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> That's why I'm always a little skeptical about hiring leaders from one-trick pony companies.

I'd put it this way: hyper-growth makes everyone look great, but hyper-growth is often a one-off event whose causes are obscure.

When someone gallops into town riding a white exponential, ask whether that person had any direct causal influence over the genesis of that exponential. If the answer is no, evaluate them as if they held the same position in an average firm.

Unless you designed Google's original search or AdWords, "worked at Google" =~ "worked at IBM."
Pretty nice to see that it is still in the news... pretty soon I fear it won't even be newsworthy.
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> If you have conservative leaning ideals

You very much have an opposite side of the aisle wether you want to admit it or not.
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That's the part that's most alarming to me. The incidents are tragic but the long term consequences will also be bad. Xenophobia is getting much too common and a lot of people are pretty open about it now. Brexit hasn't helped that and if further countries follow suit it's only creating more divisions. Every attack like this (although we don't know anything about the perpetrators in this incident yet it's pretty safe to assume) just gives more fuel to the xenophobia in our society.
What is the team size?
After spending hours yesterday teaching a colleague about webpack, babel, configuration, etc, this is exactly what the React community needs. Finally some fucking sanity in the ecosystem.
Android was an acquisition?
[note: I work at a company that allows telecommuting and I currently manage 5 engineers in two different locations]

I wanted to expound on "The bar to communication is lower when they're so accessible."

I think a lot of communication involves understanding the culture (and by this I mean 'the way someone views the world' and not a more the mainstream sort of 'they are asian' type of definition) of a person. The speed at which you are able to understand a person's culture (what technologies they like and don't like and why, what they're previous jobs were like, what type of family did they grow up in, what jokes do they like, etc, etc, etc) increases drastically when they are working on site, and it's usually small bits of downtime (lunch, coffee break, shooting the shit late night) when you learn a lot of this stuff. Not having this understanding comes with a communication cost, and it's not just for the managers, it's also for the engineers they work with (and it goes both ways, the telecommuter is going to have a tougher time understanding the culture of their coworkers/manger).

Which isn't to say this why my company doesn't allow telecommuting (on the contrary, we do), but I think this nuance is hard to put a tangible dollar amount on but is very real. Additionally this does happen eventually with remotes (I have two great ones that I really think I understand) and there are things you can do to facilitate it, but it is harder.
The current trend seems to be a mod locking a controversial thread and commenting 'some of the comments are unacceptable and we don't have time to babysit this'.

Which annoys everyone who didn't leave an unsavory comment and also begs the question - if you aren't into babysitting threads then what did you expect the role of a mod to actually be, and if there aren't enough mods why not get more?
Given the price range, yes. Even though USD 10K sounds a bit too low for a VNA, even a simple one.
ah yeah, I actually use a macbook and surface pro 2 at the same time as pictured: (http://imgur.com/a/fqf3P) combined specs are actually similar to a new mb pro (combined 512 gb ssd, 16 gb ram, ~4.7 pounds), and cost is less, given that the sp2 was bought used so total ~ $1900.
> Are there more than two genders now?

That question needs unpacked further:

(1) Are there more than two gender identities? Yes.

(2) Are there more than two socially ascribed genders? Yes, given that (1) has achieved a significant degree of acceptance, as has aligning ascribed gender with identity.

(3) Are there more than two grammatical genders? Depends on the language.

(4) Are there more than two arrangements of sex-related biological traits? Yes

(5) Are there more than two of any of the items in #1, #2, or #4 on which people might preferences that would be relevant in a dating app? Probably.
Here's the crux. We currently decide both values and facts by deciding for actions and policies, and decisions using popular opinion will therefore make errors about facts. How we negotiate facts and values should be different.

We could define what our values are, decide if it is just to use potentially violent force to enforce laws that forbid substances that have detrimental health effects and flesh out what we mean by a detrimental effect, what the threshold of that is for different age groups -- these are things that are pretty anthropic, can't be decided otherwise.

We can then collect facts about which substances fit into our decided categories, and avoid making mistakes that fail to serve the values we chose.

If (because the fact process, being human, is imperfect) we find new values for facts, we can adjust policy and actions without readjusting the values side of decision making.
Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
Let's do this again. It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue.
Advertising. AOL owns, or owned, a very large number of programmatic advertising companies. Yahoo! plays in the same arena.
Granted, some things like hot module replacement and generators are not necessary, most of the others are (isomorphic rendering, code splitting, sass, dockerization).

I'm not saying you need those things for your personal react app going into production, but when dealing with bigger teams for a critical app they really become important tools
This is all I ever want in a React boilerplate, but everyone feels the need to throw a bunch of random shit into them that others probably do not even want. Glad they kept it sane and simple.
> Couldn't they just offer a "facebook-certified" starter pack/bootstrap?

No, because Facebook engineers don't use or need that. Facebook only open sources or releases stuff they use—except for this. This is actually the first and probably only open source project from Facebook that they don't use in production.
A trait either is binary or is not (being binary is, itself, binary.) A trait that the vast majority of the time takes on one of two values, but other times takes on other values, is not binary.
That's fair, I'll have to clarify myself a bit further. I didn't think of the undersalted/oversalted thing as having two properties at the same time (basically means it is inconsistent, the dish might be both, but you can't taste both). I think it can be likened to the Shepard Tone[1], in the sense that the means a dish can be feeling to get saltier and saltier, and suddenly it's undersalted, without a very strong negative delta.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
So you do remote pair programming?

I have found this to be quite productive.

Real-time communication with voice, but also the visually shared WIP.

Is this your experience?
Seeing as that terrorism is one of the few problems that would literally go away if we ignored it, I hope news readers do become bored with it.
And now kickass torrents is back up. Sky didn't fall that hard.
This is now close to where I live and the worst part is that this seems to happen now regularly. Merkel is a traitor.
Flagged into oblivion within 20mins. I was hoping people would choose the 'hide' option instead of flag but no they chose to kill a discussion for other people they don't want to part of anyway.
Our last hiring round was for a senior system administrator. We currently have 10 student workers "underneath" this position, and something like 30 percent of the employees time is spent mentoring students to do the work. We're okay with occasional work from home days, but a 100 percent remote person is basically a non-starter.

There's a number of tasks that cannot easily be done remotely:

1. Recruiting and Interviewing students.
2. Installing equipment into datacenters.
3. Letting customers into the datacenter after hours.
4. Face-to-face student mentoring.

Hiring a 100% remote employee essentially means a substantial shift in in the other employee's (ie me) duties.

We recruited for this position globally, but a number of prospects were only interested in working remotely. It makes sense for the prospects -- remote work frees up a family to follow one spouse's career. It makes filling positions harder obviously. But the only way we'd be able to accommodate that equitably is by dropping the focus on student employees, and we'd need a lot more cash flow to make that happen.
And it doesn't accept

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, either ("Usernames can only contain letters, digits, dashes and underscores, and should be between 2 and 15 characters long. Please choose another.")

I hope I remember this word if I ever have to teach how LZW compression works. It's better than 'banana'.
It's smearing him as an atheist. He's saying that southern baptists would be okay with electing a Jewish person but not an atheist.
I am not debating whether you should or should not store files on S3. I can see use cases for both using S3 (or some alternate storage).

My point is that - even in the case for django configured with S3 in this docker tutorial, there is absolutely no mention of this. The "dockerized Django" example in the documentation destroys your uploaded files every time you restart the container. Most of the "Dockerizing <whatever you want>" that I have read so far miss the maintaining state part. To me, that is overlooking an important point.
You just perfectly described the problem with Front End Engineering that this tries to tackle.
Man! The fact that such explanation even came to your mind ... It would be hilarious if it wasn't a such tragic indication of a new low police have reached in public perception and the cost of it shouldered by the blacks and others.
Software engineers provide immense value, I highly doubt there is any misallocation, however with other jobs, what if their wages are suppressed because of the lack of a strong market presence and intense competition prevents wages from rising.
Palm built a mobile device 7 years before the iphone...
This is a wonderful idea. I know at least three people in my family who do all of their computing on their smartphone. My fiancee is one of them. She only uses a computer when she needs to edit some documents. I think this would be an ideal accessory for her, but she uses an iPhone.
It's also a lot simpler and effective for anti-piracy agencies and LEOs to make honeypot torrent files or even just peer on existing torrents. You can monitor all the IPs in flagrante delicto that way... running a torrent site doesn't catch anyone red-handed per-se (particulalry with magnate links) and is a lot of overhead.
I don't recall when/where it came from, but for example the unix mount command uses "path ::= name colon path" delimiting for things like NFS and other "protocol based rather than physical disk" filesystems. And along the lines of what you say, yes it could have been borrowed, but probably from PIP even if it was indirectly via CP/M, Amiga or whatever.
I assume you've read this excellent piece: https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

Centralization is a massive advantage in the UX area. Finding a way to achieve the same agility and coordination in decentralized systems is an open problem.

Pretending the problem does not exist is not how to solve it, nor is moralizing. (Not a response to you per se, just in general.)
What's also impressive and maybe sad too, is that he received a free education outside of the United States.
Sad because he couldn't get educated for free in the the USA.
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What leads you to believe that their explanation is not acceptable? I'm not saying I don't believe you, but more information about why you hold this opinion would be interesting to me.
I have worked for a 100% remote team for 4 years. Most of the concerns I see being posted here, I believe have more to do with the inability to hire well, the inability to efficiently communicate at the inter and intra team level, and the inability to operate as a remote-first company.

Below I document how to successfully run a remote company. I work for a successful startup receiving regular accolades for our product.

Hiring:

Never hire very junior unless the person shows extreme talent combined with superior communication skills. Generally you are looking for people that are: highly efficient, organized, responsible, disciplined and able to stay on task with limited oversight. They should be self-starters with numerous projects they can point to that they delivered on their own.

Product engineering:

Near all communication happens in Slack/Hipchat/etc. Group meetings, when including remote people, happen in skype / Hangouts. We use shared google docs to brainstorm product and document specs. We use Trello to translate those high level specs into actionable stories. Use github to organize code reviews. You need a results-driven mentality. What did a developer deliver this week? This month?
Weekly standups on Google Hangouts + monthly 1-on-1's with each developer can give you a good sense of how well a person is performing.

Culture-building:

Have in-person meetups 2-4 x a year for beneficial face-time and for people to get to know each other better on a personal level. Have monthly video conf/hangouts on non-work technical topics where people rotate presenting. Have a separate monthly book club to discuss technical or nontechnical topics.

Onboarding new people:

First, never hire very junior people.
When a new person is hired, have them do 20 min 1-on-1's with all team members to get to know each other and their job role. Pair them up with a another person to work on a shared project. Have them paired for several projects before releasing them on the own.

I am happy to answer any specific questions if you have any.
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It seems in most reason given here, it is because the onus is on the junior developer to seek out the senior developer's help on-site, but it is not encouraged for a senior developer to reach out to a remote junior dev.
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> The only other alternative is that you think consumers should pay higher prices.

I don't think anything in this particular matter. I don't use Uber and I don't work for Uber, so I don't really have a dog in this race. However, I don't see how Uber not charging enough isn't a valid viewpoint.
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It's an odd difference, but that's actually alleging he's atheist. Being Jewish is considered preferable to evangelical voters.
"people naturally think in words, not in spatial relationships"

I think you may be committing the typical mind fallacy. I often find I have to consciously shove words out of my phonological loop so that I can focus on visualizing a concept in order to understand it.
> A lot of people

Well, I'll push back on the phrase "a lot", but point taken.
Exactly, and ironically terrorists of all stripes seem to be converging on a mutually xenophobic, isolationist ideology. It is unfortunately the real face of that awful phrase from the W. Bush era, "letting the terrorists win".

Or at least, letting them experience something like efficacy in their fundamental goals. That should worry us more than it seems to, I think.
They wouldn't have seen it because it wasn't posted yet.
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I guess what I was trying to bring up, is that this has already been solved by a bunch of people already, but with a lot more features. We use Gluestick, but others use stuff like https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate
I wonder how anyone could believe that. In the Middle East they experienced terrorism for decades and it gets only worse.
> Simple questions like "would I find this argument acceptable if the outcomes were reversed" are important to consider

They can often be useful to consider, certainly, where they make sense.

> If that sort of semantic point makes that impossible to realize, then I don't really know what to tell you.

You could just recognize that sometimes the trick of reversing values doesn't result in a parallel (or even coherent) scenario to consider, because not every situation is symmetric in the way required for that to be a meaningful thing to consider.
That depends on how the deal is structured and what happens to the other pieces. This is where mergers and acquisitions get complicated. Part of Verizon's price tag might be assumed liabilities from Yahoo. Maybe part of the Alibaba stake gets sold to cover them. Maybe it stays with whatever the holding company remnant will be. Can't tell from just a public balance sheet and a headline. However, assuming Verzion is going to take on all $16B of Yahoo's liabilities when they are getting a relatively small portion of the assets is ludicrous.
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It may be "axiomatic", but is it true? Personally I'd feel far safer walking through dharavi (in fact I go here semi regularly) or bhaiganwadi than Baltimore or Tijuana. Yet the latter two are vastly richer. I also passed through a slummy area in Kuala Lumpur, never felt unsafe.

Are my perceptions wrong? Do you have any evidence to support your claim?

Also, why can't vigorous policing - rather than paying tribute to violent criminals - also solve the problem?
Integration with now.sh ( https://zeit.co/now/ ) and uploading to gh-pages is something that was cut for the release but we are thinking about doing :)
Then why a laptop form factor? Laptops exist to be lugged around.
I'm absolutely in love with your description of experiencing "the whole spectrum of what it means to be that vegetable." If you ever have a chance, I would highly recommend going to a farm to table restaurant (or just doing this at home if you access to high quality produce) where they bring you all of the ingredients they will be using that night for your meal raw to be tasted before the meal as a reference point of sorts. It's an absolute delight to anchor the experience of a meal that way and I wish more places would adopt the practice in some form or another.
What is your team size?
> One nefarious method malware could use to get data off the device without RF would be to play sub 20kHz audio through the speakers, assuming there was a device with a microphone near by that's able to receive the signal, and of course that the speakers can play a frequency that low.

did you mean to say "sub 20 Hz"? or rather the ultrasound between 20kHz and 22kHz?

it's a bit ambiguous cause both 20 Hz and kHz are lower and upper ranges of human hearing, respectively.

if you meant the lower, then no. mobile speakers already almost entirely lack power in the musical bass frequencies (50-150Hz roughly), let alone the infrasonic ones. if the speaker would even have a response to such a signal, it's not going to have a lot of range. .. a sub-20Hz audio signal has a wavelength of more than 17 metres in air, I'm not sure if that's physically impossible, but I'm having a hard time imagining that tiny tweeter to manage such a signal (my knowledge is mostly with digital signal processing, not entirely sure about what speakers can do, Bose has done some pretty amazing room-shaking bass with very clever tiny speakers, that seemed impossible to me as well, has to be some trick there). And then, doing it without getting harmonics in the audible spectrum! :)
No, but if your monoculture of tech-bros has not had to deal with half the internet shit that women and people of color do (Or have, for various reasons, not been deeply impacted by it,) then what you're going to get is a community where women and people of color are driven away.

I've never been stalked on the internet. I've never received threatening phone calls. I've never been personally harassed, or physically threatened. If by some happenstance, one or two people did any of the above, I'd probably laugh it off.

A company full of people like me is unlikely to consider those use cases as seriously as they should.
Why do you say "non-standard"? O_NOFOLLOW is specified by POSIX.
I think we see a top in the stock market and asset price inflation in the next 6-12 months. What comes after is sort of TBD.

Eventually we'll have real growth (and likely a lot of inflation with it), but what happens between now and then, how long it takes, how bad it gets, is TBD.

All in my humble opinion.
I will make the opposite statement about telecommuting. I have a rule that my team must telecommute. Everyone on the team with few exceptions must telecommute at least one day a week. Here's why. We have the technology for people to be remote. We've had it for years. I used to do it at larger companies, and honestly it was a pain at times. This is exactly why I make people do it. I don't want to lose people or lose out on ones that would be great, because we don't know how to handle remote employees. I have remote workers now that are vital to the team, and we all need to know the pain points they suffer, so we can fix it. It didn't occur to me we had issues until he brought it up in a weekly meeting to me that he felt left out on side conversations. Now we all do it, so we all experience the problems and we can figure out how to fix it. Really this is our approach to everything. Anything we have issues with we practice until we get it right and anytime we see room for improvement we make it.
My point wasn't to belittle the work, they did a great job, it was just pointing out how far you can go with something like this. This just doesn't have as many of the things people need as other similar projects do.
Yes, he did choose to violate it, in the sense that waiting until you've got 24 hours left on a visa to leave is just straight up bananapants crazy, especially when you are in a place where all sorts of things can happen that could delay your exit, and the legal system is unusually unpredictable (and the consequences could be unusually bad for you).

Accepting a certain level of risk that something bad might happen is absolutely equivalent (in terms of personal responsibility) to choosing to make that thing happen.

Example: drunk driving is dangerous. If you've had a lot to drink, and you get in a car to drive someplace, and you get in an accident, you take additional responsibility for that accident because you chose to increase risk above a certain common-sense level that everyone is aware of. Regardless of whether or not the accident would have happened without drunk driving, the drunk driver will be held accountable in a way that they would not have otherwise.

Waiting until you've got 24 hours left on your visa to leave Kazakhstan is so far beyond any common-sense threshold of acceptable risk (that pretty much any rational adult would be cognizant of) that it is equivalent to choosing this fate.