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What HN needs to stop is how someone can take it upon their self to reply to half of the top level comments to infect each thread with their world view.

It's one of the most annoying HN phenomena because now each top level thread is dominated by the exact same debate and they get to fight a bunch of battles in parallel. Totally kills the discussion.

The only way 5 comments in 2 hours is acceptable to me is if it was in the comments section of the same submission. I think some people need to be ushered out of the theater so others can participate.
"Washington’s law (1792), the first American law on profit sharing, said that the tax credits would be divided 5/8 to the crew and 3/8 to the owners, recognizing that both workers and shareholders play an important role in building up an industry. Furthermore, the law said that the ship owners could only benefit from the tax credits if they honored the broad-based profit sharing on profits on the entire catch that was common in this industry for well over a century. When Jefferson asked the largest ship owner in Philadelphia about the practice, he said that the ships with profit sharing were more productive and more efficient than the ships with simply fixed wages." I would call it human capitalism making sense economically http://fortune.com/2014/04/17/southwest-airlines-profit-shar...
I am not sure I follow :) the logic. This is a random list of product companies that I remember it's a small fraction of companies with large dev. offices in Ukraine. GitLab was a Ukrainian startup and has a large number of developers in Ukraine. Samsung had about 700 developers as far I remember.
The compensation trends have very low correlation to how things are in US. The largest local $ making companies are mainly gambling, crypto and porn but they are not very public although many of them a really huge.
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The main problem as I understand is that although there are a thousand examples of Indus texts, the longest one is 17 characters. And there are no bilingual inscriptions.

But I do wonder if there isn't a side channel, or just some way of doing it without requiring the usual necessary elements.
Because China is now the world leader in manufacturing technology.
Hindi.
Care to provide a reference? Also I do not think it matters. At least one of them is a prominent economist.
The comment you're replying to is saying Selling planes is complicated. Not building them. Convincing congress to continue the program falls under selling.
Interesting that the foray into Haskell led him to pass in a _value_ rather than a function ... which is exactly what "Functional Core, Imperative Shell" proposes.

(Functional Core, Imperative Shell is often linked with Hexagonal / Onion / Ports and Adapters. It is a bit more opinionated about using values as boundaries I believe ... and I think it is right).

EDIT: TFA is a good article, worth reading.
Japanese Friendship Garden :)
An hour long meeting is not a standup. The whole reason it is called a standup is that it is short enough that no one gets uncomfortable standing through the whole meeting.
There's a reason for me quoting the CEO's as 'fun note', the context of my statement is complete different.
You can do physical loopback by connecting the two ports together. No switch required. A DAC cable is ~25USD.
Make it like life or car insurance. I don't pay as high of a premium as a person with DUI history. Why is my health insurance premium the same as a person with an unhealthy lifestyle that frequents the doctor far more than I do for ailments resulting from their poor dietary choices?
Graham factors will get looked at closely in litigation because post-grant challengers always allege that the patent claims they are challenging are invalid because they are obvious. Patent owners will defend charges of obviousness by: trying to distinguish their patent claims from the prior art; arguing that combining the prior art references is unreasonable; and by arguing that the Graham factors tilt in their favor.

If a claim is obvious, it is easier to prove it by finding written evidence (references) and then argue that it would be reasonable to combine those references. If a challenger has to rely on an absence of Graham factors they are in trouble. That means they could not find any published prior art references in the entire world that would be reasonable to combine to disclose all of the elements of the claims being challanged.

Note, litigators will raise every other reason they can think of to invalidate the claims they are challenging.

During examination, obviousness is often the sticking point. In crowded arts it can take several rounds of prosecution to overcome obviousness rejections -- as it should.
Infosys has a good product offering. And generally spins of its successful products into separate companies.

They also have a fairly successful banking product called Finacle.

Tata by the way also has a lot of product work going on. Wipro too.

Many services firms also do pretty high tech work by the way. Even things like Chip design.

Just because they don't blog and tweet about it, or talk about it in conferences doesn't mean they don't do good work.
The conservative movement was engineered in its current state to meet the needs of western resource owners, who wanted to maximize their return on resource extraction and socially conservative folks who were hesitant about the scope of social change.

That, and the excesses of the environmental movement created this weird environment we have today. The gun culture people I grew up with were deeply concerned about waterfowl and loss of wildlife habitat, as they felt a duty to be stewards to it. Now, that’s devolved into this sort of gun porn.
Sounds EXACTLY like an industry ripe for disruption
Brasil will win World Cup 2018 :)
No. Frankly demand for "skilled" IT professional is high as ever. Even in traditional tech like .net and Java(spring).

This is just some big IT staffing companies cleaning house.

Source: Anecdotal - I work in Indian IT. In fact hiring for at least 10 positions at my company. It's mainly the skills gap. At these big companies people get stuck in routine jobs and don't keep up with changing tech landscape.
I’ve fasted for more than two weeks while suffering from a blockage large enough to prevent eating solid food. I still have Crohn’s. It’s possible and certainly important to manage inflammatory symptoms with diet, but unfortunately curing the disease through diet is just impossible. I’m glad it’s worked out for your friends. I just hope you aren’t preventing those with serious disease who need proper medical treatment from following through.
Unfortunately water fasting is not effective in treating chronic procrastination.
I really want to love templates, but I find many aspects to be quite confusing.

(1): I just want to deploy a binary file. This does not seem possible with templates (unless they're defined inside .go files, but never seen anyone do that).. also rather annoying that the tmpl files must be located in a specific directory rather than located among their components.. but I guess it wouldn't make much sense anyway since they won't be a part of the binary file.

(2): it's really difficult to find good and medium-large scale projects that are using templates

(3): I have no idea what's the right way to initialize and execute templates, this includes when the same template will be called in multiple funcs. I know how I can do it, but I don't feel confident that I'm doing it correctly..

(4): it's really exhausting to keep template code clean. With Go (and various JS frameworks) the code is automatically formatted/linted/whatever, but with templates nada.. can't even figure out how to minimize it for production.

(5): no idea what to do with css/js.. sometimes use inline, other times call a static file. Static files obviously benefit from being cached.. not sure how I'm supposed to cache the templates

I can't really tell if there are any speed gains to using templates, so it feels like a lot of sacrifices for no obvious gain. I do think templates would be godlike if they featured vue-like structure with "template/script/style" syntax, and was easily minified and compiled into the binary. But I guess I can keep dreaming about the last part :)
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I'm not accusing you of anything. I just think it's ridiculous for the Unicode people and others to have such a double standard. It harms tibetans, and it shows a disturbing political bias.
This is spot on. The incentive system so much more promotes management careers that anybody who wishes to go down the tech path comes across as stupid.

Its very common in services companies to treat tech people as somebody who don't have the chops to do prestigious management work.

Do this for sufficient number of years and eventually you will have very few people who want to do any real work and most will want to be managers.
Related, sadly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15718470
To answer my own question, using numbers from [1]:

U235 = 79,390,000 MJ/kg

1 kWh = 3.6MJ

1kg u235 = ~22,000,000kWh

1g u235 = ~22,000 kWh of energy

For the HB11 reaction:

1000 / .014 = ~21,000 kWh/g

So about the same as current fission. Except without the nasty byproducts.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-milligrams-of-uranium-is-need...

edit: complete failure of math.
Thanks - I did not know that.

Full-automation should be possible then - no need for the nurse to get the patient on the scales.

That's probably what #rayiner meant when he wrote that the solution is obvious.
City-owned highspeed internet networks getting a look with net neutrality repeal
Good to know but it is a no go since WhatApp is ending support for BlackBerry on Dec 31st, 2017. https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000617/WhatsApp-support-for-mobi... . May be it is time for me to move away from Blackberry altogether.
Very fair argument. Let's dissect the argument, engineering firms have improved their soft skills and value proposition. Assuming these firms are US based and all american, then by going popular wisdom here, how can american firms possibly have poor soft skills than Indian firms! I'm sure there were many instances when quality received from Indian firms were abysmal. However, imo, it's sort of online propaganda-ish that Indian firms are terrible choice, compared to american vendors. Pick and choose your best anecdote. I recall, months back, there was some incident at BA(british airways, I suppose) and whole incident was spinned as Indian contractors in India messed up. Later, VP of the company, clarified that mistakes were made locally(read UK). I feel hatred rather than facts, largely dominate HN, Reddit opinion.
> There is no signal to developers that an implementation is flawed, and so mistakes can happen without being noticed. That is, until a new version of the protocol is deployed and your implementation fails, but by then the code is deployed and it could take years for everyone to upgrade.

> If a protocol is designed with a flexible structure, but that flexibility is never used in practice, some implementation is going to assume it is constant.

Perhaps this is a naive thought. I remember several years ago Mozilla announced its experimental browser rendering engine (Servo) passed Acid 2 tests [1]. So why can't we come together and create such standard tests so that server implementers and middlebox implementers are encouraged to include them as part of their QA score?

I know this is an optional. There is no mandate, but it sounds like a start. Isn't there some network vendor organization the major players are part of?

[1]: https://research.mozilla.org/2014/04/17/another-big-mileston...
What is said is partially true. The curriculum wont get updated soon enough to catch up with industry trends. However Basic and Logo or Excel is not true. I graduated in 2004 and Java was the most prominent language we used, followed by C++ and then C. All of these are very relevant even today.

However it was upto the students to explore more outside of what is taught in the curriculum. Even if you are not willing to actually learn programming you can still get good enough marks in both theory and practical exams. We had four practical projects but most of the projects were widely "purchased" from ready-made shops instead of the students doing it themselves, and the instructors were not competent enough to figure out if the projects are copied or self-made.

What should be taught in modern day schools should be Assembly (to get the basics), C/C++, ML/AI, Java, Algorithms and Data structures (Can't stress this enough - even a full year can be dedicated for this) and have at least one project each semester and have all projects scrutinised by external faculties.
Tech appears to be going through a relatively soft landing at the moment. The past few years have seen a series A crunch affect the VC and startup worlds. More recently, the cult of the startup founder has started to crack with ethics, sexual harassment and poor behavior.
Is it possible to compile to plain javascript for IE11?
Having moved from engineering to management, I can attest that at least some of these terms have specific meanings where I work, except when they're abused. It's just that they used to sound like nonsense when I weren't faced with management responsibilities.

KT - the expectation is that the recipient should be able to perform the conductor's responsibilities after the knowledge transfer.

Stakeholder - there is a very specific group of people (mostly VP and above) that fall into this category. They need to be "kept in the loop" (another bullshit word, I suppose) when major changes to features, resources or business strategy are made.

ROI - for us, this boils down to a number, either in dollars or an expected change in a KPI (another bullshit term?)

On the same page - when a meeting/mail thread is started with this intent, the idea is that multiple teams with different/conflicting priorities need to agree on something so that they won't later claim "why weren't we told about this?"

Going forward - it's better than saying "from now on", which feels like a finger-wag to me

Synergy - yup, it's mostly bullshit
If I were an online advertiser or a company selling to online advertisers, I would be happy with these findings.

If I were a user concerned with privacy and tracking I might wonder why the authors of the HTTP/2 standard did not make any efforts to address this type of fingerprinting.
thurrott in my opinion because he wasn't afraid to bash on Microsoft SUPER hard after Windows 8 dropped.
In Ukraine it can not be inflated by definition as there is basically 0 vc money. The companies are profitable and are paying market rates.
Ask HN: Is there any one single job that is the “most popular HIT” on MTurk?
I am genuinely curious.

I have never seen any stats on MTurk that I am sure that Bezos keeps closely guarded.

But does anybody that uses Mechanical Turk have any insight as to what it is most commonly used for? If anything?
I can vouch for some of that as well, although I disagree with some of it. The domain/system knowledge is there, but there's likely a relatively small group of people that know all of the ins and outs. And the group that knows about inpatient medications likely isn't the the same that knows about outpatient medications. And maybe the ordering of meds is different from the administration of meds.

I think the point about FK constraints is perhaps a little too generalized. In a 5000+ table schema (which is entirely accurate!), I'm sure there are some tables which don't have FK constraints enabled. But I know for a fact that there are FK constraints on some of the tables (because I created them!)
It could be fueling issues. I once had a Summer flight which was suppose to be direct from Athens to NYC that had to make a pitstop at Heathrow for fuel. It was so hot in Greece they couldn't fit enough fuel on board to jump the pond without a top off.
I expect that as robots, in a loose sense, become better at fine movements, you'll have more and more "near-sourcing". An early example of this: Brother, the printing company, had an exhibit at CES a couple years ago that really wowed: http://techfaster.com/brother-brought-some-awesome-sewing-ma....

For now, there is at least an initial "activation energy" hump to get over in terms of training people to assemble shoes. A sneaker or dress shoe may seem simple, but there are hundreds of individual stitches that are essential for a quality product. If you're interested, look into the story of American Giant. To make clothes in North Carolina, they had to implement extensive training for the entire supply chain for their clothing.

Some simpler footwear products are actually already made in the U.S. The custom orthotics for my running shoes were measured for and made in the U.S.
Thanks. I didn't realize the erroneous Link
On the contrary, a real language uses .EQ. . == is for the chattering classes who use the # sign when posting to social media. You appear to be eating quiche. (-:

* http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/ibm-026/ibm-026-ref-27.j...

Rex Conn knows how a real language does relational operators.

* https://jpsoft.com/help/conditionalexpressions.htm#r
No. Austrian economics has virtually zero support in mainstream academia or industry. You won't more than a handful of people who manage money for a living who think Austrian school is sensible. Keynesianism as Keynes wrote it is full of holes, but is the biggest contributor to modern economic thought. Good writeup on reddit a few years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/ip2nb/know_your_...
Galaxy S5, but sure
We are/were already there.

Use some thing like Lisp and Functional programming really well and 99% of all the current programmers can be put out of job.
Some branches of Christianity believe strongly identify with a tight social hierarchy. God->Man->Woman. Married women are to submit to their husbands. Unmarried women are subjects of their fathers.

That’s why traditionally Kings were always coronated by bishops and linked to the church. There was an implicit endorsement by god. Today, churches with these types of philosophies are a key part of republican get out the vote movements. That’s why politicians kowtow to people like Falwell.
This was true about 10 years ago. But these days I find indian teams are equally as talented as Silicon Valley.

There was lot of fluff that was hired during those outsourcing boom years and obviously they need to let go off the less talented but it’s not right to color everybody with the same brush.
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I understand it's not going to happen - I linked one such conversation in my first comment. I think the reasoning is silly (His definitions might be "right", but he's the only one using those definitions), but I'm not arguing with them about it.

And I agree that `make clean` isn't perfect, I think that is what makes the fact that `tup clean` doesn't exist even more annoying. A lot of people recommend including an auxiliary Makefile or script to do the cleaning, but it can never be as good as if `tup` just did it itself since it is aware of exactly what files it as created during the build process.
One does not need to look at ancient civilisations for unknown technologies.

If you are somewhat interested in the history of technology, one will quickly see many examples since the mid 19th century of technologies that came into existence and are no more. Due to the way technological development flows, once a particular technology disappears, it can be difficult if not impossible to duplicate it even 20 to 30 years later.

If one reads fiction from the forties, you will find references to specific types of technology (especially in the space opera genre) that were in existence at that time and were highly advanced for that time. Yet, different types of technology have replaced those kinds in the years that followed and onto today.

There is much we do not know about how things were done in past centuries and, surprisingly, we cannot duplicate those crafts today. We don't have the required technology. Yet there are nanotechnologists who are actively studying to duplicate those century old unknown today processes.
I laughed at this -- I believe Keybase is also electron and that's on my must-install list every time.

Props to VS Code - that, along with the excellent Markdown Enhanced Preview and (less excellent, but usable) VSVim extension is my note-taking app ... on my HP Omen laptop loaded with openSUSE Tumbleweed. Of the 7 or so people that I work directly with at the company that employs me, all of them run Linux (with most using Manjaro) and VS Code is pulled up on one of the monitors on every one of them.

Who'd have thunk that a bunch of developers running Linux would be writing the vast majority of their code using a Microsoft product built natively for Linux named after another development tool who's name is usually proceeded by a profanity when spoken by a typical *nix geek.
I simply see this as fruits of cheaply and easily accessible internet and affordable Laptops. Bulk of the tech there is, is open source and you can learn anything from any corner of the world.

If you are in a competitive economic space, you will even have sufficient motivation to learn.
You've locked onto the exact reason here. The incentives are all wrong.

Learn how to work people like a psychopath manager? Unlimited earning potential. Learn hard skills? Pigeonholed as "too valuable" to promote while being taken advantage of by those psychopaths until you connect enough dots to expose them or are deemed no longer necessary to their evil plan.
I like Gruber, but this article has so many words for so little content.

As far as I understood it, he basically said, in many words, that iPhone X (and, by extension, removing the home button) is the beginning of a new age for the iPhone. That's well and good, but I don't agree with him.

The competitive gap between iPhone and everything else is WAY smaller than it was in 2007, and with Google in the mix and actually-good cameras being available on Android now, that gap is becoming smaller by the day. Face ID is all well and good, but I don't think it's a major differentiator like multi-touch was in 2007.
>You can't actually go to your local coffee shop with 10k in Bitcoin and buyout the stock. They may treat it like $2.

My father taught me a great lesson along those lines growing up.

I used to collect baseball cards, and was thrilled when I realized that one of them was "worth $20" in some baseball card collecting book that I had.

I ran to my father and exclaimed with great joy that "I have a baseball card and it's worth $20!" (which was a lot of money for an 8 year old at the time...)

To which he said, "Not to me it's not. I wouldn't give you anything for it. Because I don't collect baseball cards."

That blew my 8 year old mind.

It said it was worth $20 in the book, but my dad wouldn't pay a penny for it.

(He probably should have! It's worth $100 today!)

But the lesson was sound and has stuck with me ever since.

I still collect the odd thing these days, but I don't pay too much attention to what some book says they're worth.
With mainstream present-day fission technology, it takes about 200 tonnes of natural mined uranium to fuel a 1000 MWe reactor for a year:

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...

The same 300 kWh would then require about

(300 / (1000 * 24 * 365 * 1000)) * (200000000)
= 6.85 grams of natural uranium.

Note that this is well below the theoretical energy density available from the fission of uranium. The main loss is because the naturally fissile isotope of uranium, U-235, is less than 1% of naturally occurring uranium. The much more common U-238 can be used completely in a breeder reactor, but there are currently only two operating breeder reactors in the world that generate electricity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-600_reactor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor