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Hi all,

Paul (Elevator) here. I'm posting this Show HN in response to (and support of) "Finally, I closed my LinkedIn" [1] posted here on HN yesterday.

To echo PC Maffey's sentiment, LinkedIn has always been an annoyance (but necessary evil) for me as a software person. It's never gotten me a job, even indirectly through the many (many) recruiter connection requests that flow through each month.

I was annoyed that my profile was being monetised by LinkedIn and the recruiters who pay to use it. As a software eng who would be looking for a (say) 100k salary, recruiters would pop 10-25% on top, meaning smaller shops who _can_ pay 100k, now possibly can't afford the (say) 115k price tag, so there's a chance I wouldn't be put forward for the role as my salary request would now be out of their price range. I lose out, and the company loses out.

Why don't companies pay to obtain our details, and connect directly? The connection would be more "real" as there's a price tag attached to it. Connection requests would be from people who were willing to part with a fee in order to get in touch, and it's not a social network: it wouldn't be just about growing audiences with mindless "how to business" updates.

I teamed up with some colleagues to build Elevator over the past year. We workshopped a couple of early prototypes where people monetised their CV, but there was relevance issues when companies searched; they got unrelated results from historical role info.

So, we reverted to a "hard skills and experience" search model where companies can search for what they need (and only what they need). we found that it helped remove early-stage bias in that gender, orientation, and race are removed from the connection process.

We're at around the 500 user mark now in MVP mode, and only operating in Australia right now, but feel free to give it a rattle and tell us what you think.

Thanks - Paul G.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486938
Xilinx has like 2,000 FPGA patents, proudly displayed on plaques on their cafeteria wall.

So you would have to navigate around those.
Just disable Javascript. It makes almost all content-based sites so much better and easier to read.
1) So they can keep doing business in those other areas.

2) Large universities are not little startups to be easily intimidated.
Safari, not Chrome.
a pen and paper would suffice for immediate communication needs.
There is a joke in all of this:

One could argue that GitLab gets more and more mature but somehow still has Peach Fuzz.
Also, there are plenty of people on HN that advocate for breaking down all of the walled garden app stores, which necessarily means that users would have a higher cognitive load of researching which domains are more trusted app stores

How about the bank's own website? I trust that more than any "app store" (which is, after all, run by a third-party) for downloading its app.
I've worked at a company where we'd release every week and heavily leverage feature gates to hide features before they were ready for launch. And I've worked at a company that had no defined cadence - we'd release in big, well-defined chunks when features were fully baked and fully QA'd; no feature gates were needed on the client here.

There's value in both approaches, but I think I prefer the latter when the team size is small. Once you have multiple teams/priorities, the equation changes and it makes sense to have a more distributed, less segmented process. But initially it's great to have the predictability of well defined, packaged, well-QA'd releases. Results in a very high quality product and makes it really easy to debug/fix issues between releases.
Degentrification could trivially be achieved by eminent domain, condemning existing residential property for public housing for which eligibility would be governed on rules which are incompatible with gentrification. It might be expensive, even prohibitively so, to do on a broad scale, but in terms of legal authority it's well within the scope of powers that local governments usually have.

Note that rent control, even if the city doesn't have the power to establish it for private rentals, can effectively be achieved by the same means.
"What's even the point of adding a bunch of rules to break up a player with less than a third of the market and already in decline?"

The market they are defining does not include Facebook, Amazon or other "walled gardens". Details in the PDF.

The "why not look at other industries/companies" argument is old, tired and makes little sense. Looking at one company/industry does not prevent AGs or DOJ from looking at another.
"I'm sure we'll be able to identify extremely negative mutations and either fix them or abandon those genomes."

We? Who's we?

And what do you mean by "extremely negative mutations"? Who are the curators of humanity who gets to decide that?

What if the engineered people you consider to be "extremely neagtive" don't want to be "fixed"?
First, I think that once a strong monopoly exists monopolistic dynamics persist throughout the integrated layers. This is a premise of anti monopoly legislation.

Search, mobile, adwords, "advertiser tools" like google analytics, play store, youtube. Google have huge market share in each layer. These reenforce each other, amplifying the monopoly dynamics.

Second, I think adwords could qualify as a monopoly on its own. Online ad markets have grown a lot recently, but circa 2008 (I think) adwords market share peaked pretty high even if you define "market" as "all online ads". The market can be defined more narrowly too.

Third, EU courts have already found against Google for monopsonistic behaviour in their adwords market. Competing search engines monetizing via adwords faced some dirty tricks, but adwords was the only buyer.
The blissfully escapist comic novels of PG Wodehouse
A lot of places have a hell of a time dealing with very nested graphql queries that effectively DoS your app servers, or a resolver that’s very slow. Caching is also an open question. But for the simplest systems, I’d hesitate to recommend graphql at this point.
The website itself is a work of art.
I’ve got two Aerons (one for my home office and one for my wife’s).

One I bought new in 2012, and another I bought a year later for $300 from a used office furniture store.

I found a manufacture date code sticker on the used chair and it was made in 1998. You couldn’t possibly have convinced me it was a 15 year old chair, it has held up ridiculously well.

They’re also really easy to repair; a metric Allen wrench set is pretty much all you need.
Public domain media, is the best kind. Looks like a great art resource.
Yes! Very true. I found that I get distracted easily when reading, stopping at an unfamiliar term/concept, looking it up, possibly taking notes, annnddd then not really getting back to what I was reading.

Now, I read differently, where I _read to finish_; I try to minimize the time-to-big-picture.

Ive found reading with a pen or pencil to be helpful. I also sometimes prematurely seek out an answer to some piece of text that’s expounded on a few lines later. So my recipe now is, open book (or whatever), write the date and time, read the table of contents, read through and annotate, write questions and answers in the margins, and get to the other cover quickly; each time I pick up the text I read over something I previously noted (in fifo order). These second passes are slow, the first pass continues at the same speed.
Please don't be a jerk on HN, especially not in Show HN threads, which have special rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Ironically this would make the area much more affordable. I’m all for it :)
Both, but largely through marketing. It's hard to address concerns in the product if the mechanism to collect the data in question doesn't exist.

Our goal is to even the playing field when it comes to accessing spatial data and I feel that's adequately reflected in the core feature of our mapping software; whether you're a forensic analyst at Interpol or the neighbor kid looking up BMX trails, you'll always be looking at the most up-to-date map data. Paid customers receive features of course, but what appears on the map is the same regardless of whether or not you're paying.
Look up “boa login”, tap ad, YOUR PHONE HAS A VIRUS, tap to install. Suddenly you have a bank app on your phone.

You’re welcome.

This happens more often than you’d think. It’s even easier when you get targeted attacks via sms saying approximately the same thing. People don’t look at the URL bar.
If you only watch one new game trailer, let it be Annapurna Interactive's Stray. Like a lovechild of Wes Anderson and Spike Jonez, born into a world conceived by Ridley Scott:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u84hRUQlaio
> What's anyone's incentive for staying in... when bad things happen?

Well that's the beauty of it. Right now we are forcing (literally, by force!) people in war-torn countries to remain in them. Should they not have the option of escaping misery?

> What is going to keep people in their birth place, when they could earn orders of magnitude more in other countries?

There would be a new equilibrium. Poorer countries tend to be cheaper, so perhaps middle class first-worlders might move there (e.g. just like some Americans move to Mexico for retirement). Or perhaps the attachment to your local culture is strong enough.

But most important of all, why do we need to keep people in their birth place?
I would agree using other systems can make sense in things like pixel art etc, but animating/rotating a pixel over sub-pixel coordinates seems bad with anything other .5, you can end up with weird anchoring
HyperNormalisation: A different experience of reality (DOCUMENTARY)
> iOS in particular

False [1,2]. For a while iOS was hanging in there because persistence was difficult, but not anymore.

Banking on your phone, unless it is a segregated account with limited funds, is a seriously bad idea.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-z...

[2] https://www.cyberscoop.com/ios-zero-day-zerodium-high-supply...
That place consisted of people selling weed, people consuming weed, or someone decrying the perception that it was all based around flouting Danish laws relating to weed. It's situated in a nice area of the city, though, if it was just a random suburb it would likely not be a place you'd go.
They use comments for compilation directives, build instructions, code generation and other such stuff.

https://dave.cheney.net/2018/01/08/gos-hidden-pragmas

https://dave.cheney.net/tag/build-constraints

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2016-11-27-how-to-use-go-...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23493046
Show HN: Covid Calculator - A visual tool to explore and analyze the impacts
Same here, was surprised to see so many radios from my city (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and from the country side too, where they have an accent similar to my father's family. Still use radio.garden weekly, great service.
When is it okay to kiss your cousin?
Ask HN: Setup Server, Need Advice
I have a web app that serves about 10-50 people at one time. I’m paying for service at Linode currently, and I’m in the process of re-writing my app.

However, none of that is my concern. My server is running an ancient Debian OS, and instead of trying to upgrade it, instead I’m planning on spinning up a new server instance and just moving to that.

My question is, what UNIX or Linux distro should I start with? Does it matter much, are there advantages to some that I might not be aware of? (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora…) And is there an up-to-date guide somewhere that might guide me on things I should install or configure for this web server, for blocking malicious IPs, monitoring traffic, etc.?

Thanks in advance!
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. Here's a man page for anyone else that was interested: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/wcwidth.3.html
Zoom vs. Slack: Wall Street’s Misguided Comparison
Sorry for the confusion; the part of the comment I was responding to was this:

> I had this list of languages to explore in more depth: Python, Ruby, Lisp, Pascal (though I still plan to explore those). Oh, and find a good scripting language, in addition to one from the compiled language group.

The phrasing of "oh, and find a good scripting language" makes it sound like that's a completely separate goal than exploring Python, Ruby, etc. in depth. It reads to me like you plan to explore those four languages, then afterwards go find a good scripting language. This doesn't seem like it would be necessary if you find either Python or Ruby to be a good scripting language when you explore them, which implies that you don't expect to have found either of them to be good. Given that, I was curious about your motivation to explore those languages if you didn't expect them to be good.

Based on your confusion, it seems like you weren't intending these to be read as separate goals. I'm still not sure why you'd explicitly call out "finding a good scripting language" after mentioning you wanted to explore Python and Ruby, but my initial question appears not to be relevant.
Yes, I'm personally very worried about this as someone who is heavily invested in the real estate market here. The issue of how to deal with the rapid growth in the city is multifaceted and it's difficult to pitch a stance on.

At the very least, you could easily make an argument that a rising tide does not lift all boats; i.e. many people are personally not benefiting much from the tech-boom in the area. On the other hand, if your stance is that our collective goal should be to produce the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people; then we want more people to move to the city have prosperous lives to fulfill the new roles available here. In that scenario it's hard to keep income inequality from expanding.

It seems like thusfar the city council has done a good job at striking a balance; MHA (mandatory housing affordability) is a level-headed way to redistribute some of the gains that tech has brought to those who are less fortunate. However, our current city council is much more left-leaning and I'm worried that their stance towards growth is far more "progressive" and anti-business.

Should people really be entitled to live in an expensive city that they cannot afford? Cities like Manhattan or SF have sort of taken a stance on that and it favors the prosperous. I'm not sure how I feel about the matter; but I certainly do not want us to dampen our potential future potential by encouraging businesses to set up shop elsewhere. We need more initiatives like MHA and fewer like the business head-tax.
Has anyone tried writing a distributed app with Hamler ? It would be great to see an example that shows off the inbuilt messaging of erlang and the static typing of Haskell.
What makes something a dedicated office though? The only two things I can think of would be a phone line (not so much these days) and maybe being somewhat separated/distanced from the rest of the bedrooms and maybe near the front door. That's how I deduced I was an aberration to the family planning from my "bedroom" anyway.
Seems like it follows the spec to me:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.5.3
> $< 2&1> $@

I'm not really well versed in Makefiles, but that seems to pass the argument "2" to the testing program, launching it in the background with "&", and then doing a redirection for the stdout of an empty command to the target file with "1>".

I think you meant

$< > $@ 2>&1

which could also be

$< &> $@

I can't see how your example relates to static or dynamic typing, though.
The sort order within a category is also wonky, making comparisons hard:

Google:
- Health Insurance
- On-Site Mother's Room
- Fertility Assistance

Citadel:
- On-Site Mother's Room
- Health Insurance
- Fertility Assistance
That sounds like something taken from the book: Burn Math Class.

There is always f(b) > f(a) <=> f increases in [a, b]
or f(b) /= f(a) <=> f changes in [a,b].

But how useful is that?
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But can you build a fruitful system of analysis from your different definitions that doesn't have any equally surprising facts once you dig any deeper? The proof would be in the pudding. It's not like the choice of definitions in mathematics is arbitrary, they stick because they turned out to be useful.
I think you are conflating introversion and shyness or a broader uncomfortableness / inexperience with social interactions.

Yes, these things can be related. Spending less time socialising will lead to fewer opportunities to learn social skills, and to being less used to interactions with strangers.

Things being (perceived as) awkward are in my experience a result of lack of knowing what's appropriate behavior in a given situation. Something that will come with experience, and with self-confidence (reduces the need to "know the protocol" to feel comfortable in a social situation).

I would consider myself an introvert. I also used to be very shy, and was very concerned about appearing weird to others. In retrospect, one of the reasons for that was that _I_ was judging people all the time for all kinds of things, and believed they must be doing the same, and I couldn't bear that thought.

Nowadays I am comfortable in social situations and enjoy them greatly with the right people. Still don't go to parties a lot, still spent a lot of time by myself.

By self-proclaiming yourself as introvert and implying that entails unchangeable defects in social abilities, you will prevent yourself from learning and acquiring these abilities.
What are you trying to make? A social network? A highly interactive web app?

Could you build your app by generating HTML on the server, including some JavaScript and returning it? That's how old reddit, Hacker News, Stack Overflow, and no-JS Amazon are built.
I went through something similar with a parent years and years ago. I wanted to be able to do things to help with what would eventually be lost.

I have to say I didn't help as much as I thought I could and afterwards I was always wondering if I could have used this technology or that and done more.

So - I think you should recognize that you can only do so much, we're doing the best we can, and in the end we are all winging it.
> “Then two technologies were introduced that changed these Maya’s lives and, ultimately, their population: a gas-powered water pump and two gas-powered maize grinders.
[..]
By 2003, women who started reproducing in the 1970s had eight to 12 children.”

Gotta wonder if the women thought that was progress, or not.
I'm unconvinced by this line of argumentation, which others have tried before. Age and my attention cannot define art -- are you saying that something that is new or hasn't caught my (very brief) attention is not art? Or let's say it's not about me specifically, but rather about public impact: if something is new and known only by very few people, so that it hasn't really made a big public impact, does this prevent it from being art?

My very standard toilet has caught my attention -- and discourse, dare I say -- way more than Duchamp's urinal. Would most people consider my toilet art? Or would it need to be put on display in a museum?

Can you think of any man-made things older than a century that you wouldn't consider art? I sure can!
Facebook and related acquisitions is for social networks, what Google is for search engine.

You may want to check https://mastodon.social
Ironically, as part of our collective efforts to fight COVID-19, the federal government has suspended EEO-1 employee diversity reporting requirements.[1] Can't get the numbers from the government if companies aren't required to report them in the first place!

[1] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/employers-get-eeo-1-report...
I live in Seattle, went over yesterday with no preconceived notions of what must be there. I had seen some posts that it was pretty lawless, but really took them with a grain of salt. Nothing I had heard about it was true. I didn't see any guns, no violence, or anything, no checkpoints (just barricades stopping actual cars from coming in, but not stopping people/bicycles). Just a bunch of people kind of hanging out listening to speeches near the East Precinct building. The live stream link on the OP shows it, basically people hanging out, walking around, etc.

If you do live in Seattle, you should head over and see it for yourself. It's a very unique thing and who knows how long it will be there. I assume at some point the police will drive a tank through it or something.
> Their first demand is that the Seattle Police Department be abolished, as in 100% defunded, as in completely deleted. Coming out with a demand like that is just asking to lose right off the bat.

Abolition of existing centralized paramilitary police departments in favor of rethinking public safety and social services and reconstituting and redistributing law enforcement within a new framework is an idea which has fairly rapidly recently moved from the fringes to the mainstream of debate, and it is a policy openly and actively being discussed by many local governments, and already committed to by the Minneapolis City Council.

It may seem, by a pre-June-2020 perspective, to be an out-of-the-range-of-serious-debate demand, but the Overton Window on that issue just underwent and sudden and massive shift.
Why would a crawler want to crawl the same page every second (let alone 71 times a second). Even if I were Google, wouldn't crawling any page every few mins (or say every minute) be way more than enough for freshness?
I totally understand, in our setup, flaky tests happen when testing parts of the software that depend on the Hadoop infrastructure. Sometimes you can’t fully control some pieces and as a result those tests can be flaky.

However I want to highlight how frustrating it is when your tests fail when you wait for the build to finish...