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Hm, "professionalism", to me, is a weird criticism to levy against a product or business that is presumably shutting down due to failure or lack of funding. Is it common, or expected, that startups allocate funds for clean shutdowns? I assume it's just burning through cash trying to make it work, until it becomes so unavoidable that you have to shutter suddenly.

>Let that be a lesson to not rely on cloud infrastructure too much without designing your architecture to be somewhat cloud agnostic.

Yeah, but no one that matters, cares - whether it's writing blog posts or putting your entire company brand/presence/blog on Medium (which harasses all of your readers), or relying on low-margin infra startups that often amount to a thin docs/marketing layer around Docker.

Just like the same people that get hosed by their hosting/DNS providers with a history of screwing users... because they didn't think it would happen to them -- people are lazy, people think they're exceptional, and I think a bunch of people don't like learning infra and don't see it as important.
Doxxing the guilty is still doxxing. Doxxing, then taking the information down is still doxxing. Until there is a trial, people still have their civil rights. Private individuals and the legislative and executive parts of our government have no business taking away people's civil rights. That's what the Civil Rights movement was about in the first place!

Taking away someone's civil rights through a trial by social media is even worse than any legacy "trial by media."
Birch beer is my favorite. Very nice wintergreen flavor. Boylan's has a good version that's pretty widely available in the US.
In the UK, we have had a government filled with people from the Bullingdon Club, an Oxford society that initiated members by having them burn money in front of the homeless. Homelessness has then rocketed under these people's reign, something they unfortunately cannot take seriously by the initiative act of their club. This society's association with government had the amusing high point where our sitting prime minister was accused of having oral sex with a cooked pig by another secret society member from within his own party.

This stuff might not affect the colleges that much, the fallout happens later when these people go off and get jobs.
> Many of the U.S. layoffs have affected call center operations, including about 460 employees cut last year when Wells Fargo announced the closure of a site in Pennsylvania.

This isn't news. Call-centers/backoffice outsourcing is pretty par for the course.
Ask HN: Got a vacation, what to do now?
I am a software engineer (back end who is doing Go) and got 2 weeks of vacation, I do want to improve myself and work on my skills (which I lack a lot and I feel the pain while working on some tasks)

What can I do to improve myself in these 2 weeks?

Small context, I suffer from some symptoms of ADHD, difficult to finish article, my eyes constantly tries to switch to the end of article interrupting me and at the end of article I feel like I didn't learn anything, but actually I skipped it. Difficult to focus
I'm assuming you're referring to the physical difficulties of creating such a device, since the theory has been there for a while now.[1]

I don't know why you're saying this isn't a "legitimate complaint" (or what even gives you the legitimacy to criticize such things), if anything this is just as, if not more legitimate than your comment.

Time and time again people thought we didn't need to worry about bigger registers/more memory/int overflow/screen sizes/etc. and they were proven wrong every time. Given everything we know so far and everything we've achieved in this field, I'd bet my money on the fact that we will have such capable devices in the future.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm
So what ? This does not make the work any less impressive. There is zero doubt in my mind that this was a genuine effort. Mark, if you're reading this: Awesome hack, keep them coming!
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> You can make any proof as short as you want.

If so why did Wiley choose to write a 200 page proof while he could have stated it in one sentence?
I recall several posts on this forum by users explicitly denying the possibility of it being fake, when the video was first posted.

I hope some of our fellow HN users who were so adamant will reflect on their comments, and it would be nice if they would comment on how they were thinking and feeling now.
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I think its really simple.

Cars made in China and sold in the U.S. have a 2% tariff.

Cars made in the U.S. and sold in China have a 40% tariff.

We need to balance that eventually. If we ignore it for another 40 years there won't be any American car companies.

We don't have to have perfect balance tomorrow, or free trade exactly, its ok to allow them to exploit trade with us to some extent as there economy catches up with the west.

But it is time for that assistance and trade imbalance to start to shrink. China has given no indication that they think we should be equal trading partners even after their country becomes the world leader in economy, scientific research, and military power.
Decades is way too pessimistic. Remember, tech grows exponentially.
Yes.

https://deepspec.org/entry/Project/Kami
http://conal.net/blog/posts/haskell-to-hardware-via-cccs
Only if the fund manager sells assets. In index funds, that pretty much never happens.
I now actually scanned it all, reading all 1-2 star reviews, though I may have overlooked something, I only found these two:

> they went beyond and started to brake things in attempt to make the game "more socialistic"

which I find hilarious :D But this isn't hilarious at all:

> Amber Scott should be fired for shoveling her cultural marxist bullshit into this game. There's nothing good about this game

but it's literally the only grain of genuine toxicity I found. Maybe I overlooked something, but if GOG deletes reviews that would be an entirely other can of worms. Most 1 star reviews are stuff like

> I get a non specific error code with instruction to contact beamdog support. I haven't heard back.

I found this though, when looking for "gog deleted baldurs gate reviews" (which I assume they didn't do because I think the "gamergate crowd" would be all over that)

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/50341/negative-reviews...

> Hi everyone. I usually spend most of my time lurking here, but I'd like to ask a favour. It appears that having a transgendered cleric and a joke line by Minsc has greatly offended the sensibilities of some people. This has spurred these people into action, causing them to decide this is the worst game of all time and give it a zero review score on Steam, GoG and meta critic.

Note how they're not offering actual evidence, either. That this turned them from lurking to posting is all the "evidence" anyone needs. Just painting people with a broad brush in their absence. Not that I have a problem believing that there was a lot of hate, I haven't looked at Steam or Metacritic at all, but I just went through all of GoG, pretty much nada. So it might also be the attempt to engineer a narrative based on a few grains of truth, instead just owning a shoddy product, a la Ghostbusters, and then people develop false memories based on that narrative?
Retool (YC S17) is hiring engineers and account executives in SF
Hi — we're Retool, a fast way of building internal tools. The idea is that internal tools all have the same building blocks, and engineers are spending a lot of time rebuilding the same stuff over and over again. We recently launched on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966).

We're profitable, growing quickly, and have raised money from great technical founders, including Paul Graham, John + Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Greg Brockman, etc.

The market for custom enterprise apps is huge. And we think that we have a promising shot at capturing much of it: we have a product that works, that customers love (go talk to any customer), and whose usage is growing rapidly.

We've significantly de-risked the business (good signals of early pmf, completed 10+ unaffiliated sales via cold email, are profitable, etc.). But there's plenty of uncertainty left as well. For example: how do we convert early pmf into actual pmf? How do we scale sales? Should we be doing sales or marketing? Should we be selling to technical or non-technical people?

We're now looking for our first engineer. If you enjoy, and are good at the following:

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As human intervention is required anyway to open the door, why have inside box and outside box? There can be just one big box with pet detection and an SMS that says 'Pet at door'.

Nevertheless, this is a cool project, and the explanation in
the YouTube video is even nicer, informative, and succinct.

One addition could be to have a motion sensor outside the door to turn on the light outside, so that this project can work even during late evenings/nights.
sorry guys, that was not the intention. I just send the link for the hackaday news. next time I will try a better approach.
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> and with Electron it runs as me, the user, not inside a browser sandbox

You could actually not use any external modules in your main process and have the renderer process sandboxed [1], node integration [2] can be disabled too.

[1] https://electronjs.org/docs/api/sandbox-option

[2] https://electronjs.org/docs/faq#i-can-not-use-jqueryrequirej...
This is basically part of a smear campaign against the government in power (NDA). The law was designed under the previous government and has been in existence before this government came to power. Nothing new was introduced since 2008.

As far as constitutional protections go, Indians have a right to privacy which has been held up in the courts as recently as this year. This has been affirmed several times in the recent past. So, no, India does not have weak protections for its citizens.

Finally, India is a place where mere WhatsApp forwards on the basis of rumors or made up stories cause people to go out and riot. Communal violence can be instigated using such means. So such laws are essential to track down the perpetrators.

NSA, CIA also silently spy on Americans without much oversight in the name of security. In fact it is done at a mass scale.
Not to mention it sorta insulates us from the political shenanigans of that region. Especially true if you believe Iraq was "all about the oil."
Nah. There has been pretty strong backlash against FB. GDPR is (as imperfect as it is) a thing. I don't see the West going down that road, disregarding catastrophic failure modes.
All he had to do was add text to those parts saying "event recreation" or whatever it is they'd do on TV ages back.
It looks like it but either I remember very incorrectly, or the numbers for Germany has changed significant since the summer. Found this which might explain why: https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=all-sources&we...

One thing through, did forget that gas hold a large portion of energy production and had clumped it together with coal.
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You have to separate performance of the application and the runtime. There are a lot of applications out there that are based on electron that are perfectly reasonable that are used by loads of people who by and large don't complain about performance issues. I tend to have several open at any time. Yes, they use a bit more memory. That's why you have virtual memory, ssds, and cheap ram these days. It's a complete non issue for anyone with decent equipment from anywhere in the last five years.

If you are so unlucky to be stuck on an ancient laptop with not enough ram, spinning disk, and an OS that doesnt't do the right things with virtual memory (non stop swapping for no good reason), that's going to be noticeable and annoying. Been there, done that, and it sucks.

If that is the case and you are a professional developer, get some decent gear, set it up properly, and stop whining. If on the other hand you are an end user, adjust your expectations accordingly to the fact that you are running old crappy hardware and don't try to install everything and the kitchen sink; or alternatively just be patient. Most users need nothing else than a browser running these days.
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Laws are just contracts and have consequences if you get caught breaking them. People and businesses break contracts all the time.

I really have no problem with people or companies evaluating risk/reward and pursuing whatever goal they want... if you want to disincentivize behavior then increase the penalty and change the risk/reward calculation individuals and corporations make.
Yes I assumed some or all of it was fake, its really no big deal, who cares?

This is the level of cynicism our society has sunk to? I grew up in a time and place where everybody tried their hardest to tell the truth, always. Years later, I mentioned this idea to my girlfriend at the time's mom, and she laughed out loud. She grew up in a community where everyone lied all the time.

This is the difference between a society that works, and a society that's pathological.

I'm more shocked by such cynical reactions than by the circumstance reported.
Singular possessive "proper" nouns. I don't know what a non-proper noun is, but I don't see how it's relevant for the example so I'll ignore that.

Possessive is that it is of someone. "John has a cat. It is John's cat."

Singular is, well, one: we are talking about one John (with a cat), we are not talking about multiple people called John.

But there's a special case if the noun ends in an "s", like "James": how can you pronounce the possessive part if it already ends in an s? Apparently, the US does it different from the British: they use "It is James' cat" instead of "It is James's cat."

For similar questions, you might find this site useful: https://ell.stackexchange.com (or, for more advanced questions: https://english.stackexchange.com ).
That was what Bush did at first during 2007 / 2008. Bush let Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers go bankrupt. Then IndyMac went bankrupt. And then...

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/business/smallbusiness/01...

Credit Crunch. As banks fail, they closed credit-cards and other loans. My personal credit card dropped to $5,000 line (down from $10,000) for example. I don't rely on my credit card, so it wasn't a big deal.

But there were lots of businesses and factories which relied upon credit to make payroll. The fundamental business was solid, but remember that Businesses in America are typically Net90 (paid 90-days after delivery).

So if you had a very successful month selling things, you wouldn't be paid until 3 months later. So what do you do? You put it on a credit card, so that you can pay your workers.

Too bad those credit cards failed and closed up, and all those workers had to be fired instead.

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If you let banks fail, then innocent businesses / people who rely upon those banks will also fail. In effect, banks hold the American People themselves hostage, as people are reliant on financial services to make payroll.
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How many companies would this work at? Seems like more than a few might take exception to a potential employee trying to circumvent their normal hiring pipeline.
It's a real shame that that's what most people know him for now. The guy was one of the best geometers of his generation - I don't think anyone should blame him for going a little soft at age ninety.
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> build their dictatorship.

I highly doubt any Indian government wants or even thinks they can do this.

India in all its diversity, consists of a huge number of separate factions. The Government only works due to a mutual compromise from enough factions to form a coalition.
Also, the Indian judiciary and parliament hold genuine power and exercise it too.

It is nearly impossible for a single person to gain enough momentum to even start being dictatorial.

Admittedly, Modi's government has consolidated more power in one person than most of India's past governments. But, even then it only in comparison to the nearly dysfunctional mega coalitions of the INC.
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Just found out about this service. It looks like a solid concept. Any alternatives out there?
I'm not sure what the US' endgame is, but the overall endgame I expect is that in a couple decades, China (along with their allies) will challenge the primacy of the USD, which will be a split between the world backing two global currencies - the USD and RMB, and may see the decline and fall of the US world financial position.
Well I guess if it doesn't apply to us amazing, special techno mages then it's not really relevant and should be deleted. Who cares about the lives and silly struggles of those boring call center humans anyway?
+1 for EPI. Using it now myself. It's great stuff.
Someone paid them ?!
AWS employee here. Serverless containers are hard, and there are a lot of technical challenges along the way.

For context when we launched ECS years ago the goal was always to build a serverless container platform. But first we had to build out our own container orchestration platform capable of keeping track of all the containers at the scale that AWS requires, and build out a lot of underlying tech that didn't exist yet. Recently we open sourced Firecracker (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir...) which is one of the pieces we built along the way to enable the data plane. It took us a few years to get to this point, which is a really long time in startup lifetime.

The major cloud providers have the resources to spend a lot of time building the technical depth required to offer full featured serverless container platforms that can truly scale up and out. In my view the smaller providers like hyper.sh really nailed the initial developer experience but they are missing the depth behind the scenes that allows serverless containers to be scaled out cost effectively.

In time these two ends of the spectrum will hopefully converge. By open sourcing tech like Firecracker AWS enables small providers to have access to tech that we built because we needed it, and now its available for them to use. Conversely AWS learns how to improve our developer experience by seeing how these small startups create a great developer experience.
Star control II is one of my favorite games of all time. I hate it that Toys for Bob lost the brand, and even more that stardock would take the name and use it for something completely unrelated to the original story.
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Exhibit 4,294,967,296 of why all of these TBTF banks should have been orderly winded down instead of bailed out.
I did not say they held themselves above the law. Law enforcement is what OP commented on and that's what I responded to. I think it's an important distinction.

When law enforcement takes a wrong turn (as the FBI did) it is, I believe, reasonable for a citizen to consider themselves above (read: "better than") law enforcement. Mechanisms to deal with this include constitutional principles (which may also be considered above the law) and, generally, the courts.
“Holding the games in China magnifies everything that is wrong with Olympic sports: the triumph of money, power and nationalism over amateurism, sportsmanship and international understanding.”

I don’t think this quote relates to China alone. And more recently, Brazil seems to be taking some dangerous turns.

https://isthmus.com/opinion/opinion/the-totalitarian-olympic...
"You learn by doing and putting skin into game not by watching or listening random CEO advice."
Perhaps you meant:
"you learn MOST by doing and putting skin into game, COMPARED TO JUST watching or listening random CEO advice."

I did this kind of shadowing as part of an MBA and it was super useful. Senior managers are often flattered that someone would want to do this, and they often find the discussions (including naive questions) with the "shadow" useful in providing an alternative perspective. So it's not only beneficial to the "shadow".
One of the tasks we were asked to complete, in addition to general observation, was to make a note every 5 minutes or so on what kind of task was being performed, and (of possible to judge), the level of the task e.g tactical (day-to-day / week-to-week) concerns vs strategic (months - years). Tabulating that and writing a short report for the CEO afterwards is helpful for the shadow in order to consolidate and organize what you learned, and very helpful to the CEO, who almost always end up spending most of their time on tactical issues ("firefighting") rather than strategic issues, even though they know they should probably be spending more time on the latter than they currently are.
If I recall correctly, Swarm did have FCC approval, but had it rescinded later shortly before launch.
That does seem to be an important thought...creating some compelling reason for him to talk with you again after this shadow work.

One that worked for me was to listen carefully for some opportunity where I could help. Like, "it sounds like you're negotiating with Microsoft... I just finished doing that with another company, there may be some helpful things I could share..."

Something like that creates a basis for an ongoing relationship. Such that you don't have to try to press a sales pitch in a hurry.
I agree with you. People seem to be mistaking their kickstarter as a pre-order and are sad when that it doesn't work like this.

I'm thrilled at this new way transparent way to see this game coming together, and it's a real look behind the cloak of game development. Imagine seeing GTAV or RDR2 development within a few months of development, it would probably be a shit show of bugs, ideas or features.

Another question, have we ever seen behind the cloak of a AAA game in super early development, and getting to watch all the pivots, bumps and warts so transparently? I can't think of a single instance.

Usually by the time the hype train starts on a game, the game's usually %75-%90 done.

What I do love, is that they're building a foundation of a game engine that they won't abandon next year for the annual or bi-yearly refresh. Imagine if there was only a single version of Battlefield/CoD that they continually added features to (like WoW). I would expect the level of code polish would be higher as the devs would be invested in creating good solutions verses throwing it away and starting over again.

I'm not sure why more games don't follow other Sass software models, or a WoW model, where the game lives on perpetuity, and the developers continue to enhance it over time as technology and resources change. As a developer, the choices you make about your code really impact when you know that you're going to have to deal with your choices years later, versus starting the project brand new again.
Thank you for kind words, it is my pleasure to work with OLL team on great tools.
Basically this.
Electron has a low cost/benefit. Yes some will not be happy with resources usage, but I doubt this is the majority.

I haven’t heard anyone outside of the hn circles moan about slacks usage.