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What is the current state of remote teams in startup ecosystems?
I've been running an early-stage tech startup for the past few months. To build my MVP, I've been working with a software agency from Poland. The people there are great, but I don't think outsourcing is the final solution. I'd like to eventually build a team committed solely to my project.

Thus, the question becomes: Should I hire an in-house team, or should I go with a remote team? After looking into the landscape of remote work, I was surprised to see that so many tech companies have already embraced it (e.g., Buffer and Stack Overflow). My assumption has always been that remote work faces a negative stigma, just like outsourcing. Am I wrong? How do investors/accelerators look at remote-first tech startups?

Right now, I'm thinking about contacting a remote team provider. I have two in mind: Terminal (https://terminal.io/) and Bolton Remote (https://www.boltonremote.com/). Has anyone had any experience with either of these companies? They seem promising, but it's hard to tell for sure, yet.

I'm also wondering about the financials of going with a remote team. Since it's pretty much analogous to an in-house team, I expect the cost to be much higher than an outsourced agency, right? Any insights from founders who have worked/continue to work with remote teams would be appreciated. Thanks!
and.... there's massive amt of electricity used in gold mining(and toxic for environment for how it's done) and so many banks employing millions of people and using so much computation to print money out of thin air (debt issuance, fractional reserve, derivatives, fiat-backed by just trust on your govt, artificially low interest rates, modern monetary theory - you name it) it is not sustainable dear sir.

Forget Bitcoin and crypto and tech, have you ever thought about that problem? It could very well be one of the biggest mess our society is in at a global scale.
I don't know how to codify this, but there does seem to be some things that are just simply harmful with no benefit. For example, libel against a private individual.
Super cool. I got mining to work on my forked bitcoin. I've got 5-8 GH/s using a usb miner. It was a lot of work. It's also a good way to learn about cryptocurrency. My effort is trivial compared to this.
I totally agree with you. And I'm very scared of the day a job, the school my kids go to or whatever important life activity will require me to have a facebook, whatsapp, linkedin, twitter or whatever account. We need something to replace these, possibly a federated, open standard, but I guess even the self hosted forums of yore were much better than this.
A perfect HN automobile analogy for the situation is as follows:

Imagine the govt provides two transport services, a car road service, and a paved bike path service. They're deconflicted and regulated and licensed and taxed separately for various social engineering reasons, etc.

The car roads are congested and I want to drive my semi trailer to the next town, or I just don't feel like paying the tollbooths or whatever. I propose a "brilliant" solution of modifying the regulations for the bike path to allow semi trailers on the mostly empty paved bike path because bicycles are an ancient technology over 100 years old and they should get with the internal combustion times, I don't have a bike personally, I feel my semi trailer is more important than some spandex wearing bicycle hobbyist's amusement, and I don't care about bicycling as a hobby in general, so if I mow down bicyclists while driving my semi down the bike path thus completely destroying the utility of a bike path for bicyclists, I really don't mind. Hey I got mine, I got to drive my semi trailer on the bike path, so at least for me all is well, right?

Now just to make it clear I don't hate bicyclists any more than I think its a good idea to amend part 97 to perform stealthy part 90 operations on part 97 frequencies. I'm merely making a very accurate analogy.
Southern California has a dearth of available repeater pairs because of the massive amount of repeaters in use.
I don't care about downvotes -- it was the immediacy of it.
And I guess libgc (the Boehm–Demers–Weiser GC) has been around since the early 1990s. I wasn't considering reference-counting as GC.
Relying on interest is a predatory and harmful behavior in the economy. Any economy based on interest is inherently unstable and un-equal. It's no wonder the Abrahamic religions outright banned interest (i.e. usury).
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>If I'm not happy with my company, I leave the company.

This presupposes that you'll have a list of companies to join that have all the benefits that you want.

> Non-competes are unenforceable in California.

Great. Tech work happens nationwide. You could say, "I got mine in California" or you could help pull up others. I believe that it's worthwhile, sometimes, for me to spend some of my income to help others reach a better station.

> Do you actually think that writing software is going to be come an unskilled job some day?

Do you not? Also, there are plenty of workers in tech who aren't software developers. We should be helping them get benefits as well.
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Regain your dopamine sensitivity: go a day without music.
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There was a time when the cesspit were all the people promoting the debauchery of homosexuality, or the idea that blacks were somehow equal to whites in intelligence and genetic disposition. These were greatly offensive statements at one time. People were ridiculed and deplatformed for having them.

Translate the Bible into a barbaric language like German or English? That caused great offense. People were excommunicated and even killed for that (like Wycliffe).

The book "The Coddling of the American Mind" goes into this concept that ideas and speech are not violent. We do a huge disservice to young people today by teaching them to fear ideas and block speakers at Universities they don't agree with. Listening to other viewpoints and challenging them makes us better thinkers. By banning speech is to say, "I agree people are too stupid to make their own decisions. Let's make the world 'safe' for them and ban ideas I don't agree with."

I highly recommend Brendan O'Neill's video on offensiveness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA
Nice fork, great name for it ;)
True, you could write a new Qt control.

Then you hit the second requirement: complete bitmap theming, many times of a skeuomorphic kind. This is extremely difficult to do in something like Gtk/Qt.
Because the number of people religiously on FB is far higher than those that check email on a regular basis?
Alaskan politics is weird and doesn't quite track with politics in the lower 48.
You can still lose data because you can't really back up the whole phone with standard tools.
It's a great idea... provided it is used frequently.
GitLab & its CEO call it 'open core':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17225725
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/20/gitlab-is-open-core-gith...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12128546
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/14/building-an-open-source-...
When I was a Facebook user (closed my account six years ago), I was mindful about what I shared. The privacy concerns that eventually prompted me to close my account were not due to the information that I willfully shared, but rather, due to Facebook's behavior collecting more information about me (and about others, through me) that I was not intentionally sharing.

E.g., tracking users across the web at large, building shadow profiles of non-users, trying to obtain information about non-users through users, etc.

In my observation, most Facebook users share way more personal information than I ever did. Which makes me wonder, given how much information people are sharing willfully, why does Facebook feel the need to try to secretly collect even more information?

Scary.
buffer overflow and memory corruption is not a virus. He asked a specific question, and people answered different questions while ignoring the question he actually asked.
You should not use Tesseract for subtitles that blend with the colorful background. Some leptonica magic can extract that yellow stuff pretty easily. OpenCV is not as powerful for it, although it does have some leptonica functionality.

I'll try to make a simple one in the next couple of hours.

Although, the task you're asking me to do is different from subtitle alignment you could do on .srt files.

What you can do with leptonica is extract the symbols (letters and ligatures) and manually tag them. You could also extract the lines containing letters and then process them through tesseract.
HN may lean liberal, but that would be primarily because half the commenters here are from western Europe, where even the conservative politics are frequently liberal by US standards.
Is it more "pro-American" then to cover up negative indicators? People consume weather reports to know if it's going to rain. People consume traffic reports to see where the accidents are. People consume news for the negative indicators. That's not anti-American. That's human.
I don't think that's correct. Blazor supports both client-side (what you are describing, sending IL to the client and running it as an app) and server-side (what LiveView is doing). More details here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/hosting-...
Interesting. Thanks, I didn't go there at all and I believe ambiguous statements like these create a lot of the misunderstanding that we see in today's political climate.
Another interpretation of your exact data is that this great amount of funding paid off, it educated you and attracted talented people to University of Alaska.
It is a fallacy to say that the slippery slope will always occur. However, that does not mean that it is invalid to argue that in a given situation a slippery slope is likely to occur. In cases such as this I think we can reasonably assume that the "never" in "it never stops where you think it should" is not meant to be taken literally but is instead being used as a figure of speech for "very unlikely".
Even the very first Mac from 1984 had decent sound by default - sound cards were not required on the Macintosh.
Following my eldritch training in the dark arts: I googled then found a stackexchange answer on this topic [1]

1. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/143442/what-are...)
I don't understand how a single tree can produce not one, not two, but a multitude of different stone fruits.

And how would you go about making it happen? Is it a combination of "grafts" (is that how you call them in English?) ?
> Offensive to whom?

This is exactly the comment I clicked through to add. Without someone to be offended, nothing is offensive. When a service provider crosses the line and polices a piece of media, they are now responsible for defining that line moving forward. That's an insanely hard task.

Most people who want "offensive" content taken down do not understand the complexity of what they are asking for.
I'm pretty amazed at the number of chat offerings that don't offer encryption. (From a quick Google search it seems Mattermost doesn't either.) I'm still holding out for Matrix to deliver (I know it's currently working for some people), but my understanding is that it's not enabled by default yet:
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6779
It’s actually getting quite annoying. Reddit started off with r/programming being by far the largest community. It’s pretty obvious to see how it has drifted with time. I see the same phenomena happen to HN and I come here for tech news. I’d like them to have a subHN for economic news for those that want it. I believe datatau (announces on HN a few years ago) attempted to solve this. I get that people here respect each other’s opinions since we are like minded tech folk, but I’d really rather it was separated.
I see a lot of cool Slack competitors. Including Keybase Teams. But raising $50M seems like a lot for an open source one!

It makes me hopeful that we will be able to raise that kind of money soon for our platform. We also have AGPL dual license. However, our goal is more ambitious: we built a platform (https://qbix.com/platform) to let ANYONE build their OWN social apps and plugins, and then let communities host them. Like Wordpress + Plugins but for Web 2.0 (think Facebook rather than blogs).

I imagine building a Slack competitor would take about a month of focused work. And then anyone would be able to install it, on one machine.

But, we spent all these years building the tech and doing security audits. What are your recommendations business-wise, to take it from here to getting funding like this? (Without compromising the vision.)
Tell that to the people gunned down in NZ with a rifle covered in 'chan slogans ... ?

I'm not saying censorship is good, let's go full-on NewSpeak here, or even that I have any sort of solution to propose.

I just don't think this ideal, that censorship is necessarily always bad and that the best, only way to fight evil ideas is with discussion and better ideas ... I don't think holds up to scrutiny in the face of reality.
Why `assertThat(...)` instead of just `assert(...)`? There is such a strange tendency to make testing stuff, specifically, read like English.
I found the sub-story more fascinating than the nuclear incidence. If I understand it correctly, one purpose of these "research" submarines is to find and possibly sabotage undersea communication lines. Well, talk about national security threat, isn't this a very serious threat to the Internet? I'd love to see more articles about this vector of attack.
You can just say that outright next time. It's an anonymous internet forum so it's really not a big deal, and it's very hard to guess what you mean if you aren't clear about it.
It depends on your time frame. The Amiga got lots of nice stuff in the beginning, and got a whole bunch of great developers, mainly from the UK, but over time the PC market was much bigger and PCs were always getting more powerful.

For me the turning point was Wolf3d. After seeing it running on all the PCs on the tables in the old computer shows at the Cow Palace, my days on the 500 were limited.
Most people probably already live in places that are older than 40 years.

And there's no automatic reason that doctors and manufacturers should have captured the increased value of their procedures and products.
Not sure where "tying pay to tenure" came up, unless that's how you view what unions do? A union just means a group of employees negotiating as a unit, what changes they ask for isn't dictated in advance.
This exists in all industries. It is called experience.

Developers convincing themselves that they're single points of failure is arrogance, IMO. 99.9% of the time if you leave then someone can step right up and take your place. Oh sure there will be costs, lost productivity, maybe an outage, but the world keeps turning. So go ahead and take that vacation.
I find books are every bit as enjoyable. The problem is the first 30-50 pages are usually a slog, before I hit my "activation energy" and really get into it (or realize I don't like it).

When I was less distracted, the slog was easier.
Phoenix is faster than Rails, however Ruby is faster than Elixir when doing CPU intensive tasks. Like parsing text.
Try in incognito mode.. and with new account. It will not show surge price.
Yes, I was responding to the one sentence.
Do they have a policy where they deal with threats of violence / organizing something like that?

I couldn't find any, but I'm also not familiar with the site.

There's "offensive" as in thinks I don't like, or even hateful statements ... but to me threats of violence and etc fall into another area.
Behold, in all its skeuomorphic glory, the Qt styles example:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-widgets-styles-example.html
Or any bullet train for that matter... The French and Japanese have had a friendly rivalry for decades. But both like the Chinese are willing to dedicate right of way for high speed trains. The American system's shared lines for passenger and freight traffic creates limitations the other systems do not share.
There's a faulty assumption baked into your comment that most Americans are actually buying/using new things. My apartment building was built in the 1970s, I would happily drive a 1970s muscle car if I could find one at a reasonable price, and in the 1970s you could actually see a doctor without worrying about going bankrupt. Also in the 1970s the building and car would have been new, so I would probably pay you to give me those things today.
If you've been on HN for any period of time, the anti-US bias is pretty strong here.
Work is underway at IETF on MLS for E2E encrypted group messaging, https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/
Ask HN: Is there any plugin to let customer's share their webapp screen?
Support teams typically ask their customers to use teamviewer or anydesk to share the screen, for reproducing issues. Customers are hesitant to use these tools because of privacy concerns.
The problem with your parenting analogy is that we live under democratic systems, where the voters get to choose how to run things (indirectly, by electing representatives). The voters are all adults. If they want to do something utterly stupid, who's supposed to step in and stop them? Any person doing so would be acting in an anti-democratic manner; usually we deride such systems of government as "authoritarian". So unless there's some benevolent aliens that you're counting on to step in and save us from ourselves, it comes down to democracy vs. authoritarianism: do we let the voters choose to shoot themselves in the foot, or do we give all the power to some person or elite cabal and let them do what they think is best?

I do agree that ruining your state university system is a bad move long-term, but if that's what the voters want, if you support democracy, you have to give it to them.
Without going into specifics there are multiple attack vectors for breaking DRM or simply bypassing DRM. Many are unfortunately for content providers trivially easy. The only real limits are for naked, original files which are best possible quality available outside of the content provider networks themselves. Every single transaction point from creation, transmit, transcode/transmux, distribution to CDNs, and finally transmission to the end user is an attack vector. If you're assuming that attacking the DRM directly is the only option or even the best option available, I'm sad to say for content providers, you're unfortunately misinformed.
Yes, this is how it works:

comntr.github.io#http://foobar.com/
Every time there's debate over Telegram's encryption the shill argument "it hasn't been broken in the wild now has it" pops up. This is fundamentally flawed thinking. The end-to-end-encryption is most likely reasonably safe (no glaring holes were pointed by experts except the IND-CCA problem). The real problem is Telegram uses their secret chats as a poor excuse for justifying the lack of E2EE for practically everything: "Just use secret chats if you need end-to-end encryption"

1. Telegram's E2EE is not on by default, therefore 99% of users don't use it.

2. Telegram's E2EE is not advertising authentication, therefore ~90% of the people using it don't check for MITM attacks, therefore majority of E2EE is useless against active attackers.

3. Telegram's E2EE does not work across devices, therefore majority people who use secret chats also use non-secret chats because desktop client don't support it.

4. 100% of Telegram's group conversations can be eavesdropped by the server, because Telegram doesn't have E2EE for group chats.

Complaining about possible cribs in how Telegram implemented the protocol from cryptographic primitives is an insignificant problem compared to the fact the entire protocol is fundamentally FUBAR, how it's so glaringly obvious you can't even fill out a CVE form.

If Signal had vulnerability where 100% of group conversations were not properly end-to-end encrypted, every newspaper in the world would publish something about it. However, with Telegram it has been spun as a "feature".

Another big problem is Telegram has been mentioned by hundreds of publications as "Secure apps like Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram".

To experts it's like hearing news spout "Great writers like Leo Tolstoy, Paulo Coelho, and Stephanie Meyer", or "Great bunker materials like reinforced concrete, steel, and MDF".

Repeatedly claimed, anyone would make mental associations between the three, but when you actually find out what they're about you can't believe your ears.
> what's the point of GitLab or Mattermost being open source when they clearly want to control/restrict/monopolize use of their applications?

- We can fork it if we really don't like that direction, but think what's there is valuable.

- We can propose Merge Requests (as they are on GitLab) that might be higher priority for us personally than for the company, which might accept them just not have the resources to work on them itself as quickly as we'd like.
Am I the only one who finds this ironic that this discussion is held at TMZ?
That's a cute story but I'm pretty sure my eyes follow the text in the same way in both print and web media.
A lot of us live in significantly higher priced 1979 or older housing, which is way more expensive as a percentage of average income as far as monthly payment goes compared to back then.

Similarly with cars, they still got you from a to b in a good enough fashion.

It’s the 80/20 rule, and many people would buy 1979 level items if they were available at 1979 prices.
I have come to the point of view that what radical free speech people deride as "censorship" is often better described as "an immune system".

When you catch a cold, it is because viruses have used a bunch of subtle hacks to convince some of your cells to stop being part of you and start making more viruses instead. Your immune system comes in and stops them from doing this. Sometimes it makes mistakes, sometimes it can be co-opted and used as a viral host itself (see HIV for instance), but on the whole it keeps your cells busy being a part of you rather than striking out on their own agenda, whether it's one they arrived at by random mutations like most cancers, or one that crawled in under their normal defenses like a virus.

Running a platform that gives a voice to anyone and everyone, up to the limits of "whatever gets the platform-runner hauled into court and fined for more money than they make off of spreading the view that got them in trouble", is like actively providing places for diseases to grow.
The post you're replying to is citing the father from Calvin & Hobbes, so I suspect it's sarcastic.
it's not an assumption but an interpretation based on how life after death is described. and of course yes, it's a belief. sorry for not making that clear. without any belief, death is nothing, just end of life.

whether this belief is reasonable or not, you'll need to decide for yourself by researching relevant sources. i did not intend to encourage anyone to live by it, rather my intention is to console those who are grieved by the loss of a loved one.
Right, but in setting a pattern of behavior that they will remove books whenever they want, Amazon only seems to do it when there are bad actors involved.
Ask HN: How to Be Smarter (In Conversation)
In social situations, as soon as we deviate from the tech I get lost, and often start to feel dumb. After 20 years of being a developer, my role has evolved to a point where I often have to talk to people who aren't as into the tech I am, and more about the business. And this often means dinners and such were other topics always come up.

This is very hard to describe, but I can't be the only geek faced with this. Any pointers to being more grown up in adult conversions given I'm already grown up (pro developer for 20 years, you do the math).

Thanks!