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2 hours each way sounds absolutely, life-alteringly, macro-level awful to me. It boggles my mind that someone would consider that "a little on the high end for a commute" - it might be a worthy tradeoff all things considered, and "totally do-able" in that one can do it...but personally (and I'd expect for many people), I wouldn't be happy if I was in a position where I had no choice but to be commuting for 4 hours.

Yeah you can fill that time up with podcasts or audiobooks or that sort of thing, or work for a Bay Area tech company with a work shuttle and maybe-kinda-sorta-work along the way, but you're still giving up 2-3 hours of free/unconstrained time (one might make the argument "but I would be doing the same things at home anyway" but in my mind there's a huge difference between those two situations).
I'm saying that those in charge know that bombing the country is ineffective against ISIS, but they do it anyway. Why would they do it if they know it's ineffective?

As for flying in to save civilians, I'm all for it, but let's stop dropping bombs on them first.
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I think that was the thesis of that season - what was the nature of the evidence used to convict someone to life in prison.
> The government often claims that they will not use gun registration records to seize guns. So far they have not. But they have the information, and they could try to do it, so it is a matter of trusting the government.

No, its a matter of seizing the guns itself being prohibited by the Constitution. This is not analogous to the case at issue, where the Court would rely on the governments promise not to do what the interpretation of the law the government asks to be upheld would be allowed, instead, what is proposed with regard to the 2nd Amendment is trusting the government not to do something that would be easier with information it has as a result of the interpretation of the law it advocates, but which would still be prohibited by that interpretation. While there may be a problem with that, its not the same type of problem, and bringing it up is mostly inviting a derailment of the thread rather than adding anything to the discussion of the issue at hand in the article.
After watching the video I don't think it works at all... It just looks like a LASER making a flat shape. The camera only ever shows it from one angle. So I am very skeptical that it actually works.
I'm currently tasked with creating a new version of my company's Intranet system and have been looking into the different CMS options out there and talking over choices like SharePoint and OpenAtrium with my co-worker.

Would you recommend DjangoCMS for an Intranet? I'm planning to implement collaborative content tools and a company wiki (probably going with MediaWiki) on top of keeping features we've already got, and the only external applications we deal with are ADP and BST.

I'm a LOT more familiar with Python than I am PHP, so finding a framework I can hit the ground running with would be huge. Thanks!
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> This really struck a chord because I've spent the last couple years working on a productivity app and it took me a few iterations to get people coming back. It uses spaced repetition to help users remember what they read on the web.

I wouldn't exactly classify this kind of app as a productivity app by my thinking. I would call it a utility app. I'll try to articulate my rationale.

A productivity app, in order for it to be useful, has to take something people normally do as a routine task in their lives, like make purchases, somehow better / faster / more queryable / whatever. It aims to make everyday life better.

A utility app aims to take something people have already chosen to make a real effort to do, like learn a language, and amplifies their efforts. Once you've chosen to undertake whatever task underlying the app, 90% of the onboarding is already done. Now it's a question of choosing which method or app to help out. Utility apps really do compete with other apps in their space.

This is what separates enterprise expense tracking with what I'm building. Enterprises already have the legal and financial need to be aware of what they're spending, enough so they can hire people and pay them money to make it their quest in life.

Most people, well, don't. They have this amorphous understanding of what's in their bank account and how much they have to spend and what their bills are, seeing this all down in black and white is likely only going to depress them. Even if their corporate job is accounting and they already have the skill to manage accounts, that won't necessarily translate into the need or desire to do it in their home life.

A productivity app, as I've defined them, is categorically interested in changing a person's lifestyle. It's the whole point of the app, without lifestyle change there's nothing. I fully intend the to-do manager I'm building into my personal app to fully overtake how I conduct my work day, my after work time, and weekend time. That's the whole reason I'm building it, the vision in my head of how awesome that would be is so compelling, that it's worth spending 10000x the time I would spend earning the money to buy someone else's app, on building my own.

It is for me, by me, can only work for me, because only I had the thoughts and lifestyle that makes building it worth it. I believe that this kind of integration is the desired end point of all productivity apps, if it doesn't accomplish this, then it's really a waste of time, bound to eventually end up in the dustbin.

I read GTD awhile back and thought it was amazing. But there's a real reason he never really endorsed any software tools or made a software tool a primary component of his system. My to-do component is heavily GTD-influenced, but it is designed to work with other, physical aspects of my life.
I don't think it's entirely fair to characterize Americans as being "controlled" by the media or the government. If the president (Obama in particular) had that much power to influence popular opinion through propaganda, we would have an actual national healthcare plan right now.
I think calling this title misleading is more than a bit off the mark. Any competent developer should be able to achieve a few lines of code talking to APIs without a library. I also don't consider a curl command to be a line of code anymore than I consider an ls or rsync command to be a line of code.

That a post doesn't meet a reader's expectations doesn't in any way mean the post is being misleading. Unless, of course, they'd added some additional language to the title to imply they weren't talking about using their tools. Which almost never happens on HN.
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Why aren't big online publishers more concerned about the junk that the ad networks are attaching onto their sites?

If an expert like Google can't even ensure that ads don't auto play or include sound effects, what hope is there that they can protect against malware and other dangerous content leaking in?
Good on you for persisting with it.

I developed a mobile manual entry personal finance tracking application as well, stuck with it for two years, but I'm back to manual entry using Ledger because of the pain in the ass it is to enter data on mobile, whereas I can use automation to import my various bank accounts data (e.g. https://github.com/cantino/reckon) with Ledger.

The reporting on the data is the gold, for me, the mobile app didn't really add that much value, so I just gave up.
We already "punish" people who are duped into buying stolen property (by confiscation of that property), so why should people duped by other illegal activity be treated differently?
> Now I realize that software is the wrong tool for the job.

tl;dr: most productivity apps are marketed to disorganized people. I say target the already organized and make their lives easier by automating all the things.

For getting lazy or disorganized people organized, yes, that's going to take more than software. But, there may still be a market for taking the result of the manual process (like the one your grandfather uses with ledger books) and digitizing it. For example, "whitelines link" are notebooks that make it easier to digitize written data cleanly by taking a picture of it. Evernote (or any competent OCR program) could then turn that clean digitized version into text. From there, all the data could be organized, broken down by category, etc. You could automatically generate any number of reports based on that information and, most importantly, it's all backed up in case something unfortunate happens to the physical ledger.
Wow, that's... indisputable. What can't this community be relied upon to correct?
Here's what I wrote:

Expecting Americans to weaken encryption systems is analogous to mandating that all physical locks succumb to any copy of a government master key. This certainly violates the spirit of the fourth amendment--especially when you consider that the amendment explicitly guarantees the privacy of citizen's "papers, and effects".

Such a mandate would also be counter-productive in terms of reducing non-governmental intrusion. Building by-pass mechanisms into these systems inherently provides additional avenues for circumventing them. Returning to the master key analogy, if a copy of the master key was leaked into the public, the locks on every home, car and business in the entire country would have to be replaced or otherwise be rendered useless. Similarly, if, after significant research and experimentation a criminal or foreign organization was able to derive or otherwise reproduce the master key, no lock in the country could impede them.

The arguments of the few who oppose access to strong encryption as a human right imply that they consider it to be a weapon. If that's the case, then it's a right recognized by the second amendment.

Then again, while the pen may be mightier than the sword, communication is not truly a weapon. Sticks and stones can break bones but words and information are ultimately unable to cause direct physical harm.

The willingness of some men to overstep their rights and engage in violence is why we are called to count the cost of eternal vigilance and not give up our liberties for a little temporary security. This is government's raison d'etre: to protect us from the sticks and stones while upholding our inalienable rights to free speech and voluntary association--rights which also clearly encompass access to encryption.
It wasn't immediately clear to me that I had to bring my own database. That makes this product less appealing. I would love it if I could instrument Segment and get a redshift endpoint to query my data, but didn't have to set it up myself.
You're not exposing the PIN number. Properly designed card readers make the dialpad hard to read for anyone looking over your shoulders (you obscure it with your hand and there's a guard thingy around so they can't see your fingers).

And the machine itself checks the PIN against the chip. No sending anywhere, no checking by the clerk.

You only have to trust the machine itself. If you don't, you're fucked anyway because who says a hacked machine will only charge as much as it says it will?

Card+signature is security by "something you have", Card+PIN is "something you have and something you know". That's much more secure.

A signature isn't "something you know" because it's written on the card anyway. If it's not written on the card, then using the signature doesn't do anything in the first place. And nobody checks those signatures anyway. This is why for large purchases they ask to see your ID.
> Artwohl compares police work to defensive driving, which is about “expecting something bad is going to happen. It’s not about dealing with normal traffic flow.”

> “We should go out there and expect something bad will happen and watch for it,” she said. “If we are not paying attention, we could die.”

If that's how she views defensive driving it might shed some light on her approach to policing.

I don't think defensive driving means expecting that at any moment something horrible can happen. It's more about being aware, anticipating events, preventing problems, and having a plan B. And it's very much part of dealing with normal traffic flow, responding to common road conditions in a defensive way that prevents problems or at least offers you a good response should a problem occur.
> Someone, somewhere, either felt like they couldn't blow the whistle without getting fired (obviously a problem) or management knew about the rule breaking and just didn't care (which is a bigger problem.)

Don't forget somebody blowing the whistle to the hierarchy and a middle-mangler (of justice) "losing" the call. Feynman recounts multiple instances of manglement ignoring or railroading warnings and whistleblowing from engineers and workers, both in and out of NASA, when they didn't fail to consult with their report entirely.

Here's a verbatim quote from "Why do you care what other people think" (norton paperback, page 185)

> When I left the meeting, I had the definite impression that I had found the same game as with the seals: management reducing criteria and accepting more and more errors that weren't designed into the device, while the engineers are screaming from below, "HELP!" and "This is a RED ALERT!"

And top manglement may not only know (and not care) about the issues but cause them, see this other quote a few pages further (194) in the Software Group section (Feynman had been very impressed — positively — by the engineering discipline of the shuttle software group)

> One guy muttered something about higher-ups in NASA wanting to cut back on testing to save money: "They keep saying we always pass the tests, so what's the use of having so many?"
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> Only have to take leave for weekends in certain situations, like if you're taking Friday and Monday off and will be out of the local area the entire time.

That's because a normal weekend is simply a two-day liberty. But one's not truly off-duty; one's commanding officer may direct one to show up instead (he may cancel leave, too, but that's a different process). When one is out of the area, one is no longer physically able to return to one's work station within a short length of time, which is why leave (vice liberty) is required.

Unlike the civilian world, the military ain't a 9-to-5 job!
Given that I don't walk around with my phone in my hand, it takes about the same amount of effort to pull a card out of my wallet as it does to extract my phone from my front pocket and then find the app to pay with. No thanks.
If your connection to the world is via a phone and computer, you will be replaced.
About to do an exit interview tomorrow, and this article resonates with me, in the general case.

There are also the cases of pathologically bad employees, or just underperforming.

However, in some cases, it is personal. It's not some growth stage for the employee--they could well be leaving an early employee role because you, the founder(s), have fucked up. You've found yourself with an employee putting out tremendous amounts of work, transferring their knowledge, coordinating their team even as they're leaving, and who generally would be great except for the fact that, for some reason, they're leaving.

Things you should be asking yourself and your employee:

Did you ignore, multiple times, their domain expertise because you {thought you knew better, couldn't afford to follow it, felt like it, didn't like them}?

Did you support them in front of their team? If not, did you support them at all? Did you respect the chain of command, or did you reallocate their resources under them?

Did you lie to them? Was it for a good reason, because of {team morale, need-to-know, legal liability}? Whether or not you ever lied to them, did they feel like they could trust what you said?

Did you give them information when they requested it? Did you give them resources when they requested it? If you didn't give them resources, why not, and was it worth it in the long run?

Did you spend enough time with them, communicating not just about work but bullshitting and building a friendship? If you didn't, was it because you {were busy, had other leads, didn't like them, are an "introvert"}? How did that lack of communication factor into their departure?

Did you display any competence at all by some objective metric in your facility as leader? Whether or not you did, did the employee feel like you were competent?

And yeah, I think you should feel bad. You've wasted their time and the company's resources because of your mismanagement. If you're really luckily, maybe you can learn from it and keep from losing anyone else--because if you don't, you don't deserve to be followed.
> Note that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" is a precondition, according to the 2A, for a "well-regulated militia", not vice versa.

That's a fairly strained interpretation, especially given that where the 2A sees a necessary pre-condition (well-regulated militia to the security of a free state) it expressly identifies it as such: a more reasonable interpretation would be that the 2A is based on the strongly implicit premise that right of the people to keep and bear arms is at least useful to a well-regulated militia, whereas a well-regulated militia is a necessary precondition for a secure, free state.
I believe that teaching customers a standardized and widely used markup language such as HTML will be very valuable.

You do not have to use HTML as the ONLY option though. There can be two views, one HTML view witch contain only the blog post in HTML, and then a rendered preview including design and layout with contenteditable.
I think it's as much about repeat customer intel as it is direct revenue. Like loyalty cards. Then if they get into the credit business, via app or otherwise, it's fees and fines and interest too.
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Do you still have the previous versions of the site?

I did like the places/travel pages.
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I use it instead of a repl, to be frank it used to be a pain but it's quite transparent now.

Ctrl+enter your ns declaration gives you an instarepl in your project/file
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I don't think it has a single thing to do with Slack... Atlassian's main product is not Hipchat, it's Jira. A product which thousands of large enterprises use and pay a ton for. And has nothing to do with Slack.
I think you're mixing up the concepts of leave, liberty and duty. Libo can be secured without you being on duty; you can't leave the base or do other things when liberty is secured, but you're not on duty just because liberty is secured.
Can you use Apple Pay without an Apple device? If not, then the only way it could see mass adoption is if Apple devices got quite cheap.
Go's scheduler is a single threaded event loop, like every other scheduler on the planet. It runs, sequentially, in different threads which makes the situation confusing, but it's still single threaded.

It's also cooperative. An infinite loop will effectively kill it (a single infinite loop will kill it before Go 1.2 I believe, but now you need enough of them). More importantly, there's a number of simultaneous syscalls that will kill a go program.

I like about go that it's moving the OS into the application. The thing is, Go's OS is not a very good one. It doesn't have the basic isolation that OSes provide. I hope it will improve.
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That sounds harsh but is more or less accurate. It sounds like the developers fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of productivity apps on mobile. They fell into the trap I've seen a lot of others fall into, which is taking a task normally done on a computer and building a mobile app out of it, without considering why users would want to actually perform that task on their phone.

Expecting someone to create and file their expense reports entirely on a phone is absurd. Most workers would prefer to do this kind of thing at a computer, being on a phone will simply slow you down: lack of a real keyboard, tiny screen, poor multitasking, etc. There's no reason to prefer a mobile app for this task over a desktop version.

Mobile productivity apps are generally best served as companions to existing web/desktop apps. Either to provide access to your data when you're not at a computer (not really relevant for this app), or to improve the workflow of something that would normally require a computer. For example, you might consider it a pain to have to save your receipts so you can later scan them into your computer and import them into your expense tool. A mobile app can improve this workflow by allowing you to immediately take a photo of the receipt when you get it, and having that receipt automatically synced into your expense tool.

Off the top of my head I can name two companies (Expensify and Shoeboxed) that provide this ability. That these guys dismissed their competitors as "heavy and complicated" seems to have missed the point.

Taking this experience and concluding that you shouldn't build a mobile app is simply throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Timeline author here.

History seems to prove your point. At Missive, we add features on top of emails (collaboration). Our goal is to create enough value to justify a per user monthly fee.
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In the case of stolen property, that's mostly because the property needs to be returned to the original owner. Zero sum and all that. You don't own the property because the thief who sold it to you did not have the rights to transfer to you; the rights are retained by the original owner.
Followup (too late for me to edit): The designer, Ray Larabie, says here¹: “After Canada's 150th birthday (2017) I intend to release it as open source. There might be some revisions before then.” — and some other interesting things, like: “The idea of irking the design profession was part of the attraction to this project”.

¹ http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1267/typeface-to-accompany...
Pure checksum verification would hardly be something worth posting.
They're taking credit and debit cards, so they have to pay some amount of transaction fees as a built-in part of that. I see nothing where this is any more beneficial to the consumer other than 'it's Walmart' vs. Apple Pay/Android Pay/Samsung Pay/etc.
It's a concern, but it also pays the bills. You can easily concern yourself out of business.
> I'd argue that this not the case, that morality is a philosophical question.

It's as much a philosophical question as health is a philosophical question. Yes, in some sense, it is, but much less so than people generally think.

(It is also true that almost everything about life can be analyzed philosophically in far more detail than most people think, but then again, you don't really need much philosophical sophistication to figure out that not coughing your lungs out is preferable to coughing your lungs out, and analogously that not killing homosexuals is preferable to killing homosexuals--once we have that sorted out, sure, bring on your philosophy.)
I had the same experience. My first 5 or so dives, I was burning through air like crazy. I also had some pretty serious underwater-anxiety that I was dealing with. I spent some time just hanging out underwater without scuba gear, basically doing ~30 second underwater meditation to help the anxiety go away and to practice controlling my breathing, and my air consumption went way down, plus diving is way more fun when you're super relaxed and just moving around using the most minimal motions to propel yourself.