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That's the importance of a free press. If they are violating our constitutional rights, the press should (ethically) be reporting on those violations. See: Edward Snowden.

Now, it is our representatives jobs to protect whistle blowers like Snowden, and unfortunately the general public either doesn't care, or doesn't want to take the time to truly understand what it means to have our privacy violated.
> To be clear, HL7 is a not-for-profit organization which has created several sets of standards over its history (HL7-V1, V2, V3, etc)--those standards are probably what you are referring to. HL7, as an organization, is very much a leader in this space.

I'm being sarcastic when I say HL7 isn't a leader. Obviously their psuedo-standards are widespread; they're just terrible.

I haven't dug much into FHIR because, when I last needed to implement any of this, literally nobody was actually using it. That said, based on everything else I've seen, I'm skeptical that it's actually a proper standard in the strict sense. Even the other message types that HL7 has produced are not properly specified, with ambiguous language that allows for multiple interpretations and "valid" (but incompatible) implementations.
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Firefox reader mode is doing quite a good job for that. I suppose there's Chrome extensions that do a similar thing!
Google pays Apple billions of dollars to include only their search engine.

It happens all the time. Then again maybe this is changing.
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That window works well around here, zero problems. And I don't have to be consistent, I can decide when I come in the morning.
> How they interact with maintainers and other people

> The quality of their PRs if any

> How well they communicate issues and file bugs. Attitude

That information is extremely valuable when available. When looking at profiles, if I see a person can't parse information provided by other maintainers, or put in a due diligence into narrowing down or solving a problem when filing bugs I will reject them without even a first phone screen (exceptions when the PR/comments are old, etc.).

But it's rare to come across this information.
Anecdotal of course, but in my experience, when hiring professional engineers, neither I nor anyone I know would judge someone for not having a Github page to look at. If they have one, great, I'll take a look, but if not, no big deal. It's not an expectation at non-startup tech companies.

I've heard some people here on HN occasionally say that if an applicant doesn't have a Github page to look at, they will think less of them and maybe not even give them an interview. I always imagine the people who say this as being guys in their early-to-mid-20s who are fresh out of school, never worked anywhere outside their comfort zone, are still within a comfy bubble of friends and family, and went directly to the startup path where they are learning about stuff like recruiting and management in real time (if not outright making it up as they go along). I don't know if that's a fair characterization- it probably is unfair and inaccurate. But that's the stereotypical person my subconscious imagines those posts come from.

The silver lining is, if someone doesn't give you an interview because you lack a Github page, you probably don't want to work for them anyway.
I learned about Front from this thread and I'm going to try it this week. Shared inboxes are a giant pita. Hopefully Front don't get distracted.
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For basic spreadsheets, I've pretty much switched over to Google Sheets. Haven't touched Word in nearly two years and couldn't be happier about it
> But I wonder if it has anything—even in small part—to do with the bad contrast on a lot of sites and the fact that browsers render highlighted text with good contrast. Even on high-contrast sites like Medium, the bright background combined with dark text can be tiresome on the eye, meaning that highlighted text will invert that yielding a more comfortable white text on blue. As someone who doesn't randomly highlight text, I often intentionally highlight text to quickly and nearly-effortlessly correct bad color selections by the site's designers.

Mostly to ensure I keep my APM high on HackerNews.
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> the written expression of an airbrushed 70s conversion van, or some heavy metal album cover.

Were you aware that Moorcock wrote, performed and toured with Hawkwind in the 70's and 80's? Also Hawkwind's 1985 "Chronicles of the Black Sword"[0] album is largely inspired by the Elric tales.

I've been to see Hawkwind live around 25 times, so I have a bit of a thing for them and Moorcock. If you ever get the chance you should go see them because Dave Brock sadly isn't getting any younger.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicle_of_the_Black_Swo...
This is essentially what all "blockchain for healthcare" idealists are trying to advocate/accomplish. With buzzwords like "security" & "interoperability" ... Apple is really pushing for both here (though it would be centralized).

I think the absolute key is to win the users first, and force the industry to adopt a strategy that is best for users vs what is best for Hostpitals/EHRs/Health-Networks.

Interoperability is a beast of a problem to solve for healthcare, and it'll be interesting to see how far Apple is willing to push or disrupt (i.e. standardizing & forcing the adoption of their chosen data formats & integration)

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Something that's important to me is code that is commented. Well-commented code (documentation for each function, explanations behind complex if statements and loops, etc.) earns bonus points. Conversely, when I see screens and screens of code without a single comment that sets off red flags.

Due to the nature of my current role, writing documentation is necessary so that other team members can pick up where you left off if something happens to you (or you just go on vacation).
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You mention a few things I'd love for you to unpack further if you feel willing.

[1] You mention you have your competitor's customers churning onto your doorstep, yet your revenue is flat. Is your flat revenue then related to price cuts, or do you have churn of your own that offsets those gains?

[2] You imply that you think your team size may be the reason for having hit a wall. Care to elaborate on these thoughts?

[3] What is the current team structure (how many eng, marketing, biz, etc.)? You mention finding the right people to incrementally grow revenue.

Just another entrepreneur curious to learn from your experience growing a bootstrapped company. My co-founder and I raised a round last summer, and we're currently at 3 headcount (two of us, plus one hire that started in October in an area we have zero expertise in, but is critical to our business and credibility). We discuss what the inflection points are that will drive additional headcount, and for now that's almost exclusively revenue growth.
Because the vulnerability exists today and may be executed today and may create crapload problems today.

The "not my problem - let someone else fix it" thinking is no different from the thinking that caused issues at Equifax.
> I get lost in an endless sea of RFCs with no idea of which are important for my use-case (most RFC titles seem fairly jargon-heavy to me).

Exactly my feeling when I trying to read ActivityPub and other "federated social network" specs
The spiral only deepens when more authorities comes with they books and videos, what really happens in facebook's backstage.

Also interesting trend is that many microsoft, facebbook executives are banning they kids to use facebook.
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> In fact, I believe a good method-based JIT is probably more complex than a trace-based one. When compiling at method-granularity, with incomplete information about types, complex features are required e.g. On-Stack Replacement (if the current method becomes "hot", it needs to be replaced by a compiled version), Inline Caches, Hidden Classes and Deoptimization.

Don't you have exactly the same problems in a tracing jit? For example, if the running while-loop becomes hot it would need to be replaced with an optimized version of it.
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I would add that it has a terrible commenting navigation system.
Yes, that's why small startups can be disruptive.

But ... big companies have figured this out too, so the good days may be numbered.
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I can't really recommend the approach in general. From accessibility or search engine optimization standpoints, what I've done is a disaster.

It's more just an objet d'art type thing, just this sort of stylized recursive, I dunno, joke thing. It was fun to make and for some reason Nick and I find the concept hilarious, but it's also ridiculous. When I told my family about it their response, to a person, was "but why?"

You're of course welcome to view source on the page and copy anything you like (it is just a web page after all), but if I was trying to market something serious, I would definitely do it differently.
I had an interesting realisation a year or two back: coal and petroleum each saw a major boom first in use-as-fuel, and then a secondary realisation of the chemical properties and utility of the substances. First coal-tar chemistry in the 1850s and 1860s (or thereabouts), then synthetics, in the 1920s and 1930s, mostly.

Virtually all modern synthetic plastics (urethane, polyethelyne, PVC, Nylon, etc.) were invented in the 1930s.

This also plays out in how eras appear to us. For clothing from -2 million bce - 1890, you had leather, cotton, flax, wool, silk, and fur, plus in areas woven grasses and other materials, with the plant fibres being vastly less expensive.

(Many of these were also fairly recent discoveries -- knitting, as an example, didn't exist until the Mediaeval period, and weaving progressed massively from ~1 AD through the 19th century).

In the 1890s, the first synthetic viscose came along (essentially rayon I believe). Then nylon and such in the 1930s, with the first synthetics. Even through the 1950s, virtually all high-fashion clothing was wool, silk, or fur, but the first synthetics, many in athletic or mountaineering wear, began to appear, with an explosion in the 1960s of synthetics and dyes, giving the characteristic look of the 1960s and 1970s.

There's been some walking back from all-synthetic-all-the-time, though they remain in high use.

Another thought is on the point you'd made: the interplay of steam power and thermodynamics, with engineering driving science through that period.
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>If you use Shkarin’s PPMd implementation, I would strongly recommend you to harden it by adding out of bound checks wherever possible, and to make sure the basic model invariants always hold.

Sounds like a fun project.
I'm glad it works for you. I wish it did for me.

Most of enterprise needs a bit more that Google sheets.
A taco truck is a software company?

A bodega on a corner is a software company?

A shoe shine guy is a software company?
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Plus if you want to see the image from search, you'll often get an obtrusive pop-up asking you to sign up.
Also interesting point made by Alex Jones about facebook's need to controll what you read and not.. noway hose. I dont believe that facebooks future is bright
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> Facebook is a very good product - as a social CRM and messaging service, no one even comes close.

Not sure I would say Facebook is a 'very good product'. It's okay. The main thing Facebook has going for it is the userbase and in that respect the only company that has a chance is google who really botched things with g+.
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Even snarky.ca has moved, from Silvrback to Ghost!

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Don't forget that it often comes at the cost of the team's sanity. Don't ride your people too hard.
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Yeap, imagine if the company's HR rep was able to say that their equity distribution is compliant with YC employee favorable equity standards (YCEFE) or whatever. I think it would make hiring much easier. Ultimately, the exits which barely pay investors back are not how YC or anyone in VC makes money (power law) so creating an equity standards system seems like an obvious choice.
Yep, I was gonna make this comment too. Alan Kay in particular is an active commenter on Quora and he shows up on HN occasionally (often to chastise someone for speculating about "how it was" when they could've just asked, or at least just referenced existing documentation). There's no need for us to box them out.

Alan Kay particularly seems to lament the way the field has developed and the average programmer's ignorance of and disrespect for historical context. He is validated in this more every day.
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They are expensive, and we'd be paying already had they been closer to 10 mo/user. But it seems they're going the customer service tool route, and this is a pain point businesses are willing to pay for. In this area I'd say their #1 rival is zendesk, which does a better job of justifying their pricing on their site (which had me return to Front for what they do better).

But Front won't be replacing anyone's free web mail at any price point. I can't believe they don't have a free plan.
RE: Store Path. Unfortunately, no. In order to write outside of the app sandbox container, an entitlement has to be approved by Apple, and they only would only approve ~/Movies/<AppName>/.

RE: Two Hot Keys. Ruh-Roh. Thanks for the bug report. I'll investigate. EDIT: Will be fixed in next update. :) As a quick workaround, just quit and relaunch RetroClip and the old hotkey will be unbound, leaving just your new one active.
So it performs compilation 10x faster?
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I recently switched to RubyMine from a manual install to a snap based install. I also noticed that there are a lot of applications coming as snappy packages on linux, some of them being Slack, Rocket.Chat, PyCharm, etc.

However, I still don't get how snaps are good compared to the traditional way of installing software using apt or some other package manager. For what kind of applications is snap good?

Also, what about softwares such as rbenv which is installed manually via git, what would be the pros and cons of having snappy versions of such application? Is snap the future of package management?
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Completely agree but I would also agree if you would have said:

None of those people will ever learn to code, or need to learn to code, or frankly be capable of learning to code, neither, we devs, are interested in that..
This is an unpopular but important point: Human-like robots are a kind of fetish.

The first time I saw Sony's dancing robot I thought, "WTF? Make a robot to do the dishes, I'll do the dancing! I like to dance."

We're conditioned by fiction to think of cute "droids" as the normal and inevitable form of robots. I remember how disappointed I was as a kid when I found out the robots building cars were just arms with tools on the ends, not "real" humanoid robots. But that lasted only a few moments because of course robots don't need to look like humans! Why would they? Only psychological impact. Robot dogs and robot people are a kind of fetish.

One corollary of this is that a robot or automated system doesn't need to have all its sensors attached to its effectors. E.g. self-driving cars can and should get information from the sensors and computers in the surrounding traffic infrastructure, etc., and so the "robot" as a system is not confined to just the car. The "robot" is ambient.

Automation is great. Building ersatz people and then pretending they are real is nuts. "En vee tee ess, nvts!"
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> It seems the bigger a company gets the more they favor predictability over excellence.

This is because in a bigger company the owners can’t really influence individual contributors, they can only influence the managers, so they set up a culture of predictability by ICs so they can still maintain control.

In a small company the managing owners (founders, early employees, etc) can influence ICs directly.
So they want to build seamless interop with MS Exchange including all calendar features, oh and compat with that plugin the workers' council really needs? ... let the investor money burn ...
Is this with the real Mac RetroClip? That sounds really high, like way higher than expected. Is it an older machine without a hardware video encoder?
If I'm investing the time to look at her/his github, I have probably already invited the candidate over for an interview, or am seriously considering doing so. I'm looking for anything that gives me an insight into the way the candidate approaches problems, than I can then use to further the interview.

Any github that contains more than just course work is fine for that.
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In the event of willful refusal to pay, is there any provision by which the EU could "seize" (invalidate) a portion of Qualcomm's patent portfolio, which would constructively destroy their monopoly position?
The difference was Obama wasn't subverting fact or allowing foreign governments and financial interests to covertly "muddy the waters". I don't think the world understood in 2008 how that could happen, and in deed, Facebook wasn't touching nearly as many lives a decade ago.
During the 2016 election, FB reared its head as the ugly pot of social unrest we now know it to be. We learned a lot about "echo chambers", "fake news", "us/them", the "alt-right", etc. And we heard a lot about how these fun little social networks we're tooling around on may not be the panacea we thought.
Mix that with the outpouring of emotion following the election of possibly the least likely candidate in history, and you've got the backlash you describe.

Oh, and Obama won the popular election. Twice.
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Realistically, pretty much anything sane is a plus, because most applicants don't even have github account. AlSo realistically, have a good readme because that is the thing most hiring managers will read (unlike codebase).
Oh wow, I always assumed he just defaulted to HTTP version of the site, but HTTPS was an option. But nope, there isn't even a version of the site served over HTTPS. In the year 2018.
What you're advocating amounts to exposing users to possible harm, hoping that users that are harmed then act to punish Intel.

That is not just a convoluted scheme with no chance of effect, it is also morally reprehensible. You're willfully harming people for reasons almost entirely outside their control and expertise.

Imagine the coast guard letting people drown "because that's what happens if you buy a cheap boat". Except these people didn't buy cheap boats: Intel is quite obviously the default option, and usually more expensive in case where there actually are alternative.

And we haven't even gotten into the difficulty in making moral judgements about Intel's past behavior that led to these problems. Considering these bugs have existed for decades without being exposed, I would tend to think the pitchforks might just be an overreaction. There's a scale that goes intent to harm > accepting harm > accepting the possibility of harm (gross negligence) > not anticipating the risk of harm (negligence). One should calibrate one's outrage to it.
Most of the article is about asking companies to donate to OSS because they profit from it.
>It seems the bigger a company gets the more they favor predictability over excellence.

Or also the bigger a company gets the more they favor predictability over [early] delivery.
In contrast to the other replies you've gotten, I think my habit of highlighting is more of a nervous tic than a conscious decision to help me read. The habit is certainly related to my tendency to play computer games that require a lot of clicking (League of Legends/Starcraft), but if memory serves correctly I've been doing it since before I started playing any games. Also, I'm the kind of person that will sit at my desk with a pen clicking and un-clicking it endlessly before I remember that other people are annoyed by that kind of behavior.
I took this article more at a level of DS online coursework as opposed to useable in industry.
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What you're describing is just a classifier, and you can certainly train something to do this. However, I'm quite skeptical it would work well.

I suppose if you were Google and had all their data, perhaps. Putting different data types together (like text, pictures, locations) adds a lot of difficulty.
> To become a great developer, you must know the best-integrated development environment (IDE) tools.

Why? (also, what exactly did the author evaluate/ what's the methodology here? )

Finally... to include CodeBlocks but not IntelliJ, one must really be joking.
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oh my god! I was having a dejavu reading your post. This could have been written by me. I guess this shit is more common than I imagined.

It did teach me a lot of lessons though. Never work for the company, always work for yourself. Accumulate power to make decisions, thinking that writing some kickass code is going get you somewhere is misguided.
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Even things as mundane as copy become multi-week ping-pong behemoths as 6+ different teams need to put in their two cents and tweek everything. Legal, copy, marketing, UX, product, exec. It's astounding how slow things move at large corporations.
This brought memories of that pattern (flyweight?) where the data was stored outside the objects, possibly in an array. An object was instantiated only to hold an index to the array position and allow access. That's dirty cheap!
There's a difference from writing code for yourself and writing code for other's. If I'm writing code for myself in a domain that I'm very familiar with, comment get's in the way and clutters up things. I've looked at code I wrote 10-15yrs ago and understood everything because of strong familiarity with the domain. Based on the domain, I might have naming convention that is specific to that domain and I'm not going to name in Enterprise fashion. It's a strong assumption to think that code some people publish are for consumption of other's. Most of my after work hour code is for my own and the computer's consumption.
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