skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article is using software maintenance as a kind of inside-government term-of-art for the maintenance portion of a waterfall-style project.

Undoubtedly, the audience of this article is software developers and managers of software projects within governemnt. Therefore, although the title doesn't convey the article's message to outsiders, it might not actually be misleading.
If clinical trials were required to be funded and conducted by the government then you'd see the same thing again.
Let me exagerate a bit, there are videos of people living in woods on youtube, I feel their 'home' is smarter than mine. Everything is crafted from almost nothing, full of nice geometry tricks (baskets, fire pump).
Have you tried Stack yet?
That's just some ancient book saying it.
Yes, trial and error isn't viable at all.

But Google is a better teacher of that kind of stuff than any professor can claim to be. If this is the kind of knowledge you pass on during education, it's basically worthless.
It's already arguably the most highly regarded VST synth for modern digital sounds anyway. Serum is basically the new massive. They don't need marketing stunts.
Why you are #notastartup
What makes it even more egregious is that some of the absolute best engineers on the planet are in Europe. It is a powerhouse of design talent, the birthplace of tons of pivotal scientific ideas, has many bastions of functional programming, and so on.

Some of those people choose to move to the US, but surely many great engineers choose to remain there for cultural or family reasons.

As someone interested in the efficient allocation of talent across the whole planet to help for the overall betterment of the world, it's upsetting to me that their random family associations or random cultural ties means they get paid significantly less money than lesser skilled people who just so happen to be near a lucky geographic spot.

European salaries are low, and it is unreasonable that they are low. It would be great if more American companies began hiring remote workers from Europe to arbitrage away this silly wage differential and put pressure on European capital to grow up a little and start being competitive.
> Thought experiment: what if "what comes next" is better than humanity?

Better from whose perspective? :)

The machines can potentially be more durable, and also scalable. We are fragile, we don't scale very well (though trying hard through globalization). Today we can't even backup/restore a person's mind. In fact I think self-aware intelligent machines will appear sooner than the technology to backup our own biological brains.

They will scale their brains, they will expand their "natural habitat" towards other planets, solar systems and even galaxies, like those all-eating self-replicating automatons. Easily.

So while we are at it, looking at the grand scale of things, just one question: where are all these machine civilizations in the Universe? Why aren't there any traces of exponentially growing all-consuming machine civilizations anywhere?
Color it by any technicality you want, but it is taking something from somebody and in common vernacular, that is theft.
While I wanna agree with you, I feel like once you start making money off of someone else's unlawful copied software you're stealing.
> But there's legitimate moral reasons to oppose the idea.

Are those the same "moral reasons" that people opposed the idea of suffrage and civil rights?
The problem is that a lot of these things are a human rights issue, and large segments of the population aren't sufficiently mobile to move to different states. So if you just allow the states to do whatever, then you're denying a bunch of people, mostly poor, human rights.

Jim Crow laws are an obvious example of that sort of problem. Abortion fits pretty well too. I'd argue that drug laws are another example, although in this case we have the human rights abuses imposed from above, and some individual states trying to break out of it.
There are far more companies per common letter than there are unique ways to generally style a letter.
Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board
As someone who has purchased most of your products, I just wanted to say thank you!

I admit I've pirated a lot of software in order to try it over time, but I end up buying what I start using in my workflow. I don't make money producing music (yet!), so I definitely use trials or pirate expensive plugins (I'll often try to re-trial something if my trial lapses and I haven't yet used it enough).

Serum? I downloaded the trial, used it, then bought it. The same with LFO Tool. It is a complete steal at its price point, and an absolute beautiful piece of software. I hope Kanye gets more flac for this.

Keep up the great work! I'm constantly blown away at the work you and Steve do.
If your toilet clogs and literally floods the house then it's safer that the power gets cut, hence circuit breakers and the like.

When you connect your thermostat to the Internet then they're no longer entirely separate systems.
Without any concrete evidence or cases, the general description of a problem in this article is not very convincing. Software maintenance itself is not an anti-pattern. Instead, what is described is a situation of product/project mismanagement.

> ... software is not considered complete when it's first released.

I don't know where this assumption comes from.

> Governments often use two anti-patterns... (2) moving to reduce
sustaining staff too early;

This seems like a complete description of the problem, which doesn't sound like a pattern but an issue of conflating deadlines, releases, and project completion.

> To keep teams from constantly plugging leaks while missing
the reason the boat is sinking, we need to apply the
principles of agile development and user centered design

Honestly, this sounds like the waterfall model is preferred to agile development in this case. Agile development can more easily lead a team into constantly plugging leaks than other, more traditional development models.

But I think this article is really addressing public facing web platforms instead of all "software," which the US government has only really experimented with during the last administration, so some of the sentiments of this article, in the context of government, may be true even though it reads false.

Beginning with the analogy to building construction: A skyscraper isn't complete when just the floors and frame are put in place, and the building team doesn't let the builders go at that point. When it is opened up, the maintenance staff have their own job, but it's nothing like what renovators might have to do years later.
It's not because you are pointing out gender bias that you doesn't say sexist things.
About eight years ago I met a girl who I fell in love with almost instantly. Except she didn't fall in love with me. We had a fantastic first date, a terrible second, and an OK third, after which it ended. She had a real impact on me, with that first date. And she knew it. She could transform herself, her looks and her character, into this beautiful, lovely, hip, warm person. She was not a model, not fake hair or makeup, just a really attractive woman.

The second date I didn't recognize her. She came in pale clothes, hair without effort, barely makeup, and even today I'm confused if I think about it. It could have been someone else, and the date was a disaster. Not because of her clothes, but because of the stress test I was subject to. I didn't realize then what it was, just was taken by surprise and didn't know how to handle it. We had a third date, after which she let me know she didn't want to see me anymore.

In the email she sent, she let me know that she would never contact me again, really never, and I didn't have to try to contact her. She made it absolutely, without any doubt, clear that it would be totally pointless for me to keep on dreaming about her. Whatever I did could not change her mind. It was a long mail with a thorough explanation, and sound conclusion that this was the end.

Looking back, I realize that she must have had several stalkers. Maybe not the type that follows her 15 years, but guys that are flabbergasted by her appearance, fall in love, but cannot handle her, after which she dumps them, and they can't accept that. They may accept that mentally, but not emotionally. This is like an addiction, that's what it is, to me at least.

Thinking about this, I believe that she had her quirks as well. The way she devoted herself to things in her life, it was all or nothing. And so was my date with her.

I don't blame her. I don't think she meant wrong, or tried to trick me. I believe she was honest. But it is her way of acting that makes this happen as much as my way of reacting. I'm over her by the way, mentally and emotionally, and I haven't spoken to her since.
This book[1] answers nearly all the questions a company would have about going remote. Might be a worthy read for the OP.

As you pointed out thought, remote or local, doesn't say much, there are other things that are more important.

[1] https://37signals.com/remote/
Exactly.

What she did would be interpreted by someone with limited social skills as sending mixed signals. She went out for a meal with him when he showed up unannounced and gave her a gift.

She'd block or ignore him sometimes and engage him other times.

No, he shouldn't have harassed her but she should have been clear from the beginning that the attention was unwanted.
Yep, the Teapot is one of the highlights of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Possibly the most exciting teapot I've ever seen!

https://goo.gl/photos/quo8W9BE75VQqkmr6

Other highlights include the working Babbage Engine, with a rather good lecture.

Antihighlights include the otherwise excellent display on the history of integrated circuits, sponsored by Intel, which doesn't mention ARM in any way anywhere...

The museum's totally worth a look if you're there.
> I hope Kanye gets more flac for this.

I see him as more of a 128 kinda guy.
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Emotion is a variable for social groups and it's optimization could be built into an algorithm. Although algorithms don't have confidence as used colloquially, their optimizations could have "confidence intervals" to indicate the scope of conditions in which they have successfully optimized as determined through feedback. If then, the range over which their optimization functions apply are increasing in scope over time, they could be said to be gaining confidence.
Also as people learn about the benefits versus the negative aspects through studies showing that there can be benefits under certain circumstances and that its use can be good for some people and that even abuse, compared to other controlled substances, is not that bad.

In other words people have better understanding of the narcotic, its effect and how it can benefit some people.
I think that the calculation is a bit shortsighted, one thing you may consider is long term salary growth TRAJECTORY, i.e. in a corporate setting while the first couple of years after a top tier MBA you may not be making considerably more, you are on a certain career track that means 5, 10, 15 years out you are more likely to have a c-level, division level type job earning an order of magnitude more money...
trim, contains, split (at whitespace, or at a given byte position) can all be implemented efficiently in UTF-8.
like it or hate it, this is exact how its supposed to be done.
So true, and fully agree and love the quote by Randy Komisar from his book, The Monk and the Riddle:
“At key points in my life, I’ve found it helpful to ask myself a simple question about what I was doing at that moment:
What would it take for you to be willing to spend the rest of your life on [it]?”
Hmm, didn't get that vibe at all. Tone came off as a little exasperated to me, but mostly all about giving enough background to back up the claims
Main problem here seems to be a lack of reviews/testing. Every aspect of mainstream TVs is thoroughly tested and reviewed, but with these monitors you're basically rolling the dice. You don't know the color accuracy, viewing angles, black uniformity, etc. until you get it back to your house. That's a big gamble when you're spending ~$1,000 and planning to keep the device for several years.

The DELL E5515H looks nice though. Wish they made a 60" or 65" version.
From MBA to CEO
Actually, a fairly large number of people do get addicted accidentally. It often starts with a serious injury, leading to prescribed painkillers, and even using as directed by your physician can develop a dependence. Not to mention those with chronic pain who can't just stop taking them. And that dependence can take over and escalate very easily. I've seen and heard of plenty of hardworking upstanding people one would never expect becoming addicts and eventually turning to illegal means to scratch the itch.

And then there's the other end of things, where you've got young teens experimenting and getting hooked while they are young and stupid.

Or those who are being abused or suffering mental health issues with no access to mental health services, and end up self-medicating just to get by. You can say 'they should have just gotten help' but it's hardly that easy, even for an adult, and you can't expect a 14yo kid with apathetic (or worse) parents to figure out how to get help for themselves or even know that they need that sort of help. Never mind the stigma associated with seeking help.

So no, even look at morality and not cost, it's very closed-minded to assume all drug addicts should be held to blame for their own addiction and just left to wallow in their misery.
Wearable Robot Transforms Musicians into Three-Armed Drummers
LMMS is pretty awesome actually. I used it to write all of my last album:

https://kruhft.bandcamp.com/album/listener
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The language is one thing. I am so tired of trying to read articles riddled with gifs.
> When you're ready to deploy your new code, you should always deploy your branch before merging. Always.

Does anyone actually do this? This seems counterproductive - what if there are multiple branches?
Reference counts are best done using interlocked increment/decrement primitives.
That depends on what the automated process is.

If you live in Alaska, you don't want your heater to switch off if something goes wrong.

If you are on holiday, you don't want the software watering your garden to "failsafe" by stopping doing anything at all a week before your return.
There is considerable overlap between people who've experienced abuse and people who are addicted to drugs.

In that light your comments about "they chose to do it" are horrible. People are self-medicating to relieve trauma. It might not be an effective way to relieve trauma, but given the piss-poor state of psychological treatment or judicial system for survivors of abuse it's not surprising people end up with sub-optimal solutions.
They're useful for disabled or injured people.
I really like this!

This is definitely needed for the community and I'm very glad to see something like this pop up.

A few missing items for those who wish to share code on StackOverflow, for example: external stylesheets and a way to share the code you've written.

Not everyone uses Regent, so perhaps something more vanilla with ClojureScript + Hiccup, but I see how this could devolve into a rabbit hole.

Overall, a very solid start and I hope this continues.
i think this info graphic from the FT illustrates your point pretty concisely...https://ig.ft.com/sites/mba-to-ceo/
Had a Kindle Keyboard forever, finally impulse bought a Kindle Paperwhite.

Reading even more books than ever, since now I can turn its backlight setting to very low, and it's so much less light than my iPad ever was, while still being plenty to read with, and it's not bright enough to bother my SO if I read while she sleeps.
I just noticed that your Back-End Engineer position is set to Romania, and your DevOps to France. Is that correct? Does it make sense to apply to those as an American?
Then what the sibling comment above says would be my point also. 58% of people who voted on one issue is not going to be representative of those who vote in elections; ergo the candidates would be wrong to simply bypass the system and vote in an issue that hasn't otherwise passed.

I'd like to see more direct democracy though, more atomic voting to address issues individually; that would perhaps help in this situation.
s/interlocked/atomic/
> To be clear, I'm not calling you sexist.

Same paragraph ...
I work on a tropical beach for much less than the cost of the hardware you're describing.
Or even worse, just copies/mods of their own other games
This feels like the correct strategy to me (and it's what we do too). Deploying many branches to production seems like a nightmare at any scale.
The most creative way to manage personal tasks. Thanks a lot guys, will share with friends
For one thing, you can heat the exact quantity you actually need, instead of having to meet the kettle's minimum fill requirement.

900W is weak for a microwave oven. You can get 1200W or more.

Doing some googling, it seems that around 1600W is still home use; 1800W and up is "commercial".
I suppose that you can examine the intent, the different mechanisms of achieving the outcome and the outcome itself as surface differences. Orthogonally there are sets of beliefs about the nature of the experience by the entities undertaking the activity. I personally believe that I have a rich and diverse set of motivations and experiences within the process, and that this qualitatively separates confidence gaining and optimisation in a machine which does not have these enrichments into different categories. You may well argue that this is delusion and all I would do is offer to buy you a beer.

But taking the features of the two things that can be observed and potentially agreed on I would say that confidence can be gained socially, often it is gained when the skill is sufficient - by which I mean that optimal skill is achieved and yet confidence is not in place - and confidence can be created in a situation where no skill exists. Confidence is subjective and yet absolute, where as optimisation is objective and by degree.

I would talk more and buy that beer but there is a pretty girl over there who I like the look of a lot more, bye.
Yes, in the middle end, but they don't have an SSA-based back end (for example SSA-based register allocation).
The Babbage Engine was great, and has now moved on:

http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/01/29/computer-museum-bids...
love serum and its the first vst that i've bought personally. thanks
I get nervous when tech trends start appearing in popular publications with little history of covering tech. My spidey sense suggests that this signals an approaching peak in the covered technology.

Frankly, I think the expectations around AI are outpacing the realities that are attainable in the next 5-10 years. Now after that? Who knows. But I'm starting to get the sense that a lot of people are going to be disappointed in the next 5-10 years.
Even if I set the iPad to its lowest brightness, though, it's still about 10x brighter than the lowest I can set the backlight in a Kindle Paperwhite.
yes. Its a continual irritation to me 'pip freeze' doesnt support this.
Saving the highscore in a goroutine becomes more interesting if that action can block or simply take a while, both more realistic occurrences than such minimalistic examples.
I agree that someone is making money using a tool acquired illegally and the creator of the tool needs to be paid.

> but it is taking something from somebody

Here is where the inaccurate language harms discussion. Nothing is taken from the author. The author still has just as much as they had before the unlawful copying, apart from lost opportunity. They have lost a potential sale.

The analogy with theft breaks down quickly, and using the language of theft (or worse, insisting that it is really identical to theft) hinders clear thinking about the issue. Yes, it's a useful rhetorical device, since infringing on someone's physical property rights produces a strong emotional reaction. However, that strong emotional reaction doesn't foster rational discussion.

The only thing actually taken from the tool creator is opportunity cost. If you set up a cluster of two machines that illegally copy back and forth as fast as GigE allows, things aren't taken from the tool's creator at a higher rate.
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Yeah I don't much care for that either. I'm guessing it's a byproduct of the screen being basically a piece of transparent glass as opposed to an actual "screen" or whatever.
Do they have a life-size wax figure of Lena Söderberg [1]? If not, someone should donate the money for one.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna.shtml
I posted something similar in an IoT thread here recently, but the main reasons I have them are for security (able to turn on/flash lights in parts of the house if my alarm goes off during the night. Also able to turn lights on/off using a schedule when I am on vacation) and convenience (when my kids were infants I was able to trigger lights on/off as I walked around at 3am. I've also used this when guests are staying in the house). Mine are all z-wave so still function as normal light switches that can be manually toggled on and off.
Yeah, we're paying as a company, not sure of the amount though.
How does it work? Top level overview is fine, I'm not asking for trade secrets.

How would I implement it on my blog (my blog is built using Hexo and runs on S3, so it's all static)?
There is a huge gender bias in play. In the US(and probably most other western countries), domestic violence is viewed as only something that men do to women.

It's treated as a joke when a woman is violent against a man and it's completely ignored that lesbian couples have the same rate of domestic violence as heterosexual couples.
Docker for CI will help. Update your base image when you upgrade Node/Python.
The entire insulated assembly consisting of a heating wire embedded in casing is commonly called a "heating coil".

I didn't say anything about a bare, uninsulated electric coil being immersed in water.

The point is that this assembly is immersed in water; all the heat which escapes from it goes into the water.

This is not true of a stove top heating.
Blue light / lost sleep / use f.lux type research, I imagine.
However I have to study now. When I'll graduate, how hard will be to get a job from my country in a foreign one, if I have a certification for English? Are recruiters interested in foreign graduates or is it just a waste of money for them?
Thanks dude! You rock! And I bet the music you make with Xfer products rocks! :D
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had never heard of it before, but your software looks awesome.
On the other, other hand, editing, etc., is a one time cost. And, as far as I can tell, <$10,000 per book.

Publishers, however, take their share per-copy. And, IIRC, the final profits are divided about 50/50 between author and publisher.

Charlie may be leaving a significant chunk of money on the table, given his popularity.

I wonder how much more work it would be to get a good relationship with a single priced editing service over a traditional publisher. Hey, maybe you could even get your agent to do that.
Ah, I see. I've been out of that game for 8+ years.
Ok, but you have the problem of sun-glare in your screen and bad contrast. In my case, those problems can be solved in software :)
I think that you can discover this by experiencing lots of different emotions. People in distress (a strong emotion) often act in a way that we know as self destructive. People in love (another emotion) do dumb things. We see these insights in lots of cultural artefacts from all cultures that I am aware of - books, plays, songs, poems, stories, pictures and statues. If I was to get irritated with your comments would that be optimal?