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> Admittedly, that's probably less of a thing now we have redundancy and continuous deployment practises; the concept of a late night / weekend change window is diminishing in my personal experience. I'm intrigued if that's true across the tech industry.

Odd, my experience is exactly the opposite. Increase complexity breads increasing numbers of potential problems, which causes partial outages at unpredictable times and for unpredictable reasons (or reasons so complex they are perceived as unpredictable).

Now are these "user impacting?" Often times, no. But they will become user impacting if left for too long (e.g. new instances aren't able to connect to a database, but existing ones are connected: classic DNS problems). So people are still waking up in the middle of the night to fix stuff when the alerts start streaming in.

The only thing that has REALLY changed is that now you can often fix these issues from your bedroom in your PJs. Since the AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc console doesn't care where you are or what you're wearing.

But companies are getting no better at actually having around the clock staff. When they used to out-source a dedicated server the data centre would employ 24/7 staff on real shifts, Amazon/Rackspace/Google/etc do the same, but for the software side of things you rarely see it (never?). Most companies just expect employees to be on-call 24/7 as part of their salary (unpaid overtime essentially).
They peaked with the N95, it was good for it's time (March 2007) especially since we didn't get the iPhone in the UK till November 2007. It was popular at the time in the UK with early adoptors.

However, the N96 (Feb 2008) was a poor product, hard to read email on, browse the web and tons of bugs in basic features, with basically no software updates in all the time it was out. All of this on a product cost much the same as the iPhone. I wrote about this a while back: https://rythie.com/blog/blog/2009/09/17/dont-buy-a-nokia-n96...

They didn't see (nor did many) that the highend/smartphone market, would basically be the entire market. They needed to double down on N95/N96 and highend phone quality, but they were all over the place trying to make 100s of different phones.
And presumably it found jQuery in there (like Github often does).
I started at Apple in 1994. I left to found a startup in 1997. It was an delightful and educational disaster; I learned that I loved startups but didn't have the constitution to lead them.

My tenures at these startups were anywhere from 18 months (acquired for modest payout) to 8 years (IPO for modest payout).

I keep doing it because of the reasons listed in the article. Flexibility, ability to have significant influence, get to work on cutting-edge stuff, have to furiously learn new stuff. Plus I enjoy the recruiting and team building -- I am an extrovert. :)

Yes, I have one kid. I tutor math at her elementary school. (See 'flexibility', above.)
Because Nokia was selling billions of phones and most of them were not full-feature smartphones.

In Nokia's mindset, especially on a continent where people paid full price for phones and didn't get subsidies from the carriers like US users, web enabled smartphones were a high-end luxury or business item. The cash was still in the meaty part of the curve, selling candybars and semi-feature phones to economy users and the 2nd-3rd world.

Perhaps the iPhone wouldn't have been as big an initial smash if everyone had to pay $800-$1200 out of the gate.
Likely the most painful password hashing discussion you'll ever read
They did tell me to keep a rescue inhaler just in case, and I have one around here somewhere. But it has not been used. I also don't buy the line that "there is no cure for asthma". Perhaps what I'm taking "controls" it as well as the more conventional stuff? I still prefer a treatment that has other beneficial side effects to one that costs more and has negative side effects.

BTW, if we're using NIH links I'll just point out that Iodine cures cancer:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16120321
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16679319

And reverses FBD:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8221402

Where molecular iodine is most effective - though it's traditionally claimed to be the most harmful form.

BTW, FBD is a risk factor for breast cancer so these go together quite nicely.
Salary. Startups always seem to offer lower salary in return for said equity.

If you're the first engineer, sure. As the second or third engineer it's a lot more likely that you won't get any equity (or nothing that won't be diluted in to oblivion by the time an exit comes along), and you'll be on a lower salary with a promise of a decent raise when the business gets traction. But that might never happen...

Also, if you do get equity, it'll probably be as a number of shares ("We'll give you 10,000 shares!") and no one will tell how many shares have been issued. So in reality you're getting 0.001%.
Take a look at Flot:

http://www.flotcharts.org/flot/examples/realtime/
Warning: This might ruin your day. Also, don't let tptacek see this or he might get very [angry/existential] (select appropriate).
You can check the OP's post history to find the discussion in question!
The race card isn't playable here. The computers collecting the data don't know what race the people being monitored belong to.
Would you rather work for a startup (vs. established co.) that pays you 130% market salary without equity or take 90% with the possibility of great upside?

Edit: I am asking because I think startups should be paying more than established companies because of many reasons: 1) the work environment is usually shitty (nice, clean offices are nice), 2) no financial security because they are not established, 3) no one outside the startup world wants to hire someone who failed numerous times before, 4) it is much easier to go from Big Co to Small/Tiny Co, then the opposite. (4) is particular true and quite dangerous for recent grads. Young recent grads are better off founding their own company or joining Big co instead joining fresh startups.
Ask HN: What have you been working on this summer?
A lot of us spend summer time working on a side project, be it a business idea, meme generator or OS project.

What have you been working on this summer? How many days did you spend working? Was it worth it?
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Trading stock for equity is almost never worth it - as a basic reality. Clearly it is occasionally, or the system would collapse.

Let's say you receive $40k in salary a year (versus equity), for 5 years (let's call that $200k, just for fun). Assuming you're diligent, that salary difference can be invested, even in something as simple a preferred shares, yield a compounded return of +/- 5%, or ~$232k. So, we're not really talking about high levels of risk.

Assuming your startup, like most others has 6 funding rounds before an exit, and that insiders hold the traditional 4% at exit - we'd be looking at someone who started with a full 1% (of the initial, pre-dilution point) of the company, yielding ~$341k over the same period.

Given that 1% holdings are rather high - 0.5% or less would be well expected. That in turn means that unless your company exits for ~275M (over this 5 year period), and you hold 0.5% then FINANCIALLY it's not worth being part of that endeavour.

That being said there are several other great reasons to enjoy startups.
India has 3x as many people as the United States. There's plenty of room for both good and bad examples.
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That's pretty much the idea of Braid, an awesome indie game. It uses time manipulation in different ways to create mechanics in that vein. Recommended.

It's a different concept than true 4D though.
Ask HN: How useful are the Cisco CCNA and CCNP networking classes?
As far as learning networks goes, how useful are the Cisco CCNA & CCNP classes and certifications vis a vis what a keen person can learn on their own from the net and so on? I've noticed they include practicals that require working on gear that is not necessarily cheap, so I'm particularly curious about that. But generally speaking, would you say they are worth the money? I'm interested in them for the sake of learning, not for the sake of getting a job where the certification would obviously have some use.
Please mod down at will but I would really appreciate it if you could tell me why. It's nice to know other's perspective on things.
Iodized salt had enough iodine to prevent goiter (enlarged thyroid gland). There are many other tissues that require iodine, and there are indications that somewhere around 1-5mg is more optimal than the 150mcg (0.15mg) that is officially recommended. For FBD treatment and other things, people go as high as 50mg per day. So no, salt doesn't really do it. Kelp is the only actual food that has significant amounts AFICT.
> Dan Fergus ... discovered that mite DNA could be sequenced from face scrapings regardless of whether a mite could be found under the microscope

Reminds me of the use of DNA sequencing to detect giant salamanders using DNA collected from stream water. [0]

There's something so incredible wondrous to me about this. Tiny, tiny signals revealing secret hidden life.

[0] http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Ask HN: Help me build a simple bidding service for my university cafeteria
My university has made it compulsory to buy coupons for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 20 days every month. So a lot of students who buy them have spare coupons left. Others dont buy any, and end up borrowing, buying from each other. I would like to build a bidding system, so people can buy and sell coupons there.
I have code for login, and am restricting to my university domain. How can I keep an open market, and let the bidders choose the current market price?

Thanks for any thoughts, suggestions or comments.
I don't like that in python you are enforced to only use a single expression in lambda. Sure, writing long lambda functions is ugly but I don't think python should enforce a given coding style in the language level.
I know some will balk out of fear and comfort, but we are approaching a boundary that will force these schemes to expand into the socio-economic strata that you also belong to. Sure it's easy to ignore the brewing storm because it's at the horizon, but what happens when the government and the corrupt officials find that they have sucked the poor and down-trodden dry and their revenue streams are atrophying. Let's see, you speed, well we need to make sure that you are not a serial speeder and need to monitor you for an increasing number of months at a cost of $100 per month for equipment and services. Let's see...what else? You drink.... you've been drunk in public. Well we need to make sure you are not doing illegal things while you are drunk so we need to monitor you for an ever expanding number of months.
Expensive and inefficient for society, great for those who profit from the poor. Of course they're trying to trap people in a cycle of poverty - what's better than having customers who can't escape?
A cool detailed explanation of an Oracle process.
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Ditto the Moto E, for a slightly different set of compromises.
Both companies are needing people without that kind of disability we all know as “ethics”. So your choice is obvious: just take the better offer, and if the other one then is renegotiating, cheat and again take the better offer.
We know what's going on there, there is no mystery. We did not know what was going on here.

Why does the fact that people spent time figuring this out bother you so much?
Apple IPO'ed in 1980, at a $1.8 billion ($5.2 billion inflation-adjusted) valuation. 1994 was fourteen years after that, when the organization was in decline.
I quit my day job to work on http://www.podaris.com/ full-time. (It's like Google Docs for transport planning). It's going great -- in closed beta now. Hoping to have a public release by the end of September, and turn it into a real business!
This state of affairs has been slowly accumulating since the 80s. There probably aren't any rigorous data sets that 'prove' the characterization of that statement, but one young social worker actually went and lived in a poor neighborhood that exhibited this sort of poverty / correctional custody trap, her account is here:

http://www.amazon.com/Run-Fugitive-Fieldwork-Encounters-Disc...
As a Chicagoan who worked in another closely related telecom company, the presence of Motorola was huge. Not so anymore, but its certainly a 'hallowed' name in the area. You definitely hear a lot of stories regarding the way bonuses used to work, and what it was like working for a company that was sort of "Google-ish" for its day. Its sad whats happened to Motorola, but that is the way the economy seems to work. Another great unmentioned Chicago Telecom name here is Bell Labs. Chicago Mag could certainly write an entire article about the storied rise and fall of that company too.

It just seems like all the Chicago technology greatness has melted outwards to the coasts. Silicon Valley and NYC (as well as foreign businesses) tend to dominate the areas that Motorola, Bell Labs, etc used to rule.
"This is what happened at Twitter - when the government came after them because they were getting hacked too often, Twitter went out and hired 'real' programmers and got things working. That's something that gets missed a lot in the 'startup story'."

That is interesting. Did you work at twitter or was this in the news?
Always for new and interesting AR stuff, but the website has my eyes hurting. Everything overlaid on top of an image is barely readable, and even the video is hard to watch with the background behind it. It's really a stark contrast to the rest of the site.
Wait, really? I clicked this fully expecting it to be an article from The Onion.
Tough Love Machine [web game]
Touchscreen 3D modeling + design platform
http://www.morphiapp.com/

In Morphi, people can design 3D models on the go from anywhere without the need of wifi or a mouse. There are many uses for Morphi - quick sketching, prototyping, visualization, making functional products and wearables, creating decorative items, rendering architectural models
I'm a little confused--is the first video in the 3rd section ("intro to the design of everyday things") really an entire course? If so, i think the time-to-complete estimate (1 hr) should be changed...If it's not, it'd be great if the particular videos to be watched were noted.
This will not sound PC but is it not true that on average women are less interested in technology than men?
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They are highly specific to Cisco hardware, in terms of router/switch configs. I took CCNA classes (all 4) in high school and it was good experience for learning some of the underlying principles, but its not exactly heavy on the theory or technology. You can learn almost all of it on your own if you are dedicated. There is a program called "Packet Tracer" that allows you to simulate routers, switches, networks, hosts, etc. but there isn't a real good substitute for hands on experience. You can pick up a cheap home network set for under a few hundred dollars, though. I'd recommend making a home network, rather than paying for classes, if you are dedicated enough, as a home network will be useful for extending your knowledge in security as well.

If you key focus is getting a job and career progression, get the cert. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother wasting the money, just for the knowledge.
Openresty transformed my thinking about the ability to scale something around a web service. I've built some really high scale and low latency (10ms) systems using openresty compiled with LuaJIT that beat out solutions written in pure C/C++/Java and Python.
> "It makes sense to me to spy on all the folks in other countries. I don't see how else you would honestly do a good job of governing."

You've equated spying on me with good governance. This is fallacious (as well as offensive). I am not a threat to you or your country. Targeted surveillance is one thing but collating data on everyone just because you can is wrong. In some sense it flips the 'innocent until proven guilty' the other way around (I'm foreign, therefore I'm guilty of being foreign and should be watched).

What you've advocated for is simply a digital arms race where states vacuum up whatever data they can, as fast as they can, on everyone they can. If the states are friendly, then they can simply share all that information with each other. Everyone is 'foreign' to someone else so ultimately, everyone loses.
Sad how many people think its good to abolish property rights. Careful what you ask for.
> Most UX methods and guidelines come from HCI (and HCI, of course, comes from other disciplines).

I don't think you can simplify it to HCI preceding UX or UCD methodologies.

As you point out, HCI of course comes from other disciplines and just like the field of UX, it's borrowed a lot. HCI, Human Factors, Psychology, etc., all borrow techniques from others (as you've acknowledged)and a lot of what they do has been developed in parallel.

A lot of UX and design methods were developed in parallel by designers with at traditional design background or others without formal research backgrounds. Despite UX being characterized as a science or more rigorous than traditional design, it is largely a pragmatic practice.
Why isn't there a cry for more men in nursing like there seems to be a cry for more women in tech? Is one profession somehow more desirable or honorable than the other?
The quote that you've used is a deductive argument. It would be interesting to see if the effects are borne out in the data, but I'd look for a hole in the premises of the actual argument first - if only to see what data may or may not be relevant to its soundness.
Google would not give up the ability to see email content... maybe they would analyze them locally on your phone instead of on a remote server (that might even save them from buying a few server too)
Whether it makes sense isn't the issue. The question is whether it's morally right.

For the safety of myself and my family, it probably makes sense for me to shoot anyone who comes near my house (at least in the short term - but I think your logic also only works in the short term, as current world affairs shows). But I think we'll all agree that I shouldn't do this.

To ensure my own lifestyle I should also cheat on my taxes, sneak items out of the grocery store in the bottom of my cart, take credit for other people's ideas at work, and plenty of other things for which the chances of, or cost of, getting caught is low. Nevertheless, these are things that I ought not to do.
True of course, but with startups this is more of a necessary evil; for larger organizations it is a sign of engineering dysfunction.
Love the simplicity of the cold email sent:

Hi XXX,

I wanted to find out if you had any design needs at YYY (redesign, landing pages, UX, etc.)?

We can increase sales, engagement, conversions and more through our design and UX strategies.

Interested? Email me back. I'd love to chat.
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Back in 1990, it didn't take long to figure out that (Borland) Turbo Pascal was much less insane than C. Unfortunately, it only ran on MS-DOS & Windows, whereas C was everywhere.

Employers demanded C programmers, so I became a C programmer. (now I'm a Java programmer, for the same reason, and think it's also a compromised language in many ways)

For anybody who is willing to run a few percent slower so that array bounds get checked, there is now an open source FreePascal environment available, so as not to be dependent on the scraps of Borland that Embarcadero is providing at some cost. Of course, nobody is going to hire you to use Pascal. (or any other freaky language that gets the job at hand done better than the current mainstream Java and C# languages)
Wouldn't this just mean we should bring one or more decent (not donut) spares, and possibly a plug kit and a 12V compressor? Isn't that just good advice in general for rural driving?
Yes. C++ is in an active standard update process. Here is a short history of notable versions:

Year Version Year-Delta

1983; 1.0; 0

1989; 2.0; +6 years

1998; C++98; +9 years (first ISO standard)

2003; C++03; +5 years (minor update)

2011; C++11; +8 years (major update)

2014; C++14; +3 years (minor update)

The C++14 version was the first that arrived on schedule. The next major version is planned for 2017. The future looks quite promising for C++.
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If they have a rent-controlled apartment, and they're subletting it, where do they live? And if they're getting "market rates" (which I doubt), and still qualify for a rent-controlled apartment, then I say let them keep the money.
I learned this at an OWASP conference, where several Twitter programmers revealed this and what they did to resolve it.

The guys who were presenting never said 'they brought us in to fix things', but that's exactly what they were. None of the guys who were building the 'hardened' Twitter were originally with the company - they were seasoned pros brought in from other companies.

And yes, they did some bad-ass things to fix it. But the presentation was more about OWASP level coders wanting to see what issues Twitter had to face. Nothing was Earth-shattering at that level, but it was excellent to see the amount of data they were working with and where their breaches were happening.

I don't want to speak for them, but it was obvious that one of their biggest issues was people writing insecure code and checking it in without any review. They have automated code review tools in place now.
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wow. just wow.

Then I noticed "PHP" and then I was enlightened.
It's worse than that. Many will actively look down on you for being interested in math or engineering. You can practically see the look on their face change right after you tell them. Not all women are like this, of course, but it's happened to me pretty frequently.
http://sproutsocial.com/insights/twitter-security-breaches/
> And: don't worry, you will get your shares.

Can't promise you what they'll be worth though.
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I'm of the opinion that PHP's reputation for being a "bad language" is due to the sheer volume of idiots who can write a script that doesn't parse error.
Wow! Well said! Can I quote you?
He might be referring to when Twitter moved form Ruby on Rails and did a complete rebuild in Java.

http://readwrite.com/2011/07/06/twitter-java-scala

http://www.zdnet.com/twitter-rebuilds-on-java-7000021241/
One pays better, and I haven't got the stats but would presume is in bigger need of more people (@ current pay, even).
That's their cafeteria.
Maybe true, but my experience in big companies has been complicated.

1 - Less than stellar people, aiming for the bare minimum

2 - Crappy tools and procedures (like not having administrator priviledges on your machine), or using an old Unix (not Linux) with VI. Hard to get motivated with that

On the other hand they have money for shiny toys (like very good test equipment), so there's that as well.
The computers are created and operated by people. Computers don't decide anything.
tl;dr of the "The birth of Ophal project" page[1]:

The author was doing PHP work for many years, fell in love with Lua, and decided to port PHP to Lua.

But it's quite difficult to fully verify this, as I can't find a single code example anywhere on this site.

[1] http://ophal.org/blog/birth-ophal-project
If the CEO of the startup you're talking to won't disclose an actual percentage, that's a HUGE red flag to me. I expect an early-stage startup to give me an offensively-low percentage of stock; I expect them to respect me enough to not beat around the bush and pretend that's not the case.