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Support says "The yubikey is also sent outside the US. Yours was ordered September 19 and should take 6-8 weeks to arrive", so I guess the notice on the page isn't correct. Yay!
> Okay, so investment banking as an industry are shying away from Open Source contributors.

Good, let them keep getting hacked because they prefer to hire the guy who has a piece of paper or three, and knows a guy. Fucking bankers.
> Hangouts does not work in Firefox. However, it works in Safari.

...barely. If you pop-out a window, it disconnects and closes the window after a minute or two of inactivity if the window is not active. This makes it totally unusable to me.

This started on October 30 2016. I submitted a series of bug reports to Apple, but they were all ignored and/or closed for inactivity. In case you care enough to submit your own bug report, please reference Apple bug 44725612, 29018740 and 28263663.

I'm pretty sure that Google could implement a fix/workaround, but good luck with that.

This drives me nuts. I have to keep a Chrome open just to use Hangouts.
I have a basic Yubikey (USB only) that I got from having an Ars Technica subscription. Right now I have that + Authy so that none of the critical services are Yubikey-only.

If I get the new Yubikey, my plan is to put the old one in a safe as a backup.
And right under that there is a suggested link for "Right to keep and bear arms." What is most likely happening is that the Gun Control page is more popular than the Right to keep and bear arms page, so the algo picked that one for the single card that they load. IDK what they use for ranking, but I would imagine that the fact that 'gun' appears in the title of one and not the other is impacting the matching and also the Gun Control page is much longer so it probably seems like a higher quality page versus the other one.
Fast wireless alternatives to the big ISPs can’t grow fast enough
And that could get you blacklisted in other totally unrelated projects.

Good times!
We all care about about battery life performance. This comments section is filled with people like me who want to use Safari and give it a serious try every once in a while for that exact reason.

But it needs more than that when my battery already lasts 6+ hours under heavy use and my laptop is plugged in almost all day anyways.

Perhaps you can see how a reading mode that we already had extensions for in other browsers and sexier prev/next gestures damn it with weak praise.
IMHO the YubiKey is not useful for any of those. It's excellent for storing OpenPGP keys and U2F, reasonably good for X.509 (as much as expected for X.509 I guess), and not good for much else. Using it for TOTP IMHO makes no sense, it's better to use your phone.
Ask HN: Are there metrics to look for that imply product/market fit?
I've been doing a variation of this for security, as it's the main need that requires abstraction-on-down definition, and it doesn't translate well into agile environments where developers are designing solutions. (qtra.io, in private beta, so no free experience yet)

The fit problem I'm having is getting technical threat hunters who populate the market to think about risk and security design, or product/project managers to reason even high level about a domain they delegate to technologists.

Still iterating for fit, but so glad there is a thread of people thinking about architecture.
Just say what you said in italics minus the ass. Simple as that. Firing a client because they don't want what you want... that's certainly an approach. Same one my eight-year old tries. shrug

Regarding fonts/blues: impossible to know because no clue what it looks like. In some situations clear font differentiation is critical. In some situations, med devices need to look similar to existing devices to maintain familiarity. In some situations, it might look like ass, but be more functional than a pretty version.

Is that the case here? No way to tell.
Lots of things evolved multiple times independently. And while we make a big deal about multi-cellular life, there's still nothing so special about it that that is the one thing that could only have happened once...
I think fastmail app on browser still the best native browser experience.
Screenshots of Chrome's New Sync UX
> They called it the obvious word in their own language, it's only a cool buzzword to non-native speakers reading English Wikipedia.

I'm more making fun of the American business consultants who are going to try and cargo-cult this idea and make it sound more impressive than it actually is by not using the already commonplace American English idiom that describes the same concept.

The term "poka-yoke" seems to date from the 1960's, while "foolproof" is well-attested before WWII, which makes me recklessly speculate that the term is likely a translation from the English in the first place. Since Japan sought out and received a lot of guidance and advice from Americans about rebuilding their manufacturing industry (which is logical, given the fact that we more or less won the war by out-manufacturing them), I wouldn't be surprised if someone casually used the word "foolproof", and merely translating the idiom introduced the underlying concept. (Kind of like how we stole "earworm" and "punchable face" from German idioms). And hey, maybe the extra step of introducing a new foreign idiom, or even reintroducing an idiom that we already have, is valuable because it puts a bright flashing light on it. Buzzwords only become buzzwords because there's a substance behind them, it's just when the bright flashing light outshines the substance that it becomes a problem.

> Clarity in defining and executing on simple concepts is worth a lot.

See, that's the thing, it's execution. You can talk about foolproofing your processes and your tools, and half the time you end up getting in people's way as often as you prevent any actual errors, because no matter how well you foolproof something, there's always some fool out there who's even smarter than you are when it comes to discovering new and creative ways to screw things up. But the other half of the time, not doing it is going to just completely burn you. The judgment of differentiating those two cases from each other is the valuable part, not just the concept of error-proofing (or poka-yoke) in the first place.
I wonder whether this is really just a problem of bad software. The hotel booking for example: yes, the software was probably bad, but, a well designed process where both parties need to confirm the reservation (eg per email) could have made that experience better.

Interestingly, there’s curently another article trending describing the concept of Poka-yoke [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18050168
Well, have fun maintaining that. Sort of reminds me of all the privacy-improving registry hacks for Win10 that become obsolete after the next Windows update.
Thanks.

I don't know, this is the topic I get most heated about, I successfully lead pretty diverse teams, this definitely wouldn't happen to me in that context. After all discussion message boards like this are also a different context than a professional mailing list (and I strongly believe that context is important and not always appropriately taken into account).

Just because something isn't that hard, doesn't mean we don't slip up sometimes. So I'd stand by my assessment. It isn't that hard. I expect it of myself and my team. I still sometimes fail. Then a CoC, being called out on it, and given constructive criticism helps me.
> IMHO, the very incentives of business need to be changed as they’re the foundation of every bad decision that manifests as software bugs.

Yup. What's worse is how many of our own peers fall back on justifying all this crappy software with "businesses are for making money" without a single dose of irony. It was a bit depressing, reading the comments on HN on the other post and realizing how few people seem to actually care about writing good software.

> the masses we’re supposed to educate don’t actually want to learn anything

Indeed.
Very cool and impressive.

Next step: a solving algorithm that minimizes maximum net horizontal displacement from the starting position, to avoid falling off the table.

(the demonstration video has the cube almost fall off the table. A human had to interfere to push it away from the edge)
Except the failure mode for Amazon shipping software (in this example) is equally or more likely to be the item is never shipped or a completely different item is shipped, rather than the correct item being delayed. The latter two are more difficult to deal with. Also, even in the delay case, more people are depending on Amazon for items they truly need, like groceries. Delays can matter.
I've always found the term "Socratic Method" to be interesting, as it usually just means that they ask a lot of questions, using them to make the students demonstrate knowledge of the material and defend or abandon their ideas of what the meaning of the law is. From my philosophy classes, however, I remember Plato's Socrates was using questions more like a prosecutor, as a way of rope-a-doping the interlocutor to make him say something contradictory or unreasonable, and then Socrates would knock him out.
I mean technically Jesus is a human embodiment of God (according to the Council of Nicaea) so he is both himself and his Son. That whole story is a mindfuck and a logical nightmare. Right up there with the Tower of Babel when it comes to "What the fuck is this omnipotent, omniscient being fucking doing up there?!"
>Organizations like EFF have been historically anti-government, but very pro corporate and private companies.

I don't think I'd call EFF either anti-government or pro-corporate. Rather, they have a set of positions around surveillance, the public domain, etc. and side with or against governments or private companies based on those positions.

I donate to them, and in my experience they've been pretty consistent on their positions, but if you've noticed otherwise I'd be curious to know how.
I don't see how entitlement comes into play. Petulance, maybe.

I am wary when customers refuse to listen to experience. Generally what I do is just create two UXes and do preference-testing, either internally, at the clients, or both.
Let's not forget that with slightly more money that Fastmail or Protonmail are asking for just one mailbox, MSFT is offering you a whole office suit plus 1TB of storage.

Your criticism regarding functionality might be true, but there is no reason for competitors to charge more.

I'm just a simple email user -- 50 emails per week -- and I don't keep them in my inbox. As soon as I'm done with them, I delete them. A simple 50MB inbox is sufficient for me. I just need an ad-less mail box. For me anything beyond 5$/year is expensive as hell.
No, there is no known cause of schizophrenia.
Not anymore :( They dropped IMAP and POP support for the free tier on new domains. They are part of the $2/user/month tier now
> Yes, you will be covered for that one employer that will not like your OSS profile. But you are giving a hard time to the majority of the employers who will have to jump through the hoops you've set to get a picture of your OSS contributions.

They will have to jump hoops only if you dont want them see it. Otherwise you just include link in your CV and they dont have to jump anything.

> Also, what would be the reaction of a recruiter reading a resume that lists e.g. 5 different github profiles? I doubt the recruiter would think "very smart of him". More likely, they would be left wondering if the applicant is self-important, a tinfoil hat wearer, or an outright liar. At any rate, probably someone they wouldn't be inclined to hire.

I can see why recruiter would think "weird", I dont see why he would think "self-important, a tinfoil hat wearer, or an outright liar".
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I've had this problem so many times. I'm so sorry. Build what the want visually, and then show them a better alternative after. Helps if you can separate the visual from the technical so you don't have to rewrite the backend when the front end changes.
He agrees on what we need to do, but he's just not following through. It's not about results it's about doing what we said we have to do in a reasonable time and also about overdelivering, you're not an employee that has to do what the job description says.

I totally agree about "trying to fit a square peg into a round hole", right now I might be a little pissed off because I'm doing all the hard work and he's on the passenger seat enjoying the view.

We do need to expand the team, but there are many things that the co-founder has to manage by himself on an early stage.

I plan to include a 3rd party like an advisor or an investor that knows both of us.

Thanks for your comments! This really helps guys.
Seconded. Also, learning about the MOP (Meta-Object Protocol) is highly recommended to broaden your horizons.

That said, I used to be fascinated with CLOS, and yet these days I write in Clojure and have no more than a few multimethods in my entire code base. OO has many drawbacks and I find I can write better (simpler, more understandable and debuggable) code without it.
Or don’t try to make money off of it and make it because you like making it.

I agree with your statements above. Just pointing out that revenue is not the automatic goal of every human endeavor.
Unigine used to be very expensive, CryEngine difficult to master. In the meantime Unigine got cheaper and there was a lot of work to make CryEngine more accessible, so that might explain popularity of Unity (easy to learn) and Unreal ("golden standard" allowing AAA games with great developer backing).
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My favorite topic. And as always in the US there will be a lot of fingerpointing and no action....
> But... the author is also a professor at MIT. I feel like if this work wasn’t somewhat publicly funded, it really should have been.

This is published by MIT press, but the author (Friedman) is a professor at Indiana University.
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The post's audience has zero difficulty landing a good job.
Hacker News does have a code of conduct, and the comment was flagged.
At the end of the day, Azure and AWS are monocultures with considerable amount of centralization and interdependency within their services. Their scale undermines the original purpose behind the Internet.

It bothers me that increasing number of large companies dump their own data centers to jump into The Cloud. Thia means future outages (which will undoubtedly happen) will have wider and wider impact on end users.

For example, if your email is hosted on AWS and it goes down, you loose access to your email. No big deal. However, if your email, VOIP and IM/chat go down at the same time, you may loose all ability to communicate electronically. This can be a very big deal in certain situations.
Google docs on steroids! ;-)
I've been using them for 2 years now, I'm a big fan of the service. I thought it was a bit too good to be true at first but I was slowly transitioning from a gmail address to my own domain so it wasn't a huge issue if it fell over or something. Turns out to be pretty rock solid and I'm a very happy customer now.
I'm not disappointed in Linus, how much bullshit and push back could you take before you snap and don't want to play ball any more? If you beat a dog, it stops coming over to you. I think I would have done the same as Linus many years ago. He is still a saviour, just a defeated and jaded saviour.

I am disappointed in the current state of technology though. Everything is code of conducts, safety first, sexual this, gender that, my feelings, your feelings and political correctness. I wish people could just talk about programming and software without making it complicated. None of the above topics are relevant to programming. The world owes you nothing, and that's true of people with pink hair and without alike.

My only hope is that this new approach to solving shit implodes. I don't see quality coming from this constant appraisal of everyone's feelings. Maybe then I'll be able to work again as a programmer, not a human resources manager who occasionally programs.
And then there's the Messiah going around saying we are all 'children of God'. So how is he different? Either he's the only son, or we're all daughters and sons, can't have it both ways. So when any of us sacrifice ourselves for others, we've done exactly as significant a sacrifice as the famous one. Or more so - because when we die, its permanent and not a sort of symbolic dying where you get to walk around and talk with your buds again for days.
Fastmail can get quite expensive when you need more than a few mailboxes (not aliases, but mailboxes). Cheaper options are Posteo, Mailbox.org and Runbox.
You fail to understand there’s a difference between “don’t abuse others” and “don’t say things we don’t approve of, anywhere including your private life, and if we want to we’ll sort through all your social media history to find comments we don’t like then use that to publicly shame you and kick you out of projects. Oh and you gotta let our friends in even if they don’t contribute”.

I can tell you’re a shill or you don’t have all the information
People who like this sort of think might enjoy reading the famous RISKS digest, which has been running for over 30 years now: https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
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For sure if we had two separate EU datacentres and no US datacentre contained a copy of the emails that would be not security theater. While there's copies in both jurisdictions, having a copy be outside the US really is security theater though.

The financials of running up two full EU-only datacentres don't make sense for us at the moment given the demographic distribution of our customers. And we haven't had any run-ins with the FISA courts in the nearly 20 years we've been operating.

Of course the past isn't a 100% predictor of the future, but US authorities have always been happy (or at least willing) to accept that our data is under Australian jurisdiction.
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Doesn’t anything that speak the exchange protocol (e.g. Zarafa and anything else that uses Z-Push) also support it?
Which uses one of the most complicated static site generators out there... as in a blog which was valid one day wouldn't "compile" the next. It's just bloody markdown; how unnecessarily complicated is a system that can't compile markdown from one release to the next?
Better colleagues with better brains.
I work in this field (electricity markets) and don't really see microgrids fulfilling this niche anytime soon.

Due to FERC Order 841, we will see a surge in grid-scale batteries and our markets (in the US) will have to accommodate this. They will hopefully help some with various issues such as congestion, transmission buildout, and short term changes in demand.
Research and cite the negative cognitive effects of bad design in a bona fide psychological context. Care about the person using the application. Quite appropriate in a medical context.
Nokia and Russia's Rostelecom set up joint venture
Supermarket perishables are the classic example of things that have to be delivered within a very short time. Earlier this year there was no fresh milk, bread, veg or meat in my local (urban!) supermarket for a few days after some snow.
In my current team, most people are self-censoring toward 'professionalism', we're very rarely talking about politics and even more rarely about one's opionions. So far it has worked well enough.

Still we're not censoring the puns, to the despair of one of the team members.
How to Build a Great Style Guide with React and Styled-Components Pt.3
I'd highly recommend it, I've been a customer for about 2 years now I think. As per my comment above, I've found them to be rock solid so far. I also can't speak highly enough of their customer service either.
Show HN: Git commit with bring your own plugins
Hi! This is Martijn, maker of History Search. I’m glad you like What we’re doing.

I’m going to review these confusing things. The reason why it says try now is because we offer 3000 pages free, most recent visited webpages, and offer a 30 day money back garuantee.

We’re not hiding anything, the pricing does say when billed annually. Also our privacy policy is super clear, also I answered this answer in more depth below.

On the free plan you can keep using it even when you cross the free search limit. Because Older records are archived and will become available once you remove more recent records, or upgrade. Not a lot of services do this.

Keep in mind this price isn’t very steep if you take into account it isn’t just cloud storage, most cloud solutions charge this or more and don’t include the entire app, cross-browser extensions and service. Also don’t worry, we’re far from profitable and don’t drive ferraris in the valley. We work day and night, and pay server expenses out of our own pocket.

We aren’t Google and don’t show advertising to further ensure user privacy. Taking this into consideration, we believe users who see the value in History Search won’t expect us to starve and pay the hosting expenses all on our own.

Our mission is solving how hard it is to retrieve digital information online, but to keep doing so we need our users’ support, also financially. We have choosen annual billing as preferred and advertised pricing because its a low cost subscription, and it would be a waste to spend around 2,9%+$0.29 per month. Thats a lot a waste of funds, since its not going to solving the problem or providing you a valuable service but to a transaction fee.

Hope this straightens things out, looking forward to seeing you aboard this movement.

Kind regards,
Martijn
Interestingly, as a self-hoster your email is much more prone to metadata analysis than anybody who is hosted at one of the big providers and has most of their email transferred to other big providers down TLS-protected port 25 streams.
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Its certainly true that open source projects eat into your work time. The real question is: can your employer find a way to turn this to their advantage? If you dig a little to find out how open sourcerers put bread on the table, it soon becomes apparent that employers pay them to mess around on GitHub. Seek these organisations out.
In practice it’s not unusual for behavior to differ between chrome and Firefox.
The title and domain is not the only thing that matter for Google’s ranking.
NSLs are a bitch.
My favorite is aws slinging “make sure you have copies in other regions”. Look. Every time an entire region has an issue on aws all the regions are fucked. APIs etc just drop or hang. If a region has dropped things are really bad. So keep paying to double up your data, but it doesn’t do any good. If Virginia East has some type of nuclear attack - I have worse problems than running my crappy CRUD app.
Show HN: YAMQ – Yet Another (delayed) Message Queue
There is competition. It’s just that many people don’t know or haven’t tried them. Here are three providers on par with Fastmail but are way cheaper if you need multiple mailboxes — Posteo (posteo.de), Mailbox (mailbox.org) and Runbox (runbox.com).

But I do believe that even these cheaper ones are expensive for what they provide in terms of storage capacity, number of aliases, etc. Costs are supposed to go down over time, and prices too.
Previous discussion here:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/eric-schmidt-ex-google-ceo-p...
I'm hedging as much as I can here. That is certainly not the case, but I would consider that question right there to be critical to good introspection and growth as a person.

"If everyone hates my opinion, is that the wrong opinion to hold so dearly?"

It's certainly worth honestly considering if most people think your opinion is terrible.
You don't get to act clueless if one of the libraries that you added to your application collects data without asking the user. I already said what Google does is weird.