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All I read from that article was the word "liquid". I'll get my popcorn ready for when that ship gets a haul breach.
OK, let me try again. I read that post as asking about whether Rob's talk helped make proposals from outside Google more successful, not about Google's influence vs others.

I directly addressed Google's influence in my opening keynote; the text is at blog.golang.org/open-source. But I'll try to answer that interpretation of the question below too:

> Why is there a massive skew favoring Googlers having their proposals implemented compared to plebes?
> Did the stats change after rob's talk in 2012?

One reason is that Google pays for the bulk of the Go development, especially development that needs design (for example, the new garbage collector, or core language changes). This is changing slowly: we are seeing other companies begin to pay for Go development that makes Go better in some way for them. Canonical is paying people to add support for shared libraries, which matters for Linux distributions like Ubuntu. Intel is paying people to make Go take more advantage of Intel features; Oracle is paying someone to port Go to SPARC 64. I mentioned this in my keynote.

Another reason is that we weren't clear about the vision for Go. Rob's talk in 2012 was the first crisp statement of that vision. I hope to have elaborated a bit in my keynote. We're still trying to articulate that clearly. I do believe that non-Google proposals have been more in keeping with Go since then, but I don't have data. That talk was an important step by itself, but certainly not a sufficient one.

We believe a significant reason is that we have never properly explained what makes a complete proposal. If you look at golang.org/doc/contribute.html, it is very clear about how to send code but contains almost no text about how to send a proposal or design. We believe that being clearer about what makes a complete proposal and what makes a complete design doc will help non-Googler contributors be more successful at those. Of course, we will have to wait and see what the actual effect is.

This was the point of Andrew's talk: to recap the history of how changes to Go have been proposed and made, and to admit that we realize we haven't been doing a good job at supporting non-Google proposals and are trying to address that, both by being clearer about what a successful proposal look like and by establishing a timely process for answering them and an historical record.

The focus here is the _success_ rate of non-Google proposals. The balance of Google vs non-Google proposals, which you seem to be asking about, depends mainly on how much development is being funded by non-Google companies or individuals. Having a clear process may help increase that, but it would be a secondary effect.
What are the people doing now who formerly developed Flash? Are they all diesel mechanics and baristas or what? I wouldn't even considering calling back a candidate why had Macromedia on their work history.
> Circumventing your companies firewall is not a great idea in the first place.

Neither is putting in place a firewall that makes people need to circumvent it to get their jobs done. If you work at the NSA, sure, it makes sense that all access is heavily restricted. (Though if you work at the NSA, please reconsider what you're doing with your life.) But if you work at an ordinary company, and doing your job (note: not goofing off, but actually doing your job) requires you to work around the corporate firewall, that's a serious policy problem. And the answer isn't to sit on your hands until IT fixes the firewall, because IT departments invariably seem to have far too many people in them that forget that you can't create security by preventing work. A system encased in concrete is secure, but not useful.
Personally, yes (but I'm not in the market having just moved). Montana is a beautiful place that has yet to be overran by greedy entrepreneurs seeking to raise profits by lowering their costs. I kinda wish you weren't trying to bring more people to the state so that I could retire in a quiet place.

Most of the start-up crowd seems to think that it's worth paying several times more rent to be physically near the big money in SanFran. But there are a few cities that have an active tech scene (Dallas and Kansas City come to mind) that have managed to make it. The difference is that those were decently sized cities with lots of other infrastructure to start with. Can a city with a population under 100,000 offer the other infrastructure needed to create a successful business? You've got fast internet, but do you have enough blue collar workers to support your office needs? An airport big enough to offer flights out to important meetings that can't be done virtually? There are several other things to consider when picking a city to base a company from.

I'd recommend getting in touch with the Chamber of Commerce to see how you can come together to pitch the city. Helena is certainly a nice place, but you have to sell the other aspects than just fast internet.
What Is the Surprisingly Commercial Android “Backdoor” Depicted in Mr. Robot?
Yep, http://dduarte.github.io/JekyllConfigurablePersonalSite
It's also a two-sided market. A new competitor would need to solve the chicken-and-egg problem. The argument about it being easy to clone could be applied to almost any website.
New Reddit CEO said he will 'reconsider' censorship policies
If you need to say something in the public domain that can't be traced back to your own identity, don't say it on Facebook.

The entire point of Facebook is that there is an easily identified one-to-one correspondence between your Facebook contacts and people in the real world. If people are allowed to become effectively anonymous then it fundamentally changes this experience.
There's no "natural" reason why the subcontinent should be united or divided, rather the governing states that exist at any point in time are a function of history. Like Europe, India has at times been divided and other times united as a single polity (first under asoka ~300bc, then akbar ~1500ad and finally the Raj ~1850ad until independence).

If by "further" you refer to 1947 division of the subcontinent then it has in fact broken up again, in 1971 when East Pakistan became Bangladesh.

There is great value in being united of course, which is also the original intention behind the EU. When constituent states disagree or want to split up, like Telangana and Andhra Pradesh did recently, they can do it through a constitutional process rather than a war. Being a larger state also provides greater opportunities for its citizens.

As time has passed, the part called "India" today has faced a few separatist movements, but has held together primarily by creating a more successful shared narrative so it means something to be "Indian" in addition to being a Punjabi or Gujurati or Muslim, Hindu or Jain. This is likely to continue.
Ask HN: Is there microscope equivalent for sounds?
For instance, are we able to hear DNA's sound yet? Is it possible?
> I wouldn't even considering calling back a candidate why had Macromedia on their work history.

And I wouldn't even sort of consider hiring or even working with anyone that thinks work experience in a language makes them a liability.
I love to hear about burgeoning tech scenes in places other than SF and NY. Good luck to you.
I'll work anywhere so yes
Opt-in hotword detection is "atrocious"? I'm confused by your use of that word. Also it has been removed from Chromium now, so in fact you can use Chromium to get away from the feature...
> This analysis seems to me to be deeply flawed. At only a glance, at least two of the projects mentioned at TF=2 have entire companies that are dedicated to them: ansible and elastisearch.

Even if there's an entire company behind it, that doesn't mean that everybody at that company is an expert in that software. Maybe just one or two devs had a good understanding on how it works, and the rest work on different things, document, or maybe just know it superficially.
Tangent: I am interested in the FTTH rollout you mention. Can you share a few more details about that?
there's a difference between doing something , to doing something on a huge scale , no ?
> If you are voluntarily selling your labor, it means that you are getting the best value for it.

I hold a gun to the head of someone you love. I tell you you will deliver something or I will kill them. You start to negotiate for how much you will be paid for your labor...do you think you will get the best value for your labor, overall? Or will you simply prevent the loss of life of your loved one?

You'd likely just be happy to prevent that grievous loss.

The poor are under the same terms except instead of a gun it is starvation or homelessness that is the threat to themselves or their loved ones.

This is just the simplest and most apropo example of misbehaved transactions. Not all voluntary transactions result in the best value for each party. You are correct that they would get more for their labor if they could but the deviant nature of the transaction keeps it from being a value trade and creates, instead, a struggle to lose the least amount they can -- a destruction of value for that party but, if mitigated, the best possible destruction of value from their point of view. It is not a healthy part of the system.

Think of a protection racket -- are those people getting the best value? Or simply getting the least amount of destruction of value given the circumstances? Those two things are not the same.
This is also natural gas and not oil. They're very different markets and usages.
My parents retired to Helena the same year I moved to the SF bay area (2001). We're from Pennsylvania. I find Helena to be dry, wind-swept, and lacking an intellectual community (smoking, drinking and gambling are more prominent). Also it's a pain to fly to/from (requires an expensive connecting flight on a regional jet). Bozeman or Missoula might be a more attractive proposition.

It's not entirely without charm, of course. Here are some photos I took on a solo hike out the back of my parents' place: https://www.flickr.com/photos/beefman/sets/687958
I've pitched to 30+ investors and got rejected....a lot. Here's my generalized conclusion: VC funding is like dating. Easy money goes for the hot sexy blonde at the corner of the bar in the west village, but it doesn't mean the slightly less attractive brunette sitting in the corner isn't the best catch. No one would dare miss out hitting on the blonde, and no one is going to fault anyone for not hitting on the brunette "she's uninteresting". My only advice is to understand first what the investors' thesis is and play your pitch to those strengths. For example - what markets, what they look for in teams, and what their fund's goal is. I've had a fair share of VC's be brutally honest with me on the last point with an answer of "we need just one billion dollar business in order to return our fund, so we take as many bets as we can to ensure we get one".
It's a great series of languages with plenty of advantages. There's still a small niche that uses it and one variant that's mainstreaming. Python is a knockoff of it with a decent standard library that grew wildly successful. It's why I recommend it as next best thing.

"Do you have any examples? "

Most articles written on history of LISP and its advantages come with examples of it going away in various companies or not getting adopted in general. Just try to recall how many of the following were done in (and still run on) LISP to see what I mean: processor support; operating systems; compilers; business apps; productivity tools; widely-used libraries; web services; popular FOSS apps or services; mobile apps or services; embedded systems. I'm sure your list in each is going to be tiny compared to the one's that chose alternative platforms.

That's the LISP effect. Both commercial products and FLOSS have continuously fleed from the LISP's. Those that used mainstream alternatives got plenty of success. Just compare... pick a variant... a LISP's success against C/C++, C#, Java, PHP, Python and so on. You can have a great idea but hardly anyone will contribute to it if it's LISP. Clojure's been the only exception, it's tied to JVM, and still is barely a blip [1] on the overall radar.

So, that's what I mean. You can use what increases odds of extension or adoption. Or you can use LISP with difficulty getting commercial or FOSS help. Now, the types of people that can churn out great LISP might be worth the extra effort and money. Jane St has a similar philosophy for Ocaml. Just worth knowing it's going to be an uphill battle compared to the alternatives.

[1] http://langpop.com/
Perfectly rational actors are not strictly necessary. Often it is enough to assume people will act in their own best interest as best they can in aggregate more often than not.
I'm a security guy so I obviously have a differing viewpoint, but when it comes to ensuring what data comes in and leaves your environment there's little choice. The ability to analyse outgoing traffic is really a requirement for being able to effectively detect and respond to incidents.

If your job involves idling on Freenode maybe take it up with management?

EDIT: phrasing
Fair. And to that point, Digg's making money and Youtube is struggling.

Maybe all our success stories need another look...

[1] http://blog.digg.com/post/109580738071/digg-by-the-numbers-2... (well, "consistent revenue"... couldn't find precise financials since 2008 or so)

[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-fo...
A lottery has a fixed set of rules, and in terms of game design they do design it where you can win every so often but being a fixed game the odds are against you (like a casino). And part of this is also that a lottery is a game of chance, not a game of skill.

Pitching for VC or angel investment is not a fixed game with a set of pre-determned rules, and also does involve skill. So I would say that it's not really the same as buying lottery tickets. Also unlike a lottery where you have an even playing field there are people who do have advantages (friends with wealth, a good network, track record, etc.)

Now are the odds against you? Of course! In fact you can still raise VC or angel money and still go under, and in fact most will. But in a broader sense the same rules apply to starting any sort of business if you think about it.
This article converted me to classical liberalism when I first read it a decade ago.
Wish he showed the names.
The article states that greek debt is $349 billion and that the Olympics totaled around $7 billion. The premise of this article is flawed.
I would. I just graduated w an MS in nuclear eng and have been doing django dev for a while. I'm not so sure I'm a natural "hacker"/engineer but I've certainly been at it for a while. I currently work at a fast food place. Let me know if you want to talk.
Why not just use your smartphone or something instead? As an infosec guy, I try to maintain the customer service-oriented attitude of "Oh, you snuck something past me? Nice one! Don't do it again. Here's why..." Then again, I am fortunate enough to work in a semi-open academic/clinical/research environment, where if you cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-die promise me that you won't misuse BitTorrent for warez or porn and that you truly have a business need for it, I'll entertain your request for a firewall/QoS exception. But if you work at the kind of place that is manned by totally bonkers jackbooted thugs, they won't be so lenient. When they find you, you could lose your job or worse. It sucks, but the network's not yours to hack around even if you really do know better than the people operating it (and you probably do).

(signed, a former firewall piercer extraordinaire)

((I got so fed up with one customer's stupid firewall rules that I bought a dial-up subscription to Earthlink and an adapter that would let me hook my modem up to the handset of their digital phone.))

(((Holy shit! Earthlink still has dialup service!)))
Any 'nudging' that is like the recent banning FPH is the same as a white sword to a sizable, at least vocal, segment of the community. I agree with the article that management is in a pretty bad spot. I've been on Reddit for years but I now notice that a lot of it seems to have a 'bad neighborhood' feel. I'm not sure it has a long life as a desirable destination.
I'd love to see blog posts or any write-ups about your experiences founding an ISP.
California Ruling on LAPD License Plate Readers [pdf]
Thank you.

Haskell is no bed of roses and C++ is not all that bad.

Some of us write real time signal processing code and C++ is a viable choice in this context.
Sure! As a Vermonter, I'm sure I would find a lot of fun things to do in Montana. We are friends with a lot of folks in the nordic skiing community in Wyoming, Colorado, and Alaska and they all sound like great places to live if you enjoying running, biking, hiking and cross-country skiing. Bonus points if there is a ski jumping scene in Helena.
Having not followed Airbnb very closely - I have no interest whatsoever in using the service either as a traveller or a host - your link clarified one thing that's always sort of bugged me.

I had never understood how "air" fit with B&B. It wasn't until I saw the original screenshot that I understood that it's "AirB & B" rather than "Air B&B".
You could also make that statement about anyone who had been successful in any way. Calling any level of success "luck of the draw" seems to be an awful way to look at things.
Wikipedia defines Turing completeness like this: "A system of data-manipulation rules (such as a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be Turing complete ... if it can be used to simulate any single-taped Turing machine." [1]

A social graph is just a list of pairs of people ("A knows B", "B knows C"), so I'm not sure how the concept of Turing completeness could apply to it. There is no computational model inherent in it. It doesn't manipulate data - it is just data (that can be manipulated by any number of algorithms that run on Turing complete computers).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness
That said, if you need medical consultation, get it, through whatever means are available to you. If I were in a financial tight spot and the options are "wait for it to be bad enough for insurance to cover it" and "get early care to prevent it from ever getting that bad, but over an insecure channel" I would personally choose the latter. YMMV
Flash gets it rough because it's horribly-written software full of security holes. It's demonstrably worse than most anything else out there.
You'd have to bypass a nasty warning from your browser before this could happen.
Before you begin; Three crucial models for successfully designing sim tests
Same here, it would be nice for SF and NYC to have some more competition for the tech scene, which may force them to loosen their restrictions on housing.
arikrak is saying that it's "this startup became a billion-dollar concern" that's winning the lottery, not the funding step. The funding step is analagous to buying the lottery ticket.

In clearer words, it's confirmation bias: there are thousands of ideas and startups pursuing them. Most fail, some succeed, a rare few become AirBnB gorillas.
What are you going to use it for? If you don't mind letting us in on some details, however vague albeit interesting.
HN's CMS doesn't interpret your angle brackets correctly; the first yields "No Posts Found" and the second 404s.

Here is the correction for the second:

http://www.chuqui.com/2015/07/the-death-of-reddit/

but I wasn't able to figure out what to do with the first.
Honestly, I'd suggest a disposable amazon windows ami for total security...
The focus of Go's open source project is making a language that works well for the kind of networked software Google and many other companies write, roughly "cloud software". I am not sure what ecosystem that would skew toward Google revenue: maybe cloud providers, but Go works just as well on Amazon and Azure and Heroku as it does on Google's products. I am not sure what "hiring models" means, but I've literally never thought about anything related to the hiring process while working on Go.

For more about Go and open source, see my opening gophercon keynote, at blog.golang.org/open-source.
I'd like to see a battery of tests to see where it's truly at. Yet, there's still not a MINIX Hater's Handbook or something similar. That's more than UNIX's beginnings can say. ;)
Obtaining evidence while "routing around [AKA respecting] constitutional protections" is the essence of police work in America.
What does "every relevant state" mean? The second and third most populous states don't require a helmet over 20, and the fifth doesn't require it at all.
Totally agree with this. The Greek culture goes way back and perhaps the original Olympic games in 776 BC is a better starting point to understand the context.
Greece should have never been allowed in Euro zone - it was forced in part through politics, part through accounting cheating and now is the aftermath.
How I hacked Spinal Decompression
Here's a relevant chart: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/HellenicOecon...
Ooh, are we doing Stross links? http://www.goldengryphon.com/Stross-Concrete.html "The Concrete Jungle" was my first Laundry story, before I quite knew what I was getting into.
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
Greek Crowdfund
My understanding is that the videos will be out in two weeks.
TideKit Failure – Blaming the Community?
Here is the automated e-mail I got from TideKit announcing the discontinue of their development. For those of you who don't know what it was, it was an attempt to create an all-in-one app development platform, almost along the lines of an Ionic and NodeWebkit (or Atom) in one. They actually took pre-orders (tickets to beta), and the time stating they were very close to letting Beta customers in.

Months and months went by and there was no movement, so after some complaints they began writing update blogs, again talking about how soon they were going to be opening up for beta testers.

And now, they send an e-mail saying they couldn't do it. The worst part is they seem to be blaming the community for wanting it too fast... Even though they continued to set expectations that were never met. This is a great example of how NOT to handle these complicated projects, and if they fail, another example of how NOT to handle the failure. The end of the e-mail is an attempt to take some blame but for me, a few paragraphs of deflection dampened that attempt. Am I taking the tone of this e-mail wrong?

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Satoru Iwata: 1959 – 2015
The Olympics wrecked Greece like Gordon Ramsay wrecks the restaurants he visits on kitchen nightmares.

If you're struggling and you plan a big flashy show to save your economy, and it doesn't work, all your problems don't suddenly become the fault of the big flashy show you planned to fix them.