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Ask HN: Do you work with a “hands-on” VP/CTO?
>500-employee company, 100 of those in engineering/IT roles.

Both CTO and VP are "hands-on" meaning they will get into the nitty gritty details of how we develop software or deploy infrastructure.

No roadmap to be seen. No high-level goal. No security policy in place. No offboarding process. No onboarding policy. No central auth server. A few different job schedulers. Few different container orchestration solutions. etc

My theory: they got promoted pushed to management roles (first as founder becoming CTO, then manager becoming VP) and now the salary is too high to go back.
Hey! Well, I can tell you that as of right now, it's hovering around 0.8% conversion, which isn't terrible. We'll see if I can improve that before activity on the page dies down.

You're right, what I have now is relatively messy. I was balancing brevity and specificity. If I was properly technical in my descriptions, it may have read like documentation. And then the other issue is that I have both business people and programmers on the page, and each gets kinda confused because I'm not sure who to cater too. Same problem with the case studies. I had them more specific before, but I cut out what I thought was unnecesary and now they appear rather simple.

I think the solution is to split the whole thing up into several dedicated pages, which I resisted because it would take longer, and this is all probably less important than building product right?

Regardless, I do now intend to add an FAQ, and write some sort of a technical paper/RFC, (which I should probably do anyway before I run off and start writing serious code). I'm not totally sure what to do about the case study, maybe just replace the entire thing with a video?

I would love to hear more about the project you tried! Naturally, I haven't been able to Google examples of people who tried this idea before and failed. It does sound different in that, I really do intend dits to be fully, totally and completely generic. Nothing other than the idea of labels with scripts which describe payloads is sacred. Any language, any style, anything. This means that it can't possibly miss a certain use case (you can just build it) but it does mean that the whole thing is rather complicated, and as others have said, maybe too complicated, like a pipe dream. I am certainly willing to accept that, but no way to find out the result of that without building it.

I really question whether a more restricted system like JSON-Schema could ever become dominant because it's much more prescriptive, especially when you have a limited number of possible data types. In my mind, data can truly look like anything, so coming up with a rigourous standard doesn't seem realistic: there can always be a more broad standard, ala https://xkcd.com/927/ as others have mentioned. I intend to beat 927 by taking the high ground. Its like Lisp: you can't make a more generic Lisp, because anything that satifisfies the components of Lisp is just a dialect. You can't have incompatible data or an incompatible competitor to DitaBase, its totally generic. I also don't see why you couldn't do UI generation with DitaBase using the controllers (I concept I have not explained yet, they allow CRUD for a specific schema).

I am not very knowledgable on Twitter, but now seems like a great time to start! I appreciate the invitiation!
You are a saint
They talk about the Hasidic community as if they were Martians.
Lyft built and released a similar tool recently for picking accessible colors, there was a HN post about it last month

https://www.colorbox.io
Imagine you're a wealthy man in late 19th century Europe. You own a nice neo gothic home in the fancy part of the city.

Like other wealthy men, you too dabble in collecting some art. You own a few romantic pieces with exceptional craftsmanship. You proudly display them in your living room amid all your fancy, ornate furniture.

But something is amiss. All your artwork starts looking the same. And why wouldn't it - all these artists have honed their craft at similar art schools. They look good but they've started looking a little repetitive. Like something out of a factory.

You have to see artists like Matisse in this context. Try placing yourself in the shoes of someone from their period. Realistic art was dead because there can't truly be any further innovation in it (and the camera would make it obsolete anyway). The themes, the styles, even the figures had been all tried and put on canvas over the last several centuries.

A Matisse in this context is very new, very exciting, and very full of life. It's bright blue in dimly lit 19th century homes. It's a yellow dancing figure in a room that has only see scenes from the Bible and Greek myths painted.

This is the reason why its art.

"Looking pretty" is just craftsmanship. If it makes you feel something - even acute hatred - its art.
I had always wondered if there was a link between MLMs and Mormons. They are always overly upbeat and Christian (classic Mormon stereotypes) in their marketing, and so many of them are in Utah.
Python Tooling Review: Pyproject.toml and Flake8
> Engineers are rightfully wary of using proprietary databases. Decades of bugs leading to integrity issues on decades worth of data. They're not willing to relive those days. Luckily, the world of open-source, battle-tested, academically reviewed databases is large and mature.

Not that you are, but we need to be careful with the “open source === good quality.” OpenSSL has Heartbleed for years
Sorry, so you're saying that your older kid comes back home at 7PM and then goes to bed at 8PM? So they eat dinner and finish homework in an hour? Are you crazy?
Pity she is a Democrat, but good that some representation is finally present.
Problem comes when they own 90% of houses
I have a different and not mutually exclusive speculation:

It's often assumed that only females have a "biological clock." Maybe that's not true. Maybe males start to crave offspring too, and some mistake these feelings for sexual attraction.
> Among the 36 Americans named in the indictment, at least three were federal law enforcement employees who had been arrested earlier in this long-term investigation.
It’s worse one astronaut almost drowned when they had a leak in their cooling suit because the water in the “absent” of gravity just hangs out there.

https://www.space.com/24835-spacesuit-water-leak-nasa-invest...

There was also a case of the anti fogging material used in the glass getting into ones eyes leaving the astronaut essentially blind during a space walk.

I don’t think people realize just how dangerous those walks are, any equipment failure can pose as monumental risk and difficulty.
Maybe this is only the first round, and there will be a lot more arrests in the future.
Build a cost model.
Set prices that would make them profitable based on that model.
Offer the service at that price.
See if people are willing to pay for it.
Verify that costs and profitability match the model.

If the model turns out to be inaccurate:
A) Change the architecture to reduce costs to the point where it becomes profitable at an attractive price point for customers, or
B) Move on to the next idea.

It's not that complex, and more startups should be more realistic about profitability.
Apple bought PrimeSense (the company behind Kinect) for $360m.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrimeSense
Are you doing like thoughtful and tailored cover letters for each position or spamming your resume at them? If I take my time with applications and talk about their product in the cover letter I tend to almost always get a response. When I shotgun blast my resume at people I get very little response.
Hi Andrew,

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> How can the system differentiate if you are intentionally gesturing as input vs incidentally gesturing?

This is why I had to change my Amazon Echo Dot's call word back from "Computer". Turns out one might say "computer" a lot during the course of the day, and Alexa was CONSTANTLY going off when it shouldn't have. It was so disappointing that I gave the echo dot away.
Missiles not shot at us, not proven to have been from Iran, in a conflict we're not part of.

And the issue is that cyber attacks _are_ real attacks. Power outages like you've seen in Egypt and Venezuela kill people. These cyber attacks destroyed missiles. The stuxnet attack did 10s to 100s of millions of dollars to a uranium production facility. To pretend that flipping a switch to launch a missile and and flipping a switch to launch a virus to destroy the same target is somehow different is a false dichotomy, and contrary to published US policy.
Considering they have absolutely no problem putting restrictions, designed to give their closed solutions an advantage, into that same OSS base, I'd say expecting them to make such an exception for developers that (often quite explicitly) compete with their products would be highly unreasonable.
I should have been more clear. By "congestion", I was not just considering the number of satellites, but the number of artificial objects in total regardless of size, which by many estimates is in the millions.
There are a lot of weak links in Monero that have nothing to do with breaking ed25519.
Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor
Lots of negativity in the comments here, but I personally will love to have a way of interacting with the phone even when my fingers are wet or dirty.
This type of article panders to a couple audiences:

- 'Gee, those super religious Jews who I though are technologically deficient.. well they are really quite capable and successful selling on Amazon'

- 'Those Jews are making a lot of money selling on Amazon'

I have issues with both of those responses
I personally don't know enough econ to know whether LVT is actually a good idea, but intuitively it makes sense to me.

the basic objection to property tax as it currently exists is that it penalizes you for improving your property. at the margin, this creates a perverse incentive to let housing stock degrade or even leave whole lots unused. in general LVT advocates want it to replace traditional property taxes, no be added alongside them. the claim is that, for a target tax revenue, LVT can raise the funds much more efficiently.

as for California, the problem with their tax system is outside the scope of LVT vs traditional property tax. they have land with massive valuations but get relatively little revenue out of it due to extremely low grandfathered rates.
Why would I use this instead of an option built into a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure?

How do you differentiate yourself. Do you (or will you) support frameworks like Serverless?
In-built assumption that you need to use your own car stored near where you live to start and end the journey.
Self-employment of any kind gives you a lot more freedom to integrate your religious practice into your working life without friction. I suspect that has much more to do with it than family size or any inherent entrepreneurialism.
The irony is that the 1000 year old 10th century art we do care about today looks like it was drawn by a child.
Massachusetts, for example, has a population density of about 340 / sq km
Benchmarks aren't everything. Nvidia's Denver absolutely crushed everyone in benchmarks at the time. Real world performance was actually pretty bad.
That depends. For drugs you can generally get away with breaking laws back home while abroad. However the US (and most other countries) will prosecute you for human trafficking even if you only do it in countries where it is legal. Assuming they catch you of course.
>If no children were harmed and 100% of the videos and images produced were synthetic, would simply consumption of the media still be a problem?

Then its not a problem.
You’re probably being downvoted for coming off snarky with “enlighten me”
Right, I'm not saying that doesn't exist. I'm just saying it's only half the story.
But `uint16_t + uint16_t` has exactly the same problem -- if it's a typedef for `unsigned short`, there will be promotion to either `int` or `unsigned int`.

A multiplication `uint16_t * uint16_t` can still cause an overflow after promotion to signed int, which is undefined behavior!
So "unsigned types wrap around" doesn't apply to `uintN_t`, because you can never know for sure whether those types are "smaller than int" and thus get promoted to signed types when you do any arithmetic.

Of course, in practice this just means: every C and C++ program relies on tons of implementation-defined behavior. A `sizeof(int)` greater than 32-bits would break most code in existence (e.g. hash code computations using `uint32_t`).
Feel free to use any of the dozens or hundreds of such tools developed by the academic community and experience the imprecision yourself.
Practical Haskell (2015)
What it’s like being a technical writer at GDS (Govt. Digital Service)
B&H, an electronics super store in Manhattan, is owned by Hasidic Jews, and it sells new and used gear. The web site won't even take orders on Shabbat. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the people selling new or used electronics have some connection to B&H or another brick and mortar store.
All government services where I live require Windows/Android or Apple. For some time I used Android in a VM for tax declaration etc, but the developers first banned the OS build name, so I changed the build name :P But then they found some way to figure out that I was using a VM. My hope is in PWA's, but the problem with PWA's (it's a feature really) is that it's harder to fingerprint and spy on the user. Also meaning it's harder to catch abuse like identity theft. I know there are ongoing work on Web ID standards where you can have a cheap second factor device as key. So it looks promising. But then there are the platforms, what incentive do they have, (more then empowering their users and developers), to actually enable a layer like web browsers that circumvent their monopoly status?
Why is this needed? I can see there are some niche needs like when you are cooking and cannot touch the screen. But that is what voice is for. What exactly is soli solving? Looks like over engineering to me, simply because they can.
I wonder what timezone the containers think they're in?
Seems like an abnormally high proportion. Hopefully it's just because of a small sample size and not indicative of a Catholic church level cover-up in our law enforcement circles.
They usually stick rough Velcro patches around the inside of the helmet for this, some high altitude pilots do the same.
what does lying more as adults equate to?

Edit:
found the answer in the article:

The analysis found that parenting by lying could place children at a greater risk of developing problems that the society frowns upon, such as aggression, rule-breaking and intrusive behaviours.
Surely you have something to back this up other than a super weak analogy?

Lets pick your assumption apart - there are 200 million motorcycles in the world, but there are only an esitmated 35 million km of roads. That means there are approximately 175 meters of road per motorcycle. That seems pretty reasonable, even if they were all on the road at the same time. But they aren't alone - there are also approximately a billion vehicles. That takes it down to about 35 meters per vehicle. Thats without factoring in the loss in space for intersections, the drop in capacity at each of those intersections, or addressing the fact that most of those vehicles are clustered in high density urban areas.

Now we are lucky that not all of those vehicles are on all of those roads at the same time, because they can be removed and parked.

It is certainly possible to overlay orbits at different altitudes, but then you have to manage spectrum congestion, because those 30k satellites in a straight line above some point on the earth are useless unless they can actually communicate with ground stations.

Not all orbital slots are created equal either - some have better coverage of human habitable areas than others.

Oh, and there is the small matter that each time one of those 30k satellite degrades, it becomes between two and hundreds of thousands of devastating fast moving particles that can destroy other satellites (don't believe me? look up the number of windows that have been destroyed by paint flecks in orbit).

Don't take my word for it, read up on NASA's articles and quarterly publications on orbital congestion.
If you buy food products in bulk, the main bulk container contains legally required disclosures, disclaimers, ingredients etc. Individual packets within said bulk container lack such notices.

Compare a box a granola bars from Costco vs the same bar from a grocery store.
Read Boeing's bulletin on the matter in the link I posted. It works as I said.
It's good to teach children (and sometimes adults unfortunately) to be responsible for their emotions and explain what happened instead of vague statements like "She made me angry!", but you don't choose your emotions to situations, only how you respond to them.
In my opinion UK is, more or less, "patriarchal society". All societies are, more or less, no?

Would you agree that say Saudi-Arabia is a "patriarchal society"? I can readily agree with your point it would probably help them as a society to legalize porn but seems like they are not going to do that any time soon:

https://www.quora.com/Is-porn-banned-in-Saudi

Why? If they did allow it the absolute power of the ruling dynasty could be questioned in other ways and that might be the end of that dynasty.
Yes, and that's why I do not recognize the institution of church. Too many times it's just a grifting operation stiffing the chumps, and sometimes a hide-away for boy-loving pervs. Because who would ever question a priest?
Can't do what other cities have already done? How did those other cities do it, then?

If parking starts to carry its cost, rather than being subsidized by government regulation, then it quite likely becomes more economical to rely on mass transit than banged-up hatchbacks. But yes, changing from horribly-designed cities spread out over vast areas that depend on cars to navigate to human-oriented cities with effective mass transit is a huge project, and would require thinking about solutions that take into account the currently-hidden costs of the current designs.
Anti-bleeding drug could prevent death after brain injury
Wait.

People complain about app stores being restrictive and then you suggest only trusted people being able to distribute code that I can use? That's way worse.
It's hardly unreasonable; if their problem is, as they've said, "giving money to Apple", then it's not the amount, but the fact that Apple gets a cut at all.

And none of this is surprising, merely inconsistently applied logic. I fully understand what is happening here, clarifying statements will not help.
Presumably one way to deal with this problem is to make the satellite surfaces like stealth planes, i.e. very flat reflective surfaces with sharp angles. In that case the reflections will still happen (and they will be brighter), but they will be visible on the ground over much shorter period of time.
> but not the right tool if your goal is in the ballpark of saturating a 10gps network with messages

If that's in any danger of happening, then you scale out not scale up. e.g. run 100 worker instances to process the messages. each one gets 0.1 gps of messages.

Microservices are good at scaling out as needed. I mean, not completely painless, but better than the alternatives.
> My opinion is that for each seasoned roguelike player who enjoys this "wonderful" aspect, there will be multiple roguelike newbies who will be discouraged by the unfriendly UX

This is a strange viewpoint. This "wonderful" aspect of NetHack applies solely to newbies; seasoned players already know what they can do.
It's pretty trivial* to sniff traffic and find out what data is actually being sent to Google once people have devices in their hands, no?

It doesn't seem like the kind of thing a company would try to underhandedly sneak in after explicitly saying the sensor runs on-device and "never sends sensor data to Google servers".

* Trivial in the sense of someone who actually knows what they're doing -- of which we only really need one person in order to "leak" what's actually happening.
This headline can give newbies the wrong impression. Mindset and environment are just as important as the substance.

A a more accurate headline would be "Months of intensive therapy set the stage for Magic Mushrooms to help smokers kick the habit"

I know people will see headlines like this, try to "cure" something with psychedelics, end up getting themselves into some sort of trouble and then blame the substances for their problems.
What if I'm both a creative/engineer (DS, actually), and an extrovert/talker? Do I need to ignore myself when I have headphones on?
Could you double check 0.0.20191013? My phone just updated, and I'm seeing the APK version that has the donation link removed, 0.0.20191016.

I haven't received any further emails from Google (yet?), so I'm still uncertain as to whether I have any sort of green light to republish a version with the link.
Yeah I agree. I really like static classes, but I've seen them being overused; As long as it doesn't causes performance problems I'm good with it. In fact calling static methods is faster;
Maybe ... but the point is, they can always get back to you.
I’m guessing:

Keep it simple(x)
> So why do American thinkers keep pushing the tired, old, obviously by now false myth that capitalism equals progress?

Because capitalism requires productivity from its citizens, and the market organizes this labor in an efficient manner, which is why our grocery stores are always filled with food & toiletries.

American democracy is the result of the British Parliament's misuse of capitalism ("no taxation without representation"). Capitalism is not static and is always correcting and improving itself with the help of pro-capital governments, like women's suffrage and child labor protection laws.
The Pixel 4 facial recognition works even if you're asleep
The last point can't be overstated. Sales is largely about overcoming and largely overcoming rejection. After 1000 rejections, they roll off. Lots of people stop at the first or second.
In the case of Cuba, Canada has laws to the effect that they must help someone from the US violate US sanctions on Cuba. International trade gets very hard when your company has offices in more than one country. I can't export things to my counterpart in Canada if it is going to Cuba, but if I ask is the product going to Cuba my counterpart is legally required to lie to me. (fortunately I don't deal in international shipping so I don't have to figure out how to deal with that)
Yeah, I guess we'll see. Economies of scale and complete many-times reusability of both stages sound like plausible multipliers to me, but it's all speculation until the thing flies a few times and they get a mature production line up and running.
Related: NASA has previously done some work with Kubernetes and Docker containers. https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC17/demos/demo29.html It has happened on the ground, however.
Newbie: I'll trade you lung cancer for mental breakdown
I like your thinking, but all of this is assuming that runtime for something stays precisely the same no matter what. Most operations are at least reasonably parallelizable, and I would argue that cryptocurrency depends largely parallel operations, which in general should mean that breaking it is also a parallel operation. Plus with advances in quantum computing, regular computing and storage, it's hard to be sure how long any of this information will be stored for or long long someone would crack it for, or wait for it to be crackable.

Also, you imply that some amazing computational shortcuts aren't ever going to be arrived at. This historically, is hard to be sure of. Not saying everything will be broken, but more of it is all the time.