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jwn··on 5G’s Rollout Rattled Hundreds of Pilots
ASRS (https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/) is how both private and commercial (including ATP) pilots can anonymously and non-punitively share safety or otherwise concerning events.

The goal is data collection to assess and prevent incidents. NASA's intake on the reports are not anonymous, but their public reports are. NASA functions as the filter between pilots and the FAA/NTSB.

jwn··on SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
That's an interesting perspective, one I had never thought about yet rings absolutely true.
jwn··on Ask HN: How much did you, as an employee, make when your startup exited?
This happened to a company I co-founded. My common stock was bought at about 1/3 of the lowest price given to early employees for options. (I had RSUs, not options).

I got $130k, and their options were worthless.

Luckily the acquirer offered retention bonuses that helped dull the pain, but of course those are taxed at regular income and not long term capital gains.

Oh, and like a previous comment mentioned: the VCs have preferred stock so they get their investment back 100% before any common stock sees a penny. If employees had the same stock as VCs, I estimate I would have walked away with about $400k.

jwn··on Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
Well that's strange. The company was founded in 1976, so it was certainly plausible that they would be an early domain registration, but 1996 wouldn't qualify as that!

I wonder why you got a different date back?

jwn··on Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
This must be missing entries. For example, look up ca.com:

created: 1985-01-01

Making it 2 months older than the earliest dot com on the list.

jwn··on Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?
I find cursing at the bot gets me to a human right away. It's also therapeutic.
jwn··on DigitalOcean begins CEO search
Because the CEO skillsets to grow a company from 1-10 employees is massively different than the skills required to take it to 100 employees.
jwn··on Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages
Can you offer any more insights? What's the reality behind OTS?
jwn··on The FastMail Security Mindset
I don't know if any Fastmail employees read over this, but thanks for finally adding TOTP to the list of 2FA methods! I had been (uneasily) using SMS and wishing you guys would up your game, and I'm glad to see that you did.
jwn··on Vault 8 – Source code and analysis for CIA software projects
Top Secret/Sensitive Information
jwn··on Google NetStack: IPv4 and IPv6 userland network stack in Go
Can someone explain what the use cases for this are?
jwn··on Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you
Unlike the Juicero, bottled water provides added value in that I can have access to suitable drinking water when I otherwise would be forced to drink tap water.

Before someone replies that tap water is perfectly suitable for drinking: Sure it's safe, but I have never had municipal water that didn't taste bad. Never. Maybe I'm just spoiled because I have a well that provides tasteless water.

jwn··on Devuan Jessie 1.0 RC
Anyone care to explain why SystemD is so contentious to the point it's worth forking Debian?
jwn··on How Bank of America Gave Away My Money
Maybe you can elaborate as to why this is the correct course of action? I've never heard of this office.
jwn··on Ask HN: Digital Nomads: How do you manage taxes?
Awesome, nice find!
jwn··on Ask HN: Digital Nomads: How do you manage taxes?
>> Canada for example says right on their immigration website that if you are working for a company not based in Canada and are paid from outside of Canada then there is no problem.

Where does the Canadian immigration site say this?

jwn··on Indiegogo to launch campaigns combining perks and equity investment
As far as the SEC is concerned you are correct, but it's possible to have additional (contractual) restrictions placed on a stock grant.
jwn··on Indiegogo to launch campaigns combining perks and equity investment
I assume the GP meant something similar to restricted stock, where you are severely limited in selling and transferring of your stock until certain preconditions are met (change of ownership, IPO, etc).
jwn··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
That's fantastic! I'm not too far from you (Lake Wallenpaupack region) and I've always wanted to start a WISP, but the lack of housing density out here makes it less than economical =(
jwn··on Rust is mostly safety
I really want to love Rust, and while I understand the Rust borrow checker in theory, actually using it in practice has been a major headache. I tried Rust on a simple terminal-based project, and after a week of feeling that I was getting nowhere I switched to Go and had a proof of concept in several hours.

With that said, can you recommend a good source to really understand best practices and patterns for ownership and borrowing? I feel that's the biggest hurdle to using Rust (at least in my case).

jwn··on Show HN: Primitive for macOS
I'm glad your charging for this. I took one look at the output and immediately decided that it's something I would pay for!

Buying it now...

jwn··on How Does the Electoral College Work and Is It Fair
But the Electoral College has nothing to do with the party primaries that stuck them with Trump in the first place.
jwn··on The internet is actually controlled by 14 people who hold 7 secret keys
"The group conducts the ritual, then each person files out of the room one by one, and then they all head to a restaurant and party."

Well, I now know where I would attack if I had any interest in a takeover of DNS.

jwn··on JDK 9 release schedule
Good answer, thanks =) My question earlier was an honest question, asked out of curiosity...
jwn··on JDK 9 release schedule
Looking at http://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/, I don't see a whole lot of value compared to JDK9. What's your basis for wanting 10 so badly?
jwn··on GitHub Audio
This would actually be pretty rad if I could narrow down the events to include only those from Github organizations that I care about.
jwn··on Security for Open Source Code: Dynamic Analysis Is the Only Way
I'm not sure what you mean by #1, the builds are as reproducible as the build system being used.

For #2, SourceClear doesn't build the software under test, it's hooked into the build via various methods. For Maven and Gradle, those are plugins. For NPM and Bundler, the existing build files contain the complete dependency graphs as determined by the build system. The analysis is quite accurate, I daresay more so than any other tool. Yes, it requires implementation work for each build stack, but that's the price you pay for accuracy.

In response to your #3, SourceClear doesn't report only vulnerabilities verified by call paths, it reports on all components will known vulnerabilities and denotes if a call path was found.

Disclaimer, I'm a Co-Founder and have spent a great deal of time writing scanning code.

jwn··on The Math Inside the US Highway System
I assume because they are both loops that spur off of 495. It's definitely confusing, but it seems consistency in numbering won out over unique-ness.
jwn··on Ask HN: How can I become a proper Project Manager from a Programmer?
I've recently gone from Developer to Technical Product Manager, and I believe the following traits are important:

1) Communication on both a technical and product level. This allows you to act as a bridge between sales/marketing/management and the developers. See #2

2) Speaking two languages: Code and Product. This is where being a former developer comes in quite handy, as you can only learn Code through writing it, but you can implicitly pick up the Product by thinking like a non-techie and paying attention to what they care about.

3) Keeping a focus on the big picture during a project duration. As a Product/project Manager, you need to understand timelines beyond 3-6 months and make sure you're not shooting yourself in the foot for later. This is tangential to what you may have read in the Pragmatic Programmer.

4) Product/Project Manager can be squishy terms, meaning that the responsibilities can vary by company. Often you'll be left to ensure all the ends of a project are wrapper up: testing, documentation, communication on releases, etc.

There are probably many more things, but those are off the top of my head. Good luck!

jwn··on The Plan to Save a Life by Head Transplant
I think that underscores the point about flexibility in naming operations ;)
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