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I'm a senior dev in Auckland (agency, not product).

Auckland is expensive, especially when it comes to rent. You'll be spending a large percentage of your income on rent alone.

It's a relatively relaxed environment and many of my dev friends don't tend to spend late hours at the office.

There's plenty of meetups and you'll likely bump into the same people, making friends real quick. I personally run a CSS meetup and meet people from the biggest companies like Xero to the smaller boutique agencies. There's a lot more intimacy.
Woah, legal issues incoming.
Ask HN: What can/should be done about Downvotes-As-Disagreement?
When I first found HN, it was a breath of fresh air compared to Reddit etc. I loved that users couldn't downvote willy-nilly, and new comments had a chance of being seen even on posts with hundreds of them.

Since around a year ago, there's been an increase in grayed-out comments that didn't say anything that doesn't belong in the spirit of HN, but just stated a disagreement against the prevailing sentiment.

I thought about collecting a few examples before posting this, but those of you who know what I'm referring to must have noticed them too.

Another Reddit'ty behavior is "grudge downvoting" where all the comments of a user in a thread are reflexively downvoted after they post even one disagreeable comment.

It's very apparent in heated political discussions and platform skirmishes.

How do dang and other users who cherish HN for its differentiation feel about this?
That’s how ended up with Comcast...
I honestly don’t like it, they are trying too hard to make it funny and while in top gear I sometimes wondered if the joke is scripted or a natural one, in grand tour I feel like every joke is scripted, and most of them are quite poor. Also they don’t spend as much time reviewing cars as they did in top gear, which I liked
Ask HN: Do you have a marketable skill?
The Wawa everyone loves is from a time before touchscreen ordering. What I remember from living in Hammonton 20-ish years ago, the staff were super friendly and almost always tried to chat me up -- be it my regular Wawa or one 20 miles away I'd never been to before.

Kinda like stepping into a WaHo or QT.

Last year I was in Florida a few times and tried a Wawa in St Lucie and Brandenton. Thoroughly underwhelming at all levels. The magic is gone.
You're wildly contradicting yourself.

California is both an example of how markets can't handle water, and has also never had markets in water.
It's because of the phat content.
Actually, in some cases you do. But anyway, blackmail is not about telling secrets, it's about coercion under the threat of telling secrets. You know, kinda like how rape is about consent, not about preventing people from having sex.
It's far too easy to subtly edit a video so that the hashes of the key-frames won't match. This would work for flagging unedited videos, but people could defeat it pretty quickly.
Uh, I mean, partly? It's a pretty strange argument to say that no one can be culpable of a bad thing so long as that thing is currently legal.
Like the series Quantum Leap?
I don't see how requiring tax filings changes anything here though. Filing taxes isn't where you pay taxes; that already happens silently and automatically whenever you get paid. Hell, the fact that it's so common for people to celebrate large refunds implies to me that, if anything, for most people tax filing is seen as something lucrative rather than a cost center.

To put it another way, I'm not sure how much tax filing achieves your stated goal that wouldn't be achieved by an annual letter sent to taxpayers, accompanied by their refund.
Our income taxes are already progressive. Wealth gets a free pass: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/to-reduce-inequal...

What we really need are land taxes and progressive consumption taxes.
Vend [1] and Movio [2] are two companies I know of that use Go. I know people in both companies and they've got a friendly culture.

I believe Centrality (blockchain company) and Soul Machines use Python.

You'll see a lot more NodeJS in the startups. Someone from Xero might be able to correct me here, but I've heard from friends at Xero that they're exploring Rust atm.

[1] https://www.vendhq.com/

[2] https://movio.co/

[3] https://centrality.ai/

[4] https://www.soulmachines.com/
All else aside, this would make for a pretty amazing answer to the "So why did you leave your last company?". I can't imagine the loyalty inspired by this type of "treat my team right or I'm out" mentality.
just dropped it on Hiroshima completely untested because getting U-235 is a pain in the ass.

Somewhat more related to your argument, it was also because the device was simple enough not to require explody testing.

I'm pretty sure the physics and engineering faculty of the average American university could build working nuclear bombs

Not quite building but the design part of this was, in fact, done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment

Spawned a relevant court case as well.
Don't you think that's a bit extreme? You shouldn't start a negotiation with your strongest offer, take it or leave it.

Maybe we should learn to work with people without quitting as soon as we don't get what we want.
"Mumbai jumbo"?

On the road to Damascus and enlightenment, stunned by a bystander's use the term "Mumbai jumbo", Paul fell off his horse and into the stones beneath a set of railroad tracks. Upon reaching consciousness again he saw an old man who extended a hand, smiling, nodding and, speaking the phrase "mumbo jumbo" re-assuredly and repeatedly, helped Paul to his feet.
This appears to be the case for 737 NG models, as well as the MAX. If it is a dangerous flaw, it is so for all of them.

The bit about the 'effort by both pilots' raises the issue of the 200-hour first officer.

https://www.pilot18.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/B737NG_FC...
> If you are married, have kids, or own a house, the IRS cannot calculate your taxes correctly.

If your marital status changed, or the number of dependents living with you changed, they can't calculate the taxes.

For most people these will not have changed.

The IRS could calculate taxes under the assumption of no changes, then send the taxpayer a report of assumptions made. If any of the assumptions are invalid, the taxpayer would only need to file corrections for those items.
They are amazing. With this gentle river of butterflies meandering across LA's clear, blue, hospitable sky you can forget everything from your little piece of sidewalk and just stare into nature's magical distance till the exact instant you're hit by some idiot's muscle car.
Were they paid for their overtime?
While I can't speak for the entire nation of India (I moved to the US as a child), I clearly recall being taught VIBGYOR by my father, and then later learned it as ROY-G-BIV in school in the US. So I'd bet it is a cultural thing.
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> Generally ATS is good for verifying pure algorithms.

Could you please elaborate on that?
Yea I've always wondered that. It's supposed to be included in prices (unlike sales taxes) like any other cost, so how are they able to legally get away with advertising a lower cost than they charge? Would it be similar (from a legal perspective) if they added an electricity surcharge or a dishwashing surcharge and lowered their menu prices accordingly?

I'm all for more transparency of taxes for the end-payer, but I'm curious about this from a legal perspective.
Why rich parents are more likely to be unethical
There's a wide gulf between "think consciously about it" and "fill out a ton of forms that are nearly useless because the IRS knows that information already, and now has to employ people to record hundreds of millions of handwritten scribblings of what they already know".
> In Tennessee, the leftover waste slag from metal recovery facilities, which contains rare earth elements including gold, platinum, and “all that good stuff,” is used as filler material for paving roads...

in some other places they use broken toilets instead
Indeed. Grothendieck is one of the few names I associate with the word "genius" without qualification. Up there with people like von Neumann and Witten. There are a lot of really smart people in the world, but they stand out even among the best.
Famous quote by Einstein:

"Education Is What Remains After You Have Forgotten Everything You Learned In School"

I don't remember the fine details of anything I've learned in school that I don't use on a daily basis yet the confidence of knowing that I studied and passed the exams is invaluable. I can go back and re-learn things if the need arises knowing that an expert once agreed with my understanding. That is invaluable.

Basically, if this your attempt to make yourself feel better about not having a degree, why not just go get one - there are affordable schools out there that offer nice programs. You may learn something in the process and meet new people.

But, in reality. Do you really NEED a degree to pass a little theory quiz (or for anything else for that matter) -- no you don't -- your brain works the same way with or without a degree.
The primary issue is the cost of switching, and Waffle was actually very good at this. It was basically just a front-end for GitHub Issues. I always knew that if at any point Waffle shut down, I'd be no worse off than before I started using them, and I'd still have all my data.

I'm actually much more concerned about GitHub itself. I still haven't found a good way to back up my Issues. They used to point to joeyh's Haskell program, which is neat but has many severe limitations (like: doesn't support private repos at all). Their current recommendation seems to be a third-party service called "BackHub", whose cheapest plan is more expensive than GitHub Pro.
"if anything, for most people tax filing is seen as something lucrative rather than a cost center."

Be careful with this line of reasoning... you might give someone the idea that there should be 100% withholding of earnings and that filing tax returns should be more an application for the privilege receive some of the money you've earned. Then it would look more like it was the government paying all your wages!

...with socialism being all the rage these days, I wouldn't be so surprised to see this sort of thing endorsed....
As we learned earlier today, eggs make a lousy dietary staple. And since it isn't addictive like coffee, knowing is half the battle, and not ten percent of the battle like it seems to be with caffeine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403468

Eggs are a major food, but they aren't relied upon like coffee.
Agreed on the modals, but this is a non-unique problem. Accessibility just takes work, whether it is fixing JavaScript libraries or supplementing CSS only solutions. And since performance and accessibility often suffer together at the hand of these JavaScript libraries, it is encouraging to see that there are other options for building good user experiences.
Cheaper to hire an accountant to deal.
Can you explain _why_ you think that would be beneficial?

Why moving abroad for a year you automatically lose your property rights? Does this just apply to real estate or do you release all property rights, such as cash, stocks, property left in a storage unit, car, etc?
For what it's worth, my reading matches VBprogrammer's, though I agree with you that much of the language seems unnecessary.

Frustrating to have a question that could be answered quickly by a 737 pilot! (Whether the trim wheel becomes much harder to turn after you set STAB TRIM CUTOUT to cutout, mistrim down, and pull up.)
Take a hard, stable turn and tap the brakes. You will soon see that you are wrong. Heck, if you are at the limit of adhesion, even lifting a little off the gas will cause a novice to crash.
Sounds like 100% guarantee to be let go, because who would defend him? Top mgmt obviously considers him a low performer (or manager of a low-performing dept), as evidenced by the "scraps" they got. And the employees under him don't want to work for a manager perceived to be weak, who is unable to deliver at bonus time. (worse -- was unable to even prevent the bonus pool that was initially earmarked for that team to be taken away and given to another dept). Seems like both sides would have no problem replacing the OP with someone else.
I'm not a fan personally, and I can recall a time when that sort of thing was at least mildly discouraged by community standards, even though pg himself always maintained that it was officially allowed. But as far as I can tell, that ship has sailed some time ago, and I've just grown to accept it for what it is. I even find myself "downvoting for disagreement" more and more, even though I feel a twinge of guilt every time I do it. :-(
It sounds like you're closer to being able to find a use for this than many, because you like to have the same brand of coffee.

Some coffee lovers like me like variety, not just within a brand, but across brands.
Ahh interesting. Thank you.

Is there any particular advantage of one polynomial over the other?
Clearly not, as they did not.
I’ll bite and say the reason this failed was the convience. If you merely set a carton of eggs on a weighted shelf and it would automatically order more when you’re low, it might’ve done better, and, been more generalist.

I’ll offer the optimistic hope that people are more willing to put a bag onto a scale after making a cup of joe with the added benefit of automatically having the “nuisance” of ordering and delivering solved. (Non perishable, etc)
Well, mea culpa. The piece does address the issue of bad investors. My main beef is with the line, "in the end, while some investors are better than others, none of them translate directly to success," which I don't think is a credible claim, or at least warrants more evidence.
That's not true. According to the Redmonk rankings, Scala is slightly more popular (based on GitHub and Stack Overflow) than Go. They are both solidly tier 2 languages. Groovy and Clojure are tier 3 languages. Elixir is about as popular as Fortran or Ocaml, which is not bad, but kinda niche.
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In the USA, planes are ordinarily prohibited from flying above 250 knots below 10,000 feet. The caveat is that that is indicated airspeed, not actual (true).
>I can't find an explanation of the Oberth Effect that makes any damn sense.

It's simpler than people make it. When a spacecraft is moving at a high velocity, the amount of kinetic energy embodied by its fuel mass is a significant fraction of the chemical energy already present. And kinetic + chemical is greater than chemical alone. That's all there is to it.
It depends on what alternatives you and your team have. If you think they think can easily find better employment elsewhere after they really showed up for you as a leader and put in the effort, doesn’t really seem like it would make sense for them to stay. You don’t get a lot of second chances as a leader, the deck is stacked against you in these cases. I think it would speak volumes about your character if you also showed up for your team when it sounds like they got short changed, at the same time you have to be strategic as well, only risk standing up for your team if you can take the downside risk and find employment elsewhere if management doesn’t capitulate to your request..
Thanks, super happy to hear that! If I sound harsh, please understand that it's from the perspective of someone who starts out excited about how the latest and greatest startup will disrupt my life, only to realize that half of their app is unusable to me. When I raise any issues like this, the most I can usually hope for is "thanks for your comments, they made our day, unfortunately we have no intention of fixing these issues at this time." So when I encounter inaccessibility among developer-focused tools, and think about how unemployment among disabled folks hovers around 70%, it's hard not to be jaded, and frustrated about how making accessibility an afterthought makes employment a bigger challenge for some of us.

So I'm glad to hear that you're undergoing an audit, and I hope that I can someday count ZenHub among the developer tools I can use. FWIW, Slack isn't even in this group, which is shameful given they patted themselves on the back for such a keyboard-friendly interface when they killed off XMPP. No, I'm not bitter. :P
I also didn't find much information about how long it would take to import into a db, so I used the xml dumps directly [1]. I only needed the wiki content (not the history), so the article xml files worked well for me. And then I used mwparserfromhell [2] to parse and extract from the wiki markup.

[1] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20190301/

[2] https://mwparserfromhell.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
It depends on how it's it's spun. They could be trying to sell his cool "bad boy" image. Some polling research must have shown them this is appealing to enough voters and others are not paying too much attention. He already has the DUI thing and apparently wrote a fantasy novel about running over children with his car. So maybe they don't have much to lose and might as well go for the cool troublemaker / hacker thing.
Please tell me you work for a FAANG because that would make my day!
> I can't find an explanation of the Oberth Effect that makes any damn sense

I'll take a crack at it:

Kinetic energy plus gravitational energy is conserved when you aren't actively accelerating[0]. Rocket fuel has kinetic and/or gravitational energy in addition to it's chemical energy. If you burn the fuel while going very fast[1], you can extract it's kinetic energy by bringing the exhaust to(wards) a stop. When going slowly[2], you end up spending energy to accelerate the exhaust away from you, and you also can't really do anything to get at its gravitational energy[3].

0: Ie, thrusting your engines or crashing; things that involve g-forces; not freefall.

1: That is, when most of its gravitational+kinetic energy is in kinetic form.

2: With energy mostly in gravitational form.

3: Gravitational energy is a function of where mass is at that exact moment; if you're high away from a gravity well, you have lots of energy tied up as gravitational, and no quick way to turn it into a more useful form.
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Me too, but I also like the “surprise me” subscription services like wine clubs. It’d be a decent backup plan if too many users complained about the monotony.
Thanks. (I have now looked up the correct way to quote).
I think GP's use of "hand-clocking" to refer to the factthat the z80 can run on a very low clock rate, to the extent that you can have a hand switch that sends individual clock pulses to the processor. This can be useful for testing purposes as well as for low power operation in embedded applications.

http://www.thomasloven.com/blog/2013/01/Z80-Tester/
I don't necessarily disagree that this might be too niche to be a viable business, but I think you're being overly dismissive and ignoring that there is at least some market for people who do just want to restock the same coffee all the time.

You could apply your argument to any consumable item, it isn't coffee-specific. Lots of people figure out the one they like and stick with it.

I know people who order the same coffee all the time. Is it a big enough inconvenience for them to need it automated? I don't know. But they don't care about chit chat with clerks.
What about the underside of the vehicle? I remember hearing it was a super big tightly guarded secret. Was that ever true? Is it still?
> Somewhat more related to your argument, it was also because the device was simple enough not to require explody testing.

That's not only less funny, but it's also a little hard to believe. I mean, I know how simple the design is, but for something as innovative and novel as the first atomic bomb, you'd think you'd still want to test it. Although I guess if it didn't work, that would have been fine since they had another tested design by then anyway.
Yes, "verification" in the formal verification sense of the word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification. Also, in ATS the algorithms don't have to be "pure" in the "no stateful side effects" sense of the word to be subjected to verification. ATS is truly a nice piece of master work and hopefully its concepts can start making it out the ivory tower sooner rather than later.
Do a lot of companies do bonuses in March? Are there other ways to compensate the key devs? We have awards we can give out monthly. It’s nice to compensate extra effort right when it happens.
> "Since 2010 we’ve had one aviation fatality" in the United States

That doesn't sound right to me at all.

- In 2014, 2 people were killed when a helicopter crashed in downtown Seattle. According to [1], that wasn't even the only news aircraft fatality in the USA in the past 5 years.

- UPS Airlines Flight 1354 (2013) killed 2 people, so we've had more than one commercial airplane fatality this decade, too.

- I assume they're ignoring the Q400 incident (really in no way the FAA's fault), and my first guess was that they mean "no passenger fatalities on a commercial jet in the US", which could then be referring to Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 (2018) -- but Asiana Airlines Flight 214 (2013) had 3 fatalities.

So I'm really not sure what they mean by this claim. Any way I slice it, there's definitely been more than one.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_news_aircraft_accident...
Don't over-optimize for the investor. If your startup lands in trouble, no investor is going to dig you out of it.

What should you over-optimize for? Flexibility.
Over-optimize for the ability for your business to become a cashflow positive lifestyle business that is not a 100M+ exit. That's actually what many many startups become.

YC won't tell you that because they over-optimize for world-changing binary results.
I felt that the second season greatly improved from the first. I'd say the studio segments were still pretty subpar compared to the Top Gear days, but they seemed to get a better handle on the rest of it. I haven't watched the latest season yet, but hopefully they managed to improve again.

If you gave up after the first season, you might want to give the later ones a shot. Though I have to admit I never cared too much about the reviews, so that's worth keeping in mind.
Not op, but very unlikely if they are salaried in the US. I should know. I’ve been a salaried drone putting in way too many hours for years. ;)
Salaried employees almost never are.
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> It often amazes me how little Snowden changed. I mean, surveillance and targeted misinformation campaigns is worse than our worst dystopian fiction ever imagined, but no one really cares.

I think things did change, but for the worse. Every time something like this is exposed, it's a decision point. If nothing is done by the public or those elected by the public, the perpetrators learn a valuable lesson, namely that they can probably increase the intensity of their surveillance without much worry and needing to hide. In a way it's relief for them.

Sure some programs were burned and exposed but they can just go and rename them and continue on.
Wouldn’t a service like this also suppress competition by making part of the market impenetrable to new companies?
Spacemacs is superb once you get it setup right. Best of every world!
Meow is a freak of nature, it has a constant overhead for all of the small sizes.

I added Meow to my test graphs: https://github.com/injinj/smhasher

I still find xxh3 to slightly faster for small hashes on my machine (i9-7960X), except at the 128bit throughput size > 32b.
That lacks the context of their age.

Go is 10 years old, scala is 16 - 60% older, and it was built on top of the JVM, which is much older than that.

I feel like that's worth mentioning, because it seems like Go has more momentum - maybe there's data that shows otherwise though, like trends in Redmonk over time. I had a quick look and didn't see an easy way to get that. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, it's just the impression I get.