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It's pretty obvious that the only reason they pretend to give a shit is because they have no other alternative.
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Compared to roads, air has vertical space, as well as much more horizontal space. Also, you wouldn't need remote controlling if drones can sense and avoid each other.
Investors rarely do a crazy DD, especially technical DD.

First, it is expensive and second which is most important, it takes time.

When a company is fundraising and investor likes a pitch they prefer to move fast in fear of missing out.

Generally, all the dead bodies are found during the first board meeting.

It is not that much different from just buying stock. No one actually has an idea if any of public companies are cooking books etc. You just wake one day and it is a huge write down.
Following up my own question. Just read the security and audit details on OpenBSD page.

https://www.openbsd.org/security.html

It appears that there is a continuous audit of source code. So, even if a malicious hole was planted, it ought to be discovered in the years of repeated auditing. Cheers to OpenBSD!
Updates are lose-lose. Either you get complaints from people about how they're being forced on them, or you get complaints that Microsoft isn't doing more to protect people from exploits because they've all shut off updates.

I'm not a fan of the telemetry either, but they do have it all documented now, which is more than, for example, most phone manufacturers: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/basic-level....

And I'm not sure what Windows is supposed to force users into things they don't want. I haven't had an issue with turning off functionality and having it be switched back on during updates - I guess it must happen based on the complaints, but it's not something I've experienced.
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Not Greek, Assembly :) C for the most part but Assembly gives you the understanding
> the established norms of soceity and let anything that doesn't violate law in.

I'm trying to think of any other app store or digital distribution platform that has taken this stand with the same voice Valve has.

Frankly I perceive this reinforcement of policy as a credit to Valve's staunch independence more then any societal influence.
I have a strong suspicion another example will be Magic Leap. Note: not as an intentionally-misleading or lying case, but just as another extremely well-funded startup whose launch is likely to fall short of the hype.

$2.3bn in funding adds an immense pressure for it to be successful and perceived as revolutionary.
Customers and potential customers also use competing products, so you also need to use those to sell to, understand, and grow your customers.

Maybe SAP uses their own software internally and they've all become power users that aren't bothered by the issues that you're having. Perhaps if they used competing products they'd have a better understanding of where theirs is lacking.
</ blatant generalization >
Yeah because the us is preferred, huh?
Agreed. No hospice could afford 24/7 care. Because prisoners are ~free labor.

> It’s one of the lowest paid jobs available, making just 15 to 32 cents an hour.
I wish there would be some App/Website similar to DragonBox [1] but to learn assembler instead of math ;-)

[1]: https://dragonbox.com/products/algebra-12
This is why I'm very wary of recommending any serverless solutions. All the consultants we work with are lusting for them. It's pretty hard to push back against it.
I had something similar happen at my old company, an 8 person startup.

I was more or less asked to quit (coincidently I was planning to hand my notice in that day anyway) by the CEO. Never once had the CEO actually pulled me aside or talked to me about his perceived problems with me. He was perfectly happy with the quantity and quality of work I put out, but apparently there were cultural and attitude issues or something.

I was supposed to have a performance review/catchup every 3 months, I was very low contact with the CEO as he worked remotely and traveled a lot. I had never heard any problems from my supervisor before this final meeting with the CEO.

It was pretty shitty when he started bringing up things that he had problems with that happened 3 or 6 months ago. Things that I had never gotten more than a snarky slack message about.

Maybe if I had had those reviews, I would've worked on whatever issues he had, I may have been a happier employee and not wanted to quit, and he may have ended up with a nicer employee he didn't want to fire.

It really pissed me off and unfortunately (for both of us, really), I never got to tell him how I felt about the whole situation, as I wanted to get a good reference for my next job (which incidentally pays double what I was earning).
Here's a third reason:

"I used to be worried about fragmentation, and I used to think that it was inevitable at some point," said Torvalds. “Everyone was looking at the history of Linux and comparing it with UNIX. People would say that it’s going to fail because it's going to fragment. That's what happened before, so why even bother?"

What made the difference was the license. "FSF and I don't have a loving relationship, but I love GPL v2," said Torvalds. "I really think the license has been one of the defining factors in the success of Linux because it enforced that you have to give back, which meant that the fragmentation has never been something that has been viable from a technical standpoint."

https://www.cio.com/article/3112582/linux/linus-torvalds-say...
Google cares about ads and Facebook cares about monopolizing social graph tech with ad targeting applications.

Microsoft historically wanted to monopolize everything. Your operating system, developer tools, office suites, Internet browsers... everything.
What came first, that conference or this scene?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM1YWl9-ZG0
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Which really isn't so bad. Y eventually goes corporate, and is still presumably better than X, having learned from its mistakes. But for those who hate the new bloat, along comes Z and the cycle repeats itself. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.
The cross entropy can be understood as the expected number of bits you need to specify some event if you assume an underlying distribution. It is large if your assumed distribution is very different from the true distribution. This is indeed helpful intuition for making sense of formulas in machine learning.
The austro-hungarian war, and its futility is also incredible - I don't have the title now, but I've read something outlining their mobilization plan up to Tannenberg. The whole Balkans region that started the conflagration is so confusing and bloody...
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The part of the film industry that is unionized is precisely the part of the film industry that is not adaptive and dynamic.
Pick up the telephone and ask him.
I think you're ignoring the subtlety of what he does. Profit is what counts. He doesn't make profit proportional to his investment on everything alike.

I wasn't debating his ethics, just saying he does not make money by simply buying solid businesses and holding them forever.

He has a collection of solid businesses that provide cash and allow him to collect large amounts of money on rare occasions in special situations because he's the last resort. It even has a name: "The Buffett Premium".

He made $3 billion on GS, $12 billion on BOA, some 70% on HCG...he's been called a loan shark, and that is enabled and complemented by the solid companies owned by Berkshire Hathaway.

Article about his investments in banks:
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/07/05/a-timeline-of-warr...
Yeah. My generalization is of no use in a discussion. I only meant to say a lot of them(that I know) are. I can't vouch for billions of us :-)

Could you elaborate "sheltered by western standards"?
Why not subsidize everyone's lifestyle so they all save the same amount of money, regardless of spending?

Would you pay more money for the exact same product made in a different city? How is hiring developers different?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17235063

60+ points
The conference was back in April. And the conclusion of the conference is different from the video.
No Email app ever seems quite drastic for a $300 phone.
Not having meetings sounds like a benefit to me.
Regardless of some of the pessimistic takes in this thread of the quality of engineering or institutions in India, the nation is still poised to be the world's most populous nation within five years* - surely a large free market, unhemmed by a giant firewall, would be a great incentive for innovation and enterprise?

* http://time.com/3978175/india-population-worlds-most-populou...
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Where can I read the statements of these expert? Can't find anything before 2015.
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You could pull in all forks also.
From experience; no.

A/Vs are largely attack vectors, a huge number of malware already tries to detect if an A/V is present and then uses it to get SYSTEM level privilege fairly easily.

The number of actually good A/Vs is low and in my opinion, simply use Microsoft Defender on Windows. For 0-days it's detection rate is, to my knowledge, not significantly worse than any other A/V and unlike other products they properly integrate into the system and don't disable almost all security measures of the kernel like ASLR and friends so they can inject some garbage DLL into any process.

The best protection for the intranet customer is training and regular software updates. For the average user it's to tighten up security, lock them out and then run regular updates.
You being there for 8 more years was an unexpected twist.
Any other "situation" that you could share?
To be fair, silly questions are fair game from everybody on SO and GH. There are just so many of us Indians, which makes us more visible. I browse SO just for curiosity, I have seen plenty of silly questions with all sorts of usernames.
As a Microsoft employee, I use Mac, Linux and Windows regularly. I write code in vim. I write quick-and-dirty scripts in Perl or Ruby. I’ve shipped code in Java, C and C#. I browse the web in Chrome. I push to GitHub and VSTS.

Microsoft doesn’t force employees to use Microsoft tools; Microsoft forces employees to think critically, empathize with our users and build great experiences for them.
They didn't offer. People on the outside pled. It wasn't judged in the public interest AFAIK
A lot of "I remember" in this thread but where are the links?
I think the differentiator vs. Tesla is that Theranos promised things that are/were physically impossible. Putting aside Tesla's long history of delays, I think it's fair to say that the company has delivered on some of its core technological promises. Battery pack cost per kWh is close to dipping below $100, Tesla has dramatically reduced their use of rare earth metals in their packs, they've helped alleviate concerns around thermal runaway in their packs, and various academic and anecdotal accounts have shown that Tesla batterypacks hold up well even after hundreds of thousands of miles of road use and thousands of recharge cycles. These are all meaningful advancements in basic science.

In the Carreyrou book, one clear example is the explanation of why Theranos couldn't possibly do "all blood tests" on a single drop of blood. On an individual test basis, finger pricked blood is different in chemical makeup from blood drawn from a vein. If you're testing for certain diseases, even assuming that you had equipment sensitive enough to find small concentrations of a target element or organism, the finger pricked blood may just not have those markers at all.

Secondly, blood testing is a destructive process. If a doctor orders an immunoassay and a pathogen test for a patient, it's close to physically impossible to run both tests on Theranos's much touted "single drop of blood". You would be using up portions of an already tiny sample to perform the reactions necessary for each test. The premise that you could do multiple tests on a single drop of blood was a false one from the start.

Third, the purported form factor of Theranos testing machines, a small Apple-esque box, created physics problems from the start. Proteins and cells in blood are hyper-sensitive to temperature. One of Elizabeth Holmes's subordinates literally repurposed a glue robot to perform the basic blood testing tasks that would normally be done by a human. Imagine trying to have a tiny robotic arm trying to pick up tubes of blood from a tray, and perform chemical reactions, all within a shoebox-sized machine. Trying to leave enough room for the robot to physically swing its arm, and maintaining an acceptable level of heat dissipation so as to not destroy the samples was a challenge that Theranos never solved. At a certain point, you're running up against basic laws of physics and the literal limitations of space.
Thanks for your work on Dart.

Does your team plan to release any solution like Flutter for native Desktop GUI apps?
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If file buffering is the bottleneck have you tried using tools like cat to buffer the input? Buffering input and output is the sort of thing you get for free in unix.
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I agree with your overall point, I just want to point out that the FSF can't come after anyone, only the copyright holders of the driver modules can.
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Yeah, obviously since the article of this very comment thread is an interview with Carreyrou. People are asking for links about fraud claim before 2015.
It would have been easier if you had said that my first statement was essentially correct - your belief is based on an ideological consideration which rejects government oversight on the broad topic of "life and death."
I can only hope so, after near on a decade of dealing with TCS, HCL, Cap Gemini, Cognizant, and others.

I tend to get drawn in because I'm working for an ISV that makes a product. The Indian third-parties get drawn in because the real customwr has outsourced a function to them. I now have to deal with the incompetent pm on the $outsourced side, instead of the competent, reasonable pm on the real customer. And eight layers of red tape aroind simple config changes arise
What is preventing an attacker from overwriting the last xor and cmp instruction sequence with nop instructions?
TIS-100 by Zachtronics is a game based around a very small instruction set assembly language on an interesting architecture.

Shenzhen I/O is also meant to be good, but I haven't played it.

Neither are even close in complexity or sheer number of instructions to x86, but then I get the sense that x86 tends to put people off assembly in a way that simpler architectures don't.
Multinational companies took the wind out of the sails for most IT companies's ability to hire talent.

Around 2008, there was a peak boom in offshore centers set up by most companies. These companies could afford to pay well because most of their revenue is either ad revenue or from companies like Microsoft which had a great sales pipeline going. These companies around 2014 - 2015 started to cut down heavily on offshore hiring, the reason was salaries were bonkers and most managers overpaid certain employees by several factors higher than others(Thanks to insane stock packages). The salary levels for many employees were on par with US salaries. Once you reach that point, it makes sense to hire people in US than in Bangalore. This plateau effected product based multinational companies more than services companies.

Another factor that has played into this whole thing is the number of H1B's and Green cards currently staying in US. The L1 A and EB-1 program was abused by most companies(ironically product companies) to award GCs in wholesale. As of now the peak services company head count around 2008 is now entirely working in the US. Of course if you have all the cheap labor you want in your home country, you don't outsource much to India.

The actual services company industry is going at the same pace as before. They are quite fiscally responsible companies so don't pay 4x higher as product companies do, they are perennially profitable though. Infosys is one of the most successful tech companies in the history of India ever. In fact the product company salaries are the biggest reason many fresher in the past few years have opted to be SREs/DBAs/PEs/QEs(non-dev roles) etc in product companies than be programmers in service companies. The irony today is people from small time colleges get to work a lot of good dev projects in service companies than people from top colleges who work on non-dev projects.

The third factor of course is homegrown start up ecosystem. Start ups in India payed quite well around 2014 when VC money was free and plenty. I guess they don't pay that well now. And they are also quite stingy with equity. Plus I hear they are bad with tech work too. Most of it is Spring + Java + Postgres stitching.

I remember in the peak of service companies I did far more quality work than any start up kid does today.

May be the next US recession will change things again. But like I said before, people are now used to MNC salaries and suffer through any bad project for just the salary.
I discovered Radare2 some years ago, and found that Cutter strongly lowers the learning curve of r2.

On that note, I used to play (as a n00b) to some crackmes and ctf, but not having kept up to date I can't find a live replacement for crackmes.de (or .cf today...still an archive though).
Any suggestions of current resources to "play" with r2 and Cutter?
I did the same. I'm replacing the README on GitHub with "Moved to https://gitlab.com/... and a description of what the software does. If people finds it interesting they will follow the link.

A fork between services becomes more complicate but not so much: git pull from GitLab and git push to GitHub or whatever. Everybody knows how to do it.

Right, one loses the "fork" link between the two repositories but really, who cares? We're writing software for work or for a cause, we shouldn't be playing a game of collecting stars and forks.
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Certainly could do with some tweaking. Its based on the simplified COCOMO model. Its entirely possible I made a mistake in there.
It will be difficult to “go light” if you will have to carry a DSLR with you instead of having a camera in your phone. Nowadays camera in a phone is just as important as a phone capabilities itself, especially for families with kids.
This is an insightful comment and should be read by anyone getting starry eyed over "the new Microsoft". Integrating "Linux" as a subsystem is very likely a hostile act in the same direction.
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I wouldn't characterize it as a fallacy. Whether or not it is a "bloodbath" depends on whether or not the rate at which people can re-tool is matched with the rate at which their existing jobs are destroyed.

The horse manure and automobile jobs could very well have completely different Dynamics allowing for a steady flow from one to the other, not to mention different population characteristics. It doesn't make sense to use it as some sort of proof that people in existing jobs/careers/skill sets will not suffer as there will always be something they can do.
> mind boggingly incomprehensible

Absolutely agree.

I strongly recommend this interactive illustration of the casualties of ww2, which really drives home the scale of this catastrophe.

[1] http://www.fallen.io/ww2/
Those are all good points, I've been surprised reading this thread at the number of people that conflate Kubernetes with Google given the CNCF stewardship of the project.

One point though on complexity is that Docker swarm is substantially less complex that Kubernetes and for many use cases could do the job.
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Yes. Any extra instructions will slow things down. The number of times the code runs will be the amplifying factor.
No.

If the portfolio company wants to be acquired by Google, then taking the network they get via GV certainly makes that route easier for them.

If the portfolio company decides if acquisition by another tech giant is the better route, they are free to do that and GV won't sabotage that deal. AFAIK there have been GV exits to all of the big Google competitiors.
Yes, clearly you can't change the license of a project you don't have a valid license to.
>likely originates inside the abstract fuzzy designs that produce elementary consciousness.

that sounds pretty close to what i'm saying - similar brains (and i do think that many animals' brains are much closer to us than we casually think they are) given similar experience (seeing seven stones, seven birds) produce similar constructs (incl. an aggregation/averaging of some aspects of that experience). That doesn't necessarily mean though the real existence of that aggregation/averaging (ie. what we call "number seven"), only the neuron config/sequence what actually encodes it is real.
I think the HN population is strongly skewed towards people who prefer to sit alone and work.

I just changed job from an open office to remote work, and while everybody thought my new job sounded like a great opportunity, no one was jealous of the remote part - "So, now you have rent a shared office, huh?" (and yes, that is what I did)
* the distributed bundle is always javascript,
* it is manual re-write from BLAS reference.
* Typescript is a superset of Javascript,.
* the repo is selfcontained, "npm install" will install webpack and all tools you need to build the bundle.
"...when his livelihood depends on not understanding" apparently applies to startup founders as much as to everybody else, if not more. Very few people would have the willpower to actively pull the plug when it would be much easier to keep the charade running for another year or two by making the existing pile of lies just a little bit higher.
You know that in most cases, they are "neat-to-have" and not essentials?
Imagine if the phrase was "Software developers are not murdered for missing estimates in this country". I am pretty sure I would hit my estimates even in London.

Yes Journalists need high standards of professional integrity and the legal air cover to maintain that.

But really the ultimate defence is us - to reject the mountains of crap out there and seek out and subscribe to the worthwhile news sources.

As ever, it's down to us.
Also, farming an onion with that many fixed characters takes a good few hundreds or thousands of years.
Ok generalization again, but I see a lot more Indian names asking questions rather than answering them.
The "normals" are also people working in management, marketing, and other high-paying professions. SV might have extremely high density of tech people, but programmers are not the only (or even the majority of) high-earners in the West.
Firefox share was about 30% in 2010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
(potentially) interestingly Heroku uses containers as part of their PAAS, so actually your workloads are using containers, they're just handling the complexity of that for you :)

Personally I think knowing something about Docker/containers is a good plan, useful for testing on-laptop dev etc, however kubernetes is a fairly complex system and if you don't need it, and you're happy with your current process, I wouldn't rush to it.
Almost univesally, during that period the response I received from our customers was that outsourcing was cheaper, but quality was so bad they hired stateside as soon as the contracts were up.