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Ask HN: Being heavily recruited by First party tech firms
I have no idea how normal this is outside the Bay Area. Maybe it's quite common. I am not in NorCal. I'm being heavily recruited by internal recruiters from all the top tier tech firms, top startups, and a few top finance firms. This is all unsolicited, without any major connections, and from internal recruiters that work at the firm they are hiring for. I am probably the best at what I do or within the top handful in the world. I don't have any particular negative factors pushing me away from my current position. My current job situation is quite positive. What's your thought process when approached by such firms/people when you don't have a particular incentive to leave your current job? Do you talk to them? Do you go for the interview?
Interestingly, I have an MBP that's eight years old now. It has maxed out RAM about where you're at (4GB) and an SSD... and it's running Snow Leopard. And I get beachballs less often than I do on some newer machines running higher releases.

This is one of the things that makes me think the OS is declining.
You're making a meme-worthy argument.
Yelp in 2014 Q4 had revenue $110M and a profit of $32.7M [1].

Its revenue for Q4 2015 is $154M and a loss of $22.2M [2].

I see that there is an income tax expense of $20.3M in 2015 and other depreciation costs...but is this change in profit with growth in revenue typical?

[1] http://www.yelp-ir.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=250809&p=irol-newsArt...

[2] http://www.yelp-ir.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=250809&p=irol-newsArt...
Even if he resigned, he resigned under duress. This wasn't an "I'm spending time with my family and kids" resignation/firing; it was a "oh shit we're screwed, we need to mitigate the damage and throw Parker under the bus to save the company". It's very likely he was a big part of the resignation discussions.
Nice friend. You end up costing me money if you SMS/MMS me while I'm not in your country.
They probably just use NVME over m.2.
Essentially, Germany made it clear that they didn't want Street View. So Google took the hint.
This just has to be a hoax. It's too conveniently packaged to be true. Bad spelling and grammar make it less believable.
Google has the best-paid CEO in the US
Is this coincidence or what? Yelp CFO also resigned. Two executives from two different sinking ships.

Paypal is getting murdered by Stripe. Yelp thought it could raise stock prices by buying traffic. Something had to give, someone has to take the blame.
> If you say things like "But Germany is an exception because X", then think why East Germany couldn't be as rich. East Germany was about as poor as West Germany after WW2.

West Germany was an exception because the US, primarily, poured vast resources into it as a bulwark against communist expansion, both ideologically and militarily, into Western Europe.

The reasons why that doesn't apply to East Germany are, well, pretty obvious.

> Similarly, Korean split was another one of those examples.

Well, yes, there is a similarity between South Korea and Germany...
FYI the exact wording depends on the browser, but all HTML5 video elements will have that context menu option. And other options like "Copy URL", "Loop", etc. depending on the browser.

Of course some websites like youtube override the context menu event to prevent that from showing.
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I'd say Newgrounds is the modern day Newgrounds. I don't have Flash installed, I went to Newgrounds, and the first couple of games I clicked on worked without Flash while others still required it. If there's new or old content that still requires Flash, then it can be emulated. Here's an example of a large collection of games playable in an HTML5-based emulator: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

As for other HTML5\WebGL focused sites, here's an example of a site making HTML5 games: https://ga.me/

And here are a couple of sites indexing WebGL games:

http://www.webglgames.com/

http://www.webgl.nu/

So don't worry. There's lots of HTML5 game development going on.
> You can buy PC laptops with the same "just works" fidelity as apple. More options open up, and you can save yourself a fortune, if people would just eschew their brand loyalty.

What do you consider a fortune? $1000? $1400? That's about two days of my time consulting. I'm fine paying the premium for what I consider a better experience. It's not brand loyalty, that's for sure. I've had a terrible, terrible time trying to get work done on Windows 7, Windows 10 looks like a train wreck, and there are no Lenovo stores I can walk into same day and get a replacement like I can with an Apple store (which is in every major metro I visit).

Build a better experience, and I will gladly pay for it. Until then, Apple (grudgingly) gets my dollars.
What do you predict will happen to Yelp this year?
Leaked Twitter API data shows the number of tweets is in serious decline
My Twittersphere is telling me that Alden's coverage of the company has brought this all to light, then I got thinking about what a great hire that was for BuzzFeed, poaching him from the NYT.
> no-additional-cost professional-grade IDE since 2003

You paid for that by spending $XXX more than a PC on your Mac. (posted from a mac but I make no delusion that I didn't pay for XCode)
No reason to be hostile. We investigated months back when we got reports from our users, who are professional videographers, that videos were showing up much worse in some browser situations than others. They sent us screen shots, and upon investigating found that on almost every clip we were getting better results using two different flash players we had access to than the native decoder.

I don't have some big official report because, well, that's not my job and I have better things to do. You're welcome to investigate yourself if you're concerned about it.
I've been contemplating just checking in the build folder.

It does feel like a code smell, but it'd make deployment easier.

Our frontend is Javascript, wherein there's no worry about native modules.

Our backend is Python running Pypy, so there's no native code there either.
How to bootstrap a social network with Firebase and Ionic
Why do those laws exist in this case? What's the danger that they protect against?
1. Make money

2. Make more money

3. Make so much money
Women Made Incremental Progress in Tech the Past Few Years
RICO cases are limited to a small number of serious crimes, like kidnapping, extortion, arson, drug trafficking, and so on. They don't cover breaking insurance regulations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...
Anyone who wouldn't care about having the battery glued to the chassis also would not care about the 1mm difference between making it removable or not.

I also think on at least the Android front Samsung has consistently demonstrated the ability to make phones with both SD cards and removable batteries for years without compromising form factor. The S3 / S$ / S5 and Notes 2 - 4 were all extremely thin profile despite supporting removable batteries.

This is just misdirection to try to persuade people its a good thing to remove choice. It is not, it costs basically nothing in manufacturing or size to make the battery / ram / hard drive removable, and the only reason Apple / Dell / Samsung (now) / every other Android phone manufacturer does it is either to rip you off on overpriced battery replacement or drive planned obsolescence to make you buy more shit you really wouldn't need if you could just replace your damn battery two years later.
This was the guy that publicly rescinded a job offer on Quora, right? What a colossal dick he sounds like.
> I hear that it was compliance-related

The buzzfeed article cited elsewhere in the thread goes into to details on at least one of the major compliance problems: most of their policies in Washington State -- which has rather strict, including potential prison sentences, rules on this -- were apparently sold by unlicensed brokers, in violation of both the law of the State and Zenefits contracts with insurers.
"The Zenefits spreadsheet covers 132 unique insurance policies sold or serviced from November 2013 through August 2015."

Is that really all they sold? Utah had pretty dismissal numbers as well. How did they get to multiple billion valuation?
Could it perhaps be related to the recent LinkedIn plunge?

http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-earnings-q4-2016-2
It's only available in US, here is the direct link for others countries: https://www.bing.com/widget/t/speedtest
The max speed I could get was 120Mbps down / 130Mbps up (from Switzerland)
Why is Yelp untouchable by the FTC or DoJ? The company gets up to some really shady stuff but hasn't faced much punishment if any.
What Is the New Periscope App?
David Sacks joined Zenefits about 13 months ago, so I presume while as COO he is somewhat responsible, it seems far more likely his opinions being different from Conrad is what led to Conrard's removal.
Well, come on. A few days ago 3 news stories about companies losing stock value. Now, 3 stories in a row about company executives resigning. What's going on in the Valley? :O.
...seems like pretty basic advice, but I find it very helpful - thanks for making this comment; my own project, zejoop dot com would benefit from a landing page makeover along these lines. I have struggled with this (a clear landing page and CTA) so, a straightforward, easy-to-implement formula helps. Thanks!

(edit for clarity)
So they licensed the core Alexa tech? Or it just uses the API?
Mad Catz CEO and chairman resign day before earnings report
New Ways into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’
I think that commenter meant that he wants to be able to separately declare physical and logicical layout of datatypes, and be able to assign multiple physical representations to a single logical representation, for different places they might be stored. I'm not sure how I understand how this would offer a benefit over just explicitly converting between identical logical representations with different physical representations, and it would definitely increase complexity.
I can't upvote this enough.

A year ago, I wasn't sure how much longer my ancient (but still functioning!) 2008 MBP would be going on. So I went shopping. Found the same tradeoffs Marco mentions here: I didn't like the sealed nature of the newer offerings (and also, AFAICT no screen density can make up for the inexplicably missing matte displays).

I ended up buying a used 2.6Ghz i7 8GB 15" matte MBP instead of anything new from Apple, though.

About the only complaint I have is that Mavericks seems neither as stable or as well-performing as Snow Leopard, which seems to be the last time Apple released an OS that was a strict improvement over previous releases. Too bad it's no longer safe to run given the state of updates.
When we see that two events are correlated (which we need some kind of statistics to do), we can tell a story (a theory, or an explanation) about how one event causes the other. If the explanation stands up to rational testing over time (where statistics are an important tool), then we have gained knowledge - one plausible explanation of what is "beyond appearances".

Therefore statistics are useful both before positing an explanation, and after to falsify it.
Enhancing the Local Delivery Experience with Customer Engagement
But there is already a monopoly. By TRAI over 1.25 billions.

If this discision was taken at state or city level, would be much better. Otherwise citizens/customers lose either way.
Perhaps, but I run an entertainment site targeted towards consumers. You'd think that we'd never need to support IE8 or even IE9, right?

Well no, about 10% of our traffic is from people sitting on those two browsers at work. Some of those people are even still running Windows XP, forcing us to use SAN instead of SNI certs.

There's a few traffic spikes in the day. Pre-8am, when people check the site before work. 12pm when people are fiddling around at work, then post 5pm when people are home from work, then 10pm before people sleep.

We even have a web app, but nope, people prefer to use the desktop version even at work.
Trying to operate an Uber/AirBnB style ignoring of regulations can work when you're dealing with hundreds of small time, underfunded municipal governments. But when your regulators are federal and state level you have to straighten the ship real quick if the eye of Sauron looks your way.
Ancient Egypt wasn't all that isolated. They had threats from the west, south, and north.

> Like, I believe that China did have periods of peace that would have been long enough to develop liberal democracies. China was the strongest country in their region,

China was not one country until 220 BCE, and afterwards, they had to adopt an imperialist expansionist policy to shore up their borders. They had a long period of political stability, but they still had to defend themselves from threats without. Democracy only happens after all these are removed so the population can build up the political will to challenge the power structures.

It has a flow to it, the building up of democracy. Power flows outward from the ruler to an aristocracy, which eventually engages in trade, building up the merchant class. In order for citizens to want to participate in a democracy, they need to be economically well-off, this means something like a middle class.

Countries go through these phases all the time, but only in a really geographically isolated place can they actually build to the point where there's a real democracy.

> sure they had borders to watch but they were just as protected as France or Germany during their conversions to democracy or republics.

France's democracy disappeared quickly with Napoleon and to me is an example of why isolation is absolutely essential to safeguard freedom. French Republican armies were nigh-invulnerable, and this whetted their appetite for empire. Napoleon gave them what they wanted. Again here, the world at large ruined their ability to self-govern.

Germany's revolution was not a democratic one, but a socialist one. The socialism of the day was totalitarianism in democratic clothes, this to some extent remains true. Populists turn autocratic very quickly after getting elected. Germans of the era were every bit as militaristic as the French were after the Revolution.

> being cast off from europe (their legacy bureaucracies didn't suppress innovation), being free-market inclined, having a group identity ("American") that all migrants can share, practicing freedom of religion and inheriting the british common law framework.

These are all outgrowths of geographic isolation.

The reason Europe left them alone was because it they were too busy dealing with each other, America was too far away for it to ever be more than a side-show.

A free market flourishes in the kind of democratic environment that comes from isolation. Remember the Dutch and the British were the commercial masters of the colonial age, both nations were extremely well-isolated.

The group identity aspect Americans took straight from the British, it's a very British idea.

English common law is, again, one of those social innovations that can only come from a long period of time where there is no credible external threat sapping public will to uphold legal freedoms against aristocratic depredations.

You should read the very excellent Inventing Freedom, it elaborates on how British legal and commercial innovations came to be.

http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Freedom-English-Speaking-Peo...
Executive departures are normally planned months in advance, not 3 days.
Indeed it was: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-start-my-caree...

A pretty big clue, of the "writing in the sky with fire" variety.
Bring it Home by the LOCKERZ. Song to cheer on the England squad euro 2016
Scams are rather common in the insurance industry. The consequences of a bad insurance policy are why regulation is important.
PayPal a sinking ship? Getting murdered by stripe? I call bullshit - do you have numbers to back you up?
> RICO cases are limited to a small number of serious crimes, like kidnapping, extortion, arson, drug trafficking, and so on.

Mail and wire fraud, which can include pretty much any knowing misrepresentation for commercial gain using the covered media, are among the predicate acts for RICO, along with the offenses you list.

So, it may not be as far out as you seem to think to imagine RICO applying.
After a few years of fiddling with Windows and Linux on a custom-built PC, I'm looking to get a computer that "just works", as this is a time in my life when I really can't afford to deal with any hassles (not that there was anything particularly bad with my setup; it's just the little things that add up). I had my eye on a Mac (mainly for OS X), but it's increasingly looking like a bad time to get one. Is it really, or are these complaints overblown? I'm having some trouble sifting through these conflicting experiences on my own.
My position is that learning functional programming lies within the grasp of many if not most programmers if they put in the necessary effort, and well worthwhile as it will make them better programmers as they will then see ways of solving problems that hitherto wouldn't have occurred to them, or are painful to implement in other languages. I wouldn't be put off a language (whether Haskell or Lisp) simply because some of its programmers come across as a bit condescending.
Parse Server
fraud?
Walt saying this publicly is the trigger, not the fact that it's sucked for years.
The bubble is burs* * * slap * slap*
B-b-but according the paypal's shiney new superbowl ad, paypal is 'new money'.
Something about chatting with clients or prospects on someone else's page/domain bothers me. I think your pro plan should have an option to brand the chat page with your client's own sub/domain.
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You can relax all the laws around gun sales, ownership, brandishing, etc. but shooting somebody will still be a crime.

The moral equivalent with drug laws would be drunk driving. (And I think that kills more people than guns.)
Ah you beat me to it. I was going to say he must have watched their Super Bowl commercial and figured it was all downhill from there.
> That "is really hard to curb," he said. "We can't essentially babysit adults and their behavior."

We need more people like this in government.
The thing I like C for is the simplicity. Writing C after working in a very verbose language for a while is refreshing. That said, my few wishes for a C replacement would be generics, methods, and namespacing. The last two are to avoid funky naming schemes everywhere. Maintaining the proper low level control and simplicity would be a top priority though.

Overall this project looks interesting. I'm interested to see where it goes in the future and what design trade offs end up being implemented.
They do a lot of things with business accounts that is irritating. For example:

- they should be able to remove the annoying "USE PAYPAL CREDIT FOR THIS??!?!?!?!?!" overlay.

- show transaction ids on the payment confirmation page,
rather than making us navigate to a 2 more pages after paying

Oh, and not sure if this is related to just business accounts, but I have to log in twice to get logged in. Some kind of cookie bug that's fixed exactly once if I clear cookies, then starts happening again.

And, lastly, since I see you have a few disputes/chargebacks...their chargeback handling process is horrid.
The biggest problem with flash video, to me, is the slow networking and buffering. Native browsers are optimal for such work, ActionScript not so much. Things improved but it was too little too late and Flash video deteriorated its quality further as its use in an automatic fallback to HLS streaming video -- native implementations are simply faster and smoother at playing back video than AS through Flash's convoluted APIs.
That's it! End of speedtest.net
Doesn't look like that uses homomorphic encryption.
Different industries. Apple Computers and Apple Music happily lived side by side until Apple got into the music business.

Sure, they're both on the same platform in this case, but I think most users will be able to tell the difference.
Yeah, I think the most troubling piece of this is how hard it is to figure out if something illegal was going on. I'd say it's definitely a point in favor of just listing your home on the open market rather than doing a pocket listing (a private sale without listing). Even if you really trust your agent, pricing a home is really hard and is best left to competing buyers. It sounds like a lot of these sales were "listed" by realtors who already had an offer in hand when they contacted the owner so they weren't really soliciting the open market for highest and best offers (which is definitely a violation of their fiduciary duties).
Looking at Paypal's Q4 2015 statement, they made $500 million in profit on $2.5 billion in revenue, up from $400 million in profit on $2.1 billion in revenue from Q4 2014. If that's what a sinking ship looks like, I'd love to be on board!

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-4BS3R8/148031109...
Ask HN: What hosted Virtual PBX/VoIP/VM service do you use?
Interested in finding out what your preferences are, and why you chose them.
Definitely should download Alfred (on Mac App Store) as a replacement for Spotlight. I use it basically for launching and quick math, etc. but it can do almost anything.

It doesn't have any of the slowdowns that Spotlight does, and it still has a small interface by default that can move anywhere on the screen.
> - As a bonus, in that OS, all apps would be webkit/js-based. But I'm dreaming.

Oh good heavens no, that's the absolute last thing I want from a OS.
liquidity event ... :-o
That's not quite what the wholesale rate means in the US; we have what you describe but it's typically referred to as the spot market. The wholesale rate when used by politicians and the media here usually (as far as I know) refers to the monthly auction clearing rate, which is much more stable. There is also a day-ahead wholesale rate, but the net metering rollback bills I've read recently are all based on the monthly auction rate.
<Every unit I send back to the grid is a unit that doesn't need to be delivered by the power company but the power company can sell it to my neighbor for retail price.>

Your entire premise assumes that there is an immediate, local, retail consumer who will buy all of your production the instant you produce it. Under the net-metering model, the utility has to pay you retail for the power even if it is surplus and unsellable.
"kidnapping, extortion, arson, drug trafficking, ..."

Interestingly, "criminal copyright infringement" also somehow got on the list of RICO predicate offenses. Guess someone had a good lobbyist...
I wonder if there was something they delayed accounting for in Q4 of 2014 that allowed them to have that profit. What do the numbers look like for the quarters in between?
While your concern is valid - patronizing and disrespecting the poor is rampant - I don't think that's a consequence of observing this effect; there's usually a prior belief. After all, the evidence is actually against the "subhuman" hypothesis - it shows that the reduced quality of the decisions is specifically a result of the environment, not an innate deficiency of some individuals.

Also, the assumption that everyone is rational is no longer unquestionable, ever since behavioral economics started gaining prominence.
<<Which is interesting because most companies spend ages coming up with the correct values for the company and it usually involves feedback from employees.
>>

"Operate with integrity", "put the customer first", and "make this a great place to work for employees" seem like pretty generic / good values (that are probably based on a lot of experience Sacks has from Yammer).

The fact that they are called out in this email seems pretty telling of why Parker had to go...
More like,

1. Survive until next year
2. Survive until exit