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Ask HN: Best way to improve your technical writing skills?
What's the best way to improve your technical writing skills? I don't mean marketing material for websites, but rather memos, technical reports, white papers, etc.

My target audience is technically-savvy management but presumably the same advice would apply for white papers written for potential customers.
Calculus Series – A New Rule That Replaces Substitution and Integration by Parts
Verizon allows don't they?
Fantastic article! I think i might be able to put this to use with a load cell project to ge a little more precision out if it.
Australian Netflix user here as well, very similar story with a couple of exceptions:

1. Kids, one in particular loves a number of shows on Netflix and is happy to re-watch them. They do plenty of other non-screen activities, so Netflix remains a decent 'downtime' option

2. Kids. I just don't have the kind of time to watch movies and TV shows the way I used to. I just finished the two seasons of Psycho-Pass, which took me a couple of months to get through. And that's still with most episodes requiring multi-mid-episode pauses for reasons of 'parenting' (be it parental intervention or prevention of kids viewing disturbing scenes).

As a result, I churn through less content, slower, and therefore Netflix probably has a greater use to me longer term. My budget refuses to stretch to multi-streaming-platform subscriptions, mostly actually due to ideological reasons.

(I'm paying for the top Netflix option with a view to convincing a couple of relatives to get off their expensive Foxtel subs - with minor success).
Is there a reason that it matters what the reference implementation of Libra is written in?

A blockchain network is usually not considered healthy until it has multiple implementations of nodes running non-negligible parts of the network. I would say that Libra having such alternate impls is almost inevitable.

Exploiting any flaw in a particular blockchain node impl, when there are multiple such impls, would then require either finding the same vulnerability in all other clients; or else, attacking that one client, forcing a hard fork, and then having that client’s version of events “win” such that other node software choose to adopt it by hardcoding a switchover. Neither is ever very likely.
>I live in Melbourne, and was surprised on first visiting Italy and France that the coffee was utterly inferior.

Well, I lived in Australia ten years ago and I had the reverse experience. While I genuinely enjoyed the country and would gladly come back to visit, the arcane sugary cocktails Australians call coffee had me more annoyed than charmed. How hard is it to just make a fucking espresso and charge what it's worth ?

What Australia has for itself though is stellar Asian restaurants. Great Japanese and Korean places are absolutely everywhere, the average quality is far above anywhere in Europe.
Agreed, which is why I find the health scare rather silly. Are there arguments still to be had on the ethics of what we are changing? Perhaps. But the health risk has been basically proven (as much as anything ever is in science) to be nonexistent.
Pretty much all of Netflix's interfaces that I use, I find awful to use, and they seem to only get worse over time. I actually can't wait for another company to eat their lunch.
Distributed Monoliths are secretly plotting against you
neither did bing. butta boom, butta bing. i will see myself out.
It seems most did so the same day , even within hours of finding the results, so they didn’t know about the revaluation.

If they felt good about the exam after taking it, they are stillanxious about the scores as they are unsure if they actually did well or not.
Hasn't the consenting adult also been manipulated by a CES advertising booth into buying the sex item..?

And why is it bad to use sex to manipulate a customer into buying an item, but it is good to use free samples or pretty pictures to manipulate a customer into buying the same item?

Deriving cultural moral values from first principles is hairy :/
Do I really have to back that up?

Corporations go make their products in countries where there are no labor laws, where they make people and even children work 16 hours/day, to make your shoes for 50c and then sell them back to you for $50.

Do they care about minorities? Why don't they open a factory in some depressed area in the States instead of going to China?

Do they care about gay rights? Why don't they denounce/boycott Muslim countries where they have the death penalty for being gay?

Do they care about women? Why do they support factories where women work 16 hours and are regularly harassed?

Companies are pandering to liberal kids with left-wing, progressive ideas because they want their money and they are the demographic most willing to give it to them. In the process, they annoy everyone else—including people who don't care about politics, or don't live with their parents and understand what actual problems people have. Unfortunately I'm in the second group.
Watching the video, near the end, I started thinking about wireheads in the Known Space books by Larry Niven... Sign me up!
I’ve got at least a dozen RTL’s strewn around the place lol. They are easy to use but once you hit some of their limitations you wind up wanting something more
Is there anything on top of it? If not, how do you deal with dust coming in from above when the pi isn't used that much (eg during the night) and the airflow lower?
Seems some are beginning to receive their gear.
Depends on who you ask though. You have the equivalent of Applebee’s lovers in every country who will tell to go there. You also need to ask them some foodie shibboleths or you’re going to have a bad time.
The average netflix experience, for films:

- look through the first category, feel disappointed

- look through other categories, see the same films in multiple categories

- waste 20 minutes before either turning off or in refusing to totally dump the sunk cost, choose a film you don't really want

It's like the inverted set of the Criterion Collection.
Nobody is entitled to a flawed business model. Not developers of proprietary software, and not designers of proprietary typefaces.
I have found that shopping by bike is quite easy and much more practical. I have a trailer on my bike that can carry twice the amount I can carry by hand and it moves much faster than walking with no waiting time for the bus. Also cars drive much more carefully around me because they think my trailer is carrying kids.
In a meeting room somewhere, a young PM rubs hand sanitizer on his palms and loads up his latest deck: Okay guys, what we have here is something we’re calling Loyalty Seasons. Our recommendation is to make season 4 of Stranger Things, as well as the new Will Smith movie, available only to customers who have been subscribed for 3 or more months.
Yes, although you don't have to be so perlish as to do the if in that order

do:
thing()
thing()
if condition:
continue
There is about zero chance that was done due to US laws or censorship.

Most likely, the publishers themselves removed it to avoid controversy and sell more anime.
Video Object Removal: Just draw a bounding box around object to remove
Did an algorithm you wrote adjust the price and deliver the car without you manually approving the purchase?
Javascript isn't simple any longer. And I'm not sure Ruby is that simple, not once you dig into the advanced features.
China’s State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas
By your insanely stupid logic, buying anything is unethical. Do you understand how markets work? Clearly not. Has Amazon even admitted it was a mistake and not a marketing ploy as others have suggested? No. So how do you know they didn't intend to sell at these prices? There's nothing unethical going on here only incredible misunderstanding and uninformed assumptions on your part. Maybe you should think twice next time before labeling things unethical when you clearly do not have the full facts.
Well, that has nothing to do with US laws and censorship.

Also, it's not "rare" that the US censors mention of religion. It is completely unheard of in our modern history.
That explains why they clicked in an input area then had to type and send the text outside of the page.
Turkey officially kicked out of F-35 program, costing US half a billion dollars
Pluralsight < udemy

Nobody help you on pluralsight if youre stuck
Is this a classic problem? Or is this a strange circumstance you’ve found yourself in.

I guess this isn’t in the spirit of it, but I wouldn’t trust that the effects of poison on rats is the same it is on me. No amount of money would make me play this game, it doesn’t matter how much you make if you are dead.
Or just sign up for one service one month and a different one the next month. No one’s forcing you to keep all four subscriptions active.
That's fucking awesome, on the other hand, Rust code is running live in production in Firefox, exposed to the internet and actually offers a much higher degree of safety than many comparable languages - these questions they should have been able to answer readily.
I'd be curious to see a more thorough comparison to S2, which IMHO seems simpler (it's just quadtrees) and likely faster (it supports O(1) lookup vs. needing a hierarchical search).
Interesting.

In previous e-commerce mistakes, negative prices were listed.

If amazon listed -$16M as the cost of the camera and put it in your bank, would it be unethical to accept that?
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16135302
Right to be forgotten does not apply to public figures.

https://www.alphr.com/computing/1000120/public-figures-cant-...
Insanely Cool Gadgets That Are Going to Sell Out Soon – Prime 8
You're right. A few years ago Air Canada accidentally priced an $8000 flight pass for $99 or some low number. I bought two, as did hundreds of other people. Air Canada canceled them all and yet I still look up Air Canada prices every time I need to fly.
It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20454966
Point well made, but my question stands! If the OP's allegation is true, someone has sniffed the packets. There's a blog post somewhere. There's something.

I just want that something here, for the record. As it stands, I am dismissing the allegation as baseless. I'm not sticking up for Chrome, which I do not trust, but this allegation has no evidence.
Relevant to this story is this passage from Ignition!:

On December 29, 1953, a technician at Edwards Air Force Base was examining a set of titanium samples immersed in RFNA, when, absolutely without warning, one or more of them detonated, smashing him up, spraying him with acid and flying glass, and filling the room with NO₂. The technician,
probably fortunately for him, died of asphyxiation without
regaining consciousness.

There was a terrific brouhaha, as might be expected, and JPL
undertook to find out what had happened. J. B. Rittenhouse and his associates tracked the facts down, and by 1956 they were fairly clear. Initial intergranular corrosion produced a fine black powder of (mainly) metallic titanium. And this, when wet with nitric acid, was as sensitive as nitroglycerine or mercury fulminate. (The driving reaction, of course, was the formation of TiO₂.) Not all titanium alloys behaved this way, but enough did to keep the metal in the doghouse for years, as far as the propellant people were concerned.

(RFNA is a mixture of NTO and anhydrous nitric acid).
My biggest issue with netflix is that their entire discovery tool is built around their subscription based model, which means they've deliberately avoided features that users would strongly prefer for a better search experience.

Would be nice if there was single point of being able to buy movies & tv shows episodes at very reasonable costs. Perhaps duration based - 10 cents per 10 minutes. A 2 hour movie would be $1.20 etc.
I would also add that constant, small incremental progress is also easier to monetize and it's also more successful at doing so. Look at the model that Candy Crush popularized. It lures that dopamine hit right in front of you, just within reach - but the "reach" costs 24 candy crush coins or whatever they call it.
`if re.match(p1, line) as m`, maybe?
First heard of him reading this which is very nearly 25 years old.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.sys.mac.games/-ShSyZ8bv...
Drove my Model 3 on autopilot today. Entered a roadway that had recently been repaved, and lacking lane markers. The Model 3 couldn’t handle it and wouldn’t let me engage autopilot. There aren’t robotaxis until that trivial problem is solved.
The Amplify naming is a special kind of AWS classicality. Amplify, what a great Netlify like experience! Oh... not that one, you mean the CLI/Framework. Also pretty cool, we'll see how it plays out with the CDK. No? You mean the literal Amplify library that makes UI work easier. All of which can work together, but don't necessarily have to.

I can't complain too much, it's a bit of job assurance for folks like myself that specialize in only AWS. Exhausting keeping up to speed on everything though.
Services sometimes have terms like "Once you cancel, you can't rejoin us for six months". At least, I remember that in MoviePass' T&C. I was confused, though, since I assumed they'd want me to convert again, since they should want my money.
H3 is working for the specific Ubers’ needs. Not much useful as S2.
The political comedy stuff is both topical and easy to write which makes it easy to see the appeal. You don't need some deep understanding or keen observation to mock cynical politicians. It's definitely lowest common denominator type stuff though.

The Rob Schneider quote is a bit much. His quote is political nonsense from the right instead of the left. He should be talking about the lack of effort or insight in those types of bits instead of harping about liberal indoctrination. But he can't go that route because he's a hack whose entire claim to fame is that he's good friends with Adam Sandler.
Get outta here with your old-fashioned fundamental analysis.

But seriously, 10+ years of central bank intervention has dumped so much liquidity into the market that the old saying "“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" might as well be "The market can stay irrational."
theory : age itself with regards to computing has nothing to do with how old you act (with regards to computing), the time you spent doing a specific thing is what grows that 'characteristic'.

Anecdote : i'm fairly young, but i've been involved with python long enough and traveled to enough pycons to be a bit jaded with regards to change within the language.

I'm fairly certain it's only due to the additional cognitive load that's thrust upon me when I must learn a new nuance to a skill that I already considered myself proficient at.

in other words : i'm resistant to change because i'm lazy, and because it (the language, and the way I did things previously) works for me. Both reasons are selfish and invalid, to a degree.
Yes!

For people like the OP seeking high quality resources with an emphasis on the networking/sales/marketing skills required to succeed as a tech/dev/software consultant, I'd recommend starting with "Getting Starting in Consulting" by Weiss.

Then if you'd like more after finishing that, others to check out are:

* This PDF on sales processes https://www.entrepidpartners.com/how-to-sell-guide

* "An Insider's Guide to Building a Successful Consulting Practice"

* "The Software Engineer's Guide to Freelance Consulting"

But start with the Weiss book first because it gives a good and tactical overview.
How does this compare to S2 from google? It is not mentioned in the post at all.

http://s2geometry.io/
Couldn't find anything about it on their site but according to a several reviews online PDFs of the prior year return can be imported.
Writing tool: GPT-2 autocomplete
Most I believe use all words within a given Levenshtein distance.
This starts to make sense to me after reading the sister comments. Within the return period, environmentally it does make sense (CO2 costs of shipping a large TV aren't negligible). I may not be savvy enough, if I see an item I bought on sale I don't think "I should return this and buy the same item" but it does make perfect sense to do so.

If i see an item I bought on sale I think "damn, I missed out", but a rational consumer (economics sense) would think "I should return this and buy another". I just approached the question from my typical viewpoint, which is "you buy it, you own it" and not expecting any additional customer support.

That, and social anxiety means I would be far more comfortable paying the extra $400 than bugging an associate for a refund.
Nah, not really.

There might be one good thing in here, but it’s also in the other “best gadgets” lists.

This needs more curating and less breathless hyper marketing.

I guess this is the tech equivalent of a “pump and dump” scheme.
As an understatement of epic proportions, those figures don't look sustainable to someone un-trained in large-scale financial accounting. The fact that it's been allowed to increase to those levels, year-on-year, would indicate that there's some likelihood of being able to either pay-back loans or show some amount of return-on-investment at some point in the relatively near future.

Where is the money coming from? Why does it keep coming if their balance sheet looks that scary?
This is happening in NYC, at least you can either find nice food that's expensive in the center or you can find good value spots in the outer boroughs riding along the edge of gentrification. Like if you want the highest quality food worth $15 for $10 instead, find a restaurant that opened in the past 6-12 months at the very edge of gentrification and go for their lunch special.
Why is everyone a white supremacist by default nowadays?

What I said is a common critique of content coming out in the past few years.

Even if it wasn't, you can also have 1 talking point in common with white supremacists without being a white supremacist..?
I think that's a really cool idea but at the same time I think about the mobile carriers and how it used to be the case that you could only pay-per-minute or pay-per-text or pay-per-GB and overall unlimited plans seem to have won out. I wonder if that trend would apply with entertainment too.
Unicomp Model M. It's great because it comes close to the original IBM Model M, which was my favorite keyboard ever. (OK, well, except for the IBM 029 keypunch.) Buckling spring keys, loud, great tactile feedback.

Someone put it out in a "Free Stuff" box and I grabbed it. It's in pristine condition.

And that was a week after someone else put out some ancient computer science and programming books. Including a copy of Knuth vol. 1 in much better shape than my well-worn copy.
Paradigm Shifts
No option to disable auto-playing trailers was also my primary reason for cancelling.

There is just enough content to make it worth the basic subscription, but such user-hostile design choices are like nails on a chalkboard.
Currently a generic mechanical keyboard with the US ANSI layout, and got a Massdrop CTRL Mechanical Keyboard in the mail since my W and D keys sometimes double type
Is there a reverse version of this that will do auto segmentation and extraction of just the thing you want?
Oh yeah, I think many Americans would potentially find that quite offensive for some reason (you might say because they feel the religious symbol has a proper context or meaning and should only be used within that context or for that purpose).

But I can assure you it's not illegal and the government has no power to ban media for using religious symbols this way.
Retail arbitrage at its finest!

Even the big players make mistakes that are completely avoidable with proper oversight

Love this so much <3
This is like asking "what if the sun disappeared?" It hasn't happened, probably won't happen, and would be such a shock to all logic that any thoughts about it wouldn't survive contact with reality.
As a dev for Slickdeals, I can tell you this was not planned on our side haha.

Once the deal was caught by one of our mods, the site went into a frenzy. Unfortunately I was AFK during the deal, but this will go down as one of the best price mistakes of the year if not the best.
Power Is Limiting Machine Learning Deployments
We plan to start rotating. Subscribe to Netflix for a few months, then switch to Hulu and watch what they have, then switch to BritBox, then HBO, then VRV, then whatever else or back to the start. They all make it pretty easy to stop/start your subscription and I think they all/most retain all your account info between times as well. This becomes even more attractive as other new services start up. Seems like it should scale well as the longer the rotation the more new shows are there each time through.
I agree with the points outlined here as both a former candidate and as an interviewer. They are not really technical but the questions I ask to candidates are relevant to the job and I always look for honest individuals that have substance in their experience.

In my experience, as a former candidate, I have met bad interviewers who deliberately focus too much on syntax and like nitpicking candidates knowledge on libraries while they attempt to implement or solve a problem for which they openly admit afterwards that they do not use and go far to secretly record candidates struggling. I even met some 'engineers' claimimg that they are senior in C++ and I brought up LLVM in the conversation and they had no clue on what that was. Likewise for 'JavaScript experts' having no idea about JavaScript engines such as V8, JavaScriptCore and SpiderMonkey.

I don't usually go technical in these interviews but only when asked and before that, I research their open-source contributions to ask relevant questions. Unfortunately, Most of these engineers had little to no open-source contributions or have only private (Obviously work related) which is very unfortunate.

As an interviewer, I have ultimately done away with take-home projects unless candidates are expecting something out of it (I used to pay all second stage candidates for their projects) otherwise it becomes a waste of their time if they are not considered.

Instead, I ask them about relevant open-source contributions to significant projects which is more or less a straight-forward free pass to a on-site interview and at the same time already eliminates beginner/intermediate level candidates. Which I go slightly technical on those patches as if I was conducting a code review. If the candidate is honest and everything matches up, I'll hire them on the spot and that is it. If I find that the candidate is suspiciously dishonest, That is the only time I will give a problem to solve without interrogating them.

By doing this I don't even need to waste money on Hackerrank/Leetcode/Codility tests which are useless in finding competent software engineers.
Low-supervision urgency detection and transfer in short crisis messages
All Wikipedia links are nofollow. So as far as I understand, they don't contribute to seo.
Introduction to Redis Gears
Ask HN: Suggest me a new programming language with small user community to learn
I want to learn a very new programming language. It should not be too popular. It should not have a large user community. It should be relatively new compared to Go, JavaScript, etc.

My intention in learning behind a language like this is to see if I can contribute run-of-the-mill libraries to this language's ecosystem. If it is new and not so popular yet, there is a good chance its ecosystem would be lacking where I can contribute my time and effort to improve it.
I know this is a "just for fun" type of project, but...

This is a new version using GoLang/ChromeDP. Python/Webkit being now deprecated

...seeing the rise of the Chrome monopoly still saddens me.