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MongoDB has a similar 20x ratio.

I won’t argue if this is warranted, but companies like this have:

- Very high gross margins once you take out fixed costs. (80+%) This implies massive profitability once you exceed fixed costs.

- Negative net churn. (Their existing accounts grow more than they lose) This implies if they got rid of their sales force, they could still grow.

- Their payback on sales investments is quick, usually less than a year. This allows them to heavily invest in topline growth.

When you do all this, the math works at 10X in a low interest rate environment, or if you project a very long growth period. Perhaps 20X is Fear Of Missing Out?

The stock market’s reaction to SAP (Knocking off 5 non in value) suggests that 8-10X is more reasonable.
Yes, in the book Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark! (An AGI is implemented that makes money on Amazon Mechanical Turk.)
The gap is widening for real, not just "on paper".

And study after study shows that humans very much define happiness in relative terms. It doesn't matter if quality of life is rising for everybody, if the gap is rising much faster - you're going to have the populace that is unhappy, and that unhappiness eventually translates to anger (it has already started doing so).

You can either work to fix that, or you can wait for torches and pitchforks.
The depth a RF signal reliably penetrates to in water is proportional to its wavelength.

Hence the ELF sites used to communicate with submarines - we're talking EM radiation at a frequency of a few tens of hertz.

These transmitter sites are huge - not to mention the power requirements, which is easily in the MW range - so they could only be used to communicate from shore to submersible. Return comms would have to be by acoustic means, due to size and power constraints in the submersible.

Also, the bandwidth of ELF systems is very low - think several seconds, if not minutes per bit - the bandwidth of an acoustic system is orders of magnitude higher.

Edit: I had bungled the first paragraph. My apologies.
The product you describe (“I maintain a local dropdown folder full of markdown files. At an interval or when one changes, there's a hook that automatically updates the content of my site.“) is something I’ve built:

https://blot.im
I sound like someone who recognizes that there are circumstances in which the majority ought not get their will satisfied and that there are circumstances in which the majority will ought to be satisfied. I’m someone who recognizes that merely stating that the majority wills it so is not sufficient reasoning.

My post was pointing out a flaw in your stated reasoning. Specifically your over reliance on the fact that the majority wants it without any supporting arguments that this is a case in which the majority will ought to prevail. I was not taking a position on any issue. I’m certain that if you were sufficiently interested in the topic you could find studies showing detrimental effects of Facebook. A search engine will provide you with links.

The “we” is obviously society.
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You can't so trivially separate them. Capitalism solves a resource allocation problem, and it's the most efficient one for private goods, which most goods at the time were. Any other approach would have seen more corruption and more death from improperly allocated resources.

So yes, capitalism has helped the poor considerably, not just science. New tech without a proper distribution system is useless.
I think that human freedom and authenticity might be a little higher than bees.
Hardware hacker here, I can give you a few reasons. iPhones are designed to "just work" which is what I want in my main communications device. Sure, I could take one of the half-dozen SBCs on my work bench and turn it into a working cellphone with some parts and some sketchy code and a prayer or two, but I wouldn't want to rely on it daily.

As for my computer, I use a Mac mini that dual boots macOS and Linux. I have an older Mac mini that runs OpenBSD exclusively. I also have a media server I cobbled together from scavenged x86 parts.

I'm not a programmer, but it's my understanding from this community and others I frequent that Macs make for a comfortable and useful platform for their work and leisure computing life.

So, despite your attempt at gatekeeping, Apple products do have a place in a random hacker's workflow if that hacker decides he wants it; it's not up to you to decide what someone else uses and enjoys.
Quit using vendor lock in resources then asking why its hard to leave that vendor.
I must admit that I occasionally look at the Hive app and conclude that if our house is at 18C then it probably isn't on fire... :-)
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Is there any software that tracks interdependencies between project items?
Every kind of project management software that allows timelines I've tried does not allow to make an interdependecy between two project items. Is there one that does?

For example, I have two items:

1) Bring concrete to the construction site 17-19 November 2018

2) Pour concrete 20-25 November 2018

and if 1) is delayed, I would like 2) to be automatically moved in time as well.

But every piece of software I tried (Dropbox Paper Timeline, Roadmunk etc.) just bumps 2) into a separate timeline without moving it in time.

But I cannot start pouring concrete if it's not on the construction site! Is this really such an uncommon use case that it gets ignored by every piece of software I found?
Comments like this are why I keep coming back to HN. That living-city concept blows my mind on so many levels. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and diverse perspective!
As a kid, I used to frequently do things in a pattern that I discovered much later to be the [0]Thue Morse sequence. 1001-0110-0110-1001 and so on. For example, "1" would be snapping fingers and "0" touching my nose. Never had it diagnosed clinically so I'm not really sure if I even have OCD but some symptoms tick the boxes.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%E2%80%93Morse_sequence
>> Anyone who wants to stop companies from becoming more efficient should carefully analyze what they are trying to prevent, and fix that problem more directly.

Thanks. I reached the same conclusion in my response to another comment here. More efficient farming is good. What I foresee happening as a result may not be so good. You are right to suggest separating the issues.
This is actually a generic problem in public acquisition - projects are tightly funded to meet specific customer requirements and cannot themselves resolve enterprise-level problems. Building for re-use tends to add complexity / cost and a hard-nosed PM will not easily be pursued to solve someone else's problem. It seems to require top-down commitment of intent and resources - and a big stick - to make individual projects do the right thing.

Obviously there can be situations where common approaches are developed and used but this seems to be the exception rather than the norm.

(source - I've spent 10 years trying to work this issue in a UK public acquisition context)
In this particular case it does, though. It's very obvious when you contrast worker productivity with quality of life gains - it's clear that workers today are left with substantially less of the wealth that they produce in the economy than they did, say, 50 years ago. In absolute terms, that smaller proportion translates to some gains, but that's little consolation. If you used to earn $100, but someone stole $40 of it every time, and now you earn $200, but someone steals $120 of it every time, you're technically better off... but the guy who steals money from you is clearly reaping more benefits at your expense even so.
It's fun when people complain about having to handle personal data properly and not to collect more than they need.

Bad luck, be responsible.
TL;DR the People's Front of Judea are taking a hard line.
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From all the material I've seen, the UK is keeping GDPR post-Brexit
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It does and they do take advantage of the notch with the speaker (why wouldn't they?), but that's not the reason for the notch to exist.

Apple discussed this in interviews after the X came out. They realized they needed somewhere for the camera and face scanner, so decided since they needed a notch anyway they would take full advantage by adding in those sensors and features that could make best use of it. The proximity sensor and speakers could have worked without a notch, but work better with it. These considerations, together with aesthetics related to balancing the size of the notch and the screen areas either side, were the driving factors.
WiFi on android: if you set a static IP then you can also change DNS. Has to be done for every network you connect to though.

Mobile data (and wifi) on android: use VPN and choose your DNS (openvpn+pi-hole on a cheap VPS works great)
Another fun word: "bezwzględny". Five consecutive consonants.
> your claim is false for phone and tablet cameras

Yet nobody seems to care about them (unless forced to care by their employer). The exact same folks I see in work environments with the tape on the Apple laptops are the same folks with nothing on the phones/tablets (and previously mentioned mics, where as at least on iOS you always have a visual indication of that). If you really care about privacy, you learn the different ways to protect yourself. If instead you have a different motive, you instead just grab a piece of tape and call it done.
It's also power asymmetry. Some people just can't afford to NOT sign a non compete. That's why laws and regulations are needed to protect the poor.
hmm Facebook run their entire internal network on IPv6
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It's rather stupid to compare this to an hourly pay because it's all automated once it's made.

Over $40 for something that just converts is a pretty large amount. I get there are other features of the plan, but having no alternative plans is just ... There is no way to even test it. I also just noticed the price went down to $29 now, which is more reasonable, but even so I'd argue there should be alternative plans that maybe doesn't include the full support etc. I'd assume most people won't need to take advantage of that.

I could probably setup something similar in a couple of hours, I mean there's no magic done here.

Parsing markdown is easy and I already have that as a part of my web-framework.

See: https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond/tree/master/markdown
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US has routinely interfered in politics of Central and South American countries - including military assistance for local anti-democratic forces, and in some cases (e.g. Dominican Republic), outright military occupation - to protect its economic interests there. Here's just one example - I picked this one because it is directly related to the term "banana republic", since the intervention was to protect the interests of the United Fruit Company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
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It is already available as debian package:
https://packages.debian.org/buster/ionit
ITYM "proportional", not "inversely proportional". The ELF transmissions have very long wavelengths.
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May I know what was your needs that required you to code your own survey?
Olivia, as in Olivia Dunham?
> I find it pretty incredible that somebody could have such an iconic role in such an iconic movie

Well, according to a BBC obit [0], for Douglas Rain, 2001 was just 10 hours of recording - not with the other actors - over two days. I guess he couldn't have predicted the film's impact from that alone, and perhaps he didn't particularly enjoy Kubrick's other work.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46178930
I’m pretty sure comfort is not the top design criterion when building a machine that can take multiple humans miles deep, but I’d love to see the inside of it. I imagine even a bathroom break could be challenging.
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TestFlight builds to my knowledge only have to pass the automated scan. As such, as long as the dev isn’t using private APIs or doing other forbidden things that can be statically scanned for, it’ll get past that point.
Buy prices are already slighly down compared to 2 years ago, something to do with Brexit.

There are literally properties being built everywhere. Just take the overground to any direction and look around you. It doesn't make prices go down. There are too many people and too much money.
-You are right; I was thinking 'frequency' but writing 'wavelength'. Thank you!
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> 5. Causing harm to other people, particularly when driving

I actually think this is a healthy thing to be a little obsessively worried about. Drivers are generally too blasé about the damage they can cause to other humans through their actions.

Like, most people should be worried about that enough that they drive less often because of it.
They should add something to run code when leaving a scope, no matter how you leave the scope (break, return, ...).

That would allow cleanup and other such actions without resorting to such hacks as: "goto cleanup" pattern, separate functions, fake for loop to break out of, ...
"Cthulhu likes that"
The government would never use the system to help you either. They're utterly incompetent. They would only use this to imprison you.
The idiomatic way to do that is with destructors.

EDIT: Sorry for the confusion, I misread the article and thought this was about C++2x.
Certainly, anyone may choose the hardware they like.

But there is a danger in this type of "democracy", namely that we're heading for a future where true general purpose computing starts to disappear, and universities and computing enthousiasts have to pay thousands of dollars for a universally programmable computer. With Apple aggressively vertically integrating their supply-chain, and others copying Apple's business tactics, the writing is on the wall ...
I will just pray for the better error handling proposals.

Both are fine. For modern code with no global state, especially the multithreaded kind, everything is better than the errno.h mess.
"Google can't alter the signed files"

The signed html files likely include a script tag that downloads Google controlled JS. Such that AMP can continue to do whatever it wants.

Edit: "The AMP runtime is loaded via the mandatory <script src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> tag in the AMP document <head>."

https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/spec#amp-runtim...

So you can use signed http and Google can't alter the files. But, if you make your page valid AMP for their cache, they certainly alter the page with their runtime. Adding the header at the top, intercepting things like left/right swipe for carousel and top-stories loaded pages, etc.
Is that actually legal, and enforceable in the US?

The union for engineers in Denmark have basically told its members to just sign contracts with non-compete clauses, because they aren't actually enforceable. Not without the company compensating you financially, even if you're fired.

Assuming a five year non-compete clause, the company should expect to pay you for those five years. Essentially the worker sign away their most marketable skills, and that's no free.
C doesn't have destructors, does it?
It’s complicated, and there are exceptions (archiving a deteriorating work for example) but in almost all cases it’s just expiry via passage of time.
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encrypting the whole protocol intrinsically protects against denial of service, buffer overflows and other common mistakes how exactly?

My point is this, the client is protected from a _lot_ of noise. QUIC changes this.
This is awesome, I hadn't seen the other parts yet.

The naming of the URL slugs is a little confusing. Part II is called Part 9, Part III is called Part 53, and Part IV is called part 10.
Yeah... Actually adding something like defer {...clean up code...} would be really nice.

But who are we to ask..? Just programmers, i.e. mere mortals nobody really cares about. :-)
URL should probably be http://www.chris-granger.com/2016/07/21/two-years-of-eve/

also (2016)
Rajeeb Hazra, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Enterprise and Government Business Group was asked about AMD’s upcoming Rome chip with the Zen 2 microarchitecure, saying that the company was confident in the “unparalleled assets” that are driving the evolution of Intel’s products, both hardware and software.
“Those assets are not just around cores and frequencies and things like that of the past, but around how we put a diverse set of IP together, how we actually enable standards in the ecosystem … and harness the energy from both hardware and software out there on those platforms,” he said. “So, yes, in summary, I’d say we are going to be extremely competitive and drive to this next phase of converged computing for HPC and AI with the innovations we have planned and I’m very confident that that will happen in a way that our customers can continue to bank on us for the leading technologies and solutions they need to run their businesses.”

For some reason this answer reminds me a lot of Steve Ballmer's (in)famous response when asked about the iPhone.
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Personally? Probably not. Large groups of people? Quite likely, yes. "Common sense is not that common", and all that :)
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You also said that all you would get was an "automated ack". This seems to not be the case if aws provides an on-call support engineer.
One technique: Pomodoro. It is very effective technique.

I just recently started and I am on track. After a day you will see how ineffective you were and how you can improve.

I slightly modified it. Prioritize the things you want to start. Do not divide the tasks.

Technique:
1. Set the timer for 25 minutes. You can use any app.

2. Take 5 mins break.

3. Tell yourself I will not use any internet or any other thing for 25 mins.

4. If you have to do anything say to yourself will do in 5 mins break.

I admit my first pomodoro were quite hell. But I refrained myself from using any distractions.
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They are enforceable in some parts of the EU. In the UK they need to be very specific about it and have a fair time limit. Saying "You can't poach any clients or employees" is unenforceable saying "You can't poach Employee A and Employee B for 1 year" is. Most companies just have a poorly worded contract that isn't enforceable.
In the given scenario, the author signs tags and not commits. So the malicious commit wouldn't be signed at all because no commits are signed, and therefore nothing would look out of place.

The article is arguing that only signing tags is insufficient, and that you should sign every commit individually to prevent this scenario.
Wouldn't you also have to make sure you don't rise too quickly to the surface, or you'll suffer possibly fatal decompression complications?
I don't think "error handling" should be a thing in C. Errors are just data, not a special case.

errno.h isn't so much builtin to C. It's just part of the standard libary, and more so of POSIX. It's only used for interfacing with the OS. And it's not that bad, since errno is a thread local variable.
Could you name such government? I don't know about any single government in the world that isn't corrupt, only ones that are less corrupt than other ones, and that is not nearly enough.
> you can wait for torches and pitchforks.

I am honestly waiting. People are only going to put up with this for so long.
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Why are you mentioning this?
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What is worse is the time bomb of chemical and even conventional weapons dumped into the oceans of the world. this of course only includes those we know about

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decaying-weapo...
>Add a type aware print utility with format specification syntax similar to python

Does anyone have more information about this proposal?
We have Rocky Flats here in Denver. We have built giant neighborhoods in the shadow of that facility with a similar reckless history of nuclear and industrial waste related to nuclear weapons production.
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Sure. Those qualify. I also like to highlight the opportunity for violent physical crime. I have no idea if this story is true but it is at least representative. http://altdigitalcurrency.com/police-arrest-gang-that-kidnap...

I'd bet that the police were unable to recover anything that the gang members robbed. Crypto introduces a weird situation in which you either: A - keep all of your private keys at home which is effectively just like keeping all of your cash at home, but in easily distributable packages or B - trust some third party entity to hold and protected your assets from what looks like fraudulent transactions. I would imagine a world in which everyone has crypto as their currency would have a lot more physical crime, home break ins, and robberies.
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> ...it's crazy how much effort is wasted because everybody is writing separate mission control, monitoring and data analysis applications that do 95% of the same things, each with its own horrendous UX/UI, idiosyncrasies and bugs.

Heh, sounds like they have a lot in common with JavaScript frameworks and web development in general. With this observation in mind I doubt making mission control "web based" will rectify the situation...
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Yeah, lions have awesome lives. Nothing like roving the world, murdering other males and eating their young, taking their females to breed and hunt for you, then inevitably getting murdered yourself by other roving males. It's a utopia!
This sounds interesting. Do you remember the essay or more details so that I could google it?
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Or perhaps that commanding space missions from your mobile isn't a priority ;)
You can use C++ as some kind of C with destructors though :P Scoped cleanup is really a nice thing..

But then you also want templates of course to get rid of your void*. And oh, wait, what's that? A cross-platform thread implementation (well, sort of, depends on platform)? A string thing which I can search without strstr? Anonymous functions which capture? Auto? Gimme gimme :]
> Cactus also good, least back in the CRT days as they helped absorb emissions.

I've never heard of this; could you elaborate? What health-relevant emissions do CRTs give out, and how would having a cactus in the vicinity of the CRT help?
I'm at a mid-sized German office (in Dresden, about 500 employees), and it's a pleasant work culture overall. Sure, there's ample bureaucracy and office politics (as with any large company), but I can easily see myself working here until retirement if the work continues to challenge me (in a positive way) as it does now.

It probably helps that my direct manager is shielding us from a lot of the bureaucracy and allowing us lots of individual freedom wrt technical decisions (our team sometimes feels more like a small startup embedded within the company). But people from other teams seem (mostly) happy with their positions as well.