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So how do we do this for software developers? It's very difficult to gauge how much effort a project or bug or story will take. Without that being highly accurate, some people will finish in a few minutes then chill out while others will feel oppressed and be scrambling trying to finish their unrealistic deadlines.

Even letting the team estimate stories then assigning them randomly is difficult, some members are more skilled than others. What Jim could do in an hour will take Bill a week.

One thought would be to track everyone's velocity as an individual all the time and ensure all stories are small, like under a few hours. Then you'd have a small enough cycle that it should be possible to get a lot more accurate with estimating and making sure people produce similarly.
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Or a common HN DDoS, and a failed try to fix performance problems.

67 points on HN can kill a typical wordpress blog.
It isn't Marxism. One of the most well-known advocates of employee-owned companies, Noam Chomsky, is anarchist, not Marxist. Marxism is primarily about controlling political power to achieve economic goals. What the article talks about works without (much) political power.
Do Orchestras Really Need Conductors?
You're right. Make a better program. I'll be anticipating it, I really want a Skype replacement I can get behind.
$65k / year, working four days a week. I do not think my employer is aware of or interested in where I live.
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You make a lot of cynical, flawed assumptions. People do care about security and the increases to the degree of their awareness. But whether people care or not about security/decentralized implementations is irrelevant. People may not necessarily care how it's implemented, doesn't mean that the implementation is therefore any less important. That's developer's jobs to fix.

The challenge remains to create something that is simple and convenient to use and is at the very least on par with popular alternatives. Nothing more than that. Counting all the ways a decentralized implementation in principle is going to supposedly struggle without mentioning a longer list of problems with centralized systems is being excessively negative and cynical and for what purpose?
They locked his forum thread temporarily and then decided against it. I wonder if they froze his account too.
> 1. You use bloggers as references while shrugging at serious references.

These have back-references to official sources that you try to ignore.

> 2. A single minute's check on Wikipedia showed that your claims about the May vote is garbage.

No, it didn't, and I have already explained why in previous posts. The words about May polls come from respected sociologist and author of The Guardian.

The same goes to your reference to Wikipedia page about Crimean referendum, in particular, the data about previous polling [1]. Previous polls were taken before the overthrowing of Yanukovich and before new Kiev Government has issued statement about revocation of Russian language law.

About Syria:

Here are the words of lead investigator, Ake Sellstrom from official UN press-conference, pinpointed to minutes and seconds: [2]

Congressman Alan Grayson on NYT: [3]

As about your links to HRW, first one [4] is about different attack, that was not used as a pretext to possible Western bombardments, so I would rather not discuss it to prevent "topic creep". The second one [5] is contradicted by the conclusions of UN investigators, because they report that rocket bust have had much smaller range: 2 km [6] instead of "3.8 to 9.8" reported by HRW article [5], which makes HRW narrative fall apart.

So, this means, that in Syria, just like with Iraq in 2003, the West has used at best dubious evidence as a political pretext for possible war. This, and previous history with accidents like the one in The Gulf of Tonkin [7], we have every right to be skeptical about western claims that are not supported by strong evidence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_status_referendum,_201...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CFn9pWNKeI#t=39m10s

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/opinion/on-syria-vote-trus...

[4] http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/13/syria-strong-evidence-gov...

[5] http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/10/syria-government-likely-c...

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CFn9pWNKeI#t=16m10s

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident#Distor...
$50 an hour is low by any other standard, expect perhaps freelancer.com
OK, so I gave it this:

8-59/30 * * * * do_something

It replied:

The command do_something will execute
the 8th through 59/30th minutes of
every hour every day.

That's a pretty poor description of something that will run at 8 and 38 minutes past the hour, every hour of every day.

Not impressed - seems overly simplistic.
It is called "subsistence coding".
Computers generally don't really mind how you have defined your variable names, structured your data, and named your functions in your program, it all gets translated into a memory adres and machine code.

Ofcourse code needs to work, and getting things done is important, speed of development is part of running a business.

But a program should also be readable & understandable, and maybe re-usable by a an other human being.

I don't think this implies you need to use OOP, but one of the nice characteristics is, that is has defined data and operations for a particular object.

Achieving a high development speed right now, without to much structuring and human readable & understandable logic in your code, won't do much harm right now.

Till someone asks you to change something in a working program.

Than re-reading and understanding to much unstructured code, at that time, kills development speed,
which can block a much needed functionality.

And I personally think it is this building & launching of functionality that your users will care deeply about.

But, still I think there is a sweet spot, somewhere (between spaghetti and fully structured systems)

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"Adapter"?
"Here's a gallery of nude images. To get access go to (URL) and sign up for Stellars. Then send them to me. I then email you the access password."

(It'd be useful if anyone has historic information about the affiliate points that the photographer Lithium Picnic (NSFW) accrued during his time at SuicideGirls (also NSFW).)
Coop models may work if decision-making structures are defined clearly and 'economically'.

>> expand the coop model by associating it more closely with unions.

A receipt for disaster. Some European states had this models in the past and completely abandoned them.
“So obviously they’re doing a lot of planning and engineering work to ensure that it will fit back in there,” he added.

Anybody that's worked with engineers had to laugh at that.

Yes, obviously they've done all the work they could possibly do. Otherwise they would be phonies. But I'll bet there's a huge difference between how this fine-detail work looks on paper an how it's actually going to happen.
Gaza is an Engineered Flashpoint for WW3
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The electricity grid is not a static thing, it is upgraded according to demand. Demand doesn't change overnight.
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You can, once you reach a certain karma threshold.
How can you prevent me to take a photo of my screen?
From a short look, I tend to agree with you.

> memcpy(packet + 1, &con->ping_request_id, sizeof(uint64_t));

Copying multi-byte values into a network packet is a typical error made by novice developers - this will bite you hard as soon as somebody compiles the code on a Big Endian machine. Even if you might get away with this on opaque elements like a ping ID, the general approach should not be followed.
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> I can tell you the U.S. certainly didn't want outside intervention during our own civil war.

So, you say that US has the right to support one side, including an anti-constitutional coup against democratically elected president, and Russia has no right to support the other side? I beg to disagree.

In fact, Kiev has been Washington’s military proxy against Russia and its “compatriots” in eastern Ukraine for months. Since the political crisis began, Secretary of State John Kerry, CIA Director John Brennan and Vice President Joseph Biden (twice) have been in Kiev, followed by “senior US defense officials,” American military equipment and financial aid. Still more, a top US Defense Department official informed a Senate committee that the department’s “advisers” are now “embedded” in the Ukrainian defense ministry. [1]

> This isn't two states playing covert war games in a third state, this is Ukraine fighting for its sovereignty against a separatist movement.

This is one way to see it. Hopefully, I gave you enough information to explain how it is possible to view the issue from completely different point of view.

[1] http://www.thenation.com/article/180825/why-washington-riski...
Calling Rust from C (and Python)
Fortunately, when you're working on them you're away from the boring side. ;)
Personally I just doodle with no objectives and no analysis of the outcome. Sometimes it's a pattern, sometimes it's a picture, sometimes it's a wonderful idea that properly kicks you in the face.

If you ask too many questions it formalises it too much and takes the joy away and possible shapes the outcome too much.

I will say that whilst doodling in presentations and meetings I tend to come up with some profound counterpoints while not even listening properly so perhaps it does work.
No FreeBSD support in ZeroTier One? :(
Depends on the approach.

In some distributions, say, Debian, there are readily available cross-compiler packages (like g++-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi). I haven't rebuilt gcc, but the approach must be to pull package's source, add a patch and run the build - then debian/rules and myriad of various helper scripts will take the hassle of doing everything. Just can't be the other way since package builds are automated.

And there are other tools, like buildcross that also automate the job.
You say 'extrovert' and 'social' almost as if they are insults.
All this is unofficial, but based on my own observations:

You can never down-vote a submission. When you have enough karma you can:

* Down-vote comments

* Flag comments

* Flag submissions

Flags on submissions affect their ranking in a manner similar to down-voting, except that enough flags can result in a submission being deleted entirely.
Note that "union" can mean very different things in different cultures.

I don't think the model that works in Germany (unions having a significant representation on the board) would work with UK/US-style adversarial unions. Volkswagen tried - and their US employees weren't interested (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/02/14/vw-worke...)
Care to elaborate?
Unions function differently in different EU states: In the UK they were pretty much killed, in France they act as antagonists to the business side, in Germany they act more collaboratively with the business side.

In the latter case in Germany every large enough commpany has to have a democratically elected workers council, that gets a seat on the board.
While not the same as co-ownership, this democratic co-determination is arguably one of the more important reasons why labor relations in Germany are much better than in other European countries.
I've been using 3 mirrored drives for the last few years because I want extra protection.

Think about it, one drive suddenly dies and you need to resilver/resync a new drive. What if there are some bad blocks on the existing drive that's left?

With ZFS and 3 mirrored drives, these bad blocks would most likely be healed during the resilver operation.
> You can't verify the 'decision-making aspects and operational state' of a human or remote server

If the node is running an operating system that supports a dynamic root of trust, it's theoretically possible to perform a remote attestation for binary hashes of all software & config running on the remote node.

Not suggesting that is easy, but it can be done with the right hardware (TXT, TPM) and Linux software stack.
I was personally quite sure that trackers and other download sites would be replaced with distributed systems. Instead sites like TPB and others continue to use centralized systems. I'm of course pro distributed & anonymous systems, that's the reason why I've been studying those for years. I'm kind of disappointed how little those are used, if used at all.

When TPB guys said they would make something cool, I naturally assumed they would release a fully decentralized, pseudonymous, anonymising solution, which would replace bittorrent which is inherently dangerous because it leaks so much metadata as well as reveals to whole world what you're downloading. Instead they released something (technically) lame, the piratebrowser. Which just allows accessing their site via Tor (basically working as proxy), even if it's blocked locally.

I really do like Freenet & GNUnet design, because relays do store and cache data, creating a lot of sources quickly for popular data. Many systems have serious flaws, bitmessage is not scalable with it's current design. Most of other fully decentralized systems suffer from flooding, sybil and metadata leaks. I personally played a little with a bitmessage creating over 100k fake peers just for fun and it worked beautifully flooding the network with noise and generated junk control traffic. Because it's distributed solution, up to 10k junk messages were stored on each peer, wasting also disk space. Decentralized design also makes nodes running the system vulnerable unless additional steps are taken to limit resource consumption. After resources need to be limited, then it's a great question what should be limited and how that affects the network.

Like the original article says, it's really hard to come up with solution which wouldn't be bad in someway.

When mobile devices get more and more common, the fact is that it's really hard to beat the centralized solution. Of course the system can be partially distributed so mobile clients can connect to one spot only. Server hubs doing routing and data storage. But basically that's no different to email, DNS and web at all. So no news here either. After all, email isn't bad solution at all. It's secure (if configured correctly) and it's distributed. - Yes, I'm one of those running own email servers, as well are my friends too.

Final question is, how to protect metadata and hide communication patterns. As I mentioned in my post about Bleep. It didn't impress me at all.
http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/bittorrent-bleep-my-analys...

I'm not attacking the original article writer. He clearly has done a lot of job and considered options as well as written clearly and well about it. But I'm just thinking these issues in completely technical manners.

I'm happy to hear comments. I'm just cynical because the distributed systems didn't turn out as popular as I would have expected and wanted.

What I would like to see? A perfect fully decentralized P2P network running as HTML5 App which wouldn't require installation. That would be something which I would rate as pretty cool currently.
This is great!

I'm making a list of things that I did in my childhood tha the future people (mostly my child at the moment) will think are odd or bizarre.

The best one so far is the lack of mobile phones for each person; we just had a landline per house. And even then that was a party line shared between different homes so you couldn't always make or recieve a call.
It sounds like an attractive concept... but I'm not sure about its long term viability.

The larger a business grows, the more people become involved in the cooperative, and the harder it becomes to gain consensus or propose more risky but sometimes critical actions for the business.

Layoffs are most probably off the table, while things like employee benefits will probably become disproportionately popular and hard to cut. Furthermore the whole "own your company" appeal seems to become less of a big deal as more and more join the coop, and you get less of a say over how the company should be run. But conversely it is usually on a large scale that the financial benefits of minority shares ownership can yield decent returns. Seems a bit conflicting.

I've heard some groceries in US converted to co-op model though. Wonder how they are doing now.
This animation shows the plan for fixing it. I can see why it will cost $125m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlPgkPo_vGQ
This article is a bit shallow. I recommend Schwarz's book, The Paradox of Choice; it's a fun read and I found it very insightful.
Yeah it was a little odd there was no specified frequency, the api must have a default to around just above a typical kick drum peak.
Barreal – Fertile Valley, the desert and with it a huge temperature range
Looking at the title description I was actually thinking about some really weird dating site where you have to dress professionally and... I dunno, maybe post your resume profiles to others?

I think their landing page makes more sense.
Aren't you supposed to be on vacation? :)
PlayStation Now is a glimpse at the future of gaming – for a price
Except for medical technology : without it, the cave-man would have far fewer years of expected life-span to enjoy sitting by the fire with his family. And many of those years would be filled with ill-health, etc.
Microsoft May Be Readying A New Service Called Sway
Not yet. This is a planned feature but the implementation has not been decided yet because this feature is not exactly compatible with how Tox works and it could cause a lot security issues.
Based on all available documentation about Stellar, it is impossible to accrue so much Stellars so quickly, and so consistently, without somehow gaming the system. Anyone willing to prove me wrong?
If you want to be accepted by ANY community, on or offline, it is on you to adopt their customs. This has been true since time began.
Oddly though, that research doesn't answer the question "Do Orchestras Really Need Conductors?" It does answer the question "Does an orchestra which is used to a conductor do better with an expert conductor?"

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is one of the few well-known conductorless orchestras. I learned about them from an article in Fast Company, at http://www.fastcompany.com/39214/leadership-ensemble . One of the problem with no leadership at all was "We needed twice as many rehearsals just to try all of the ideas." Orpheus instead decided to organize leadership around core groups, where those groups, or membership in those groups, rotates frequently.
Another benefit of flipping a coin is that if, after the choice is made (e.g. the coin comes up heads), you instinctively regret it not having been tails : then you know what you wanted in your heart. Since your brain had no better answer than to flip a coin, then this is a quick and rationalizable way to see what your heart feels.
If you read the accounts escape would have been quite easy. His followers urge Socrates to leave and agree to help him (he had no small amount of supporters). But he says no.

When you kill yourself, even if the government has told you that you have to, it's suicide.

The same argument you are making that it is not a suicide could apply to ancient Japan as well.
This is a bizarre statement. There are plenty of reasons to write software that don't revolve around "I want this software for my own personal benefit". For example the person in question may just want experience of programming, and/or they may wish to contribute to something that helps others rather than themselves.

(I suspect many people are in a similar position in their day job, given the existence of large amounts of software for which the target audience is not computer programmers.)
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I hate to break the news to you but Chomsky is a Marxist.
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Two of the three co-founders are Stanford affiliated (a CS prof and a Ph.D candidate.) Ariely's name and popular research is a draw for investors, but a couple of Stanford CS folk in the founding team did not hurt either...
Maybe just 'Mapper'? As it is exactly what it does - maps spreadsheets to Python objects
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I hear that since he admitted it, he's now legally bound to investigate and prosecute the people involved. Is that true?
Hello, yes, it required a commercial implementation of Common Lisp, of which a license at that time (and still today!) can be purchased cheaply, of which you could have downloaded the "Personal Edition", which has very few limitations, none of which concerning the language itself. And if you have asked for an evaluation version, you would certainly have received a time constrained full version of that in your eyes stupid commercial implementation called LispWorks. So - ignorance while using the words "stupid commercial" may be your fault, but by far not the one of either OM or LispWorks. This is of course not the point.

Calling the LispWorks implementation of Common Lisp "stupid", a result of decades of man hours of work of actually not only pretty intelligent, but also very knowledgeable men, who managed to produce a fine product, provided it for a real bargain and surrounded it by a stellar (take my word for it) support for their customers, is sad. Fundamentally. Not in the way of, like if your or mine team wins the 2014 WM of FIFA. Sad in the sense like if I see someone literary pissing at the musicians of the London Philharmonic Orchestra because he doesn't like the sound of violines or just doesn't like Dvořák and especially doesn't like the fact, that he needs to buy a ticket to experience them, one who seems never tried to master any instrument to, if not to understand, then at least to get a feeling about the matter (otherwise he would have already developed some respect), but still he talks about it with words like "stupid commercial".

I hope you don't see an insult in my words, but an inspiration to read more, to learn more. There are intelligent people around you, believe me. And this is rewarding. Finally a lot of them provide their output for bargain (if we talk about Lisp then like LispWorks, but you can take any area) or for nothing monetary (like the authors/maintainers of SBCL).

Regards
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Tox is distributed meaning there are no central servers.

Also, encryption is mandatory.
"dreaded quicksort one-liner" -
nice meme here
Didn't TPB move to all magnet links years ago? Finding peers through DHT is certainly not anonymous, but it's decentralized.
Ask HN: What do you do to blow off steam?
Snapchat, but it lets you publish your pictures? Also, it stole the name of a popular Cydia tweak for Snapchat. [0] Also, they left what seems like a fake review of their own product on Google Play. [1]

[0]: http://www.cokepokes.com/cydia/depiction/phantom.html

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.phantom&re...
Your points are all good, but you seem to fail to understand the reason why gp posted this comment. When seeing the Open prefix in the name of some software or platform, people usually except free things, because they've been used to it.

Calling LispWorks stupid might not have been the brightest move around, but the concern was somehow valid.