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Ask HN: Using manyrepo and happy with it?
I'm looking for examples of big companies using many git repos which are happy with it.

I have colleagues who want to restructure our repos towards a monorepo. The hope is that it solves our integration problems. The argument is that Google, Facebook, etc are better software companies than we are and we should copy from them.

I believe a monorepo will not solve integration problems. I fear it might only make them worse because our automation (Jenkins etc) is not good enough yet.

In the enterprise the argument of "others are using it" is a strong one. It is similar to the "nobody gets fire for buying IBM". Is there are good counter argument? Are there big companies which use many git repositories and like it that way? How do they work at Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, VMWare, Apple?
Nope, but from what I hear the systems are old, organically grown complex systems (see other commenters here that worked for/with SAP and shared their story). I doubt Lidl can quit on SAP altogether, it's rather the question of how to achieve the business goals with SAP in use.
Simple DeepDream TensorFlow
Rockefeller rode the boom in use of kerosene and oil for an industrial economy.

Bezos rode the boom in the internet revolution.
Thanks. Yes is is true, many state and city health agencies are under difficutl budget constraints, in some cases having as few as a third of the people needed to meet inspection targets
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An Opinionated Introduction to AutoML and Neural Architecture Search
Bill Maher, Hannah Gadsby, and the State of Stand-Up Comedy
The negativeness is a percent (number of negative comments divided by number of total comments). I don't think the data is too significant though, because they are all + or - 5 percent of each other
What exactly is this supposed to be tracking? Feels like just an opportunity to get the affiliate click-through.
Fire Chief's Foolish Advise to Greenfell Resident to Risk His Life for Family
As of 3:45PM they’re up 0.75% for the day.
Yeah and imagine Amazon without the ground work of Arpanet.
Id would be pretty hard to hide if Amazon.com's images are severed from Azure ip addresses...
Funny how this comes on the heels of aggressively expanding their workforce and trying to leverage themselves in a hundred different directions...

Maybe it's just me and my confirmation bias at work, but it seems that the core value proposition that Amazon provided -- high value, low margins on products -- has been eroding before our eyes.

Seems so much like the transition Microsoft made... too much focus on "synergies" and leveraging... not enough on keeping the bilges dry and the engine running.

It's funny... Fred Brooks wrote about this in 1975... and we're still making the same mistakes forty years later. There are real limitations to how quickly any organization can grow. Even awesome companies who are excellent at building organizations -- places like like Amazon and Microsoft -- can't organize this law of software development away.
This is extra annoying on mobile. Often a quarter of the screen is taken up by a persistent menu bar that I'll never use, half by an autoplaying video that I'll never watch, leaving just a quarter of the screen space for the actual content I was looking for.
Following a New Trail of Crumbs to Agriculture’s Origins
Lyft’s Approach to Bikes and Scooters
Kinda wish I still worked there and could see the post-outage writeup.

My bet's on some unforeseen bottleneck that affects search and static pages. Almost everything within Amazon is crazy scaleable, but there are some bits where you scale them up and their behaviour changes radically. For instance, a service's cache misses might skyrocket as customers get distributed over a wider set of servers, causing service response times to increase just a little bit on average, tipping a dependent service over into more frequent timeouts, causing its downstream service to blow a timeout-percentage 'software fuse' and stop using that service... etc etc.

Given that each of those services (and many more possibly-related ones) will have an on-call engineer paged into a conference call when the manure hit the rotating ventilation apparatus, there are going to be a lot of unhappy people cancelling their weekend plans right now. I definitely don't miss that aspect of the job!
How affordable are a pair of $90 shoes the author mentions a teenager picking up for delivery in these small remote villages? I assume the buying power / average salary there must be abysmally low.
How do we know this is not anything more than a gimmick to get a 'zentail-20' affiliate tag on the way to shopping on one of Amazon's busiest day so they can get their referral commissions?
As a general matter, you can't prove a predicate true or false by automatic means. Logic programming is just as "artful" as imperative or functional programming, because they all run into the same problem: it's impossible to tell the difference between long-running and infinite computation. The question of algorithms for general logic was explicitly addressed as the Entscheidungsproblem, meaning decision problem, which was independently proven undecidable by both Turing and Church:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem
I'd think not needing to engineer in a pilot might allow for an airframe engineered for higher load limits, though.
I don't disagree, and obviously if I was taking the time to interview a candidate, I would also take the two minutes to look at what they were charged for.
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The risk is not that the results will be impossible to gather and publish, but that they will be unprofitable.

CamelCamelCamel makes money off users clicking Amazon affiliate URLs to go to Amazon from their site. It's easy for Amazon (or anyone else, really) to determine from these URLs the Amazon account which is tied to these links and 'enforce' the C&D by canceling/refusing to pay that account's affilate link revenue.
>What it means is that they are probably selling user data and cannot keep doing it without informing users of it.

It seems like you'd have to willfully misunderstand the requirements of GDPR to argue that the only reason for non-compliance is that 'they are probably selling user data'.

However, if you can instead imagine that two employees might not want to manually manage GDPR requests for a userbase of two million users (in their free time, no less!) then you might come up with other likely reasons for non-compliance. For example, I wouldn't want to architect a backup system that deletes user info from my backups whenever I receive a GDPR request.
Yeah, I agree completely. Especially as the parent company is named after a concept that they are trying to push as a general concept and not a brand.(MaaS, mobility as a service.)

They should definitely be more transparent.
I'm a big fan of dogfooding. But given Amazon's ecommerce huge computing needs, maybe it would make sense to not burden the compute availability of your fledgling cloud offering with your ginormous system?
Why don't they just pay a humane rate and have humane conditions? Bezos is the only one demanding inhumane conditions and it doesn't have to be that way at all, it's an entirely contrived problem he invented to be a tiny little bit richer.
How old is the average American gun owner? Are they physically fit?

Merely owning guns is different than possessing the physical ability and training in weapons and tactics to use them effectively, especially versus military or paramilitary forces (National Guard and Border Patrol is a much more likely initial pro-government force than police). Not only are they equipped and trained with the same weapons civilians may have, they also have automatic weapons, nightvision, grenades, armored vehicles, helicopters, tear gas, sonic weapons, fire trucks, and a lot more.
Haha, thanks for sounding nice :)

I added that because some comments had really long URLs, so I had to enable breaks so the page wouldn't be really wide, more so on phones. Didn't realize that it added hyphens to words, thanks for pointing that out, it's fixed now
Not OP but I guess the lack of privacy wasn’t visible before GDPR.
Why Software Developers suffer from Imposter Syndrome
Thermostatic showers are starting to get more common. They have pressure and temp controls which automatically adjust the hot and cold water ratios to keep the temperature constant (even if someone turns on a sink or flushes a toilet).
I don't really have that much in the pipeline that I need.

Whenever I browse these Prime Day "sales" I just end up scrolling through a list of products I don't really intend to buy, nor am that really interested in. Most of it is junk I'd probably use once anyway, and I never buy clothing off Amazon.

Amazon have nailed the transaction experience when you know exactly what you want, it's very slick from purchase to delivery.

But the 'window shopping' experience is so poor, the interface doesn't seem to have changed that much for years, it's the same layout, the same endless ream of products.
Yeah, wasn't there some kind of thing as "splits" which skews the stock price? Or is that it?
This made me smile. :) This is very close to to Poe's law as well, because after all, who can tell for sure if something that simply just went-wrong was intentional or not?
And even then only margins in $, not as a %. With a price difference of $49k vs $35k I don't see that as being likely, unless it is something in the upgrade package that is an assembly line bottleneck.
Great question! It is based on live data as well as historic data. We only have access to a % of total Amazon sales through our SaaS platform for 3rd party sellers. We have confidence in our model to hit within 10% of the total Prime Day Sales.
Could also be an A/B test of some new infrastructure design to see if it's ready to deploy in November. I have no idea if they still hold everything together with Perl (via this templating system: http://www.masonhq.com/) but it wouldn't surprise me, and it also wouldn't surprise me that there'd be occasional pushes to replace it with something "modern" (or at least friendlier to the revolving door of new grads).
In other words, AMZN stock is as real as Amazon the company is, and USD's are as real as the US is. Where one has some assets and some shareholder agreements to back up its reality, the other has guns, a voting populace, and global-scale international recognition in favor of its reality.
I actually managed to add an item on sale to my cart, but my cart is now empty after refreshing. Oh well, maybe next year.
let me explain, you can always do something, unless you cannot do said thing.
TransferGo Supports European Expats Through New Network
One thing I like about a lot of HN discussions, as opposed to those on many other sites on the web, is that the people involved have a clear sense of what they do and don't know.
Pokemon or BigData
Well, the enforcement mechanisms are codified by law.

They extracted a million-dollar penalty and concessions to how prices are displayed from Amazon just last year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-competition-bureau-p...
1. California is home to the best public universities in the country

2. DMV - I will give you that, but honestly I never have an issue with it. Everything is online, and the last time I went to a DMV was 5 yrs back

3. Failing dams - there was literally one dam that failed due to an extraordinary storm. You are reaching there

4. Poor water supply - not sure what this means. Quality of water is so good, that I always drink directly from the tap. Unlike in many parts of the country.

5. One party rule - they are democratically elected, and California has very strong direct democracy as well. Besides, most states in US are one party rule. Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, Utah etc. etc.

6. Housing - sure, but we already have 40 million people, some of the densest urban areas, and heavy traffic. Pushback is to be expected on new housing

7. HSR - I love it. Connecting rural areas to urban areas through modern transport will unlock the American economy like no other. Think about it - why are we restricted to living within 30 miles of our work in the 21st century. I had a team member in China, who daily commuted 150 miles one way to Shanghai in a HSR.

8. Unfunded pensions - this is a new talking point. Has very little impact on state finances.
Eventually karma to be lost via down votes as well! :)
Ajit Pai deals major setback to Sinclair/Tribune merger
"Free" if you pay for the 499€ service tier.
> You're not going to find a statistical approach that will account for the subtleties that led to this outcome. The problem with soccer stats in general is that everything hinges on low-frequency events based on subtle differences of timing and space.

I think this deserves to be elaborated a bit: a game in which 1 is a good score, and often a game-winning score, is never going to be accurately predicted based on a statistical approach, because scoring is too rare for a statistical approach to work well. Low scores mean that individual games have an extremely large element of chance.

Imagine one team is about 4% better than another team; they should be favored about 51-49 to score a point. If a game scored 300 points, that difference would be perceptible within one game. But to resolve the same difference accurately in games that score 3 points each takes many, many, many games.
Did you mean: air to air missiles

EDIT: active or semi-active guided
Once upon a time, a huge segment of Western civilization used to fall alseep to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. :)
Thanks for the references, the NYT article is really interesting.

Actually I recently had a discussion about the exact topic. At my current work we have something like team work, the last time before I had that was years ago in university where we could hand in together exercises in a group. That was one woman, two men in the group. That was awesome, we truly developed the understand and the solution together.

Another point though is that individuals (me for instance) have to learn to work in teams (again). Having worked for years as 1-man-army, I had a hardy time working effectively with other people.
I know a guy who made millions by getting in early on Crypto. I had to room with him for a month, and it wasn't until then that I realized he watched Twitch all day. I mean, literally all day. 95% of the time I saw him that month, he was either watching a stream or playing Fortnite.
Are Google employees more productive because of company perks?
So that's why I can no longer use Camelegg.

I understand why the author would cave to Amazon, but not why that would fail to cause competitor dedicated only to Newegg to pop up.
Gitlab!!!
Sounds like a good time to question whether your premise is flawed.
I just ran this though and "I fucking hate this thing" has a -7 score, and "I fucking love this thing" is -1. "Fucking" and "hate" is negative, but "love" is positive and adds to the score. It would be improved if it could tell the difference, "fuck" itself definitely sounds negative but "fucking" can almost mean anything
~wibbles hand~

You might want to check out some rental listings and compare it to the minimum wage. Poor people come to not freeze, but that doesn't mean current circumstances aren't increasing the homeless population all on their own.
There's a simple hack toward being more positive: When you make a joke, ensure that you're the victim, not someone else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngwOuLzQiHE

It's a simple change, but very hard to do consistently.
You even answered your own question.

Your validation code is 293 characters and 8 lines, the example code is 95 characters and 6 lines and does more tests.

And that's not even including your helpers which if one uses that lib, they wont have to write.

So, you wrote like 4 times the code, and made it even less flexible (eg. hardcoding the test for 100 in your isTestScore check).
A night of missed sleep didn’t hurt anybody.
This would make a lot of sense, they essentially get a "game day" with actual sales, make a lot of money and a few months to prepare for the next wave of seasonal mob-shopping.

I don't think they're using Perl anymore however.
Once again: it is hard to understand the reasonable argument that says that a big problem with social media is that people disengage from arguments with random people too much.
That's a very good question. I don't know the answer, although I suspect the answer is no, the Linux VT doesn't support true colour. However you can at least toggle Browsh's monochrome mode with Alt+m
is there any place anywhere a person can avoid encounters with you people? i open my mouth about anything, related or not these days, and some btc jihadist immediately jumps out of somewhere to come poke me in the eye.
Yes, it's not a comprehensive overview of everything the app and concept has. It's just an article exploring a cool new concept, and being positive about it.

Yes, the price might change. But that also mean the service might change.

The reason whim taxis were only through a certain taxi company was because that was the situation then. The app itself is aiming to be open for any ride-sharing platform, so Uber or Taxify could easily integrate.

I'm sorry but your comment just feels like you're trying your best to be pessimistic. It's healthy at times, but sometimes (especially with new concepts), you should let things grow and evolve before squandering it's opportunities.
The Electrification Game
My experience as 'product owner'
I recently began working for a European government agency specialized in domain specific IT. My assigned role is "product owner". One of my products is mostly a central data hub. This means that I have conducted interviews with many people in the organization. And this has given me pause:

1) I'd suspected a greater level of IT-knowledge. But hardly any product owners have any coding skills. Many do however have deep domain knowledge, which is more important.
2) The few project managers we have, take charge of larger projects with many products. These people are hired only on generalized project capabilities. In my experience, project management in IT is quite different from many other projects. The experienced project managers have gain IT skills - but only in the way 'things are done here'.
So the best project managers we have, kind of optimize locally, instead of looking beyond our own organization.
3) We do not have an 'IT-Vision' for our products. Instead we just go with whatever company who wins the bi- or quarter annually tender suggests.
4) The vision we have is organizational: "we want to be the best"...
5) I guess because of point 1 above, we spend horrendous amounts of time on 'design' and specifications. I am by no means a big fan of scrum,
but in our organization 'design' and 'specifications' basically means that a product owner with no IT skills sits down with the IT company's service manager, project lead, business consultant (yes - up to three people) - none of whom have ever built an IT product themselves. The design end up as balsamiq mockups and 100 pages of specified functionality.
5) The agreed price is very often far from the real cost, as many things 'outside of the specification' arises later on.

Is this normal for an agency like mine (ca. 100 product managers, product owners + secretaries and other staff)

What do you think I should do to change our practices for the better?
If you grew up in a big family and got used to there always being voices and activity in the house, it can be kind of comforting just to have quiet, familiar voices as background noise.
I think it's really funny how most of the comments in this list are genuine critiques and concerns, that get downvoted by toxic users. I went through and upvoted about half of them.
I have an off-topic question: After seeing their brand new buildings in SF in SOMA area, I’ve been wondering about the Pinterest’s success lately. Does anyone have any resources talking about their current trends, numbers and their business model? Honestly, I lack the context, because I was so annoyed by their spam on the Google’s search result pages that I started to use queries with -site:pinterest.com. So, to me this is completely irrelevant website.
> I'd love to have a format that is just HTML + whatever zipped up that browsers and operating systems happily just open in a browser.

Does HTML with data URIs meet these criteria?
I agree that this is a different can of (nasty) worms.

The message I replied to said that
> It was not wrong to say Hillary had a 95% chance of winning the presidential election,

Frequentist inference cannot be interpreted as a probability unless one goes through some (often misunderstood, as you pointed out) contortions. In your scenario where you have 95% confidence of something it would be wrong to say that Clinton had a 95% chance of winning.
And thus you used a throwaway account...
I can only hope this is sarcasm..
Getting Hy with Pandas
I still have a hard time understanding how, if I have (to use your example) bought pencils in bulk, it makes sense to send me an ad for pencils in bulk? Especially, the exact same type/model/brand that I just bought. Does Amazon think I'll forget that I bought them from Amazon? Do they think I'll buy more before I have a need to?

My hunch is that they aren't trying to improve those algorithms very hard. But it would be fascinating if there is something about human nature that I am simply not seeing here.
This would go down as one of the worst A/B tests in history if that is the case, which I highly doubt.
> So I think we should start trading design patterns for simple and well designed languages. No code always beats good code.

The problem is that a simple language will lack an implementation of hitherto-unknown patterns. That's why it's so important to use a language which permits itself to be evolved & improved — and that's why Peter Norvig noted that design patterns tend not to be needed in dynamic languages[0].

0: http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
I don't think you can piss on customers for 2 months and then drop a "sorry for the inconvenience".

And for no good reason.

Just assume the improbable cost of some litigation as a company, like tens of thousands of others (including much bigger and much smaller than yours) did, put up a message to European customers and have them click and proceed as usual to the service.

Or, you know, use the headstart of more than a year before the law was put into practice to get the service in order...
From us the data to goes to the governing public health agency. Each spammer would need to individually re-present their case to that agency including a 72 hour food history, and potentially bio testing. The next steps can include epidemiolist, site visit, lab testing and more. The likelihood that everything could be falsified including lab tests with all these government officials is low, and it is only when a case passes through this process that a health agency will consider making an announcement such as "Restaurant X is the source of X pathogen causing X people to be sick"

We collect more than free form text.

Thanks