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Our team's boss, who is the CEO, tries to do too many things, so the management of our team ends up being delegated back to us through "360 peer reviews" and vague directives which, when we do them, aren't necessarily what the boss wanted.

If you can quantify how good our contributions to the company are, that would be great. Also if you could clarify our boss's instructions/wishes.
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They're free to offer me a discount (smaller than the interchange) to pay cash but they usually don't so it's their own fault.
Also consider that people are less likely to use voice search if they are around others. So that might explain why you haven't seen friends/colleagues do it.
Very good point. MySpace had zero consistency of experience.
Amazon heavily reinvests the money it makes, unlike Capital One, which pays dividends to shareholders quarterly.
No way I am going to watch 45 seconds videos when it would take me 10 seconds to read the answer.
It's much more safer browser to being with.
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Have you? I live two hours from Oklahoma. I drive through regularly so I have seen much of the state.
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I suppose. The whole idea just seems to miss that for many, online data is more important than my local pc. A web extension that deleted my google account would be more disruptive than an XUL extension that formatted my hard drive. XUL is a superset, but restricting to "web only" leaves you with the most significant subset...at least for me.
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Politics killed the company. They have lost the plot, the leadership is more interested in ideology than technology.
You can shoot pumpkins almost a mile with air cannons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmSyrGsqmg8 .Trebuchets doesn't go quite as far, around 2000-2500 feet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv3yhlQOAWY
Don't. Kids that age should be playing outdoors.
We're also used, I hope, to juggling multiple types of syntax in the same project. This is no different.
Nice video! How did you film the Lego stop-motion stuff? Some advice: make sure your voice is clear next time. The music was too loud in this video.

I agree with the other comments in that they need to be interested first. Well, how do you get them interested? That depends on their interests and hobbies. So what I would do is create a short video that ties one of their hobbies to programming, and try to discuss what they thought of the video. Once you get them hooked, they'll be ready to learn.
Obviously my sarcasm was not obvious
Better to just ditch passwords altogether.

If maybe 5% of the accesses the site requires authentication (the other 95% passthru cause you have the cookie) - make that 5% use a text code to your phone.
EDIT: App on yr phone, not an SMS

No more passwords.
I've driven many cars from most major luxury brands (including Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari, Bentley, Jaguar, Lamborghini, even Bugatti). At it's price point, there's no other car I'd personally rather drive. Maybe my characteristics for a car are different than yours. But as far as comfort, performance, feature set, and styling I vastly prefer the P100D over any other car in its price category (aka $100-150k range).
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Universal 2nd Factor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_2nd_Factor
> ...if that changes, everything changes.

That's a big "if". How likely is it to change? If history shows anything, not very. Don't get me wrong, I strongly hope they can knock Google off the top spot. But hope doesn't ship units.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8402859
So it's either learn how to program or play outside? I do not see why the kids couldn't dedicate some time to each, if they are interested of course.
Discussed in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8024067
It would be nice if the various governments (local, provincial, communal, federal ,..) would use a common platform/approach for their tenders and paperwork.

Edit: it would also be nice if there were a single source for new potential assignments. Currently we have to keep an eye on various (non-RSS..) websites, paper publications and bulletins. It's a pain. Especially because there's no way to filter/search paper announcements.
The question "Why would you use Firebug considering both Firefox Dev Tools and Chome Dev Tools have more features and don't cause the entire browser to horribly lag?" remains.
Finding the famous "Aha moment".

You probably heard the story on how facebook realized that once someone adds at least 7 friends, then they reach this "Aha moment", and from that point on, they're converted to longer-term users. And how afterwards Facebook optimized their onboarding experience to help new users find and add more friends...

That's the problem I'm facing with our startup. We have tons of data. We track events, conversions, page views, bounces, you name it. But we're still not sure what's our "Aha moment". A tool or service that would ingest our analytics (or do its own) and find a strong causal relationship between actions and conversions would be really amazing (ideally, without requiring a $gazilion+ enterprise license)
> but there's no right that says that Mozilla must be the one to maintain that code.

And there's no right that says I have to use FF. They are giving up one of their big advantages.
ASK: Is this a web template or built organically?
http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

I came across this website and I love how interactive it is. How can I build a website like this?
What a bizarre comment. I have done no such thing. You, however, have deigned to tell others, "You don't need that. Here's what you should have, and it is what you will prefer."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429437 was related.
I think the trick about hourly is to make sure you don't lock yourself into a fixed hour contract. I typically give a broad estimate, and I also tell the client that if I go over, they will be billed for those hours.
Yeah, I'm super interested in this and love AMAs on reddit, but video is just so much more annoying than text.
The Berlin Wall worked because it was backed by fear and guns. The Soviets had no problem arresting and torturing or outright shooting anyone who tried to cross. I think you understand what I'm trying to point out here.
Ask HN: How to start working in porn industry?
I'm interested in technology and marketing behind porn companies. How does one make contacts or find a job in this sector? I'm very interested in how these companies are being run, how does the tech behind it work, marketing, how they make money etc.
How easy is it to switch to Developer mode? Genuinely asking
I've used it for internal (internet exposed due to remote) services before - works in ff, the only issue I've had is remembering them
Will the be using Docker?
This right here is why I read HN. Thanks!
I took that one as PARrot TCL, not "particle".
the single most important thing you can do in your effort to lose weight is to rent a ral medicine book on endocrinology. not some bullshit. a real book that university students and practitioners refer to.

all you need to know about metabolism will be laid out in the first 30 pages. but read the whole thing. everything the media wants you to believe is the polar opposite of reality. read a real book. lose your weight. you need zero exercise to lose weight (it will help, obviously, but it is absolutely not required).

since you want to know about how to help other people with that information - explain it in plain terms.

specifically, you want to understand what adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is, does, and how macronutrients turn into it.

the other piece of information you really need is that 90%+ of your daily energy consumption goes towards thermogenesis (making sure your body stays warm), assuming an average lifestyle.

your body has a daily need for about 100g carbs. thats why you are absolutely addicted to them. because if you dont get them, you DIE (over time. you dont die immediately, theres plenty of storage in your muscles and liver and other places). intentionally dropping your carb intake below 100grams will make weightloss happen.

not eating carbs can be hard, until you understand that you can eat an almost infinite amount of chicken breast instead. for example. season it. eat it with a side of cancer sauce if you have to. the cancer sauce may not be the most healthy choice of food, but its less deadly than a heart attack at 35.

you can make a burger out of slices of protein bread, chicken breast, cucumber and some ketchup if you have. takes two minutes and wont taste worse than anything mcdonalds puts out.

anything else barely matters. this is your 80/20. If you want to have a decent exercise routine, head over to stronglifts.com and do that program. its free.
Office politics.

Here's an idea: a Machiavellian social network software that could help us find like-minded individuals inside our orgs so that we could build alliances and drive initiatives. Uses ML/AI to detect threats or plots targeted at us. Obviously, it would have to be a private social graph - you wouldn't want the marks finding out about your plans. Monthly billing by # of plots/subterfuges in progress.

Might also make for a hilarious game.
I had a similar path as yours. Never had to work all that hard through school, did a degree at a university in the sciences which was somewhat the same (had to try a little harder after the reality settled in from freshman year...), but I had always just assumed that was the next step. This was just something I had to do to move on, so a high mark was the end result.

I was thrilled to graduate, took a job out in a semi-related field for about 5-6 years, then slowly began to get this feeling of "being dumbed down". Day by day, doing the same or similar things, not having to learn new stuff; it took a toll. I started listening to podcasts, and learning about all of the advances in science was enough to get me back into school and apply for a graduate degree.

Here is where I think this is something that people have to recognize they want for themselves. Starting my grad classes with other students, mostly fresh from undergrad, I could see a change in the value I took from the classes compared to undergrads. I saw my old mentality in them ("Ugh why do we have to learn this, it won't be useful, just have to get this out of the way to checkmark a box..."). Whereas I spent time in a career, and had to force myself to make a major life-altering decision. I wanted what they had to say, whether it was relevant or not, because these ideas could be weaved together in the future. The properties that dictate the science of one is not fully independent from the other.

This really became infectious. Everything I see, I try to learn beyond just memorization, but to a solid understanding and application level. "I'm running this test, the process isn't working, where is the most likely error? How can I optmize?"

Unfortunately, I don't think you can just teach this. It has to be something that someone actively decides they want to commit to.
They should be partnering with Hertz.
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So Apple engineered a system that can't be repaired without introducing a (mostly irrelevant) vulnerability. This is Apple's fault, they can do better.

Here's an alternate universe: You replace your home button, and now you need to use your PIN to unlock the device and Touch ID is reinitialised.

And in any case, I don't know why we're playing into Apple's security theatre, if there are technically sophisticated adversaries who can invade your personal security trying to hack you, it's game over for you. Nothing Apple does with Touch ID will be relevant.
This! This happened to me, and good thing that came out of it was that my ego was crushed to pieces. Otherwise I asked myself where did I go wrong, or I lacked motivation to actually sit down, heat the chair and do the heavy lifting. I found it pretty boring and it repelled me in many aspects, so i struggled but eventually made it through.

I always like learning on my own, playing and tweaking with stuff, thinking about problems around me, understanding how things were working on their core level. But with simple "chair and book" studying I suffered a lot. Sadly I don't know any solution and can't give any advice to others...
Which then requires:

1. every site to obtain some automatable way to send text messages, which can get mildly expensive,

2. people to acquire at least one burner phone for authentication because they don't want $randomwebsite to have their real phone number, and

3. users to give up some degree of anonymity because the country of origin can't be hidden behind a proxy, as the phone number gives it away.

This sounds like an overall loss for everybody to me.
How timely - I, too, got frustrated by the fact that org-babel src block evaluation is synchronous, so I built ob-async [1]. Rather than target a specific babel language, it aims to support any flavor of src block. It uses jwiegley's async [2] to execute the block in a second Emacs process and then inserts the results in the buffer when complete. There are still some rough edges (no :session support, for example), but it's worked well for my somewhat limited use cases so far.

[1] https://github.com/astahlman/ob-async
[2] https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-async
0-60 time is a little important to me (but no, I don't need Tesla's level stats). Getting on a freeway and merging in traffic is an example of where it's useful. I'm not one of those drivers who thinks it's ok to not be going traffic flow speed by the end of the entrance ramp, so having an electric car that can easily do that is something I value. Many hybrid / EV vehicles strain to do it at times in my experience (I've test driven most of them on the market today).
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This may come as a shock, but the drug dealing world is not full of rocket scientists.
Tech inspecting tech. Nice. Too bad its vision doesn't look like the Terminator's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvRb9jZ9wFk
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One of the fundamental problems is most developers dehumanize people by referring to them as users, which that term might as well be synonymous with robots given how developers think about them. This "slightly evil" approach is humorous, but in all candor, silicon valley has a serious disease of treating people like cattle and that's the kind of attitude that generates this kind of project. Of course, without respect for your customer base, you really can't have integrity or respect for yourself, which is why many of the jobs out there are so brutal. If the company doesn't respect it's customers, it doesn't respect itself, and it sure as heck isn't going to respect it's employee's. The biggest and most profitable technology companies in the US are not trustworthy due to this. At this point it's habitation and embedded so deeply into the thinking I'm not sure it'll ever change.

There's a fundamental lack of respect for simplifying the whole ordeal of authenticating; do it in such a way someone would need to know exactly how the authentication works and what the risks are if they were scammed.

E.G. First page listing what someone could do to you if they got your password so they can assess the risk. Second page indicates the requirements and gives some examples. Third page asks them how they want to manage recovery should they forget their password, and whether they want to be notified. Change the business risk or the password requirements? Update and put all the users through the whole process again.
Yes, but don't hang on it too much. Some part of story telling is, for instance, also to stay in that moment, enjoy it, explore it. Or to put it in another way, sometimes the change doesn't have to come from you, it happens inside the reader/viewer/player, like when studying a painting. Always enforcing change can be too harsh on the other people's mind.
The Berlin was was built in a densely populated area, was patrolled regularly, had frequent guard towers, and, was ~100 miles long.

Are you really claiming that's a good comparison to a wall 1000 miles long, through desert and unpopulated areas, which won't* be manned continuously along it's length?

As for the Hungarian border wall, yes, it has helped. But again, EU population density is a lot higher than the southern US desert. It's not just the wall that stops people, it's the frequent patrols, and repairs to the wall.

Given the inability of the US to prevent tunnels between the Mexico / US border, I'm skeptical that a 1000 mile wall will work.
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Text messages are incredibly insecure because of how easy it is for someone to take over your phone number.
Nah, just write the necessary software to replace the people!
Clearly the cartels need to set up a "punkin chunkin"[1] contest where the winner takes home some cash and the cartel gets their device. Then every year they get an additional 'chunking' machine and they can drive them back and forth along the border periodically sending their payloads several thousand feet inland.

[1] https://www.punkinchunkin.com/
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That question is also fascinating me. If you experience a very random, normal event, like waiting in a queue, it is boring as hell. But if you watch it in some artist's work (e.g., a Tarantino movie) it's so fascinating. There is more to it than the details of what happens itself.
No, not if you're counting Europe as a continent (which you are because you count seven). Europe's east boundary is political/cultural.

It's rather silly how this is SO ingrained that even an article about the definition of continents includes Europe without comment. Even the map it cites draws Europe in a unique way, as a distinct labeled area but also as a part of Eurasia. Zealandia makes infinitely more sense as a continent than Europe.

Also, I just found out that some textbooks in Europe teach that North and South America are the same continent. The irony.
How about Hungary's current wall?
> which won't* be manned continuously along it's length?

> It's not just the wall that stops people, it's the frequent patrols, and repairs to the wall.

Correct, the wall is but one part of a solution. As far as patrols go, sounds like a fantastic jobs program.
This sounds like an excellent step for Nintendo, if it's true. The Wii U & 3DS development kits are fairly expensive if you're hoping to bash out a title in your evenings / weekends. $500 would give a leg up to those people who haven't got a few grand kicking around to try stuff out on console.

I'm hoping they're also going to continue with the Nintendo Web Framework concept, because that was a pretty smart idea too - having a web technology-based execution environment alongside the Unity / Unreal / native stuff.
You don't necessarily have to push all files into the global agenda. Instead, you can set `org-agenda-custom-commands` to something like

'(("p" "Some project"
((alltodo ""))
((org-agenda-files '("path/to/file.org"
"path/to/another.org"))))
("o" "Another project"
((alltodo ""))
((org-agenda-files '("another/project/file.org")))))

Now using `M-x org-agenda p` will give you a todo list for the first project, and `M-x org-agenda o` for the second project.
Interrruptions are an easy way to increase attention. But it can't be the only thing. Or how do you explain a person studying a painting for hours. There is not the slightest change happening (to the painting) and yet it can be fascinating.
It's interesting to see how the party-faithful feel about issues that don't mesh well with major party tenets. In this case, most people seem to be more concerned with being tough on crime rather than limiting the power of government or having a fiscally responsible government.
Yes! It feels like I try a new video conferencing system every week, never to see any improvement. I currently pay something like £20 per month for WebEx because it's marginally better than Skype (particularly with more than three people, at which point in my experience Skype becomes unusable).

I tried a new one last week (for an introductory call with a new client) - Zoom.us - and it was absolutely agonising: I had to install some junky software on my Mac only to end up with a laggy video connection with appalling sound quality. In the end I made an international phone call to the guy and we both breathed a sigh of relief because we could actually relax and have a conversation.

This is not how things should be in 2017.
You seem to be using the words "small" and "local" as if they are intrinsically good things, and implying that I should pad a business's profit margin because it has those characteristics.

How about, let's patronize the businesses that offer the best products and services at the lowest cost, and save our "donations" for legitimate charities.
For more in depth JavaScript exercises, I built this for some hour of code sessions at some pretty big high schools.

It's basically a UI for writing/sharing/leading code exercises.

It should obviously be using a database and have better security, but that wasn't a major priority for my original purpose.

https://github.com/katzgrau/hour-of-code-developer
You also have to consider that the US at least would be strongly inclined to bomb that kind of thing out of existence... it would after all be a huge potential threat if used for something other than smuggling drugs. We're not trying to fight the cartel subs like we would an invading military, and if we did, they'd have no chance. The payoff stops being worth it when fucking up means you lose the sub and the cargo without warning.
There is a "view it in action" button.
I am! Apologies.
I would argue that the HTTP request is one of the most expensive things you can do in terms of user interface latency for web apps, and if you're making requests at very the time of need, then the user will experience a big GUI pause.

But if you could anticipate even some of these requests, and you request ahead of time and deliver the results via DOM mutation, then you might be decreasing net user interface latency.
The only reason Firefox became popular in the first place is because it was adopted by power users, who then evangelized it to their less technical friends and family.

When Firefox is no longer an attractive option for power users, the only thing it will have going for it is ideology. And that will not be enough to compete.
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So Google and Microsoft use 2FA cause texts are more insecure? If I lose control of my phone they're into all my websites anyway.
I know of a game that incorporates programming lessons in a really cute way. I discovered it when I was around 15 and loved it so much, I wished I ran into it at an earlier age.

It's a 3rd person view where you control an astronaut on different missions. It has some RTS elements as there are various robots to control.

However, in addition to being able to directly control the robots (which is fun and accessible), you can write code that it'll execute and automate some simple tasks, like fetching resources, defending a base, etc. It's very high quality and well made, and incorporates step by step lessons, starting with basics of programming. Your creativity is the limit.

What I've found out recently is the game was eventually released as open source (it was originally commercial) and picked up by a community of people working on making it better, and it's suppported on modern systems.

It's called Colobot [0] and I highly suggest you try it out, see if you think the kids would find it interesting.

[0] https://colobot.info/