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The company I currently work for does something similar. Latest version costs money, previous version gets given away with hardware, and version before that is free.

However, we are going to transition to latest version costs money and two feature set reduced versions gets given with hardware and free.

Having 3 versions to support is too much overhead for a small company. And giving away old versions of our products with issues that we know we've solved gives a bad image of our software to new users we are trying to up-sell to the latest version.
Slack is generally B2B paid service for collaboration, is it not? You would imagine instant messaging and social networking to be something where Skype.com falls under the umbrella, but Lync/Skype for Business does not. The PDF also constantly uses the word personal.

> such as instant messaging, chat and
email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing,
and blogging. In order to qualify for that authorization, such services
and software had to be publicly available (widely available to the
public) at no cost to the user
People will tell you to practice, which is fine, but the bigger issue is that companies are being stupid by interviewing anyone this way, period.

By all means, practice is good for you. But also try looking for companies that don’t involve unrealistic time pressure combined with trivia-oriented tech questions. Your experience at your current employer proves such jobs exist, and indeed they exist at many types of companies with good job offers.

Just decline the ones that do use algorithm puzzles / whiteboard questions / etc., and include your constraints about how you will be evaluated just as you would include constraints about salary, insurance, job duties, etc.

You’re not interviewing to get out of the rain: it’s about getting what you want in exchange for providing value to the employer.

If part of what you want is to be treated with basic dignity and respect while being evaluated during an interview — something incompatible with trivia / hazing style interviews that are ubiquitous in the tech industry — then just own that choice, be proud of it and straightforward. Just politely tell interviewers it does not work for you, accept that you may need to opt out of a lot of interview pipelines, and you’ll find options better suited to you.
>They started out with IRC and XMPP bridges. But they eventually shut those down because they were a drag on improving the product.

No. They shut it down because they want people to use their (crappy) UI.
Specifically, section 560.540 of the ITR authorizes the exportation from the United States or by U.S. persons, wherever located, to persons in Iran of services incident to the exchange of personal communications over the Intemet, such as instant messaging, chat and email, social networking, sharing of photos and movies, web browsing, and blogging, provided that such services are publicly available at no cost to the user. (ITR, section 560.540(a)(1).)
That's... a fine response to a feature flame war. Fine fine, slack is better. IRC just doesn't compare. All of us using it are dinosaurs who should be forgotten. I'll grant all that stuff.

But real people are having their accounts banned simply because they've been to Iran (Or more worryingly, simply because they're Iranian; are european tourists getting banned? Seems like it's all expats in the article...)

You can't compare serious issues of censorship to platform flame wars. The moral scales are so vastly different that you're practically doing political censorship.
He has experience living in other global cities as a reference to London and you don't.
Time to learn something then.
Open enrollment ended 5 days ago, so unless you just got hired, or you had a baby or something, you're stuck with the plan you have already.

If you're under 30 and wind up not staying with your employer, I'd look into Catastrophic plans. They are cheaper than any other plan and typically offer close to the same benefits you get at the lowest coverage level (i.e. Bronze).
Nicely written codebase but I can't get past the fact that they use JQuery...
There is no reason Google maps should be an online service.
That's not a social network. That's not even Google+, which is just a bunch of personal microblogs. If you somehow came up with some way to have personal websites be an app that let people post on each other's walls and message and like and reply to posts... then you've just got a different Facebook that would need some sort of conformance authority.
It’s definitely a business model that fills a niche. And it clearly offers value. The problem is that when the economy tanks these sort of arrangements will be the first to go as the tech companies trim expenses and either relocate the employees, fire them, or force them to work from home. It seems at this point that WW has a great offering when everyone has money, but the second the economy turns they are going to be the ones holding the proverbial bag.
And the China ban is not actually about the chip in use but some software feature in older OSs
Practice. Basically exposure therapy for interviews. Also look into doing some CBT to change the way you react and think about people judging you.
It's just another example of how CS (Read: Silicon Valley) culture is geared entirely towards the 20 - 30 year old male with no family or time commitments. Willing and able to spend hundreds of hours grinding leetcode and a portfolio of side projects.

Their culture problems that have become publicized of late are a knock on effect of this. It definitely establishes the fundamentals and makes you "better" than the rest (to a point), but at a terrible cost.
It's crazy to say, but no one with a college degree takes the current president at all seriously.
What is a jet supposed to do against a drone?

Best option would be to send up another drone and fly into it / follow it if it tries to escape. I'm sure the police or army must have their own drones for other purposes which would be usable, and if not, its inconceivable that it wouldn't be possible to get hold of a drone in a few hours.

Currently they seem to be assuming someone is actively flying it... That might be the case, but it could equally well be flying by GPS and controlled from anywhere in the world over a mobile data connection, in which case the police are wasting their time.
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yeah, I really want to see them Open Source this OS... It'll go nuts if they do I'm sure.
Yeah, this is the "killer app" for voice for me. It's the only thing I use Siri for on my iPhone, although I do have that to require a long press instead of wake-on-voice.
Yes, it's entirely possible. I still think the primary problem is the state refusing to enforce the sensible laws against theft.
There should be statutory fines for a business falsely claiming that someone owes them money, or claiming they owe an incorrect amount.
Tor, bittorrent, bitcoin and other decentrialized open source software are great examples. No government can control what no one controls.
Stupid Patent of the Month: Trading by Tweet
I'm fairly certain that Slack is available for free usage; I think there's just a limit on the number of users you can have in your "organization" (where "organization" doesn't necessarily mean anything formal like a company) without needing to pay
Did the burglarized house contain copies of the keys of all their neighbors? We're abusing the metaphor by now, but there's clear interest of the clients of the companies in the matter...
regulations depend on what tier of bank you are.

a smaller bank has less complicated products and requirements. Also of course less legacy.
Yes, sure, you can make a free workspace just like you can run a trial of Lync, but presumably this categorization brings them out of personal messaging and into a B2B-relationship for business purposes, and the majority of their business is funded by paid B2B contracts.

NB: I'm not saying this is fair to anyone and it's just my personal interpretation, but it reads to me that the OFAC PDF linked is overly intent on specifically personal messaging, for personal individuals, not for business collaboration, B2B contracts, anything related to work or commercialness
Nice photos but can you do something about the text at the bottom? My colour blind eyes are having a really rough time with it.
Maybe this got lost halfway down this comment thread, but the whole point of this being considered phishing-like is that Oracle was emailing individual developers, asking questions about their use. The developers didn't realize so that Oracle can build a case against their employer and accidentally gave away details that Oracle would then use to pressure the employer to get licenses or would outright sue.

Developers likely thought they were speaking to Support, or responding to some kind of survey/questionnaire about their use cases and how they use VirtualBox, when in reality were being misled as to the actual purpose of the conversation.

Just because they were speaking to someone from Oracle as opposed to a third party scammer does not mean that the person they were speaking with didn't misrepresent/fake who they were.
If you go to your prime settings there is an option to "Remind Me 3 days before renewing" if you want to cancel but have already given them your money.
Is sending someone a bill that has no basis in fact legal?
> Amazon deserves a lot of the blame, though, as they have such confusing branding: Amazon Fresh (only works on web and phone); Amazon Prime Now (phone app), Amazon Prime Pantry (hard to use), plus the amazon dash wand which confusingly may place objects into your Fresh cart, or on a shopping list you can find in the regular Amazon app, or in a list only available with the Alexa app. I don't know what's going on with this supposedly customer-focused company.

Same thing that happens to every large company: the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Prime Now and Fresh are separate fiefdoms. Prime Pantry is a vassal of the traditional retail fiefdom. (The traditional retail fiefdom also has a "Subscribe and Save" feature, which you can discover by shopping for something like cat food.)

In Amazon's case, it might not even be a bad idea not to have a single, overarching, top-down strategy. Nobody has solved this business yet, and it's faster to try multiple things concurrently than consecutively.
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There’s a team of guys with flamethrowers running around the house lighting everything on fire, and some of the inhabitants are saying “well you can’t discount the possibility that the fires started themselves, and having a house on fire isn’t really so bad, and we probably can’t do anything to fix it anyway.”

And now you are standing up for them.

Our problems cannot be summarized as “higher waters”. We are talking about not just sea-level rise displacing hundreds of millions (if not billions) of people, but also lethal heat waves every summer in many parts of the world, permanent severe drought in some places, raging wildfires, severe storms, collapse of many ecosystems, collapse of agriculture in many places, etc.
Agreed. It looks like the author may be looking for something like a /.net/ regexp? I don't think .net is popular at all in HN job postings. A better regex would be pretty much what you suggest:

/asp\.net|dotnet|c#|VB.net|f#|xamarin/i
Say 1% of chinese are baddie and that is 14m ... and said the government is founded by not fighting the Japanese war and then steal the result ... it is part being normal (as us would have its share of baddies) and part being abnormal (which government including acts starving 30m death without consequence and starting intern ...)

Aanyway for the money we all go.
People tend to use it quite heavily, once it crosses the threshold where it understands you the overwhelming majority of the time. IOW the threshold Siri is yet to cross.
They're richer than regular people and can use that money to influence the laws that are made and influence prosecutors from going after them.

It's a glib response, but is there any other explanation that fits the observable data? If a random citizen performed the same actions against these organizations, does anyone here believe the citizen would get away with no issues?
How about every single one of them?

They gotta fill a request for proposal in order to outsource a project, then there can be multiple rounds of back and forth to review and revise proposals. That includes quite a few documents, covering requirements among many other things.
>then why are people constantly up in arms whenever yet-another-Facebook-privacy-scandal surfaces?

Who? Leo Laporte? Kara Swisher? Talking heads on cable news? It's their job to be shocked and outraged.
From Microsoft Chromium?
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They would get more done if they didn't ball in societal changes. It's like the autonomous car advocates who also want to do away with private vehicle ownership. People are open to new technologies. They aren't open to political rants. I want an electric car. I don't want a lecture about how people shouldn't be allowed to own cars. I want solar panels on my house. I don't want someone telling me to turn off my TV and read newspapers to save power.
the process is not concurrent. it is still parallel.
None of those people with college degrees are running the country or setting environmental policy, though. The man who thinks global warming is a Chinese communist plot is.
A distinction without a difference. What I meant was: it may be worth it to cause some neural damage to defuse whatever mechanism causes a disease that, when unstopped, causes more neural damage. Hence "kick the TV" technologies are not out of consideration.

Obviously, very big ethical issues arise when experimenting on people, but that's nothing new. Someone took radiotherapy first, before anyone was sure it was worth it to the individual.
That and the capsule tower are pretty good examples of the architectural style called Metabolism that was popular in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. Most of the buildings appear to be modular, and some of them actually are.
It is possible that they saw activity that made them slam a panic button or they were explicitly told by the US government to stop traffic; they've been working on this problem for a long time and this response strikes me as sudden.
Hello, CTO of Kong here. You mean a client to consume the Admin API in order to create entities on Kong? If that's the case the community has built lots of open source clients in pretty much any language that would make the job of integrating Kong within an existing system much easier. The community around Kong has also built declarative configuration support that you can use instead of the Admin API.

Our official declarative configuration will also be released very soon, and in some environments (like Kubernetes) we already support it.
The remarkable success of British public sector IT largely stems from the disastrous failure of the NHS National Programme for IT. We spent £10bn on a hugely ambitious project and ended up with nothing to show for it. This disaster was the worst of many expensive failures in public sector tech procurement.

Eventually, it became apparent to even the most out-of-touch politicians and civil servants that the weird nerds talking about "agile" and "lean" might have a point. The Government Digital Service proved that a small team could get huge results by using the right methodologies; we haven't looked back since.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Digital_Service
Well, that's exactly the point I've tried to make when people say law enforcement can't happen in WhatsApp because e2e supposedly prevents that: they can disable it at any time for certain targets and it'd be hard to detect. But I'm usually downvoted when I say that because, apparently, people trust this faceless corporation a lot.
Hi jryan, thanks for your reply! :-)

> Practice. Basically exposure therapy for interviews.

That's the thing though. I have and I do already do that. I like doing coding challenges, some time constrained others not, in my spare time. The difference is that I do not need to succeed in those. There is no person watching over me and everything I do, there is no environmental pressure other than the time. And if I fail, I learn from it and have the ability to try again.

I do currently see a therapist to deal with things, not sure if it's CBT or not. But what I'm told to do is to try and bring myself back into the present, which I can't really do during the middle of an interview.
America is slowly becoming like Brazil in apolitical terms: a failed state. Drug use, poverty, crime and police apathy destroy civilization brick-by-brick until there's nothing left but anarchy, misery and gangs.
> Castle Doctrine

In case you're wondering the way you find out your car was broken into in San Francisco is, you get up and start your day. Leave the house and walk four blocks to where you parked your car two days ago and find the passengers side window is smashed.

It would help if the police and DA's office actually cared about car break ins but they do not. Neither of them care for the same reason; None of them live in SF and they have off street parking at work.
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Even small nation states have a hard time defending against the larger ones, it is as you correctly identify merely a matter of writing a larger check but the amount on that check is so much larger than what is feasible that even the largest nation states find themselves routinely hacked.

Security is hard. So hard that no matter what amount of money you spend you will still be vulnerable, but maybe a bit less so. There are no absolutes in this.
now to submit a PR for WAAAAY more than 33 hours, pl0x
That's a bit of a silly thing to say. It's known that state actors can break 128-bit encryption, perhaps even 256-bit is not secure.
That's happened to me a couple of times. Maybe you just need to look in a different city.
Use is prohibited in those countries. The woman in the article reportedly created her account while in Cuba years ago (presumably before this policy?) and hasn't been back since.

She wasn't using Slack in Cuba when her account was cancelled.
Actually, there is: traffic data.
P2P messaging apps have a hard time with group messages because you have to have someone online to relay messages at all times. Group chats really have to have a shared storage medium to work.
Yes, a sort of "Global Yellow Pages". I personally still have it for event invitations from a handful of friends.
I'd agree that it's possible there are some discoverability issues, but i don't see where '/server irc.(efnet|freenode|etc.)' is bordering on impossible.
There's nothing inherently wrong with a software modem. It's just a different way of implementing the hardware. Some software modems were effectively programmable DSPs, almost like a software defined radio for a wired connection.

I doubt they ever claimed Linux driver support so it's not their fault people weren't able to get them working.
I consistently hear this from the same people that own iOS or Android phones. You do realize that the mic on any phone produced in the last few years is also "always listening," right?
I'm a US citizen that used Slack briefly during a visit to Cuba and my accounts are still fine. Not sure how they are targeting people.
That could be an optional enhancement. And it still does not require your exact position to be sent to Google.
Is typing hard for you to do?
The saddest part for me is that between the HIG (Apple speak for their "Human Interface Guidelines" documentation) and their own apps, Apple used to set a great standard that inspired third party developers to commit to a similar level of UX polish. Apple's design awards handed out at WWDC used to be a real badge of honor, coming from a company as UX focused as they are.

The four Marzipan apps Apple themselves have shipped in Mojave are garbage by the past standards of the Mac and I worry this telegraphs that this kind of shovelware is fine. This can establish a kind of "If it's good enough for Apple..." precedent.

I also find it pretty hypocritical for Apple to constantly tell us they won't ship a touch screen Mac because you can't make an OS that is good for both touch and indirect input, but here they are providing a framework to dump touch screen UI apps on the Mac for use with a mouse. Instead of a poor unoptimized touch experience, we get left with a poor unoptimized mouse and keyboard experience, precisely the kind of thing Apple have spent years telling us that not putting a touch screen on the Mac would prevent.

That said, I can sympathize with the counter-arguments in favor of this. Mac app development is nothing close to what it once was, perhaps this is the best we can hope for.
I’m not advocating for this.

Crackheads aren’t random, they have some reasoning.

I’ve had a lot of experience with crackheads and robbing an armored car and a random care aren’t equally likely to them. Again, a crackhead doesn’t want to rob a particular person. They just want money.

The bear doesn’t want to eat you. They just want to eat someone.
Apparently, you cannot ever have had a relationship with those countries.
They are different products. Nginx and haproxy are more comparable. If you like HAproxy as a load balancer, you can easily use it with Kong. A lot of people do just that.
Be honest, even if the manufacturer tells you #1 is true you're not going to believe them.

You're setting up an impossible set of demands that no manufacturer is going to meet and no consumer really cares about (other than perhaps yourself and a few tinfoil hat wearing crypto-anarchists).
I can empathize with FB leadership, not condone of course. 5 years in SF consumer ad tech turned me into a shell of a person who was coming to accept that reality is created by certain peoples’ wills, so the only lie was deviating from the company message. “Air tight” stories and containment seemed like the M.O. and with 5 figure severance packages and more, I have a hard time seeing many people being the first to be vocal. Everyone wants that money, and most will lie hard for it. Not saying I went full shill, but memories of that time are interesting to reflect on. Surreal, disidentified. I think my soul is growing back, thankfully.
>I am baffled that people like yourself are not concerned in the least.

>I grew up in an Eastern Europe Communist State where this kind of personal surveillance was the norm.

Do you feel the same about smartphones? They record location, are capable of recording audio and video, if you have wifi and/or bluetooth on they can record every device ID you come within range of, they can in theory record everything you do in every app you use.

Don't get me wrong, I recognize the surveillance value/implications of such devices. As Pokemon Go was starting to initially gain popularity I even wrote a piece showing how such an app would be extremely useful as a tool for HUMINT.

TLDR: You create a game location, like a gym, in an area you want to surveil or deploy a rare spawn in a location you want to surveil. You then sprinkle it out on social media geo-targeting, then people flock to the area with their app that already chew through data and point their phone's camera all around the area giving you video and audio that you can either pull in real time at a risky data-cost or grab still images and then decide if you want to compress captured video and send it or leave it uncompressed and upload when the device connects to WiFi next.

Here's the post https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2016/7/11/pokmon-go... and please, 'pokemon go funded by the CIA' was not something I believe then or now but there is a direct connection to the U.S. intelligence community via funding John Hanke received for a previous company.