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> ...might have been more satisfying if I stayed on the automatic programming track.

Hah, my job is sort of in that area now, and it is satisfying. Even if happy users are still a bit harder to come by than one would like... (Working at a large company helps: we can just hire people to use our stuff, instead of having to market it.)

I particularly like how you can fruitfully mix PL with pretty much any other field and get something interesting. The intersection with security has always seemed particularly fruitful—you get a lot of bang for your buck with static analysis and automation.

You also have the advantage that "secure" is at least a partially objective criterion, sort of like performance. I personally care most about making systems that are more expressive but it's much harder to make a case for that than for "more secure".
Ask HN: 30+ men and women in software, how much do you make?
I am curious to know what men and women 30 and beyond make. I just turned 31 and have decade of experience. I am excited being in my 30s but concerned at the same time. I am well aware of and have witnessed ageism. I know if you stay good there are no lack of opportunities. However, once you buy house and have kids picture change dramatically.

I am single and yet to find a woman who I like enough to marry. Kids are off for me for at least 4 more yrs.

I will start with myself. I live in Seattle, 10 yrs of experience and make 135k (not Amazon).

How much do you make and what's your story?
Yeah, I suppose that's the cost of the form factor.

It looks like the RAM is installed in a standard 204-pin SO-DIMM [0], so that might be upgradeable. Then again, it looks like they only "support" a maximum of 8GB, so who knows.

[0]: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/mintbox/mintbox-specifica...
You guys are bright, even brilliant. But, you're missing something. It's an agenda. For 1 world government. It's 1 the World Order.
There are special approaches to generating music. The best for ratio of quality/complexity that I know of are Markov constraints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buXqNqBFd6E and WaveNet. I don't think WFC offers something useful and new for generation of music.
I know that robinhood is trying to improve things (I guess) but just remember folks that somewhere around 80-90% of retail traders lose money. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12339076
The FSF draws a line that I find interesting (if not necessarily my own): whether it can be updated with a new version. If not, then it's equivalent to a circuit, and it's not as important that it be Free (though it must be non-malicious).
Who is Google bullying and how?

>Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search

Is Firefox bullying other search engines by having a default search engine on their browser?

The only thing limiting choice and freedom is the EU decision.
You get so used to aggressive police cars in the US. I found myself wondering why police cars looked so small, simple and not intimidating while overseas until I realized. Also, wearing black uniforms is ridiculous.
Ugh. September 19th is poor date to choose.

When this came up, the first thing I did was generate wildcard certs for our StartCom domains, as Mozilla is going to stop trusting things at some point.

But that was on ~26th September.

Choosing the 19th is giving existing customers of StartCom no chance to manage the problem in a sensible way. :(
The Port of Oakland was the driver for this because it is critical infrastructure and was awarded funds by the federal government to secure itself. I'm not sure that's controversial. I'm also reminded of the sniper that fired on the PG&E power distribution apparatus south of San Jose and the investment that followed.

Monitoring the movements of people in an area as large as the Port of Oakland is actually correct surveillance. Think about it. If you were going to destroy the port or use it to further other goals, the first thing you'd do is turn or plant an authorized person. Literally step 1. You also need to watch merchant crews and activity near the port; surveillance is actually really hard, from experience, and I don't like seeing people think they know what's best like this and opining accordingly. There are valid uses for very strong surveillance even beyond containers here.

That it grew to the city is indeed interesting and concerning and worthy of discussion, but casino surveillance would absolutely blow your mind if you think you have a handle on infrastructure security. The type of stuff people are (probably correctly) resisting in broader Oakland are actually exactly what you want for securing a port, datacenter, military base, and so on.

Bringing the point back to the Hacker News crowd: if it's easy for you to enter your datacenter, shop for a new datacenter. I appreciate vehicle barricades having to be lowered once I present biometrics to enter a datacenter, and you should too. Facial recognition to go on the floor is not unheard of. You should want that. Same reason you should want strong surveillance on a port.
Interestingly they promised shorting when margin accounts are available. I don't see shorting on that list.

https://twitter.com/robinhoodapp/status/581924425244655616
Sorry, Apple wanted FaceTime to be a p2p open protocol?!

I assumed it was Apple marketing bullshit not external forces?
There was a time in the distant past when my goal was to get "big". For the last 10+ years, my goal was to get "fit". After multiple orthopedic surgeries in 2014 (don't ask), I pretty much have no choice but to focus on "fit". Is just my personal opinion, but I think "fit" men and women look better than "big" men and women. Here's my two bullet point guide to fitness:

1. go to the gym for 2 hours every day

2. don't eat junk food, drink beer, or drink soda

#2 actually comes as a side benefit from #1, for me anyway, because my body now keeps my mind in check when it comes to food.

I do fitness classes. No heavy weights. Mostly women - some of whom could kick my butt. There might be one other guy besides myself in a class of 40. I don't care - they've let me in on their fitness secret - let me join the tribe.
I've seen this nonsense keep being shared on Twitter and now even MIT thinks this is a huge dilemma for some reason.

They make you think there's only two choices (hit the pedestrians or hit the car), but you know what? You can just hit the guard rail.

And what's funny is, that's exactly the choice most human beings will make too. Which is why I think this is such a buillshit--the two choices given doesn't even include the one most likely outcome that most normal human beings / machines would make--It's just an infographic made to generate traffic and for some reason people think it makes sense and are sharing it everywhere.

Why would MIT follow this sensationalism fad? Do they really think there's only two choices in this picture?
Why would you need brokerage for that?
A Slow-Motion Revolution
I'm not there 24/7, so that's a waste of power too unfortunately. And turning it on when I'm there makes it into a shitty server, better use a heat pump then.
AIUI they're just doing a margin account that charges a fixed interest for a certain level of maximum lent cash (subject to normal margin limits on top). For $1k _maximum_ loan at $6/mo that works out to around 7.2% interest, which is fairly normal - but you're getting a raw deal if you don't borrow all of it, since you'll pay this interest even with zero dollars lent.
It's not a question about contract. It's about how joint copyright works.

I know what the arguments would be, but I'm not sure how the court would rule. The hypothetical depends on legally making a fork, and the GPL (as an example) only gives permission to fork if you agree that any distribution will be under the terms of the GPL. If you violate those terms, you've committed copyright infringement. But can a joint copyright owner be guilty of infringing his own work?

I remember Eric Raymond discussing a commercial copyright infringement case where a contractor was hired to update a program, and started distributing the updated program without permission. This was his argument.

However, he hadn't made significant changes to the program. Using your words, the program was several orders of magnitude larger than what the contractor added. The court got creative, and declared the contractor only had a collective copyright -- like somebody who has copyright on a single article in an encyclopedia -- and not a joint copyright -- even though his changes were meant to be combined with the original work to create a single work and not a collection of works. A collective copyright owner only has copyright in his contribution.

You are right that courts would be reluctant to allow the tail to wag the dog, but there is some threshold where the contributor has made enough changes that he has joint copyright, and at that point he can do what the law says a joint copyright holder can do.
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I meant not the source code, but the claim that it's based on Foxit.
The list doesn't include The Adventures of Brisco County Jr either, which is far more of a true cult series than most of what is listed there.
My 2c on this is while the "looking good for da ladies" part is definitely valid motivation, working out just for the looks gets old fast for a variety of reasons.

Having an athletic performance goal (squat/bench/pull/clean more, sprint faster, close a harder gripper, do more pullups etc) is not only more "motivational", it also sets a measurable and objective goal to work towards.
In the sense that it would be perfectly legal for them to include Apache v2 licensed code? What in the world would restrict them from doing so? They can include Apache v2 code, GPLed code, proprietary code, any code they want, really. Their goal however is to build an OS that can be used under the terms of a BSD-style license similar to Debian's goal to build an OS that is "free."
I don't understand why Apple, ms, Cisco, etc don't just set up a shell company that works to invalidate patents owned by these companies.

For example, set up an EFF like non-profit whose mission is to invalidate bad patents. Then these tech. companies can just throw money at the non-profit as a preventive strike against patent trolls working in their solution space.
Not to discount the usefulness of the idea but there are quite a few "pharmacy delivery as a service" companies in India [1] where startup market is still in its infancy. I would have assumed that something like "ScriptDash" is already a mature growing business in US. Can anyone tell me why "ScriptDash" is such a new addition ? Is there anything about the startup that I missed?

[1]: http://www.pharmeasy.in/
RH's headline feature is "free trading," a feature that mostly appeals to people who are investing smaller amounts (for whom an $8 commission is significant). Their oversimplified interface is consistent with this targeting of novices. I'm saying it as a generality - of course it's not completely black and white.

That said, RH does have several problems - notably their unreliability on days of high volatility and their poor customer support - that generally deter bigger investors from using them over a traditional broker.
This is cool, but (as usual with the Smithsonian) they claim copyright and/or commercial usage restrictions on the downloadable data. I wish they wouldn't do that...
>Budget, maybe?

Budget and the revenue from a hit.

Making a hit is such a crap shoot that depends on a lot of things including what basically boils down t luck, i.e. it grabs the limelight for whatever reason. So when something does become a hit, there's a lot of pressure to just keep things going.

- The network likes that they have a predictable money-making show.

- A lot of fans will continue watching out of habit/duty.

- Many actors and others associated with a hit show may think (often for good reason) that they'll likely never see as good a payday again.

It's also worth noting that shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones still had relatively niche audiences compared to a hit on a major network. Probably makes it easier to plan for a fixed length.

You do see some of the same effect in, say, genre fiction though. There are a lot of interminable series because they have a built-in readership.
I'm actually thinking of purchasing it, for use as a javascript development and learning rig with other languages, would this be appropriate? Any other better rigs?
The transition from IOC to FOC is outlined as part of the DoD acquisition contract, but under statute it means, "We've got at least one unit with associated services being run by the customer at at least one location."

That's not a very high bar.

Today, the deployment of a weapons system involves a lot of integration with the existing information technology stack, for "network centric warfare" or whatever the new buzzword is for "using high speed data links for over-the-horizon kills."

In addition to the systems integration, you're usually debugging the human processes such as training and maintenance throughout.

That's where the bugs shake out in the transition from IOC->FOC.
It was in the announcement keynote. They said it would be open, which never happened due to patent issues.
rr is a lightweight tool for recording and replaying execution of applications (trees of processes and threads). More information about the project, including instructions on how to install, run, and build rr, is at http://rr-project.org.
So by your logic everyone should be blind except apple? Fuck them. They must sacrifice their eye and pay their due taxes.
Heh, I didn't understand the title at first and thought it had something to do with an implementation of the JS redux library in Ada.

Anyway, it's a cool write up. I wish Ada came up more on HN. It's one of those languages that, like the author, I only know of as one that's "built for reliability, mainly used in defense applications".

If it's fast and safe, why doesn't it get the attention that, say, rust does?
But they are not driving
They call it checks and balances
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Yes, but even a moderate increase in target speed dramatically reduces the range of the missile, along with increasing the time for the pilot to react. Small missiles do not travel at a constant speed. They hit top speed the moment their motor burns out and then coast. By the time they are near their effective range they may be moving slower than the target. If the missile has to chase the aircraft (all shoulder-fired/IR sams) a faster aircraft will be able to remain lower and still out of effective range despite being slower than the missile's max speed.
I'm stunned that this is still a problem we're wasting so much time and money on in this world.
Please see the FAQ regarding job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

(The official thread will be posted on Monday.)
A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors
I work for an ISP. I would love to be able to do this.

All that would happen, though, is that the customers would loudly complain until either a) we turned them back on or b) they switched to another ISP.

We don't even monitor or check for such compromised machines anymore, however (other than my periodic scans for open DNS resolvers, NTP servers, devices with an SNMP community string of "public", and so on).
I interact a lot with legacy businesses and processes in my job. I think the Genba-based approach is absolutely more effective than others... with a caveat.

After actual process has been observed, understood, and solutions designed on the floor, those still need to be taken back up to be verified with management. In today's tall organizations, what's happening on the floor often doesn't reflect what should be happening. If there's a discrepancy, the reasons need to be understood and worked through. Otherwise you run the risk of overspecialization given the narrow focus of the worker on the floor (in the same way that you might with training data).
made up but plausible. A large part of the plot is how they need to work with local agents so they are not "technically" CIA. They are working in some way as consultants in a very dangerous operation.
Thank you. I appreciate your efforts.

If it helps, when the feature was first introduced (43, I believe), the pref to control it was browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete. It was later removed.

In addition to the search with, I believe it also changed up how the awesomebar search itself worked, weighting url contents, for example, much higher than page titles, and (I want to say just based on end user experience) throwing away page visit frequency information. Strangely, it would also recommend pages I had never visited, if that page was top level and something I had visited was further down.
xkcd.com/794
Property is a system for allocating rivalrous[1] resources. Applying property to freely copyable elements makes no sense. Supporting capitalism in no way requires defending the creation of government-granted monopolies under the cover of property rights.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
Such short term thinking. Nothing in your post about the next fifty years. Basically everything you describe are policy choices that can be reversed over time.

Consider that Australia didn't even have a currency 70 years ago and didn't even float their dollar until the 1990s! Now the AUD is a decent chunk of the reserve basket.

US does plenty of printing and currency manipulation too via the Fed.

It's ridiculous to think that one national currency should be the international reserve. We're just in an awkward period. It will be a blend of all currencies with China becoming a bigger portion over time.
I still think Oracles is two engineers thinking about b-trees and then several million sales people.
Subscribed to Gold yesterday, I don't like trading on margin but after hours is nice.
isn't "fat loss" just: eat less, do more cardio?
I said "somewhat under control". You aren't qualified to complain about Android fragmentation unless you've tried to write mobile apps before Android/iPhone came along. I have. Trust me - no matter how bad you think Android is, it's much better than the previous state. And a big part of that is the ecosystem of sticks and carrots Google set up around the open code base.
Agreed, that's a great idea to deal with those companies patenting stupid things like rounded corners.
*For certain devices
Google has majority share in the EU smartphone market. They are using that majority share to extend/maintain their dominance in the search space by forcing OEM to license their applications.

The EU regulators view the OS and Google apps as two seperate spheres.
Yeah, that's a recent change and much appreciated. I was on 1.36 for quite awhile. The milestone mentioning the release dates to various regions is great, too. Not sure if that's always been there and I overlooked it, though.
I've put an efficient downloader here for the interested crowd: https://github.com/beniz/openimages_downloader
It's a fork of the one script I used to grab Imagenet.
It sounds like wherever you work/live there is a pretty toxic dev culture.

Software development is primarily about managing complexity. Think about the mountain of abstraction after abstraction between your "new new thing" angular 2.0/react app and the machine instructions that are being executed in hardware. A huge amount of software work is done just to make your life as a developer simpler. Its crazy that so many willfully make their software more complex than it needs to be.

Not adding unnecessary features is always a no-brainer. Do you really have time to waste building something no one will use? A good product person can help teams with less experienced engineers avoid building the most technically challenging feature that happens to be useless.
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All of Mark's snapstorms are archived here by category, learned a lot from them http://snapstorms.com/
Angular guys are perfect in giving features like template compilation cool names like AOT to make buzz. But actually most FW has AOT already then. Nothing special to be excited about. Don't stick to their glue just because of this and remember how terrible they failed with 1.x.
How does this work along with browser caches ?
Sure, reduce history to a single liner that doesn't truly represent the patent and apply it in a sweeping manner.

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/09/claim-check-if-apple-pate...
He chooses a topic and does a snapstorm (a bunch of continuous 10 second videos) on those topics. Quite nice focused advice and personal observations on a daily basis.
Topics range from how to raise money and reaching out to angels/VCs to other things relevant to everyday business processes like marketing, building teams, metrics to focus on, common mistakes, etc.
Justin recommended to follow him once earlier this year I think. Checking out their stories almost daily is one of my prime use cases for Snapchat since then. (I am in India and in late 20's so have very few folks around me on Snapchat to do anything else really...)
Also starting the day seeing Justin following up with example on his advice of "Fitness is the first step to greatness" has personally helped me get a lot more motivated towards a better lifestyle :)
"And here above, kids, you can all observe a natural occurrence of the straw man argument phenomenon in its purest form."
> You are missing my point.

My point is ceteris paribus. Yours seems to be "only hormones matter".

I would think that the observable differences in response to exogenous hormones would be a pretty big clue that it's not all about hormones.
> I'm certain you will never see ads in MacOS as part of the OS "features."

How certain?

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
Elon Musk's Plan to Colonize Mars
I also never had any issues with Windows until this update.
If you're asking yourself why your comment is being downvoted:

- no, it's not because you attacked Apple.

- yes, it's because you wrote a shallow comment that was factually inaccurate.
Standard Internet tech blog comments really. On a higher plane than Engadget/Gizmodo/Verge comments, but still dominated by enraged teens who really really want to prove to everyone that the phone their parents bought for them is better than the phone someone else's parents bought for them.

In the Usenet days, there were comp.*.advocacy groups created specifically to absorb those kinds of discussions, but nowadays every comment section everywhere is an advocacy group. Lousy comments beget more lousy comments and drive away good comments.
The idea of organizing replicas differently to effect secondary indexing is old, it is used in some commercial data warehouse products as I recall. The reason you don't see it used very often in practice is that it tends to scale-out poorly, particularly if the workload is mixed.

Spatial decomposition to effect secondary indexing (HyperDex kinda sorta does that) performs relatively poorly at smaller scales, as would be expected in theory, but in very large scale-out systems the selectivity increases and converges at the limit on what you would expect if every dimension was indexed, minus the high overhead and poor performance of secondary indexing at that scale.

The performance crossover point between secondary indexing and spatial decomposition is somewhere within a couple orders of magnitude of a terabyte of data in my experience, depending on the data and workload. It is difficult to measure these effects across unrelated implementations because orthogonal storage engine characteristics tend to dominate measured performance. If you measure it in-memory on large clusters in a pure way (remove the unrelated database-y stuff), the scaling and efficiency curves are much more obvious.