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I really liked Ben Horowitz's "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers" [1]

The book is not focused on failures, but it's full of really good advices on what to do when a company is moving into disaster.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Hard-Thing-About-Things/dp/0062273...
The Economist has an article about this subject, too:

"But a new paper by Jose Azar, Martin Schmalz and Isabel Tecu argues that trustbusters now need to look in a new direction: at concentrated ownership. If, for instance, a mutual fund owns shares in two rival companies in the same industry, it would not be in their best interest as shareholders to encourage them to act in a competitive way. The boss of Delta Airlines might propose a price war to boost his business. But would a mutual-fund manager who also owned shares in United Airlines be supportive? And would company managements be as keen to cut prices and fight for market share if they knew that their shareholders did not want them to?

Mssrs Azar, Schmalz and Tecu find evidence for exactly this in the airline industry. Including levels of common ownership in conventional measures drastically increases market concentration to more than ten times the level authorities say would be "likely to enhance market power"."

Bottom line: it looks like there should be competition, but maybe there isn't due to ownership structures.
"Google Jizz"?
They didn't divest their robotics division: they sold off one team due to a lack of cultural and technological fit - with the other groups in their robotics division.
Henri Barkey , in Woodrow Wilson (which is expert in these area's) says the reason is Iraqi Kurds realized PKK is danger to them also , because of their control by only one person. He claim PKK is organization controlled by one person which don't like to be outside of the game (abdullah Ocalan) and do what ever he can to stay in conflict and therefore because of this reason basically iraqi kurds tend to ignore PKK because they realized this is dangerous actor to be involved with (or in some cases fight against them).

The talk was in NPR, you can search "Henry Barky NPR Kurds".
How would this affect me if i'm using Tomcat to run something like Solr? Am I suddenly on the hook to pay Oracle, even if I am using OpenJDK?
"knowledge"
I see a lot of parallels with the political system.

If you let the masses take charge, you're going to a get a more wild, dynamic, unpredictable outcome. In the stock market this new "democracy" manifests as extremely short hold times, in the political arena, as fringe candidates that party elites would never have let win the primaries, had they been in charge.

I, for one, hold stocks for a long time, and hope companies do optimize for the long term, but I realize I may be in the minority.
Google Goo
Schools are just glorified baby sitting services. I would much rather see reduced hours than later hours, but that would conflict with the baby sitting function
>Specifically in this case wage deflation.

How?

How is this specifically wage deflation?

That's a hell of a quantum leap.

If anything, wages are much more resistant to downward pressure than goods. (People really don't like getting a paycut.) So even if the value of dollars increase, most people keep the same wage. In extreme cases, in can even end up in layoff, because people are now paid too much in comparison of everything else in the market.

I would take deflation over inflation any day. Inflation eats away anything you try to keep for a rainy day, while at the same time reducing the value of your paycheck. This means that you must constantly negotiate (or beg, depending on your position) for a raise or you fall behind.
"The hard thing about hard things", by Ben Horowitz, best by far.
Even worse private journals which have higher super insane rates just to get access to the database with the journal. Look at JsTor
>which is the desire to have a child with your loved one.

I've long wondered about this. How much of this is social inertia of 'next step' in your life and how much is intrinsic desire to do so.
The swastika tattoo is also a troll, it's not angled like a Nazi swastika and he filled it full of norse mythology symbols thus not an endorsement of National Socialism.

He sure does enjoy the outrage when people see it though making him a walking troll factory.
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Given how much Google owed Sun in terms of technology and employees pulled from Sun over the years, I always thought not buying the company was an especially cynical move. Sort of like, "Ha! We got all their stuff for free and now they're gone! We win!" Payback's a bitch - though in this case it's not just going to be Google that pays. Oracle is vicious.
I'm not quite sure that's due to type erasure. What would happen to this code if T were an interface? Meanwhile even though (AFAIK) GHC uses type erasure, you can do something like that and create values "de novo" if the typeclass supports it e.g. Alternative's `empty` or MonadPlus's `mzero`
The highest-efficiency electric heaters use heat pumps for efficiencies way above unity.
downvoting just because you disagree is stupid.
Good documentation, ReadTheDocs and Markdown
Keras plays Snake
Ok, thanks for the clarification :-)
Rather than installing it on the host , I want to evaluate Ansible in an virtual environment , I have a pod of 20 odd linux servers, mostly virtual in a inhouse server room and a few on amazon cloud , I created this playground to see if Ansible will work for me.
This is still a terribly underappreciated point. How helpful is it to have $199 TVs rather than $399 ones if most of your money is going to servicing student loans, credit cards, insurance, and apartment rent / housing. The gains in the form of lower prices are vastly outstripped by FIRE-related expenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

Your description sounds like Camus' interpretation of the myth of Sisyphus. I like it.
I really like the article but I’m really not sure about:

>> Chat works so well at communicating with the team that we’re all available 24/7/365

We’re fully remote at my job - no 2 people are in the same state in the whole, small, org. And I think we work well.

But people sign off at 6:30 in their own timezone by and large - and while they’ll check slack as much as they’d check email, slack is not going to cut for 24 hour access.

And it shouldn’t - we don’t want a culture of no downtime at all. If it’s an emergency use their pager* - which yes does get expensive for foreign employees but really the company is fine picking up those charges.

Even if you are remote quality of life matters - and people’s timezones, and schedules should be respected.

* Note that everyone does have a "pager number"- including our support reps. But most people haven’t been paged in more than a year. We consider this to be the right way to do things.
> If you know the language well

Right, that's the problematic assumption. The compiler message aren't going to be problematic if the compiler already trained you.
Well that sounds like a personal problem. Who puts spaces in a filename on UNIX? That's just bad form, and anyway, if you did decide to throw prudence and best practices out the window, you should properly escape it.
Donut pillow
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510 (1570 points, 6 days ago, 799 comments)
Apple's Universal Links: A Testament to Untested Software
That was given as a "Bad" thing- so if a company says "Oh yeah everyone's 24/7/365" then that's a red flag/ run away situation.
Fighting the ticking clock in your head
Reminds me of the book: The Forever War [1] where towards the end 'humanity has begun to clone itself, resulting in a new, collective species calling itself simply Man.' Fantastic science fiction book.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
Reported earnings from Android, one would guess.. though as Google mentions, this is likely ALL they've earned from Android as a platform, nut just the impact of those specific methods.
That's what I am trying to figure out. I have a hunch that it may be correlated with language background.

That's usually why I'm always asking for specifics when people make general complaints, I'm trying to dig into the _why_. "Error messages are bad" isn't actionable; "error messages are bad because" often is. This thread was already getting into specifics before I woke up, though :)
Well right I'm not disagreeing directly, I'm more saying if we could choose to simply not get colds, we don't know definitively what that would mean because it's impossible to test currently in any sort of practical way.
Ask HN: The “New” page – bug or feature?
After lurking here for several years, I've come to realize that there's a basic problem with the manner in which this forum works: while posts that make it to the main page usually get up-voted according to their merit, the way they get there seems much more random and capricious, having nothing much to do with their intrinsic merits.

This is because most HN members probably do not visit the "New" page at all, and even those who do, would not browse more than the first few pages of it. Consequently, the first 5 or so up-votes a post gets are somewhat randomly dependent on the amount of viewers visiting the "New" page during its short stint there - before it gets hopelessly buried behind newer submissions, most of them senseless spam.

Hence, my questions: which percent of HN members actually visits the "New" page?

Shouldn't this perhaps be solved/improved by the addition of a "Rising" page - displaying only new posts that have already received an up-vote or two?

I'm mostly thinking of all the important/interesting stories (especially from obscure sources) that get lost, but would have got a serious up-vote had they made the front page.
Depends on which Sub Committee they are on, and what position they hold on it....
We're very excited about allowing people to easily parallelize and scale their tests. Less waiting for CI for finish! AMA
Investors Are in Denial About China
As a teenager in the US, it was one of my main activities, so I can believe the age. I'm not sure about how it would go in SA.
> Have you hit times when you've missed inputting some knowledge, purely because you've been engrossed in whatever task it is
There are so many things I wish I'd written down that I hadn't, but I think the key is to turn it writing things down into a routine.

I have a shared tmux tab that's always open, so no matter what I'm doing I can C-a-7 to write something down, and C C-a to get back to work - it's pretty fast!

Initially I was quite concerned with deadlines too, but I've found that even in the short run, writing things down ends up saving time - I've found that it's usually research that ends up taking time, not writing things down.

I hope this was helpful (:
While I don't disagree with your point, I don't agree with your reason. It's not that the compiler has trained you, it's understanding that you must bound generics by a trait to be able to call methods on the resulting value. That's a language-level understanding rather than a reading of tea leaves.

This is also one reason why --explain was added; hopefully the extended diagnostics can help with unfamiliar errors. More experienced users need --explain less.
We put more effort into error messages than almost any language I know of, except Elm and Haskell dialects. A huge fraction of rustc commits are tweaking error messages for ease of use.

Rustc error reporting was deliberately based on that of clang.

In particular, I think it is going to be impossible to have error messages for lifetime errors that are solvable without doing at least some background reading.
Unless audit the code you download, you still could be pwned. Compiling or downloading from github isn't some magic talisman.
Well, sure, but that's why you don't share project files.

I think that if you do things correctly, your concern is mostly mitigated. My last job was Java/Spring. As someone noted above, you really don't want to be working with Java/Spring without IntelliJ.

But we never had issues with anyone breaking builds due to screwing up project files, because those weren't shared and the project would run/build/test immediately after import into the IDE without any additional tweaks.

I think it's sort of odd that many folks complain about IDEs, but then use vim with a million plugins. Isn't vim + plugins = IDE? Or, if the overall point is "java sucks, don't use java" then fine, but if you have to use it, I couldn't even imagine using plain old vim without any language support...
And in a world with deflation, putting money under the mattress is actually a good investment strategy.

The resulting deflationary spiral is self-reinforcing. Fear of this state is why central banks try to create a consistent level of inflation.
William Hague: Brussels attacks mean we must destroy crypto ASAP
How to turn any syscall into an event: Introducing eBPF Kernel probes
As a full disclosure my percentage comes from my research on bovine embryos. But I think viability percentage approximately matches your experience, especially when you consider that I'm used to working with ostensibly healthy individuals who could conceive naturally.

If they had dumped 10 embryos each cycle the story would have been different.
Really the only "big" information presented is that Paul Le Roux, a man arrested recently by the DEA, is very very likely the same person who was the early leader of TrueCrypt. It discuses his background a lot - he was an extremely intelligent child and teenager, who started shady business practices as early as 16 when he was arrested for selling porn. He was rather poor and led a shaky life in his early twenties, and had a fairly strong anti-authoritarian belief, which is what led to his interest and development of TrueCrypt (and its predecessor projects that laid the foundation for TC).

He eventually started his pharmaceutical business and made hundreds of millions of dollars. According to sources, he became gradually "darker" as he got more money, including allegations he had people killed. And then recently he was arrested by the DEA.

The article got most of its information by a supposed relative - the reporter is convinced it's legitimate because of how much they know about Paul and their access to documents a non-family member is unlikely to have.

The other interesting new information is that his biological mother (edit: grandmother) is the wife of a US senator, but there's nothing to really collaborate that other than the word of the anonymous soruce.

There is no new information about the discontinuation of TC in this article. The article says that Paul disappeared from the crypto community (at least, under his own name) at about the time he started his pharma company (2004), but implied that he had worked on TC for the decade leading up to 2004. The anonymous source also said he "switched" to the pill selling, perhaps suggesting he left the TC project around that time in 2004.

If I had to guess, whoever was funding the TC developers stopped funding them. And the developers decided to move on with their lives, having worked on it for 15+ years, and possibly largely only doing so because they got paid. The "TrueCrypt is not secure" message was probably to imply that a lack of updates wasn't because they were confident they weren't needed, but rather because it was no longer maintained.
I visit the new page at least daily, sometimes more often. I agree that it is up to us to upvote the stories that best fit the Hacker News guidelines and are from good sources and gratify intellectual curiosity.
I admit I haven't read the CU decision, but whatever else it is, it has apparently opened the door to no-limit campaign financing. Which is bad for democracy.

There are already laws protecting freedom of expression, so I think it's disingenuous to suggest that CU is all about freedom of expression, and therefore good for democracy.
> The ethical frameworks in a lot of developed countries currently are very much in defense of biological inception and against technological interference.

It's books like this that require these ethical frameworks and it's really a shame.

These medical advances have very important use cases in the medical and Infertile community, and these ethical frameworks create massive amounts of heartache and painful waiting for those that really need these advances.

Why do people always have to find ways to exploit technology that can do great things for selfish purposes and ruin it for everyone else?
It's no more outlandish than any of the comments that end up on @ShitHNSays
Yeah sorry if my GOOD/BAD wasn't clear. But I was trying to convey that if that's the kind of response a company gives then you should take it as a warning. I've had companies say things like that in interviews when I asked them questions about remote communication and I think it means their management has not matured yet.
I'm not really sure why progressive enhancement is considered hard...
It's interesting for sure, but what's so earth-shattering about it?
If you need to be have your team banging on the keyboard 24/7/365 then you have the wrong people or the wrong management.

We all keep forgetting John Henry ultimately lost the race :)
Disney uses go.com for all its sites, which include ABC and ESPN.
Talk about a click-bait research paple title.
The Power of Self Service: Self Service Restore
"... the desire to have a child with your loved one"

Another element:

I didn't plan on having a kid, I just didn't take consistent enough precaution and had one pregnancy over a ten year relationship.

I don't regret it, but I wouldn't have had children if it was done through careful pre-planning.
Introducing Five App to HN community
Hey guys,
Mat here. As time passes, together with the Five App team we're more and more excited about the next YC batch. To introduce myself I'm the CEO and co-founder of Five App. It might sounds funny but my dream was to create an app for hip-hop fans but then it turned out that we have huge potential for Deaf people: we're making a messenger app that uses the full power of sign language, with the idea to help the up to 80% of Deaf people by some measures who have problems texting or find it inconvenient. We'd be glad to get feedback on our plans, and I'd love to hear more about your project if you also applied.
They've had to resort to drowning people themselves on occasion.
Teenager in the US at the same time.

Yep, this is exactly what we did with our 8-bit machines and modems at the time.

We were global even then.

EDIT- LOL. I guess the HN downvoters have proof this isn't what we were doing back then???
It doesn't really sound like the same thing I'm talking about, to be honest.

And I find the idea of a tool that automatically rewrites machine readable code into a natural language to be of dubious value beyond use cases where someone is first picking up the language. Similar to those tools that exist to generate comments in the form "Set global position" based on a method named setGlobalPosition. It just creates redundancy, and if you're committing the output to your source tree, then it's redundancy in the form of clutter, too.

What I'm thinking of, as I said, should shoot for parity with having a half-screen browser window open to the right containing the relevant docs. Only in this instance the docs are "live", and the lookup process is context-sensitive, requiring very little manual effort to perform it. I know that a basic attempt at something bearing minimal similarity is available in most editors that try to implement Intellisense, but generally I find the helpfulness of the small popup in most implementations to be limited to helping you get the method signature right, and not much else.

One of the nice side effect of the design I'm talking about would be a system that encourages keeping the docs up-to-date and useful as much as it encourage their consumption.
If these are valuable services, then customers will pay for them; no need to have a monopoly on access to published research.

(as a paper author and reviewer, I don't doubt they are valuable services, but given that reviewers do the work for free, and the research has been paid for, I don't see why the access should be limited.)
By "arms dealer" do they mean "kind of sketchy online pharmacy entrepreneur"? Because I didn't see anything about weapons in this article.

Perhaps that's still to come in part 2, but as of right now the title is extremely linkbaity.

EDIT: title has been unlinkbaitified (previously "Truecrypt was written by a international arms dealer")

EDIT2: title has been reverted to the linkbaity version (previously changed to the original title "He Always Had a Dark Side")
Perhaps this is a red flag that mankind is nearing "peak science". It could be that periodic Dark Age timeouts are not only healthy, but necessary.
3 Critical business tips I would share with ‘7-years-ago’ me
So you're vouching for a product you haven't used?
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The evidence is to the contrary. Folks in developing countries are not having sex for reproduction in statistically growing numbers. Japan, Germany, France and now the US are in or going to be in population decline.

I'd say, unless we advance our timeline, we're in danger of becoming extinct. So let's hope the article is not all hyperbole.
Nonsense. This conjures to mind a giant wheelbarrow of paper dollars being pushed around between various buildings on wall street.

The money we're talking about is held in banks as deposits. Big purchases means one account number is debited and another is credited, but the money remains in banks. Those bank deposits are used for lending. Money still participates in the economy.
Looking at the article again I realize the headline here may be incorrect. It is not proven that Le Roux wrote TrueCrypt, but he definitely built the foundation for it.

> Hafner and his SecurStar colleagues suspected that Le Roux was part of the TrueCrypt collective but couldn’t prove it. Indeed, even today the question of who launched the software remains unanswered. “The origin of TrueCrypt has always been very mysterious,” says Matthew Green, a computer-science professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute and an expert on TrueCrypt who led a security audit of the software in 2014. “It was written by anonymous folks; it could have been Paul Le Roux writing under an assumed name, or it could have been someone completely different.”

Interesting read, regardless.