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Regardless of intent or documentation, I’ve never come across a methodology that didn’t devolve into the same practice as every other methodology. The root problem is that the people who are looking for a methodology/silver bullet are convinced — and no amount of reality will ever convince them otherwise — that software development can be done with 100% predictability, just like, say, adding a garage to a house. So even XP, that explicitly states up front that this is not possible in software, gets morphed into “agile” which is actually a great way to manage predictable development tasks, but a horrible way to manage software.
I just used Amazon as an example. There are plenty of companies that have had huge gains. My point is if you are a good investor you can turn small amounts to a large amount.
If you live in the EU it's not clear what benefit there might be, and if you're a consultant there might be even less.

This doesn't save any taxes, and isn't a strategy to do so. The costs themselves are't that great: a few hundred Euro.

The reasons we did were the following:

- Ease of doing business with clients and vendors in other EU countries: we have an EU bank account in Euros, can generate all the right VAT paperwork etc. Not huge, but for some businesses critical. We also have a US subsidiary in Delaware and a couple of state registrations because that is how you employ people in the US. Ditto for a third country where one of the founders is moving.

- VCs are increasingly comfortable with overseas-registered countries, at least ones not in tax havens. Ten years ago this would have been seen as weird. I've always previously incorporated in Delaware where I've never set foot so this isn't a big deal.

- Our lawyer (!!!) in SV suggested we officially HQ the company overseas (I already had an e-residency so we used Estonia). He said as the founding team was all foreigners (though some in the Valley for decades), it was a good hedge against unforeseen changes in the federal government's attitude towards foreigners. TTTT I would have considered it wide-eyed raving except this lawyer has been working at a big law firm in the valley, for 30 years. But what the hell, it's so easy to do these days why not.

Not everything you need is in English but tbh I don't interact with Estonia any more than I interact with Delaware and this has never been a problem.
It seems that you are saying that cookies are more protected from third party code than your own code. That is incorrect.

Let's get specific: let's say you have a page on mysite.com. When a user signs in, the server sets a HttpOnly session cookie to authenticate later requests from the user.

Now let's assume your page loads evilsite.com/tracker.js. The code in tracker.js can now send requests to mysite.com, and your HttpOnly session cookie will be sent. There is no extra protection for cookies that would check if the JS code doing the sending came from mysite.com.

Obviously tracker.js cannot read the value of your session cookie (and, indeed, neither can your own code), but mysite.com is more or less totally compromised.
"Companies that produce physical goods in specific geographic locations and sell them in other specific geographic locations cannot play tax games the way tech companies "

Apple can produce an iPhone in China, sell it to Apple HK and Apple HK exports it to Apple US. The main profits can be made this way in HK tax free. (Not sure about apples actual setup. Just an example).

The same way imported iphones lead to an increased trade deficit between China and the US. The profits are made by US companies, the tiny profit for assembly is made in China. This phenomenon is known as "dark matter" in accounting.
Manhole question is bad, because around half manholes im real world are squared. So the correct answer is that they are not in fact round and square works perfectly fine.

Of course I know right answer, but it has zero to do with me being smart and a lot to do with me being in right culture and thus having heard about it before. Which is exactly what it test along with other brain teasers - have you encountered this sort of question before?
I'd teach AP Chemistry. It's useful for teaching AP Biology too. The equipment, with some application-specific packaging and instructions, might also work for: aquarium keepers, gardeners, pool owners, beer brewers, people on well water.

Full DIY builds are cheap for a colorimeter, photometer, and turbidimeter. One can make all three for about $30, not counting labor and a computer.

The trouble is manufacturing volume. Sadly, not every student takes AP Chemistry. I realize that the manufacturing processes with low per-unit cost (casting, forging, blow molding, extrusion...) all have high set-up costs. This really is my complaint: if people cared about learning science as much as they cared about pointless toys, the production volume would let us have these things at prices ranging from a few dollars (simple colorimeter) to a hundred dollars (stuff with decent lenses and moving parts). The affordability of low-end cell phones makes it clear how low prices could go. I know you're having trouble due to the costs associated with low volume, but to an ordinary purchaser your price looks like a rip-off.

FYI, there are about 320000 people learning AP Chemistry, of which about 9600 are homeschooled and thus unlikely to reuse equipment from prior years. Assuming the equipment in schools needs replacement every 20 years, perhaps 25000 could be sold per year if the price were low enough to not be a budget problem. I'm thinking you'd have to knock about 90% off the price, and I suspect that 25000 per year is nowhere near the volume you'd need to justify the set-up costs of high-volume manufacturing processes. I may be wrong though... maybe you can get a good deal on plastic molds or custom aluminum extrusion dies or molds for some sort of casting process.
Haha. That was exactly what I was thinking! I have yet to see a round one! Lol
> Some of the things being developed now are so esoteric that it seems to be more about finding the next exciting thing to add than usability.

Or perhaps it's real ops people with particular arcane needs, each scratching their own itches?

K8s is a large FOSS project; and like most large FOSS projects, most PRs are from corporate contributors that wrote the code for their own purposes and then wanted to upstream it to avoid having to maintain a fork.
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I suspect this really screws with the DNS tricks used by many CDNs to route requests to near-by servers. So I would not be surprised if, when using this, YouTube, Netflix, etc, get much slower.
A list of lists of interview questions
It's *hard* to develop hardware products in Africa
Maybe forums related to the project domain ;)
It happens to nearly all of us.
I think it's true for majority of questions (apparently leetcoding is the new thing at Google and also FB). IMHO interning for a few weeks is the best for both sides - unfortunately it doesnt scale.
This made me think of the Black Mirror episode, Hated in the Nation (1). If a bad actor gets control over these drones, it can wreak havoc.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
It would be good to know the size and scale of these databases.
No, but the narrative being pushed is that China is creepy and authoritarian for using the same tech and doing the same things everyone else is.

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems every day similar articles are hitting HN’s front pages .
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I think the most important thing here was that Alan had a good heart and donated all his money to charity very willingly, he could have spent it all at the end of his days. I applaud his efforts.
You wonder? I thought that was just common knowledge?
Exactly. Electrostatic lifters have been around forever. I even made one with a neon sign transformer back in the late 90s. But my power supply was literally heavy iron and with wall current connected to the balsa/foil craft with very light magnet wire. Making the electrical energy storage and high power HV generation light enough is no small feat. That's what should be celebrated here.
I really like the polish/design of the Airbnb open source projects I’ve seen. I’m envious of the resources to pull it off :D
I downvoted you because of that whole conspiracy theory you tacked onto the end of your post.

But I fully agree that kubernetes and containers are not well suited to running production databases. In theory they could achieve parity with a dedicated machine or VM, but they're still a long ways from that - and it makes it very easy to lose your data. I was recovering a database where the persistent volume wasn't setup right and the container got killed and restarted. It was just before the holidays and it was a nightmare because everyone was on vacation.

Yeah you could get into that kind of problem with a VM or dedicated machine, but the bar is a lot higher, you'd need some kind of hardware failure. Kubernetes makes it really easy to shoot yourself in the foot when running databases.
Yeah, it's badly written in a way to provoke controversy, but fundamentally, I'm not sure there's any real disagreement here?

In simple terms, he's just saying that it needs to be safe to take chances in order for it to be worthwhile to take chances. As you say, science is an example of a system where it's often safe to take chances, because you don't risk losing any knowledge from a failed experiment. (But that doesn't mean there are no costs! You can lose time and money. And I'll also point out that some experiments can be dangerous.)

In any search, whether you can find something interesting is going to depend at least partly on the landscape, so understanding the landscape better will improve the search process, along with your estimates of whether it's worth doing at all. Calling this property of a desirable landscape "convexity" doesn't, in itself, help you understand the landscape, but it doesn't seem wrong?
Using Kubernetes doesn't imply using Docker, even. K8s is 99% an orchestration system, like Terraform or CloudFormation. One resource among many that it orchestrates is containers. It can also orchestrate regular VMs.

That being said, I also disagree that Docker isn't suited to running a DBMS, assuming you actually have a large enterprise (or cloud) datacenter backing your Docker daemon. In such cases:

• You'll probably have a large enough pool of Docker machines (k8s or not) that you're going to be deploying your DBMS container in a way that reserves an entire instance just for it (or it + its accessory containers);

• You'll probably have a SAN, and you'll have many enterprise-y reasons (e.g. live VM migration) to prefer backing your DBMS with said SAN, rather than with local instance storage.

If both of those are true, then Docker has no disadvantages compared to deploying your DBMS as a raw VM.
>I'm not really sure how you can arrive at the conclusion that Apple are holding back; they seem clearly committed to improving privacy as demonstrated by their continuous work in the area.

Given the Apple phone was successfully hacked in the FBI case, I'm not sure why HN seems to think they are the bastion of privacy.

Given the other anti-consumer and anti-developer practices at Apple, I wouldn't trust them to protect privacy(today, and in the future when their stock price takes a hit).
They don't have a lot of income. Their companies have.
The companies can be hold, to some degree, in offshore jurisdictions, by trust funds or low tax countries (Liechtentein, Andorra, Isle of man etc.).

Many countries have some kind of exemption for specific taxes. E.g. tax all your IP royalties in a Luxembourg company with 5%. Lawyers at Deloitte and other companies working 24/7 to find such loopholes and find solutions for their clients.
Your cable options have an 80gb limit?! WTF!! Comcast has data caps (which is stupid) but it's 1TB and I think my 7 person household has only passed the halfway mark once, so it's meh. But 80GB?! That's insane! Destiny 2 is an 80GB download itself.
I think the Satoshi coins are in many small wallets of ~50 BTC each, so there's no one-shot win there.
This was mentioned in the Wikipedia article about paracetamol poisoning (though the reason paracetamol is added to opiod painkillers is because apparently the combination works better than either drug separately).

But the original point was about whether paracetamol is toxic, not how often people overdose on Panadol (though that does happen in suicides). And the answer is "yes, but not in the dosages you'd normally see".
You can get around that by adding more text in later via the 'edit' link, which is there for 2 hours after you post.

But I don't think what you wrote sounds terse or abrupt! I hope you get some value out of the replies.
Good practice, because in not so long you won't have a choice if you want to read the screen.
I'm impressed. It's an intriguing paradigm for a navigation interface - and the implementation looks surprisingly fast. I wonder how it might work as a web browser..
I'll be the obligatory ex Googler claiming Google never did ask brainteaser questions, or at least they were long gone by 2006.
The original article [1] describes new process in the context of PM interviews, which are different from software developer interview, no matter how technical PM is.

The changes that I particularly like are: improvement in coordination between interviewers themselves, and stop sharing feedback between themselves until the very end. The latter really affects how next interviewers view the interviewee.

[1] https://blog.usejournal.com/rethinking-how-we-interview-in-m...
The Zen of Python is well sed :)
I'm not certain where the author wants to go with this. Comparing research with an Airplane flight seems not correct to me.

Also

> By definition chance cannot lead to long term gains (it would no longer be chance)

Heh. The whole universe might be made by "chance". It is, in fact, quite possible that the total energy of the universe is 0. Our existence is a fluctuation.

Define long term gains. Since infinity is out of our possible reach, it is possible (though unlikely) to make long term gains just by chance. Especially, if you have a large audience. Some of them will get lucky.
By large I mean two/three levels and above. Nothing's perfect but YAML does that fairly well (e.g. ansible playbooks)

TOML handles anything three levels or above in a less readable way than indented JSON (which doesn't even prioritize readability).

It looks find provided you're only dealing with tiny ultra simple config files.
Anyone else feeling like there is a resurgence in web?

Apps were the hot thing for a while, but now that major players have an app, they have figured out it matters little.

I dont do my shopping on the Target App. I'm sure they are getting economic indicators that web on mobile is just as effective.
Generally because stating it as "being forced to pay" often comes with a hint of it being wrong.

So the question could have been: do you think we should have free/socialized streets/hospitals? If not how do you think they are different?
The quality of the outcome really depends on the participants. As they say, blaming the humans is easy. But it’s not five why’s.

There are lots of proximate reasons that a failure can avoid all of your sanity checks, but the simplest is when your organization is a little insane. I try to steer the conversation toward avoiding surprises, other times toward ergonomics (don’t rely so much on humans in the moment to do the right thing).

Often people don’t fight me too much on that, but sometimes it’s a near thing. Lots of senior devs are senior because they keep everybody else down, so blaming human error for an outage seems perfectly reasonable to them.
I feel like this is one of those "filter bubble" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble) scenarios.

There are many young software engineers working at Google/Facebook who would be able to save significantly more than the median US household income per year while renting their own place but still choose to live with roommates.
Thanks for explaining why roads are round!
Texan here. I’m anti fossil fuels, pro solar and wind. I’ve stopped trying to have any conversations with other Texans about this topic. Texans are very pro fossil fuels, on balance. I’m saying this as an Austinite.

It’s interesting to see this in the Texas Tribune.

From time to time I have reason to drive through or fly over (I know, hypocrite) West Texas, and passing through the oil fields one can literally watch the world burn. It’s unreal.

Edit: Just a note on the people in the energy industry. They’re good people on balance. I might have come across as incidentally disparaging people in the energy industry. I have many friends and family of friends that have spent their entire career in the industry. It’s like Silicon Valley and tech’s problems. NYC and the financial crisis. Economic and financial incentives supported by cultural norms. In Silicon Valley the confidence that technology will improve our future means sometimes it is developed without pause for impact. In Texas a strong Christian ethos encourages a certain view of “stewardship” of the earth that does not mesh well with the constantly evolving culture of environmentalism. But as people they’re good people.
I tried this a while ago, and it broke one of my sites. No idea how or why. There are no ads on the site or problems with any ad-blockers. Put a bad taste in my mouth.

Edited to add: But I like the idea.
Thank you for pointing it out. Fixed.

Cheers !
Get into minor but not major trouble. Learn what it is like to bend or break the rules get caught and suffer consequences. Get that out of your system now if even an inkling of curiousity exists here.

Don’t get into major trouble or do very dumb things that could get people seriously injured or killed.
Botulinum toxin (botox) doesn't kill most people in the standard dosage, but it is obviously toxic (it's in the name).

Paracetamol poisoning is fairly common, hypernutremia isn't. Don't get me wrong, I disagree with the original statement that paracetamol is toxic (with the implication that this is a reason not to use it in normal dosages). But it's definitely not harmless.
You have been indoctrinated and you are repeating propaganda talking points with zero basis in reality. There is NO DATA to support any of your claims. Because you have been indoctrinated you are probably at the point where no amount of evidence would convince you otherwise, a bit like a flat earther being flown into space to look at the planet.

Nonetheless, we can try using some data. Here's a massive retrospective cohort study on 500,000(!) patients clearly demonstrating there is an absurdly low risk of addiction from legitimate prescriptions (0.5%):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29343479

Virtually no overdoses are from legal prescriptions, and virtually no addiction is from legal prescriptions. Abundant data and evidence shows this repeatedly.

Now let's go ahead try your hysterical logic with some other issues:

Why do people drink alcohol?

It's because they're hooked on alcohol. How did they become hooked? They started drinking legally available alcohol! Sometimes they bought the alcohol, sometimes a family member or neighbor had the alcohol and it was handed on or stolen!

The US is awash with alcohol!

Or, let's take a legitimate crisis, the obesity epidemic. Why are people so fat? Why do people eat so much?

It's because they're hooked on food! How did they become hooked on food? Because they ate food which is widely available! Maybe they ate food at a restaurant, or at home... maybe it was stolen or given to them!

Look how many people are getting alcohol or food free from friends and family!!
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Apple users have the need to defend Apple at every turn.

Android users enjoy bashing Google at every turn.

Just like I bash M$ despite loving windows 10 and Excel... (actually I've gotten better about this)
I's more likely the card went rogue and failed.
How a near-perfect rectangular iceberg formed
Please don't post garden-variety politics to Hacker News. There needs to be an intellectually interesting angle to such a story for it to be on topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What can this tool do? Download it and run -h to find out.

One can only wonder why any javascript library of the week has better docs.
"completely playable" usually doesnt mean 8 to 12 frames per second in 320x200
I can't possibly hope to change your mind but stability issues with union filesystem driver in docker(part of it was not even docker's problem) and persistent volumes of kubernetes are two very different things. Cassandra running standalone on host(and crashing) is no different from cassandra crashing when running using a PV inside a container.

Moreover - all/most Linux distros have switched to using Overlay2 as default driver. If you are running latest version of RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu that is the driver you will be most likely using.
The thing that's always bothered me about the operator model is that you have to reinvent all of the things that Kubernetes does for its own objects (failure handling, redundancy, declarative configuration). At least that's my understanding, from what I've seen.
After reading about wisdom of the crowds, we started doing this with estimates. We always break up the project into small tasks together then seperate and estimate them individually.

We've found we're a lot more accurate because we don't influence each other, as well as don't go into autopilot on an estimate assuming someone else has it under control, or someone just deferring to the more Sr. Dev when the more Sr. Dev made a mistake.

I could see how this would also work well with interviews.
Apologies, I'm conflating two slightly different things there.

There's the identifierForVendor [0] which is unique to the publisher. This is pretty safe to use however you see fit (within reason).

Then there's the advertisingIdentifier [1], which is not unique, but can easily be permanently zeroed out by the user. Apple also have some fairly stringent rules about how it can be used [2], not to mention further rules about not identifying people surreptitiously [3]:

> 5.1.2 Data Use and Sharing

> (iii) Apps should not attempt to surreptitiously build a user profile based on collected data and may not attempt, facilitate, or encourage others to identify anonymous users or reconstruct user profiles based on data collected from Apple-provided APIs or any data that you say has been collected in an “anonymized,” “aggregated,” or otherwise non-identifiable way.

They ask you to explicitly confirm that you're following the advertising identifier rules in particular every single time you submit to the App Store.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/162...

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti...

[2] https://support.appsflyer.com/hc/en-us/articles/207032086-Ap...

[3] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#dat...
There was a linked list interview question going around back then that went: In constant time, without allocating memory, given a pointer to the first element of a linked list, how can you tell if it eventually ends in a null or if it loops back on itself at any point? I actually ended up implementing the solution while tracking down a hang in a DCOM service I was working on...
XP is a type of agile anyway. Perhaps you meant it morphs into scrum?
I did read the actual legislation.
That’s exactly why they’ve given up the brain teaser questions - all it checks is whether somebody’s told you the answer before.
I only read the article if the discussion is interesting.
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If heads is 1 and tails is 0 then the expected value is 0.5. The expectation really depends on what values your random variable can take.