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Ask HN: What stops your organization from being remote first?
I can't help but think that the future of Software Engineering is remote. I was watching a talk by Peter Thiel who was talking about how it's weird that most of the VC money goes to pay rent, either directly(for the office) or indirectly (employee pays for their house).

Earlier last month there was a post by YCombinator asking, "Why would you not want to work in a start-up?". Most answers were about money, it makes sense startups can't match what Big N pays in the Bay Area.

So I see a few advantages of hiring people remote -

- Global access to talent, can pay the best salaries for their local markets

- Provide around the clock support without having engineers and support people awake at odd hours.

- You don't have to worry about visas, the process and associated costs. No satellite offices to L1 people in after an year.

- Word of mouth. Your developers will talk about their work with their friends and you'll have people talking about you accross different markets.

- Easy internationalization. You don't have to specfically hire people to add different translations or support different markets.

- Diversity - People from around the world can work on your product. You have access to a more diverse set of candidates.

- Hiring doesn't have to be around H1B dates.

- Personally I'd love to work from remote locations. Travel around Asia while working on a product that I like.

So, what's stopping organizations from supporting remote teams?

I understand some startups do embrace remote. Even some big companies do, what's stopping it from being the norm?

What can one work on to make it easier for people to run remote first companies?
I believe the T2 chip is paired with the storage ones in the factory, or something like that.
Maybe just run your own DNS resolver and log that, then correlate with IP traffic? Additionally you can trace which applications open which connections on each machine.
Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?
Except "20-years-old EU privacy laws" didn't risk 4% of global revenue. It also didn't risk activist lawsuits.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/25/17393766/facebook-google-...

Funny thing how DailyMotion isn't getting sued, but YouTube's parent company is.
...cockpit, displays, controls, ejector seat. Designing it so the G-Force won't squash the pilot, strengthening the weak and vulnerable cockpit.

Supporting both seems wrong to me.
Emacs Org mode fits that requirement nicely.

Org mode (a plain text format ljke Markdown, but much more than that) files export easily to Markdown, HTML, tex/PDF, and multitude of other formats using Emacs itself or even Pandoc.

My site (in my HN profile), for example contains text, images, etc. The content source is in Org mode.
It's not that easy. Television and radio licenses are a legally-fixed supply. Someone who buys the broadcasting side of Fox would be able to start dragging its content hither and yon.

Whether that would prompt somebody to try a takeover of a different network is anyone's guess.
Well, the problem is that the encoding process in AV1 does remove grain, only to add fake synthetic grain back in. My objection is not to the idea of encoding grain, it's with replacing it with fake synthetic grain.

It's kitschy, ersatz, whatever you want to call it. I used to spend a lot of time with artist filmmakers (many of whom are very nostalgic about celluloid) and there is no way in hell they would accept this solution. It wouldn't meet their standards of authenticity. It also "fakes" a medium-specific property in a way that is unprecedented in audio or visual coding. Their solution would be to either code at high enough bitrate to capture the grain, or insist on screening on physical celluloid.

That might sound extreme and unrealistic—it's what artist's film people are like—and even a bit snobby. After all, a lot of the options out there for adding film grain effects (or scratches etc.) to video are not intended for use by professional filmmakers, depending on how you define professional. There is definitely an element of snobbery to the statement that film grain should never be faked, whether by compositing something onto your home video or in a hidden way inside AV1.

I hope you can see that I respect the director's prerogative in choosing grain, I just don't think this AV1 grain synthesis methodology is sound from an aesthetic/authenticity point of view. It's digital faking of an chemical/analog effect, which IMO makes it unavoidably kitsch for reasons to do with old modernist ideas of "medium specificity".
Why should EU residents not be allowed to decide what they want to use and not use? I'm not sure I understand why the EU makes laws that effectively decide what websites "free" people are allowed to visit.
The bulk of Amazon's "investments" are leaving profits on the table and thus undercutting competitors and in essence buying market share.
It wasn't though. I saw an item being listed as a Prime Day deal on the normal Amazon site, then I searched for it through smile.amazon.com and it wasn't there. Went back to non-smile and it was there (but throwing errors so I couldn't click it anyway...)
The LDC D language compiler can now generate WebAssembly
Artifact 2.0: A Rust Full Stack Web and Cli Application
It’s impossible for me to agree more. Hence why I was cautious to extend the principle to all relationships. Once we look at ourselves we are free to extrapolate about systems greater than ourselves. I felt it prudent to post as the article was fairly basic and yet somehow missed the point. The aforementioned principles which you so aptly describe are part of the foundation by which a solid moral compass may be constructed. That these principles as basic as they are, are not known or employed by more is truly a tragedy. Thank you for your articulate illustration which in its critique provides greater understanding of subtle nuances that, from the looks of how this tread is evolving, will surely be of service to others.
Compiler from WebAssembly to native code, via the OCaml back end
You can choose not to visit sites that don't respect your privacy. You could already do that before GDPR.
Why Sinclair's Bid to Buy the Tribune Company Might Die
There's little doubt that they have global filtering informed by user flagging. The question is whether they also have localized filtering for items where users may disagree on what's spam. If so, I would expect email from LinkedIn to be far more likely to be automatically marked spam for those 25% of users who have previously marked those emails as spam. That seems to be what happens, at least from what I've heard. (Gmail is essentially my spambox already, so I don't bother to flag individual items.)

That doesn't preclude the global filters from also occasionally binning some of LinkedIn's email when the global spam score is so high that the local ham score fails to override it. And the same thing could happen whether they implement it as a hierarchy of filters or just one filter with localized signals.
I very few people use it, to the point that the ad companies don't really losing anything from it.
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There are three main types of contaminants that can occur: physical, chemical, and biological. Epidemiologists tend to focus on the last one. We are not biased toward any of them, we welcome reports from anything that can harm consumers. With chemical contamination the onset can be within minutes, and even with the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus (commonly just called Staph) onset can be as soon as 1 hour.

Further, in the spirit of our partnership with public health - attribution - while beneficial - is not the only benefit from our site. Simply knowing that you have a cluster of people in your county exhibiting norovirus like symptoms is important, especially when you have their contact information.

It gives public health the opportunity to follow up and conduct surveys including a food history, to try and determine attribution, but it also allows education, and prevention. Many people don't realize that if you have norovirus, you can be contagious for up to three days after recovery. So if you are a food worker, or work in a hospital, or daycare this point is critical to communicate to prevent further spreading, especially given how virulent norovirus is.

Besides all that - we have detected outbreaks of cases with longer incubation periods such as E. coli, so while some amount of misattribution is real it doesn't preclude us from achieving positive outcomes.

Thanks
The original iPhone was unsubsidized and it was GSM only, so there wasn't an option to offer it on Sprint and Verizon then. The 4 Gb iPhone was $499 and the 8Gb one was $599. Because Apple was new to phones, they only wanted to deal with one carrier initially.

Back then, you could get a Treo or a Blackberry for less than half as much, as they were subsidized by the carriers.

And because paying that much for a phone at that time impeded sales, Apple discontinued the 4 Gb model and dropped the price of the 8 Gb model to $399 two months after it was released. They also "gave in" to the subsidy model, since that was the standard practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)#Releas...
I saw the page reload multiple times when doing a search before finally dying...I can only imagine that means additional load generated by the initial triggering failure.

Which in turn tells me they didn't test the failure case. Now, Amazon is a huge and complicated beast so I don't want to imply this was a "dumb" mistake, but (assuming I'm correct) it is a failure that risked making MORE failure, so it's not demand alone to blame.
I think the model torviking and I were contrasting with US is not how you pay for education but around facilities and culture at universities. Do the countries you listed have universities with lots of facilities that aren't directly related to learning, strong emphasize on university loyalty with fraternities, sports teams everyone celebrates etc?
"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with" -- Jim Rohn.

It's not literally true, but it's a great way of thinking about who you surround yourself with and the subtle ways they influence you.

I know I tend to pick up aspects of the people I spend a lot of time with. When we used to visit our family in Queens I'd come back talking like someone from Queens. When I had a boss who would badmouth the company a lot, I found myself also having a negative opinion of the company. Cynical friends made me cynical.

My boss now is a ray of sunshine. Just a delightful and decent human being, and I am a better person for being around him. I can only hope some of my positive characteristics rub off on others.

I'm a widower, and one of the ways that loss has changed me is that I am much more cognizant of, and grateful for, the other familial and platonic relationships in my life. I wouldn't be getting out of bed every day if not for my kids, family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors. I am surrounded by love and support.

I certainly have bad days, but I would not be where I am without the relationships in my life, and I absolutely believe in the power of those positive people to have a positive impact on me.
Bikeshedding: noise around a change is inversely proportional to its complexity
I don't think that helps unless I don't back up the user's key too.
You could, but there's really no need. The salt used in the brine brings the PH to a spot which is really inhospitable to bad bugs.
> And that's not even taking into account the cost of the brain power to make sure your hardware stays up and running.

Although, as I said upthread, I agree that AWS is very likely ideal for this particular deployment size, let me try to dispell this oft-repeated myth.

Modern server hardware takes almost no "brain power" (or effort of any kind) to keep up and running.

We aren't living in the days of the early dot-com boom where Linux-on-Intel in the datacenter could mean flimsy cases, barely rack-mountable, with nary a redundant part to be seen.

Applying some up front "brain power", one can even choose and configure hardware in such a way as to provide things like server-level redundancy, if that's important and/or preferable to intra-server redundancy (think Hadoop), or the ability to abandon mechanical disks in place instead of ever having to replace one.
I wouldn’t say google dominates the internet overall. They may dominate your internet as the way into most of the internet for you is google (or some other search provider). For a large number of people, especially in the developing world, Facebook is the internet. But perhaps such people mostly access the internet with android phones and so have sort-of-google phones and perhaps use google maps and google play store and such.
At a guess there's a decent number of pretty well paid people at Amazon who don't need a raise.

The people who are struggling to make ends meet at the bottom end could do with one though.
(Used to work there; haven't in several years.)

Such a feature was a pretty bad phishing and social engineering vector, particularly when you could render html out of that folder, but even when html was dropped that there were social engineering attacks a bad actor could pull relying on the user's trust of a dropbox url. You could also guess other files in the public folder based on the url, which was a privacy concern.

Multiple years before support was dropped, shared links were added, which fix these concerns. You can set ?dl=1 to get a raw link. `curl/wget` (set to follow redirects) still get you the raw contents even if you don't set ?dl=1.
> 49% could be the high-water mark; we don't know yet

As could have been 25, 26, 32, 35, 37, etc

If you were a betting man, would you bet 49% is a high water mark?
As someone who does a lot of remote work -- though I am not a programmer -- I will suggest that communicating remotely is different from doing so in person and many people suck at it. This is a serious problem if you are going to work remotely.

Time difference can be an issue as well. When I had a corporate job, I knew a woman at this American company who was managing a remote team in India and, when things went wrong, she got phone calls at 3 a.m. The company did about 3/4 of its business in Japan and the CEO split his time between the US headquarters and Japan. They also had probably the world's most amazing teleconference setup that I have never seen a write up of anywhere. Among other things, the huge time difference was challenging to deal with.

Also, you need to be able to embrace diversity and multiculturalism. This is not easy for most people, as evidenced by the ongoing cries of racism, sexism, etc in the world. People tend to know how to deal with folks "like them" and not be so good at dealing with people who are different. Even if they aren't intentionally excluding "others," it tends to have the effect of excluding them.

Multiculturalism is a hard problem to solve and you have to solve that if you want remote first policies, IMO.
Kudos.

Slackware was my first linux. I still vividly remember walking back and forth from the computer lab of sun machines, clutching my 3.5" floppies, hoping I had written out the data without any "block errors". At the time, I had no clue how I could check before hand without going through the install. it took more trips than i care to admit. :D
For those of us from the wrong part of the world, could you define "taking the piss"?
there are assholes at every job and there are two options here: Either they're controling pricks or they have an order of magnitude more information and you can't see what you're missing.

I think the key will be if this starts to be a pattern. Happens once? just a bunch of jerks. Find a new gig and ask some hard questions in your interview about how they handle disagreements/different ways of thinking through problems.

Happens again? Start to evaluate where you might be at fault and how you can grow. Is there another level of understanding you can seek or talent you can improve? Even if that's project communication and task management or another tangential but impactful improvement?

Maybe do that anyway if you have bandwidth.

No, it's not like that everywhere and you're not crazy. Start quietly working on your resume and networking.
Brewers are using AI to predict how your next beer will taste
> For many people, leaving digitally can have bad effects on their social life. It's arguably not as bad as moving out of the country, but it's still a practically impossible hurdle for a lot of people.

That's nonsense. It is absolutely not "practically impossible" to leave Facebook, and anybody saying so is exaggerating its importance and being melodramatic.

On the other hand, it can be literally impossible for a person to legally leave their country.
We must go back to the future!

Seems like a recurring theme. It's near a half century for the moon landings. Should revisit the concept of batteries too. I'm reading a book called This Victorian Life and am constantly impressed by lots of little innovations now forgotten. Two concepts I think we'll have to revisit: heliostats for indoor natural lighting and terrariums aka self contained biospheres for space/underground.
Lip balms do nothing to stop the spread of herpes, nor do they treat the infection. At best they soothe the symptoms. The only OTC medication currently available for cold sores, docosanol, seems to reduce the time it takes an outbreak to heal, but there are questions about both its effectiveness and the biological mechanism by which it works. The anti-viral acyclovir is also used to treat cold sores as well as other forms of HSV, chickenpox, and shingles, but it isn't available OTC.
One thing I’ve often wondered: are there any video games that can be considered “classics” in the sense that people will make reference to them and expect that most of a broader-culture audience will pick up on them?

I ask because I really want to start using starcraft metaphors in discussing society. The planting of the psi emitter on Tarsonis is such a powerful example of a human being willing to defect hard against his fellow humans in a way that is seen in history but I don’t think I’ve seen in popular fiction.
Not on Surveillance Island
I've never heard the term before, but I do recall plenty of people playing duck hunt shooting at the dog when the game said they failed. Although, he kinda earned a laser zapping by laughing at your failures, right?
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, isn't it closer to 20 years? 1975 and 1994
I strongly suspect that any cryptographically suitable problem derived from finding the intersection points of external tangent lines would reduce to the closest vector problem on lattices.
There is a difference between respecting your customers’ privacy, and obeying the letter of the law regarding a set of artificial rituals surrounding your customers’ privacy. You can be completely compliant with the spirit of GDPR (e.g. by not storing any data in the first place), while also not wanting to spend the energy ensuring you are compliant with the letter of GDPR.
That’s even worse.
Trump Summit Betrays His Country for Russia in Plain Sight
How GiveWell picks the worlds top charities by trying to estimate the unknowable
Apple are way ahead here. Put a product on their store with a video and you have to do captions.

Actually their captions are the karaoke format and you can do decent typesetting. I hope for a future when all video has captions with CSS styling rather than the baked in format of TV news.
That's assuming a socialist revolution is unequivocally bad. The world would be so incredibly different, it's impossible to say that it would be worse.
Remote controlled drones have another vulnerability that can be exploited: their communication channels.

If you figure out a way to jam or overload their communication channels, you just neutralized them. Unless they figure out a way to make a wireless signal unjammable or have the AI completely negate the need of an operator, the need of an operator inside those fighters is still relevant.
"Fast, instant"? That's, err, just dumb.
Fast perhaps. Instant, never.
What I’m saying is based on missed targets, a price point that has never materialized, and a total lack of personal investment in Musk or Tesla on a financial or emotional level. If Intel made as many claims and delivered so little I’d be skeptical of their ability to ever deliver as well. When I look at Tesla I see a company that can only make its stated targets when they work out of a tent with all hands on deck. That same company is saddled with debt and has never turned a profit. It’s hardly doomed, but there are clearly real problems to be overcome.

Then I contrast that with the pie-eyed faith of the “Musk is saving the world for us,” fanboys and it makes me tired. The gulf between the reality of Tesla and the “negative case” as you call it isn’t that wide, while between the promise of changing energy forever blah blah blah is a lot of PR. The most likely cases are Tesla succeeding as a car company or failing as a car company and nothing more either way.

I don’t care if Tesla fails or succeeds, and I don’t know whether failure or success lies ahead for it. I do increasingly see Musk as unstable and unpleasant, and his most rabid fans as unbearable though. I’m approaching console-wars and cryptocurrency levels of burnout with this topic and how online communities discuss it. I feel dread at another predictable and heavily flagged discussion every time Musk and Tesla is submitted, not excitement or intellectual stimulation.
And inflation is completely within the desirable range, as it always is, regardless of any real world price changes.

On a positive note, it is encouraging to see a much broader of diversity of opinion on certain topics lately, where one year ago many of the comments in this thread would have been heavily downvoted. I believe there is a genuine change of sentiment underway even among the well paid tech classes.
We had them in India in the 90s I guess (newly built then)
Non AMPutated link
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a26028/f-...
Explaining what you are doing with customers' data.
positive != bullshit
I have been having this problem too
I don't know why this is flagged. I'm honestly interested. Why not a bunch of other things, like Dropbox Paper or Google Docs?
Just to be clear, I have skin in the game.
That's a great idea actually, then its only working when you want it to. I'll add that as soon as I can!
It's almost as if Apple aren't even basing their hardware strategy on what developers are complaining about on Hacker News.

Apple's market cap is over $900 billion on it's way to $1 trillion; so apparently the strategy of not reacting to every complaint on the internet about their products, including Hacker News, seems to be working for them.

If Hacker News had a built-in prediction market (a la https://www.predictit.org), I would have made a fortune betting against what developers are complaining about on Hacker News.
I think you're underestimating the power of good dick... jokes.
I was surprised at how much time _is_ wasted. Lunch is free of cost, but because there are long lines at times it can take easily 15 minutes of wait time, and that doesn't even count time spent going to a cafe in a farther building, rounding up coworkers to go with, etc.
You could do a sort of reverse wild weasel attack, where instead of sending in an aircraft ahead of the attacker to light up air defenses, your attacking aircraft could already be there and seeing more of what's going on based on the air defenses interest in the 4th gen aircraft.

http://mistyvietnam.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel