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This this.

An important counterpoint.

Heavy multiplayer gaming is just coming into the mainstream. I never even got into it for its unsavory vibe, much like I never got into one-armed bandits and weed. I knew early alarmist reports were wrong, but speedy mainstreamization (along the lines of what's going on with weed too) is bound to erase previous criticism.

Despite not being a gamer this story touched me -- enough that it made me suspend the slower more rational critical "loop" temporarily. But people do get disable kids all the time, a cousin just got an autism diagnosis for her nonverbal 3-year old; and it's not good to enter gaming into the annals of it-can't-harm-at-least alternative medicine.
I can only speak for the American university I work for, but here, every Informed Consent form explicitly states that participants can withdraw at any time for any reason and still get credit.
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Are you aware of the recently announced service from Amazon AWS called Ground Station? Any thoughts on the utility of that to help open up space to a broader community? A lot of people kind of joked about it, but I though it was an interesting idea.
san francisco people are used to shit everywhere, just shit on the street. like in india.
Gasse is one of the few people I have subscribed to on Medium. His rants on Apple/tech can be a little off, but he's a great writer and has lots of interesting stories.

Even though I know how this ends up (they move to PowerPC), I felt left hanging when AT&T canceled the Hobbit processor and they weren't sure what to do next. It was like the feeling you get at the end of a chapter of a great novel.
Ahh, I guess so. Perhaps more than "lightly modified" though. $17,995 extra on top of the base Raptor for the supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 and a transmission that's geared high enough to get going that fast. $62,625 total for the Shelby version of the Raptor. I guess that qualifies as "extensive".
Well it seems you commented without doing research. I’ll start you out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=q_vivC7c_1k. Why are you complacent with restaurants taking advantage over employees, but not tech companies?
Most people I know believe and expect that some form of talk therapy is an important part of a mental health safety net. Now, how should we train these therapists? That's the utilitarian reason why we need something like a study of psychology.

Unfortunately, much like with more physically oriented doctors, opinions and practices will vary widely (including going against established research for whatever reason)-- and those seem to be particularly diverse in this field. The replication crisis clearly shows a strong need for reform at the research level as well.

In my opinion, the way we approach these issues should be 99% focused on what we know facilitates better outcomes (short and long term) for actual patients in a cost effective way. Theorizing about fun new methods is exciting, but what we need most these days is more disciplined and well trained pragmatists in the field, who can put their world views aside for a while to provide basic care for the (emotional equivalent of) bleeding gunshot wounds in front of them. How we get there is a big question, but one part of it is always going to be recruiting and properly equipping a certain percentage of incoming students to do the work.
It says “...or phone number” my guess is all businesses that have your phone number
I'm sad that the over 40 crowd is so low. After years of C#/Java/C++, I want my next gig to be Python.
What do you mean: "without the influence to match it"? The UK has always been incredibly influential in the EU. A lot of the things the EU implemented, were things the UK wanted.
There is inherent value in having a stable, battle tested platform. The fact that the same chip has been sold for general public for the last 8 years is to me rather appealing than a turn off.

Given the complexity of the modern software stack, there have been a zillion bugs that have ruined someone elses day and have been hopefully fixed.

Although, I have no idea of the support quality of the Pi foundation since I have not used their products.

The platform is sufficiently beefy to run lot of non-trivial applications. It's not like those applications have magically increased in complexity.

We've just been brainwashed in the consumer space to always demand bigger numbers so that the vendors have something new to sell. There is really no need for a certain category of desktop applications to get any slower with time, or, to be able to provide any more value regardless how fast they are run if the interactivity level is already so fast that improvements would be undetectable by humans.

Note: this is not an argument that the current Pi "is fast enough for everything". I'm saying it's fast enough for some things, and the mature software stack is considerable added value.
this is a great example of you don't understand it until you try it
Ask HN: What questions should you ask investors of prospective employers?
I'm considering a job offer from a Series A company. They've graciously set up a brief call with one of their investors.

I'm having trouble coming up with a set of useful questions to ask. What are some important things about a company that an investor can give perspective on?
In Nova Scotia, surprisingly our Canadian History classes did focus mainly on post-1945 Canada in the later years of our education (Highschool).

Pre-highschool Canadian history was extensively focused on pre-1945 events and pretty focused around Eastern/Acadian history
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Redux, made for very large scale applications. Most companies shouldn't use redux at all, just as Dan Abramov said several times that you probably don't need it.

For unknown reasons most front-end developers don't wanna hear that and love to start with mega complexity and boilerplate where just a simple flux store or a library like 'unstated' would suffice. Anything leaner than redux is very welcome for the average companies web app imao.
7% of respondents do "software testing / writing automated tests" as a hobby? Bravo to those hardy souls.
I work in Big Data at a Fortune 10 company. We don't even do what you suggest. There is very little appetite for niche languages that are difficult to just hire for. For example, we have a ton of Scala code due to a misguided belief that Spark must use Scala because it was written in Scala. We can't even go to the market and find people who have used Scala before. It's all Java developers, and many (most?) are not very good developers. So then I say we need to train organically if we want to have good Scala (and Java) people in the organization. Oh man! You would think I took away their birthdays! Train people? Dear god, no!

It's all optics and bullshit. Scala is pretty easy to pick up, as is any programming language. The problem is you have to spend the time. Time for most people, me included, is extremely limited.

In some parallel universe, I'm sure Clojure is the #1 JVM language. It's great and Rich taught me so much about functional programming and many other things. But at the end of the day, Clojure here in this universe didn't take off and I'm not sacrificing my career to beat that drum anymore. I tried hard, I really did: 2013 & 2014 were the years that were make or break. The wave didn't crest. When the people maintaining the plugins to Eclipse faltered, it broke down hard. IDEA never had solid support, either. Then, when the support tooling faltered, it was really hard to make the case to management, especially when other asshole developers were arguing for their pet tools. Type safety, meh! I don't need it, never have... So I write Java Streams and it pisses me off every single fucking day.

There is nothing more to say than "if you can find a job doing Clojure you are extremely fortunate."
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[libvips](https://jcupitt.github.io/libvips/) is a pretty amazing replacement for IM/GM -- for the overlapping functionality, IM/GM still do some things vips doesn't, and vips will depending on how it was compiled in some functional paths call out to IM/GM as a dependency, too.

But for some tasks I was doing, I found that vips could accomplish the tasks I was doing in IM in up to an _order of magnitude_ less RAM _and_ CPU time. (GM was getting me more like 10% improvement at best).

It would be sweet if they'd add vips as a fuzzing target too.
> It tooks years to sort that out.

Yep, maturing takes time - duh.
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Will it go down the Google path? Can it prevent itself from the greed of user growth? Will it fuck over the user base?

Watch the next episode of DragonBall to find out!
Not really, even though I use IntelliJ for JVM langs I haven't visited Jetbrains website in years. I think I saw the ad for the survey on Stackoverflow or some Python library website(Requests?)
>>Buffett focused on knowledge and companies that change very, very slowly or not at all

Can someone please tell me what exactly non-changing knowledge is?
I've always found it incredibly frustrating when people refer to "the computer" as an object of interest. "I don't get what's so interesting about that computer." Nothing! It's not the computer that's interesting, the computer is a vehicle to whatever I'm ACTUALLY doing. Building software or fighting orcs or flying a spaceship or talking to my best friend. It's like telling someone who wears glasses that they're "addicted to those glasses" and asking what's so fascinating about a wire frame with some plastic discs in it.
2 anecdotes - one time about 4 years ago I was interviewing at a medium big publisher site with a bunch of online properties focused on interior design and so forth and when I brought up accessibility the very young CTO said they didn't have any users with accessibility problems - I wouldn't say I lost my temper but my tone did get sort of sharpish because really, the market was definitely middle aged and up. anyway I didn't get the job.

Second anecdote I was working as a consultant for a media company and our designer was nearly blind without his glasses and with his glasses had better than 20/20, I could never get him to take those glasses off and his designs were not especially suited to anyone with vision problems. I think after 2 years I did start making some inroads though, so it isn't always a lost cause.
From what I have seen, they typically only ask for your most recent pay stub.
No surprise there. But it can be good to get an actual number, to help your data analysis. Presenting this as representative for the python community would be inappropriate, of course.
Since maternity and paternity leave are frequently more than 6 months long, employees temporarily leaving for a big chunk of the year is just a fact of doing business here.

Granting unpaid leave to go try your own thing for a while is, from the employer's perspective, not any different. Some people never come back, most people do. The same is true for parental leave (many quit their jobs towards the end of their leave, if they had already been thinking about it).

Even when they aren't required to grant it, larger Swedish companies will often give you unpaid leave if you just ask. The fear is that otherwise you will quit. Hiring is hard here, so it's better to have a promise of someone coming back in 6 months than a job opening that can take 12 months to fill.

Sweden has an enormous market of consultancies compared to the U.S. for filling these temporary gaps. Obviously consultants are expensive and not trained on your projects, so it's not the same as a long-time employee, but it gives options to "control the bleeding."
Anecdote: I know "the right tool" is not the answer usually but suprisingly enough the introduction of https://slite.com (ditching confluence) has helped our team in pushing us further towards a "document first" path / culture.
Probably 50mph above the limit is the point at which the vehicle can be confiscated or something like that.
You can directly leverage everything from Java and Js ecosystems with Clojure. So, I'm not sure I follow the argument here. If a useful library comes out, I can still use it from Clojure while enjoying the benefits of a much better language.
They already fucked over the user base multiple times... At this point it sadly looks like going the Digg route won't be avoidable.
Yeah. Brand-wise, I would rather see the Raspberry Pi shop like a kind of bazaar where you find everything in all sorts of places rather than a very tidy and clean place where everything is in order. The "everything should look like what Apple does" is really tiring and generic these days.
This is the part that astonishes me the most. How can you compile so fast?
At 5V. 17.5 watts (absolute maximum), not 840 or 420 watts.
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Too late D:
Surely this is down to the individual employer? Some companies try to add clauses like this to contracts here in the UK but thankfully they're generally not enforceable.

Speaking as an employer, what my employees get up to in their own time is their business as long as they get their work done when they're supposed to.
> The fear is that otherwise you will quit. Hiring is hard here, so it's better to have a promise of someone coming back in 6 months than a job opening that can take 12 months to fill.

This is what a strong economy actually looks like.

It's hard (in my experience) to get Americans to understand this, because our economy here has been so bad for so long, most people here have never experienced anything like this.
What really interests me is the lack of scrutiny towards Google. It all seems focused on Facebook, meanwhile what Facebook did was set a trend that others followed. Hopefully there is more to come, but it is definitely too little too late.
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Thanks I was using ffmpeg for the conversion up til now = TIL
The survey was open to anybody. And they sent out invitations to participate on several python related forums.
While AT&T have always been jerks, having Steve Sakoman meltdown because they lost a key supplier is totally beyond the pale.

Startups are, almost by definition, exercises in turning disasters into opportunities.

MIPS and ARM were quite well established by that time. TI DSP's similarly. Redoing the hardware was certainly an option.
> hardly anyone is actually using it

Source?
But they have already lost their performance edge by 1990. In 1985 the amiga was unprecedented in multimedia abilities and audio-visual performance. It was years ahead of the competition.

And then commodore more or less just sat on it with very minor incremental improvements until by 1990 a 386 PC with VGA & a SoundBlaster pretty much closed the gap with a similarly priced & specced amiga 3000.

That's why (well one of the reasons anyway) the next generation of games like Doom originated on the PC and not on the Amiga.
Well, the 155mph top speed is for the Hennesey modified Raptor that has 600hp, versus the stock 410hp. And the total price is $149,500. So, if you buy Ford's fastest F150 and pour a shit ton of money into it, you can get to 150mph :)
I guess you ignored their disclaimer beside the editor statistics?

From their methodology section:

> The data include responses only from the official Python Software Foundation channels. After filtering out duplicate and non-reliable responses, the data-set includes more than 18,000 responses collected in October and November of 2018 via promoting the survey on python.org, the PSF blog, the PSF’s Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, official Python mailing lists, and Python-related subreddits. No product-, service-, or vendor-related channels were used, in order to prevent the survey from being slanted in favor of any specific tool or technology.
The problem with these Likerts is that they are often an uncalibrated scale, so the subject is interpreting the question as well as the possible responses. They are also used in medical studies of pain, for example. You've seen them- the little faces in the doctor's office indicating differing amounts of discomfort and you pic the one that describes you). My buddy and I had a good laugh thinking up how to calibrate it :)

I'm not even sure how you test something like that for reliability.
Reddit always seemed to me like an english training corpus for ML political sorting into "neuro linguistic" tribal affiliations.

I imagine a near future HR department feeding sent-mail writing samples into a service that categorizes people based on their relative fit and a risk assessment that uses subreddit cultures as a base set.

Reddit has some amazing communities for tech and hobbies, it also had some dark places.
How much $ and or jail time would one get for a 166 mph speeding offense ?

In my country (France) you would loose your driving license for up to 3 years, pay a hefty fine between 1500 and 4000 euros, have your car confiscated and might even go to jail for a few months if you're a repeat offender.
Differential is a pretty great open source code review tool: https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/differential/
There is a short scifi story from the 50s called the Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl which deals with this in a very silly way.

It's available through archive.org https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1954-04/Galaxy_195...
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i'm sure Reddit will be completely transparent with how this will potentially influence their running of the site, and will not interfere with their users. i mean, they're such supporters of free speech, afterall.

/s
If you go this way, why not simply use SCP on the host?
I was literally just talking about this with a friend last weekend. We were discussing if blocking ads was in effect stealing content from the people trying to monetize their content by running the ads in the first place. I said "I wouldn't mind just seeing a generic ad on a page that was shown to me at random, but the bastards try to track everything you do to better target you."
> Raspberry Pi is the kind of product that could really benefit from a quality retail experience.

I don't know about the experience, but this product has some retail presence in US & Canada.

https://kano.me/us
Commodore never had a competitive offering for the business market.

The one really unambiguously great thing that C= did was the custom chipset for graphics and sound. That was the area they should have continued to progress in; perhaps they would have ended up out-competing SGI and eventually inventing the 3D accelerator.
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I believe there is some work on standardizing the RGB LED interface going on as we speak:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/5/191
> The apparently impending Reddit-Tencent marriage is complicated by the fact that Reddit, one of the most popular websites on the internet, is regularly—and is currently—blocked in China

That should be disqualifying right there. How do you take money from an entity created in a culture that bans the very speech you built your platform on and keep a straight face about it?
Perhaps their thinking is that you can already find the Pi in bazaar kind of shops full of electronics parts and really aimed at tinkerers.

This shop could be more for luring new users and making it look simple for a first approach.
Thanks @jabberthemutt, you might be right on the marketing-y speak for HN.

Basically I was one of the people that started the open source project and I'm trying to find out what the top issues are so we can fix them.
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I remember this practice of almost-compelled research participation even in the introductory undergraduate Psychology 101 course, and in that class (which included high school students and tons of non-majors) there was a lot of the attitude you describe.
"edoing the UI is on the to-do list, once the migration from Angular to Vue is done."

Is what makes me uncomfortable about modern webdev. Valuable product work constantly deprioritized by migrations to new frameworks. Magpieing has always been a risk in hobby projects, but in the past there was a smaller torrent of nee things to always be migrating to.
I'm not sure I ever made the connection between Michelin stars and the tire company by the same name until I saw their mascot at the top of the page.

Reading the history it makes sense: To sell more tires give people a good reason to travel.

Are there other examples of this sort of unexpected symbiosis?
I find it fascinating how much technology that many of us take for granted, or even disparage as being "lazy", can be a total life-changer for those who are disabled in some way.

My cousin is deaf, and prior to the internet his only real way of communicating in real time over distance required a text-phone device. Hearing people often criticise the deaf community for being insular, but a big part of it is that it can be very isolating, like living in a foreign country where no one speaks your language. The internet has totally changed that for many of them.

While a lot of the smart-home stuff seems excessive for me, being able to control your lights, heating etc, see who is at the door or even unlock it for someone, all from your phone or smart-speaker, is a real boost for someone with limited mobility.

I recently saw something about a guy in a wheelchair who flies drones using a VR headset. I've never been really taken with VR, but for him it's liberating, giving him a physical freedom he could previously only dream of. Sounds like that was very much the case for Mats too. I love the fact that he clearly got to live a life that had some meaning and importance for him with people he cared about.
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The only users that matter are the shareholders.
I suppose because experience doesn't necessarily mean professional experience and many people start programming in their teens or as kids.
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I am not a huge fan of the declarative model for much of the same reasons I am not a fan of OOP. Both concepts are full of convention and ritual to decorate code in a way that is easy to understand in isolation and convenient to put together. That sounds great except rarely does anything actually work in isolation and the word complex literally means put together.

Personally I am a big fan of functional imperative. Write instructions to solve the problem as directly as possible with the fewest decisions/statements as possible. Isolate the solution into a function that is referenced when needed. Opposite of complex.
I know this will be an incredibly unpopular opinion around here but most official sources for stopping distance seem to use a very slow to react person driving a vehicle on 10yo economy tires to generate the baseline for their stopping distance calculations. This is at the high end of what to expect in reality. Non-terrible tires and non-terrible reaction time can shave a lot off that.

Think about it like a reverse drag race where you start at trap speed and reach 0 ASAP and the vehicle always has more power than it can put to the ground (indeed brakes are basically always capable of enough torque to break the wheels free). Pretty much anything on good tires should be able to stop from that kind of speed in under 1/4mi. It won't be 1/8mi but it will be solidly under 1/4.

I can say from personal experience that if you have non-terrible tires and you're stopping in the kind of distances insurance companies, driver's ed and state drivers' manuals like to quote then something is wrong because those sources are very, conservative with stuff like that (for obvious reasons).
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