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70M Jobs Seeking Head of Operations
70 Million Jobs (YCS17), the first for-profit national employment job board for people with criminal records, is seeking a Head of Operations. We're a small, scrappy team of 5, based in SF, experiencing great traction and near-profitability.

We're seeking:

Someone who is a "start-up person"--scrappy, nimble, comfortable with some chaos, able to wear many hats, aggressive. We are doing something never done before, and sometimes making it up on the fly. You either like that or hate it.

Someone to handle all of the routine business/office responsibilities: payroll, HR, accts payable/receivable, budgeting, etc.

Someone to oversee the ideation and implementation of our marketing. We have a 2-sided marketplace (job applicants, of which we have one million, and large, national employers). We do lots of marketing hacks, and will soon be embarking on paid acquisitions.

Someone who will join sole founder public face for the organization.

Someone who has a major passion for our work of providing deserving men and women with second chance employment. We've helped hundreds of folks get jobs--a large number in a very short time.

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who will approach our early-stage start-up as a founder--interested in all aspects of the business, constantly coming up with ideas, connections, etc., as if you were a founder.

We were successful in raising a small seed round at Demo Day, and are now raising more funds, in advance of an A Round. The response has been very good, because we are nearly profitable (should be in a couple of months) and have shown great early traction. We are operating alone in a vast, emerging space.

If this is of potential interest, please get back to me and we can chat. Thanks--
Is tmux actually more reliable in this respect or have you just been lucky so far? I had a screen session running for three years with no problems.
Right, and what's the problem there? The old type of banana that was popular got wiped out, and we adapted. The current popular type is, IIRC, slowly getting wiped out as we speak. That sucks, but we'll adapt again. As long as the plants/seeds for other varieties exist somewhere, we'll find a way to adapt.

Heck, if anything, we're probably more flexible now since it's now possible to directly genetically engineer new varieties and we have massive seedbanks around with modern infrastructure for distribution.

> Not in markets, because a hundred years ago most people didn't get their produce from a market. They got it from their own gardens or the local farm.

For people in rural areas, sure, but in more urban areas I'm sure they had markets of some sort.
Im wondering this myself. I hope its the former.
> you are literally talking to someone who was in charge of this

Ouch. Hope this isn’t how you managed your teams.
> I would add live below your means

This is good advice in general
I've been wondering why this doesn't happen more often now that the crypto game has figured out international payments.
I see these more and more every day in SF, even after the city banned the scooter shares.

I think the moment of the scooter companies dumping thousands of them on the street made a lot of people curious who otherwise wouldn’t have been, and got a LOT of people to try them out. And once you try it... wow.

The mini scooter is pretty revolutionary IMO because it offers the convenience of the bike, but it’s much easier to balance and feels safer than a bike, and of course the motor.

I think these things are greatly expanding the number of people who feel they have something to gain from the streets being shared more equitably, and in the end how we use our space is all about voting blocs.

I’m excited to see how this plays out over the next 10-20 years.
Thank you for pointing this out. I wish more people understood this point. It happens to be the same reason that Amazon can't just say "sorry, we don't take any responsibility for the suppliers of solar eclipse glasses that we sell on our website." As a reseller, you have to take responsibility for the products you sell. Here's another example:

Let's say supplier A produces a part used by manufacturer B, who produces a final product sold to consumers through retailer C. If A was negligent and produced a defective part that causes harm/malfunction in the final product, it would be complete chaos to drag all of those parties into court in a single case (it may not even be obvious to retailer C or the customer that the product's failure is related to A's part).

To sort things out legally (assuming the problem makes it to the court system), the customer fights their case against C. C may or may not understand why the product they sell is defective, but if they believe it to be B's fault, they can file a separate case against B. And B can then file a case against A.

In the end, the legal system can find the party who is ultimately responsible and hold them accountable, but it doesn't work for B or C to say "sorry, this isn't our fault because we're just selling something that includes A's defective part".

Leadership is (or should be) similar: if an employee screws up, it's still the CEO's problem and responsibility. Internally, that CEO can hold a manager accountable, and that manager can hold the employee accountable, but that responsibility doesn't end just because it's assumed by a higher level.
One feature that I really like on my Mac was iTerm2's persistence (tabs and outputs preserved across reboots). This is particularly important where I live because we have frequent electric outages.

I now have something on Tmux with https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum .

That's one of the best things about Tmux: there's generally a way to get it to do what you need it to do. Or something close enough.
Not buying it.

Median family income in households with children in the US is ~$80,000/year, mean is ~$100,500/year[1]. That's enough to afford $1,000 in airline tickets if you wanted to. Millions of people fly to kid-centric destinations like Orlando, Florida a year, and Orlando is incredibly cheap to fly to. It also amazes me how many people bring children on cruises and they even have kid centric cruises. The cost to fly is also at a historic low.[2][3] I see routes I took 10 years ago not increase in price since then.

Most people I know are not "travel people" and wouldn't take a "travel vacation" if it was free, so they are not buying airline tickets. Just cuz they aren't buying airline tickets doesn't mean that can't afford them if they wanted to.

My point was, if you're going to get onto an airplane it doesn't have to cost you significantly more to travel to a foreign country. Also traveling abroad isn't exactly something one "should" do, some people just don't want to.

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...

[2] https://www.cntraveler.com/story/average-domestic-airfares-n...

[3] https://sfgate.com/chris-mcginnis/article/Hawaii-South-Afric...
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertholletia_excelsa
Your own mailserver running on your own hardware on your own premises routing to your own domain with an MX backup routed to someone you trust who is on another provider - you can do the same for them. Add a web mail client if you want to have web access (Roundcube has served me well for many years now, the Nextcloud/Owncloud mail client also works but lacks some features). Do this and you never have to worry about being left out to hang because of some company dropping a product or going bankrupt. Maintaining a mail server takes about 8 hrs/year which - if translated into billable hours - might be more expensive than using a commercial alternative but it also gives you far more flexibility and freedom in how to handle your mail. Make sure to route outgoing mail through a reliable smart host to avoid it being blackholed by the likes of Google and Microsoft.

Source: personal experience, I've done this for about 23 years now. There are many others who have detailed their experience running their own mail servers on this site...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=run%20own%20mail%20server&sort...

...and elsewhere.
There is waste and fraud everywhere, including China. You can also find anecdotal evidence everywhere. It's impossible to piece this together into a singular narrative.
you'd think they could make a fantastic 4 movie that was good then... if only for the novelty...
I don't know, it's not even exactly clear to me what kind of trade was in play here. My point was, the other side probably wasn't Joe Average. IOW, while you can frame this as a rich man losing due to greed, that's just another way of saying some other rich person won big.

Exaggerating here, there were probably multiple counterparties and I'd think they were probably institutional investors, or maybe power companies.
Not only its name; what it could have done without was all the posturing in the documentation about how it is better than previous Lisps, and renders them obsolete.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12677301
I’ve not had a problem so far, but then I don’t know many people who still use Yahoo or hotmail email addresses.

My wife’s company use Exchange and I haven’t had any trouble there.
Neat way in javaScript to iterate over objects
If you subtracted $15 trillion from the US GDP over the last 16 years (no need to go last century), it would still have been higher than china’s.

So I’m not sure what this factoid is proving about bright futures.
Going to work somewhere because of the overall expected benefits after many years it will have to you financially, how it will look on your resume, or the "reputation" it will give you are all absolutely terrible reasons to do so, if for no other reason that these aspects are horribly difficult to predict and generally speaking are predicated upon tomorrow being like today, which in tech is often the opposite of the truth. Not only that, but these aren't the things that are likely to get you up in the morning. Going to a job you hate because it will look good on your resume after a few years sounds like a special kind of hell.

Will you be able to work on problems interesting to you or you think are important, with people you like and enjoy working with? Nobody can answer the question for you but Google and a startup are going to offer wildly different answers to that question. That's the aspect I would focus on. Everyone in this thread who is telling you they can predict the net effect on your finances or your reputation or future career options after a few years give themselves too much credit.

And hell, in my own experience going through a failed startup has actually had an equally positive impact on my life as another I co-founded which was more successful. Don't let people fool you into thinking that walking away from a failed startup where you learned and grew as a person is somehow a worse outcome than spending your years in a job that is more "secure" but with a narrower breadth of skill development or ownership over your work.
That's how Costco survives and prospers in Amazon era.

By not exposing customers to shady vendors, misleading metrics and questionable product rankings based on fake reviews.
> It isn’t reasonable to say "free market, they’ll go out of business" if real people need to suffer while they do that.

Real people will suffer even more if these corporations don't go out of business. The worst scenario here would be a monopoly enforced by the state that you cannot escape.

If they go out of business then at least you've gotten a chance to reset and hopefully apply previously learnt lessons.

> How do you deal with a warlord who rises up to claim all the roads in a tiny fiefdom without taxes?

Why do you assume that only the state can provide security? This was the original sin. There are many ways in which this is possible in a free market environment.

> When and where in history has an entity like Comcast gone out of business? ... Who can step in to challenge them?

There is no problem with monopolies unless they're state enforced. Businesses grow because they serve their customers well unless the state intervenes.
How should I feel about doctors not able to treat a side-effect (addiction) of drugs that they are prescribing in record numbers?
Except that the current colour (correct spelling as it is canadian) is the result of oxidation. It was probably a more wolf-like grey or black.
I'm curious about your setup and why you wouldn't want to detach smaller screens.
minor gripe the apt-x website under "Key Facts"

"Your brain can’t tell the difference between a delay of 0 and 100ms"*

Reminds me of the old "brain can't process more than 30fps" Marketing folks running wild over there.

* https://www.aptx.com/aptx-low-latency*
UI wise, for me it is the much more responsive interface, especially in Firefox. I always had the feeling that GMail was especially slow/laggy in Firefox.
Or maybe they have strong political views, but choose to leave them at home - rather than have conflict with their coworkers?

I know I personally have very strong opinions that I largely put aside at work.
The person was talking in general. They weren’t talking about you when saying you. They likely had no idea you were a CTO at all. How would they?
Before the iPhone, if you asked people what they wanted from a phone it was things like "I want more space to store ringtones". Nokia, Blackberry and such seemed to be operating with a focus group approach.

People weren't saying "remove the buttons". And I remember a lot of complaining about that when the iPhone first arrived.
No, it is not a good idea. It actually is a massive pain in the butt for iPad labs where we issue headphones to keep the students from getting distracted with each other. Now, the new iPads are rumored to not include the headphone jack. That is just going to be wonderful buying a bunch of adapters that can get lost or stolen.

Also, how the heck many things do I need a charger for now? Its bad enough they created a mouse that cannot be used during charging because of the poor placement of the charging port. If I was to go Bluetooth with the headphones, I need to buy a new cart with additional chargers for each headphone. Never mind loosing the damn things or their cost.

From an accessibility point of view, I take it Apple's design team has never heard of Talking ATM[1].

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_ATM
To expand on your point: he also fulfilled the second core competency (building the thing to sell) via sales. His ability to sell those around him on a vision / mission / whatever was amazing. This was demonstrated in the early years with Woz and blue boxes, the contract with Atari for Breakout, his first stint at Apple, the NeXT/Pixar years, and his return to Apple. He was able to get some otherwise very smart people around him to do a lot of amazing work (often to the detriment of their own economic/mental/physical health) Not saying I'm a fan of him for this, just that it happened and it was a significant factor in his success.
No, their vision for a product was just bad, it was clippy on a phone.
Neoteny, I believe.
Thanks for the link, looks like it's the last one on that list:

> EPADs (Electricity Price Area Differentials) Difference between the Area price (EPEX Spot/APX/PXE/BELPEX) and the PHELIX German System Price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_price_area

But yeah I figured this type of thing requires some special access to see the trades. I have a feeling most EPAD trades are relatively boring, this one was just a unique large gamble.
This 100%. Technology is nice and all, but success is about answering people's problems, not about the technical details of how you do that.

In fact, I'd say a good 50% of startups (or more) now fail because they put all their focus on the tech and have no idea how to get normal people to use their product. You can see it all the time with 'alternatives' to sites like Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/YouTube/whatever. Oh joy, you're using a blockchain with machine learning technology written with the latest JavaScript framework. And? Who cares, no one's using your damn site because it's got nothing worthwhile on it. Focus on building a community, not an engineering team.

So yeah, an average programmer can create a great startup. They just need to focus on getting people to use their service or product rather than coding a fancy one.
My biggest complain about tmux is a change they made a few months ago, where they decided to show all the windows by default instead of only showing those in the current session. Even if you filter the sessions to show only those in the current session, it's still not the same way it used to be. For that reason, I have stuck with an older version. \rant
I don't think he was that much of a visionary but he was very good at seeing potential in others' work and then being able to sell it.
I hope to never use wired headphones ever again and I appreciate my phone being waterproof. I know that some people like wired headphones, but that is no reason to think Apple ditched that connector only for profit reasons.
Did you have to return any signing bonuses, relocation, etc in full?
> first thing I do .... and start setting up my workspaces based on what I've been doing

There are plugins for that! tmux-resurrec will restore your sessions on reboot, including directories and env vars. It can use vim and emacs sessions to restore your editors too. And you can also tell it other custom "safe" commands it is allowed to restore, which I use for stuff like repls.
You are probably thinking of "neoteny":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny
I host my own postfix server on FreeBSD and use the Evolution IMAP client on Linux. I haven't been in a situation where I need web access to mail in years so for me it's equivalent.

I started out about 6 months ago with this great guide:

https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide/

The cost of a convenience like having a free email account is participating in the demise of the protocol-based networks that we have replaced with centralized products. There's many other great IMAP clients and maybe some of the features of Gmail/Inbox can be recreated using server side rules and scripts.
An Ode to Google
Second that. Or something similar. Link people to products they actually like and came to site for.
I agree. The way he developed that arcade board for Atari - not many people would scam their best friend for a couple hundred bucks.
That’s generally not a choice available to people early in their career in tech. Being a founder is a choice available to them...
I usually soak them overnight. I will soak then around 10-11 PM and by morning they are soft and tastes a lot better.
Easily discover music video directors nearby.
Easily discover music video directors nearby.
Euro bureaucrats tie up .eu to stop Brexit Brits snatching back web domains
I’ve noticed a bit more spam, but not hugely so. Apple Mail’s spam filtering has caught everything pretty well.

A few years ago, when I was using gmail my address got used as the sender on a spam campaign and I was overwhelmed for weeks. Had nothing like that so far.

Maybe I’ve been lucky.
I love how Inbox just mostly hides emails I'm not bothered by.

For example, right now in Inbox I see two bold email subjects within the promos section - very minimal, makes it look like everything has been read.

Whereas in Gmail, I have four bold emails spread across the page making my inbox look messy and that I may have missed something important (I haven't).

I know I can change the inbox type to improve it, but just out of the box Inbox does such a great job at hiding it whilst still letting you know it's there.
73,000-Year-Old Hashtag Is Oldest Example of Abstract Art
A policy of wheels in roadways only and pedestrian primacy will keep cities alive. Force cars, bikes, skateboards and scooters to contend for space (dedicated non-motorized lanes helps) but preserve the pavement for foot traffic.
The Men of Tech
You missed the whole part where the person that was supposed to have been offended (by all those armchair pundits) in fact not only keeps talking to you, but goes out and buys your product in even larger quantities...

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-x-was-best-selling-smartpho...
> I don't know of any other s-expression language targeting that space?

TXR: http://www.nongnu.org/txr
Only for Apple devices, no web client
It's the same thing as the Macbook Pro. Not to mention letting the Mac Pro stagnate. They seem to have abandoned power users and decided to focus on mass consumers.
Well, the article shows that Beats still has a plurality in the bluetooth market in sales dollars and units sold. Beats quality aside, I think that still makes a highly plausible (partial) motivation to push people toward bluetooth.
He certainly understood tech enough to have good judgement. What I have seen in companies I worked that was that a lot of executives can be bullshitted a lot because they don't bother understanding the tech. Jobs was at least technical enough to not fall into this trap.
Superhuman.
Real-Time Transient Rendering
Those browsers don’t support those CSS filters yet, you’d have to do chrome canary for example. Another poster tested with the features enabled and got the same crash.
I think your (1) makes it sound like more work than it really is

What you'd do is issue a subCA, an intermediate certificate that says whoever has this key is allowed to issue more certificates, then you bake that subCA and the key into a MITM appliance. It mints the leaf certificates, in real time, when a connection happens. At the scale of a medium-sized corporation you can buy this off the shelf from a dozen or more companies, but obviously the off-the-shelf product produces untrustworthy certs.

Usually what a business does is they set Windows Group Policy to say oh, actually we trust these bogus certs. They're supposed to mint a new key for this purpose, but I've seen big companies screw that up and trust the demo keys supplied with the product. This is fine because they're your machines, you set Group Policy. Don't want to trust dubious third rate "MITM appliances" from so-called security companies? Then don't add one in Group Policy.

But if you gave these MITM appliances a "real" publicly trusted subCA they would work, and it would be seamless as far as ordinary Web users are concerned (it's not entirely undetectable, but no ordinary users would notice). It would definitely work for a fair-size company, or a small country. And maybe if you had the hardware and the money you could do it to, say, China, or America.

We know TrustWave issued such a subCA to Walgreens, which caused a big fuss in 2012, and Mozilla told CAs that even though their policies had never specifically forbidden this it was a terrible idea, and they needed to confess and stop doing it. In 2013 the French government was caught doing this too, and their CA root was locked to ccTLDs controlled by France (France owns a bunch of quasi-independent little island nations with TLDs) in Firefox. In 2015 CNNIC did this "by mistake" selling a subCA to a company that, it says, didn't even want a subCA but just somebody screwed up. CNNIC was distrusted.
Very cool :-)

Regarding usability: I keep getting confused by the controls: indicating where you want to go vs which thruster to use. Back in yonder days I used to play Lunar Lander on Windows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre...) but there the controls indicate which rocket you're firing: down for going up, left for going right, etc.
Create a tech movement around a personality and brand and continually amaze by delivering breakthrough products by any means necessary.
Was ditching the slideout keyboard a good idea?