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> Code is the formal specification.

Yes, people tend to forget that. Having a second formal specification can be helpful, because writing things down multiple times (differently) often helps understanding.

What I've seen so far is that (non-code) formal specs can be very useful when the domain is highly technical, for example network protocols, because they illuminate aspects that are hidden in "production" code.

Of course the fact that important aspects are hidden is a more general problem.
Australia? Who could have thought...

Reminds me of that joke website (is it poisonous?). The first question was "Are you in Australia?" and if you confirmed you are, the answer was automatic "YES"...
The free market has done nothing about Ticketmaster, for one. The market can't do anything about rent seeking if the rent seeker is big enough to squash rivals.
If mosquito bites are a problem, you eliminate the mosquitoes - you don't skin yourself.
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A doctor doesn't really treat a cold though. They can treat an infection with anti biotics, they can treat something more specific than a cold with something. But if you come in with just a typical cold and say "treat me," they'll give you a placebo and prescribe lots of rest and water.
Sometimes you're just forced to accept you need to take some shortcuts. There's a few fields for which my general approach is to just try and maintain a mental index of "when might I want to use this".

I'd have a hard time implementing my own crypto, but I've learned enough to know how to use it to secure communications, hide or protect information, ensure no alterations have been made to some arbitrary asset, identify an asset's source, etc.

I love working with a well understood and boring RDBMS. It's predictable and it lets you quickly move on to other problems. But you still need to have a good understanding of how it's implemented in order to store and query your data efficiently. If you have a poor understanding of how indexing works, you'll probably have a hard time selecting the right data model.

There's actually lots of fun problems in the frontend world. Try to write a multi-touch gesture responder, it's very tricky to get things right. How about a natural animation system that allows interruptions? CSS animations tend to look unnatural because they're largely time-based, and they don't handle interruptions very well. (Spoiler alert: springs are the magic sauce.)

Learning about compilers unlocks lots of powerful skills too. You can implement your own syntax highlighting, linter, refactoring tools, autocomplete, etc.
Was going to suggest this and potentially make it possible to get another quote via arrow keys
Here is the ticket http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=26480&edit=yep
Exactly. I'd be very wary of any professional that hadn't had the intellectual curiosity to at least understand how they work, never mind actually try to implement one.
Actually PCI DSS does.

Funny enough, it tried to deprecate old TLS versions already but it was so widely used that they had to move back the date.

https://blog.pcisecuritystandards.org/migrating-from-ssl-and...

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/205043158-P...
Nice one mate, you might need to randomise it as every time it does start from the 1st quote.
Eh, I'd much rather "software engineers" had good product and business sense, since most product managers and CEOs sure don't. No point in building the wrong thing well.
I'm just going to throw this out there as well, but 1973 was when the Great Stagnation began (http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2011/02/great-stagnat...), and it coincides quite closely to when Richard Nixon ended the Bretton Woods system and allows the value of the American dollar to float relative to other currencies.

In other words, globalization is a huge factor that the authors of the paper don't seem to be accounting for.

In fact, after Ctrl+F'ing "foreign", I get:

>By December 2015 holdings of liquid assets by foreign subsidiaries rose to $2.4 Trillion (see Whalen and McCoy (2016)) while domestic holdings of liquid assets rose since 2008 by about $1.9 Trillion. These foreign assets increased due to a legal provision that allows Indefinitely Reinvested Foreign Earnings to be free of US income tax. Hence, $2.4 Trillion are kept abroad not out of productive needs but rather as a device to save income tax hence not necessary for productive capacity

...so maybe American companies are using IT to store wealth abroad, but maybe American companies are being taken over by foreign entities? That would explain how our trade deficit has persisted for several decades.
How are you "doing math"? Math might be involved in the feature, but many features just require lots of pattern matching and decision making. Maybe for some vaguely definite non-specific definition of meth that also encompasses most of human thinking this is true, but I fail to see how that is useful.
Can we have a reminder, what is the security issue with TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1?
> Buying $100 of Company A and buying $10 of Company B shouldn't push up the price of Company A faster than Company B.

Not necessarily. The price could change in VERY different ways depending on the marginal supply and demand for each stock (i.e., how many more/fewer shares of the stock are other investors willing to buy/sell at different prices when the index fund goes out to buy that 0.0000001% of float). A tiny 'buyer-seller imbalance' in the stock market cause a big price adjustment.
Holding millions of dollars worth of coins yourself, rather than in a bank can become quite nerve wracking. Open your wallet on the wrong computer, or let someone untrustworthy to see where/how you hide your key, or how much you own, and you can wake up one day with all your funds gone.

I know there is the other side of that, that the government can seize your funds in a bank account, but realistically they won't target you out of millions of people who have millions in their name.
I do find the backslash against cultural marxism both interesting and funny.

You can see 3 generations of psyops unravel in front of your eyes.
The rise in inequality also corresponds to the availability of "cheap" personal credit.

The availability of credit also corresponds to a decreased rate of rise in wages.

It's almost like the two are linked. Stop paying people more and give them loans instead.
I did just for fun so, obviously, I didn't check it on Windows Phone or even IE :)
But thanks for reporting, maybe I'll take a look at that once
> increasingly I feel that the lack of practice in hand writing will put a lot more friction in that process, tiping the balance in a different way

It is definitely true for me. One of the main reasons I default to typing is not the speed, but the fact that my handwriting is absolutely abhorrent, and I feel displeasure from just looking at it. I suppose it could be improved with training, but I generally didn't find time for it yet.
Also these:

http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=26479
http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=26481
http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=26475

The last one seems to have the most up-to-date information. Apparently the Keystone issue is unrelated to the WAW D/C prodding.
What's the right algo might not even be a clear answer, but even just identifying something as needing a tree-like structure (rather than say a linear brute force search) could be a huge leap in the right direction. Being able to do rudimentary complexity calculations in your head helps.

Broad knowledge could even identify several different approaches to the same problem, which can be compared on strengths and weaknesses even before trying one.

E.g for a nonlinear an optimization problem you might consider simulated annealing, genetic programming, gradient descent etc. and you need to know which is easy/hard to write, that gradient is good if you have (monotone) gradients etc.
I disagree with you, but people shouldn't downvote you just because they don't like what you said.

In fact, it's important to remember that people do actually think what you wrote. They just don't say it aloud.
I was thinking the Australian stuff is a bit over the top, then I had a think, within an hours drive of me is the Gympie Gympie tree http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-enviro..., there's a river where every now and then fishermen get attacked by flesh eating bacteria, someone down the road got bitten by a deadly snake the other day, there's snakes in the bush down the road, and of course spiders, so yeah, there's that.
They should rewrite it in Rust.
Wow thats really odd. I've always thought in the UK that in london and the south people keep themselves to themselves but in the north like Sheffield people were a lot friendlier but maybe thats just because I lived there longer ago before smartphones were a thing
You're missing the commenter's point. If everyone ends up wealthier due to IT, then everybody's utility would be going up. Hence, IT would end up being a net positive thing even if it increased inequality.

In other words, if there were no way to reduce inequality without reversing the gains that everybody made, then reducing inequality in that situation would be harmful.
> Tell that to a parent who has to make a decision if their 8 year old should cycle to school by taking the lane.

I am the parent of a 6 year old and am currently teaching her how to keep to the right on the local MUP while riding. Once she's got that down, I'll start taking her on the roads here.

I suppose it really depends on personal experience. If the parent doesn't have experience riding in traffic, then I doubt they would feel that it's appropriate that their child(ren) do so.
also, how does a two-liner + a quote from the article qualify as a "rant"?
I have the feeling most people who choose Vue over React do it because Vue is marked as "simpler than React", which I don't understand, but I have to admit I only tried a simple Vue example and it seemed much more complicated as the React version.

I mean, how much simpler could you get? Every UI element is a component, you pass data and event handlers down via props and events up.

The only other approach I found, that had less concepts, were the observables in Cycle.js, where basically everything is an observable.
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Okay sounds good in this case but what if a company really needs to buy a licence from an offshore company, let's say a critical technical part in your manufacturing process. Then you can't deduct it but in reality these are your costs.

Remember that the problem is caused by companies abusing the system but the rules are there because honest companies need to operate.

The real solution would fix the issue while allowing honest companies to work just like they did before. The problem is that software companies are composed almost purely out of intellectual property, that is intangible and hard to really track.
Very senior engineers make seven figures at Google?
Tax avoidance might be a factor sure, but can it be enough on it's own? If IT wasn't increasing the value of intellectual property, taxing it would be an economy-distorting issue. So I see the tax issue as being the cherry on the top, but not the core issue.

Tax manipulation doesn't change the fundamental value of labour, but IT does. It enables vastly more value to be created using less and less labour and materials, sometimes by many orders of magnitude. That's the game changing trend.
What is the proposition you receive? What do they offer you?
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But cogs are a symbol of patriarchal engineering. All those machines, they are generally built and maintained by men, and thus shall be abandoned.
From a political point of view, it is in the interest of more and more congressman to openly support this letter (which has lots of ticks: non-binding, popular, subtly-anti-Trump..)

Which IMO is a good thing. Practically, (ie. non-cynical for its own sake) we should ask as many senators for their opinion as possible, and make the FCC's position even more unpopular within Washington.
Leading to (hopefully) more defection within FCC by members that worry about their future careers.
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Not a huge gripe but the title text changes on every button click too and it is not synced with the featured quote. I'm not sure if that's intentional or a bug. But otherwise, pretty work!
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What is it? The top 10% of income earners pay 90% of the taxes? Who is subsidizing whom? A tax credit is not a subsidy.
That's of course another factor that goes into software engineering skills. Collaboration, Domain knowledge, Design skill, Customer knowledge, some ops knowledge and so on.
Exactly. The further to the left you go, the more people consider that employment is a tool of oppression. Of course not literal slavery but as a toned down version of the same logic.

In that case, whether you find prostitution as acceptable as regular job depend on whether you find (toned down) forced labor more acceptable than (toned down) rape.
If you have access to a market research database you can get statistics on this kind of stuff for different industry sectors and different countries. For subscription services you may be able to get access via a public library or university library.

e.g. here's an estimate of costs in Australia's IT consulting sector, as percentage of total revenue:

wages:	40%
other:	26%	incl. insurance, advertising, cleaning, repairs & maintenance
purchases:	16%
profit:	11%
utilities:	5%
rent:	2%
depreciation:	1%
The main issue is lack of authenticated encryption and in consequence padding oracles.

It turned out that fixing them thoroughly is extremely difficult. Again and again new variants of these attacks have been found and existing countermeasures have turned out to be insufficient. While these attacks are of low impact (involves timing and that's hard to pull off remotely), it's certainly not something you want in the most important crypto protocol.

TLS 1.0 has additional issues, notably the BEAST attack.

All of that can be mitigated, but it's ugly and complicated and you really just want authenticated encryption (AES-GCM or Chacha20-Poly1305), which is only available in TLS 1.2.
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Confession time.

I suck with women. I don't know how to behave with them, I don't know how to talk to them, and of course I have no clue how to get them to enjoy my company, let alone to have sex with me. As a consequence, I only ever had sex with prostitutes.

I don't know how my life would have been, had I not the possibility to pay for sex. I suppose I would have been miserable, and perhaps at some point a woman would have taken pity of me, and I would have clung to her, for I would see her as my only hope for emotional and sexual company. I have quite a clear picture of what I would have looked like then, and that picture inspires me nothing but self-contempt.

I don't know why I'm so bad with women, but I know I was exposed to pornography from a very young age (about 10 I believe, maybe less), and I masturbated while looking at porn very often ever since. I suspect it is related. This disgusting habit only started decreasing after I decided to pay for sex in my mid-twenties, and I only made a serious effort to stop when I discovered /r/nofap few years ago. Even nowadays, my longest streak is only about 120 days (my current one is 67).

I'm not comfortable with the idea of young men growing in a world where prostitution is a crime, while pornography is free and only a few clicks away on internet. This just seems wrong to me. You can't both taunt people with something and at the same time punish them when they try to get it by the only way they know.

There are, no doubt, issues with prostitution. But I personally believe the benefits outweigh the costs.
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I'd say kleptocracy.
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So I'm thinking of launching my own blog, but instead of using Medium I'd rather get my own domain name and a small VPS. Content can be 100% static, the only problem is making it look good on desktop and mobile without too much hassle, just like Medium does. Something light would be preferred, generally would try to stay away from the likes of Wordpress, etc. Things like code highlighting would be nice to have too.
Discussed 10 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873639
I find it hard to believe that the biggest plaque in the high roller room was a miserly $20k.
> In other words, instead of pushing out the disabled, in my society I'd rather push out (as useless scum) those that don't wont want society to help the disabled.

Amen to that.

I was merely taking the original comment to one of its logical conclusion. Seems like there are those who would like to bring back charitable almshouses and asylums to replace state institutions, how quaint but also how despicable.

After all: If you can't keep up (even if you're disabled), that's not other people's fault for being better than you.
"But software is the spec."

This whole discussion can be replaced with this sentence.
Are you saying that in today's politically correct world, HN should rank and give equal front page time to every topic relating to a minority? And also implying subtly that the predominantly male audience of HN prefer prostitution stories over discussion of minority's issues?
The analysis seems dubious regarding international cities.

"Oslo tops the list in terms of earning power, but we did not mention it earlier because the job market is the smallest among the 43 cities we analyzed in this report. Compare its 106 job offerings to 22,554 in New York City."

Sure the numerb is lower for Oslo, but it should be also ponderated by the number of persons living in both cities.

Taxes and social security are a cost, but also benefit depending on how the money is spent. I'm not sure this has been taken in account.
You missed out on the boat. So did I (a developer as well). So did many others (developers or not). Learn and move on. No need to be bitter (because it is so blatantly obvious you are when you say things like 'they decided to dump their life savings into this stuff knowing nothing about it')

Who cares if you know everything or very little about it? They saw something that you with all of your 'vested interest and expertise' didn't - they saw that this thing would be a great investment.

So what next? You make a good point when you champion the technology itself. I love the tech as well and I'm learning all I can about it.

However, I'm also going to be dumping a significant amount of my networth in the next bitcoin which I believe will be Antshares/NEO.

BUY IT ASAP I tell'ya. Don't miss the wave again. Never again.

Why Antshares/NEO? Its chinese roots for one. The support by groups such as Microsoft and Alibaba. And for me, the reason why I champion it over all others is that as well as the aforementioned properties, NEO could be bigger because, they've created a platform that supports programming languages that all developers already know. Developer take up could be huge, especially in China and then the rest of the world.

Also, if you truly believe in Bitcoin as a technology, why not buy now? I still think that if it indeed delivers on its promise, it will be way bigger.
Financial institutions are all now IT companies. It's an essential core competency. Money is information.
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yep, this is a bug
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Possible info leak in SMS Privacy
For Tolkien, at least, none of his posthumous books are accurately described the way you characterize them.
Is the news created? Is the public shown only false news? Is it just business in most cases? Most people are blind believers. So it plays a vital role.
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Press releases are very effective. I've done them professionally and had them lead to articles in all but one of Sweden's large newspapers. Marketers with the skill of finding interesting angles shouldn't have a problem to get exposure this way, if they target the right magazines / news outlet.
> Indeed I had to call some people out for being really insulting to conservatives because that is really not okay either

Slightly off-topic but I don't understand this viewpoint.

The conservative stance, as best I can tell from following politics, generally involves enriching the 1% whilst actively wanting to hurt the less well off and minorities. To me, that does not warrant politeness and pleasantries.
https://www.ovh.ie/public-cloud/

Claims no less than 99.999% SLA:

Daily: 0.9s
Weekly: 6.0s
Monthly: 26.3s
Yearly: 5m 15.6s
Technology might be neutral, but capitalism is directing it.

(Nothing against capitalism. I just think the general direction will be profit maximisation.)
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TOFU = Terrified Of Fucking it Up.

e.g I wanna try it but i'm TOFU
That's assuming none of the orders will be pulled before they're filled.
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I guess there's value in meeting the kind of people who are willing to drop $50 to join a slack channel
I don't see what feature JavaScrip has which would prevent implementing the same thing in Tcl
Ugh... having staff is going to be a pain the the arse isn't it :-/

I'm guessing if this guy knew everyone he worked with, say ~ 50 people, he would not dare to write something like this.

And yes I'm talking about both of these manifestos.
> No point in building the wrong thing well

Very powerful statement there.
On my screen, every time I click the button the different text width changes the button's position, making lazy repeat, procrastinatory clicking hard work.
Articles get normally flagged when HN users don't think that the resulting discussion will become productive. For an article that brings up gender roles, it really have to be amazing new insight in order for it to cut through the otherwise predictable discussion and people violently agreeing with each other over goals and violently disagreeing in the ways to reach it.

Prostitution has its own controversy but in my view it is less likely to bring in unproductive discussion. The hard lines opinion about sex is more or less settled, so the discussion is mostly focused on policy and end results. It is also less common discussion than gender roles, so it also gets a bit of a free pass.