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I felt the need to share this app with the HN community because it's a really awesome game for kids (and adults too!). I love the fact that parent/kids can build routes to keep it interesting and fresh which is really necessary when you have a little one who gets bored of games after a couple of days. Its just a pity that user-built routes can't be shared with others.
You have not considered leverage in the equation.
Been using re-frame in production since 2 months. Lost some hair in the first 3 days ( had to make some db structure decisions based on requirements) but after that it's been amazing and adding new features has become really trivial.
There's always a sock waiting to be stuck on somewhere...

But I don't get it why they won't make the robot reverse a short bit and try to go around instead of just rolling over and die.

That would solve 99% of the situations I have rescued my old Roomba and current Neato from. It's very seldom they actually got something entangled in their brushes.
You prompted me to look up how power stations are synchronised. This rabbit hole leads to The War of Currents. It's worth a read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
Yes, I know, it is the url of the "Hacker News" logo, so I've just copied it.
Wow, this is really cool! If I ever finish a project that doesn't belong on this thread, I will definitely consider using DocsApp
Ooh, that's a good idea, thanks!
Exactly. I've heard it said that you can remove all the classes and teachers from a prestigious university. Let the students do whatever they want. And they'd still do just as well.

I doubt it's just wealth. Those schools are fairly selective and difficult to get into beyond just financial reasons. Presumably the selected students are more likely to have higher IQs or higher conscientiousness or whatever.
similar question from 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14684105
You don't do it directly. You find the best-paying job you can, work there, do some open-source work in your nights & weekends, and then start looking for a new job when you're about 6 months in, on the strength of your work experience & open-source portfolio. Repeat 2-3 times at roughly 1-year increments until one of the big firms comes knocking. I started at $8/hour at my first programming job and doubled my income every time I switched.

You may have to move - if there are no jobs in your area, go where the jobs are! Once you're past entry-level positions you can often get a new employer to pay for your move though.

The big secret about "elite" institutions is that they're constantly looking for signs that they fucked up about their judgment of a person, and are usually happy to rectify that if they see concrete information that they were wrong. This goes for universities (I know several people who totally slacked off in high school, got rejected by all the Ivies, went to a state school, did nothing but study in college, and then transferred back into an Ivy), for the big-5 tech companies (where oftentimes people will get in on the second try after a few more years work experience and demonstrable progress launching products for their current employer), and for venture capitalists (who will often pass on a company and then beg to be let back into a later funding round, at a much higher price, if it looks like a startup is taking off). The problem is that most people adjust their performance to the expectations of people around them. If you're not satisfied with where you are in life, act like the people who you want to be. Eventually they'll take notice and decide you're one of them.
There are other, smaller countries that have mixed frequencies.

PG&E (California' primary gas and electric utility) still has DC tariffs, thought I believe they provision it by installing a converter at the pint of use. I believe this is just for elevators.

Parts of Back Bay in Boston were still wired for 100V DC mains voltage into the 1960s
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Fascinating -- I'd always heard that 24 fps developed as a US film standard compared to 25 fps in Europe because of the difference in AC power frequency (24 and 60 being a pretty straightforward integer ratio). And yet, during this time, LA became firmly entrenched as the center of the American film industry while producing 24 fps films. I wonder how that squares -- was this something people had to deal with, or does this article possibly overstate how widespread 50 Hz power was?
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This.

I've got incremental snapshots sent to a box in a family member's house (and vice versa).
The oldest part of their fleet are B734's of which they have 5 (plus I think some Combi's which only service Alaska) all of those are due to be gone by the end of 2017. The rest of their fleet is B737/B738/B739's - all but 30 are B738/B739's.

In fact among legacy carriers Alaska has the youngest fleet age of any of them. Alaska also has excellent on-time and baggage performance - among the best, if not the best in the industry.
Apart from that, you will get a much better mirror than any non-professional equipment (something that costs more than your car).
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I mean, we can workshop this if you're going to bring examples, but I'll be real with you: more often than not the charge of "swallowed a thesaurus" tends to come from folks who don't read all that much (and I do mean actually read, not read tech blogs). So, put up: what words did the author not "really understand"?
Isn't Christensen one of those thought leaders who are paid by megacorps to spread Gramscian false consciousness and make the masses think capitalism really isn't so bad?
English hack is very much the same. Only in the computer / hobby usage sense does hack mean skilful or clever. The opposite being the engineered solution, opposite in the computer / hobby sense in that engineered often means over engineered and not fun.

From http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hack?s=t

hack, verb

1. to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.

2. to break up the surface of (the ground).

3. to clear (a road, path, etc.) by cutting away vines, trees, brush, or the like: They hacked a trail through the jungle.

4. to damage or injure by crude, harsh, or insensitive treatment; mutilate; mangle: The editor hacked the story to bits.

5. to reduce or cut ruthlessly; trim: The Senate hacked the budget severely before returning it to the House.

6. Slang. to deal or cope with; handle: He can't hack all this commuting.

7. Computers:

a. to modify (a computer program or electronic device) or write (a program) in a skillful or clever way: Developers have hacked the app. I hacked my tablet to do some very cool things.

b. to circumvent security and break into (a network, computer, file, etc.), usually with malicious intent: Criminals hacked the bank's servers yesterday.
This is a great philosophy.

I've found much success in divorcing my goals from my expectations.
I don’t know all the details, I just see arguments from both sides and want to explore the possibilities so that I have a rational non-biased opinion anyone can have. I’m not from the US nor from the Middle East. I’m not religious nor in support of anything close to it.

All the information I consume is not necessarily true nor fact-based. I don’t know, I wasn’t there. My point is that we don’t know 100% of the information as any information might be false. No channel, source, a journalist is 100% trustworthy nor bias-free. Thus, my only choice is to think about the global picture by consuming and sharing my thoughts based on both true and false news.

So, blinders off.

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You say that “entity” fights ISIS. Why do you say that? What’s your take in this? Do you personally support that war? Is it because you read/saw it somewhere or personally went to war? Let’s imagine you did go to war. Did you lay out the orders or followed them? These are rhetorical questions.

I read articles about how the US is the one doing the bid in stopping terrorism, but I also read articles on how the US is sponsoring state terrorism. I heard what the UK officials say, but I also listened to what Iran officials have to say. I read that the US sells billions worth of military stuff to Saudi Arabia, but I also saw that Saudi Arabia might be sponsoring ISIS.

Where’s the truth?

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Let’s just consider the possibility that both of our arguments are right as in “ISIS is sponsored by local partisan groups with finance coming from the US”.

Where does that leave you and me? Nowhere. We are simply watching the game those in power play. To hope that any of our governments care about us is a fool’s errand. We are simply economical units and numbers in their vote ballots. The same as citizens of Iraq and Syria. Look what happened to them. It can happen to any of us. The goal is to be prepared and have an “Exit”, that’s all I’m interested in.
From the article (mistakes highlighted):

> Human news writers regularly point out that AIs tend to lack nuance and a _flare_ for language in the stories they churn out. That’s probably a _fare_ criticism [...]

Maybe they used speech-to-text transcription for this, given that the mistakes are homophones? It seems very unlikely that either a human typing this, or a computerized system would make these mistakes (if it learns word associations from a corpus).

PS: the article also claims to be human generated:

> This story was not generated by an AI, but to be fair, I haven’t had my coffee yet.

EDIT: Oops, I might have misunderstood which article you were referring to, since the reference was not placed next to "this".
I don't know the market forces involved, but I would expect fancy high-rises to have mostly major chains in their retail slots, not local businesses.
I do cite one study, but burden of proof of producing citations is on people claiming that "science shows". I never claim that.

In fact, I found few scientific articles on the subject and the few that I did find were not relevant (for some of the reasons in the text).
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The project's readme on Pypi reads "The wrappers follow similar APIs with variations to accomodate the language specificity.".

Beautiful. There are so many times in my career that I've had to use poorly hobbled together wrappers for other languages that I now really appreciate it when someone takes their time to make their API "Fit" with the language.
I agree with every point you made, but to put it simply is Trumps denial of climate change, withdrawal of the Paris accord, and now this going to help or hinder such efforts?
Coincidentally, I just listened the pitch podcast S2 E3 where the company Industrial Organics was also describing themselves as Uber for Garbage. However, they are niching into garbage from restaurant kitchens.

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/industrial-organic-s02-ep03/
I want to believe that this result was foreseeable. I want to believe that some people at least are wise enough to see consequences of actions. Can you point to some piece of writing explaining this prior to or contemporaneous with the US invasion?
Where do you think the money goes? You write as if money is wasted or destroyed when it is spent on treatment.
Sorry, I wasn't talking about our organization. I was talking in general.

End of the day, marketers still need developers to do their day-to-day jobs.
The irony is that the I how radio news got its start. Ronald Reagan became an actor after being a "sports announcer" -- what he really did was read the ticker tape of a game in progress ("smith at plate. first ball strike no swing. Second ball base hit") and create an exciting story to go with it "And smith steps up to the plate. He flexes his muscles, kicks the ground and takes his stance. He passes on the first ball....strike! Here's the next pitch...he swings...solid towards third base. Is it a foul? NO!! AND HE'S SAFE ON FIRST BASE!!!"

Really most "news" articles are only a couple of paragraphs long anyway and could be expanded or contracted on the spot to match the interest of the reader.
Until the 1990s, Grand Central Station in New York had almost everything - 60Hz commercial power, 40Hz LIRR power (Pennsylvania Railroad standard) 25Hz NYC Subway power, 700VDC Metro North power, 600VDC subway third rail power, and some old Edison 100VDC power. There was a huge basement area full of rotary converters to interconvert all this. Various ancient machinery and lighting ran on different power sources.

In the 1990s, Grand Central was rewired, and everything except railroad traction power was converted to 60Hz. All conversion equipment was replaced with solid state gear. It took quite a while just to find everything that was powered off one of the nonstandard systems.

It wasn't until 2005 that the last 25Hz rotary converter was retired from the NYC subway system. (Third rail power is 600VDC, but subway power distribution was 13KV 25Hz 3-phase.)
Yes, I agree with you. Could've framed that better.
I don't know exactly what this company is looking for and how big a team you would be managing so it's hard to speak for them, however, an Engineering Manager is usually a pretty high level position and you should be expected to have a lot of experience under your belt in management, leadership and software engineering. The fact that you're never been in a management role even as a lead engineer (how is that possible?) means you're potentially unqualified for this position. I know that's hard to hear but I want you to come into this with the right expectations.

Having said that (and if you're still going to go for it), I'll try to give you some pointers.

1. Being a good engineering manager means having a good framework for getting things done. You probably have something like this already but as a manager, you have to be disciplined about keeping your team happy and productive, as well as knowing what everyone is working on at all times.

2. Be able to demonstrate how you think strategically and not just tactically (e.g. tactical: we're going to use MySQL because we have a hard schema, strategic: we're training engineers on the AWS tech stack because we have (or want) to move our organization in that direction for financial reasons).

3. Value "output over activity". Andy Grove's High Output Management is a godsend that explains this concept very well, but for the interview, demonstrate that you know the difference between people flapping their wings vs moving the needle forward.

4. Be able to speak about the difference between leadership vs management. Leadership is getting people to follow you while management is having people work for you. Management also means understanding the schedule, building a roadmap, and working with other groups to influence or lead important initiatives.

5. Helping ICs manage performance, motivate and incentivize good work, providing mentoring and guidance including career advice, rooting out low performers and managing them out. This is the hard, potentially unpleasant part of the job, and you'll need to demonstrate an understanding and willingness to do this (no one else will do this for you, this is the manager's job). Critical; since you don't seem to have experience here, you better brush up on this stuff most.

6. You job is also to understand current technology trends and be up to speed on the code, the process on the team, and the ways that things could be improved. Understand iterative process improvement and talk about how you've done this in the past.

There's lots more but this should hopefully cover the big important stuff.

All the best to you!
Instructions unclear. How do I get Boeing to build a dozen 747s for me, right after a bank refuses to lend me a measly $10 million?

Sure, they can repossess the aircraft if I default, but that's going to cost them a lot more than $10M by the time the dust settles. On the surface, this is really a story of arbitrage, where Branson successfully leveraged Boeing's recklessness against a bank's cowardice.
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Without machines acquiring true understanding of what is happening, this is going nowhere. I applaud their effort but it is misguided.
"When presenting an alternative to DynamoDB, AWS is an implied part of presenting that alternative". If that is the way you guys operate well ... We run things in AWS, on prem and in GCP. Our AWS spend is over 3 mil. per month things that require hard latency guarantees are def. not running in AWS. Nothing is AWS has "predictable and consistent latency characteristics" simply due to the nature of how they operate.
Three things I try to find out in a manager / director level interview :

1. What is the process for reviewing, committing, merging and deploying code ? How are technical designs vetted before starting development on large projects ?

2. What is the process for hiring engineers and reviewing performance ?

3. What is the process for describing, prioritizing, and ultimately building and releasing new features ?

Understanding those 3 things as they exist at the company (and your approach to each) will tell you a lot about the organization, how to proceed, and will tell the company a lot about what you are bringing to the table.
Perhaps, but it's not very newsworthy.

I find it equally irrelevant whether Obama signs non binding accords or Trump doesnt.
The proportion of IIT graduates leaving India has significantly decreased over the years. Last year just 200 went abroad.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/indias-brain-...
AlphaGo was only initialized by mimicking humans. It then played millions of games against itself. And learned what moves were more likely to lead to wins. And then it was combined with a tree search algorithm that let it explore many more moves into the future than humans could consider.

Training a bot just to predict what move a human would make, would always lose to that human. It will just absorb all the human's mistakes and weaknesses. And on top of that it will add it's own, since no AI algorithm is anywhere near 100% perfect.
I think you have the wrong idea of what this will look like. The Larsen C ice berg is enormous, the size of Delaware. You couldn't get even a tiny part of the whole thing in frame, and the calving event will unfold over a period of hours or days, not minutes -- literally at a glacial pace (by the standards of human perception. By glacial standards it will be really fast.) A time lapse of satellite imagery will look cool, but video from the ground will almost certainly be very boring.
There is a great short film about the yugoslav war that depicts this really well. You can find it on youtube, type in "10 Minutes, a short film".
Because whitepapers look scientific and somewhat professional. At least enough to let people believe a given project is worth an ICO investment. (Not ORC, but still, guys c'mon just give us the information on a website)
very interesting! that seems to make sense. do you know of any good writing on examples?
No one is suggesting anyone should give every last cent to others.

The idea is that if everyone gives a small amount, then a large amount becomes available those unfortunate few that need it.
From a few days ago with more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14705888
That's a lot of money to keep the kids happy.

Kids eventually grow up and buy plane tickets of their own.
Even other people's seatback videos are distracting. Negative innovation for me.
Unfortunately, we can't have tech in-house in 90% of the businesses worldwide.
You're 100% correct. I had to learn these things the hard way.
Can I post mine :)

Here is a short but useful terminfo parsing library I wrote - https://github.com/agauniyal/termdb

And here is another for console decorations - https://github.com/agauniyal/rang

Recently I worked on a network programming library (still WIP) for college project - https://github.com/c10k/net/tree/develop

And here is a boilerplate to get you all started with Continuous Integration, Unit tests etc etc - https://github.com/agauniyal/cppb

I try to write good code everywhere but since I lack experience so the code might not be perfect. Hence I advise to go light on it. Have a good day :)
I've been using elm in production and it's been a great experience. I've never heard of re-frame (and never used cljs); could someone with knowledge on both give me a quick comparison between elm and re-frame?
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HOT TAKE - code reuse is good and all that, but I think there's a pressure to produce "open source" code that causes people to publish things that might be useful to them but are not entirely relevant.
This 99% invisible episode also talks about this (third segment):
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/you-should-do-a-story/
Agree with every point you said.

On a slightly lighter note, are you a developer?
If you don't need load balancing and redirects (i.e. like most people you don't have huge load requirements) just use A records instead of CNAME records.
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What do /g/ think about hacker news?
I suspect having peoples lives in your hands is a different kind of pressure than pleasing your manager
While it is indeed a problem that most graduates of IIT leave India, the solution is most certainly not to terminate its funding. There can be other mechanisms put in place, like owing the govt. sponsored fees if the worker decides to leave the country and such.
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How to know if a startup is about to go for an IPO?
I am looking for a list of companies that plan for an IPO in the next 5 years. What would be the way to find such companies?
The spreadsheet was totally useless. The most interesting information was missing :(
I had a Waring Blendor [sic], cat. no. 700A, with the widest range I've ever seen: "115 Volts, 6 Amps, 25 to 60 cycle A. C. - D. C." I haven't been able to pin down an exact date on this model, but it seems to date from the 1940s or so, when the U. S. power grid still hadn't completely settled on a standard. I've read that portions of Boston still had 110 volts DC in residential areas up through the 1960s, though I've been unable to find much detail about this.
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Yes, slavery could've framed better. However, I wanted to get the message across.
Suggestion: include a link to your twitch channel, in the first paragraph of this blog post.

It's good advertisement, and it lets people have a look at the results of your streaming. For all we know, your stream could be great, good, bad or not at all. We don't know.

Without that information, it is hard to know what to make of the rest of the blog post.
Why are you talking about GoPro and FitBit in the past tense?
I use an iPhone, although I have used Android many years ago (purely because of open source convictions), and I didn't know this. God, it's awful. I try very hard to use only paid apps on iOS even if there are free apps because I don't want to support the data-mining industry (not that paid apps can't participate in it, but at least I hope it's less likely).

Most apps cost less than a coffee, and personally I get more value out of the apps I use than from a cup of overpriced coffee.
Isn't this essentially a winner-take-all situation, though?

Capitalism tends towards winner-take-all systems, but not all winner-take-all systems are capitalistic. I find the example fitting.
The power frequency isn't that relevant for film, since it just powers motors on the cameras and projectors (or often just hand cranked). In fact, prior to the introduction of sound in films, the exact playback speed wasn't as important, and cinemas often varied.

Where it becomes relevant is for television, and in both cases the refresh rate matches the mains frequency. PAL is 50Hz interlaced, and NTSC is 60Hz interlaced.