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Legacy systems that haven't migrated to some other front end yet. There would be a lot of companies in this situation. That said, I'm not convinced this is the best approach. I think I'd prefer rewriting parts at a time of a system that big.
Thanks for the reply dagw
A market isn't an organization, and how would a university organize itself like a market?
Yeah, but possums carry rabies, among other nasty diseases. Using a BFH on a possum is a recipe for bad things happening to you.
Production cost in one location vs near-new cost in another perhaps? If you can produce one new in X for $1k, and sell a near-new one in Y for $2k, you might as well make cash on the shipping by carrying goods (if it has to travel to Y anyway, it's going to get beaten up in transit whether it's full or not).
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Tape is perfect for things like police bodycam recordings. They need to store a ridiculous amount of data for decades, and don't need access to it in real time. Cops/Courts/etc are happy to wait a day for video retrieval because the costs are so much lower.

I've also thought about how you could store medical patient data on tape, and retrieve it the day before a patient comes in. Or storing other types of data, and having ML record what gets retrieved when and try to predict it to reduce retrieval times. Too bad other storage is so cheap!
Looks pretty neat. Our GRPC services are currently bundled with a JSON-REST proxy as well as a GRPC-WEB proxy in the service itself and then placed behind an NGINX k8s Ingress. This could be a really nice way to extract those proxies as a sidecar.
What puts me at quite a dilemma is the question, if I were a wordpress blog would I pay 45 a month for wordpress? How about with no plugins? OK, now how about for 290 a month? Suddenly just learning to deploy without netlify, on your own, becomes a lot more economical than paying the convenience tax.
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Ah, thanks for the reply. I misunderstood your original comment. I thought you were talking about interfacing with existing utility company distribution networks instead of being completely distributed.
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Ask HN: Tips on starting back-end/web service development
So I started off my career a couple of years ago as full-stack developer, but I mostly do front-end work. I realized it really isn't my area, and I want to try a different area. I find back-end and web services much more interesting, and wouldn't mind switching to other areas.

I asked internally if I can be transferred but it may not happen in general, or may take another year or two. I tried applying to jobs but it's hard to get a response for those areas, or recruiters keep pushing me for full-stack development.

I feel I have to brush up my skills and was hoping for some guidance. Are there any recommended guides, or books? I know I should be working on a web service as a side project for practice, but not sure on how to start. Are there any open source projects or ideas to recommend? Any advice in general? Is there anyone who experienced the same thing (for reference, I am in Toronto, Canada if location plays a role in job search)?
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The use of commas was just fine.
A 'sub-organization' is just an alternative description of a heirarchy. Those sub-organizations will have to come together to make macro decisions, like which departments need more funding, how to handle building expansion and shared facility use, etc.
>> There's no sensible reason for containerized homes

What about trailer parks?
Let's say it that way: If that's an effective way for you to deal with this, I envy you for your work environment.
I understand, but still find it humorous that Google & Uber now say Levandowski didn't make positive contributions. It's like saying my ex-girlfriend that I lived with for 4 years and moved across the country for, was fat, lazy and a boring conversationalist. Obviously she was also amazing or the 4 years never happens.

Obviously people have both good and bad attributes. It seems pretty clear that Levandowski is a brilliant engineer, with his minor (lol) flaws being arrogance and a psychopathic lack of respect for authority and others.

It's not a unique story. Smart people who solve hugely valuable problems typically do it through obsessive work, this gives them less experience developing acceptable social behaviors, and when they get hugely successful and get to operate without normal social constraints they haven't developed a strong personal judgment to help constrain their behavior.

I once worked at a startup with a brilliant founding developer building a revolutionary new visual programming language. The entire company depended on their efforts, so they didn't get much pushback on their personal behavior. Over years this can be corrosive, and he often was quite the jerk.

Eventually there was a blow up, and the developer left and was forced to work for other companies where he was just an employee, no longer the most important person. I still kept in touch and marveled at how much more self aware he had become, and how much more the inner nice guy I had always known was there had come to the foreground.
The $1 valuation strikes me as way more arbitrary than $4k. What features mean that it should be near USD parity? It should either be above or below the USD based on >>insert valuation technique here<<. But why should it land near $1-2? Why shouldn't it be $0.003 or $30.00?

If it should somehow land on parity with fiat currency then maybe it should be a weighted mean of the global currencies but $1-2 seems incredibly arbitrary.
Perhaps you're undervaluing the degree to which desire promotes skill. Maybe it's that men have difficulties with emotional communication because they don't have a desire to communicate emotionally and, thus, have not built up the skill set.
Markets aren't organizations.
Setting up a church is easy in a great many respects. Getting tax-exempt status for it and/or your activities is far more involved I would expect.
> interactive/responsive programming -> IDEs, refactoring, time-travel debugging, visual programming spring to mind.

> one could argue we actually seem hard-wired through evolution for linguistic, logical, and symbolic thought.

I think you're still talking about programming environments layered on top of the text centric representation, while Victor seems to be talking about something a little different. Sure we can do some symbolic and linguistic manipulation, but consider that rigorous blueprints for physical products such as cars and buildings are 'diagrams', not text. So purely language based description and manipulation doesn't apply everywhere. Now, what if many programs, or parts of programs may be better represented not as text with symbols, but in some other form that we haven't discovered yet?
I suspect TaskRabbit never really made it big because of some combination of transaction costs

I was a TaskRabbit user. I'd say that they had a problem with quality control and maintaining a really good user experience. Too many of their workers were kind of meh. This was especially apparent with moving. I would be unpacking and something from storage and think to myself, "She did that!?" I also made the mistake of using them to hire someone for a move-out cleaning. Their interface was seemingly designed to generate misunderstanding.
Would one use this container as a base? I've tried learning Docker, but I often end up *just referring back to LXD when I get confused.

If I wanted to run a Python app, which serves gRPC, what would be the easiest path?

I currently use nghttp2 for gRPC proxy/routing
>> Obviously, people shouldn't need to sleep in cars. But the answer to that is a basic income.

Here we go again. Please show evidence that it works. Oh right, there isn't any. Please point to a reasonably complete economic model that shows it will work.
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As an academic (but not in those fields), let me offer the following:

Some of them believe that the only way to avoid being a failure is to work at a university.

Some of them believe non-academic work is worse than what they are doing already.

Some of them only want to live in their current town and this lets them do it.

Some of them have difficulty changing fields. Having a graduate degree, especially a PhD, in a humanities field can make it hard to get a job in another field.

A few of them are just not suited to doing other work. Most employers simply wouldn't want to hire them.
You're probably correct, but...

>Would you consider it "speculative mania" if GBTC traded at a steep discount to all other exchanges?

This is as shallow an argument as "If Jimmy broke his leg getting hit by a car, would you say I got hit by a car if I broke my leg?"

If you were also playing in traffic, then yeah.
I don't see how your point is anything against a 'corporate structure' with multiple layers of heirarchy. You are just describing how to run a good one.
My personal theory is that TaskRabbit is too general purpose for people to think to use it. When I am at a bar and want to be at my house, it's really easy for me to think of an app that will solve my problem.

If I don't have time to assemble the elaborate toy train set I bought for my kid, it will probably never occur to me that I could pay someone to drop in and do that task for me, even if I would happily pay someone if they offered.
What about a program that uses a ton of Java libraries?
A relative of mine works for quantuam, a tape producer. There is some interesting history about standardization and the big players ganging up on the little guys.

You can also buy tape drivees online :) https://www.newegg.com/Backup-Drives/SubCategory/ID-46

http://www.quantum.com/
Some other good resources I've come across recently:

https://www.groovehq.com/blog

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com
That's especially true for some professions (like law) but less true for most others.

For other fields, school prestige can help you get that first job, but the value of being able to say you were educated at X drops quickly once you start working. Once you've been working for a while, your portfolio, social skills, professional network, and track record are far more important than the issuer of your degree.
Norwegian who lives in Texas here. Can confirm -- in Norway this term is ancient and has its origins in fascination with "Wild west", "cowboys and indians" and all that rather than some fixation with e.g. George W. Bush.

Exact use of the term could have certainly evolved over time, of course.
What a shitty story
I think it's worth trying. A 100% faculty based university, with student employees and contractors doing the more low level administrative work. The faculty would take on the high level admin work, e.g. the IT or CS departments managing computer systems in partnership with the students.
"is no longer convinced" - that is very cheap
> That only works in industries like software etc. If one wants to be a lawyer, doctor etc they have no choice but to go to college, right?

For lawyers in some US jurisdictions, including California, no; California, for instance, requires general education of two years of college or “demonstrated equivalent intellectual achievement” prior to study of law, and several options for the study of law, including what amounts to apprenticeship in law office or judge's chambers. So traditional college or law school is not strictly required.
I flipped your and your roommates genders in my head, and was immediately incensed about the continued repression of women in our society - looks the program is working as intended. Um hmm.
that is another reason i am not much fond of "webapps".

Take Youtube for example.

If i scroll down to read some comments (yeah i know, i live dangerously for some reason that escapes me) and want to go quickly back up to the video, the natural reflex for me is to hit the home key.

But for some loony toons reason Google had decided to hijack the home key to mean "rewind video the 0 and start playing"!
I've heard right here on HN that even in the newer versions of Android, some (prominent?) apps don't work well if you don't grant them the unnecessary (from the user's point of view) permissions. I haven't seen something like that on iOS so far.

With the pace of Android adoption, the new permission model isn't even present on half the devices that have been tracked on the Android Dashboard. [1] Versions 6 and 7 combined are at 48% adoption as of this moment, according to this dashboard.

On the iOS side, the granular permissions model has been around since the last seven years or longer, IIRC. And iOS devices have a much higher rate of new OS adoption, which means almost every iOS device currently in use has the same permission model for a lot longer.

[1]: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html#Pl...
NB: as mentioned in the "AMA" page, the whole team also helped a lot to reduce the size of this app after I got into the game, it's not just golfed by me.

Cheers
Or at least where many different voices are published. :)
Not sure about the efficiency, but just to give you some ideas -
I use mindmup and have categorized the links or sometimes use OneNote to store them in topic notebooks along with notes.
Well, I agree. Note that I didn't criticize that fact here. However, I very much dislike the disposability of current products, because this is a harmful way of ensuring repeat purchases through perpetuating waste.

> don't be surprised that the components that go into them aren't designed to last very long

It's not surprising, but it's also not obvious that discrete electrical components like ICs can degrade with use over the span of the years. That's why I mentioned it.

> If the customer is willing to pay for a CPU that will run reliably for 50 years, someone will produce it.

It is a chicken-and-egg problem. No one will pay for such CPU because it costs a lot, and it costs a lot because no one will pay for it for competition and economies of scale to kick in...
Oh goodie, another opportunity to:

- prove my virtue by coming to the rescue of the modern vestal virgin

- prove my evilness by not demonizing men

- put my job at risk for speaking because someone who knows a Silicon Valley community manager who will forward them my information because of my failure to comply to their ideological norms

This author is a joke, HN is a joke, feminism means nothing more than "bow down to female supremacy or we will use digital intimidation to enforce your compliance"

Has it ever dawned on you that perhaps the resistance to feminism has nothing to do with females and everything to do with its marriage to Silicon Valley panipticons who regularly abuse their information advantages and are immune to regulation?
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I think automatically jumping to a defensive posture, even when one isn't being attacked (or there's nothing to defend) isn't a great response. It seems reasonable that I should be able to listen to someone else's gripes without jumping to the conclusion that I am somehow to blame.

In this article, it seemed to me that the author's goal was to try and get recognition for work performed, not to make their partner feel like they were not doing enough.
That's way too much for an adjunct. The article refers to 6 courses per semester, so she's probably pulling 12 per year at around $3k per course (assuming she's not teaching in summer).

Just so you have an idea, 4 courses per semester amount to what would be a full time job (if done right). In my experience most adjuncts / instructors have to teach up to 6 courses per semester, which results in them either being overworked, or doing a shitty job at teaching.

Not that this invalidates your conclusion, I find the difference between what the school charges versus what goes into the teachers' salary mind boggling.
the power density of these data centers is so high that power and cooling may be your limiting factor.

In which case having racks of hard drives where most of them are powered off half of the time would be feasible. But then you have to schedule powering up the right racks for the current set of requests.
Given the volume of data from ICE, $120/month is reasonable. I don't think they price data to profit from it -- just to ensure their systems are used by serious actors.
This kind of predictable snark falls way short of the standards of discourse for this site. Please review the guidelines and stop posting like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can a failed, or mildy successful, founder jump to the exec track and get some level of success faster than if they had just set out on that path to begin with? I’m thinking of those people who have run a business for 3+ years before it tanks or who are looking for a new thing and just decide to leave
Thanks a lot for the info!
Couldn't they try and do some copywriting? Wouldn't they be paid better for that? They definitely have the formal training to do it.
Detectorists.

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Things that enable previously impossible use-cases don't just go away.
Makes me think of Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land". Although arguably, they really had something going for them.

Anyway, always interesting to hold Heinlein's writing up to contemporary society. Or rather, to have comparisons spontaneously appear in one's thinking as one surveys circumstances.
If you use cloud storage, your provider's tapes are your tape backups.
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No, what Page is saying, which is corroborated by this article, that after Sebastian Thrun's departure, Levandowski actively inhibited the project. Because he didn't get along with Thrun's replacement, Anthony's squabbling caused project delays to the point where Page had to personally mediate between the two. Later, Levandowski solicited Chauffer employees to quit Google to join his startup.

When the CEO of a company has to step in to mediate disputes between two of his directors, there is something seriously wrong.

The article nor Page claim that alleged theft of trade secrets has somehow slowed down Waymo's progress.
> My personal experience is that many of these Saudi students struggled deeply.

I'm just curious, could you elaborate on this? Are you referring to them not being able to cope up academically? Or the cultural difference or racism.

I've known a couple of these students back from my college and they seemed to be doing alright.
Nothing. If anything, VS Code is one of the most complete Javascript IDE out there.

But I didn't interpret his comment that way. For me he wasn't saying that there's a better IDE Javascript than VS Code, but that there isn't any real IDE Javascript.

Which I tend to agree with. If we were talking about Typescript things might be different, but as far as Javascript goes, there's nothing on the level of what people are used when they talk about Java/C#/C++ IDEs.
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About 40 years, give or take.
There's other speculation that Glacier is using high density Bluray optical recording with something like 400 GB per disc.
Or just vanishing toolbars in general.

Also, i have found that swipe to refresh on web browsers to be a mixed blessing. All too easy to trigger when all i want to do is to scroll to the top of the page.
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I grew up lower middle class, but because of where I went to school and who I met along the way, I'm quite wealthy now. Things in life don't always play out linearly. Just sayin'.
It is interesting to read the comments here and compare them to my own experience. I've been married for more than a couple of decades and recognized both the author's complaint and the responses of the people in the article. I have also participated with my wife in very similar discussions.

Three things that I now believe, having lived through this, are that my wife and I see value and obligation differently (and pretty much always have), the "emotional" part is important because there are other emotions at play below the surface, and that the roles and issues your own parents had in this space will color the perceptions of you and your spouse.

I can thoroughly recommend that you clip or save this article into your archive of things and re-read it every few years for the next couple of decades and reflect back on the disagreements you and your spouse have had :-)
on the one hand, it's hard to read too much into this statement: what else is Larry going to say?

but if you assume it's accurate, you've really got to wonder who's driving the bus. A few months ago it's "let's make this guy rich if this succeeds" and letting him start businesses on the side, and then all of a sudden it's the opposite. It would almost make one think that, maybe, everyone isn't so great at assessing impact and contribution of an individual. And if that's the case, maybe everyone should slow the roll on the whole fetishization of engineers/visionaries that's such a favorite pastime in the valley?
> Most jobs don't care what degree you have as long as you have a degree

Then why do they require a degree at all? What specific skills will a degreed applicant have that a high school grad won't?
50 is not a large number. What's the problem?
«There would be more dishonest merchants if the possibility of chargebacks ceased to exist»

Yes there will probably be a minor uptick in merchants being dishonest. But I doubt it will be as bad as you make it to be. Many other factors push merchants to stay honest: legal repercussions, damaged reputation, etc.

«And to say that virtually no merchant acceptance[1] is an “irrelevant argument” is laughable»

Irrelevant was the wrong word. I meant illogical. Your argument is like saying in the early days of Blu-ray that "no one will buy Blu-ray discs because no one has Blu-ray players".

«Merchants have little incentive»

Second time you say it, second time you are wrong. I already pointed out their main (largest!) incentive to accept BTC is to avoid chargeback fraud. This fraud is a major problem for merchants. They can go bankrupt (eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Chp12sEnWk&t=45m0s) or be drawn into costly suits with no way to recover the money (https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/5r9nqi/credit_...).

Apple Pay P2P will be riddled with roadblocks. For starters most people will not be able to use it as it requires a $500 device (iPhone). I guarantee you there will be transaction limits, delays in access to funds, etc. All things that Bitcoin solves.
The word "barbarism" is quite an exaggeration.

Teaching salaries are low relative to education level because lots of people are socially pushed toward teaching (obvious example: many people's mentors are teachers). Programming doesn't have this dynamic.

I'm not opposed to unionization - I joined the new grad student union when I was getting my PhD. But I think you should focus on programmers' specific problems, like long hours and low vacation time, not on problems from other jobs which have low relevance.
There are paths to founder that do not require it to be "incredibly stressful".

Another pro for founder is that you can remove yourself from echo chambers if you choose. Maybe this falls under "Choose the people you work with".
Reading what you describe, I think Coinigy does this currently. I have a premium account and use it as an 'exchange aggregator' for my trade portfolio, to trade on and trade between many different exchanges with many trade pairs, and I believe it offers an API so that I could essentially abstract their frontend from the process. I pay about 20 dollars a month.
Well, it's a 3 years old app, and we like it in this "minimal" form. We've made a lot of other mini apps, tools and games though, you can find the link on top of xem.github.io/sheet