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How did you deliver the software? One bit at time, or at the end of 3 months?

Things in my experience that increase the success of a project.

Deliver small bits very frequently and demo and ask the stakeholders for feedback. If i was unsure about delivering all the features in 3 months, I would tell them that. However I would try get the real priorities of their needs and focus on them first. At the end 3 months you should be able to deliver something that provides something valuable but not everything.

Make sure you build quality in as your building.

They should judge progress of the project by what your giving and showing them, not a timeline and a status report.

Upfront documentation isn't necessarily the best way of getting knowledge accross(Although it should be used). The best is collabarating, pair programming with your team etc

I don't know what your situation was, but these days setting up ci/cd pipeline to a staging/prod slot for a small project is fairly quick...
The article mentions 80/20:

> There exist modular construction systems that operate according to the same principles, like the T-profiles made by 80/20 inc. However, in the modular construction systems that we have introduced above, everyone is allowed to design and produce parts, as long as these parts are compatible with the basic set of rules.

Which also includes a link to http://www.8020.net/ .
Obviously. But it still seems optimal to build cities this way today, and it is surprising we don’t.

With modern levels of obesity and pollution, why don’t we want walkable cities?
You see wide variances in most every country. In Scandinavia, the population centers are drastically wealthier, with far higher GDP per capitas, than the rural areas.

In the US, New York and Massachusetts have 2x the GDP per capita of Mississippi (or, eg Connecticut has a 70% higher GDP per capita than Arizona; and that's despite Arizona's GDP per capita being as high as Germany) -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...
I'm not sure that's true. At the very least, EC2 made a showing with C3 instances that made it to #64 in 2013.

https://www.top500.org/system/178321
Well, the impression was less one of "a large organized crime syndicate" and more "wide-spread, pervasive, moderately organized corruption". So, what you described.
How do you divide by numbers other than -2?
The rich win in either scenario. In the bailout scenario they pocket most of the froth. In the crash scenario hyper-deflation causes cash to increase vastly in real value, allowing the rich to swoop in and buy up everything that isn't nailed down at a massive discount. They then get to ride everything back up as the recovery takes hold and pocket most recovery gains.
I agree. I have long thought that a large part of learning to drive is learning where to look and when.
What is a reasonable mean? Imaginr you can take 100 blobs of data, and for each blob it's really hard to get a fix on a particular person, but combined through a magic probabilistic heuristic yields predictions that are "good enough" to extract value from. Does the mere existence of this "join" trick make your individual blobs personal data? Or only once your company actually implements the join?
EDIT: Found it under the "New and Newsworthy" button [6].

The lack of feature list and screenshots in the "new" Eclipse Photon page is astonishing [1].

Compare that with the landing page for Xcode [2], SublimeText [3], Visual Studio Code [4] and/or Atom [5].

They need a better marketing team if they want to appeal to the young programmers looking for a real IDE.

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/photon/

[2] https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

[3] https://www.sublimetext.com

[4] https://code.visualstudio.com

[5] https://atom.io

[6] https://www.eclipse.org/photon/noteworthy/index.php
I agree with this. But unfortunately my experience is industry tends to not agree with us. They are like 'cool you know fundamentals, now do this take home project that requires x programming language with m framework'. This isn't too nice for new hires that learn just fundamentals and not the tooling and frameworks industry expects new grads to have. Industry seems to expect CS degrees to be vocational degrees.
Jesus this is hyperbole...pure hyperbole.
Median wage (all occupations) appears to be $18/hr, so with a 40 hour week that puts the sentence somewhere around 110 years.
A point I've tried to make is that we don't need a "happy medium", we can keep the mess that the sausage was made from and still get the sausage final product.

We have the power of a DAG to both record and hide all the mess. I can take my messiest repository and with a couple DAG traversal options still get that clean "story" back out of it. On the flipside with rebase you are absolutely erasing history and there is no way to dig deeper into any information lost or discarded in that rebase. I can give you what you want to see from my repositories, but you can't give me what I sometimes want to see from yours.

Merge commits are a great place to tell the story of "the whole change I intended to make". A good PR system even encourages and automates exactly that. (It also makes it easier to review the branch as a whole, or incrementally, or what have you in between to suit your needs/interests.)

I don't outlaw rebasing locally. There are absolutely cases in which a local rebase is necessary, and if a developer feels comfortable with rebasing I'm not going to stop them from doing it in a branch they control.

But I also don't encourage rebasing. I'd rather see how the sausage was made, ugly as it was, as it does tell a story even if you may not find it an "interesting" story, and sometimes in code archaeology or debugging nightmares you do need to dive into tiny incremental trivia.
Double yikes - looks too similar to the office I'm sitting in right now. :-(
There are plenty of victimless crimes on the statute books.

The dispute over who might be theoretically harmed by insider trading relates to the legal theories proposed by courts and the SEC to justify the prohibition. Who might be harmed is of particular concern, particularly in the criminal domain, because we're dealing with an agency-created rule, and the courts are more-or-less following common law methodologies for specifying and circumscribing the rule. The applicable common law domain is Torts, and in Tort law there needs to be a breach of a duty to someone. Only once you identify that person (or persons) can you understand the scope of the duty owed them and by whom.

The two competing theories are (1) that insider trading violates a fiduciary duty to the company from which the information came or (2) that insider trading violates a duty to the public at large, the so-called Fraud on the Market theory. The Fraud on the Market theory is what the SEC still clings to, but courts won't buy it because it's just too broad and doesn't really comport with established common law principles. An important self-constraint to fashioning non-statutory law is limiting oneself to extending pre-existing legal principles.

The legislature isn't constrained by arcane legal technicalities. Their only constraint is the Constitution, which doesn't necessarily require shoe-horning laws into theoretically consistent buckets. The Fraud on the Market theory is too distant from any pre-existing legal principle, too distant from the plaintext of the existing statutes[1], and so only the legislature should be allowed to explicitly promulgate such a rule.

[1] This is why we're talking about common law principles and not more recent administrative law principles. These days courts probably would never have allowed an administrative agency to invent something like insider trading, particularly as a crime, and so wouldn't have needed to make recourse to foundational common law principles. The courts accepted the prohibition prior to the modern development of administrative law.
Rehabilitation has not been a component of US sentencing policy for over 40 years.
The point is, in a walkable city, nobody needs the speed. What's the point of driving at 40mph in a 10x10mi city vs using a scooter at 15mph? You'll probably hit a stoplight after hitting 20mph, and then waste braking to stop again.

Electric mobility scooters are, per-mile, much much cheaper than cars, and cost much less to purchase.
I highly recommend not having that per-user fee waive promo

Correct. At $5/month per user I "assume" more people will sign up than if it were free. This is a corporate/business product, free does not yield more confidence.
Instagram Stories now lets its 400M users add soundtracks
Tbh it's not that bad... after getting noise cancelling headphones.
I agree.

The thing I'm concerned about is that reintroducing cars into these areas is a trickle opening onto a floodgate in terms of causing us to backslide into car-centrism. And by your argument ADA compliance becomes a good excuse to erase all the pedestrian- and cyclist-only areas and replace them with "good old" city streets again. It effectively becomes an argument for people who want car-centric infrastructure only to disguise their desire and hide behind the disabled to accomplish their goals.

What I'm wondering is if there's a way to accommodate without using cars? In a market we could provide some scooters or other motorized transport that's more compatible with the market's layout.
I would be delighted to get a free nice-looking speaker that I could disassemble and hack and use for my own purposes!
With Jobs to Fill, Businesses Play the Visa Lottery
How to prepare your kids for jobs that don’t exist yet
Oh heh, my project (Bitbeam) is listed there. I use it as the foundational building block for the robots I make at my company.
Google a thing called "Fallacy of relative privation." Large crimes do not excuse smaller ones.
That would be great, but there's a structural limit: people running successful startups don't have time to write about it, while people who have wound down their companies do. When a company is going strong and HN sees a post like this, it's usually because they're hiring :)
A number of large cities had extensive networks of pneumatic tubes and underground rail runnels for delivery. They fell out of use with the rise of cars, but the idea that deliveries go via vehicles on streets is far from a given.
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Well if we all go around promoting the destruction of the middle class im confident will be able to create that future that you are unoptimistic about ;)

How it will turn out is kinda unknown. 100 years ago many people couldnt read and worked on farms. We past the first transition quite well, how will we fair in the next transition is indeterminate. I do know that this is the one area where what people THINK actually could have an effect on the outcome. (unlike most science)
but y is uninitialized, am I missing something?
"Created on" and "last modified".

I see last modified way at the bottom of a long page in light grey.

I did not even notice it was a wiki until others point it out.

Biggest text on the page says 'code'. I plead nav-blindness to not seeing 'wiki' in the floating navbar.

Perhaps a date on every block section?

Or... something that throws a big block at the top if the last edit was more than 2 years ago?
This is disappointing level of journalism by Bloomberg. When did it become journalistic "research" to just quote a bunch of Medium blog posts on the web?

For one, the "research" quoted by this article is conflating market cap with actual realized losses. A coin's market cap tells you absolutely nothing about how much was actually raised in an ICO. If I issue 1 trillion tokens and sell one for $1, all of a sudden I'm a $1 trillion market cap.

Article's primary source found here: https://medium.com/satis-group/ico-quality-development-tradi...
It claims 81% of coins with $50M+ market cap were scams...but the only data it shows is a bar chart, with no links to actual data tables driving the chart.
A book on safe driving I read said in normal driving your eyes should mainly be on the car ahead, and every 5 or 10 seconds glance at your mirrors to see what else is going on and also do a broader scan. And of course in different circumstances like turning, you should look around much more.
When I go to the little town of my wife's family in Italy (near Bergamo) they have Capù. It is the same :)
My discord feed is infinitely better as a result of custom emotes. Reactions to memes are much more often on point with what I wanted to communicate.
The point of putting it in the language spec is to promise that they won't change back, even if they do later dream up a faster nondeterministic implementation.

The rationale is that even if they clearly said "we might make this non-sorted again later", in practice too much code would end up relying on the new behaviour (whether by accident or because people didn't pay attention to the warning).

So if changing the behaviour is likely to become impractical anyway, they might as well make it a promise so people can benefit from the guarantee.

They made essentially the same choice when they changed sort() to an algorithm that happened to be stable, about 15 years ago.
I think the point that is missed isn’t that Richmond is “better” than Berlin, but that among the thousands of cities and towns in the United States, some of them offer most or all of the amenities that are being discussed at a reasonable cost!

I doubt there is anyplace on the planet that fully meets the HN-Platonic ideal of a magical land with no cars, cheap rent in exclusively brand new or prewar mid-rise building, and bountiful jobs at hundreds of tech companies.
Could you bring back flurbo? http://flurbo.cc
Clearly only 'certainly shady people' use onion services, for example intelligence services, government agencies, technology enthusiasts, drug dealers, software engineers, yakuza, and 8th graders.
Possible non paywalled link for low income users,

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/...
No, no, no. The amount of misinformation in this post is staggering. I'm assuming good faith on your part but its hard to do so.

> The reason the streetcars went away in the US was because of competition from cars, which, not coincidentally, were beginning their rise to dominance ~100 years ago. GM and Ford were in the process of killing streetcars the moment the Model T went on sale.

They killed it because they knew that a car-dominated culture would substantially increase their markets. By killing streetcars, they were simply increasing their market. They did not do this out of any sense of altruism.

The other step that greatly helped was convincing the Federal Government to invest in an interstate highway system that deliberately cut through the major cities.

> The vast majority of American towns, with their lower density and wider streets than their European counterparts, were simply better served by the automobile than by mass transit in 1920, and after 100 years of car-centric planning are even more so today.

They weren't always this way. Suburbia as we know it now was a consequence of the postwar boom and white flight; most towns fairly dense. In fact, they were dense enough to be effectively served by trams!

> The genie is already out of the bottle, and with the exception of a few rapidly-growing cities, mass transit use in most American cities is falling.

No its not.
How did you maintain compliance and security before you could have someone full time on it? How did you deal with audits? Did you hire an engineer full-time dedicated to this, outsource it, or do it yourself? (I ask because I do this now but at 8 people it's starting to take up too much of my time as CTO)

How does it work at your size now?
Some EU countries are at more or less full employment too. I wonder how long that will last.

What the article does not mention is that of course many people from Southern Europe have migrated north to find work. We now see for example young people from Spain coming to Eastern Central Europe (V4 countries), I think that's happening for the first time in history.
A sports car in SUV clothing: The Jaguar E-Pace reviewed
I believe you, but the problem is that then your language is offensive to somebody else and they also think they have a right to respond in kind, and down in flames we go. That's why the site rules ask people not to take HN threads off topic in inflammatory directions. Divisive topics on the internet work that way; they consume everything else if you let them, so we can't let them.
Most content isn't encoded with hardware encoders due to their rather poor performance vs. bitrate. If you don't need to do realtime encodes, using HW encoders is a huge waste of bitrate (and by extension money for bandwidth).
> magic probabilistic

Use of magic moves it from reasonable to improbable.
> Yet, the company does not justify which version of the program is the correct one to use in order to get as close as possible to the underlying true relationship.

Even if they did that's still not good enough. I guess it's my own ignorance of how science is done, but I'd expect a higher standard of certainty for which algorithm you're using than "some vendor said so".
>If you have a small town, then cars are a better option than transit. In a large metropolis, transit is better.

Were did that came from? In a small town, you can get by fine with walking, bikes and so on -- like tons of Europeans do in tons of small (and even larger) towns, including towns where cars are totally forbidden and others were (because the town was built in medieval times and its buildings still stand just fine) they are impractical in large areas of a town.

And besides costly transit infrastructure like subways (which you probably have in mind), buses and trams are totally find for small towns as well.

In (most of) Europe you don't have to be a heroin addict or homeless person to ride the bus. Nobody has a problem riding the bus.

>When a small town grows into a medium, it makes sense to add car infrastructure rather than rebuild everything.

Again, what? Who said there's any need to "rebuild everything"? You can keep the "historic center" (as it's usually referred to), that is, the original small part of town, and build around it, all the while improving and extending transit infrastructure.

No reason to extend the city around car infrastructure -- like the horrible sprawls one sees in Texas for example.

In fact the US has a nice example of a "city" (speaking of the main area of Manhattan up and slightly beyond the Central Park) that has great density, and if there was the will, could be equipped with a great modern subway (not the way NYC subway is now), and lots of quality buses (modern, air-con, well maintained, not meant for the piss poor), a trolley line, and so on.

The area could be expanded from ~ 1 million people, to say 5 times the size, and with all those plus Uber/Taxi options, bikes and electric scooters, nobody would even care for driving their car there.
I was watching his feed in real time the night he was banned. He wasn't directing people to do anything. He was trashing the Ghostbusters movie and called one of the female actresses a "black dude". It may have been tasteless but it wasn't brigading.
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HPL is not especially sensitive to network latency. There are many data centers that could run HPL and get on the list, but don't care to pull that (relatively expensive) stunt. Among scientific applications, a significant fraction really depend on the high-end networks while others would be fine without.
The problem is not some kind of financial malaise or shock that requires 'confidence' to recover - ergo - a financial solution to a non-financial problem is not likely optimal.
we're building a new rewards program that will launch later this year, would love to hear your thoughts on what a great rewards program looks like for you.

Honestly, dollars are fungible. For less sophisticated customers, points which can be redeemed specifically for travel are attractive because people anticipate getting better deals than they end up with; but I'd be disappointed if that works well for the audience you're targetting here. Just make it a cashback %age based on the fees you get from the card network.

On the AML/KYC by regulation we can't rely on another party, we have to do our own :/

Ah, too bad. But even if you have to do your own AML/KYC paperwork, pulling data from Stripe should help with risk scoring, right? In particular, for those of us with unfunded but profitable startups.
I think we're talking past each other here - I'm not referring to political parties and policy-making, but to the cultural zeitgeist. That's what the overton window is to my understanding - the range of acceptable political thought and discourse. Given that as I mentioned, progressives have been actively seeking in recent years to redefine classical liberal attitudes as bigotry-lite, I'd say that's a shift leftward. The lay of the land in my generation (millennial) seems to be skewed progressive/reactionary with a whole bunch of quiet people in the middle.

The UK seems to be particularly stick-in-the-mud in terms of policy, we haven't even considered relaxing penalties on cannabis possession even though the US, being allegedly more socially conservative, has legalised completely in multiple states. I would personally consider Thatcher's reign to be more right wing, at least fiscally, cutting mining subsidies that acted as a form of state welfare to a large number of working class British citizens, and incentivising people to buy their social housing. I agree with you about New Labour though, though Corbyn is bringing back the socialist aspect of the Labour party with the help of said millennial progressives.
Huh?! Any moderately complex usage of DRF requires tons of boilerplate, or ton of app-specific abstractions... Also, just having to write a view, then a serializer... to actually write it!!

Imho the ideal framework would work with a models definition, json or yaml, not code, with extra anatotions for everything needed to have the logic of stuff like serializers and views instantiated from them. And keep the "custom behaviors" code fully separate from this models config, preferably in some modules with stateless and mostly pure function, sort of the serverless mindset, and not too much oop bullshit on top.

Rails and all the frameworks that copied it (Django, Laravel etc.) set a really bad example imho...
Ask HN: I got my dream job and now I'm depressed
Hi HN,

I recently got a new job. It's my dream job and at a company I've wanted to work at for a very long time.

I applied once straight out of college but didn't make it through the interviews - so I worked somewhere else, building up my skills and eventually re-applying a couple of years later. They accepted me! I could not have been more excited, this company was everything I had wanted.

Except now I'm here. A lot of stuff is a mess. There is technical debt everywhere. Undocumented code bases that haven't been touched in years and maddening internal processes. I'm absolutely depressed as a result because I held this company on such a pedalstool only to find the inside rotting away. I have no sense of ownership of my work and I'm struggling with motivation.

I don't know what to do and so I am looking for advice. Is this just life and I should just man up and get on with it or should I accept my mistake and look for something else?
That's a good thing. It means the regulator can't issue instant fines for non-compliance except in the very worst most obvious cases. Because of this planet sized gap they need to ask everyone else to come into compliance before issuing the fine.
basically every language with IEEE-754[1] compliance..!

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754