skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The KeyOne is a phone for a very specific person, one that longs for the days when the BlackBerry Bold was the most important device in the office and the majority of business communications happened over email."

Do communications happen over something else now for many/most businesses? Yes, for SOME businesses the majority of business communications happen over something else, but I'm under the impression that for MOST businesses email is still holds the majority of communications still. Am I wrong on that?
Ugh. Provocative, radical idea that is founded upon overly-simple, faulty assumptions. To think that the author's three categories for teams are the only three, and that standup communication only takes the forms he describes is just hubris, and leads to dangerous advice.
Thank you for sharing!

The "hack" here, is merely getting the information out...historically not easy.
If someone gets blocked that someone better ask for help instead of just doing nothing. How does some daily ritual help with this?
It is published, and you can evaluate its usefulness here:

https://agunix.org/fqa

I'm writing up a blog post on it now, I realize I haven't done that yet.
Differentiation also has a precise meaning in literature, and just feeling that software which comes free with Apple hardware is better than other software doesn't indicate product differentiation or a differentiation strategy. That's just personal preference.

I'm not saying that you don't/shouldn't genuinely and rightly prefer Apple software, I use Apple devices every day myself. That being said, I'd hazard a guess that you wouldn't use OSX on a Dell as your primary machine? Or iOS on a cheap Android if that were possible?
surprised that even after the 'goto fail' story people still write code in this questionable style

LibreSSL didn't spring into existence out of whole cloth. It started as a fork of OpenSSL, which goes back to 1998.

The "questionable style" is from legacy code. It would be a massive effort to revise the entire codebase. And if LibreSSL did that, it would make it harder to import changes from OpenSSL and from other forks such as BoringSSL.
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Certainly in Sweden, where virtually the entire country takes off the month of July.
The contempt these politicians have for you and their willingness to trample all over you in the service of the uber-wealthy and powerful is unlimited. Why should they be afforded any respect at all?
odd, since there have been plenty of updates.
> it just helps sites survive DDoS attacks

That's false. CloudFlare also passes along the personal contact information of people who complain about the hate sites. I agree CloudFlare tries to hide behind the "we are only providing a service" excuse, but it is their choice to put blinders on about who they provide services to. According to the article, the only reason they shy away from providing services to ISIS is because it's illegal. If it were legal, CloudFlare would help ISIS... kill and terrorize the world. That says it all for me.
A few years ago, I might have said something similar about MySpace or Usenet or GeoCities.
The point is not that it is actually bad. Even 8 developers for half an hour could be justified.

The point is that it should give a manager sufficient pause to actually think through whether or not that cost is justified by what that meeting provides.

Surprisingly few teams account for the cost of the way they spend their time, and one outcome is that it's very easy for time sinks like meetings to go unchallenged because people don't think about how the costs multiply with the number of people involved. It's "only 30 minutes".

Costs which would require budget approval if it was scheduled as a project suddenly become ok because no single person spends much time on it per meeting and the time spent never gets recorded and reported on anywhere.
From the very beginning, it is clear what the author was talking about:

> Moreover, the advantages go beyond margins: the best way to understand both Apple’s profits and many of its choices is to understand that the company has a monopoly on not just MacOS but even more importantly iOS. That means Apple can not only capture consumer surplus on hardware, but developer surplus when it comes to app sales; that some apps are not made is deadweight loss that Apple has chosen to bear to ensure total control.
At first, I really liked Google's DWIM changes. It's great for typos.

But it didn't take long before it started doing something other than what I meant. Taking words without typos and deciding I want something else because it made more sense. Showing me too results that did not match all terms ahead of results that did. The list goes on.

It's gotten particularly bad when searching for technical matters.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find better search engines. As far as I can tell, they're still the best game in town. They're just not as good as they used to be.
It's only a deterrence, not a defense. The attacked can always wait it out, or attack multiple sites at once to slow things down.

You also have to watch out for rate limiting becoming a way for attackers to DDoS your legitimate users.
Founders need to grow with the company and need to grow first
> When you break things down, you make it easier for less experienced workers to complete work.

Actually you make it easier for everyone. The point of breaking down a task is to start removing assumptions, and make it so others can also lend a hand.

> However, increased breakdown is very costly on many levels. You need extra time to break things down (senior dev), extra effort to track it in project management tools, extra time to deal with it all every day. It's costly.

Time and again I have heard this reasoning, but in my experience the real costs comes when not breaking down tasks. There is an unknown unknown problem with large tasks, that is often solved by breaking them down with the stake holder instead of finding the issues during acceptance.

I do agree though that the right level to break down tasks is an art that ends up being team specific.
I would say that the top games have good gameplay process, nice graphics and good art.

I've played some where I've thought - "oh, this game would be so much better if it wasn't stuck in a IAP addiction mode".

I never get very far in these games due to the artificial IAP barriers.
Why do I fantasize about quitting my startup?
I love BlackBerry. I bought a Passport just for kicks and have never put a SIM in it. I just like it. I'll probably buy one of these too and just sit it on the desk.
You've shown one way self-organizing teams can fail. That is not true for all teams.

I can similarly show a way a clear, accountable leader can fail: they can be good enough at politics to make a huge, micromanaged mess yet have all the blame placed on their team and get promoted. Just because sometimes it does happen, it doesn't mean it always happens ;)
How did they actively encourage that situation, what could possibly be their motivation for wanting that situation (surely they'd rather have 30% of a $10 app vs. 30% of a $1 or free app), and what would you have them do to change that situation? There are literally millions of people who would love to have a healthier market for paid mobile apps, including the company itself. Since you've clearly got the answers and we're all just out here in the wilderness scraping sticks together, please share your insights for the sake of the entire industry.
Reminds me of:

here was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian
literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced
rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and
astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and
sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special
kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.

-- George Orwell, 1984
Awesome, so what qualifications do your Data Science team members have and would you hire someone without a degree? Or what if they had a data science / ML / AI MOOC like Udacity or Coursera? And do you have any advice for OP or others who don't have degrees?
No disagreement here on that. I'm not defending Greyball.
>And yet, Google has near monopoly power over search. Facebook has near monopoly power over social media. Amazon is nearing monopoly power over internet retail

Absolute nonsense. These players have large market shares but that is not anything close to a monopoly. Bing, Walmart, and Twitter are just 1 second away.

Here is a rule of thumb, if you can change companies in less than 5 minutes without getting dressed, they have nothing close to a monopoly.

The reason they haven't "wielded their enormous power" is because people can so easily switch. That's not a problem monopolies or near monopolies have (see Comcast for an example of near monopoly behavior).
Because a radar detector doesn't send out a signal to the officer's radar fooling giving it a false speed.

That essentially is what their software did. It didn't just alert the driver that the person requesting a ride may be law enforcement, it seems it actually showed the officer incorrect data to mislead them about the vehicles' whereabouts.

And for the record, radar detectors actually are illegal in many states.
Call me edgy, but what about ssh, Bob?
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The browser absolutely did this -- just compare the importance and dominance of MS Windows in the late 90's / early 00's to today.
As you said, it depends on your agreement with the employer.

It's not given by the law. By the same token, you can have 4 or more weeks of vacation in the US - if the employer agrees.

In practice, most of the employees do not even ask for 4 weeks at one. Most of them want a week during Christmas, a week during winter for skying, a week in the summer, etc. In some cases, the company can make you to take mandatory vacation at the time when they need it, and of course it is taken out of your four weeks. Car makers, for example, often shut down the entire plant in the summer and everyone gets their vacation then.

So the vacation time is not that clear-cut, not even in EU.
Motor is the only word used for engine in Swedish, I believe it's the same in other nordic languages.
0-6 month, as they specified.

That's nice considering daycares have a minimum age requirement before you can start leaving a child to go back to work.

Most of the first few months are spent sleeping.

Perhaps they should have said "remote work while child is 0-6 months".

Honestly, a flexible remote schedule is just something I'd be willing to change jobs for right now. When kids get sick and I have the follow the same vacation/PTO policy as hourly people here; I begin to despise my HR department.
I currently use a bb passport, and look forward to using a KeyOne... when my passport is totally obsolete or broken.
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They are not incompatible claims.

People buy things for multiple reasons. The point of the article is Apple has a problem, one of the reasons, iOS, isn't applicable in China due to WeChat being the dominate platform (and works on all devices).

The author circles back to mention that it doesn't mean Apple is eliminated from that market since they still have other differentiators (status symbol).
I'm a junior developer in a "Scaled Agile Framework" (SAFe, apparently) team at a VERY big company, and although we never cancel our stand ups, the format seems to exclusively be for status updates / reporting, and not "for the team". Feels like everyone else is habituated to it though, and they don't seem to mind, but it definitely bothers me. Generally lucky if a morning stand up takes 30 minutes, let alone 15.
Yeah the title is a little clickbaity...
Well I came from a poor country, so due to leap frog effect, I directly got into digital photography, and eventually I went into analog.

The things I have learned about digital and post processing (and I did that a LOT) is:

* Always shoot in RAW mode, why ruin you images by making the stock software by Canon to convert them into dumpy JPEG format.

* Always underexpose digital photos. Digital sensors these days have pretty good exposure latitude (almost as good as analog some even say). When you shoot in RAW and underexpose, you can recover almost everything. Digital sensors are HORRIBLE in capturing highlights. You're commenting on how proud you are at your camera in capturing the shadows of the fog scene, but the highlights of the photo are completely butchered.

* While post-processing, invest in a good monitor calibrator. Granted they can be expensive, the cheaper version of that is to at least do your work in middle brightness of the monitor (irrespective of the actual brightness level you work in) and then crank it up all the way and see how it looks, and crank it all the way down and make adjustments.

* For actual software, I prefer lightroom, because you can create all sorts of presets for it and see immediately how any photo will look in it. You can also buy presets (like VSCO has some good ones) from third parties to expand your collection.

* Discard more shots. That (i.e. being more selective) makes a HUGE difference between a good photographer and an average one.

Finally, I'd say you should try your hand in Medium format analog. Nearly nothing I did in digital came close to a single Medium format shot I've taken.
An estimate by a respected third party gave its valuation at just $400 billion. [1]

Even with a recent tax reduction to boost its market capitalization, most analysts believe it is not worth more than $1.5 trillion. If you consider a foreseeable future, Google could likely surpass that as its services increase in value while oil is threatened by alternative energy.

Overall, the comparison seems wrong as Saudi Aramco and Google hold different proportions of value in oil/data that exist in the world.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-23/saudi-ara...
> Now they are even paying Recruitment Agencies huge sums of money to find people remotely qualified, and they are absolutely raking in the cash

Now you know why the elite invested their own money into Brexit - Brexit is not just a pet ideology, it is an opportunity to make boatloads of money through privatization. While promoting a nationalist agenda, these well-heeled globalist gentleman will relocate to Monaco, Bahamas or some other sunny island at the first signs of Brexit failing. They will probably do so anyway even if it is a success.

May things go well for you and your family.
More parents are willing to raise kids in 'burbs than go with city schools.

Most suburban school districts far excel urban ones.
If you are still confused about the criminal acts that occurred, read more about REPO 105:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_105
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Something I always wanted!

I love cooking, I love eating, but cooking well takes time, effort, ingredients, shopping trips, storage, inventory management. I can do all that, but when you get right down to it replacing some of my diet with Huel (a British product in the same niche as Soylent, although the composition is substantially different) just makes my life easier. It's tasty enough, it keeps me going, I can be confident that it's giving me a balanced meal, and on a busy day it's saving me a pile of money too.

Then when I do have time, I cook something ridiculously delicious.

For me, this category is about convenience, and it serves it very well.
OS 10 Devices don't support TLS 1.2

Hope you don't want to be PCI compliant.
https://uni.xkcd.com/ still works
Supporting old deprecated technology like this is a very bad thing to do.

SSH exists. We should not be using Telnet anymore. For anything.
It's interesting too, because in many countries, there's VERY strict patient confidentiality that would prevent the family of the donor from ever meeting recipients.
The user who submitted this to HN is not the same person who owns this github repo.
Fair point.

As long as your most used apps area available on more platforms, and those are more or less equal in terms of features/performance/usability, on which platform they run it shouldn't make a big difference.

The author says "WeChat it's not Whatsapp/Facebook/Twitter", but even in there is not such a centralized service outside of China, most of the same uses are covered by ubiquitous apps.
Yeah, worst example ever. They should make it harder to make inner anonymous classes, not easier. When such code is used inside JEE/CDI/Spring Beans it leads to some annoying leaks or issues with serialization.
> its very common for a team member to get blocked and not know how to get unblocked.

Is it? I haven't seen this very often and only with very junior engineers. Anybody with even a modicum of experience knows to ask for help when they're stuck. On the other hand, what I have seen all too often is an experienced dev blocking everybody else because of poor scheduling by the manager. Oftentimes, there's no way others can help with this. The dev knows what needs to happen, but it takes time and the dev just needs to do it. This makes every standup a humiliation. 'Is Joe still blocking Ted and Tara? Can you speed it up, Joe?'
I'd follow the advice that kcorbitt gives in this thread. Index funds and if you have knowledge of a sector, save 10-20 percent of your investment budget for a specific stock you think will outpace normal growth. Finally, given the coming societal dislocations, I'd brush up on survival skills and stock some firearms.
Yeah, MCC and a bunch of other information on the merchant (name, location, etc)
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You kinda sound like you're not a parent.

Many developers don't live to work. Those who do may not be great parents; or aren't interested in it at all. It's not hard to do; and still stay relevant and current.

In fact, I could care less about it. I actively despise computers from 5pm - 8am.
The UK's weakness isn't rooted in a belief that May's majority in parliament is too narrow. It's pretty clear that, given the referendum, even Labour would have a hard time voting against Brexit.

The weakness is that Brexit is simply 5x worse for the UK than it is for the EU, at least economically. The UK does around 50% of its foreign trade with the EU, while for the EU, which is much larger, this represents only around 10% of trade.

The result of failed negotiations is, for the UK, widespread economic depression. For EU countries, it's a slight economic road bump. It's the same mechanism that makes it a much bigger deal for you to get hired by Google than it does for Google.

There's no amount of nationalism, tough talk, bluffing, or posturing Britain can do to change the fact that, at the end of the day, Europe can walk away from these negotiations at any time. Indeed, given the wish to clearly show, once and for all, the benefits of EU membership, failure may already be close to break-even. And even bureaucratic monsters have feelings–the Daily Mail may end up creating true European unity as a parting gift.

All this was obviously known before the referendum, which is why it's baffling to still not even see it being addressed in conservative circles, which instead continue to be rewarded for lying and riling up a nationalistic furore.

> The thing is we have a bigger problem

Indeed
I'm seeing a lot of comments about how terrible different people's standup meetings are at their particular companies, and I can't help but think the problem isn't with standup itself, it's with these companies.

At my job, we meet for standup via video chat as early as we can. That's about 9am for some of us and 10am or 11am for others depending on timezones. We each say what we worked on yesterday and what we're working on now, which only takes about 5 to 10 minutes, then we enter what we call "parking lot." We call it "parking lot" because if this were an in-person meeting, this is bit where we would be talking in the parking lot on our way out to lunch. No one is expected to stick around unless there's something urgent related to what your working on that needs to be discussed. Anyone is free to hop off the call at this point.

During parking lot, we discuss impediments, anything that's going to keep someone from getting work done that day. If the problem is something complicated that's difficult to describe via text, we chat about it face to face and work out a solution together. If the problem is simple, we just agree to talk it out in either a public or private channel on Slack depending the kind of problem.

The purpose of the meeting isn't to build a big report of who's working on what or to guilt us into working harder. It's just to guarantee that we're all online at a given time each day to help each other out. Working across several timezones, we all have wildly different hours, and without standup, we would probably be waiting for days to hear back from each other about any issues we run into.

Maybe standup is a problem for other people or other companies, but for my team at least, we couldn't work without it.
from your page:
>No facial recognition. No public search.
>We do not index faces nor do we allow external search engines >to index your photos.

might move that up to #2 point. add in no creepy facebook like face features storing (worded better) to drive home the point
Seems like sloppy high school newspaper style journalism. "Turds", really?
This seems to confuse some people, the author is not saying Apple have a monopoly on smartphones. What the author is talking about is the locked-in ecosystem that Apple owns, iOS and macOS (watchOS/tvOS).

> Moreover, the advantages go beyond margins: the best way to understand both Apple’s profits and many of its choices is to understand that the company has a monopoly on not just MacOS but even more importantly iOS. That means Apple can not only capture consumer surplus on hardware, but developer surplus when it comes to app sales; that some apps are not made is deadweight loss that Apple has chosen to bear to ensure total control.

The problem that Apple is having in China is that WeChat is the driving "platform" ecosystem, not the OS or the brand.

In other words, people aren't buying iPhones for its integration with Apple services in China, which could lead to an increase in growth due to the halo effects. Instead, they run WeChat and they buy things through there, which leads to no growth in Apple's services and revenue. Which also means, the customers have no desire to buy another Apple device. They can do the same on any device that can run WeChat.

If Microsoft sells a Windows Phone with WeChat as the default app for everything, they may have a hit in China but it would not be a sustainable hit because again, WeChat can run on iPhone or Android or any other OS.
That would defeat a major goal of isolation: security.

It also creates fragility. What happens if a process is buggy and rallies up to 100% CPU? It affects all others.

Although to solve these issues you could use cgroups and namespaces... Aaaand we're back to containers again.
You're thinking of free to play games, or games with IAP. While they may be less successful, there are plenty of paid mobile games that are great.
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> I mean it's not healthy

And that's precisely why people turn to Soylent and its competitors, because they are attempting to be healthy, balanced sources of nutrition. A bowl of instant ramen might be tasty but it's not going to get you much in the way of protein or vitamins.