skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, I'm not sure we disagree. I think you're looking at a larger picture. I think the scope of most software was somewhat narrower at the time these opinions were formed, and I believe in his mind Dijkstra was thinking about the structure of individual programs more so than the architecture of systems or technology based business. This strikes a chord with me because I was thinking just other day about the fast vs. good trade-off, and I have come to the conclusion that "fast" doesn't mean poor quality. It means, or should mean, that you build fewer pieces, attempt fewer features, but the individual components that you do build are still well structured, well-designed, well-implemented, and don't close off avenues of evolution as the business scales. In other words, for me he is saying that code must always be written well, as simply and as elegantly as possible. You still retain the freedom to choose how much to write.
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You just announced how you don't feel obligated to pay people money for content. You're after free content.

Yeah, it's probably easier to make content accessible when you're willing to completely break the law and ignore the rights of the people who have invested in creating the content in the first place.
Is DigiCert able to provide SGC but they choose not to, or are they unable to do so?
It's also reprehensible to say that it's OK for companies to cheat their cusomters. I don't think the CertSimple guy was actually trying to boycott that guy's company, he was trying to make a point.
I think this is less malicious and more lazy... Isn't this just a super-outdated marketing webpage for a certain global market that was never taken down or redirected to the updated version?

I'm able to load the site, but when I click on any of the menu options I'm given a redesigned site with an updated version of the SSL options. [1] I thought it might be a regional thing since this was in Asia-Pacific so I switched the "aa" to "uk" and that tab doesn't even exist anymore. [2]

Although I was only able to get to a few pages before my browser session was blacklisted as well. Sigh. Pretty annoying. [3] Luckily it is cookie based and not IP based. (I don't think it needs to be said but I have no relation to Symantec or Certsimple.)

[1] http://www.symantec.com/en/aa/ssl-certificates/?inid=aa_ghp_...

[2] http://www.symantec.com/en/uk/page.jsp?id=how-ssl-works&tabI...

[3] I'm now greeted with: Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.symantec.com/" on this server.
Bajic sounds... special.

He both expects people to be very loyal, but for people like him or Mark Suster loyalty flows upwards only. I looked through the whole article for how he rewards loyalty, but couldn't find anything. He claims he wants people who are productive day one -- " hires need to be able to do their jobs on day one", then admits that early engineers don't need (won't?) to be your future cto or coo.

So basically he's whining that it's hard to find skilled engineers who need no training and want to stay at companies for long periods of time in order to be underpaid and who don't demand promotional opportunities. Weird.

From personal experience, the thing ctos and hiring managers miss is this: if you want me to be at your company for the long term, particularly if I have options, I expect you to come through for me. That means demonstrable company growth on a regular basis. If you spend 1.5 - 2 years frittering away a B round with little to show for it besides headcount growth, I'm out. And even after the company growth requirement, and growth in value of my options, I demand raises. We all would love an ipo, but in the meantime, my landlord takes cash only, and rents go up 10%/year. Sandwiches near the office now go for $9-$10 before tax.
As I said elsewhere, Ada does have some very nice built-in advantages, but I think my point stands: the language is a small part of the entire SDLC, and I don't think it's the most important part.

The focus on languages instead of the SDLC is telling, I think.
Yup. Another possibility (if a company is fortunate enough) they'll be able to snag a dedicated "maintenance developer" willing to deal with the mess for 2-3x typical salary.
For example:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peculiarpeople/2014/04/mormons-...

Just do a quick search on Mormons and nsa, cia, fbi. They are over represented. Perhaps you didn't even know? And it's no secret that Air Force command is extremely religious.
From the guidelines:

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on
something found on another site, submit the latter.

In this case, it's not just a matter of blindly following the guidelines; the original source goes into much more detail behind the find and search for additional terms in the sequence.
Browsers only trusted a limited number of roots for SGC. I wonder if any SGC certs actually were issued off "GTE CyberTrust Root" that expired in 2006.
I think it's more of the following:

NewEgg selling customer data to Amazon, AND EBay, AND LinkedIn, AND Joe Schmoe's Tech Emporium. Each have their own data sharing policies.

vs.

NewEgg selling the entire business and assets to Amazon (and only Amazon). In this case, everything; hardware, product stock, servers, and data too.
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I'll give you the same advice I give everyone else in the same situation: don't rush to judgement. Plan on working with them casually over the next month and iterate on the mockup.

By then, you'll have a much better understanding of what value (if any) they bring. How you work and get along together. Focus on refining the mockup, brainstorming ideas, etc. This shouldn't take too much of your time.

As everyone else pointed out already, 1 dev for 2 idea people is a bad ratio. I think the equity is reasonable (you can't expect them to offer you more than 50% as a first offer...). I strongly question whether those two people are worth working with at all. But only time can tell.

Just don't promise anything long-term just yet. Commit to one month part-time. No need for a fancy deal yet. Don't write the app yet.
But surely, if the only need is common core of shared knowledge - and since most people forget most of what they learned in school - maybe just teaching a highly condensed form of this knowledge, in a highly memorable fashion would be better ?
Was this sponsored by the chinese government though?

>> They took the technology back to Tianjin University, created a joint venture company with the university to produce the chips, and soon were selling them to both the Chinese military and to commercial customers.

They sold chips to the government, but for all we know the gov is just another customer.
They can always redefine evil...

Merriam-Webster defines evil[1] as:

: morally bad
: causing harm or injury to someone
: marked by bad luck or bad events

Google defines evil[2] as:

profoundly immoral and malevolent.

Surely Google isn't profoundly immoral and when they happen to be I'm sure they can add a few hyperbolic adjectives to their definition.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evil
[2] http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=evil
Must have missed it. I just opened the documents and read through them quickly and didn't see anything about a notary public.
I can think of 30 more easily.

Java hate coming in 3...2...1...
What I don't understand with Meteor is how you can build secure applications if you actually write your database queries in the front-end. Can someone enlighten me? How do you hide logic or prevent people from manipulating however they want?
Yeah it's weird: some locales for 'Introduction to SSL' have the old copy, some have a newer version with SGC removed.

(edit: removed ref to Secure Site Pro page - as yuhong points out below, it looks like the Pro product has been redefined to be non-SGC now)
Yeah, another source like... seconds.

Plenty of applications need to know a precise number of seconds (or milliseconds or nanoseconds) between the present and a past or future date/time. Leap seconds throw a wrench in that. Whether UTC should serve the role of an unaltered time source is indeed a matter of debate (and for good reason), but it's pretty clear that we do need an unaltered stream of seconds (upon which UTC - or an intermediate between UTC and various timezones should UTC fill this role as advocated - would base itself, as would any other applications that require said unaltered stream of seconds).

This isn't even mentioning more far-fetched things like space travel (at which point the non-constant rotational parameters of an arbitrary planetary body are neither relevant nor appropriate for system-wide/galaxy-wide/universal/multiversal timekeeping).
They also were on Shark Tank and Robert got on board with them.
One example: https://github.com/whitesmith/meteor-motion
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I wonder how "n exhaustive search has been carried out up to 3125 digits in base 5 and no solution exists in this range" was implemented? Obviously it's not a brute force solution.
These are standard contracts in many places of the world with stronger labor laws than the US.

It does not mean you have tenure, or any non sense like that. It means there are specific, objective causes to terminate your contract, which include but may not be limited to: gross incompetence, contempt for workplace discipline, frequent absenteeism, criminal/delinquent activity against or otherwise involving company assets, etc.

If the employer cannot or will not prove this kind of behaviors from the part of the employee, he still can terminate the contract, but there's a minimal severance mandated by law, which depends both on current monthly salary and on seniority.[1]

i.e In my country, you are supposed to get 3 months salary, plus 20 days per each full year you held the position. Some employers will still low ball you if they think they can get away with it, but they will still give you more than what you'd get after suing and paying the lawyer's commission.
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But notice there is no mention of SGC anymore, and instead they mention ECDSA now. And you can only actually get SGC by getting a SHA1 certificate.
A more expensive netflix with up to date content. Make sure it has everything (like spotify) and charge me 4 times the price of netflix. Have a cheaper tie for those who wants to pay less and get what netflix has now.

The key point is everything (or close to it) in one service.

Second, structure new programs to include more merch. Disney probably makes more on stuff from frozen than they did on frozen itself. Lossleaders aren't unheard of.

But above all, be bold, be decisive. Don't just run around and act like a bunch of babies.
I come from the RC tradition as well, though we didn't baptize our children.

I can think of exactly two sets of people in our diverse set of friends (and they are good friends) whom we might ask for this kind of consideration, but really, even both of them are problematic for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of our friendship.
May get confused with the python machine learning library that has the same name.
Not saying it was great, but it was a hell of a lot better than Word + Excel. Probably a lot of better tools out there, but it's been a while since I've needed to use them so I'm no longer familiar with what's available.

What made it better:

Concurrent editing. Only one person at a time was modifying any section, but two or more sections could be edited by a group of people.

Version control baked in. VC is awesome, reducing friction means that it actually gets used. Checking in/out sections was just part of the process.

Automatic traceability matrices. These are not easy to make by hand. That way is error prone and tedious. It's also hard to verify. With DOORS we were able to generate these automatically. Verifying them was relatively painless because we weren't flipping through several 1k page documents to make sure things actually matched, we could easily skip to only the applicable parts of any document. The main error that it didn't reduce was when a requirement didn't get linked to every test case or design feature that it should've been linked to.

Again, probably better tools out there than DOORS (at the time, or hopefully by now). But it's a lot better than what most offices do with either post hoc document generation or ad hoc generation with Word + Excel.
Just so you know, from a third party perspective, this reply looks ridiculous.
My issue with this advice is that things change. Things may not be great now but in 4 months time it may be different.

It's also an opportunity for you to try and make the change with culture and founders, rather than just giving up and running away.
You might be right. but most inventions are minor anyway.innovations is a cumulative business.

Do you think that this will be implemented ?
Do you know that infos like Age/Nationality are not relevant in the US/Canada (and it is forbidden to ask) and you might be even taken out of the hiring process for having them ?

Also, nobody cares about your address, really. (And your interests)
> Further, everything I know that was designed to be "English-like", cut out the programmers, and let the business people program directly has been a total and utter failure, on that metric.

I would agree, though in many cases (SQL particularly is a strong example) that's often more a failure of the organizations using the technology than the technology itself.

It doesn't matter if you have business-side analysts that can use SQL if you by policy don't let anyone outside of the IT side of an organization have access and tools that allow the user to use SQL directly against the database.

The IT-as-high-priesthood cult in organizations is strong, and resistant to any application of technology that challenges the priesthood. And this is, IME, especially true in organizations where the IT organization (and particularly its leadership) isn't particularly technically strong to start with.
Maybe on SO questions are answered very efficiently. It doesn't mean the documentation is bad.

It means the community is very at it and its a place to go if you have a question and don't want to dive into the docs

Alot of people do prefer personalised answers over the effort of finding it in docs, sad reality.
haha this is great.
One crucial difference - in a corporate your superiors may quit, get promoted, transferred, re-orgged. If nothing else there is always skip level manager whom you can take your complaints to. In quite a few progressive corporates I have heard managers very actively manage (in a good way) favorable feedback from their reports during performance review time.
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I'm really glad you posted that link, because I think Streisand is an important project. I wasn't under the impression that Streisand existed because OpenVPN was hard. Rather, it tries to support everything possible, and helps you set up some of the more esoteric solutions out there in case that is all your users can support. OpenVPN is just along for the ride.
Extremely unlikely. No one did it because no one thought of it. His solution is cheap and reasonably effective.
They don't have any money at this point, so getting compensated is definitely out of the question. Their promise of having the ability to attain funding is not solid as far as know (for certain), so I can't particularly go by that.

I'm not very impressed by the idea. It's an okay idea, but nothing super inventive.
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thanks for sharing this Vaibhav!
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Siri-fy yourself using simple text matching. Simple idea, simple interface, useful for FAQ's... give it a go if you want, and if you find a use for it (you get your own URL) send some feedback.
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My takes:

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How long until life-extending medical therapies are developed?

How long is a piece of string? Questions of time depend on questions of money. Over the past decade the rough estimates for a fully funded crash research program to realize SENS in mice as rapidly as possible have floated around $1-2 billion over ten to twenty years. It might cost less than that now, given the rapid advance of biotechnology, but not enormously less. Unfortunately SENS is nowhere near as well funded as this: the current budget for the SENS Research Foundation has only recently reached $5 million / year. So it will certainly take time to increase funding to the optimal levels of $100 million / year or more; this is a major undertaking involving the creation of many new major programs of medical research throughout the world. That in and of itself might require decades, and it is hard to estimate the pace of growth in the early stages of a new industry. Any number of small, happenstance choices made by today's investors and researchers might gain or lose years of future progress.

Meanwhile on the other side of the fence drug discovery programs are undertaken in search of ways to modestly slow aging. We know that it can take a decade and $1 billion to push a good drug candidate through validation and regulatory hurdles, all the way from early tests to clinical use. There are no good candidates at this time, but every sign that some may emerge in the next few years based on analogs to rapamycin. So it's not unreasonable to think that a first generation drug that might slightly slow aging in humans could emerge in the mid to late 2020s. Even at that point the research community may not be able to say whether it in fact actually slows aging in humans, however, versus definitively knowing that it produces positive changes in short-term measures of health.

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I pity the fool who steals the software written anywhere I've worked. It's hard enough to maintain for those of us who wrote it or rebuilt it.

The only thing this would be good for is breaking into systems!

EDIT: Also, one of the suspicions is that the next big revelation with the NSA surveillance fiasco is mass spying on foreign businesses for the benefit of our business. Who would look silly then?
> Pay isn't necessarily about the tangibles but more about how the company values you (scorecard). If your salary gets out of line with market by a substantial amount relative to skills, experience, and value generated, that indicates the company doesn't necessarily value you as much or isn't willing to expend the capital necessary to keep their employees satisfied.
The other angle one could take with this argument is that while intangibles are nice, they cannot offset the increase in price of other things like housing, and food. Without pay raises over time, the percentage increases in basic cost of living will eat into the paycheck more and more. Induced pressure from external sources can undermine intrinsic motivation, especially if there are dependents, and increase the importance of the paycheck amount.

Wow, that said it better than I did.
I don't think there is a movie I can buy in iTunes that I actually want, although I haven't looked in years. I assume it is different in the US but, sadly, the US isn't the entire world.
How many XBMC based distros are there now?
Good code doesn't take more time than bad code. I think bad code takes more time than good code.
One works in film, the other is an electrical engineer who doesn't know how to write code.
Google has an inactive account manager that basically does this:
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive
But that would be harassment rather than lack of freedom of speech.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/12/...
Removing autopublish and writing methods is not the same thing as rewriting the whole thing. But if you want to skip autopublish, you can do so from the beginning. As mentioned elsewhere the ability to perform a database action initially on the client allows for latency compensation, which is a significant user benefit beyond fast prototyping.
Exactly. I feel for those authorities who work months to seize a domain and the site is back in about 5 minutes with a different domain. Imagine if they put this much effort in something good.
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Yeah, and no other languages have all of these features.
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If anyone wants to have similar end-user performance monitoring, AppNeta has the solution for you: http://www.appneta.com/blog/rum-vs-synthetic/

They have both RUM (requires injecting 3rd-party script, in this case, AppNeta)) and Synthetic (does not require any modification of your client-side artifacts).

Disclaimer: I used to work on the Synthetic side.
PST(Norwegian M15) seems to believe so! But, as in any other case like this, they rarely comment.
If you don't understand this, put yourself in the shoes of someone who has to work for a living. Is the flexibility to change jobs at will worth a 30% chance of being out of work for 2 years when you get laid off during a bust (when no one else is hiring either)? Most people would say no. The reality, one that more people are accepting these days, is that every employer offers pretty much the same work environment and pay, whether a product of collusion or parallel evolution. Ceteris paribus, as it usually is, security is a perk.

As a more concrete answer to your question, professional athletes do it all the time. The elite among them get the longest-term contracts, and actively push for them. There are other jobs as well that involve guaranteed terms, many of which don't have the unique attributes (limited prime years, injury risks) associated with being an athlete. Those same athletes' coaches, for example. Actors. Corporate-to-corporate contracts often have minimum terms and guaranteed spend, too.

Why would the company offer such terms? I think the OP covered that pretty well. Turnover is expensive.
as smileysteve said anything except for cash has it's own burdens and commitment associated with it.

If I left my house to my brother who travels all over the place and has a carefree life it might be more of a burden trying to maintain it, rent it out or sell it than its worth. It might not, but that's why I would talk to him before putting it in a will.

Also, having these kinds of conversations is good for everyone involved because it makes them think about the little details beforehand and not while they are in the middle of funeral plans and grieving.

It's called estate planning, not estate liquidation or estate lottery. You wouldn't make major plans regarding your family without talking to your spouse or business plans without talking to your partners.

Just because you won't be around doesn't mean you should treat it any differently. Anyone involved in your estate should be involved prior to your will going into effect whether they be executors, caregivers or recipients.
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I'm a young developer, and I think it would be cool to make stuff that could potentially be used for a bunch of people or make me rich or famous or something.

Really I just have trouble coming up with good business ideas to code up for fun, that could also have some value.

It'd be really cool to make a bunch of prototypes for a bunch of entrepreneurs. Any stack, language or framework - I'm up for an adventure.

Let me know your thoughts or ideas.
If the Chinese government knew it could get the same vital technologies at greatly reduced costs while growing its own economy, don't you think they would sponsor this sort of activity?
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Business history is littered with the corpses of companies that had 99% market share.

The main thing you can do with 99% market share is lose it.