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Interesting point! I had not known that the NPT gave access to Nuclear energy to signatories.
Is it just me, or does this essay seem to be missing an introduction, like someone accidentally deleted the first few paragraphs? I initially assumed I had been linked to "page 2" and went looking for a link back to the beginning.

Edit: Apparently, this is part of a series where guest authors are invited to choose something to "uninvent" and explains why they think it has had a negative impact on the world. The essay's abrupt beginning makes much more sense in that context.
a good way to find out is call your previous employers saying you are a recruiter for "Big Company X" and see if they divulge your previous salary. I would bet most (all?) would not.
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It would be odd if that were illegal. There are some well-known "radical transparency" startups that publicly post all employees' salaries.
OP here. Perhaps you overlooked my comment in the intro that my spike solution was the first few screens of my real-world app? The code samples in the article are distilled/simplified from the spike solutions.

My React spike became my real app, and structurally looks pretty much the same (even 2 months of dev later). If you think there are some important concerns that I left out (and I'm sure there are), please be specific so that I/we can learn.
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Hi everyone,
We are pivoting our product and before we dive I would like to get some feedback from the community.

We are building a set of apps which developers can use to debug and test web apps for security vulnerabilities. The key difference between these tools and others is that ours run on top of your browser which means that:

* require just a browser

* always updated

* no need to setup proxy settings or open up your environment to 3rd-party servers * you can test local apps as well as remote apps

* not locked to specific apps

* embeddable - you can link them to your own portals, status pages, ticketing systems, etc.

We think this service will appeal to developers who are inclined to do some security testing for their teams without wasting too much time because the tools are just a click away and they do not require too much attention or to keep up with the latest trends in security.

The tools are offered for free so you can use them without logging in or sign up. We are thinking to charge a license fee which not only make the apps more useful (access to some private services and storage) but also make them compatible for commercial use.

The current set of tools are available here:

https://market.secapps.com/

I would love to get your feedback.

I am also interested to ask the following specific questions:

* Would you find a service like this useful?

* Would you find the tools more useful than existing tools because we use web is a platform?

* How often do you think you are going to use tools like this, once a day, once a week, once a month?

* Would you pay for the service and how much if we make it available today, i.e. if you say yes and we drop in a link for payment in the comments - will you actually pay for it?

* If you cannot be bothered what do you do for security testing - what other tools or services are you using?

I am looking forward to read your comments.
My guesses:

1) Nvidia and AMD both do per-game optimizations in the drivers themselves. Though my understand is that Nvidia has more resources dedicated to this. They will send 1 or 2 people to the studios of AAA game devs nearer release to help the company optimize their game plus to add "hacks" into their own drivers to work around inefficiencies in those games.

If they opened sourced their drivers, that work would be made free to AMD and other drivers.

2) "Benchmark Cheating". Graphics Drivers do lots of optimizations depending on the specific application. I'd wager that this includes popular benchmark apps.

3) Patent lawsuits. There are a massive number of patents around the graphics word. Obscuring how a driver works probably helps protect them somewhat from potential patent litigation.
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Regarding 1, how much CO2 does humanity emit compared with how much CO2 the oceans emit?
Yes, however I think the hard part is getting the attention and interest of the investors in the first place. The IBs also act as a quality signal in the other direction, too. That is, I, as a potential investor am more likely to invest if the deal is brought to me by Morgan Stanley than if presented on some startup platform. I'm not passing judgement on that mindset, I'm just pointing out that it is the case for a large percentage of those potential investors.
much of florida does suck, but it also has some of the best places in the country.

almsot anywhere on the ocean side coast is gorgeous. i used to visit a place on hutchinson island, one of my favorite places to visit in the country (though a bit of a drive from any of the airports)

http://www.waterpointerealty.com/wp-content/gallery/featured...
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This is a re-post of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14058725 after it was mentioned that I should probably convert this into a Show HN submission.
Drivers contain details about how the GPU (or whatever) hardware is structured and works internally. Some companies want to keep that info proprietary.
I'd be interested to read it. :)
I disagree with that interpretation based on the text you have selected. It does not reference a consumer market (which would be a nightmare scenario if this popped up in health food stores), and explicitly uses the term "medical test". If you have a colorectal or digestive problem, you are already bringing stool samples from home to the lab, and dosing on a diagnostic substance prior is common enough before different examinations (for example, radioactive iodine). I think that this approach is just combining the two with a novel bacterial agent.
How is it state overreach but employers aren't engaged in corporate overreach? The state is not there to look after only the interests of the employed, but also of the employees. You don't have a right to know that information, and as an employer you potentially exert significant economic leverage over the potential employee, so the question has great potential to be coercive. It's none of your business how much a potential employee earned in their previous employ. Your only reason for asking is to improve your own negotiating position by making it easier to guess what the employee will settle for.

The only question you should be asking the employee about pay is how much they want in exchange for what you want them to do. As for your first amendment argument, that's total nonsense. You are not engaged in speech to promote your views, nor are you being prevented from expressing your views in any way. If this should be protected speech then so should 'your money or your life' when uttered by a highwayman, who by your logic is merely proposing a bargain that the recipient is free to decline.
There are plenty of reasons why Rust could win outside of requiring safe manual memory management. It is an expression based language with ad-hoc polymorphism, algebraic data types, hygienic macros, first class functions, and race-free concurrency.

I don't use rust because I don't need manual memory management and I require subtype polymorphism for a lot of things, but I choose Scala over D.
Sure, but it's not just about whether you fit in the range or not, it's about language design and tradeoffs. Not everyone will appreciate D, but I really think it hits a sweet-spot of language features that I haven't found elsewhere.

I've enjoyed programming in Ocaml, Rust, C++, Haskell, many Lisps, etc. -- they are all excellent languages. But I find (to my own surprise) that I often come back to D when playing with a new design, exactly because of that sweet-spot. I highly recommend giving it a try if you haven't already.
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If only Robert Jordan had lived another decade or so... The Sanderson books weren't bad, it just struck me as kind of... rushed, especially the finale.

I'm becoming increasingly worried about GRR Martin. It'll be sad if the only conclusion is the increasingly butchered TV series.
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> Start a campaign for tundra deforestation? That can't be right.

They are not talking about deforestation, but growth on previously barren ground: "We now know that a lot of greening has been going on there, too, with tall shrubs and woody vegetation. The vegetation has been getting both taller and expanding in space and range."
This actually seems really easy. The writing style alone of the Quran is very distinctive.

(I got one wrong out of eighteen, but that one was because the verse from the Bible had the word "God" in brackets, which is the usual convention for a word not being present in the original text. )
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Any tip...?
What you have just described is the political reasons for not giving your employees agency in making their own decisions. Technically, while each stack might provide similar value proposition, familiarity and experience with a given stack are an organizational value that even given two equals would cause any rational person to pick the known and understood stack. Essentially you nailed the facts with your first line. If everyone is rational and had the same goals these things sort themselves out. Problems arise when people are not acting with the same goals or values, and on occasion they are not acting rationally ( it has been my experience that differing goals and values are so frequently the cause that assuming irrationality is just noise you can ignore )

So given people with differing goals and values they come to different conclusions about how to pursue those goals. Unless you hire sociopaths most of your employees will want the firm to do well and work with functional tech stacks that accomplish the stated goal of the company. However people in tech leadership don't always share that goal. They make decisions based much more on personal utility then the average worker. They might sign that sweetheart deal with a vendor because they see it as an avenue for a career change in the near future, or they might want to make sure no one below them starts to outshine them so they keep the stack something they understand ( knowing full well that someone not in leadership has much more time to persue learning ), or they know if they force an outdated but well known stack they can hire cheap.

In general none of those conditions are good for people actually doing the work and they know it which is why they push back. It gets propagated up the stack as naivete or fad chasing, but in general its leadership insulating their position ahead of the company or their co-workers. Those leaders fail and those companies fail. When decisions like this are pushed down from on high look out, its generally a sign of bad culture and a bad company
They are reading everything.
Here's a quote from another hn user robert_foss from the discussion on the Apple / Imagination Technologies thread.

'In the GPU space it is impossible to not infringe on the IP of other vendors.

In fact it is the major reason GPU vendors give for not having an open source driver. I have spoken to the CTO (Jem Davies) of ARM about the GPU drivers and open sourcing them more than once. And every time I've gotten the reply: "No, we can't, it opens us up to IP infringement suits."'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14021299
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You're very generous in your assessment.
That's a good point, and you're probably right that a lot of it is due to that.

I would add my anecdotal observations that, whenever I have looked at the edit history and talk pages for anything remotely political, the non-left views are virtually shouted down and literally edited out ad nauseam. The editors by-and-large seem to have a strong left-leaning ideology.
> Like everyone else these days, I work a lot; so my personal free time is precious. $800 is worth less to me than 4-5 days of time to spend with my wife and kid,

You just got done saying how you spent all this time with your Dad fixing stuff, but you don't want to spend 4-5 days fixing stuff because you want to spend time with your wife and kid... Why not just work together? Jobs like that have lots of different parts, from demolition to making lunch. It's much more fun as a family than for Dad to go off and do it alone.

> how many times will I need to install flooring in my life? I'm glad I could do it in a pinch, but it's not a skill I really care about mastering.

If your work involves creativity you'll use that experience thousands of times. Every detail of the process is a metaphor for all kinds of things. There's no border in my head between coding, business, gardening, and homebuilding. All of those practices self-reinforce. Things I learn in one domain constantly solve problems in others.

There is this idea in the tech world that the most stimulating environment for solving coding problems is a sterile office with a bunch of computers, and non-stop exposure to the concrete problem space. But I find a few minutes in the garden, a long walk, a break to cook lunch... these are often much more fertile areas for me to solve challenging questions.

Most software management processes just value "did today's widget do it's behavior", and don't encourage people to solve the higher level challenges in their codebase. Those are opportunities which can offer 100x increases in productivity, but most tech managers would rather get 20 widgets built than suffer watching an engineer smoking pot and making elaborate meals in the kitchen for two weeks and then two weeks refactoring things that already worked into a (seemingly arbitrarily) different shape.
Well, not really? A full time day is typically 9 hours with one hour of unpaid lunch and maybe two 15 minute breaks (at least I think that's the California law). What I described is basically an 8 hour day including a lunch break. As far as WFH, I mean, the poster didn't mention that explicitly.

If it comes to that, for my team we can WFH if needed without advance notice and if anything comes up during work hours we're able to leave for the errand or need, even for an hour or two, without being required to "make up" the time per se. As long as we are getting work done, etc.
Which is fine. It is DL library, not for string processing.
I'm a foreigner (German) and I would have no problem doing so. I know no other country where they copy their phone and I also don't want to give this special rights even to USA.
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I advocate for all salary data being public.

To get a better salary and better work conditions cannot depend of hiding a figure. It is a weak position, to say the least.
Deforestation wouldn't help, you'd need something reflecting, like snow. Like long winters and short summers.
I would say there are dozens of projects that do this from a search I did a while back.
The convention in the U.S. is a one-page resume and a cover letter.

A resume in the U.S. is not like a CV in Europe. It is an abbreviated list of highlights that are relevant to the position you are applying for.
#brainwashedcuckedliberal

Not for me cause I would never do it.

But men who do are beta cucks who let their wives steamroll them on everything then end up getting divorced and lose everything while she cheats on him. But it's his fault cause reasons.

Traditional gender roles have been the back-bone of civilization for thousands of years, when you try to change the natural order into some progressive bullshit you get the horrid state of society we have today and unhappy families.
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80% of CEO's believe they are delivering a superior experience but 8% of customers agree. This is what we call the "Experience Gap".

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Qualtrics XM Platform™ provides human-factor data—the beliefs, emotions, and sentiments that tell companies why things are happening, not just what is happening.

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I used my winnings in the dot com explosion to be a stay at home Dad while my less financially successful wife worked. It was awesome; I think men in general need to try harder than women to forge a really strong connection as parents, so stay at home Dad => parenting equality, all else being equal. I was part time for few years also. Work of course hated it and it was hard to re-enter. I don't regret it of course, and kids are older and my time at work is creeping back up. Now I can do tech work sitting next to them doing homework. The kids tell me their problems and at least listen to my arguments for being the person that knows the most math in the room, regardless of career.

There were sacrifices but a lot of the worries I see expressed about work life balance don't really worry me. With the strong connection to the kids, I can feel how they are doing: I have that mother's sense of can I work late tonight or do I need to focus on the people. I feel the parenting skills also have made me more effective at work, both in cutting out useless activities because my time is sacred and in seeing the non-verbal emotional sides of people. The idea of how people can have trouble saying certain important things and how to respond to that happening is essential when dealing with kids and useful when dealing with engineers. So I highly recommend staying at home for men that have the capacity for it. (It is hard and you have to be almost totally self driven; no one will thank or notice what you do).
I don't have a choice: I must use a broad array of tools and languages.

The gamedev stuff I've helped tackle fundamanetlaly required mostly C++... and a little C, and some x86/ARM/PPC for debugging, HLSL 3-5/GLSL ES/PSSL/<custom shader DSLs> for porting graphics, at least two shell scripting languages for CI servers (Bash, and Powershell or (ew!) Batch), Python (for various modeling tools)... Java, Objective C, and C++/CX for platform specific APIs... MSBuild, Makefiles, Gradle, Ant... and that's just the languages! The tooling front is no better.

A handful more language choices that theoretically could've been avoided (e.g. C# for tools and server stuff, ActionScript for UI) is really not that big a deal in this context. You can add pointless layers of cruft, but I've only seen it once - a Python script used to hack up the result of a C++ program. Even then they had a reason: some of the C++ didn't get checked in, so we couldn't even build the C++ program. (A happy ending: With a little reverse engineering of the resulting binary output, I was able to re-implement the missing C++ bits, implement the Python-script 'fixes' more cleanly in the original C++, and add my own necessary changes on top of that.)
Scion Xa has a dashboard in the middle, works totally fine; in fact its a little easier to see in your periphery

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He founded Opsware and sold it for $1.6 billion in cash.

Netscape sold for more than that.
Two big fish in a colossally big ocean.

Million of employers out there, many willing to pay at or near the same range without those onerous requirements.
Do you have any sourced information that suggests what is on Wikipedia is wrong? I'd love to hear it if so.
Trump was perceived as the lesser of the two evils. Looking at Hillary's donation list, it was even more pronounced that she was a Corporation puppet. Trump was the wild "fuck you" card who was perceived as the only candidate that would not sell out.
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Why? What if it was knives? Should be make sure the CIA has no knives? The problem isn't the tool, it's the people in place that let them be used inappropriately. If the Army used a tank inappropriately, I wouldn't call for all tanks to be removed from the Army's arsenal, I would call for a review of the people and procedures that allowed it to happen. Tanks are a valid and essential part of our offensive and defensive arsenal. As are assault rifles. As are missiles. As are digital infiltration and information gathering techniques and software.
Everyone here is so cynical, saying he's in the pocket of telecoms. Maybe he is.

But maybe he's just ideologically opposed to these rules being implemented by a regulatory bureaucracy on the federal level.
How long ago was that? I have interviewed onsite last year with every company in the Big 4 and some smaller others, and none of them made an issue out of me not disclosing my previous salary even during offer negotiations.
nofish has known this, he said he will update it up to data soon.
Thanks for the feedback. I will address the concerns
I am storing the subject, and the from address. I am not storing the email body hence not providing context in the reminders. I am using sendgrid's inbound parse api to receive emails and posting it to my service which adds reminder to the database. There is a service in the background which runs every minute and sends reminder based on the time to remind and delete the email once the reminder is sent.
I think you are correct in your feedback about the original context of the email. for that I will have to store the email content as well.
> Normally, the quote goes "never attribute to malice what can be assigned to stupidity" or something along those lines.

I always like to respond to that quote with another one. I think it fits our current governmental situation particularly.

"Which is more culpable: stupidity or malice?"
The biggest problem with Spotify is that they aren't a company they are a feature. Streaming music is being considered a low margin value add by companies with much deeper pockets like Apple, Google, and Amazon.

None of Spotify's competitors are trying to make a company sustainable profit from music streaming.
Can confirm. My cousin started working onsite, but transitioned to remote at Planning Center. Seems like a nice setup.

PS, I'm Kin's cousin!
Contributing to something valuable is the coolest.
That's fair. I love Scala but hate the JVM and all the compromises Scala has made to shoehorn itself into the JVM. Even though there is now a scala-native, I'd still probably not use it until it matures to the level that D is at, and D (or OCaml) would probably be a better choice for me for those usecases.