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I agree with your conclusion, but not exactly for the same reason. Those projects are huge, there is never really small group of people working on something, it's often spread upon contractors over sub-contractors, with people leaving and coming, over many years, so in the end the information is quite spread. Plus there is a lot of documentation (which might also be a downside, because there is a hunt for relevant information). But what I would fear is that people would feel good about it being open source, and never go to have an actual look at it. Or go for a little bit in the beginning and then never again.
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People pay for netflix, which has a worse catalog. As a minimum people would pay for this instead of netflix (and I would certainly be willing to pay more).
I once looked at the companies google purchased and saw many German and Israel tech companies being acquired by google. This sounds plausible.

Still this kind of analysis is very weak for two reasons.
Most countries aren't as company friendly as the USA.
A discussion about whether Billionares should pay taxes would be unimaginable in most most European countries.

Also America has a strong customer base by default with 320 American citizens and the other 900 Million Nativ speakers, who can easily buy products made for the American market (Especially in the Tech area).

Also those kind of graphs usually get smaller, the higher you go.

One should compare the total amount of startups and divide by citizens, the findings will be a better tool for comparison.
I've always found this market inefficiency fascinating. It's conventional wisdom (not just in the software industry) that the best way to get a big raise is to switch jobs, but your employer "should" be aware of the market rate for your work, and have the most information about your value and the most incentive to keep you around. I've always wondered if new employers are overvaluing new hires, or whether current employers fail to keep up due to some sort of bureaucratic issue.
Earth's orbit is probably variable, but not because of earthquakes; rather, when the gravitational pulls of other Solar System bodies are consisdered, there are forces other than the Sun's gravity acting on the Earth. The most notable of these is the moon, but in terms of tangible orbital disruption, other planets (particularly Jupiter, which is massive enough to pull the Sun-Jupiter barycenter outside the sun, meaning that Jupiter orbits the sun much in the same way that Charon orbits Pluto) can and do disturb the orbits of their fellow planets, often pulling them whichever way.

Earthquakes are also not the only means by which the Earth's rotation can be affected. The moon's gravity creates all sorts of tidal forces on Earth; such forces don't just create tidal waves, but can influence everything from Earth's rotation to continental drift.

Of course, hypothetically, a sufficiently-violent volcanic eruption could end up working like a giant rocket engine and thus push the Earth in some direction or other (in much the same way as normal rocket engines do; in this case, magma/lava/steam would be the propellant(s)). That's the only way I can think of off the top of my head for earthquakes to affect Earth's orbit, and should that happen, I highly doubt UTC being synchronized with Earth would be particularly relevant at that point, since something of that magnitude would probably significantly damage (if not destroy) Earth, and would almost certainly exterminate anything unfortunate enough to still be living on the planet.
I wonder if the Chinese will begin arresting American citizens who visit for conferences.
do you mind sharing the curriculum and course material ? so we can benefit from it as-well......
I don't think it's a lie, it's just a statement with a big IF before it.

IF (this company is as great as you say) && (I'll be doing interesting work) && (the culture is good) && (the pay/benefits is fair)

THEN
I believe in the company and will stick around.
I don't really think so.

Pushing complexity into the software layer means you need fewer options at the operating system layer. I'm specifically addressing the OS.

As far as taking things off the shelf, I'm referring to a 'server edition' vs a 'desktop edition' just being a difference of installed packages. There isn't a desktop version of Core for a good reason. These are two different workloads.

And totally agreed about systemd being a bit bleeding edge. It's a new thing, and there are definitely speedbumps to be had.

Thanks for commenting. I'm loving the dialogue that is happening here.
A safety deposit box with the password to the master database?

Sometimes low tech works.
It's about time someone did something like this =)
Perh a start would be strict ToS inheritance and much richer consumer data regulation. Any change on tos after an acquisition would have to be opted into by the user. So if Verizon buys experia, they don't suddenly do all kinds of things with that data I didn't expect.
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You can copy atom for atom, but you can't copy sentimental value.

Of course, the problem is that we could actually lose the ability to assign sentimental value to any one of them. Immagine 10 identical Mona Lisas, only one of them real with the knowledge which since lost. The collection would be worth a lot, but what would be the price of 1 of them?
This is just a group of people deciding to steal intellectual property. Here is the more organized attack, originating in China, in which intellectual property of multiple companies (including Google) was stolen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
It seems this is pretty clear case of attributable theft -- it's good that it is being prosecuted.

The challenges are with attribution though, in many electronic-only attacks, it "could be" anyone.

Companies like CrowdStrike have done some work to attribute PLA & China in some attacks:

http://blog.crowdstrike.com/hat-tribution-pla-unit-61486/
http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4589853/crowdstrike-intellige...

But largely APT attacks are happening without repercussion, probably by many countries, including the US, and as a "defender" against many of these, it is terrible. The worst part is, I don't see it changing: Nothing right now is driving State-Actors to stop doing whatever they want against corporations.
You can run a post deploy script to load development data. e.g. `rake db:seed`.
Yes. Also the guy does not seem to be that knowledgeable.

He did not get the memo that more input data can lead to worse results; he claims the opposite in a slight variation (i.e. the more precise the input data, the higher the quality of the result).
Correct, but she would be protected if all the other adults were vaccinated. We did a very good job over the past 60 years of almost eradicating measles and it's only be recently that cases have appeared in groups of anti-vaxxers and spreading to those too young to get the shot.
To me, that's sort of the point – you can understand why it's hard to keep employees for N years by thinking about what the terms of an N-year contract would have to look like, and whether anyone would sign it.
Anyone else read this title and think "that seems awfully self-important"? And walk away from the article wondering how the future of the whole entire INTERNET is at stake?
>At that point, they are.

The law may say they are, but the law is clearly impotent and I personally don't remember having signed the Mickey Mouse act, so no I don't think anybody owes Hollywood anything, especially because Hollywood was built on piracy.
Would love to have the community's thoughts on this. I have had this experience and thinking about implementing this process now.
The one thing I know about my mother's death (won't happen until after she's reached 100 according to her) is that she has expressly forbidden us from having flowers at her funeral. Instead, she prefers we send her flowers while she's still alive so she can actually enjoy them.

She also wants her body to be burned in a viking longship out at sea. We'll see how that goes.
Where else are they living? People visit the ISS, but they don't really live there.
This makes me want a service that allows me to send letters to people upon my death/capture (or text messages or whatever) so if I don't unmark a flag after x days/months/years it sends out that information. Sort of like, "If you're watching this, I must be dead," or, "PS I Love You," kind of thing.
It isn't that there is intrinsic value in the various other subjects themselves, the value comes from having a shared core of knowledge / experience that can be used when interacting with others. Just two examples from recent conversations -- once I used an example that had a comparison to a canary in a coal mine. Several people in the group never heard of that phrase, so I had to explain what it meant. Another time I used the expression "Tilting at Windmills", and again that was lost on some people.

So yes, it is important to be well rounded, just to have common base for general conversations.
I am German, while I believe that what you say is quite right. I would never give up on the worker protection in order to help start ups, there are other things that can be done.

You shouldn't need to remove the base your country is building on successfully, in order to support new ideas.
I've heard the sales pitch for ember and ember-cli and I've seriously begun developing with Ember for the past 2 weeks. So far, I really like the tooling around Ember but am not a huge fan of the actual framework itself.

I mean, you have routers, routes, controllers, views, templates, and components - how many concepts do you need to display a ui?

Maybe it's just that I can't see the forest through the trees. Perhaps you could help me gain this perspective?
It's really not clear that the spaghetti code approach is better time-wise over anything but the immediate short term. In my experience, any advantages fall away once you get out of hackathon territory—a matter of weeks, not months.

At a point, even if absolute correctness is not important, you just spend so much less time debugging your old code and it takes so much less effort to add new features (ie less need to rewrite or extend old code to support the new) that you end up producing more overall.

The problem is that these improvements are non-local. Yes, over a month, you might get more done per day if you slow down and write less hacky code—but it won't help you get your thing out today. In the short term, it feels like you're always more productive being hacky because, day to day, you get specific things done faster… but, over the long term (or even the medium term!), you're actually less productive. The human mind is not great at accounting for time and effort.

This is exacerbated significantly by tight deadlines and constant pressure. And the sort of companies that have those problems also tend to overwork their engineers, which has exactly the same sort of non-local consequences. (If you work 80 hours this week, you will get more done than you would have. And the same is true next week, and the week after—but your base productivity is falling so, after a few months, you will be less productive in absolute terms!¹)

These local improvements are very tempting—and sometimes they're actually justified! There are definitely scripts and programs that only matter in the immediate short term, and you shouldn't worry about making them elegant. But people apply this far to widely. If your program will matter in the medium term—if you're going to be iterating on it over multiple weeks—it's probably worth maintaining a bit of discipline throughout and writing more elegant, maintainable and readable code.

¹ I remember seeing a pretty compelling study about how long work weeks affect absolute productivity, but I can't find it at the moment.
Fighting the laws of physics is a great comparison. Every chip designer trying to create the illusion of a sequential (or multicore) machine with a specific memory model fights the laws of physics. So do people building bridges, designing planes, and trying to maintain space stations. The greatest weapon we have after human ingenuity is using good engineering principles built on what we've tried and learned.

So, back to this current example. Synchronizing time was a huge problem for consistency. They had expensive, highly-custom datacenters throughout the world. Yet, there wasn't even a solution worth buying that wouldn't cost a fortune or need new infrastructure. An engineer noticed that a time-source existed which all datacenters could sync with using affordable, COTS equipment. One among others. So, they used that to solve the critical problem, solved other problems with other technologies, and integrated the resulting components into a solution to their real problem (F1).

What I've just described is not a hack: it's Engineering 101. Identify the problem(s), look for known solutions to it, adapt them to your needs, and deliver the solution. Their use of GPS to solve a problem that otherwise would cost millions of dollars to solve is exemplary engineering. Given datacenter costs, using this at each one would barely be a blip on the budget sheet and will get easier to deploy as adoption increases (network effect).
To support containers, is Linux necessary? Would it be sufficient to run Xen under a container loading system? That would simplify things enormously. Server farms need very few drivers. They don't need a command line environment, daemons, development tools, etc. Those are all elsewhere.

Administration tools don't run on the target platform any more. They're either devoted to creating containers or managing container instances on the farm of target machines. The server side could get much simpler.
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Don't underpay me; value me at an appropriate valuation. Do challenge me; do provide me with opportunity to grow.

The total compensation is a somewhat viscous[1] weighted combination of tangibles and intangibles.

Barring economic disaster, there are financial levels I won't go below, in part to maintain future-valuations, as well as to just keep my financial situation in order.

[1] Buying a house, for instance, would increase my baseline need for cash. Raising a child would increase my baseline need for managing healthcare and other cash needs. A few years down the road, I will be looking for new challenges, increasing intangibles. :-)
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Only if you choose that. Who's to say I'm not Sunshine McBunny who lives on Unicorn Lane in Hobbiton?
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what's the name of your startup? Your bio is empty, and I think most of HN would be interested in knowing the name of a business that thinks this is OK.

Ugh, seriously? I was vaguely fine with the blog post before (though it is a bit advertisement-y for HN in context), but this is reprehensible (at least in the context of judging companies by the stances their employees take...).
My worry is that with JavaScript-based stacks evolving so fast these days, monied interest in one way of doing things would ultimately be incentivized to suppress better ways of doing things, as they emerge.
Thank you for your answer and for supporting this research! I know it's very hard to do, especially with things in such a young state, but do you think you could provide any more information of where we might be in 10, 20 or 50 years?
Hi Sergio,

One of the things I like about rails (and ember-cli) is that it is "secure-by-default". If I am going to make a choice that potentially has security vulnerabilities, I have to deliberately make that choice - I basically have to create a whitelist of things I want to allow.
It might be hardware specific, because I don't experience the bootup problems and WiFi issues on my Mac Mini.
Because it is not a problem? Also not solved. If you see the video the air still overlaps and you have no way of circulating individual passenger air. A sneeze is quite forceful and will convert the laminated airflow into turbulent. And personal AC zones is nothing new - been in the luxury car industry for a decade or so.

Now I am a simple programmer but what I would do is create system with 2 circles - outlets that suck air above each passenger and only one pump that pumps air into the cabin. Will either irradiate the air in transit.
I haven't seen a push for it outside of Meteor yet, but i'm sure that is one of the things that they would want to push for later.

Although, there are various DDP clients for other languages as you can see here: http://meteorpedia.com/read/DDP_Clients
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I do believe that the Meteor team is working on those database strategies as well as scalability and deployability on top of their push for mobile. Taking a look at who they are hiring (and their job descriptions) is very telling. It should be exciting to see what they come up with!
Minor correction: This was publish in 1982[1] and was transcribed from a PDF in 2009[2].

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD648.PDF

[2] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
Companies calling out their competitors when they cheat customers and rip them off is a feature, not a bug.
I think the logic train the parent is espousing goes like this.

Works on challenges (intrinsic) --> gets new skills + generates increasing value for the company

Repeat this cycle for many moons and the worker now has a significantly upgraded skillset that has and continues to produce significant value for the corp. All that is asked is that the salary grows with respect to the skill set being utilized and the value being produced for the company.

If you end up in a situation where skill sets and value are increasing substantially but compensation is stagnating, you end up in a situation where people will eventually take a look around at the market and realize other people with similar skillsets who provide similar value are getting offers at a substantially higher rate (even assume inflation increase of 3-5% for several years, that adds up). Yes, the work might be challenging and the worker might enjoy the work intrinsically but extrinsically they're now asking whether pursuit of the intrinsic challenge is worth it given the disparity in how they're valued compared to their peers.

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.
I think China needs to stop these activities if she wants to be respected internationally. In January this year, two Chinese professors in Norway got kicked out from a Norwegian university because Norway was also concerned with spying activities from China. [1] I think China economy has come to a point that it needs innovation to move forward. Obviously, stealing intellectual properties from other countries is not the best way to go here.

1. http://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/forskere-ved-uia-utvist-av-norge...
DOORS is just a glorified database with a text editor and schema for tracking change requirements. I found it lacking even at this.
It's just very very odd. I don't see clear evidence of a corporation backing this project (certainly the website doesn't make clear mention of one), and yet the release is being pitched as though the project is being run by a business. They even claim to have a "Vice President of Apache Drill", whatever that means.

Is there a company backing Drill that I'm not aware of? Or is it genuinely a community project? I mean, it cites "Forest Hill, MD" which implies a headquarters of some kind... but it's not at all clear.

This matters. It matters for users and companies that use the product, and for developers contributing. Is there some company with tight control over the development path (with all the potential attendant risks)? Are there options for third party support?

Or is this just another community project that's being dressed up as something else?
Here's a possible solution that would hopefully indicate how serious your potential partners actually are.

They want your expertise. That alone, should be worth the 1/3 equity they are offering you. There should also be some type of ongoing compensation for your time spent. You mentioned that they have access to funding. Isn't any of this funding earmarked for developing the new product?

If they are willing to compensate you for your actual time spent, this would have some indication as to how serious they really are.

My initial gut reaction, after reading your question and statement, was your potential partners might be looking for somewhat of a free ride, without having to actually put any real skin in the game. Your "skin the game" is your knowledge.

And bottom line, you don’t sound overly impressed with their proposed product concept. That in itself, would make me leery of involvement (on a pro bono basis) even with the offered equity.
I currently use T-Mobile, and welcome any advice you have regarding the choice of operators. The question you pose is a sticky one, and why I note that privacy and mobile phone usage are antithetical. I understand that the metadata/content of voice/mms/sms communications, location info (tower info), and the content of your data communications will always be the domain of the telco and there's no solution to that problem other than abstaining.

I'm not sure how I feel about that thorny issue, and it is almost enough to make me forgo a mobile phone. However, I believe that I derive more value from the ability to communicate than I lose by making that data available to the telco and anyone they cooperate with.

Therefore my goals for privacy are to accept that landscape but try to limit which arbitrary other entities get additional data from my mobile phone usage. I attempt to limit the following things where feasible: oversharing from applications, tracking by other entities such as Google/Apple/etc, installed applications to those providing the best tradeoffs, and the amount of plaintext communication from the phone.

I wish opportunistic end-to-end voice/sms/mms encryption was mainstream, that alone would mitigate a large amount of privacy concerns.
Is it just me or are these pages not doing anything? I'm looking in the App Cache, Session Storage and I'm not seeing anything. There doesn't seem to be any activity. The page just sits there.
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It's great seeing programs like this which encourage communities of color to partake in the growing amount of tech opportunities in the bay area and other tech hubs. As someone who identifies and feels very passionately about this issue, I’d love to learn more about how I can contribute and help!
So what if the technical complexity of this project isn't the super high?

I would even go the other way, the low complexity of the solution makes it all that more amazing. The kid ran his own studies and created a very simple solution that requires almost no effort to implement and yet should be hugely effective. That's the hallmark of great engineering, and what I strive for every day.