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>Creating a playing field for private sector participants to compete

I know a guy whose job is to negotiate contracts for supplies used by the Fire Dept. in his municipality (or state, I can't remember). We were on a Skype call once, and he was telling me about a contract he was for a particular thing and how much they paid for it, and I thought: "That seems high". So I took 10 minutes to do a search on it and found another reputable company offering the same good for a little more than half the price. His response was: "Well they should have showed up and bid on the contract." Between his apathy, and the way the law works, there was no interest in going and getting a better deal, or even doing basic market research to use in negotiating the price. I wanted to strangle him.

And it's all to do with laws and incentive structure. I'd like to think that in most businesses if you came up with a way to cut in half the cost on an essential item (I think this was the coats and pants they wear when going into a burning building), you would at least get accolades and have a strong case to be made on your performance review. In the public sector, it's all the same.
Yeah, I'll be honest, I'm not the best at taking vacations. I've never used all my vacation time at any of my jobs, and have always gotten paid out handsomely for the excess upon leaving. Of course, once I actually do get out on a vacation, I inevitably enjoy it, but there's so much inertia in planning one that I do it infrequently. It really is a big hassle.

If I didn't have paid vacation days, I doubt that I'd ever take one. They'd simply be way too expensive. It's one thing to use paid vacation days, another thing entirely to give up over a week's worth of income. I don't think I could do it.
I think they've done that. Certainly I've started seeing a buy/sell tab in some groups.
They could define a few things that the site needs and use the site to hire developers to help build the site. It's real content created by them, similar to what Reddit did.
For anyone wondering, the code is here:

https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code
I don't know what triggered the author to write this, possibly a personal experience.

But whatever it was, he seems convinced that he has seen the light, and even distilled the message to "Never accept a counter-offer", which is nothing but a loud, attention grabbing, media-optimized title, but also, ultimately too-general-to-be-useful type of advice.

The text itself is lacking useful information, maybe with the exceptions of the link to the surveys.

As I get older I observe how smart people tend to put in a large amount of work before they feel ready to disseminate their carefully created, validated, humble in scope, and very often valuable message.

This is the opposite of that.
As regards software security vulnerabilities, defensive spending in the USG utterly and completely dwarfs offensive spending.

The median venture capitalist in the valley could outspend the US --- actually, probably the world --- on vulnerability acquisition. But there probably isn't an investor and there may not be a single tech company that outspends the USG on defensive security acquisitions.
Azure with Ressource Manager instead of Classic.
> When it’s all about a feeling, things are hardly going to change even with a great counteroffer, so staying in the same place because now you have a free public transport ticket is just an apathy. That feeling will stalk you forever, it will make the relationship between you and your employer worse and there will be no winning side.

Does anyone have any personal stories about this -- having no hard / defensible reason other than not feeling right -- and leaving? How did it work out for you?
> They had no incentive to.

It's usually cheaper to keep an employee than to hire and train a new one.

Sorry, as someone who runs my own company, such short-sightedness as seen above is stupid.

I keep my employees happy, and make sure they don't want to leave. I get more out of them than I would if they were underpaid, overworked, and treated like shit.
I hear the "government hiring private contractors" argument often as a compromise between complete free market economics and public utilities.

The argument falls apart when there exists effectively no competition between contractors. At thiat point, the government may even end up paying more for its favorite contractor (whether by choice or lock-in) than it would if it managed its own staff.

The advantage of privatization is supposedly efficiency. Private companies must be efficient in order to survive, in large part because if a private company is not efficient, a competitor will be. Therefore, in order to capture this efficiency advantage, there must exist at least two private competitors for every government contract.

I'd be interested to hear of solutions that prioritize competition between private contractors, rather than encouraging nepotism or cronyism in the procurement process. Otherwise, you're just replacing the public monopoly with a private one, losing any gains from what should be the chief advantage of privatization: a competitive market.
> Besides what would the other language be? French, German?

I guess the names of the stops are untranslatable anyway :)
For me the time estimates are always super incorrect and seem only based on the distance.
The blues look like a PowerPoint theme.
You might like http://blockdiag.com/en/seqdiag/index.html
> Old side projects are the inverse of Moore's law - project relevance is cut in half ~every 2 years. Wait too long and projects become useless/outdated.

I don't think everything falls under this. I have some ideas I never got around to finishing that are years and years old and would still be just as viable today (just have to be made for a different platform, different payment structure, and somewhat different design). Although these projects I'm referring to are games.

That being said I generally agree with the statement.
I didn't see much in there that explained the pro systemd side!

Characterising the mere existence of an external HTTP gateway to systemd (and other components) as a "staggeringly WTF" mistake made by the systemd team is at best unreasonable. That's like saying sysvinit sucks because Webmin exists.
Amtrak always feels like the entire country subsidizing the rich and powerful as they commute over the NE.

It's actually the opposite. The corridor from Washington DC to NYC to Boston is basically the only profitable Amtrak route and subsidizes the rest of the country.

See https://www.brookings.edu/interactives/u-s-passenger-rail-ri...
I had a thirty minute chat with each potential manager during the hiring process, and I went with the one that I felt I had the best rapport with. It turns out that the initial impression was correct. Now of course this is far from foolproof, but oftentimes you can learn a lot about someone from just a thirty minute chat (and asking the right questions).
That sounds expensive.
cough enterprise software cough
What about this? https://cloud.google.com/solutions/set-up-postgres
based on feedbacks, here's a little demo landing page.. do you think its possible to work along these lines? http://freelancelistin.launchrock.com
There are many ways to go about, but it could be easily achieved with any diagramming or graphics application. For example, LibreOffice Draw or Microsoft Visio.
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Interesting case. Isn't it true, however, that everything is economized whether we like it or not? Even public works that add "value" still rely on finite resources (human labor, natural resources, etc...). Can we really just ignore the laws of resource allocation because we "value" something? If we really "valued" something, why not let the market strike the balance between value and efficiency?
People are developing Wechat apps exclusively for use inside Wechat, and using Wechat-specific APIs. There's no chance whatsoever of the built-for-Wechat app ecosystem somehow killing Wechat.
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It seems the most beloved feature of GCJ was its ability to compile Java to native code.

Is this something that could be implemented in the Java JDK / OpenJDK? Understandably a lot of work, but Oracle is looking at AOT now, for performance reasons.

The performance improvements could be taken even further by something like this, Java to native code compilation.
thank you i've always wanted to order the audio cassette to the 1997 hit film "Good Burger"
I didn't mean to imply that a NAT was a firewall. Most home routers, which are for NAT (mostly) come with a firewall. Albeit a basic one, it still comes with one.
Aha - I think I see our miscommunication. When you say bias you mean statistical bias.

Yes, machine learning is able to correct for that kind of bias - 538's polls forecast is a good example of that.

But you don't get to redefine racial bias to be something innocuous. Yes, black names are more likely to have arrest records, but that "fact" is super misleading [1].

Finally, you're talking past me. I'm not saying that statistics is broken. I'm saying that we should be especially mindful of the OPs point when they say this:

> So what’s your data being fried in? These algorithms train on large collections that you know nothing about. Sites like Google operate on a scale hundreds of times bigger than anything in the humanities. Any irregularities in that training data end up infused into in the classifier.

I think the OP author also has a related post about the kind of bias I'm talking about: http://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-farbota/black-crime-rates-...
Most public services are not "public" per se but "state capitalist" in a sense. For example, firefighting is always provided by one and only one "company" - the IAFF, which sets standards and imposes a wage on municipalities.
My first guess is Visio. (Followed by Excel, PowerPoint, or Word.)
If I had to guess, it's because I interviewed with them when I was still in college and didn't get the job, but remained on their radar for later follow-up. This ended up being seven years later though, so who knows.

Another guess is that I had a recently listed promotion to Lead Developer on my LinkedIn account. Anecdotally I've heard similar experience from other people who started getting more high quality contacts once their job title on LinkedIn reflected a more senior role. I know we all hate LinkedIn but it matters because people on the hire side use it extensively, so spend some time entering details in there so that it's as impressive as your resume.
I'm currently contracting at a location about an hours walk away from where I live, so am walking home every day while listening to music.

Great for unplugging, and means I am recharged by the time I get home for an evening of non-work related hacking at code.
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Joyent, Google, and MS are the alternatives that usually come up. I haven't used any of them myself, and I've heard good and bad things about all of them.

That probably wasn't very helpful.
50/50 also ignores the time you put into learning technical skills...and the time the ideas guy put into becoming an ideas guy. To put it another way, if your joining the company more than doubles the value of the company, then 50% of the equity is a bargain for the ideas guy...and you're 'leaving money on the table'.

To put it another way, if the structure of your mutual relationship is hard negotiating, then it's fair for either of you to renegotiate based on each piece of work.

Or to put it another another way, if the ideas guy resents being generous and their concept of equitablility is that 3 years + a few months is worth 80% of the company and 3 years + 2k is only worth 20% then that's a tell. And it may not be a view of the world that is likely to get significantly better.

Good luck.
NO, it does not. It is PERFECTLY legal to sell your oem software in EU, ask Oracle.

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
Actually, YC has expanded radically under the 2 years Sam has been running it, and all the expansion is purely Sam's doing. If you read the article, it discusses all this in detail.
3. The greatest technological innovations of our time from cancer drugs to satellites to the internet are spin-offs from government funded research. I could bore on all day about this...

Of course. The rich use the State to publicly fund research (socialize losses) which they then commercialize and profit from. Otherwise they'd have to actually pay for the research themselves.
When a startup can't pay you real money, we have to convince you it's revolutionary.
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I had a similar idea for transit cards a while ago. http://jimkeener.com/posts/public-transit-and-ring-signature... Right now, you can probably narrow someone's home and work pretty well.
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If I get hellbanned for that, I'd prefer not to hang out here anyway.

edit: and thanks for lobste.rs! I've been looking for something similar to HN without all the SV gossip.
Just use one "10x woman".
To be fair, he's doing so while referencing a response from that developer that was just as insulting. I don't want to get into a debate over whether two wrongs make a right, but the flow was "Systemd is not good", followed by a reply of "you're just a child throwing a tantrum", then followed by the insulting tweets.
Do you have any examples of where mocking has let you down? I found creating unit tests with mocks and DI extremely easy and satisfying. At least for me, they also provide a pretty convincing argument that the tested code is correct.

Also, they are basically required if you want to do any testing with external services. I'm not sure how else you could create unit tests for DBs etc.
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It could just post the current chat via plaintext up until that point. Yes, you'd have to manually refresh to see updates, etc, but if you are blocking JS, you should expect reduced functionality of web-apps.
On Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11712122
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It works for me. It's stable and down-regulates the stream quality really well with a bad connection.
Hyper-V is sufficient. (Hyper-V is the virtualization hypervisor that runs virtual machines; App-V is an Enterprise-targeted application container management system/tool.)
Were these companies actually competing, or just operating separate but likely connected routes? In other words, if you need to go from specific place A to specific place B, what are the odds you could choose which company to use. If location rather than choice dictate which service you use, it is essentially the same as what we have with cable companies. Each company has a monopoly in the zones they operate, and can charge whatever the consumers will bear without worrying about being undercut by competition, because a competitor would need to build significant infrastructure at which point the original company would just lower prices and the competitor would be unable to recover their costs.

It makes sense that infrastructure like this should be publicly owned, even if operation is contracted privately.
The last one I clicked deliberately was from one of the meal kit startups on Facebook offering $40 off your first box. I'm opening to trying all of them at least once with a discount like that.

Besides that, in the past I've found The Deck ads (such as on marco.org) to be more relevant than most and I click them occasionally.
Yeah. It's a post hoc explanation of something better explained by luck. Tom Anderson of Myspace really is a spooky-smart hacker with great intuition, and no one was calling Zuckerberg a visionary until truly recently.
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Having an effective strategy to skirt regulations probably requires just as much knowledge of the regs as a company who complies with them.
> Only twenty per cent of the Inc. 500, the five hundred fastest-growing private companies, raised outside funding.

I thought this was an interesting statistic. "80% of the fastest growing private companies did not need to raise capital to become one of the fastest growing companies."
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That deal with Verizon has yet to settle.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/27/verizons-deafening-silence-on-...
What would it even mean to 'escape' a simulation? In my mind I'm imagining when I write code to model a real process and even at some super high-fidelity simulation I can't imagine an 'escape'. Maybe if the simulation were so self-aware it could conduct local privilege-escalation attacks and replicate itself like a worm/virus?

EDIT: aside -- "Microcosmic God" [1] was a great short story along these lines

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_God
In related news the very first thing I do when installing W10 for someone is https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 which among other things uninstalls Windows Store.

Windows Apps are a joke. Have you seen the "new improved" windows explorer app that just landed in insider builds? Its a frickin phone app Microsoft expects you to use on the desktop.
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Not clear how Yahoo would have worked out within Microsoft.
I'm going to double down here - you, Houshalter, are not very smart. Smart people don't make those mistakes, and they aren't trivial. Smart people don't learn English "orally" as their native language. Illiterate people do.
Capitalism isn't revolutionary or creative. It is destructive.

It's not shiny or different - it doesn't have to. As long as it makes X more productive, it will help people in the long-term.
Curious as to why you think aws means you won't get paged at 4-am?

If you have a redundant setup, you won't get paged as everything can just fail-over.
VirtualBox still runs fine on a Windows machine with HyperV active. (I have a mixture of VMs in both and while I try not to run them side-by-side I don't have problems with either running.)
Huh? I don't get what you're doing there, or why you reset unstaged changes 3 times in a row... If you're trying to get rid of a commit, a single reset --hard will do. But why are you trying to get rid of a commit, and how is this more work that using stash? If you have unstaged changes you don't want, you have to reset either way, this is orthogonal to comparing stash vs no-stash workflows.

> why doesn't "-" work for merge/cherry-pick/reset like it does for checkout?

I don't know what a single dash does for you. On my git, I get a command line error with a single dash. Maybe you were thinking double-dash?

A double-dash is used to separate flags to your git command from path arguments, just in case a file you put on the command line starts with a dash. (Pro-tip: don't name files that start with dashes.) Running "git checkout -- ." at the top level of your repo will do the same thing as "git reset --hard HEAD".

Merge, cherry-pick and reset all work on refs, not on paths, so when you add a -- to one of those commands you may get an error like this:

fatal: Cannot do hard reset with paths

The -- is optional to checkout, if the path is unambiguous. You can reset unstaged changes from your repo root by using "git checkout ."
The personification of "Silicon Valley" into some giant evil blob-like entity attempting to consume innocent, creative counter-revolutionaries undermines a perfectly awesome, but 100% non-unique to SV opinion: Technologists (and any industry with any modicum of power) can suffer from a bad case of hubris.

Is creative destruction real and good (most of the time)? Yes. Is your startup selling SGaaS (scuba gear as a service) going to radically impact the disinherited and the poor? No. Is there anything new under the sun?

Still, the criticism of the author is received: More humility from the collective "we" of SV wouldn't hurt.
Haha, good luck. Everyone who's ever tried to beat Craigslist at its own game has failed. Craigslist is an great example of worse-is-better: It does one thing, extremely cheaply, and it works well enough.
Systemd was started in 2010, not 2016. That would be before Go or Rust were viable options, and probably before C++ would have been a palatable alternative.
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One interesting example of pensions hurting public enterprise is the USPS. IIRC, the government mandated that the USPS guarantee pensions for 70 years, meaning they literally have to have enough cash on hand to guarantee pensions even in the case of total organizational collapse.

Requirements like this render it impossible for government services to profitably compete with private enterprises unencumbered by such stipulations.

This results in zombie public organizations operating indefinitely at a loss in order to subsidize the wages and livelihood of employees. Sure, maybe the employees are better off and therefore "inequality is reduced," but this is a misdirection. The loss needs to be absorbed economically somehow, and in many cases its the taxpayers who foot the bill. Even worse, often "the bill" will not arrive until decades later, in the form of a massive deficit compounded by years of interest rates requiring future tax hikes.
Can you elaborate on this? What is the correct way to test external services that may have side effects in Python?
By those criteria, isn't "effort" an innate factor? After all, people only have so much control over things like stamina and motivation.
I like the stats on the home page. A 53% response rate seems really good.
That actually was my thoughts when i wrote that, and you had it 9 years ago, at the time i was in middle school :D.

I can just say this, we can find more like this again until the publishers realize it.
There’s actually some interesting stuff in here. Great articles on gamification, cause marketing, sustainable technology, among others. Good stuff. I may even incorporate some of the gamification lessons into my own business. I'm probably going to contact them to get it done though, because I don't really have the time.
Sometimes it is the tech... just not in obvious ways. You have to look beyond the basic spec.

Uber and Lyft are not just taxi apps. They are massively polished. When I use them I am astounded at how good they've gotten the UX and then I shudder at how hard that must have been across two mobile platforms and in the presence of very unreliable networks. I've ordered an Uber with no cell Internet using barely usable coffee shop wifi from a block away.

Then you have scaling, which brings up or creates issues you just do not see at smaller scales. Big O type considerations and weird edge cases that only come up once every billion transactions start mattering.

Then there is all the big data stuff. These services do tons of route optimization and analytics.

So yeah marketing, sales, fund raising, management, etc. also matter but tech often matters as much or more. It's just that junior engineers usually only see the tops of icebergs. This is why despite decades of pure biz people saying "tech doesn't matter" you still rarely see founding teams succeed without at least some tech founders but you do occasionally see even lone tech founders make it. (But those tech founders do have to know or be willing to learn the non tech stuff!)
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...which makes this statement seem awfully silly:

"Democracy only works in a growing economy. Without a return to economic growth, the democratic experiment will fail. And I have to think that YC is hugely important to that growth."
This is pretty cool. I am getting ready to embark on camera projects with a Raspberry Pi 3 and saw this project. Since I will be using python and OpenCV anyway this is a motivator.
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