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Microsoft Biztalk. By "work", I mean it didn't crash. It also didn't do anything useful.
Ha! I've tried that. Write an article and post to HN, then watch it fall off the New page in 20 minutes without a single vote. I'm sure one day I'll crack the code, but for me, engagement is hard. For all its faults, Medium provides an instant audience with feedback/commenting mechanisms.
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Yeah, There is a huge internet exchange in Milan and a lot of submarine cables to Middle East, India etc go through Italy.
At least in case of GitLab, many of this is allowed (or even promoted) to do during company time. For example, if you go to the dentist for one hour you don't need to somehow make up for that. The same goes with Emails: the remote first culture means basically everybody fully expects it to take at least several hours before they get a reply.

In other words: I think this is more about the company, and less about remote versus non remote.
We've been running TMC (my latest venture, now 10 years old) as a 100% remote company since day one. As of late though it starts to feel like a less-than-ideal solution for the longer term. Our customers expect a company that is more conventional and some of our colleagues have said rather explicitly that they would like to collaborate more closely in an office like setting. What with the rents in and around Amsterdam so far not having an office was one of the advantages we had over competitors.
Newark would be a painful commute for anyone wanting to live in the boroughs, LI, or Westchester/CT, i.e. a ton of people.

I do hope NYC deals with its growing pains -- I finally left last year, in part because of rising costs and aggravation.
The development in LIC wasn't about Amazon in particular, but amazon is choosing that location for the same reason. People were given huge tax breaks to redevelop LIC.
Thank you for the advice. I tend to rush, I avoid the simple pieces and move on to more complex, "interesting" music to find myself quickly overwhelmed by the complexity.

I will try your 'hacks' approach to see what happens.
Fun fact: loyalty to the employer is often considered as being written into the law of the province I live in. https://www.educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/being-loyal-your-empl...

| 2088. The employee is bound not only to perform his work with prudence and diligence, but also to act faithfully and honestly and not use any confidential information he obtains in the performance or in the course of his work.

| These obligations continue for a reasonable time after the contract terminates and permanently where the information concerns the reputation and privacy of others.
They weren't saying obvious things shouldn't have names.

They were saying they didn't realize it had a name.
This is a demand issue, I think. Easy to fix. Just sponsor lots of healthy food for events. Also, FreeHummus.io is still available for you to go to town.
Exactly. These are enormous private governments at this point and should be treated like government.

They partnered with the Atlantic Council which is essentially a board the most evil capitalistic & imperialistic motherfuckers from past US government to decide what to censor. It's essentially state censorship and it's worrying to me.
>Nobody is entitled to live in a certain area for a certain amount of money.

Not inherently, no. But legally speaking there are concepts like "rent control" and "adverse possession" that were created to assert on some level that people do, in fact, have a right to continue living in a space that they've occupied for a reasonable duration.
>Many MEPs seem to hope that European newspapers will get some of Google's money,

I'm surprised Google News doesn't stick ads on news results and do some sort of 70/30 profit sharing like YouTube. That's the best way for newspapers to profit from a Google Listing. Instead Google News sidesteps copyright issues by not monetizing news results at all.

>EU data protection laws are excellent. Far better than those of the US, which do pretty much the complete opposite

Forget laws. Are things better in practice? Because people tend to get enamoured with regulations because they sound great (I mean, who doesn't want low emission, high efficiency cars in 5 years) that are disconnected with reality.
Sounds like a React Native app (and feels like one, sadly?).

I could be wrong, though, since the NetworkExtension would have to be written in Swift, so I don't see why they wouldn't just write the rest in Swift and/or ObjC... would be happy to be wrong actually.
> I mean, this article was posted to Medium. Medium didn't put it in front of you. So how is Medium helping?

Medium has a ton of recirc features that drive page views within the ecosystem. That is the entire reason why Ev started Medium, it wasn't about giving people better typography or whatever.

The reason the product is kind of messed up is because they made some financing decisions that may have not been correct in retrospect, so now they've had to go back and try to retroactively design the product to match their capital structure. But it's not like they wouldn't have had tons of other problems if they were bootstrapped, the reality is there just aren't any good financing options for consumer web startups right now.
I'm skeptical at the choice of Crystal City. (Sorry, that's where it is, call it what you want.) I think being "urban" mattered a lot to them, and Crystal City has the most opportunity for a significant tenant to move in.

But that "opportunity" is there because it's a secondary or tertiary choice for employers. Considering that 70%+ people are commuters, a) there are more desirable locations no matter where you're coming from, and b) there's no direct way to get there, other than Route 1, which is going to be a disaster.

No major highways or arteries, Metro goes through Arlington first, etc.

If you live in DC, you have to leave the city. If you live to the west, you'd prefer Dulles, Tysons, or Arlington. If you're to the south, it's Alexandria. To the north, Bethesda. To the west... probably Baltimore, or you have to drive all the way through DC.
Do you have toddlers too or just the infant? I have a 3 year old at home and I work from home 2 days a week. It was fine when he was an infant but now I have to work either from Whole Foods or the library. It is challenging. I can't just get up and go to the bathroom and leave my stuff. If I try to work from home my 3 year old son demands my attention. I am desperate for a secure place to work from. I was hoping Lifetime Fitness would put one of their new co-work offices in my location but that may be a long time out. I'm just curious if you have plans for when your infant gets older. Maybe I am doing it wrong but there is 0 chance to work when I am in the house with him.
Good info thanks. But yeah, with a stick shaker there are many other ways for the pilots to get the same info, so I can sort of understand that as being optional for the copilot. Obviously not ideal, but at the end of the day engineering is nothing but compromise management :)
This is an under-represented viewpoint. The freedom we constantly discuss in terms of app stores is freedom of possibility, but it comes at a cost in time and effort that reduces one's material freedom.
HN, Reddit, social media. You read this post because someone posted it here.

Getting other people to read your post is as difficult as getting other people to read other people's content - you post it where you frequent, and if people like it, they'll reshare it. Building a larger audience requires work, and any attempt at cheating that is unsustainable at scale.
Corbyn wants Brexit to happen he’ll whip Labour into passing it.
People change and so do businesses. I think this is kind of click bait but I see he has something to say. Bottom line I feel if you're at a startup that grew you changed with the company as well and I don't think you'll want to be doing / working like you did.
Windows Vista. It is practically a virus, and ran ~5x slower than XP on the same hardware.
That is an apples to oranges comparison. ramda does not provide persistent data structures.
>First, mining uranium is not exactly environmentally friendly and those involved in the mining process are at a considerably higher risk of lung and non-lung cancers.

Hey buddy, the mining isn't much cleaner for the lithium, the cobalt, the REEs, the copper, or really anything required for PVs or the batteries which store their energy. And at least most of the uranium supply is in developed countries.
Twitter teaches a generation of developers why proprietary platforms suck (2012)
It's also BS, though, because if you hire someone in a high wage market they will frequently move. Unless you have a very well communicated policy of readjustment, it ends up with grossly unfair outcomes to employees and dysfunction within teams.
Redox is cool but I'm pumped for the OS' that really take advantage of Rust to create new architectures.
> Bad because many of Lighthouses best practices aren't always applicable

It's tough to create an auditing tool that caters to the web at large. See my other comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442686

> This all also overlooks the value that something like the Browser's User Timings provides... which Lighthouse doesn't surface up.

Lighthouse does surface up this info in the "User Timing Marks and Measures" audit: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/us...

But I'm getting the impression that you want Lighthouse to surface up this information in a different way. Please feel free to elaborate.

Disclaimer: I write the docs for Lighthouse. I'm speaking from my general knowledge of the project but haven't vetted these comments with my team. So consider all comments my own.
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I agree. I'm okay with people promoting their stuff as long as it fits in the discussion and has proper disclosure that it's their project. But it's not very nice when almost every post is like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16961492

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032223

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16400684
and this tradition proudly continues with Windows 10!
Thanks for understanding my point. Hitler's dog loved him because the dog cared about food and getting petted. The bad elements were not the main priority of the dog. Just caring about one thing and not caring about the other does not make the dog a Nazi. Even more ridiculous, in the logic of OP, all other dogs who think this is behavior is okay, Nazi dogs.
Most large enterprise systems that are more than a few years old tend to be pretty bad, and almost all of them work just fine, as long as you respect the 'dragons be here' signs and you don't attempt to fix that which isn't broken.

Millions of lines of code (or even 10's of millions of lines) are really not all that exceptional. The original programmers are typically in some home or are pushing up the daisies.
" beverages and fashion the capital needed for production is very limited"

Disagree here, working capital is the hardest thing by far for any company that 'makes stuff'. Inventory is very expensive. Shipping. Faulty units. Returns.

As for dividends ...

Dividends simply don't matter. Either you own the cash via stock ownership, or they return it to you. It's more a matter of how that capital can be put to work - who is better - Google, or you? Depends on the company there.
There have been stories about this for months. It's reasonable to assume that most people reading and commenting on them are familiar with the history of this long running story and the well publicized last minute change in the terms of the agreement by Amazon in the last week.

If you are honestly unaware of this and need it explained to you, then in the future take some time to familiarize yourself with the context of what's going on or ask some questions before you jump in and start insulting people.
I imagine they just use an outside payroll firm, many large corporations use companies like ADP (the one I work for does).
If you ever need a friendly ear or a sounding board, feel free to send me an email.
Nobody is entitled to live in a certain area for a certain price. Such things lead to distorted markets and tons of other issues.
I think the parent meant a deep copy/merge—Object.assign only does a shallow merge, which is the point of the article.
Moving is a substantial expense. Should people be forced to consider the likelihood that housing costs that are currently within their means might rise outside of them at some unknown point in the future, and to some unknown degree, when choosing housing? How exactly should that be considered?

It seems regressive, socially, to force this consideration on the people least able to afford it. After all, people who "choose" low-quality housing tend to do so because their choice is necessarily limited, by their lack of access to wealth and financing, to housing that is more attractive for redevelopment.
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No they don't. If you want your Medium post to get read you have to promote it on HN, reddit, facebook, twitter, etc exactly as you would with a self-hosted post.
Greenpeace were against nuclear weapons originally, especially nuclear weapons testing. They protested effectively enough that the French government DGSE blew up their ship and killed a photographer.

Then they were against the dumping of nuclear waste at sea.
Those are terrible ideas. No one can foresee all possible threats, or reliably predict which ones will come to pass. It's not possible to split cockpits down the middle because some critical controls such as circuit breakers exist only one one side or the other, but are reachable by both pilots. Adding duplicate circuit breakers on both sides isn't practical for space reasons, and would introduce additional failure points. And allowing ATC to block out a pilot from flight controls would itself be a failure point. What if ATC is compromised?
Out of curiosity, is there a reason that your customers want a more conventional setup other than perception? How about those colleagues? Are there legitimate reasons to collaborate in an office? For the latter, maybe the best solution is renting a conference room for those sessions that really need to be in person.
Too bad there's no Chick-fil-a close to where I live.
The leaked Windows source some years back was pretty damn ugly.

And it was only a small portion of the OS.
What you said about a random number generator is a trivial test and has big problems with power (probability of Type II error) of the test.

For power, I did mention Neyman-Pearson.

In one paper I wrote on such things, multi-dimensional and distribution-free, I did some derivations, not easy to do (the paper was published in Information Sciences) for probability of Type I error, significance of the test, and used a classic result, LeCam called "tightness" of S. Ulam to show that the power of the test was better than that of a trivial test. Ulam's result is in P. Billingsley, Convergence of Probability Measures. Billingsley was long at U. Chicago.
The basic problem is that what he was doing for the first 12 months was right. Doing what a big company executive would have done would have been wrong.

When the new CEO comes in and wants things done immediately in the big company way, it's going to feel like the new guy is saying he was doing everything wrong. Further, the actions he was taking will be perceived by others in the company and by new management as his identity rather than as a rational response to the circumstances of the early company.

A smart and observant person in such a role might come around over time naturally. He or she would notice that what worked early on isn't working as well any longer and would adapt. That may even be better for the company than going overnight from "small company mode" to "big company mode".

Or the person may not come around. Either way, it's likely change will not be perceived as fast enough. Difficult problem for all parties.
There is a formal definition of what makes a coop. and outsourcing your lower paid members job's fails he sniff test.
I'd like to hear more about this, too. I would probably start looking for non-fiction about the Soviet Union and East Germany. My intuition is that the human factor is more important than the spycraft. In other words, how do you know who agrees with you politically? How do you know if you can trust them? They could be an informant for the police.

There's a scene from The Man In The High Castle season 1 where some of the Japanese are trying to figure out if the antique salesman shares their political beliefs. To give an opening, they ask questions sort of in the subject area, but plausibly deniable. He fails the test, but even if he passes, he can't just come straight out. It would be based on subtleties of words, facial expressions, attitude, maybe a joke in response. Even then, he's better off if there's not a Nest or an Alexa recording the whole thing.

Related, I heard about a man who was handing out political brochures on a street in the Soviet Union. Before too long, the police came and took him into custody. To their surprise, the brochures were blank inside. When they asked the man what was going on, he said, "everyone already knows!". But they can't talk about it.
Wait, you're saying it's easier when they're an infant? Uh oh. I'm in trouble!
Oh, well that's totally different.

Short answer: we don't. You breath enough smoke, it kills you, you die in part because these nano-particles (soot) are clogging up your lungs (Along with the CO2/lack of O2). Carbon particles in your food are carcinogenic and can accumulate in your body. Everything around you is constantly killing you by inches. Your body is pretty good at just ignoring anything that isn't causing immediate system shocks and allowing you to function.

Which is to say, the fact that toxic particles are being spewed by your 3D printer might not be any worse than working next to a grill. That's not to say that either is good, and you should probably minimize contact to prevent accumulation. We haven't "adapted" to natural chemicals, it's more that different chemicals are different degrees of problematic to the body.
I don't have anything myself but Zapier has this resource https://zapier.com/learn/remote-work/

They also have some remote work blog posts in their blog https://zapier.com/blog/
I mean they can disobey the whip.

He should have the self awareness that trying that could result in Labour collapsing like the LibDems did.
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Irish foreign minister said the negotiations are still ongoing:

https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1062386105713131521
try https://getbuzz.io, we're in private beta, it is white label and you can put it on your domain.
Came across this while trying to find a direct link to the PDF of their cloud research, trying to bypass download forms. To my surprise there was a ton of PDFs linking to shady site.
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Labour's position is to vote against the Chequer's agreement.
A short answer: Own the company.
Nuclear is not a cheap source of energy these days; the strike price for Hinkley Point C is higher than that offered to most wind farms.
Well, the alternative is that the person who let the Tesla enter knew it was an electric and didn't care, despite knowing that the Tesla could not win the event.
This all seems to be entirely moot, given that there is a slim chance of this deal getting through parliament - assuming it’s anything like it’s expected to be.

What a colossal waste of time.
Raft is certainly easier to explain, but it's hard to argue that Raft is more practical.

For one thing, implementing Raft in a performant way is incredibly difficult. Where paxos has very fine-grained units of consensus (e.g., ballots), in Raft, everything happens through leases, and is totally linear. This is one of the major reasons a bunch of (all?) major Raft implementations do unprincipled things like non-quorum reads. This sort of problem also makes it very difficult to get Raft to do anything on an unreliable network. Raft is also super noisy, so you have to do stuff like piggy back heartbeats in other RPC calls.

One way of thinking about this is: in paxos much of the complexity is in the specification itself. Performant Raft pushes this complexity into external systems. Both of these are extremely hard problems. There is no free lunch.

If the problem is really just verifying the model, then I think you are better off writing a simple modeling language, writing paxos in it, and then compiling that to c++ or something. This was the approach Google took in paxos made live[1] for example.

[1]: http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/08w-dsi/chand...
When I was looking for a new job a few months ago that was still the case, and caused me to totally avoid Gitlab - the numbers on their site were not competitive for the market I'm in.
BGP is a system build based on two things primarily in this order
- shortest prefix to reach an IP ( 99.99.99.0/24 takes precedence over 99.99.0.0/16 )
- shortest number of "hops" measured by how many AS paths it takes to get somewhere ( if you have multiple ways to get to 99.99.99.0/24, the way with the last number of autonomous systems "AS" in it wins )

So the result is that you have to somewhat trust who you are peering with, and who they are peering with, etc. to the other end of the traffic.

A bad actor can make lots of chaos.
Opinions are partisan? Your comment lacks substance. That may be why it's being downvoted (for the record I didn't downvote you).
> Medium didn't put it in front of you.

It does through emails and their homepage, which is one major reason people publish on Medium despite the downsides
So do the developer incentives that have driven urban redevelopment for the last 2 decades. Hence, in part, the glut of luxury apartments and the ever-tightening affordable housing market.
Amazon is getting more than $2B for NYC and Virginia expansions
> Perhaps we're only an inch away from 'article autoplay'.

Have you ever seen news sites that let you seamlessly scroll to the next article, by dynamically appending it at the bottom of the one you're reading, and updating your URL as you enter it? The ones where it's ridiculously easy to get lost, because scroll space keeps expanding (sometimes both ways) and the URL keeps changing?

Someone's gonna figure out soon that the code for loading those articles could use a recommendation engine.
Thank HN: I'm taking a year off HN
I'm 40 this week. The last ten years has been challenging in many, varied ways. My HN post history should give you an idea: I've been looking for direction for some time. I have yet to find my path, whatever that may look like.

I live and work well away from the startup world, but the level of posting around here is something that keeps drawing me back, again and again. And again. And I'm spending _way_ too much time around here. Time I should be spending reading and writing books, getting exercise and fresh air, talking with people, tinkering with cars, that sort of thing.

From someone you will likely never meet in real life: thank you for the high quality discourse. Thanks for showing me all the amazing things you make, your words of wisdom, and for curating an environment where I'm never the smartest in the room. You're basically a daily drug to me, and I must go cold turkey until I can get a handle on my consumption.

From midnight GMT tonight, I'm taking a year off HN to start making things, and I'm looking forward to catching up in November 2019 to read all about what you've made, found and hacked. You'll be a `hosts` file entry until November 2019. Don't worry, I still love you.

All the very best.