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I flew the coup on OneDrive when they reneged on their promise to provide unlimited storage. They still charged me $50 for the months that I signed up on the basis of that false promise.
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I was aware of that, but if a company fails to understand it's users' needs, I don't have much faith in them, so I just move on to something else.
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I don't understand. Why isn't it standard practice to just issue a set of "personal days" without regard to "sickness", "leisure", or "mental sanity"? My company switched to this a couple of years ago and doesn't require an explanation. They are your days off, take them as you see fit.
For those in the London office, I'm sorry to hear about the office closure, I've been in the sane position at 2 startups very early on in my career.

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History says otherwise, they been ignoring Slime's swank for at least a decade
Calling it 'Uber for garbage' does this business a great disservice.

I believe this will be a great great business and borrows nothing from Uber anymore than from Taskrabbit or Postmates. The domain experience needed to understand the whole logistic should have made Techcrunch think twice about that headline. But sure clicks and all that.
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I assume they give warnings first.
And travel is also a right, but these same 0.03% of the population would have similar issues getting a driver's license. Also, the guy in the Wisconsin article had to deal with a law that changed over 5 years prior.. you're saying that 5 years isn't enough time to get a state issued ID?

Regarding gun license vs. student id, student ids don't indicate nation of birth, or non-citizenship. Though, I don't think a gun license should either. But I'm not in favor of gun licensing as a general rule.

I'm not trying to belittle anyone's struggle here, but I wouldn't expect to put off getting my ID renewed for however long, then take care of it right before voting. Depending on residence, it might be easier to get an absentee ballot. Beyond this, not every state has enacted voter laws the same, or made it nearly as difficult to get a state issued ID.
Tie it into your company's project planning software. Instead of doing this, what it does is anytime someone tries to add something, saying "This should be easy, right?", it adds a month and a half to the gantt chart.
In my best Oprah voice: "Subdomains for everybody! You get a secured subdomain.. you get a secured subdomain..."

In seriousness, I pine for the post `~username`, pre-`/username` days where services would hand out subdomains for user management. It still happens -- viz Tumblr, etc. -- but I feel like it's less frequently then it used to. One reason I would avoid is that wildcard certs are pricey. Nice to see that will commoditize a bit come January.
Isn't that called "holidays"? We have one month every year by law here. But of course you have to negotiate when they are with your employer.
I don't recall anything like that having happened before, even in the DigiNotar case, where the CA was thoroughly compromised. The keys must be kept in HSMs, so even with a fully compromised issuance system, the keys themselves are typically safe - which isn't much of a relief at that point.

There were a couple of cases where CAs like Trustwave or CNNIC signed intermediate certificates that were capable of issuing publicly-trusted certificates for organizations who lacked the required audits. They were typically intended for corporate/internal MitM proxies, though there was no technical enforcement in place for this, and they could've been used for any MitM attack. The recent investigations into Symantec's CA showed similar, but slightly more complex cases.
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Well which is it folks? Global warming is going to cause an extreme drought, or it's going to cause a rain bonanza? These researchers are starting to get lazy are blaming every change in the wind on warming.
I mean, if you're garbage...
You sound like a teenager, and you obviously have no idea how the real world works.

Hmm, well my bio would indicate otherwise.

After working for decades in bullshit jobs, no one cares about making the best use of their talent, they care about enjoying their life, or what little is left of it.

Yea, sad isn't it?
I'm not surprised they are not doing well. I dont wish them bad things dont get me wrong but if you are an active user of their service (like I am) and a developer then you're bound to ask the question once in a while "so what is their dev team doing exactly?" because it doesn't seem like much at all.

They really need to invest into building a more compelling product, there are some amazing scenarios they can tackle here but they seem to have no interest in it or maybe funding to pull it off.
Container solutions like Docker get us part of the way there. In a
sense you could argue that containerization is precisely the
multi-tenancy solution I'm heading toward, except that it borrows
heavily from the legacy path of virtualization by treating system
images like giant statically linked binaries.

Nailed it. This is why Docker does not excite me at all, and why I think there's room for other container systems to improve up on the Docker model by solving this problem. I made my initial attempt awhile ago by adding basic container support to a package manager that allows users to use a virtualenv-like tool to create containers to hack in:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/news/container-provisionin...
Aaaand... over here we just received formal notice (very informally worded) that mandates us to work for certain durations and be present at specified times, and required to log this by any means we see fit, full log being due to management each month.

This kind of attitude just sends the wrong message, devaluates everyone's work by subsuming it to mere tallies, and just outright crosses everyone, obliterating trust and turning it into a culture of fear. Turns out quite a bunch of us aren't efficient at all before 10AM because that's how our circadian rhythm is, yet it's viewed as laziness to come mere five minutes late as we're supposed to show up at least an hour earlier, preferably two. Net result, actual work is hardly done during this forced downtime, and reluctantly so afterwards. Everyone is just pretending to comply in order to bridge the impedance mismatch. As a result, everyone gets increasingly tired fighting their natural rhythm, and slowly growing bitter with each day passing as we witness ourselves wasting everyone's time.

Software development and engineering is a highly mental, creative process. We are not laying bricks 8 hours a day, we have to find and build new solutions to new problems, one by one. This process cannot be shifted, sliced, rearranged at will because it's not mindless, numbing, robot work.
You can certainly qualify unlimited service for reasonable use.

No, you can't. Because reasonable is a subjective moving target. There are maybe a handful of organizations outside of Microsoft that have a non-laughable chance of estimating A) cost of online storage to microsoft B) number of users C) distribution of storage used by their userbase D) cost of bandwidth E) typical bandwidth profile of users F) how much money Microsoft is willing to spend on storage as a loss leader.

And then there is the un-estimateable wildcard: G) what number will "sound too big" to sysadmins and/or PMs once they see it on their metrics dashboard.

"Unlimited" is a scam to avoid vocalizing the secret maximum and hoping that users have more conservative estimates of the secret maximum than it's actual value.

And there is a huge incentive for users to guess conservativly at the maximum, because as soon as one person doesn't everyone else will blame them for "shitting in the pool and getting the whole thing canned"
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To me it sounds more like the device received too much current on it's driver circuit and shut down to prevent damage to the device which is exactly what an implant should do since shutting down just means a trip to your doctor to get it (wirelessly) turned back on as opposed to dangerous and costly brain surgery to replace it.

These isn't a lot you can do about this sort of problem. The electrode used to stimulate is the main entry point for RF interference and you can't shield it for 3 reasons.

1)It adds size. You are effectively stabbing yourself in the brain with a coat hanger. Smaller is inherently better.

2)It adds mass. The difference in mass between a brain implant and your brain itself leads to brain damage in high kinetic situations like car accidents due to the different rates of acceleration.

3)Shielding an electrical stimulator prevents it from electrically stimulating thus defeating the purpose of the implant in the first place.

What you probably need is a robust RF limiting front end to protect the device from unintended signals which is a major design challenge depending on the nature of the stimulating signal and permissible heating.
Reminds of a story my father tells - he's a stage designer and one day one of the older actors was complaining that he couldn't see from his position back stage to know when to come on set. The stage manager set up an early cctv system for him (this was 1980something) to help him see.

The actor then complained that he had a hard time seeing the black and white screen so while the stage manager went to see how he could improve his set up the actor asked my father for a penknife, cut a small hole in the set that he could put his eye against, and said "that'll do".
> Many

^[which?] ^[citation needed]
"Bulk price" at a terminal and the true cost of delivering it to the station are going to differ.
MOOC = Massive Open Online Course, since the website doesn't define it
I don't think it's about labeling people as being good or bad, but more about not letting things stand.

If you encounter attitudes from people that are hostile towards you, you can either speak up and allow them to correct themselves (or double-down) or be silent and give your tacit approval.
Pokemon Go is a hit because of Pokemon and location tracking, not AR
http://www.streamkeys.com is a chrome extension that gives global hotkeys for many streaming media sites (including SC).

I wish there was a firefox port.
It's not voxel based as far as I can tell, it's a regular poly mesh editor albeit with a great interface for VR. It does provide some constraints that disallow edits that result in the mesh ending up in a bad state.

Right now there aren't any tools for animation or anything else like that. Just basic object creation, extrusion and feature manipulation.
> Really mature, that guy is.

This is really the only issue I have. Maybe your manager sucked, I don't know. But this specific story is absolutely the opposite. He put himself out on the line (as you say) and was honest with you. Typical folks would simply not talk to you whatsoever, but have the same reasoning.

Maybe I'm strange, but I'd far prefer the latter.

Story time. My best hire I've made was an employee with a speech impediment. This job was for a night shift as a sysadmin/support role, and that required answering the phones at 2am when customers called. Customers don't call at 2am to have a friendly chat - so those calls typically were high stress, and it really caused his speech to falter quite a bit.

I could have easily simply bounced him on the phone interview, since we were a tiny startup at the time and one wrong hire had the potential to sink us. I had other livelihoods to think of - not just the "legal" situation.

So what I did was I asked the guy back for a second informal interview and laid my cards out on the table. He could have gotten up right then, left, and immediately sued me. But he didn't - we had a productive talk about it, and due to that talk (and other self-starting qualities he had shown) he got the job.

I've now worked with him for over 10 years, through thick and thin and switching companies.

If I had followed your advice here - as the hiring manager I would have simply round-filed the resume due to the potential issues, and went on with my day. I took the risk, and it worked out. I don't believe what I did should have been punishable by death of my company - but it absolutely was if that potential hire had been ethically challenged. I also started the career of someone who was having challenges finding work elsewhere due to "unknown reasons" - aka people seeing his impairment and silently crossing him off the candidate list. Due to the insane legal framework around this stuff, very few companies will take risks like I did any longer.
How different are these in practice from the Model M-alikes made by Unicomp (http://www.pckeyboard.com/)?
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Sure if people like you you can get away with even a month of being 'sick' but its really depends on the person.

At a company i worked there was a guy who did that. He got away with it but he was a very senior programmer.

If i tried this i would have to worry about them using it as grounds for a firing.
Hi, I applied for your front-end developer position a while back. Unfortunately, I didn't make the cut at the time.

Noticed you now have a note saying:
"Please do not apply if you are not based within the timezones of UTC-2 to UTC+4, as we will be unable to consider your application."

Given I wish to move to Europe/Malta, but not currently in those timezones, would you still (re)consider me as a candidate? I have a valid EU/EEA passport.
Porn isn't the same as nudity. Nick Ut's famous "The Terror of War", showing children fleeing a napalm attack during the Vietnam war, includes a naked girl screaming as the napalm melts layers off her skin.

There is nothing pornographic about that nudity.
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I'm also hiring in New York for Time Out.
I would like to think that engineers from Sound Cloud may be excited by the music, theater, film, and event domain.
Drop me a line at [hn_username]@timeout.com
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This is interesting but how do I compare between Redshift, Bigquery and snowflake pricing?
Just got a new bed (online order) a couple months ago, and paid a service to take the old one away... we have curbside pickup, but only a few times a year, so needed to pay the $90. I wound up shopping around as there was a range of $90-170 to retrieve a mattress and box. There's definitely room for on demand services for that... especially in larger populated areas.
If I recall correctly, Morgellon's Disease is a mental illness that spreads via social interactions with an affected person, or journalism featuring such a person.

The disease itself is a delusion, regarding microscopic fibers in the skin. Sufficiently impressionable people simply hear about it, convince themselves that they have it, then they go on to try to convince others that it is a physical ailment rather than a mental illness.

If you are politically incorrect enough to classify religions as mental illnesses, many of those appear to be contagious as well.

But on a smaller scale, workplace morale is definitely infectious. If someone is having a particularly stressful day, they may be rude to someone else, who then feels worse as a result, and may propagate that to yet another co-worker. Of particular interest is that such transmission need not take place in person. A person with a common cold could work from home to keep everyone else from catching it, but someone with malaise or anxiety could transmit that via any medium that can include emotional undertone, such as a voice or video call.
> The city council should...have the local utility come and collect big items for free

I don't produce lots of big trash. Not sure why I--nor anybody else--should subsidise people who produce lots of big trash.
The users of this feature, of course.
Interesting. I've always thought event store was an interesting pattern, but not something as a default architecture for typical business apps, probably because of the added complexity in maintenance.

If you're building your relational db based on the event store, I'd imagine even something simpler like Mongo would do it, but I agree that having a single db to maintain is an important advantage.
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That's not enough, because this would allow only one unprivileged user to bind to the HTTP port (in this case - 8080). Another user trying to bind to the same port would get an error. So for this scenario the author is talking about a custom solution with a reverse proxy would probably work best - getting all requests directed at 80 and distributing them to as many servers as necessary.
For those actually needing scalable, resilient nosql, CouchBase ia worth evaluating.
The trouble is that's only possible with the CA's cooperation, because they have the ability to backdate the certificates by falsifying the date. In the case of WoSign Mozilla threatened to distrust them completely if they did that, but if it's unfeasible to remove a CA that threat may be ineffectual.
my question still remains... is it, or could it be, designed so that I could wear two. If so, then the name itself is confusing and should be changed.

Also, I encourage you to go make your own "better" comment and start the discussion you want to see.
The AR was a fun little gimmick and it was the subject of the early articles about the game (Pokemon IRL!!!). But I personally turned it off a few days in because of how much of an increased battery drain it was and having to position yourself in front of the Pokemon in order to catch it. Much less frustrating to do things without the AR.
That is silly.

Big tech hubs are bound to see startups fail, especially leaking ships that never turn a profit.

Berlin isn't perfect but whatever happens to SoundCloud doesn't really say anything about its tech scene. Were SoundCloud be London/NYC/SF based, it would have gone under much, much quicker.
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GPS signals also penetrate maybe a few centimeter water before they're unusable. Water is astoundingly good at blocking GPS.
You have to go with the times or you have to go in time.
But the competing product "PE" is already superior!
>I sometimes temporarily modify the program by for example misspelling a file name of a data base column name just to provoke an error that will execute the error handling code.

Yes, a lot of things like that are possible. I remember in one client-server project I worked on, we unplugged the network cable from one PC (while the program was communicating between client and server), to see if we got the correct error message that we had written for that case. And did other stuff like that.
This is frightening
When all the answers are found, science will stop.

As a scientist you cannot accept that what you know is the final answer. Our knowledge of the world around us should be constantly subjected to the closest scrutiny, because the answers we have are almost certainly incorrect, or incomplete.
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Why not put some color and see if it showed up instead of ping pong balls?
The AR of Pokémon GO is the same as the 3D of the 3DS - it was a big part of the promotional material and hype for it but a year after release everyone has it turned off.
There's a lot of speculation in your comment about things that are critical: The price they pay for gas and distribution costs.
"Container solutions of the kind that are like docker" vs "Container solutions in general of which docker is an example". If he is using docker to write-off all container solutions, then that's a mistake, since it sounds like using the underlying container solution (on which docker then adds the ability to manage system images) is exactly what he wants.
Those brands are not used by professionals in any appreciable numbers, whatever their marketing would have you believe.
I did the same thing. The interesting part of Pokemon Go was the geographical aspect of the game (which was really pioneered with Ingress, but became much more popular with the addition of the Pokemon IP). The AR was very gimmicky, and I honestly found it to be a distraction whenever it was turned on.
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I pay roughly a 50% income tax, and in spite of that municipal garbage collection is, well, garbage.

Regular waste is easy enough: weekly collection is OK. Larger items which can be incinerated are OK-ish: need to make an appointment two weeks in advance, and pay by weight.

Anything else and I'm screwed. I'd like to get rid of a metal ladder, but it can't be incinerated. I'm supposed to take it to a municipal recycling centre, but I can't because it's too heavy and I don't drive.

Yet this same ladder, years ago, was delivered to my doorstep after a one-click purchase on some website. Why shouldn't I have a one-click disposal?
Recent AMD and Intel systems with AES-NI provide a hardware RNG. Although as far as I was aware this is not used on OpenBSD for fear of hardware backdoors.
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Could you add your e-mail or some other way of contacting you?
What, your garbage isn't picked up by robots yet? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCTyasDmWrs
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No. When I said "serious problem" I meant the patient. Yes, people need to pay bills, but it is not your employer's responsibility.
I just reviewed Chapter 4 of Ivan Ristić's book and the only incidents that might be considered compromises on this level were DigiNotar and NICCA, which both led to revocation of intermediates. However, the book doesn't explain technically what the exact nature of the compromises was, so I'm not sure either of them involved an actual compromise of the private key material itself.

There were many other incidents involving problems with behavior of PKI participants, and I'm sure reading this chapter will give people a sense that the ability to remove trust from intermediate CAs is an important ability.