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The results are kind of confusing. If I put in zip code 22003 (not mine, but close, and the results are the same) it tells me "1 Result from Georgia" which is bell peppers from a place 611 miles away, then "10 Results from other states" including one place 14 miles away, and another 36 miles away.

The wording seems to imply that it thinks 22003 is in Georgia and the top result is the best, but it's in Virginia and the top result is the most distant one.

I'd also suggest making the on-page results a bit more prominent. My first reaction after typing a zip code was that I was required to give an e-mail address to view the results, and nearly gave up and left the page before realizing they were also displayed at the bottom. (The fact that only the "1 Result from Georgia" was above the fold didn't help, since it looked unrelated.)
Since I don't know the area – can you think of a reason this type of canteen is so popular if there's widely available, similar alternative? Sounds like there's something more to this – are the canteens simply cheaper because of subsidy? More efficient so less time waiting? Better location for the working population?
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Frustrates me to see techies running chrome. You guys should know better. Are you really willing to let google own everything just because chrome has this one tiny feature that you like?
I don't write software.

But if I owned the WSJ (or any publication) and a subscriber shared an article here-and-there on a forum I personally wouldn't be mad. Perhaps doing so would even lead to more subscribers.
The 2004 Venezuela referendum is proved to be fraudulent without using the Benford distribution (it is not a law). On that election the opposition votes where invented based on the number of signatures requesting the recall vote per voting table, yet these same votes follow Benford quite well. On the other hand the government votes not only not follow the Benford distribution but have a flat (uniform) distribution.

What I am trying to say is that the Benford distribution is very useful, but it is not a definite proof of anything. It can point you to where you should dig deeper.

For more info about the 2004 Venezuela fraudulent election see:
http://esdata.info/pdf/medina-es.pdf (Spanish)
http://esdata.info/papers
Yes, but not as much as I originally thought, in relative terms: https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/money-does-grow-trees-us-fores...

As the world’s fourth-largest exporter of forest products
(behind the European Union, China, and Canada), the United
States maintains a steady share of the growing global market
at just over 10 percent.
That's the thing: good ideas seem unlikely, otherwise everyone would be doing them. IBM certainly didn't expect the DOS deal to be world-changing.

Someone should write a book, "100 Decisive Tech Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present," a tongue in cheek reference to https://www.amazon.com/100-Decisive-Battles-Ancient-Present/...

The book is excellent, and analyzes battles with a clinical detachment not really found in most history texts.

But each battle is decisive: it shaped the world. There are many skirmishes that would be interesting to analyze but out of scope for the book. That's what makes it a fascinating collection.

If we had to think of 100 technology "battles" that reshaped the world, I wonder what they would be? There is so much freedom in the criteria that it's hard to know where to constrain it: Electricity, plumbing, grocery stores, etc have all shaped the world. Many had a "decisive" effect in that it was technology vs technology, and one tech came out the winner.

I think computing alone could fill a book of 100 tech battles, and it would be interesting to try. Which stories were decisive? It would take months to decide, but it would be enjoyable work.
This whole thing goes back to the accounting process of measuring "throughput" rather than some fixed number such as inventory.

This book "The Goal" was incredibly beneficial for me in understanding the concept of throughput. While the book is a parable focused on manufacturing, it can be easily applied to companies in tech.
https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0...
If these “facts” are so well established it should be easy for you to cite a source.
The guy manages to really make that a side note. He is a really talented coder and engineer.
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I see two problems with this line of argument. One is that specializations are useful and are often more prevalent in practical use. Examples:

1. Just because a while loop subsumes the functionality of a for loop doesn't make the for loop useless.
2. Algebraic data types are technically subsumed by inheritance and predicate dispatch [1]. That doesn't make ADTs useless, because often you don't want to lug the extra baggage of the more powerful model around with you, especially for simple use cases.

The other problem is that "more general" is in the eye of the beholder. For example, to a Smalltalk programmer, most use cases for monads look pretty primitive, as they're limited to user-defined control flow on a sequence of operations, nothing more complicated; they'd be implemented in Smalltalk as operations on arrays of blocks. Keep in mind that Smalltalk doesn't even have if statements in the language proper: `ifTrue:` and friends are methods of the Boolean class. Similar things apply to other control structures, such as `whileTrue:`, not to mention that plenty of data types offer their own control structures. And the continuation monad in the article looks a lot less impressive compared to Seaside [2], one of the original continuation-based webservers. (I'll also add that the reason for `.then(..)` or `async/await` is often that the underlying languages do not support continuations, not that they model the non-existent continuations imperfectly.)

[1] See "Predicate Dispatch: A Unified Theory of Dispatch" by Michael Ernst, Craig Kaplan, and Craig Chambers, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/dispatching-eco...

[2] http://seaside.st/about/examples/counter
Did you use ReSwift and ReKotlin, or something else?
The Video Speed Controller Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...) allows you to speed up Netflix or any video that uses HTML 5 for playback.
But you need to be able to supply a private army to defend that land. Just because you own it doesn't keep others from raiding your farm fields in a doomsday scenario.

I guess one advantage of buying the property now (and vacationing there a few times a year) is if it is a relatively unknown area, and you can gain an advantage by familiarizing yourself with it.
This sounds like a good starting solution for our team. Thanks!
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I don't see anything wrong with this. All most everything done by governments are aimed at getting votes. Humans primarily operate by keeping it's self interest in mind. Giving food to poor at a reduced rate is definitely better than not giving food to poor. If this article inspires other governments to do similar things even if the primary motive is getting more votes I don't mind. I don't see why you are so pissed off about this.
Knowledge is the food of the soul. Problem is we are all binge eating.

Edit : Good TED talk on this topic https://www.ted.com/talks/jp_rangaswami_information_is_food [2012]
If we run out of all of this other stuff, I'm going to be really worried about the scotch shortage too...
I was studying for a cert and needed to review some material faster so I started doing 1.5x and 1.7x up to 2x. What's amazing is how quickly you adapt. The pauses in speech seem to take FOREVER, even at 2x, and when you slow down to 1.5x it seems positively glacial. But you're right, you need to focus. It leaves a lot less time for letting your mind wander. You don't get anything for free. I sometimes watch NFL condensed games and they cut out all the non-play activity so you can watch a game in 40 mins-- which sounds great, but you realize it's 40 mins of intense focus if you want to follow what's going on.
I'll counter your anecdata with mine.

I usually take Uber in India, and often ask the driver about his work, how much he makes, etc. This is for a North-Indian Tier-2 city.

The answer usually is that he makes INR 6000/month.

Now, I have eaten in middling restaurants where a meal for 2 came to INR 2500. In fact, I've been to cafes where a "meal" of tea, snacks, etc. alone came to over INR 700/pp. You would be hard pressed to get a decent meal in a clean, hygenic and modern restaurant for INR 200 anywhere in North India.
I'm not sure many IT functions are not cost center functions. Almost none of them, including software development, are revenue drivers for most companies.

Like anything else in business this seems like a case where some hard, one size fits all rule is occasionally misapplied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#cite_ref-...
Don't worry about "getting even" with a company. If a company is the best fit for you out of all the companies you interviewed at, you'd be doing yourself a disservice to cancel your application.
IMHO, Perl was hurt more by its sigils than the protracted P6 development. There was a lot of revulsion to sprinkling your code liberally with $, @, and %. Many many comments about writing unreadable line noise when programming Perl.

Python's genius was to force programmers to indent their code, making sure it had at least a modicum of structure.
"However, accounting systems count inventory as an asset, so and any significant reduction in inventory had a negative impact on the balance sheet...successful JIT efforts tended to make senior managers look bad"

This shows a poor understanding of managerial accounting.

High "working capital" requirements, of which inventory is a big part, are a huge drain on free cash flow. Any company that sees its inventory as a % of assets go DOWN would view it as a positive by both its management and investors.
The problem is funding. Lack of funding makes it unrealistic.

There are these small teams and they amass a lot of very specific knowledge about a certain, very particular type of fusion, and ... then they fizzle out financially. Or just burn out psychologically.

Or not. I might be too pessimistic.

And eventually we'll figure it out.

There are incremental gains every year. ITER is "growing" every day: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZzwQDDag5eP4Rs-2d4nX5g
Am I being silly or did github just re-invent forums?
Author of the post here.

Bazel recognizes it's compiling on macOS, so it's using clang-compatible flags, which are incompatible with gcc. You should use the default host compiler, as stated in the [configure output][1] in the post. /usr/bin/gcc is for all intents and purposes clang on macOS.

gcc-7 is only installed to provide libgomp which is otherwise missing from a standard macOS installation.

I'll update the post to make it clearer. Thanks for pointing that out!

[1]: https://gist.github.com/crmne/a22858264d68dd9fe935fc4ee48e04...
This assumes the African societies were of lower standard than European societies of mid XIXth century.

I think it was not the case, most European countries were simply horribly brutal, and it did not stop in the XXth century even after independence. Someone who was in CDR after the independence told me that Belgians used the local workforce to build a 65km long montainous road to the west of Kivu. There were 2000 dead workers. That is what African colonialism and post colonialism really is.

(edited: Replaced east by west)
Same here. At 1x speed all but the most dense of lectures give my mind time to wander, and then I miss a few minutes of material. At 2x speed I find it much easier to stay focused, and can actually spend 30-60 minutes listening to a podcast without getting distracted. The fact that it also saves time is merely a bonus for me.
Is this similar to Slack?
Well one feature of podcasting is that you don't have a length limitation. Seems like a forced thing to do. That's why I enjoy german podcasts. Often very long 2-5 hours, depending on the format. Speed-listening of course, usually 1.70x to 2x.
Here in Berkeley there's this amazing company https://www.imperfectproduce.com/ that delivers veggies that are not nice enough for markets.
That's not the basic theory at all. Startups are a narrow niche of new businesses that are exploring new business models and/or designed for scaling quickly. Building wealth is for the founders of the business, the others are employees doing their jobs, in exchange for a salary.

Equity is a type of compensation designed to help lower costs, mitigate risk and improve motivation for both sides, but it is neither necessary nor required and there are plenty of businesses that have grown without it. There is absolutely no "get rich together" scheme in place outside of some unfortunate silicon valley cult/culture attitudes.

Founders are the business owners so they get the proceeds commensurate to their ownership. There's nothing wrong with that and employees are free to start their own business if they want more control (and work and risk). This is how corporations have worked since the beginning.

I'm not sure why you think startups are different, what they worked like "before" and most worryingly why you think founders are "getting away with" creating wealth for themselves by building a business.
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Regulation shouldn't be a problem: if the USA won't allow them, there are plenty of other countries that might.
So we see the resurgence of eugenics. This seems to be the last resort of the racists...
The commonwealth was a civilization as much as the roman empire were.
It's also the OS that runs on the ARM chip (I believe it's a modified Apple Watch setup) that drives the touchbar on the current MacBook Pros.
The article states that those with inability to pay were able to get their licenses back by entering into a payment arrangement. This is targeted at negligent non-payers, not people unable to pay.
I suppose that's exhibit A for the gravity shortage.
I find 2x great for getting more information from non fiction lectures and the like but terrible for movies/novels. You lose a lot of the emotion and it just sounds odd and "chipmunk" like.
Besides, those metals are real and have industrial uses, whereas cryptos are just a series of bits that the market collectively agrees holds a value.
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There is Guillermo Iguarán who contributes to Rails. I personally have contributed to several large geospatial projects like GeoNode / GeoServer and Inasafe and bits to other projects like Django/GeoDjango in the past.

In retrospect I should have used a different term to differentiate people that are sharing smaller projects with liberal licenses from people who regularly write patches for the linux kernel.
There's consensus on Redux - that's not what I'm talking about. There seems to be a fair amount of desire for something that simplifies "straightforward" state management. The Redux maintainers don't seem to be interested in this, preferring it to be something created by the community. As far as I can see though, no one is filling that gap.
Beginning in 2019, and not by 2019. Big difference.
Here's a link that doesn't hit the paywall: https://www.wsj.com/articles/volvo-promises-uber-fleet-of-se...

For anyone sharing from the WSJ, you can "email" an article to yourself from the left rail on desktop and use the emailed link to share with friends.
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For context, usually you need to use something like scikit-learn for feature engineering; looks like Google want to manage some of that in-house.

There is also some overlap with Keras’s preprocessing tools (now native to TensorFlow), so there’s some nice synergy.
I'm not going to weigh in on copy/pasting this specific article, but in more general terms, I like the approach used by LWN -

Subscribers get access to articles, and can choose where to share them.

https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#slinks
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Ah, the second definition isn't one I've ever seen used? A factoid may be used inappropriately to support an unrelated argument, ("the last pirates were seen in the 1800s, right as climate change started") but they're still _true_.
Volvo is very, very serious about safety. I'm amazed they're this confident.
That doesn't fully explain it though. Many of the worst schools also have some of the most funding per student.
I've heard a lot of chatter amongst non-tech people about Facebook etc spying on the public. I think the general population is finally starting to care a little bit about privacy, so that might help Firefox's numbers a bit.
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You are of course correct, but the currency that is 1/100 of a pound is still the penny, plural "pence". In this case, 5 cents still doesn't work.
Bullshit != Knowledge. Worse, bullshit benefits from the sharp end of Brandolini’s Law.
Related: I speed-watch all non-music videos at least at 1.25x or 1.5x, sometimes 2x.

I wonder how many people select tech videos based on length? Surely YouTube / Vimeo etc. has studied this? I wish there was a search option that let me filter content based on length.
As an ex-freelancer, you're trying to do too much & don't have the credibility I'd want to turn over my business to your system. I have my own systems in place - my own website, my own contracts, etc. so why would I want to use yours? Will they be relevant to my market?

It's like looking at a cable TV lineup where I might want 1 channel but have to subscribe to a bunch of others. $29 was a lot of money to me for a SaaS as a freelancer, where some months were lean and I tried to keep expenses as low as possible.

The "Personal assistant" that will answer chat queries seems like something that would be worth $29 on it's own. Is the PA a human or a bot? I'd definitely be interested in a 24/7 message taking service that could answer simple questions about my service set (and escalate more complex inquiries) for $29/mo. It sucked to have to answer my phone or get an email from a potential client when I was on-site with another client. Generic office answering services were expensive and didn't work well with freelancer setups.

I'd at least look at segmenting your pricing model - have a "Rolls Royce" option (human PA, custom responses, etc) to make $29/mo seem like the cheap option, and a starter plan I can start with, remove the risk of signing up (30 day free trial?), allow me to choose which features I want to sign up for.

Also for the first 100 or so users, you won't find them through random web signups - you'll find them in person, where you can talk to them and figure out what they really want. You don't have a product that solves a market problem right now, you have a hypothesis.
They had as much (or rather as little) to do with ‘nations’ as the Roman Empire. Vast conquered areas, spanning several religions, languages, and etnicities.
Not just podcasts, I also do this with YouTube when someone talks really slow or if it's an instructional video I just want to get the information out of.

Having hotkeys ">" and "<" also help control the speed when needed.
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My two favorite podcasts are Sawbones and Welcome to Night Vale. I don't, like, personally care if people listen to them at high speed. It doesn't bug me and I don't judge them for it. My personal experience (descriptive, not prescriptive) follows:

Sawbones is an edu-comedy podcast about medical history, and I tried listening to it faster and just didn't enjoy it as much. I really enjoy the comedic timing and interplay between the hosts, and it's already information rich enough that I feel fine listening to it at normal speed is fine.

One of the things I really like about WtNV is the almost menacing, deliberate pacing of the narrator. His speech is so perfectly even, regardless of the content, that it's almost hypnotic. I tried that at 1.25x and it felt off, but again it's a personal preference thing.
Speed aside, I can't imagine listening to any attention-demanding podcast for more than 3 hours. Apart from straight up brain strain it wouldn't result in a lot of knowledge retention.
I don't think Firefox+tracking protection uptake is going to put more pressure no the ad networks than adblocker uptake has done already...
Ask HN: Where to get advice on devops?
Is there anywhere I can ask questions or bounce ideas for various aspects of my server setup with knowledgeable people?

Stack Overflow is obviously against such open ended questions but I can’t seem to find a reputable alternative or even know where to approach such people for maybe the odd hour or 2 of advice.

Stuff like, with data X, what’s the best way to store for fast querying, how would I plan out a certain type of job queue and so on.

There’s nothing so big that it’s worth hiring on a normal basis (and prob couldn’t afford) but I’d love to speak with someone on occasion to get pointers on how I’d approach certain problems.

So far I’ve done research on the web in general but it’s overwhelming and I can’t really gauge what is appropriate, hence the desire to talk through with someone who’s been there and done it.

Any ideas?
What a coincidence it would be if people's optimal speaking speed, both reading out loud and conversational, was equal to their optimal audio comprehension speed. There could be some evolutionary justification for this to be true, but it would still be remarkable.

I would love to find data on listening comprehension based on audio speed and activity, whether it be lying down, driving, doing chores, walking, or exercising. My intuition is that there are many people that best comprehend the material at around 1.5x-2.0x and comprehension drops precipitously at both ends. My guess is that, as with many mainstream broadcast choices, the canonical broadcaster voice is purposefully slow to cater the widest possible audience, including ESL listeners.
There's a blind guy in my office building and I sometimes hear his iPhone doing voiceover in the hallway. If I didn't know better I'd have a hard time believing there are even words in it.
People snidely - and probably correctly - point out this is done for votes. That just seems overly cynical. Incentive alignment is a good thing - it's the whole basis of capitalism. I don't get why people feel the need to point it out in this manner.
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Yeah, personally I use it - I think it hits the sweet spot of making simple things simple while still allowing for complexity perfectly.

It's a shame I can't really teach it, however - the fact is, it doesn't have enough mindshare right now and part of the reason people take courses is to learn marketable skills. For better or for worse, nearly every React shop is looking for devs who know Redux.
Humor, and human language in general, is complicated and its appropriate use is subjective.
They're not. It appears that they've made a deal (without specific commitments) to sell Uber vehicles that Uber can turn into fully self-driving vehicles if it can. There would still appear to be some reputational risk but Volvo isn't making claims that the cars will be self-driving out of the factory.