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Any references for extremely high quality iOS dev shops?
Hey everyone! I'm a technical founder looking to contract out a dev shop to help me finish a new version of an app I built a few years ago.

Some constraints:

* extremely high quality; pricing not an issue

* willing to work on existing codebase

* specializes in iOS (API already built out, fully functional, doesn't need iteration outside of me working on it)

* US based, preferably Bay Area (but very much open to anywhere else)

Thank you so much!
A lot of what's been happening with safety features is a steady trickle down from the high-end to the average consumer car of things like automatic emergency braking, lane-keeping systems and so on.
Odd that one would hold a price control law as particularly 'liberal'. Anti-regulatory zeal is perfectly in line with Liberalism. Perhaps it is the names in the US that have diverged from the original meaning.

The so-called socially liberal, fiscally conservative is just Liberalism as conceived of by Locke and gang.
Outside of the patents for Lumeloid were there any publications?

I skimmed Alvin Marks’ parents. A few things stuck me.

There are a lot of them, like hundreds?

They mostly have one inventor (for something like this, I’m used to seeing teams).

None of the patents I looked at showed any supporting real data. Usually if something is working, early experimental data is shown to support the concept.

They are pretty broad (their are patents for “space train” and “Quantum 3D displays”.

My gut tells me it probably just didn’t work. The basic approach doesn’t look hard to replicate, and I’d expect to see some publications if it worked. So if anyone knows of any publications I’d be curious to see them.
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Yes, and that algebraic data type you defined is a monad, whether you acknowledge and use that fact or not.
Parents worry that it is a problem. Doctors tell parents that it's not a problem, and to just check the child's stool. That's unpleasant for parents to do, and probably isn't necessary because, as you said, it's not a problem.
Seems like a weird juxtaposition to me that the word “liberal” is being used to imply the support of more government regulations when by definition those restrictions are restricting someone’s freedoms (sometimes for the best IMO).

It reminds me of the old Norm MacDonald joke where because of abortions and the death penalty, there’s no way for him to vote for a party where nobody is killed.
Not sure whether I prefer your description or the more elaborate scheme of "Road costs $1.2Billion? Have my brother-in-law build it and my cousin will build you a house for almost free on land you can buy for really cheap from a childhood friend of mine!"

It's not that the 1st world is less corrupt, it's just that some schemes are more evolved.
You probably want to watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U
That’s not really evidence, as there are articles like this for many combinations of two cities.
That's essentially a local or regional train. Attaching multiple trains together and still allowing people to walk through is important.

Many local trains in Europe have a similar design, and a similar top speed.

The long distance trains in the UK do go faster and have an angled front.

It's presumable a trade off between aerodynamics and walk-through ability when connecting trains.
"The Beauty and The Beast" Seriously? Also, they initially make the bold statement that all four fundamental forces follow the gauge symmetry only to say later that it's just another way to look at electromagnetism, through the lens of Gauge Theory. What is it then? Why not just say that the forces follow an underlying symmetry which is described best by the Gauge Theory? Then I have to read several pages of analogy without any explanation and correspondence to the real thing. No, sorry, didn't help. Next, please!
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Agreed. Carbon pricing works via substitution effects: carbon-intensive goods become relatively more expensive so people substitute towards less carbon-intensive goods, all other things equal. Tax revenue hypothecation hardly ever makes sense anyway, as tax revenue is fungible.
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If course not.

It shouldn’t be a secret that the most fundamental political division of modern times is between labor and caapital, and that Silicon Valley culture is squarely on the side of capital.
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I think yours is a pragmatic attitude in this age of interconnected complex technologies. Debugging things is satisfying but time sucking.

My eclipse on fedora has a hideously annoying flashing effect while editing e.g HTML files. Seems to be caused by the top menu disappearing and then appearing again a second later. The janky effect is infuriating, but at the same time, half an hour or so of googling has led to nothing, and I can sense a rabbit hole of frustration if I try and get to the bottom of it.

The most pragmatic approach feels to be too just put up with it until something else happens - perhaps a shift to Ubuntu so that I can screen share again will resolve it.
I love the interface, but I don't like the idea of monkey-patching the standard library. Can't one instead spawn a separate thread and run the event loop there?
Questions about kids' minds always surprise me. Since the askers presumedly had a childhood, can they really not remember the answers from their own childhood?

If noone ever read them a story, that's a sad possibility, I guess. (That was one of the advantages of radio drama.)
Doing nothing.

His use of "globalists" says all
Liberalism is always against an axis. As such, there are two different factors in liberalism, Social and Economic. The so-called liberals in America Liberals are socially liberal but economically conservative. While American conservatives are economically liberal but socially conservative.
If you're on a phone, here's an HTML version: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1410.6753/
In C++ it'd be nullptr.
That's how it seems to be used in the USA - someone left-leaning that may well support more government intervention in the name of fairness.

Classical liberalism in contrast focuses on the liberty of the individual through limiting government.
Seconded - I recently wanted to try some new async frameworks and libs (starlette, asyncpg, etc) but I'm so turned off by the async creep I decided to roll the same gunicorn/flask/gevent/psycopg2 thing I've been doing for a long time -- it's a very nice system really.
Recommendations for high quality iOS dev shops?
Hey HN! I'm a technical founder looking to contract out a dev shop to help me finish a new version of an app I built a few years ago.

I've created my own team of devs in the past, but found that managing them was more work than I would have liked (and a lot of times to the detriment of the project quality) — I want to be more off-hands with this iteration, which is the motivation behind looking for a [really great] team to outsource it to.
Does anyone additionally have thoughts on dev shops versus hiring individual excellent contractors? My dissuasion with it might also be related to the fact I was using Toptal with a lower budget, and wasn't getting the best talent a lot of times.

Some constraints for recommendations:
- extremely high quality; pricing not an issue
- willing to work on existing codebase
- iOS is one of their specialties (API already built out, fully functional, doesn't need iteration outside of me working on it)
- US based, preferably Bay Area

Thank you so much!

Note: I would love to offer $$ compensation to anybody who refers a shop that I end up going with :)
I agree, mainly because they are distracting from the article content.

It reminds me of boring presentations at work where they shove in a star wars pic / reference. Everyone laughs then its back to the boring topic and everyone falls asleep again.
Maybe they should. Is this actually true or just an assumption? It seems like for every Koch there is a Soros.
My fascination is more at how dysfunctional "prettifiers" of graph manage to turn useful data into.

That graph is perfect. Axis labeled, legend present, shit is legible and has pixel resolution. Way to go!
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It was part of their networking rework. Presumably to improve stability of the website. I've also been told that it was a big step towards enabling IPv6 for HN.

There are other parts of Y Combinator that still use Cloudflare though.
Firefox on Windows, same problem.
Personally, I think $200 MILLION and the loss of your job is better than $1 million per year. I don't see how the savings you envision materialize under the circumstances you describe.
You need to find a reviewer you trust and pay attention to them only.

I find RT works great if you understand that professional reviewers rate movies in the context of their genre. So, a Hollywood action flick may be 80%, but if you don't like that genre, you're still not gonna like it.
I think this is going a bit in circles so I assume I'm not being clear, I'll try and be more precise.

There's nothing in the legislation that forces google to index them.

You are saying that companies can:

1. Already stop google indexing the content for commercial use

2. Already negotiate with google for payment for commercial use of the content

What is the additional thing that this is forcing, in your view?
In China can you get someone in trouble with the social credit system by creating fake videos of them doing stuff deemed unacceptable like criticizing the President.
It takes you through Facebook, but you don’t have to have an account.

https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/five-below-becomes-the-amaz...
Is that why they "overwhelmingly favored increased taxes on the rich and further redistribution of wealth to poor communities" ?
If the number of citations is a measurement for achievement then perhaps we should put more value to the Like buttons we so frequently use. But, I'm sure he's good in what he does since so many people agree on his thoughts.
The supervisor of our bachelor thesis said something similar, interestingly he was Pakistani and said "Sure you can try to program this thing as your thesis, or you could do something more stimulating like research of this topic. The implementation you should give to some Indian programmers, they are far better, faster and cheaper in it than you guys anyway."

And as racist ad bad it sounds, now a couple of years later, in the real world, that is exactly what happens. We, the ones in Sweden, we do the research and design of the system, and then our customers more often than not find teams in India who with our mentoring implement it.
I don’t use Amazon for the website, I use it because it brings shit to my house in a day or two. Companies with tremendous market power often have shitty customer experiences.
Something I've found works well over the years has been, "so, what do you like to do when your not working".

I'm fairly introverted and it gets the conversation going well in every case so far.
Modern graphics systems are too flexible for this - you can reprogram the graphics memory layout in such a way that would break the refreshing. But this technique was used on early PCs (with CGA graphics) and many of the 80s microcomputers.
> I don't think there is much dispute that developers tend to come from upper middle class families, which is exactly what the parent said.

I’d love to see some data.

Of course if you work at the kind of companies that only hire people with a top CS degree then you might be led to believe that.

In my experience though it’s not the case. The majority of people in my office grew up lower middle class.
Building a tagged architecture on top of a stock 64-bit system would be much easier than with 32 bits - current systems use 48 bits for addresses, which leaves plenty of bits left over for the tag (you could even represent all non-floating point values as 64-bit NaNs and avoid the problems with FP mentioned in the article).
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> I've had plants stolen. I still maintain my garden..

What a world it would be if independent solar power were the cost of a garden!
> I grew up in an area that was 99+% white and 50+% Jewish.

That's logically impossible. You group in an area that was majority Jewish, and minority white.
That's the one! Although if you see fish swimming, it might give you some ideas about how a submarine might be constructed.
...stupid.
Almost every single comment in here is critical of Terry Gross’s advice. I have to wonder, does anyone here have a 40 year career as an interviewer and millions of people tuning in to listen to them every week? In the face of uncomfortable advice it’s so easy to dig your heels in to your experience instead of thinking “maybe there’s something to learn here”.
This exchange has nothing to do with social justice and the people who are disagreeing with you aren’t snowflakes. If we define snowflake as someone who reacts to something they disagree with with outrage and accusations, then it’s clear who is being a snowflake.

Back to the technical topic, the point I and others are making is that yes, you are correct that Option/Maybe is “just” an algebraic data type that is the sum of a type and a terminal object called unit, None, or Nothing. However people are disagreeing with you that it’s not a monad. It mathematical must be a monad, with the same certainty that it’s an algebraic data type or defines an endofunctor from A to A + 1. You can debate the usefulness of this fact, but your comments suggest you think it is “just” an algebraic data type and it somehow doesn’t induce a function that obeys the algebraic monad laws.
"most of the rest of the developed world has quite wonderful subways and trains. They are clean, efficient, cheap, run on time, have as many as 20 or even 25 trains an hour...."

We used to have a lot of railroads in the US. Then the automobile came along, which started them going downhill, but there were still lots of them ... then the interstate freeway system was built (with planning help from the CEO of General Motors), and the railroad system couldn't compete for passengers. Passenger service was mostly gone 50 years ago.

But, you ask, did noone plan for the future? Well ... this is the U.S. We only build it well once, then we argue about who should keep it repaired. Which is why the majority of our bridges are in a dangerous state.
the macro NULL can be either 0

When is that the case? Like, in some specific library/compiler implementations?
Carbon taxing is, in some suitably narrow economic point of view, optimal, but it seems it's politically almost impossible to get it passed.

The other popular large-scale technology-neutral suggestion, cap-and-trade, suffers from much of the same problems. E.g. the EU ETS is mostly a bureaucratic boondoggle that achieves nothing (the price is so low it doesn't have much, if any, effect).

So what then? Well, performance standards may not be as neutral as a carbon tax/cap-and-trade, but they seem politically much more palatable: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/16/180963...
> completely unwilling to act in a way that is remotely moral or beneficial for the greater good.

So have many governments.

Even well intentioned regulations have unintended side effects.
The framing of the conflict as being labor vs capital rests on the assumption that the economy is at Pareto optimality. The tech industry's narrative is the opposite: it assumes that there are still inefficiencies which can be removed, to the eventual mutual benefit of both capital AND labor.

I think what's happening is somewhere between the two extremes: the pie is still getting larger, but labor's slice of the pie is diminishing at such a rate that it's barely growing at all.
I think you will find it productive to consider that you may be wrong. Your examples are literally monads (and I use the word "literally" literally). I think the problem you are facing is that your understand of what a monad is may be incorrect (and this, in turn, may be the fault of some random bad tutorial on monads).

When you are discussing things of this fashion it can be helpful to allow yourself some room to accept a view which is different than you currently hold. Otherwise it can devolve into a shouting match over who is stupider, rather than an opportunity to see things in a different way (and perhaps learn something interesting). When 2 people are arguing, the one who is right wins the argument, but the one who is wrong has the most to gain because they can learn something. By insisting on being right, you forever cut yourself off from that potential.

I know you didn't ask for that advice, so if it's not appropriate for you, please feel free to file it in the round bin.
I understand the criticism but do you really think a like is the same thing as a citation?

A like requires a single mouse click. A citation requires a published article.
No doubt this will be the trending topic here in 3 hours. Digital communications are to communication as the trpewriter was to calligraphy.
Is SMM still used? Why not have a separate CPU for the job?
Why do you object to rotational symmetry?
Basically this is what configuration management does.
So, why not use Ansible, esp. ansible pull ( https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.htm... ). You'd prepare an ansible playbook, and your users would pull that via git. Should tick most of your boxes.

Incidentally, I'm currently working on a project/product to make that sort of thing easier, esp. in terms of flexibility and easy of use (for both end users and developers). It's not finished yet, but use-able. I haven't figured out how I do licensing yet, but I'd need some beta testers with real problems soon...

Anyway, have a look at Ansible pull first, maybe it does what you need it to do. Ping me if you need some pointers. I also have a few scripts lying around that make bootstrapping that type of things easier.
If you find something as benign as me bringing up my anecdotal experiences so far 'borderline insulting', then you remind me a lot of my coworkers I've had to deal with in the past.

Bringing up my past and my opinions was enough to get them riled up because they simply could not understand where I came from or the things I had to deal with due to poverty. I don't know how else you think I should explain this other than the fact that we had two very different circumstances growing up.
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OP wasn't talking about a working class background - they were talking about extreme poverty. There are obvious differences.

Can you confirm whether you grew up in an environment of extreme poverty?
Not a surprise, since the real wage of most American jobs has been flat for 50 years. Boom times don't last.
How will you lower the transaction costs enough that it's practical for polluters to pay compensation directly to all >7 billion victims?
I just completed part 1 building a computer from gates and writing an assembler and am in the middle of part 2 where you develop compilers and a stack based virtual machine.

For someone like me who did not study computer science but has been a self taught programmer in the Analytics spacefor over a decade, this has been a tremendously useful and accessible introduction to basic CS concepts and very eye opening in terms of what's actually happening under the hood. This course is highly recommended if you've not studied CS though be aware the second part of the course where you develop compilers is quite intense though being an online course, you can pick your pace.

I wonder if there are similar courses on CS algorithms for people who didn't study CS in college.
And forgot to mention, I completely agree about sender-ip/email combination for verification :)
> remotely moral or beneficial for the greater good

You really couldn't find a worse time to defend the government caring about morality or greater good under current administration.
But that's the thing: "talking to people" and "interviewing them" are not the same thing. It's not even clear whether Gross is actually talking about party conversations and such, despite what the article says.

Also, results are not all that matters; you can be a critic of the methods even if they bring the desired outcome.
In UK rain forest anti deforestation TV ad "Rang-tan" was banned for being "too political" - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/how-the-world-is-wakin...
Ask yourself a few questions:

- why can a president be the president for 36 years in a country rich of natural resources while the people never profit from it?

- why does French army go straight to Mali (not far from Cameroon BTW) if there's a terrorist threat?

- why can't whole West Africa not print their own money (called FCFA) and why is a single European country however permitted to print their money for millions and billions in licenses?

- why is DR of Congo the materially richest country on Earth but has most of the conflicts and the poorest of the poorest population?

- why was Gaddafi chased and killed by non-African?

- why is China gifting huge buildings and communication systems to African Union (check out yesterday's HN)?

- or to put it more simply: who is profiting at the end? Is it really Paul Biya?
Can you define 'working class family'? Because for me, my definition of working class was living in deep poverty as the result of my family working an incredibly hard yet unrewarding career path that physically and mentally destroyed them.

As I bring up often, my parents were fishermen. They could hardly afford a home and hardly afford to put food on the table or the immense medical bills we were saddled with.
Remote developers from 'shithole countries' get paid $15/hr because it's big money where they live, not because they are unqualified.

Your options to compete with them are very limited.
No, of course those are completely different things. The number still doesn't say whether his work is right or wrong. You can cite the Bible up and down and it still doesn't make it anywhere near plausible. As far as I know, Juan Maldacena is a supporter of String Theory, and despite of his minor achievements in science might being correct in context of his field, 17.000+ citations doesn't say anything about the quality of his original work on String Theory. So why even mention it? Just so to say that he's an authority in particle physics? If I had the same scientific authority as he does for a completely bonkers theory, I'd instantly say that the guy is nuts.
Is your thesis in English and avalaible online?
But I doubt that this core idea is what the original MVC idea had in mind.

I believe the original idea was that the MV and C are separated but coupled. So all views that bind to a model will update at the same time when a controller calls a change in the model.

On the web this concept is strange. I think this is why there are so many different MVC concepts.
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Geometric symmetry, reciprocity, karma, yin-and-yang... call it what you will. We are not all that different. "Takes one to know one..."

Just saying that very few people are actually as blameless and de-clawed as they imagine themselves to be. If OP ever acquired enough power to not really give a shit what anyone else thinks, I'd put my money on him becoming every bit as nasty. Not so sure on racism and sociopathy though. There are so many ways to be a jerk.

If we want to go in the other direction with this, Nietzsche's "slave morality" comes to mind.
'Jew' is not a race.
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I believe several college CS courses globally use this in year 2 or year 3.