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In many countries, certain kinds of engineering are licensed and regulated professions. For example:

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

It's officially a Big Deal in some branches of engineering- structural, mechanical, and civil come to mind. My city just built a new bridge over our river, and the engineers who signed off on its design and construction were doing so under a certain legal framework that is designed to ensure that the design was done using proper methodologies, appropriate tests were conducted, etc. If the bridge fails due to shoddy design, those engineers will personally face certain professional and legal consequences. That same legal and regulatory framework gives the engineers certain protections should management try and make them cut corners on the design or testing (in theory, anyway).

People have been debating for years about whether there ought to be a similar legal framework for software engineering. There are plenty of good arguments on both sides of that discussion, IMHO, but the sorts of situation described by the original article would fall squarely under the "pro" side of the equation. I can easily envision a world in which, for software that is critical to a public safety function of government, states had to buy software written by bonded and licensed engineers. Presumably, under such a framework, a licensed software engineering company would have to have a system in place such that their "hit by a bus factor" would be >1- i.e., they'd need to have sufficient documentation or process in place to enable any single engineer to go on extended leave without preventing critical bug-fixes from taking place.

This is obviously something that any developer would recognize as a "best practice", but that in practice is often infeasible due to organizational constraints. The advantage to a system of regulation and licensure would (in theory) be that it would empower engineers to demand such practices be in place in their organizations, and would incentivize companies to set themselves up to enable such practices. In theory. As the saying goes, "in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." Hence why this has been an ongoing debate in the software world for decades.
Anxiety used to be more of an issue for me, but hasn't been most days for years. I have found meditation very helpful in getting to that point. I could still do it more, but in terms of sleep I think it has helped as much as it can.

The frustrating thing is that there are a few things (that I can't intentionally do for any length of time) that seem to immediately cause me to feel much more rested after sleeping (such as being sick; I still feel tired in a way from being sick, but I actually feel rested and overall have much more energy than usual). I've had a shifting sleep schedule for a couple of decades now and my body has responded in different ways along the way.
You seem to be under the impression that if you just work hard enough you can violate the fundamental constraints of reality.

I can't comment on the mathematics involved but let us assume it's mathematically possible. You engineer this mythical nearly foolproof backdoor. You can decrypt this text with any of two keys. (It's my understanding that such algorithms actually exist already.) Congratulations you have achieved your goal. You have a working algorithm.

Now let's examine the results of actually using this algorithm:

You now have twice the opsec problem you had before. You have transmit this second key to a Government agency securely. You have to trust that Government agency to securely store, use, and dispose? of this key when they obtain it.

And what is the number one threat to secure systems? Operational Security. In fact many security professionals will tell you that the hardest part of security isn't the math behind the encryption. It's the opsec. In one fell swoop you double the threat in the most fragile part of your security.
Why It's So Hard to Land a Rocket on Its Tail
> they can roll that tax credit forward to cover future gains they may get at some other point in the future. I'm not sure how long you can roll these losses forward, but I think it's for a substantial period of time.

IIRC it's only 7 years. For people who do a lot of transaction, that's enough. For employees that get to invest 3-4 years in a company to make a profit on equity, it's actually quite rare to make use of this.

Also, everyone keeps forgetting that even liquidity-event-induced-exercise very often doesn't come with the liquidity that makes it profitable: In the case of a public stock exchange event, the 6-month lock-up period required by SEC rule 144 (and/or the underwriters), the stock can go down 90%, which means you pay 15-60% taxes on imaginary gain, even if you played your cards perfectly. This one also applies to investors.
He should be outraged! The drone operator was told that he "had to fly outside of the race track and follow the racer from a 15-metre distance." This clearly didn't happen.

If the cameraman on the side of the track suddenly took his camera into the middle of the track, it would obviously be outrageous.
Is your proposal anything different from wireless mesh-networks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network
"lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty"

Objectively, humanity most closely resembles a cancer. The more you feed it, the more it grows. It tramples everything in its path. The belief that somehow exponential economic growth is going to fix everything and everyone will lead happy middle class lives in some kind of harmony with nature is delusional. We are in the midst of the largest mass extinction event of all time. In developed places, the natural forests and wildlife are 90-95% gone. The only places where nature still truly thrives are in undeveloped regions - the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, the amazon, the plains of africa. As "development" accelerates in these places, they too will destroy nature in the name of the eternal quest for positive economic growth, attainment of first world healthcare, buying a car.
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I disagree because it is not true all startups offer less than market-base salary.

If a startup has VC backing then there is absolutely no reason for the startup to offer less than market salary. If a startup does not have money to pay employees then founders should raise more. Or sell more. Employees are not VCs. Simple. Also look this way: if start up is not offering market salary, then think this way: how that startup is going to attract talent from established companies (whose expertise are needed if that startup wants to become big).

On the other hand, If a startup has no VC backing and you are offered less than market salary you are then you should act as investor / co-founder. That will be definitely less money but it can be a great experience: money is not everything.
It's like you didn't even read his full comment. His point was that he makes enough money that he can invest $100k a year and still make the same salary he'd get at a startup.

> a sum FAR more than almost anyone reading the comment will ever see in their own bank accounts

You're joking right? Engineers make six figures and can easily save $100k if they try. Your retirement account should have seven figures by the time you retire.
Why it’s a problem that CEOs have such big piles of unused vacation pay
You can already achieve the same result using custom scripts and settings in x264. Most serious encoding groups have been doing this for years.
Slowly a strategy emerges ... ;-)
I'm curious, why does the falcon reverse course after having so much lateral velocity? Why not launch somewhere in Arizona and land in Texas or Florida?
I couldn't find it either. Van you give me direct link to an example?
Why is the life of a Zimbabwean citizen more important than the life of a Zimbabwean lion?
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Price discrimination tends to be worse for women
That would also probably be a good starting point too.
>It has resulted in some odd sentences, including 16 years for shoplifting a candy bar. This was someone with lots of prior charges, but all of them for relatively minor shoplifting offenses.

In Europe there's a strong tradition of tolerance towards those kinds of things, and I think at least part of it (because they did use to happen in the 19th century and prior) is because of the figure of Jean Valjean being a prominent counter-example.

Btw, isn't it also the case in the US that those who attempt to escape are getting an expanded sentence? One very humane thing I've read, is that in some countries such as Germany attempting to escape is considered part of the basic human nature towards freedom, and is not punishable (except if you commit another crime during your escape, but the escape itself does not add years to your term).
Worth considering: every serious SIGINT agency probably had this capability against Netscreen VPNs. If you do a lot of network infiltration, these boxes are among the most useful targets; unlike routers running JunOS, the VPN concentrators have a large outside-the-packet-filter attack surface, and everyone runs them.

It'd be surprising if NSA and GCHQ didn't have similarly powerful capabilities against all the current VPN products.
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I'll enjoy learning Scala and dig some new machine learning resource on the Web. I can advice you the Prf. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Cloudera.
You do realize that you* SF people have been voting in DiFi for years, who has been actively stumping for undermining encryption on behalf of law enforcement jackboots far longer than Clinton, right? Silicon Valley is shooting itself in the foot, willingly.

*: "you" as in the Northern California / Tech Industry electorate, not you individually.
Amazing initiative. Looking forward to it.
So true.

I didn't start working for a startup because of equity.

I started working for one, because it lets me work remote and I learn new things.

Even if the company goes down, I still have >1 year remote work experience...
It is not difficult be qualified as an 'angel investor' to the eyes of the SEC, which really means you met the qualifications of an accredited investor. All you need to qualify is a salary of 200k per year, as the OP said he was making 250k which means he qualified. While 200k seems like a lot i would guess the top 10% of engineers in silicon valley are making at least this much. With 10-20 years experience in software development or if you move up to manager you can reach this salary at any major tech company

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp
Looks to be a lovely 'virtual' conference aka you can be anywhere, no plane or bus fare needed, Just need yourself, interest in a topic (or a few) and a data connection be it mobile, ethernet or wifi...
> But at some point, the boss would say "alright, no more raises".

Not because $100 is too much, but because you've annoyed her by asking too many times. $100 is still trivial in value to the business.
Yeah, I guess you're right. Weirdly he's not talking about the cloud at all, he's just talking about storing things on someone else's servers. So I guess he's one of those people misusing the word cloud.
The answer is in the complexity in creating secret technology that is also foolproof.

To make a car analogy, we can make a submarines that are waterproof, and we can make cars which looks like a car and you can drive on the road. However, to make a car that is also a submarine is quite hard, and close to impossible if you also had to make it look like a normal car. It would even be harder if it need perfect obscurity so that you couldn't even tell if you opened up the hood or started to disassemble the car.
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From /r/multicopter: https://www.reddit.com/r/Multicopter/comments/3xvrdh/drone_c...

The folks over there think it looks like the drone inverted and crashed into the ground under power.
Right I'm well aware of the cost of living, but he did answer that he was 30 and living in SF. I live in Boston which is of relative cost-of-living (and salary) parity to SF, but you don't see $250k jobs being advertised for Google, Twitter and Microsoft here in Boston. I also feel like that number is inflated because a big portion of that likely comes beyond base salary (stock options, etc).
Skiing is already risky enough he shouldn't have TV stations adding to the risk. It is wrong to say "well it is risky anyways, so who cares about one more source of risk." This is like saying that someone is already rich anyways, so it is ok steal from them.

I can guarantee you that professional skiers are very careful about all the risks they undertake, and work hard to minimize those risks. It is very understandable this skier is angry to learn that a TV station just added a new way for him to die.
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National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (UK): http://www.bbmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuic...

That paper tells us that pain medication is often used in completed suicide (paracetamol; paracetamol and opioids combined; and opioids; are three of the top five most commonly used meds)

So I have an interest in pain medication from the angle of suicide prevention, which is why these two are interesting.

Efficacy and safety of paracetamol for spinal pain and osteoarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised placebo controlled trials: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1225

(Paracetamol probably doesn't help with long term musculo-skeletal pain, and increases risk of liver damage)

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

(Paracetamol probably no better than placebo for long term back pain)
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By making something for yourself.
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Same age as you, but in Boston, so relatively similar salary/cost-of-living. One question is - are you actually making $250k base? I feel like for many of these large companies, that's the total compensation package, and much of that "total" is around bonus and stock options. Is it more about sticking around than it is about getting in as a high-level engineer, or is it the pay grade? If I walk into Google and get hired as a senior engineer, most salary reports in the public domain show me making far less than $250k base, even in SF.
Didn't know that. You got a link that makes it easy for people to learn how to do that in VLC player?
The auto industry in Michigan didn't stumble. It crashed, hard. You can't compare that to a company selling for half a billion dollars and expect to be taken seriously.
He got the thing about using context-free grammars right. The final comment about not using generators is currently right, but will hopefully be wrong by the end of this year. :-)
The only reason why Apple is defending encryption is because they're afraid Android (which is open source and thus can be inspected/hardened) could take away iPhone sales from security minded folks.
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To be fair, if Dr. Dobbs doesn't have the audience for PLR, their article on "Write Your Own Language" should consist of two words:

Please don't
The economic complexity chart is interesting. It basically says that all oil producing nations experienced a decade of rapid simplification. That's not what I think happened with the Gulf/Middle East nations with their forays into real-estate, transportation, and tourism.
Right, this is the same principle as weather vs. climate predictions.
Probably to avoid a path which goes over populated land. Launches almost always go east to benefit from the Earth's rotation, so you want to launch from the eastern coast if at all possible.
Ah, yes. The unions got GM to kill electric vehicle investment.

Ah, yes. The unions got GM to become lazy with quality and innovation in the 60's and 70's when GM had 60%+ market share.

Ah, yes. The unions forced automobile manufacturing management to take huge pay packages.

Ah, yes. The unions with their silly demands for a 40hour work , and sick leave (which the majority of Americans still don't have)

Read something other than wall street journal and forbes to get better info about unions.
It's only around 100 lines of code. Should be easy to replicate in language of choice:
https://github.com/noamraph/tqdm/blob/master/tqdm.py
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Then by all means, everyone who lives there can continue living in huts so that the trees aren't disturbed, right?

This entire argument is insane.
In case others didn't understand the DiFi reference, it's Senator Dianne Feinstein, not to be confused with the "Agency for Public Management and eGovernment" (https://www.difi.no/om-difi/about-difi) :)

Yes, politicians and politics is a cesspool of unfortunate sadness. No, this doesn't mean we shouldn't still be upset when the most likely presidential candidate takes a stance like this.
That Spotify paper was undated. When was it written?
I am not sure if there's confusion or what but this is literally discussed in the article. So I am not sure what you're arguing exactly. The article discusses how the VBR files have been encoded with minimum bitrate constraints in the fear that someone will make a big deal out of it if it dips "too low"
The submitter had a moderately successful post from this domain a couple days ago and probably thought people might find a follow-up interesting. That's not an ad.

HN gets spam; it looks nothing like this.
In the US, this is the definition of Accredited Investor[1].

The SEC allows companies to sell shares privately, using Regulation D. Regulation D has a number of rules that govern it, such as, you cannot generally solicit your offering (for example: take an ad out in the NYT annoucning you are raising money).

You can raise unlimited funds from Accredited investors (see link). You don't need to provide information (via prospectus) to these investors, as it's assumed they have the acumen to obtain and understand the information to understand the investment being made.

Companies can also raise funds from up to 35 non-accredited investors. However, in doing so, must ensure due diligence that those non-accredited investors can bare the economic burden, are made to understand the investment, etc.

By and large, that amount of work is more than enough to turn some founders away from dealing with non accredited investors.

In certain cases, a pre-seed, initial funding round may come from a "friends and family" round.

The SEC recently passed a law allowing selling shares via Crowdfunding, but because it's fairly new, the risk* to future Venture rounds is unknown, and I'd expect founders to be tepid with adopting Crowdfunding as a viable method to raise money.

[1] http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=8edfd12967d...

* Venture Capitalists (afaik) haven't published an opinion on crowd funding, so founders may inadvertently risk future startup financing rounds if they screw up their capilization table with a crowd funding round.
Is it a good sign that everyone thinks my ideas are crazy?
Compostable servers, smart pens, ternary computing, mass spectrometers in every home etc.. etc...
I think the point was to illustrate the difference in energy requirements for the rocket to impart to the payload.

That said, re-reading Elon's article, he did explicitly say _kinetic_ energy in the 120GJ figure, in which case 0 is the right number for New Shepard at 100km.
Are they just using H265 HEVC?
> Undoing hierarchy at every turn is in the zeitgeist.

Question for folks: Do you really think this is happening or are people just talking about it? I've worked for people who talked a big collaboration/flat structure game, but when it comes down to important projects, all of the sudden, one guy is the decider, and he is only giving responsibility to his lieutenants, who have direct command over the people below. He can count on his hand the number of people who have true control over real resources, which makes it easy for him to reason about where costs are going.

Everyone tries to be nice about it, but my sense is that almost no one actually believes in giving serious responsibilities to a wide range of people. They have their go-to people, and everyone else has to prove themselves by following directions well and maybe they can get a position in that structure at some theoretical later date.

I haven't worked in very many different companies though, so I would love to hear if that's actually becoming a bigger thing in other places. I know Valve is different, but they seem more and more like an outlier to me.
Here is an accessible algorithms paper. It's a cute puzzle problem. It was inspired by answers on cs.stackexchange.

Efficient Algorithms for Envy-Free Stick Division With Fewest Cuts
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04048
Are you sure that is the general case? I have no reason to believe that this is true in general.
Not VLC player, but equally good: https://handbrake.fr/
EFF's Pwning Tomorrow
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I have a feeling that this is how these agencies skirt the law: agency X is not allowed to do "A", so it helps agency B do it, and share the findings with X. And vice versa. So the GCHQ spies on Americans willy-nilly, and the Americans spy on Brits, with full knowledge of each other.
>If a startup does not have money to pay employees then founders should raise more.

> then think this way: how that startup is going to attract talent from established companies (whose expertise are needed if that startup wants to become big).

THANK YOU so much for saying this
if you get a chance to go somewhere where there is a variety, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn the variety of smells is valuable information. Some, smell bad to you, others, may smell okay or even fantastic. seriously, compare its smells and flavors to that of coffee.
Minimizing key strokes is seen as 'false', but it has actually been proven that one can write (debug, maintain,...) about 10 lines of code per hour. Those 10 lines can be 10 lines of assembly, 10 lines of c++ or 10 lines of haskell.
Of course, you can do much more in 10 lines of haskell than you can do in 10 lines of assembly. It basically means you want to be work on the highest level of abstraction that you can afford. It also means that economy of expression is important.
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