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> Yes, I'm willing to negotiate on principal, but it has nothing to do with being remote.

Why do you even care then?

> My thinking is that it's difficult to find the type of people who has the focus and skills (focus overrides skill, I think) to really do remote work well.

Are you basing that on anything other than wild fantasy? Have you heard of eastern Europe, where tons of people will work remote for far less money?

> In return, I give full-on focused work with no cruft.

All employees are expected to give that, remote or not, whatever "with no cruft" really means.
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Not a perk but as This is a specific market it all comes to the balance between number of remote Job offers in your domain and number of people looking for a remote position in your domain. Anyway if you're experimented working remote you can explain that it makes you real productive and that you see no reason to lower your fees/salary
Just today someone asked me "what's MVCC[1]?". One of today's lucky 10,000 [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_contr...
[2]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
> but human right? Not sure what that has to do with anything.

If the government is pressuring organizations into backdooring their crypto, wouldn't it be relevant whether using effective crypto is considered a human right? Not sure why you think it's so out in left field.
Yeah totally. It's doable

My feeling is that stuff is doable, but hard-ish. For example, for this case now you're writing something to interface with the phones? How do you know the phone number is for a certain client?

Though I definitely see someone writing a thing where your ticketing/support system grants partial data access, you end up either making the support system pull in information from the DB... or your DB access controls being controlled through the support system.

the latter one can potentially introduce security issues. The former one's easier but you can easily run into the "oh, this information's not gettable through the ticketing system".
Showdan is more like a search engine . This tool is a service that lets you perform arbitrary queries on the internet from a port. It’s like an indexer or a scraper .
Thanks! Joining events from the local Chamber of Commerce is something I haven't tried yet. I'll try to print some stuff on Vistaprint and see what happens.
> The Cozy Bear hackers are in a space in a university building near the Red Square. The group's composition varies, usually about ten people are active. The entrance is in a curved hallway. A security camera records who enters and who exits the room. The AIVD hackers manage to gain access to that camera. Not only can the intelligence service now see what the Russians are doing, they can also see who's doing it. Pictures are taken of every visitor. In Zoetermeer, these pictures are analyzed and compared to known Russian spies. Again, they've acquired information that will later prove to be vital.

Wow.
Here's a good article about these guys:

"Meet the amateur astronomers who track secretive spy satellites for fun"

https://www.popsci.com/zuma-spy-satellite-amateur-astronomer
Didn't know about this thread, thanks.
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My "elite" college had crisis counselors, student volunteers. Guess what happened if you dated one of them. They searched the counseling files to look for dirt on you.
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No, it's not a "perk". This industry has plenty of jobs that can be done (and done very well) by 100% remote teams. The location of a worker should have zero negative impact on the pay arrangement.
He likely means emergency sirens - I also had some friends I'd hang out with as a teenager who figured this out as well.

As far as I'm aware this is still the case - but some sites are now encrypted radio. From what I've heard though, that encryption may not be the best implemented in all areas.

It was pretty recently someone set off the civil warning sirens in I believe a city in Texas via this method as well.

I'd like to say this was a one off experience in my "exploring civil infrastructure" days - but it's really just barely scraping the surface. The state of these systems makes you realize how much civilization is held together with tin cans and duct tape, and how much marketing fluff there truly is out there inspiring false confidence.
The payload was the 4 digit code, it was a large tornado warning siren. The msg was "be loud". I lived 300 yards from it, and had a dad with a police scanner. I noticed a pattern after a while... Saturday's they ran some test of the system...4 digits at noon on the radio and a blasting sound would follow
As mentioned, there is a difference between bias and uniform bias. In the US the media, politics, social media, and even miseducation (e.g. in my deviance class we focused on Kinsey's 10%, yet oddly enough never contrasted that against contemporary results) have heavily and uniformly biased the population on sexuality leading people to vastly overestimate the number of homo/bi/trans individuals.

Where it works phenomenally well is in areas where biases have not been directly instilled into people. This does not mean people are unbiased, however. Again the knowledge of trivia is a good example since while the crowds can generally do phenomenally well even at very esoteric questions where biases would lead them to individually come to very different conclusions, yet they will invariably fail to answer ostensibly trivial questions like 'What is the capital of Australia?' You'll get Sydney, it's not. You'd likely get a similar result for things like the capital of Pennsylvania.

In a way I view the wisdom of the masses as analogous to machine learning systems. They do an oddly good job of providing extremely precise answers to a wide array of questions even when trained with models that do not directly represent the 'questions'. Yet you can also break the systems, at times comically, with certain types of queries designed to do precisely that.

And as was the case with machine learning for quite some time, I think people remain reluctant to utilize it due to the black box nature of it. The implication of your comment is that the wisdom of the masses is little more than incorrect answers canceling out on average leaving nothing but a survey of experts. Yet I think there's no evidence for this (even if it may be a perfectly logical 'kneejerk' reaction) as it works even on things where nobody is an expert, and if this were the case then we ostensibly should be able to get comparable answers from coordination - yet coordination causes the entire system to collapse.
Both Nokia and RIM were vanquished because they failed to invest in their future - the big three are investing, and buying technology companies to fill in what doesnt make sense to build themselves.
It gets posted on the first of the month every month.
Can’t tell if this is the Onion or not..
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Have you driven a Modern FCA, Ford or GM product? Their infotainment system is extremely impressive, and reliable (mostly).
I'm pretty sure people leak a lot more data into the "cloud", through their SMS messages, emails, apps, etc., than they used to keep in their desk drawer. On average I presume that there is more for law enforcement to go on these days than before technology got so pervasive.

And at least if they search your desk you know about it. The idea that people can go behind your back and look at your info is disconcerting.
I value working remotely because it allows me to save time and live in an area that fits my lifestyle. And it costs my company money as they need to pay my travel expenses when I do visit the office, as well as some HR and legal overhead. Many managers also find an employee's presence in the office valuable in and of itself.

I work remote full-time because it's something that I negotiated up front my with employer, but most of my team members are required to come into the office every day (or at least most days). If they work from home too often their manager will notice and "have a chat" with them eventually.

So from that perspective it definitely feels like a perk, and something that I am fine negotiating over as part of a larger compensation package.
Especially when you read their privacy policy, realize they're a Chinese company, and see this: "However, be aware of the possibility of surveillance by intelligence agencies in your home country and our home country."
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There is a good book on this topic by Muhammad Yunnus - Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, https://www.amazon.com/Banker-Poor-Micro-Lending-Against-Pov....

Overall, it is difficult to be even stay in business let alone profitable due to structure of how interests work at that income level due to most not paying back on their loans.
Wow...according to wikipedia(so who knows in this case), NASA is trying to communicate with IMAGE via the DSN 4 days after this blog post.

If it is the case that no one remembered about this satellite, then this really is an amazing find.
Shoplifting and shoplifting to drive a shop out of business are about as unrelated as threatening someone with
a knife and stabbing them are.
I don't know.

But I know without a second factory, they're unlikely to make more than 500,000 a year.
Most male employees wouldn't forsee that problem.
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Not necessarily, they could have just gone into some 'fight or flight' mode of 'freeze'. They could be at home, under the duvet, totally afraid to look at the phone or email. Every day could be the day it is faced up to but the duvet chosen instead. They could also have run off to stay with a friend not seen since a long time ago and able/willing to harbour them.

If they had clicked the wrong button in a moment of distraction then that might not be the end of the world, that could be fessed up to. However, what if they were pissed off with their micro-manager and thought that their 'accidental click' would result in the manager's scalp? A whole lot of things would then need to be looked into and it might not be a simple accident at all, but the visible result of a lot of festering office politics.
How about a merkle tree structure for storing data (like Git does)? This would make it easy to find out what the snapshot at any given point of time was. Q is, whether it is powerful enough to support typical data-oriented applications?
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The tricky part about this sounds like it would be specifying in the proxy service which parts of structured requests are responses are PII - how do you handle this?
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"execs".
Did we read the same article from the GP?

> For all of this, dismissing Khan as a crank would be a mistake. While his associations are extremist, his science is not, and very little of what he writes about human genetics falls outside the pale of ordinary scientific discourse.
Yep. I wish I'd caught the communication attempt on DSN Now: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

I have a sudden urge to somehow make DSN Now my desktop background.
No it was the same 4 codes, and the same message: "loud'

It definitely is from my teenage years but whenever I visit folks I drive by that tower a block away. You can tell nothing has been upgraded
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It depends on the type of work. Working remotely with fixed hours isn't a perk. However, usually working remotely gives you significantly more control over your own time and schedule, which IMO is a huge perk.
I suspect a majority of 32-bit apps are CarbonLib, which has a smaller footprint, how much smaller, I dont know.
I thought it had to do with sandboxing and remote code execution. I think they still restrict what interpreters/scripting languages can be used for in apps.
If you’re storing from multiple sensors with multiple write processess, you will have concurrency problems if they’re in the same db with SQLite.

I’m not referring to manipulating or even querying the data after it’s stored. I just don’t see how saving the original data in SQLite buys you anything, if it needs to be collected into a db for queries, etc, anyway.
You got shadowbanned. I'm vouching for you because you seem to be an earnestly new account.
I thought the stated reasoning for the rules was that Apple for safety reasons didn't want apps downloading and running code (javascript in this case). Clearly that justification doesn't apply if the code runs on a server and not the device.
If batteries go like you suppose they will, they will quickly become a race to the bottom, battery packs are not terribly complex to make.
Most likely insisted upon due to the obfuscation of user privacy
Tangential, but this is the same reason mandatory health insurance makes sense. We go around living in our bodies, and they break down sometimes. It's the law in this country that emergency rooms can't turn people away without evaluating and stabilizing them, so you're always one accident away from creating huge costs for someone else if you don't plan for these costs with health insurance.

In the case of car insurance, the injured party is the driver you run into, or the property you damage. In the case of health insurance, the injured party is the hospital/doctors.

I always thought it was strange that so many states were totally on board with mandatory car insurance, but not mandatory health insurance.
I don't think remote work is a perk, but I do find some employers either think or feel that they can pay employees less just because they are remote. I would never work at a place like that.
Locking out other engines does a few things:

- Ensures a minimum level of battery performance for users browsing the web. Chrome and Firefox for macOS are notoriously hard on your battery and iOS versions would likely have the same issue.

- Reduces the number of vulnerabilities present on the platform.

- In the event that a bad vuln does crop up, Apple can and will scramble out a WebKit patch to fix it, quickly protecting all users, even those using browsers by small/independent developers. This would be impossible if said indie devs were using Blink or Gecko or something instead.

These problems could be worked around if alternate engines were bundled with the OS as part of a partnership with Google and Mozilla, but such a scenario seems unlikely at best.
Helmetless scares car drivers into keeping a safe distance.

A helmet law wouldn't encourage a new biker who already had a helmet option.
On similar topic: http://250bpm.com/blog:89
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Nokia was doing that as well (pretty sure RIM would be too).

Just because you are buying new tech does not automatically mean you will succeed.
The bigger problem with iOS is that its a complete lock-in. Even if users want the app, Puffin is unable to distribute its app to users since Apple doesn't approve it.

This doesn't happen on Android, if you don't like Play Store, you can still distribute apk and ask the user to download & install.

People may spin it any way they want but this is corporate greed !
Letting apps bundle their own browser engine guarantees that there will be unpatched security bugs.
Heh, yeah this is exactly us. We're growing, profitable, doing well but also twelve years old and so is our website. We are, in fact, in the middle of redesigning it but the quite correct commentary here is a great reminder / kick in the pants. Thank you!
I think your first example is somewhat disingenuous.

The vast majority of people will never change their default settings on the vast majority of things. The ability to change something does not contradict the view that a company is engaging in that behavior, and persisting it, for money. E.g. Mozilla/Firefox recently swapping to Google as their default browser would be the same thing, even if they know it's likely somewhat antithetical to many of their users - they will profit from those who are too lazy, or too ill informed, to change it.
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Thanks, great read. Wasn’t familiar. She is that good at being the person behind the person. Brilliant was cementing Andreessen Horowitz as a mainstay VC by offering investor interviews when Skype acquisition was announced.
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Insurance cost is not solely due to likelihood of having an accident. The thing that matters is likelihood of causing financial loss/gain for the insurance company. If low-income people are not more likely to cause financial loss, then competition for customers would make the insurance cost equal.

Some reasons why this is not so:

Bad credit and the likelihood of an accident are correlated because both are affected by risk-taking behavior.

People with high income are far less likely to make insurance claims for minor damage. They know that the deductible would prevent recovering most of the cost, and that the insurance cost would increase enough to offset what little was recovered. The claim payment is not worth the ongoing expense of higher premiums. People with low income are less likely to fund minor repairs without an insurance claim; they need the money to make repairs.

There is a fraud problem. I've seen this in person, getting advice from a heroin dealer who lived next door. I damaged my car. He said I should just report that I found it that way, parked on the street.
20 years since high is a good long time to demonstrate potential. The prize is funding for future work, not a prize for having finished a successful career

> Fields medallists are at an age at which, in most sciences, a promising career would just be taking off.

That's the point.
Sure, but they probably want to know who was in the room with him, what was their reaction, what was his reaction, did they realize anything was immediately wrong? did they know who to contact? etc...

If an air traffic controller was involved in a plane crash in a non-culpable manner, I'm sure people would feel very strongly that he should cooperate with investigators. Why is this situation different?
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and why?
I don't consider it a perk, but at this point you'd have to pay me a lot more to come to an office. I don't think that I would (have to?) take less just because they want to hire me.

I agree that "remote work" is a skill into itself, but no matter how much I value that, I don't see how it's costing my employer anything.

If anything they ought to pay me more because they don't ave to provide my office and coffee and whatnot.
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I’m not sure it was hacking, I get the feeling that these events may be intentional to kind of kick the tires on emergency systems and human reactions, perhaps because the powers that be are expecting stuff to go down in the near future. I mean we had Hawaii, then Japan, and in my neck of the woods our nuclear power plant issued a false alarm as well. It just seems really odd, all these things happening in close proximity.
> They can get jobs within walking distance in the city.

In which fantasy world do people in poverty just regularly find jobs in the city within walking distance of their magical free house in the city?
You're talking about something so obviously flawed I will not address it anymore.
In addition to the NY Times, I believe that The Washington Post is worthy of a subscription. And while you are at it, sending some money to The Guardian seems to make sense. We all complain about the poor quality of the news and the prevalence of fake news. If we want quality news with intelligent reporting, we have to ensure that the news media that provide it are adequately resourced and funded.

Of course, there are methods other than paywalls that could be used, but paywalls are what we have. It would be nice if several news organizations were to provide a single subscription with broad access. The current paywall strategy nickel and dimes voracious readers.
It's so specific to our architecture that there would be little value in open sourcing it.

That being said, there are some lessons we learned along the way that I do think are worth sharing.

As I mentioned above the API proxy supports REST and gRPC API calls.

For REST based APIs, we developed a YAML syntax for declaratively specifying (per route) the input/output keys that needed to be encrypted/decrypted.
This is accomplished using a JsonPath like syntax, along with attributes for each key that specified the type of data, as well as letting us perform limited validation on the data.

However this approach provided little visibility into what fields are not being encrypted, leaving room for mistakes.

This is where gRPC/Protobufs come in to play, it's the newest addition at the API Proxy level, but is not new to our internal architecture.

Using protocol buffers as our IDL has been a huge help in terms of our data auditing capabilities.
Unlike our YAML based solution before, with protobufs we can see every single field that is expected as an input or output of an API call.

We've utilized this feature by creating wrapper message types that indicate when a field contains data that needs to be encrypted/decrypted, and have helper libraries that can traverse an instantiated protobuf message, perform the encrypt/decrypt operation, and swap out the original value(s) for the one(s) returned from the encryption service.

Once we have the library to perform the traversal and the compiled protobufs, integrating it into the API Proxy (along with grpc-gateway to translate to REST/Json) is actually pretty straight forward.
Apple has always, since time immemorial, blocked apps that duplicated functionality of the core OS. Yes they make exceptions, but building a "better" web browser for iOS was a bad business choice, regardless of how long or well you skirted the rules.

You made your bed. Sleep in it.
If you read the article, you'd know they do server side rendering. They're basically displaying images on your phone.
At first, by typing in BASIC code listings from magazines, when I was 12. Then, by writing several hundred small programs that were either graphics "demos" or simple games. Then simple 3D renderers, and then complex 3D renderers. In those days, there was no web, and only a few programming books at the library or bookstore. So I learned almost completely by trial and error. Later, I experienced a lot of growth in my first job, mostly from reading my boss's code. By that time, the web existed, and it was off to the races.
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But this isn't really another browser engine. They do server side rendering. They're just displaying images on your phone.
In short, our REST based APIs are done via a YAML syntax, but our newer APIs are through Protocol Buffers.

See my other comment for more details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16237349
I wish this was higher up in the discussion. This is a very interesting point, not only when considering the Puffin browser, but considering this entire company. Their whole business model is to improve traditionally-local software by having data processed in the cloud. I have seen people affiliated with the company reply to other comments on this post but yours demands some sort of clarification. This company's real business is selling reports generated from the logs of its users' activity.
This could be too. It should be in the data: countries where cyclists mainly share/don't share roads with cars. In my part of the world, nearly all car-bike collisions are at intersections.
It does work, very well. We have been using it for over a year without issue. It is not ideal, but it is good to have an option for when clients dont support gRPC.