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As customers accelerate and scale their open hybrid cloud initiatives, management becomes
increasingly essential. Given this requirement, we made a strategic decision to focus our
management strategy on the future -- open, cloud-native environments that promote portability
across on-premise, private and public clouds. With this strategy update, the roadmap for
Red Hat CloudForms is summarized in three key points:

1. To date, Red Hat CloudForms has managed both open source and proprietary technologies.
2. Moving forward, Red Hat CloudForms will continue to directly support open Red Hat platforms
like Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat Virtualization. As of March 1, 2020, Red Hat will no longer
offer NEW CloudForms subscriptions for non-Red Hat platforms. For renewal options, please
see CloudForms Statement of Direction FAQ.
3. For non-Red Hat technologies (VMware, AWS, Azure, etc.), IBM is embedding CloudForms in
their Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management and will be working in the ManageIQ community
(upstream for CloudForms). Beginning March 1, 2020, IBM will also be offering an easy migration
path from Red Hat CloudForms to this Cloud Pak.

Red Hat will continue to work in CloudForms’ upstream community, ManageIQ, to support our
offerings. For management of non-Red Hat products, IBM is also working in the ManageIQ
community and embedding CloudForms support in the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management. For
Red Hat CloudForms customers interested in managing heterogeneous environments, IBM is
offering an easy migration path from Red Hat CloudForms to this IBM Cloud Pak.

[0] https://access.redhat.com/articles/4639821
It's interesting the writer brings up the Betsy Ross Flag.

It seems this is where the joy went. Arguing over the meaning of symbols and trivial things. Turning what used to be minor disagreements into huge offence.

Many see the flag as a sign of white supremacism and see any positive association as a dog whistle to racists.

Yet many conservatives see the attacks on the flag as an attack on the history of the United States. They see such an attack as a denouncing of the values they hold dear.

Neither side seems to ever have constructive dialogue. It just turns into mud slinging. Each side offended at each other's position with no real way forward.

That to me is where the joy has gone. There has to be a way to get things back on track and less polarised.
So I have one of these in my office. I 3d printed it and tested it. It doesn't really work, but it does give you an interesting flow curve.
I agree. Even for a comment on HN it was pretty vapid.
The calculator team has a GitHub discussion issue open tracking launch performance investigations if you're interested: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/issues/209
History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin
Show HN: Social Media for Animations and Comics
uhhh ya think?
Try thinking about how you could probe that the integers have fewer subsets than the reals using ZFC.
> This "start with no" attitude has been an issue when I started working with other cultures.

The Indian attitude must be the polar opposite then. "Yes I understand. We'll do the needful."
US officials remove Black Panther's Wakanda from list of trading partners
"Throwing a couple million people in camps is just like technical debt" is a strong contender for Worst Analogy of the Year.
No it's a choice, apparently people can't have one.
An interesting write-up Matt, thank you for that. It validated some of my own observations of how businesses are actually built and although it didn't even get off the landing ground, it was nice to read even as a technical report of what not to do.

While I do not have experience of running my own start-up, I have with keen interest seen people build start-ups around me and by far the biggest leading factor to their success is the team. The team is everything. Sure, you can maybe sketch up a decent app and maybe sell it to couple businesses but then what? You'll be over your head with work and maybe hire some of your friends and if things work out well, it could work. But why didn't you hire those great friends then in the beginning? Why didn't you cofound the company together?

See there's something about people working cohesively in groups that just outmatches anything that a 1-man team could do. Now I'm generalizing here a little, but the fact of the matter is that alone, without your peers to constantly revalidate, build and improve your business-idea, you'll be miles away from those teams that are actually doing it. And if the idea sucks, you'll just pick another one. It's just that easy. When you have a group of friends who are that driven and capable as you are, it's only matter of time when your start-up actually takes off. There are so many would I say "mediocre" folks running perfectly good companies because they had great co-founders, had those social skills and networks to grow larger and eventually it became self-sustaining.

Hmm it's still a bit hard to pinpoint the exact reason why I think it is so. Maybe if I put it in this way: you are creating a machine made of humans. In the heart of it is the dynamo, the moving force. That is what keeps it moving. And even if it would one day be gone for some reason the machine will keep running, by its inertia, for who knows how long. But to build this starting unit, this dynamo. It is what starts this whole process.

In this case, sure you made the wrong calls with your tech choices. Understandable. But if you had a good co-founder, or even better a good team, I'm sure you'd have together figured out in no time that this was a dumb way of doing this, and picked up something you knew and were able to execute with quickly. It could have been just jQuery and PHP5 and be just as fine as any new framework (with a massive technical debt waiting, sure) but that alone would have not killed your start-up.
> It feels like the path that leads to you asking a Java/Go programmer to do a Javascript coding challenge in 50 minutes, which is a waste of everyone's time.

Depends, we always give someone a super small coding challenge (literally write 4 lines if you know how to, and the longest I’ve seen is something like 15), and any decent Java/Go dev could do that even if they had to learn JS on the spot (probably not necessary, but...).

But yeah, I agree with your main point. Not reading a resume is rude.
Ask HN: How dependent are you on Google products?
When assessing how dependent I am on Google products, I found out from banking to buying online, My complete online presence will be paralyzed this includes documents stored in Drive, contacts in phone to name a few. Not only I will lose access to Google but also to other platforms where I have used the email. I think all the sites should provide an option to have an alternate email that doesn't belong to Google. With the fear of google suspending my account anytime. This is a worst-case scenario. Fellow HN Users How are you dealing with this problem?
I work for Red Hat, so am biased but also exposed a lot to customers. A ton of big companies and government use Red Hat. Most of the startup space uses Ubuntu/Debian, but things are changing a bit there. CentOS is starting to get more traction in the startup space.

Fedora on the desktop is also one of the top used distros (and Fedora is the upstream of RHEL).

What does it offer that other distros don't? Meticulous attention from some of the best linux engineers in the world. Tons of out-of-the-box stuff to make using it easy for non-linux experts. Also guarantees of extremely long-term support, so enterprises can rely on having a supported/patched OS for years and years.
Thats what folks want though (persist across reboots). Let's say you have a script that works now, you reboot, all of a sudden terminal can't call it until you re-drag it?
So, if the B-1 visas are revoked while the holders are in the US, ICE would probably like to deport them as part of their Immigration Enforcement activities.

The biggest portion (in my mind) of the law that I found [1] is:

> 7284.6. (a) California law enforcement agencies shall not:
> (1) Use agency or department moneys or personnel to investigate, interrogate, detain, detect, or arrest persons for immigration enforcement purposes, including any of the following:

> [long list]

I would say that the state was investing a company, not necessarily a person, and for tax enforcement purposes, not for immigration enforcement purposes. I also may not have the final law (or it may have been adjusted since).

Also, people on B-1 visa shouldn't remain in the country for very long at a stretch (max 6 months), so it's likely there aren't a lot of people who could be detained for violations.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...
South Korea has many problems as does the US but one of Moon’s campaign promises was to not go easy on criminal conduct by Chaebols. Chaebols until now have traditionally been given an extremely light sentence followed by a pardon after a month or so.
I wouldn’t even say that.

Free parking is now a significant policy hill to die on for a loud, politically vocal portion of the population, even in places like NYC where they are a minority. Any giveaway of free parking, whether it be for dedicated carsharing spots, a bike corral, a bus lane, to free up spots by making people pay for usage, or to reduce double parking by delivery vehicles, is equivalent in these peoples’ eyes as personally driving a bulldozer to eminent domain their living room, despite the fact that the street is a notionally public realm. And at the scale of local elections with such low turnout that margins are measured in the hundreds of voters, pissing these people off is something you do at your own peril.

Some jurisdictions, as it is, do not spend nearly enough money on street maintenance and upkeep, and changing parking is a fear that other issues will pop up and be ignored.

And in some cities, streets are actually not managed by the city but by the state, and good luck getting a state DOT to do anything even a hairline outside of the box.
You're right, he did, but "the argument I always hear is real estate vs the stock market" doesn't make me think REIT, it makes me think of a renter considering buying a house as an investment.
This feels pedantic and off-topic. This is clearly just as much a discussion of historical accuracy as it is one of religious accuracy.

Religious documents are just as valuable to historians and archaeologists, etc. as they are to people who practice a religion.
I think something this post overlooks; the "Elites", as in the investment bankers and capitalists, are vicariously cajoling the more gullible middle and upper-middle classes into voting against their own best interests.

Money in politics is what gives "elites" supreme power of peer pressure over the "do gooder wanna be ivy-leagers" and "ivy league wanna be do-gooders" all at the same time.
> National security" is obvious doublespeak.

Just change one vowel and it becomes about right: nOtional security.
I hosted on Turo (all star host). I don’t anymore and won’t ever again. It’s not worth the time or headache.

I don’t think Getaround or Turo will last much longer without a lot more VC funding.
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I hate interviewing (on both sides of the table), but I’d much rather do it than have someone else do it because I hope I can make it marginally less harrowing for the candidates.

I guess I’m a terrible interviewer, but so far the candidates we hired have worked out.
Haha, that's funny, and an awful idea. At a previous employer, as a hiring manager, I offered candidates an option of bringing in their fully-configured IDE in their own laptop with the language of their choice and I'd give them the problem to solve. Essentially, act in the environment that you've already mastered.

Only one guy did (I had maybe 10 a month) and for some inexplicable reason he couldn't figure out how to create his `main` equivalent in his language in his IDE. He must have been incredibly nervous because we tried "perhaps you could sketch out your thoughts in broad strokes and then we can return to the IDE" etc.
I just got interested in the way the school 42 works. Especially the month-long "test" that they have to accept tuition free students.

The idea is to make you complete a lot of programming projects in languages and tools you normally don't know at all. When you start. The evaluation does not only take into account if you finished project but also if you helped others, knew how to look for help (basically: google or other students). Its goal is to select students who would work well in a peer-learning project-based-learning paradigm. This, in my opinion, is much closer to real-life conditions than any academic test.
This is not unique to the US. I see similar partisan issues causing division around the world. Same pattern, no constructive dialogue, no way to move forward, just constant conflict. I think people were either better at dialogue before, or people have always sucked at it, but it took the Internet becoming really widespread in day-to-day use for people to notice it.
Tired: The network interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Wired: The network interprets wrongthink (or anything else besides consume product) as noise and filters it out.
The individual mandate doesn't exist anymore. In 2017 Congress removed it starting in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...
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This is false.

Also, blog writers and journalists don't have a union. If they did, this wouldn't have happened.
Thanks, Kent.
I just wrote this, in reply to an essay about The Irishman https://jakeseliger.com/2019/12/18/links-lessons-to-unlearn-... :

“The lonesome Irishman.” On the movie The Irishman; the essay almost makes me want to watch it, but not quite enough, because I feel like I’ve seen enough mob movies. After The Sopranos, Goodfellas, The Godfather, and probably some more, plus reading Diego Gambetta’s Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate, I think that universe is pretty played out. Killing people is also bad. Many of the things that thrive in the underworld should be legalized, like gambling has been and marijuana is being. If gambling, prostitution, and most non-opioid drugs are legal, there’s not much left for the mob to do, and it will be starved of revenue, because most activities are best done using conventional means and corporate or legal structures.

We've seen gambling move from being illegal to being conducted by the state (lottos) or sanctioned and taxed by it. Marijuana is moving in the same direction. Certain other things, we should probably be seeing move that way too.
Of course one should have tooling that makes it hard to accidentally push testing resources out to production.

But if you mess it up, why shouldn't your test resources make someone who discovers them smile?
Mystery man intercepts phone scam calls, saving Canadians millions
I'm an electrical engineer, and I have a similar question that I ask my entry level candidates - "How would you measure the voltage coming out of a wall socket?"

It's familiar enough to be accessible, but technically just far enough out of their reach that they don't know exactly how to do it. We talk about approaches, tools they could use, some potential problems or issues they'd need to overcome.

If they get flustered about where to start, I laugh, and say "Don't worry - I don't know the right answer. I'm actually afraid of AC mains electricity." Never fails to calm them down, because, well, it's kind of funny to hear an electrical engineer admit that they're afraid of electricity!

It's a question that I've gotten a lot of mileage on.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat (but not on Cloud Forms)

I don't have any inside info, just grapevine and rumors, but this is not that unexpected and doesn't have a ton to do with the IBM acquisition either. Cloud Forms is complicated to use and not that popular. Its head was already on the chopping block.

I am not worried that IBM is going to start killing Red Hat products or "cannibalizing" them. IBM is going to adopt more Red Hat tech, and Red Hat may start using more IBM stuff internally, but I don't see big changes coming.
I agree, context is everything. Some commenters here and in the OP argue that there should be no dot at the end because git commit messages are used as the subject of emails. This is of course true in the context of e.g. the linux kernel [1], so the advice makes sense in that context.

But realistically most people today view git through a different client than email, usually github/git CLI. Often, commit messages are the same as PR titles; in that context it makes sense to adopt commits-as-titles. It all comes down to team preference ultimately.

[1] Technically not 100% true these days due to the github mirror
This 2000 PhD thesis: http://www.microplumbers.com/pubs/BardellRL-PhDDissertation....

gets into the details (including the math). It also thoroughly defines 'diodicity' (not in wiki or some online dictionaries). I'm wondering if Tesla thought of this while thinking about the operation of diode tubes, and perhaps the idea of electricity as a fluid.

Diode: Fleming valve, 1904.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming_valve
There must be a serious dearth of candidates in my area, because the last time I was subjected to a time-constrained test was almost three years ago, and it was a Codility challenge, so I had some time to prepare for it.

I quit my job recently, and in order to find another I went full-auto with the applications - I've sent close to thirty of them I think, so a long series of recruitment processes followed.

They were all mostly the same - I either received some homework to do or had a 1-2h technical interview during which I was asked a set of questions which were easy for the most part. And that was it.

My point being: I've discovered that I can't really relate to the stories other people posted in this thread. Does this mean I wasn't ambitious enough regarding my applications, or are the others subjected to a difficult job market? Maybe both? Or none? I really don't know.
A more fair and understandable analogy is to compare it with natural language, which is just made up of simple sounds chained together.
I failed a job assessment. Would you have scored me differently?
Computers handle calculus quite nicely using numerical algorithms, which don't involve any infinite sets.

> And you can't easily only partially include infinity.

Sure you can. You just need to use a dx that's small enough for the particular functions you're working with and the degree of precision you need.
> would they evaluate technical ability or culture fit more?

Why not ask them that? "What are the roles in this roleplaying game? Am I a driver and you are evaluating me? Are you a client? Are we colleagues?" Or even more directly what you asked: "Are you evaluating technical ability or culture fit more? "

I don't think there would be a point in keeping that a secret.
> Indian companies, Indian culture.

Racial and national slurs will get you banned here. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've given you many warnings. If you keep breaking the site guidelines we will ban you.
We do this at retriever.co for our virtual assistants, in two areas:

1. we have applicants do a data transform with an esoteric excel function that they've /almost surely/ never used, and prompt them to find videos / tutorials on how to use it if they don't know (which, we assume, they wont)

2. we have people answer fake customer support tickets that require them to do some on-the-job learning about the Internet Service Provider industry -- to a level of detail that requires that they read through and grok a page on wikipedia explaining up-time calculation.

While neither of these pieces of knowledge are necessary for their day-to-day at Retriever, they allow us to stratify candidates' ability to learn new skills and grok new information.

100% would recommend!
> What intelligence is, what warfare is, has changed almost beyond recognition since the founding.

If we could bring the founders back to life they would probably bitch slap us and ask us why the f*ck we didn't amend or even rewrite the constitution to protect ourselves.
It also applies to the companies that do business with Filipino engineer H1Bs also(What I am familiar with involves those in the telecom and cell tower industry though). So not exclusive
Wiki is editable ;)

I think it's hard to GIF because it's just slow one way, fast the other. It works differently at different pressures, a GIF might not cut it for accuracy.

And Wiki is currently wrong or misleading. The quote from the patient is interesting, but incorrect.

Anyway, another video with gas rather than an explosion -

https://www.grand-illusions.com/tesla-valve-plastic-c2x21140...
https://archive.md/iTRDs
WTF is your problem with Wayland? Wayland is good, it's a brilliant protocol that you can actually understand, which has attracted a community of new developers to hacking on the free desktop platform.

As a result, we finally have a desktop situation that's not a pile of workarounds on top of a decades old crusty mess that nobody wants to touch that is Xorg, finally there's no fucking screen tearing, finally there's proper multi-monitor HiDPI, finally it's possible to actually sandbox GUI apps (unlike X11, having a Wayland socket does not give you the power to mess with the desktop and overlay a fake password prompt or keylog), finally there are no weird lags (because the protocol is fully async and does not involve a silly middleman broker that xorg ended up as).
Except for all that numerical analysis around floating point arithmetic...
If you're going to mention 'bow' one should also remember 'bough' for additional fun.
The only part of this article that can be considered "news" is that two presidential candidates support doing a study on the bill's effects. Everything else is the same as the articles written before it passed.

What prompted reprinting this article without actually doing any investigation into the ramifications?
French seems equally terrible - are there spelling bees in France?

In any case, I shall blame French (and William the Conqueror) for much of the madness of modern English spelling.
Hmm, I may have conflated the two services in my mind after this news broke last year: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/bmw-reachnow-merger-daimlers-c...
How do finitists describe the decimal representation of the fraction 1/3?
IANAFDE (I am not a fluid dynamics engineer).

My gut tells me that for this to work as designed, you would need to ensure the fluid moves exactly as intended, primarily smoothly and evenly. I know nothing about your 3D printer, but if the output is like most I have seen (even high-end ones), I wonder if the surface aberrations in most 3D-printed objects would be enough to impact the fluid flow such that it would be turbulent enough to overcome the intended friction of the channels?

If I had the time, I'd make up a 3D model of this that I could cut on my CNC machine out of a block of aluminum or hard plastic to test.
8 Year old bug fixed in Python 3.8 (IDLE)