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"The fees being charged are publisher fees, absolutely ridiculous fees for a minimal service that is completely obsolete in the internet age, hampers collaboration and the flow of information, slows down science, prevents underprivileged persons from accessing the research that is in the vast majority of cases publicly funded"

So we should be able to do whatever we want when we don't agree with a law? this is between publishers and researchers.

"and serves only to give money to these publishers, of which absolutely 0% goes to the researchers themselves."

This sounds like the 'all music should be shared and free' argument all over again. The last decade of Napster and Torrents have pretty much destroyed any chances of an Indy musician to make a living without the sponsorship of a big corporation.

It essentially pushed all of the Indy artists out. They actually had a chance to make a living with music before file sharing became part of our culture (and the belief that bits on a computer should somehow be free since it takes nothing to copy them).

The irony is that the exact same thing is happening with job outsourcing and now those same people are clamoring for government intervention. We somehow need to stop the free flow of information when it directly affects your job.

I worked in academia in a different life and nearly all research is conducted in some part by private entities pumping money into the University.

This won't have the desired effect and will essentially make research even more private.

I don't believe the GNU is a truly free license. If I decided to take software, use it in a proprietary app, and then sell it with no source, I would be taken to court (and people here on HN would want me sued out of existence (I've seen it many times already)).

Should I have a right to do this? Because this is exactly what is going on here. A copyright license is being broken and you believe it's justified.
Nice kitchen. Do you mind sharing what prompted you to switch career entirely?
They're generally operating on the assumption that there's some amount of setup that you do initially, maybe the first time you try to call methods on your magic ORM object, that will set up the inheritance for that class and inject the appropriate methods, and then this will mostly stay static for the remainder of the process lifetime. This seems to me like a generally reasonable assumption.
You're absolutely right, I realized that right after I posted that.
Just $10K? That's amazing! I was thinking that a leased new model of the Leaf (or preferably the Bolt) would be ideal given the battery issues.
I wonder what kind of software / tools the journalists used to analyze the leaked data. Anyone have any info on this?
I'll go out on a limb and call BS on this. An Amazon link doesn't do a good job saying Tesla has no battery tech. That I'm aware of, Tesla has at least designed some thermal management around their battery cells, to ensure optimal operating temperature (and extending battery lifetime, compared to air-cooled batteries like the initial LEAFs). http://insideevs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/bltbattrygea...
Before we even go into line item mode we really need to ask ourselves if this is a $336k problem in the first place. They could have just asked the military how they handle this sort of problem, and the solution they would have been given is this: a $2 hand tally counter. Establish what the desired flow rate is, divert every nth person, reset the clicker, anybody in line observed shifting position gets diverted. Unless the TSA can't even trust their people to count, or their real objective is adding some weirdly alienating layer of technology between the employee and the traveler.
Not a native German speaker (One side of my family is German so I have assimilated some of the culture, but I know only small amounts of german), but I would hazard a guess that an expanded form of it is

Don't worry, [no matter how great they are,] they also cook with water

meaning something along the lines of "No matter how great they are, they are still human in the end".
TL;DR -

1. George Hotz builds his own self-driving car.

2. a16z invests $3.1M in his company, Comma.ai.
Why was the fee not-so-modest? Common sense would dictate that since it's a good that's both easy to obtain and also completely commoditized, the amount you could charge would decline to the cost of production.
Rich people as a class invest and save more as a percentage of income. what are you going to do with that dollar you saved on taxes anyway put it in the stock market, real estate, etc? it's just an illusion collectively all that does is raise prices on assets. So, as a whole the rich will still own the same stock, bond, real estate they just paid more for it. then someone comes along and raises taxes the all the sudden asset prices fall. but you still only own 1 share of xyz.

besides I'd be much more worried about the trade war they all want to start more than anything.

Next, would be all the federal workers they want to layoff to get those taxes cuts. lay off a couple million people and see what happens to the economy.
Have you had any issues with some parallel features overlap in their changes? IE: messy merge conflicts in models after two teams took base functionality in different directions?
I used to work in an industry and area where a huge portion of the support services (custodial, labor, etc) were provided by tribal contractors with predominantly Native American employees, providing huge employment to these often struggling communities because of preferential selection. So there are definitely anecdotal success stories to these programs. There is also the opposite, though.

There are some controls in place. For example, my understanding is that in the federal government, contractors that are preferentially selected for various reasons must perform a majority (at least a technical majority, e.g. 51%) of the work in-house, although I don't know a lot about how that is measured or supervised so I'm not sure how effective it is. I have certainly seen cases that looked like abuse.
This. I just received my Echo Dot and first thing I did was to check my firewall logs since it is conveniently located behind my pfSense router. Believe it or not, it isn't listening at all times. However, that doesn't mean that there is no sleeper feature.
Obviously it's possible to meet NHTSA's criterion of operation with a "single quick glance" with a touchscreen UI.

The fact that most manufacturers either do a poor job of making this happen or don't bother trying at all doesn't entitle you to condemn the entire technology.
I think you're right in saying that anyone could do it, but in my opinion, it depends on the economics of the battery packs. If we truly are seeing the costs come down, as Tesla hoped and GM seem to be showing, then it'll be exciting to see if any other players appear. GM reportedly scored an insane price of $145/kWh for their battery pack production http://insideevs.com/lg-chem-ticked-gm-disclosing-145kwh-bat...
The 1% having their pants down is the type of transparency we need.

Sincerely, Thank You!
I believe many gambling websites are hosted within mohawk territory inside the Québec province. Kanhawake Gaming Commission is operating a datacenter on the reserve from what I understand.. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Great points. While I don't consider myself that privacy-minded, I have been trying to be more conscious of it lately. I suppose I trust my phone more for two reasons:

1. The public battle between the FBI and Apple gives me some confidence that my phone isn't bugged.
2. Even if it is bugged, my phone spends most of its time in my pocket or in a corner of my bedroom charging. Its microphones aren't good enough to pick up any real conversation in either situation.

The Echo is unique in that it is specifically designed to hear all conversation in a room and placed in a central location at all times.

Having said that, I agree that the Echo will not make or break the NSA. It is, however, one more potential security hole I am willingly bringing into my life. I will have to weigh the benefits to that risk. Just like I continue to use my smartphone, Gmail, Facebook, etc because the benefits have outweighed the risk, I am coming around to the benefit side of Echo's equation.
Elon Musk said that he expected the average configuration to cost $42,500. There is no actual average price yet, as no options or pricing has been announced yet beyond the $35,000 base price, and nobody has actually been able to configure an order, and won't for a long time.
Let's start with open sourcing the effing voting machines.
"every nth person" selection is just too predictable. You could try to prevent people shifting in line, but in a crowded airport you will never be able to control that effectively at current staffing levels. The cost of effectively enforcing that rule would rapidly add up to more than $300k and cause serious inconvenience to travelers.
I once found and disclosed similar issues in an app.

The app didn't use HTTPS so it was trivial to intercept Bearer tokens.

For some reason, most API endpoints returned way more data than necessary (e.g., when receiving a message you also get the user's last location, their name, their latest known profile icon), so simply observing network traffic on an Insecure WiFi network would be enough to get all the information you could ever want (no need to actually use that Bearer token).

And of course the app collected the precise GPS location and would return a GPS location with full precision in virtually every API response (messaging a stranger, fetching their public profile, etc).

In my private, responsible disclosure sent to the creator I demonstrated how I could use their private API to track the creator everywhere he goes. I think that drove the message home ;)

I am always skeptical when an app wants my GPS location.

Since I am friends with the creator's wife, I never wrote a post about this.
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If I purchase a vehicle, I'm likely to want it to work for every trip I want to take. It needs to work when I visit my brother in Oklahoma in the winter, and my friend's LAN party in Louisiana in the summer, and my in-laws in Oregon in the fall, and when I pick friends up from the airport (a 45-mile round trip) a few times a year, and on days when I have a bunch of scattered errands all across town.

If a car sucks for even one of those trips, I'm going to be hesitant to buy it, and if there are two or three circumstances where it would suck, I'm crossing it off of my list. If I can come up with one trip where I'm going to need to sit there for two hours waiting for my car to charge, then the supercharger network, while not being actually useless on the whole, is not particularly convenient for me and therefore not really a strong selling point.
Must be a weird California problem. I simply don't see this problem in Texas. I have known several people who have fled California to Texas for exactly that reason.

EDIT:

Look through the data and ask yourself why you would want to pay more for what appears (according to the data) to be a less diverse, more expensive, and more dense area. What the data doesn't reflect is home size. I paid $125k for a 3000sqft foreclosure a few years ago that is now worth $200k. I couldn't get half a garage for this in the bay area.

http://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/san_francisco_ca/fo...
> Thus, there are safe things that rust doesn't consider safe, or that rust cannot infer is safe.

That's also true for any programming language that claims to achieve safety in any sense. At some point you have to have a trusted computing base, whether it's your hardware or the standard library.

In other words, the presence of "unsafe" in the implementations of some things doesn't make Rust unsafe--if Rust is unsafe then so is every other safe language.
Yes this is exactly what happens in my experience. I've recently gotten rid of both architects on the application I work on. The programmers you want on your team are the ones who feel empowered by thinking for themselves and owning the solutions they come up with.
Can you give source for that $42.5k number? I remember seeing a number like that, but I believe it was describing the average price later down the road, when people choose their additional options and click 'buy' on the real thing. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/715934657720639488 The base price seems to be $35k.
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I don't know if GM used any of Tesla'a tech, but Elon Musk did open up all their patents. Anyone can jump onto the electric train.
Really, you went with insulation rather than indoor plumbing and electricity? :)
> Do you folks really know people that are doing government contract work (for the TSA no less) for less than $100k?

We have done recently. (Not TSA - not even US govt...)

And, in spite of our "mid 5 figures" price for the iOS+Android apps for a fairly simple app - the whole program of work the government department included this in, and hence the media reporting of "what the app cost" came to 1.3million dollars.

Now I get people asking me "How on earth did it cost over a million dollars for that app? Surely that's practically fraud!"

If the only requirement is "an arrow that randomly points left or right when you tap the screen" - I suspect _anybody_ who reads HN could whip up a provably-correct solution in under 30 mins just using html and javascript. I _strongly_ suspect there's a +lot_ of other requirements and costs we don't understand here. (But cynically, a lot of those costs could well be high paid consultants writing Powerpoint decks justifying why the only requirement should be "an arrow that randomly points left or right when you tap the screen". That'll be $325k thanks - here's our recommended outsourcing partner who can deliver the app for $11k.)
Experience with Rules-Based Programming for Distributed, Concurrent, Fault-Tolerant Code

The paper’s third contribution is to demonstrate the value of the rules-based approach. Rules allowed us to solve a wide range of problems in RAMCloud using a small amount of code (only 30-300 lines of rules-based code for each DCFT module). Rules are also efficient: when used in the critical path of RAMCloud’s write operations, rules overheads account for only about 200-300 ns out of the total write time of 13.5 μs. The rules-based approach is a specialized form of an event- driven state machine, but it results in cleaner factoring and simpler code than the traditional approach to state machines. We reimplemented the scheduler for Hadoop MapReduce (which uses the traditional approach) using rules; our rules-based implementation replaced 163 state transitions with only 19 rules.

https://ramcloud.atlassian.net/wiki/download/attachments/684...

EDIT: the code behind that paper appears to be here:

https://github.com/PlatformLab/RAMCloud/blob/master/src/Inde...
Buyers still have a challenge in finding qualified minority/woman-owned firms, but there are pipelines in place to help build those firms up.

Of course, in the real world, what happens is that the company owner/CEO gives his wife or another female relative 51% of the company, and/or the title of CEO or managing director.

This dubious practice obviously doesn't scale up to large/publicly-held organizations, but it's widespread in the "small/disadvantaged business" community.

It turns out that it's awfully hard to do the right thing by doing two wrong things.
Exactly. I have no doubt that Echo is not listening to my conversations now. It's the potential to do so later that concerns me. I would love to see a technical explanation of how the Alexa wake signal works and what security, if any, is in place to prevent tampering, much like Apple's explanations of its secure enclave.
The $336K appears to be just the cost of one installment. The total project costed $1,444,315
Here are the rest of the transactions under the same contract: https://www.usaspending.gov/Pages/AdvancedSearch.aspx?k=HSTS...

TSA spends most of it's budget through a provision called "Other Transaction Authority" which is essentially a vehicle to make purchases with barely any oversight from congress. http://time.com/4134368/tsa-price-of-security/ (Paywall)
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Yep. In LA Large empty lots are hard to come by. A 6k square ft lot might be 100k for an undesirable location in an undesirable nbhd, but 400k is probably typical. Not sure how much cost "zoning and permitting" really adds on top of that.
"Anything can go wrong?"

"Don't be a buzzkill, man!"
It's like the $10,000 dollar hammer, but this is far worse.

With the hammer, government apologists claimed it was to "secretly move money for DoD"... which really means it was the DoD and military just giving themselves a shit ton of money.

The US is very corrupt. The DoD dodged a bullet when 9/11 happened because that was the day they were going to be put under investigation.

Sadly enough, nothing happened at all, and this type of political graft is very common among the military and their politicians.

A recent case for example is the head of University of California who does not even belong there and is completely ill qualified to lead a college. Her only real experience is as a _spy chief_ for the military and DHS.

This type of political graft resulting from military connections is going to be far more common and invade further into civilian infrastructures. It's not like the NSA's complete treasonous behavior in spying on the US citizens they're supposed to protect isn't bad enough... that isn't even the tip of the iceberg, I'd wager. Before that of course was the CIA funneling drugs into cities to fund their own pockets and programs. Or even the joke of the "war on drugs" which all it was meant to do was control the profit flow of illegal street drugs.

These styles of military programs, also known as soft power projection, directed at the US population and citizens is getting far more common and invasive. These days, it is almost considered the norm.
Although he forgot about satellite and launch vehicle contamination bringing particles into orbit.
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it begs the question: what is the alternative?

Here is one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11418855 (intended as a reply to your question but accidentally posted to the thread)
Standby for Australian news too ...

Panama Papers: Tax office investigating 800 Australians identified in financial record leak

>You can watch 'The Secrets of the Super Rich' on Four Corners on ABC TV at 8.30pm tonight.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-04/tax-office-investigati...
It's more of an everywhere-but-Texas problem. Texas has a great tradition of respecting property rights. Most states are not like this.
The Miami Herald has started some excellent reporting around what this reveals about the booming Miami luxury real estate market.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/ar...
There is a serious project management problem if the excuse "Sprint is in danger" is acceptable. Its quite common though.
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I very much doubt users — let alone physicians — would be making treatment decisions on the basis of an automated testing regime. In the event of abnormalities on an automated test, you'd see your doctor, discuss, and order repeat and/or follow-up testing to confirm, refute, or clarify.

Moreover, you'd also gain a very wide, data-rich baseline to compare subsequent results against, which would probably counter most of the over-diagnosis and allow for long-term trending of very important data.

It would, IMO, be wholly worth the risks you raise.
I'll start by answering based on my last gig (at a startup).

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> Do you think Engineering managers are aware how much time you spend on Code Reviews?

No.

> Do you track your number of / time spent on code reviews? Does your manager?

Me: Only informally (might mention it during stand-up).
Manager: No.

> Are code reviews valued as much / more / less than writing new code? Why / Why not?

Valued less. Manager did not seem to value code review as a worthy task.

> How are code reviews prioritized against writing code for bug fixes, or implementing new features?

Code reviews are not planned in the work load :(. Engineers have to try to carve out time for code reviews.

> How do you choose a code reviewer?

I usually assign reviews to the engineer who knows the feature best or with whom I have the best working relationship. Sometimes I assign to the engineers who will get to my code review the soonest.

> Do you ensure code reviews are distributed across the team? If not, how would you do it? How do you ensure you are not doing too many reviews yourself?

No. Might be nice to have a team queue for code reviews and the engineering manager making sure that everybody participates in reviews.
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It's certainly better than C and most dynamic languages,
but that's not setting the bar very high.

I'm not sure I agree with that sentiment; C and dynamic languages are used in important applications and being better than them for the same tasks does seem to be a design goal of go. I personally feel that it accomplishes this in a number of areas.

It is easy to pick up, understand, and use.

This is true and I think it's a huge benefit.

But it is also very error prone, because its type system
is poorly suited for proper error handling, nulls and
generic code

That's your opinion. It's less safe than rust, more safe than python. I think it has a rather large niche. I personally like interfaces and that idiomatic golang testing uses language primitives.

It's weird to me that people compare Go and Rust, they're languages with very different motivations.
Ok, I'll bite. What do you think Vlad Putin's legit source is for his billions? His paycheck? Sometimes you don't have to know all the details. Somtimes the mere fact of a bank account with billions in it is enough to know, with certainty that a politician has his/her hand in the till and is a corrupt bastard.

I pick on Vlad, there's plenty more to choose from. Now the evidence exists to remove doubt from the accusation of corruption for, it would seem, a lot of politicians.

Jackie Chan - Wealthy movie star. Plenty of good explanations for why he'd engage in offshore banking with his very large, legitimately gained, fortune.

That's the difference.
I'm a Canadian and my first thought was insulation, too. Also heat. Natural gas piping isn't something you'd want to DIY.
I've never ever gotten any good results with a Java profiler. HPROF runs, but its results are garbage. Yourkit and VisualVM are apparently not able to handle the heat of a CPU intensive application and crash or are generally unusable (and this on two different computers with different OSes). If you must know, I was trying to profile a parser.