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> toss everything from your shelf that has not been written before the year 1900

best advice ever!

N.N. Taleb aggressively makes this point in Antifragile too. After sticking to Taleb's advise for a year and reading only old things, not only did I stop writing myself, but I no longer think I have what it takes to contribute.

Everything that is worth writing about has already been written[1]. And if I contribute by writing myself I just dilute the pool of great prose by pissing into it. Most authors today (and 100% of authors on this list) have never read great books themselves and it's very obvious.

Reading new authors always leaves me with a feeling like I'm the rear end of the human centipede.

[1] anyone thinking about writing a book (or even a blog post) please before you start, proof to yourself that this sentence doesn't apply in your case (this is aka research and it doesn't stop with authors before your age - in fact it starts there).

EDIT: this list was created by Aphinya Dechalert (https://nz.linkedin.com/in/aphinya-dechalert-7b782480) who works in marketing and her job seems to be making spammy lists like this one. Looking at the OP's other submission it seems all links go to either her medium or her blog. On this tweet she is amazed by all the traffic her site gets after posting this very link:

> So...I relaunched http://DottedSquirrel.com as a community space a few days back. Went to have a shower and came back to this. I checked and made sure it's not bots. It's not bots. #100DaysOfCode #tech #learnToCode https://twitter.com/dottedSquirrel/status/120432373958576537...
Street-by-Street Air Quality Maps by Plume Labs
The Next operating system was the basis of everything that Apple does now. They were creating and trying to sell hardware. But don’t pretend that Jobs had some great vision that he would create an OS that would eventually power mobile. It’s nothing more than survivorship bias If Be had been willing to sell to Apple for less than they asked, Next would have been footnote.

The Apple /// wasn’t the “first iteration”, it was Jobs first idealized computer with no fans - something no customer asked for - it was a failure.

It’s not the MBA types. It’s simple business that a product needs to make a profit. Even Jobs saw that when he returned to Apple when he got rid of the Advanced Technology Grouo

Right now, you can see what happens when a company is customer focused vs engineering focused. How many failures have come out of Microsoft and Google’s “research” departments? While even the modern Apple isn’t perfect, you can tell that research, marketing, and operations are in alignment to create products that have a story to tell.

When Apple doesn’t have a story to tell. It’s very obvious - the first generation Apple Watch.
Hmm, California's obese plus overweight is 69%, significantly more but not quite the picture you're drawing in comparison to France's 60%.
I do not have such problems because I use shopify for selling some goods. And my shop is not so big. Plus in my work I use crm platform which I got on https://www.espocrm.com I tried demo vesrion for free and fater that bought full version.
For the same reason people still refer to this reply on Dropbox announcement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 . Just because you can stitch together several commandline utilities, doesn't mean the endusers want it. This tool looks like it offers convenience, everything is in a single binary, and it's simple to use.
Not a 'proxy server' but this will convert html to plain text:

lynx -dump http://example.com
Sounds like a good old IRC channel logger.. but for Telegram. The title is some serious click bait.

That said, I haven’t checked deeper, if this bot is not actually using the bot API but MTProto, this is pretty significant as the bot appears like a normal user (and not as a bot, which are required to have a “-bot” suffix on Telegram).
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>who are actually being fairly rational about their use of a BS degree as a filter (it's the new HS diploma).

It just chaps me that employers immediately think (in my case) 14 years of professional working experience is worth less than being able to APA format your paper and temporarily remember stuff for a test between rounds of beer pong.
I think investing in 20 year olds is a bad idea because at that age, they haven't had the time to properly fail.

You're right on average but investors aren't looking for average people to invest in. I was on an accelerator with a very talented founder who had started a company, built it up to something significant, and subsequently cashed out before he was 20. Some 20 year olds are on their second or third business by then. They're exceptions rather than the rule, certainly, but that's exactly who investors should be looking for.

The only thing investors need to remember is that age isn't an indication of anything very interesting. People will have amazing ideas and the drive to execute them at 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 80...
"It's all rubbish" is a very clear point, and it might very well be true.
2 key ingredients.

1: build a great product for a very large market, by very large I mean mums and dads can use the product.

For example, if you build a startup say a CRM for Lawyers, think how big can it get. Take uber, they have a very large market because mums and dads (all of us) can use the product.

2: marketing, marketing and more marketing. It creates hype..
No, I'm being totally serious.../s
If you're yelling enough for your children to no longer wake up from it, your neighbours will typically call a social worker.
I would pay a bit extra to have 30 minute's worth of 'horizontal time' in a small bunk for flights over 10 hours in duration. However I assume that because this isn't a thing already, someone else thought of it, did the calculations and worked out it wouldn't be profitable for the airline.
A car is not an asset, but a liability. It doesn't generate money, it costs money.

If your 8-year-car is going to make you substantially more money than a cheap car that maybe doesn't require you to take a loan, you have a point. But since cars are about to go from A to B and the status symbol itself doesn't pay for anything, a cheaper car would do.
> Deflationary currencies are good stores of value, but slow the economy (because why invest/buy now if your money gets more powerful the longer you refrain from spending it).

Logically speaking it is irrelevant; instead of holding gold and calling it money an investor can still hold gold except it gets called an investment; but their holding will perform the same way because it is linked to the value of gold. The practical difference is tax treatment which gets complicated. Theoretically if I recall expected inflation/deflation in the currency doesn't change the economic equilibrium because everyone just factors it in to the interest rates and salary negotiations to keep the focus on real value.

And in execution any consistent % inflation/deflation of the money supply makes things weird and confusing because the measuring stick used to measure wealth keeps changing.
>It's clear that "this mood enhancement research" has some value.

Only in the same sense that the fad diet industry has "some value". It makes people careers and money. Actual value in the field would be to discover truths about people's psychology.
There are better examples of picture-heavy subreddits than that ;)

You're right though, and there's no reason not to have them. I like the expandable-thumbnail interface presented by RES.
GIFs are worse in my perspective than Asciinema. You can't select the text in a GIF, you can't pause or seek in them, and they take up more bandwidth as the video gets longer.
That's the most succinct and to-the-point way I've ever seen of expressing my annoyance with that crowd.

Thank you, stranger on the internet! <3
This doesn’t verify an identity, it verifies that somebody has access to a key that at some point in the past, you chose to trust. Signal has no mechanism at all for verifying identity, verifying the authenticity of the safety number is entirely up to you.
Ha. I interpreted the Alchemist as "don't be afraid to follow your dreams even I the road seems hard".

The ending just happened to take him back to where it started but I don't think that was the message.

Another enjoyable book from Paulo is "The Manuscript in Accra"
How is overpopulation a threat? As long as you increase the number of women in the workplace we will all have less children.
If you're ever in the Austin area, the ... jaunt ... out to Johnson Ranch (Stonewall, TX) is an interesting one.

It's about 60 miles from Round Rock or downtown. I prefer the northern route.

The ranch is ... out in the middle of nowhere. And if you keep on heading West, even that seems densely populated.

Imagining that without power, gas, or phones, gives pause.

https://www.nps.gov/lyjo/planyourvisit/visitlbjranch.htm
I still receive decks with great regularity that drag the blockchain in by the hairs. Extremely boring and a very quick way to end up in the round archive. One of those two days ago. It was so cringeworthy I'd almost post it here but that's sort of rude. This one was a borderline scam with a whole pile of content recycled from other decks and fake education records for the participants. Who ever thought we'd check up on that stuff, so just lie away with abandon.

It's good stuff to keep the partners sharp though, see if they spot the mistakes.
What’s the practical difference between an OS update that can be one tiny patch and an app update? Not only does iOS 13 support all phones back to 2015. They released a patch for older devices going back to 2011 less than 6 months ago.
Nah, that’s a different sense of the word “accessory”. Trapped in the ecosystem is one thing. But the question here is whether it’s a substantial, standalone product.
But that's in the Netherlands.
Dirty Business Tactics of Amazon
I don’t know exactly why it works, may be related to vaping or something else, but for days when I’m lazy-brain dead-not motivated taking l-tyrosine on empty stomach seems to make me normal/productive again.
Show HN: Do you track Assets, Liabilities, Net worth? What services do you use?
Show HN: Script for a Automatic Update of Gitea
What makes cars deserve a big piece of asphalt but cyclers not? We have a lot of cyclers in the Netherlands and they deserve the safety and convenience of separate roads, away from multi-ton vehicles.

Also, bike roads are not as overly constructed like car roads (maybe just 1 or 2 layers of asphalt instead of more)
Hi, are you familiar with my library IvanK.js ? It has the "Flash interface", but for scripting.

I used it to port several of my flash games to the web: http://lib.ivank.net/?p=demos&d=spritesheet
There's a reason I said "looks very much like" rather than "is". ;-)
From Zero to Profit in 7 Days
>Finally, cooking with spices makes vegetables much more varied. Americans seem to think spices and rubs are only for meat and vegetables need to be plain. A well spiced vegetable dish is delicious.

No, you are wrong. And that a pitfall that for some reason a lot of people fall into.

ALL dishes need spices to make food taste better. All meat is seasoned when cooked.
Why people cook vegies without seasoning and complain its bland is strange to me.
Yeah, lol. It's called adult thinking. And it happens once you actually become one. One that is responsible for others, not just yourself and your whims. "Adulting" for an hour a week to pay your bills doesn't count.
Many organizations insist on making everything private, i.e. running on an RFC1918 IP address, within the corporate 'perimeter', cloud included.

True, a cloud has an API, and that tends to be public rather than private, and that doesn't play well with the above approach.

There are some band-aids for this, such as Google Cloud's VPC service controls, which restricts which clients can access the Cloud API, providing a second layer of defence to IAM.

Personally I find this approach retrograde, because it assigns an element of trust to entities within the perimeter, whereas the BeyondCorp zero-trust approach does not, and plays well with the way public clouds have been designed (public endpoints).
Sure, and in France too, but I'd bet “carrying an average male” (almost 200lbs in the US, and 77kg in France) isn't part of that requirement, otherwise you'd barely see any woman firefighter.
I had already admired Mr. Rogers, but watching that clip was awesome. He really has a way of speaking that disarms you and makes you feel compassion.
Nothing changed, take a look: http://const.me/tmp/buggy-flash2.mp4
VC returns are not what you think they are. There is a lot of dumb money floating around and the long term returns of quite a few funds are much lower than what you might think. A couple of funds outperform the remainder quite handily which results in an average that looks acceptable but quite a few people lost a lot of $ on becoming an LP of a badly managed fund.

That won't stop the fund managers from making out like bandits, the carry may be nil but the management fees will more than make up for that. Beware of investing in funds where the fund managers do not have substantial skin in the game.
that doesn’t make the accuracy less
So what is the weakness here? It just seems to say public channels can be read by anyone, duh.
Testing Django on Steroids with Pytest
I would immediately switch to another cab.
Reasoning about vision, solutions and culture. Alignment in a scaleup
What do you mean? Just let your savings compound for 60 years so you can get an extra tennis ball for your walker! Its so powerful!
My love (reasons for returning) toward HN content consumption comes from its plain text simplicity.

Im trying to escape social emoji overuse found everywhere else these days.
Exactly same problem for me.

Someone mentioned in some other thread there is some airlines looking into having seats that when reclining, instead of pushing the backrest into the space behind you, your seat slides forward, and thereby tilting the backrest.

But this was met with great protests from others who think crushing long legged people´s knees is a god given right.

"If you don't want your knees crushed, you should have paid extra for one of the four seats with more leg room" "they were already taken? Tough luck"
You are right, I am so glad I don't live in the Netherlands :D
No signup needed, just change your user agent to "Googlebot" :)

>“Moore’s ‘law’ came to an end over 20 years ago,” says David May, professor of Computer Science at Bristol University and lead architect of the influential "transputer" chip. “Only the massive growth of the PC market then the smartphone market made it possible to invest enough to sustain it.

>“There’s now an opportunity for new approaches both to software and to processor architecture. And there are plenty of ideas – some of them have been waiting for 25 years. This presents a great opportunity for innovators – and for investors.”
WinDbg Introduction [pdf]
And pause the ad if the person is not looking.
Given companies have a legal responsibility to make a profit for shareholders...
The use cases for long lasting and energy dense batteries are much more diversified than just cars.
Is a "garbage collected blockchain" even possible? There are retroactively modifiable ones, like git, but each git repository is its own world, so the trust issues are quite different...
Alphabet appoints Nobel chemistry laureate Frances Arnold to board of directors
I found his book Recovery to tell a very powerful story of his trouble with addiction, and how he has worked through it. He goes quite deeply into self introspection and analysis of himself and his character, and how he needs to remain constantly vigilant of the instincts and urges that took him down those paths to addiction many times before.

I found this book to be one of the most raw and honest things that I have ever read. I'd really recommend against discarding it because of not liking the man or his character.
So you would agree if I store a cookie with a (randomly generated) ID in your browser to remember what you liked, what you bought, how you interacted with my website etc.? Also, I can sell this data to third parties and show personalized ads - all without knowing who you are outside of the web..
In this day and age who would actually believe anything in snapchat goes away after being viewed?
'script' also does something similar, and is one of the lesser known commands.

from the man page:

script makes a typescript of everything displayed on your ter‐
minal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of
an interactive session as proof of an assignment, as the type‐
script file can be printed out later with lpr(1).
Illinois has public pension liabilities that are crushing the local and state budgets.
You've literally taken all the graphs, photos and most of the text.

>We mentioned you and your blog as the original source.

Just because you reference a work it doesn't mean it's not plagiarism when you straight up copy most of the content.
Something about Nature
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924741

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Hiring is alive and well, and thinks Paul Graham is obsolete...

"Investing in people" wasn't even a new idea in 2005. It's totally obvious once you get over post-enlightment drivel like individuality and innate rights, and focus on what's real: people are matter, matter can be owned, ownership can be fractional, (...Ayn Rand died for our sins...)
The problem segregating bicycles is that that automatically means that they are excluded from the best infrastructure which are the regular roads, which by the way do not belong to cars. I suffer that discrimination everyday when I ride my bike and there is a bike path adjacent to the road in places where I had no problem before, and that's after many years of riding so I can tell you that it is completely safe to share the road. Bike paths are built to kick us out of the roads it is pretty obvious to me now.
The US is a country led by women. Sorry, fled by women.
GCs are typically allowed to (and often do) move objects, while malloc/free do not. This means that malloc/free must maintain data structures tracking allocated vs. free space, while compacting GCs keep all the free space in a single contiguous address space, so allocating an object just increments the "start of free memory" pointer.
Amazfit Stratos 3 vs. Huawei Watch GT 2 vs. Ticwatch Pro Compared
>Using the figures in the link I posted, a graduate with a Bachelor's degree will make $61k per year on average

Ha! Here in Indy a 4-year degree will get you 13-16$ an hour to start.
To be fair, everybody who has Alexa already has a phone constantly with them everywhere. So it's just one extra microphone, not something completely different.
So it is your word against the OP's. Why should we believe you more than the OP? Please present some facts and citations that we can verify ourselves. Appeal to authority is a fallacious form of argument.
„So always consult a lawyer with specialization in that area...“ as german as it gets...
It's not meant to be portable. It's just that C is a low-level, weakly-typed language where everything is bytes and bits, and every pointer may be null at any moment. Disregarding type-safety is OK for C, so it's handy to conflate 0 and false (after all, bools are isomorphic to positive numbers modulus 2). It's these other languages who are in the wrong because any high- or medium-level language must have proper Option and Bool types without null or false infecting every type out there.
The article on letsenhance.io is a rip off of the original here: https://vas3k.com/blog/computational_photography/
However, a smartphone is more transparent, relatively, over what it does. Not so much with Alexa.
And making bikes go down before an intersection is a terrible idea because cyclists are extremely keen on preserving inertia when they know that it's going uphill soon. When an intersection is raised, yielding becomes almost zero-cost.
Computational Thinking Exercises for Kids (With No Computers)
Turnstiles and Priority Inheritance (1999)
The same schema, from potentially different points in time.

So it's not really applying to different schemas, each single migration script applies against the same state that the previous one produced - but collectively they can be applied against a database from any point in time while that migration system has been used.
I'm in an European Union country. Personally, I've given up on even trying to invest when I saw all the strings attached.

The bank I use has a service allowing you to put money in their investment funds, configured for different risk profiles.

You need to pay some fees to opt in. There seems to be an already paid yearly(?) fee when you opt in, but you probably need to pay yearly to keep the money in the system. When you decide to cash out, you have to pay income tax.

In conclusion, from my money, the bank needs to be paid, the state needs to be paid, and I doubt their 6% (assuming this is true) yearly return rate is going to net me anything than a loss unless I pump some 6 digit sum right off the bat and leave it there for decades.
I haven’t seen it have any effect on what is playing. Maybe I should look more grumpy until it’s actually showing me interesting advertisments.
You are arguing with a straw man.

I actually agree with your point. I was just asking the question because I was genuinely curious whether there was technically a way to do so w/o cookie targeting. I have no interest in doing such targeting. I was interested in whether a HNer had a creative workaround.
No. That's just a boogeyman sold by corporations to make you pay for their extra-services.

Otherwise Al-Qaeda would've dropped the entire Western planes by smuggling cell phones in luggage of unsuspecting fliers.

And there is plenty of evidence people forget their phone on by mistake. You draw the conclusions.
Volcker is overrated in my view. There is a good reason why so many people on Wall Street hold him in highest regard. I believe his perceived success enabled irresponsible monetary policies over the past 30 years. This is how we ended up with a 3% bound on a ten-year and trapped into perpetuity.
Nice to see that there's still Transputer work going on at Kent - I studied Occam briefly there in the late 80s/early 90s and was allowed to look at (not touch!) their Meiko Computing Surface rendering fractal landscapes in real time.
The infection is the other way around here, the producer thread is slowed down due to a low priority of the consumer.

TLDR for article: the consumer has a lower priority and pauses on the context switch of the mutex lock, but doesn't get rescheduled for a while. The producer then has to wait for the consumer to get rescheduled and unlock the mutex before it can enqueue something.
For some reason your comment reminded me of "No Sex Please - We're British"
> It used to be that Flash-based cookies were pretty solid, but now there’s no more flash...

But there is so much more available today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie
You realize that the Netherlands is famous for being probably the most bike-friendly country in the world? Everybody cycles, and cyclists are definitely not seen as inferior to vehicle traffic.
You got too emotional when reading my response.

I was just asking the question because I was genuinely curious whether there was technically a way to do so w/o cookie targeting. I have no interest in doing such targeting. I was interested in whether a HNer had a creative workaround.
Lukey – ADriving School Wellingborough
And you get to pay them for it!
it's probably why mathematicians are among the worst writers out there.

https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea/status/1201923650133352448
State aid is notoriously hard to distribute in an 'efficient' manner (ie. eventually providing a positive economic return on investment to the state).

The EU is IMO even worse than your average state at it. They throw a lot of money away.