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Sounds like things are going as planned for Wikileaks[1]:

> RS: One of the unintended consequences is the opposite effect, which is what we've seen with the Department of Defense, and even the State Department, here in the U.S., of trying to make secrets more impenetrable rather than less and trying to take precautions against what has happened from happening again in the future. How do you regard that?

> JA: Well, I think that's very positive. Since 2006, we have been working along this philosophy that organizations which are abusive and need to be [in] the public eye. If their behavior is revealed to the public, they have one of two choices: one is to reform in such a way that they can be proud of their endeavors, and proud to display them to the public. Or the other is to lock down internally and to balkanize, and as a result, of course, cease to be as efficient as they were. To me, that is a very good outcome, because organizations can either be efficient, open and honest, or they can be closed, conspiratorial and inefficient.

1: http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040,00...
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Yes, in fact there are six or seven different executive functions impacted by ADHD, attention and hyperactivity are just two of them.
> steal my food from a restaurant if I don't think their payment processor is 100% secure.

restaurant payment processing is regulated by ACH/PCI/banking regs and I'll get my money back if their systems are attacked, up to and including a lawsuit if they dont act in good faith.

How about this, I allow ads to be served if they sign a contract making the advertiser liable for any and all damages incurred by the installation of malware ? Oh yeah, and I run Linux so the repair bill for a qualified Linux sysadmin to fix my system could easily run north of $200/hr (double the standard PC repair house rate, since fewer people are qualified to fix it)
Refactoring takes time, expense, and expertise. Keeping legacy applications running as-is takes 'merely' documentation and a sense of pragmatism.

I submit that the best approach for dealing with a legacy application is to Leave It The Fuck Alone. (LITFA) Don't extend them. Don't try to understand their inner workings any more than you have to to meet business needs. Just Don't. Leave it the fuck alone. You can keep them running a long long time, generating revenue, while you plan out replacement greenfield apps for the time when you really honestly do need them.

If you have a problem with it, fix it and document the solution. It will happen again. Put a little extra time in and fix it a little better this time, updating the documentation. Over time you will come to understand its behavior. Under no circumstances make any major changes to it. Keep everything tiny and fix exactly one thing at a time.

Refactoring legacy apps is good in one and only one situation, you've got massive amounts of money riding on it, enough so that it's worth doing everything right.
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At my last job, I worked with someone who had a PhD from an elite university. This person came across as very smart, had a great smile and an easy demeanor that made friends of everyone. But I'm hard-pressed to remember a single accomplishment or even lesson learned on the job. Training was a total non-starter, just blank stares, and I'm not alone in this assessment. It's like this person was just a professional job hopper.

So is that person the idiot, or were we the idiots for falling for the act?
In some cases, they need to preserve email in case the company is sued and emails are subject to discovery. If these guys want to talk in private, they talk face to face. Email is only for things that should have a papertrail.
I got contacted by an advertisement agency. I worked with them remotely for a year (until I decided to join a startup)

Very nice people indeed. Projects varied in topics and difficulty. From editing HTML pages to managing RC Robots via internet and gathering/analyzing data from huge databases.

Not sure if they want me to share more info. But I'm thankful to this monthly post for it. It was a nice gig.
Most people come in to do defined jobs. Most initiatives that are innovative or risky come from below the CEO without CEO's influence. CEO's have little input on day-to-day operations of big companies. Add to it that many companies minimizing both management and CEO pay are among highest performers. Several models include Publix, Costco, Whole Foods, and I recently found Semler.

http://www.freibergs.com/resources/articles/leadership/semco...

Semler is a good example showing the opposite model works in difficult, high-innovation sectors in the worst economy possible with least management possible. Just has to be set up right. On other end, Toyota Production System, Publix, and Whole Foods strategies draw most innovation out of people lower in hierarchy with excellent results. Heavily-managed, hierarchical companies are among the least innovative normally just acquiring companies for it.

So, CEO's should be payed way, way less than they are right now with most senior managers just eliminated in favor of interacting, small teams or divisions. Much of the administrative stuff could similarly be outsourced to lean organizations focusing on that stuff.
"you get the same response rate when you write one-sentence cover letters as you do when you put a lot of effort into them" is faulty thinking. There are many reasons an employer might not be interested in an applicant, and many reasons why they might be. The frustrating part of the hiring process is that not getting a response doesn't provide you with visibility into any of them.

But assuming the cover letter doesn't matter is as much of a mistake as assuming industry experience, or years of experience, or having gone to a particular school doesn't matter.

a) different companies prioritize different things, even if the requirements list is the same.

b) small things can get your application silently rejected (or more often, delegated to a 'maybe we'll come back to them' virtual pile), because employers get dozens of applications (hundreds over multiple positions) and the cost of interviewing is high (and worth noting, much higher than your cost of writing a cover letter).
The problem is that the Polynesians appear to have sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific going the other direction. In Heyerdahl's day this was hard to explain because the Polynesians would have had to sail against the prevailing winds and currents. The problem for Heyerdahl's theory is that archaeological, linguistic, and genetic evidence indicates that Polynesia was pretty much settled west to east.

One thing we know now is that it is possible to sail Polynesian voyaging canoes pretty much any direction you want to go, at least over long distances. The Polynesian Voyaging Society has sailed Hōkūleʻa [1][2] all over Polynesia at this point and in fact they've sailed her all the way to the North Atlantic since then.

Back in Kon Tiki's day, the performance of Polynesian voyaging canoes wasn't well understood. They can't tack near as well as a modern sailboat, but they can tack to 45 degrees off the wind. And although it's true that prevailing winds in the South Pacific blow east to west, they still vary quite a lot in their exact direction. This means it's possible to sail to an island east of your starting point in a voyaging canoe even though the prevailing winds and currents are against you. Also it turns out the the prevailing winds can completely change directions during El Niño years, which happen with some frequency, making west to east sailing a lot easier. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokulea

[2] http://www.hokulea.com/

[3] I don't have a good citation for this last paragraph, but it might be from Ben Finney's paper "Anomalous Westerlies, El Niño, and the Colonization of Polynesia", https://www.jstor.org/stable/677659?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...
Yeah, I don't really get it either. Know a couple people laid off from there. They'd hired a bunch of kids from a coding bootcamp, and there was a serious bloodbath amongst them. An interesting case study-- seems like it shook out that there were definitely bootcamp grads that could hack it, but without the four year college filter they needed to do a big cull. Some of the campers are in and will stay in, most will wash out in a downturn. Same as it ever was, I suppose.
what do you mean, "if"?
Long distance voyaging had essentially ceased again by the time Europeans were exploring the Pacific. Unfortunately, I can't provide a reference.

In Polynesia that's mostly true (although Samoa to Tonga is rather far, so depends on what you mean by 'long'). In Hawaii, the home and voyage of the ancestors was a place in legendary history.

In Micronesia though, there are still a few people who can do long-distance voyages.
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It might have something to do with that 1969 was around the time where TV started to broadcast in color.
Ya, I don't want to get into a political debate at all but a friend on Facebook said Clinton's emails have "pretty much proof that she murdered one of her staffers". Turns out that if you give people 60,000 emails and they will find proof for everything.
Makes me think of something i read a while back, about a "professional" (guy seems to have his own online show or something) pick-up artist. He claimed that he hated Nordic women, because his usual MO of offering economic support didn't work. This thanks to the Nordic welfare model.
Give it a couple years. You will be assimilated and singing a different tune :)
I agree with this. But we should have lots of hyperlocal produce / butchers, not enormous food warehouses which are 90% dry goods.
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I think maybe it is the automation.

Looking away from ads, or hitting mute, or fast forwarding through them all require effort and time on the viewer's part. A small effort, but effort nonetheless.

As an advertiser, I can grudgingly accept my ad being skipped, because I know its costing the viewer to skip them. Since its not free to them, I can assume that one day, or every so often, they'll end up watching my ad because they can't be bothered to skip it.

I experience this myself. Much of what we watch is free to air recorded on the tivo. Sometimes (not often), if the couch is comfortable and the kids have moved the remote out of arm's reach, I just can't be bothered skipping ads.

But ad blockers remove the small effort I must make to skip the ads. The automation they provide makes it effectively free, so there's no reason why I would ever watch an ad again.

I feel that's one aspect of why looking away or muting feels OK but ad blockers are not.
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You're getting old enough to mix the plots of the 1st and 4th movies together. V'ger was the early earth satellite that the enterprise chased down. The probe seeking humpback whales was of alien origin. According to what I remember of the novelization, the aliens had visited earth before recorded history.

I'm not happy I read the novelization of a Star Trek movie, but there we are.
I hired someone who found our job listing on the "who's hiring" post and it worked out really well....
I personally don't have time at the end of the day to go shopping...so my shopping is generally reserved for weekends. I do go to the grocery store to get my stuff...but if there was a better solution I'd switch in a heartbeat.

By better I mean there are so many solutions to explore (the following two came to the top of my head):

1. Amazon style - buy & deliver quickly local marketplace (the local chains could easily compete as they'd have to maintain quality and price)

2. Uber pool style delivery - a truck that goes around delivering (with some kind of mobile app / website that has real time information on it's stock and the ability to reserve items @ a premium)
Word for Windows and Word for Mac are much closer together than you may realize. Pretty interesting talk about cross platform Office.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HROqnw-nf4
Part 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMoRu5yrVc
Did the machine come with Ubuntu out of the box, or did you install it yourself? That is one of the reasons my company went with System76. They ship with Ubuntu installed and will provide support, drivers for all the hardware, etc. The OryxPro is a nice desktop replacement.
I was hired through a "who wants to be hired" post. I was looking for part-time work, provided my background, and got contacted by a great company. Not long after, we decided to make it full-time.
You are mixing up two different Star Trek movies. The ship from 'The Voyage Home' wasn't a man made satellite, it was an alien "whale" ship. However in the first Star Trek movie, a massive ship threatens Earth but turns out to be Voyager 1 returning home.
> Or a way to put VLANs in something like a VLAN sorta.

802.1ad, a.k.a. "Q-in-Q" [0]

> However MPLS label space is 20 bits so you're good to a million customers.

VXLAN, cf. RFC 7348 [1], is the latest coolness, allowing for up to 16M "virtual" networks (using 24 bits) and bridging layer 2 over IP (4789/UDP).

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1ad

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7348
you dont take the CS class to learn a language... you do it to learn the concept of programming and how computer "ticks". CS education is not suppose to train a coder, but a capable person who can adapt the new language, concept or technology and run with it.
Great thanks! Yes it will be open source.

I'm rounding the corner on parsing hundreds of thousands of lines of bash scripts now... the prototype is in Python as mentioned in the first post, and the executor isn't complete, but if you want the parse-before-execution, that is working well.

ShellCheck does exist though. IIRC I had mixed experience with it -- it did actually find one bug, but on the other hand it spewed hundreds of warnings about double quoting vars, which is technically true, but not the best use of time for most scripts I write. I'd rather just get rid of stupid quoting rules, which is one of the #1 priorities.

(As far as writing, I find that "omit needless words" from Strunk & White goes a long way. Words like "very" and "a little" somehow spray themselves all over my writing; they are rarely useful and I kill them on editing passes :) )
Ditto + I get electronic engineering stuff, which was my career path/company role until I switched to systems and networks in about 1989.
Which big popular companies have an education requirement? Google definitely does not.
It seems to, yes. [0] It also looks like you can filter on date, team and channel, attachments, who it's from, messages where you're mentioned.

[0] http://imgur.com/DSmXg41
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I'm not sure if "obligated" means what you think it means. It certainly doesn't have definitions that cover the way you're using it.
How is press publication defined? My first thought was printing press but that wouldn't include digital-only publications.
Every site doesn't do that, though. Almost B2B (non-consumer) sites sell their ads directly to clients (major companies) and don't have malware come through. It's only the ad networks that really are guilty of selling ads to people they don't know and getting the bad creative. If ad blocking software was really about stopping malware they would recognize this and have a way of certifying sites that do business directly and don't allow ad networks.
By that measure, SharePoint is also an alternative to a lot of things, but it is universally reviled.

But your comment made me wonder about the problem of building a company which becomes a feature of a bigger competitor: I wonder what the folks at Slack, Trello and Evernote think about this new competition. Is this going to actually compete head on?
Why would you submit an article that requires an account to read it?
My recollection was that it never even saw a proper 1.0 release before it was killed a year after announcement. I'd love to read an insider post-mortem of what happened there.
We're a team of five people all remote and in different time zones. We use Slack, and its been great, but we also use Office 365. Teams with its wide integration with all the different MS products is really cool. What I see missing here is mobile apps, and 3rd party integration. Once those are available we'll have no reason to pay the extra $300 a year for Slack.
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A lot replies here seem to be from people living in large cities, but there is a whole lot more out there than just that. I don't live in the country, but the way my city (one of the top 100 largest US cities, that nobody has heard of) is sprawled out walking to the store is completely unreasonable.

Driving to pick up dinner each day would be just tedious.
Going to a supermarket has nostalgic value for baby boomers, but the supermarket in it's current form only predates the internet by a couple decades.

From a societal evolution standpoint it's been selected for extinction and we're keeping it alive because... why again?
It's opposite in my company. It's a Fortune 100 company where almost nobody knows the CEO since we never see him, rarely hear from him, and don't care since he has little impact. The workers, from offices to production, run our company with senior management just taking credit for or higher pay from all that. CEO showed up once for some red carpet treatment, speeches, and food but that's it.
Ah, ok. I pay for YouTube Red so I don't have to see ads. Every once in a while I get logged out of YouTube and start seeing ads again and it's pretty awful.
> Blocking ads is about controlling what code runs on my machine,

Blocking ads is about blocking ads because ads are horrendous.
By "critical people" I meant people who think critically, in the sense of the word critical thinking from the previous sentence
1) We're moving from a mobile-first to mobile-only world. This prioritization shows that the signal team are fundamentally pragmatic.

2) Most people rely on cliche to communicate. It's obvious that gifs are another cheat that is being commonly integrated by most people. It's kind of silly to avoid acknowledging the reality of how younger people are commonly communicating.

3) Please don't be sad because a software team prioritized a feature you don't like. You deserve to have more control over your own emotions. Why would you let a software feature have such a drastic impact on your own happiness?
Jesus really?
I thought it was more than data interchange. Like more than inefficient commputer programs/interfaces, costs, lack of competition from entry barrier due to high amount of legislation/regulation.

I'd love to work in Health IT, what's your company's name ?
Speaking from the other side, I've hired 10 people from HN over the past 5 years, 2 within the last 6 months. These have included some of my best hires.

Currently, I see about 30 HN applicants per month. We interview roughly 30%. The rest are unqualified, demonstrated no understanding of or interest in what we do, and/or were spamming their resume.

These get interviews:

* Strong candidates who did their homework (this is always the best)
* Strong candidates with minimal or lightly tailored emails
* Borderline candidates who did their homework

These get polite rejections:

* Borderline candidates who did no homework
* Unqualified candidates

These get ignored:

* Candidates who send blatantly templated emails
* Candidates who apply via "email blasts" (e.g., BCC all recipients; send via an email campaign tool)

I prefer to see both understanding of and interest in the role. Tell me why you're a fit and why you want to work here. A few sentences will suffice. Doing so: 1) improves the probability of an interview; and 2) for me, practically guarantees you a response.
A little confusing because this person is clearly not an idiot.

We have all seen the educated idiot though. Big degree from fancy university we've all heard of, gets great positions without effort, produces nothing and screws up things and blames it on others. Very hard to spot from a resume, a little easier in interview phase.
> Probably the best way to get cross-platform apps would be to improve Qt on Mac to the point where Mac apps were willing to use it.

I predict this won't ever happen. Whether fairly or not, Qt has a reputation for not feeling native, and this is extremely difficult to shake. And with Swift becoming the language of choice for Mac development, the use of C++ (not even standard C++: C++ with the moc preprocessor) is becoming more and more of a liability.
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In fairness, number 5 is pretty great
Exactly...I'm waiting for an article saying that the air conditioning and toilet water in Walmart aren't free. Article is one big "duh". Of course shipping isn't free. It's up to the company to figure out how to reduce or recover this cost, just like Walmart optimizes its supply chain.
memorizing passphrases and using encryption is "too hard"

It's not just baby boomers, it's most people outside HN unfortunately.
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Working for a porn company isn't much different from working at Facebook or Youtube.

Your goal is to keep people jacked into their streams for as long as possible. To do that you basically take advantage of every human weakness ever documented.
There are better things to do with your time and skills imho.
This is especially important to keep in mind because there is no way to shun a person and change their mind on the opinion that led to their shunning. Only engagement does that.
Paper (https://snwh.org/paper/theme) is a particularly great theme for the Gnome desktop (it also works with Budgie, Pantheon, and Unity, but I haven't tried it on any of those). The author's icon set is also pretty nice.
That's not true at all. Please cite reliable sources when slandering.
I understand that if you don't particularly like to cook, then someone bringing hot food over is a lot more appealing than doing something you don't enjoy.

I'll caution against drawing an equivalency between a lifestyle of eating take-out/delivery food vs. cooking (cooking, not heating up boxes of stuff) food you prepare at home.

In the former approach, you take what shows up. You can only control what you order and where you order from. In the latter approach, you can control what's going in to about as great (or little) a degree as you care to.

YMMV of course.
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>I believe LinkedIn may have already reached its maximum potential and is on a downward trend.

I think almost the exact opposite. Linkedin is still missing many features that could turn it into a bit of a game changer for business.

Maybe as a recruiting tool it's currently trash. I can get behind that. But if Microsoft manages to bring in a fresh set of users with some new features it could expand into something actually useful instead of a marketing hellhole.
Sure. I think there's actually still a lot of room for improvements in the shipping industry. I'm currently trying to ship a bike from San Francisco to Toronto, and the cheapest rate that I can find is around $200 with ground shipping, 5 days. I can fly myself from San Francisco to Toronto for $250. Is my bike getting meal service? Why is it still so expensive? What we need is better APIs from the major shipping companies so that we can more easily shop around. I think the major shipping companies could also work together to have possible a single point of access for users and the shipping companies can bid on which shipments they want to take. Shipping really is part of the infrastructure of a country. Maybe the government can help add some cost saving improvements to the industry?
When are threaded messages coming to slack? That's all I care about at this point