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Remember that a patent requires you to disclose a method. Companies can also keep a technique as a trade secret. Depends on how easy it is to discover. 18 months after you file a patent the patent is public and you will often have no patent issued for several years, so you are telling the world and have no protection. When you do get the patent you need deep pockets if you are going to assert that someone is infringing. Hard for a startup to take money out of product development. That's all my ration comments.

Now to irrational -- VCs want you to check the box that you have patents. But they don't really understand what is protectable and not. So you need to be able to claim you have protection even when everyone hardly knows what you mean. This means in practical terms you need to file something.

Back to rational -- from my experience writing a lot of patents and having 22 patents issued. It's not just one patent but a collection of patents to create a "picket fence" around your primary invention to keep people away from the general area.
The Extreme Workstation Toolbox will change the way you use a toolbox, forever
The current party has been in the power for too long (Lula 2x 4 years, Dilma currently on her 2nd 4-year period). Petrobras, the largest company in the country is government-owned and run and lost 80% of it's value in the past 5 years due to corruption. The Brazilian Real devaluated 60% in 2 years. People have all the right to be pissed off. The biggest problem here is that the opposition is also very corrupt, so people are not protesting in favor of someone, but just against Roussef. Though situation.
This is perhaps a cynical take on the controversy, but it's hard reading this and similar articles not to conclude that when Etsy critics say they want to preserve the "handmade" or "artisanal" character of products on the site, what they really mean is "not made by asian people"
>But it's still only useful for driving a car

And it's still only useful for driving a car in a rather specific configuration of roads and a somewhat limited set of conditions. I'd argue that a car's ability to operate autonomously and rather reliably under those circumstances is leading a lot of folks to be very optimistic about how long it will be before I can summon robo-taxi with my smartphone.
> by someone whose not a HR professional

No need to require HR skills when basic English proficiency is lacking. What does "work in a team of all current developers" even means? Don't get me started on "Conscientious and committed to a certain task where they decided to commit themselves", that's positively Shakespearian. Was this written by a real person using Google Translate, or by a bot?

Oh, and what the hell is a "MagicPitch"?
Neat--it will be interesting to see how all the states go along. There won't be the constitutional issue of gay marriage, so it looks like it's a matter of the federal government leaving it up to the states eventually. Even ethanol had a constitutional component (as opposed to just statute).
Depends on how you are wired. I can't not react to external stimuli, and being in an environment with a lot of stimuli I can't control raises my stress level pretty quickly.
This post is also a great demonstration as to why a programming language cannot be evaluated as a feature checklist.

OCaml's object system is certainly awesome but in practice you'll find it is unevenly used -- some never use it, while I'm sure there are others who use it heavily. Because it behaves in a way that is not quite compatible with the rest of the language it is inconvenient to mix APIs that use the two styles of programming. Another comment here on HN links to a post that summarizes with the rule of thumb of simply "don't use objects".

The lesson is that any given feature exists in an ecosystem of other features and its utility is dictated by many things (impedance mismatch with the rest of the language or even language cultural problems) other than the specification itself.
Early modern eyebrow interpretation, or what it means to have a unibrow
It has more paragraphs than meets the eye, but for some reason the middle chunk of the article stops double-spacing and starts doing (very small!) indents for paragraphs instead. Some sort of formatting issue.
That is probably the best argument for it, but what alternative is there for a audience-correct gender neutral guys? Do we really have to borrow yeall?
Consumer health testing. Tech has advanced to the point where a tiny sample can be used to look for all sorts of chemical markers. This will lead to people getting tests done much more frequently than currently, and being informed on a running basis.

Had a chat with a founder about it today.
You can't change biometrics, ever. You can spoof them, same as a text password can be cracked. They're HORRIBLE factors.
You won't work free overtime for a startup on the hope that your effort is rewarded by a large payday some day.

There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but if you're trying to make something out of nothing (which is basically what startups are) it can be incredibly demoralizing to the people who are killing themselves to make it work somehow.
+1, Gitbucket is quite nice.
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Boom, 1.0 is finally out!

Can't recommend Lookback enough for on-the-go and remote UI-testing (which is really hard to do right). It's already an indispensable tool for us here at SYB, and will only grow even more capable (some cool plans ahead).
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You're right. Edited.
Was Magic a Jarvis clone?
It seems like marijuana legalization is the inevitable outcome at this point, but I do wonder what will be the fate of people incarcerated in the time between now and whatever point it happens in the future.
How is this any different than Magic?
Rent Control Creates Higher Rents in SF
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6793721

Also this was submitted an hour ago with blatant sockpuppet votes/accounts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9211810
It's a very interesting concept, because now in 2015 I've seen more and more things using technology and computers where they shouldn't be used. People seem to not understand that the gimmick feature that needs a computer just adds a billion moving parts (one for each transistor, statement of code, etc) that may fail.

I was in the process of buying a new TV and I couldn't find a good ol' TV, nope, all there was "super awesome smart voice commanded can see the weather TVs"... so I bought one intending to just use it for cable (I still used netflix in my computer) and after a whole damn day of updating firmwares and waiting for it to boot (I miss the CRT days)... some capacitors that were in the backlight circuit blew. Thank you very much Samsung. (Btw another clear example of misusing technology was yesterday's post about trains using GPS for "smart door controls")

Oh also, the scale in your post is more of a Mercali than Richter.
> But we're not looking for some crazy evangelist and we don't expect people to devalue other things in life to prove their interest in programming.

Well, of course you can't _say_ that. That's the whole point of the article: that "passion" is a euphemism for the signaling companies do. We want passionate developers, and we get to define "passion" for you.

What makes hiring so hard is that it's a gamble. Human beings don't come with specs you can evaluate to know whether or not they will help or hurt your mission. But, you know what, companies don't come with specs that will tell an applicant whether the job will enhance or stifle one's life. I wish we could stop playing these word games that imply there are rigid patterns to what makes a successful employment relationship, and instead put that energy into getting to know human beings as they are.
Is a demand for an academic reference letter obvious age discrimination also? I'm old enough that I'm pretty sure some of my profs are dead by now. I suppose a seance could be arranged.

Trying to obtain "testimonials of previous customers" would almost certainly get me fired and sounds like a major breach of professional etiquette but then again this is a different culture, maybe that kind of thing is normal over there. Along with providing dumps of my social media presence.

Not to trash talk the concept of the startup excessively, but why do they need a guy with 20+ years of experience and a full service laundry list to do what little they're trying to do, and unless I was the dumbest 20+ year veteran out there its not really possible to summarize my entire life experience in a 30 second video, at least to any useful to them extent. Slap a video on youtube and send em a link doesn't take a 20 year industry veteran although I could do it if I needed to pay the mortgage. Also, I've seen longer gravestone epitaphs than whats provided.

On the bright side they didn't ask for sexual orientation, marital status, religious beliefs, or demand an interpretive dance portraying the quicksort algorithm, although who knows what goes on at the interview.

So they're looking for someone simultaneously deeper than the Marianas Trench and shallower than a rain puddle. Good luck with that.
> Just charge royalties for books sold. Why charge per month at all?

Because almost all independently published books sells almost no copies, so there would be no revenue stream. The lack of sales is not a knock at indie publishing: there are plenty of reasons to publish a book other than making money. But it makes it difficult for services to make money off of them unless their incremental costs are negligible.

From an author's perspective, the monthly charge seems problematic. Why pay someone a per-month charge for a book that you wrote last year? Much simpler and cheaper in the long run to generate an e-book using Sigil or similar, and put it up on Amazon for free.

I'm a lousy judge of business models but the intersection of people who would use a service called <em>git</em>-anything and people who aren't tech savvy enough to generate their own e-books or PDFs seems very small. Sigil in particular makes e-book creation trivial.

Comments here suggest people are using the service and pleased with it, but it seems very expensive for a relatively small increment in convenience.
Picking Server Side Architectures Today Is Overwhelming
This article makes a great case against itself: the author confuses working for the sake of "working for the man" and working for the love of code. It seems that he just throws the 80-hour crunch weeks into the same pile as hackathons on weekends and hobby projects in the evenings, while these things couldn't be more different.
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My wife and her female cousin-in-law do it to each other all the time.

That said, I agree it's not appropriate for a job req and understand why it turns women off from applying.
Is Jarvis a magical clone?
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> Have passion for the job and for the problem you're solving. Programming is just one of many tools you need to accomplish that.

This is exactly how I approach jobs, and it's made me happier. The most productive things I've ever done have not involved writing code, but rather improving process and helping other people do stuff better. "I solve problems. Computers are sometimes involved."
Thanks (to you and the others) for your replies. The code ownership thing is interesting, I saw something similar in Zach Holman's presentation on how GitHub works: http://zachholman.com/talk/move-fast-break-nothing/
> Passion implies things other than working longer than everyone else.

Not to a lot of managers and bosses, it doesn't.

My team has weekly rewards for the people that work the most hours. Several people on the team regularly claim to put in 60-80 hours.

Personally, I feel that those same people are making the work environment worse. One of them in particular has created over 200 Bamboo build plans (and the corresponding deployment plans to 7+ environments). It's an unmaintainable mess with little-to-no logic involved. None of it is re-usable -- hence why there are over 200 build plans.

That guy gets praise several times a day for how hard he works.

The bosses don't care about how much passion (in our sense of the word) their employees have. They care about how much passion (in the "work 80 hours a week" sense of the word) their employees have.
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For non-engineering people, Java seems like a slightly odd choice, is it not? So much overhead in learning, plus overhead if they did want to integrate coding into their lives in a light way. Why not Racket or a scripting language? As much as it pains me, even JS might be of better use.

Or is it just the case that these people just wanna take one course from the "real" CS for a non-coding reason?
Pattern recognition would be needed due to the sheer number of potential vectors for evil numbers (auto-assigned client-side tcp port numbers, 'evil bit' tcp flag, network-order bitstream integers, packed binary objects, memory allocation/access, user ids, etc). There's a lot of potential mysticism we haven't touched on with either cryptography or AI....
Hertz puts cameras in its rental cars, says it has no plans to use them
Do you think his attitude here is a problem with him personally, or is it indicative of something more widespread in our industry? Because the former interpretation is an invitation to dismiss, whereas the latter is an invitation to improve the situation for all of us.
Errr... "The one of the Psion Series 5" should be "The keyboard of the Psion Series 5...". Sorry,
What is the advantage of your service vs Magic?
Yes, and I think your service is great. Just saying that it only starts to make sense when you need to backup 50Gb or more... If you just want to backup like 10Mb, or 200Mb or even 5Gb... On the other end, the more you need to backup the more sense it does, since your prices go down per Gb.
If people had started to worry about the long-term effects of carbon output before it was already widespread, a lot of the damage it has caused could have been limited.

I don't see what's irrational about trying to solve problems before they become problems, rather than trying to do damage control after the fact.
Sorry, I wanted to use "sh*t", but a single asterisk actually acts as a special formatting character. Too late, I can't edit it.
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What I've learned from multiple startup weekend and service design "bootcamps", is that understanding and using the process is the most valuable thing you can get out of your time. You're learning how to cook -- whatever everyone is making is secondary and just the output. Both the service design process and an understanding of BART group dynamics would be very helpful to you.
> Until the financial crisis, the best path to that end was getting rich as a trader.

I think you're pretty wrong on this. There was tons of money to be made as a trader post 2008 as the bonds pummeled by the crisis clawed their way bay to real/inflated levels with the help of the Fed buying everything site.

For the most part, HF's grabbed a good portion of these dollars. So the "most money and prestige in the shortest time for the least work" job post crisis has been to be a trader/PM at a hedge fund.

Having worked a a start-up in fintech, I can say the prestige is lowish, and the rewards are uncertain at best. There have just not been any insane price exits in fintech at all lately. Forget about a whatsapp style exit, I can't even name a Tumblr style exit.

Can you?
How about this instead:

Current AI technologies give us no insight about the probability of an AGI

Because that is exactly the point. We can't look at what we have built today and extrapolate that AGI will come from it.

All anyone can do is speculate wildly on AGI just as they were able to in 1956 [1]. The difference is that we see automation/computing as ubiquitous (smartphones/computers in 2015), rather than around the edges (Radio/TV 1956). Which brings it closer to home in some ways.

[1] I chose 1956 because of the dartmouth conference on AI
Context: This ad first appeared in a slack channel and straightaway people called him out and why it's wrong. Someone decided to call him out on twitter instead. Twitterstorm.
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> I think the key is, write different kinds of code for your job and for your hobby.

I would expand this to say (just on personal experience) also have varied hobbies. They then challenge you in completely different ways allowing the exercise of one activity to be downtime from the others.
No one can predict this, but in my opinion (in no particular order):

1) Health (e.g. theranos)

2) Artificial Intelligence

3) Virtual Reality

4) Internet of things
Yes, of course individual numbers may vary. I got this 4 hours average figure from the studies conducted by various companies regarding their engineers productivity.
Long Term Goals:

1. Self-actualisation

2. Starting their own company

3. Change the world
There is a big difference between working in finance (broker, trader, banker, whatever) and building and selling a technology product in an industry you understand best.

Makes more sense than him developing a healthcare app.
As most people who've used commercial deployment systems will tell you, accuracy does not appear to matter.
Thanks for the Vagrant image! We like to think that GitLab is simple to setup and manage if you use the Omnibus packages.

Also, another vagrant installer is https://github.com/tuminoid/gitlab-installer
Logarithmic scales make sense for things with clear, quantifiable measures in some particular dimension. This scale both includes a large number of qualitative measures that aren't particularly obviously different orders of magnitude and conflates severity of effect and time to fix.
Yup. We moved from Zendesk to "Desk.com" for "better integration of customer issues with salesforce"

Great idea (i guess) but Desk.com sucks pretty badly so we ended up with worse responses to customer issues...
I see two interesting things about this story:

1) There's no mention of tourism in that article. Vegas seems like a natural fit for marijuana legalization, as a party destination, and while I don't have hard data on this, I do wonder if they are/fear seeing a negative impact on tourism as people seek out more "green friendly" destinations.

2) The utter lack of surprise about this. Another state legalizing/decriminalizing marijuana, ho hum, whatevs. The issue has reached the point where it feels inevitable. That's still a bit shocking for me (in a good way).

I don't mean to equate the substance of the issue, but in my mind it feels similar to the march of progress on marriage equality (AKA "gay marriage"). They're both areas where I've long thought our society needed obvious reforms, but as the years marched by, I began to expect not to see any substantive changes in my life.

Now I sit here in my 30's, and by the time my daughter is an adult (~15 years), she'll live in a society where (probably/hopefully) most states have some form of marriage equality and marijuana is at least decriminalized. That is amazing to me.

P.S. For those who think it trivializes marriage equality to compare it to marijuana legalization, I'll remind you that this issue isn't about making it easier for people to get high. It's about the millions of lives hurt by a drug arrest, over 11,0000,000 arrests for marijuana possession from 1996-2012 – and the unequal enforcement of drug laws. For example, in California, a black person is 10 times more likely to serve prison time for a marijuana arrest than a non-black offender. And across the US, black offenders are 3.7 times more likely than white offenders to be arrested for possession. Even ignoring the unequal enforcement, about 12% of prisoners are serving time due to a marijuana-related offense. So yeah, it's kind of a big deal.
Digital Ocean recommends running GitLab on their $10/month instance, so while I haven't tried it, the $5 one is probably still up to the task: https://www.digitalocean.com/features/one-click-apps/gitlab/

(Full disclosure: I'm a developer at GitLab B.V.)
It's not clear to me, was this ad placed through Career Harbour or by Career Harbour? Their site is down at the moment, but they appear to be an HR-type of company.

Either way, it's bad news, since they either placed a blatantly discriminatory ad themselves or they failed to warn a client that such ads are illegal in the UK (pretty big failure for a career services company).
I haven't gone reading the article in detail.

What happens to the streaming providers like Netflix etc that use Silverlight ? Would they stop working too ?
I guess you can count Yann LeCun, Leon Bottou and Richard Sutton among those. And those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Regarding the first two, see also my comment about Lush in this thread.
That you have found a way to construct all the rights you can think of based on a specific construction chattel property rights is interesting. But it doesn't it make it the only way to think about rights (or ethics or morals), or even a particularly good one.

Your fixation on one thing and your refusal to compromise or even to admit the validity of other views is exactly what fundamentalists do.
Sorry to be the one...

You could always... not be the one
Is it just me, or does it bother anyone that the design seems SO ripped from Github? Github's UI has a lot to be said for it and perhaps emulation is more of a compliment here, but...even the icon font glyphs...
I would not be shocked if the ad is some internal document they use as an illustration of what not to put in job ads.

Then they can have a discussion around it. This item is illegal. This item is going to put off many candidates. This item is unclear. And so on.

edit: From other comments about people from the company nuking their online presence, maybe it was real. Huh.
You aren't getting the comparison.

It's akin to someone back then worrying about the long-term effects of steam/water vapor.

You don't know if vapor is actually a problem, or will become one, and you don't have any data in any field to back up your concerns.
Really? I don't see that.

It seems like having a factory or workshop with hundreds of people making an identical item violates the spirit of the rule.

I don't see why you'd assume they don't like Asian people doing it. I'm sure people would be just as annoyed if it was people in Africa or South America or somewhere in Europe or even the US. When you have a factory dedicated to making a good, it's no longer fair to call it 'artisinal' and compare it to a guy who makes 3 chairs a month in his workshop.
Remember there are both returns and costs.

You focus on regulation around returns, and there's certainly some regulation around costs as well (mandatory reporting, etc).

However, at seven-figure salaries you don't have to automation much person-work to show up on the final balance sheet.
No; the value proposition of Magic is that it's accountless and can be done on an ad hoc basis. Jarvis bills monthly: https://jarv.co/plans
So if someone doesn't have passion they can't be a good developer? And if your passions aren't things that people pay you for, you should, what?

What other profession do people have this absurd obsession with passion? I've never, ever heard someone put down an excellent carpenter because they are passionate about sailing and not cabinets.

You can do something well, seek improvement in your trade, and be pleasant to be around without having to be passionate about "leveraging branded content for marketers to drive ROI in key demographics using your analytics platform", or whatever job you happen to have at the time.