skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4% works out for retirement, with the expectation that you will eventually die and no longer need the income. The assumption there is that if the market underperforms for the next 35 years in a row, you run out of money just after you die.

An immortal, such as a corporation, has to use a safer number, such as 3%, or 2.5% for operations and 0.5% in fees for the fiduciary management. So the permanent endowment needs to be 40x annual operating costs, and the fiduciary needs to grow it by 3% better than (price) inflation per year. That's relatively easy to do when most of the principal won't be touched within the next 30 years: buy all the publicly-traded stocks that have historically paid regular dividends, and reinvest whatever isn't paid out. On a long enough time scale, that's probably 7% better than inflation.

So the fiduciary could possibly be replaced by a robot that only needs 0.05% annually for maintenance, and then you'd only need to endow 34x annual operating costs to run forever.
Totally agree, that's the reason why I use spacemacs with vim-bindings (having previously used vim, then vanilla emacs, then emacs with evil-mode).

I prefer "vim-shortcuts" and "emacs-software". Best of both worlds in my view !
Impressive.

What keywords did you track on Google trends?
I think a large part of it has to do with design... I have a similar product offering: https://hnprofile.com/compare?search=AWS,GCP%20|%20Google%20...

We offer to businesses, have a few pilots, but the slickness of Trennd is probably something we'll copy. It was clearly easy to see how the UI helped here - congratz on the sale too (if you're reading this).
I got a job at 'early' Tinder (2014) after someone I chatted with on a Freenode programming channel went on to become one of its cofounders.
I'm not sure that safety is a primary concern if you're just trying to see if you can make something fly _at all_.

I'm sure they've started from zero several times with entirely new designs. There's no point worrying overly much about safety if you only plan to fly something once.
Chicago has the 3rd largest metro population in the entire US [0]. Granted, I wouldn't argue that old housing is what keeps housing relatively cheap there but instead that there is endless farmland to build new housing and thus the price will pretty much always equal the marginal cost of building a new house as anyone trying to charge more can just buy some cheap farmland and build a house themselves.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistic...
Fair enough, thanks!
While we're guessing, I'll throw my hat in the ring at 250k. Given that it failed to monetize, I'd be surprised if it's significantly higher.

I know of a project that did have decent monetization and was impressive technically that only went for mid 6 figures. However the owner wanted to sell quickly so that might have depressed the price a little bit.
How much of corporate debt should have gone to households instead? At what rates?
Watsi, they seem fairly data driven, they seem honest, and that is about as much as I can ask from someone I am going to give a significant chunk of money to. watsi.org

I think I read about them originally on hackernews.
Yes, they did choose. It's a very voluntary and conscious decision to say "I am going to use my corporate device for personal needs, too."

Google provides a number of things. Food, showers, vehicles, lockers. You may CHOOSE to use these things or you may CHOOSE not to.

If you CHOOSE to store all your personal docs on your work laptop, and the laptop goes up in flames, who do you blame then?

Victim shaming is one thing, but being a naive child is another. A wise, rational, level-headed adult understands that company-owned assets are not suitable for personal use. Period.
As someone who worked at Google I'd like to clarify this corporate speak & I'm really disappointed as I thought Google had higher standards.

Google has traditionally embraced an open culture so accessing documents outside the scope of your job has traditionally been totally fine & is the stated reason why every full time employee is considered an insider for trading purposes, with legal restrictions imposed on when you can trade.

'm guessing from memory (& this would be from before my time so ex-Googlers with a better memory please remind me), but the data policy was introduced to deal with SREs looking at customer data they weren't supposed to, not about the work product of coworkers.

In terms of people's calendars I'm totally confused - it's super-easy to change sharing permissions even on a per event level. Sounds like it's a pretext - the reasonable approach would be A) Improve training about the available privacy settings B) Improve Google Calendar to make it easier to manage those privacy settings since I'm sure other workplaces have a similar problem.

So the calendar stalking is the bigger problem I think on the part of the fired employees but the "accessing documents outside the scope of their jobs" is total BS. The leaking "sensitive business or customer information" seems like pure FUD - seems like a lawyer-approved way to slander about what happened.

I'm really curious whose calendars were accessed "inappropriately" and who reported feeling threatened. Moreover just accessing a calendar is not something you're notified about so that would indicate this is either BS on Google's part or these people were doing a bit of active stalking on the side. Could come out that everyone is the asshole in this story but given how bad management/labor relations have gone under Sundar, I'd wager that Google is definitely engaging in really shady shit on their own here.
As someone who works in software I have been advising all my friends and anyone who cares to listen NOT to buy a smart tv but rather buy a Fire TV Stick or any another Android TV box or stick. Apart from smart TVs being ridiculously overpriced, my reasoning has been you can always upgrade your TV box for less than you upgrade your Smart TV once software on smart TV no longer being updated.
That would be a total non sequitur (even if SCOTUS "declared" things, which they don't). Neither the plain meaning of the words "cruel and unusual" nor any of the jurisprudence based on it implicate questions of guilt or innocence.
A big +1 for 1dollarscan.com. They've scanned many hundreds of books for me. The quality of the resulting PDFs is uniformly excellent, their turnaround time is fast, and their prices are cheap ($1 per 100 pages).

I've visited their office -- located in an inexpensive industrial district of San Jose -- on multiple occasions. They have a convenient process for receiving books in person.

I believe the owners are Japanese and the operation reminds me of the businesses I visited in Tokyo: quiet, neat, and über-efficient.
Can Russia buy all facebooks data? How would their intelligence agency get photos and corresponding names from Facebook?
Google takes the view that its employees are all responsible adults, who can be trusted to handle information responsibly without using it to harass people or leaking it to journalists. Activists have made a concentrated effort to subvert this, and it may well be that it's not true anymore, but up until a few years ago it worked pretty well.
I agree that the window application probably won't work (it's not like it's less thermally conductive than glass anyway), but why wouldn't they just coat the inside of the pane if they're worried about abrasive damage?

Either way, if I were to pick a technology to improve desert glass insulation it'd be with a coating that allows in light but reflects infrared. Windows are mostly radiative heat transport after all, you can always double pane them for more direct conductive insulation.
Huge number of the Fortune 500. Gotta keep labor costs down to keep stock prices up.
Very cool. Never really considered how new characters were added. Thanks for sharing!
To be clear, my source is showing the spread, not the absolute cost to borrow.

I didn't say we are over, under or properly levered. If you are implying we are over-levered, go ahead, just provide some evidence. The evidence Washington Post provided is meaningless under closer examination.

Although I think we are in agreement that a normal spread does not imply future stability.
I have been electrocuted many times. It is generally not fatal. Not sure how the year changes anything.

A lack of grounding would preclude the conduction of electricity. As this is HV, a small spark gap would not have helped remarkably.
A lot of the software ones have already been mentioned above, along with several OSS Projects. I also donate to DataStream -(http://gordonfoundation.ca/initiatives/datastream). An Open Data Water Quality project in Canada.
Anyone smart enough to be a technical employee at Google is smart enough to know that there's zero social pressure to just have a single device.
Why is the Mozilla Corporation diluting the Firefox brand like this?
There are numerous options.

First you could use more evaluative criteria. This is how most knowledge workers are evaluated in most modern startups. Unless you work on sales, you are probably measured by the quality of your thinking, your attitudes, projects, and initiatives. You don't deliver a piece of code and get a grade.

Things like PISA were invented so that the people managing could, well, manage. So they could compare and get "concrete" numbers to get elected.

And in terms of your question, what is wrong with subjectivity? We are dealing with human beings here, not computers. There will always be subjectivity. Our desire to boil everything down to data is a clear reflection of the computer age where everything needs to be a 0 or a 1. The medium is indeed the message.

I think a broader question is what is the purpose of school? Is it an institution where we help people learn, or where we teach people how to memorize things? We are what we measure. If we are measuring how well students can memorize things and give "right" answers, this is the kind of society we will create.

This is the reason schooling continues to be more and more irrelevant today.
So what is the benefit of getting this through Firefox instead of Mullvad? They want my email to sign up for the waitlist, but Mullvad requires nothing. Seems like it may even be linked to your Firefox account.
I support a group called ERDG (Ecological Research & Development Group, https://www.horseshoecrab.org), which focuses on improving the state of the four remaining Horseshoe Crab species.

For those who don't know - despite being a critical part of our medical infrastructure (their blue blood is the current source for the reagent LAL, which is still used to test most pharmaceuticals & devices for bacterial contamination) they are in steep decline.
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That really doesn't match actual aircraft design history though. Like were the wright brothers in 1900 thinking about how to make their first flier safe?
But industrial hemp is a very different plant and farming it is a very different process. You can't easily switch from one to the other.
Among others, my wife and I donate to our church's Humanitarian Aid Fund, because 100% of the donations go to those in need (0 admin. overhead expense, regardless of membership). They can do this because of the # of volunteers involved, as well as piggybacking on other church administrative structures.

Edit: add reason: This because we believe the Lord taught us to serve others, and this organization seems particularly competent at using their significant resources very well, worldwide. I spent some time abroad when younger, and the needs were so striking, the people so humble and kind, and just reading the news now about refugees etc etc., and we wanted to do more but felt incompetent and unsure how/where to start. This fills that gap for us.

There are other stats/facts here: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/topic/humanitarian-... and countries with project types:
https://www.latterdaysaintcharities.org/where-we-work

This one says how to start at home (including there is a web site for coordinating local efforts between groups who sign up and individuals who have some time to volunteer, etc):
https://www.latterdaysaintcharities.org/how-can-i-help/serve

(Edit: we are also encouraged to fast (skip 2 meals) monthly, and give the $ saved to those in need. Links w/ details at: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854575427.html )
Not exactly a charity, but... the NRA, mostly. I’m not a fan of some of the scaremongering they do, and I wish they were more gun-centric and less Republican-centric. (And I say that as a Republican.)

But at the end of the day, they are the biggest lobbying group out there protecting a right that I hold dear. In fact, I think I’ll send them another hundred dollars right now.
Check it before you buy it. Years ago I bought a 1TB WD external drive. The usb interface was connected directly to the drive.
If it has connection to the internet, it can be a channel for hackers into your home.

I know far too many people over the age of 40 that really should know this.
I give 10% "tithe" of my income to the church I go to (a french-speaking, young evangelical church in Montreal), even though I'm bootstrapping a startup right now.
I give it mainly because I want to honor God by giving with an attitude of love and obedience. I love my church and what is happening there.
Trying to do support in multiple languages and timezones can be tricky (and surely adds to the cost), I don't know for sure if that's the reason but it's a reasonable one.
Ah okay, thank you. Wasn't familiar with MDM policies and such. Haven't installed one. Would rather carry a second phone when I'm on call...
The new architecture of pirate sites, what I call the Hydra architecture, seems pretty interesting to me. There isn't a single site hosting the content, but a group of mirrors freely exchanging data between one another. In case some of them go down, the other ones still remain and new ones can appear, copying data from the remaining mirrors. This is like a hydra that grows two heads every time you chop one off. It's absolutely unkillable, as there's no single group or server to sue.

A more advanced version of this architecture is used by pirate addons for the Kodi media center software. Basically, you have a bunch of completely legal and above board services like Imdb that contain video metadata. They provide the search results, the artworks, the plot descriptions, episode lists for TV shows etc. Impossible to sue and shut down, as they're legal. Then, you have a large number of illegal services that, essentially, map IDs from websites like IMDB to links. Those links lead to websites like Openload, which let you host videos. They're in the gray area, if they comply with DMCA requests and are in a reasonably safe jurisdiction, they're unlikely to be shut down. On the Kodi side, you have a bunch of addons. There are the legitimate ones that access IMDB and give you the IDs, the not that legitimate ones that map IDs to URLs, and the half-legitimate ones that can actually play stuff ron those URLS (not an easy taks, as websites usually try to prevent you from playing something without seeing their ads). Those addons are distributed as libraries, and are used as dependencies by user-friendly frontends. Those frontends usually depend on several addons in each category, so, in case one goes down, all the other ones still remain. It's all so decentralized and ownerless that there's no single point of failure. The best you can do is killing the frontend addon, but it's easy to make a new one, and users are used to switching them every few months.
If you are truly yourself without inhibition in a corporate environment, you are probably either boring or crazy.

Corporate wants to be perceived as authentic, but they mean something entirely different. And professionalism dictates that you either get it or don't. I am not fan of emphasized professionalism, but I restrict myself in the interest of the business from time to time. Because that are largely my interests too and that of my colleges if you have a cooperative relationship.

That said, I do think unions can be a worthwhile endeavor and they can be constructive, especially for larger employers. Googles actions strongly seem to hint that they disagree though and this could be a case where they just wanted to get rid of some inconvenient people.
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Why is this comment down voted? The three questions here are SUPER relevant to how Google operates. Everyone I know at Google says "The easiest way to get fired is to access user data in a non-permitted way."

If they just subscribed to public calendars, it doesn't sound like such a big deal (after all... the data is public). But if they used an internal API or used their position to elevate their privilege, that's a big deal.
> This is a good chance to stop our dependence on DNS and move to things such as .onion domains instead (which by the way help avoid the whole certificate CA mess).

.onion isn't a direct competitor for DNS. It does some of the things DNS does (e.g. a consistent identifier that sticks even if your IP address changes), and even does some things DNS doesn't (e.g. encrypted transport), but the names aren't human-readable. And it compromises the security if you try to pretend that they are by generating pretty keys, because the random junk on the end there is important.

Namecoin, on the other hand, is a direct competitor for DNS.

However, DNS itself is pretty well federated. You're at the mercy of the TLD operator, but that only means you need to be careful to choose a trustworthy one. On the other hand, if you had asked last year which of the TLD operators would be the least likely to screw you over, a lot of people would have said .org, so... maybe there is something to this whole cryptographic trust thing.
Outline is an excellent piece of software, but VPN services mix traffic from many users through the same IP address, which may improve anonymity.
That's a really crappy policy if I'm understanding it right - not provide a mobile device but insist on completely managing one if they choose to use it for company business? What a shitty way to treat people working for you.
As an American in Canada: yes.

In practice, it's mostly a resume-filter thing -- working for a year in a cafe part-time was enough to get me to an interview for a software Pro Services gig

(I had the degree and experience for it, too, but that cleared the "work in Canada" hurdle)
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I couldn't agree with this thread more. "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman is a wonderful read that addresses how our obsession with grades, courses and syllabi is completely contrary to helping people learn.
Please don't post stuff from The Daily Mail. It's a tabloid with no journalistic integrity.
Please do share your irc client config if possible :)
What about a satellite backup in orbit around earth? Maybe an elliptical orbit, coming around a few times a year or something
The kind of politics where you point at specific people or groups and say "ooh, they're nasty" isn't OK.
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You’ve been able to have shipping containers of the stuff delivered from China and other places to your loading dock for decades.

They grow millions upon millions of tons of it each year and have an entire infrastructure of university and government research organizations built up around hemp cultivation.

The industrial products are never coming. Access by US domestic engineers and scientists to hemp on the order of days instead of weeks won’t change that.

There are billions of people on earth for which hemp cultivation has never been illegal, where they have grown it for centuries if not millennia.

To think that domestic production will spin up the release of industrial products can only lead to one of two conclusions:

1. There are no industrial uses of hemp to the degree that advocates claim. (The ludicrous ones) or,

2. Most of rest of the world, around 3 billion people, are all stupid and/or incompetent and only the smart and industrious US domestic engineers and scientists can figure out how to use hemp for things other than hippy bags.

I’ve been around the world. I’m going to go with 1.

I’m not saying hemp doesn’t have industrial uses.

I’m saying that the claims by some of its more fervent activists, on the order of “hemp fuel will power hemp steel-manufactured flying cars adorned in hemp faux “Rich Corinthian“ leather, that land of runways made of hempcrete and it’s all going to be carbon neural and organic because hemp violates the laws of thermodynamics and doesn’t require fertilizer or pesticide” are wrong.
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It is not a real issue in modern days. You just enable address sanitizer in all your debug builds and these issues are obvious at runtime (still not perfect, but an improvement from dark days).
Calling and messaging are paid for by my company, and I can also sign in to my email. They have a program where I can get full access to all work resources, but it’s optional, and I will never sign up for that program, because exactly what’s being discussed here. But I still only have one phone, and they still pay for it, so.
There's also typically* no collective pitch control in small multicopters, so to autorotate the props have to have time to stop turning and reverse. Even assuming they could declutch from the motors they would usually crash first.

*There are some exceptions: https://www.droneguru.net/collective-pitch-drones/
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NordVPN was mainly criticized for how they handled the disclosure. They didn't admit to the server breach until a whistleblower revealed it publicly a year later.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/after-twi...

The utility of a VPN is mainly based on trust, and NordVPN's lack of transparency in that incident is a breach of trust.
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