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"A long time ago, I thought about doing something similar to Dijkstra's letters -- bringing a few colleagues together and beginning to circulate small notes whenever we had something interesting and cohesive enough that it might be wort putting into writing."

Interesting idea. They sort of do that already with ACM letters, online articles, and so on. If anything, we have so much of this going on that each community silos. That's partly why high assurance INFOSEC and the ITSEC field are two different things. ;) I do occasionally bring up the idea of creating a site hosting top papers and developments in software/security engineering that only invites people that do the research or job. Just people that know shit with a track record and something to bring. They can read the papers, discuss what's in them in moderated forum, and so on. Quite a few like the idea but it will be hard to bootstrap.

"o serious test methodology, no attempt to at least document assumptions first. It's a wonder we're not at the point where a computer kills someone every day yet."

People scratch an itch by modifying an embedded RTOS's kernel. Yeah, I'm amazed we're all still here too.

"Trial and error is a natural way to learn things, but it should generally be done just once, ideally by as few persons as possible. We're... not only are we not there yet, we're doing the precise opposite of it."

Excatly. One example was Burrough's including stack protection into their CPU's. That should've showed up in Intel's stuff as soon as stack attacks became more prevalent. Instead, you see all this trial and error research into tactics that all got beaten. Anything but actually managing one's stack or modifying a CPU to do so. Intel eventually puts it in their off-brand, but good, Itanium CPU. I know Secure64's OS uses it but idk about rest. People still countering stack attacks with tactics to this day despite it solved in 1961.

Ask me about setuid if you want another one even more clever.

"One could have thousands of MC14500s on a single chip with today's technology; granted, they could not all talk to each other at the same time due to the limits of interconnects, and not all could be independently interfaced with the outside world, but a hierarchical architecture built out of reliable nodes (and with plenty of room for redundance) might at least be worth investigating.""

Funny you say that because that was one of my first thoughts. Look up Kilocore for one of those. Other thought was reimplementing ABC Thinking Machines 65,000 CPU design on one or a few chips. The chip's were barely functional: just ALU's or whatever. Still did amazing things in genetic algorithms. One 256 8-bit core design on 500nm accelerated neural networks well in past, too. So, 8-16-bit MPP on a chip are conceivably useful to this day.
OTOH a great way to reduce waste is to make products repairable and upgradable, which is something Apple keeps moving away from, especially on popular products.
Tumbless uses two passwords: the admin one could benefit from the local storage approach, however I'm not sure if chrome's password saving feature would help.
The second one is the one you share with your guests if you choose to make the blog private. I see no other option here.

I'm not very happy either with the hidden file approach, as it might be vulnerable to brute force attack. Amazon does not specify what kind of protection they have in place.
I definitely recommend hard to guess passwords.
> This is a bit of a PR issue as well. I think most people don't know that when they pay more for a genuine charger, they are getting value for their money. I think most people feel like Apple is ripping them off on replacement chargers.

Apple is ripping us off. There's no way that a quality charger actually costs any significant fraction of $65. (Putting aside the lack of proper strain relief and generally shitty, failure-prone cable; MacBook chargers are practically guaranteed to need replacement at least once in the device's lifetime, in my experience.)

Unfortunately, Apple's dodgy chargers are still better than anything else by leaps and bounds, so they remain the most economical choice despite being wildly overpriced.

I feel like there's potentially a big market for decent quality third-party MacBook chargers at a decent price. It's a shame that nobody makes anything like that.

> That's why many people will still buy chargers with an obvious flaw like a plastic ground pin.

Somewhat unrelated, but what confuses me is: the US MacBook charger comes with a long three-prong cable and a short two-prong cable. Either the ground pin isn't necessary, and I'm being needlessly inconvenienced by not being able to use the long cable with two-prong outlets, or it is necessary and I'm being endangered by the two-prong. Either way I'm not sure why they'd do that.
Hmm. Instead of purely focusing on macro, what if the human was in the middle, while the AI existed at both the top and bottom?

I'm now thinking more explicitly of the book series I alluded to (The General series by S.M. Stirling and David Drake): the human is a commander, so the units are intelligent in their own right (thus, handled by the AI); and the AI is also giving the human commander real-time advice based on what knowledge it can discover through the human's vision (isolated from the other AI-instance doing micro, but "smart" in the sense that it can assume that the micro is being done by a [fallible] rational actor that thinks like it does.)

I feel like that "human in the middle" configuration would actually make for its own new subgenre of 4X/RTS-like games, if we could get it right; somewhat like a more interesting version of tower defense. Like an RTS, it would be about issuing orders; like a MOBA, you'd have direct control of a "champion" unit. But the job of the unit would be to give those orders, and your job as the player would be to get their position fortified while also gaining enough information to accurately strategize.

Come to think of it, this is what Dungeons & Dragons was originally supposed to be about, wasn't it? Commander-level characters going off to do scouting or other special ops for their army, advancing in rank and gaining underlings in the process. (D&D1e assumes you'll just already have a wargame going with an overworld hex grid, unit stats, etc., and just serves as a "what heroes do in a zoomed-in view" add-on to it. Thus why it doesn't come with its own battle system.)
I've found that people who are open usually think of the interview as a way to learn new things and to determine whether it's a good fit. They will ask questions and seem to enjoy gathering knowledge.

Rationality is more of a value than a litmus test. Those who value rationality will understand systems thinking and will tend not to focus highly on authority (either being authoritative or deferring to someone else's authority).
> it'll only be a very tiny fraction of the aviation market.

So is everyone driving in the morning: a tiny fraction of the transport pollution. Add every tiny fraction and you get a significant fraction.

To add to staceymakano's point: in the transport industry, I feel very uncomfortable when a a new alternative doesn't perform better on the environmental side.
This is damage control. You clearly want to make people update their profiles or whatever by pretending to be somebody else they know.

You went with an immoral strategy to grow your business and that now it has finally hit you in the face on a very visible website you are here to be all apologetics. It's the "easier to ask for forgiveness rather than permission" strategy and it is deliberate thus I must conclude that your apology is insincere and is only an attempt at limiting the backlash against you.
Apple's Liam robot takes apart your iPhone for recycling
Case in point: Soylent
Anyone has a solution to make pdf from html thats hosted. The java library flyingsaucer is stuck at css 2.1 and not much maintained. I have been meaning to check wkhtmltopdf which will need launching a process but might be the best bet for such work. Anyone has better experience in doing something similar?
All of these answers for why we sleep - garbage collection in brain processes, energy recovery - beg the question, why do these processes HAVE to happen during sleep, instead of during wakefulness.

I suspect that it's an artifact of the Earth having a day-night cycle at all. Imagine the very first organisms on earth. One is always wakeful, and spends all of its awake time hunting for food. During the earth's night cycle, hunting for food is harder - it's colder, so smell molecules travel more slowly. It's darker, so you can't see food as well. The organism has to work harder to gain the same calories compared to during the day. If there's another organism that goes into a low-energy state during the night, it exchanges the risk of being killed for food during the night with the lower energy budget of not needing to be active at night. Even if a particular organism gets eaten, it's a net positive for the species, and these organisms can outcompete the wakeful organisms.

Then, as sleepfulness becomes part of the successful energy budget of early organisms, you can further optimise nighttime activities - organisms that do brain garbage collecting during the night can do so more efficiently than organisms that also sleep but do continuous garbage collecting. Because sleep was the optimal strategy for primitive organisms, fitting recovery into sleep becomes selectively chosen for.

The only way to prove this, though, would to find a planet that has no day/night cycle, and see if those organisms have any sleep behavior.
I don't mean to single out Apple except to the extent that these sorts of events don't lend themselves to honestly discussing the huge environmental impact of the disposable electronics Apple and others produces. I'm willing to believe they're better than most other companies in this regard, but that doesn't mean much when there is almost zero accountability in this area.
Unfortunately a quick google image search for "Dan Wagner donald duck waistcoat" yields no results, but that would be quite something so see.
Yeah lets look back to a 2000 year old mistly fantasy document that romans used to moralise their own society for our own explaitions. That seems like a great idea. Its not like that line of thought ever had bad consequences.
In the financial world, where the physical presence of a trusted deal quarterback (who may fill that role for multiple deals at once) makes all the difference, the answer is a resounding yes. I love telepresence as much as anyone, but the reality is that nothing replaces a good firm handshake at the right moment, and nothing will unless we start living the majority of our waking hours in VR.
Plutocracy?
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There is one rather big key difference in dating versus interviews. You only get once chance to find out _everything_ about a company during an interview. Whereas dating has many "meetings". This is the real problem with interviews. They're an all or nothing.
Thank you. When I look for a job, I'm not looking for the very top salary (usually those go to the very top performers, which I'm not, I'm good but not top 1%, or are companies which expect too much time), but there are a good number of companies out there trying to get good people for bottom-of-the-barrel salaries. I don't want to waste my time on those places. They usually have other big problems in addition to poor pay too.

Honestly, I wish every job posting included the following:
- salary range (and an honest one too, not one where they post a mediocre low and a great high, but then never actually offer the high number to anyone and just offer the low number by default)
- work location - sometimes it's not that easy to figure out where a company's office is located, or they have multiple locations. The address is important, because it determines my commute time.
- office environment - is it open-plan, cubicles, offices, shared offices, etc. Some photos would be good.
- computing environment - do you use Windows (7, 8, 10), MacOSX, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, etc.)? A combination? (RH in a VM for development, Windows for email/Office). What version control do you use? (git, SVN, or (ugh) ClearCase)
- standard benefits package: insurance company and regular single-guy premium, number of days off/year, etc.
- a fairly detailed explanation of the actual work involved in this position: what technologies you'll likely use, what the project is, etc.
- number of people in team, how team works together (Scrum/Agile, waterfall, etc.)

If companies would just post all this info with their job requisitions, it'd save everyone a lot of time. I see posting filled with paragraphs and paragraphs of flowery crap about how wonderful their "collaborative team environment" is or their corporate philosophy or whatever, but the things I listed above are what are important to me in a job and what will determine if I'm happy in that job. Spare me the flowery prose about how wonderful your company is; I'll make that determination on my own.
I'm speechless. That's an absolutely terrible idea.

Are you guys trying to sends us all back to LinkedIn?

Any kind of notification is a dead give away you're looking for another job.

I guess this goes to show that AngelList is all about the "Angels" and gives no f*cks about the talent.

Shameful and sad. Time to kiss AngelList goodbye.
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Must be April 1st on his calendar.. LOL
>and it's anonymous.

no it's not.
> By surrendering to the mouse and the GUI, my older co-workers are low-quality producers, exceedingly lazy, and otherwise slowly dying.

I could say the same for the co-workers from a very well known fortune 500 I worked for. They were all using HP-UX.

> My console emulator has looked the same for the last ten years. Innovation hasn't slowed me down at all.

Yep that says it all. Hardly the example of what innovation means.
For those of us who are disbarred from looking at, or researching, IP: this is a statement by the owner placing this IP into the equivalent of the US public domain, or its equivalent in your state. The code is under MIT license. The author, obviously, doesn't indemnify you. If you're unfamiliar with the genius of the FFI in Lua, or Mike Pall's JIT/VM wizardry, it is well worth looking at.
I wonder if the original demand for Concorde between NYC-LDN was due to the clear link as major financial centers.

As video and audio conferencing proliferated the demand for in person meetings amongst customers in finance would have gone down. That would have hit Concorde pretty hard.

Business which needs to be conducted in person could be between factory and design hubs. Silicon Valley to China's manufacturing centers for example.
Apple announces new 4-inch “iPhone SE”
It's not that proprietary. FFMpeg supports creating these streams – I once created an encoding pipeline using HLS for a gig. The idea behind the tech is pretty good.

But yeah, browser support is very poor – I had to use a Flash fallback for browsers that didn't support it (which was basically everything but Safari at the time... looks like that sadly still hasn't changed).

At the time it was the best thing for the job, but I haven't done anything with video lately. What would be the best tool for the job these days? Regarding browsers support, etc.
Apple chargers are indeed shit, but the counterfeits are actually worse.
Depends on the area of expertise and how you buy that expertise.

Many contractors are really installers, and are great at bootstrapping a product or service. But... they know little or nothing about the actual running of the thing they setup. They don't get how to integrate their product's magic with your ITSM system, or what metrics to monitor, etc.

On the developer side, I've seen more than my share of consultants who are high-priests of whatever methodology/language/framework religion they preach, but have a hard time delivering value.
citation?
Sometimes they flat out just ask, though. When I interviewed at google, they asked me my college GPA. After telling them I left college before getting a degree, they just repeated the same question. Silliness.
This seems nice, but there's no way 6 guys in a hanger in Denver are going to build a viable supersonic passenger aircraft that meets FAA standards for mass passenger travel, is fuel efficient enough that tickets aren't $20K and somehow also turns a profit.

I know "never say never", but this is about as confident a statement I or anyone with 3 minutes of reading on the airline industry can make. Margins are razor thin as it is.

A much better option (IMO) would be to research a Citation/Learjet sized supersonic aircraft. If you think of the market, the rich would be much more comfortable leaving from a smaller/private terminal in their private jet, zipping to London in 4 hours, and then zipping back on their own time, than they would going through the main terminal and all that nonsense just to save 3 hours in the air. Hell, being in the air in first class is the best part of the entire trip!

These guys (No connection whatsoever) http://www.aerionsupersonic.com/ have been trying to do the latter for 13 years. Thirteen. They just got their first order.
I wonder if petrr theil is an investor. He uses the deprecation of the concord as an example our socoety is slowing down technologically (literally & figuratively).

I have to imagine demand for international biz class flights have gone up since the concord retired given that global is a given for almost all industries.

If you are an executive (even a well paid employee) it could be worth your time to do this. It is ~1200 usd for a roundtrip flight from NYC to LON.

By the time these guys launch, it will likely be much more. The opportunity cost/math will be simple. I think that there is a high correlation of people who value their time > $200 that need international flights.

Depending how prices shake out I could see this working. Obviously, super hard to do an airline company.

sentiment: cautiously opyimistic
> Historically, and inevitably, everything moves towards liberalisation

What?? Tell that to the Victorians, to the Iranians, etc
You can hold the recent apps button to do that in CyanogenMod.

Also, alt tab works in Android if you have a keyboard.
Apple introduces the iPhone SE
That's Teterboro Airport + Jet Assisted Takeoff, and (Teterboro-London City Airport) for those like me who aren't in the know.
Apple creates Liam, a robot to rip apart used iPhones
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I really like how this talk summarizes the reason supersonic air travel never took off: http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm.
> If you work in an average company who hires average people and you are well above average you quickly risk becoming exactly that.

I liked Steven Covey's 7 Habits take on this much more "Sharpen the Saw." This approach and wording puts all the blame on those around you. That is very good to think your above those around you and that you are above average.

A) Nothing wrong with average half the people are below average

B) Rating someone top 5% is totally a perception unless your in something that can be measured easily (Think fast 100m Dash or the author's bowling)

C) Having hired dozens of people for different jobs I can tell you that my top 5% at higher usually ended up being drama and the one person I just hired because I needed a body ASAP ended up being hands down my best employee. (Look at how Google has changed their hiring practices because hiring is close to impossible to get right, think NCAA Brackets)

D) Self-deception - Everyone believes their kid is above average and self-delusion inflates our own self-assessment. Blaming those around you give you a great out of self-responsibility.
False. You kids might not make as much money but in realty their living standards jave grown quite a bit.
You missed the previous poster's first option: raise the price until demand equals supply.
Apple defends crypto fight against government during launch event
I have a feeling they will eventually acquired by SpaceX.
I wonder if there's a market for premium private air terminals, or even entire airports.
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> I'm not defending Tesla's behavior towards NYT and Top Gear. I just don't see any justification for your claim that it's "more likely" you'll lose your spot because of public criticism on Twitter, and that you should "expect to be removed" if you complain about delays.

I do. They have previously done exactly that. That's my only point, Tesla has a history of attacking critics including cancelling pre-orders.

My only "axe to grind" is for Tesla to stop attacking critics and to instead go after their argument. If Tesla disagrees with a negative review/experience, that's fine, but don't try to punish people for raising issues.
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What I mean is a script that for example creates a large number of users using a form that is exposed by my web page (not protected by captcha for usability). This would result is my backend issuing large number of API calls to send user registration confirmation emails.
Yes, however that was 3 and a half months ago -- and as far as I can tell, there's been no movement towards doing so.
Sure, those people who keep entirely to themselves may be highly effective programmers. But they will likely not be effective communicators, and unless they are their own manager and work on teams of one, they are going to be less effective overall than someone who can communicate.
pip is not meant to be used as an API, and there is no backward compatibility guarantee, AFAIK.

There is an ongoing effort to extract all its logic into separated packages [1], thought.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/packaging
c# is the main language used with the Unity game engine, which is currently the most poplar game engine around.
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There is negative chance this project gets off the ground. If the Boeing 2707, which even with heavy government funds, still failed to make it out the door I don't think these guys have a chance in hell.
Does it talk about distance limitations at all? Sydney->everywhere could use this.
Brands? Who cares? Are they the cheapest, fastest etc? I don't care which characters constitute their name, nor which bitmap they've chosen for their current logo.
Works on Edge...
Why should the company lead with what they are willing to pay? Why is it on the company and not the possible employee? Why shouldn't every phone screen begin with the possible employee saying "this is my salary range" and politely exiting the call if the screener won't validate that the salary offered is within that range?

When I buy a car, the person selling the car sets the price. I can take it or leave it.

When I rent a house, the landlord sets the price. I can take it or leave it.

When I'm selling my labor as an employee, why am I not the person setting the price that the company takes or leaves?

I'll tell you why, because the first party to state a number in any negotiation is at a disadvantage, because the counter party suddenly has more information.

Now, there's a valid case that the employer/employee relationship is asymmetrical enough as it is (one employer -> many employees) that the company should give up that negotiating point, but if I ran a company, I'd want to justify that. (There's also a case to be made that, especially with knowledge work, the employee has an asymmetrical advantage because they know how hard they are working, and it's hard for the employer to know.)

That said, when I enter into a new engagement to sell my labor, aka an interview, I do my best to make sure they want to buy my time before I set a price. It's negotiation.

Edit: I love the parent comment even though we disagree, upvoted.