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Ask HN: Is it fair to expect 40hr work weeks and be available for on-call work?
I see so many salaried employees expected to work a regular 40hr work weeks + be available for on-call work, restricting their off-hours plans in the event of an emergency.

This is expected even more in startups where manpower is limited and self-sacrifice is the expected norm.

Is this fair? Is this acceptable? Is it legal?
If you did that, wouldn't the customers whose already agreed-upon reservations you just ditched be rightfully upset, and call your behaviour "unprofessional"?

I think the professional response here would be "sure, I'll sell the restaurant to you, but only after I had a chance to fulfill the obligations I entered into, as otherwise my professional reputation gets tarnished".
Is there anything to read that's public where those marketers comment about using it?

Have any of them done any audits on the code base and traced all incoming requests through Mailtrain vs their SES backend to ensure everything was delivered as expected?
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> a 2016 macbook that for some reason won't keep disconnecting from my WiFi router

I've been using macbooks for 5+ years. Have never had a wifi issue with Airport Extreme. Not even once.
Nokia Sues Apple in Europe and the US for Infringement of Nokia Patents
There are plenty of people who will just fail to see the financial incentive, even after it's become obvious to people like you and I. Unless the cost becomes truly debilitating (and, granted, at some point it probably will) they won't change.

Don't underestimate how stubborn people can be, especially if they're Americans who feel their freedom is being threatened.
For some reason that just strikes me as hilariously hacker-newsish. Every time I come here there's a thread full of niche experts fervently discussing yarn, clay tile roofs, or boats or whatever. "Check out this site, it's got cool boat news." Love it, love that it exists, love that people read it.
Wow, is there any way to get more views? I can pay, i need more than 100k
There's no demand really. Would you pay premium for an extra power supply? I wouldn't.
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Hang the cable from the moon and let the end trail?
> Citing a raspberry GPIO pin to do that shows that guy does not know what he is talking about

I think it's pretty clear that he doesn't, but it's not like he's claiming to be an expert.
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I like how all the quotes on their front page are about the framework they're using, not the product itself.
The founders wound it down. Thomas is threatening to actually do a write-up about the experience sometime (poke, poke).
I'm happy to take a look as well (no payment needed). Email in profile.
There's certainly an element of truth there, but it's a bit of a smoke screen. The fact that there are grey areas doesn't detract from the concept that a dividing line can be devised and enforced. We do it all the time. Age of consent laws, tax brackets, and a million other particular cases all involve us saying that we're drawing a line that's arbitrary near the boundary but profoundly meaningful if one takes a step or two back from the fine details.

So I see nothing wrong with saying, "Apple paying 0.005% obviously constitutes 'state aid', and we'll work out the complicated instances if we need to".
I wonder if the big challenge here is showing someone just how much they can learn. Like, put them in a well managed language course, or in yoga (or something), and see if it changes their perspective.
You can start by reading the sources in other comments here. This is a ruling about a deal between Apple and Ireland and how it is structured to minimise tax and avoid tax in other countries.

The Commission, in simple terms, makes sure that a single market doesn't mean that one country helps companies avoid tax in other countries while still allowing completely free trade.
note that in the background, Apple has also sued some patent trolls for colluding with Nokia:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/12/apple-fi...
Quinn is a she, FTR. Also, some cats will eat themselves to obesity (and it tends to be those with this kind of appetite for food, no pun intended), so keeping a limit on their intake is important, particularly if they are house cats (not common in the UK, but I think they are more so in the US).
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I hate to oversimplify something I don't know details on, but that's what popped into my mind as well. Just put an intern on it?

Obviously is must be more impressive than it sounds - people wrote 9 million in checks.
Ah OK, I missed that. Well I suppose even with such an offer, the onus is still on the person making such a request to remain civil if "No" is still the answer.
A painfully boring chunk of indecipherable drivel that has nothing to do with the future of music.
As a matter of fact, we have experimented with multi-armed bandit 'auto-pilot' to roll out a new feature while watching A/B test results. I'd like to see this make it to production as well; it was one of those things that sounded like a fun idea, but we weren't sure if actual customers would use it :).

nb: I work for LaunchDarkly, if it wasn't obvious from my comment.
Yes and no. At work we have a scope that will let you save traces onto a 1.44Mb floppy disk. Other people have test gear that runs DOS or Windows XP.
This seems like a classic case of over-engineering the wrong problem.

The problem isn't that the cat is getting into the machine, the problem is that the human is neglecting to feed the cat.

Solve the right problem.
The author sounds super fucking bitchy.

Shared workspaces are crap for getting work done - proper focussed work that you go home and puts a skip in your step. But this isn't the reality of delivery - you should be able to adapt to your client and delivering the best value can be more than cutting code.

Alas, Working as a remote dev can frustrate and stifle creativity and problem solving - having my expert set at the other end of a phone, Skype, IM or slack when I need that dev to step up and become architect, because, it's a start up, and I've seen some excellent products come from pivots that happened because the Devs could weigh in, apply technical reality and end up with a viable product.

As that dev, I came in to a project that was on its ass, they took a glass door off its hinges, set that up as my desk and we knocked it out of the park. I was spent afterwards but the reward of a great delivery and a happy client was worth it.
> Ok, but we're specifically talking about GC and RC here, so I don't see why you'd bring that up.

well, my point was, in garbage-collected languages you don't have the option to never even engage the garbage collector by creating variables on the stack, while in languages like C++ you can avoid the overhead of malloc/free by using stack variables.

> GC literally is automatic memory management.

It is, but there are other approaches to automatic memory management that don't introduce another entity that does stuff to your program at runtime. C++'s smart pointers is one such approach, see also Automatic Reference Counting and Rust's borrow checking. I wish there was more research done into compile-time techniques to prevent resource leaks.
We've used LaunchDarkly (LD) for about a year now. We previously used our own Feature Flag library built by our CTO: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dipswitch. LD provided a lot more, and continues to release new features that would've been much more expensive for us to build vs. buy here.

We’ve been so pleased w/ LD that we agreed to do a case study with them if you want to take a gander: https://launchdarkly.com/casestudies/lanetix.html

Also, we implemented most of LD in a 24-hour quarterly hackathon we hold at my company: https://engineering.lanetix.com/2016-02-22/how-lanetix-does-...

Hope this helps!
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Essentially the commission points out how governments favour big corporations when it suits them, eg to claim "i brought jobs".
I'd disagree with a number of assumptions in that statement.

For one, TortoiseHg isn't windows only. It's a python+qt based application that works uniformly pretty much everywhere.

That fact that you made that assumption makes me thing you may not have explored many alternatives. I'd recommend trying out some other VCSes, just to get a broader picture of how they function. I think doing that helps to get a grip on what your specific needs actually are, as well as a better understanding of the tradeoffs for whatever tool you pick. None of them I've seen are 100% superior.

Secondly, I love tortoisehg specifically because of the command line. Doing a simple commit with mercurial just takes `hg ci`. Doing a commit using the gui just takes `thg ci`. The latter one pops up a gui for me to stage the commit, and then I'm back in the console again.

IMO it's the best of both worlds -- I don't have to get knocked out of the commandline until I need to, and I can trigger whatever gui action explicitly, as part of my existing workflow.

There are some things which I think are just fundamentally better with a gui -- whether it's a curses-style "TUI", or proper graphics. Under tortoisehg, if I'm cherry picking for a commit, I can double click to open up a file in meld to make last-minute edits, shelve bits away for later, all kinds of one-off actions which are much more complex from the command line. Not to mention performing complex searches on VCS history.

It's a lack of an equivalently powerful cli-controlled gui for git which has kept me using hg as my primary vcs.
I should've been a lawyer. -_- Hacking is fun but hackers seem to all be too idealistic for their own good.
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50 people likely wouldn't be enough to TYPE the source code of the entirety of Microsoft products in five years. Assuming that you did no design, and simply had them copying source code as fast as they could.

120WPM * 60minutes/hour * 16hours/day * 5workdays/week * 52weeks * 5years * 50people / 10words/line

= 748.8M lines of code

For comparison, Google is 2B lines of code. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...

Good luck!
It's meant as a c/c++ replacement.
Wouldn't you normally mix down on the receive side for better SNR? Doppler should be pretty negligible, so if your LO tracks the output the receive side could probably be an audio ADC.

Power on the output side is the big one for sure, however. Also I'm not sure the transducers cited are anywhere near big enough.
I love apocryphal tales like this.

There's a kernel of logic to the original assertion. It has a "gee whiz" irony, coded as a moral story: the biggest brains in the world forgot to get paid. Twitter's perceived revenue problems are juxtaposed with the obviousness of just taking the money they were owed, as if the answer to Twitter's Big Question were there the whole time. Finally, it explains a really major acquisition in Twitter history; it answers an outstanding question in everybody's minds. That little vignette has all the fixings for a great Silicon Valley tall tale.

The fact that it's totally false, by public refutation, seals the deal. I love it!
Agree it's a bad metaphor.

Essentially, it's the idea that when one is confronted with failure, one believes they can either 'improve' or rather, be 'resigned' to the fact they are not good at whatever it is.

I believe this perspective is valid, and that it exists, and that it's one of the fundamental elements of character that shapes our lives.

I was always good at math and music. I would never, ever detract from a math problem. I would attack it.

I was a poor athlete. (Bad cardio, always). I firmly and resolutely believe that I could not run a long distance. 5K would kill me. It was very painful. But I was out of shape and didn't realize what it meant to improve.

I joined officer corps in the Army and was eventually forced to go some pretty long distances, always extremely anxious and at the tail of the pack, but I got through and eventually did a marathon distance. I can assure you my mind was completely blown. It was though I had learned to fly. I firmly believed I could not do it, but I did ... so if I could do a marathon, what else could I do? I saw the relationship between training and outcomes, and realized that being 'out of shape' simply means you have to do some things to 'get into shape'. Obviously, it's not so easy to do, but the relationship is clear.

That, and some similar things, completely changed my life.

I believe many, many people are trapped in a limited view of themselves.

Conversely - the opposite exists - we sometimes believe we can 'do anything' if we just try enough, which is obviously not the case. I'm working with a startup non-technical CEO who believes they can bang together a solution with almost no resources, in almost no time, for something that is better than even Google' cutting edge solution. I appreciate the audacity ... but it's unrealistic.
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Here's a quick definition of the actual purpose of advertising: https://www.entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia/advertising

Based on the way you describe business and what you think is objectively the best way to purchase products, my hunch is that you have little experience working in a company or making products you need to sell to others.

I mean this in a most genuine way: if you have any aspiration of managing a company or even building your own, it will greatly help you to learn more about why marketing and advertising are important to business. You simply won't succeed without them.
That's the point -- one way to commit tax evasion is to get a little bit too creative with your tax avoidance.
Another alternative you might consider is an affiliate program, ads can and most likely will be blocked by an ad blocker and even if they're not you won't make that much anyway, but an affiliate banner you put on your site won't be blocked and might drive some revenue.
Yes, a split like this would be undesirable to say the least. Not to mention that systems people are used to near-total backwards compatibility; any sort of near-term timeframe for such a thing would destroy a lot of our credibility, in my personal opinion. I'm on team "never 2.0".

We still have some desire to indicate "epochs" of Rust development, as undoubtedly, things like idioms will change over time, new libraries will replace older ones, etc. But I'd prefer something like "modern C++", which could signify this kind of change, without giving up on backwards compatibility.
That's topologically equivalent to what OP did.
This is very incorrect in my opinion. It is every engineer's responsibility to figure out what the business needs. Perhaps an intern does not need to worry about that, but that's about it.
It is well in the commission's responsibilities to ensure countries don't help companies avoid taxes on other countries, that is a natural element of free trade deals.
Power isn't a problem, because at that frequency any kind of amplifier can be used. Overall IO speed usually is for the simple fact that very few chips are specifically designed for that kind of thing, but it isn't impossible. AM335, FPGA and many DSP chips will handle that level of processing for <$20. The Raspberry Pi can't be used, but you could use a Beaglebone black if you tried hard enough (although it is also a poor choice). Regardless direct sampling ADC at 80 MHz or less is far from an impossible task.

In the end I would say the writer is right and you are wrong. He is painting with an extremely broad brush but his guesses are dead on the money. You should look at the links he provides at the bottom, there are exceptionally good DIY and open source ultrasonic machines.

Making the transducer is very, very difficult but he doesn't pretend it isn't.
>Git does not do this. Because git does not have this concept of named branches.

It doesn't pre-bake the information in the commit, because it's entirely useless information to bake into a commit; and even in the case of Mercurial can paint the wrong picture about the nature of a commit given branches that it's on.

>This gives much more possible workflows in case of Mercurial.

That is the exact opposite of what it gives you. I'm not even sure how you possibly arrived at that conclusion.

>Mercurial contains vastly more querying capabilities in the form of revsets.

Git doesn't need a query language, because you can literally do everything revsets will give you with git log and then maybe some very elementary bash script knowledge. You are literally arguing that Mercurial having its own arbitrary DSL is somehow better than git being able to seamlessly use popular tooling with conventional command line syntax; which seems to be at odds with the whole "mercurial is easier to use." I take extreme issue with your claim that Mercurial has "vastly" more querying capabilities and then you not even give one measly example.
I would, however, pay premium for a power supply that doesn't fall apart like the Apple chargers do. (That being said, I consider the price Apple charges for their adapters premium as it is).
There's a big difference between "some adherents do this" and "the Church urges and encourages [shunning]". The exact opposite is the case. The Church heartily discourages shunning and teaches people that their good example and continued friendliness is even more important for people who've gone off the path than people who are still on it, children and relatives not excluded.

Children taking foray outside of the faith's bounds is by no means rare. It happens all the time in Utah. Many faithful adults in Utah were such teenagers/young adults themselves and understand that patience and kindness will win the day and help the child find the path back.

Check anti-Mormon forums and they can't stop whining that, far from being shunned, publicly embarrassed, or harmed, the Church continues to send welcoming representatives to ask if they'd like to come back. They also regularly complain that their own family members continue to invite them back. I'm sure that can get annoying after you've made your wishes clear, but it's basically the opposite of shunning.

In my large extended Mormon family (14 aunts and uncles, over 50 first cousins, hundreds of second cousins, etc), probably 65-70% of them no longer practice the faith. I don't know of a single individual who has been shunned. Everyone continues to be welcome to all family functions, everyone continues to discuss and share. The process of someone leaving the faith is not easy and may be painful for both sides, but cutting off communication/shunning people is heavily discouraged, and it doesn't happen often.

Some faiths do require or encourage shunning, including Jehovah's Witnesses, whom Mormons are often confused with because both use door-to-door missionaries, but Mormonism is not one of them. It's a very important distinction.

I lived in Utah for a long time and worked with many mixed Mormon/non-Mormon groups. Everyone seems to get along very well and respect each other despite differing beliefs (with only a few very rare exceptions).
In your example the answer seems clear to me, communicate that you have a deadline, but are willing to fix this if they are busy and ask them if they have any thoughts on how they would like the issue to be resolved.
It depends on the animal. The cats we had when I was growing up always had "unlimited" access to dry cat food and water, and it was only canned stuff we'd put out at specific meal times, and they never ate themselves fat.
We use LD, because (1) we don't have time to make a pretty UI with user management and audit logs, and (2) we like the reliability story of running all of the heavy lifting through fastly's CDN.

They are a little more pricey than we'd prefer, but we're happy.
This is like hijacking a Tesla thread to say it's distracting us from talking about "clean diesel" gas cars.

Natural gas is not a sustainable energy source. Fracking, which is what makes it cheaper, has tons of environmental problems. Sure, it's better than worse fuels, so go ahead and upgrade. But please don't hijack threads about a sustainable planet.
I think you do something like using a BeagleBone with its PRUs to handle moving all the data somewhere fast enough in combination with a cheap FPGA to drive the transducer(s) and do a little initial signal processibg to reduce the data rate a little.

This is a little more complex but the cost is going to be of the same order of magnitiude as a Pi
There are people who do it. The Church advises them not to.
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An RPi costs about $30. A cheap FPGA Dev board with enough I/O capability to drive a transducer array costs about $300, and requires someone familiar enough with Verilog/VHDL/etc to actually program the thing. I'd guess he's off overall by at least an order of magnitude in any of his cost estimates, even if all the labor is free.

I'm sure such a device can be made much more cheaply than existing solutions, but the author doesn't seem to have a realistic idea of the difficulty.
Under 35 casino-goer here. We go every couple months for the cheap booze, free non-alcoholic drinks, and live music. Our group all sits at one machine together and we take turns putting our $5 bills in. We just kinda drunkly chat while one person has a go at trying to win the cost of drinks back. It's pretty fun, cheaper than a bar and much more to do.
Cats have been known to modify their purring sounds, to include a sub-carrier that is remarkably similar to an infant crying. That in turn triggers an instinctive response in humans which cause them to subconsciously rise out of bed and apply food to the source of that sound. Source: a documentary on Netflix "The Lion in your Living room".
I'd pay a premium for a quality power supply that was lighter, smaller & cleaner. Bonus for a retractable cord.
> rendering them all invalid and illegal

The crucial word is "knowingly". You would have to demonstrate intent for all of the games with those cards to be under scrutiny.
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I just picked up an Amplifi HD router a few days ago. So far so good. Great speeds and really nice hardware.

The app and hardware touchscreen are really simple and usable. They're missing a few pro settings/configs though.