other professional sports) stadiums. Sports businesses trying to get tax money to be spent in order to enhance their profitability is absolutely something that brings out the opposition.
You don't mine in a permissioned system like quorum. The CPU load is minimal, and when running the quorum clients, you are basically just checking to make sure everyone in the system agrees on the transactions. If someone tries to cheat (or spam or whatever), you kick them out.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that are legally not allowed to make in their free time because the company they work for owns the rights to things they make, even if made fully using their own time. Or the company may forbid working on open source projects under fears of developers sharing ideas that said company believes they're entitled to.

Until the law is changed so that companies don't own things developers make like that, there are many people that lose the motivation to make things in their free time.
> I keep thinking that his actual problem is that he doesn't seem to believe in the implications of the axiom of the excluded middle. [...] I wonder why he never talks about this – surely as a mathematician he should be aware of intuitionistic logic? (Or is it that as a computer science and linguistics wannabe, I am aware of it but many mathematicians aren't bothered to take a look?)

Heck, I know professional logicians (mostly model theorists) who have never seen intuitionistic logic, in any context, ever. That said, Norman does know a fair bit about intuitionistic logic and constructive mathematics, and even some type theory. He does not like the underlying philosophy any more than he likes classical mathematics.

> Gentzen style sequent calculus with the only axiom being modus ponens

Sidenote: a calculus where modus ponens is an axiom is definitely not a Gentzen-style sequent calculus.
We need a new word for a thing that's like blockchain, but not happening in public, and therefore not actually decentralized.

I submit "charm bracelet".
Right, it's New York. If anything they avoided an investigation by not selling to Amazon.
This blog post really doesn't sell this feature well. How is this any different at all from me just putting "WIP" in the title of the PR? Ok, so it prevents merging a WIP PR - who would do that?
No, they are saying that in all likelihood they don't the physical ability to play the game.
1.1.1.1 has always faced various issues with different ISPs and network devices that were misusing the address. It's highly likely your issue is specific to your location or hardware configuration, as it's extremely unlikely it's an issue with Cloudflare's system (which is distributed across their entire network like everything else they do).
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The population of New York's 14th Congressional District was (as of 2016) 691,715: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_14th_congressiona...

The number of votes cast in New York's 14th Congressional District election, 2018 was 141,122: https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_14th_Congressional_Dist...

That's approximately 20% of the total population. I can find no info on what percentage of that 691,715 is eligible voters, but the 4% claim appears pretty ridiculous.
In my view there are two steps.

1. Become worth more money. That is, you have to learn how to do things that will make the company more money. That can either be learning how to do harder things, or doing things that are more central to how the company makes money. This may require learning new technical things, and it may also require transferring to different projects, groups, teams, or divisions.

2. Get paid what you're now worth. This may require "marketing" yourself to management, pointing out to them what you're bringing to the company vs. what you're paid. Or, if you can't do that successfully (or if management won't listen), it may require switching jobs.
> Solar panels are the most common instance in which anyone would run into this situation. I'm struggling to think of anything else, actually.

Furnaces, air conditioners, water heaters, and water softeners are all often installed on contract.
GP is probably talking about themselves. I too feel very little energy to program my personal projects after spending the whole day programming for my company
The idea was taken from Oberon, which got inspired by Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC.

Basically any function/procedure that gets exported from a module can be used either on the REPL, or from them mouse, depending on its signature.

Quite powerful concept for those that like to take advantage of GUI based OSes.

Powershell is the only that comes close to it. Maybe fish as well, but never used it.
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So it was only one short guy who wanted it and a bunch of tall ones?
>I think she's simply being informal.

No, she explains that talent is not fixed in multiple presentations.[0] To paraphrase one of her examples, "Michael Jordan wasn't particularly talented at basketball; he _became_ talented."

>The way I always read her work is: If a person has talent, having a growth mindset is much more likely to realize the talent than a fixed mindset.

Right and I agree with it but that doesn't change the meta discussion that people leave out about "talent".

She can be "correct" about "developing talent" using that type of framing (which agrees with Gladwell, Coyle, Duckworth, etc) while at the same time she doesn't point out that "talent" is also used by others as a word that describes ranking of innate aptitude which cannot be changed by a growth mindset nor explained by "practice". (For example, an 8-year old child prodigy that has mastered differential calculus even though he didn't have 10000 hours of math practice that the 19-year olds in college still struggling with remedial algebra had.)

[0] https://youtu.be/-71zdXCMU6A?t=2m58s
But as a thought experiment, say they did create 25,000 jobs at an average salary of 100,000. What type of taxes and secondary effects on the economy does this have?

Does the city get back more than the 3 billion in concessions and how long does that take?
Hopefully the planet understands that 25000 people can find other jobs in NYC and still take the subway to work?

Your math is way off.
I have seen more success from freelancers -> very profitable side projects than any other form. It makes sense: you're being paid real money to provide a custom solution to a problem, so if you can make a generalizable version of that solution you can at least feel confident that you're solving a problem people will throw money at to fix.

The most common thing I've seen is that freelancers will (as the situation calls for it) strike a deal with their client to carve out a feature as an independent SAAS, bill the customer a much reduced rate for that "set" of work and bring them on as the first "customer" of the SAAS so there's some social proof.
I see what you mean. Yes perhaps we should say "Export to App Store & Google Play"? Although 'export' is also a technical concept. What we really offer is native builds, and eventually we will help you publish them.
Basically everyone knew this, apart from US war mongers of course.