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With regard to dividends the tax situation is what is causing the bloated and shitty behavior in the first place.

In countries with Dividend Imputation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_imputation) such as the one I live in, companies actually distribute the money they earn.

In the USA, wasting money on bloat is effectively incentivised by the tax structure because you can spend money that is already inside the company with an effective discount vs distributing it so that it can be invested elsewhere.

Owners should be withdrawing the profits of their companies. The current situation leads to bloat and stagnation.
Well, Restore-L looks to service satellites not designed for service. If you knew the X-37 was coming, and you knew it was a flying gas station, i'd bet that problem is far far easier. You don't have to take the target apart in space and put it back together. On the other hand, an easily accessible common connector seems like something we could have standardized on and implemented 15-20 years ago.

Again, i have no evidence of any of this. But it's my favorite pet theory.
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Seems like demining is done manually - slow and dangerous. I'm surprised we can't build the tech to identify mines and extract them safely.
But developers, too? I mean are you really going to pick DB2 when it's much easier to trial Postgres or MSSQL? (Never mind the fact that IBMers themselves can barely get hold of DB2 internally, and when they do it's impossible to install yourself) Same with MQ vs RabbitMQ? Ditto WebSphere, Rational Tools etc. Of course not!

But even if you do, the horrible documentation, bad configuration and sheer technical debt apparent in those products will make you run for the hills ASAP. Because that's what happens when you're best devs leave, and then you fire the average ones to keep your stock price up.
You can send anyone a bill for anything
That's a red herring; see jessriedel's comment above.
Yep, and the first rule if downvote is apparently not to talk about downvote club
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SNC are building a small shuttle-like thing that lands gently on a runway. they planned to build a crewed version, but lost the NASA competition to SpaceX and Boeing. They won a contract for cargo, with an unmanned variant, possibly because NASA is really interested in "dissimilar redundancy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Chaser
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> Ginni Rometty should have been fired long ago for her incompetence.

Although I agree, I'm sure the 5 layers of clueless, infighting management deserve no blame. There's too much dead wood for even the best CEO to make a difference
It's only a conflict until you base your value judgements on human flourishing. Then it becomes a relatively easy question - does humanity benefit from having the land mines removed? Pretty sure that anyone living in or around minefields has the answer to that one.
Really interesting article!
With perhaps a little arrow to open up the full summary.
Not in all cases. Most daemons will die if you give them an invalid configuration file (with a description of the syntax error).
You're talking about the zebra mussel. I'm good friends with a bunch of very dedicated folks who are employed to protect the lakes (the Great Lakes that is). The zebra mussel was a terrible invasive species but isn't nearly as terrible as some of the other new options-for example Asian carp. We've managed to claw back some funding for the Great Lakes in the most recent round of budget cuts but it's not nearly enough. Something that needs to be addressed is Chicago and it's complete refusal to sever its waterways from the Great Lakes-through Chicago we have a straight line to the Mississippi and from there to the gulf and god knows what coming in. Just one more example of Chicago ruining things in Michigan.
Great comments.

"spending resources ineffectively"

Often staff is taken on in order to fill vacancies without as much regard for skill levels. The marginal value of extra employees lowers and can dip into the negative. This is the sort of ineffective spending which is invisible to all but their closest colleagues -- who have too little political capital to do anything about it.
Their Annual Plan with spending breakdown is published every year on wikimediafoundation.org. The draft for the upcoming year is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...

TL;DR: the largest chunk of the budget goes to the two departments that do engineering/design/PM/data science.

On your last point ("for all we know most of their staff time is off building stuff like Wiktionary") it's actually a big gripe in the smaller communities that probably 90% of the time and attention goes to Wikipedia.
At best tangential to my point.
It looks like ofxhome.com is down right now. Is there a mirror of that anywhere?
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The author imagines that the funding will not grow forever. That's almost a certainty, as the article describes carefully.
that's the reason why i install most mac programs that come from a website into user programs.
this only works for programs that don't add stuff to the system of course.
You're right, but it is not in IBM's business culture to give out free things like Google and the rest of others (think Apple).
Again, you don't need a Chrome extension to randomize between URLs. Just write a simple HTML+Javascript page that redirects to a random URL from a list, and set it as your start page.
Speaking as a parent, it's hard to find a school that actually values learning and development, and isn't some sort of cross between Police detention and daycare.

We were lucky enough to find such a school reasonably nearby but the cost - despite their genuine efforts to keep them low - are scary.
How did you get one of those grants?
> Ingress

> Don’t use it on GKE. It’s basically a CDN cache that charges ridiculous $$$.

Unfortunately not true. Ingress is not a CDN and is charged the same price as a regional load balancer (Service.type=LoadBalancer that you used in your blog post).
> and your advantage is that you're wearing organic cotton.

Open source hardware is not like organic cotton, it's more like having the kitchen, the tools and the ingredients to cook your own awesome meal vs going to a restaurant but never able to make any food yourself.
When you interfere with price communication and incentivization mechanisms, you always break things.

Trying to come up with piecemeal regulatory "solutions" like this is like trying to invent a perpetual motion machine by coming up with increasingly more complicated contraptions. There are fundamental, local interactions that you have to contend with that basically rule out accomplishing what you want.
You said the goal of the service isn't to create money. It is. And it's intended to make the company profitable. Launches won't be for quite some time.
tigers in the amazon? leopard maybe.
I agree with your post. The OP is a bit fearmongering, however there is some general issues that are definitely true of Wikipedia, but because it seems to be doing well overall (in terms of traffic and ubiquity), nothing will change even if "it has cancer." If what the OP describes as "cancer" is how the top 5 website in the world operates and stays there, then so be it I say.

The thing is that there doesn't really seem to be any REAL alternatives challenging Wikipedia in an honest, high effort way. As a wiki/knowledge fan myself, I've gone to different sites with different takes such as Quora (which is fantastic, can't really say it's a real competitor though), Genius.com (which is comparable only in a very narrow sense for songs/texts and nothing else), and Everipedia (which is the closest thing to a real competitor with all Wikipedia content imported, but is tiny in comparison to the last 2 sites above - Alexa 6k US vs Alexa top 100 for the other 2).

I would say out of everything I've found Everipedia comes closest in a valiant effort and I frequently contribute to it here and there, but at the same time, Wikipedia is just too dominant to see any real necessity to change how it is doing anything, whether that is for good or for bad. And my personal opinion is that maybe that is how it should stay too, given the size and scale that Wikipedia operates and its general continued success across most of its fronts. One thing is for sure: the world is definitely better with Wikipedia continuing onward even if "it has cancer."
Capsules like Soyuz can't land without an atmosphere. They use aerobraking and parachutes.

You need a big rocket to slow down and land. At which point it's a very different machine.
I don't see a problem in splitting all these domains to an "applied" school, that focuses research into evolving solutions that currently seem effective in approximating answers for certain engineering problems, and a more theoretical school that has the potential to carve new revolutionary paths while pursuing some (abstract?) ideal such as mathematical elegance. One shouldn't exclude the other and apparently there are enough scientists around that are attracted to either one of the two approaches.
Tokyo's rent is comparable to Dallas or Madison, WI (give or take some square footage because American housing is less efficient in space usage). Way cheaper than NYC for sure.

There are a lot of people who do 90 minute+ commutes for sure. Even for relatively small commutes you end up with a fixed cost of about 20 minutes for just going to the station from your home or leaving to go to the office, so 30 minutes is good.

It's possible to live close to your office if you're willing to live far from trains a lot of the time though. Living 20 minutes from any station instead of 5 easily cuts 30% off the rent
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This is only possible if the contract is with him individually, instead of an entity he created. In most places, a business entity cannot represent itself in court. It needs to hire a lawyer.
This is exactly my experience. My work's internal code which was written in the early 90's basically agrees with everything above. It is C code with a few extra keywords ("new" "delete" and "static_cast"). When I see modern C++ code it looks completely alien to me.
> The process is still young so it's imperfect, but improving. Do you have any suggestions how I can do better?

Publish your book list, your selection process, and your metrics, to enable independent evaluation. I looked for such information and didn't find it; if it's there, surface it clearly. If you're presenting the balanced, apolar perspective you claim to seek, rather than some flavor of "alternative facts", this should not pose an issue, I think.

As for the rest, I wouldn't feel special about it. In these times, I see no reason why anyone claiming political
motives, and apparently declining any meaningful transparency in sources and methods, merits any kind of credibility. Your claims are your claims, and prove nothing beyond that you've made them. You have an opportunity to substantiate them. Perhaps you will do so.
Thank you.

Too bad it's in Chinese, but Google Translate got me the gist. An unfortunate story.

Not sure why he didn't settle on GPL or AGPL, though.
FYI: if you click the "Built with Vue.js" it takes you to the github page, which links to a live demo at: https://vue-hn.now.sh/top. This vue-hn site has a more traditional layout and is pretty clean and fast.

To the maker: it would be nice if you linked to the HN page so as to enable people to comment on posts they find via your client.
Perhaps this also correlates with those most likely to be diagnosed with a drug use disorder.
Or you could use a base filesystem that supports compression, such as ZFS. shrug
I don't actually agree that the ecosystem is weaker than Rails. There may be fewer hex packages than Ruby gems, but after 10 years worth of doing my own Rails work and cleaning up other people's messes, I can safely say that most of the gems in the ecosystem are antithetical to well-designed modular software.

Bottom line, learning to write software well is hard, no matter what language you're in. What is probably weaker in the Elixir sphere is the amount of blog posts that go deeper than "Yay elixir", but there are some really high-quality books that are a good subsitute. Here's the order I usually recommend for new Elixirians:

1) Dave Thomas' Programming Elixir
2) Sasa Juric (http://theerlangelist.com/) Elixir in Action (blog is also great)
3) Programming Phoenix (Jose Valim, Chris McCord, Bruce Tate)
4) Lance Halvorsen's Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix should probably be in there somewhere but I'm not sure where, as I haven't had a chance to read it yet.
5) Designing for Scalability with Erlang and OTP is a good followup when you're comfortable with the syntax and concepts from OTP

[1] https://pragprog.com/book/elixir13/programming-elixir-1-3

[2] https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action?a_aid=sjuric

[3] https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix/programming-phoenix

[4] https://pragprog.com/book/lhelph/functional-web-development-...

[5] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024149.do
I am not sure I understand what problem am I supposed to see when I look at the table. It looks to me like Wikipedia has income in excess of expenses and a reserve to cover unforeseen events. Remembering what Wikipedia was like in 2005 when Wales thought it didn't need employees, made me think that Wales could not imagine the scale at which Wikipedia is an important asset of humanity today.

It's similarly myopic to the criticism of Wikipedia's software engineering methodology further down the essay. There's a scale of project at which waterfall greatly increases the odds of success: without a plan, a pyramid doesn't get nice sharp corners or come to a point, the dam does not turn the turbine, and Armstrong does not boot print moon dust (never mind landing back in the vicinity of ships and helicopters and medical staff).

A big Wikipedia changes slowly. That's good. One person's rant doesn't cause it to pivot on a dime. One person's rant doesn't suddenly turn it to ad funded. One person's rant doesn't suddenly remove a category of articles.
I suspect this probably works well for you because you're a studio model -- you're billing for hours.

In the case where there is disagreement about what product to build, I could see this more rapidly going sideways. Sometimes having one person with a specific vision can be very helpful.
The S30 does support J2ME, but its successor, the S30+ completely abandoned J2ME and replaced it with MRE. As for Symbian, J2ME wasn't even the primary development platform - it was C++/Qt.

Also, court documents in the Oracle/Google trial also showed that Oracle tried to develop a Java smartphone and failed repeatedly because of their, and I quote from a internal Oracle presentation slide, "Very limited internal expertise to make smart decisions".
... there's something particularly evocative about this image taken during early lifting body research: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/...
The problem is the tenor of the pleading. I was sucked in.
on windows 95/98 in most networks you could just click cancel since the anonymous logon wasn't even disabled.
Unless the programmer chose the dataset.
I like the semi-gibberish official explanation:

The orbiters "perform risk reduction, experimentation and concept-of-operations development for reusable space vehicle technologies," the Air Force has said without providing details. The cost of the program is also classified.

How, pray tell, does anything "perform risk reduction"? Does that phrase have any meaning in English, or any other terrestrial language?

"The cost of the program is also classified." - naturally! As someone much, much smarter than me noted, there's very few real state secrets, but there's tons of career-ending blunders, accounting mistakes, ridiculous overcharging and independent validation and verification companies that just happen to be owned by a distant relative. Those categories are not mutually exclusive.
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Even in Shibuya? That's interesting, because depending on the size of the apartment you consider middle-class, this would make it cheaper than Paris. Definitely not what I remember from living in Japan 10 years ago.

Has prices softened that much since then?
But using strcmp could result in buffer overflow, no?
Wikipedia should transform into a blockchain dApp.
Ultimately, everything is politics, and I predict that if these algorithms become widely used, politics eventually will be the primary determining factor in their calculations. Why?

If these algorithms become widely used and thus influence important outcomes, then people who like to control power will seek to obtain control of the algorithms, either to protect their interests or to grow their own influence.

As possible examples, politicians who see an algorithm apolitically jail a powerful person might pass a law saying that public service should be weighed more heavily. Law enforcement might want exceptions or special weightings for police officer defendants, or for police officer-given testimony. Powerful social activists will buy the algorithm developers (do you know who is writing these algorithms even now? I don't) as a way of influencing society - the Koch brothers, for example, invest in other areas, such as academia and down-ballot elections (e.g., secretary of state in U.S. states) for society-changing purposes. Special code might even generate special outcomes for particular individuals - who will ever see the code? Who will even ask this question after the sentencing?

If you think such corruption couldn't happen, look around. Brazen corruption happens all the time, especially in state and local government. This will be harder to detect, and will be covered by the excuse that non-technical people will believe: I didn't do it; it was the algorithm! It must be objective!

I think the algorithms ultimately will be a step backward, reducing transparency by hiding the bias in a software development process, in the back room of a software firm, and in a mountain of code. At least legislation is published and voted on in the open.
my 2c, i'm not really all that interested in a faster OO language. If I wanted that I'd move to Java, C#, or C++. Crystal is pretty close to Ruby, sure, but the devil is in the details, and I suspect that digging into gem compability is a bigger mess than it would seem at first glance.
Of course, this is a run-off, so even comparing them without some sort of normalization isn't enlightening.
Sounds good, though 100k in 25 years would be like 30k in purchasing power.
When I left school, I got the deputy-head, during an official meeting to state that they didn't teach computer science because they were afraid of what the pupils might do.

A school frightened to teach pupils ...
> I haven't worked on Windows directly in years, but I never knew that NUL was a reserved word as a file.

It's not. It's a reserved word through the MS-DOS file redirection facilities. If you use the newer file API or you use the \\?\[path] convention; the reserved words are not an issue and you can create files named for them.
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Are you referencing https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0233?
It will be intentionally biased; that I'm confident of.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14288232
> And once a non-profit organization starts running at a deficit, some contributors will question their contributions and they may shrink accordingly.

That's backwards though. It's not unusual for a non-profit to run a deficit. A donor will question a non-profit that's running a surplus - why am I giving you money you don't need.
It is speculative, but so far it has resisted nicely.

All housing went down in the bubble bursts, but bay area still enjoyed nice 7-8% yoy growth so far.

There are couple things that could make it pop badly - like detroit like situation where it goes bankrupt, or the other is tech companies decide to move elsewhere.

I think this is where you should eiversify either way. Buying properties where tech is currently strong is a nice way to diversify

Austin, bay area, ny might be good spots for this.
There was a school in 2012 that didn't teach computer science? Wow, Poor students.
These things would fit inside the shuttle which creates a very different design with much lower thermal stresses.

Remember, the initial shuttle design was actually viewed as an improvement by real rockets scientists even if the project ballooned into ridiculous territory there really is a lot of value in those short stubby wings.
This is technically true, but given the particular topic, it's unreasonably dismissive. As Turing_Machine points out this can also be true of modern cultures. Unremarkably. As fiatjaf points out, this can (sometimes) be untrue of ninjas.

The interesting distinction here is the almost self-fictionalisation of pirates. Many pirates would go from port to port spreading rumours and horror-stories about themselves simply to make raiding an easier (and less violent) process; fearful captains being all the more compliant.
I use to manage the IT needs of a cartography lab in a uni. one day i was curious to how much web traffic we got off the old website so I checked the IIS logs and saw we were getting over 200k hits a year. i was like what the?

so I enabled google analytics to see where they were coming from. the source was one of our sub pages on redlining was the 5th external link listed in wikipedia on that topic.
Can't that problem be solved by simply not telling the machine the race of the person who's being judged?
Looked up x+1

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People will write that software, select which software to purchase, write the rules for its use, and implement them. Powerful people aren't going to sit back and let those things happen in ways that they don't like, which are threats to them, or which reduce their influence.
> I wonder how much of this could be counteracted simply by capping profits

Buffet's core complaint is about companies not making enough profits due to their profligate spending on other things. A profit cap would not have the impact you're hoping for here. :)

> such that all net revenue in excess of some fixed amount is forced by the corporate charter to be turned into either employee compensation or stockholder dividends.

By definition, only profits can be paid out as dividends, so again, a profit cap would prevent the thing you're you're trying to boost.
My assumption is that "perform risk reduction" means "try things out to make sure they will work when we use them later". For instance, now they have more confidence that they can leave the spaceship orbiting for two years without something breaking. Kind of like Apollo 8 (fly around the moon without landing) was risk reduction for Apollo 11 (land on the moon).
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