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I'm pretty confident there's some truth to this. The core reasons may have had less to do with marketing than practicality, but at a minimum the government saw an opportunity and grabbed hold.

As for the lack of initial secrecy, that may have just been a practical consequence of why we won. NASA and JPL opened subcomponent development to private industry. At least in propellant development, this meant both research contracts and a general understanding that someone coming up with particularly good products could expect a massive government payout.

It produced great results and even got private investors to foot a large research bill. It also had the consequence that the work was rather less secret than it might have been - especially the failures, which were generally shopped around to other buyers if they had any interesting properties. But it worked out pretty well overall: even with Russia getting info about US efforts, the rate of new research was still impressive enough to be thoroughly competitive.

Anyone looking for an internal account of the (propellant) story might enjoy Ignition. It's free here, though Chrome can't handle the pdf: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
OK but why would they ever have a USB 3 USB Type-C port if they had one Thunderbolt 3? Why would they put a crappy one in if they also have a good one? Why not just have two good ones?
Yeah, diversify their economy and expand their power, both military and soft power (terrorism) in order to maintain their grip on the peninsula as well as on global Islam.

> With any luck, economics-driven policy will lead to social change as well.

Don't count on it. All they seem to ever come up with is more modern ways to implement backwards laws.
But, wouldn't he have to pay for Twilio? I love the Twilio API, but if he's running a fee service with a lot of users, that must be a consideration...
of what
...and by being male and speaking English well. :)
There have to be Node.js libsodium bindings by now, right?
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What benefits? Only "benefits" that I can see are distributed very unevenly - strong entities like Microsoft can extract patent fees from Linux users, despite they contributed almost nothing. On the other end users like you and me are blocked from fixing the software built on GPL components on the devices they own. Which was the very situation GPL was intended to prevent.
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While I agree ego and human nature can be hard to suppress, I disagree that this is the driving force here. It seems to me that having more experience necessarily means you are going to have a clearer sense of the 'right way' to do a certain task, and more concrete convictions as to why that is the 'right way'.
> as corporations don't emerge except when living creatures create them.

Isn't that the case with other living creatures too? I mean I'm pretty sure every human living today emerged because living creatures (usually their father and mother) created them.
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"I understand your outrage, and I also have mixed feelings about the role of the Linux Foundation in open-source. I am on the Technical Oversight Committee of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation which is a Linux Foundation project. However I do want to say that the Linux Foundation is a not-for-profit 'business league' under US law, rather than a not-for-profit 'charitable organization.' The fact that they have these partner companies which make them up, gives them a lot more money than the open-source charitable organizations can provide. Because they have more money, in my opinion the Linux Foundation has the potential to do a lot more good for open source, and so my personal goal is to work from within the Linux Foundation to help it do that. For example, I was very vocal about us buying and open-sourcing RethinkDB. What you're asking for is for us to test the 'purity' of businesses before we let them join the league that is the Linux Foundation. That is a bad idea. It just means fewer businesses will join the league and less of their money will be available for open-source. The Free Software Foundation and Apache Foundation are good examples of similar things: charitable organizations which now do not have very much money because they are not willing to be 'tainted' by big business. On the flip side, please do not donate to the business league as a private individual; give your resources to these charitable organizations who need it instead. But I would rather have VMWare be one of the league contributors than not have their money. We can always work from within the Linux Foundation to say 'you have to listen to these people who want Linux to remain committed to open-source,' so that they keep funding these projects that keep our open-source movement going. On the other hand I understand why you think that taking VMWare's money is essentially 'selling out,' saying that we care more about the money than about our principles."
AMD really needed the break. This is fantastic news. Don't all consoles also use AMD chips?
The demo picture they chose is interesting. It's obviously a tiger, and is identified as such with only 90% probability. I appreciate the difficulty of the problem and how big of a success it is to achieve even that level of confidence, but that low level of confidence really shows how far we are from being able to simply trust computer vision. Still useful from an information retrieval perspective, I expect.
Life is tasty and scarce, the rest is lifeless and abundant, and according to universal laws of supply and demand, that which is scarce (life) is more expensive and in higher demand, for whatever reasons unknown to us, yet.
That would be an interesting solution to the North Korean problem if the missile was armed.
Noah Kagan did a podcast on the deal he made to buy Sumo.com. Not a straight lease but more like a payment plan. He talks about how Mint.com was purchased this way too.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/noah-kagan-presents-form...
Absolutely true - if given the choice, most anyone would rather live in France than war torn Somalia. And given altruism doesn't work particularly well in unstable countries the current system is definitely in a bad state. Borders will have to be closed, as they marginally are now.
They don't care about the local economy though. Just wealth for the ruling class. They can buy slaves/workers when they need them, discard them when they don't, and soon enough they'll be able to just buy a robot army to keep it all together.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply!

That's my problem with how deeply pervasive sarcasm is – it employs emotionality and absurdity cheaply, snidely, and often in place of a well reasoned argument.

What does this lose?

"I am troubled that the company is funded by an authoritarian regime with many human rights violations. These are modern times and we should be more judicious about who we're supporting."

The original post said nothing controversial in this audience. It was a lazy and juvenile kind of false cleverness. Irony is ubiquitous now, and employing it to wield dissonance is, to me at least, as cheap as trying to appear powerful by using hate and rage.
internet is going to save us from this. Already does to a certain degree.
If there is as much money to be made as Instacart's valuation implies, then it's just a matter of time until the big chains, at least, start offering their own online shopping.

This strikes me as another version of AutoByTel.com Remember them? They worked between you and the dealership, and generally got you a much better price on a car, usually the fleet rate.

They did well until dealerships figured out how to use the web, and then the company hasn't been anywhere near as relevant for a long time. It tough existing between web-based customers and physical dealers. There isn't a lot of loyalty, so as soon as tgere is a better price customers will change sites. Also, Autobytel's business is really offering highly qualified sales leads to dealerships. The basics are nothing fancier than that.

I see the same thing for Instacart. Grocery stores tend to be effective at shipping stuff around, but tge same "shoping" experience has worked for many, many years.

It seems like the grocery stores have a lot more power than Instacart, and Instacart is going to have a very hard time getting between customers and stores. It's going to be hard to make a profit when stores offer free/cheap delivery and develop their own shopping apps.
But people living at home after graduation isn't the same thing as "Men Going Their Own Way". Even underemployment doesn't place people in that category. I'm kind of wondering if you replied to the correct comment...
It's not the "good guy" just a lot different than the Balmer era M$. At least now they embraced open source instead of fighting against it and they do give back to the community as opposed to VMWare.
I'd bet that most people eating fast food meat probably aren't commuting by bike. You can do both at the same time with a car, though, and burn fuel waiting in line at the drive thru to boot!
What? I have done hello world in C at about 4kB. You may be confusing C with C++.
Scan as you shop is common in certain chains in Norway, but I always observe people wondering how to scan certain things. Especially produce and special promotions. And when I tried it, no less than three scales were out of labels so had a hard time with the produce...
Self checkout works better.
A year before an exit prob means they only vested like 25% percent of their options. At that stage they were prob pretty expensive options and highly diluted. Options are not much good if they are not vested and priced too high.
Gotta say it's a little ironic their Zebra's Unite DazzleCon[1] is itself being held in Unicorn-central San Francisco. Why not like ... Iowa? Not exactly helping the accessibility for real businesses nationwide by hosting this in SF.

[1]: https://www.zebrasunite.com/dazzlecon/
Thats a very interesting comment...

I am going to make a few assumptions: You have no kids. You're realatively young.

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That said, lets unpack your comment... sure it would be good to explore this (as many people havent looked into the depth of the layers of cyber culture... few really and honestly understand it) - but the implications are fractally deep... if there are people who are diving into this, we shall never know. cyberwar is a known but also unknown thing... implecations are not known, but tactics appear to be revealing themselves.. how to attack... how to defend.

Firewalls are one-dimensional - we are talking 5+ dimensions with CW, arent we...

What are those 5Ds? think of OSI as 1 and add some layers... I would love your feedback....

(BTW, How many ppl work at [company] which are ex [service] - Why is it called 'The Company')
Space programs had immense propaganda value in those days. In the US, we rewired our whole primary education system in response to Sputnik. Then we structured our lunar exploration program as an unsustainable "race" for the sake of showmanship rather than science.

This is one of the handier arguments to use against moon-landing deniers. If the Russians had the slightest reason to believe that we weren't doing exactly what we said we were doing, they'd still be laughing at us.
Phone use while driving needs to be cracked down on though draconian measures like roadside flogging.
Not convinced. By a lot of their definitions we're a Zebra (profitable, no VC, using 1% of our gross revenue to make a positive impact, not aiming for a 1 bn valuation) - but for my taste, their manifesto is way too much feel-good, self-limitation and mediocrity. It seems like a knee-jerk reaction to overhyped unicorns, but not much more. Why does it have to be exactly one way or the other? Although we're bootstrapped, it doesn't mean we're a "lifestyle business", we can still (and are currently) disrupt/ing an entire industry. If you look at Google or SpaceX as an end result, you might realize that ambitions and being a great employer that makes a positive impact on the world aren't mutually exclusive.
To me, the dealbreaker is the fact that it's a percentage-rate fee as opposed to a flat-rate fee. I was able to justify spending extra for Google Express as long as I made a large order.

With Instacart, the pricing is extremely blurry with an added-on fee of ~20% or so. I can't justify spending $20 + 20% on groceries. I might as well as just order out every day.
> Ultimately its high time end-users organize some kind of funded entity to support open source projects and protect user interests.

Create a virtual currency which mints fresh shares for open source developers who complete public prizes and bug bounties for GPL licensed software. Prizes can be publicly listed and disbursed to the wallet address of the correct winner using stakeholder voting among existing currency holders. The currency base can be bootstrapped by issuing shares to volunteer developers for completing work they would have otherwise done for free.

Add in a mechanism for transferring and verifying ownership of shares between, and developers can potentially sell a portion of their shares for dollars in independent exchange markets, without the central organization having to directly collect revenues and hold cash itself.
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Whoever at Netscape vetoed Scheme as the browser language should be on trial in The Hague.
That's a fair scenario too.

If they were covering costs at 15M+, that's not too bad and a pretty serious business. You'd hope for a multiple on that (and the investors would be wanting some level of return too). So for met that puts me a the bottom of my range (~6x multiple).

You're right though, they may have just hit a ceiling and the multiple could be a lot lower. I was taking a bit of a punt on what I saw. You've also got to consider the cash component, earn-outs, etc. If you put all that together the 6x or more doesn't seem off-base. It's also the kind of setup that might have multiple people interested in acquiring them.

Another more positive read on "ceiling" is that is they wanted to execute on a bigger vision and the Google acquisition gave them the platform to do so.
This is partly a consequence of phone manufacturers implementing notification APIs for native apps first, and on several years later in browsers.

Although somewhat it's just the nature of the beast that these things take a little while to percolate into each browser.

I don't know how complete support is for web notifications, but eventually it will be a larger number than Facebook installed base. You can sometimes get some features early in apps, but the web browsers eventually cover everyone.
>Are there any hard sci-fi stories about this?

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> developers have to have intimate knowledge about the implementation details in order to work around infelicities

If you presume this, we would still need that knowledge for simple compilers too and the hardware.

Regardless, I disagree with this. Even though the abstractions are leaky, not everything is leaked. For example: Algorithms that have tight loops to do things that fit in cache will do better than those that loop over massive sets. This only leaks the cache size and little else.

You claim to develop compilers, so maybe I am out of my depth. When I read blog posts or watch videos, like those from the latest cppcon. They all boil down to the simple advice "write idiomatic code and don't try to be more clever than the problem requires". Then when that performance isn't good enough profile and optimize. This is working well for me in 3d games. When I see fit to look at my assembly all of it makes good direct sense, and when it doesn't it is extremely fast.

So looking at the previous example leaking the cache size; A slightly smart compiler might insert extra instructions to tell some CPUs how to prefetch whatever is next. A very smart compiler will detect data dependency and rework the loop to operate on a data set that fits in cache (maybe even querying the size of the cache). The alternative is for the dev to know the cache szie at the time the algorithm is written and take it into account there. This is a simple example but shows the problem, why should the dev care about the cache size, when it can be automatically accounted for?

Are there some more nuanced examples where the simple pattern of write idiomatically then profile fails?

I happen to have of those videos[1] running in the background right now about abstractions that cost nothing. I will start it over and pay more attention with your added details in mind. I will also look into Chez Scheme this is the first I have ever heard of it.

[1] CppCon 2016: Serge Guelton “C++ Costless Abstractions: the compiler view" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0N9Tvf7Bz0&index=108&list=P...
I run 8 miles to work a few times a week. I still shock my colleagues with how much I eat those days.
No public posts yet unfortunately. For spinning up jobs we have an internal tool that can spin up machines and provision them, but in my own experiments I just usually end up spinning up machines and rsyncing experiments over.
Ask HN: Finding remote jobs for leadership positions
I recently left my job as a senior engineering manager.
I worked in NYC as a lead engineer, CTO and VP R&D.

Recently I decided to take a break from the city life and go travel the world while working remotely.

I'm open to new opportunities but I find it hard to find remote positions in a leadership as most of the jobs requires VP Eng/CTO to be on site, even for remote-friendly companies.

Another thing I discovered is that remote positions pay much less than on-site roles. Even in the same company for the same role.

I face a reality that requires me to get a big pay-cut, give up on leadership positions and find a place as a software engineer without any senior management option.

Is that your experience too for that type of jobs? Am I missing anything?
Having used JS along with somewhere north of 10 other languages over the years... JS is the most painful, even moreso than Perl which was close.

Classes and objects are 100x better than the crap they've come up with to fix JS so far so stop complaining.

Oh no it's not functional???!!! Javascript never was. It was always supposed to be an OO language the implementation is just shit. For the love of God everyone just shut up and let them fix it. Trying to change JS from what it was meant to be into something else entirely is just going to make things even worse
It also mentions verbs like swimming so it may do those across several frames? Not sure how much more accurate that is than frame-by-frame
Dude classes are making you sad? Man, you should shield up, _a lot_ of things beyond classes are going to make you sad. Classes and javascript are a history between 2 different clans fighting together and no one winning, but it's still javascript. Not a huge deal if it's shittier than it already is. I like the language don't get me wrong, but there is so much in there that's unpleasant, that another construct shouldn't affect you much.
> This is unlike literature, which concerns ineffable concepts like hopelessness and anguish - qualia.

They may be ineffable to computers (at this time), but they are not ineffable to us. We can ascribe meaning to these words, and programming languages do the same thing. They provide a language with common meanings that both a compiler and humans can understand.
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Having a kid kicked my ass in high gear as far as learning and monetizing that learning. I've been fortunate enough to have good jobs and arguable didn't "need" to do more but when I found out we were going to have a child every part of my body shifted into provider overdrive.

I started consulting, hustling, and expanding my knowledge and skillset as rapidly as I could. I started a consultancy on the side and nearly doubled my income over the course of a few months. Between that and my boy not being a very good sleeper I probably ran on an average of 4.5 hours rest a night for between 3-4 years (with once a week crashes of a long night of sleep on Fridays and Saturday afternoon nap).

It was tough, damn tough, but I made sure to spend quality time with him every night and most mornings, gave him nearly every bath during the first 2 years of his life, and got up with him every time he needed me in the night from midnight to 7am as that was my shift so the wife could sleep. During the same time I achieved an extremely high proficiency with ruby and later rails, learned to sell myself, came on as first engineer at a startup and dug deep into Elixir right around the time it hit 1.0, eventually launching a product written in it and learning a ridiculous amount about the BEAM in the process.

Theres less time to fart around with video games, and I don't have much in the way of hobbies, but little fulfillment was going to come from those areas anyway.

Its doable, and I'm alive and sane on the other side with a load of accomplishments to point to, a great relationship with my wife/son and reasonable assurance that my child(ren) will have everything they need to be successful.
Another interesting thing is that Windows 10 / Xbox App recognizes and tracks all games on the system regardless of their origin. I opened the Xbox App for the first time the other day to turn off the annoying screen capture prompts it injects and found my "recent activity" which was populated with Steam Games.
> If there is as much money to be made as Instacart's valuation implies, then it's just a matter of time until the big chains, at least, start offering their own online shopping.

They already do. We sometimes use personal shopping at Whole foods, it costs like $15. You drive up and pick up the groceries. Super easy. Another smaller chain store, for $20, they will shop and deliver to your door.

While great in terms of saving time, the problem is that you sometimes dont get exactly the item you would have picked nor get the option to pick up extra items or things on sale.
and it is going to take a long time for the legislative bodies to catch up to modern realities.

thank the internet.
For extremely wide definition of "created", yes. But that definition is not very useful, since it implies pretty much no useful causal links, just the mere fact "here's a bunch of matter, and here we are located in this place on it". Yep, but so what?