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Personally, I hated my experience in the glass-door offices of WeWork. The cheaper communal areas they had were vastly more productive and everyone was was respectful of it being a public space for everyone to work (for the most part).

The actual offices on the other hand, had almost no sound deadening between them, the hallways way too narrow and it was all-party, all-the-time. People from other companies getting absolutely smashed on keg beer starting at noon was a daily problem. At the one building I went to that had entire floors of conference rooms, you could hear everything from 3 conference rooms over, making phone calls impossible.
I worked in a highly visible operations center at a particular Fortune 50 company during the first dot-com go-around. Dedicated NOC designed to look somewhat like NASA MCC. Fishbowl facing a common area; very much on display for visiting executives who would often cluster outside the glass and watch Operations Being Done.

The relevant twist: An office manager felt the adjustable height desks weren't aesthetically pleasing. He set them all to the same height, removed the adjustment cranks, and sent out an email instructing us to not adjust the desks or to change monitor heights.

This policy lasted about a week before disgruntled employees with neck pain got in contact with folks responsible for employer liability.

I have never forgotten the lesson that workspaces are not always constructed with employees in mind.
This article is conflating whistleblowing with leaking internal product information. The latter should not be done and Google seems to have implemented a means to curb it.

Now if the system is actually being used to curb whistleblowing as well then we have a problem. But nothing the article states even remotely indicates that this is indeed how the system is being misused.
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Yep - we're aware. I thought about putting in our Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only findings about what all would break, but the post was already a tad long. It's quite a long list of crazy things people do.

As the headers go, here's my current thoughts on each:

- Content-Security-Policy: we're considering it, Report-Only is live on superuser.com today.

- Public-Key-Pins: we are very unlikely to deploy this. Whenever we have to change our certificates it makes life extremely dangerous for little benefit.

- X-XSS-Protection: considering it, but a lot of cross-network many-domain considerations here that most other people don't have or have as many of.

- X-Content-Type-Options: we'll likely deploy this later, there was a quirk with SVG which has passed now.

- Referrer-Policy: probably will not deploy this. We're an open book.
Of course working for yourself also means instead of selling yourself for 6 hours once every few years, you've now taken on a full time gig selling yourself. Owning a business is 80% about sales, the other 20% is the thing you sell. If you're consulting you can take some time off selling for a few months depending on how long the contract is, but I've found that I need to constantly be on the look out to plant a seed.
Eh, one some contracts I've had there was a lot of slack time and so I did the same thing--some would consider that to be double-dipping, but I just call it "using my time to its best advantage." Chuck Palahniuk wrote much of "Fight Club" while sitting in useless meetings.
Thank you for bringing this up. Don't be afraid to sound like a broken record, there are so many uninformed voters out there. We need the repetition.

But, one thing we have to be careful of: If you place constraints on builders: such as requiring affordable housing, it reduces the amount of supply thus making the problem worse for everyone.

What we really need, is more supply. Lots of deregulation to encourage as much building as we can possibly get
Well, thats the most important factor. Also I have put 2.5 years of my life into this company, there is an emotional connect which makes it hard for me to leave.

I dont have anything against bootstrapped companies. The current business model is human resource intensive. VC funding is a necessity if we have to grow fast and stay ahead of the competition.

More than guilt, I feel helpless and sad. I am sad that something I helped created is not going as I hoped it would. I feel like I should stay and fix it. But when I think about it practically I know the odds of that are pretty slim. That is why I'm struggling to make a decision.
It might make sense to talk to existing users.
Any source for the statement on RSI? I googled but just found anecdotes.
>The reason shred writes "multiple times with garbage" is due to magnetic disks where even when overwritten, old bit values could still be extracted with advanced tools.

People thought that you needed multiple overwrites for traditional drives but in reality that data was gone after a single overwrite of 0. There were no "advanced techniques" that could recover the data. Some specs suggested multiple passes, but this was because they were using precautionary principle.

> This is not the case for SSDs, so a single pass of shred (either random or zero) is enough here. Multiple passes will just kill your SSD faster.

SSDs do weird things with the data, so if your data is important enough you should destroy the drives. There's some data tucked away in odd places.
One of the neat things about this is that it shows just how much of a technological leap integrated circuits and micro-processors were. Back in the 1950s all processors were built with individual transistors, even in the 1960s they were primarily built in the same way, with any use of integrated circuits only ganging together a small handful of transistors onto a single chip. Except today we have tremendous advantages in being able to build multi-layered printed circuit boards using layouts created on computers while placing the components automatically using pick and place machinery. The MOnSter 6502 would be a marvel of miniaturization for the 1960s and yet it relies on 21st century technology to attain a size of only 7000x the original 1975 part. And as they point out, more modern chips that were built only a few years later like the 68k (built in 1979) would translate to enormous board dimensions (19 square feet). So much of our world is built on the technology of microprocessors, it's easy to take it for granted.
Most Anker products are not actually manufactured by them. They - like many others - buy from chinese OEMs and put their name on it.
Not according to this article (which I guess could be wrong):

> The Federal Circuit denied the transfer by relying on one of its[i.e., the Federal Circuit's] precedents from 1990.

> ...the high court's own precedent from 1957 held that patent suits are governed by a specific law allowing suits only where defendants are incorporated.

SCOTUS didn't change its mind. It overturned/"smacked down" the Appeals Court's 1990 decision.
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Those are reasonable requirements, except the 'no large companies' and 'no stupid apps' probably contradict each other.

Please stop acting as if tech hiring is beyond criticism.
How can CEOs and CMOs executive produce their brands. They have to in 2017
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2017/05/frenc... This article comes from a french/european side but it is the most insightful take on current economic and social developments that i have read.
>The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU.

Slight tangent:

This isn't even true, context switch time has not scaled (equally) with improvements in processing power (IPC, freq and functional-unit parallelism). A PIII in 1999 spent proportionally less of its operating wall time performing a context switch compared to modern processing. Turns out flushing TLBs and the like is not fast. This is why managing interrupts properly is very important on server class hardware.
I recently picked up a USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapter from them - was pretty impressed that a little $5 USB dongle could match a $30 Thunderbolt.
I'm sure it's enforceable in the same way that non-compete agreements are: the bigger lawyer fund wins. It's not unconscionable until you take it to court.
That's Taleb, trying to be an expert on everything.

"About in the 1990s, people suddenly realized that working as a company man was safe… provided the company stayed around."

1990s? That's when being a "company man" ended. Taleb uses IBM as an example, but IBM had their first layoff in 1993.[1] IBM made it through the Great Depression without laying off anybody.

Then he goes on to an argument that only autocrats are free, because elected leaders are subservient to their electorate. He mentions Putin, but not Trump. In the last century, autocrats haven't done all that well; they mostly lost wars and headed countries that went downhill.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/16/business/first-layoffs-see...
Is this the same team who pieced together how the waymo data left the building, or is this a team aimed specifically at internal whistleblowers?

The article isn't entirely clear on that.
I've had a ton of issues with USB power supplies and cables not allowing devices to charge properly (Improper wiring, termination, fake specs, etc) and so I started testing everything I got using a USB power meter and test load. Anker is the only brand on Amazon that Ive found to reliably meet spec. Their newer USB battery packs in particular are very interesting because they will ignore the line termination and do a TCP-like ramp on amperage until they get a voltage sag, then pull back slightly and sit there. This is especially entertaining because they'll melt really poorly designed USB supplies :)
>> No corporate franchise tax until you make at least $100k,

Actually that limit is $1.11m.

https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/franchise/
Will try for sure
That's not what I got from the article. It says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit based its decision in this case on the precedent set by one of its own previous decisions in 1990, which apparently ran contrary to the last Supreme Court decision on the matter back in 1957. The Supreme Court has now confirmed that the 1957 ruling still stands and the Court of Appeals was wrong.

> The Federal Circuit denied the transfer by relying on one of its precedents from 1990, which loosened the geographic limits on patent cases. Heartland urged the Supreme Court to overturn that decision, arguing that the high court's own precedent from 1957 held that patent suits are governed by a specific law allowing suits only where defendants are incorporated.

> On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed with Heartland. Writing the opinion for the court, Justice Clarence Thomas said that, contrary to the Federal Circuit's rationale, the U.S. Congress did not change the rules over where patent suits may be filed since the 1957 decision.
I would give almost the opposite advice:

Whenever you feel like writing a comment explaining why you're doing something, step back and consider if you can refactor the code so that it becomes self documenting. Code and comments get out of sync easily.

Instead of checking for preconditions, step back and consider if you can make the illegal states unrepresentable. If you have a decent type system available (sum types, no nulls), that's often straightforward.

The best peice of code, the best test and the best comment is the one you didn't have to write because of good design.
Your premise is flawed. My future is already better than when I started using Google. It promised me a better future and I have already received the benefit and there are many, many more benefits coming in the future. I no longer have to buy and maintain my own hardware for my files. I don't have to worry about losing my precious photos in a fire. I have found better restaurants by allowing my preferences to be known.

So they are not just gathering data and providing hope. There are tangible benefits today.
No, your point is that nobody who truly experiences free market can advocate it. In other words, free markets have no real merits, not to mention those who advocate it should be ignored because they haven't experienced it themselves.

Here's the thing, I have experienced this effect you're talking about. People who although 'like free market', but when real money is on the line, they want to utilize each and every option available in front of them (including the govt).

It's hard to stand up for your ideas (irrespective of the idea) when you feel the effects of your ideas. For instance, if you opposed Trump and hate his anti-immigrant rhetoric, but then your daughter or sister is raped or murdered by an illegal immigrant. Would you change your opinions? Do you think most people would change their opinions if that were to happen to them?

What about universal healthcare, you advocate it, then you move to France, and there your dad waited in line for months for a surgery whereas in US he could have gotten it within weeks if not days.

The point of this thought experiment is to realize that, ideas, despite of how much it's advocate has experienced it, remains whatever it is. If they are good, they're good, if they're bad, then they're bad.
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Ask HN: Developing Web Apps with Brave
I have been using Brave (https://brave.com/)as my default browser for about 5 months and I love it. However, I have not been able to develop with the inspector. Has anyone started using Brave to develop web apps? If so, can you share how you are using it's inspector?
REST v3 API supports conditional requests, that return 304 when content hasn't changed since last time you asked and don't count against rate limit. It means one can use a caching HTTP transport and benefit from that.

Is there any support for caching in the GraphQL v4 API? I'm not seeing anything about it in the docs.
I'm not sure what being "underemployed" has to do with the actual blog post? The post talks about railroad workers and how the 40hr. work week got started, but I should point out that it's only in the US, really--other nations have other conventions. The Japanese seem to be trying to work themselves to death, for one (sad) example.

The only concern I would have about being underemployed is that we only get a certain fixed number of years to save for retirement and if you're chronically under-saving during your years of maximum earning potential, the back end of your life may be pretty ugly. Then again, I am a pragmatist and I figure "life" can be as long or short as you desire it to be, right?
i agree and disagree with you- a trainer may not understand how or what the connections a neural network will make but any product goes through EXTENSIVE QA before being launched. thus, a trainer will see all of the different outcomes any nn will make inside of a product, they see the gamut of differences. a user may not see that.

additionally, i don't think you give UX designers enough credit. i worked alongside engineers, and met frequently with trainers to talk about what kind of results our prototypes were generating. it was up to me to help articulate what the results meant and how those connections were made.

for example- how do you make a long tail result looking different than a short tail one without making it look like a google search? how do you articulate those differences to users so it just doesn't look like a shitty searching algorithm? that is a design problem- articulating those differences visually- not an engineering problem.

this is what the article is advocating for.
CA has been constricting the supply for the last 30 years, so it's not going to be fixed overnight! I guess it would take 10+ years of non-stop building to get housing anywhere close to the nationwide level, just a wild guess.
To preface to avoid what might otherwise seem like a bias toward defending use of Windows: I'm a free software activist, a GNU maintainer, and do extensive volunteer work for GNU and the FSF.

It's not fair blame. Many companies simply go for what works and throw money at the problem. Windows historically has excellent support from a large number of third parties.

The other problem is third-party software. I work for an insurance company. The system that they use for managing everything---policies, accounting, brokers, etc---is tied to Windows. This is a specialized program---there are only a few of them that exist, and none as sophisticated as the one this company uses. This system has been responsible for not only tying the office to Windows, but holding us back from upgrading---for the longest time we couldn't even get off of IE6 because it didn't support anything higher.

I'm able to do 99% of my work within a GNU/Linux VM. But on rare occasion, I need to use that system, and it requires Windows. Everyone else in the office---the majority of the company---requires Windows. This is a system that the company has invested many millions of dollars into.

So while we can do our best to inform others, perhaps before they make these critical business decisions, it ultimately comes down to practicality for most businesses. Yes, they may pay for it. Yes, they're taken advantage of, have issues with vendor lockin, etc, but unless you travel upstream and liberate those systems or provide suitable replacements _that the business is confident will have support for years to come_, there's not much to do.

I'm not defending the situation; it's terrible. But sympathy _should_ be had, because there's much to lament, and much room to help.
If the whole ice sheet disappears, we disappear.
I grew up a few miles from the beach with the row of concrete ships sunken at Kiptopeake, Virginia that is pictured in the article.

Crappy ships, but they are fantastic artificial reefs. We used to kayak or boat right next to them and catch tons of fish. The area is now a state park.
Sure, but that's assuming a linear rate of decay, which it has not and will not be. There's a tipping point well before your theoretical limit. Ice breaks up and slides into the ocean quite a long time before it all melts.
That's nice, but you were commenting on workers who would potentially need BART to get home after being released from work at a late hour. We are able to do so.
What's to stop someone from sharing their UPS Prime membership with everyone they know?

Verified address(es) sound like the only answer, and that brings up another set of problems to solve.

Beyond that, just because UPS offers a membership doesn't mean that retailers will have it integrated into their checkout flow/logic. In a lot of cases that would be a re-work and could take a long time before it was practically usable.
I don't know, Watson is actually one of the most publicly-recognized names in the AI game. If they leverage that correctly, there's a lot of opportunities there.

Especially since most people who want to use AI would view Google as a competitor because of the number of services it operates, and IBM is more likely to support someone's desire for on-premises solutions. (The on-site enterprise solutions Google had for search and Earth, for comparison, have been recently discontinued.)
I'm thinking of switching to Finance from CS. I'm all the way across the world but I think you may have some valuable advice. Can you -- or anyone here in similar position -- share your email?
The US Generals were arguing that the use of nuclear weapons would have been more humane, and they might be right. Essentially, being more brutal to end a war quickly is better than holding back to fight for years.
> Free markets don't experience inflation?

A free market with free money (and not a govt controlled money like today), would experience a natural inflation or deflation. Most likely it would experience a natural deflation (considering it would have gold or silver as the basis of its currency).
The 70's example was from erosion and was simply a false equivalency with sea level rise. On the other hand coastal erosion is also made worse by sea level rise.

So, I continued by mentioning barrier islands / coastal cities and what's happening to them.
> This was during World War I, when transporting military equipment by rail was vital to national security. President Woodrow Wilson, desperate to get the trains moving, asked congress to write an eight-hour railroad work day into law

This reminded of how the USA PATRIOT Act came into existence.
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First-time founders: Pitch training is a waste of time
Buy passive insulating headphones, they usually work better.
It's been since 2009 since I deleted my Facebook account, and my timeline was roughly like yours for weeks 1-4. Then:

- 2nd year, wonder if I should get back on to 'stay in touch.'

- 3rd-5th year, never think about it

- 6th year, wonder if I should get on Facebook so my family can see pictures of my kids. But, my wife does Instagram.

- 8th year, smug comment on HN to show how long I've been off Facebook :).
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Iirc amazon already filed a patent for that.
Thanks! I see he looks a bit sweaty, on second viewing.
The thing that scares me the most about all the data I give to Google is not that I am putting lots of trust in present-Google. It's that I am also putting lots of trust in FUTURE-Google.

So far, history has shown that even the most dominant tech companies can see their power wane.

Imagine you are a VP at Google, and after a year of revenue shrinkage you are being pressured to get "creative" about new sources of revenue... You have everyone's ENTIRE history of data. At one point the "need for revenue" will outweigh the "desire to respect people's privacy."
The headline makes it sound so sinister and profit seeking!

TFA actually says that the actions that Facebook's strategy is based on consultations with organizations who prevent suicide for a living.
It's even easier to write a converter considering the strong typing in Scala; a lot less room for ambiguity than with Python's 2to3.
I don't know about Bombay Beach but I was just in Wonder Valley in January and that town is a unique place with a self-selecting population that values isolation.

There are larger towns and cities in the U.S. which more accurately depict the broader economic challenges the country is facing.
I've lived in a developing country and parts of US are indeed similar or worse than a developing country.

I wouldn't go as far as to say parts are third world, but in terms of danger, some parts of the US are close to third world (Detroit, Chiraq, etc).
This other article [0] from The Independent interestingly goes further to say he'll be working as a software engineer at Google.

[0]http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/harvard-student-rap-album-final-year-thesis-passes-second-highest-grade-ivy-league-obasi-shaw-a7747371.html
I work for FB and I hate the open office.

(This has nothing to do with FB -- I've hated it everywhere I've worked.)
> In those countries, the literacy rate is around 95%. Imagine 5% of people around you are illiterate. Even in Brazil, a so-called "emergent" country or "upper-middle income" country, the literacy rate is only 92%.

India's literacy rate is 74.04%.
Nothing unreasonable in the email either.

Sounds like Google has a culture where they openly share product roadmaps and so on with all of their employees. Can't do that when they leak it to the press.

This is the Wikipedia definition of whistleblowing:

A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower)[1] is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public.
>HR is driven by data.

This is not my experience.

Maybe you've worked with better companies than I have.
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