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I wanted to write something similar, so I just upvoted you and piggybacked here.
"Debugging" is really a subset of "Problem Solving". My grandfather had (by today's standards) very poor schooling, but he taught me some PHYSICAL WORLD DEBUGGING techniques which proved useful later in life.
Just one simple example (I suppose this would be "Tracing" in IT) - once he was working on a cabinet that had somehow warped and wouldn't close properly.
His solution: he cleaned the door and the frame, dipped his finger in oil and smeared it along the side of the door that would touch the frame.
Then closed the door and opened it again - the point were some trace of oil was visible on the frame was the one that needed to be pared down to allow the door to close.

He also used intuitively divide&conquer to find faults or leaks in wirings and pipes and so on.

It is really something that should get more study and practice outside of IT or science, and I am sure that mechanics and other craftsmen have their own set of algorithms that can be used in various situations.
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There is a mention of Ehang in the article. However, I cannot put this more succinctly: The Ehang is an abortion of aviation.

Instead of going into the idiocy of an autonomously piloted passenger aircraft (which will never be legal under any sane civil aviation laws), I'm just going to go over why the current Ehang 184 doesn't make any sense.

The Ehang 184 is an octocopter, with two rotors stacked on top of each other. It looks like a quadcopter with single person pod in the middle. So far, so good. However, on every aircraft ever, there are red nav lights on the port side, and green navigation lights on the starboard side. The Ehang places green nav lights in the back, red in the front. This makes sense if it always flies sideways. There are no anti-collision lights on the top or bottom, and therefore there's no way to tell when it's safe to approach the aircraft. Keep in mind, that's just the lights. There's far more wrong with this aircraft.

The battery life is 23 minutes, and the FAA requires 15 minute reserve under VFR conditions. That leaves eight minutes of actual flying time round trip. Since the Ehang needs to get back to a charging point, you're always four minutes away from your destination. Since the speed is 100km/h, the maximum possible distance the ehang can fly is about three miles, less if you account for slowing down, speeding up, and landing. Just walk it at that point.

The mere mention of the Ehang 184 in the NYT piece deserves shame. It is not a product, it has no basis in reality, and its place in history is alongside the old-time stock footage of 18-winged planes collapsing in on themselves. It is an idea so supremely idiotic the inventors and marketers of this device should be shunned.
That's not what that article says.
I haven't watched the video but why is it trash? An explanation is always useful.
Also 'verify' doesn't mean much. Even flat earthers can verify everything they believe in.
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Ask HN: In your opinion, what is the current state of Ruby?
I ask because I've been asked to give a talk on the current state of Ruby at a European startup incubator. In that area, there aren't a lot of Ruby events, and they're just looking for high level information about my experiences working with Ruby in San Francisco, CA. I have some talking points based on my own experiences & observations, and I'd love to hear what others have to say, too.

I'll comment on this thread myself in a few days and/or link to the talk I give if it gets recorded.
I just want to say that I love working with Laravel and am glad to see it growing.
I recommend having the book Working Effectively with Legacy Software by Michael Feathers in your library, as it is essentially a practical guide to techniques for minimising gumption traps in software engineering.
To withdraw from what? Council of Europe?

Nobody ever claimed that. In fact, that's the very exact Council that the UK had to notify about its intention to leave the EU.

EDIT: Theresa May did claim that her campaign in 2020 would focus on that. So, they're not leaving it for three years at least.
Small addition: This article says Newell bought Harrington out when he left in 2000.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0228/technology-gabe-newe...
Ergodicity in statistical mechanics roughly means that you can replace an average over time by an average over states. In practice this means that within the time it takes to perform your measurement the system should move through a lot of “typical” states.

So for everything that matters: If statistical mechanics works you can conclude that the system is ergodic. And if you observe long-time correlations it’s not.
I always wonder why people happily give up the rewards they earned for their hard work. Prestige, connections, bonusses. I think that's a big part for the guy at the top getting most of it as well.

And the reason is self-preservation. While all these things are nice, to most people it is more important to not experience the opposite: public criticism, haters, losing your job. In many situations it is also reasonable, since for a middle-income person a save reliable income is usually the most valuable asset they have. Losing it is much more hurtful to their lifes than losing a bonus. Therefore they give up some higher-risk opportunities for safety.

Summary: The employees probably also want the success and failure associated to their boss not themselves.
Especially so if you combine weight training with something anaerobic like sprinting. I still follow a few basic dietary heuristics like not eating packaged foods, no sodas, and having the core of my diet be vegetables with lots of healthy oils, but past that I eat as much as possible and I am very, very lean at 82 kg.
I can't find the source of the quote now but a famous physicist once critiqued The Many Worlds interpretation along the lines of "It might be light on assumptions but it's very heavy on universes"
Well, not only debugging but also performance profiling.
As sketchy as it may sound, BuzzFeed has a legitimate journalism arm: BuzzFeed News.
Interfering in DoJ law enforcement, trading a bunch of Iranian spies and money for some people caught up in the Iranian police state, and then lying about it. For what? An unverifiable deal that blesses Iran as the hegemon of the middle east?

That's just the icing on the echo chamber cake that the Obama white house used to sell the deal

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/wh-partner-asked-sor...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/06/obama-aide-rhodes...

According to Ben Rhodes:

“Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing,” he said.
Please make your lectures public.
I had only skimmed the link when you replied. I now understand a bit better. I still don't think a boycott is useful in this case but continuing to publicize the issue is a valuable service.
I was being kind, sir.

What I was trying to say is: I don't give a flying raccoon if people want to exercise or not.

So yeah. No strategising from me.
Your theory doesn't explain why so many CEOs are either neutral or spectacularly harmful to the long-term health of the companies they manage.

I think the distinction between choices and decisions is arbitrary.

The real difference is that startups have to keep customers and/or initial investors happy. They're also more likely - on a scale of "absolutely very much" to "I suppose I should care, I guess" - to take an interest in the employee culture.

Enterprise CEOs have to keep their boards and institutional investors happy, and mostly don't give a crap about employee culture, except in so far as it contributes to the first goal.

The problem for enterprise CEOs is that there are painful, obvious conflicts between Wall Street's persistent demand for high quarterly returns, the on-the-ground demands of keeping a business healthy and growing, and the value of their own personal stake in the company.
I wish you had refrained. It really detracted from the rest of what you had to say.
There are quite a lot of people who will tell you there is no such thing as rights. There's only power. This is not a new idea: it's always been around (think 'Magna Carta' and who knows how many times, back infinitely into the past).

The idea that there is no rights, only power, is as true as we agree it to be.

And that's why this debate is still ongoing. In times where it's a very live and relevant debate, power is ascendant and making the argument that rights are old hat. If it wasn't much of a debate because it was self-evident that there are no rights, we'd be in one of those Dark Ages periods of stultification, waiting for civilization to start up again. If it wasn't much of a debate because there is no power… actually, I'm not sure that's ever happened or ever will happen. It'd be an interesting thought experiment, to ask what that would even look like. Presumably that's a picture of bureacracy, but weaponized, meaning the power is on the law-makers and those who bend their ears.

As expected, that's the first thing claimed by power, whether it makes sense or not. To power, any bureacracy or law is always weaponized and illegitimate.
The anti-Jewish implications in this comment and some of the follow-ups (that the article is at fault for something because it focuses too much on Jews, that Jews somehow uniquely manipulate government through lobbying, that Jews don't accept any debate about the exact "6 million" number in the dominant narrative) is palpable.
That only adds one extra step to spoofing - now I have to check weather.com for the barometer reading in the location I plan to poof before sending. NBD...

Also, pressure in vs outside can vary more than you'd think...
Ha, thanks!

I wrote a bot for cherry-picking comments [1] a couple of weeks ago. It's mostly for a large open source community I'm a maintainer in where newcomers make multiple PRs. We have a linear git history, so we ask them to rebase. But many get stuck, so I thought I could make a bot to collect all these PRs and make a mega PR with their commits through `git cherry-pick`.

I'm also writing a SaaS email forwarding service (hush hush on the details for now ;)) in Go. Just getting started. My semester is almost over, so I'll have much more time to work on this in the vacations :)

[1] https://github.com/adtac/cherry-pick-bot
I have launched a few products. It is really difficult to get the discussion going on many places like reddit or other discourse forums as there are rules against promoting your products. However, I have had huge success with advertising my product ( a paid contact form endpoint service https://liveformhq.com/ ) on another free product (https://getsimpleform.com/) that I built. If you can build a smaller version of your product which provides value to customers it can be a great source of leads :)
You're being argumentative without being useful.

You're not offering any advice at all.

"THE MONEY" ≠ Wealth ≠ Income. They are separate, unique things. You need to acknowledge the differences before you can have a useful discussion.

Unless, of course, you're just mad that some people have a lot of money. In which case, you can just yell about some people having "ALL THE MONEY" and not actually work towards a solution.
It's in the 3rd paragraph, no?
Evolution doesn't care as long as you reach reproductive age and carry out that task properly.
Well, Mélenchon is far-left. Left is Parti Socialiste. Right is Les Républicains. Far-right is Front National.

These are the French definitions of Left and Right, and probably have nothing to do with other countries'. Based on these definitions, the Democrats are Right and Republicans are Far-right.

Whether they are good definitions, I can't say. But Mélenchon is definitely not plain Left, or Center.
This is so true. The Germans suffered virtually nothing for conducting WWII and The Holocaust. Slap on a wrist, and then making them the showcase of socialism & the showcase of capitalism and most successful regions on both sides of Iron Curtain.

It is like when, in some third world country, some big boss runs over a kid with his car while speeding. The rhethoric goes like this: We really want to make a lesson to you, fellow citizens, to abide by rules and not speed and certainly never run people over, and we're certainly not going to prosecute this valuable member of the society.

Talk about mixed signals in international politics.
The genocide of the Armenians and Pontic Greeks a couple of decades before WW2 was a major influence on Hitler. The Greeks had been in the area of the Black Sea for 'only' three thousand years, so they were not local according to the Ottomans.
It's been done. People not drinking do act a bit like people drinking. But any person that had a lot of sex will tell you that alcohol makes the one night stand easier. Just like you know an ben & jerry only diet will make you fat. You don't really need a deep scientific study for things that are very, very obvious.
I think building an amazing product is the way to get them automatically.
This question might be off-topic, but shouldn't this be called a network "simulator"?
What you say is great if I was able to install Apps from anywhere and not limited to the App Store.
They don't teach you unit test either. Or how to read a doc efficiently. Or how to make a technical choice. Or how to conduct a meeting. Or how to direct a project.

At best they'll talk about best practice and will give you an exercice that implies you should use one of those skills.

The amount of useful stuff that are not taugh in school is enormous.
Remember this 'tearing down' also counts as virtue signaling from Hell. It will make even more money if it is documented as a psychotic corporate shark on crack obliterating everything in or near its path. That's virtuous behavior to the stock market and the distinction is important.

Money can get Uber out of some or perhaps all of these problems. To the stock market, getting the single evilest company in the world into a position of absolute monopoly where they're above all laws and can do anything they want, is a good thing, if you are an investor in that company. It is always and only about the bottom line.

We assume this has to be within a context of law (if not morality, then at least law) but it's self-evidently not true and the valuation shows it. If investors thought law mattered, Uber would not be valued what it is.
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)

It never caught on but it was an interesting path not taken in terms of what an operating system could be.
What did you mean by "Stories like this make me glad I didn't grow up in the USA" then?
Yes in reality if you go up to him and ask him in person, or me, I won't use the term Nazis but the term Germans. I just felt it wouldn't be right to blame it on the newer generation of Germans reading yc news etc. I hope that they understand and remember what happened almost half a century ago.
They didn't suppress it, they just didn't make as big of a media circus out of it as of other stories.

> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=rotherham

Good job omitting comparison from that link. Why don't we add it back in, shall we?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=rotherham,...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=rotherham,jimmy%2...

The spikes for Savile and Hall are both bigger (above the background noise) than for Rotherham. I also applaud you for ignoring the bit of my post on how council staff literally suppressed information to not be racist.

Of course media manipulation doesn't end there - lets compare the Holocaust to the Holodomor:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=holocaus...

Both deliberate genocides of a majority upon an ethnic minority, both murdering a comparable amount of people, yet the Holodomor is practically ignored. But I'm sure you'll find some reason Ukrainian lives are less worth remembering than Jewish lives.
No.

It categorically does not say that remembering non-Jewish victims diminishes the memory of the holocaust. It says that commemorating non-Jewish victims at that specific monument diminishes the memory of the holocaust vis-à-vis that specific monument.

Anyone who's happy to make the former interpretation needs to look very carefully at their motivations.
I'm not sure I understand: why is it futile to attempt to value things as fractions of a war given that public opinion on that particular war is divided?
Is it just like muckrack?
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I did it, but the results can be pretty disappointing, I'm still working on improving them:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pingou.cha...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/champignouf/id1227854971

ps: any improvement suggestion is welcome!
God forbid someone tells a joke.
So if I take this course and want to deploy a React app, will I have to use create react app, or will I have to acquaint myself with webpack?
The Same type of case found in India too.
Sales of Sprite, Fanta, Coca-Cola & Pepsi have been banned in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Two of the biggest trade associations in the region called for the boycott in favor of Indian products.
The American soft drinks giants have been accused of taking too much water from rivers with local farmers left battling for proper irrigation of the land at the time of a severe drought.
>as far as practically possible

There's a big difference in effort, and not much difference in outcome, between doing as the Jains do and simply endeavouring not to kill things on purpose.
That's pretty much what I do.
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the article's about 2011...
so when is the product actually coming out?
I'm not blind (maybe yet?) but I'd like to have them for some local blind ppl...
No. That's not 'verifying' at all. They are dismissing facts and make it all come down to something you have to 'believe'. Religion works the same way.
For us it was through a Kickstarter (https://medium.com/@alexobenauer/how-i-launched-my-company-w...), and the majority of the first 100 backers (that I didn't already know) were from Hacker News.
Have you tried this? :)
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Absolutely. I can't say much about the transition from employee to independent consultant because I haven't had a traditional job in more than 10 years.

I'd say that not only is independent consulting going to be sustainable for years to come but it's actually going to grow both in total business volume and in terms of importance for the software industry and the economy at large.

It's getting harder for companies both to keep full-time employees occupied with meaningful tasks in the long run and to make use of specialist expertise on the other hand. Both of these problems lend themselves to being solved by independent consultants.

In my experience those that drift back into traditional employment eventually also didn't follow the consultancy path intentionally and purposefully in the first place but drifted into that rather haphazardly, too. If you want to have long-term success in this business (or in fact any kind of business) you need to do it purposefully and have a focus on marketing and sales.
You're off by about 1.2 million people with your last remark.
I get what you're saying. I would be happy to hit eighty sitting on a couch.

It seems where I live, in the Bay Area, the men seem lucky to live to 65, even the ones that exercise. I don't know why. I sometimes think it's our stressful lifestyle, and not going to church?

I bet your grandparents live in the Mid-West? I spent a month in Joplin Missouri, and was astonished to see so many people over 80 doing just everything.

This one guy was over 90, and still driving his car to see his girlfriend in Florida. The first time I met him, he was working on my buddy's air conditioning, in a shack in his back yard. That shop was sweltering. He shook my hand, and he saw me look at his chest scar. "That's my second. I told the doc to out in a zipper."

I'm too depressed to look up stats. My neighbors are dropping like flies. It's just weird. They are all high income too?
This is what works for me https://amazon.com/Dell-Dock-WD15-Adapter-Type-C/dp/B01C8PHW...
>The Germans suffered virtually nothing for conducting WWII and The Holocaust.

Except for the millions who died in combat or were murdered by the allied forces and the fact that we are still paying today for something we had no involvement in.

Anyway, it's almost the same for the U.S. today. All the crap they've pulled in foreign countries since after WW II has no consequences for them at all. U.S. politics are directly responsible for the deaths of millions.

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

Money and economics has ruled back then (decisions after WW II) and it still does now.
I searched for people complaining on twitter about how bad Skype connections ruined their podcast recordings and let them know about my solution. Generally people were pretty happy to know of a better alternative and signed up as well as started sharing it via word of mouth.
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Despite having ventured into FP territory, I still like and use Ruby a lot. The state of Ruby imho has not changed much over the last couple of years. MRI is stable, but still slow and memory-hungry. Demand exists, and supply, too, depending on where you are located and if you accept remote.
> Theresa May did claim that her campaign in 2020 would focus on that. So, they're not leaving it for three years at least.

Won't be a campaign in 2020 since she announced a snap election a few weeks ago for June 8th, next likely election is then 2021 unless she just votes her self Leader for Life or something in the interim.
It certainly predated the 2012 presidential election, since there was that embarrassing incident where the PolitiFact 2012 Lie of the Year turned out to be true and the press came up with some truly bizarre contortions to pretend otherwise.
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Maybe it's true where you live, it is certainly not true in the English-speaking world. Fighting the Nazis was the primary way of describing the European war in contemporaneous popular and political writing.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=german%2C+nazi...
From your description, it sounds like a solid prototype: fix the lights and other typical prototype stuff, wait for battery technology to catch up, which a LOT of companies around the globe are betting on, and here you have a flying car.
Is there any company that develops something similar to an ornithopter [0] ? I skimmed over the list in the article, but couldn't find anything. The wiki suggests a greater efficiency than other methods, which with a limited battery pack would play a role in extending range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter#Aerodynamics
I am aware of that, I just tried to correct my statement that "nobody claimed that" which I made before the edit. The second sentence in my edit was kind of unnecessary though.
Improvement means change. Change is scary and will break workflows. People will resist.

I made big and small changes to a couple of online communities and believe me, the amount of vitriol you receive from people that are the masters of the domain they carved out for themselves will make you doubt every future decision. Even when it's objectively the right thing to do.