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I once worked with a guy who, after looking at a solution provided by our team that not only worked but was fast and efficient, said, “This can’t be any good. You don’t have enough code.”

He was in a leadership position.

This way of thinking isn’t restricted to our industry. I see it in other areas as well. People naturally equate complexity with quality and actually have a hard time appreciating the beauty of a well-designed, well-thought out, efficient system. Why that is is beyond me.
Note that the Cloudflare 1^4 'Warp' VPN won't be a "get around country blocks" VPN.
Very good description of what it's like to be there. I was fortunate to witness the launch of Apollo 16 in person as a high school junior in 1972. I'd seen just about all the previous launches on TV but they did not prepare me for actually being there. Even though we were miles away, the size of the rocket was completely outside the boundaries of any vehicle I'd ever seen and, as the OP said, the sound made by those 5 massive engines wasn't so much heard as it was felt in the pit of your stomach. Long after the rocket has disappeared, you still could hear it. It remains the most awesome event I've ever witnessed.
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Same here, multiple different kinda of diets, eliminating anything I'm allergic to, etc.

Not saying it won't help out some people, but at least what I tried didn't help me.
It’s relatively simple to do, and yet you learn a great deal. The Game Boy’s simplicity means that you have quick feedback, making it fun. Tetris, for example, works pretty early on.

Emulators of other platforms tend to need tons and tons of work to even get to booting.
> 15 minutes later you get a failed build notification. You need to switch back to the previous task, try to fix the issue … and go for another 15 minutes loop …

The 3 minute rule is probably one of the most important in the article in my opinion.
I have worked with workflows that were longer than 3 minutes (10min+-) and I find that I either went do something unproductive or I started another task. The times when I started another feature and later got interrupted by the previous one because of this were probably 90% of them. This had major impact in my productivity.

Therefore I agree that the workflow should be as quick as possible in order for developers not to lose focus and the flow. The flow state boosts productivity by more than double for myself. And these notifications to go into the previous task break that flow more often than not.

Regarding working on a feature toggle oriented workflow I never had the privilege of working in such environment, but from what I read in this and other articles/books it provides a better work environment for the developers. If anyone has a project like this I would love to experience that and learn more about it.
I think you just have a really weird work culture if this is considered acceptable.
Paragraphs. Use them.
> is as fundamentally important to the fabric of the universe as it's much more well known "brother", the speed of light in a vacuum c.

It is not. It would violate special relativity. No such violation has ever been observed.
He has a business model[1] that sounds valid, and the reason he cannot implement is because his partner is "burdened with a sense of ethics and even a conscience". Not hard to imagine that there are other people out there who are not burdened with that.

Another aspect might be that there are ways to benefit from stirring up crises without solving them (like ad-financed social media and news sites).

[1] Concocting crises in order to get paid for solving them. Like the Charlie Chaplin scene where the kid gets paid by the window repair guy to break windows.
It's almost certainly covered by Fair Use on news reporting. Regardless, I'm sure TF would be happy to pay any multiple of the actual zero cost damages that Starz suffered as a direct result of their reporting.
ReasonML is a good transition from JS to something like OCaml
Yes, but now China can check to be sure that the data they have tunneled out of the Five Eyes stores are accurate... see that's getting real intelligence information :^)
Worked just fine for me on an early 2007 Mac Book Pro that had a known Nvidia GPU issue. I did it in late 2012, when it was only worth about $200-250 on craigslist. After the bake, it worked fine for the next 2 years, but I was paranoid it would crap out again, stopped using it as my primary after a year.

I followed the instructions from : http://russell.heistuman.com/2010/04/27/cooking-the-books-or...
So true. I was surprised to learn that kids are using the "commenting" feature in Google Docs to message each other in class in a way that they don't get caught using their phones. This laws can't have teeth unless they're specific and people will just invent new things and paths don't violate the law. If parents are worried, they should worry more about their own kids and parenting them the way they'd like.
We would know. Either the secret space program requires enough exotic materials and science that you wouldn't be able to hide it OR it doesn't require that, so it's simple enough that any one of us could stumble upon it.

Trillions of dollars vanished because humans are probably more greedy than they are curious.
> Exactly which countries are you comparing the US to

If one were to take that kind of comment at face value then one would have to assume that those making them consider Eritrea and Burma to be the kind of benchmark a country should compare itself to. Of course, the real background is just ignorance of how well other developed countries function.
Apple needn't be the customer's savior - just look at platforms outside iOS, they exist and thrive without an install-overlord "looking out" for users.

The biggest lie Apple has convinced the world of, is that Apple is required to play Hall monitor for user's protection, but the truth is that they lock their hardware up for greed - "you not only pay to buy hardware, but to run software on hardware you legally own"
You can find more reports than that on HN alone (in the comments)
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Physicists discover time may move in discrete ‘chunks’
YouTube's take-down system has nothing to do with the DMCA. While you can file a DMCA against YouTube, the biggest problems have been a result of YT's own take-down/copyright/strike system that is of their own creation (and has no legal punishment for abuse, since it isn't built on the legal system at all).

DMCA abuse does occur. But YouTube is the exception, rather than the rule, since they're largely not DMCA.
ReWork Deep Learning in Finance Summit
Google has opened its first Artificial Intelligence research center in Africa
It depends. For example, if you are writing code using HMMs the following would be adequate:

while True:
pi1 = dot(A, pi)
if norm(pi - pi1) < eps:
return pi1

Because whoever is reading the code can be expected to know what pi, pi1, A, dot, eps and norm are from context. I usually write some comments at the top of the module in case things could be unclear. Then I use short names wherever possible; subst for substitute, tmpl for template, expr for expression and so on. But you have to experiment yourself and see what fits your style and programming strength -- there are no hard and fast rules.
Why does it discriminate against poor people? Do bank accounts cost money in america?
I disagree about Firefox losing users due to Google's Opps incident.

I forced the use of Firefox over 100s of computer and witness the growth of Chrome all by user installing it themselves. And when I ask them why, trying to talk them out of it, the number one reason was, Chrome was WAY faster than Firefox at the time. From Cold Start, Prefetch, rendering, first time to paint, actual UI etc. Every single god damn thing. And many users notice. At first I would not help them to install Chrome or told them Firefox was simply better. Over time one by one they just install it themselves.

And that was the era when Mozilla thought Javascript speed would solve everything, and Memory bloat was the root of all evil and started MemShrink later.

It wasn't about the Open Web, Standards etc. None of the users cares about any of these. It was the actual browser UX.
Security has been the red-headed stepchild of software and, in some cases, hardware innovation for a long time. And I agree that it's important to take steps to ensure that changes.

I think two simple principles should be remembered to facilitate this:

1. Most end users will choose convenience over security

2. Security without usability is a compromise to security

If developers of these innovative technologies take the time to implement tried-and-tested security/privacy controls while providing easy-to-undersatnd education for non-technical users, then I believe things can certainly improve.
Anyone else feel like tech workers are now bucketed in “just show me the money” and “oh my god what have I enabled” groups?
So with this we could make packing peanuts for pluto! Soft and squishy materials have surprisingly important applications. An O-ring not behaving squishy at cold temperatures was responsible for the Challenger disaster.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...
I agree it isn't automation, but it doesn't really bother me to do it.

With the traditional arrangement, I'm standing there doing nothing while I watch the cashier. It's kind of boring and the time is lost anyway, so scanning stuff is not necessarily a worse option.

I guess my main concern is really the time it takes to get out of the store. If self-checkout has better throughput, great. I'm saving time and my ice cream is melting less. If it has worse throughput due to badly-designed machines or other customers being clueless and slow, then not great.

On a side note, I feel like a weakness for self-checkout is stuff that is more complicated than scanning. If I buy a lot of produce, I have to figure out the code for lettuce, tomato, etc., which is tedious and slow. A cashier who does this all the time has them memorized, so it's much easier for them.
All it takes is for it to land the exact wrong way one time.
>and even break

Spatial discontinuities? Can you tell us more, please?
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No, but pre-requisites to bank accounts do, like permanent addresses.
Going to the bank costs something, if not the opportunity cost lost. When you are poor, every opportunity or cost matters much more. Most banks require some form of ID or address verification, which again could require travel somewhere. Finally, even if you assume the most seamless, easy to sign up online-only bank, you are assuming a stable, reliable way to access the internet, which again, can be issue if you are poor.
According to Google's security team 68% of exploits in Linux are due to memory corruption. Source, their keynote at Linux Kernel Summit 2018.

Check DoD security assement of Multics versus UNIX regarding ease of security exploits, and how using PL/I prevented the large majority of them. On the mobile now, the document is accessible at the Multics history site.

Or any deployment of High Integrity Computing OSes for that matter.
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https://qiita.com/LoveSports24/items/e3c419bb199b2eb11032
Good advice:

"Users may also switch to uBlock Origin.[1] It does not support the $rewrite filter option and it is not vulnerable to the described attack."

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
> the proper solution is reballing, which involves [...] reballing

Sounds like that will take forever.
Depends on who you are. I am absolutely against this kind of surveillance. HOWEVER, as a US citizen I trust the US more with my data (or Germany or, etc.) then China.
Okay, here's an example of misuse: https://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-te...

The same thing can happen with the data being collected by the various advertising trackers. It's even worse because unlike text messages, you don't even know what kind of data the trackers are silently collecting.

> but if you want to use the internet and it's many services I just not sure why I should support you when you want to take action against services I like to use.

I don't have a problem with you using those services. All I want is for those services to respect people's privacy and make tracking opt-in, so people like you can continue to use them, while people like me no longer have to worry about being stalked.
I didn’t see this one, but I did see a shuttle launch, and I gotta say his experience seems to be pretty much the same as mine was witnessing a shuttle launch.
They are all good and all will help improve each other's time. I have only done 5Ks but I have been increasing mileage and plan to run a half for the first time. I run almost half marathon distance (8-10 miles) just to train for my 5K pace.

I am sure if I stay hooked on the sport I will eventually do a full one and 5ks will seem boring. Hell, a 18-22 min 5k workout can get really boring quick.
You probably should use a hot air gun or a reflow oven, but the toaster method should provide similar results if used properly. A non-nitrogen, non-convection, infrared radiant heating reflow oven is basically just a precise toaster oven.

You can achieve radiant heating of particular sections of a board by cutting aluminum foil to expose or cover particular board sections. You can insulate the board to prevent excess heat soak, you can take apart the oven to force it to ramp heat more slowly, and cooling is trivial. You can also remove moisture ahead of time by enclosing the board in a plastic bag with silica gel or calcium chloride, or a very long, slow heat ramp. (Or just leave the board in a sunny window in a dry environment)
I'm not missing the point. I was responding to a comment about performance. In my experience, COPY ... STDIN/STDOUT are just as fast the other COPY, given the same filesystems. I think many people are unnecessarily conflating bulk COPY advantages with superuser rights here.

We use it all the time via psql authenticated with unix domain socket. In most situations where there are users performing ETL and such, I think it is much safer to have them using a non-superuser role and manipulating files in their own user or group space. You can have all the performance of a bulk COPY without the risk of mangling the service-related files under the postgres user. I think it is better to give regular SSH accounts to these users than to give them elevated DB privileges so they can use server-side file or program COPY.

Also, with psql you can do \copy ... program within your SQL script. It has all the expressive power of a server-side copy but actually runs commands under the invoking user instead of the postgres service.
Sometimes. “Maintenance” fees. “Inactivity” fees.

The logic behind these are apparently that they’re polishing your coins, and I guess that since you weren’t using your money, the bank decided you abandoned it, and so it’s theirs now.
Can someone explain to me:

> It took another year to build up enough funds to use his debit card regularly.

Once you have an account, is there some kind of barrier to getting a debit card?
Well, the total work is less.
From "cashier scanning while customer stands there waiting" to "customer scanning". No second person occupied.
I agree, but good luck defining it. You will also get the hordes of people defending their right to be exploited.
Eye Hospital restores vision to 2 patients with severe macular degeneration
Cool service! Can you say anything on how many telescopes you host, and ballpark price, and any history of how the observatory got started (land, permits etc)?
governments can't keep secrets fallacy. they can. Manhattan.

these days, you can just take people's phones.
I caught an interview with Gilliam on the Big Think podcast, on which he was charming. He speaks very highly of Jonathan Pryce in the lead, but I'm even more interested in seeing Adam Driver.

I haven't really enjoyed Driver's work in the past, not because he's bad at his job but because he's typecast as the broody annoying guy. To hear Gilliam describe it, he seems to start that way, but then gets to exercise comic chops that I haven't seen him hit before. I'd love to think Driver has more range than I've seen so far.
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There has been an increase in submission from poor quality sources in the recent months. I don't mind Rumours, but it needs to be backed up with evidence that make sense. Like the recent Servethehome pieces on EYPC 2 PCI-E count. ( Servethehome is a great news sources anyway )
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up votes. use them
Sorry if that sounds cynic, but maybe not all of them have full confidence in the US justice system?
I’m 40, all my significant career growth was after 30 with most of it after 35, I’m more employable now than I was 3 years ago and am paid well. I was really worried about a Logan’s Run-esque slaughter at 40 and I’m not seeing it, with the usual caveats on luck and anecdotes. I do believe there is intense ageism in our industry but I think it may be endemic to certain areas or companies. Don’t fear the reaper my friends, you can be 40 with a family and still work in high profile tech, probably.
> Do bank accounts cost money in america?

Yes. Going to a bank costs time + money. Having a bank account costs money (and has spiked in price recently). Maintaining good standing with a bank costs time + money. Even not using a bank account, still costs money in America. ("Inactivity fees").

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/21/the-crazy-growth-of-bank-fee...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/learnvest/2018/04/05/americans-...
And then I’d have to write C++. No thanks :-/
"To date, a major stumbling block in formulating traversable wormholes has been the need for negative energy, which seemed to be inconsistent with quantum gravity. "

it appears thus, most humans are inconsistent with quantum gravity :D:D
The question I've always had about Planck time is about the "clock". If you and I observe something move and we were able to do so at Planck resolution, would our ticks be synchronized?
Thanks for the information. :-)
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They don't. Well, technically some require min balance to avoid fees but generally there are a lot of free options (as long as you don't go into overdraft).

My guess is that it generally "discriminates" illegal aliens as banks require valid IDs (which may also NOT be true since you should be able to open an account using your valid foreign passport)
Show HN: Market Share of Mobile SDKs
“Legal tender for all debts public and private” used to mean something...
I think you misread me...I was trying to make my sarcasm obvious. Did you notice that the snopes article was directly contradicted by the washington post article?

I'm going to hold onto that link you sent. I've been wanting some good data on why snopes is unreliable. I've seen people rely on it far too readily.
Going to the bank takes time, fuel, etc., which someone working two jobs to feed their family may not be able to afford and many banks do charge fees for having a balance below a certain amount or not having so many direct deposits.

A lot of prepaid debit and gift cards charge a fee so that’s also not an option. Newer phones with NFC payment technology also tend to cost more.

Outside of bank accounts, credit cards can also be disastrous for people who have never been taught to manage money effectively.

And all of this says nothing about how data collection via cashless payment systems can harm and discriminate against disadvantaged people.
There are so many 3rd party tools to help you build and make money with apps, but it's hard to tell which are the more popular ones.

We've (Appfigures) been scanning iOS and Android app's for SDKs as part of our platform, and we now make the market share data public.
Spaceflight pollution from rocket launches causing climate change
7 percent of Americans are 'unbanked'.

There are technically free bank accounts, but they often require a minimum balance, or have other gotchas. They all require identity information that may not be accessible to certain immigrants. Children also have trouble getting bank accounts.

For someone deeply in debt, a bank account is also unworkable because various legal entities can seize money from the account for the debts.
You might really enjoy this talk as well, then: https://youtu.be/GBYwjch6oEE
The number of 18 year olds in the UK is about to skyrocket.

Tangent Rant - Mobile back button is completely non-functional.
Bill.com seems widely used and liked by AP departments.
Enforcement of copyright (if you agree such a thing should even exist) should be an entirely civil matter.

There shouldn't be any special protections for the 'platform.' They host the content, they should be liable. This would prevent the consolidation of the internet into the first place.
Buying a taco isn't repaying a debt..
A conspiracy that large would leak. This fact kills most conspiracy theories -- humans can't help but share cool shit.
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Paying by cash has an opportunity cost too, over the course of doing it many times.

I think the bigger problem is that if your bank balance is (consistently) below a certain threshold, most banks will charge you a monthly fee.
Noam Chomsky usually has this point, that the human mind seems limited in its "native understanding" to a mechanistic view of the world - that is the only kind of model that is truly satisfactory to us.

He also points out that, ever since Newton, the dream of mechanistic world was shattered, and with it, any hope that science would help us "make sense of the world" in a truly satisfying sense. Instead, we have become content with modelling the world mathematically and predicting how it will evolve.

Of course, space-time and quantum mechanics have driven additional nails in the coffin of a truly understandable world.
How about another lecture by Leonard Susskind? I'm just repeating his ideas! The gist of it is that the connectivity of space is related to the patterns of entanglement between particles in the quantum foam. If you were to break that entanglement, you could disconnect two regions of space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9crggox5rbc
The smart battery provides the monitoring. It is literally a clamp on the meter to monitor import and export, and one on the solar panel feed to measure generation. Small bit of Python to grab it ever 10 minutes.
Technically, there's no barrier. But practically speaking, yes, there is a huge barrier.

Having an account is not enough to safely use a debit card, you also have to build up enough emergency funding to use a debit card. Otherwise, you risk a ~$50/charge for overdrafting, if you happen to be a off (even by as little as one cent).

Note that you as a consumer have very little control over if/when you overdraft, as American banks can legally reorder your transactions outside of real date/time to artificially generate higher overdraft fees than actually happened in the real world.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/06/11/yes-b...
Don't forget PS4 / Nintendo Switch. The XB1 isn't selling. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is now porting their games to other platforms with a focus on XBOX Live (service).
This is exactly it. These articles offer an ultimately vacant catharsis in place of change. Afterwards, the type of people who read the New Yorker can go about their business, feeling full of rectitude and seriousness and even, perversely, a kind of pride in their country.
If your bank is charging you those kinds of fees it’s time to get a new bank. My credit union doesn’t charge any fees and to keep it open you need $5 in savings. Most of the time they pay me some small amount for my savings.

Not to mention they have programs and loans specifically for lower income households.