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Even if we built a space elevator, imagine that the payload travels up at 100km/h - really fast, basically a car on a highway. Even in that ludicrous mode, it would take 15 days for the payload to reach 36,000km. Probably unrealistic for human cargo.
But most of us do feel like the government should police behavior that negatively impacts us all. I want to dissuade people from smoking or excess drinking because it makes health insurance for me and my family more expensive while tying up hospital resources treating people for preventable diseases.

Not only that, but cigarette companies target youths with an addictive substance that people eventually want to stop using but have a very difficult time doing so.
I think you need to understand the audience for this post.

Dan is trying to demonstrate that there is room for many more large VC style returns by investing in companies that's primary value is being an API.

His argument is that the market is bigger than people think it is today, and we've just seen the first ripple.

This post is to help him establish himself and Accel as someone to go talk to if you are building a API based company, because he's a believer you could be a unicorn.

OR if you are a LP, and want big returns on this 'new' wave come talk to Dan at Accel.

I do agree it's an Ad.

FWIW I like the graphics :) and it's a good argument.
With a title like that, I was expecting to read about monetizing APIs using platforms such as RapidAPI or Apigee.
Sure, and it's an ancient car, by EV standards. I'd hope that a Porsche that nobody has taken delivery of yet and costs way more is better.

Last time I was at the track (in my BMW M car, mind you) we had a couple of Model 3 Performance cars, and a couple of Model S.

I could pass the Model S with ease. I couldn't get close to the Model 3 Performance.
> It's probably why so many companies treat their employees like disposable punching bags

Contrary to what you posit, the empirical evidence shows the opposite. The firms with the best management practices tend to have the highest rates of employee satisfaction [1]. And the surest way for a firm to wind up poorly managed, is for shareholders not to hold management accountable with tangible targets and transparent monitoring.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w17850.pdf
You can also type "<product> vs." in the search box and see what the suggestions give you as alternatives for a given product.
Most calculators of that era had a maximum number
Of digits between 8 and 12. Perhaps the Hp48 could do this calculation but not any of the credit card calcs.
> I hire a lot of people, and the difference between a good hire and a bad hire is hugely important.

This narrative is pushed constantly, to the point where it's started to lose believability with me. It's used by large companies to justify their BS hiring practices when the reality is a bad hire won't hurt the company that much. It's used by small companies to justify nonsensical interview practices.

> Human questions. Does this question give the candidate a chance to display a wide enough range of himself, socially, that you are comfortable that he can work well with other people?

I try not to display much of myself socially when I'm at work. I'm there to work. I'll gladly go out for lunch and be friendly with coworkers, but it's not hanging out with friends. It never will be.
It absolutely is; performance is mostly limited by power usage and dissipation, and the above is describing why at faster frequencies more power is used.
I can say similar stuff about every country.

1960s: I love USA, but racism, sexism, suffrage etc, so they should not attempt to do space stuff.
I find myself constantly split between camps 1 and 3. Whenever I try and get into game development, #3 pulls me to use Unity, then #1 gets nauseous and has me start writing my own (high-level) game engine, before I just give up.

Rust has been fun because it allows me to indulge in the good parts of #2 without totally losing my sanity. It's not great for #3 though.

I don't think most people fall into just one camp, but these three dimensions make a really useful "personality test" for programmers, and do a good job explaining conflicts like those mentioned by the author.
You've never been on a project that was behind and management decided to add resources to it? Impressive!

The book is worthwhile, not just for the central lesson, but WHY (TL;DR: communication overhead between different individuals increase as you add "nodes" - interestingly, you can make analogies to L2 cache expiration problems and others) and also a nice view at IBM of the past. And it was written in an era where there wasn't the need to make every book 300 pages long, so it's generally a lot more meat/page, though hardly perfect.
Because where is the incentive? Why would anyone be a "miner"? What reward would there be?
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>I am a maker. I build things for people to use and maintain.

So you're dev ops?

Jokes aside, do you really have a passion for maintaining projects? This is something I deeply struggle with and any advice on the subject I would be deeply grateful for.

I thought I could deal with it and enjoy a project in the long run if it had no bugs, so I worked on some of the code the internet runs on, where even putting in one bug would make parts of the internet go down world wide. (Which I did do btw. Sorry.) I both hated and loved that job, but in the end, even in a "bug free" code base, so maintaining it was only feature requests for the most part, I still lost passion over time.

I switched to Data Science, writing code I know will be scrapped. I write mockups to analyze data. It's a lot of fun! But to me it's just running away from the issue.

How did you gain passion for maintaining code bases? If you have a story, it would mean a lot to me. I'd love to hear it.
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Like a lot of these "cute" problems, finding a proof of the problem requires a new theorem or novel application of a technique which benefits mathematics overall.

As a prime example, Fermat's Last Theorem was not a particularly applicable mathematical theorem. But when Andrew Wiles found a proof, he ended up proving several other elliptic curve conjectures which were important to the field.
It's always worth once in a while trying to do something without using the web, use the man pages, readme's...local documentation to work out the answer. I say that as today people grow up with information on tap and the ability to use search engines well is and has become in many area's, more key than the ability to do the job. As the ability to adapt, get the job done is always bankable as it's the end results. Also over time, you remember all that google and build up a set of skills that you tap into your memory and not extended memory as search engines have become.

I say all this as somebody who grew up without the internet, let alone computers in homes so primarily developed the skills to self learn from the local information and more so, the ability to work it out myself. With the internet, you save reinventing the wheel as you can look up what wheel you need and where. But the ability to build a wheel is always a skill you should hone every once and a while. After all 5 9's SLA's is still moments when you won't have internets.

That all said, I'm pondering analysing my browser history more, be educational. Certainly worth doing just for your job reviews to justify what training you would benefit from the most.
Bing gets their results from other search engines too.
https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/

As far as I can just about every search engine uses results from Google directly or indirectly by using a source like Bing that in turn gets some of their results from Google. If you won't call something a search engine unless it doesn't use anyone else's search results you might have a hard time naming more than one. You can't escape Google.
Just so people don't get an oversimplified view of what it takes to start a CA from this comment, you will have much bigger challenges than access to application software. Your first issue will be securing millions of dollars per year for the staff that it takes to run the CA responsibly. Your next issue will be getting trusted by browsers.

Also, the open source Let's Encrypt CA software is tailored for how we do things. It's not an "off the shelf" component that you can easily run in another context and end up with a proper compliant CA.
This works so long as you don't think it's unethical for hospitals to turn away people that can't pay. Otherwise other people's negative health choices cost me money.
Longer I work as a developer less frequently I google stuff. Most times I use google to find a project on Github and read docs. If I google for something specific then it is for finding better solution.
If that job starts with a demeaning exercise, how many more of them are ahead?
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com.premii.hn was my favorite too; it worked surprisingly well given that it was webview based. But, as you said, it's been taken off the Play store and not getting any more updates.

Re. your feedback:

Replying to comments directly can be done by long pressing the title of the comment you want to reply to, which brings up other options as well.

I'll consider your suggestions for UI tweaks, but is downvoting even possible? Or did you want an option to hide a story/comment only within the app?
It kind of is. Certificate Transparency logs -- which all modern CAs log newly issued certificates to -- are stored as a Merkle tree.

https://www.certificate-transparency.org/log-proofs-work

What they aren't is coupled to other cryptocurrency nonsense like mineable/tradeable tokens.
This isn't a functional problem. Its a moral problem.
Huh? The article mentions increased competition for sandwiches in the London market.
Hi Peter,

Thanks for doing this!

During my second to last semester of undergrad, I unknowingly violated my F1 status. After graduation, I applied for my post-completion OPT. My school then found out about my violation and terminated my SEVIS record. They said I can work with an attorney and complete the I-765 form while my SEVIS record is terminated. I want to know if it’s possible to get my EAD card if I do this?

Thank you
> Nurburing will be put to the test next week.

Unlikely. The track is fully booked for a while. I know that Musk wants to get an apples-to-apples comparison between the two cars, but Musk needed to start working on this (starting with a Nurburing reservation) months ago.

I'm sure they'll get a test-run in within a few months, but there's no way they'll get the info within a week.
Similarly, I think there are only three versions of software.

Version 1 is what you write fast, to ship it quickly. Corners are cut. It isn't even held together by duct tape and baling wire. It is glued together with bird spit. But it gets the crucial first dollar of revenue. Version 1 is programmed by hackers.

Version 2 is what you write more slowly, painstakingly, to replace version 1 before its innards inevitably spill out onto the pavement. Version 2 is paid for by version 1, but is programmed by the math-poets, the software "engineers". It is very elegant and clean, but doesn't always do what the customer needs. There is zero technical debt. People weep when reading the code, it is so beautiful. But it still doesn't export the management report to Excel yet.

Version 3 is what you get after version 2 has been in production so long that many of the conscious design decisions introduced by forward-thinking architects have been patched out and replaced with simpler things that just work, and are easy to maintain. The ultimate goal of version 3 is to replace itself with a shell script, and then take a nap until a new requirement or feature request comes in. It does everything the business wants, but everything is a massive wad of cruft, and there are legacy bits that no one wants to touch.

The number reported by the software has nothing to do with this. A lot of software never gets out of version 1, or goes straight from 1 to 3, or skips 1 and starts at 2.
I think the early versions of the original Tesla roadster had gearboxes with multiple speeds, but Elon eventually got rid of it and settled on just having one for later versions of the roadster (and all subsequent Tesla cars).

I think they found it didn't give much of an advantage when it did work and that they generally just didn't work very well.
There is a term for it - the Dunning–Kruger effect.
If that's true, that's interesting. Because there have been cases where vendors have asked Google for more time to vet a fix that was going to lapse the responsible disclosure's window and Google (or perhaps more specifically, Project Zero) wouldn't allow it. Mid-March to end of June is a bit over 90 days at my estimation (depending on specific dates, obviously) and yet by September nothing and no updates.
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You might just be lucky
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This is possible only if you're reasonably certain that you'll be able to apply for AOS (I-485) AND get EAD before your TN expires. Otherwise, you'll run into issue renewing your TN as submission of I-140 proves that you have intent to remain in the US permanently.
I sometimes do that if I'm learning X and like it. I will probably disagree with an "X sucks" article, but if it's well written, it will teach me about some pitfalls of X.
Search is something I miss often as well. Thanks for the suggestion.
Sure, maybe a better term is "virtual search engine" (in the sense the Mobile Virtual Network Operators are just mobile service resellers)
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Nobody goes out and specifically votes for the pol who drops one particular liquor tax by a few %. People do go out and vote against the pol who encouraged "public degeneracy" or however their opponent frames it.
Numerology is factually not a branch of mathematics.

As for "hippies are pretty decent at sniffing things out", just because someone was correct about something in the past (despite a lack of evidence) does not make them correct today if they still lack evidence.

The burden of proof is on numerologists to show that they are correct, not on everyone else to disprove it.
Independent security researchers are comparing this to the "Aurora" hack of Google[1].

While that was undoubtedly of a larger scope, it was also the event that led to the creation of P0, so it would make sense that this gets more exposure than your average bug report. Most security bugs aren't multi-exploit zero-day chains found in the wild being currently used to oppress people by a state actor.

[1]: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1170064458003054594
25% fuel savings doesn’t mean you convert the excess into payload. It just means you need less fuel. The Saturn V could get ~50 tons to the moon using ~3,000 tons of fuel. A 25% savings means you get 50 tons to the moon using ~2,250 tons of fuel.
Why didn’t they want bus traffic directly to the mall?
Perhaps, though I suspect much has changed in the 8+ years since that article was written.
Well, OK. They use the word "distilled" to distinguish between the two, so I'm not sure I agree it's as obfuscatory as you imply.
Wow, that's weird because i had experienced almost exactly the same feeling 3 days ago. 10 years app developer as well, worked on an app (huge update) for 2 years, with the last 7 months full time , which means a big financial risk. And saw the update rejected for what looked like something Apple didn't like in my business model (that hasn't changed in the last four years since the first release of app has been out).

In my case, it ended well, because after explaining there must have been a misunderstanding, they finally accepted the update, but something changed at that precise moment i saw the reason they rejected the app.

I am now extremely worried about things i knew before but didn't really care about. That is:

- Apple has a monopoly on app distribution to my customer's devices.

- Apple doesn't care at all if my app is distributed on the store or not.

- They'd rather have every developer work for free and give their time for free, and work only for iOS. That would be the ideal situation for them if that was sustainable. We have different interest.

And so the natural conclusion was that I, as a developer, can not responsibly develop only for apple-owned platform.

And so tomorrow (or actually monday), i'm starting my next application project, and it's going to run either on flutter or react native. Because at the minimum i'll be able to provide an option to my customers should apple not like what i'm doing on their store, for some obscure reason.
> looks like there is a Model S being sent to Nurburgring to lay that to rest.

It looks like that Model S might just be sitting next to the Nurburgring for a while once it gets there.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a28942079/tesla-mod...
>something about drinking Mexican beer always reminds me of sitting on a beach

That "something" is affective conditioning from years of exposure to advertising, and exposure to the world that the advertising created.
I do 6:15 instead I only get about an hour of time to myself (some of which is taken up by a quick shower), but it's amazing.
Serious question, what is one of the immediate practical applications if this problem (sums of three cubes) is solved? Not a math person so question might sound stupid.
Children. I get up about 4:45 AM. Thirty minutes for myself, then microwave my son's bottle. Twenty minutes to get him ready, if I'm lucky, then twenty more to get to a diner that opens at 6 for breakfast. Daycare opens at 6:30, at work at 7AM. Don't work more than 10 hours because daycare closes at 6PM.

Yeah, Before Children (BC) the World is your oyster.
I couldn't figure out how to combine this kind of model with wet paper codes, which is too bad since wet paper codes are really the only known way to resist an attacker with an equally good statistical model.

The closest I came was putting the text in a gray coded word per token form, then using GPT-2 as the error metric in the encoder, but the resulting bitrate was very low.
Looks like it crashed during the final slowdown.
This is not what Zerodium says[1]. They claim, and are backing it up with millions of dollars, that current Android exploits are more valuable than current iOS, because of a large supply of iOS issues.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-z...
There was an SF story where you would teleport from one city to another by walking into (and out of) franchise stores - the high similarity between locations resulting in space-time congruency, hand-wave ...
> It also takes significant skills to ask them, interpret the responses, and follow-up with other questions.

Most people are shit at interviewing. Those that aren't still aren't qualified to psychoanalyze people.

> The problem is that not everyone easily indexes their job-experiences into neat, well-narrated vignettes that can be called up and summarized to an interviewer in real-time. It's hard stuff but it's better than other forms of interviewing.

> Tell me about a time you disagreed with your boss?

We disagreed and then I quit because I felt like there was a pattern of him not listening.

Oops wrong answer.

These questions just get gamed. People tell dressed up versions of cherry picked stories. No one tells the story of why they finally had enough and quit. No one tells the story of a discussion turning heated because both sides got a bit too attached to their opinion. No one tells the story of just giving up and accepting that they won't win.
In context of this, I've always been thinking that software engineers should be held way more liable -- like those of the physical engineering disciplines. In order to enforce good software engineering practice, there must be either incentives or disincentives (carrot or stick) that have clear consequences on the engineer himself/herself. Otherwise there is nothing stopping them from producing bad work. It may be unintentional and the code perhaps is simply sloppy (but still works).

This is just a thought (and may be unpopular): practices differ wildly from one company to another, and between enterprise software vs hacky side-projecty node apps, nonetheless, maybe it's time to standardize software good practices across the entire industry and enforce them, making them not just "good" practice, but mandatory practice.
Silence at the command center? What's happening?
Lots of jeering on Twitter right now as Nürburgring is saying that Tesla does not have a lap reservation for them next week as Musk had claimed. https://twitter.com/RoadandTrack/status/1170044182808977408

> Porsche has tons of experience setting fast Nürburgring lap times, and a huge asset in the form of factory racer Lars Kern. The Model S Performance is a quick car, but Tesla has no prior experience attempting to lap the Nürburgring. It's hard to imagine the automaker could go out and beat Porsche on its first visit to the track.

Maybe they're hoping Autopilot will set the track record? LOL
I would usually say “Question: <question>”. The latter might have been okay; after the feedback I just switched to “hey I’m stuck” or “Hey I’ve got a question” and asked the question after he replied, which he was happy with.
> The attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that focus on content related to the Uighur community.

Ah, so the exploit was written and placed by the Chinese government.
and now I've just memorized it myself. Thanks!
Then the solution should be decoupling other people's behavior from your health care costs.
The press found out that it was targetting Uighur Muslims in China a few days ago. I think the story about that got flagged off the front page of HN so you might have missed it.
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What do you strongly disagree with, exactly?
Downvoting is _definitely_ possible on HN once you have enough karma.

Didn't know about the long-pressing, which is a result of long-pressing not being a user-visible action. Replying to a comment is definitely worth its own per-comment button at a minimum.
Seems like they lost contact with the lander. (I think - I heard them say they lost contact with "station".) Fucking hair-raising...
Except use a different browser engine...
Where do you live that you have to pay to access a public park?
Google-fu is pretty much a requisite for any engineer (and I'm not just talking software).
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One instance that sticks out- had a private discussion over IM with one guy which essentially ended up as "yah, I'm aware of that problem and we're cutting that corner now for brevity, bossman is aware too. I've thought about it already and actually do have the code ready to do the right thing and it'll be implemented when the time is right." To me, just another minor detail (a detail that is not particularly in the purview of this engineer's projects. Once upon a time he may have been in a similar role (not exactly) and believes he has authority because of it). In a later, in-person all-hands meeting, he brought it up in a way that made it seem like it was a critical, urgent mistake that needs to be corrected ASAP. Why wouldn't he have expressed that 1:1 when we were actually talking about it? From what I can tell, he just wanted to make me look like a fool instead of suggesting a solution. Yah it's makes me paranoid, I'd rather just keep my mouth shut than give him something else to put on his list of transgressions to bring up whenever he wants to throw me under a bus.