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> How about a new civil servant job: OSS maintainer.

https://18f.gsa.gov/

EDIT:

> We are transforming government from the inside out, creating cultural change by working with teams inside agencies who want to create great services for the public.
There's a great deal of cultural and economic history attached to yachts.

So lets look at web pages. An end user with no technical training in networking, graphics engines, operating systems etc. can generate sophisticated artifacts with minimal input from a computer. Sure, it's not a "yacht" but its functional.

I've been in AEC for almost 30 years. I've built, designed, and regulated buildings through three recessions. What has kept software from eating design is the economics of piece work. There's no way to scale except linearly and the cyclic nature of the industry puts a natural cap on that.

Typist used to be a career.
Full article is available online. They used a series of surveys to correlate personality traits to people that needed or created drama in the eyes of the surveyed. They then create a composite measure of the strongest signals amongst the traits.

http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Fran...
That's exactly what happened. Initially DC was the only option because Mr. Edison personally bankrolled the first electric grids which required building power plants per section of the grid. Additionally, DC was replacing engine based industrialized factories, which indeed had on premise steam or coal engines, and so installing a power plant for just that factory would have made perfect sense. At the time particular time, granted very soon after, AC was not viable. Saying "not at all" is a bit global of a statement considering it contradicts history.
I appreciate the offer. I actually called them today to ask a few questions, and the sales person said he would set up a call with the CTO if we decide to go with them (who would probably be the better person to talk to). I'm not set on what will be best for our business yet, but I definitely liked that aspect of the call!
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Haha, I like the satire :-)
I would say those VPNs are prime targets for interception.
I've used the phrase cargo cult startup to describe this phenomenon, (after Feynman's phrase "cargo cult science"): going through the motions in the hopes that your intended result will happen, without understand cause and effect.
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> In door games, turns were limited to prevent players with more spare time from dominating the game

And to prevent them from tying up what was very likely the BBS's only phone line.
It can't be any worse than shaking up one in a cup as it's transported. The whole idea of this is silly anyhow.
The threatened world was where IE6 and ActiveX won, where websites routinely insisted on running unsandboxed native code in the browser to implement closed source client-server applications. Where both client and server had to be Microsoft in order to interoperate, paying MS license fees for every client and server. Where sufficiently successful application developers got the phone call from Microsoft offering to either lowball buyout their company or Microsoft would ship a competing product for free in their next release.

(Containerisation would be absurdly expensive in this world, as you'd need a new Windows Server license for every VM. I think you still do, so nobody does this).
I have no experience with Bitcoin or its community - so apologies if the following is naive - but some parts of this article make no sense for me.

For events to have taken place like described in the article, several parties would have been required to work together with the common goal of keeping the blocksize restriction in place:

The Chinese miners who hold the majority of the hashing power, the developers of Bitcoin Core, the admins of bitcoin.org and the as of now unidentified operators of the DDOS attacks.

If you assume it's not a conspiracy, then each party must have reasons why such a decision would be desirable. But as the author describes it, there are no reasons. This goal wouldn't just push Bitcoin into a questionable direction, it would be downright suicidal: Over time, Bitcoin would become unusable for any kind of transaction. Not even the greedy miners could want a cryptocurrency that no one uses.

So I think there has to be some upside to the blocksize restriction. If anyone has more info on that, I'd be happy to know.
Go has an interesting history surrounding its stacks. Originally the stack was a doubly linked-list (segmented stack), but it changed into a more vector-like format (contiguous stacks) in 1.3. Here's a pretty good write-up:

http://agis.io/2014/03/25/contiguous-stacks-in-go.html
So far I haven't personally seen this problem in the field. I know it exists to some extent but is it really that common? How many promising startups are killed by lawsuits?
The alternative to this is focus on getting your customers to pay you in advance for your product. Not only will this tell you if your customers really love your product, but it will provide you with all the cash you need to grow as fast as you want.

The downside is very few products are that loved that customers will pay for 12 months in advance.
The problem with valgrind is that they don't update it often enough. Is once a year enough?
AFAIK, pretty much everyone is. That's really been the big shift over the past few years that's allowed for fairly impressive autopilot levels without AIs having to "understand" and parse the world to nearly the degree people do. Presumably vehicles connected to the system will be able to contribute to updates but maintaining current, high resolution maps across a wide area will certainly be a challenge. It's not unreasonable to think that the government could play some role as well as it does for marine navigation.
No, because Google, Microsoft, and Apple could have coordinated on implementing EME even without an official W3C stamp of approval. Or they could have implemented 3 separate APIs for DRM. Netflix and others would be mildly inconvenienced, but that's something they could deal with. As long as content producers insist on DRM, which they do for video, the sub par user experience is going to be with the platforms that don't support Netflix.
Yep. I'm currently solving problems experienced by senior/lead engineers on large enterprise systems. I know about the problem because I've been that engineer, and know a whole bunch of my peers have the same problems. If you haven't been a lead engineer on a big system, it's not part of your experience - it's not something some fresh grad would work on, period.

Even better startups come from deep business knowledge. Not necessarily unicorns, but great lifestyle and niche businesses that make the founders rich. And really, do you need to buy two Lear jets?
Good note. The line would be more accurate if it read:

>DRM /often/ uses cryptographic methods [...]

Too late to edit though.
There are some great talks by Neil MacIntosh about the kinds of static analysis they are building into the tool.

CppCon 2015: Neil MacIntosh “Static Analysis and C++: More Than Lint" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlHvAw1z50

CppCon 2015: Neil MacIntosh “Evolving array_view and string_view for safe C++ code"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Z3c4Sv52U

For something of this magnitude I wouldn't consider the project late until mid summer.

Stroustrup's keynote at CppCon is a great overview of the semantics they want to support and the errors that the tooling with will prevent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OEu9C51K2A
By patron model, to clarify, you mean a single large company paying most of the bills and bringing funding, right? (either because they want to promote innovation, or this generates financial gains, etc etc)?

I would also think that for a language, this is probably the best model (even if it failed with IronRuby, or if JRuby funding sources moved over time etc).

This is a fairly large endeavour, so it makes sense (at least I believe it!).
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Really? I've found the devs who say this are just having trouble understanding the results these tools put out. No offence intended but do you think that could be the case?
Didn't we already learn what comes after the W3C? Development of HTML5 was mostly pushed by the WHATWG, with W3C later rubber stamping it as the new version of HTML.
Genuine question: What are the legitimate uses of $0 invoices? The only thing I can think of is a product that usually costs money (and thus has an invoice workflow), but has been marked as free for some promotion.
Notice how all those miles are in California where it almost never rains. It's still a hard problem, but it's much easier than driving in Alaska or Seattle. When I see millions of accident-free miles from those places, that's whe I'll be truly impressed, even if it's done with adapted infrastructure.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/11/22/ is more apt.
You literally described the US dollar, maybe every currency.
people who volunteer for these types of studies usually have exhausted all possible alternatives and aren't usually given good prognosis.

According to other comments here (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910698), this is incorrect. Stage 1 is given to otherwise healthy patients, to ascertain adverse effects of the drug. Stage 2 is where the positive effects of the drug are tested, that seems like the case you're describing here.
> I've never used [a bug tracker] that was a joy to use as a submitter [...]

And it shouldn't be. If it is, people submit stupid bugs. When you get a notification of a bug, and you go read the bug, and try to reproduce it, you'll spend at least about five-ten minutes. The submitter then is obliged to spend at least about that much to report a proper bug report to an open source project where even the licence revokes the responsibility of the maintainer to respond to the submitter. And if good will and conventions can't force this, the bug tracker should.
Some bugs only show up on one arch.
Why is this kind of comment (a la "no duh, scientists!") always highly praised on the Internet and in general, even from otherwise intelligent, thinking folks??

Since when have we been okay with "no duh" being our source of information? Come on guys, we have to figure shit out before we get to say "no duh", and then instead of saying "no duh" (which is another word for "common sense", which we all laugh heartily about in other contexts) we get to cite the studies and the research that provides a strong correlation.
> Apple and Samsung, Gillette and Schick, Pepsi and Coke.

None of which got started during the current technology cycle.

>Many (possibly even most) start-ups don't rely on those.

I disagree. In fact, IMHO, the overwhelming majority of startups benefit from organic methods of growth that come from word-of-mouth and reputation. Any startup with more than one customer, pretty much. Owning the market means owning that, in your respective field of business.
"or keep the nice job and potentially regret never starting a company?"

What's unfortunate is that that regret comes almost 100% from the fact that you spend your time at places like HN or Tech Blogs or business press that are brainwashing breeding grounds for having that type of regret. You feel that you would have regret because you think it's on the dartboard to achieve the type of (gambling I might say) success that you read and hear about. (As opposed to playing in the Super Bowl). Because while the founders are smart they don't seem smart in such a way that you think you couldn't achieve the same success if given the chance, right? But what you have to realize is that there are so many things that go into this oversized success that it's a complete crapshoot even with an idea that is good. Bottom line is if you are going to spend your time reading about something like this you will inevitably wrestle with that regret. Which is really unfortunate.
I'm a fan of the theory of basic income but it seems incompatible with an open border/immigration policy. Given how many refugees are already migrating into Europe (many for economic reasons), how would a basic income change the incentives and migration patterns even further?
The initial setup of the PC4212 is certainly fiddly and takes some test joints; but so does the panto router. Once it is dialed in for the particular thickness you're using; I find that I can cut as many joints as I want. I've never had a problem with the length of the boards, since I mount mine on a 36" bench and that is plenty for the drawer sides that I'm doing. With the panto router, you can't cut both sides of the joint at once, so you're going to need to get all your tails, then all your pins.

I don't deny that this is a nifty and versatile machine, I just don't think it is going to be better than the special purpose jigs. Thankfully, no one tells me what machines I can use, and no one tells you what machines you can use. Improving your own personal methodology for things over the course of different projects is half the fun.
Since this is fairly popular and no one has responded yet, I will give it a shot!

This service does what is called 'plate solving' - plate coming from the photographic term. This technology uses pattern matching to identify photographs of the night sky based on existing sky surveys. You submit your image and get back an annotated version that lists what objects it detected. Here are a few examples that I have submitted in the past:

http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/758190#annotated - the Cygnus region

http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/737354#annotated - a wider shot of Cygnus and some other nearby constellations

http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/932613#annotated - just south of the Orion Nebula

As you can see it will annotate constellations, specific stars, and other deep sky objects.

This is a very useful feature for an amateur astronomer's workflow (which is what I use it for) especially when doing long exposure astrophotography as you may not be able to tell exactly where your telescope is pointed when it's zoomed in. Many people use a local version of this software bundled with a program called Astrotorilla (http://sourceforge.net/p/astrotortilla/home/Home/) tied in with their imaging software (such as BackyardEOS) to ensure they are pointed at the right place and to correct drift. The software will take a photo, send it to the plate solver, which returns an annotated version, and if your computer is connected to a compatible mount, it will send the right commands to move the telescope.

There's even a Reddit bot that uses astronomy.net and replies to sky images with an annotated version. Here's an AMA from the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/1ptdkv/hi... Here is another neat post showing a map of the night sky and highlighting where astro-bot has plate solved: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1wdfe4/the...
I really don't understand the content owners still insisting on this whole location based licensing shenanigan :( They should have to let people to pay money to them, so the users will not pirate their content.
>> "I'm really surprised that this is news[...] Apparently deaths during trials are really rare."

That's why it's news. If it was a regular accepted occurrence it wouldn't be news. At the start of the Syrian civil war deaths and battles were front page news, now they happen daily and we don't hear about it.
I still fail to see which DRM product you are suggesting is the proper tool for this situation.

I am and always was talking about the abstract concept of trusted execution. As of yet, there is no environment which is trustworthy from a technical or a political standpoint.

Today's society's attitudes towards DRM are like what one would expect from the world of Orwell's 1984 towards cameras. We've only experienced a certain tool's use for oppression, so people's brains have turned off and they can't imagine the implications of the same tool being in the hands of the masses.
A case study in passive aggressive behavior. Well done!
Are prices so high in order to prevent private use or are they really that expensive? What keeps anyone from building their own?
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Yes. Though I mean me personally, not the language itself. I wanted to work on Rust full time, Mozilla wanted to hire someone to work on Rust full time, it fits.
I think top tech philanthropists like Zuckerberg and Gates should look into this.
The answer is no. Assuming nobody makes a mistake on the application or something like that, every applicant has the same chance in the lottery.
I'm running into the growth problem with my website: http://muxme.com. Lots of people say the love the website, but it seems like no one is telling their friends. I was thinking of maybe adding user created sweepstakes, because I think the only way people would spontaneously tell their friend is if they win something from the site. More winners = more people telling their friends, but I can only go so far on my budget. What do you guys think?
Yes, the CIE 1931 color space is generally accepted as the limit of human perception. I don't know how much variability there is from person to person, since it's based on averages. There are a small number of Tetrachromats that can distinguish a greater variety of colors, but I believe those colors are all still within the gamut.
Why do you see it as different from any other positive thing about a country? Good educational and job opportunities, lack of pollution, effective healthcare and so on, your children not having bombs dropped on them, pretty much anything that makes a country better for the people who live there will make it more attractive to immigrants.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118 (864 points, 22 hours ago, 388 comments)
> one of the dear-github organizational "owners" (as labeled on Github) responses to my issue inquiry was to tell me who he was, then use that to determine my issue was not constructive.

Based on the issue linked above, it doesn't look like this is what happened. Although it may have happened through some other channel.

What it looks like happened is that neither one of you were able to understand what the other's point was.
Here's how we can buy anything using bitcoin (Amazon, Apple store, parking, gas, groceries, etc:

http://www.mensk.com/shift-card-bitcoin-visa-debit-card-that...
This is exactly why I liked your creation.

Sure, pushing the boundaries of CSS is cool, but the message is what really matters: reserve the JavaScript for applications.

This exploration of logic gates in CSS is a really great example too:

http://silon.slaks.net
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Bitcoin is the only alternative to Paypal if you are an American doing international transactions.

Paypal is a terrible organization that has been setting itself up for a huge class action lawsuit for a while. The problem with Paypal is very simple. As a seller, you have absolutely no way of verifying that the buyer is the actual buyer, but you are held financially responsible if they are not. So what happens is people are constantly using stolen paypal accounts to make transactions. Paypal then reverses those transactions 24-48 hours later. Paypal refuses to give you any information up front about the buyer (the very same information that they use to verify that it was a stolen account after the fact, the very same information they use to flag the transaction and alert the real owner [but not the seller]), or any information on the criminal after the fact without a court order. So as a seller, there is no way to protect yourself against people using stolen paypal accounts. They are protected by the walled garden of paypal. Even though they have complete control over the security of their site and are the only party with the information required to verify whether an account is stolen, Paypal avoids the cost of their negligence and forces this cost on the helpless merchant. Paypal enables criminal activity and takes no financial responsibility for criminal use of their product. They don't even have the decency to share information about the person who committed a crime against you. Meanwhile, the merchant is left helpless. They have no way of getting the information necessary to verify the customer, no way of getting information on the criminal after the crime has taken place, and no other service to turn to because of the monopoly paypal has on international transactions for Americans.

No other services offer international transactions for Americans (maybe this has changed in the last couple years but I doubt it).

So if you are an American selling goods on the internet and you want to protect yourself against criminals, the only way to do it is to use Bitcoin. If you know of another way I'd love to hear it.

BTW: Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. A monopolist, like paypal, can't come in and just reverse the transaction after you've already sent the product to the customer.
I think you're arguing against a straw man.

Nobody in this community (including pg) thinks there's something wrong with small businesses. They likely patronize many small businesses every week.

The point is that's not what they're doing. Startups are categorically different from small businesses and there's a lot of advice for my tech startup which isn't applicable to my mom's landscaping business (and vice versa).
To put it simply, anyone claiming HIPAA is the reason for that is just lying (since HIPAA has no such requirement) and would invent some other excuse -- or simply refuse without explanation -- without HIPAA. In fact, HIPAA patient access requirement mandates that patients have access to, and a right to receive copies of, their records under most circumstances, and refusal to provide such access is an actionable violation of HIPAA -- without HIPAA, there would be no recourse.
Apple uses DRM for subscription music, but not music you've paid for a perpetual license; why wouldn't Youtube use DRM (at the copyright owner's request) for music and video when you haven't paid them for a license?
Correct me where I'm wrong and sorry to ask or be "that guy," but is it appropriate to post someone's email address without their consent? Googled around for a bit, it does not seem to be public information.
This community seems to have its own definition for a lot of words, startup included. Nothing wrong with that, so long as one recognizes that. The trouble for me tends to be when the wider press gets involved, and it isn't clear if the "two-letter acronym world" (nice expression!) definition is intended, or the definition used by others is intended.

What does one call a new company formed to develop a pharmaceutical candidate? I would call it a startup, but I don't know that such a company has much at all in common with what people around these parts call a startup.
You wouldn't "actually have" the received email either.

That's a straw man. The contents of communication would be proof from repudiation, but permission to send would be subject to revocation.

Given that DRM is a broken concept, it wouldn't stop global adversaries like the NSA from mining your medical records.

Begging the question. Our experience so far of DRM is broken. And there are plenty of adversaries below the capability of the NSA people need protection from.