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>Wow, so when soviets kill civilians in the aftermath it’s “restraint” but when the US bombed an active enemy it's unreasonable use of force???

Well, close to 20 million Soviets died by the war, and they didn't have done anything to provoke it.

The US didn't have any of that excuse. And even Pearl Harbor (which was a tiny blip compared to the Russian death toll, and on an annexed island far away from the mainland US) happened after months of purposefully provoking the Japanese to attack so that the US government could convince Americans to enter the war.
Hello Levente. I'm super glad to see that you like the idea, really. Thanks for checking the app out.

To answer your questions:
1) Audio-only updates are coming soon. And with the iOS/Android apps is a great I idea to "listen" updates as you drive. Really cool, and will implement this soon when the audio-only support is coming (will work too by "listening" to videos as well).

2) Search is coming as well. You're idea is cool (specially for managers to be checking into a project), and I am already thinking on making a JIRA integration that puts all the associated/tagged standups into its related JIRA ticket on the sidebar, but this could also work via the search (advanced) section! Text-to-speech is also something cool, let's see how it all goes, as it's also easily implementable using Google's Cloud Speech-to-Text :)
This mentality is the root of the problem (from the dev perspective). The GP commenter is saying "these processes don't help me to feel that I've done my job better."

And you respond with "Well, this sounds like you aren't good at proving you're not a _complete idiot_."
>> Those were never necessary for operational purposes. If you were selling your users to get Google's analytics, that's a different matter.

> What about simple session cookies? You need to give end-users the information on how your service uses cookies, if I understand it correctly.

No, from what bigger half of the internets says, you don't need consent for
session cookies (the ones that are necessary for login form).

> if you have something like a login form, you'll need to collect email addresses (or something else users can use to reset their lost passwords). This is personal information, which is subject to GDPR.

Nope. For keeping login (especially if you don't require logging in) you
don't need separate explicit consent.

>> Open source that doesn't steal users' data is already GDPR-compatible.

> I don't think it's that simple.

I think it is.
I meant it more as I believe you'll find more CEO's, founders, etc... of 'megacorps' having sociopathic personality traits, where they value results over having empathy for others. I believe it takes that kind of person to drive a megacorp to the places we see Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc... I dont think it's a needed quality (maybe?) but one you'll find more often than not in these positions.

This single example of Jobs is just one example of the type of person he was, did this affect Apple's success? No, but there are plenty of other example of Jobs being a pretty horrible person to drive Apple upward and onward. (and it was absolutely unacceptable, Im definitely not saying this behavior is good, or can be overlooked.)

Gates was largely not a great person until he retired and refocused his life (imo, as I stated in the first post all my perceptions come from books, interviews, etc....).

My point really is most of these people that business and consumers aggrandize and herald as revolutionary leaders are less than good people when judging them for their humanity.
"Lives" is the term used in the industry.

The real answer as to why Canada gets lower prices is gov't fiat - they just say "this is what we will pay you, take it or leave it".
You think elementary schoolers and other non-techies are going to either pay $15/mo for photoshop or delve into the ux dungeon that is Gimp? Not a chance.
Consider the fate of Dr. Dobbs journal - print magazine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8758915)
The point (heh) is not that there is no mapping between story points and time, the point is that it helps us acknowledge that these are estimates, not promises that signify failure if broken. No individual estimate is expected to be exact, but we hope that deviations from the estimate average out across the stories in a sprint.

And most importantly, story points make it easy to base our sprint commitment on the available evidence from previous sprints. We say that we can do 40 story points in a sprint, because we know that is roughly what we managed to do in the last few sprints. The conversion factor can change over time as the team gains experience, or the team changes, or the nature of the work changes. It's much harder to do such adjustments when you directly estimate hours.
It'd be much harder to keep people accountable. Who do you blame when the product arrives damaged (or not at all)?
>The final stages of the Manhattan project hummed along without much political involvement. Dropping nukes to show the USSR who's boss really wasn't on the radar of the military

Yes, it was on the radar of the government.
Japanese Medical School Deducted Points from Exam Scores of Female Applicants
I have a male friend that took 4 months of from memory. I'm not sure it's uncommon.
Workers might also band together, in some form of group, where they could clearly demonstrate to employers their interest in being treated fairly, and with some amount of loyalty. Those employees would have to agree on a common set of goals, so I'd propose that we derive the groups name from the latin word "unitatem" - oneness, sameness, agreement.

/s :D
Picking the first infinite ordinal as the infinity to explain to kids might not be the best choice for every kid, though. Oridnals are tricky. I am not too comfortable with them myself, and I say that as an adult with a degree in math!

The thing is, this kind of infinity just doesn't come up that often when dealing with other objects in math. Even though, as Tom Lehrer sang, one can count up to infinity - or somewhere in that vicinity - and that's mathematics, the question then is - so what?

The other kinds of infinity - cardinals, for example - are encountered early on, and there are things you can do with them.

The first time I've seen the notion of infinity was in a Russian children's book. There, they made a bijection between all the (infinite number) of points in a small segment and a larger segment - and even with all the points of an (infinite) line! I didn't really get it then; while I could find nothing wrong with the argument, it certainly looked like bullshit that a short segment could have as many points as a long one.

But some things don't have to make perfect sense right away.

The next time my understanding of infinity really improved (ignoring the notation for "x growing without bound" of calculus) was in the first year of college, with Cantor's diagonal argument. And I think that's when the picture from the book I read in kindergarten made sense, at last.

The bijection in that picture would have been boring if one could always make it. But with the diagonal argument, one sees that's not the case. That's what makes these infinities interesting and fun, to me.

So, I might be biased in that, but I think that the cardinals are the most playful type of infinity. And really the kind you can explain to kids.

One night I've had a long tea on a rooftop of a Brooklyn apartment building with a friend who is an artist, and by the sunrise, she understood Cantor's diagonal argument - and enjoyed it.

It is quite regrettable that this is the kind of knowledge that's only generally shown to math majors in college. This is reason #712889 why we need to change the way we teach and talk about mathematics.
Square One TV had a brilliant take on this. One of their cast (of the main show, not Mathnet) would say something like: "I've thought of the biggest number: 973,281,472!" At which point the rest of the cast would respond (exasperatedly, in unison): "Add one more to it!" Really drove home the point that no matter how big a number you thought of, you could always produce a bigger number by adding one to it.
There is this guy making a DE he calls NEXTSPACE[1] by combining Window Maker, GNUstep and a bunch of custom applications and modifications to existing stuff for them to work better together. I haven't tried it, but i've seen it be mentioned a few times the last couple of years.

[1] https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace
> Verbose compared to what?

Well, on the back end, lots of things, for example, postgrest.
Unclear in what way existing DNS and certificate attestation is not peer-to-peer. DNS authority lies wherever you want it to lie, and root certificates are yours to honor or ignore. I don't see what real material benefit this has.
tldr; The author wishes to speak for "the world" but only shares an opinion with people who would not be interested in risking, indeed, devoting their lives to forging civilization in an inhospitable environment.

Truth be told, lots of people would be interested in giving it a shot. This leaves the idea in a space of political hazard, as a high risk zone for cults of various flavors, each according to leaders that manage to establish themselves or stir vectors of internal influence.
There's also a project for implementing a prolog like interpreter for doing type checking and other logic for Rust, I think it works on the MIR level, but could be wrong on that.
I consulted McGee. He lists Italian gelato as 16% sugar by volume and American ice cream as 13-16% sugar. Most of the recipes I googled (for both gelato and ice cream) were 3/4 cup sugar to 3 cups of dairy. So the sugar content seems to be the same in the base of either.

What can I say. Maybe the fact that gelato is denser and served warmer makes it seem less sweet? Cold dulls the taste so you'd expect the warmer gelato might taste sweeter. Maybe the eggs in custard make it seem less sweet, or maybe it's all in my head.
The point is that if $x/item is a reasonable cost for doing something in an industry, it's ridiculous to expect a comparable cost from workers who do something else, specialize in something else, and don't do it full-time on a sufficient scale to optimize their workday/workflow.

It appears that Walmart for some reason thought that having their existing associates to do it "on the side" after their ordinary job will somehow be more efficient (or even just as efficient) than hiring people to actually do that (and just that) efficiently. Clearly this experience shows that it's not, and doing it in the way described in the article would reasonably cost much, much more than $2/package; and getting it done for "industry standard" prices would require doing it in the "industry standard" way.
Storing binaries in SQL works great for small scale systems; it makes the backup/migration process simple.
One possibility is to specialize to a smaller market or to a smaller function. If the big company is making a generalized CRM, make a CRM specifically designed for accountants or tutors or talent agents. You'll be able to tailor your messaging, design, and marketing to a level that the big company simply cannot follow. Your smaller size can be one of your greatest assets.
When I first knew my mortgage was going to be paid no matter what, it made it a lot easier for me to take certain job offers. I didn't have to take the safe bet all the time.

I'm in a safe bet now due to a couple contracts not going great. It's stressful enough that I'm spending money I shouldn't be on stress relief. But my emergency fund is full again, and I can't wait to get back to doing interesting, new, and/or important things.
But that is possible with real money already?
I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression. While I didn't agree at the time, I use them now only vanishingly rarely. ;)
I thought the plan to bomb the poles wasn't just to melt ice, but also to restore the magnetic field to help trap the atmosphere from escaping, is that true?
Not going to lie...I like stand-ups, but I am an extrovert. I also like them as a full time remote because it's the only way I regularly see my team.

As long as it doesn't interrupt people. 10am is to late if the work day starts at 8:30am. About 45 minutes after the "beginning" of the day is about as long as can be tolerated. Give people time to arrive, account for traffic, get coffee, check some email, quick stand-up with the team and then get to it.

At the same time, there's not a point where I think stand-ups encourage prioritizing features over tech debt. Usually, that comes from sprints themselves and the planning around sprints. Stand-up shouldn't be anything more than a quick "how's it going" for the team.

I would have no argument as a developer working under this unless the quarterly goals were out of control.

What you're describing is basically Kanban.

I agree with almost every word.
Suspend Your Disbelief [video]
Finding TVs that will still take composite or component is getting harder. And even if they take it, they usually only take it in at a very specific scan rate and resolution, and it usually looks like garbage.

VGA is getting even worse.
Not by removing the ly though, but by choosing a more expressive verb.
Probably around the time more complex "infographic" memes started surfacing, to my knowledge these are fairly new (1-2years).

Memes have always been short and simple
That's an infinite process (which is an awkward way to describe anything), but not infinity.
You'll get more and more natural numbers, but will never actually get infinity.

I love ops explanation because it gives more natural picture: there are _other_ numbers beyond naturals. Then you tell kids there are also negative numbers (integers) and rational numbers and real and complex and so on.
I believe that way it is much easier to grasp that very abstract (but fundamental) idea of 'number'. That it is not just 1,2,3...

Because otherwise, we get people thinking "Complex numbers do not exist, that is just a silly thing used by mathematicians that has nothing to do with the real world, it is useless."
We changed the url changed from https://github.com/handshake-org, to the project page, which points to this and also provides more of an overview.
Ask HN: Is there an concept to build an API that can be wrapped in any Language?
I' am looking for some guidance to build an API that could be wrapped in any/most languages. All the wrapper shall follow the same structure and rules without beeing ugly to use.
I don't know much about language specific quirks implementing an API. Are there any concepts or best practices that one should use?
> host everything on dedicated servers as it is often more performant and cheaper.

It depends on what you are serving and at what scale as well as the opportunity costs of managing it yourself. If I have a developer spending some hours maintaining a server each month, it isn’t cheaper at all. You can also have issues of under or over capacity. Heroku, for example saves us a ton of time we could be using for shipping features rather than maintaining infrastructure.

If really depends on the application.
Pasadena Tech Startup Wants to Change the Way You Interact with the Internet
I like the way I was taught better:

Imagine you are 2 feet from the wall, and with every step you move forward 50% of the remaining distance. How many steps does it take to the wall.

And the answer of course is that you never get to the wall, no matter how many steps you take
I like that the list is interspaced with commercial banners with also logos in them.

Kind of keeps you on the lookout to see which ones are weird and wich ones aren’t.
[The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.01528.pdf)
> Is it possible or we would have to generate one?

The most promising plan I've heard of is to create one using a satellite between Mars and the Sun.

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...
Let the developers alone.

This means the tech lead must find something else to do.

Good.

However, all the tech leads I've met think their job is to get up in my hair.

Stop doing it, is what I want to say.

However, we need to show the tech leads what we really need from them.

So they don't displace their activity getting up in my hair.
Hi Liru,

Thanks for question. I take the blame for toggling that option on by accident. I've removed the requirement but the option to add your LinkedIn will still be there for folks that have/want to share their LinkedIn.
Stock tracking and portfolio monitoring
Oh yes! Keybase went full-Skype.

I loved the concept of verifiable identity and that I could use it even with "plain" gpg commands without having to trust their client.

Unsurprisingly, there was no way to monetize this, so they've had to pivot to being SlackDropboxIDontKnowWhat.app
Yes sorry, Elm is indeed implemented in Haskell.
From the PDF:

> There has been research into circumvention systems, particularly for censorship circumvention, that is related this work, but not sufficient for surveillance circumvention. Tor is an anonymity system that uses three relays and layered encryption to allow users to communicate anonymously [19]. VPNGate is a public VPN relay system aimed at circumventing national firewalls [40]. Unfortunately, VPNGate does not allow a client to choose any
available VPN, which makes surveillance avoidance harder.

That's damn cursory.
The primary points the article raises are:

* Potential life after recent detection of suspected liquid deep water

* Not enough reserves of gases remaining to eventually thicken the atmosphere

* Lack of a magnetic field to preserve the remaining and new atmosphere if created

1. Life has always been possible on Mars. The discovery of liquid water improves this but doesn’t affect possible colonization efforts. Short term, people will be setting up to survive either on or near the surface. It will be important to stay away from such areas except for study, but that doesn’t preclude human settlement efforts.

2. Terraforming in any form is a long term (centuries) goal. The state of the atmosphere won’t degrade in anymore significant way in the mean time. There are more than enough resources in the solar system to import material if that ever becomes a goal for Martians.

3. There are proposals already for satellites in Lagrange points between Mars and the Sun to generate artificial magnetic fields to slow down and prevent the stripping of the atmosphere. By the time technology like this is required, millions of people will already be living there for at least a century or more.

So overall the gist of the article would be like telling colonists to the Western Hemisphere in the 1500’s that it’s not worth trying because building a highway across the continent is impossible with current technology. While true at the time, there was no need for such a long term goal back then and wasn’t for centuries.

Plus one thing about Mars is that no one’s there to displace. Scientifically I care a lot about planetary protection and discovering if life exists there, but that is ultimately less important than colonizing Mars. It’s not like it’s going to spring complex life on its own and we would ruin those chances. It’s a planet’s worth of gravity and natural resources that aren’t going to do anything on their own.
In light of this piece I'm curious about how countries with large sober populations (majority Muslim countries?) compare to others while accounting for other factors
We've long known that we need more nitrogen. One idea is to use ammonia asteroids, which do double duty as a greenhouse gas ...

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm
I have no direct experience, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think this type of thing only really tends to pop up in large multinationals that literally just end up with too many moving parts at certain points to be able to keep every gear spinning at once. The business process dependency tree is just plain old _too complex_ to get 100% utilization of every piece at every point in time. It's more profitable for the business at that scale to have a certain role just "idle" for a period of time rather than fundamentally change business processes to maximize individual resource utilization.
I hoped for a very VERY long time that someone would fork Gtk2 - mainly looking towards the MATE devs. Sadly it never happened, Gtk2 had a ton of warts, but it also was for the longest time the most stable toolkit API, the closest to Windows' win32 in terms of stability and something you could target and expect it to be there in basically any desktop environment :-(
We moved the comments to that thread since it was posted a bit earlier. Since this post had the URL we ended up using, I'm sorry not to be able to share karma between the two submissions—it's sort of random which post of an equivalence class ends up winning out. We've got some ideas for fixing that.
NSA: et tu, Princeton?
Really terraforming Mars in itself is peripheral to if we can colonize it. Creating a vast possibility subterranean "bubble-city" is technically also a possibility that would reduce the needed gases by orders of magnitude. It would probably also call for a lot of design work to be psychologically tolerable to its residents long term. The why bother remains the same however - unlikely to pay off directly in itself but the research from trying will likely have other applications. Emergency backup for humanity is likely the biggest "practical" reason.

Technically we could theoretically recreate a magnetosphere and import gases from other sources but calling it recordbreakingly expensive would be a massive understatement. Even attempting it calls for a degree of megalomania.
I could have added reasonml to the list indeed, but reasonml really is (a different syntax for) ocaml.
I completely agree and I did the same thing. I own dead tree variants of both and TRPL approach immensely helped grokking the language whereas the Programming Rust book feels more like a reference book for dives into concepts.
My mom is a strong believer that every expecting parent should poll other kids about names for their baby. She asked her young nephews about potential names when she was pregnant and immediately threw out the ones they made fun of.