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Appeal to authority is not a logical fallacy. It's a valid argument unless said authority is false in some way.
My requirements (for server side daemons) are approximately: start a daemon as a child, and monitor it; if it dies, restart it. Ideally, give me a command-line interface to the managing daemon to gracefully start/stop the child. nohup doesn't do this, making it simply not the right tool for the job. I've never used runit, but it looks closer.
After the recent reveals about the Greyball tool, such conjectures seem reasonable.
In my opinion, Google stopped being a "search engine" roughly 10 years ago. These days I'd call it a "recommendation engine" and it seems to primarily work by giving you results that people similar to your profile (according to the tracking surveillance data they have) have clicked with keywords similar to your query.

Not that I necessarily blame them, all the SEO and blogspam crap made searching the web with something similar to pagerank and impossibility a long time ago. I think the eulogy was served by the "miserable failure" thing when GWB was elected (it was called a "Google bomb" in the media). That and all the low-effort wikipedia copies with their advertising made it impossible.

That said, I regularly do feel creeped out by the "search results" and the advertising they present to me. Sometimes the results are pretty useless too, I was once presented with a page of results where the 7 of the top-10 were written by myself (HN comments, etc) when I was searching for the docs of an obscure GCC feature I've discussed in the web often.

I don't know if there's anything that can be done to "fix" this. I generally try to navigate directly to an url I know or e.g. do a search on Wikipedia (Firefox + Vimperator make using many search engines on the address bar easy, unlike Google Chrome where the address bar UX seems to be designed to maximize Google searches and advertising).

With the gradually worsening signal-to-noise ratio, the web is getting less and less useful to me every day.
> The “Hack” and “Move fast and break things” culture must make it very hard for developers to focus on quality.

Well, yeah, that's what the "break things" part means. The problem is when people/companies try to have it both ways. "Move fast and have high quality" isn't possible.
That's generally how I feel about it myself, I just hit 30 and I'm done with the "work hard play hard" mentality a lot of startups run with.

I want to do great, efficient work, and leave at 5pm every day to spend time with my family.

I don't give a shit if your office has free snacks, beer, and ping pong, I'm an adult. Life isn't work.
That may be true. But in the end, does it matter?

Until we see someone taking market share away, I'd argue it doesn't. Facebook still retains top tier people regardless of any perceived quality problems.

Sorry you left. I just started here, and I do agree that what I feel about code quality isn't generally shared here. But as I get older, I start realizing that in the end, as long as things work relatively well at our scale and in our problem domain (we're not medical device software, we can fail) alls well.
Well, the author tried to account for that by saying that normal flagged posts don't go down near as fast.

If what is being said in other threads is true, high karma accounts clicking flag could push a post off the front page without showing the "flagged" tag, then that could be an explanation instead. Which would then mean that maybe these high karma users have too much power.
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Why not just post the blog article directly and add a comment?
The IEEE attempted to fix this by writing the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) and building a certification program around it. But that effort seems to be mostly dead: the guide hasn't been updated since 2004 and few people have taken the certification exam.

https://www.computer.org/web/swebok
That might have been m0nty's exact point
My 1k account got banned before this account was created. I don't mention its name because I don't know if the moderators would ban me.
The IRS seems to account for that with "unless in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner."

I wonder what happens if you steal something, keep it until the next year, and then return it? Do you declare it as income in the year you steal it, and a loss in the year you return it?

(Probably not. I'm too lazy to look it up, but I recall another document that explains that, while income from illegal activities is taxable, expenses for illegal activities are not deductible.)
I don't want to go here, because it's the thin edge of a tbh racist wedge. In Sweden there is practically zero unemployment for 'ethnic swedes'. So the debate here is now on integrating new arrivals in the workplace. The notion that somebody would say 'hey, but we have full employment for ethnic swedes, screw the others' is inconceivable. For the reason that we live in the same society. We share the same public transport and public spaces. If they are worse off, i will eventually be worse off (through them destroying our shared space). Having buy-in from everyone in society is crucial. That is why benefits are not means tested here. Yes, socialists want benefits for everyone, not just the poor. Because, when the rich stop receiving child benefit or university grants, they actively undermine the system. Naturally, our right wing parties want to means-test benefits. It's the opposite of anglo-saxon economies (disclosure- i'm from one, hence i notice these differences more than your average swede).
What vidarh said. Country A can use country B's currency without any consent; lots of countries do this. Some of the more volatile countries use dollars unofficially as "hard" currency for big purchases.

I'd expect Scotland to parallel Ireland's history of using the pound and pound-equivalent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_pound

See also https://qz.com/260980/meet-the-countries-that-dont-use-their...
> Spain and others (Belgium) will not allow Scotland to join the EU

It's very likely that Scotland won't remain a EU member (as a successor of a EU member), but no government has said they would veto Scotland's application. The media mentions about this topic are vaguely-worded, to make it sound like it's about Scotland ever becoming an EU member (which it's extremely likely to achieve) versus avoiding having to apply (which is probably not going to happen).
The statistics in similar free market countries (labor, not health care) are curious. Interested in any links you have, but this NYT blog post [1] seems to show that, GDP-per-capita normalized (which seems reasonable; second chart), there isn't that large of a divergence between what I would assume would be comparable nations.

Nurses make 0.9-1.4x, GPs 1.7-4.1x, and specialists 1.7-7.6x GDPpc.

Certainly a range, but nothing jumps out at me as "the US is an order of magnitude outlier."

I'd be fascinated to make a further breakdown of these numbers in terms of style of country's health care system, to see what correlations drop out though...

[1] https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/how-much-do-do...
I'm extremely excited for it. There's a huge amount of division in UK politics, and in Scottish politics.

I suspect that there will be the arguments about currency and EU membership which the UK government will lobby to make life difficult for Scotland, but as the pound is doing poorly and we're leaving the EU anyway, there isn't much to lose.
Well, they started them, by not wanting to play ball.

And since I expect someone to post Jonathan Schwartz public comment commending them, here goes what Gosling had to say about it.

"We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun."

https://www.wired.com/2012/04/gosling-slime/

Companies like IBM, Atego, Aicas, MicroEJ, Excelsior, ARM among many others, never had known issues dealing with either Sun or Oracle licenses, while providing their own Java compilation chains and hardware specific APIs.
" If we are to learn the lessons of the Brexit referendum, you need consensus to enact any major change to people's citizenship rights. Consensus there is not."

UK citizens were never given a vote on their 'citizenship' rights in the EU.

UK citizens only voted to join the EEC - not the EU. They voted to join what was essentially a 'trade block'. Not a supra-federal state. (UK citizens were not given a vote on the treaty of Rome.)

The French voted against the treaty of Rome - and guess what? Their Parliament enacted it! How's that for consensus?

Same thing in the Netherlands.

In Ireland, they were forced to 'keep voting until it passed'.

Most other countries did not get a referendum on joining the EU.

There was never any 'popular consensus' on the EU as we know it - it likely may never have existed if it were put to referendum.

I would argue that a 'strong consensus' would be needed to have Scottish, Catalonian or Quebec separation - those are parts of nations.

The EU is not quite the same thing.
>Amazon - I have a Prime membership, but I'm only a sporadic online shopper. That said, the Amazon shopping experience has provided me with a lot of value. No real alternatives here.

As you say you are "sporadic online shopper" in what sense are there no "real alternatives" there? You can get all the things you can find on Amazon on tons of different e-shops...
What hardware manufacturers do you buy from that don't have child labour in the supply chain?

I fear you may just be fooling yourself.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/25/smartp...

>As Nokia, which seems to have done more than any other such firm to investigate its own supply chain, told me, "there has been no credible system in the electronics industry that allows a company to determine the source of their material".
> racist SNP

Unsubstantiated smear.
Hello, please remain respectful. It's fine to disagree with the the SNP's policies, but calling them 'racist' is clearly outside the bounds of reason.

To answer your specific point, my understanding is that general noise from Spain is that a Scottish application for EU membership would not be vetoed.
> Let companies decide what workers they want.

The ones who cost the least, probably.
> your ability to keep up with the latest and greatest of everything

This hypothetical person spending 16 hours a day doesn't have to spend it on latest and greatest, which you and many other comments seem to assume.
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What tends to be the case is irrelevant. The contents of what is being said is all that matters.
"Facebook was for several first years just a set of PHP crud pages and heaps of servers to run them well."

Personally, I think we've all got a piece of the elephant here. It is true that there are no known methodologies that could build Facebook at the speed it has been built without producing a globally-incoherent design. Anything that could produce a globally-coherent design would have slowed them down so much that they wouldn't have been such big winners in the first place. (So "globally incoherent" isn't much of a criticism here, really.)

On the other hand, there are options other than "a big set of PHP CRUD pages and heaps of servers" available to us now, too, and I expect those options to continue to advance in usability. Even the various projects that improve on PHP would bring more benefit if you could use them from day one instead of a retrofit.
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This is not entirely true. The Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium and France for example fare just fine with the Euro.

The problems you mentioned (and some non-Euro countries being better off) are caused by structural problems in those countries, which are only tangentially related to the common currency. From an economic point of view those countries probably shouldn't have adopted the Euro so quickly in the first place but were allowed to do so nonetheless for political reasons.
I imagine Spain will do as directed by the EC given that the Catalonia argument isn't analagous to Scotland.

I'd strongly disagree with your comment about the SNP being racist but obviously it's a sensitive subject. I view it as being about getting the right deal for Scotland.
It's not about hidden state; that's just bad OOP. You shouldn't be looking at the internals, that's the point. It's about modular encapsulation and reusable components.

> a single isolated function and the functions tend to be on the short side

I can almost guarantee that code was not written by an inexperienced or low skill coder.

If it was, you'd have a large complex function that took large complex state as its input, and probably maintained some kind of hidden internal state in some kind of async deferred loop after it returned or some combination of the above.

Have you worked with inexperienced FP programmers?

It's not fun.

Inexperienced OOP is a lot easier to deal with, because the entity level API validation is all you care about; you don't care about how hideously the internals were implemented as long as the tests pass. There can be any number of bugs and spaghetti inside the object, but you don't care, because you don't see it (until it manifests as bugs; but then you just add more tests and make them go away until all the tests pass).

I think there's a pragmatic aspect to OOP that involves large scale organizations collaborating on projects that you're not taking into account.

You could argue that a test suite for FP does the same job, and maybe it does... but the point here is that someone has to define the module level interface, and how it behaves as a state machine (regardless of if the state comes in 'pure' and is passed around or is encapsulated internally); and that's OOP, not an inheritance hierarchy.
Did that experiment have a control group? It could just have been seasonal. Flu season in the US (Oct-March) coincides with holiday season (Halloween, thanksgiving, Christmas, new years, Valentine's day, st Patrick's day) so the urge to socialize might be due to the holidays, compared to April-september which just has 3 one day holidays.
Shareholders, who are for the most part not workers.

If living costs raise and the quality of available jobs worsens (e.g. less job security) but your wage stays the same that's objectively a loss.
Why do you think that the ONLY way to spend extra time on is on that new thing from HN 2 AM?

I'm not following this huge leap that you and other commenters are making.

How about choosing between the people who have twice as much experience with managing this Oracle cluster you have. Do you want the one with 10 years experience, or the one with 20 years and is credited in Oracle documentation?

(all else being equal)
Is SNP racist? I honestly don't know. But it seems staying in Europe would suggest a pro-imigrant stance.
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There are serious disadvantages to using someone elses currency though.

The scottish government would likley be forced to strongly discourage the use of the UK pound to maintain fiscal control.
The political ramifications are identical - it's not a technical issue.

Spain is desperately afraid of Catalonia departing - and the nuance of 'we left the EU before we joined' won't matter to the voters. Scottish separation and ascension to the EU would carve a crystal clear path for Catalonian separatists, and give massive wind to their sales.

To the above commenters point - no gov will likely ever come out and say it, but there's no reason for Spain to support Scottish ascension, and every reason to be against it.
For some values of "intelligent".

"Capable" would possibly be a better term.
Spain is less of an argument now as Catalonia have always been a region of Spain whereas Scotland is its own nation which joined the UK through the Act of Union. It's a different legal precedent.

Also, I imagine that Spain will do what they're encouraged to do by thE EC considering the budgetary reliance.
I have show dead on since a long time. The things i mentioned have no UI to note them. Show dead only makes, well, "dead" posts render their text.
I would dial this back a bit. Worst case scenario, the commenter you are responding to is committing confirmation bias by making negative assumptions to match their existing negatives beliefs. Confirmation bias is easy to slip into even if you know it exists, and this angry response isn't useful.

Best case scenario (which I think is more likely), they are simply interpreting this story in context. Uber has several ethics scandals under their belt including ones involving them gathering and analyzing data for unethical purposes (guessing which of their customers have had one night stands).
It seems to me that the stories (all headlines read as controversial, as do the texts that I dug into) are removed due to flagging by users.

It would seem to me that if you're looking to grind your political axe, this is not the best place to do so.
Definitely true! You also have the luxury of tweaking every line of code for a small system to get it perfect.

It's also the reason for trying to break down larger systems into smaller, elegant components.
(Note that this isn't just an SNP move – it's the policy of the Scottish Greens as well as other civic groups)

The outcome of the vote could fall either way, but it's certainly not a bluff. Current support for independence is Scotland is around 45-50%; there was a clear indication in the current government's manifesto that a referendum would be held if the UK exited the EU.
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The author should take her own advice : "7. Make it short and simple".
> everyone starts on even ground

No everyone doesn't. Some people are born sick, some have better cardio, some take more weight easily, some people are born twice as big, some grow very little...

And it's the same with mind abilities. Your mind have various qualities, and you are not born equals to others. Some can concentrate better, some can abstract less, some more creative, some are shy.

Add all the differences, and yes, you have people that will have an easier time than others. Bolt and Tyson have been trained, but they started with a nice base to work on.
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Re: Gene Drive

The emergence of gene drive resistance in modified mosquitoes might help relieve some of the fear expressed in this thread: http://www.nature.com/news/gene-drives-thwarted-by-emergence...
I'm pretty happy with the way HackerNews handles posts and can only recommend to them to aggressively moderate in the future, too.

There are way to many toxic users, trolls, shills, astro-turfers, voting rings, paid advertising, political organisations, disinformation campaigns, and other 'special interest' parties on the Net to be able to do without strong moderation.
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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

I used to hear this a lot from one of my better bosses. I agree with it. It is, however, important to capture "planning". Any form is fine, whether scribbles or a list or a picture of a whiteboard. Trying to organize the raw info was usually a waste of time, but having it accessible as a reference wasn't.
Google gives "control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly or unscrupulously."

I'd say keeping your workers confused about their rights was a form of unscrupulous control. Hurts the bottom line when employees want things they are entitled to by law.
So they reject any outside observations, because they're precious snowflakes with unique problems that no outsider understands ?
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That is very cool! I'll mention it at the end of the series. Might come back to doing something with Apps Script some day!
This one? https://www.psiram.com/en/index.php/Joseph_Mercola

Watch out! Looks like a scam artist that sells voodoo.
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I worked quite a few retail jobs in college and the only ones who did not have mandatory training on the horrors of unions were the ones that were already unionized.

Walmart goes so far to avoid any talk of unions that the one time employees unionized, they shut down that entire department for good, across every store.
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> The easy trump card to play is the fact that Spain and others (Belgium) will not allow Scotland to join the EU, even if they do - it will take years.

That argument played a lot better before the Brexit vote. The choice is now between "definitely out of Europe, possibly on bad terms" versus "hopefully rejoining Europe, possibly with interim deal".

Personally I expect Spain to accept an independent Scotland as leverage against Brexit Britain - note that this way Spain would retain the right to fish in Scottish waters. But all of these are "forward-looking statements".

Also the BBC asked a Spanish EPP representative directly if they would veto and he said no: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-3923...

> UK faring economically well since Brexit

If a Labour government had lost 20% of the value of the £ along with threatening to expel financial services from London the news coverage would be rather different. I don't think it has all been priced in yet, because we don't know exactly how bad it's going to be.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/14/ftse-100-falt...

(Also, note that polls are from before campaigning starts! I'd expect campaigning to move the needle somewhat, otherwise what's the point?)
The rules here do seem to be petty and arbitrary, modding people down and banning accounts because the management object to the opinions expressed therein.
It's sad but true. Everyone here likes to think they're an open minded intellectual, but when you see completely reasonable comments get downvoted for not fitting the narrative, it's hard to believe that.
Has anyone been able to sync large folders with syncthing? Last time I tried when syncing 500GB you'd end up using >500MB of memory which made it unusable for home NAS setups. Hopefully it has since improved?
I am glad you liked it! I also really enjoy watching people build things, and I am always more interested in the journey than the result.
That was in the context of the 2014 Indyref, with the main point of contention being whether independent Scotland would remain in the EU or be forced to re-apply for membership (and potentially be blocked by Spanish veto).

The context now is that independent Scotland would have to apply, as it will be a successor state of a non-EU member. I think Spain et al. are fine with this since the precedence it sets will be hard for Basque nationalists to follow.
It matters because profits are lower. 400 devs on an iOS app is not free.