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Logically, if you fear the government, you should also have a transmitting radio and a reloading bench (with a fat stockpile of primers) at home, solar cells, a PVC pipe filled with gold and silver coins buried in your backyard, a tamper-resistant dash-cam in your car, and a packed bag--with medical supplies--hanging by your back door.

If just a gun is enough to reduce your fear, you haven't been thinking about it hard enough. (Or maybe not playing enough Fallout.) Battles can be lost with poor logistics before strategy or tactics even come into play.

If you ever see a day where you need that gun against a rampaging government, you're not going to be able to make full use of paper dollars, public networks, broadcast media, retail stores, power grid, refueling stations, police, hospitals...

I think people actually keep guns because they fear both too much government against them and not enough of it for them.
I wonder if the domain name for this wry old industry observer is for sale : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
I've tried that (nicely), but it backfires too. Some companies are either old school or clueless on what to offer and have treated me pretty badly and called off interviewing further well into interviewing due not telling them that. E.g. "We've NEVER had someone be so stubborn about sharing their salary".

I realize those places were likely toxic, but it can be never-wracking to someone who needs a job.
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Getting the same results from my laptop at the moment also. Everything is returning 'Nothing Found' Error. It was working earlier today. (Can you tell it is Friday?)
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This worked of me:

http://lifehacker.com/unsubscribe-from-all-linkedin-emails-w...

Not sure if this is still valid.
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I've noticed quite a lot of LinkedIn e-mail is actually spam and phishing attempts. We are blocking about 5 mails per day per employee that aren't real.
FB for Work looks like a competitor for Yammer i.e. an internal social network for companies offering internal communication with notes, status updates, etc...
I'm really looking forward to hearing just how loudly Dave facepalms in light of this development coming out of France.
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LinkedIn is the king of "dark patterns" UI - every part of their website is optimized to trick you into doing something you have no intention of doing.
I searched for "moon pie" and didn't find what I was looking for. :(
To his credit, Sanders has explicitly said that a president can't change the country singlehandedly and a grassroots political movement is needed to achieve any meaningful change. Any supporter who thinks electing him is the end of it isn't listening to his message.
Just another reminder to never ever build your company for Wall street. In 2004, Netflix went from 40 to 2 in 6 months. Amazon from 89 to 5. There are entirely zero competitors to Linkedin right now (FB is nowwhere in the space). And while i agree the product has stagnated a bit - this in my view is another example of Wall Street's insanity. (and no, i don't own any shares :)
So much this. I revel in every bad result for LinkedIn, because they've built a wasteland of growth hacking dark patterns and practically demand I participate in it.
I remember running into a similar issue with my W520.
The WiFi card had died and, given that this is a simple mPCIe card, I simply ordered a replacement.
Turns out, Lenovo hard-codes the valid PCI IDs in the BIOS (some sources said it was for FCC compliance) and refuses to boot if you plug in an invalid card. In the end, I had to flash the BIOS with a cracked one I found somewhere on the web to get the system running again...
60% of the article is bragging. Justified but not amusing.
Quote:"Before then, very vew people had any personal photos, or music, or home movies on their computers."

Sometimes I think Apple guys are megalomaniac, but this guy beats it. It looks like it happened due to iMovie, not to the newly born digital cameras or Napster.
Thanks for the insight. Though most of your peers I've dealt with only frame it as "what's your current salary" not expectations.
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few of? Pretty much everything in my mind.

Still such a sadness that XSI got bought, they had killer engine integration(treating a game engine as first-class citizen inside XSI).
I have literally several hundred request from random people to become a contact. Linkedin (years ago) lost what it had which originally attracted me to the service. That was some kind of real and exclusive way to have contacts that you either knew or you felt would be beneficial in some way.

The biggest joke is the entire concept they have of using a connection to connect you to someone else who they know. Which of course depends on the definition of "know" which with linkedin means literally nothing.
False dichotomy. You can avoid code duplications while using the "right" abstractions.
Wouldn't it be simpler to dictate that if you own a commercial warehouse over xxxx sqm you must install solar panels, or allow them to be installed.

Give large incentives, better rates, it's not like the nuclear industry don't get a helping hand.
Yeah, another way of saying "even though nothing happens, we're saying something really does happen. You just have to believe!" Why bother saying it 'really' happens then? Just admit it; its a figurative change? Instead of saying its real somehow, followed by a description of exactly what a figurative change is.
But, I like Twitter. I think LinkedIn has plenty of room to fall farther.
FBWork is for internal company communication. Does it let you connect to others externally? Does anyone use LinkedIn for internal communications?
i almost wish they spammed me so i could get some free money. i don't get hardly any mail from them.
> People who don't understand that change comes slowly in the US, and requires serious organization to push through the house and senate...

A lot of people new to the US political process (that is, get consistently involved beyond simply voting, even more involved than voting in primaries), do not understand the slow pace of change is a deliberate feature designed-in from the start, not a bug. Normative slow policy change means it is just as slow to implement adverse policies as well, giving time for citizens to put in the effort and time to roll it back just as slowly. Hence Benjamin Franklin's "...if you can keep it" quip.

What we see as alarming, fast-paced changes today are the culmination of generations of dogged efforts at policy changes frequently made opportunistically rather than specifically goal-directed, incubating emergent adverse behavior given rise by generations of insufficient citizen participation assiduously maintaining the republic's edifice.

The US political arena has its version of Usenet's Eternal September, where newcomers arrive (often timed to presidential elections) in a fresh, eager batch putting in tons of time and effort, then ebb like the tide when they don't see the results they anticipated (forgetting Bismarck's dictum that "Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.") within 1-4 years. Only a smattering remain to welcome the next batch. When life changes (job-related moves, children, extended family medical issues, etc.) enter the picture, it filters out even more (interesting relationships to explore here between most citizens unable to find stability navigating those life changes, and political participation). It's a stamina-oriented sport with results often measured in decades, and the work that produces real results is often very tedious and distinctly lacking glamor.
> "Developers create new libraries because they hate other developers style choices."

Haha, that is so me :)

I think you're onto something here: I see the same proliferation of libraries that do almost the same thing in both Perl languages and Perl does chant the mantra of 'there's more then one way to do it', which does result in vastly different coding styles.
Well, they had a security breach in 2012 that leaked 6.5 million unsalted password hashes:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/06/6-5-million-linkedin-passwo...

They have also been sued for stealing users' e-mail address books and spamming all their contacts with invites:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/23/linkedin-sued...
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LinkedIn is full of people trying to get people to pay attention to them... but the people they are trying to impress aren't really on LinkedIn (they have a profile but that's it... they don't use it as an actual social platform).

In that sense LinkedIn is mostly a wasteland.
LinkedIn is primarily used to professional networking outside your company. Keeping in touch with ex-colleagues, recruiting, sharing industry-specific posts, etc.

Facebook at Work is aimed at internal networking, so communication among large teams, company news / communication, etc.
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I'm sympathetic to your point. But publishing in the Portable Document Format isn't the worst.
I have no experience with property-based testing.
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Also, it's a terrible Plan B, but it's still a Plan B to keep in mind: Windows still has semi-adequate WebDAV views in Explorer. OneDrive for Business is still WebDAV-based for instance. (I've also seen and used several backup and NAS tools that have relied on WebDAV.)

There's always the ability to use a SAMBA server variant and be a network share. Still a lot of dumb Windows apps that fail on network shares, but most of those are long in the tooth and should be retired anyway (and the tried and true Map Network Drive is still a power user workaround).

It looks like one application I use (JungleDisk) is somehow faking a removable drive (such as USB). I'm curious how they've built that.
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Absolutely. Every time I log on, I feel like I'm going to accidentally email my entire contact list.
Oh that's a great name for a pattern. I can't wait for Craigslist to release their software migration tool, the Craigslist Strangler.

"There's another important idea here - when designing a new application you should design it in such a way as to make it easier for it to be strangled in the future. Let's face it, all we are doing is writing tomorrow's legacy software today. By making it easy to be strangled in the future, you are enabling the graceful fading away of today's work." -Martin Fowler
I strongly doubt it's the same people in both cases.
>I fully agree, but I also doubt that Sony or LG are able to create a good enough OS for the consumer market. (I cringe when I think about the Smart TV OS they use on their TVs)

They don't need to. Stock android is stellar since 4.2. Just make the hardware and get out of the way.
GitHub sucks for releases and is wget unfriendly
Add a spreadsheet, select new spreadsheet, cannot select/edit a cell.
I'm not from the US and I'm genuinely curious about something - if you are afraid of the US government do you therefore see the enormous power of the US military as a good thing or a bad thing?
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curious about how it works/was developed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11036894
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The obvious example would be netbooks. MSFT moved very fast to counter Linux on that front.
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I don't get hardly any mail from them, either. It's several times a day "updating" me on my contacts, even after I have unsubscribed several times.
>Moore's Law isn't over.

The "transistor count" version of Moore's Law has been saved by multiple cores. The speed version hasn't been true for single core performance for years.

> You are asking us to believe the recent past means that we will not get more single cpu performance increases over the next 10-20 years.*

Moore's law is put in specific time terms -- transistors/power(speed) should double every 18 months. So if this hasn't been the case for the recent 2-3 years, then Moore's Law is already broken -- no belief required. The fact that it's very possible we'll might see another CPU speed breakthrough in, say, 2022 or 2028 or 2050 doesn't change that -- as Moore's Law talks about sustained improvements over 18 month periods.

Besides, few in the industry disagree that the Moore Law is pretty much over. That's a great motive behind all the talk of optimizing multicore performance, functional techniques etc.

>And you're saying that a 20%-30% (6x-13x) improvement over then next 10 years won't make a big difference? If Atom was 10x faster, would it be more useable?

As already said, this 20-30% is "at best" and covers specific benchmarks and uses, not general speed. And nobody said this is sustainable long term either. After a JIT engine reaches a specific point of sophistication, there are few things that one can add to make it even faster.
Heh, this reminded me of when Z-100 used to say: "if it's too loud... you're too old."
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Cool project. How long until the norm of video capture is 3D? Funny that they put the nose & mouth on it to "reduce creepiness". I found it had the opposite effect on me.
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I don't see how this is relevant. Do you want to see Github implement your favorite feature, but at the same time the bugs introduced in the new version breaks the existing functionalities? That's what this library does. It ensures new bugs do not take down existing functionalities.

Multi-version execution is an active area of research [1].

[1]: http://srg.doc.ic.ac.uk/files/papers/mx-icse-13.pdf
Sounds like there's reason to think that a video only Tinder-style app might succeed; instead of sending text messages to your matches, you'd send them video messages. You'd probably need some kind of face recognition built in to only allow videos containing people's faces to be sent (to avoid obvious user experience problems that would be present in an anonymous dating app).
To me, it looks like a project worth believing in, despite what might be considered to be a substantial lack of glamour. Perhaps, one way of looking at it is that the author knew it was right and useful and pushed the rules...incidentally, the sort of rules where nobody is going to get hurt.

To put it another way, I suspect that submitting the same thing about once a month or so, is line noise when it comes to spamming Hacker News. And if the content were bad it probably would have been flagged to death at least once. It hasn't been, because it's good but unnoticed.

It could be it went rather unnoticed because each submission wasn't tweeted to a bunch of friends for upvotes, it never was submitted to product hunt, and the author doesn't search engine optimize on Medium.

And anyway, as this comment by me illustrates, meta discussion is often dull. Hence, generally discouraged by Hacker News Guidelines.
"We've NEVER had someone be so stubborn about sharing their salary".

If I heard that and felt I was going to walk away anyway, I'd be tempted to throw back "How much do you make?" And watch to see if they squirm to not share.

If they came back with "what I make has nothing to do with this position you're being interviewed for" come back with "then neither does my previous salaries, if they do then I need to know how much other folks in other positions in this company make so I can gauge whether I think this company will still be here in the future."
Untrue. I lived and worked as a software engineer in Chicago (downtown) for a number of years before moving westward. Most mid-career developers I knew there were comfortably in the 100's and only one worked at the CME ('finance stuff', in C++).

It boils down to simple economic rules. If you're good at developing software, there aren't a lot of people like you looking for a job and the market has a high demand for your skill then you are probably doing something wrong if you're not earning well into the 100's or higher (if that is what you're trying to optimize for).
A good overview, although missing Vanadium Redox Flow batteries (liquid battery), which is one of my favorites.

Redox Flow batteries can be pumped into storage tanks and distributed (theoretically anyway). In contrast, the entire set off Lithium Ion battery needs to be connected to the grid to take advantage of its storage, you can "pump" Redox Flow batteries into storage tanks to increase capacity without increasing power.

For day/night cycle storage (or longer), I'd expect Redox Flow to be more cost efficient than Lithium Ion, despite LiIon having numerous advantages (density / power / etc. etc.). Mainly because you can save on "Power Output" and instead build larger and larger tanks to store the charged electrolyte.

LiIons get more and more expensive ($$$ per KW-hr storage) the "bigger" they get. Redox Flow batteries achieve scalability (cheaper $$$ per KW-hr the bigger they get). I do realize I'm imprecisely using the word "bigger", but I hope yall will forgive me on that :-)

My personal favorites:

1. Pumped Hydro -- Old technology, but a favorite of mine. Very simple design, just take advantage of lakes that already exist in your vicinity and use the water in the lake as a gravity storage device.

2. Flywheels -- Store energy by spinning a heavy object. Spin-spin-spin... spinning and gyroscopes are cool.

3. Vanadium Redox Flow Battery -- Liquid batteries, how cool is that?
Plots, not attacks. There is an important difference.
I'm a localization worker by day and DJ on the weekends... I understand your point haha. But we can't escape the curse, I indeed try do 'different activities' but at the end of the day I'm just switching laptops. Translate? computer work. Programm? computer work. DJing? computer work.
That's a bit of an oversimplification of the comparison. The right to bear arms is in part a check against tyranny (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United...), in that if the citizens are armed a corrupt government may have to be stopped by force. So from a historical perspective there is a clear acknowledgment that a corrupt government's laws may need to be broken to fix a corrupt government.

The initial comment is wise to point out digression in thought from the founding fathers and our current attitude toward government.
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LinkedIn is turning into such a mess.

There is no etiquette. Recruiters just spam random people for connections. Users share stupid things that belongs on Facebook. Groups are almost unusable. I'm not even getting into all the dark patterns to crawl users' mailbox and contact list, deceiving "connect" links that actually invite a person who is not even on LinkedIn, etc.

I don't think I ever got a single job through LinkedIn.
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Can this be used in a Rails project?
They have also made it over time exceptionally hard to deny a connection request. It used to be in the e-mail notification, then it wasn't and on the profile page, now it seems to only be in the event/notification drop down from your home page.
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Or how about the phony "people you may know". They suggested I may know my 4 year old Niece because somebody uploaded the email address created for her into their system. She definitely doesn't have a LinkedIn account, but they portray a profile-photoless "shadow profile" as-if she does.
Personally, I don't want someone else storing my private keys; which is a pre-condition for doing anything you'd have to worry about in the browser anyway.
I'm not speaking for Keybase, but their approach so far is to fill these roles in compatible ways.

As an infrastructure provider, they open source the client software and design it to trust the server as little as possible. They also endeavor to document the behavior of the server so that, in theory, you could build your own Keybase-compatible server.

As an economic entity, they're positioned to tackle the issues that open source projects usually face, like support, development resources, UI design resources, and "where do you put all of this encrypted data" by getting their most needy users (mostly businesses) to pay them.
I wonder if that's why the manager of a Grease Monkey endorsed me for parallel algorithms... I see bogus endorsements so often.
If I were Assange I would stay there until David Cameron or even the Tories are out. But maybe he is tired of staying there and wants to take his chances on the outside.
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The US is currently adding jobs and adding jobs in tech, their issue is probably competition (LinkedIn is not the only game in town).

Mobile revenue was 80% of Facebook's revenue in Q4 2015.

Update: after looking at their revenues they might also have some currency troubles, they have far more international revenue than I would have guessed (~38%).
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There are so many condescending programmers out there; it makes asking questions on SO painful.
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Where's the harm? It's not a commercial product.
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I think this is the key issue that really muddies the Snowden issue.

I completely agree with Snowden's leaking of the domestic spying program information, but he also leaked a lot of information not related to that. Foreign spying is basically what the NSA is supposed to do.
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Sure.

That's why $FB stock is -5% down.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=FB+Interactive#{"lineColo...
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Nostalgic fun is a good way of putting it. I find myself doing this sometimes with friends as more or less a joke. If people outside my closer group of friends do it I actually find it pretty annoying.
Sounds pretty believable. I do wonder if that one where "My boss told me I wouldn't be able to get promoted working part-time" is counted as a rejection though.
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I don't get your comment. If the product is buggy, isn't the QA to blame and should thus get the axe first?
Good. Terrible website. Extremely over-valued.
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>They are a huge player with many expensive software suits. But they are not very innovative.

Compared to what? "Disruptive" social sites and Uber for X?

There is orders of magnitude more computer science innovation in Autodesk than in the average "unicorn".
It's still owned by the same guy. http://fuckedcompany.com
One _can_ host their private key(s) on Keybase (you need to to use in-browser tools) but you don't have to; can instead use Keybase cli, or gpg directly.
I did that one time! I changed my title on my profile. It emailed everyone I know sayin I got a promotion :-(
No sure I understand. Wall Street had certain expectations of LinkedIn's growth. That was reflected in the stock price.

I was incorrect. Q4 earnings were great, it was the fact that LinkedIn released 2016 guidance that was far below market expectations.

[LinkedIn released their earnings and they were way below expectations, so the stock took a massive hit.]

Does that seem unfair to you?
oh, whoops, I thought I had it in there. I did get an invite, though, so no need to worry.