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Would you please follow the site guidelines when posting here? They include: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
haha. Why? I Am not good at grammar.
Some might feel that not giving complete credit to a woman because she is a woman goes against the core norms and institutions of modern civilization.
I'm more concerned about runaway warming at the moment.
We've banned this account for posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments and ignoring our numerous requests to stop.

Could you please not create accounts to break the site guidelines with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Maybe someday we will target these plastics with plastic eating microbes.

I expect they will come along on their own.
maybe you never bothered giving to grep as input parameters the same 2 or 3 folders which are usually scanned? Anyway, I ignored grep is not multicore and wouldn't expect CPU to be the main bottleneck.

That's a good use case for a new tool. I might try the next time my greps take longer than 2 seconds.

P.D. May I ask which kind of project/tech has this ratio of LOC and size?
Basically, punishing game design was somewhat traditional. It was only later that the IF community (game authors and players) shifted towards an understanding that games should be "fairer". For instance Graham Nelson's "Bill of Player's Rights" in chapter 3 of his http://ifarchive.jmac.org/if-archive/info/Craft.Of.Adventure... lays out some rules, many of which Hitchhikers and the other classic Infocom games break (indeed it's only necessary to state the rules because so many games were breaking them).

Personally I find the appeal of the Infocom games to be fundamentally in their usually very good writing -- it is light years ahead of other text adventures of the time.
Great photo -- now I get it!

I was imagining elevated speakers a few hundred feet away similar to an outdoor concert, but that's a 100+ watt PA speaker at face level almost within reach.

Thank you for sharing. What an experience you had!!
As much as this technology is powerful, you can't make it "illegal" to take photos of a public park, and then bring them home and do whatever you want with them at home. That would just be absurd. Banning the software online only isn't really an option, because the knowledge on how the software works is already public. Anyone could rewrite the code on their own (Esp because 300 line neural nets, no libraries used, are still pretty dam good at facial recognition). The real privacy should absolutely be on the data side. There should not be public databases of profiles. If you have a big insta profile or you are a big youtuber, then yeah, you'll be public even through you're not a celebrity. That was choice. Random people should be private. No mugshots should be freely available, and photos of social media profiles should be obscured by default. Or, alternatively, we accept that this is the way things are.
Most h1bs at boeing will be restricted to internal IT support work. You need to be a US-person (citizen/greencard) for aircraft/military products.
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You can't blame Facebook for the rise of right wing leaders.

It's been happening in US, Italy, Israel, Poland, Hungary, Phillipines and now Brazil and the trend will continue whilst those leaders offer strength, populism and can point to immigrants as the cause of society's problems.
COH was free to play by the end of it's life. And I'm sure people would still be playing.
>Although Given-When-Then is a fantastic way to describe interactions, state and behaviour, it is a lousy way to describe data and calculations.

I follow a slightly different technique that I think makes
given/when/then also a useful tool for describing data and calculations.

1) Write the test as follows, using deliberately simplified but still realistic data (this is crucial):

>Given <a set of market data and trades in a table>
>When <arbitrary event such as calculation is performed>
>Then <leave blank>

2) Write the code that outputs the data/calculation.

3) Run the test in a "rewrite" mode that fills in the results of Then based upon actual output (this process is somewhat similar to golden master).

4) You now have a passing test and generated data which you can eyeball to see if it is in line with what you would expect. This test with recorded output can then be shown to the PO (or whomever) and committed to source control and used for regression testing.

This obviously isn't possible with cucumber or other gherkiny tools and it does require your processes to be fully deterministic (a laudable goal anyway), but it works pretty well IMHO.
I'm hourly at a place that basically doesn't care how you get your 40 hours. I know people who routinely work six days for six or seven hours, but I don't think I know anyone who regularly works seven days a week outside of strange circumstances/crunch time. I personally feel like I really need at least one day a week where I don't come in or think about work. Even just popping in for like two hours on Saturday and Sunday sounds trivial but is enough for me to feel like I didn't get a real day off. Even if I added up to 40 hours, I end up feeling like I'm owed something more for the effort.
Apart from what other people have mentioned, proper UTF-8 support is a big deal for folks who might be searching non-English text.
Only way to find out is to try :) But it does look promising.
If this symbol of female empowerment makes girls pursue careers in science then I’m cool with a bit of women glorification.
I had an interesting talk about software architecture the other day and noted that the term "dependency" is used for very similar things that happen at different levels.

For instance a "dependency" exists in project planning in that some tasks require others to be completed; thus over time scales of weeks and months that kind of dependency has to be managed.

Then at runtime a framework like Spring "resolves dependencies" to initialize objects. You could look at it as a backwards or forwards chaining problem, but either way it knows that "A depends on B" so it initializes B first. A and B are software objects instances in this case. The timescale is usually less than a second here.

Then there is the dependency resolution done by Maven at build time, which might take a few minutes. There A and B are software packages that mainly contain software object definitions.

These different levels of dependency are somewhat but not perfectly parallel to each other -- e.g. the Conway's law that you mention.

Aside from that I think you have to be aggressive about managing the "little things". If you go full polyglot and
let coders pick any version of any language that they want you are not going to realize the productivity and quality gains that you can get from microservices. For instance years ago we had a JDK 7 client and JDK 6 server and found that a set of JAXB classes we made weren't portable. It took us a few days to understand the problem, but it would have taken many more days to convince management that if they want ultra-fast software development we have to have less problems like that.

You have to standardize as much as you can about build process and libraries that people use. I've found that this kind of functionality frequently gets re-developed:

https://www.envoyproxy.io/

If you can standardize on a limited selection of "middleware" you may come out ahead with microservices, but having five different ways to do the same thing will end in tears.
That puts you in a small (17%) minority: https://www.emarketer.com/content/do-people-actually-want-pe...
> the fact that the lunation cycle divides the year into 12?

Assuming you mean "The lunar cycle" - I was not aware that it divided the year into 12 at all (there are more than 12 in a year). If you ascribe significance to the nearest round number, that feels like stretching

> 12 is no ordinary number. 11 would not have been significant, nor would 13.

in what sense? 11 and 13 are at least prime, 12 is incredibly ordinary.
What should the selection process be for the doctor who treats your life-threatening illness? For the pilot who holds your life in his hands?
Yup.

It's kinda shocking, but if you talk to non techncial people, they just accept adverts as a fact of life and actually quite like it when they show them things they like.

Hell, those "You looked at this item on our website last week, do you still want it?" adverts are incredibly successful. My company does them and they have (for adverts) a fantastic conversion rate.
I wonder what you're saying that I'm not, I never managed to unlock a free month of prime.
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Clearances are one piece. Trade restrictions like ITAR are another.
Sure, but if you look at how Keybase is verifying the information and how it is presenting that trust to external users, I feel that the value they are providing has increased greatly over a static page listing social network IDs.

Take a look at https://keybase.io/anthonyclarka2/sigchain

You can see a whole bunch of extra crypto is being used to verify the information.
Yes, and a corrupt left-wing leader could use the exact same techniques. Like the guns they put on the back of Toyota trucks in third world countries, this tracking stuff has no particular allegiance.
I don't think the Elon Musk or Steve Jobs analogy is accurate. Katie Bouman was co-leader of one of four imaging teams on the project. It seems to me the other person who co-led that team deserves equal praise and fame, and perhaps also the leaders of the other 3 teams.

Having said that, the look of excitement and joy on Dr Bouman's face in that photo is so lovely and relatable that the pic was always destined to go viral. So in that sense you could say she was bound to become the human face of the project.
I don't get it, Boeing seemed to have a positive slope, with their plane outselling the competition. Fragile system design is hard to understand in this context. But maybe MCAS were conceived at a time where Boeing was more willing to cut corners.
Only a handful of data points, but almost everyone I know that is into astrology takes it at least somewhat seriously, and I recently had coworkers that gave me a lecture on my star chart. I’ve always known I was a “Pisces” based off my DOB, but apparently I’m moon ascendant Taurus, and Mars something something Aquarius. Couldn’t for the life of me tell you what that means, but my lecturer took it very seriously.

“Of course the phase of the Moon and the stars affect our personalities! How could they not?!”

You and I might read that as a joke or laugh if it were in a TV script, but these exact words were delivered to me verbally and sincerely. I trashed the article elsewhere on here, but I have been mulling over sending this article to her, just can’t decide if I’m up for another lecture. That said, there is entertainment value to be had here.
Ask HN: What would a modern day impl of Zork look like (with ml/ai)?
The original Scots (who went on to subsumed the other parts of what is now Scotland) were from Ireland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata

Their 'capital' at Dunadd is quite cool - I've stood with my boot in the famous footprint - alhough I don't think that's enough to be King of Scots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunadd
Yes, but when people see comments like that which are dead, they often accuse us of having censored them for personal or business reasons. Some people make that accusation with such force that a few readers might believe it, even though it's false. I'd rather preempt the issue by doing the opposite proactively. Also, I suspect it's helpful for regular users to occasionally see the sort of of assault that gets directed at us for trying to keep the peace here.

Edit: oh and there's another reason. It sometimes seems to happen that a user like this is surprised to see that we've treated them more kindly than they expected, and they reform their ways and become good contributors. I'm not saying it happens often, but it's worth giving it a shot.
What would compel these people to give up some of their riches for the well being of your average worker, though? Voting? Asking nicely?
Why is this better than a form?

Geico did something similar. Instead of auto filling one form, you get to have 15 parts.

It’s very simple to me as a user: if your chatbot is simple enough to be easy to implement, it should be a form.

If it’s hard to implement with NLP and what not odds are discoverability will suck, complex operations will fail, and your bot will drive general unhappiness in the world.
Catfishing, Nigerian frauds, test cheaters, phony photo shoots
I wrote a custom documentation tool that we use on all of our projects. It's a few input fields for heading/paragraph/images and a few buttons. You can add as many "sections" as you want. It exports HTML/CSS that you can stick in any <div> and it scales well, handles popups for images, and such. It's made our life much simpler when adding documentation to our sites.
"Some areas in Germany, 200 km/h is no problem for hours straight."

Please tell me of one road/route in Germany where you can drive '200 km/h for hours straight". I'll settle for tiny values of 'hours', as long as they're >= 1.
Even less -- Except for the later mixed text/graphics ones like Shogun, they were on 8-bit computers like the Apple II and C64 as well. Those had single-sided 5.25 disks only storing 100Kb-150Kb.
How does this beat a simple form of FAQ with a floating action button to get some help?
Why is it we "definitely cannot" say that in general? That's not obvious to me at first glance.
Cursive exists not because of quills and ink but because it’s easier on hand muscles when writing long form.

People used to write hundreds of pages a week. The letters I sent to friends when I was in college were probably 20 or 30 pages each, and several went out each week.

Writing that much in print hurts my hand, even today. Last year I switched back to cursive in my daily work notebook and it’s reduced hand pain greatly.
How is there time for this, and not a financial literacy class? Kids are graduating HS with no real life skills to speak of yet we have time for this?
Funny enough: two of my lay friends had panic attacks when i described to them the distance to the nearest black hole.
That's the difference between a research project and an implementation project. Research, you don't know Y, Z, W, or Q. Implementation, you know the full path from spec to deliverable.
But this is the fun of owning complete control of both products - you don't need to justify this new game as being better than the old one as the old one no longer exists! It's an amazing way to remove choice and spend less. Can you imagine if car companies could do that?

What really chokes me about CoH is there was no franchise - the world has been dead since the game shut down, expect for the cruel necromancy of Statesman in MXM.
This is starting to change now that the polizei have started leaving mobile panzerblitzers in place for several days at a time. I've noticed in the last few months significantly more respect for changes in speed limits from the folks with local license plates.
Did you try to contact directly Alfred, Peter or Brian? :)
I've never played guitar but your post reminds me of all things of golfing and the three times instructors moved me through grip changes. For me anyway the new grips were awkward, almost unbearable and resulted in painful blisters but I did adapt and my game improved although I'm far from mastery.
Not sure how to reply to you directly @welearndnothing, I think we reached max depth?

I don't live in a city with a smog problem, and this is not my area of expertise. I was just clarifying what I thought @dsfyu404ed was saying, since it seemed to me that @lm28469 had taken it out of context and jumped to a nasty reply that wasn't really pertinent to what was being claimed.
This gives me a newfound respect for variable speed signs on UK motorways

I respect the idea, but the actual implementation feels a bit half hearted to me. They need to kick in a lot quicker and be more severe, all they seem to do is make a minor improvement and slow people down perhaps a half mile from the actual congestion.
Do you have any examples? I might have adopted one of those methods but don't remember where my style came from.

Edit: Found examples on Wikipedia. That's not how I write. I guess mine is less cursive-y and more print-y.
They did the microtrenching for my neighborhood in Provo and it seems to be working alright. One difference in my location from what the linked pictures show is that they put the trench right between the the asphalt and the cement of the curb. They also used a small conduit to house the fiber. We’ll see what a few more years brings, but so far so good.
That's not really how it works. People don't move to the zip code many of my sons' classmates comes from Harlem, Bronx and other places (we are in Williamsburg). You don't have to move, whereas if you want to get into a specific public school you have to be zoned for it which is much harder if you want to get into the good schools. Tribecca has great public schools because it's a rich zip code.

And that's why it's puzzling to me that so many people oppose the lottery.

Success Academy was started in Harlem exactly to try and provide better schools for children even though they were born in a poor zipcode. It's a success is mostly stems from a very hardcore curriculum and the focus on work ethics and by keeping children away from their parents (often bad influence).

You are actually arguing exactly for why the lottery is a better (but not perfect) solution than zip code, it's fairer.
I just went looking for some "credible results", as in "published research of well designed experiments", rather than "I predicted that X would happen and it did" or "I knew what Y was thinking and I was right", which although interesting and useful are probably less convincing for people.

There's this write up from 2011 by Huffpost[1] about this Cornell experiment[0]:

[0]: http://dbem.org/FeelingFuture.pdf

[1]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/esp-evidence_n_795366

If you want a TLDR you do one for everyone else. You've stats skills, and maybe you're a skeptic, so I guess you can find some reason to dismiss the methodology, but it would be more interesting to get your insight into the stats in the paper.

Another paper testing more hypotheses related to retrocausal effects[2]

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273946180_Anomalous...

I've also heard about experiments to measure the effect of humans trying to influence a random number generator (genuine entropy source), and being able to do it, but I couldn't find any papers this time.

Also would be interesting to track [3] to see if there's any high performers.

[3]: https://www.predibly.com/

The beyoncefan666[4] twitter is pretty spooky. Big ticket events, correct predictions. But I wouldn't really call it credible until I see a timeline of specific events with good accuracy.

[4]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/02/beyoncefa...

psi is about more than predictions about the future, or looking into the past, or finding missing items or people. I haven't see any good evidence for human telekinetic ability (despite the legions of people on YouTube claiming they can spin 'psi wheels').

My notion is like all abilities, this is on a bell curve. There must be some people very good at some things. Genuine strong TKs tho would probably be considered a threat and suppressed / imprisoned (like Magneto, basically, in X-Men).

If I wanted to find strong psychics I would go to casinos.
It IS a scummy thing to do. It's just that lots of people are choosing to do the scummy thing.
Yeah, there's a pilot proverb about how having a second engine "helps you get to the crash site faster".
To preface this explanation, remember that it "was a different time" so one's expectations for what a game could and could not do, or even what a game was, were very different. The best way I can explain it is if you have ever played a modern game that you liked so much you went back and did all the side quests (or maybe you are just a completist when it comes to games), the Infocom text adventures were something like the side quests with no main mission. Yes there was a successful endpoint, but even that could be achieved in different ways and most of the fun was exploring all the different things that could happen. 99% of the outcomes were $NOT_SUCCESS but almost all of them removed the sting of "failure" with something to make you laugh.

I think I beat Zork II before I discovered the Invisiclue book series but either way, "winning" didn't stop me from playing it many more times to see what could happen when I got to that room right near the end with a bunch of exits.
I think you're angry at the wrong people here. NCSoft wants to keep the IP dead - their lawyers are just there to serve that function.

But I agree, we need some way to keep these dead game alive. I can understand if there is a franchise there'd need to be considerations, but CoH is totally gone from this earth, and that's not right.
I think most people would be at least be happier under that arrangement. We burn enormous amounts of time in the US fighting with each other over basic differences in culture and attitude, and the resulting compromises satisfy no one.
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This is another part of the whole 'communication with clients' thing. You have to be clear whether you're talking coding time or wall-clock time. To be safe, give both.
I’d also add that the reason why the mean will be larger than the median is usually hard to discern for any specific situation.

This foments bikeshedding debates that are a mix of business pressure to favor uninformed estimates and disagreements about which possible sources of surprises or hitting a wall are most likely.

As soon as you mix this with a formal estimation system like Agile (yes, even the platonic ideal ‘agile’ too), it creates a snowball effect of time wasting because overhead is so frequently required to resolve debates and placate business pressures for estimates.
But such practice is widespread in some Christian and Jewish sects! I'm not making stuff up.

> the disparity between our esteem toward Jewish communities and Muslim communities in the US coming from their greater historical presence in the US. I shall not comment on whether such is warranted.

No, perhaps you should not comment on it. Because defending the disparity is defending racism. Segregating children by gender from a young age is child abuse no matter what the religion is. That we accept Christians and Jews doing it to their children but not Muslims is pure hypocrisy.
Question to HN. How do you feel about chatbots?

Every time I encounter one, I backtrack and search for a phone number or email or twitter or anything else. To me, chat bots are an opaque interface on top of a flowchart with no discoverability. Might as well just give me the damn flowchart.

I feel like chatbots are an innovation in the field of cost reduction for businesses, but a huge step back in terms of customer experience. What are your opinions?
>Furthermore, electric trim with the yoke switch will override MCAS.

Does that mean it didn't override MCAS before? Really?
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