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It appears to me much of the problem written about in this article is the client not knowing what they wanted from the start and explaining it.

If a client simply says, "how much to build cool stuff?" I cant answer because I have no idea what they mean by "cool stuff". In order to help them they have to give me more details of what they want. Which in some ways is a warning sign to me about the client, if they don't really know what they want it already makes me question if I even want them as a client. Them knowing what they want directly relates to my ability to tell if I can make them happy.

My approach is "well before we get to ballpark let me know some more information about what you are looking for so I can make sure I get this as close as possible."

I call this hand holding, you hold their hand and you walk em through it if you think they are worth it, or you cut em off early and don't waste your time. I learned a long time ago some clients are not worth it.

Also I wouldn't make a post with this sort of tone and tie it directly to yourself, I know exactly what you mean but to others it may come off in a "negative" light. A potential customer can read this and think well I like ballparks and don't want to get lectured about it so forget this guy. I would take more of the positive approach and frame it as "Dear client let me help you get a better ballpark figure".
This was an interesting read, but I thought the description of the Von Neuman's architectural decision to address program instructions and data in the same address space was a little hasty - perhaps introducing the Harvard architecture or another with separate spaces would help with the argument for ENIAC categorically being a computer.
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this is easily the most riveting and stomach churning "incident postmortem" that i've seen.

the story has a lot of layers to unpack. if you care about infosec, read it. if you're running an organization and have employees in positions of trust, read it.

then audit your permissions, make sure nobody in your org has excessive access, set up offsite logging, and hope this doesn't happen to you
I prefer this system too. Forcing people out by jacking up rent prices is the capitalist's solution, but not a good solution when applied to housing, IMHO. Why should people who've lived their entire life in a region be forced out because somebody with more money comes along? You can't pay a bunch of money and force a poorer person out of the hospital.

"Sorry, but we're full" is a completely valid response if maintaining affordable housing is more important than accommodating fervorous growth.
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Only if you choose an absolute value. Start gentle and then ramp up over the course of 10-15 seconds. It would be easy to add a slight high frequency oscillation to it as well, to make the board vibrate a little as a prompt to explain what it's doing.

It's kind of ridiculous to present that as an unsolvable problem dude.
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Wow, is this an entire year's work? It just keeps going and going, and going.
If you don't have it you can't do much...
Lua, or at least LuaJIT, allows these characters to be used as identifiers, which has led to some pretty interesting looking obfuscated code: https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1463260&p=47712658&vi...
If you look beyond reminder apps, I think things look a little different. There are good aspects to automation and some shortcomings as well.

I'm not saying people need to maintain survivalist skills. But I think there is a danger in relinquishing your will and control to data. How will people, in the future, be able to adjust to catastrophe? I have no pocket computer, what should I do? Can I eat now? What can I eat? It's so bewildering...

It's akin to an overly protective parents who one day has to face the world on their own, it can take years for them to recalibrate and readjust to their new reality.
There was an interesting episode on Planet Money a little while back about why milk is in the back of a supermarket. They had two people give very different explanations: Russ Roberts (an economist) argued that it was just simpler to maintain the cold chain with milk (and meat) in the back of the store since that's where trucks unload, and Michael Pollan (a food writer) argued that it was a behavioral economics trick to make people walk through the whole store.

That said, I've also noticed that in many larger store they have a small case of frequently bought perishables at the front of the store.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/23/334076398/episo...
Two:
1. The leasing company/landlord doesn't get a bunch of free press.
2. Tenants don't think about the real value of the parking space. (Which is probably far in excess of $100/month.)
It's also safe to say that no one would give that answer to that question. I mean, I'm sure there are tons of people on the Internet who complain about other people thinking that, I just don't necessarily think those other people actually exist in meaningful numbers.

I've come to a similar opinion about people who see "SJWs" all around them. I see people complain about SJWs all the time, but the complaining seems to be about imaginary people who mainly exist as caricatures in their heads. I live in the Bay Area and I don't think I've seen anything resembling an SJW in the wild, aside from some isolated individual posting angry rants to Tumblr.
A theft-proof way can be to avoid the anonymizing features of Bitcoin, that's it, by having the return address (for change in a transaction) being the same as the origin address.

That way you can simply monitor the blockchain for every player's single Bitcoin address, without having any private key.

Any transaction from those accounts should be explicitly initiated by the player, and for that you show QR codes in the game.
Any books you would recommend for reading about these techniques?
It would always be played as trying to take away poor people's children, besides who would want to pay for that?
Writedown.co is a stripped down to basics immutable Twitter but I don't see people using it much. I built it on the basis of what you say but I think people are way too much addicted to rihanna and they like to rant about the service they love to hate.
Why does assholery trump ideas? Keep the assholery to yourself.
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Randomly spot checking (first click), the Cathedral Pines in CT also lists the size of the preserve, even though the resources talk about the forest being damaged by tornadoes. It's more problematic in that a number for the old growth isn't obvious.
Such schools already exist for deaf and/or blind students.

I have heavy doubts about whether the concept would scale well to larger numbers of students.
Have you a source on that avoid the Romans?
No doubt many of these people are having a rough time, but poverty is relative and the number is fully determined by where you draw the line.

We have a standard. Why that one? Why not the same as Sweden, Haiti, Japan, Mali, Luxembourg, or Chad? It's all political. Want to prove a point? Draw the line as required.
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Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals to Hacker News, especially in response to new work. If you have a substantive criticism, fine—please make it respectfully. If you don't, then don't post in these threads.

On HN, no one need ever apologize for creating something new, regardless of whether someone else thinks "this thing" is "needed". Most new creations won't end up becoming a huge deal, but that's no reason to trample on them. Indiscriminate trampling just ensures we end up with (a) an ugly, damaged garden, and (b) a culture of the status quo. It's also a vulgar behavior that violates the civility requirements of HN.

No one, least of all the trampling internet commentariat, knows how to distinguish what will prove important from what will not prove important. Therefore we should receive new things with respect for the creative spirit, even if we don't personally intend to use them.
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Good or bad idea, it's unfortunately unrelated to the article at hand. When you're in public education, like my wife is, it's easy to see the pattern.

* Public education funding gets slashed.

* Reduced funding == reduced capabilities == can't meet all of the children's needs.

* Wealthy families see a decline in quality public education so pay to send kids to private and charter schools.

* Public schools get punished for failing to live up to arbitrary, politician-set standards, and lose more funding.

It's a vicious cycle and one that we only feel the pain of many years in the future. Politicians can claim a financial win by cutting millions and even thousands from education but are actually costing this country billions in the long term.

If we don't push and support free, high quality, public education, the inequality gap is can only widen.

If you want an ear full, ask any educator about the "high school-to-prison pipeline".
There is either equivalent effort or less effort when the loan is long-term instead of constantly making new loans. Less paperwork, possibly fewer trips to the place you got the loan. And it's not just the amount, the actions you go through are nearly identical in either case. There is no motivational or time or money benefit to the payday loan scenario.
1. Render performance.

On Windows Sciter uses Direct2D that is native H/W accelerated graphics rendering layer. Yet it allows to render UI directly into DirectX surface : http://sciter.com/sciter-and-directx/

2. Why TIScript ?

Check "10 years road to Sciter" article: https://sciter.com/2014/07/
I have wished for a way to turn that number off. (yes, I could make an extension to hide it I guess)
i dont know if im crazy, but what map are you referring to? i dont see a map on the article
Look up.

Also, like any city in the US, there is a ton of land dedicated to the storage of automobiles that is unused a great deal of the time.
All of the testing I've done with real-world code has shown an improvement of 10-20% moving from 2.7 to 3.4. I believe 3.5 made some slight further improvements.
I concur.

This is fantastic use case for a smart contract.
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It's actually substantially different. Most importantly, it's much hard to paper over shoddy lending practices with credit cards.

If you give a subprime borrower a mortgage and the market continues to go up, they can pay it back with the gains from selling the house. On paper, it looks like everybody won.

With credit cards however, the owner eventually does have to pay the debt back. If you're too loose with handing out credit cards, it's easy to end up with a bunch of people defaulting.

Plus, the scales are an order of magnitude different. Moreover, credit card debt isn't tied to the rest of the economy as heavily as mortgages are.
I'd argue yes, the Volt is better at its price range. But even the Volt's $25k+ new price (after credits) is above-and-beyond what is practical and affordable to the typical American.

"Practical and Affordable" is used vehicles, and maybe the $15k Honda Fit / Ford Focus / Toyota Corolla / similar cars. EVs aren't anywhere close to competing against the daily-driver for the typical American. They need another $10,000 off or so.

For now, electric vehicles have to mask the costs and add a bunch of luxury features (that don't really cost much money) to kinda-fake a better experience. When we see a barebones electric model under $16k, I'll know they finally made it.
> It's odd to see you saying this, given your security focus. But I suppose implicitly you're referring to UI apps that don't expose remote attack surface.

I'm really quite conflicted here. I've written in the past that it can even be seen as irresponsible to write new security-sensitive programs in C/C++ when there are reasonable alternatives available, which is most of the time - and "security-sensitive" can include almost anything, given the right scenario. On the other hand, while I'm a big fan of Rust and use it for some personal projects, some things about it drive me crazy, while C's low-level nature appeals to me, so I also like to use C. I can justify this contradiction to myself easily enough, because I don't write all that much code that other people actually use, but that's something I'd like to change... :( In any case, I'm looking forward to quality-of-life improvements in Rust such as incremental compilation, which should tilt the balance more onto its side.
I am renting a virtual stake in an Ethereum miner with Genesis mining and I am not seeing anything like a spike in my return. In fact it is about half what it was a few months ago.

Edit: this is not an advert, there has been plenty of speculation that Genesis is skimming from the returns and I was just providing a datapoint.
Are you referring to persistent database connections and something like apache mod_php? The first one doesn't seem that common these days and the other one doesn't seem like something that the application would force on you anyway. Why do you dislike the web server module deployment model?
In most major cities, affluent parents opt-out of the public schooling system and we end up with underfunded and failing schools.

I'm consistently attracted to a system a la Finland: for K-12, tuition and selective admission are strictly prohibited[0].

I worry that this may seem to extreme to put into action, but it wouldn't be. Even Warren Buffet has pushed for banning private schools, and soon.[1]

Any thoughts on why this may not be a good idea?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Finland#Basic_com...

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/warren-buffett-i...
Things that come to mind: Lord of the Flies. Prison gangs.

It would be better for some, but getting selected/admitted would become some sort of insult.
I might have missed that part. First I thought it'd be a solution for traditional vehicles.
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Are you referring to getting accepted into the beta or completing all the various forms for your company? I've been accepted to the beta, and the landing page says:

"After you submit the application, we will send you the documents to review and sign within a day or two. Your company and bank account will generally be set up within a week of submitting the signed documents."

I have yet to submit my forms, but I was under the impression the process would be relatively quick.
It's part of the implicit negotiation to me. You get the other side to soft-commit to a given price range. A perfectly valid strategy. Not to say it can't backfire in a multitude of ways.

As a consultant you sometimes want them to do it too. For any sufficiently complex project the contractee doesn't have perfect knowledge of what they want either.

Actually I view articles like that as a part of a broader meta-negotiation.
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I guess my overall point here was that you can build a sufficiently interactive webapp without a bloated, client-side, MVC, virtualDOM, JS monstrosity. And that there are widely varying degrees of complexity to these implementations.

So, on the one hand, you have Ember, Angular, Backbone, React, etc. On the other hand you can have what I described. A very thin, very maintainable layer on top of what the browser is already doing.

That was the point.

Anyway, one other thing:

> Most browsers do retain the contents after navigation, both ways.

That's not what I meant. What I meant is that sometimes you need a button or link to take you back to the exact same form, just update the page slightly. (Add an optional field, etc. Think if you are entering an "album" and need to add a list of "tracks"). Without any JS/AJAX, that "add track" button will require a bit of finagling to not clear out the rest of the form that you've already partially filled out (but aren't ready to submit). I don't know if my example is entirely clear, but it's about enabling a certain amount of interactivity without relying on more standard JS bloat.
> Your senses are staggeringly limited ... when it comes to determining what is "real" or not.We use technology to fill the gaps. That's what technology is for - to allow us "see", interact with and influence the world through discrete and explicit measurement in ways our biological systems can't.

Sense perception to understand reality or to seek pleasure ? When we pick the phone to play a game, is that interacting with reality or with pure imagination. Same with the round about action of liking each others or seeing what new experience you posted etc.

Sense perception can be used for survival and pleasure. In the game of evolution the latter will get phase out and former will evolve. However in short term, where there is a great economic incentive to game the "pleasure seeking senses" for creating wants and consumption, there would be short term pain and confusion in masses. The question to ask ourself is that whether i succumb to this enticement or just move and let it meet its eventual end.

Country, companies are higher order concepts that lasts over generation. This lets them experiment over many people life and adjust accordingly. But we as an individual we have limited time and space constraint. Its only our mind that can help distinguish the chaff from grain and live a meaningful life.

> Augmenting and eventually replacing our biological capabilities with robust, high precision systems is the ultimate goal.

This was also true when wheel was invented. The purpose of technology is to help in getting things done. The pleasure seeking, sensory perception is just a distraction. And for many of us, the ultimate goal is to live a better life by reducing these distractions.
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It's in the 'reports' link. [1]

1. http://www.southerneducation.org/Our-Strategies/Research-and...
> hike quite a lot in and around the park

I've hiked there a bit myself!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguelvieira/6142136271/

Most of my data came from Eastern Old-Growth Forests by Mary Bird Davis. She defined old growth as forests that were never logged or that are so old that there is no longer any evidence of logging.

The thing with many eastern forests is that because of either their species composition or their site conditions (soil, climate, etc), their trees will never get very large.

What I remember about the Smokies is that no one knew exactly how much they were logged, but the National Park Service estimated about 60 to 70 percent. Most of the remaining unlogged forests won't really have huge trees. In fact, some huge tulip trees that are popular hiking destinations are less than two hundred years old, while small hemlocks on ridges can be over three hundred years old.
Maybe poverty-alleviation doesn't work.

Maybe people's attitudes need to change. When people were poor 100 years ago, they didn't wait around for government handouts. They worked hard, and got out of where they were to go to places with more opportunity. That's how poverty-alleviation actually works.
Why do you assume that?

I'm single but will sometimes have a debt of $10k in a month but never carry any over.
There is no such thing as free...you simply flew thousands of miles paid for by paying an extra 1 or 2 percentage points for everything.

On the other hand, if you did not fly thousands of miles using miles and points, and you still paid the same price as the cardholders, then you helped pay for those who did fly around for free.
put vibration sensors on cars and use vibration analysis to get a measure of how rough various sections of road for most needed road repairs and resurfacing.

run air particulate sensors and create daily maps of particulate counts in the air for people with asthma or other respiratory diseases
> Why should people who've lived their entire life in a region be forced out because somebody with more money comes along

Why should a store that has had groceries all day be forced to give away their groceries when someone with more money comes along?
Sorry if this is naive but what does Taylor Swift have to do with this story? I'm talking about her tweets. Not being fussy, I just generally don't know what the author means by the tweets.
So what you mean to say is that that activity makes up a much smaller part of those markets?
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ouch! I hear ya. I also turned off my miner because hundreds of coins a month wouldn't recover the cost of the video card soon enough.
The world's population has almost tripled since 1950, so that timescale is highly relevant to "human history".
True. But the fact that Google staff felt guilty about ignoring copyright notices and spent years removing evidence from their code is a pretty good indication that they knew they were doing something wrong, even if technically they weren't...
> You can't pay a bunch of money and force a poorer person out of the hospital.

Sorry to be so blunt, but you probably can. I would assume you can also get bumped higher up on lists for organ transplants etc if you have the right connections (read: are willing to pay, i.e. by donating a nontrivial amount of money to support research the hospital is doing).
> if all text is UTF-8, then most operations can be performed on bytes without worrying about any transformations whatsoever.

Let me guess: you don't work on anything that has any internationalization ever.
"Schools, already under intense pressure to deliver better test results and meet more rigorous standards, face the doubly difficult task of trying to raise the achievement of poor children so that they approach the same level as their more affluent peers."

This is not a story about schools. Schools see only the symptoms. This is a story about how a western country has made the conscious decision to divide itself. Services are being cut, at least those services that support the poor. Legislation is being liberalized to accommodate "growth" over development, markets over sustainability. The net result is the growing divide between rich and poor. And everyone seems OK with it.

Why is this article so careful to limit itself to only public schools? They use the meals program as a proxy for poverty. Ok, but what about the number of students that have moved away from public schools in recent years? What percentage of students are now attending non-public charter schools? It isn't just the rich kids. 'Charter' /= 'private school'. But I suspect that if charter schools are included, less than 50% of US kids are "in poverty".

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=30
Sure, cause things haven't change at all over the past 100 years. Working hard gets you a lot less now than it used to.
My initial thought is that the kind of regulation being proposed here is going to be unconstitutional.

In the United States, source code is protected as free speech. Limitations on free speech are subject to "strict scrutiny" which means a restriction "narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest." A compelling state interest is, per wikipedia, "something necessary or crucial, as opposed to something merely preferred. Examples include national security, preserving the lives of a large number of individuals, and not violating explicit constitutional protections." And the regulation must also be the least restrictive way of achieving the interest.

It is improper for the government to declare that certain types of speech, say, journalism, may occur in a geographic area but not other kinds, say, source code creation.

IANAL

Edit: wow, thats a whole lotta downvotes. I wonder why.