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I use QubesOS at home on a fairly powerful server box and I personally find it quite enjoyable for my usage. Most of the monitors here are hooked up to thin clients with GigE connections to the server. When the server powers on, it automatically starts up the DomUs and configures each one to receive USB events sent from the thin clients. For the display, the server pre-renders the graphics buffer on each domain OS and then sends the resulting frames back to the thin client to display on their respective monitors. After I did this, managing the computers around the house became a whole lot easier considering there was really only 1 major point of failure (the server).
Fire is one metaphor, though I lean far more strongly to epidemiological parallels.

Hatred is an operational state, as is illness. Both progress as information is spread through a population. That requires reservoirs or sources, and vectors of transmission, as well as susceptible carriers.

By disrupting the reservoirs, limiting the vectors, and innoculating the carriers, you can treat epidemics of both disease and antisocial ideology.
A lot of the Multi-regional stuff I learnt is from the University of California Youtube channel. There's a playlist here, it's quite big, but a lot of relevant videos are in there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0j77rODO3E&list=PL1B24EADC0...
I see. Thanks, but then why so many?
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An engineers actions are so far removed from revenue that they can't make a claim so directly.

Not always. I've worked for two companies that customize software for customers. I knew exactly what the company was charging for every hour I worked.
I'm not an expert, so just guessing, but I imagine it's something similar to the whole Arian stuff from the Nazis, ie: "look, our genes are more closely related to the most 'original' and 'pure' human lineage".
Can you imagine being a product manager at Facebook?

You are competing against other product managers and people at the company to be a rising star or to get that big bonus. You are rated on the code that makes it to production and it's lift.

I can't imagine the scheming that goes on to get your stuff into the website or app. All in the name of drawing in more advertisers or people who will pay for the data.
I'd really love to see software developers unionize...
Well with HN you could just use the noprocrast mode, or I've found that editing your hosts file makes sure that you're intentionally browsing a website. I deactivated Facebook, which has surprised me because I still hear from the people I care about (My grandma was a little annoyed but now she's started emailing me). I've also discovered that checking the news once a week (or even once a month!) doesn't make me feel less informed than checking it every day.
You also cannot buy a house with cash. We had to launder my father's life savings in a bank for six months before we could use it to buy his house, because the seller still had a mortgage on the property when he listed the property. (Why my father's life savings was under his bed is a completely different story.)
Except a baby probably shouldn't really hold copyright.

Realistically they are not a human just legally they are.

It's hard to say when human life begins but we seem to settle on treating it as after they are born.

But this is nonsense in any scientific sense.
I think if Chrome started showing alerts that the CA Reddit got it's cert from was sketchy, Reddit would go looking for a new CA. (And maybe given time the world would all end up using the Alphabet CA, which would presumably always have a five star rating....)
Out of curiosity, what career path did you end up pursuing?
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In the US, there is no distinction made between the age of sheep in the labeling of its meat. No matter how old the animal, it's lamb, not mutton.
Archive.is is designed that way, though. It performs requests on behalf of a user, acting as a proxy and setting X-Forwarded-For with the user's IP address.
Diversity! Not mutation. Thanks for clearing that up. I'd edit my original comment if I still could.
Oh? I might have misunderstood your post.

I thought you were suggesting a way that meant phone backups all appear the same size as the disk 100% of the time. (meaning the true volume of content is hidden)

Then the second point is the user could potentially have two (or more) profiles on the device, and it is possible to unlock it into one or the other. Meaning a user under duress can unlock a device and not reveal the true content while the person trying to get into the device has no way of knowing if that is the true profile or not.

I figured that would be a pretty sweet feature. It would also tie neatly into allowing users to have multiple profiles on their device which is currently impossible on iOS...
> since there is no way to get around trusting SWIFT as a bank

I understand banks are free to have some kind of direct-transfer mechanism between them, like internet peering, it would just be redundant.

But anyway, I would not trust SWIFT as gatekeepers of banking security. They're a prime example of a business that runs on COBOL written 40 years ago and they're not the paragon of progressive thinking in banking (SWIFT could torpedo Western Union overnight if they really wanted to) and finally, they already have a poor reputation in INFOSEC circles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_SWIFT_bankin...
I've found that since my wife and I both deactivated, we've suddenly been finding friends in new places. I invited a coworker and his family over for dinner, which was a great time. We've reconnected with some family of hers that we always thought "they're really nice people, we should get to know them better". Heck, we were at the neighborhood playground in our the other day and we invited a family over to dinner which was a lot of fun. Reconditioning myself to actually talk to people in real life has been really rewarding for me and my family. I used to have really severe anxiety, and it's scary to make that first contact, but man, it's worth it.
Ok, we added "print lawsuit forms" to the title above.
If you suspect your offspring (or your genes) would somehow be harmful to humanity, no one is asking you to produce any. But calling suicide your "mission" just betrays spite and resentment. What's so urgent about it?

Isn't it really about wanting to escape suffering?
I've read articles from credible people talking about building commission-less sales cultures and I like the idea.

But from experience in a few different companies, one of which involved me directly working with a decent-sized sales team, adverse selection is empirically a major issue.

Among the things I feel like I've learned is that the sales people who are most engaged with the product space and can converse most intelligently about the product you're building are not necessarily the people who are best at actually driving revenue, and that a fledgling product for which the numbers don't exist to guarantee a pretty steady stream of commissions will drag very intelligent-sounding ineffective salespeople out of the woodwork.

There seems to be a species of salesperson that has evolved to sell executive management on continuing to pay them while blaming the rest of the company for their inability to close deals, rather than selling prospective customers on a product. I've had the misfortune of working with some of them. At the time, they even had me on their side! It's really quite creepy in retrospect.

I'd go way out of my way to avoid attracting the sort of salesperson who is driven by anything other than transactionally closing deals as quickly as possible, just to avoid the possibility of having to work with someone like that again.
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Dev salaries are pretty high? Are sales people really making what engineers make? I took a quick look at glassdoor for my company and it doesnt seem like it.
Doesn't appear to be working in edge.
You joke about this, but my wife and I, in an effort to change our default behaviors, both put parental locks on each others phones disabling the browsers and app installs. We still had GPS and phone and text messaging. We've re-enabled it now, but it definitely unconditioned us from seeking entertainment in our phones.
> how did the Nordic nation get so far ahead of the rest of us?

Honest question - is a cashless society empirically better than one in which you have the option of using cash?
The "community" == revolving door lobbyists, right? Or am I reading too much into your comment. The average citizen has little say in the rules the so-called "community" designs.

As an outsider, it's fascinating to watch the process unfold. The current drum that's being beat by the media is tax-reform. Is this really the most pressing issue? Is the need for reform a given as the media suggests without question (right or left), or are there marching orders from the conglomerate overlords to push for a lucrative agenda?
I don't understand this logic. Because this native american tribe has sovereign immunity for historical reason, the patent they own cannot be patent-reviewed by US government?

Why this works? Can't US(and other coutries) nullified the patent for the their jurisdiction?

"Yeah, that patent is still valid. Only among your tribe though. All the outer world decline it's validity. Good luck with that."
Oh my god, the asciiflow.com is great. Thanks for sharing.
> The reality is I have yet to see a single app making use of WASM on the web.

IMHO a spectacular example is stockfish on lichess.org. On some browsers, like Chrome and Firefox IIRC, it is still slower than PNACL or asm.js, but on Microsoft Edge it is the fastest solution and it's what is currently used for this browser. It should be the fastest solution everywhere once multithreading is added.

The developer of lichess stated that is was fairly trivial to port stockfish to webassembly and compile it for lichess. When I saw it running, I was impressed (and still am).
Depending on who you are pitching, it might turn out something like http://getcoleman.com/
It is a good feature, but my comment was on "awesome". It is not an awesome situation, far from it.
Same here. I have a lot of bitterness that is partially based on real things that happened to me, but moreso a vague existential feeling of being totally out of alignment with the cultures that I've lived in. Around 4 years ago I was really close to ending it all and had been putting myself in extremely dangerous situations to make money, so in desperation I booked a plane ticket and have only returned to the US once since then. I spent far too much of the last few years holed up in a tiny apartment in the 3rd world smoking weed and waiting for the apocalypse, but that's better than what I was doing in the US! Now I'm actually starting to have success as a freelance software developer, but some of the old feeling of malaise still persists. But, I do have a lot to be grateful for, so now that I've kicked most of my addictions I think I can move forward by focusing on those things.
> “I said ‘this is it’ and even thought about jumping out the window. I got very scared."

I've never considered this as a survival option during a quake. I suppose the consideration is between getting crushed should the building collapse vs surviving a 23 story fall onto ???.
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That's a good one. A lot of 'free' econ materials on the internet are there to Push An Agenda and often in a not very subtle way. That "intro to econ" book seems fairly neutral in comparison and more like a standard introductory text.
The examples listed with sparklines embedded in headlines are not graceful or intuitive at all... to me it instinctively appears to be an ad and i gloss over it.
That is very interesting. I know of no red meat in N. America that carries bacteria that must be killed by cooking it well done. Poultry is dangerous undercooked, and to a lesser extent pork, even though pork here is irradiated so much you would be ok if it's a little pink. But red meat? You can eat any red meat tartar afaik.

Off to read that link! What an interesting animal, culinary wise.
We don't need to churn out more of it, we can't raise to the level of the current supply of music. What we need is more power to appreciate genres of music, not more music.

Have you tried researching classical music on YT? I have done that intensely, for about 7 years, and I can tell you that I didn't get to listen to more than 1%. There are thousands of composers with hundreds of thousands of pieces and millions of interpretations.

If we create computer music it will be done to expand the space of creativity, as usual. Classical music is particularly daring in breaking its molds and expanding to new forms.

My favorite imagination game is to pretend I am listening a contemporary piece together with Mozart, Bach, or Beethoven and watching their reactions. So I am doing in my head a simulation of the old masters, like AI is doing, except that I am trying to listen from their perspective instead of trying to create more music in their style.
To make it hard for people to write code to get around it.
I was expecting to read about some brilliant new way to solve all of the normalisation problems with Unicode, and make plain text safe again. What a let down!
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Ask HN: Is beta testing even worthwhile?
I'm manufacturing robot development kits out of my garage, and I'll be all set to start taking orders in just a few weeks after the design is completed and functional.

Is beta testing worth my time? I suppose it lowers the risk of finding out bugs/defects in the robot after it's shipped, but if people are willing to pay for the product, wouldn't you just want to go ahead and take the cash?

My concerns are: (1) getting stuck in dev/alpha/beta testing purgatory (i.e. I want to move quickly) and (2) there could be great variance in product feedback from paying customers vs. beta testers borrowing a robot.
> Nor do you see sales people selling stuff just for the fun of it.

Do you hang out with many sales people? In my experience, it's a very personality-driven field and they certainly do at least act like sales people outside of work, even if not literally selling a product or service for money.
Annoyingly, the Gmail Android app sends things multipart, even though I'm not sure it's really possible to have any formatting (except maybe links?). I wish there wan option to send text only, it might even make a (small) difference for people with limited data.
The US patent still exists. Ordinarily, you can sue anyone for anything. Even if the patent was transferred to a Canadian, the patent would still exist and it would still be possible to sue its owners in US court. One major exception to this are Indian Nations. US courts have no jurisdiction due to sovereign immunity.

I am not a lawyer.
The theory of not paying commissions is that salespeople will be incentivized the same way other employees are. You don't code on commission and tend not to coast once a revenue number is hit.
Sales is very important, a salesperson can sell shitty app and still make money, meanwhile i have seen some really good softwares n products being dumped for lack of budget. So I think hardworking smart salesman deserves to be paid well. And marketing is very important.
Trello's logo is inconsistent with the rest.
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I've been working in software for a long time, and other than inexpensive / simple consumer software or inexpensive departmental IT software, I've never seen products that sell themselves. Marketing at the very least is required, and for anything remotely complex, that's what sales is for.

Sales does something nearly as important as building the software: they map a customer's opportunity or problem to a technical solution, and ensuring they're successful with it. Sales (and marketing, which is arguably the evolution of sales at scale) are the field forces in discovering and exploiting product/market fit. No feature list survives first contact with the customer. Sales creates customers, and thus create markets.

You might have a great piece of software but if no one can explain it, no one will understand it, and it won't sell. This is the difference between software that costs $1k and $100k+. The price is reflective of the value it can provide and who is buying it.

Now in very small companies, the engineers are also marketers and salespeople. But beyond (say) 50 people, the divide between engineering and customers gets wider unless you have very good communication between sales, marketing, product, and engineering. There's too much work for everyone to focus on everything.
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That page is glorious
> I have no interest in using an app that by default broadcasts my transactions to everyone, and that makes it a pain to get money out of its non-FDIC insured closed system.

You can change the default visibility in settings to only you and the person you're sending money too.

Also, your PayPal balance is not FDIC insured either.

I find Venmo a lot easier to use than PayPal and far more people I know are on there vs anything else. I do wish it auto deposited to a bank account like Square Cash though.
I suspect that developers are not so much upset at salespeople getting commission, but rather why they get paid so much compared to developers.

Personally I don't buy that sales skills are so much more difficult to find or are in higher demand than software development skills. Some of the difference in equity certainly has to do with the higher risk of getting fired for poor performance in sales.

But beyond that it's probably that sales and business people are motivated mostly or only by money and thus have spent decades as a collective optimizing getting more money for themselves. In contrast, developers and designers are motivated by accomplishing and creating good things before money and end up not focussing on optimizing money making.

If developers were compensated like lawyers, I doubt they'd be so worked up over salespeople getting commissions.
Being cautious about entering data on a form is a cute idea but it doesn't work in reality. The web, with JavaScript loaded from multiple origins, doesn't work that way. These origins are practically invisible to you, they have complete access to the pages they are included in and you have no way of checking their certificates.
Google actually had to dial down the bonuses circa 2011. For one thing, to keep the comp looking competitive, it makes sense to have a larger component, because until this rebalancing bases were unimpressive there. For another too large a bonus creates more competition than one would like in the engineering discipline, where the overall success depends on people working well together. So they just cut the bonus in half and added it to the base.
I think you might be right from a technical, mechanical sense, but I think most of the objections from posters here are because of an impedance mismatch between the word of copyright law and the spirit of what it's intended to achieve.

The macaques were simply fooling around with a plaything and had no comprehension of what a selfie is; there is no artistic intent on their part. On the other hand, the photographer by his account appeared to go into this project with the specific intent of obtaining a monkey selfie. The concept, the subjects and their moods, lighting, shot settings, etc. were all his doing, and by any reasonable yardstick his work should be recognized as a form of artistry, just as how it is not exclusively the cinematographer, but the Director as well who is entitled to copyright on a film.

And yet we have people arguing in court that by the legal specifics of who owns copyright on photographs, this is purely the monkey's "work" (and winning).
You're not going to sell to large businesses without salespeople. A $10/month product? Sure. But when you're selling a $10,000/month product, you need salespeople.
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> composing the photo

While not a traditional composition he did choose one specific one out of the millions of monkeys on the planet and in that specific location. And it is a compositional strategy that has perhaps never been tried before.

/heheheheh
I've been told that, colloquially, kangaroo meat is occasionally referred to as "skippy." (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23086541)

I guess this is a bit of gallows humor because of the beloved children's show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skippy_the_Bush_Kangaroo)
Huh never knew that. Pretty interesting.
As a photographer who's shot the Milky Way a lot, I can say this is excellent advice.
Hiring is the easy part. Rampant scaling of engineers is easy to do, if you're not paying careful attention to quality, or you're dumping cash and or options/RSUs with the promise of riches (case in point: Uber sounds like they overhired and then imploded).

How successful was your hiring? What was the performance ratings of the people that you hired and how many met your expectations and how many didn't? What was the average tenure of those employees after this big hiring spurt? Those are the more interesting pieces of information.
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Actually you don't need to use desktop version. It tries to make you install it, but if you just click back to exit Play Store, and on the FB page to prompt the installation there's a faint X that you can click. At least it works in Opera Mobile.

Interestingly if I leave the tab open I also get notifications if someone responded.
Worth noting that the Lightning network is off-chain. Whether you care about that or not is up to you.
Square Cash is really quite the breath of fresh air after having gotten used to the crappy experience offered by Venmo/Paypal. I'm really just rehasing points made elsewhere in the thread, but there's no bullshit public sharing of your payment activities by default, and they allow you to automatically transfer balances directly into your bank account as you receive them. And the website and app are both super simple, reliable, and easy to use and easy on the eyes, unlike the Venmo clients which feels clunky and full of bugs.

I totally recommend giving it a try if you haven't already.
If you work as an engineer in a big company you often face decisions that will influence big time results. And you can make a big impact, by deciding which competitor for your time (manager, co-department, company's partner A or partner B) will get you to build the result they desire. I can guarantee you that even ina 600 ppl team there will only be a few engineeers who can really plan, push others, understand the technical problems, and communicate to all parties, so that a result can be achieved. These people will either work their 40 hours, tell everybody maybe, and then work on their side business the other 30 hours, or they spend 50-70 hours on your project and get the result you need to even start calling customers. It is also very accountable, because no technical results means no deals.

Thus, the same logic as with sales people also applies for engineers. It's just that they are cheaper, because fewer of them know, and fewer people actually are smart enough to make them offers accordingly.

In the end it's always how to make the biggest impact with the limited amount of money you have. And there's no natural reason that would stop engineers from being in key positions to your success.
I didn't see anything referring to EIOL. Can you point to something more specific than just a general critique of Sowell?
I'm aware of this. At present, those scripts can be run from any origin using any of the many CAs the OS/browser trusts.