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Yup. I worked at a telecom hardware company a decade or so ago. Most of the telecom hardware boards that run today's call centers, were built in the early days to support phone sex lines.
I mean, like I said above, my team would love to be using Slack, but it's legally impossible for us to use in a way that would improve our current workflow. And honestly, that's not just limited to Slack; it's not at all unusual for me to run into slick new technologies and products that I'd love for us to be able to use, but things like "not breaking Federal laws" get in the way.

Sometimes it does take an 800lbs gorilla like Microsoft stepping in to get those techs our way because Microsoft's customer base has to worry about that sort of thing.
If it was confidence, they wouldn't have to share their confidence with anyone outside their office.

They could have sent a cake. Or took an ad like the ones Spielberg and Lucas did when the other broke box office records.
Grocery stores are the absolute best venues for people-watching. When traveling especially, the best way to get a sense of the people in a new place is to spend time at their grocery store.
If there were build tools that could help deploying to the App Store/Google Play/Windows Store/Amazon Marketplace in a straightforward way, this would motivate people to write more portable software.

Those marketplaces are not only places to buy applications. Many applications there are free. They are also distribution channels that help people finding and installing your app.
The best thing about late stage capitalism is that it produces enough excess goods and services that people have the option of opting out!
I'm in San Jose, California. I can go to a local tofu shop and get fresh tofu for $2 per block. Otherwise I can spend about 6 dollars at Costco to get a 4 pack of a good brand tofu.
>obligation is also fictional.

You're the one who introduced obligation as a premise. Copyright law is not fictional.

Websites are copyrighted works of art, and you are not obligated to use them copyright free. If the copyright holder intends for their content to be consumed with ads, that means you are obligated to consume it with ads.
Would it be much cheaper and easier to activate if it wasn't bundled with Office 365? I think that's where aarpmcgee was getting at.

In any case, this looks like a much better value proposition than Slack. However, I can test Slack in a second by going to their website. If I want to test MS Teams, I need to think about Office 365, sign up, find where to enable it, etc. Right now signing up for Slack is friction-less.
I tried to buy a satellite and all I got was this lousy $67,000
1) It's both cloud based and has a desktop app. I believe the demo screenshots I saw were all in the browser though.
2) There was a mention that it wasn't available immediately but should start showing up somewhere in the dashboard around 1:30 EST. You might have to find it somewhere deep in the settings if I remember what someone else showed me. I.e. it's not in the main app grid by default and has to be enabled.
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Just like you shouldn't need a plugin to disable <div> or <strong>.
People are already doing it on occasion, too. It's usually directed at specific people so far. Then there's people who kick it up a notch:

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-wrath-of-the-killdozer/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA
Does that make the next evolution swat-ware, where you take it a level deeper and threaten them to become the recipient?
I think I'd mess with the candidate if I saw the resume come across my desk, familiar with the name. "So, would you say this was a service oriented platform?" Pause "Who was getting serviced?"
To which governments control the keys. What could possibly go wrong?
Which, in case anyone reads this and gets excited about designing their own CSPRNG, is pretty much exactly what you get from /dev/urandom (or whatever the kernel CSPRNG is on your platform).
I think this highly dependent upon the field and what area in the field you want to work at. While I think there is a lot of value in a formal computer science education a lot of people are employed in the area without one, or with bachelors degree. On the other hand if you are really interested in being an electrical engineer working on device physics problems probably better to plan on getting a doctorate. Unless your your grandfather is the founder of TSMC or something like that. Put another way, if everyone you have ever heard of that is doing the type of work you want to do has a Masters, and your debating getting a Bachelors degree, you have ask yourself why do think you would be successful. A personal anecdote, about 30 years ago I struggled academically with my degree because I was working long hours at my high tech internship. I learned a tremendous amount at that job, but in the end I quit so I could focus on finishing. It was a bad job market when I graduated and it took me about 4 months so so after graduation to get a job. It would have been much worse without the degree. You don't say what experience or education you pursuing, but if you have a internship while you are working on your degree that's in your area I would say that's the best you can do. But it's not worth not finishing your program.
Presumably they're tracking when the user last submitted a salary, but not what they submitted.
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Minor note: Sublime also runs fine on Linux and Windows.
Clearly something, but no idea what. I only use a small number of apps (iterm2, neovim, chrome, spotify, etc). Spend most of my day in iterm2, and avoid using new programs because i prefer cli programs.
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I think this is a good suggestion and recommend that you submit a pull request so you may receive credit. If I don't see a PR at some point in the future I will probably add it myself. Thank you for the engagement.
You guys should sign up for the remote working conference this December. http://remoteworkingconf.com
There will be a lot of non-tech presenters there as well, I think you can still even submit a talk.
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So it is. I was under the impression that its microkernel approach, specifically the system calls directed to Mach, caused it to deviate from the standard. You learn something new every day.
These are all very well-known datacenters with several layers of physical security (there are standards and certifications for datacenters). Their locations aren't exactly secret.

Most datacenters have fences/gates, require access cards and/or biometrics to get in and move around inside the building. Once inside, you can only get into your own cages.

It's not like you can walk up, knock the door in with a battering ram, and then have access to everything inside.
Yeah i think all that red tape comes from appeasing the stock market, government agencies, and insurance companies.

Do not have the proper paper trail when shit hits the fan? Well there goes your share value, you get a hefty fine from government oversight, and the premium just went through the roof.
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Not at all. Nothing is available in full HD. Torrent are hard to find and die quickly.

Actually they are available - including 4k, even VR - just not on public trackers :)
Great, thank you for your flexibility. I just sent the email.
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It would be more interesting if people could reply why they disagree. I'm not the first one to come to this conclusion, hemlis is a public example. You simply can't compete with large companies several years after the fact without differentiating.
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Singing at social gatherings is pretty much universal across human societies.

The real question isn't "Why is karaoke popular?" it's "Why is breaking into song at other bars frowned upon?".
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Yeah, I guess I didn't make clear by "eating out" but I don't mean sit-down service at a restaurant. Just any sort of institution that provides cooked food to me.

I suppose you're right that "fast food" might be cheaper, but it's so unhealthy. I would think some business offering rice, beans, lentils, teeeeny bits of meat, cheap but fresh vegetables could still come in cheaper than preparing food yourself, provided they don't have to wait your table or anything. Maybe they only offer one or two meal options and it's somewhat pre-cooked.
It's 3 year old news rehashed in 2016 by this blog. Look up history of LES-1.
One of the stated things about the front page algorithm is that it'll often take a random story and put it at the bottom of the FP to feel things out. I think it adds a good mix of stuff. If this story doesn't take off or generate discussion, it'll slip off pretty fast :)
>Having said that, everyone also knows there are things you put in email and things you only discuss face to face, or over the phone.

A lot of people don't know this. One of my favorite classes in business school was "Business Communications." a lot of the stuff seemed really basic, but I'm amazed how much of it is disregarded in the wild.
This is the opposite of my experience
Yeah, but what if you're 25, you live alone, you make more money than you know what to do with (on account of spending 90% of your daily time at your high-tech job), and every time you cook for yourself half of your food goes bad or you have to eat the same thing 3-4 days in a row?

Cooking at home after with all that just reminds me that I'm not cooking with a family or whatever. I'd rather go sit next to strangers and have some human interactions with people who aren't Millennials working in tech.
I think you can use (x)inetd.

It's a linux wrapper, it listens to port X and calls an application everytime it gets a new connection.

The application will receive the HTTP requests in stdin. You'll need a parsing library to parse the request and generate a valid answer.

It's really old and deprecated technology but it's rather simple.
I'd define one of the dividing lines between small company and big company as "where you start needing to get approval to do the basic parts of your job". Not saying one is better than the other, just that all companies seem to go through this period where you start needing forms filled and approval E-mails to do more and more. Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not.
Estimates are not okay, at least in non B2B scenarios if you have a competent lawyer advising you. At a consumer level (where you have to make very serious assumptions about the customer's level of understanding of what an estimate is), you open yourself up to bait and switch claims.

Exacerbating the problem is that there is a huge variability in shipping prices. The parameter space is huge: residential vs business, single-family home vs multi-family building, location relative to shipping/sorting hubs, incidental delivery density (number of unrelated deliveries near you), handling concerns, signature requirements, size/weight X potential lane shipping options (weight dominates costs in ground lane shipping, physical dimensions dominate costs in air shipping). A 50 lb minifridge delivered to a multi-family residential building with a mail room in the same city as the origin warehouse may cost a carrier $1 to deliver. But if it is delivered to rural wyoming it may cost $40 and if it travels via air shipping you can tack on an additional $100. Estimates formed via simplistic assumptions may end up being inaccurate with standard deviations in excess of 100%. At the level of sophistication of the average customer, giving an estimate of $20 when actual costs are $100 screams bait and switch, whereas an estimate of $100 when actual costs are $20 means that the customer never makes it to checkout. If you aren't within a reasonable ~5% of actual, you can't reasonably provide estimates to the customer.

There is a push by carrier customers to provide estimated estimate accuracy for this reason (businesses want to know how accurate an estimate is if they have incomplete information), but ironically that ends up putting the carriers in the same position: data-validated claims about positive/negative bias in estimate accuracy can basically be considered bait and switch in court, even for large B2B customers with very detailed contracts.
I'm much more concerned with a new ad blocking circumvention technique that has emerged on plenty of sites in the recent months:

Open the actual link you are clicking on in a new tab, and change the current page's location to some advertising page.

They even randomize when a link opens in a new tab, so you can't just close the page automatically, but have to wait for the result.

It drives me crazy.

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I do love how the MindGeek guy got called out on the bug tracker, though.
I also have two under 3, so I can commiserate with making routine tasks as easy and efficient as possible. Ironic that you're running your kitchen like a restaurant tho, eh?

I've been trying lists with Trello, Alexa, or the ShopRite app because I either forget to print the list, or the printer is out of toner, or I can't read my handwriting because my only free time was 2am and I couldn't see straight anyways. There's no elegant and complete solution out there that works for me yet.
Also, testicular navigation was a thing. More sensitive current detection...
LinkedIn waited several years without letting me know that my account information had been hacked. For me at least they lost all credibility so reading their "privacy policy" would be a waste of time.
Also, emails can be subject to discovery during a lawsuit. If you want to discuss things you don't want some lawyer looking over a year from now, you keep all discussions face to face or via phone. Email is only for things that should have a papertrail.
I get the feel that we are seeing the same play out in online (and semi-online) video games as well.

Come up with a new "widget", implement, push it out there, monitor monitor monitor, if players don't embrace just leave it to rot while you push out the next one.
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AFAIK the algorithm is very naive, only taking into account number of up-votes and how long since it was posted to determine whether it goes on the FP and how quickly, and humans manually moderate to filter reposts and other against-the-rules content out of FP.

So basically, this is on the FP because enough people are interested in it.

Now if you're wondering why they're interested in this enough to up-vote it to FP even though it's not about start-ups, techs, or futurism, well that's more of a coincidence than anything else.

HN is ostensibly a forum for intellectual conversation, and that's it. This link tries to do just that, so it counts. In reality though HN is a business move. It's basically a niche forum geared towards the target customer base of YC and YC's affiliates and start-ups. That's how they advertise to them.

The real mystery here is why I'm not putting this kind of knowledge and insight to work toward making me a millionaire. I'm literally the same age as Sam Altman, yet I'm barely able to feed a family of 7. FFS.
Because they don't know how to enjoy cooking?
I have been a Linux user for a long time ( ArchLinux with Xfce ). Recently, I switched jobs and my employer issued me with a Mac. I am having the same problem : the fucking OS. Why do I need to press multiple buttons to see how many applications I have open ? Why does command + tab cycle through every open application ? Why does it not limit itself to the applications in the current space ? What are spaces for anyway ? Why does clicking on an already open application's icon in the dock take me to a random window for the application ? Is there some logic to it ? Is it random ? I think I understand why so many people wax on about tiling window managers now, they have never seen proper window managers. Also why do I have to press Command + whatever when there is a perfectly functional control key on the keyboard ? If I am remoted into a Windows machine now I have to remember to press Control + whatever and revert back to Command + Whatever when I am back on my Mac. Also don't even get me started on the docker networking issues.

But it would be unfair for me to blame Apple's OS for most of these faults.
-> I mean, come on. Everyone uses email.

Not actually. I've been a consultant for a few years now, and have worked with executives who have their assistants print out their email for them in order to review. It isn't limited to Wall Street.

Though it's probably something we'll see less and less of as the years go by.
How does this relate to Skype for Business (previously Lync)? Is it a update and rebrand of group chat, or something separate?
Shipping directly to consumers is more expensive and energy consuming than shipping to a single location (e.g. a brick and mortar store).

However what this article is neglecting is that brick and mortar stores are built where people go to them. The land and building cost money, which the store typically pays for through a lease.

So, yes, shipping isn't free. But having products sit on a shelf in a store in the city isn't free either. Especially if said products depreciate in value and aren't sold quickly.

Basically, look at why RadioShack went bankrupt to see how this can backfire for brick and mortar.

Also, "Free" shipping from China isn't. The cost of shipping from China is subsidized by other countries. I remember reading that the price to ship something from China to your house in the US, USPS gets paid less than it costs them to ship.

Shipping rates from China are up for review soon, and the industry is expecting their rates to be re-adjusted, after which ordering from China will get a lot more expensive...
This is really weird and defensive from Slack. Instead of telling Microsoft how to do their job, do it better and kick their ass. As a wise man once said, actions speak louder than words.
> If its obvious that gratitude is good why can't we simply adopt it in an instant.

Humans are creatures of habit. You don't change behavior by flipping a switch; we aren't wired that way.
Even if users were willing, this would be woefully inaccurate information. Mint shows take-home pay.
But you have to keep in mind ...

* People contribute between 0 to X% to a 401k.
This couldn't be deduced from take-home.
* Many companies have a Employee Stock Purchase Program,
which is deducted from payroll.
* Some (Many?) programmers get a large chunk of
compensation in options or RSUs.

I think self-reported is likely the only way to get numbers without some extremely invasive requests.
That's what Jet.com tries to solve. Initially the prices you see have built in shipping (although $35 minimum), but as you spend more they give you discounts inline with their savings.

Jet.com isn't perfect but they're trying some interesting stuff with pricing (e.g. pay more for included returns, or pay less but have to pay shipping if you return, buy items in bulk and get a discount, etc).
"appear almost every-month with same job posting, I wonder whats going on."

Perhaps H1B fraud? There's a local company just a mile from my house that's been advertising the same $50K CCIE position for near fifteen years now.
And a "solution" to that can be to give discounts when multiple things are bought together.

That re-aligns the incentives of both parties.
Yeah, I live in NJ, but I work at a federal facility with an IP that geolocation places in DC. So I frequently see sites assuming I'm in DC when I access them from work rather than home, even though the two locations are actually three miles apart.

So I certainly prefer when they just ask for a ZIP code.
Have you used it lately? Works very well on my 10.11.x Mac... I also use a Asus Vivo note 8, and Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (my old work horse) and they all sync perfectly... at least now they do.
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I'm the guy from RethinkDB who found and hired Jeroen!

I will say it's pretty rare, but when searching for a very particular skill set "Who wants to be hired" can totally work for finding new to mid-level devs.
It's hard to imagine these days but back then you could catch so much fish, you could easily retrieve enough fluid (blood) from them that you wouldn't need any rain.
Back in the real world it's not unemployment that you're gonna worry about. It's how much severance you're going to pay him. Somewhere between 1 and 3 months. Which he'll use to take a nice vacation and then easily go get another job whenever he's ready.

And you'll be down a talented employee that's hard to replace.

Nice work!
connect up-to a 1000 devices on a single plan. Plans start at $25 for 1GB ( each device that is active and sends data will be charged $1 per month). Love to get some HN feedback.
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Try searching for "Scala " or "Scala." or "Scala,".
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Back in the PowerPC days, there was a thing called Mac-on-Linux [0] that allowed GUI Mac apps to run in Linux. It worked pretty well. I wonder if that code base would be helpful.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac-on-Linux
Yes! I learned of Mixmax (https://mixmax.com) in a Who's Hiring post from last fall, interned with them from January to August of this year, and am returning early next year after I graduate.

We're still hiring like crazy :).
I totally agree with you. Good example is Atom editor. Also I totally liked the idea of Firefox OS. Shame it died. IMHO it was totally Mozilla fault. They shipped FF OS with under powered hardware. When I asked them, why. Was told their focus is on emerging markets. Well focus was wrong. If they put Firefox OS on some decent hardware, I would love to buy it.
In many cases, a corollary will also be true: If you spent many years at university (Master's degree, PhD), you should have something to show for it.