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Inspection in this case is a proof that the design you're certifying is fit-for-purpose.

So in your example, it would show that the loading and stresses on your washing lines were sufficiently low to meet the safety margin of the bridge.

Certification of safety-related and medical devices is not a check-box exercise, it looks at the dynamic and static behaviour of your system as a whole (not just the software).
This is a good article, and the same thing could be said with regard to offshoring, H1Bs, etc.

Very profitable companies have gotten away for years with the tired argument of not enough talent. It is easy for engineers to fall for the line, since it pushes our egos in the right way: only really talented people can do what we do.

The truth is, tech companies are spoiled. They all want the top 5%, but don't want to pay the premium. And they've found that since they can't always get these 5% for cheap, they might as well get the bottom 50% for a discount via H1B indentured servants.

I like software engineering a lot. But the older I get, the more I know that it is a dead end, and I'm preparing my pivot. Not because there isn't a demand for software, but simply because the tech field is full of naive and professionally weak workers that allow the whole industry to be exploited far more than other professions.

Globalization, offshoring, etc. is not something that can be easily countered. Even lawyers, journalists, and nurses - typically very politically savvy professionals - have not been able to counter it 100%.

But tech workers are really at the bottom of the barrel as we not only lose to offshoring, but also allow ourselves to be arbitraged and later replaced by foreign workers in our own countries (from what I've seen, Western Europe is catching up with the US with its 'blau karte' and other schemes).
Completely unreadable on mobile
It would make it anyway because it does not know that it is not shown.
Confirmation from the ABS after denying any issues for over an hour: https://twitter.com/ABSCensus/status/762961251764805633
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> OpenStreetMap, a company and community

OpenStreetMap is not a company.

Also, only one mention of "OpenStreetMap" in that whole article despite it being what it's really about is a little strange.
If the jury is comprised of HN readers, you'd be correct. They are not. And it's on purpose that they are not.

That is my main problem with juries. Whatever they are, they are decidedly not a jury of my peers. They are people who are selected to be as dumb and open to suggestion as possible. Effectively a popularity contest between counsel.

One day in a courtroom during jury selection should show any thinking individual that the whole process is a complete farce. Only the least capable (in general) end up on juries - and it's entirely by design.
Thanks for that. Works like a charm in Firefox 48 under Ubuntu 14.x
kids programming is hot and people from African country are in great need of some programmers that can write for kids of 4 years to 17 years basic and simple program that can help them to instruct kids. You can embraced that one and contribute .
Valuable for satisfying human desires

The theory is that people spend money on what they desire, and so companies that generate more money satisfy more human values.

You will always find outliers and exceptions (caused by negative externalities usually), but this is true in general.
I agree with your numbered points, but not the conclusion that its always a bad idea.

Its common sense that I can't pick a lock if I cant find the lock.

This says nothing about the quality of the lock or what is behind the lock.
That's good. I served on a jury earlier this yes (in CA) and I would have loved to ask some questions.
Whenever I hear about the American justice system I wonder how it can live in the presence of the 8th amendment. Both life sentences (or multi life sentences) and death penalties are seen as cruel and not permitted in most of Europe.
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Well there is a paradox at work here. You need to pay any sort official enough that they aren't desperate for bribes, but not so much that you attract people into the job motivated by personal enrichment. Read "Systems of Survival" by Jane Jacobs for a good study of this.
If I were accused of a crime, I would want extremely competent people with a passion for justice. Say, highly educated, experienced judges who have come through some tough qualifying process (with a large psychological component) and who can be completely independent in their decision making.

Random people on a jury can be misled in many ways.
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Out of curiosity, what is the largest project you've worked on, k__ (as in, number of lines)?
Yes and no. Lets pretend you break into a pharmacy at night. You damage the windows, perhaps went in and disabled the alarm first. You stole some goods and some drugs.

In a lot of countries, this is considered a single criminal act. You might have broken numerous laws, but you would wind up with one charge, with the others more circumstances of your guilt and punishment. You'd only get another charge if you left the place and committed a different criminal act.

In the US, however, it is quite possible for you to get charged with numerous crimes. Breaking and entering, destruction of property, some sort of hacking law (for the security system), and a drug law or two, including possession of a controlled substance (or dealing a controlled substance). All of the charges would have their own penalties and fines, though they may be part of the same criminal proceeding.
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Digitizing and indexing only solves part of the problem. The real problem is the lack of search skills, even among people who think they know how to search for things. There is also the knowledge that some databases are better for certain subjects because there isn't one "omni-database" that has a representative amount from all subject areas.
> nothing really important at stake

Speak for yourself..
Totally agree, it's hard to believe that our race has known of the dangers for this long and done so little about it. I do feel like there is a transition on the horizon, I just feel it might be too late.

Could this mess really be caused by keeping a tiny fraction of the population rich, or is it a symptom of a deep seeded issue with the human psyche? Is the size of the problem simply to large for most minds to comprehend? A little like the size of the universe, it's just something we can't grasp.

You're right the effort needs to be global co-operation, but I disagree that it's not and individuals problem. I would argue that this _is_ the actual problem. The way each person votes, eats, travels, invests and consumes energy needs to change, now.

As Einstein says, insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, that's sadly what most people do. I watch parents tell their children they love them, then hop in their SUV and drive them to school, this habitual behaviour has to change before climate change is resolved.

Honestly, Since I was a child and first become aware of the issue I've heard people ask, "What difference would I have anyway, I'm just one person?", the truth is if we all keep doing the same things, nothing will even change. Take a politician for example, if they all have contracted the, "But I'm just one politician" mindset, then we're in real trouble, what can we expect to change?

I often wake up feeling like I'm in one of George Orwell's nightmares :)
How many marketing consultants did you hire last year?
Are they paid? If so, how is their productivity measured? Sometimes complexity is one such measure.
Thank you for this insightful, valuable comment.
Modules have an api and a responsibility, often this +any code helps to understand whats going on good enough
> Oh my goodness - it never occurred to me that a library could be scary

Me neither (probably doesn't help that I'm a trained librarian). I love walking into messy used bookstores too, where the books are piled precariously high and and stuff everywhere. I wonder if there's a 'used-book store anxiety'?
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Now I'm not sure but that would make a great videogame. Just to exorcise reality.
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Very true... that is a real effect...

But the government(s) also employs similar agencies to perform the enforcement of the certifications.

Its not a perfect system, but its a lot better than the developer-on-the-street realises.
Curious, what is it about our backgrounds that make you feel worried?
It is totally ok to just enjoy programming!

Do all people who paint water colours also have some other totally different unrelated hobby they are just as passionate about, like motorcycle restoration? I'd wager not.

For me, running became a sort of "hobby" as such - I guess you could call that "sport". What were the other things you were thinking about at school when you "played it safe"? Never too late to learn/relearn things.
Honestly I don't think that's an issue, if you lead developer is keeping on top of the kanban board, he will notice it and address it.

Most Kanban boards allow you set to mark items if they go past a certain time.

Manage by exception. If most cases just take a few days, set up some kind of system to mark the outlining cases out. Then you can investigate and address these exceptional cases if required.
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It would be fun to see some 100 year old pictures colorized, I would definitely use it
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> The bugs are either acceptable or not, but they're never "purposefully [left] in your system" as the OP claimed. (which was the phrase that really annoyed me / caused the response)

It seems you are really annoyed that I give responsibility for "bugs," or as I like to call them: errors, to programmers. If you do not use a specification for your lock-free mutex or consensus protocol then I posit that you are willfully choosing not to use a tool that can help you avoid errors in your design and that you should conduct yourself accordingly. The original article provides many good suggestions for coping with this situation.

And while I'm on the subject it is worth pointing out that while the specification might check out the implementation may still contain errors. This is normal. The specification gives you a compass that helps you to track down errors in your implementation. Once found it gives you another invariant to add to your specifications and another assertion or contract to add to your code.

These are good tools to have and as I and others have suggested one does not need to "verify" the entire system to make use of specifications. They are a great design tool in the programmer's tool belt that help us to write better software. Distributed systems are hard enough and we need all the help we can get.
I actually consider it a good engineering decision printing "(null)" when the 0 pointer is passed to the printing function.
Anyone who is in SF is welcome to come by our office and play with the Superbook. A bunch of our SF buddies and old batch mates have already done so - but always glad to turn skeptics into at least slightly less negative individuals ;)
Thanks! What the hell are you doing that you experience issues this often? :-)
Neat! How is this distributed if it is only your machine doing the work?
Hey, look at that! That's good to know. Sad that it's not followed by many (some?) courts (I personally know someone required by court to attend AA specifically, although this was at least 10 years ago).
We're in SF. Come by our offices and play with the complete, working prototype. andrew@andromiumos.com
Maybe the new physics will allow anti-gravity sneakers? Not such a nightmare after all...
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Did i miss it or did you forget that domains also can be punycode?

My devise this days is, if i need to know the email works. I'll just send them a email.
Ask HN: Best books on meditation?
Hi HN,

I've seen a lot of comments here lately about the power of meditation.

What book would you recommend to someone who wants to try meditation?

Thanks!
> I might be overgeneralizing, but it even looks like revenue is shrinking at an accelerating pace.

German here; they have ads everywhere; maybe they just spend too much at the moment.
The largest project I worked on was Firefox.

But I think my statement is idependent from project size. I've seen it in big and small projects alike. As long as you get this fundamental thing right, you can get away with more than you think.
Prime agricultural land in Australia sells for $1500-2000/acre. Pumping costs can run to a quarter million dollars a year. Actual centre pivot installation (for a square kilometre like that) is approx 500,000 as well.

Source: my parents are farmers and we have centre pivots
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> you will be kicking yourself really hard because if you'd only prepared, you could've been paying LTCG... AMT... illiquid stock... IRS... CA FTB... ACME... Road Runner...

Look, I won't be kicking myself neither hard not soft, because I made a conscious decision to study and become proficient in another field.

You finance people work under the assumption that everybody cares—or should care—about the underlying concepts of your field, not to mention the details such as jargon and acronyms, just because we have to use money to conduct our daily life. That's demonstrably false.

It would be like assuming everybody who uses a smartphone should care and become proficient on TCP, signals, sockets, PIDs, scheduler priorities, and what not. In a word, foolish.

Considering the stock options you're given basically worthless, unless fortuitously proven otherwise, and making your employment decisions based on salary alone (and other non-monetary factors) is a valid strategy, because it allows you to avoid having to invest time into studying and understanding all those foreign concepts. Since time is a finite resource, choosing how to spend it while still having your butt covered is great advice.

On the other hand, if you are a founder of have otherwise invested a considerable amount of time and energy into those shares, it would be foolish not to seek professional advice on their management, as the article rightly points out.
This must be particularly galling for Oracle who have been doing a transition of MICROS support [1] since the 2014 acquisition.

Previously it [2] was hosted on BOMGAR [3] who trumpeted the contract for more than 330,000 MICROS systems installed in restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, and leisure, entertainment and retail operations in more than 130 countries [4].

I wonder what it says about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (FIPS) 140-2 Level 2 Certification system, which the Bomgar appliance was the first and only remote support product to achieve full certification.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/micros/suppo...

[2] https://customersupport.micros.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomgar

[4] https://www.bomgar.com/press/releases/micros-selects-bomgar-...
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I get it.
I've seen bite-sized blog posts and conference talks on the subject, yet I've never found a truly thorough resource. Can anyone recommend a book or two?
Something similar happened in the UK over the past decades: statistical bubble-pushing people out of the "unemployed" category into the "disabled" category.

So there was a lot of pressure to tighten up the system. Unfortunately, this just rewards the people who are better able to negotiate it, while resulting in an increasing number of people getting e.g. letters informing them they have to return to work while in the terminal cancer ward, people found dead with no food in their stomach, and suicides by medication.
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Internet trolls are sometimes way more sophisticated than this
> Probably farm land is cheap

In particular, arid farm land is cheap. And that's clearly what we're working with here.
Which is what I said in my original post.
It also demonstrates that obscurity can significantly reduce the number of attack attempts that are made against you. See e.g. why people move SSH to non-standard ports - raising the entry bar for the attackers has some value.
A few points here:

- Given physical access, all bets are off.

- "safety critical" refers to software that has a SIL level(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_integrity_level). Note the list of IEC/ANSI/EN standards.

- Yes, the hack of the braking and steering system via the entertainment system is a breakdown of the certification system. That should have been found earlier. This is why critical systems are air-gapped. I personally have never worked on automotive systems so am not familiar with the regulations there, but I was/am extremely surprised this was possible.
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I'm still waiting to get my 12-digit password in the mail.

This is just proving why we aren't ready to move crucial government functions online - imagine if this had been election day? It'd be chaos.
Monster's P/E ratio yesterday was around 65. Given that the company is far from a high-growth startup, that suggests that this deal isn't cheap. (That's not to say this is a bad deal -- the synergies between online and offline recruitment make sense.)
If the laws are such that the average jury simply cannot understand them, even with briefing from the judge or someone competent to do so, perhaps the solution is to make laws such that the normal person can understand and follow the laws - and thus, be qualified for jury duty.

Naturally, some laws will need explained simply because folks never come in need of that law. Some accounting laws, for example, would need explained to non-accountants. Explaining the difference between the different levels of murder could need explained because most of us aren't murdering folks. But it seems that should be well within the confines of the system.

>Only a guilty person would desire a jury

This would simply depend on the honesty of the system. If you are wrongly accused and offered a plea deal, you might wind up going to trial if you have a non-guilty plea. Theoretically there wouldn't be enough evidence to prosecute you, but those cases make it through nonetheless. Plus there are charges such as "visiting a common nuisance" that are difficult for folks to disprove. visiting a common nuisance is generally visiting a drug dealer or other such location, regardless of your knowledge of what was going on
>edit: Thanks for the downvotes! I love that anything can be used as a non-sequitur to start bagging on systemd these days. Apparently it's wrong to even ask someone how this article about motd relates to systemd. I'll try to remember that.

I agree you shouldn't have been downed, but I DID explain in detail, as did others, why my post wasn't a non-sequitur.
I don't think Apple needs to "realize" anything. They will try to sell hardware with huge profit margins and unless people stop buying them there is really no reason for Apple to change.

This was what the Verge articles was trying to highlight, which in turn was what the author here was trying to criticize (?!).
> push to expand the definition of "disability"

I think this is very much the wrong way to do it - you're suggesting that we can leverage people's existing thinking that "disabled == deserving" to expand who is considered "deserving". Whereas it could well go the other way and leave the public thinking "disabled == skiving". Plus the fact that encouraging people to label themselves "disabled" is debilitating and demoralising.

The only way to get UBI is to break the negative associations of voluntarily not working.
I guess bought is subjective here, but ownership is not.
And you can still own something if you got it as a gift or through other means.

If no one can take it from you (or you need to return it) without your consent then you probably own it.

It might be a little vague legally, but we aren't talking about legal issues here (since it's perfectly legal to not have access to the sourcecode of something you own), but rather a perception issue.
I imagine the manual has also been updated since 1944 :-)
> What about the risk of work injuries faced by construction workers every day. That's real risk.

I hear you, but the negative health effects of working insane hours developing in a high stress "start-up" environment for many years should not be understated.
That's a very narrow reading of LSP. If you're dealing purely with interfaces, LSP is still just as useful. In that case, if two types share the same interface, it should be possible to substitute objects of one type for those of the other where that interface is expected and not break the program.
We're Andromium. Making the Superbook, a $99 Android Laptop Shell. AMA
Hey HN!

There have been a couple HN posts that others have posted about our Kickstarter for the Superbook, our shell that turns any Android phone into a laptop for $99. We didn't see them until fairly late, so wanted to do an AMA, answering questions about the technology, its applications, our production schedule, manufacturing costs (how we can price it so low), or just anything else in general.

Also wanted to put out an open offer to stop by our offices on 5th and Mission and play with the current working prototype (bring your Android phone too!). Just email me at andrew@andromiumos.com.

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook-turn-your-smartphone-into-a-laptop-f
This is an interesting trend, which is also happening in other fields such as genomics. Many sciences started off as amateur pursuits before they became professionalized. Technological advances are allowing some of these fields to move back in favour of the amateur. This opens up some nice possibilities for the serious hobbyist; it's surely more satisfying to conduct some original research than to waste time on the web or playing video games.

Personally, astronomy has always been an escape from the electronic world for me, so I've never been drawn to the imaging side with its CCD cameras and computer equipment. But I do know a couple of people who really love it, and they certainly find it rewarding. I'm happy to stick with my binoculars and 12" Dobsonian, but for someone with a bit of spare cash who wants the chance to make a contribution to science, the opportunities are there.
Honestly what's wrong with just paying people a lot of cash? Why the swindling with securities?

Because that's all it is -- look at a 10 year timespan between two developers, one making cash and one making cash+options, and you will see a difference in how much they take home.

Stock options are all smoke and mirrors, nine times out of ten.

I'm all for giving people more financial opportunities that integrate with their lifestyle and risk tolerance but come on, people are being ripped off on the promise of "options" and gauging how much "faith" someone has in a company. Screw faith, just give me cold hard cash!
Let me paraphrase the parent:

"fiscal gibberish, fiscal gibberish, Then, in the very small chance that your equity is actually worth something [sic], fiscal gibberish, fiscal gibberish"

Sounds almost like the definition of a lottery to me.