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Here is how we cut our wedding bill for 120 people from 45k to 10k!

Our wedding planning experience got off to a bad start when we told our wedding planner we had no specific budget. He took that to mean an unlimited budget... and came back with a plan for a 100 person medieval-themed party in fancy dress, complete with monogrammed plates and dancing midgets. Total cost around 45k euros. (The midgets alone were 1.5k!)

So we sacked him and did it for 1/4 of the cost:

- Timing - Switch to a Thursday, with an afternoon ceremony and evening dinner. No problems getting a venue. We decided not to stress about people who couldn't make it midweek.

- Venue for ceremony - The venue was a medieval cloister in the middle of Amsterdam. By doing it on a Thursday afternoon, we paid their standard rates for a business meeting. We made friends with the venue manager. He was able to provide post-ceremony drinks and nibbles at much cheaper rates.

- Celebrant - A friend who did weddings in a another region was able to register with the city council to be our celebrant. Zero cost.

- Fancy dress - As a joke to the wedding planner's medieval idea, we surprised our best man etc with ridiculous medieval fancy dress. A cheap way to help everyone laugh even more at their speeches.

- Flowers - The previous evening, the venue was used for the Dutch 'Wildlife Photographer of the Year' awards presentation. The friendly venue manager kept their flowers for us. Zero cost.

- Wedding cake - Decided we could do without this if people had nice post-ceremony drinks. Zero cost.

- Dinner - Booked out a nearby restaurant for the night. They could seat 80. That worked fine as from the 120 guests, many families with kids appreciated the option to go home after the post-ceremony drinks. The restaurant arranged all the catering at their standard reasonable prices. Very nice meal served by professional staff. Zero stress. After dessert, everyone gathered at the bar area and talked and enjoyed themselves til 1am.

- Photographer - A friend asked if she could take photos. Problem solved at zero cost.

- Band/dancing - Neither of us wanted this. Lots of clubs nearby for people who wanted to go out afterwards.

I definitely recommend booking a standard restaurant for a wedding dinner. Don't go to a specialist wedding venue!
Here’s my criticism of the test: the vast majority of human beings have to also pass ( or we conclude that some living humans are not conscious, which seems untenable ).

Do the majority of humans ask if their subjective experience of red is different from someone else’s, unprompted? I doubt it.
military research is not the same as war. Flight was developed by the commercial sector.

the people blabbering about war as a means of national rejuvenation are usually the ones not planning on bleeding out in a muddy ditch. 30 million people died in WWI and not much was rejuvenated
Are these numbers a typo?

>Now a year after launching LawCo, Glennon says the startup has about 125 attorneys available on the platform and has matched more than 20 cases.

That is 1.7 cases/month and 0.16 cases/lawyer/year.
And in any case a total of 20 cases/year.
If you're suggesting that all these jobs are good, for their own sake, then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I find it unlikely that Google, specifically, has a supply shortage in any possible niche all the way down to "software developers who are also unicycling clowns".
Israel's first spacecraft to moon sends selfie
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Unless I am mistaken, isn't this what you are looking for?

https://store.google.com/product/usb_c_dual_port_charger
> how much of our middle class burden comes from hidden rent seeking parasites like this.

If you include the unwillingness to respond to demand by building enough new homes in the popular urban areas, probably a lot.

A 1000 sq.ft. home (house or condo) should not cost more than $200,000 to build. Anything above that, someone is making profit.
And most of them shouldn't, the raindrops on the art team didn't create always online DRM for a single player game.
Trickle down, eh?
What? Nobody is claiming that they don't.

What is being claimed is that the majority of those employees are not seeing an increased benefit (wages) proportional to the increased profits of the company they work for, whereas shareholders and executives do.
Starbucks Will Introduce Bitcoin Payment for Coffee by the End of the Year
Even then, it depends on your configuration. I was amazed at how different the fonts looked on Fedora vs Ubuntu on identical laptops.
>> Things that people don’t do frequently never get fixed!

> Health care is something people use frequently, has broken processes, and high prices, and will seemingly never be fixed.

Your counter example doesn't work. The original claim was "things that people don't do frequently never get fixed", not "things that never get fixed are infrequently used by people".
Great, now to figure out some way to use this with Batman.js ...
I'ts both, FPS games trying to look like COD get a lot of flak even at small scale, and the cute stuff like Pokemon gets a lot of flak because the fanbase is in the millions and therefore includes all kinds of people, specially when people with completely opposite opinions but equally passionate about it meet each other ("best pokemon game ever!" then "shut up! its the worst pokemon game ever!")
I think Microsoft did the best they could since HiDPI requires the app to cooperate with the OS and supporting three separate modes makes it so more applications can actually work even if it's annoying.

- Some apps are DPI unaware and just get scaled by the OS at the pixel level.

- Some apps are DPI aware but only at startup. If you move screens they need to be restarted.

- Some apps can dynamically switch their DPI and respond to the OS prods to change.
I'm pretty sure the mob's policy on breaking people's fingers if they don't pay applies equally to everyone who owes them money, and anyone who chooses to borrow money from them is well aware of this policy.
I don't believe the previous poster actually included any value judgement in their comment.

Basically the administrative overhead of all the layers is what is taking the bulk of that money.

I agree that those jobs can be redistributed elsewhere instead.
If there was healthy competition that same number of jobs may be split over multiple companies, but it would still have to exist since the market for the product itself wouldn't change.

That isn't an argument for not breaking up a monopoly. Only an argument that the market may be big enough to support actual competition.
This is partially why I built chihaya[0]. The idea is by having a powerful middleware model for traditional BitTorrent software, devs can easily extend the protocol for whatever they need internally. As a sibling comment mentions, an older fork of Chihaya is one of the tools used at FB for distribution in their orchestration system, Tupperware.

In practice, internal networks are such a mess that leveraging p2p is often more trouble than it's worth.

[0]: https://chihaya.io
This bridge in Alexandria Egypt must have been inspired by SimCity.

http://i.imgur.com/YbrJG2h.jpg
Thank you!

- Regarding configuration - you need Dockerfiles for your apps and also configure environment variables and ports in Dockup. We call this configuration a "blueprint", which once created will be the template for your automated deployments. Unlike Vagrant, Dockup runs your apps on the cloud and you get URLs in your slack channel when someone opens a PR.

- Our pull request reviews (we use Dockup while developing Dockup :D) actually use production environment. We simply use a postgres container as the database and turn off analytics in our Dockup environments.

- Yes we do get requests for on-premise installations and we do support that. In fact, when we started, we only supported on-premise and later made the SaaS version. If you want to just self-host the infra and use Dockup UI, you can do it right now by signing up for the self-hosted plan.
That is right. I think the excitement and hype around 4.0 was so much that everyone just wanted to released it. Which hurt KDE so badly.

These days KDE is amazingly stable, fast and feature-full. But the reputation and brand has not recovered from the 4.0 release yet.
As we see in Table 2.3 on page 56 of a GAO report to Congress [0], of the 1159 Pentagon whistleblower reprisal complaints submitted in 2H-FY18, 16% were "substantiated" and the rest were repurposed for toilet paper. I do not expect the unsupervised services to surpass the performance of the Pentagon in this area. I'm also not surprised that the official-stenography war media have not covered this report.

[0] https://media.defense.gov/2018/Dec/06/2002069859/-1/-1/1/SAR...
I dipped my toe into the "online glasses" market -- and let me say it's a game-changer. The eyeglass store wanted about $300 per frame, meaning that I'd grudgingly get one pair.

The online purchase was only $75 for high-end frames and coatings, plus $27 for three pairs of prescription "computer monitor" glasses (one for the office, one for the home office, one for the other home office!). And by having more pairs, I can bring a pair on trips, just in case the main ones get broken!

(Personally, I've also never had any useful help in picking out frames. I'm not very fashion conscious, and every time the help doesn't seem to want to actually help be find frames that would look good on my face)
Supreme Court rules unanimously in favor of Rimini in Oracle copyright suit
That's because Egypt was to Greece what Greece was to Rome
We are always trying to reduce the learning curve of FQL, but we've gotten a lot of good feedback from those who do take the plunge. That being said, I'd love to provide SQL support eventually, but there were a few reasons why we don't support it as the primary query language for FaunaDB:

Our core use-case is OLTP, and we wanted to address the shortcomings of SQL in this context, such as query performance being highly unpredictable in the presence or not of indexes, whims of the optimizer, etc.

SQL is just not great as an application-level interface: Tables are not a natural fit for many data models (the classic impedance mismatch problem), programmatic composition is difficult. We want to obviate the necessity of an ORM library on top Fauna.

SQL the language is not great for writing complex transactions in, and session transactions require a lot of back and forth between the client and database. We wanted to make it easy to write queries which can encode as much business logic as possible, hence FQL's semantics are a lot closer to a regular programming language.
The trouble with do it yourself measurement of the distance between eyes is that it's done with eyes that need glasses, without wearing them. You need a second person or hardware.
Perhaps this type of simulation may one day help us choose better town planners; perhaps one day may even give us an alternate method of choosing administrators. How radical will it be in a Mayoral election, to see how different candidates will perform in a simulation, and the voters will be able to compare their scores and gain much more insight into how the prospective candidates shall perform.
Money quote:
>“Federal officials fell asleep at the wheel,” Dahan said. “They should never have allowed all these companies to roll into one. It destroyed competition.” Butler said it should be clear from EssilorLuxottica’s practices that the company has too much market power. “If that’s not a monopoly,” he said, “I don’t know what is.”

Where's the public outrage? Maybe because they're foreign companies? Maybe because the price crept up slowly over time? Maybe because glasses are tied to the medical industry where consumers have come to accept absurd prices? :(

Worth noting there's always some markup for brick-and-mortar locations, and for something people like to try on before buying that's (was) a big deal.
This same discussion on HN a couple months ago convinced me to try Zenni.

I replaced my $300 walmart progressives with better for $80 and that includes shipping.

That's less than my monthly cell phone bill. It's like my glasses went from sacred to disposable.
>Uhm I cannot reliably use windows with any sort of scaling. It's not as bad as linux, but it's still very bad.

Why? Bad font rendering, or bad app scaling? I've found most if not all apps scale well. Some of them require you to go to compatibility settings and tell Windows that yes, the app can resize by itself. After you do that, they won't look blurry anymore. An example that comes to my mind is eMule.

There are a few apps that won't scale well and widgets will look misaligned, but they are very, very rare.
What track record do ANY unions have in the last 50 years?
There's a blast from the past.

I remember downloading that GRC demo to prove to a friend it should work on any laptop, not just the Mac.

I have a vague memory that SPR on Windows XP was very oddly integrated when it did arrive. You didn't download an update or utility, you went to some Microsoft page that turned it on, and tuned it for your monitor. So for most people it may as well have not existed.
Is Synchronous Play the Key to AR?
Coco annotator – a great polygon annotation tool
TL;DR: The rent is too damn high.

> But the biggest culprit, at least in New York, is the same seemingly unstoppable force shuttering small businesses across the city: rising rent. Rent is a particular concern for bookstores because they operate on low margins but require large storage space.

Bookstores “have weathered many economic challenges over the decades, but there is nothing they can do when the landlord triples or quadruples the rent, or simply refuses to renew the lease”, Jeremiah Moss, author of Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul, tells me.
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Same ways you measure engagement with any other advertising campaign. Comments on promoted posts, number of likes, number of shares, number of clicks, etc....
I should mention that reproducible builds are really about making bit-for-bit identical builds. There are reasons this is difficult, including individual projects inserting timestamps at the time that they build, or compile-time randomness, sort order of files in the filesystem based on the current locale, etc.
Eyebuydirect is notable because:

- US based

- Small premium over Hong Kong (Zenni)

- Essilor lenses (similar to LensCrafters)

- Wide frame selection, some are clones of designer frames which cost 20x

- 2 week refund/replace for any reason

- No prescription needed

Their human customer service seems to be in Malaysia, so CS interactions via voice or email can take a few iterations, but are usually resolved within a few days.
A few years ago, the Centre for Computing History (as per the article) hosted the pair. No fisticuffs... :)
Those benefits don't have to come at the potential cost and risk to taxpayers though. If Google needs a datacenter they should open a data center - a city shouldn't have to incentivize and already profitable company. Economics makes no sense if the success requires incentives to those already winning.

growth is good, opportunity is good - not a single one of us disputes that. Google doesn't need taxpayer incentives to grow or remain competitive.

They're getting a discount on driving up the value of land and cost of living for local people when the real winners won't be anywhere near the datacenter and the company will cary an asset on their books worth much more money than what it cost them to build on the backs of tax payers who won't have the same experience of abated property values.

at least google is honest about school taxes... so yay, they're not screwing that over but meh.. the whole policy of tax payers funding winners and losers with games only big corporations are allowed to play BLOWS.
I'd love it if OpenTTD had just a smidge more complex of a city simulation, so that towns weren't just concentrically-expanding colonies. But yes, it's much better at bringing that transport logistics puzzle to the forefront, which is probably why I've bothered to keep it around, unlike the various SimCities.

It also teaches you that long routes are magically always more profitable. :P
https://www.businessinsider.com/esop-essilor-employee-shareh...
I'm the author, and that's the truth.

Can't see how this can be replicated as a controlled experiment nowadays, unfortunately.

But if you define exactly what's a request, what's a response, and what the connection/response ratio is let's have a race.

Like, you set the parameters, and whoever serves that on lower-capability hardware wins. Py3 plus low-level C/Rust hacks vs Elixir, say.
Zenni has rimless glasses for years.
For people doing deep learning with images this tool is awesome. Backed written in Python3 Frontend written in Vue
The server could continue to serve ads until the client reports back that one ad was rendered. If the message is blocked, the content would never be delivered. Thus making ad blockers content blockers. I'm not saying this is a good thing or bad thing. Im just saying there are more cats and more mice out there.
I think the gripe is that it's never been as easy as it could be to say "OK, I'm going to make a change in this here source file, then run the result on my machine while keeping everything else the same".

For example if I'm reporting a bug and I have a proposed patch, it would be nice to be able to say "I've been running with this patch for the last month and it's been fine".

Ideally there'd be a coherent way to download the source for a particular package, rebuild it, and have the system use the rebuilt result. Bonus marks if it did something useful when a newer version of the package came along.

I think https://packages.debian.org/sid/dgit is an attempt to make the download-and-rebuild part look more uniform, but I think there's still work to be done to make it easy to substitute the result for the distro package.
We have a list of some of the larger projects we support here https://www.digitalocean.com/open-source/
Is it in the US? In Canada Costco prescription glasses are horribly expensive.
Steve Jobs took type-faces and font rendering more seriously than anyone else in the computer industry except for maybe Donald Knuth. He discovered calligraphy while at Reed College and it changed him forever.

<aside>
I am still amazed at how crappy MS Word at typesetting. I write these beautiful papers in LaTeX with incredible math type setting and then sometimes I am asked to convert to Word -- it almost makes me cry to ruin my "art" to convert it to Word.
</aside>

It it an affront to my aesthetic taste to look at a Windows UI.
> I was talking of single-request connection.

Yes. Which is not what's being discussed here.
Computer & Video Games (C&VG) and Your Computer used to have multi-platform listings, even including machines such as the Sharp MZ-80 series.
> About 75 percent of Americans favor higher taxes for the ultrawealthy.

I for one, am glad the majority can't just decide what the taxes are. It's a balance in society, but the general rule I personally have is live and let live. I don't want hand outs, I don't want to take peoples money at the point of a gun unnecessarily. I also regularly give to my community, by choice. I think it's important to respect one another and increasing taxes on a neighbor because they make more, doesn't seem fair. Maybe they worked harder, maybe they were born in a better position in life. It doesn't matter, by the time your 30, it's mostly what you did with your life that got you there. Let's not be petty and try to force our neighbors to pay us.

I feel something like 20% of your income a year, for everyone making over livable wage seems fair (livable wage meaning, average cost of food + minor shelter for the average in said country). Then just close all loop holes. As in, you have to pay 20%, no complaints after you make $15k or something (in the U.S.). That'd probably >2x tax revenue and be "fair" to everyone.
I believe it. I haven't heard the story told from that angle yet, though.
Would you give some more insight into your opinion? What latency/performance are you targeting -- have you tried using a system like this to arrive at your conclusion?
TL;DR: looks like the raw data will be publicly available. Charts made using the raw data will probably be licensed or offered via subscription according to existing business models?

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The FAQ page says:

Where will all the data be stored?

This critical function will be performed by the IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry (IHO DCDB), hosted by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Boulder, Colorado, USA, which is the recognized IHO repository for all deep ocean bathymetric data (deeper than 100m) collected by hydrographic, oceanographic and other vessels. Seabed 2030 will maintain strong working relationships with the IHO DCDB and recommend it to potential data contributors.

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and the IHO DCDB page says:

The International Hydrographic Organization Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry (IHO DCDB) was established in 1990 to steward the worldwide collection of bathymetric data. The Centre archives and shares, freely and without restrictions, depth data contributed by mariners.

The DCDB contains oceanic soundings acquired by hydrographic, oceanographic and other vessels during surveys or while on passage. Data are publically available and used for the production of improved and more comprehensive bathymetric maps and grids, particularly in support of the GEBCO Ocean Mapping Programme.
There are billions of gamers worldwide. It is just people.
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Abstinence isn’t a complete and utter failure because it’s socially unacceptable: it’s a complete and utter failure because people want to have sex. The answer isn’t trying to get people to stop having sex. For most people, that’s like asking them to stop breathing. The answer is better education and free or cheap and easily available contraceptives. And since even the best and easiest of contraceptives will occasionally fail or not be used, continuing research into STD vaccines and providing easily accessible options to women to terminate pregnancy.

Further, promoting abstinence and chastity while not promoting other options, and especially when combined with the often corresponding anti-choice politics, disproportionately and unfairly impacts the poor and uneducated, particularly the women.

I would go so far as to say it’s cruel to continue to promote abstinence today.
as a new silicon valley engineer who is trying to work out his morals and boundaries, you are an inspiration to me

your impact is larger than you think - thank you
The reason WP has the tortise she'll is they are both cheaper and in style. Metal is for old people or so my spouse tell me.
Nobody tell him the original meaning of "decimate."
The NYT is right; 'exponentially' is widely misused.

The font-rendering article on today's HN front page [1] is guilty of it, for example: "There is a pixel or less of extra space between kerning pairs and the problem grows exponentially when letter-spacing values are fiddled with". No, it doesn't. There is no exponential growth in the size of the extra space.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19312404
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It's not about whether you're actually printing it, the print version is just an accurate reference to the correct shape of how the font is designed.

That shape doesn't necessarily line up on the pixel grid, so you can smush it around to get sharper edges on a computer screen at the expense of changing the shape/size/spacing of the font. Or you can follow the designed shape more correctly at the expense of smearing some stuff across multiple pixels.

There are pros and cons to each, and which one you prefer is where it gets subjective.

Some comparisons and discussion over here: https://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosoph...

The Windows text has sharper edges but it looks funny to me in comparison.
Which piece do you find vague?