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A judge is there to interpret the law, even if the outcome isn't what the majority of people would like. Politicians are there to sway with what the majority of people want.

Often, a lower court will be bound to make a particular judgment, because of precedent. It isn't unheard of for a judgment to say "We have to decide this way, but it would be really nice if this was appealed up to someone with the authority to decide the other way".
SAP introduction starts with documenting organisational structure, processes and many other things. That can be used outside of SAP...
Totally, i've never actually fully read my did file (just started), but I find the act of writing a concise summary of what I've done to be the major benefit.
"you could do the same thing for 1% the cost and it'd work better etc."

I used to think that - then I did some work with large scale ERP systems and realised that I was wildly wrong. Fortunately I moved into other areas while I still had some sanity.
If you don't, basically, change your organization to the way SAP (or any such "product") already is set up to run, you are essentially buying a programming language (or perhaps framework) that is poorly documented, with a much smaller online community (for examples, tutorials, Stack Overflow questions, etc.). So it is the same problem you already don't like your solution to, except with a lot of things stacked against you now.

But, they won't make the sale if they honestly say "use it the way it is or else don't buy it", so they say something more along the lines of "you can customize it".
$150 per hour is on the low end for good SAP consultants. We were paying $300 per hour for some InfoSys SAP HANA people, and even independents were around $200+.

If they're doing anything beyond vanilla consulting work with SAP then I doubt they're using cheaper offshore talent. Or maybe they are and that's why this project has failed so spectacularly. (Note: I'm not saying all offshore talent is hot garbage, I'm saying the cheap talent is hot garbage, especially SAP consultants).
It sounds like the reporter found it on PACER.

https://www.pacer.gov/

It's an extremely useful resource for information gathering.
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This is what I always said; you change your company to adapt to SAP, not the other way around. Then you chose the wrong product. SAP has everything and then a billion configuration switches which should match what you want; they say they would want you to adapt it to your needs by programming, but really it's not very good for that.

On the other hand I know some consultants making millions by creating customizations to SAP specific in their vertical and then sell that as a packaged product to all competitors. Usually these products are incredibly niche (like a specific workflow for Scandinavian utility companies that implements some stuff all Scandinavian utility companies require by law but SAP does not provide. Picking between then implementing it by hiring Accenture or buying off the shelve from someone who did this before is easy.
Does anybody believe that growth rate anymore?
This is going to get tested today for a project. Thanks!
Why does hasura.io block residential network providers in Poland? I need to use VPN to just check the docs.
That does not bode well for users.
Edit: Never mind, I can't read. :)

The comment you are replying to is suggesting that the actual figures are inflated, not the ones they report, meaning actual GDP is higher than reported GDP.
Indeed, without real transparency, how do we know anything at all?
Nobody is telling WeWork employees they need to eat meat while traveling. Lots of places prohibit the expensing of alcohol.
Ask HN: How to best catch up / learn about AWS and GCP
I've been a sysadmin and infra architect on a very legacy project for last decade. I'm aware of AWS, GCP, and have my VCA (working on VCP), but want to really dive into it in an orderly fashion and progress my theoretical and than practical knowledge.

I tend to be a bookworm - I like to learn about a topic and get the general framework figured out in my mind, before starting to hands-on-keyboard mess around it. My preferred way of learning a new topic is a big book or seven on a beach - but some topics seem to move too fast for that. I've explored Udemy/Pluralsight courses, and Amazon books, but am concerned these two platforms may move too fast to be captured in such a static way. Is there hope? :)

Many thanks!
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> 2 day shipping ain't worth the cost IMO, even though I know I am in the minority.

Clearly I am too but I've never at all understood the appeal of Prime (aside from my occasional annoyance at TV shows that are only available there...luckily the interesting ones are a very short list).

If I need something with any urgency, I pretty much always need it today. In those cases I'll just go find it in a store. Nothing I buy on Amazon I particularly care when it gets to me.
Due to high transaction volumes (50 articles/day), the offending article would still be waiting to be published / mined. Thus obviating the need to be redacted.
> replacing bespoke build scripts for web projects

Does it, though? No project of moderate complexity will be able to reuse a Webpack config. Conversely, how large of a problem was this for simple sites?
This is good. One of the biggest (in my opinion) failures of accessibility in academia is that everything is published as PDFs generated from latex, which is THE least accessable format in existence (word's PDFs are fine, so it is Latex's fault they are so bad).

Some people provide their latex, which improves matters, but most people don't.
Tesla is still having problems increasing production of the Model 3. The automation didn’t work as planned. Is there any hope that they can get close to 10,000 cars a week?

They are about to cross 50,000 Model 3’s shipped.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/

A few analysts seem to think that around 60,000 Model 3’s a quarter will get them to profitability.

—-
UPDATE

Guess I perceived as a Tesla hater. I’m not but I guess I got branded as one for asking about their production line.

I offer a fanboy blog post as evidence that I’m not a hater:

http://h4labs.org/tesla-is-about-to-ship-its-10000th-model-3...
Holland, Michigan in the US is notable for this.
https://www.cityofholland.com/streets/snowmelt
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In Germany, they could have sustained a team of 100 developers for 100 years (at 50000 EUR salary).
If it was in the interest of each municipality to plan together for the area to grow, wouldn't that be a solid outcome much preferred to a state-level where you might be encumbered by a completely different set of interests with no interest in your growth? Townships and other inter-governmental organizations seem to handle this pretty well throughout the United States to reduce overhead and plan.
You will still be able to measure how much data goes to and from particular IPs, since that can't be screened.

TLS 1.3 approval doesn't stomp on SNI; on the contrary, for the first time it actually makes SNI mandatory - in previous versions it was optional, leading to some HTTP implementations still not working with SNI late in the 21st century. I had a corporate Python system I was responsible for that couldn't do SNI even earlier this year.

You probably shouldn't attempt your idea of proxying everything. Proxies are very fragile, and this will probably inadvertently worsen your security, while also introducing weird non-security misbehaviour that's hard to track down. For example Firefox will go "Oh, a MITM proxy :(" and it will switch off all the safety measures built up over years for the public Internet because this isn't the public Internet. In principle if your MITM proxy is enforcing the same or tougher rules, this wouldn't be worse, but let's face it, you're going to cobble together the minimum possible to make it work.

Every time somebody tries to get fancy and _think_ about the bits inside the packets their network is supposed to be moving they screw up. That's the most cynical reason why there's an impetus to encrypt everything. If the bits are all encrypted gibberish the temptation to meddle with them goes away.
> It was stupid of Goldman Sachs or whoever to predict an outcome.

If you read the actual report they did[0], they never claimed that any single outcome was more than 18.5% likely.

[0]: http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/world-cup-201...
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Not sure I understand the reason for needing to keep track of things like the examples shown...

On the other hand, if I am in the middle of some large changes I will make notes at the end of the day before I leave the office. I usually write down what I accomplished and what remains to be done as well as anything I need to come back to. I don't get too fancy with it, usually just use Sticky Notes on my Windows PC at work.
The board game Risk.
They should teach this at MBA school. But they don't.
What makes you think that the debt has to be bought?
PDF is easier for some authors: write in Word, export as PDF, mail to somebody who will upload to the web server and maybe print it for non digital distribution.

Web CMS were invented (among many other reasons) to let non technical people write and edit content directly inside the browser and publish it. I wonder if gov.uk doesn't have a CMS or their authors don't want to use it.
Marketing in particular is probably an issue, 1-2 signups a week probably means eyeballs are simply not getting to his page. If he's already dealing with Facebook he should probably look into an aggressive Facebook ad campaign.
Right, the encoder is given a lot more options, which leads to a combinatorial explosion when searching for an optimal encoding. Once the options that actually pay off are identified, encoders will be able to tune their heuristics and narrow down the search space.
For what it may be worth, my background is as PeopleSoft Administrator - Unix/Linux, DB2/Oracle, Tuxedo/Weblogic, peppered with bash/Perl, some network design and diagnostic, and whatever else is needed in service of the PeopleSoft vertical stack. This would put me squarely in the HackerNews-Dreaded category of "Enterprise Software" :=>

I'm in serious danger of moving from technology architect to middle management, and while I'm eager to learn more about people and get better at facilitating productive teams (etc etc etc;), I don't want to lose track of my core passion - and feel I may need to "reinvent myself" soon, lest I go in the wrong track via inertia...

Thx all! :->
Eh it's absolutely sustainable. China is a monetary sovereign. All of this debt is issued in a currency that they can literally create out of thin air. There is zero possiblity that China will default on this debt. And China has been very careful to avoid externally denominated debt.

The only real risk here currency revulsion. At some point there is a risk that nobody will want the currency. But the risk of internal revulsion is low. Chinese citizens have to pay taxes and many other kinds of fees and fines in the currency. They have no choice. External revulsion is a threat but here again the Chinese have opted to buy out their external dependencies. This is why China wants to own all that farmland in Brazil. It never wants to find itself in a situation where it must buy dollars in order to buy soybeans and other critical food stuffs.

People will go on and on about China's sovereign debt. They just don't get it. This is basic MMT (modern monetary theory). The bigger risk for China is that they grow too slowly not that they grow too fast.
I get the nostalgia, but even though I started with BASIC (Applesoft BASIC as an 8-year-old in 1988), I wouldn't want to go back there. Structured, object-oriented, event-driven, and functional programming are all truly useful. Trying to choose the modern programming language with the least incidental complexity is enough IMO.

Furthermore, the UI facilities that early microcomputer BASICs provided would not be acceptable today. The graphics of the Apple II or QBASIC might be cool for a retro game, but you wouldn't want to develop a real application that way. For one thing, such applications were inaccessible to blind users with the primitive screen readers that existed back then, and today's screen readers would do no better. And a text UI with PRINT and INPUT would be accessible but even more retro. So even if you wrote an app in BASIC and deployed it to a cloud platform, you'd somehow have to use a modern platform like the Web for your UI. Unless, of course, you want to develop a retro game, and that might indeed be a fun side project.
Well don't leave us in suspense, why isn't PDF a suitable replacement?

* If your internal workflow is designing documents then the conversion to a web document will be clunky at best.

* Every end-user device has a PDF reader and their web browser probably opens it transparently.

* You need the PDF either way way because the website will never be the authoritative source so now you have the problem of making sure they don't get out of sync.

* You probably have a few internal graphic designers that can do wonders with print but it's unlikely you have an internal web development team.

* It's much easier to make a PDF accessible than a website. (Before you disagree remember that the offices we're talking about likely don't have a dedicated web designer) You can be sure it will print correctly, and for most users it's automatically offline.
Wait.....so if official crash test results are not available yet, how on earth is this car allowed to be sold?
Wow. Your circle of acquaintances must be strongly against freedom of speech, then.

You cannot create the Memory Hole by court order. LA Times has a constitutional right to print anything they obtain legally. They are not directly placing anyone's lives at risk by publishing.

If anything, they could publish another article about how slipshod security practices in the court system leak sensitive information to the public, and the court system tries to censor journalists rather than investigating and fixing their own problems.

The easiest way to protect the corrupt cop's family would have been to crack down on police corruption, so that no cop could get so deeply involved with a violent criminal organization that their family would ever be at risk. If the gangs couldn't get corrupt cops to cover for them, they would find it much more difficult to murder families for retaliation and intimidation.

Judging by Mexico's example, publishing may also put the journalists and their families at risk.

This is definitely shooting the messenger. In a system where doing that is illegal.

The judge is wrong, and should be reversed. Yesterday.
I personally have been working around web technologies and performance for the last 14 years. I understand where this article is coming from and I actually have to give it some credit, it has a good click-bait title but it's an old solution. I'm tired of reading about this type of solutions, there are thousands of articles exactly like this one.

Reducing the size of your images is just the first step and there are many things you need to consider in order to make your website faster, things you need to solve:
- Format: deliver the images in the right format for each browser (e.g. using WebP for Chrome)
- Size: What size for each image? What happens on mobile, tablet, desktop and the different screen sizes and pixel ratios (it's not only retina or not)
- Quality: Is your image being resized by the browser? Are you using raw files to generate the optimized images?
- Thumbnails: Are you also generating thumbnails for listings or smaller versions of your images? How are you going those thumbs to your original images? Do you need to use a Database?
- Storage: Where are you going to store those images?
- Headers: Caching static assets it's key for recurrent users, are you using Apache or Nginx? Is your setup working well?
- CDN: are you using a CDN to deliver those assets? CloudFlare is great but it's not the fastest way to deliver images. What about setting the right configuration for that CDN? How much are you going to spend?

So what's next? Going to one of the API service to optimize images, read their 500 pages of docs to get to resize and crop an image? Ad complex plugins to your backend and have a high dependence integration?

I mean, if you like to add more dependencies to your project, maintain more code, spends hours rebuilding scripts and running cron jobs to update your images, go for it.

That's why about 9 months ago we started working on a new concept, solving all these problems with a service that integrates as easy as a lazy-loading plugin and it solves EVERYTHING about image optimization (and yes, everything that you're talking about on every comment on this HN post).

Don't get me wrong, we have a lot to improve and there are many details of our product that we need to polish, but we believe we've built a solution that solves perfectly all the most important parts of image optimization and delivery. It's not about reducing the image size by 1KB more, it's about everything else and understanding the big picture.

We love feedback and our backlog is prioritized based on our customer needs, let us know what you think.

Here's the link to our startup website: https://piio.co
All the cells in the body have the same mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited from the maternal side (egg cells have them, sperm cells don’t).

(Edit: except for cells that have no mitochondria, of course)
Okay I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one who found complicated boost libraries to be a total mess. I spent a while banging on managing those. Header-only libraries tended to just work for me.
I think it depends what adapting means. People often (and I guess LIDL fell for that too) just think they can adapt everything to their needs and that really is not possible. A lot of processes benefit more from changing the processes than the SAP implementation of those processes. IMHO.
It was a joking way to say that driver behavior was affected by safety feature, not an actual proposal to install said spikes on all cars
I think the big attraction of SAP is that it lets CEOs smooth out earnings.

They can get projections of what the number are going to be for the quarter continuously so in the last few weeks of the quarter they can speed up or slow down sales and spending to hit the earnings numbers they want.
Because the statistics are produced by local apparatchiks, and the local apparatchiks all want their jurisdiction to look like it's breaking records so they can get promoted and become something bigger than a local apparatchik. And the central government wants to look successful too, so nobody there has any interest in pushing back. High numbers mean everybody in the system wins, while low numbers profit nobody, so the numbers come out high.
While meeting those goals is important to Tesla's success, from the article: "... Tesla didn't sacrifice safety in its scramble to meet production goals"
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What's inaccessible about LaTeX-generated PDF?
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That's what I thought. I have direct experience from two companies who wasted a shit-ton on SAP, and pretty much everybody who had to deal with it was happy afterwards. And I'm not just talking people being grumpy because they had to get used to something new. Often used processes became much more complicated, logic flaws were introduced (I witnessed someone breaking into tears a couple weeks in).

One of those companies also wen't bankrupt a couple years later. They weren't doing all too well before either, so wasting a huge load of money on a system that basically makes your internal processes grind to a halt probably didn't help.

Hearing that you waste half a billion on this really makes me wonder if it isn't much more practical to just develop custom made software in house.
Trying to read a PDF on a mobile device is usually painful.
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> There are no improvements related to keys not working, only less clicky.

People say they changed something related to dust and sticky keys.

> What am I missing here..?

You’re missing that there’s more than just the keyboard. Even with the keyboard broken, the device has a long battery life, good screen and the software works. I can open it and start working - which is extremely important, when you’re at a client to present something. And that is something i have yet to experience with a Linux or Windows notebook.

Frankly speaking, if I could, I’d switch to using CentOS as main OS.
> It is more like, say, GNU vs. BSD.

Not really. Both GNU and BSD projects publish their source, so others can pick it up and reuse it with minimal effort.

From this article, it doesn't seem like these hardware people are really doing the hardware equivalent.

> I like maker culture, but it can also be disappointing. A lot of it is just selling breakout boards and components at huge markups.

Agreed.
The issue is that people want a frozen format so they can line up images precisely where they want them to be. This is antithetical to displaying things in a browser. Sure, it can be done, but it's CSS that's fighting the browser.

What we really should have done for our governments is figured out the 20 or so essential layouts and pre-coded CSS for them, but always allowed the government to fallback to custom HTML / CSS.
I wrote SlowNews[1] in part to deal with the continuous influx of (addictive) content.

[1] https://github.com/srid/slownews
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Yeah, it's been a real turn around, used to be awful.

My only complaint is that they're sometimes too dogmatic about the one question per page thing, which is actually a pretty stupid UX commandment as soon as you get to complex logic flows.

I think they've relaxed a bit on that though, I didn't notice it last time I was doing my company tax return.
If your end to end test uncovers a bug in a lower level module that has a clean and stable abstraction, yes it makes sense to write a test that surrounds that instead.

That needn't be a unit test. It could simply be a lower level integration test.
I thought most companies had pretty much stopped buying hardware phones and switched to soft phones to reduce costs. We've been using Cisco soft phones (Jabber) for years. It's not perfect but good enough. Users can customize ringer devices and volume.
I don't understand how you could live the experience that the problem is always with the just-edited code. The closest I can come is supposing that you've always worked with thoroughly unit-tested code (and correct, well-documented libraries, etc.).
Isn't a rocket much, much louder than an airplane? I'd think noise regulation is a major hurdle.
One way to calculate:
7years × 365days × 2k/day × 100 "experts" = 500m
That doesn't make any sense, and would be a really strange way to think about actual vs reported GDP.

The actual (real, factual) number just is what it is. The only number that can be inflated/suppressed/fudged/faked is the reported number.
I'll add another link to the mix. Looks like all the drugs based solely on the amyloid beta hypothesis have all failed:

https://www.insidescience.org/news/Alzheimer%27s-Drug-Trials...
The problem is, I think, that using SAP essentially is creating your own solution in-house... but being tied to a certain amount of structure from the start rather than being able to go off and completely do your own thing. The way it’s implemented also doesn’t generally allow for creating small solutions and building up - either the entire project succeeds several years after it’s started, or it all fails.
That's an interesting piece of information to know, thanks.
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