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> management's expectations are simultaneously deadline, cost and feature driven. There is no management technique

I suppose when the product you're making is, say, advertisements, because you merely arbitrage, you can satisfy all of those at the same time.

The more interesting point of view is, "The kinds of software businesses you want to get into require no management at all."
Isaac Newton was doing chemistry with a range of nasty heavy metals for years. A sample of his hair was analysed some time ago and found to contain significant levels of lead [1].

Boyle, Cavendish and their cohorts investigated a variety of sources and were not empiricists in the modern sense. Remember that they had e.g. no concept of yeast, bacteria, and yet saw the daily baking of bread and brewing of beer. Not surprising perhaps that they saw similar processes in the chemical realm? A flavour of the times slightly earlier can be seen in the use of astrology for medical purposes [2]

[1] https://web.pa.msu.edu/courses/2008spring/ISP213H/welcome/we...

[2] http://theshakespeareblog.com/2014/06/shakespeare-and-the-al...
> You clearly have no experience with university tribunals. The only path to getting a fair hearing is to retain a lawyer ...

Very true. During my onboarding at Gatech, they clearly told us (in similar words): "Unlike courts, the burden of proof is on you, not on us. If caught hacking, you'll serve jailtime then come back to find us waiting."
US is trying so hard to alienate Muslim countries from China. Reality is no Muslim countries care about Xinjiang except a little troublemaker who joined NATO, Turkey. Every Muslim country has its own extremists/separatists to fight against, they know the pain.
I'd encourage every programmer to learn some basic assembly. Arguably ARM assembly is slightly easier to learn but either one will give you a better understanding of the API that your programming languages are abstracting over.

And in my experience it makes teaching about C pointers so much easier.
We shouldn't settle for anything less than a panel of women's studies professors.
The Ukraine reference was referring to Russia annexing part of it, and the rest of the world doing nothing.

As I said there might be technical legal differences, but practically speaking at this level they can be ignored. If Texas wants independence, it isn't going to be put off by US laws. The US will loudly point to those laws yes, but whether it does anything will be independent of those laws.
This was me, but with the OG Starcraft: Brood War CD Key. I think I still remember the key, but I'm not sure and I don't have the CD to verify.
The US and Canada tend to bend over backwards for each other.

Better to move to a country where charging tuition is some kind of crime.
As one of the people who would be getting phone calls about all the software that breaks when EST gets redefined to be four hours behind UTC rather than five, I'd really not want to go to there. Either of "EDT is now year-round" or "The east coast of the US is now on AST" would lead to a lot fewer problems, as changes of that nature have to be dealt with pretty regularly.
They do, effectively.
They show what is necessary for quorums, and show that a large number of algorithms meet these requirements.

Hence, the single leader election is not actually necessary (and this is one of their points - the existing algorithms require much stronger quorum guarantees than are actually necessary for correctness)
Lisp was never meant not to have those. The idea that "functional programming == immutability" is a modern one, not the traditional understanding of functional programming.

In fact, 10-something years ago, nobody really cared much on immutability on HN, while everybody still talked about Lisp and functional programming (it was all about first class functions, closures, map/reduce, recursion, DSLs, and macros).

Immutability come into the fore (well, for HN) along with Haskel and Clojure -- plus the idea that immutability gives you multicore for free.

Even in Paul Graham's essays, the "foundational documents" of this community, when he talks about Lisp he hardly talks about immutability as any kind of key point.
Something I've learned in startups is that you've got to have immediate short-term goals and keep pushing towards them relentlessly. In bigger companies with stable revenue the natural sense of urgency is lost, and you can often spend endless time in analysis paralysis or perfecting inconsequential details.

Having milestones and deadlines in whatever process you choose to implement is very important to keeping everyone's eye on the ball. The problem comes in when there is not flexibility for the necessary tradeoffs, and it becomes a death march. This is management failure plain and simple. Taking away deadlines may superficially be better for people's health, but it doesn't help the company be more effective which in the long term could potentially lead to everyone losing their job which is ultimately way more stressful.
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I suspect expense is not as much of a problem as upgradeability. Buttons are fixed in place forever, digital interfaces can change with each app, and apps themselves can change with a firmware flash or OTA update.

Despite early detractors, touch interfaces are now dominant in mobile devices for this reason, their flexibility.

On the other hand, cost or not, tactile interfaces let human drivers keep their eyes on the road. I suspect that when cars are fully autonomous, nobody will care about that any moore.
Do you have a reference? Has someone actually done an analysis? I've never heard of this idea before, and offhand it seems impractical. I think you'd have all the same problems that you have with a tractor, plus a few extras.

You're right that gravity tractors aren't easy. Nothing is easy in space.
I wish their stripped down version (LTSC) was available to the tech-savvy general public.

I don't care about the App Store, I just want the security updates with stable features.
We evolved with microbiome. Viruses were part of us during our evolutionary journey, no?
If it weren't in a file named after a famous vuln, I would wonder what was on line 630, because the problem isn't obvious from just those two lines.
In your defense, if it could be shown that the most thoughtful female writers strongly tended to be those most likely to show that off by sending a letter to the Times, you'd be right. I couldn't say, but I suspect that instead, extroverts of either sex are most likely to write in.

Re unfair, making doubly sure that women's views were presented about issues where their perspective is distinct seems fair to me. So your viewpoint could still go through.
You're still thinking in terms of the whole imprecise game of trying to get, induce, tempt, cajole, lecture, nag, incentivize and/or shame people ("end users") into voluntarily contributing some of the time/energy/cost it takes to recycle. What they're suggesting at least with the WEEE thing (lost opportunity to make it say WEEED dudebro! ahem where was I) is that they forcibly take, from the producer of the item, some portion of the costs of recycling, and then downstream use that money... to do the recycling. Which seems a lot more direct and obvious, but maybe I misunderstood that part.
I assume you are joking, but I liked the joke. (If it's not a joke, it's horrifying).
I write quite a bit of LaTeX, but I shudder at the thought of browsers embedding it. It is one of the more Lovecraftian codebases I've ever witnessed.
Central economies gain a lot from simply being in the centre. That's why there has been an effort to promote South-South relations.
> continue to demand Perl skills in their developers while Booking.com is investing in Perl as its core development language. How can this be explained?

It's simple: because rewriting it doesn't make business sense. But from having talked to Booking.com devs, I don't get the impression it's something they'd recommend for new projects.

So while some businesses build on Perl might be "growing", is this because of Perl, despite Perl, or doesn't matter? The success of a business says nothing about the ecosystem surrounding the language they are using (unless they get so big they can shape it). A far better proxy for language health is how easy it is to hire a team of competent <language> programmers at all skill levels - by which I mean veterans with enough varied experience, and college graduates who'll consider programming in <language> without a bigger paycheck. (The ultimate metric would factor in turn over due to dissatisfaction/burn out from tech debt.)

For what it's worth, I still love `perl` for one-liners, because it's far more consistent than the various GNU and BSD versions of `sed`/`awk`/`grep`. But I'd rather be programming something else, and I'd rather be deploying something else, given that consistent deployments are possible now with language-agnostic tools like docker. So a big advantage Perl had is gone.
It's entirely possible my terminology is wrong here. I was thinking of the cost of decode, register renaming, and scheduling but those aren't really part of dispatch, are they? So it looks like I more got things backwards but I think the point that there are different sorts of cost savings worth distinguishing through using more capable instructions is still salvageable.
These days, govt employees make more than entry level workers in WITCH companies. That's why many so-called engineering grads also apply for jobs like bank clerk, police constable, etc.

Around 2004, many south Indian governments provided free tuition fees for engineering. So, thousands of engineering colleges were opened just to grab the fees by admitting more students. Now, the new minimum for students is: Bachelor of Technology.

This is India, where 1.3 billion people live. Unemployment is extremely high. So, even 3 lack rupees ~ $4k per annum is better than not having a job. If you want to call it a market wage, that's fine. It is like $15 per hour in the bay area is market wage, just because people have some jobs.

Inflation in India more than doubled in the last 15 years. 15 years, the base salary was $7k per annum. Now the same is paying $4k. (In other words, 300,000 rupees was 2004 salary , even today it is 300,000 for freshers). Basically, WITCH shops want warm bodies for their billable hours.
مهرجان جماهيري كبير بمدينة شفيلد البريطانية بمناسبة زيارة الرئيس عيدروس الزُبيدي
The meaning of functional programming has shifted over time. First class functions, currying, anonymous functions etc have come to mainstream languages and modern fp has developed immutable data, lenses, etc.
You mention problems, and to be sure there would be problems, but we're also awash in the problems of the current system as well.

I am ignorant of these things so I have to ask if it is assumed that your assertions are common knowledge. For example: "the US can't get anything done over a 20 year time horizon".

If international trade is a larger sticking point then I would suggest an international consortium? Like a WHO entity that collects dues from member states and member states in turn benefit from drugs produced?

Just spit balling here to be sure.
Exactly. I use SSH a lot and everytime I have a new device, I'll generate a new key and upload the public key to my servers.

I make sure to use good labeling to know which key is on which device (user@hostname) to deprecate them when they get decommissioned.
This is like saying Americans are empirically bad at soccer.

First, so what? Second, he should be smart enough to realize this is a rash generalization, regardless of past data. Third, he should know that saying something like this just insults those already in the field, encourages ignorance from others, and discourages those coming into the field, and thus serves absolutely no purpose.

For someone who is supposed to be an intelligent and capable leader of a heavily funded public project, this is pure stupidity and justifies any action they took against him, regardless of gender politics.

That said, the guy is totally sexist. No idea why BBC bothered to put it in scare quotes, when it's unquestionably true.
> "The mainstream media misled me about Iraq, therefore I'm going to get my information from Facebook articles posted by Russian intelligence!"

Have you genuinely experienced people expressing exactly this sentiment, or are you perhaps relying on a complex heuristic within your mind?

Do you believe it's possible some people think more along the lines of "The mainstream media misled me about Iraq, therefore I'm going to be more skeptical next time there seems to be coordinated promotion of an idea that seems to rely upon fear."

Speaking of Russians on Facebook and Twitter, I've yet to see any convincing evidence that this is a real thing. I don't deny someone is engaging in such behavior, but nothing I've seen gives me confidence that it is safe to conclude it is Russia.

> "There was once a batch of contaminated vaccines, so now I'm going to risk the lives of my and other children by not vaccinating them"

Same thing, but I won't beleaguer the point.
Maybe on access-limited highways.

But on (sub)urban streets driving the speed limit decreases the chance of causing serious injury to other road users, including pedestrians, even if it may lead to an increase in the total number of crashes between motorists.
In your beta thus far, what’s the mean and median returns for user driven strategies?
You can take a view of types that is broader than the one Java actually uses such that an NPE is a 'runtime type error' but you can do that with lots of runtime errors. It's not what the poster is talking about.
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The general concept is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis

Croatia:
http://eudo-citizenship.eu/NationalDB/docs/CRO%20Law%20on%20...

Section 4: "A child acquires Croatian citizenship by origin: [various criteria about who your parents are]" There's no "may" or "can".

Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationality_law#Descent...

"A person born of a parent with German citizenship at the time of the child's birth is a German citizen. Place of birth is not a factor in citizenship determination based on parentage."

Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_nationality_law#Attrib...

"Italian citizenship is granted by birth through the paternal line, with no limit on the number of generations, or through the maternal line for individuals born after 1 January 1948."

France:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_nationality_law#French_...

"French citizenship by birth abroad to at least one French citizen
The child (legitimate or natural) is French if at least one parent is French."

Some countries (like France) require the birth to be registered, while others do not.
That is a shame. Whenever I would take a long trip that went geographically over the EU, I would usually buy a ticket that had a 8+ hour layover somewhere in the EU and tour around for a little while. I guess I will now have to find another country to take a layover in. Maybe I will start flying British Airway if the UK lets me visit visa free.
> I would suggest that YC is becoming more risk-averse as it grows

YC Startup School shows the opposite
Congratulations on the launch. Beautiful UI! In terms of product market fit I can tell you that I've been kicking around building systems to automate my investment decisions, Ray-Dalio-style. I personally adhere to the church of macroeconomic investing, so what I was aiming to build was a setup that would buy or sell positions when various leading indicators went one way or another. It'd be really cool if you hooked into Google Sheets. My plan was to run nightly Google Scripts that dump the data into Google Sheets and get alerted when thresholds have been crossed or trends are emerging. Or, you could pull this data into your platform and enable users to make decisions based off of it. Pretty much everything I need is available from FRED, but if you got access to proprietary data like the Consumer Confidence Index that would be a big value add for me.

This next comment might make me some enemies, but seeing as I seem to be close to your market I figured you'll appreciate the feedback. Crypto seems like a dying fad to me. More importantly, I'm weary of doing business with companies engaged in crypto. I loved Robinhood up until they jumped on the crypto wagon. I still use them, but I fear that something crypto-related will blow up, and my hard-earned money will suddenly be tied up in an insolvent startup. Irrational fear, I know, but it's there. The real opportunity here in my eyes is to go after Robinhood, and build a similarly user-friendly experience for slightly-more sophisticated users.
I believe that, at a fixed amplitude, the power level increases with frequency for acoustic waves just like EM waves. Ultimately, this comes down to the area under the sin wave. The energy density under the curve increases as you cram more cycles into the same time interval.

Fixed amplitude is the important part here. Amplitude is not a perceptual loudness nor a sound pressure measurement. Sound pressure measurements are already a power scale and so two sounds with the same sound pressure carry the same energy per unit time. Perceptual loudness is even more confusing, as it applies a weighted curve to negate the non-uniform response of the human ear. A higher sound pressure level in bass or very high frequency is required to elicit the same perceived loudness as in our mid-frequency hearing.

Sound amplitude means the maximum particle displacement in one cycle, like the maximum throw of a speaker diaphram. It is a distance, much like amplitude of an electric signal is voltage. A woofer or tweeter with the same amplitude would have the same throw! Those objectionable bass noises from downstairs might involve a half inch or inch of displacement of a subwoofer. When is the last time you saw a tweeter with a half inch of throw? I don't think that would be blocked by tissue paper... it might melt your face off instead.
I disagree that he made his background clear. The first graf is written flippantly, in a "you say potato, I say potəto" sort of way (also, "I'm not a politics junkie"). The second graf buries the lede --- he's a professor, a former symphony musician, heads a think-tank... and, oh, by the way, that think tank happens to be AEI, one of the two most prominent centers of Republican conservative thought.

I also made a direct argument as to the ahistoricity of the piece.

I don't think this is especially important --- my original comment stands on its own --- but I'm a nerd and can't resist clarifying and defending my arguments.
> I am a skeptic of the right to free speech (since I cannot find any logical basis for why it should be privileged over other rights or differentiated from other forms of action)

I'm confused here - what rights do you view free speech as being privileged over?
If I were you, I would better find a subject that interests me ( for example AI or statistics ) and learn the math I need to understand to play with it
> We dream of reducing the gap around financial opportunities between the wealthiest and the rest.

I know it's one of those lines that whoever is in the CEO role says really righteously over and over again whenever an investor pushes back on it.

But is trading cryptocurrency really going to do that? Like normal people actually lost their life savings trading that. And it's rich people, like actual Silicon Valley supervillains of sorts, who generated a very large amount of these imaginary assets they're selling to normal people. And then, I'm not sure transitioning to stocks is any better, because anyone buying today is pretty much guaranteed to be buying at the top of the market--i.e., if you're making a market, you're making one for suckers.

Are you just reducing the gap around financial opportunities to lose a lot of money instead of a little?
No, that's a trailer park idea of the rich.

Being rich implies more wealth and power, which is different than consumption, and that is the actual difference between rich and not rich.

Rich people can and do consume more, but, unless you're some kind of gaudy nouveaux into bling or Saudi oil heir, there's only so much you can spend on the kind of "packaged products" we're discussing (and clothes, foods, gadgets, and so on) as part of your everyday life.

Rich will buy a fancier car (or cars), a nicer house (or houses), etc, but those are long term anyway, and can even be investments in themselves. They don't get new "packaged products" in any substantial number more than middle class people.

https://slate.com/business/2013/01/yacht-economics-rich-peop...
She obviously doesn't have to, but the manner in which she turns over photos certainly impacts their credibility as evidence.
This is not always true. A friend once built an application for the government (I don't remember any more specifics) in Python. He delivered it to them and mentioned in a document somewhere that it was written in python. This was unacceptable to them because python was not on the list of approved languages. So, after some negotiating, he caved, switched the project to Jython (with minimal changes) and delivered it as "running on the JVM". This was seen as acceptable, and the delivery was accepted.
The skeptic in me asks: if he goes to a friend of his at CERN and asks him to present a talk that reaches the exact opposite conclusion, no matter how shaky the reasoning, will that person be similarly in danger of losing their position?
And had you not been in a position to have life explained to you, as your species did not have those kinds of descriptive ability, would you ha e ever felt the shame? The bear does not lament, as he was never told to.
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I take literally 2-3 seconds to scan the sign, but if I can’t figure it out, I default to trash. Our recycling systems are totally broken.
I don't think anyone was making an argument based on human behaviours thousands of years ago, or how an argument based on primitive cultures is relevant. Unless your point is that if these hypothetical forest-children existed, modern society would be okay with farming them en-mass in cages for their meat?

I don't know any vegans or vegetarians who refuse to acknowledge the reality of eating for survival - the issue is based on choice, and if you have the luxury of choice why would you decide to eat another sentient being.
Do you find that using the JVM in Lambda affects your cold start times? If so, do you have a pre-warm strategy and how does it work? Or maybe it doesn't matter for your application?
How much data are you extracting or planning to extract from profitable trading strategies? This seems like a great way to crowdsource market intelligence.

To quote another analogy below - It's the modern version of selling shovels, except the shovels have GPS and mass spectrometers installed, so you can later pull in from behind with excavators and dump trucks.
Can you as a Java developer tell me why it is then that every time I have a problem on a Linux machine with OOM killer randomly terminating things and general performance problems it always traces back to someone's Java program. Why does Java have a reputation as a memory and resource pig?
> You suggest to look at each EU country individually (just also keep in mind that there are no border controls beetween the EU countries in the Schengen Zone). In such case, should we also look at each US state individually (because they are also not uniform

US states have no foreign relations. There's no Californian embassy in Sofia, but there is a Bulgarian embassy in Washington. No American travels on a Californian passport, but Bulgarians travel on Bulgarian passports.

If you want foreign countries to treat the EU as a single diplomatic unit, then all the EU member-state embassies should probably be closed and replaced with EU embassies, and all member-state passports should be replaced with generic EU passports.