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One additional principle is this:

When faced with a standard solution, use a standard component if you can. If you can't use a standard component, build a standard component. Keep your components simple, well-understood, and easy to maintain.
Roughly, the number of upvotes on their stories and comments minus the number of downvotes. These don't match up exactly; some votes are dropped to prevent abuse.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
>That's not a meaningful statement. It doesn't matter what something was supposedly fought for (Iraq was supposedly fought for WMDs). It matters what it was fought for (Iraq wasn't fought for WMDs).

It was fought for control and oil, which is even worse.

>You answered your own question with the last part. We can easily prove out what is best for humanity, under what conditions humans best thrive. Yes, it in fact can be measured and easily demonstrated.

Only with the measurement tools (criteria) of those doing the measuring.

This method has historically been used to justify all kinds of oppression itself.

E.g. how Native Americans, after being exterminated for the most part, had to be "schooled" in education camps to really "thrive". Or how colonialism and enslavement of billions of people was for their "own good" (the "white man's burden" to civilize them, and give them railways and prosperity).
Is this not fairly well understood? e.g.

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

> Clever Hans (in German: der Kluge Hans) was an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks.

> After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer. He discovered this artifact in the research methodology, wherein the horse was responding directly to involuntary cues in the body language of the human trainer, who had the faculties to solve each problem. The trainer was entirely unaware that he was providing such cues.
But familiar = intuitive. You are just splitting hairs. Obviously what’s intuitive is intuitive largely because it’s familiar (mixed in with a bit of psychology and perception) but that’s not really an issue at all.

Rigid adherence to guidelines isn’t a good idea, obviously, and there aren’t any universal truths and all of that is good to know but at first it doesn’t really get you anywhere, besides being obvious.

Whenever human brains are involved it gets complex and no hard and fast rules exist.
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Man, this is Russia, no one cares.
Is your App also available on iOS? if so: how would you compare your experiences?

Stories like these are driving me away from Android and I'm considering a switch, but it would be pointless to switch to another ecosystem when it's plagued by the same issues.
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It's the farmers trying to raise too many cattle on too little land.

Also feedlots.
gov.uk advice is here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/eu-immigration-af...
It doesn't need a wifi network, it's direct device-to-device.

In fact, it can be much faster than copying using traditional file shares etc, as wireless routers can slow things down.
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One thin that people miss for dropdowns is that you can actually type N..E..W.. and it will select New Zealand. Most browsers implement some sort of combo counter for it, such that the entry resets after a while too.

I do agree that search boxes are better in general, and especially so for things that are not standardised such as country or airport 3-letter codes. But it's not the end of the world, even for date inputs you can just type 1984 and it'll select it for you.

EDIT: It does not change the fact that mobile dropdown implementations are horrendous.
But what about re-entry when coming back from abroad?
Looks cool! On safari in Codepen it does not render any lines though, only text is visible.
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Before we have developed a machine learning algorithm which can decide what contexts are involved in a corpus by checking which words are included, and in what order and within what subcontext?
You didn't post any comments for 8 months.
Everyone in my facebook groups have been freaking about is how they're actually going to implement it. Anyone arriving the week of the 31st of October has no way of proving they did so. Even if you have applied as pre-settled or settled there's no physical paper or stamp or anything that you can show to an immigration officer. There's only a government page where you can check your status. I honestly don't know how they're going to control their borders.
I haven't read the article (it's a little late in the day for academic prose) but have done a lot of scent work with my dog as a hobby, and talked with a trainer who does it for a living (bombs, drugs, etc).

Handler bearing absolutely plays a role if you aren't careful. One way our trainer taught us to fix this was to try to pull the dog away from the scent during training. If he follows us, we leave the room and stop the activity. The idea is to tell him that humans are stupid, they don't know where the scents are, so stop trusting them, because then your game and reward goes away. It worked very quickly and now he locks his legs and won't move when he's got the odour. This avoids accidentally pulling him off the odour when you're covering a large area at a brisk pace.

Regardless, whenever possible one of us hides the odour and the other runs the dog. This helps us avoid any preconceptions (such as focusing on one corner of the room, missing potentional scent cones from cross-drafts). Humans can still mislead the dog like this so it's best to form good habits and have an open mind.
Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work?
Question:

How does your company scale salary/benefits for part-time work?

Context:

We're a small startup in the UK trying to figure out our hiring policies. An idea we've tossed around before is that since we offer remote work with fairly flexible hours, there's a terrific opportunity to hire people who are taking a career break due to their personal life (young children etc).

Our perceived benefit is:

* we're getting access to a talent pool that might otherwise be ignored

* the offerings that are very possible as a small company (remote, flexible hours, easy access to management) are far more impactful to someone in this situation

* we have a future opportunity to let our bandwidth grow

The cost of two part-time employees isn't quite the same as one full-time, since we incur about the same fixed costs anyway (management time in 1-2-1's, payroll administration, dev setup etc). So we're wondering if cutting the salary in half is actually what we want to do?
I lucked out a few years ago and ended up at a startup that was focused on scaling GPU computation for a web service. I've spent 15 years being a web/mobile developer before that. First Perl/PHP for about 5 years and the last 10 mostly Python/C/C++/Obj-C/C#/Go.

What I can say about that and the current thing that's happening to computation is that we will all be doing code for vector processors soon. It's a sea change and the effect of the throughput is an edge for anyone who can use it now and in the near future. That's what this article is about. Google is the only other company making vector processors for compute at scale and they have the BEST tools for people making use of them in their cloud service even though generally they are provisioning Nvidia GPUs.

AWS doesn't ship computers and is lagging behind in their compute services. Nvidia with CUDA changes the landscape in a crazy way. You might not care about it now, but having an understanding of it is, IMO, critical to anyone that plans to be working on computers in the next 2-10 years unless you have a really untouchable position. Even if you think your position is untouchable, you might be in for a shock when someone blows the doors off your business logic with CUDA and you can't catch up.

Regardless of GPU choice, "write once" (or close to it) cross platform compute shaders[0][1][2] are coming in 2020 and there's no way anyone is going to bump CUDA out of being at the front of that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGPU

[1] https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/

[2] https://github.com/9ballsyndrome/WebGL_Compute_shader
I'd say that's incomplete logic. Nobody should write exclusively mobile apps.

Write your service as a web site, and have native apps for a better and more integrated user experience.

I see this as an extension of the way the web is supposed to degrade gracefully.
Goats are also used in the hills around the SF Bay Area to keep brush levels down. It's way more common than the times article implies.
Ah just like the scene in Blazing Saddles where the sheriff holds the gun to his own head.
You'll need to have applied for settled/pre-settled status, I'd imagine, unless an Irish citizen. And then ask the immigration officer to check gov.uk for you, because there's no actual legal paper or ID issued that you can carry with you.
My experience is you want to move fast by reusing good software. This means that well understood components should be well engineered and documented components, while poorly understood problems might reserve documentation for the future.

Agility requires a stable foundation. And a lot of places forget that.
>possibility for people to go to see

Yet it is impossible to visit either region without being a part of a government controlled tour group or otherwise being accompanied by government minders. The actual locations where abuses are taking place are prohibited areas.
"Electric installation / Solar power installation you name it, the demand will skyrocket."

They go bankrupt left and right, just like solar manufacturers, because it's a race to the bottom. Race to bankruptcy it almost seems. I think it's a horrible market to be in right now.
Not sure how exactly that gov.uk link is related to this as the article tells about a new plan so you should really dispute the article by providing evidence that the new home secretary doesn't want to impose anything different.
You’re running ChromeOS on a 13 year old Mac Pro? What am I missing?
I see after your comment I've jumped to 52 points.

Usually, I write a short reply on some thread and although my post shows me "1 point by anthay" my karma doesn't change. I'm sure it used to.
Amazon was there, but not in person: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/coly1a/
> This is terrorism, in uppercase letters.

Who are they terrorising and what's the purpose of the terror they are purposely inflicting?
> 10. Until 31 December 2020, EU citizens will be able to enter the UK by showing either a valid national identity card or a passport.
Ah! I did not know that, it's been so long since I've not had a developer account. But yes it seems you are right.

Do you still have to re-sign the .ipa every 7 days to have it run on the device?
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Almost all the war defaulted to secrecy. But the war wasn't really over when the Axis capitulated; even as they were surrendering it was clear the next conflict would be with the Soviet Union (and to a lesser extent China), and so the military remained mobilized to a lower degree. Along with the same secrecy mindset. That's why things like Enigma remained secret for so long, as well as a lot of the nastier bits of the war.
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Milk is quite carby.
That’s interesting info, thanks.
I forgot to say, I blogged about notation for social deduction games here
https://omnisplore.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/spy-thriller/

and I'm open to collaborating to take spy thriller further.
> my settlement actually invites local Beduins, with whom we have terrific relations

That is a nice thing to hear. Is this common or is it an exception?
I posted one yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722765
No, actually it's as big or bigger than the article suggests.

There is no longer the 2-year transition period in which EU workers can work in the UK, and UK workers work in the EU.

This means that existing working arrangements will be severely disrupted. Each week, there are hundreds of thousands of people crossing the border, a significant proportion of them for work, including providing on-site support services, training, professional engagements or just cross-channel commuting.
My girlfriend is greek. She has no stamps in her passport, I wouldn't have stamps in mine if I went to Greece. She's lived here for 8 years. Other than her landlord's vouch, or some bills registered to her address (which is only her phone bill and bank account iirc) she has no definitive proof she lives here. If she leaves the country to visit her parents, now there is a real chance she might be rejected coming back in.

We were talking about it last night and neither of us have a clue how you'd even go about getting a UK visa in an EU country. Yes, people who live here already and don't leave are "good" until 2020. However if this does go ahead there will be tens of thousands of people who cant (for example) go home and visit their parents over Christmas without a risk they might be told "nah" at the border.

I believe that in her specific case she can't get settled status as she (despite being here 8 years) had a period a few years ago where she worked on cruise ships so was out of the country for > 6 months.
As a European who spent more than half a decade in the US, this is the US in general. Not just with children. The entire society is build as if its members are too ignorant/not educated enough to follow even basic principles or etiquette.

It's like instead of education the society revolves around babysitting.
How about exchanging BTC for Monero, making a Monero transaction and exchanging Monero back into BTC?
With this definition a cable can be computer; or a lightbulb.
Worth mentioning as well that at present the current visas for non-EU immigrants specifically preclude EEA citizens and as such EU citizens living in the UK aren't eligible for them regardless of anything else.
If I'm not mistaken this is what both sides always said would happen in case of no deal.
most widely eaten != most eaten by weight

The article does not disprove the (somewhat vaguely) stated hypothesis.
The EU have offered the best they can given the UK negotiation red-lines. It's not an adversarial negotiation, it's a future partnership.
Yes it does take two to tango. When both sides come from the underlying culture hard to blame one side or the other or even suggest solutions.
She still can apply for pre-settled, and there would be no reason she couldn't get it if she has a national insurance number. I've been in the country only for 3 or 4 months and got pre-settled status within a day of applying.
In the most literal sense, in anything that involves hand-eye coordination - say, hand-drawing some parallel lines - you can never hand better than you can eye, because if you can't see that you're a little off to the left, you can't correct for that no matter how precisely you can move your hand.

In a more metaphorical sense, you can't correct for a fault you can't recognise. So a writer can only avoid cliches if they can recognise them, a photographer has to be able to recognise what will make a good photo in order to take a good photo, and so on.

Of course you can avoid faults you can't recognise by random chance, imitating things that avoid those faults, or tools that take care of it without you noticing.
User tracking seems to be far more valuable than ads. I'm currently subcontracting for a specific large media trust. Ad contracts are in total about 6 figure numbers. User tracking, sponsored content and skins (custom stylesheets with a sponsor's branding and tracking) are very substantial 7 or 8 digit contracts.

While it's true his own activity isn't worth much, it's still a piece of a very lucrative pie. There are services already oriented specifically around user tracking.

I guess they're oing by the principle of individual behavior is unpredictable, but mass behavior is.
Good old list of hype-words is enough.
This looks interesting. I'm a bit confused though. It seems like all the pricing plans are structured in a way that you're either only paying for iOS devices or for every kind of device except iOS ones. Does this mean transfers between iOS and non-iOS devices aren't supported? Or do I have to buy two plans in order to do it?

edit: Okay, on a closer look, it seems like you do need two licenses, because the iOS license can only be purchased through the iOS app. Just wish they'd provide a brief trial so I could test it.

edit2: Nevermind, apparently, if you install the apps, you can use them in a limited fashion before buying. It doesn't say anywhere what the limits are, but it says there are limits.
Another word: What?
You mean "...has direct S,3,X,Y competitors."
It is unlikely that, when the original law was written (in 1914?), lawmakers foresaw that people would store so much personal information (including not just text, but audio/video) on portable computers. So it's hard to conclude that their intent was so far reaching.

The judge specifically called this out. Quoted in the article: "“Mobile phones are primarily devices for communicating although it is now commonplace for them to have a number of other functions ... Again, the very ubiquity of mobile phones suggests that, if the parliament had intended that they should be encompassed by the term ‘computer’ it would have been obvious to say so.”"

When the law was last amended pretty recently (2018? https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bi...) and if lawmakers wanted to expand the definition of computer at that time, they could have done.

But they chose not to.

I can see both sides. It's certainly not clear to me that the lawmakers who used the word 'computer' many decades ago would have intended search warrants to cover such a wide set of targets.

Of course, I could be wrong. Perhaps lawmakers then just wanted law enforcement to have access to ~everything.

In any case, it doesn't seem as clear to me as it does to you.
Pay for 1 months rental, cancel service.

Still get all your neighbours thinking you're green for just $50...
Cold war doctrine was the other way around; it was assumed that once the other side's missiles launched, you were already dead, and the only way to prevent that launch was as strong a commitment to retaliation as possible. Hence the UK deploying its nuclear deterrent at sea, since the UK is small enough that Soviet ICBMs had enough coverage to destroy all military installations on the island several times over. Along with most of the population.

Mutual assured destruction may be the only thing limiting the Kashmir conflict, for example.

The definitive film on this is of course Dr Strangelove.
> In theory yes, but I can't imagine what the claim would be; "They won't let me make a business out of selling apps on their platform" ?

The narrative is that they killed the business without a fair due process. Then they wouldn't listen to the "customer"'s complaint or questions for clarification. It is bad "customer" service.
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Google rarely gives good customer service to any of their customers. Good customer service requires lots of humans, which, in the Google hivemind, "doesn't scale" and is therefore not worth doing.
No, I am not paying. But I accesed that article withtout the paywall. To be honest, I am not agaisnt this kind of business model, but it's incompatible with HN spirit of sharing accesible knowledge.
Currently EEA citizens automatically gain "permanent resident" status after 5 years if they meet the conditions.

This can be proven by applying for a permanent residence card.

It has always been a sensible idea to keep evidence of residence and work in order to prove your status although it seems that a surprisingly large number of people never bothered.

In any case, I would think that anyone would have pay slips, P60s, council tax bills.
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Would it also be possible to share contacts and links to sites? Thinking of a new reception desk feature (lots of apple customers)
> Software has characteristics that make it hard to build with traditional management techniques

Perhaps some software development techniques would work though...

> The main value in software is not the code produced, but the knowledge accumulated by the people who produced it.

Those people go on to work on other things or for other organization. So, while that statement might have some truth to it, it's still the case that the code has to be useful, robust, and able to impart knowledge to those who read it (and the documentation).

> Start as Simple as Possible

That's a solid suggestion to many (most?) software projects; but - if your goal is to write something comprehensive and flexible, you may need to replace it with:

"Start by simplifying your implementation objectives as much as possible"

and it's even sometimes the case that you want to sort of do the opposite, i.e.

"Start as complex as possible, leading you to immediately avoid the complex specifics in favor of a powerful generalization, which is simpler".
Pre-settled wouldn't be a guaranteed re-entry to the UK though would it? Or have I got that wrong? I was under the impression settled only would be valid for re-entry (which is the problem, as the deadline is in a month and it takes 5 years to get this status)
More information for people who aren't necessarily aware of the full details, because there's already some confusion in this thread.

Citizens of EU/EEA countries can currently travel to and work in other EU/EEA countries (including the UK) with essentially no restrictions. There are currently around 3 million citizens of other EU countries resident in the UK, taking advantage of freedom of movement to avoid the tedious, expensive, and time-consuming process of obtaining UK citizenship (or just never feeling the need).

A system has been introduced allowing these residents to apply for something called "settled" or "pre-settled" status, indicating that they are habitually resident in the UK. This will give them the ability to remain in the UK legally, eventually being able to obtain the appropriate long-term rights.

However, it's a virtual certainty that hundreds of thousands of these people will end up not being registered for various reasons. Additionally, there is AFAIK no process in place for performing checks using this system at the UK border. With the proposed approach, it's extremely likely that many people previously using free movement rights to travel between the UK and the rest of Europe will find themselves stuck in a limbo where they have been resident in the UK for a long time (and it's their home), but end up being unable to re-enter the country because they have no actual legal basis for that residency any more.

This wasn't expected to be an urgent problem, as previous plans for departure from the EU were to continue allowing EU/EEA citizens freedom of movement into the UK until December 2020, eventually implementing controls as systems became available. This change in policy makes this much more urgent; there are a variety of issues affecting people who travel a lot, particularly in the immediate aftermath.

The good news is that this approach will collapse in the face of reality because it's totally insane and will result in widespread chaos, and it's unlikely to even make it to the level of actual firm policy at any point.
> One thin that people miss for dropdowns is that you can actually type N..E..W.. and it will select New Zealand

I need to find those, because I keep getting the ones that go Namibia > East Timor > Wake Island when I try that.
The whole point of this article is that your current, new, Home Secretary wants to change that policy.