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"a manager counted the lines of software coming out of the cubicle farm and determined that programmers wrote N lines of code a day. It didn't make a difference what language was used -- the company would get only N lines out of them. The manager promptly embraced APL, the tersest, most powerful language around"

They can only do N lines, so the natural decision was to use terser languages, I love it.

I mean, yes there are reasons to use a special language for a problem (for example Elixir instead of Ruby, for distributed systems). Also sometimes some problems get solved more elegant in newer languages (Rust instead of C++ for system programming).

But if the only metric is lines of code, every language solves this with enough abstraction layers...
> "truncate a 4G core dump by a couple of bytes and watch GDB try to open it"

This comes down to a failure of the binary design. It's possible to design a binary format that is uniform enough to handle truncation of a few bytes. To give you one example, you have a header for the binary with pointers to the start and end of each data block and you can keep multiple copies of this header. Another alternative is to specify that each block needs to specify where the data in that block ends. That way, even if you have partial corruption you can read the uncorrupted data blocks.
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There already is a Valet Mode that limit the power and the maximum speed.
On the other hand, I have yet to work with, or even meet a developer who thinks that DevOps isn't dumping .tar files or Docker images directly into production. The developers love it because it gives them carte blache to just hack production any way they see fit. For instance, I had some Java developer attempt to argue with me that .tar files are the same as .rpm's, and that was just one of many incidents. The worst part is, the developers actively spread that propaganda, along with OS packaging requiring root privileges to deploy payload as being unsuitable for continuous delivery.
Here's a list (I've thought about this often):

1. Use your application. (Not the same as testing.)

2. Adopt an apprentice programmer, teach them your seat, pass on the seat. Leave the seat.

3. Program something for fun that is your own idea.

4. Program something for someone else that is their idea.

5. Sort the books/library.

6. No books/library? Build books/library.

7. Re-write the code from scratch, for the hell of it.

8. Take over someone elses' project, finish it to the end users satisfaction.

9. Give your project to someone else, in a state that they can do #8 easily.

10. Build a list of positive observations over a period of X, where X is how long you think it might be fun to do so.

The accomplishment of a number of these actions have, in my opinion, resulted in some really great programmers and some really great software.
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The fact that the notion of salary leads you to "corporate culture" suggests true relationship between work conditions in corporate and academia. There is nothing inherently corporate about good reward for work.

Fundamental research is important and should attract top talent - but saying that individuals should correct errors of society leads to ugly, ugly effects like resentment and elitism.

There is no alternative to correcting incentives. As soon as people start to connect "good salary" with "academic culture", everything will be OK.
> …rising global trends in obesity should not overshadow the problem of many people not getting enough to eat.
In South Asia, for example, almost a quarter of the population is underweight. In Central and East Africa, about 12 percent of women and 15 percent of men are underweight.

The increase in the obesity gets even more alarming if one considers that out of ~7 Billion world population, one can take ~3 Billion people (India + China + Central Africa) out of the equation as they are affected less than others (the first infographics also supports this notion).

641M of 7B = 10%

600M of 4B = 15%

(Approx numbers just for getting some ballpark indicators)
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Seeing how the free market tends to optimize for short term gains for private actors at the expense of long term costs to society I'd say government "meddling" is a must in this case. Coca Cola, the poster child for the free market, is selling sugared water which is one of the main causes of the obesity epidemic.
For starter project in starting companies maybe, for existing companies not that easy...
The net in places is much worse than television. I might open several tabs when researching something or making sure that I read something of interest. Then all of a sudden I hear voices or sounds and have to go hunting them down. I use unlock origin to block ads but now some sites are calling ads within their domain so that ad blocking does not work.

Do the advertisers really think this behavior makes me want to buy their product?
> It's also rx-only in many countries, according to Wikipedia

Those countries include parts of Europe, Asia and Latin America.

On the same Wikipedia page, "not available [as in, at all, even with a prescription] in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K. or the U.S."

Kind of a bummer, I was starting to think I might have something new to look into. Not surprised, though.
In other news corporations feeding people garbage report billions in profits. Go to a supermarket, 90% of the food there is processed garbage. This is by design. We are not healthy because we are being fed our desires for profit, they create addictive food which is bad for you and costs nothing to produce because there is profit in it. Great success for all of humanity.
The 641M number provides context for the media narratives regarding fat acceptance and body shaming. Perhaps worse than the epidemic of people being overweight, is growing sympathy to accept and not to do anything about it. If you have been following social justice issues you will understand what I am referring to. This issue is beyond health, since it has been made political. Addressing it likely requires fighting back against rhetoric from the fat acceptance movement. (Not looking for an argument, just saying.)
Rather than looking at Steam, look at the App Store.

I don't think anyone wants podcasting to end up like the App Store. This is the general premise of Marco's article.
Not really. You can do quite a lot of research without PhD. Being paid for it is another story, though.
What an awful title. It's almost unparseable, and the only I reason I clicked the link is to see if the article was as badly written as the title.

I have to ask: are the programming ports of PLC's customarily left open after deployment? I have little experience with them, but I thought most programming modes reconfigured some of the (few) pins for programming. In normal operation, aren't these pins reconfigured for something useful?

(edit: nevermind, seems I'm thinking of a lot smaller devices than the research article)
You have raised a very important issue here. Today's web has been festered with such sucking UI/UX. It just caters to the demands of novelty-seeking users with no concern for usability/discoverability.
I think this is solvable by educating devs, not just by enforcing policies. And path to production should be a well defined process, that has to evolve from collaboration between devs and ops, so nobody should be able to just "hack production" on their own, and ops could also be doing dev code reviews to see what exactly they are doing.
This† got written 'cos I was alarmed by some podcasts being published solely as YouTube videos with unchanging visuals! It munges such perversion into audio files and proper podcast feeds.

† https://github.com/frou/yt2pod
Although you're not the first to offer a (not-so-eloquent) genetic explanation of economic success, you are definitely the first person I came across being told "when someone is pretty they're usually crazy" which makes it a moot point.
Sure not starving is good. Beyond that, you tell us:

http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/my-600-lb-life/videos/7-000-calo...
>Perhaps worse than the epidemic of people being overweight, is growing sympathy to accept and not to do anything about it.

Really? Worse then actual suffering and societal costs is the treatment of obesity as a disease and not a character flaw? Not only should people suffer, but they should be shamed for it.

That's ridiculous. Just saying.
From the article: "More obese men and women now live in China and the United States than in any other country."
> Really? Worse then actual suffering and societal costs is the treatment of obesity as a disease and not a character flaw? Not only should people suffer, but they should be shamed for it.

What an overly sensitive response. How ridiculous is Hacker News? Where did I say anything about [1] the suffering, [2] societal costs, or [3] treatment of obesity as a disease?

Mentioned it's political and has a media component to it, get attacked. There factually are people, like the parent comment, who will not fairly discuss the issue on neutral terms. Derailed into personal attacks, insensitivity, or straw man arguments like the above comment. How can HN parade itself as intellectual discussion when it can't even handle benign comments.
When you walk into Tesco everyday noticing that crisps for dinner would be the cheapest option, this report is no big surprise!
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What happens if you have to speed up suddenly to avoid an accident? Do you have the time to push an emergency button? I don't think so.
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Failing to see how my comment breaks these guidelines? I most certainly would say this face to face.
I would rather have 641mm people obese, and solve that problem, than the alternative (641mm starving people, and try to get them food).

The major concern, of course, is that "scientists" on this topic keep changing the advice they give to people, so by the time people finally absorb, and start practicing what they were told to do - the next set of guidance comes out, that is, in some cases, precisely the opposite of what they were told previous.

Here in Singapore, just today, the front page of the newspaper said, "White Rice causing Diabetes, 1 plate of rice = 2 cans of sugary soda." - while on the inside of the paper, there were talks about increasing taxes on soda, but nothing on white rice....

Hopefully, we'll eventually get some evidence/science based information, guidance, and policy, but I'm not optimistic.
And that's before Apple starts banning all podcasts like Serial which talk about potentially sensitive and/or offensive topics.
Society going forward is not going to need producers. Most of the jobs are going the way of the dodo along with the concept of management, etc. Going forward, we need better political structures that don't need to feed egos of sociopaths. Corporations by their very nature are tyrannical dictatorships. Human society should be more about humanism and less about sociopaths and production and consumption.
Grit and perseverence, however you call them, are important aspects to success, but not THE secret to success.

If you look at the subset of people who enjoy "success" in life, a large number of them will display those qualitites, no doubt. But some of them could have attained it by sheer luck, filial connections, or others.

Now, if you look at the complementary subset (people who do not enjoy "success" in life), I guarantee you will find plenty of gritee people in there, in addition to people who display personal qualities not conducive to success (which by no mean excludes them from enjoying success in live, given the proper circumstances - see previous paragraph).

That's the aspect I do not enjoy about those "secret to success stories: no one ever considers the people who did everthing rigth, but did not succeed. It happen much more often than we think. No one cares for the losers, whatever the cause, alas. This is the 'survivorship paradox' described by Cicero... Taleb called it the Silent cemetary evidence.

One more aspect, if I may: when can one determine someone else is a "success", or a "failure"? People certainly are entitled to more than one shot at success, and negative results are certainly a valid way to pinpoint your path towards success.

So, grit is not THE secret path to success, but if your goal is to be successful, then internalising a gritee spirit certainly demultiply the possibilities to enjoy success.
The slides said something about an explanation. And then they link to a github repo with one of the most minimal readmes you can create. Well... Good attempt I guess.
I get that Marco's talking about the App Store.

Consider Marco has Overcast, he's in a _very_ good position to offer an alternative solution to the problem he's talking about though.

I wouldn't mind podcasting ending up like Steam/indie games in general. Everything's a lot better than it used to be in that domain.

I don't know what advertising rates come out at cost per listener but my gut feeling is that if ATP charged a dollar instead of doing ad reads they'd pull in more. And more importantly shows that have too small of an audience to be viable through ads could become viable.

Of course, like Jason said, you can already do this. But who wants to configure their billing info across 10 different websites?
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You mean it's a user education fault? (not harsh criticism, just a joke)
The number of people (A) going to the gym, (B) doing resistance exercise to build up lean body mass, and (C) doing so on a regular enough basis to make a difference - is round off error.

The entire reason why Gyms are so profitable, is an insignificant number of people who sign up, actually ever go.
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Is this important? As far as i seen the ceiling is about same everywhere on Upwork, about $40 an hour for long-term full-time work and $70-$90 for short-term gigs.

For someone who programmed since the age of 10 learning a new programming language is easy. I started on oDesk as a Flash developer (it was 2009 - heyday of Flash), then gradually moved onto other stuff, my most recent new language was Go (i did PubNub Go SDK). Right now i am coding in Python but i can easily be doing something else next month.

But really, i don't think skills are an answer here. At least not technical skills. There is no way i could be making $200K instead of $100K by learning any kind of technical/programming skills. What i need is new markets.
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No one notices when things go as planned/expected. Make media say you cannot do it, then do it.

You bet it will be noticed.

I am not saying that it is what is happening now. But just a thought.

I mean, if the guy is smart enough to do all the things he has done, isn't it too hard to imagine he will have a trick or two when it comes to PR?

I mean, every time, one of this article show up, it gets up voted to top, and people are talking and talking and talking, about it. For a couple of days, you see Tesla or SpaceX every where..It is like walking through a neighbourhood filled with Tesla/SpaceX billboards.

Point is, there articles are generating a lot of conversation involving these companies, which makes them very endearing to people involved. So after a while, people will take it as a personal insult, if you criticise these companies...

You know, all of those are good for the company, right?
Sorry if I'm being thick, but how is this twodimensional slideset supposed to work? I just want to go to the next slide, should I go all the way down and then right? Or do I need to go up again before going right? Or can I ignore down?

I've seen this being presented before, it seems to be a new thing, but never navigated one myself.

Edit: Just saw a comment about pressing space bar, that seems to work linearly. Thanks! (Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653281 )
Yes saw that. But the infographic shows that China is relatively 'green' than other parts of the world (along with India and Central Africa).

My takeway from it (could be wrong) is that in absolute numbers there would be more obese people in china than say in some countries in middle east, but as a percentage of population they are small.

I knew from other other readings that in China this is due to younger generation.

"Within one generation, the percentage of Chinese children who are overweight or obese has skyrocketed from 5% to 20%. The rate has absolutely exploded, over a very limited amount of time." http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-...
It's not really proof of that tho', it's proof that they see advantages in less portability between Unix variants, which is not entirely the same thing. There's nothing in it for Red Hat or Canonical shareholders if you decide to run FreeBSD instead, so why would they support the standard?
>That date was never meant to actually be the production start date

I listen to or read the transcripts of nearly all of them. They're full of ambiguous information and half-truths, and I take them with a grain of salt. This is a classic example; we have a deadline that's not really a deadline. Tesla wants this stuff to be news.

>an inevitable few of the thousands of needed parts have delays.

Is this inevitable? Does it happen to other manufacturers, who, according to critics, are building far more complex vehicles?

>this article makes me facepalm.

You don't facepalm at gems like this:

UBS Analyst: "And any color when you think about the $190 per kilowatt hour, how much like a CAGR of decline until the Gigafactory is open, another 30% once that's on line?"

Elon Musk: "Yeah, next question."

So the guy wanted to know how Tesla plans on benefitting from the scale and battery efficiency of the Gigafactory production (originally planned for 2020) if they're moving up the production timetable. In other words, how much is that going to affect the cost of Model 3 production? You don't think that's a valid question?
> Forget the fancy safety features. The humble belt is more important than all of them put together.

Totally agree with the second sentence, but disagree with the first. It's not like these features are just thrown in for fun; there is research and testing behind them, and they do save lives.

It's like that oft-misquoted statistic that you lose 50% of your body heat through your head. In reality that's only true if you cover the rest of your body with clothes, but leave your head bare. Obviously wearing clothes is going to keep you warmer than wearing a hat. But, if it's cold out, it does make sense to put a hat on too.
So by that logic, would you support a motion to have your ISP monitor all of your internet traffic and hike your internet prices the second you go on a torrent website, connect to TOR or go to "unnaproved" websites on the internet? Surely the internet would be safer if we automatically punished people who do things that are normally associated with certain unsavoury activities, so financial penalties should be most appropriate?

Because that's exactly what insurance companies are doing with cars nowadays - there's a lot of factors that can contribute to increasing your premium, like....driving at night for example. Or accelerating quickly from traffic lights, or driving fast on a country road(even if within a speed limit).

As long as I can afford to, I will always chose insurance policies without telematics boxes, for the same reason why I will always pay more to have unmetered and non-monitored internet, to the extent that is possible in the current world.
Personally , i don't think the big silicon valley companies are interested in a great solution for the remote work problem(or in remote work in general) - or else we would have seen large r&d investments from them on that subject.

And i wouldn't be surprised most VC investors don't care for that either.
I've been looking for a space bar on my iPhone, couldn't find it.
Each horizontal slides talks about one thing. That one aspect is discussed vertically.
Brittish? I'll never be able to think of crisps as dinner.

And wouldn't noodlesoup be even cheaper, and healtier too?
>Maybe 10 or 20 years ago, New Zealand decided to ban anyone with a record of sexual offending from being a taxi driver. That sounds good and safe to the average Joe but one poor man, in his 50's I think, lost his job because he'd been convicted as a teenager of having sex with his then-underage girlfriend. They'd since been happily married and still were. Somehow that meant he was considered unsafe to drive people around in a taxi.

Is the tragedy here that there are taxi laws, or that there are bad sex laws?
What does binary vs text have to do with object orientation?
But that would take podcasting from an open platform controlled, technically, by no one. To a closed platform controlled by one company. That one company being Apple. Has Marco said - "be careful what you wish for".

I think Marco is fairly happy with how things are at the moment and doesn't want it to change. That's why he doesn't suggest anything.
It's just a standard Wordpress theme. Images are resized dependent on the device you are viewing on. Viewed on mobile or tablet, the hero image is at the top and scrolls through as you read.
$100k per year is very good. There are lots of people who would love to earn that much. No wonder you are in the top 10!

Without knowing what your skills are, it's hard to make suggestions. But ... have you looked at working at a top notch company where your skills would be very much in demand. For example, with the right skills you could land a very well paying job in banking in say Frankfurt or Zurich. I've worked for a Zurich insurance company and that was one of the best paid gigs I've ever had.
> I've never even seen an "anti" ad.

Well if we want to match anecdotes, I live in the area and have only seen "anti" campaigning. FWIW, I'm in North Austin, where it turns out the opposition apparently did really well.

> Quite frankly I have no idea whether the regulatory reforms Uber/Lyft wanted were sensible or not. [...] SV investors spent an absurd amount of money trying to convince everybody of that, and Austinites are a very skeptical bunch who decided not to take their terms.

I think this is a weird characterization, to the point where your bias is showing. Both your comments and the article you link to make it seem as if the ridesharing startups launched an underhanded campaign in order to change the status quo to suit themselves. But that's not the case.

The reality is that regulatory changes to specifically target Uber and Lyft were adopted months ago, those companies reacted by saying, "WTF WTF let's not do this", managed to bring it to a special election to get the city to reconsider the new regulations, and that attempt failed.

I find your own comments as well as the articles that try to focus on storytelling to be the ones that rely the most on readers who aren't entirely sure of what's going on. Speak some reassuring words that suggest to the confused reader, "someone's trying to pull the wool over your eyes; voting <this way> would show them it can't be done!", spin some yarn about companies trying to buy their way into deregulation to benefit their bottom line, and that's how you win a campaign to use the law to get the ridesharing companies in question to go away and preserve cab companies' customer base.
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