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As we all know, office chair sword fighting. https://xkcd.com/303/
As a great man once said, "Not taking any action is also an action."
Check https://teleport.org if you want to compare cities based on life quality data. Also gives you recommendations which cities fit best to your personal preference.
Here in China more and more logins are using "scan this QR code with your phone". I think this kind of makes sense for places where you really want to login, and it is very convenient.
>> - DRM

Curious about this one. Do you mean using HTML5 might make it easier to copy the content? And using Flash prevents/makes it difficult to do that? Or is there more to it?
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Not to mention tenths of chrome tabs.
Wtf. 1st in the HN? Is this a joke I don't get?
You do know that living next to the guy who beat your dad to death for his race isn't exactly conducive to peace.

The proof is the fact that over a century later people still commit racial motivated murders because they despise the people their ancestors kept as cattle.

If they didn't want to get hung they shouldn't have been, you know, slavers...
When did hunger, poverty, death etc go up outside wars?

About 50% of the time throughout human history? We've been making constant progress for a very short time.

Widespread famine happened in Europe as recently as the late 19th century, and all it took was one or two cold summers.
No it's free indefinitely. There's just no delivery charge whatsoever. Some items on menus are more expensive than they are at the actual restaurants though.
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It makes a lot of sense. However, being a proficient software engineer is correlated with being introverted, and for an introvert it's much easier and more enjoyable to tinker and build something in solitude than sharing it with others. So, even while sharing itself would take only five minutes vs a few hours to implement another feature, it often requires much more effort and energy.
Maybe they'll have solar and non-solar shingles that look the same, so you can have the solar shingles facing South, but the whole roof looks the same.
So what's the battery life for these laptops?
This is flawed reasoning, as the vast majority of people will defend against it by installing the patch.
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> exceedingly simple

yet expensive to run.
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Poor grammar, rambling, and pointless complaining. If you don't like something, don't do it. If you want to be fat, go be fat. If you want to be buff, go be buff. Amazing that this person has a job posting this nonsense. Probably wasted a bunch of our taxdollars at college as well. Why is this on hacker news?
This post from earlier this week covers much the same question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12803450
>I think it's time to just accept it

Well, I'll continue to downvote comments here that do it. Mathematical concepts are an important part of our culture and of the public conversation.
Zapier is in the same game.
Back of envelope math.

Out of 330M people even if 5% of population is buying a new car in the given year that is whooping 15M cars per year. USA sells around 17M cars year +-2M. One simple proxy to arrive at the 5% figure is the number of people in 16-19 age group where they might get parent's old car and the parent might buy a new one. That population is around 20M in USA.

Of course I have not accounted for taxi fleets, car rental fleets, corporate purchases etc. In fact go to think of it 17M cars per year does look like a very low number.
On a PC, 68 MB is nothing.

But in embedded space, 68 MB RAM just for the system is pretty big. Many systems have a fraction of RAM of that. 1 - 256 kB RAM is common. Of course embedded systems can also have gigabytes of RAM. It's a wide spectrum, so as small as possible is preferable.
I really like the fact that something this simple can make the top of the HN's front page. It makes this site feel really beginner-friendly and encouraging. A great contrast with many other websites where programmers exercise in putting down other's work to boost their own ego.

And while I don't have any use for this app, I have to admit that it looks awesome and simple. Good job.
> I am not supporting slavery, just suggesting that the solution to issues like ending slavery (and carbon emissions) is better solved peacefully and with compensation than by force and war.

Not really, because then you're still left with slavers. And as soon as it's advantageous they'll just start slaving all over again.

When someone thinks you're absolutely worthless there's no middle ground.
The fundamentals of being a highly effective and valued team member and employee are actually the same.

That said, perception is reality and being remote does add some friction to certain aspects of the job and the way the team works. If you take a proactive approach these can be managed or overcome, leaving you with just the benefits of working remote.

Things that come to mind:
- Written communication: Crisp emails and IM that get the message across quickly. Know when to optimise for speed and for run.

Some things that come to mind:

- Verbal communication: take the time to speak with your team mates. Depending on the culture this may mean you never talk work by phone/Skype but you should still speak to everybody occasionally.

- Establish a rythym that works for you and the team. Be present and visible in ways that demonstrate and reinforce your reliability and commmitment. Just make sure you're adding value and not just making noise because you want to compensate for being remote (or not actually delivering).

- Respect other folks' time (and timezone, work arrangements).

- Actively contribute to the team and workplace culture. Don't just follow the lead of others but make suggestions and/or take the lead on initiatives when appropriate.

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People on HN like to complain (expected from the 18-25 year old crowd). But at the end of the day, they realize business is business and will do what's necessary to survive.

Boycott Thiel in front of your friends (a public position) but continue secretly dealing with him (a private) position. Sound oddly familiar...
Me and my wife have 1 car each and plan to buy third.
Perhaps readers are happy to see something about a hacker hacking than the latest Elon-love-fest or continued Apple drama or discussion of SF real estate.
why is that we have these good ideas, make it an app and it's cool and all, and boom it's the government wanting to take away the idea by legislating it, the idea's originators become greedy and milk the idea like there's no tomorrow, normal folks kill the coolness of the idea by demanding this idea dance on it's nose for them, and then the idea withers away ... I wonder if cool ideas can survive human nature
> Yes. It's multi-provider authentication as a service.

I see. Thanks for clarifying!

I just thought Persona was about privacy (IdPs unaware about identity consumers), and potential browser integration - this was its good points. So, when comparing to Persona, this one looks pale to me.

> Blockchains?

TBH, I don't see any necessity to prove chronologies or require global consensus, unless a globally-unique human-readable identities (like email addresses, but actually owned) are desirable. But are they? I mean, when I walk in some company's reception desk, I don't normally show them some universally recognized ID, I just say "hi, I'm your customer, we had business before - you know me as Aleksey".

Just that I believe it's good to have an authentication protocol (something better than usernames-and-passwords) that is universally accepted, rather than an universally accepted identity. Do you know, does general audience wants it differently?
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I asked a question relating to tools for a number of things, including to-do lists earlier this week, and a lot of people gave some very very useful answers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12794292

Myself: Currently any.do and/or a notebook, but looking to move to a wiki, or org-mode.
Some websites work fine on a 10 year old browser with a 10 year old computer. Others are so saturated in crappy javascript crap and auto-playing videos they'll give a modern high end machine a run for its money.

I'd go out on a limb and say tons of websites got way worse over the past 10 years.
The difference is that there is a simple physics model that's driving the dimensions. So the arms are getting resized according to beam bending, the battery is a certain size for the energy requirement, motors are sized by kw/kg and kw/m^3 and so on.

There's definitely ways to make this sort of model in something like Solidworks through the use of a variables interface that interacts with the drawing dimensions. Though it can't do any sort of fast optimization with the physics relations. What's happening here is a guaranteed global optimal design is being returned for a given set of inputs and objectives in a few seconds.
> share what you make with this and other communities

Just curious, apart from some programming related subreddits, where else would one share something like this?
+1 for Toptal as I'm currently working using them.

It probably won't suit everyone and I don't see it as a long term full-time thing, but it can help a lot to:
- start working remotely, and start making money - to try the remote/nomad lifestyle and/or the time you find something else
- to make some money while working on a side project (or a startup, or whatever)
- to make some additional money while have a full time job - on weekends, evenings, whatever

I've tried websites like upwork, freelancers and guru.com before and the big advantage with Toptal is the easy and short time it take to hop on new missions.
rom my experience, there is - so far - no need to compete with other freelancers to start working, and you can hop on some new stuff within a week or so. At a very reasonable rate.

On the long term, I think joining a remote team and/or a community of freelancers/nomads is definitely a must to avoid isolation.

Good luck :)
Mayhaps people like supporting someone who made something nice and useful, learned something in the process, and helped us remember why we do what we do.

EDIT: Upvoted OP too. Well done!
50 years ago, the notion of moving to a different country and still being able to work remotely was science fiction. Now it's not only possible, but it's not a crazy luxury -- you're saving money by doing it! And you can still keep up with your friends using a free global network and all sorts of options for video conferencing. (Remember when international phone calls cost many dollars a minute?)

This all sounds like amazing progress to me.

You complain that you "can't" buy a house because something might happen to interest rates at some point. Guess what -- it's always been like that. Housing loans come with risks, and renting has always been relatively expensive for low-income workers. Nothing new under the sun.

I challenge you to point out an era in human history when the élite was less powerful than it is today. The primary reason why it seems that they're gaining in wealth is increased visibility and transparency brought on by the global network -- again, progress.
It's been mentioned in a few articles that a lot of startups try to make themselves be more official and less of a personal touch to be more "professional" and this is generally not helpful.

I would use "I" as long as it is correct.
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Their intentions are interesting to me. Is this a money thing? Why would Schmidt want to use his life to do this?
Currently solved server side, though assembled on the client side (see console) with gpkitjs and then passed through to GPkit.

Packages here:
https://github.com/lochieferrier/gpkitjs and here:
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Geometric programs are super cool.
Nope, I just have no idea what I'm doing.
Last I checked Obama never sent and received classified information through his Twitter account, nor deleted anything from his Twitter account after learning it would likely be investigated.
Years ago I got a holiday work visa for Australia. I was working for start-up at the time. I worked remotely for them for a few months, which with my savings, help me get situated in Melbourne. The start-up started struggling. They let go of several critical researchers. Eventually I was let go as well, but I had already found other contracts in Australia.

Years later I had a break in and decided to take off on a year sabbatical. It was the most amazing year of my adult life:

http://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

I've lucked into working remotely a few days a week for my current company. I actually find I'm more productive working away from open workspaces.

Still, I'm not satisfied with working as a developer. I've considered saving up for a year and then attempting to find grants or use crowfunding sites so I can take a break and work on my own projects for another year.
Curious if this takes into account online publishing and online views. These days, with search engines indexing everything, while something might not seem immediately useful doesn't mean it's worthless.

Sometimes you're just ahead of your time, or in too niche of a field.

All that being said, the writing papers does seem to be the academic version of the corporate hamster wheel.
That's the problem with college kids and new grads.

The truth is not always respectful. And given the recent poll numbers, they are in for a disrespectful awakening.
> The tax rate is not >100%

Lol welcome to New York. Even ignoring the cost of preparing reams and reams of paperwork, a flat $4 tax on, say, bagels could very well flip margins negative.
I found it interesting in the blunt way it described the connections between Silicon Valley and Washington politics; the way they are enmeshed and influence one another; the way one acts using the other as cover.
Check out Cisco jobs. The company is built around WebEx and working remote.

Source: worked here 3 years, enjoy working with a fully virtual team.
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Here's a small how-to on how to add your own service: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/nl-nl/tutorials/register-cus...
You're welcome. Just to be clear, I agree that paying too much when making acquisitions is not a good business model. But goodwill is not the reason for overpaying, or an excuse for overpaying. Goodwill is the consequence of overpaying.
Which is exactly why that should be banned as well.
If Dustin and Justin wants to really come out against it, they'll come against Thiel explicitly. Continuing to take his money while claiming to supporting the opposite is hypocritical. They are playing the same bullshit card that Sam Altman is and trying to brush it off as mere politics while hedging their bets and playing both sides.

I view Trump as an existential threat to everything that America is founded upon and I will not stand idly while "leaders" in the tech community support him.
Good job for shipping. I'd love to use it, but the page said internal server error when I clicked on the button.
Looks neat and clean.

Here's my review -

1. Add -

<meta charset="utf-8">

in the head section of the page.

2. Try to avoid jumping from h1 directly to h3. Heading progression should be from h1 to h2 to h3 and so on.

3. Towards the end I see you've added some <br> tags to space out content. I'd use CSS margin top and bottom to do that.
This sounds interesting but I can't react the site. Could you please explain how you get a guaranteed optimum? What if you have conflicting objectives?
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+1 to all the points made.

I have been working remotely for a while now. These are the things I learned.

- time difference matters. It is better if there is some overlap with at least some people in the team.

- "showing up" (via various communication channels) have more value at one of the places I worked than the actual work.

- I was consistently rated less compared to others because my interactions were only over video, once or twice a week and via chat channels and it could never make up for face-to-face communication. This is highly subjective. At another place, I never had such problems.

- Expect to add a lot of stress in your life (again subjective).

- Pair programming with colleagues over video/google-hangout can be extremely valuable.

- video calls mostly suck, especially if you have low upstream bandwidth (which was the case with me).

- make plans to travel and stay with your colleagues for a week or so, once in a few months.

- "everyone being remote" is better than one or two people alone being remote and the rest in a central office. That way, the company is "set up" for remote working and people take care to put everything online in a wiki etc.. Not so, with a centralized office with only a few people working remotely.

- It is also very easy to get burned out working more hours, especially if the other side is in an overlapping your day. It happened to me many times. This needs fixing at org level and should meet the expectations of everyone.

HTH.
I can't find any details on Replicated pricing, is it reasonable? It seems like a product which would be nigh impossible to replace once installed at a customer site (making the customer do anything risks cancellations).
Not sure when you tried Convox – maybe they have improved since then – but my experience with it last week has been amazing (migrated our application from Heroku).

It was almost as easy and quick to setup as Heroku. All the docker and AWS config was automatically done by Convox. The only issue I had was with Docker: an old Docker Toolbox installation left some environment variables preventing Docker for Mac from starting.

Granted, I have some previous experience managing deployment on AWS via AWS CLI and dashboard so maybe that's what made me quickly understand Convox concepts.

My only regret is I didn't setup with Convox from the start. :)
Interesting thought. It makes sense.

And if we do, we MUST make it a standard voltage and plug between countries.
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Regular, unsophisticated as you put it people listen to music because it's fun, not because it's complex or has some deep meaning.

If you like to play status games that's of course unacceptable to you, as one has no way to separate the plebs from the connoisseurs.

Music certainly has no lack of self-important individuals.
Manipulating DNS is sadly very easy, but a TXT record of this type should be better than a MX record, as long as a oauth signin also contains a normal login link.

In this case, the worst-case is an attacker injecting a TXT record to force OAuth logins via that domain... which is a bit pointless as far as I can see, it either won't work or use the victim's own oauth service, for which they are responsible themselves IMO.
He's pitching it as being basically break even, when electricity costs are factored in. My guess is an awful lot of people can afford this, especially for new construction.

I think this is key - often the pitch that "sure, it's expensive up front but will save you money in the long run" falls on deaf ears when people don't have the disposable income to immediately absorb that large up front cost, but when you're buying a house in most cases you're already taking out a large loan to finance a big up-front cost.
We choose "we".

Even if you're the sole author of the app/site, the voice of any text should be abstracted away from your identity at least to this small degree. Use "I" only in testimonials, quotes, or in a "message from our founder".

This discipline helps keeps the voice/tone of the text consistent throughout the app, which inspires trust and confidence. It's more polished and professional, especially if you ever contemplate expanding your team.
Yes, but this requires me to have violations removed after those apps are already in the store instead of Google proactively blocking parties form using my trademark.
I know that's heresy here on hacker news

I don't think we're visiting the same HN.
Maybe your server is overloaded or having some other issues - but didn't work at all for me on Android+Chrome. Tried multiple times.

Also tried in Desktop Mode, and received a server error.

Still interested in trying it out, will wait for a bit.
Here's how I think about 24/7 free/cheap access to tons of information:

1. Almost anything can be addictive, including information.

2. Behaviors become part of an addiction by being used to numb or avoid emotional/physical pain, which requires us to ignore our own needs (assuming unpleasant emotions are expressions of needs going unmet).

3. Most cultures don't view things from the perspective of fundamental human needs.

4. We largely suck at addiction treatment.
5. We're living in the Information Age.

Therefore, we are living in a world where an addictive thing that's also necessary is so accessible, it's free or negligibly cheap most places in first-world countries, and we're largely clueless about how to deal with it.

I share the prediction you made 20 years ago & think we're on the brink of figuring out how to tackle things. I'm just starting to work on my personal attempt at it: fusing mindfulness with design thinking to create tech that doesn't disconnect us.
And how many have there been in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own
FWIW: Mobile Safari 10 ignores user-scalable=no [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/37859168/242520
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++kudos for that. Simple, yet effective. Does one thing, but does it well. I was impressed that when I didn't fill in the "Organization" field, it left it out of the PDF completely. I sort of had the expectation that it would create an empty box in the PDF. But it didn't, that shows that you thought about it.

Any chance you can share some information on what you used to build this?

One piece of feedback though: The "contact" placeholder didn't seem like a text field to me. It took me a while to figure that it's editable. The same goes for the "Organization" placeholder.
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Because somebody has offered you a fat stack of cash to do it?

My company does all kinds of shit that we wouldn't necessarily ever think to do if we were dogfooding it for ourselves, but customers have requests, and once in a while, they're even good ideas that are worth building into the product. The best is when they agree to pay extra for that custom development.
I guess that being a brilliant hacker doesn't necessarily make you an engineer.
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The study says that most vulnerabilities were being exploited before being disclosed.
The "middle mile" provides customer service, does advertising, installation, bundled services over IP (voice, TV, etc.), negotiates competitive rates and speeds; does things like colocating Netflix on their network to reduce peering costs. Their business is bridging the gap between customers and long-haul network operators.

It's basically enforced separation of the wholesale and retail markets. The roads that get you to brick and mortar stores are publicly owned, why not the last mile of fiber? Vertical integration is good for some markets, but markets where your customer is captive because you own the lines outside their house, vertical integration is terrible.
I am probably missing something in the mobile view. What makes this page easier than creating this in any product from Libreoffice to Word and exporting to pdf?
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