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Ask HN: How did you successfully rejoin your old company/team?
I used to lead a team of about 10. Through a set of circumstances (neither good nor bad) I was transferred to a different project and then back again a couple years later. Now, that original team has grown to 45 and I'm just another cog in the wheel. I'm technically proficient, but my most valuable skills for this project lie in my institutional knowledge and leadership skills. The new team lead appears to act out of desperation to prove and assert her authority, so I'm concerned that she'll look at me as an immediate treat. How can I successfully navigate these waters and provide the most benefit to the organization as a whole while not sacrificing my own personal growth? Have you done something similar in your career? How did that pan out?
A desire to interface with the US banking system.
(No biology training here.)

According to Wikipedia, it looks like G-phase is part of interphase. During interphase, the cell isn't actually in the process of dividing, right? Wouldn't it be more likely that a senescent cell would have two nuclei if there was an error during telophase, right before cytokinesis?
You are missing the point. We are talking about absolute beginners.

They finished their basic markup, now they want to put it online, and you came up with Nginx and Apache? That is called out of touch.

Step back. Of course, it is easy, of course, there are bazillions of tutorials, but these people do not know any of that.

I'm a sysadmin, but once, I had no clue about anything and people commenting like you weren't helpful at all.
>Yes and? why repeat something obvious.

To illustrate that your response was a tautology, and therefore it did not contribute to your argument.

>An opinion itself can never be confrontational.

But an expression of an opinion can be. If I say "I am 100% certain that [thing I like] is better than [thing you like]", that is a challenge to you. And it is not a fair argument if I say it in a context where you can't reply without punishment.
From First Grade Teacher to Staff Engineer at Tesla
Scale (YC S16) Nears Financing at $1B Valuation Led by Founder's Fund
Offshore tax havens are for the wealthy, who are largely immune to these things.
I think we could easily handle it. Most people want to live longer and do more while they're alive. People who parrot the idea of "the shortness of life is what gives it meaning" are lying to themselves and others, in my view. They use that sort of justification as a coping mechanism, it isn't a truly held belief. If it turned out that humans could now live to 500, they'd just update their baselines to be 500 instead of 80 and adjust to the new situation rapidly.
It's gonna be really cool to see graphene used... in 60 years, when it's possible to manufacture in sufficient quantities
> Bureaucracy isn't necessarily bad

I didn't mean to imply it was! What it is, however, is resistant to change. Often that's a feature, not a bug.

I've often generalized things as "govt is good at reliable, bad at efficient, while private industry is good at efficient, bad at reliable" . (The entire idea of competition is that companies can and will go out of business, switch markets, etc).

Thus, I personally approve of private industry where I care about efficiency more than reliability (say, garbage/recycling/compost pick up) and govt where I care about reliability over efficiency (say, childhood education). This is also why I personally oppose most "public-private partnerships", as they tend to take the reliability of private industry and add the efficiency of govt.

To agree to your point about leadership - most of the pet projects to arrive from upper leadership failed to last, often failed to ever get past early stages...but those projects that DID survive and became part of the new process were able to do so because enough people pushed for it long enough and hard enough, which serves as a decent barometer for what is important.

Here I've been associating govt and bureaucracy, but that's only a generalization - large corporations (and smaller ones, occasionally) can have plenty of bureaucracy, for the exact same reasons and with the exact same outcomes (both good and bad).
Here's even more evidence:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44980363

> Researchers compared the current high temperatures with historical records from seven weather stations, in different parts of Europe.

>Their preliminary report found that the "signal of climate change is unambiguous," in this summer's heat.
Do we care much about the price of land or do we care how much it costs for someone to live there? I believe it's the latter.

So yes the price of land would go up, but the price of livable space would fall. And the cost of livable space is what we care about with regards to affordable housing.
German keyboards are the weirdest - why switch Z and Y? YYYY? :-)
A better analogy is, you're given a broken car. The car barely runs. Why? You're also a caveman, you've never seen a car before.

No gas, that's why. How long will it take your cave man brain to figure that out?
Yeah the IRS has a lot of explaining to do before people can be expected to pay accurate taxes on cryptocurrency. I've been handling forks/airdrops as ordinary income at the time of the airdrop, at least for the ones I know about and can collect. That's the most conservative way to do it, and I suspect that the IRS will require it even though it's a stupid way to tax airdrops.

The right tax treatment would be the same as stock splits but unfortunately when I looked at the rules for stock splits they were narrowly written to apply only to stock.

IANAL, this is not tax advice, etc.
> He seems to believe that everyone ends up in life where they deserve

This is posed as a bad thing, but there are lots of people on this site who tell themselves this very thing.
Coverage mostly and Verizon has better spectrum.
Forgetting was also forgotten in a different memory model: https://www.nature.com/news/the-unavoidable-cost-of-computat....
I suspect dirty play here.
LLC is there right answer for most businesses, but without any more detail it's hard to say with complete certainty.

It's also hard to say with certainty because I'm not a lawyer, just a person who has done this many times. That said, all the usual legal stuff applies that you should take my suggestion with a grain of salt. Good luck.
That isn't the "real question". Pay your taxes like everyone else.
What does "orphaned" mean in this context? Was the code removed from the kernel? Still in the kernel, but no one knows if it works?
Yeah the scams and environmental type stuff is a huge downside.

A costly lesson, interesting, but costly.
I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Crypto Holders, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
The funny thing is that the band just continues playing, but that's probably because it's recorded and they don't want to look like fakers.
In addition to Aubrey, also Dr. David Sinclair.
The words “butterfly” and “die” never came together in my lexicon until I encountered the butterfly keyboard
Ah, the other word I was looking for was “spin-off”, but usually paperwork needs to be filed with the government for it to be considered a tax-free distribution, instead of a dividend.

Like HP becoming 2 separate companies.

With coins, there’s no central issuing authority filing this kind of paperwork, so I always wondered if these spinoffs were taxable distributions.
You should get a good tax person - let them advise you on your situation - do not take advice from random ppl on the internet.
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia
I've talked to researchers in the bio field dealing with immortal cells. Those cells are apparently dangerous to touch because they will give you cancer.
> In my experience kids younger than 7 don't do well in VR.

I know anecdote is not data but my 4yr old loves feeding his dinosaur in Oculus Quest 'Bogo' game. I limit his VR time to about 15-20 mins/week but he would love to do more if I allowed. I only use the base Quest headset straps/controller - no custom setup. He can easily press the different buttons on the controllers and move around as well as my 60yr old mom.
All true - my complaint here was that the article went from "Here's a correlation that might indicate causation" to "This is the cause". Science journalism, I know, but still, if we don't call it out, will it ever improve?

I don't think the study was a bad thing at all (from my limited understanding), but the article was...a poor representation of it.
Come on; if you do Forex trading, you will pay taxes on your gains.

If you earn a dollar for your labor, and then hold on to it while its purchasing power increases before making a purchase, that increase is not taxable of course. It's not even quantifiable. Purchasing power can increase faster relative to a specific commodity that gets cheaper faster than other goods.

If you buy a currency and sell it later at a profit, that is taxable.

What is taxable, in a nutshell, is the result of any non-exempt activity that causes you to hold an increased numeric amount of your native currency. Increased purchasing power isn't taxed because it doesn't entail any numeric increase in the money.
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Once there is not enough demand to meet the supply at the asked for prices, the prices will come down. Until that time though, the prices of housing in SV will continue to at least stay where they are, if not keep increasing.

SV is where the big money jobs are, and apparently, there are more than enough people willing to pay 1.5 to 2 million for a 1500 sq ft home.
Still there, but no longer actively maintained. It's "orphaned" in the sense that it doesn't have anybody there to care for it.
But this is surely not the optimal behavior during a battle, right?
You can certainly correct for all these errors if you are able to measure them. E.g. if your tool moves 1um down in position (x,y,z) due to the machine deflecting all you have to do is adjust z by 1um at that point. As long as there's no other issues and the only issue is the accuracy of placing that tool you're good. One example is precision ball screws, those typically come from the factory with data for compensating the screw. The screw isn't perfectly accurate on its own but if you apply the correction data you get better accuracy. The screw isn't less repeatable because of this, it doesn't wear down faster, it's just that it's absolute accuracy isn't perfect out of the factory so they just measure that and give you the corrections (let's say on the order of 5-10um over 1m). In usage the accuracy is also a function of temperature, so you may want to measure that and correct for it... or you may use a linear encoder or an interferometer ... point is, the screw does not have to be perfectly accurate, it just has to be repeatable and the remaining error can be corrected...
Just like during the dot com bust in 2000, if it happened again, it wouldn’t be the profitable companies with a solid business. It would be the unprofitable startups living off of VC funding and public companies with easy access to debt markets that would be hurt. Public companies like Uber, Tesla, and even Netflix. If those companies went belly up, it would inconvenience people but wouldn’t have far reaching affects outside of the west coast - much like what happened last time. The major profitable tech companies would keep humming along.

Last time Microsoft didn’t miss a beat and Apple was still on the rise. They had their first profitable quarter in years in 2001. This time, I doubt Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, or Microsoft would hurt too much.
"First, Twitter's UI changes have been big. They skip over incremental changes and go straight for gigantic overhauls. This requires people re-learn the language of the site completely every couple of years."

Honestly, I think that this is part of the point, at least with social media applications. When people get used to an application, and it works predictably, they have control over their use of it, and can fit it into their lives how they see fit.

This isn't what social media companies want. Social media companies want users to spend as much time using their applications as possible which means setting up skinnerbox-esque mechanisms as much as possible which requires the application to at least be a little bit unpredictable. Replacing time based news feeds with unpredictable algorithmic ones is one way to do this, but any kind of change throws the user's sense of balance off. If the user doesn't quit right away (and most don't) they have the potential to become more dependent going forward.
Java added fairly seamless parallel iterators via streams but there is a huge amount of overhead there and often it is slower than normal iterators, depending on the work being done at each iteration. Hopefully Rust is able to avoid that sort of downside.
I've never seen a paywall. It says "pardon the interruption" and then I just click and it goes away.
Nonetheless, having access to the source gives you insights how things work, build by yourself. With more experience, you can customize it, or suggest PRs. This can be a game changer.
Other than the domain, logo and free plug posts for YC companies. So I'd say they're still tied together.
Because intuit lobbie$ hard for that. They make Lot$ of money on you having to file your own taxe$
Hmmm.... I thought viveport was doing the Epic games launcher style data tracking. I believe I am wrong about that.

However, being a terrible piece of software seems to be a common complaint, including breaking things unrelated to VR

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/6jvq06/how_viveport_s...
Don't confuse might for definitely
"The unguessable tokens are supposed to be cheap and ubiquitous, where DNS names typically aren't."

Just to clarify, you are referring to the commercialisation of domain names, the DNS run by ICANN, not an inherent property of DNS per se.

I run authoritative nameservers at home, including a custom root.zone. I create names whenever I neeed them, so I still think of domain names as "free", in theory. Only ICANN domain names carry a fee. (In the very beginning they were free.)
Sure, it makes sense to tax earnings from cryptocurrency trading.

But aren't there bigger fish to fry, richer people more flagrantly evading taxes? Let's sort that out first, k
>>Of course if a cell lacks the basic components to divide its DNA it... won't divide?

The big thing here is that now they know that it is a lack of this particular substance causing the problem. Nobody could have guessed that this was the case. It is part of the debugging process. It provides a path for further discovery. Now they know where to focus their efforts.
The $100 for nothing, I agree.

But if something that you owned mailed you $100 because you owned them, that sounds taxable in some way.
Two reasons:

* H&R Block and Intuit have good lobbyists who prevent it from happening.

* Republicans want to make filing taxes difficult so that people won't like taxes. In particular Grover Norquist has managed to get essentially all federal level Republican politicians to sign a pledge not to raise taxes, and Norquist considers making filing simpler to be effectively raising taxes.

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/07/18/tax-filing-...
Not removed, just quasi-deprecated and no maintainer.
Tangentially related but in gcc and clang you can jump to or call machine language embedded within string literals.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48593734/calling-goto-on...

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/2203/tips-for-g...

This is not recommended for anything in production but is an amusing parlor trick.

Edit: Recent toolchains may require the -zexecstack flag to avoid a segfault.
Some people thrive when bugs are assigned to them early, some people thrive when whole new functionalities are assigned to them. Usually intersection of sets of these two kinds of people is close to empty and the worst mistake is to assume bugs first are good or new stuff first is good automatically.
when you get a set of speakers you need to look at the response range and tune the cabinets to promote the best operation. i build cabinets with the aid of a couple of slide rule type of applications for cabinet volume and port engineering, thats only half of it though, the frequency filtering and crossover selection is next in line.
A similar effect could be achieved by replacing gravity/counterweights with a simple spring or hydraulic cylinder.
My standing desk operates similarly to assist in raising it.

We may be on to something here...
Yeah dog owners are on a real meat kick now so the meat will still have an important use. Dogs don't mind eating something that's 1% (or any other percentage, really) human.
The parallelism in Servo layout is powered by Rayon, which is extensively optimized and shipping in Firefox.
I once read a cyberpunk story, in which elite hackers, tackling some black ice, used ridiculously vintage gear for protection.

If someday the fate of humanity rests on a raiding a museum and booting m68k Linux from the floppy of a 128K Mac, as a daring last stand against the space alien armada, we're going to feel silly for not having working drivers.
I wouldn't worry about a single comment. It's just that we're trying for a higher signal/noise ratio than is the default on internet forums, so I'd like to persuade you to be more thoughtful when you post. It's in your interest to do so, because preserving signal/noise is the one thing that can keep HN intellectually interesting for everyone in the community.

By the way, it isn't that people here (including us!) have no sense of humor, it's that internet humor tends to grow like weeds, and everyone overestimates how funny their jokes are. scott_s expressed this well a long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289.
You are right. But I'm also spending 40 hours a week at work. It's not that I wanna make lewd jokes all the time. It's just that, I wanna feel that if I say something that isn't appropriate, I don't' wanna be excoriated. I have a darker sense of humor and so I don't wanna feel like I'm walking on eggshells.
65% of online gamers face threats, stalking, other 'severe harassment'
>The amount of time and effort people put in to not understanding but still disliking things that don't effect them has always and continues to blow my mind...

It's easier if you categorize it a little bit. I put this type of rhetoric/conversation under "commiseration". Humans tend to get social validation and dopamine hits when their views and opinions are validated. It's much easier to find common ground with people on things you dislike. I really suggest people examine their relationships with the friends and people they keep around them and try to inventory how many of those relationships are based on commiseration, talking shit about people or things. I then suggest you stop spending social energy with those people. IMO, it has been better for my mental health to be alone than to be with commiserators. It's even better when you're able to connect with people and share revelry.
Ironically it's things like Twitter that has popularised these types of public displays of confession of guilt in the court of public opinion. Maybe it's sensible to forsee the mob attacking you by apologizing before they get you.
Lake Woebegon is a horrifically bad strategy under even the most basic of assumptions. There are not enough engineers in the world available for hiring to create a single large tech company under such a strategy even with zero turnaround. A fixed level of achievement can give you similar quality (assuming you do have some level of attrition) but at a much faster rate.

The best strategy after looking at various strategies under simulation is to focus on developing the people you already have since fixing your quality through hiring is very difficult and expensive.
To pump out, we need it to settle out of the cargo so that we can get it to the pumps. That works for certain types of cargo (iron ore and most types of coal are easy), but if it forms slurry instead, we can't get it out unless we can somehow pump the slurry out.

Normal bilge pumps can't cope with slurry.
I agree with you but that doesn't invalidate the initial vote. The only marginally democratically legitimate way to do a revote would be for the UK to ask to voters to choose between actually negotiated and realistic terms (or maybe multiple, e.g. hard brexit + any deal they can strike with the EU if ever) and staying.
Hi, the designer of the font here. This version has ligatures but OFF by default (it's called dlig feature, discretionary ligatures). A version of the same font that has ligatures ON by default will be released soon. I don't know ho many code editors support manual activation of OpenType features, so I advise you get that later version if you really want to use it. Sorry for the confusion from not releasing them at the same time.

To share my view on ligatures, there is a danger of making it hard to count letters and I see a lot of designs feeling too creative with the possibility. In my design, I wanted to have ligatures that are more easily countable (not all cases though), and try to find balance between the two camps.
They explain that I dislike Go. I thought my comments on it made that clear. I think Go is a half-baked throw-back language that handles threading, errors, and dependencies poorly, and is restrictive and lacks features. If Google hadn’t invented it, I doubt it would have any sort of following at all.
There's this famous picture of Zuckerberg with tape over parts of a MacBook Pro next to him implying that whoever that computer belonged to didn't feel that even Apple's security was enough to protect their privacy. (I can't remember if that's suppose to be his laptop or just one he's coincidentally next to)

Here it is: http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5769a61e91058425008...
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The US is huge. It's hard to cover with mobile phone and data service.

People fear their phones not working on road trips, or when they go visit a different part of town. Verizon and AT&T built trust that they will be good enough, and better than the others. T-Mobile did some great marketing with their 4G launch and follow up campaigns that built a lot of trust. T-Mobile's customer service is also extremely good.

The perception of Sprint is that it just might not be good enough. In fact, it is good enough. A colleague of mine has been using it for the three years I've known him without real issue.

Sprint's recent $25/mo unlimited deal got me to switch from my $70/mo T-Mo deal. I've lost mobile hotspot, but the savings are worth it for now and there's no commitment. I'm only out the $38ish activation fee (both ways) if I want to switch away from them.
This was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20132520 but looks like this link has a USENIX conference talk (nice!).
I think it shouldn't be hard to do that automatically in software - you only need to know exchange rates at time of every transaction.
I think there's only one metric that is really effective for measuring and evaluating software teams.

Tie their compensation to the product's financial success.

This means, to the greatest extent possible, everything relevant to the product's success must be owned by the team and become their responsibility. Maybe there are some cross cutting concerns that should be the responsibility of a group separate from any product team, but those should be rare and require a strong justification.

This will have an amazing effect of clarifying prioritization of what to work on and figuring out how to deliver it as quickly and reliably as possible. Suddenly the whole team will be in the loop about what features are most important to the customers. Suddenly the things blocking new features demanded by the customers from shipping will be cleared away.

I think for any other metric you can devise, either intentionally or unintentionally, employee behavior will be optimized for satisfying the metric, and not customer satisfaction with the product.