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They may take some of the decisions, but that doesn't make them knowledgeable or financially invested. How would a politician make money from a construction project? The company that engineered it does, sure, but the guy who commissioned it? He benefits from being in office.
How did this link rocket to the front page so quickly and get a bunch of points, but the comments are mostly pointing out aspects/criticisms of this product that show it is not in alignment with the HN community?

Astroturfing?
Maybe it was a two year masters degree and he spent his last 17 months using it?
I don't think it actually is worth remembering. That hardware was so completely different from the hardware we have now, in terms of performance and price. Those displays were somewhere around 240x320 pixels at 30hz. The year-old tech we have today is 1080x1200 at 90hz. That's roughly 50x better, a magnitude and a half better. That's not even beginning to consider the several orders of magnitude improvement in the visuals we can push over that display.

It also comes at a fraction of the cost. Four headsets plus a cluster of SGI workstations to run them would probably set you back a million dollars. Today, you're looking at about $10,000. 100x improvement in cost. Hell, quantity has a quality all its own.

So, without even considering graphics (or ubiquitous and wireless internet access), we're looking at modern VR being at east 500x better than the tech from 20 years ago. I don't know any comparisons to make that are 500x improvements outside of tech. I don't think we can really learn anything meaningful from the VR wave of the 90s. What we have today is just a completely different situation.
Total.js is free now:
https://github.com/totaljs/premium-messenger
Fine grained efforts to "encourage collaboration" in places where it's not clearly needed is micromanagement. In fact, from an introvert's point of view, it could be the very worst form of micromanagement.
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HardenedBSD wanted to do LibreSSL in base but /usr/bin/openssl version on my home server still returns "OpenSSL 1.0.2k-freebsd". I use LibreSSL from ports anyway :) but it'd be nice to have it in base, yeah.

By the way I actually do use client certificates on my home server. It's behind my ISP's NAT though, no incoming connections from outside are possible lol
Lighttpd is dead, just don't use it.
Seeing as the index.js file is 15,482 lines of code[0] all attributed to a single author, I seriously doubt it.

[0]: https://github.com/totaljs/framework/blob/master/index.js

Edit: apparently that's not the right repo… looks like the comments are right that the source code for the messenger app is not on GitHub.
I opted not to download images using wget. I figured if I needed in-article images the PDF+screenshot would be enough.
While you may find it creaking, myself and many other people find the experience of using Apple software far better than any competing systems. I wouldn't work somewhere that asked me to use Windows. For me, and maybe I'm overly aesthetically sensitive, it would make my day to day life much worse. This is just to say that the authority with which you dismiss Apple's software as a point of differentiation is probably misplaced.
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That's because "we only hire the best." Also "we have not invested in our own hiring process so it's a total crap shoot but we aren't even cognizant of this fact."
My last contract in finance was in HFT, and we did indeed have these discussions about what our fastest routing would be at a sensible price!

I thought that a formation of sharks swimming in line across the Atlantic with optical repeaters on their heads (ie just skimming the surface) could be best for London to NYC minimum latency traffic. Finally a use for sharks with laser beams.
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Isnt the first point about Apple's global marketshare, and the second about China in particular?
> You know it's strange because I can only ever find people arguing this when they know they won't be the ones to be out of a job.

True. You've pretty much identified the nature of special interest groups and why they have so much power.
"An alternative to Slack"??

More like "Slack Clone that pretends to be open source, but requires you to pay to see the source code"
No, the article contradicts itself and makes an incorrect claim. First, it says that iPhones are bought as statement pieces, ie their hardware. Then, it says iPhones aren't as popular in China because Androids can use WeChat too. These are incompatible claims.
Google doesn't need to compete on price to beat cloud rivals
Chrome seems to work
Or just go with https://riot.im/ (https://matrix.org/). It's federated, support E2E and kicks ass.
U2F works because it is replay protected. Whatever you "authorize" the scammer to do means nothing to the bank when he tries to relay it.

Either he acts as a transparent proxy between you and your bank without attacking, or the authentication fails.

Edit: with local malware you're doomed unless you have trusted external hardware with a dedicated screen.
It looks to be on the top at the left side
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On the other hand, its very common for a team member to get blocked and not know how to get unblocked. A (occasional) standup can get them past that. And one blocked team member can quickly become the long pole on the tent.

Standups and agile are quite useful, especially for new teams or teams of greener developers. Which, in our growth industry, is 'most teams everywhere'.

If you're part of a team that's worked well for months or years, then the utility is greatly diminished. I think standups can gracefully fade away after some months.
> I don't agree with it, but many do.

Ugh. What happened to ethics? Does no one at Berkeley teach that course anymore?
Nah it's much more likely that the people complaining are the vocal minority. I think this is awesome! But I wouldn't comment about it. However HN is filled with people that are amazing at finding issues with things and who love to share those issues.
Civil disobedience is rooted in ideas of justice. E.g. a corporation could engage in civil disobedience by refusing to have separate black and white seating areas. But our society does not generally recognize any "justice" angle to economic regulation. It's not "civil disobedience" for a company to skirt laws as part of a profit-making enterprise just because it wants to second-guess the government's idea of what those regulations should be. Nobody will write history books about how the noble unicorn startup evaded unjust regulations of its day to maximize its market capitalization.
Before I had kids my time management was absolute crap; so getting this together was key, and nearly made my days 25 or 26 hours long.

Your schedule seems about right. There's definitely worse ones out there. Assuming you have young kids, they will become more independent with time to allow you to have time back for yourself.

My schedule is nearly identical; although I do have to admit I'm about an hour later than you for everything.

To become a semi-successful parent (is that even a thing? We'll see in 18 years) who still gets shit done I've learned to simply utilize every idle moment. It allows me about an hour of extra time for something during the weekdays, and makes my weekends more efficient. I tend to sacrifice my own sleep when I really need more time for something and it usually works out okay, as long as I don't make it a habit for the week (or I'll feel sick, tired, or just unwilling to over-perform).

Right now, I'm going through a home renovation, so the process is slow but it's considered my "side-project". The nice thing about it is that I can involve my kids in it to keep them occupied and still get a little bit of something done.

For keeping up with tech, my pace at work is slow enough that I can continuously evolve the software I write with new technologies and best practices. Before I started where I'm at, I was at a much more fast-pace place which was fun and exciting; but absolutely damning to my home life because of all the other stuff I've got going on. (And nothing angers Mrs. and Kids more than coming home at 8 or 9pm frequently).
Nah, still pretty widely used in certain circles - even to the extent that you can have a car sales site called motors and it be obvious: http://www.motors.co.uk/
You're absolutely right but it still sucks. She has a great attitude about it but if i am honest and this kind of thing happened to me i would be seriously pissed, at myself more then anyone else.
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Nothing out of touch in recognizing that paper notebooks and whiteboards are way more ergonomic than computers for certain use cases.
Thats Ben Thompsons point, right? That being underwhelming on features doesnt matter in any country but China, because Apple has a moat there: iOS. But iOS doesnt matter in China because there is another OS on top of it: WeChat.
So WeChat did what Java couldn't do: Build an abstraction that made OS irrelevant client side. I guess you could say that the browser has done this too, but not fully, I guess.
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So.. article title - good or not?

I agree with your point, and still also with OP.
Being a statement piece does not necessarily have anything to do with hardware. It's much more about branding.
Except that Google acquired the semantic web startup Metaweb (aka Freebase) back in 2010. That tech became the foundation of the Knowledge Graph, which is deeply integrated into Google's stack, and powers Google Home / Assistant / etc.
Yeah, pretty much all phones these days have relatively powerful GPUs. However the GPGPU situation is not awesome?? IIRC RenderScript is way more limited than OpenCL…

Though it seems that what they're doing is matching against the database on their GPUs, can't do that on the phone without downloading their huge proprietary dataset :D
Admittedly I was unsure about Brexit to begin with, but ever since we said we are going to leave, the EU has been up in arms telling us we will be punished, and we have to pay €100 billion to even be allowed. Despite us being in the top 3 biggest contributors to the EU budget to begin with. I can firmly say since that this is not a group I want to be associated with.
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And applying parallel processes in your life when possibly also really helps. Especially in the morning.

Explaining the concept to my 4-year-old daughter was fun, and is trusted enough to execute these processes in a timely manner (without killing someone).
Individuals and companies in the USA have always been allowed to suppress speech they do not agree with. You are not obligated to employ someone whose speech you disagree with. You are not obligated to give them a place to speak. You are not obligated to provide internet services. The 1st Amendment only protects us from government interference, and rightly so. If you are an ass in life and everyone refuses to help you spread your bad ideas, that's called the consequences of being an ass. And if you think you don't define speech you don't like, then please leave your phone number so I can call you with my 8 hour sales pitch.
What I started doing after a couple of years of managing teams was to ask for average salaries per work function for my team, which has consistently surprised people when I ask (that this is surprising surprised and shocked me), and then send a weekly report to my boss - whether they wanted it or not - enumerating costs broken down by task.

Several times I've had managers that were confused why I'd send them this, or even insist it was a waste of time at first. Never once have I had a boss ask for this kind of breakdown themselves.

Then they'd see the result, and inevitably I'd get questions about how it could be right that e.g. (to take a number out of thin air) $5k worth of developer time every week was spent on meetings.

Or why that "tiny little change" that someone insisted on adding without proper scoping because it was so minor ended up costing $20k.

Pretty quickly those reports they initially didn't care about became mandatory, and it to some degree changed how people thought about resource allocation.

It doesn't need to be precise tracking either - you need to get the costs to about the right magnitude, and treat them accordingly depending on how you collect the data.
So much this. The only thing that would be able to move the needle on public perception on this issue is wall-to-wall coverage in the written and televised press, and endless nameless talking heads decrying it on cable news shows. Only then would public opinion shift enough to pressure elected government officials to NOT try to do such things. And that will never happen, because the news organizations -- ALL of them, I'm convinced -- are at least influenced by the governmental parties, if not bought outright. Most of the time, I pick on the US, because I'm American, but I don't think that this is particular to the States. The notion of a "free press" is largely obviated by simple economics these days, because of the need for favorable treatment at the hands of tax codes and regulations to compete in the world economy. "Don't bite the hand that feeds you."
I agree. I couldn't figure out a way to say it without coming off that way. I realize there are legitimate reasons one might choose to use paper.

"Infinite resolution" being one I hear often.
Also worth noting: Google Authenticator is just TOTP[1] (X=30, Digit=6, HMAC-SHA-1 IIRC). You can just copy the URL from the QR code and use it from whatever you like, as long as your clock is somewhat synced.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238
Can you say what is different in your distro than in any other distro? And you think that no other distro could have been extended/fixed to get what you want? Do you consider that this is useful for anyone else? In that case, you really should publish your work and write about it.
Speaking of audio, one of my highest priority TODO's for this project is to use youtube-dl for nicely archiving youtube & soundcloud links.
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startup != sv goofyness

sv goofy startup == sv goofyness

sv startup != sv goofy startup
Although I don't usually get full-days this has become really helpful for me. 4 or 6 hours of time to do something is incredibly productive for me now.
clang-tidy can be useful to modernize code.

http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/index.html
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More to the point, they've already made plain that the EU repeals will be done by statutory instruments in their thousands. Doubtless this one will find a hiding place among them.
>I think it's somewhat likely that google has removed the links to this in the interest of national security.

This sounds highly unlikely considering Google is one of the main contributors to solutions to mitigate this problem. Also, I think you are referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Downg...
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I'm not a recruiter but I always ask the person interviewing me if they've looked at my personal projects and/or GitHub. The answer is usually (9 out of 10 times) no.

I put a good amount of time into my personal projects and while I didn't make them only to get an interview it seems like such a huge oversight on behalf of the potential employer to not even look at what I might be able to build. It's also disappointing that they don't look.
U2F is just a button
It was posted at the best time day for a US audience (5 am CDT) and the marketing for it is pretty solid. But yes I think so, it had around 10 upvotes in a minute or so.

Minor astroturfing (having real people you know with real HN accounts) rocket you to the front page is pretty easy and hard to detect. It only takes around 5 votes as long as you get them quickly and they're judged to be high quality votes. However if you don't keep getting votes (your post is totally horrible) you will drop off FP fast.
This photos look heavily photoshopped.
Also working on home in free time. It's great to involve the kids to learn about trades and "learning to live" and fix things. They're having fun and helping, and I'm still completing large projects on time.
From the beginning of the article, which defines the rest of the them:

> Moreover, the advantages go beyond margins: the best way to understand both Apple’s profits and many of its choices is to understand that the company has a monopoly on not just MacOS but even more importantly iOS. That means Apple can not only capture consumer surplus on hardware, but developer surplus when it comes to app sales; that some apps are not made is deadweight loss that Apple has chosen to bear to ensure total control.
This sounds noble and good and all, but us parents can't justify the risk. We need to be here for our children.
Much more likely to say "motor".
The Uber account becomes the new medallion.
Case in point, the term is also used for laptops.
I loved my first blackberry, I think it was the 6710. From there it has all been downhill with possible exception of the Classic. BBRY freaked out when Apple figured out what consumer users want and took over the market. As long as BBRY tries to go head-to-head with Apple / Samsung, they are going to fail.
The most interesting part of this article is how big incumbent companies fail. Not by direct competition, but by a new product category/service that makes the current one a pure or irrelevant commodity.
A payload hit is acceptable if the reusability is very great: they can just truck up bits of spacecraft, fuel for depots, crew modules and so on in many runs.

A fully-featured spaceplane is a paradigm-shifter. SpaceX decided not to try because the tech was too far down the line. Novel propulsion takes decades to prove out, and Reaction are working through it reasonably. The sticking point was the hypersonic precooler, and they've cracked that. A whole-engine scale demonstrator should be a relatively straightforward next step.
You're correct, it was mainly OCR, but we categorize this as machine learning. Partly because we use public machine learning algorithms to do it, but also because we're planning to do a lot with OCR coupled with other data sets and a range of IOT initiatives. Things like predicting where we'll need to water trees, prioritize areas for snow shoveling or schools for renovation, how to control traffic flows and a range of other things.

We are doing some more traditional stuff in BI, but a lot of it is relatively secret, in the very early stages or even getting shut down because legislation in the area is changing rapidly.

We tracked citizen movement in our inner city based on wifi from smartphones for instance. Then we compared the data with various attempts at directing crowd flows. With a decent success rate, much higher than before we started using machine learning to score the results. We've killed the project though, because the new EU privacy protection acts makes that sort of wifi tracking illegal.
A good programmer with even just a high level overview of ML and Stats concepts would be an incredibly valuable asset to a data science team. Most ML people are academics who tend to not have good software engineering skills, finding people who master both domains is really hard.

Also to add to that most of the work in ML is feature engineering, data cleaning, testing and building pipelines which all require a good software engineering background.
It's problematic because current business organisation fads seem to mean that anybody doing hands on work has to be "on a team".

Recognising the existence of one-person teams might help a bit.
We don't have to compete on price but were 20-30% cheaper overall. Pretty sure at the end of the day that's competing on price.
I can see why people find the submission intellectually interesting. In part because Slack is relevant. In part because Javascript frameworks and plain old Javascript are relevant. And in large part because just making something is relevant. Being intellectually interesting is the core tenant of Hacker News.

A lighter weight open source alternative to Slack is relevant. Even though it probably makes tradeoffs that people will complain about.
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> On the other hand, its very common for a team member to get blocked and not know how to get unblocked

Yes of course that can happen and I said so, which means that he should ask whoever is blocking him how to proceed. If he doesn't know who it is, he asks the manager and he will direct him to the right person. If there is literally no way to proceed, he will work on another issue in the meantime and inform the manager that he's blocked on the more important stuff. If there is some way to speed it along together with multiple other people, it will come up when he talks to that first guy. Obviously waiting for the next standup tomorrow is a ridiculous proposition, so standups solve a problem for 1 time of the day requiring by definition more people than should be required because everyone is in it instead of pulling the people in that need to be pulled in for that specific block or feature.

I don't even know how people defend standups, they usually say something like "hey yeah, I know it's mostly useless but it's just for 10min a day". Absolutely unacceptable. Now I get to the last line of your post, and it's such a relief: "I think standups can gracefully fade away after some months."
Well you should tell the other proponents of standups because I can guarantee you that this never happens.
Standups might be a good idea in the starting phase of a projects but frankly even then it's debatable and then you would just call them meetings.
Nope, never said anything remotely close to that :) I said there are ways to prevent mistakes, like confirming transfers before executing them, etc
I've done low carb before and never had this happen. It takes about 2 weeks of low carb for me to lose my sugar cravings. This was immediate and unexpected. A few days after the fasting started I just realized I wasn't planning my next sugar intake.
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Well. Yes, I agree that is a "duh, really?!"

However, in my experience, the IT industry is overflowing with pointless process meetings initiated by middle management.

My point was more to give a concrete example on how some (dev driven) initiative can give productive results which was sort of in line with the OP article.
Yeah, the real smell here is the "safety net" which is also what seems to have caused the bug. Clean quality code should avoid this kind of safety nets as much as possible and instead make it hard in the first place to get the program into an invalid state and if we do get into an invalid state not just silently try to guess what the user really wanted to do. As it turns out people actually wanted to return success with an error code and relied on this being possible in their applications.

A better type system would help out a lot here, but it is also possible to write clean C code without this class of bugs. And OpenSSL has some of the worst code I have seen in an open source project (I have seen much worse in commercial projects), so while C has a lot of flaws do not judge it after OpenSSL.
Do you need proof they are killing people? Just the exploitation of their drivers was enough for me to quit them.