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Flashback: I was on Actrix which charged $5 per megabyte. Downloading Netscape Navigator 2 nearly bankrupted me.
I used to browse the internet with images disabled, which ironically gave me an appreciation for accessibility issues which served me well later in life.

When Xtra came out at $2.50 per hour, it was a complete game changer.
If you don't do a sequel run you get to just convert the whole universe to paperclips. It's great.
The hard part about this is learning what individuals and organisations find valuable.
Correction: this horse-manure has to stop :)
Are you hiring junior/intern data scientists from Canada? I know someone who is almost finished their masters and have worked on real data from telecomm quality of service as part of their thesis, and have had a term of internship.
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Wave function collapse is not experimentally verified or observed physical phenomenon (so far). It's postulated by some interpretations of QM.

Apparent wave function collapse can be explained using quantum decoherence.
You got your relationships wrong.

Bram Cohen developed BitTorrent and released a (Python) reference implementation in the public domain (later under MIT and then GPL licenses); he later founded BitTorrent Inc. and assigned this implementation to the company to maintain. Eventually BitTorrent Inc dropped this codebase altogether and became closed-source with a completely separate project.

Libtorrent is just one of many independent BT libraries that have been developed since Bram published the first BT client.
My second sentence?
I watched a very interesting video about selling to consumers as opposed to businesses [0]. The key takeaway is that consumers' target price to pay is actually $0. Therefore, any price above that, even a 3 to 4 dollar a month difference, is seen as extremely annoying to them, because again, they actually only want to pay nothing. This is why you should, if not charging business, at least charge prices that are sufficiently high such that only those who see the value in them will pay, which are usually in a different class of consumers from bottom-feeders who look for the lowest price, ideally 0. An example is Superhuman, an email app that costs $30 dollars a month. Only those who see the value in a fast, keyboard-driven email app will pay that much.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEc-qGK5cjY
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I didn't mean to minimize any of that. There's no global ordering here.
Yes. What bias do you perceive and how might it be avoided in the future?
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> And he makes in a year what I make in 10.

Question about your last statement (I may need this clarification because English is not my first language). The statement might mean that he makes 10x more money than you, or that his output is 10x greater than yours (or both!). Based on the context of your reply, I think it means his output is 10x greater than yours. Is that correct?
Attacks only get better with time.

Also, this seems quite bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_attack#Chosen-prefix...
Free range eggs are also more expensive- so if someone claims the free range label they get more money. If they commit fraud by not keeping to the standards they are committing a crime.
This rush to punish scholars for "incorrect" expression is reminesicent of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
> but I understand the reality is that if you are not above average for two performance cycles in a row they let you go.

Not sure where you heard that, but it's not true. There is no such thing as a "performance cycle" at Netflix. Performance is evaluated continuously by your manager. There is a once a year process where anyone can give feedback to anyone else, and it's expected that your manager give you feedback, but nothing in that feedback should be a surprise.
5 weeks, jeeez.

I spent around three days trying to get the 802.1x wired ethernet authentication to work* at one organisation and felt completely useless for that period. I'm not sure I'd have coped well not having any network access for five weeks.

*It turned out the ports I'd been directed to use hadn't even been patched in (in hindsight I should've figured this out a bit quicker from my EAPOL frames seemingly going into the void!). IT eventually figured out what was going on, seemed surprised I was surprised the port wasn't even active, and said they never patched more than 1 port per cluster of desks...
I'd think it's rather obvious that that's pretty much the antithesis of my argument.
Thank you for posting the archived link. I read it of this archive page, and it's great. This article is so good, that it made to the HN front page without even being available!
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Yeah, I did that! I remember it taking hours to convert half the universe, and a couple minutes or something to convert the other half :)
Better? Perhaps.

Feasible? Not without first eliminating every trace of polysemy and connotation from the natural languages.
I once started as a senior engineer at a company most folks here would have heard of and was told on arrival that every engineer first has to work a short period in support. The idea was to learn the product and customers.

In theory this sounds like a good idea. In practice, it was a poorly thought out system that left me frustrated with the company, disconnected from my team, and looking for a new job before I even finished the half implemented on boarding process. It felt more like a hazing ritual than a useful learning process and completely soured me on the company.

Doing support isn't something I find particularly egregious, but you should absolutely not segregate new hires away from their team for a long period of time immediately after hiring them. More generally, you need to equip new hires to do their job as soon as possible, less you risk smothering their enthusiasm for what they were hired to do.
Quite this, yes.
My ebike was stolen. It had a good lock, and was on street with significant passersby. It seemed like there was nothing I could do to prevent that from happening again.

My solution was to buy a foldable bike that was half the price, and half the weight of my ebike.

I didn't even buy a bike lock because I never leave the foldable bike parked on the street. Wherever I go I bring it inside.
They may well be right about that, and yet there's still an obvious difference there. Also, keep in mind that immigrants tend nowadays to come from the better-off strata of their home societies. There was a study about this making the rounds just recently, but I've unfortunately forgotten what it was called.
I work for a non tech fortune 500 company and was committing code by day 2. It's really about being willing to figure out what the blocker's to access are and making sure they are taken care of before hand.
There are options for pro athletes after their athletic career, as trainers, speakers, organizers of amateur events, etc.

For the major US pro sports, some or all of their draft is from colleges in order to encourage post-secondary education and leave players with more options after their career. I'm not sure how many pro cyclists do college, but I knew some folks when I went to college who were fairly high amateur and I believe looking to go pro.
Many people find working in a busy office overstimulating And filled with far too much activity and noise and it fills them with anxiety.

In an ideal world, workplaces would strike a balance and allow each person the environment to deliver their best work.
No, OP means that their friend at Netflix has a salary that is 10 times greater than their own. This is probably a bit of an exaggeration, but with the stock compensation, probably not much of an exaggeration.
Body fat number is pretty much made up though, do not rely on it. The only somewhat decent way to establish body fat percentage is a DEXA scan. I agree that wifi (and effortless multi-year progress tracking enabled by that) is a game changer. Also, they still support older scales - I thought when Nokia bought them they'd cut them loose, and for a while it looked like they would. But then Nokia fixed their app/service/whatever, and now it works like it did before. Impressive. You typically don't expect this level of customer support for old products.
Sadly, this is mostly purchase advise.

In short: You need lots of RAM.

And stay away from overclocked (founders edition) and from datacenter models due to heat or price problems.
The author spends nearly a quarter of this piece forgetting that not the whole world shares the same seasons.
I feel for you, but military spending is a massive federal jobs program. Each job created has a job multiplier effect, creating additional jobs in the surrounding area. Manufacturing jobs producing military equipment have a much bigger job multiplier effect. So if you were to wave a magic wand and half military spending overnight, the economic impact would be disastrous, and many more people would be in dire economic situations.
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I'm hard on story-driven games as well, I don't think games are very good at telling narratives because the narrator's desire to control what happens next is at odds with the player's freedom to choose what happens next.

The ideal game is somewhere in the middle where the designer focuses on mechanics which combine to produce more than their sum, and then anchor it in handcrafted content meant to show the best angle of the mechanical emergence.

One way to split the hair would be to say the mechanics are procedural (I would rather reach for the programming metaphor of composition, however) while the environments are hand crafted.

Nintendo is the king of this, but I also mentioned multiplayer games because they intentionally focus the designer on the mechanics and the levels while leaving the challenge generation to the players (and a whole conversation about how best to matchmake them.)
Do you work satellites?

It's a really big problem-- people who can't hear whether and how well they're getting in, interfering with people who are.

There's often dozens of people contending for time on a little 7 minute pass. A QSO finishes and everyone keys at once to get in. Someone has bad doppler correction on the uplink and isn't making it in and you can't really tell who it is or tell them. Someone else with a PL tone mistake jams everyone. Someone else can't get through well enough to be intelligible, but still can cause big QRM and confusion for everyone else (is that someone answering? is that person successfully having a QSO and -I- am hearing badly?).

Just about every radio will do what you describe. You don't -want- a cross-band channel usually, because you want to tune separately for TX and RX. (I've also done it where you make many, many channels with pairs of uplink and downlink frequencies).

With real full duplex, satellite is, say, 5x easier -and- you stop being disruptive to other users of the sat.
Perhaps. I see a lot of developers make stuff (non-dev related even) but then only list out their technical specs and features rather than benefits, as if the programming language its written in is supposed to entice (non-dev) consumers. A corollary is devs making software for their own enjoyment but that which doesn't solve an actual problem. I think it's more that they don't think in that entrepreneurial mindset yet, but once they realize no one is buying, they'll understand for the next time around.
There is a large amount of religion to anti-carbon people. They want to wish away carbon based fuels but the tech honestly isn’t there yet, and refuse to listen to rational people who actually understand the technology. 100% renewable isn’t even remotely close. We maybe can make up a portion but if you want the power a modern society needs then the only clean energy that exists is nuclear, which is also something they can’t stand. It is extremely frustrating.
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This is news to me, thanks for pointing that out. (Not sure why I find it surprising, it’s a very old piece of software now.)
Skype was based on JoltID/Kazaa.
Go for it! I have my own Jupyter docker image that I run on a server in the basement. PyCharm can even do code completion for TensorFlow inside a remote docker container. So it's instant, reproducible, and I don't hear a thing in my office :)
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. It is far from unreasonable to learn more about a society from the thoughtful dramas that it exports.

For example, I have gained an unexpected insight into Korean constitutional jurisprudence from watching Secret Forest.
Hire lawyers for both groom and bride, follow rules fully, your prenup will be enforceable. Judges don’t whimsically throw out prenups. However, having unenforceable or illegal clauses or simply not following proper procedure can make things complicated. Again, separate lawyers for both parties and proper procedures will make things very enforceable.

If you have children then of course you will pay child support, but if you are ultra rich that will be a small part of your fortune.
It's written by people. How could it not be?
Why not create a bicycle whose frame is itself the lock, such that if you cut the lock, you are destroying the bicycle itself.
Most 'synthetic' drugs are safer than alcohol too.

Psychedelics offer little in the way of physical risk and are not addictive in the same way.

Honestly they concern me far less than alcohol. It's booze, tobacco, meth, cocaine and heroin you want to really watch out for.

(edit - and we can probably include synthetic cannabinoids in there as well)
Good suggestion. It is a bit short (or I was really bored that day...). Totally worth playing.
Yeah, in my company we are seeing a lot of positive impacts, especially for those who live far from the offices, and are saving 10~15 hours a week from commuting. People can focus more on work, than spend time and energy commuting, and dreading the long commute home
Yeah it's really bizarre just how bad the recommendations are, even after all of these years of development and data collection. Offsite lists and personal recs are the only ways I've found new Netflix shows I like.
Netflix’s comp model is weird, similar to google but all cash.

The stock program was based on options you purchased with a strike price 2x the current price. You could direct between 0-100% of your salary to it.

If you can wait it’s a great way to make a lot of money.
For me, it would be Perl.

Perl is influenced by shell scripting and there are several easy ways to run commands, build pipes, redirect and other things shells are good at, like testing and listing files.

And as ugly as Perl looks, it has much less pitfalls than shell scripts.
> Identical files will always have the same hash and can more easily be moved from one torrent to another (when creating torrents) without having to re-hash anything. Files that are identical can also more easily be identified across different swarms, since their root hash only depends on the content of the file.

As a question for someone who knows better - does this mean that you can download single files within torrents themselves? I imagine if each file is independently hashed, this should be possible.
By the way, I wonder if there is something about liability in English law that enables this to continue to stay open and posted as a path?

I would imagine that in the US, liability would quickly force local government / whoever to take down the signposts, as they "entice" people to think there is a safe, established path and should risk their lives and are probably somewhat liable for the result.

I guess there aren't many places like this in the US, so it's hard to say whether there's a similar case. Maybe the Grand Canyon or something. Or off-slope skiing.
Is up again and stable it seems. I shot my cache while trying to "tune" it. Well, I learned my lesson.
You've a lot of cool stuff in that repo! I hope you don't mind me 'stealing' some stuff for a kind of booklet I'm working on with several shell tips and tricks.

https://github.com/kidd/scripting-field-guide/

PS: Any comments/PRs are super welcome there too
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This sort of presumes that the cops would care even if they knew exactly where all the stolen bikes were. My experience in San Francisco is they couldn't possibly care less. There was for decades an open-air bicycle chop shop under the highway overpass at what is now the corner of Market and Octavia, which was directly across an alley from a coffee shop and diner popular with SFPD patrols, and no cop ever cared about the bicycles.
How long are we going to hold onto this silly 10,000 hours thing? Mastery, and high levels of skill, are a combination of inherent talent + explicit effort (not passive time) + quality of experience. I have seen 15 year experienced engineers who are utterly useless, and 2 year engineers who are incredible in everything they do.

Your description of a senior engineer is not a job one person should be doing. If you’re trying to get a senior engineer to figure out how to make something, support it, deploy it, and monetize it, you’re going to get half assed work on every front.

Beyond all that, the ranking of senior should be more company scale specific. A senior engineer at FAANG needs to be able to scale infinity and build things that never break. A senior engineer at a 30 person company needs to build quickly and AB test features rapidly. Ultimately, “software engineer” is far too broad. It doesn’t really embed much knowledge beyond “knows how to code”.
I live at a uni campus, and use a pretty good bicycle. But it's in a sufficiently bad shape to pass as worthless.

I almost never lock it, but use a fixed rear wheel lock that I put in an almost-locked position sp that it looks locked.

The only time I lost it was when it was confiscated by the school due to bad parking during clearing of snow. I found it in a nearby locked yard a couple of months later. I won't describe in detail how I got it back.
Private trackers do not use magnet links afaik.
I think that might include the cost of a 3D printer required to print it.
I mean, they are a glorified streaming company. Probably hard to keep up the motivation for that at home.
Approaches I take to reduce errors in tests include:

– Keeping tests as short, simple, and few in number as possible. Focus on integration tests for overall input/output, and limit unit tests to the most critical components only.

– Getting extra eyes on the tests. In some cases, this can include product managers who help to define the expected behavior.

– Writing code without continually running the tests. This deviates from strict TDD but allows for a second independent effort at specifying the desired functionality. There are times when writing the code correctly reveals that the tests were written wrong.
Pretty good, you had a desk the first day ;)
Thieves often cut the frames anyway, because it takes only seconds to cut tubular frames with a pipe cutter and the rest of the bike is still valuable as parts.
For damage, how do you handle things likely caused by poor maintenance? I used to work as a bike mechanic, and there were plenty of times where a customer's bike got completely trash if they had just learned how to do some very basic routine maintenance and had brought it in to the shop once a year. Thinks like riding the bike when the the headset or bottom bracket are obviously loose, or riding on wheels that are very noticeable out of true.
Most of the practical hash attacks we've seen allow one to create two chunks of data that hash to the same thing, not to collide with an arbitrary other block. This greatly limits the attack scenarios we need to worry about.

(That is, we've got practical collision attacks emerging for SHA1, not pre-image attacks).
How does this work for risky, or longer term, projects?
>You got your relationships wrong.

??

So there are no relationship between the two?

>Eventually BitTorrent Inc dropped this codebase altogether and became closed-source with a completely separate project.

That was from the acquisition of utorrent.
Lol ok I guess?
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents, especially generic flamewar tangents.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For next updates I'm thinking about adding support for orthogonal maps (like the one in isocity - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity ) and work on the UI a little bit. Let me know what you think
I'm glad to see mention in this article of the #1 issue with antigen test such as Abbott BinaxNOW (the one the fed. govt. just bought 150M of): 98.5% specificity = 1.5% false positives. Test a school of 1200 with an actual 0% prevalence and you'll get about 20 false positives. This will look like an outbreak, and cause chaos.

Anyone responsible for server infrastructure knows what happens when you get a bunch of false alerts from your monitoring service - you send those emails to your spam filter [i.e. assume every positive is false] or turn off monitoring altogether [i.e. stop testing]. Think about 20X false positives per day. Also if people are self-testing, they'll assume their test is a false positive and just won't report the results.

Confirmatory lab testing could avoid a full 10-day quarantine but the time to get an RT-PCR test and then get the result (24-72 hours when the system isn't overloaded) means several days of disruption for those 20 kids (/ faculty / staff).

I think this essentially kills this concept, assuming other antigen tests have similar specificity. The Quidel antigen test has had a couple of high-profile false positive incidents already, so I suspect that is the case.
I'm pointing out that the right is more closed minded.

> Unless, of course, you're saying there's something inherently out-group about LGBT

Yes, it's called being in the minority[0]. I'm not sure what gymnastics you're playing trying to make "out group" equivalent to "something wrong", but that's your addition to the conversation, and not something I ever suggested.

Let me repeat that: there is nothing morally wrong about being in an outgroup. To suggest such a thing is closed minded. I would say this demonstrates my point, given that you appear to identify as part of "the right".

[0]: ok there's a bit more to it than this, normally involving prejudice from the ingroup. But this still doesn't really change anything relevant. The right is certainly more of an ingroup than the LGBT community. Compare the number of right wing congressional representatives to the number of openly LGBT ones.
What else would you like to see?
They used to allow crawlers and Twitter and some other links through, but they're almost entirely behind a paywall now.links through Facebook or Twitter may still work, but they definitely do not work through Google anymore.
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN and please don't do personal attacks.

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I believe Steam uses it. The network graphs they spout show behaviours consistent with BT-like activity.

I'm pretty sure the BBC iPlayer used it too, at some point (no idea if it's still the case).

Most Linux projects use it.

Any company offering a "download manager" for 1GB+ files, is likely to be implementing something similar to BT behind the scenes.

The thing is: if bandwidth costs are a real problem for you, BT is a killer solution to offload some of those costs. If they are little more than a footnote (like for the mega-services you list), then BT is unnecessary and it will probably slow down overall performance too.
We are talking about two different things, but its cool, I know where you are coming from.
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Is it bizarre this is an MBA class?

What's going to happen when these aspiring business people visit other countries?