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Mmm... when you step down to get someone more suited for the new path a company is going to take, you have someone lined up to replace you - to ease transition and alleviate concerns.

You don't put an interim CEO from HR and finance while your are searching for a "seasoned executive in the electronics field", that's what you do if the current CEO is hurting the business and needs to be pushed out quickly.
Allow me a nitpick:

SA generally refers to South Africa. It's either KSA, or Saudi Arabia.
This would definitely be true if we didn't have experience with self hosting services that are critical to the businesses of our customers.

Luckily for us, we do have experience with figuring out servers and are usually required to fix crashes within minutes as the unit measured rather than days.
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Ah Canada. The Civilized State of America.

Its not the Chinese you should fear, its the fifth columnists from your Southern neighbour. The Chinese immigrants don't vote and they don't really hate Canada.
tensorflow has a c++ API and PyTorch is going to have one too with 1.0 ?!
> The reasonable answer to where you draw the line is: when something is no longer compatible with your value system. And if that's not clear, the issue is that you haven't yet spent enough time defining your values. That's the thing to talk about, research, consider, ask advice on, etc. People having a solid, well-tested personal value system is critical to society's function, because that informs how groups of people like companies then operate, and so forth on up.

This sounds nice, but nobody has a clearly defined value system. Can you tell us what yours is?

Nobody can do that. At most people can write do is essays about why they decided one thing or another. If you ask them enough questions, you find contradictions.

I'm not trivializing what you're saying, either. I think you're onto a real human desire for consistency.

But if you read a bit about how people have thought about moral decisions, you find it's an endless rabbit hole. The history of moral thought doesn't have any conclusions. It's not like we can pick utilitarians and say "yep, that's the right one", because there are plenty of reasonable objections to any principle.
The Trump regime is salivating at the idea of removing all restrictions on fracking. He could also easily switch alliances away from KSR by easing sanctions on Iran and Venezuela. The gap is negligible given those two potential scenarios.

A side-effect of ending our persecution of Iran, however, is that Putin would likely start a war. If Iran were allowed to dump their vast natural gas supplies on the open market, Russia's economy would starve.

(Edited for formatting / spelling / grammar).
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No turning wheels means no parallel parking. Zero turning radius would be cool, but even with complete differential steering that would scrub the tires a bit much. I don't think you could practically remove steering tires entirely. I think you're still stuck with a rack and pinion, ball joints, tie rods, strut bearings, etc so even with AWD with independent electric motors on all wheels differential steering isn't really that useful. On a performance car, it'll help with handling around turns. I don't see that becoming commonplace on average cars because of the added cost.
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ZA is the ISO Code for South Africa. SA is the ISO code for Saudi Arabia.
Definitely not, that was just a hyperbole sparked by a sigh of relief that our release won't be affected because of this outage.
> 50% of the weight goes to price.

Turns out they often need to tender as fast as possible and just use "lowest price satisfying all other criteria" as a way of choice.

> Turns out it is very easy to be 50% cheaper than anybody else if you are not required to have a working product.

You are allowed to specify absolute requirements in addition to sorting criteria. For example, you can say, worth more than some price, "the contractor shall have at least n years of experience". As descendant says, these are used to work around ban of subjective selection. Sometimes, they overdo it, and no vendors qualify at all.
"kind of like when Netflix shows "shows related to" when they don't have what you're actually looking for."

I wouldn't mind that to be honest. And I've discovered some shows/ movies which were pretty damn good (but not mainstream) just based on this sort of logic. I most likely would've never discovered them otherwise.
This would take quite a bit of effort to maintain, as there are many discrete features on most boards.

Just the Allwinner chips supported by the sunxi community have a kernel upstream status matrix that could easily fill a good chunk of a page.
> That sounds unsustainable

It is perfectly sustainable if you have a population that isn't ideologically opposed to taxes. You can fix that with education.

> and bad capitalism.

Good capitalism or bad capitalism, who cares? This sounds like a pointless ideological concern, again.

> Free services mean a few people will overuse and abuse.

It seems spiteful to me to deny universal healthcare to the majority because a minority might abuse it.
Thanks.

My mistake. I leave it there, thoguh, to not break the flow.
The oil wars: How America's energy obsession wrecked the Middle East - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH9zjozwNF8
> I desperately want to write my ML code in a statically typed language.

Why? ML programs are typically sufficiently compact to not require a type system.
"To increase users, we need to spend more."

Its great that you left the sentence ended at "more" because generally the answer isnt in spending more money, its about discovering those channels that help you get your message and value prop to your target audience at very low cost. Ideally, the cost should really be "time" in that you should be able to spend more time on discoverig the channels than spending money(ads for eg) on such discovery.

My opinion veers towards revenue and hopefullly from existing customers rather than new users because its less expensive, you already have a relationship and a strong basis for this relationship is the value you are already adding for them.
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It doesn't seem surprising at all that we fail to understand abstract questions like this. The experts only learned to answer them correctly after millennia worth of mathematical development!

To study how accurately Bayesian some animals are, I think you need to find ways to pose them questions which are relevant to them, and read off their inferences from their behaviour. This is obviously harder to do, and you have to worry a great deal about the animal optimising for something that differs from your first guess (e.g. it doesn't want maximum food on a good day, it wants not to starve on a bad day). I don't have references to hand but I think that when we can do this, the results are quite good.
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Unfortunately no. I experienced it when running software signed/hashed and it just would not run. The dev told me that this was well known and that I should not use the builtin zip. Sure enough, unzipping the file with 7zip worked like a charm.

I’ve found the same when downloading a proprietary lib that would not link with a C/Fortran application. The devs there tracked it down to the windows zip being used to pack the file, which they did not normally do.

So, just hearsay, but I’ve never even dreamed of bothering to file a bug report with microsoft. Is that even doable?
Seriously? I'll order some violins.
Interesting numbers! Thanks!

One question: Why are you quoting the estimed oil reserve in USD? Wouldn't that number fluctuate a lot due to changes in oil price during the years of extraction? Wouldn't it make more sense to quote it in barrels?
If you’re in Amsterdam, FP-AMS is organizing a CT study group:

https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/fp-ams/
You're talking from an industrial perspective and the parent is talking from a user perspective. You're both right.

Smartphones replaced compact cameras for a huge portion of casual photographers but as you point out it's not like camera makers could easily pivot into making smartphones (some of them probably could have if they had anticipated the trend enough, but by the time the iphone came out it was probably already too late to catch up).
I would love that too! If they had some sort of stat meter next to a product saying x% of the purchases were returned, it would be great. Plus it would force the seller to up their game or die.
I'm not sure this makes any sense - there's no benefit to using USD for the pricing if the contract is settled outside the US, and there are RMB-denominated oil futures available. Ironically as a result of sanctions on Iran, which isn't allowed to trade oil through any institution connected to the US. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/16/iran-oil-trumps-sanctions-cr...
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GitHub is down. What to do?
For around the same price you can get an Orangepi PC+ with 8GB of fairly speedy eMMC. Need smaller? The ESP series and OrangePi Zero (if more grunt is needed) are popular.
I will email you, but I've also created a chat room specifically for discussing falcon.

https://gitter.im/socketry/falcon
The brass fucking neck of you saying I'm not arguing in good faith when you produce a trainwreck of a thread like this.
Agreed. The Saudis have been snatching up real-estate all over Europe, America, and the middle-east. KSR is the largest foreign investor in Turkish real estate. If you remember the Gezi park protests, they were more about Saudis and Qataris forcing unwanted conservatism on the Beyoğlu city of central Istanbul than it was about saving the park.

The average Türk, except for the very upper-class, would be very happy to end the influence of the Saudis in their country.
Chinese have invested money abroad for centuries. Its actually something that serves China well. You can find Chinese enclaves from Singapore to Lagos.
Magnitsky act? The ongoing investigation into money laundering by senior Republican campaign officials?
I don't think the taste of the fish is necessarily quota-based, more to do with water temperature. Cold water fish are either "tasteless" (like cod, haddock, etc.) or oily (like herring and similar).

As for chips, I think we'll have to agree to disagree there. :)
I'm confident about the downtime not being an issue for us because of experience with all kinds of server issues.

I'm interested to see what our experience with bugs and updates is in the future, my happiness could very well be premature.
> Not to mention tea pots and cups.

Oh absolutely, and let's not forget the middle between leaves and teaware: brewing technique. It's incredibly wide, ranging from decorative chaxi to "obviously bullshit" mid-air hand gestures to straight up science (heat retention, fermentation, etc).

> but goodness me am I ever passionate about tea.

It's a great hobby. However, my advice to beginners is always to keep the passion and dreams in check when it comes to purchasing decisions. If you think software marketing is bad and full of buzzwords ... don't try tea.
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

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I'd also like to have this open-sourced to integrate into my blog.
No it isn't: https://enterprise.github.com/features#pricing
Amazon had close to zero role in the demise of Sears. Keep in mind, Amazon had a mere $34 billion in total sales as recently as 2010. Sears was realistically already a zombie ten years ago, long before Amazon was taking a consequential bite out of retail.

The rise of Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy, etc. serving the Sears customers better - as you mentioned - is entirely what killed Sears. They ultimately lost in every category to those guys, from clothes, to electronics, to home & garden. They kept doing a lot of things, and did nothing well. Any article that claims Amazon played a role in the demise of Sears, is selling click-bait.
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Thank you for asking for this. We actually want to add this, but are waiting to see if people actually ask for it.

We will add a subscription from our next article (in a couple weeks).
I agree with you, but I don't think it matters.

Unlike combustion engines, electric motors have much higher peak power output compared to steady state maximum power. (ie. they are limited by cooling, both of the motors and controller). Typically the pulse power for 1 second might be 10x the steady state output!

That means, for the typical use case of accelerating from 0 to 250 mph, they can afford to use the electric engines in 'peak' mode rather than steady state mode, then let them cool down when the IC engine is engaged at higher speeds.

Attach the system to a dyno and require it to run at a particular speed for an extended period of time and it's going to look very disappointing though.
I admire your confidence but will withhold my judgement until the postmortem is published.
Homicide rate have fallen since 1400. Nice.
Why starting that far away? People understand time surrounding them of around 100 years. No one really compares themselves to people that lived 200 years ago or more.
> Amazon is going downhill quickly

Unfortunately I have to agree.

There has been a huge increase in the number of dodgy sellers and obviously fake reviews, and Amazon does not seem to care.
I reported a few dishonest listings and absolutely nothing happened despite a number of reviews corroborating it.

Prime deliveries have also started to slip (here in the UK), with 'guaranteed next day deliveries' suddenly being delayed with no update or anything.

Amazon got so successful because they earned a pretty much blind trust from customers, but trust is lost quicker than it is earned.
Its not an issue normal Canadians should care about. The Chinese are buying up the higher end of the property market after all not social housing. Rich Canadians or rich Chinese, who cares which really?

Instead looking at the long term the 21st century is Asian not American. Canada is handed an opportunity.
Ask HN: How to deal with low-quality codebase?
I started working for a new project where most of the code has been written by a contractor and the people that approved the code delivery (and the people that wrote the code, obviously) did not seem to care much about testing, non-functional requirements like maintainability, the SOLID principles or other measures of code quality.

For most parts, the code looks like code I would have written when I started coding 15 years ago: mixture of model, data, and presentation. Hard-coded credentials. Code duplications. Commit messages like "Commits of Oct 10th". No use of libraries. You name it.

I feel like there is general management support for improving quality while the need to implement new features is also high. We need to maintain, extend, and use this code base which is in production.

While rewriting from scratch might be the first idea that comes to mind, I am more interested in your approaches to getting started in such a situation (leaving the project is currently not an option) and what could be effective measures to coaching the current team on quality.
Vertical scaling, I'd assume.
First, it is just very hard to make money from ad/donation supported niche content sites. I am running few sites like this for half decade and my income is basical half of what it was last year every year, even with 20%/year increase of traffic. It basically went from being able to pay my mortgage to paying for nice dinner each month.

I like what is described as The Stairstep Approach: https://robwalling.com/2015/03/26/the-stairstep-approach-to-...
That rule also applies to unsigned char and signed char. In practice I think uint8_t and int8_t are usually just typedefs for these respectively, but in principle they needn't be, so you're correct that the aliasing exemption might not apply to those.

I would tend to prefer explicitly using unsigned char or signed char rather than plain char though, partly to signal that I am treating the bytes as integers rather than character. (Actually I would still use uint8_t even though I just learnt it might not be unsigned char, because it looks clearer in my eyes, but I'm not sure I should admit it here...)
Github might have pruning, but you can't rely on it, since their Git management system is quite custom.

That said, if the request for the Events (as shown in the previous link) doesn't show the problematic commit - or a commit that extends it -, I don't think anyone could fetch it without previously knowing the ID, and if they do, it's probably because they already have a local copy.
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I was able to click and see the article, and I'm not a subscriber.
I use fakespot.com, and it’s surprising how often the ratings are deceptive. Just paste in any Amazon product URL.

For iOS, this shortcut makes it easier: https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9id390/check_ama...
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Hacker News is, surprisingly, not the center of the universe.
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How is this on Hacker News?
From what I heard Nivas that were exported from the Soviet Union went through more rigorious QA and were of a better quality than those released to the domestic market.
I think the general perception is that the region doesn't have anything valuable to export once the oil is gone. They're trying to import scientists and engineers to kick off an economic transition, but those types of people will have zero interest in being in the region once the oil runs out, and the more educated amongst the local populace would leave too. It is already widely held (again, I don't have numbers for this) that the rich/powerful/educated have already secured real estate in other places should instability arise, meaning those people with means or skills would leave once the oil runs out, meaning they don't see a bright future in the region as well.

With the recent news articles about the journalist being killed, all of the "modernization" thoughts people had are totally gone. There has been a lot of money thrown into architecting a modern image - all of which was completely undone in one single news cycle.

I am no expert on the region though, just fielding some thoughts.
Win 10 LTSB is really, really good. If you can get it, you should be running it. It would be worth paying a premium for if Microsoft would sell it retail, rather than only through MSDN or volume licensing.
I don't know, what exactly you are doing with your Linux installation, but you are doing it wrong.

Try installing something released in last 20 years or so.
I’ve reached the limit too. What does modern banking have to do with religion?
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Git is a distributed system. People can work if they want to, but it's certainly a convenient excuse to not be working.
FWIW, there was a similar experiment in the form of a dice game [1], and the phenomenon was still present.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QAK43nNCTQQycAcYe/conjunctio...
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Things that I find missing:

- filter not just by presence of SATA, but by number of SATA ports

- filter by availability of SATA power

I would really like to have a small (ARM or x86) board with multiple gigabit ethernet ports and also at least two SATA ports, to use as a homeserver (combined router and NAS with select web services exposed to the public internet). This role is currently filled by a small headless desktop PC, but I feel like I could go much lower in the power consumption dept.
I don't think it's baffling at all. Facebook is the largest social media company, and what do they do to try to stop all of the propaganda, troll factories and hateful things going on there? Naught. They know that they are the largest company and therefore doesn't have to do anything as long as their position stays the same. Which it seems to be doing. Yes, there are people leaving the platform but where do they go? There is no real contender, therefore Facebook will remain number 1.
Probably a fine setup for optimising straight-line acceleration and 0-400 times, with questionable track performance. A conventional high-performance car is able to make use of the engine torque at any time by shifting to the appropriate gear and keeping the engine in a narrow rev-range. This, on the other hand relies solely on the electric motors to fill that gap before the torque peak at, say, 250 km/h.
And South Australia :)
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I believe I acknowledged that he was a rapist, so that I took all the different behaviors described and put them into the set 'sexual habits' is not actually that interesting.

I didn't know anyone actually cares what Gandhi's quotes are regarding anything but non-violence and perhaps its use as a political strategy - but it is a big world, so sure if someone were going to care about his quotes about sex this info here might cause them to reconsider.

I think it may also open topic of power corrupts.
I was going to ask the same. According to the regular definition of 'strong typing', Ruby is strongly typed. You cannot take a bunch of bytes in memory and pretend they are a different type. If something is an Integer, you can only treat it as an Integer. Sure, it may sometimes seem that way (duck typing, automatic type conversion), but it never is that way (no casting or type coercion)
I wish it could be shipped from Europe too. Shipping makes it prohibitively expensive.
Amazing post. It will be very helpful for beginners like me. Thank you very much for this kind of post.Waiting for your next blog
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any white men on the team?
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May be you are correct, but as a hydrocarbon-plebe, USD makes more sense to me :)
> makes us feel like we're more in control and are somehow saving some money

This is precisely the problem with developers. You decided to go with a complex self built solution because it "feels" cheaper. If only I would have received a $ every time someone made a wrong decision based on a feeling I'd be a rich man today.
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Which defeats the purposes of having reviews by removing the negative reviews...
Excellent stuff. Impressively quick. One feature request: can each generated status stack up for maximum effect?

Like this: https://i.imgur.com/74zUHKy.png
> You are allowed to specify absolute requirements in addition to sorting criteria. For example, you can say, worth more than some price, "the contractor shall have at least n years of experiene".

Exactly these are being used to pick a specific vendor. "Must have at least N people certified to do X for at least Y years", with "must have turnover of X for the last Y years" and few more, and you find out, that there is exactly one company qualifying.
>A side-effect of ending our persecution of Iran, however, is that Putin would likely start a war. If Iran were allowed to dump their vast natural gas supplies on the open market, Russia's economy would starve.

No, he wouldn't. Russian establishment has no balls for that, Russian regime was already in survival mode by the end of Putin's first presidency. All they want now is to be left alone with their puny savings from days of abundance, and to die before their money run out.

Their expansionist ambitions? A bluff, a diversionary manoeuvre - plainly and simple.
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