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I agree strongly with you

> prices are society's most effective way to communicate which contributions it considers value.

But its not perfect. Its vastly imperfect - for a variety of reasons involving joins/intersections of various systems.

For example - media will always move towards the grosteque or attention grabbing. The feedback loop between

AD -> Money-> Attention competition -> More Attention grabbing ads -> Repeat,

is near guaranteed to spontaneously create the echo chamber effect because of human neurology.

Other examples - the failure of environmental protection, which also involves the direct manipulation of the information by vested interest who spread and maintain FUD.

Not to mention the straight up impact of concentration of wealth, and the ability of a few to then signal value disalgined with the values for the majority.

I've also seen the various examples for other industries, and they too will fail because re-training itself is a torturous and difficult process- even when you have all the time and resources you need.

Tech is a good example because its one of the easier and better covered fields.
I'm curious, do you think you would you have the same reproachful attitude if the author had limited his text to describing his own experience rather than talking about what others should do?
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Well at least in the UK if you are a contractor I would say it's typical to take 500-600 pounds a day. Plus if you are self employed you can expense a lot of things that you can't as a regular employee - petrol, part of mortgage/rent, computer for work etc etc etc. Sure, you have to do your own taxes and pay your own national insurance, but overall you can be taking a lot more money home than an employee, so it's no surprise to me that people like being contractors and wouldn't convert to employees even if they were offered a permanent position.

edit: "typical" for a mid-to-senior level programmer contractor. A "contractor" doing QC in games will not take anywhere near as much.
Went to work in many different kinds of fear
> I've seen two catastrophic meltdowns just in my lifetime.

In that same time:

-- Chinese businesses improperly dumped into a of silicon tetrachloride (and other nasty pollutants) waste from photovoltaic production.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt-...

-- Multiple fly ash spills spread heavy metals (arsenic, chromium, mercury, etc) over large areas of land and into major rivers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...

-- An incredible amount of CO2 was released, leading to accelerating risk of catastrophic climate problems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085030

That's just a handful of problems I can find links for in a few minutes. The impact even from nuclear isn't anywhere close to the same scale of damage that other types of power already did to the environment.

> But a mistake doesn't cost one generation, it costs many.

Even if this was a concern - it's not - we're still talking about a temporary problem, that gets much smaller each half-life. The metals from fly ash are a permanent problem.
all features and edge cases should have a test. if possible also have tests for all the bugs ever found in the old system. it helps if the tests are not too coupled with the code and are well documented.
a test could be making an entry where deb and cred dont match. or trying to enter an extra decimal. and if the system adds two decimals corectly.
This would be the case in an efficient market, where the risk-adjusted economic profit of renting out homes is close to 0. This is not the case because San Francisco artificially restricts supply of housing. This causes rents to be determined solely by (small) supply and (large) demand. Increasing taxes would not decrease supply of housing or increase demand for it, so it would just serve to decrease the excess economic profits landlords are making.
However, they don't imagine that liberals, or a program set up by liberals, would help someone like them.

No wonder, when it's even OK for fox news to say that the left wants to "destroy everything" and "wish death on everybody".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MEmqqvH2Aw&ab_channel=yazak...

it's utterly terrifying that this seems to be totally OK to say on one of the most watched news networks of the U.S.
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Kinda. That page left out the part about macro cycling that leangains advocates for.
Americans distrust national ID. Several administrations have floated the idea and have quickly learned that fact. We do have a de facto national ID in drivers licenses. If we had a medicare for all health system we would than have a national ID and a lot of those problems would go away.
Thank you for your time writing comments. I will try joining in some company and expand my social background and grow with new skills.Probably a few years in working for some company I will try to open something on my own. Thank you again Brudgers.
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When debugging performance problems you always search for the biggest bottlenecks not the minor ones, so what are the biggest contributors to CO2?

I don't think the problem is the number of people living on earth but how modern society is making people live, for example some big contributors are high meat consumption (cattle methane) inefficient transportation (big suvs with just the driver inside sitting in traffic jams) consumerism that drive all those factories to produce mostly useless products that break easily to be soon replaced etc.

We need to change or habits not our numbers, this is the source of the problem.
That's true, but unlike atmospheric CO2, atmospheric methane is relatively short-lived. Not to diminish the effect of methane, which while short-lived, is a very potent greenhouse gas. And not to diminish the various feedback effects in the global circulation system that are likely to create a self-sustaining pattern that will long outlast the originating atmospheric gases.
DuckDuckGo isn't that great, but the !bang options make it easy to diversify, and branch searches to multiple targets, to compare outcomes.

Two things become obvious at that point, and the main one is that other search engines don't just customize search results to individuals, they actually spend costly human resources currating and QA'ing results. DuckDuckGo's search results kind of suck, and the reason they're not as good is because the results are not groomed to the same degree, by as many eyes, nor to the same level of quality.

The other obvious thing quickly noticed is that DuckDuckGo's !bang operators are so, so, so much more handy than some of the other horrendously mangled, inscrutable query strings you wind up landing on, that would require 5 or 10 clicks, navigating the intended user interfaces of the parent sites that actually host the results.

Compare using !googleimages on DuckDuckGo, to what actually happens when you click and type for results at https://images.google.com?

It's kind of silly that you can't just pass a query string to Google, and that DuckDuckGo does their query strings better than Google does for it's own product.
Strongly agree based on my work in the financial sector since 2009. Everything's driven by regulatory compliance now. To the point where RegTech is a thing.
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« That age – which includes such historically important figures as Arrow’s fellow Nobel laureates Paul Samuelson and Gary Becker – represented a development and expansion of formal economic theory that brought unprecedented precision to the logical foundations of social science. »

And here we are, picking the fruits of this golden age of unprecedented precision. With a mountain of record low-yielding debt serving as the backbone for a mountain range of derivatives and synthetic products. With low savings and with record public participation in investments. Because the infomercials say the risk^D^D^D^Dvolatility is controlled by science and computers n shit.
No, it's not standard. I doubt that it is in Counterexamples in Analysis, one of my favorite books.

No, don't need a non-empty interior for the closed set. The closed set can even be empty. The function is to be zero on the closed set and positive otherwise. For a single point could use just the squared distance to the point, i.e., a parabola.

For a closed set like the Mandelbrot set and for the general case, have to try harder.

For a fast version of the proof, outside the closed set is an open set. If it is empty, then just let the function f = 0.
Else in that open set, pick a countable dense set. Roughly for each point in that countable dense set, solve the problem for that set, and then add all the countably many partial solutions in a convergent way.

A key is a Baby Rudin exercise of a function g: R --> R where

g(x) = 0 for x <= 0

g(x) > 0 for x > 0

and g is infinitely differentiable.
Sure, g is based on an exponential.

Then for f: R^2, at each of the
countably many points, spin g
to make a smooth hill where the
bottom of the hill just touches the
closed set C. The spin, being
intuitive here, also works for f: R^n.
Sure, for each of the countably infinitely many points, the spin, in g(z), z is the
distance to the to the point. I'm being
intuitive and sloppy here to be brief and easier to understand.

Then in R^2, at the origin,
for each positive rational of the
form p/q in lowest terms,
have a ray from the origin
at angle p radians and
length 1/q. That's a bizarre
closed set. Then at
the origin, the Zangwill and
KTCQ don't agree, are independent.
Here, again, I'm being
brief.
It's a mixed bag. Many very talented engineers become contractors because they get sick of low pay, company politics, and the fact they get treated like a cog. So instead they embrace the cog concept and get paid well at the same time. These contractors will tend to care and do a really great job. On the other hand, you have the scabs that become contractors soley because it pays well - and also because generally it's easier to get hired as a contractor (less strict hiring process since it is a fixed contract length). That kind of person gives contractors a bad name. I've seen some of the worst and some of the best developers as contractors.

This is even more pronounced in the UK where permanent employee pay is very low, compared to contractor pay. Generally the best engineers all end up becoming either contractors or go into finance where they can get paid well. And unfortunately the engineers who could never get employed as a perm employee also become contractors.
I haven't worked with Drupal in a very long time, but I think one thing that may be missed in this article is that many companies that may have installed drupal in the past can now be served by the likes of Wix, SquareSpace, Shopify, etc.

Wordpress has been able to hang-on to the lead position in the CMS space. Being 2nd in this market is a very difficult proposition.
No. China's one child policy only slowed growth.[0] Even if you halved the population immediately the co2 levels in the atmosphere would continue to increase despite outputting less.

[0] -https://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/2015/oct/29/impac...
In 1950 global population was 2.5 billion people, now 7.5. That's 3x in 67 years. Technological advances can help us increase the amount of people we can sustain, but eventually there is going to be a limit.

The limit will not only be because of CO2. There are other situations that need to be managed.

Population is increasing, and the lifestyle of individuals is rising, making each person have a larger cost on the environment.

Topsoil, the soil we grow our food in, takes long to regenerate and we are depleting it faster than it regenerates.

Overfishing cannot be stopped. Fish will be gone soon, and we largely depend on it. Fish as food, fishmeal for animals and fish oil as fertilizer (fish emulsion).
This Tesla press release at the time of the Powerwall 2 says quite clearly that 300 MWh of the first version had been deployed, or 46,000 units of the first Powerwall.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/gaining-momentum-tesla-powerpack

Are you accusing the company of lying? Do you have any source to your accusations here? Kind of seems like you're making some claims to fit your pre-existing agenda without researching it at all.
This is interesting so I dug a bit. Here is the amendment: https://www.congress.gov/amendment/109th-congress/senate-ame...

The amendment prohibited "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment" for anyone in custody of the US government, including those physically outside of the US. Notably it was introduced by John McCain.
Population control would have to begin with the US, which on a per-capita basis has more than double the emission than any other nation or region (China, European union, etc). More than 8 times the rate of populous nations like India and Indonesia.

How likely is that to happen, especially in Trump's America?

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
it the cost becomes too high or rather if there are uncertainties they will just replace them.
> Breathing out CO2 adds zero net CO2 to the atmosphere, because it comes from food you ate, which itself came from CO2 in the atmosphere.

For most of us that food probably took a considerable amount of fossils food to grow, package and transport.
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500-600 is a typical London rate. Outside London 300-400 is more likely.
Lobbyists?

We've spent over $100+ billion on corn subsidies since 1995, too.

Distortions.
"That's ridiculous. California is at-will through and through."

Errr, actually, california has a lot of exceptions to at-will.
Here's a random article analyzing it. Note the conclusion:
http://www.hullmcguire.com/pdf/Hull%20McGuire%20-%20Californ...

It's pretty common. I believe there is even case law saying that once you've been at a place for some significant amount of time, you have the right to expect to only be terminated for cause.
Why your mobile app development business should worry about enterprise mobility?
> What if we propose the existence an "imaginary" algorithm (call it omega, if you like) that can decide the halting problem?

This is called an oracle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine). We can posit oracles for solving computable problems in constant time (e.g. factoring the product of two arbitrarily large primes) as well as for solving uncomputable problems (e.g. halting problems).

Oracles are a great tool for studying complexity and computability, since oracle machines have their own complexity and computability limits; an oracle machine for the halting problem can determine whether a simple Turing machine will halt, but cannot determine whether it itself will halt (this is called a Turing jump). Thus oracle machines for halting problems form a class hierarchy, which Post's theorem shows is precisely the arithmetic hierarchy.
But... but... I need the internet for online gaming and aimless browsing!

It's true. This stuff is addictive, and I've known that for over two decades now. And I've been addicted ever since my older brother told me about the Internet when he went to university. I don't fool myself that I can stop anytime; I clearly can't. I don't want to. But it's true that it's sucking up way too much time.

I don't read books anymore because I read HN and Google+. I have trouble of focusing on boring administrative chores because there's always this info-driven dopamine boost within reach.
> Actually, you never heard of any significant deliveries.

> There is only marketing of single prototype large scale installations.

Really? Whoops:

November 2016: "Last month, Tesla confirmed that it delivered 300 MWh of batteries since launching Tesla Energy in May 2015. In the past 2 months alone, over 100 MWh of new Powerpack projects have been announced."

And

"Only a few weeks after announcing one of the biggest energy storage projects ever, Tesla Energy won again a massive energy storage contract. The automaker’s energy division will supply ‘Powerpacks’ to its energy storage deployment partner, Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS), for a major new project: a 7 MW / 34 MWh network of battery systems to support water treatment facilities of Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD)."

https://electrek.co/2016/09/26/tesla-and-ams-win-another-maj...

And

"Tesla’s battery supply contract with Advanced Microgrid Solutions (AMS) is quickly proving to be accelerating the deployment of energy storage capacity. After announcing a major 34 MWh contract to deploy Powerpacks at water treatment facilities in California last month, AMS confirmed today that it will install new Powerpacks at buildings owned by Invesco."

https://electrek.co/2016/11/02/new-tesla-powerpack-2-project...

And of course the Edison deal

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tesla-energy-storage-2...

And of course the Australia deal that is likely to happen

And

"Previous projects include a 12 MWh with Cal State University, another one for several office buildings in Irvine, and more recently, a 1 MW Powerpack system inside Morgan Stanley’s San Francisco skyscraper."

It's pretty obvious they're scaling the business extremely quickly compared to the history of how extraordinarily slow energy storage technology has moved.
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They seem to be trying to prevent the inevitable. I wonder how much it would cost to raise the city by a floor or two and embrace their future island?
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Can you elaborate on the legal details of that 1930s case in The Netherlands please and how electricity being massless would change it.
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> "Stuff like this happens all the time"

It just blows my mind that someone can create a successful space program from scratch and still people think "but he'll probably get tripped up by this tiny thing that even I noticed! Just waiting for company to go belly up."
Agreed, we should tackle the biggest sources first. And meat production in particular is one of the biggest contributors. Scale back the subsidies for these types of farms and replace them instead with taxes. Consumers will change their habits once they are faced with the "real" cost of meat.
well hn is a pretty good scale indicator.

best thing to make a performance test is getting the hn crowd on your site ;)
"pre production test"
> There's something truly unique about alcohol that isn't true of any other addictive substance on the planet.

Except nicotine, sugar, caffeine, etc.

Honestly I'd say your argument is a much better fit for sugar.

I'm saying this as someone who went off it for a few years, and now back on it, trying to quit.

Tremendously addictive, and it's EVERYWHERE.

Birthday? Cake. Meeting up with friends? Drinks. Easter? Candy. Date? Chocolate. Did something good? Reward with cookies.

I sound like I'm on some bandwagon, but I'm not trying to argue that honey or agave or anything else is better, but there's very little sugar naturally in any real food, and we can't escape it.

Alcohol is at most gatherings, but it really isn't nearly as pervasive.
I should explain that to my boss, we're literally doing waterfall but with standup meetings...
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Wait, did you actually research this before making a comment? What were you thinking ?!
I recently read Dan Brown's Inferno - not a great reference work by any stretch, but some compelling arguments are made along the lines you suggest.

I suspect there is a lot more to it than just limiting the numbers of babies born. If there are more resources per person (a consequence of fewer people) then we will likely see the resources used per person go up.

Anecdotally - American cars are terribly inefficient with respect to fuel consumption. This is I think partly due to the low cost of fuel. In the UK, however, the cost of fuel per litre is almost double that of the US, and consequently people gravitate toward much more efficient vehicles.

Additionally - China has been a huge polluter for quite some time despite one child policies though admittedly it's partly because the global economy outsourced their pollution to China to a degree.
The 8-drive version is built around an Ablecom CS-T80 case.

The 4-drive version is a SuperMicro 721TQ-250B system.
Imo Googles new material design is not impressive. It does however help developers who are not good designers build a cookie cutter app.
I was about to comment the same... "Host your own content!" keels over with HN weight
Depends. How much would they be paying employees if they weren't able to use these outsourcing companies?
Why is it a borderline scam business?
So what percentage of "renewables" does hydroelectricity account for? And why does Wikipedia's discussion of energy subsidies counter your claim, with hydroelectric alone receiving more than nuclear? By the way, renewables is in quotes as you could consider some forms of nuclear power renewable, yet you clearly don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#United_States
Cool that its free - I'm not aware of other js packet that does this and makes your day. Thanks!
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Depending on what magnitude of "after" you mean, of course.
> "So Agile is dead."

What? Just because the way the author is doing agile doesn't allow code reviews, it is not dead. If you want code reviews, you could even do them constantly: pair programming
And it makes much of the internet look like it belongs to Google.
Adding more RAM to a server won't fix a memory leak.
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The article is all right. I would have liked to see somewhere a mention of the fact that the transform being described moves between the time and frequency domains, and that the relationship is reciprocal.
The 'host your own content' argument is a good one, but also a tired one. It depends what you're trying to achieve! Medium is a great way to grow your audience, particularly if you're looking for reach but aren't looking to make direct money off your writing, for example. If you're going to argue that others are making money off your writing while you could, I'd argue that it's hard to make any money just from blogging now, and few do it correctly. If making money is why you blog, that's pretty difficult these days.

My advice to most these days is still to host your own blog, but if anything to avoid the commoditisation of your words. Medium is great, but it treats your writing like everything else, and can't really leave a lasting impression of you or your brand/personal brand. I think there's value in posting there, but posting on your own platform first, then re-sharing to Medium later. Content is a weird world right now, and blogging has become something of a pain in the ass for most people to self-host, and generally the experience ends up being sub-optimal (kind of like reading this post that's linked) because the person setting it up doesn't know design/typography/whatever.

I think better advice is simply this: who cares where you write, as long as you do it and don't let the platform stop you.
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I'd argue stand up meetings are the opposite of agile, the insistence on them is literally breaking the first rule of the agile manifesto:

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Probably breaking the fourth too:

> Responding to change over following a plan

How many companies have done a retrospective on whether the daily recitation of Kanban board movements​ is providing any value?
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_current#Drift_speed

I think a decent analogy is a pneumatic air power distribution system. Air particles move randomly in the pipe, but if the air is flowing, they tend to pass through the customer in a given direction and get work done. Alternating current is akin to switching the direction of air pressure twice a day, from (say) 1.5 atm to 0.5 atm.