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Hey, the big reason to oppose segwit is mostly as a negotiation tactic.

Many of the bitcoin developers , small blockers, and the blockstream people really, REALLY want segwit to activate.

They are so desperate to have it, that although they may not explicitly agree to a "compromise" 2MB HF + segwit proposal, they might at the very least not go freaking nuclear or something in their attempts to oppose it.

Segwit is nice, sure. But us big blockers know that if it gets activated now, then we are never going to see big blocks, regardless of how much support we get.

Don't believe me? Just check out some of the stuff that lukejr (the lead bitcoin developer) says.

They explicitly say that it could be decades before any more block size increases come around.
> Graffiti is dying because of decades of insane, albeit selective, enforcement. It just isn't worth the risks

From the perspective of the policy makers it's probably considered a success to set penalties that manage to effectively deter a crime? Though the penalties (especially jail time) seem pretty over the top.
Liability laws are in dire need in the software industry. Security for instance would not be such an abysmal disaster if companies were held liable for the insecure garbage they are pumping out.
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Not really, because of high internal industry standards. The FDA guideline is a federal minimum baseline for quality to establish fitness against varying state standards during interstate commerce.

It's partly to deter and punish dealing in adulterated bulk or raw domestic products, partly for consumer protection, and partly a way to protect everyone along the supply chain where state laws might fail.
Given that she's featured on the cover, providing only her first name isn't in any way ambiguous.

http://www.vogue.com/slideshow/selena-gomez-april-vogue-cove...
Serious question. What are you auditing? You have access to all of your code and data and everything else seems like it would be up to your provider.

Wouldn't you know up front when you're choosing a stack whether they meet your compliance demands?
As far as I know, one of the reasons why dropping the load is considered dangerous is that the line that was holding the load will be suddenly released from high tension, so it will go flying at fast enough speed to injure someone.
I've witnessed a similar journey, having worked on an application 15 years ago that (for various reasons that made sense at the time) used RMI calls between a bunch of presentation logic and a service layer.

It was refactored into a J2EE application after 7 years, and is now being refactored into a group of microservices, which causes a number of the longer-lived devs in the team to suggest everything old is new again.
Whoa. At 2:59 on [2] (https://youtu.be/FtDWYzwwuUs?t=179), it looks like that camera is 100,000 won? Thats $111 according to google.

Any idea what's up with that? Am I interpreting the price wrong?
Such a mechanism might also endanger the helicopter: releasing a line under high tension will cause both ends of the release mechanism to rapidly accelerate away from the connection point.
I agree, which is why I have been trying to read up on the constitutional issues surrounding the new deal programs. There is plenty of opportunity to tighten up the MIICC budget and use lots of it benefit real people in the short term and all people in the long term.

I grew up with a national forest as my back yard, so I understand the value of such projects first-hand.
Don't feed the trolls, man
I have an old web site hosted by my university that has several math equations on it using MathJax. Unfortunately, since graduating, I no longer have access to it, but my professor still hosts all of past students' content for us.

I'm just glad that I had the foresight to have hosted my own copy of that library.
The view is: better to lose a good candidate than to hire a bad one.
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> Note that string delimiters in Dern are [ and ] and not "; this way dern code can be written inside C-programs without escaping.

Interesting approach. I suppose this makes whitespace inside square brackets significant. And quotes inside of these brackets would have to be escaped if written inside C-programs.
> What job were you able to use a pi3 to prepare for?

Yeah, I'd like to know as well
"farmers could damage the machines, like bypassing pollution emissions controls to get more horsepower."

Isn't this the problem with warranties? People could try to mod it, end up damaging it and try to get it replaced with warranties.

I also don't fully understand this software. Is it just completely vendor locked? That sounds really unreasonable. It should allow for at least basic debugging and trouble shooting.

Is this software locking only in large $100k + harvester type equipment? Does the vendor have other reasonable explanation of doing this?

I wonder if the software designer for this equipments would have reasonable arguments for such locks or if this is just profit driven decision.
Anecdotally, It does seem like graffiti art is all but gone, at least in New York City. I wouldn't blame Instagram though. The real estate industry has pretty much scrubbed the place clean and defacement of their overpriced yuppie enclaves is a big no-no, even in the eyes of millennials. And with places like 5 Pointz gone, there is really no inspiration. Will something like graffiti you need volume to produce quality.

There also seems to be a priority and focus on monetization from any of these successful alternative artists. Spraying buildings doesn't produce money. Designing your own limited edition Nike's does.
The trouble with that is it probably makes false positives more likely to slip through because they have to interview more people to fill a position...
> Why can't a company take the initiative and grab all the customers who value this?

You make it sounds so easy to start a tractor company.
I worked in the IT arm of a household name US non-IT company (just to provide basic context). Eventually we determined that interviewing just wasn't that helpful. We started telling the recruiting company, "Send me the best you've got that's available by Tuesday." Now certainly the recruiter is going to do some selection biasing there, but we found we had just as much success as our previous interviewing process that had a phone interview, face to face interview, and a test.
> What people are pushing back against is criticism without solutions.

Which is bullshit. It's perfectly reasonable to criticise something without proposing an alternative. It's especially ridiculous to reject criticism provided without alternatives, when it's literally your job to do the work being criticised.

"Hey the way you're doing this part of your job produces results no better than random selection."

"Bring me solutions, not problems!"
2nd Ottawa themed comment of the day for me.

There is a fair amount of model based design in defence and aerospace, where the systems in question can be years away from being ready and finding bugs when the systems are ready is hugely expensive. This starts to get into Systems Engineering territory (the INCOSE kind not the MCSE kind).

When one gets into Systems of Systems territory, just looking at code isn't an option, and understanding the interactions between systems at a system level can be worth the up front cost of creating the models.

Having models drive code generation (say Simulink generating FPGA code) can also allow for simulation and testing to be done on the model and then the exact same tests be done on target with very little rework.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/hdl-coder.html
I definitely didn't downvote and I agree that there are tradeoffs with any choice- but serverless doesn't mean Ops-less. I use Lambdas for lots of things, actually a lot of my Ops use Lambdas for various tasks (like SES catch all mail forwarding for example).

Don't think I'm dissing Lambdas (or anything like them in a non AWS context). There's a lot to love about them, not the least of which is that for small (in time to completion, request volume, and memory usage) units of work they are significantly cheaper.

There's a config management nightmare for everything but there are known ways to answer it for a traditional server/fleet approach. Run time configuration of Lambdas is still evolving and there aren't many options to choose from that are much better than just deploying the code and config as one as part of a delivery pipeline. It's workable now, but there are gaps. There aren't any gaps with running your own applications, it's literally what's always been done. There are certainly pain points, but the problem is already well understood.
A USB battery pack for recharging my phone made a big difference for me.
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Nonstop SFO-JFK flights are 5:35 to 5:48. But this isn't all due to flying slower. Airlines have increased their scheduled flight times to improve their on-time arrival statistics. So if there are no delays then they actually arrive early.
> http://www.wfsb.com/story/35104169/no-cause-for-alarm-false-...

Possibly another hack in CT yesterday as well.
I fully agree, but I still cynically wonder if there are no insolent companies out there who know that people believe in this sentiment and will make you play PLUS sell your info to 3rd parties.

Yep, I am fun at parties.
There is a fair amount of competition in this space. Around me, I see a lot of Kubota, New Holland, etc. Not too many John Deeres actually.
I see a couple of problems with these arguments. First, the assumption that market capitalization is more important for weighting a market index than share price. I'd argue that if your goal is to measure the health of the overall stock market, companies that control the most money should be weighted not much more than less valuable companies. Just because Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Costco are doing great, doesn't mean that JCPenny, Macy's and smaller retailers that employ hundreds of thousands of people are doing great. Giving more weight to smaller companies introduces more companies than just those at the top of the value spectrum. A company with massive resources can probably weather certain negative economic variations better than smaller companies, so to focus solely on those to the exclusion of all others seems to be willfully ignoring a significant part of what comprises the overall market.

The other issue is that even though the S&P is cited as being a much better index to track the market, the fact is that the Dow and the S&P correlate almost identically historically. So even if the Dow is reasoned to be much worse than the S&P, history shows that they both reflect basically the same thing.
"federal tax credit—which gives producers 2.3 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity for 10 years—is set to expire at the end of 2019" Roughly a 50% tax credit? Once this goes the pretty graph in this article will drop like a rock.

Wind power is not suitable for base load power, not just because of its intermittency but also because the tech running it is designed to exploit government subsidies rather than provide reliable power. A great example of this immaturity here (software defaulted to protecting the wind farm at the expense of an entire state's power supply).

https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/Electricity/NEM/Market...

Relying on wind power is like using your home router in an ISP datacenter.
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"means that somebody had the foresight to realize that it was easier to strap the bolts to the piece like that"

Not to curb your enthusiasm or downplay the ingenuity of those builders, but the assembly process seems fairly repetitive and easier to optimize over time. I doubt they had this foresight before doing the first (ever) pole.
There's going to be a huge market in used pre-DRM heavy machinery. The purely mechanical/hydraulic versions of this stuff is virtually indestructible, with a little maintenance.
I'd assume the sequence of states is:

1. Tower segment is hanging from helicopter.

2. Tower segment is in place with pins preventing it from falling over, but can be lifted away by the helicopter.

3. Tower segment is in place with pins preventing it from falling over, and will be released if the helicopter needs to fly away.

4. Tower segment is in place, fully secured by bolts.

The key point here is that under good conditions -- and they only ever do this under good conditions! -- a few pins is all it takes to stop the tower segment from falling over, but they won't stop the helicopter from lifting it off again. Securing the tower with two dozen bolts is only necessary when you want it to stay in place during strong winds and with the added load of the lift cable + chairs.
Well, don't wait to get fired then. Find a better paying job you like and go for it. It doesn't seem like you have much to lose anyway, and the best way to increase your paycheck is by moving around and not letting employers take you for granted. Just don't sell your soul for a buck in the process. This game is a marathon, and grinding it out never really works in the long term.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13925994 (177 comments)
>it would be effectively impossible for any company that is smaller than Apple to maintain everything they need to make software proprietary.

Why does it need to be proprietary in the first place though. I feel like the arguments I am hearing are making assumptions about the desired outcome to support their reasoning.
It selects for people who do well on the whiteboard under pressure, which are very often not the best workers overall.

This gets tossed around as a truism. I'm curious, does anyone have any evidence for it? Call me a skeptic, but these kinds of "everyone knows" truths are often wrong.

Google and other such companies have a vested interest in getting hiring right. They also have the wherewithal to conduct studies, collect data, and let the evidence guide their hiring practices. Google in particular has shown a willingness to completely overhaul their practices by eliminating ineffective practices (remember their reputation for "thought puzzle" type questions?).

So I'm curious if you have anything to back up the idea that they're doing it all wrong.
This question usually comes from a person trying to build their resume. My suggestion would be to do a search for Java jobs in your area and see what other libraries they are using. That will be way more useful to you in the long run than learning what the HN crowd thinks is fashionable. In my experience around here that means Spring, but it could be different in your area..
> what am I to do when I have to share that I maintained a Rails 4.0.x app for 16 months and was unable to upgrade it even it to 4.1.x because the previous team did a horrific job?

The reason I personally care about the skill of talking about bad coworkers tactfully is that I think it correlates with being able to navigate tricky workplace fuckups without making a big political mess that I have to clean up. The way I would phrase the above situation is:

"I inherited a Rails 4.0 app, and I wanted to upgrade it to Rails 4.1 so that we could take advantage of feature X. This wasn't on our roadmap, so I spent a lot of my own time looking into the feasibility and working on it in my personal time. However, it eventually became clear that too much of the legacy code would have to be totally redone, and there wasn't enough of a business upside."

> I am a firm believer of Einstein's saying "If you can't explain it to a 5-year old then you don't understand it"

Me too! Love this.
They have those unloading points because they are able to take them off of the cable while loading and unloading. We don't design these for cities, but we could. This means loading/unloading could be coordinated across multiple nodes and you could even switch tracks which takes care of the fixed distance problem. Detachable chairlifts can do 12mph which is faster than many city buses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachable_chairlift
i'm not criticizing your personal choices. i'm old and i can't afford to buy so i really screwed up. but as a matter of policy I'm not sure we should be encouraging exurb development by trying to twist transit around that.

more broadly i think the US (whatever combination of govt and industry) has failed to provide well for the guy with a job that wants to invest in property and possibly to raise a family. even with two incomes.

as you say, the promise of job stability is looking increasingly illusory

the job market putting you in a position where you are killing time in traffic for 2+ hours a day is a pretty clear sign of that failure
> Not every job that pays $9.70 is necessarily dangerous

Right, hence the comment implying that a gas station job around that amount would get workers. But in a time where there is a significant push to make the minimum wage $15, it's not surprising that people won't do hard labor for $10.
When we buy a piece of software, we own and "physically" posses a binary which we feel we can rightly take apart, modify, and mess with it because we view it as analogous to owning a toaster or stereo in the physical world. It's in our home, we can touch it, and we in essence control it.

Now the same is never said for software as a service. We buy subscriptions to services all the time but don't demand an ability to modify or control the software. It's defined in our agreement. Now it seems to me that the companies that sell these tractors have decided to pursue a model by which their software is more or less SaSS (providing encrypted updates over the air). Why is it that these farmers believe they have a right to modify that software?
To quote Abraham Lincoln: "Do not trust anything you read on the internet".

I know it from my own experience and that of many others who have been through the gauntlet. Take it for what it's worth, I'm not selling you anything. I don't look impressive on the whiteboard, but I do have a rather impressive track record. Something doesn't line up. :-)

FWIW, as far as I recall there was another experiment at Google where they tried to establish correlation between interview performance and job performance, and as far as I recall, there was no meaningful correlation. This, of course, is not fully representative, because it does not include poor whiteboard performers.
Not to mention the menu. I'm a (lower) middle-class white dude and when I hear that their burger is a "combination of ground beef, tofu, barley, quinoa, and seaweed" I definitely think it's not my kind of restaurant. I can only imagine how a poor, intercity, working class person would feel about it.
Detachable gondolas exist which means you can travel any length you want if you switch cables and have as many terminals as you want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachable_chairlift
If you're part of a household with multiple incomes, or you live with your parents, or you are able to take out a loan or live off savings such that you can take your time to educate yourself in a field or so on, then yes, it's definitely better to be unemployed.
There are lots of things wrong with the US. That said, on the whole Russia is vastly worse.
I just looked at their menu and their burgers are around $4-6. Mcdonalds has $1 burgers. I don't think that's really comparable. I can get a meal for 6 for the price of a meal for 2 at Locol.

On that note, Locol looks awesome and I'll be eating their since it's in my area :D.
I've heard long ago that the government (or whatever agency is responsible for this) won't license you to produce a phone if you don't put a baseband chip in your device. Don't take my word for it, I'm only sharing a vague memory.

Sounds pretty logical though. As @rsync said, there are very powerful financial interests behind the hardware backdoors in phones.
It's the Register, so... Yes and yes.
Because software as a service is the wrong model for farmers.

When equipment breaks in the middle of the field during harvest you do what needs to be done to fix it right then and there.

Edit: grammar
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Sorry, I don't think my tone was clear. It's a good thing that it would make proprietary software effectively impossible to maintain (I'm a huge proponent of both copyleft and free software). I completely agree with your GP comment. ;)
I don't know of any articles they've written about the process, they do maintain a forum where they post extensions to the book (on things that change often, e.g. neural networks) for free.

I agree, though I do think that professors evaluate each textbook to make sure it has the information they'd like to teach within it so the issue becomes more of a professors preference- should they provide a reference textbook or a book that perfectly matches their course.

In the case of Malik, (I believe) he writes books to fit how he thinks the material should be learned then teaches the courses to match the books. Attending the class would usually give answers to some of the example problems and go through the concepts.
I recommend Len Deighton's well-researched _Blood, Sweat, and Folly_ for a view of the disasterous management of the war effort - that the same people would mis-manage the peace isn't surprising.
The way I remember it is if you were single-stack from client to server, yeah, EJBs and others in the J2EE worked pretty well.

On the other hand, if you wanted to get of the rails and have clients in multiple stacks and clients who talked to different stacks, then it just all fell apart. Even multiple vendors in the J2EE space could be a problem.

Being able to do things simply hid a lot of complexity. It was hard to investigate that complexity when things went wrong.

It feels like chaos today, with myriad front-end frameworks and best practices changing every three months, but I would take this over mid-2000's Java tech because it just simply seems like less magic. I can break out Postman and just see what's going on.

I agree that there's no golden bullet, and that there's no end of crappy REST definitions. Furthermore, it's mostly not even REST, not in a HATEOAS kind of way.

But that's ok, I still feel more productive than I did 15 years ago, and I wouldn't want to go back.
It is usually 100% proprietary, think of iOS devices and game consoles
There is a simple beauty to finding the best solution you can given the constraints of the system, and often that's the garbage pile that is the old codebase.

The simple truth is that for every greenfield project we get in life, there's probably 30 brownfield projects. A lot of big enterprise developers may never once see a greenfield project. I sure didn't when I was on a product team.

If you want new you may find agency life fun. The downside is that if you love building new and are proud to watch things evolve gracefully you'll feel frustrated that you never get time to 'finish' the code. Also it's fucking chaos 24/7. I loved it. It will destroy you if you can't manage the always under the gun feeling though.
The result of a free market is that the better products will always win out. By your logic your statement could just have easily as been "to start a car company" or "to start a rocket company" or "to start a computer company". These are all examples of industries whose existing players were supplanted by a better idea with smart, passionate and dedicated entrepreneurs.
I think you may be misconstruing the argument here. I agree that any number of people will fit -- but the problem is, what if interviews aren't even selecting "a" right person for the job?
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