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Walter Mosley writes a fair amount of science fiction and fantasy, as well as his perhaps better known and more commercially successful mysteries.
Don't mean to derail from topic. What's value of an average seed round in SF right now?
It doesn't make sense for it to be a trade secret, but it could be copyrighted. An exhaustive list of data (like the phonebook) is not copyrightable (in the US, though it may be in other countries), but a selective list can potentially be copyrightable based on the selection criteria.

That said, copyright doesn't prevent someone from using the list and contacting the providers in question. A contract might, and it sounds like Angie's List has a contract that does.
Have you looked at Linux with WINE? That could be a good transition from Windows into, eventually, pure Linux.
I also thought he was full of it, thinking he was advocating for a base-12 system of units. But upon further thought, it's apparent that he's advocating for a base 12 number system, and then a base-12 system of units would come naturally from that.

Base 12 could be a great number system, but it's impossible to switch now.
Would someone kindly summarize the author's main idea?
Depends on how old. What I'm running
and like would not have run on
Windows 3.1 or PC/DOS but did run
on Windows NT SP3 and Windows 2000.

But maybe some of that software would
have run into problems on Vista.

Maybe Microsoft wants to assume that I
will do my typing into Word or Outlook
or Excel. No I won't. I type into
my favorite text editor KEDIT. I keep
my e-mail in files maintained with KEDIT
and use Outlook only to send and receive, that
is, handle the POP3 interactions. Maybe
Microsoft believes that, sure, I will
do my word whacking with Word. No I won't;
I use Knuth's TeX and, then, PDF.

Microsoft thinks I like their efforts
at GUIs -- I hate nearly all GUI efforts
and make heavy use of command lines in
text windows. The command lines run
scripts I wrote.

I make relatively little and light
use of the features of XP and
still less use of Microsoft's
applications. So, my security
is not very vulnerable to
any remaining security holes
in XP.
Higher percentage equity for less money.
Given that your high-level summary of your tasks during the 80s and 90s didn't include any descriptions of "long hours" or "frantic scrambles for deadlines", would it be fair to say that -in your experience- -during the PC boom- tech company management encouraged their workers to work no more than 40 hours per week and take as much leave as they required?

Now, you need to carefully read the rest of this paragraph and the next, and keep it in mind while you read the rest of my comment. I have direct personal experience with the sort of tunnel vision that one gets when one is stressed and has folks depending on one's paycheck. I know that solutions that seem blindingly obvious upon later reflection are utterly impossible to find when you're eyeball deep in the shit and slogging forward.

I also have direct personal experience with overworking oneself into a state of exhaustion and mental breakdown. What I have to say may seem glib and simplistic, but that is because it is the result of extended rumination on a long series of deeply unpleasant situations that I found myself in earlier in life. You have very likely come to the same or similar conclusions that I have. I only offer them because you might not have.

> Part of my breakdown is they changed the deadlines from months to weeks for my projects and I had over 141 projects to be done...

The moment that they changed the deadlines was the moment when you should have uttered an unconditional "No.". Because they had no-one else on staff who was capable of doing the work, you had all the power in that negotiation. You were -until the work was done- absolutely, completely untouchable. What were they going to actually do? Fire the only guy who could get the work done? That would have changed their situation from "Most of our customers are going to be angry." to "No-one sane will hire us for work ever again.".

I've worked with many sorts of managers. The best managers know when I've put too much on my plate, and know how to get me to realize it. Average managers almost always take my acceptance of another task as a signal that I'm not overworked; they require me to signal overload. Bad managers don't give a fuck.

I don't know the details and I wasn't there, but -if you never unconditionally said "No."- it might be possible that you had an average manager that was unable to see your severe overload. It's a pity that bad location and bad timing prevented you from jumping ship.

> If I do go back to work it would be an easier job with less stress. One that they could help me with my mental illness and support me with it.

I know some people who are very valuable employees, but are -for one reason or another- incapable of working full-time. The better tech companies recognise their value and work with them to find schedules that will allow the company to keep the worker on their staff.
You don't think similar proportions of people in other fields would also like diverse culture?
My retention equity grant after an acquisition was 10/20/30/40. I just left after 2 years partially because I realized that the schedule was insulting and I had barely vested a small slice of the pie.
Yeah, the 16-bit "wormhole code" means that each active MitM attack has a 2^-16 chance of success, and a 1-(2^-16) chance of causing a broken connection. The error message you get (which also happens if someone simply mistypes the code) is:

% wormhole receive-text
Enter receive-text wormhole code: 9-babylon-typo
ERROR:
Key confirmation failed. Either you typed the code wrong, or a would-be
man-in-the-middle attacker guessed incorrectly. You could try again,
giving both you and the attacker another chance.

On average, you should expect to see 32 thousand failures before there's a 50/50 chance of a successful MitM attack. If your transfer attempt fails 10 times in a row, you're probably under a persistent attack, and you should stop using this tool.

Since failed attacks are so visible, I decided that 16 bits was a good tradeoff. Note that you can make it longer: "wormhole --code-length=4" uses 4 words (32 bits), etc. There's also a --verify option that displays a full-strength SHA256 session key hash for comparison, after the PAKE exchange but before transferring any actual data. Finally, since the words are coming from a fixed list, there's tab-completion when you input the codes, which turns out to be really handy.

PAKE codes are single-use, and not subject to offline attacks, so I don't think 128 bits codes are necessary (it'd be a different story if they were hashed directly into encryption keys :-). Incidentally, magic-wormhole uses (my) "python-spake2" library, which implements SPAKE2 (http://www.di.ens.fr/~pointche/Documents/Papers/2005_rsa.pdf) over the Ed25519 elliptic-curve group.

The magic-wormhole python package includes a library to use these codes in other tools: in the long run, I'm hoping to get PAKE more visibility as a "pair two computers together" primitive, and transferring SSH keys would be an awesome use case for that. Also, I'm planning to add a "--persistent" flag of some sort, which records the generated session key somewhere, indexed by a petname, so the second time you want to send someone a file, you just say "wormhole send-file --petname=bob", and you don't have to transcribe a wormhole code at all.
The US has the density and wealth to do this via landbased towers. So AT&T, Tmobile, Verizon, and Sprint already do it.

This is more about reaching remote, sparsely populated areas.
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And who was perhaps the first person to describe this concept, back in 1979? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7RQK6LC3gdg/VGFsmQBX0RI/A...
When it's installed automatically it doesn't have the same intent behind it that justifies changing the setting.
Can't they do some frequency hopping or encode some sort of timestamp in the radar signal to identify when they sent out the wave they're receiving?
So the NSA`s 'surveillance' activities can now look like a benevolent mary poppins feel good internet provider? Don't get me wrong, I would have loved to have worked on such a project ... just not for FB ... sorry, not a fan.
/scratch on a Cray is (last I used one) is a Lustre filesystem. It is the only file storage available to the compute nodes, which have no local storage of their own. No spinning disk, no SSD. So if the code is written such that it makes frequent small writes (e.g. it's peppered with print statements), the lustre nodes get hammered by all the compute nodes and become the bottleneck and they will eventually fall over.
In 2007 a lot of Europeans thought that EU and China would decouple themselves from the emerging debt/housing crisis in the USA.
This makes sense especially since the limited partners are probably already significantly invested in commercial real estate. What would make more sense is just to get the limited partners involved.

On a related note there is no reason VC could not do the same with talent. The could be hiring talent and feeding that into their portfolio. They could also facilitate easy movement of people between companies in the portfolio so that you get better team fit. The only problem with all this is it takes effort.
Both softwares have their own place in the huge spectrum of users, needs and purposes we have with the computers. Favoring one over the other simply shows the narrow-minded approach. Linux is great in so many ways and still is the backbone of most servers serving The Internet. Microsoft's Windows platform was built and marketed as a productivity software and from the very beginning (think inception of UI based interface) attempted to abstract the gory details that make computers work. For those of us with a degree in computer science and can speak (so-to-speak) in C, we are happy to see through the registers, loops and logic, and for the rest of the humanity, it just looks like the screen from The Matrix.
As far as trying to move towards one vs the other, my opinion is that it purely depends on what the user's short term and long term motivations are. Just my 2 cents...
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That kind of smalltalk definitely happens, but where it happens varies a lot. At some places probably 80% of the idle work-related chatter happens on the IRC/Slack, while at others it happens mostly in the coffee area or hallways. Seems to be a company-culture difference in large part. Both are ok for me, but the places that use IRC/Slack a lot are easier to be remote at (or even just on a trip) without being excluded from all the impromptu discussions.
> avoiding untenable population density

San Francisco is already at an untenable population density. You can have a livable city by going light or going dense, but being in the middle is what kills you (which is where SF is right now).

The light scenario is your classic suburbia, where you drive across the street. Dense is New York City, with many amenities in walking distance and copious public transportation. The middle (San Francisco) doesn't have enough people to support good public transit (buses/trains stopping every 5 minutes or less) 24 hrs a day, but has so many people that the roads are gridlocked.

SF needs to thin out or get dense if it wants to survive. What force do you think will decimate the population by 50%?
Is it better or worse than simply:

NO CARRIER

I argue it's better.
Landlords aren't dumb. Their payoff is pretty much binary: ($rent, 0). It doesn't matter how well a startup does, the landlord will get at most $rent.

If anything its the VCs who are dumb: why are they not investing in startups in Midwest US, or (say) Paris, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, etc?
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You are correct. You have to pay someone a tiny amount: the cost to make executing your transaction, storing the blockchain, and mining a block worthwhile. That cost is far less than the monopoly rents that beneficiaries of network effects collect. It is cents per transaction.
Because more engineers makes for a worse product, particularly if you're doing something very innovative that requires a lot of iteration.

The amount of code you can write grows linearly with number of engineers, but communication costs grow quadratically. Therefore, the speed at which you can execute is inversely proportional to the size of the team, unless you can cut communication costs. Established projects can do this with architectural decisions that prevent one engineer from needing to know about or communicate with other engineers working on unrelated parts of the product. New projects cannot, because the architecture hasn't been established yet. That's why every innovative product grows out of a small team.
webRTC is an awesome way for getting data from one web browser to another, but you must bootstrap it by copying a webRTC "offer" message in both directions first. Most of the webRTC-based videochat services (Firefox Hello, talky.io, etc) use a server to deliver the client page and also relay these offer messages to the right party. So ultimately the security depends upon that server deciding to deliver the offer directly, and not inserting itself as a man-in-the-middle.

The PAKE-based wormhole setup would be a great way to get those offers delivered safely. In a future browser-based magic-wormhole.js library, I would use webRTC as the default data-transfer mechanism, and then I wouldn't need to run a STUN-like transit server (at least if you're talking to another browser, or client that can speak webRTC).
Yeah, the only way I would go along with something like that would be if I received a higher percentage than what is currently standard. I would expect something like double the percentage associated with a 4/1 deal.
So what? That doesn't mean they are obliged to comply with whatever you think is "the right thing"®.

Yes they are. Those who own one or another monopoly-type chokepoints are required to do the right thing in the sense of not abusing their monopolies. ISP are required to connect you to the real internet rather than a walled-garden simulation, Airline are required to not to hold their passengers ransom for more at intermediate point in travel, Healthcare companies are required to provide real health care etc.
That's because the highest US coin in practice is $0.25—even though $1 coins exist, they are not widespread and overlap with the $1 bill.

Contrast with the Euro where the highest coin is €2 and bills start at €5.

Also prices tend to be inclusive of sales tax / VAT in Europe, so a €9.99 widget can be purchased with a €10 bill and you get 1 single €0.01 coin in change. Whereas your $9.99 widget will be $10.79 (at 7% tax), so you'll get 3 dimes and a nickel (4x the amount of change) assuming you handed over $11. Most likely, you had a $20 so you also get lots of $1 bills with your coins. :)
Yeah, I don't really think of people with different priorities as "ignorant". I get that there are tradeoffs, it's the same deal with network security.

I'm a little ... frustrated, disappointed, bothered? ... though at the number of people that don't seem to consider at all the consequences of where information systems are headed. It's one thing to look at the benefits and the consequences and say, "OK, I'm willing to trade information on my position in exchange for realtime updated traffic flows and generally perfect maps and directions and nearby points of interest." I totally get that. It's not a choice I've made -- I remember getting around before GPS was everywhere -- but I can shrug and empathize and understand the decision.

But, "meh, I don't really care about this news, I just want more convenience" ... that bothers me a bit.

Unfortunately, I really can't think of any way to convince anyone else they should be bothered. I could cite historical cases where that hasn't worked out so well, I could dream up fictional scenarios where it might not work out so well, I could point to more recent events where things like identity theft are costing some people years of their life to sort out. But, none of that really makes much of an impact. I don't think anybody who isn't bothered now will become bothered up until it affects them directly.
I thought the same way until people came to me with virus-ridden Windows computers and I helped install Linux for them. They never had a problem and they never came back to me for help. They even thanked me for introducing them to Linux. These were not technical people. They were middle-aged and mainly used their computers for checking email or occasionally using office productivity software. At the time I was using Ubuntu so that's what I gave them. Now I use Arch Linux and I'm not as willing to introduce Ubuntu. Arch requires more patience than Ubuntu so I only introduce it to people like my wife whom I can help regularly. So while I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Linux over Windows, I regret that there's not a more beginner-friendly distro. Ubuntu is broken in my opinion. Partly it's due to its success. There are too many beginners using it and if you search the web for answers you get lots of cargo-cult advice and copy/paste solutions. Arch Linux has the best documentation[1] I've seen, not just for it's own parts, but for tons of Linux-related software. It's technical but concise. It helps you gain understanding instead of simply grabbing an easy solution. Macs are the polar opposite. Everything is "easy" but it'll cost you $30 to buy an app to fix your mouse and you gain no useful knowledge through the experience.

1. http://wiki.archlinux.org/
I'm a Navy veteran and a liberal. The tone of this article really makes me cringe because not only is it anti-military, it thinks our hearts should bleed for the so-called "Chagossian people." These types of attitudes give liberals a really bad name. I'll bet a sizeable percentage of Chagossians were very happy to get off that god forsaken patch of land in the middle of a vast ocean and cursed the day their ancestors were ever brought there. The Navy, and it's sailors, welcome such a place, and given modern realities, it only makes sense for the U.S. and Britain to make use of this strategic asset.

Any Chagossians complaining now are most likely looking for some sort of reparations, which most likely does not include being returned to live in the middle of nowhere on an island prison. It's unfortunate they are living in poverty in their new home. Giving them some sort of compensation would be best, but in the history of displaced peoples, that rarely happens.
That is definitely lower than I have seen (edit: for mid-sized plans at least). Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

Is that advisory only? I don't see any mention of that including recordkeeping and custodial services in that fee but do see them on another page.
How's that different from listening to any other human you interact with? Is it somehow worse because it's a computer rather than a human? That's the kind of bigotry that gets you robot uprisings.
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According to the article, landlords expect economic cycles to last 7-10 years, and the last bust was in late 2008. So the next bust can be expected to occur somewhere between late 2015 and late 2018.

It's already close to late 2015, so the halfpoint of the predicted period is only 18-21 months away. That fits your observation that landlords expect the bust to be less than 18 months away.
I mean using these things over the Internet. People play games over the Internet and use VoIP over the Internet. I think these are great technologies, and I don't want to cripple them by forcing them onto TCP.
This is a pulsed system - we send out 1us wide chirped signals, then listen for their returns before sending out the next signal. So - we know how far away a return is, but the tricky bit is knowing which direction it came from, since our beam pattern is so wide.

We do use a chirped signal in order to improve vertical resolution - convolving the outgoing pulse with the returned trace gives us the equivalent resolution of a ~80ns pulse, but with more power.
Did you mean John Conway or were you making a joke?
The only two options are never "not launch" and "launch but rip off another site's content."
I hate Facebook and what it does to people. There is nothing worse than sitting in a room full of zombies on their mobiles. Despite all the great tech my first thought is how satisfying it would be for one of these to be taken down by a ground to Facebook missile.
Ask HN: What is wrong with my resume and portfoilo?
This is my resume https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8b4MJypbW9Yc1FFYjM3aUZ1ZzA/view?usp=sharing , I would like to know what is wrong with it? I been applying to lots of jobs, and haven't got any offers yet. Earlier I applied to full stack developer, now I am just applying to junior web developer. This is the website I build for my portfolio: opusworkspace.herokuapp.com.
This is my GitHub page: https://github.com/Sujinthan
It just seems odd that these "extremist" hackers only made it easier for people to donate to Planned Parenthood in this time of "crisis."
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What would you define as non-monetary compensation besides health care benefits (which increase so quickly you could consider those benefits to stagnate as well).
So you agree that you have no such rights and freedoms. That seems like the practical view. The alternative is the path of craziness, filled with things like the "right to be forgotten".
Why does that count employee social security contributions, but not employer contributions? Both ultimately come out of your paycheck. The fact that social security contributions are split is just a fiction that makes the tax rate look lower.

It also sounds like it doesn't count state and local income taxes, nor property taxes or any of the many other taxes we have the privilege of paying.

The conclusion may well be correct, but the data presented doesn't seem to be nearly complete enough to support it.
Author here. Didn't really want to post this to the wider programming community yet, but oh well.

This is basically the first draft. Lots of errors and TODOs.

Source is here if you want to file issues or patches: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/doc/tarpl
I used to work at Google as well, and frankly I was so abstracted from all of this that it's absurd.

It's like finally reading how my car is an "intern-al comb-usti-on eng-ine" whatever that means.
You cannot combat climate change by producing electricity cheaper than coal. If that was the case, the market would find a way not to replace coal, but to consume the extra on top of coal.
Themes range from $0 to $30. No excuse for lifting a design wholesale.
> Philosophical question: is it really your life, if your software may be subtly persuading you in a different direction than what you would've taken if it hadn't been making the suggestions to influence you?

No less so than if your friends, family, coworkers, and society at large may be subtly persuading you in a different direction than what you would've taken if they hadn't been making the suggestions to influence you.

Does only the hermit truly own his own life?

> There is no doubt it will make things easier for you if all you do is effectively accept and follow everything others want you to with no resistance.

While that may be a danger to keep in mind, that's not what's being suggested. In fact, I'd argue much the opposite is being suggested.

Instead of being told what we want and adapting to our corporate overlords, would it not be preferable to communicate what we want, and have the companies adapt to us instead? To service our wants and needs?