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I've read The Forever War, and it was good.

Have you read the sequels? The Speaker for the Dead branch of the sequels; Ender goes on to do more than just feel sorry for the Formics, and other intelligences that humanity discovers. Arguably, he more than makes amends for the mistakes he and the rest of humanity make.
can we infer that he would like to give his estimates:

* while he is actually writing the code (so not up front)

* not in a group setting but as an individual, so either one person estimating the whole thing or each person giving different estimates

* (third point same as first, dont want to estimate up front)

* must incorporate what is often called 'contingency' (which is actually what the whole point of measuring velocity is for!)

* and the final point - he doesn't want to have to commit to it

how can you _not_ read this into it?
Not an article, but here's a podcast that goes into that: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/02/07/131363098/the-t...
Show HN: Interactive 360 hybrid medium with motion parallax (no stitching)
High trust, low violence societies that maintain high levels of commons property (economic, environmental, moral, etc) are always going to need guilt and shame to prevent people from cheating on the social contract.

There is a reason we've evolved to have these emotions.
I'm generally in favour of this policy, though it's a bit half baked, and it is too little, too late. It was probably only implemented because the government had done nothing on the file, is coming into an election, and realized they were going to get thrown out by an angry electorate.

In a lot of ways Vancouver has been ruined by the housing bubble and influx of speculative foreign capital. Extremely high house prices have created a strong incentive for anyone who can easily work elsewhere (ie. a tech worker) to move away. Many of my friends have drifted away to Seattle and SF.

The only way houses could become even slightly affordable at this point would be a housing crash. This would be disastrous to the local economy, which has become entirely built on selling housing to one another. Accordingly it's hard to wish for that.
Jeez, that seems unduly dismissive. While the title of the article might suggest that it follows the rhetoric you're suggesting, it is in fact a pretty well founded critique of "call out culture" and how it is a very real impediment to meaningful social change.

I think the main problem with this line of thinking represented in this article (and maybe this is what you are getting at) is that the use of shame in political dialogue is a trait exclusive to the left. It has many parallels in conservative thinking, but maybe in ways that we have grown used to (e.g. values based on religious fundamentalism).
It's what makes HN so great.

Even the original Dropbox "Show HN" pitch was agressively cynical about it; "I can do the same thing with a linux box and some scripts...", etc.
FWIW, pre-agreed termination agreements like this are void in Ontario. I suppose it's to avoid exactly the situation you describe.

http://www.ontariotenants.ca/law/act05.phtml
So you give up on my point regarding experimental sciences (which was what Popper was about) and the rest -- like economy, palaeontology etc?

The scientific method is what is used by the experimental ("hard") sciences. Do you really not know this?

This is the start of the second paragraph of Popper's wikipedia page, defining what he wrote about:

"Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. ..."

Popper even was a professor of logic and the scientific method...

I am sorry, I have to soon assume I'm being trolled here.

Edit: You can e.g. also see the discussion of Popper's work here, where it is also discussed explicitly that he argues about how the scientific method works: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#GroHumKno
> > you usually don't create data

> I think the creation of new data is the whole point, actually.

I had the same hesitation when I heard "data developer" in my head. But I agree with JoBrad. If you have a pile of dirt, and compress some of it, then you have a rock where there was none. If you take a rock and "disassemble" it, you have nuggets of gold where there was none.

Really, titles don't matter too much (which is why I used my own :), and we know generally what's being discussed when we hear data science and data scientist.
This is the epitome of the famous Mark E. Smith quote "the finest of British attention to the wrong detail." I admire the level of geekiness involved in recovering Teletext from old VHS tapes.
Exception: if you live in a city and are going into the city centre, you might say "I'm heading into town".
Yep, the long bitlines are a large factor in timing for register files. The timing is something like O(n) for n storage lines because it grows linearly with capacitance.
If the rate of theft is so high, I wonder if switching from barcodes to the more expensive RFID tags would actually end up saving them money.
how/where does one find potential areas they could move to with these types of facilities?
Updating the OS... usually a fairly rare occurence again, kernel vulnerabilities that affect you with minimal services exposed are quite rare, most vulnerabilities are local escalations and such which wouldn't affect just a mail server. When was the last remote root exploit in the linux kernel? Maybe SSH which would be the only other thing you might run... Neither is within my memory. I suspect these would be ever less frequent than mail service updates, if ever.

As for the rest those aren't really issues you need to actively watch, you'll just know when something goes wrong to take a look. I can't see running out of disk with just a mail service, crashes are... never and compromise/DDoS isn't really a risk if you secure it properly to begin with and update it that once every few years. It's really very hands off if you're not running any other services and just review the vulnerabilities.

I'm guessing this is even less of a problem for most of us though because I and probably many others around here already run a personal dev server which is kept up to date regularly, so I was speaking simply to adding mail functionality to an existing system previously.
Probably a dumb question, but if I have a @gmail.com email, there's anyway of redirecting that to another email provider without it touching google's servers? (i.e. Without just using automatic e-mail forwarding).
yes, I see no real gain in migrating Email to Fastmail. Especially not for privacy against (US) government in any meaningful way. He should have moved to e.g. Switzerland based https://kolabnow.com
I usually keep my previous phone whenever I get a new one so I have a backup in case I break/lose my main one and it takes a little while to get a replacement.

Other than that, I was going to use an old iPhone or Android phone as a wall-mounted touch panel for my Hue lights or to run media apps to cast to one or more Chromecasts around the house. The original plan was to put the phone in a 3-gang box in the wall with some foam or other material to hold it in place. Then I attempted to use my dremel to rout out an opening in a blank plastic wall plate so the phone was held in place but the screen was accessible.

Unfortunately my dremel skills aren't good enough to the point where I could get one looking good enough that I'd want it on the wall. I guess I should just have one 3d printed but I've slept on it after the initial disappointment.

Additionally, I wouldn't be able to mount the power supply in the wall if I want it to be safe/up to code so I would need to run the wire down behind the wall and have it exit out of a notch in the receptacle wall plate below it near the floor with the wall wart plugged in. Still not very attractive so there are definitely shortcomings with this concept.

In the end, it's just been easier to use our existing phones since they're always close at hand and my ambition comes and goes with projects like this. It's a real shame that there don't seem to be any ready-to-buy, relatively universal wall mounts for charging and using smartphones or tablets this way. I've seen some but they're usually specific to one model of phone or tablet and they tend to be pretty expensive and ugly.
Nobody is suggesting OpenBSD not being RedHat should be embarrassing.

However, it is not ideal to have a security-focused OS not directly provide binpatches for the base system and core libraries like libressl. Trusting OpenBSD.org is one thing, but trusting additional entities like mtier, etc. just to get security updates without having to compile is another.

FWIW, I think we should feel embarrassed about not giving more funding & time to OpenBSD given everything they already do for us.

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2016.html

Maybe someone at OpenBSD Foundation should get itself listed at smile.amazon.com and make it even easier for people to contribute.
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>> The daily standup deserves a blog post of its own. This religious ritual has become a staple of every team in the world. Ten minutes of staring into the void, talking about what you did while no one else listens, because they were in the middle of something five minutes ago and will go back to it in another five minutes, and waiting for everyone else to finish.

I've had this happen my times while I was leading the project - it bugs me. I've ended up reducing daily standups and replacing with walking around (physically and virtually) and chatting with people and getting similar results. Of course, "similar results" here is that I heard what someone had to say but nobody else did - so a key to this walking around approach is to tell each person what other people are doing in order to connect the dots.

On the surface this might seem terribly inefficient, but there are a lot of positives, biggest of which is building good relationships with team members and learning about all the other little things going on in life.

On the down side, for people who are only part time on my team (not uncommon in my bigco setting) there is extra scheduling effort and discipline required to make these chats happen frequently.
Electrification of rural areas is well documented and was as painful to complete as broadband. Robert Caro writes on the topic in his biography of Lyndon Johnson. Note the extensive political wrangling and haggling that came down to individual land parcels
John Cleese (Monty Python) in "Meetings, Bloody Meetings"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYnVt-umSA

You need to rent this video and show it to the team.
(and rent "More Bloody Meetings").

Scrum is a management technique, not related to programming.
In fact, it is a "micro-management" technique. However,
those who lead don't seem to know how to conduct meetings.
I don't see scrum training that even hints at the
fundamentals of management, even the fundamentals of meetings.
Can you please elaborate on the resources in space? There is better solar energy but what else? I intuitively would have expected resources to be far better on Mars.
I don't understand how Ayn Rand always seems to trigger down votes here.

Me either, but I'm used to it. Whatever. The downvoters are probably the people who thought Ellsworth Toohey was the hero in The Fountainhead.
We get the prioritized list, we review our other commitments in the upcoming Sprint, and starting from the top of the list we go down and developers pick which ones that they will work on. Since we've groomed these stories, we have an idea of complexity and one or more developer may have already taken the time to identify exactly what needs to be done.

We don't commit before hand to deliver a specific number of stories, or a specific number of story points. That would never work. Rather we focus on what individuals believe they can achieve. Our velocity has become pretty consistent and our delivery of story points is close to 100%
Civilians think Gmail IS email. I gave my landlord my email the other day, and she was like oh, isn't there supposed to be gmail at the end of it? I had a custom domain.
That's the opposite of my experience. It's always the extra layer that was added for some planned feature that we never actually implemented in the end that gets in the way.
You'd be surprised how many religions share the belief in the first clause, and as to the second -- how would you know? They built the simulation, they can do what they like.
I read that forum rant and the linked content, and there is still no evidence that Gmail is deleting emails immediately by default. I read two possible causes:

- Content Compliance setting (managed by admin) that can prevent emails from reaching inbox

- Some other service, such as Exchange, which can somehow interfere with Gmail?

Specifically, the article mentions a "quarantine" folder that is not part of Gmail. Or am I missing something?
An anthill-like species can value cooperation among themselves without necessarily valuing knowledge for knowledge's sake - imagine the Hive Queens from Ender's Game, or MorningLightMountain.
> $10m is probably best case scenario (after taxes, you can afford a pretty nice place in the Bay Area and have some left over)

That's an extreme overstatement - a 'pretty nice place' in the bay area would cost in the $1M range, maybe $2M if you have a pretty jaded view of 'pretty nice'.

> you just made a million bucks, which will be about 700k after taxes.

More like 500K - 39.6% federal and up to 12% CA state tax.
That's why anyone who actually cares about keeping their business running keeps a disaster recovery site in a different data center, and regularly tests their failover procedure.
On one hand, being bought for $3B. On the other hand, joining Walmart.
(Sorry, could not help but being a bit redditish about it.)
This is a badly inaccurate description of how liquidation preferences work, both mechanically and also with respect to what's "market."

First, it's exceptionally unusual to see anything more than a 1x liquidation preference (i.e. investors receive their initial investment back before anyone else gets paid) among well-funded companies. It's somewhat common to see a 6-10% interest rate added on top, but a 3x liquidation preference is the VC equivalent of a payday loan.

The other component is whether the liquidation preference is "participating" or "non-participating." The easiest way to think about that is that a participating preference receives its initial investment back out of the sale proceeds, then shares in the remainder of the profits alongside the common stockholders. A non-participating preference is like a "greater-of" - basically downside protection in the event that the company is sold for a much lower than expected amount.

Suppose Jet's received $800m in funding like you said, and suppose the investors have gotten pretty aggressive terms - call it 6 rounds of funding that each took 20% post-money, all of which have a 1x liquidation preference and are getting 10% interest. Let's say the interest takes the preference to $1 billion because we're more or less making up numbers at this point, but we're in the right ballpark.

So the common stockholders (founders and employees) own 26% of the company at this point (.8^6), and a billion dollars comes off the top of the $3 billion sale amount. The common stockholders would therefore receive about $520 million.

The Walmart stock is publicly traded, so it's a lot like getting cash (though it may be subject to a short lock-up in a deal like this). Companies like to do combination cash/stock deals for a variety of reasons.
I wonder if Amazon would consider it an acceptable risk that a power outage in Seattle turns their stores off worldwide. Highly doubt it.
Hulu Bids Goodbye to Its Free Service
Startups: Stop Hiring Experienced Salespeople
They cap the total you can get in a year at $1000.
Usually for large acquisitions like these the employees are kept on the same vesting schedules they were already on (especially if the company is so young). There is probably additional stock options issued for retention on top of this. So, if you have been there for 2 years, you are probably 50% vested, 1 year 25% etc. Typically if you have not reached your cliff, it is kept in place.

There are some circumstances where in a big acquisition like this founders or key employees are asked to re-start the vesting clock on their shares. This is more common in small buys but can happen in big ones too. In this case you get some payout for e.g. the 2 years you were there and then the rest of your stock (and maybe a refresher) get spread over 3 or 4 years.

In terms of payout, if you assume by series C that 50-75% of the company was sold to investors then $1.5B to $2.25B will go to investors and the remaining 750 million to $1.5 billion goes to founders and employees. Obviously this is a huge range and you need the cap table to know what really happened.
Do you mean no studies other than the citation to Minsky who extensively shows just that? Here is the original paper: http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/hm_archive/429/
I did that for a year on a 10 dollar box with Digital Ocean. In the end, the cost wasn't justified, as I can pay FastMail 120 a year for a lot more than what I was getting with Digital Ocean, and I don't have to worry about maintenance (updates, ssh configuration, etc)
One of the issues with ranking by percentage is it biases in favor of smaller nations because they're more likely to be anomalous. Notice how the countries at the top and bottom are both small.
Fascinating. This must be analogous to the NHK fee collector in Japan. It is an important part of the novel IQ84 by Haruki Murakami.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LROUW2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

Though it sounds like in Japan its more confrontational.
Not all power. The Pope, Stalin and the Emperor have the symbolic power to a greater or lesser extent.

The soldier aiming a gun at you or healthcare professional denying you access to contraception on the say-so of one of the above does have real power.
To expand on another answer here -- there are more values in the PRF than there are names because "old" instructions in flight can refer to outdated versions of architectural registers (the names). But a new instruction can only see the latest versions of the architectural registers, so only those 16 actually matter w.r.t. future execution: when we switch back to the task, its new instructions will ony need the 16 live values.
I have the same problem. At one time, more than half the Gmail spambox was legitimate email, so I had to check it every day. (It was so bad, I kept screen grabs as evidence.)

This year, things got much better for a few months, and now they are getting worse again....
> the National Security Letter, by which they can coerce any company to do what they want without the right to disclose such breaches.

National Security Letters can only be used to obtain metadata. Still bad, considering all that can be ascertained from metadata, buy not at all "coerce any company to do what they want"
Ask HN: Best college course or training you have taken?
Having been to college and taken additional classes and training over the last 10 years myself, what is the best college course or training you have taken and why?

Mine: I took an assembly class my first semester of college and I felt like it set me up for a deep understanding of programming and hardware instruction.

Also: I took a week long class at the Big Nerd Ranch in about 2001 in Objective-C programming. It was intense, heads down, total focus.
AWS has outages too. There might be some perceived attraction to transferring the operational risk to AWS, but Amazon's agreements limit their liability.
I actually sort of did this (but I cut them w/ a CNC router rather than 3D printing them).

https://imgur.com/a/fMy19 is the finished product; http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1524543 are the files I generated and used. They aren't truly accurate maps -- they do have the elevation exaggerated to be more visually interesting, but it's consistently scaled. Some people have gone on to print them w/ 3d printers (rumor is they're on the wall at Makerbot now).
I've met plenty of startup employees who've spent years educating themselves about programming and <10 minutes reading about equity, stock options, etc.
No. That's not possible. The MX records for gmail.com will always point to Google servers.
> it's not like it's going to take longer to refactor later than it would to do it now.

It is so, when you have to build on top of something you will have to refactor later. I think the miscomunnication here is happening because the person you are replying to is assuming that case, and you are assuming the case where the code to be refactored is isolated form the rest of the system.
The article cites not only the proponents, like Friedman, but also Minsky, Kalecki, etc, that is merit.
Yes, 2 datacentres, Microsoft's DFS, cloud backups, and staff trained to know what to do.

For the datacentre I have a friend that we worked out a mutually beneficial arrangement. I keep a few spare servers in his racks and he has a few in ours. Just enough to run the essentials.

Testing was literally walking up to the rack and switching off the power. Then documenting what happens next. If you've configured the ASN just right the domain should roll right over to the backup servers. Offsite DR servers needed a little kick to bring up to speed (I can't remember why this wasn't fully automated).

Most of the time was waiting for backup files to restore and verify. Since we were using someone else's network we were shaped down to a small percentage of their bandwidth.

After that we had a debriefing to see what worked, what didn't work. The usual IT stuff.
Why do you think they'll respect your privacy any more than gmail? I think that's a serious misconception. They have no way to guarantee that to you, so believing it is a rather bad idea. They could be sitting back and reading the latest issue of your personal emails and you'd have no way to tell, so I don't see how it can be argued that FastMail is at all superior in that regard.
Yeah, I like that this self driving car is advanced enough to know whether or not the person it's about to run over is fit, or a criminal, but it can't work out that it should slow down before running into a concrete barrier in the same lane it is in. (And how does this moral car know so much about the personal lives of the people it's murdering, when I can't even get my car to consistently play music from my phone?)
> It is easy to make fun -- and I do make fun -- of bitcoin/blockchain enthusiasts for naively re-creating everything that has existed for decades or centuries in the traditional financial system.

From a "blockchain enthusiast"'s perspective, this is exactly why Bitfinex and other centralized Bitcoin businesses are idiotic. If we're just implementing centralization on top of Bitcoin's decentralized structure, Bitcoin has literally no benefits over the traditional financial system. It's actually worse, because when a major traditional financial institution gets hacked, they reverse the charges instead of going bankrupt. Bankruptcies happen all the time in the Bitcoin world because creating a centralized Bitcoin puts a target on the business that grows as the business grows, and the damage when they get hit is irreversible.

The benefit of Bitcoin is decentralization, and businesses that don't understand this are always going to come across as naive. Sometimes so naive that they fail.
In my experience (radio repeater and cell sites on mountain tops) an auto-start timer runs the generator once per week for 30 minutes or so. Diesels dont like to sit too long without being run. And these are 30-50 Kw generators, relatively small in comparison to a data center. I expect a weekly schedule is common practice.