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throwing out my suggestion for a game here: networked multiplayer combat game, but make killing each other not the main goal, the main goal should be capture the flag, or find the treasure, or build a bridge to the enemy's castle. Maybe one team is trying to build a bridge over a chasm to get to the winning thing, but the other team is trying to sabotage them, blow up the bridge or something.
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How could you not assume corruption? This is Ebola we're talking about. It wasn't "if" it was "when".
You've got a connection to the industry, and an apparent emotional response to F-35 criticism. (but who wants to about a subject which they are indifferent to? That's no fun.) For all we know your livelihood may depend in some way upon the F-35. I'm not saying you're always wrong, but I am going to naturally skeptical.
I'm more than willing to admit that if the baby is removed from the womb too early, it will not survive, so in that sense it is "not viable". What bothers me is most (if not all, in my experience) pro-choice advocates refuse to even acknowledge the fact that non-intervention will result in a human being successfully born in the vast majority of scenarios. To me it is intellectually dishonest.
Amazing how quick the honey bees respond in unison to attack the hornet.

Even more amazing that the honey bee can withstand temperatures up to 118 degrees F, just 3 degrees higher than the hornet, and yet they still manage to use heat as a means of attack.
And you would be replaced by people that would regard your (former) pay as a huge salary increase.

Don't be so certain that the company will be sad to see you leave. The people who replace you might be even better than you.
Sounds interesting but I'll probably not have the time to spare. The radical nature of the craft means it would definitely have issues. That was going to be true from the get go. Other commenter implied the things that came before it were much worse and if true then it's necessary evil.

Cool that you got to get in one, though.
You have nothing to apologize for—on the contrary, the users making insinuations should be apologizing to you. Thank you for being a good sport about it.

(This is a procedural comment, not taking sides in the argument.)
Wasn't DualEC the default algorithm used by a bunch of RSA products that were incorporated elsewhere?
There are lots of places either similarly, or more dense than San Francisco with housing people can buy on an $80k salary. All of these places allow for higher density housing. Sure SF is way behind the curve at this point, but it's a bit silly to argue that "policy debt" is a reason policy changes wouldn't do much.
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They are not, and using the exact same logic advocated by the the pro-choice camp, there should be no moral issues with not providing the necessary medical support for the baby to survive. Taken at their word, if it is not self-sufficient, it is not a life.
I don't think anyone's saying that capitalism is directly at fault. Theoretically, a fully free market (assuming that companies always have consumer and shareholder interests at heart) should be optimal, encouraging healthy competition, choice for the consumer, and the economic freedom to found your own startup. Unfortunately, the realities of the free market encourage economic foundationalism and excessive bureaucracy. Despite the free market's relative strengths when looked at from purely a business and consumer perspective, the fastest way to earn revenue and (eventually) break even is to have a company playbook which encourages business decisions that are completely antithetical to what you'd expect from a free market company. After the inevitable IPO, they slowly tend towards maximizing shareholder profit in place of ensuring consumer satisfaction (there are exceptions to this rule-- Apple and Tesla are good examples), and the results are more acquisitions, more profiteering, more tax avoidance, and more focus on the bottom line than putting out a good product. Particularly harmful is how an unregulated free market encourages trusts and oligarchies -- the latter of which we still can't solve today with legislation alone.

For every airbnb or Facebook there are a thousand of acquired startups who kept thinking short-term and forgot entirely about long-term. Which is a shame, because I've no doubt that many put out a quality product -- and I've also no doubt that the company which acquired them may very well have killed said company's specific product two seconds after filling out all of the paperwork. See Google's numerous acquisitions for proof of this.
To be fair, in the modern international climate, we've seen that wars between developed countries have dropped off drastically because of the development of nuclear weapons and the creation of MAD. There are few truly formidable defensive structures from the past 100 years - the circumvented Maginot Line and the overrun encampments on the beaches of Normandy come to mind.

The point being that it doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that a legion of military minds trained in deterrence as the primary response to threats from rational entities would think first to build the capability to retaliate and second the capability to defend.

I'm not really sure how far the comparison between physical military threat and cyber threat really carries, though.
I have enough experience with phased development to know that the later phases rarely happen.
I have admitted my passion elsewhere in this thread. Is the population of HN not passionate about things? This is, from my years long lurking of the site (I have lurked here since at least 2009 that I can clearly remember) one of the places on the internet where passion can be shared in a responsible way. I do not seek to bash those who doubt the plane on a personal level. What I would hope is that I address their objections from fact. Now, if the facts support their arguments, then I would like to think that I would be the first to admit that. But if the facts are otherwise, then I hope I've done a good job of linking to and explaining public information.

And this interaction has sort of confirmed why I am always hesitant to talk about what I do (aside from the obvious reasons why people in this industry are encouraged to not say much), because people see that and make some disparaging remarks. I am not thrilled.
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> If you suggest all of a sudden that I'm not any more valuable than the receptionist hired last month, you should rightly expect that I'd be a little pissed.

Then leave.

Seriously. If you are so upset then leave.

But when interviewing, you might want to come up with a different reason for leaving the job. The interviewer might not be so understanding.

Update: wow, a downvote. :-) I welcome the downvotes.
"fastest scripting language in the west"

Ironic - Since Lua's speed is most heavily used in Yahoo! China, Taobao, Alibaba and programmers hired by Cloudflare to work with Lua worked in those companies. (http://agentzh.org/#AboutMe) The use of Lua - openresty with nginx - Nginx is from Russia, too.

"fastest scripting language in the east"

Might be slightly more appropriate.

But then again - Lua originated from Brazil and heavily used in game companies in the U.S. Not sure how much they use LuaJIT though.
> Ie the cost of the employee is set above their value to the company.

My salary has never been set by my value to the company - it has been set by my ability to negotiate.
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Interesting site! A minor bug that I noticed: when I click on comments for a listing from the home page, the page doesn't load.
I have been using IRC on and off since the nineties. In the past few years, I usually enter a channel, ask a question, wait to make sure no one answers (nobody does), then move on to stack exchange or reddit to actually get some interaction.
According to Bloomberg [1] the police say Karpeles accessed a Bitcoin trading system on a U.S. server in February 2013 to record transfers totaling $1 million to an account he owned, although the amount may not have been actually transferred.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-01/former-mt-...
That's his call on what's best for his company.
Yeah, it's rare and why I've been spending more time than I can justify here. ;) The last site that was similar was Schneier's blog where I put most of my essays and designs on for public benefit. Aside from the large audience, the blog's moderation focused on keeping things civil and it attracted top notch security engineers for solid, peer review. Post-Snowden, too many of Reddit and Slashdot crowd ended up there with what results from that. So, I looked around and ended up here. Been fun.

Least my stuff's still there to benefit whoever.
No, it's absolutely not out of line. Gaslighting, astroturfing, and worse are real things that happen on the internet. Note that I never said shill, though I would if I saw evidence that warranted it. I simply pointed out a relevant post from the commenter's history.

If you'll note, I think that engi_nerd and I achieved an amicable understanding of each other at about the same time you were posting your comment.
How to build a software startup to be target for acquisition?
I know it seems to be very broad question, but is there a steps or techniques to seek what kind of solutions that might big companies interested in acquiring [like Google for example] and start building the solution based on that?
Thank you. I think I've shown enough...what's an appropriate term, maybe human-ness? to effectively show that I'm not a shill. Nor do I seek to be dishonest in any way. I am not crazy about saying exactly where I work and exactly what I do, but isn't that true for a lot of HNers?

I'm willing to speak to admins if necessary, in private, should they have any concerns they wish to discuss.
That's a personal attack and not ok. See my comments below.

I'm detaching this from its original parent (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9985536) and marking it off-topic.
Someone like... the government that already spent millions developing it?
You can't use[1] iTunes Match from iOS devices (for precisely this reason). It's Apple Music that you apparently can (I haven't tested but that's what I've heard).

Shazam does have acoustic fingerprinting, but it's much cheaper fingerprinting. And it's cheaper because Shazam is allowed to get it wrong. It doesn't have to get 100% of songs, and when it does get songs, it's perfectly ok for it to not recognize which particular performance a song is from if the artist has multiple versions.

But iTunes Match has to be as close to 100% accurate as it can (and better to avoid recognizing a song entirely, thus requiring it to be uploaded, than to mis-identify it as something else). Shazam is only listening to part of the song, but iTunes Match has to fingerprint the entire song, and the amount of processing it does per second of music may very well be higher as well.

[1] Where "use" means "upload music to"
Time is the ONLY issue for me. I really appreciate having a well known shared vocabulary and patterns in which to apply to projects.

Not every project is suitable to use a framework thought, and sometimes you'll outgrow them. But, by then you'll know that the project is worth changing.
> Someone tell me what use China has for "personal information" of Americans from the Office of Personnel Management.

> Seriously. What do the records contain and what is it to China? Wouldn't China be more interested in the "personal information" of their own peons?

From what I've read, these files can potentially contain very sensitive information. As part of the background check for some government positions, many dark secrets are unearthed and documented. Why? So that the government has a heads-up on how its employees may be compromised by foreign adversaries. So if the Chinese had such files on 20 million people, they would have a treasure trove of information to use as leverage against US citizens.

> Why the hell would the Chinese government give a flying fuck about a comedy about Kim Kong-Un?

They don't, and the article never implies that they did. "Admiral Rogers made clear in a public presentation to the meeting of the Aspen Security Forum last week that he had advised President Obama to strike back against North Korea for the earlier attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. Since then, evidence that hackers associated with the Chinese government were responsible for the Office of Personnel Management theft has been gathered by personnel under Admiral Rogers’s command, officials said." The DPRK is associated with the Sony hack, and PRC with the OPM one.

> So assuming these people were working for the Chinese government, the US would have to extradite/kidnap them from China to get them convicted. How's that for "escalation"?

"Legal action" could be sanctions, warrants, etc. Why do you jump to kidnapping so suddenly? (Not that I would put it past this government...)

> In reality, this article is just Cold War 2.0 propaganda.

Of course, it's in the NYT!
Stealing sewage services still isn't "wasting water". It's regrettable, but I think NYC can withstand the additional budgetary strain caused by kids playing with hydrants.

> "despite the apparent effortlessness of getting the water to that Bronx hydrant, said water has a price which is substantially the same in NY as in other areas like CA."

That's just all the more proof of Californian's absolute insanity when it comes to distributing water.
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Interestingly enough, while I was in the sim, another person was flying and managed to put the aircraft into vortex ring state -- the exact cause of a real-world V-22 crash. That person crashed in the sim, too. The flight controls won't stop you from doing so. But the aircraft does detect flight conditions where it's likely to happen and warns "SINK RATE, SINK RATE" over the crew's headsets. So then it's the pilot's responsibility to knock it off.
This is slightly similar to some of the prototype ideas I've discussed in the past (in the forums) -- so I like the idea! :)
I agree and this is how I've looked at the situation. The result of focusing on his points led to useful information on the subject which included spotting unreliability in popular sources and filtering down to real, risk areas on F-35 side. An example is below. Best to always focus on the what rather than the who with exception being people that want me to take their word for something. Guard goes way up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9985044
The point of using frameworks is that time IS an issue, and you'd rather not waste it by reinventing the wheel every time.
> All that's going to do is encourage them to find ever new and amazing ways to be even more lazy and ignorant.

A lazy person won't do anything more difficult or time consuming than the easiest choice available, and an ignorant person might not even realize there are other choices. So make the easiest and default choice do the thing that is "best" for everyone.

> Sure, botnets suck, but it's not worth giving up control over our desktops to stop them.

I used to agree, but am no longer convinced of this, at least personally. I use Windows and OSX daily, and feel a hell of a lot more secure about my OSX machine. I'd give up some control of my Windows machine to not always assume everything is or will likely be infected at some point, by a known or unknown cause, detected or not detected.

Not to say that OSX cannot be attacked, it definitely can, but overall.. there's little comparison. the relative ease of updates & upgrades, high adoption rates, a very nice app store full of sandboxed apps; it's just a much safer place.
If you do nothing and let nature take it's course, in the majority of cases this material will proceed to be born as a human. If someone intervenes via abortion, that most likely outcome of a person being born will not happen. The willfully chosen action of an individual prevents a child from being born, whereas if they did nothing, the child would be born.

I can see how word games might make you roll your eyes, but does the above line of thinking also make you roll your eyes? I'm not suggesting we outlaw abortion, but I don't think it's that much to ask that people be honest about precisely what is happening. There are word games being played on both sides of this disagreement.
I'm just a nobody but these are my 2 cents for what it's worth.

1) I like the name.

2) Your pricing seems strange. I would make it $15 per month which includes 5 users and charge $2.50 for every extra user.

3) Regardless of the features you have, your product doesn't feel polished enough for me to take it serious.

4) I will be holding this up to a Jira, why should I use your product instead? I.e; who is your audience?
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Or they get mashed together, or neutered, or otherwise transformed to poor shadows of their original conception.
For all the people complaining.

Please remember this:

1. It is his company; not yours.

2. He doesn't have to check with you

3. He pays the consequences of any bad decisions; not you.

4. He reaps the benefits; not you.

5. Your (and my) opinion does not matter.
Yes, most apps get a performance boost when they don't use a framework, and yes, more importance is placed on coders building products efficiently rather than coders building efficient products.

In most cases, this is the right choice. According to the TechEmpower benchmarks [1], a simple Django webapp can serve about 500 RPS on a c3.large EC2 instance, which will cost you about $54/month [2]. Adding an extra engineer will cost you about $15K/month (fully loaded). Therefore, for the cost of one engineer, you can pay for about 275 EC2 instances, which can serve 140K RPS, or about 12M hits/day.

Very few sites get that sort of traffic. Go work on speeding up the other bottlenecks in your app (like queries that lack indexes, or recursive queries), and don't make things harder on yourself than they need to be.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...

[2] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
I'm an atheist and while not fully in the pro-life camp, I'm certainly not a full-fledged advocate of pro-choice.
Most of the A-10 videos were terrible despite how cool a video its capabilities could make. I went through half a dozen of them looking for good runs with avenger and bombs. That was the most "exciting" one that popped up. I should've posted footage of the PC game (A-10 Tank Killer) as it did it more justice lol.
If I don't make it, I'd definitely like to see someone do a tactics game in the style of FFT :)
Interestingly, this is the similar to how municipal services are funding. Authorities build out the police and internal government pork, and then cut the parks and schools projects and go to the pulic for tax increases.
Slightly pedantic observation: O(n) == O(1) under the specified constraint (n <= 11)
Yeah, I'm not big on "appeal to authority" (obviously, as it's a logical fallacy). Don't take my word on any of this. I've tried to link to sources where appropriate. Read them at your leisure, and see what you think.
avoid negativity and negative thinking. be pragmatic and realistic. ride the waves of passion and encourage passionate work, but also encourage balance and health and try to be a leader in both regards, keeping your own work velocity up, but not getting burnt out it not taking care of yourself.

learn your team and respect them. work at earning their respect. don't expect more work out of them than you put in. if you assign a dev 3 issues assign yourself 4. if that's not possible go out of your way to be transparent. developers are motivated by progress and want to see deliverables; so transparency about where you spend your time can help, especially at first.

create an environment where it's ok to fail. both with software architecture and human challenges. avoid creating an environment where people can't communicate or ask for help.

don't be passive aggressive, always be direct. be light hearted and have a soul, but don't get stuck being too nice and let that prevent you from being firm as needed. try to balance this out with letting people occasionally make their own mistakes and learning from them if it's in an area of the project that can afford to invest time in this learning. sometimes you can to force a good decision by being firm, but if you can let it evolve organically the person will feel they achieved more.

try to do your best work and encourage that in others, but always calculate some buffer for things not always running at full tilt every day.

good luck!
> The filesystem is a fantastic way to persist data for 80-90% of mobile applications.

Well Sqlite provides an extensive query language. I don't think Android's file system does.
Yep - as simple as a mechanic as it is, I really enjoy discovering secret areas in these types of games, FPSs, etc.
That's a trip. I'm glad they at least have a warning. Probably is the reason the accident rate isn't higher.
? Spiral is the opposite of waterfall that people like these days
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I am not thrilled.

Only quoting final sentence since I'm typing this on a phone... Without excusing the behavior of your accusers, I think it's probably motivated by the association between the incredibly fascinating engineering work, and the military "work" to which that engineering will later be applied. It's always going to be difficult to converse productively with such an elephant in the room, but your patience in the thread is exemplary.
The program they are calling "SmileBASIC" was formerly known as "Petit Computer" and for some reason has been removed from the Nintendo store, but was previously available on the DSi and 3DS.

This new version was released in Japan and slated for an English release but they postponed it to add a whole pile of new features and have the new release coincide with the English release as well, supposedly also including the new features.

The previous editor was a little painful on the small device, but this new one looks to have a bunch of features that make the New 3DS a viable editing device. More importantly they claim you will be able to share your programs using their cloud service; sharing programs wasn't really viable before (using QR codes).

Most importantly of all you can use every part of the 3DS, including the microphone and all the controls, though I believe the camera can't be used because of Nintendo rules. It's even possible to make networked games for 3DS's in the same room.

Previously there was voice synthesis as well but only in Japan. It has a really fantastic collection of sprites and sounds which is what gets you creating quickly.

Phone controls simply don't compare to Nintendo controls; anything else is somewhat moot beyond that. A pure touchscreen game is always limited in ways that a D-pad and buttons are not.
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It's a pretty awesome time to be a biologist. Things are happening so quickly and profoundly. In sequencing alone, imagine having 30 years of Moore's law progress in 5 [1]; that just happened and we are still catching up to the consequences. Then there are GWAS, CRISPR, organoids, ESCs/iPSCs, superres microscopy, immunotherapy, etc. Also it is true that computational approaches will play a big role [2].

[1] http://www.genome.gov/images/content/costpermegabase_apr2015...
[2] FWIW I'm hiring staff and postdoctoral positions in bioinformatics looking for folks with experience with genomics, machine learning, and/or CS.
> A comparable procedure in a US hospital would be billed at nearly an order of magnitude higher

This is the problem most people overlook when talking healthcare reform in the US - if you just make it single payer (the government), you're still screwed if the prices are 10x what it should be.