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Although they do sometimes fall down for consumers, I have a 2nd gen kindle bought from the US but running on the UK store which no longer talks to the store (I can download content but not browse).

I ended up in a maze of the US folks saying it's a UK store problem and the UK folks saying it's a US supplied kindle so talk to the US. After a few rounds of "reset back to factory" support calls I gave up.

I suspect the problem is the clock which is out by an hour so SSL / authentication isn't working. I held out until we left summer time back to GMT but even then it was still broken (I also tried from the Caribbean in case it was a European time zone issue). The GSM modem diagnostic page looked correct.

In the end I gave up and my partner got me a Kindle Oasis from Amazon UK for Christmas.
Even without an explicit admission of guilt, you're putting yourself in a compromising position. Amazon made an accusation and then asked for redress, so if you give them that and were then involved in a lawsuit you'd have to explain why your actions (giving Amazon what they demanded to forgive you for rule-breaking) are inconsistent with your claims (you didn't break any rule).
I was suggesting that the entire idea of bail money was a bad one, for exactly the reason you describe. Rich people simply leave a deposit, and poor people effectively pay a permanent fine of 10% of that deposit regardless of their innocence.

The idea of ensuring someone shows up to trial by holding onto something they value isn't terrible, but the implementation certainly is. If you want to set bail, why is it based mostly on the crime and not on the wealth of the suspect? $1000 of bail means nothing to a billionaire and everything to someone living hand to mouth.
We don't have Places API support, but we definitely are aiming for products from solo devs and smaller businesses at Stadia Maps. We have a few suggestions for places to look when our services have a hole.

For instance, Foursquare has a pretty good places API we've used before.
If you look at their example, the "type information" is actually encoded in an ancillary JSON file: https://github.com/OfficeDev/Excel-Custom-Functions/blob/mas...

In theory, you could embed all of the metadata in JSDoc + TS annotations.
A restaurant "is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money."

McDonalds prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money. This clearly makes it a restaurant. It may not be a fine-dining type of establishment, but it is a restaurant.

More pretentious is all the hipsters that look down on restaurants like McDonalds simply because it doesn't fit their narrow, preconceived notions of what a restaurant should be.
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Not to mention it matters where the money's coming from.

If you just closed a $40M round of VC financing, $500/hr for a 1-week project ($20k?) from someone you know isn't crazy. If you're a bootstrapped company and that's 6 weeks of revenue it's not as easy of a decision even if you think the ROI is there.
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We may not be on the same page, but we're probably at least on adjacent pages. :)

I should be clear that I like Mastodon despite all my complaints -- it's just that I often feel as if I like it more in theory than practice. I've had better luck with Micro.blog, which is a different approach to the same problem (i.e., own your own content), built on top of webmentions and syndication feeds. But I'm not sure it's really a better approach, just different.
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I saw one or two other posters, and that's conjecture at best. If bail bonds companies really are exploitive and their announcement isn't just virtue signaling, they should be actively pointing people to the orgs that aren't exploitive (and have an actual model for what counts as not being exploitive), not just praying that the exploitive ones don't learn SEO.
That would make your argument coherent (if still wrong), if Koch Industries was in this discussion as an opponent rather than one of the groups Google worked with on the issue to come to this policy.

Opposition to the cash bail system and the government-spawned industry it supports, while to be sure prominent on the left, also has notable support among (even right-)libertarians.
Mapbox also gives unlimited map views for native mobile apps. Pricing is instead based on monthly active users (50k free).
I'm pretty amused at the responses to his message - there are none as far as I can see. Apparently the answer to his question is "Nobody".
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> I personally think a small ranking boost for pages that don't run ads will go a long way to clean up the search results.

It's highly unlikely that google (a company whose business model is selling ads) will prioritise sites without ads.
Welcome to Amazon! Look at what is going on with 3rd party sellers there; reliable, highly-rated sellers get their accounts indefinitely suspended for completely bogus reasons with no recourse. I guess they don't need them anymore so they don't care about their shoddy ML and its false positives...
After working remotely for over a decade for multiple companies my conclusion is the biggest issue is finding managers who grok remote working.

If the person in charge doesn't know what he's doing the rest doesn't matter.

Regarding your options:

1. Hardly any different than on site.
2. Not an issue at all.
3. Huh?
4. For some.
I think that is fair. But if you can't make your dropdown work without js, please leave your developer membership card by the door.
Is it ethical to raise consumption with a raise of your salary? Is it ethical to give the raise to these employees?

It looks like the answer should be the same to this and your question.
It asks them to comply with the rules and remove any existing publication that is offending the rules.

Given that they are blocked, because one of their existing publications allegedly violates the ToS, and given that they don't know in what way it's impossible to comply without removing all existing publications, which presumably they are unwilling to do.
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"We're better at privacy" is a fairly obvious way for Apple to differentiate itself, especially when the business model of many of its competitors kind of depend on not being very good at privacy (contextual ads and so on). This fits that brand fairly well.
If you're actively using your device, this wouldn't apply anyway. You unlock your device far more often than once a week.
Buzzwords matter in the academy, too.
Agency rates bring an entire agency, though. Speaking from experience, companies will pay other companies multiple thousands a day for software implementations without a second thought but typically will fight paying a single person $250/hr to do the same job (even if it's a 1-person job).
Payroll 100%. When we started hiring people remote it was the biggest surprise, and most headache.

Trying to figure it out on your own is irresponsible at best, so it boils down to hiring a local CPA or tax attorney in each state/city you hire in to go over the implications of bringing someone on in that city.

If the person is right, it's worth the cost, but it's a large, unexpected time-suck.
90+% of the people using Wordpress backends do not build websites. They just author content.
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Do you mean in the strict usage of a Ethernet repeater hub, as opposed to a switch? Where do you still encounter those dinosaurs?
There's a way to disable the feature through MDM (Mobile Device Management), which you'd want on the kiosks anyway.
Communication.

Communication! Communication! Communication!

If any part of your product requires people to communicate with each other, then the team members lying on vastly different time zones will have low efficiency because information round trip time will be larger than those of the local (or time zone near) ones.
When I ran a business, having a tax preparer really helped with this.
I wrote a script a few years ago to do the same thing with Digital Ocean floating IPs

https://gist.github.com/rxall/5305bcaa008e51685998
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If the device is not unlocked for 7 days, the USB port stops working (for anything but charging.) It won't brick the device, which can still be unlocked any time, it just prevents someone from taking more than 7 days to hack open your phone, via the USB.

edit: so in your case, perhaps yes, you would have been hooped.
A while back I made a reddit post asking for help finding a tool that would manage/generate ssh config files for all our jump/bastion hosts.

There was some interest (and great discussion), however no-one submitted a tool that solved the actual problem.

Since that post, I've worked on an open source tool that implents the features of our closed source application. Its available now on github: https://github.com/AnalogJ/drawbridge

Here are some of its features:

- Single binary (available for macOS and linux), only depends on `ssh`, `ssh-agent` and `scp`
- Uses customizable templates to ensure that Drawbridge can be used by any organization, in any configuraton
- Helps organize your SSH config files and PEM files
- Generates SSH Config files for your servers spread across multiple environments and stacks.
- multiple ssh users/keypairs
- multiple environments
- multiple stacks per environment
- etc..
- Can be used to SSH directly into an internal node, routing though bastion, leveraging SSH-Agent
- Able to download files from internal hosts (through the jump/bastion host) using SCP syntax
- Supports HTTP proxy to access internal stack urls.
- Lists all managed config files in a heirarchy that makes sense to your organization
- Custom templated files can be automatically generated when a new SSH config is created.
- eg. Chef knife.rb configs, Pac/Proxy files, etc.
- Cleanup utility is built-in
- `drawbridge update` lets you update the binary inplace.
- Pretty colors. The CLI is all colorized to make it easy to skim for errors/warnings

---

You can read more & download it from Github: https://github.com/AnalogJ/drawbridge

I'm always open to PR's and feature requests. I'd also love to hear any feedback you guys may have.
Ah thanks for mentioning Foursquare - I meant to list it. It's another one that has a huge upfront cost for solo devs building a commercial app ($600 / month).
One time fee? Apple don't pay for such things. Possibly why there is a black market for iOS exploits.
Last time I did London to New York (2 weeks ago) I spent about 25 minutes queueing in total (at both ends). I guess I got lucky, but my overall experience with flying UK to USA is that's it's actually pretty ok. I am a white guy though, so there is that.
Maybe it's overkill, but hardly anymore than the V8 engine is for most websites. Compilation to WebAssembly will be at zero or little cost to the developer, so it shouldn't matter either way.
Oof sorry to hear about the bad luck with the book. Do you mind sharing the subject?
> You would need an apple developer account and pay the fee to be able to side load your own apps

You don't need to pay to deploy to your own devices these days.
As a Canadian who has worked remotely for US companies it is pretty standard to be paided this way and makes employment a little simplier.
I have had the displeasure of being on the wrong end. Amazon seller and vendor support is obtuse and designed to confuse. It is adversarial. It is about three steps away from being on the same level as a dealing with a federal criminal charge.

I had to write a plan, to avoid my 'misconduct', which was repeatedly rejected by 'assigned team', a group of unnamed individuals that was only allowed to communicate to me in automated templates.

I would only wish this experience on my worst enemies.
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'Opaque' as in 'generally opaque from the outside.' You learn in the process that you're describing.

Hilariously, it's to some extent like playing Zork or a similar text-based adventure game but with real money on the line.
Yeah I’m in the UK, ok so probably as rare as square heads here then.
I agree with him though. Not using an equal area projection when trying to compare areas is very misleading.
Kiosks should be fine - I think you've missed some details on what is going on.

The update won't lock iPads that are unlocked. If a kiosk iOS device is "always on" and never requires a passcode, then it it won't ever lock hence won't start the 7 day timer.
I would like to read this article but, the website doesn't load. I guess it's not optimized to front page HN.

May I suggest to loadtest your website or article before posting it?

https://ddostest.me/load-test/
There's a slice of the population that needs accessibility devices to unlock their iDevices. It'd be unfortunate if they couldn't unlock their devices anymore due to a security feature. 7 days sounds like a compromise between usability and security.
Check out one of the services that base their data on OpenStreetMap.

My company (https://stadiamaps.com) does that. OpenMapTiles (https://openmaptiles.org) sells vector tiles you can use. There a many more over at https://switch2osm.org/providers/.
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But Koch isn't in this discussion as a critic of the Google policy, but as a critic of the money bail system and the industry it supports, and as one of the partners Google worked with on the issue leading to adopting the ban.
You almost certainly want to build the app inside a container, but probably not the same container that result from the build.

[ed: well maybe not for a simple go project, as go has great cross compilation support. But if there's a bit of Javascript/(s)css/static resource munging - a container with a predictable build environment might become appealing. ]
What do you mean, " Do we need to develop for those that decide to block CSS"? Surely, you write semantic, standards compliant html and thus your site works just fine without css? If it does not, have you ever heard of accessibility? If that's no argument for you to do it right, search engines also like clean, structured html. Of course, it also helps with the javascript integration. ;-)
> Chain restaurant food relies on year-round availability of ingredients of consistent quality (although "seasonal menus" exist, they're more about marketing than availability, the illusion of freshness again)

Yep. The yearly appearance of the mcrib and its huge marketing push tracks the price of pork futures. McDonalds is a commodities trader as much as it is anything else.
Personally I'd say 1 and 4 are the most pressing, though 2 raises some other issues. Personally I'd not hire anyone junior for remote work at all (sorry), so 3 is an anti-issue to me.

Hiring is hard to begin with, and hiring remotely has additional pitfalls. A company like Triplebyte that would perform additional vetting to prove a candidate's ability to work remotely would be quite welcome.

Re 4. VC systems are still awful and both companies and employees aren't willing to invest to the right level, and commit to workflow changes, in order to make it seamless to work remotely. In particular, latency and packet loss is what just kills VC and makes it very apparent that we're not actually in the same room together. The way to solve that is gigabit home-office Internet connections, but $10k to run lines and an additional $500/month, as well as the hassle of using a wired connection at home to take advantage of it, and then a dedicated VC system, is a total non-starter for many, on both sides, employer, and employee.

Throw in a timezone difference, and the wrong remote employees can take more time to manage than they're worth. (That's not to say there aren't some really really good, really solid remote employees, just that there are also the wrong hires - same as goes for in-person.)

Re. 2. On top of payroll, there are also plain cultural differences between countries that make it more challenging than when there is no difference - holiday schedules, vacation policies, etc, and until you've lived it, it's hard to know what to look for in advance.
One simple way to change credit reporting is to make the process "opt-in". Credit reporting agencies can only report on consumers that agree to have their information reported. They could still collect publicly available data but couldn't report unless they have a consumer's ongoing agreement. Essentially, everyone's report is "frozen" by default and the agencies are automatically monetarily liable unless have an explicit agreement for this unfreezing.

That said, I'm not sure a world without consumer debt would be that much worse.
Yep sadly too the Uber car didn't even slow after the hit, so even a drunk person probably would have done different things... Enough maybe to be non-fatal. Not saying we should replace Ubers sdv fleet with drunk drivers obviously the entire program is scrapped now.
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i don't know what kind of freelancer you are... but even a non-techie should be able to create their own checkout page using stripe tools. seriously, it is not hard
Unless directory listing is turned on, I can’t see how Google would be able to index these PDFs given that no external links point to them.
Everybody speaks here about communication. With the rise of enterprise messengers like Slack it's becoming easier.

For example, bots like http://tatsu.io or http://standuply.com help running standup meetings.

I think remote work will become more and more popular in the future despite its challenges.
Why do we need a law to allow this? If there is a law that disallows it we would need to repeal that law. I am not aware of such a law though. I thought that merchants choose not to do this because it is seen as nickle-and-diming people, and they don't want the negative sentiment. Taking credit cards is just a cost of doing business. That said, lots of gas stations offer discounts for cash.
I'd personally use this to build some tools for a lot of AWS exclusive use-cases, in addition to multi-cloud stuff.
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This comment would be valuable if it provided some support to the assertion that the original author was wrong.
Ask HN: Have you seen godaddy's latest dark pattern?
Right after buying a domain name, it takes you to a page that is the first step in setting up their hosting service. It's not completely obvious that you can skip it, even with the fine print warnings. I think people would fall for it.
Infrastructure & working space is a big challenge depending on where your remote team member is based, but overall that has seen a big improvement with more affordable UPS options and wireless connectivity for backup.

Timezone is a tough one. For us, finding a scrum time that works for everyone (in a small team it's doable), and sticking to it daily helped to get the team to communicate more openly with each other, and stay in sync.

Finding the right set of tools to manage remote teams is one the biggest challenge when a team is distributed across the world. Traditional task management tools didn't lets us easily ideate, organize, and share task lists together, hence we were inspired to build Taskade (Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of https://taskade.com). The idea of having the freedom to work together on task lists in real-time, see each other's progress, and collaborate without any distractions.
These are more important barriers from my experience. The other areas mentioned already have some type of incumbent solution in place.

Problems 1-4 only become real problems after the management team feels comfortable with:

5) How are we going to integrate them into our workflow and team?

"Hire remote workers" has become an extended and rebranded form of "offshoring". Folks learned some hard lessons from the offshoring days that you can't just hire remote. Your organizational thinking and processes need to be ready.

My take is, if you're solving 1-4, you're selling to companies who already have some remote workers. If you're focused on companies with few to 0 remote folks, you'll need something to help them solve 5.
The Mapbox map is tracking its users. Based on that location data they can derive unmapped roads, turning restrictions, traffic jams (and time-of-day congestion), construction. And feeding other machine learning system to improve the data set. In a recent press release they talk about deployed sensors, no longer users. Google Maps knows when rush hour at your local gym is, Mapbox wants the same. It's a big selling point to their investors because staff editing/fixing the map doesn't scale well.
Official job ad is up now:

https://chk.tbe.taleo.net/chk01/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?...
This problem is already fairly well solved by professional employer organizations like Justworks, Paychex, Extensis HR, etc.
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Exactly. Plus, the reason the organic BB links are better now is because they can advertise. When they money flows out of Google ads and back into SEO, that can distort the search results just the same.

Google apparently knows (through its consultation with these thoughtful non-profits) which orgs aren't going to exploit those who need a bail bond. Why not use the ad space to point people to those orgs? (Per my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022103 )
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been using my <lastname>.de and <something>.org for near 20 years without problems.
I usually have to clue them in on lastname, but often they can just copy it from the lastname field where I just spelled it for them :|
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RIP Mapzen. I loved how much much you all were contributing to the open source web space.
I've gone darker than that. I've argued that the obsession with "self-defense" firearms is kind of like a lottery ticket. You don't buy a lottery ticket to get rich. You buy it to fantasize about getting rich. Likewise, you don't buy a gun to defend yourself. You buy a gun to fantasize about defending yourself - to shoot some bad guy and be called a hero for it, rather than a murderer.
What would be a good replacement for the bail system?

> $1000 of bail means nothing to a billionaire and everything to someone living hand to mouth.

This is surely true, but also irrelevant since bail is set in relation to the individual's means. Pretending that a rich person could ever have such insignificant bail is disingenuous.
> It's another one that has a huge upfront cost for solo devs building a commercial app ($600 / month).

Yeah. :(

This problem seems to extend to the whole industry. Everyone charges big bucks to even very small players. We want to solve pieces of that we can, but it's a tough road to build quality databases.
It's not clear to me from the coverage whether the Kochs support Google's idea specifically, or bail bond reform generally: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/google-and-koch-brothers-tea....
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> You can get around that by using harmonics. Because you play harmonics without pushing all the way down, you can achieve a more precise tune.

The big problem with trying to tune a guitar that way is that you're tuning a guitar so it's in tune when you don't press the strings, but then when you actually play it you do press down the strings. Strings 5 and 6 should be tuned slightly flat relative to the first four, the exact amount depends on your play style, but if you don't tune them a bit flat then they'll sound sharp when you're playing. If you haven't tried this yourself you might guess that it's subtle effect, but depending on your play style it can be huge.

The other problem is that the harmonics are actually 2 cents off of an equal tempered fifth, and if you tune six strings that way you'll end up 10 cents off. Your octaves will sound wrong.
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