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Not everyone lives in an agile world.

Besides, there are still politics to shield from, budgets to maintain, stakeholders to brief, paperwork to do - all stuff that putting an engineer on - would be an utter waste.
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It’s amusing since “soccer” was British slang for association football.
That’s one thing I have noticed in all diversity material. It’s always young good looking people. There are no older, overweight, disabled or other types of people. It seems the diversity movement has changed the favored groups but I am not sure it’s much more inclusive.
Security and privacy are two big parts of the marketing for the iPhone.

I'm curious how they can mitigate the reputational damage.

Edit:

It gets worse:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/28/18201383/apple-facetime-b...

If the recipient rejects the call by pressing the power button, it starts sending video.
So far we hired 2 younger and one older. However the older person did have some issues (not completely relevant to this discussion but perhaps indirectly so - he had some family obligations that became extremely burdensome) that resulted in him leaving. It sort of illustrates that part of the whole complexity of the situation is that older people can have complex lives and that has a business cost. So part of the discrimination is based on falsehoods, part of it is based on real things but is still discriminatory and part of it is actually genuine and legimitately pursing the interests of the business in a reasonable way. And none of that is clear when you are the one doing the hiring, it is all a murky mixture of your own perceptions, realities and emotions.

edit: to answer your question, would absolutely hire older PhDs.
> What would incentive a company to invest millions in new technology, like a new cancer drug, if they have to give up their secrets as soon as they do? No one would bother inventing any at all.

Well, the incentives around research are a bit weird. I'm usually all-in on free market capitalism, but I have to admit that historically government sponsorship has a pretty great track record for research.

For your specific question though, the answer could easily be because someone paid them up front to develop a new cancer drug. There is no question that companies that synthesise drugs are incentivised to research new products and deploy them as a stream of new and more effective drugs entering the market will cause it to grow in size and hence increase their profits. It is a question of debate about whether the current American IP system or natural incentives would give a better result overall.

> And what about nuclear weapons? Are we supposed to think that it's better if every tin hat despot could just download plans for an ICBM?

Splitting hairs, but it is debatable if building ICBMs is 'private knowledge' for the grandparent comment. That sort of tech is probably more of a grey-area public-knowledge style. It certainly isn't protected by the IP system, because then someone would be selling ICBMs to tin hat dictators. It isn't used in products that are sold to private entities either (I hope!).
Ah yes, more unsubstantiated claims about Chinese tech and culture on HN. Can you back up a single thing you've claimed?
I look for what a technology is good at and what it isn't so suited for. All technology has its advantages and disadvantages, and I want to find out what those are. What sort of applications is it suitable for? What operating systems does it run under? What does it not do well?

I'm also learning Elixir and writing about it at https://inquisitivedeveloper.com/. In the first couple of posts, I talk about what Elixir is really good at and what it isn't good at. I'm generally positive about it but I do grumble when I encounter something I feel could use improvement or doesn't make sense to me.

For example, Elixir is great for concurrent and scalable software. I'd use it to build a web service or game server, but it is unsuitable for a game client, physics simulations, or OS development. It's just not low-level enough for those purposes.

To sugar coat it is to just set up your reader for disappointment further down the line when they hit the limitations and realize that it's not suitable for their needs.

I also keep a general awareness of what technologies are out there and what they're good for. I've never used Redis, for example, but I know what it's good for. The same applied to RabbitMQ. I knew what it was good at even though I didn't use it. That lasted until I encountered a situation where it would be useful and I ended up introducing it into my organization.
Yeah you know what is not a great body of objective evidence? 40 years of women being told we have an equal chance of success at anything we want to do, and yet, in October 2017 discovering that actually the vast majority of us have encountered some gross shit from men we work with.

Please, for a moment, imagine the time and energy it might take to fend that off. How it might make you timid about taking meetings, asking for more, it might just wear you out.

TLDR I’d like to see the study that controls for sexual harassment, that many male partners expect women who work to also be the primary caregiver for children when home, the fact that being incompetent but confident is not viewed kindly in women as it is in men, etc.
I think its considerably easier now to not freak out when the market crash but back in the 80s ?
31 years old with $140,000 split across a 401k, Vanguard funds (bonds, total stock market and total international stock index) and some cash for an emergency fund. The only other expensive asset is a car which is valued around $8,000.
My previous phone lasted me almost six years. It was still going strong, I only replaced it because I needed a bigger screen.
My current laptop is 8 years old, it is still going strong even after very heavy use and abuse.

So no, we don't need to replace electronics every two years, we just want to :P

If you designed it as a $500 dollar business, there is no good way forward, and you are stuck.

Disagree. If my living expenses are taken care of (500$ post tax is enough for me), then I can always look at improving this, or making bigger products
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> academic use/evaluation purposes ONLY

Seems like you found the Student license :-)

> "send us all your details and we'll email you a licence tomorrow"

iirc the explanation given has to do with exporting encryption software.

> do-anything-with-it licence

If you wish to make money from Cincom Smalltalk then they also wish to make money ;-)
small area of LA? lol.
What kind of model are you looking into deploy? It it pytorch/tensorflow?
Yawn, would you also like to arm wrestle? I concede that smug superiority gets more karma points than doing the hard work to make a difference.

Yes, only ~9 to 10 million domains are presently signed, and most of the larger ones are not (but comcast.net and cloudflare.com are not tiny, and gmx.de has over 10 million email users). Changing this takes time and effort. Users still need better software tools that make deployment easier and there needs to be less KSK deployment and rollover friction at the registrars and registries (i.e. CDS support). Some DNS hosting providers with outdated software need to upgrade their stacks, ... this does not happen overnight. Let's compare notes in 2020 or 2021. Infrastructure upgrades happen slowly...
I guess everyone's idea of diversity is different and no-one's idea includes every group :(
As a second data point, we looked at HS, too. We alter our templates so often that their inflexible pricing rendered them completely out of the running. Other e-sign solutions were just as bad in that respect. IAAL, and the dirty secret is that “handwritten” scrawls aren’t required to form valid electronic contracts. It’s purely a measure to assuage the social presumption that a thing is locked in when all the parties scribble on it. So, we rolled our own workflow with clickwrap assent instead.
I think the problem is that cutting edge chip fabs are insanely expensive. Like $10-$20 billion dollar range. It's also ridden with specialty, so the risk of (very) expensive set backs and fuck ups is much higher for new entrants to the market.

The barrier to entry is massive, even for mega corporations.
As an aside from the OP, I am 52 and building a startup. I often get the feeling when talking to accelerators and angel investors etc. that they balk when seeing my age. Experience doesn't seem to count for much these days - they seem to be looking for 20-something old young people who are prepared to 'hustle' and 'crush it' and work 20 hour days.

I am willing to bet that most founders who started their companies 10+ years ago would struggle to get a job at those same companies now if they approach them as an applicant off the street today.
I'm always curious how a bug like this ships. I mean QA & Testing should catch it, sure. But even before then. Some engineer wrote code for FaceTime that has it open the microphone before the call is accepted. And transmit the audio over the network before the call is accepted. Who did that? And why? I'm not suggesting malice but I do wonder at the lack of defensive programming.
Do you think they will just ask all their employees to manually disable facetime in the meantime?
I'm in my mid-40s and I worry about this - a lot.
* Does it address an area that I find wanting in currently used tools/tech?

* Does it introduce a new way of doing something compared to how I'm currently doing it and is it plausible that it's substantially better.

* Does it do something similar to what I'm currently using but with significantly higher performance or reliability?

If any of the above are true, I will investigate and follow it and try it out on tests/projects matching its maturity.
Playing devil advocate here. Have you considered you're too old? Maybe during the interview process they didn't consider the experience you could bring to the table with your knowledge and expertise would be a valuable asset to the business?

You deferred all your decision making to your (sic) wife. You should really take a step back and consider are you able to make decision without the consultation of your significant other?

To me, I would say the interviewer made a wise call and said he thought you where too old for the position. Your emotional outburst seems to be more a problem that the interviewer had a feeling about you?

[Replying to the down votes]
You cannot grow as a individual without having a open discussion.
Just prior to reading this article I left the kitchen table where my wife and I were going over tax forms.

I work for a tech company that has done well, we're getting acquired. I've accumulated a little bonus stock, I'll be forced to sell when the acquisition happens.

I wouldn't like an increase in capital gains. As it is, it's already taking a sizeable bite out of what was a nice bonus. If the government was well-run and spent money efficiently, I might feel differently. A quick Google search for 'porkbarrel spending' reveals that there's room for budget trimming that could leave my bonus (and yours) intact. I'd like that economic plan better.

A wise man once noted that if we paid taxes weekly by writing a check for a man who came to the door, we'd kill that man in anger. I can understand the sentiment.
Would you consider hiring older PhDs in the future or does the previous incident make you hesitant?
This is why it's very important not to let your spendings increase with your income... As my income increased, I went from saving 30% of my income to saving 80% of my income... I did increase my spendings by a bit but not nearly as much as my income increased.

The other important thing to have is a good insurance.

The main reason I'm doing this is that I want to make sure I can retire at 40 but working toward that goal is a great way to protect oneself in case of setbacks.
This is a form of speculation which increases performance in the common case where the call is accepted.
That's all from my personal experience, including consulting.
If you're listening David, here are my suggestions. Keep in mind I don't have nearly the wealth of experience you would obviously have.

* Refresh both http://www.avidaid.ca/ your websites with a modern feel http://www.avidaidmedia.ca/ Hire a designer for a fixed price on https://www.upwork.com/ or other freelancer site. Your potential employers will look you up and they don't want to find dated visuals like these. If you don't want to refresh the look of both sites, then take one down. An asset should make you look good, not detract from the perception it might create for you.

* Make sure your site(s) are HTTPS. Get on google and figure out how to do this (or pay the upwork freelancer to do it) and then it can be a talking point in an interview (how passionate you are about security and privacy, for example).

* Remove the word "President" from "President, Senior Project Manager and Consultant at Avidaid Inc." on your CV/linkedin. If you're going to a PM or consulting role then you have to have other roles which show you've done this recently. The "President" thing could work against you: "wow, this guy probably wants way more then we're prepared to pay"

* Maybe try dressing down just a tad - a some nice chinos or a collared shirt but not tucked in perhaps. I'm kinda spitballing here so just have a think about it. If the companies have heaps of younger folks then maybe you could do something to make them feel a little more comfortable in the interview. I personally know I'd be pretty intimidated if a candidate came in all suited up for a PM role. I'm not saying you want the "golf course" look. Just something a little more relaxed perhaps?

* Lastly, the "corporation" and "us" language on your website avidaid.ca is not going to work in your favour I don't think. Your linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwimsett/ and the tired website suggest there are heaps of folks working at your consultancy. I can only assume this is a false pretence given the CBC article. I would prefer to see a portfolio which talks about "you"!!! (personally) and highlights projects, interactions and specific work-related interests which you are likely to be passionate about. This will excite me as a hiring manager.

I hope this helps mate.
Can it solve a problem for which people are willing to pay? If not, advertising is the only source of revenue, which means they have to fight for people's attention.
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When my high school friends and I finished the process, we had a giant bonfire. Good for the story, but the fumes were pretty nasty b/c so much of it was on glossy, heavily inked papers.
> What scientific breakthroughs were due to the internet?

Many, many, many. But it’s hard to pinpoint them.

Lower-friction communication between researchers and better access to published science is an incredible catalyst for every kind of advance (from trivial incremental improvements through to new paradigms) in every field.
It was just five or six years ago when my friends and I found Twitch website unbearable. We'd always watch twitch on vlc using live streamer http://docs.livestreamer.io/

Today, we have YouTube Live and to a much smaller extent mixer. More importantly, I'm not afraid to open Twitch on a desktop web browser. What changed? The main change is reliable 60fps streaming.

If Facebook can't do 60fps on day one, it might as well not try.

I remember asking Justin tv engineers whether they thought they could break even. They said it is more than enough to show one thirty second ad every hour (as far as I remember) to keep the lights on. But then this was before Twitch partner programs. Also we were streaming from potato quality laptop webcams. Watching 240p video with 20 second latency was an ordinary miracle.

I imagine the costs are likely much higher today. But I'm curious. Did Facebook spend a billion dollars on content deals?
I know it's wrong of me, but I can't help but be a bit relieved with the recent bad news for Nvidia. This time last year (and the year before that) it was looking like they were about to have a total monopoly on the GPU market. This will give AMD time to catch up a bit and Intel a good market to release their own GPUs.

With Intel's CPU dominance being withered by AMD and ARM solutions, and Nvidia's own dominance being thrown into question, the hardware industry is getting more interesting all the time.
IBM has multiple people in the standard committee and they care a lot for both backward compatibility and new standards. They alone were strongly opposed from removing trigraphs from the standard.

Still trigraphs were removed in the end; if there is enough support the committee is willing to break backward compatibility.
Do you believe loaning money in the first place to be unethical? Or just banks loaning out money that has been deposited with them.
They are the same. Exactly. If you dig down into it, all the standing desk companies (that have that 4 position controller) are just putting their own branding and desk tops on top of the exact same motor and controller.
Cloudflare sells DNSSEC services. Comcast is actively participating in standards that moot the most (or second most) important modern application of DNSSEC. You keep talking about 9-10 million domains "presently signed", but, as I keep pointing out, those were signed at registrars and are overwhelmingly irrelevant zones. The point of the infographic is that zones people actually care about --- not coincidentally, zones with giant, smart security teams --- resolutely avoid DNSSEC.
Yeah, thanks guys!
Show HN: Easy access to files on the bsv blockchain
Lots of data is being uploaded to the bsv blockchain. Different standards and different formats can make it hard to make sure all files are accessible if you want to reuse files uploaded by others.

I made a friendly gateway to files stored as OP_RETURN data. I consider it a friendly gateway because of the way it handles many different ways of storing data and gives you the options to set the file type dynamically.

Example: a website and resource files stored 100% on the bsv blockchain:
http://bico.media/44c1b1f97edea84b9d41a989759d90a9fc348ed97d...

A bit more info here: http://bico.media

If you have a wallet on moneybutton.com you can "upload" files via https://b.bitdb.network

Please share thoughts and inputs to improvements.
Why would this be any more reputationally damaging than the numerous other bugs with iPhone behavior?

It’s not like iPhones have a reputation for not having bugs; it seems like every version has a passcode bypass or a DoS-via-iMessage. By some standards, this is worse (remotely triggerable, leaks audio/video), but in other cases it’s not as bad: the attacker’s Apple ID ends up in the call logs of the affected person.

Are there prior examples of any phone manufacturer being reputationally damaged by vulnerabilities like this? Heck, Samsung’s phones literally caught fire and they’re still selling phones just fine.
I’m getting old. Never heard of a single one of these artists.
I co-run a SaaS company targeted towards funeral homes. We offer a CMS and white labeled obituaries that don't look like they were built in 1998. The subject matter might be a bit mundane but it's very profitable.
Unity Announced the Upcoming Launch of the Obstacle Tower Challenge
I worked with pc a little (and observed him make lots of decisions). His biggest strength IMO is entering a domain where he has no experience whatsoever, and very rapidly building up correct intuition on how to operate in that domain. There are very, very few people who can do it as well as he can.

I think being "mastercard middleman" is disingenuous. Firstly, because doing that well breaks down into getting good at many domains (software, finance, management, regulatory, sales, recruiting, fundraising, etc. etc. etc.), and secondly because Stripe is far more than that.

At the very least, his intuition on these issues is very likely to be much, much better than random chance.
This article is a little dated - PG said much later that after observing hundreds of startups do YC, Lisp (and programming language choice in general) is a lot less important than he'd originally thought.

There's a kernel of a crucial idea in there - to quote Marc Andreessen, "Differentiated is better than good." Lisp forces different tradeoffs than using say C or Java would; some tasks that are nearly impossible in Java become trivial in Lisp, while some tasks that are trivial in Java are really difficult in Lisp. That forces you down a different route than your competitors, which makes you stand apart from them in your customers' minds. And being able to explain to your customers why they should use your product over everything else out there in the market is pretty much the definition of a competitive advantage.
> you will find there are lots of Chinese nationalist stories about their hero technician / scientists steal western technologies. They are literally proud of it.

Reminds me of the movie "Firefox" [1] with Clint Eastwood. The plot? An all-American hero sneaks deep into the UDSSR to steal a new high-tech aircraft. And I'm pretty sure Hollywood is still pumping out ideological crap like that.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/
It can’t be more sparse then my town in UK which manages to support local bus stops fine.
It won't be, because different groups answer questions differently. One famous result (http://web.pdx.edu/~mev/pdf/PS471_Readings_2012/Lizotte_Sidm...) is that woman hold themselves to a higher threshold of certainty before claiming to know something.

An interesting solution would be to score differently based on known biases; but that would be a can of worms in itself.

Meritocracy is a lie used by the privileged. There is no such thing in the real world.
Different projects with different specs, pytorch/tensorflow included.
There were plenty of free and open operating systems. Linux and FreeBSD had the advantage of also being similar if not the same as what they were replacing, as well as allowing a lot of the software that was designed for UNIX's to also work with little or no change. In other words, they cloned the look, feel and compatibility (well , FreeBSd didn't really clone it, it IS it).
It is possible for someone to put deliberate practice and care into learning basic public speaking skills without being a charlatan.

> Most of the smartest people I know lean on these verbal crutches

Yes, “most” smart people never spend much deliberate effort on improving verbal communication. (Just like “most” smart people never put deliberate effort into their cooking skills, or their running form, or their mental calculation speed, or their tree climbing, or their drawing, ....)

There are a lot of skills people might choose to work on, and only so much time, and if you pick any particular one (unless it is something unavoidable for most adults like eating or reading), you will find most people to be unpracticed at it.

But that doesn’t mean intellectuals shouldn’t work on verbal communication skills.
I wouldn't assume Via and city buses cost the same to run.
Sure. But I think capital 'C' Chefs would argue that they don't just cook. I think there's something of a semantic difference.
Maybe it did used to work, but now because of a seemingly unrelated bug fix, it has broken it. Wack-a-mole style.

Takes the engineering right out of software engineering if you ask me.
Yep. WebSQL is unmaintained. https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/

Though many browsers still support it. https://caniuse.com/#feat=sql-storage