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I used to work at Bloomberg, where the terminal's MSG function supports editing and outright retraction of any message that hasn't yet been read (and thus, it also supports universal unfakeable read/unread status indicators on sent mail).

Once you try it, you never want to go back.
I find it insane that Uber gives out your phone number instead of handling communication within the app. How do they verify accusations of harassment etc.?
Digging further into his background lies Microsoft Excel.
Length negotiation has been discussed for years, but it’s not that easy.

Imagine user A negotiates a length fo 1024 bytes with the server, user B negotiates a length of 2048 bytes.

User B sends a message via the server to user A.

What happens?
Ask HN: Web app idea to get practice in realtime
Hi,

does anyone have ideas for realtime app with Angular 2 learning purposes?

I have some ideas game/finance stat, but it's mostly like a "study" cases and not useful..maybe someone have more interesting ideas for that?

I'm looking for realtime app with charts, indexes, maps, anything.

Thanks!
Does that include state taxes?
Your source for that is from Leah Rowe who has proven in this situation to be untrustworthy. Read the discussion on `gnu-prog-discuss`[0]. The employee being trans was not the issue.

[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg0003...
iPhone apps combined revenue ~$1k/mo, most popular unlocks a Mac using iPhone bluetooth mac address when it's in range.
I guess it's quick, but the apartments they are supposedly planning would seem a much better use of land.
what tools did you use to prep/record your videos?
I think that article is missing one important thing. "Web 3.0" needs a killer app! Something which is not simple to duplicate in current centralized web and still It's very attractive to web users.
> "Remember when cancer was a thing people had to worry about?"

As bacterial resistance to our antibiotics is growing we could get to this point where some one will say "I was really worried that it could have been an infection, but it was just cancer". That will make our movies an literature strange to people from the future as characters react to diagnostics in a completely different way that the one expected.
do not know why get down vote.

since when you get down vote because of different opinion in hn？
What a strange short article.

As a remote worker I'd suggest paying people their market rate and then some. Finding good remote workers is very difficult.
Standardisation is weird in IRC. From what I've seen, most of it that has happened has been the result of one group implementing their custom command/extension and then a bunch of other vendors implementing it in the same way (as well as all the interesting politics behind it all). There's a surprising amount that's been mostly-standardised over time, and not just from formal standards groups like the IETF or IRCv3.

Related, I've been working on these sites for a while which I hope can be useful:
http://defs.ircdocs.horse/
http://modern.ircdocs.horse/

Still, it's been really interesting to get into. It's nice seeing how things have gone so far and how they're going forward (and digging into the archives is always fun).
Given all comments. The customer support is indeed a sales guy responsible for contacting the customer, getting feedback, giving some advise and help...

Yes. All these things are part of sales. Especially in B2B context.
Makes me think of that 'Pilot' translator thing:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/meet-the-pilot-smart-earp...

Although I suspect they're going to be just regular bluetooth headsets as opposed to doing local audio processing. Still going to be horrendous latency to contend with.
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Why are people acting like a simple chatbot is somehow a recreation of a person?

It isn't a person, it's a chatbot.

There is even a company saying that they will try to revive people with a combination of chatlogs and brain scans or something.

Chatlogs aren't going to bridge the gap between what you can get with brain scans and what you need to do a full emulation.

Even if humanity does succeed in doing complete mind simulations, humanity will not have thereby solved death. It will have, at best, delayed it for a very very long time.

And then what? ;)
Pretty sure they don't give out your number. They use a MITM relay. When you call and text, it doesn't go direct, afaik.
>How do they verify accusations of harassment etc.?

Most likely? They do not.
How feasible would it be to do this year round? eg, do the trip schedules always overlap?

At $500-600 per week, one could put their stuff in storage, skip their lease renewal, and put a couple grand a month of rental expense towards this to reduce the overall cost.

My concern with that approach is that I would need to manage any intermediary periods where there was no trip. Shopping for short term housing is kind of annoying, and can be expensive without proper planning. eg, I wouldn't want to go live in a hotel from December 18th to January 7th, the time between the Bali and Argentina trips. I mean, I guess I could arrange to stay with family elsewhere, or grab an airbnb somewhere, but it'd be cool if that was handled too.

I also wouldn't mind seeing a program that stays within the continental US, with easy access to airports. I'm considering a couple of positions, and the more attractive one will require some occasional travel, which is easier to manage if it's not international.
This happens with any minority group. Race, sex, etc.

The irony is that being around other like individuals brings people together, and people naturally like that. The issue isn't that you're joining up with other similar people, but with keeping dissimilar people out.
If I were a women I would be a bit offended[...]

The implicit presumption here is that if you were a woman, your life experiences would otherwise be identical and those experiences would result in you feeling that way. I highly doubt that to be true.

I suppose you could say that growing up as a female with the attendant experience (harassment, unwanted touching/comments, assumptions about your role, etc) wouldn't change your opinion, but without having actually lived those experiences I wouldn't put much stock in that comment.

Now there are women who do feel that way and I respect those opinions. But as those groups do exist (and btw, a group geared toward women is not the same as "female-only") there are clearly lots of women who don't feel the same. The conversations between those two groups of women are worth listening to.
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I came here to say this :)
My experience is not unique, it's common.

'Single payer wherein you cannot buy private services' is basically unique to Canada, and is fundamentally part of the reason that the quality of care and services in Canada is so bad.

My fellow Canadians are smug and righteous about their system, thinking that it's superior to the American system.

Anti-American bigotry is frankly rampant in Canada.

I lived in the US (and abroad) for many years, while most of my peers have never spent more than a few weeks in the US - and their understanding of the system is nill, and comes from the highly biased and borderline propaganda they get from our 'State Controlled National News' entity - the CBC. I generally like the CBC, but they also support national programs, and most of their staff don't have the relevant experience or competence to make any assessment.

My position on healthcare is a lot more nuanced.

Canadians are almost religious about their healthcare system, they have little grasp of how things work elsewhere, and little awareness of how poorly their system fares against other system.
That's exactly the same on Slack, and people like it.
Author here, feel free to ask me anything.
> Homepage says supports up to 62000blocks per dimension, which, conrary to their claim, is quite small.

Indeed. Minecraft only gets ~256 in the Y-direction, but allows you to go ~30,000,000 in the X/Z-directions.
Programming ability is of course not innate, but the ability to learn to be great at it does seem to be mostly innate. You can overcome a lack of innate ability with hundreds of hours of hard work - but you'll never be able to catch up to someone with that ability who has also put in hundreds of hours of work.

That aside, nothing you said actually provides any support for your criticisms. Your comment can be condensed down to the phrase "that's wrong" without losing any meaningful content.

By nature, if you post an article stating the truth of the matter - that truly good people are extremely rare and that most people tend to be mediocre and some serviceable - most people will be outraged. Because they're the "most people" being called mediocre to serviceable.
Percentage of GDP sounds like an insane way to measure tax rate for individuals.
People do it on Slack and love this feature.
Not to mention that an extremely able developer will end up leading a company over time; switching to another company would almost always require having to climb the ladder again.
If you just use wiring instead of bluetooth, you don't have a latency problem. The upcoming Pebble Core supports wired audio-out and microphone. Just strap that on your head, like I've been doing with the iPod nano, and you can talk to it (IF the Pebble Core has Android with speech recognition and text to speech).

I'm not comfortable with a 3G radio a centimeter form to my brain, perhaps 2G (Edge) is less problematic in that regard. Make it water-tight and I can use echo location underwater for navigation
By accepting remote work, they open the candidate pool to the whole world. You compete with people having potentially much lower living costs.
Why would they pay "market rate" if they are in a city with high rates?
I'd hate to work from home , I just don't find it as a benefit. Home is home. The office is where the work happens. I like to keep these things separated..
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Because they are an environmental disaster with no need for them. Get a refillable water bottle and take that to the gym.
Musk: “Tesla product unveiling on the 17th (unexpected by most)”
Philip K Dick, in the 1950s and 60s, wrote about simulations of famous people (like Einstein or Lincoln), of ordinary people's deceased relatives, and of other humans that were used for pleasure or entertainment. He also wrote of living people, famous or not, who turned out to be simulations.
Why not fill a bottle with tap water from your home and take that with you when out and about?
An pitch event organizer recognizes the gender imbalance of the application submissions and makes an announcement to the attendees urging the female founders they know to apply. He is publicly chastised for his troubles.

Honestly, does the author here not see any possible benefit to what the organizer has done here? Maybe they only go strictly by incoming applications and don't have time for a steady founder outreach efforts beyond basic marketing. Is there a theme that keeps these events running with a certain culture? If so, prompting attendees for people they know to apply is almost certainly a better way to maintain that culture moving forward.

No good deed goes unpunished.
Shouts actually outdated, I'd checkout the fork The Lounge - https://www.github.com/thelounge/lounge
Anathem was Stephenson's first book that I read; I was absolutely mind blown. It's a slow burn (like most of his books), but the ending is more than worth it. Later I picked up Cryptonomicon, and it's a big reason why I'm doing a PhD in crypto now.
It made me laugh the way the guide turns into an Amazon shopping list. I started finding it hard to trust at that point. I wish you'd quote more studies.
> Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names.

Probably not but I think they might be able to send a DMCA notice.
I think the intent here is to provide a very basic shelter, basically a place to sleep, without a kitchen or a bathroom. I assume there would shared bathroom facilities on site.

Building (or other) codes generally require private bathrooms and kitchen areas in new residential construction.
That seems interesting. How much do you make a month?
Sorry then, your comment sounded like it :) I have only built one service like that, a torrent meta search engine. I haven't made any serious money, but it did buy me a nice laptop in 2009.

Now, after two failed startups I scaled back my ambitions/expectations. Best way to happiness :)
In the past I had a sliding scale, but it just confused people. So I simplified a little and never quite rewrote that text. It seems to do no harm.

But for people with many domains there are deals to be had so haggling is always an option ;)
I'm talking about them because I disagree with the ideological sentiment that they are not a significant portion (perhaps majority) of the population. How did you quantify the "millions of people" who you claim are ignorant or unwillingly forced into it?

It's easy for people to misunderstand others' values as being based on misconceptions and assume they are either ignorant or malicious. Members of identity groups (i.e. everyone) tend to, in the aggregate, treat their beliefs as positive statements, not normative ones.

Bringing this back to the subject at hand - the point I'm making is relevant because I would postulate that most people make this deal while being reasonably cognizant of the consequences, and simply being okay with it. They don't need to understand how the data is used at a deeply technical level to understand that it can be used in ways that reduce their overall privacy.

I know many non-technical people who can demonstrate an awareness of the way their data is used to impact their privacy in tech products, and they're okay with it. I even know many technical folks who use the typical banter about the NSA, government surveillance and corporate privacy indiscretions ironically, and don't actually care. They just think it's humorous.
I created an online game called Pit of War (http://www.pitofwar.com). It's a strategy/management game that puts you in charge of a stable of gladiators. You train your gladiators, outfit them in armour and weapons and give them a set of strategies to use during the fights against other players. Strategies start off simple and grow in detail and complexity as gladiators gain levels, skills and better equipment.
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Years ago, I created an affiliate site advertising the Snuggie. A couple months after I created the site, the Snuggie craze took off and I was making several hundreds of dollars per day. Then, consumers realized how absurd this fad was and the money dried up nearly as quickly.

Loads of fun while it lasted! Gave me a nice income bump for 3 holiday seasons.
Exactly. The premise of the article is wrong.

"This model is certainly different from Joel’s model. Joel’s model assumes that “great” developers are sticky – that they stay at each job for a long time."

Is false. Joel simply did not say that. Joel actually said:

"..prospective employers recognize their greatness quickly, which means, basically, they get to work wherever they want, so they honestly don’t send out a lot of resumes or apply for a lot of jobs."

Great devs aren't on the market because they don't use the "market" to get their next job - not because the don't leave jobs very often.
The latency compensation through the sdk is optimistic writes. If you shortcut to server, you have to reimplement that so that's not a good solution for many cases. It would confuse the offline persistence too.

Instead, your server should listen to the Firebase, rather than have writes go a separate path (which loses lots of useful features). I think the term now is a client-database-server architecture.

it's not actually a problem for 90% of apps. It's usually in the users best interest not to break their relationships in the db. Think chat. Think info services like Pokemon. Cross table transactions are relative minority in the space of useful apps that's can make money. For those more complex domains, you need technical know how, and Firebase is a useful system component in a larger architecture.
A an enterprise Github subscriber, we would lose user authentication and authorization.
Honest question: Do any class or all classes of people (citizens, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, refugees, criminals, teachers, disabled, adults, children, or any other type of people) have a right to a home or some other minimum level of shelter?

Seems like discussion on homelessness would be slightly easier if we started from first principles or at least some place where there is closer to a consensus.
Working from home may sound good only to those who haven't done it for a longer period of time. Having flexible hours is good to have, but only when you really need it (e.g. family visit, some delivery, some time off). Cut itself makes no sense, at least here in Denmark (Lithuanian here) if you work at the office you don't have to worry about food and coffee - at home you would.
Concrete examples of what?

And ignorance of what? I don't plan to teach you programming here and now.
Really? You dont consider working from home a perk?
> Moishe Lettvin has a talk I really like, where he talks about a time when he was on a hiring committee and they rejected every candidate that came up, only to find that the “candidates” were actually anonymized versions of their own interviews!

I worry about this a lot when I'm interviewing candidates.

Basically, would I have given myself a no-hire?

Sometimes I think I would've.
It's still a graph with single points of failure throughout, right?
It still pains me to see that Mozilla Persona failed.
Ehm... how can you decentralise backbone services, that can do anything to your ISP if it does not comply. Say, tomorrow as a counter-terrorist measure, your ISP will be enforced to close all encrypted p2p traffic, you won't be able to do anything to circumvent top level traffic control policies.
You're wrong on all points.

+ That there are market controls ensures the viability of the system, that alone doesn't speak to necessarily how it was distributed. But you've contradicted yourself - and I don't think you grasp my argument: Uber vs. drivers is an infinitely large imbalance than cab-owners vs. drivers.

Putting the 'profits' in local cab owners - all things equal - is still better than putting all the profits in Uber.

+ "Where do you think the money comes from? Not being responsible just means they don't get to make choices - they're forced to accept whatever the car owner says."

Again you contradict yourself: Uber drives are more forcibly required to 'accept what uber says' - then any cab driver is forced to accept what an owner says. But again you missed point point: Cab companies and drives are businesses, and they can make longer term decisions about insurance and capital allocation. Cab owners will not run their business at a loss. Many Uber drivers, probably are running their business at a loss.

"Then why was medallion ownership the single best investment in the last 30 years? Compete for talent? Where?"

+ One, I don't believe you, and two, they compete for talent (i.e. drivers) like any other entity. Drivers can work for another owner, another cab company. There is a massive diversity of Cab owners in any region. This diversity creates competition. Uber is a de-facto monopoly in the service that they provide, given them even more power.

"Uber has crated jobs" - Uber has created a means for people to get around regulatory issues - earn mostly less than minimum wage, by making short term decisions about their work vs. long term investment in capex (i.e. cars) - and reaps 100% of the profits from a system.

Now - if we want to have a discussion about whether or not cab companies regulatory framework are appropriate, that's fine. But make no mistake - almost all of the benefit from Uber goes to Uber, and Uber riders, not the drivers.
You can run a Websocket client in a test suite that tests your server. Have you considered this strategy?
What is the difference/relationship between this and https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/?
Sales tax (VAT) in the UK is double what it is in America.
This answer is awesome because so often on HN confuse their friends/coworkers with their target audience. Good job, cool app.
Also after zeronet, don't forget about:

http://matrix.org

http://gun.js.org

http://webtorrent.io
I'm trying hard to see what's wrong with that but fail. Isn't that basically how you get anything done?
Office space is cheaper per sq ft that residential in most US cities. If I was a long term remote worker, I would rent a small office somewhere. It is also easier to deduct off your taxes that way.
Is it a perk to work in a company's office? Where you work should not modify your compensation.
Yeah, I tend to agree, which is why the word is in quotes. It's intended to be democracy, it's billed as democracy, but it doesn't seem to really be what it's supposed to be.
Because the opportunity for abuse is very high. You've got to hire motivated talent and that costs more.
If he's powering through hundreds of emails I doubt he's doing it on the phone.
> Or a profession that so strongly assumes ability is innate and cannot be trained.

Like most things, it's a spectrum.

But if you have a knack, you'll enjoy it more.

Enjoy it more, you'll do it more.

Do it more, you'll get better at it.

This feedback loop has been suggested as one root of the (contentious) "xy,000 hours equals mastery" findings.

But it's only true up to a point.

We know that in fields subject to large-grained biological differences -- sport, in particular -- genetics swamps training effects. Most of what matters is throwing people at a sport until you find the person who is freakishly good at that sport. Which is why Australia is the best at Australian Rules Football, why the USA is the best at Gridiron, why China has come to dominate the lighter weight classes in Weightlifting and so on.
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I've worked from home for 6 years now.

Maybe my situation is a little different - I have 3 kids and my wife is a stay at home mom.

It's been great and I highly recommend it if at some point you realize you are a family man (or woman).
"uba appears to have a significantly better system than what you describe."

Cuba has no money. They pay their doctors roughly $10/week.

Do you think Cuba can afford all of the drugs, diagnostic equipment, software and services that are required to make a highly functional modern Medical system?

Of course not. I made a reference to Cuba out of sarcasm - there is no defending the Cuban system, other than to say that they can provide adequate 'very basic coverage' to it's citizens, which is good.

They pay their doctors literally less than the cost of many common and important therapeutic drugs. It's an economic non-sequitur.
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The only real way to 'give power to people' and 'decentralize' is to run your own ISP and launch your own satellite, and to negotiate gating your uplink to those forever centralized, otherwise your free netizens will only be able to ping each other within your enclave. And, if I may ask, what shall you do as 'free ISP' without IP addresses, huh? Like Agent Smith told Neo:"What good is in phone call if you are unable to speak?"
If you want O(1) space complexity and you do not care about modifying the tree, you can do tree rotations essentially flattening out the tree into a singly linked list.
I've worked from home for about 5 years now, my wife has worked from home for about 10 years and we think it's great.

We get flexibility about where we live (so can choose a nice rural area) and cutting out the hours wasted on commuting time means we can fit in a nice 60 mins of excercise (in our case hillwalking) before starting work.

Personally I wouldn't want to revert to office based life...