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I'm going to concede my points, as I think I was too one-sided in my arguments.

I often see great remote employees, I just think it's important to note that we often view things in too binary a way. As in remote = good and we should hate everyone who doesn't allow it. If someone's not pulling their weight then they shouldn't be on the team. But when I work in an office, there are conversations I have that would have never happened if I worked remotely.

Not everything is so black and white and I honestly think in tech there are many roles that would suffer without the collaboration of an office environment. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have remote employees when the context is right and it helps getting A players who don't want to work in an office, but I don't think we should put remote as the holy grail of things like I often see on HN.
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It's not really novel, Hayek wrote a book arguing that competitive private currencies would provide economic stability without central control.

Whether new money is issued by a central bank or other agents, it seems to me the effect is pretty much the same.
I live in an area with pretty much 0 worthwhile tech jobs. I've been working remote for a while now and done so with 3 very different organizations doing very different types of work (plain old software dev to machine learning research), and I've personally found this not to be a "very rare privilege" at all. Currently about 9% of the jobs on Stack overflow careers are remote, and if you look carefully you can find a very wide range of work.

I find the remote space is rapidly advancing and expanding. The tools are getting much better, and the diversity of companies offering remote work is as well. It's definitely sustainable to choose to work only remotely, and even if I were to move to a city with better tech jobs I would have a hard time going back to full-time working in an office.
I find people doing remote work constantly missing big parts of information that is passed around verbally and doing extra work / being less efficient because of this.

We already use chat rooms, individual chats, tickets, video conferencing, email, dashboards, whatever.

But sometimes the bandwidth of just sitting with someone and looking at a problem together is so much higher that you can solve big issues in a very short time.

I think some psychologists could study this, it's right up their alley - what is lacking in remote co-operation devices. I personally think it's partly that you need to see what the other person is looking at and also you must be able to observe their body language. A way to do "Look here, this is important in about 0.1 seconds." But I have no evidence.
I love Prime, but there's no way that shipping a 20-roll pack of paper towels[1] that cost less than the store, in a giant cardboard box, in two days via an airplane to my door, is sustainable. They are taking a loss, even factoring in the membership fees, and at some point they won't be able to get away with it any longer.

[1] Or a big heavy television. Or anything else you can find on Amazon.
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It's worth it to compare prices on food items as well. Plus, you might get a better selection than in your local store. For instance, Amazon carries loads of Bob's Red Mill products at great prices.
Agree with everything you said. They have the perfect formula. Unfortunately, I see them ultimately going the way of Ebay if we don't see some healthy competition sometime soon.
Perhaps note the date and extreme sarcasm?

"Change is never easy. But we’re willing to do whatever it takes to be the most efficient company we can be. Now please excuse us, we’re off to get more productive. And secure. And dressed the same."
Thanks for the info. I have been searching for the contract approach. I've been a Java developer since 2000. I have been an architect and lead. So, I am a senior developer. My latest job offer is also a senior position. "Architect" is not in my career path as I do not like that title. It brings about too much baggage and too little tech. So, I'll keep trying. I'd really like to move out to Fort Collins, Colorado to be with family out that way. But, they aren't a tech city and I need remote work to pull it off.
I'm afraid I don't see your point. Docker, and some of the other new system tools seem like great products. I'm sure they make sysadmin's lives easier than when they had to run everything via custom shell scripts. It probably makes them more efficient, so you don't need as many sysadmins per server. But I don't see how it is ever going to reduce the need to less than 1.0 sysadmins. And just as it will make sysadmins that work for your company more efficient, so to will it make IaaS/PaaS' sysadmins more efficient.

As a developer, I have very little interest in administering databases, servers, networks, and so on. It's not what I'm good at, and it's not what I'm interested in, it's not what I know. That the tools now use Turing complete configuration language that also happen to be a fairly popular general purpose languages doesn't change any of that.

Certainly, the IaaS/PasS pitch isn't for everyone. But for those who are in the sweet spot, it is a very compelling pitch. Frankly whether or not the platform is open source doesn't really impact its appeal very much. At least from where I sit.
Amazon has always had both Prime and non-Prime products in their inventory. Usually, 3rd party sellers are non-Prime, although some choose to use the Amazon Prime shipping system (and their products cost commensurately more). Also, products with thin profit margins, such as textbooks, quite often were and are not Prime.
Can you explain why that is?
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You don't know that any company will keep a service alive a few years from now. Either (a) the company is willing to shutdown services that don't make sufficient money to justify keeping them, which creates a risk, or (b) the company is not willing to do that, which creates a risk of the company failing and either going out of business or being purchased by someone who is willing to shutdown the parts that aren't making money.
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I've been working remotely for most of the last 20 years. It has its tradeoffs (nobody says, "What a pretty new sweater!") but I would not consider anything else. (How _do_ people get work done without a cat on their lap?)

When it comes to looking for work, telecommute is a non-negotiable item for me. I am happy to visit the office, which to me means "go onsite for one week every quarter" (as in-person time _does_ matter, just not on a day to day basis). But if someone says they require me to work onsite, it's a reason to walk away, in the same way that a lot of other people say, "No way would I relocate."

Plus, I see a refusal to permit telecommuting (for appropriate work, especially creative/innovation) as a sign of the company culture... and not in a good way. Do you really trust your employees so little that you have to have them under your watchful eye?
Which side of that line do confidence tricksters, fraudsters, and counterfeiters lie?
I came in to write exactly what you wrote above, point-for-point. I love Amazon, I with buying big-ticket items like stoves and refrigerators were easier through them. And I still have a bit of trepidation of buying TVs, etc, and would prefer going to Costco for those, since shipping back is so expensive in case something goes wrong. If they have a solution for that they will get all my business.
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I think 'climate change' is generally used now because 'global warming' implies the entire globe will become warmer, when in fact some areas, due to complex interactions, will actually become cooler. That, combined with the political posturing (on both sides), has made it useful to use a more general term. IMHO.
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It sounds like you feel that Hacker News would be a better forum for debate if people followed this procedure. I think we agree that Hacker News sometimes has a troll problem, and I've learned from you that part of that problem is that people here don't really know how to argue. Isn't going through all of this rigamarole a pain in the ass though? Do you really expect the best of human argumentation to come from a social news aggregator?
This. Amazon has done almost everything right for the customer (as Bezos emphasizes in all his interviews). For me, the primary weak point is the dubious quality of third part sellers sometimes. Other than that, it's an awesome place to shop.
Please supply values for the following undefined variables:

1. kagillion (shares, %ADV, notional dollars)

2. good old days (single year or a range)

3. too much (in $ or %)
I think you are vastly underestimating how clever would-be attackers can be.
Me and my Air are just gonna give you a sad look from our perch on a footbridge across a beautiful ravine full of trees, and lie back in the sun for another few hours.
I think 0xF055 has circulated too much now (slashdot, hack a day, maker: etc.) So if we there should be squatting it better be on 0xF055. Let's just destroy the strict minimum to achieve our goal (having a unique VID+PID for our proprietary drivers to find the corresponding gadget on the bus).
I learned a few years back that higher cost doesn't necessarily equal high quality.
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I don't think it's that we're post-fact in the sense that data in unverifiable; most data is verifiable. But there are enough websites and online communities out there to support any point of view, so that people find a peer group that supports their theory, especially one's fears on this complex world. Anti-vaxxers are a huge example of this. Try to find information about specific vaccines and you'll be deluged in anti-vax pages that sound rather scientific. The information is out there, but so is the disinformation.
I am not worried about it. People care about security and don't welcome the hassle. For the privacy advocates when it comes to public transportation like flying: what do you fear may happen as a result of greater background checks?

This article reminded me of this one from 3 years ago: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/why_israeli_airport_securit...

(PS: I predict this comment will be heavily voted down just because people disagree with me, and I want to see whether HN users on aggregate punish opposing views or reward a willingness to reasonably discuss something.)

However, the below doesn't make much sense together:

"The prescreening, some of which is already taking place, is described in documents the T.S.A. released to comply with government regulations about the collection and use of individuals’ data, but the details of the program have not been publicly announced.

It is unclear precisely what information the agency is relying upon to make these risk assessments."

So what is the regulation about disclosing collection of info, if it's still unclear after disclosure what information they are using?
Depends on the kind of work. Engineers and Designers generally work as teams on location.
I live north of the city (Roswell). How does one communicate on hacker news? Is it poor form to throw out my email address?
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Nice try, but I think this is a little bit too obvious to really work as a parody of Silicon Valley vacuousness.
Hi wcoenen, perhaps you meant Coinlab, not Coinbase.
For those who missed it, 0xF055 can be read as "FOSS": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software
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I think the question is "Why didn't women want to attend?"

Some said it was probably intimidating to be amongst an all male group. But the only way that will change is if we (females) show up!
I think it's simpler than this: just delay every trade by a random amount between zero and ten seconds. For people who actually want to buy or sell instruments because of their value to them, that won't be a problem. For people who just want to play Street Fighter II with the market, it's game over.
I think you mean 1/1250 in 80 years... thanks for scaring me. Edit: Uh, no, it is 1/125. Ouch. That seems awfully high.

I can only hope that's some bad statistics whereas your chances are disproportionally high while you're a teenager but if you make it past that, you're ok...
I agree, and there needs to be a mechanism to automatically save and ship add-on items when the conditions are met for free shipping.

And to your point about attaching them to a prime order, I would have to imagine Amazon is aware of this limitation and I wouldn't be surprised if they add this feature soon.
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This is very, very true. The waters are a bit muddy though, because a lot of those smaller 'would never take VC' startups actually transition into the VC kind of startup. This is even true for many of the big players in the tech landscape today. When they started out and before they gained their incredible traction, a lot of VCs would have laughed them out of the building.

There should still be some way to differentiate the name though. Maybe something as simple as 'VC-Startup' and 'LS-Startup' (lifestyle)?
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I tried Prime, found on my first order (as a Prime user) of several small items that none qualified for free shipping so I guess they weren't in the "15 Million items" category, yet those were the ones I needed. So I canceled. If the free shipping worked out, we would go for it and probably drop NetFlix even though they have a better choice of shows and we got hooked on their House of Cards series. We probably would keep both. Until I feel that their Prime membership will support us when we need to buy something we will remain non-members of Prime.

We still spend several hundred to several thousand dollars per year, Amazon makes shopping so easy.
The point is that Google was once held in high esteem because it acted in an unusually trustworthy way for a large corporation.

Almost everything they were fundamentally trusted on has turned out to be a betrayal. It is right and natural to question and distrust them until they have reestablished trust, which is likely to be a long process.

You will notice that as well as the appropriate distrust, there are also comments from people including yourself who have examined the proxy and determined that Google's trustworthiness is irrelevant to the trustworthiness of the proxy.

This is exactly how it should work. People are right to distrust Google, so the question should be asked. But we are also a technical community who can then analyze and understand the situation to determine whether concern is warranted.

The last thing we need is for people to silence their distrust and for scrutiny to stop.
No, I mean 1/125. Yes, it is awfully high.
This is really interesting/cool looking stuff. Clojure has piqued my interest for a while, but the longer I've been programming, the less I want to have to deal w/ dynamically-typed languages.

The ability to type the variadic map in particular seemed awesome, though I agree the syntax was weird:

[[a b ... b -> c] (NonEmptySeqable a) (NonEmptySeqable b) ... b -> (NonEmptyLazySeq c)]

I guess the '... b' is really just saying "continue the sequence until the end"? Like you could imagine a syntax where instead of ...b it was just "...", as in "[[a b ... -> c] (NonEmptySeqable a) (NonEmptySeqable b) ... -> (NonEmptyLazySeq c)".
I really like the idea. A few months ago, I used IndieGogo for the same: a book project - and it was an amazing experience. I sent proof copies, sketchs, etc., and share more with my readers.

It is a better experience for the author (you know there are people who really want to read what you have to say!) and for the readers, who can share more of the creation process.
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I just saw DHH post this, http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3658-cabin-fever and it explains a bit. Sometimes motivation can be hard. Especially since you have no "real" coworkers and you're sitting around the house all day. Often times going out and working at a coffee shop can help but it's not always viable. It also doesn't help that I'm in a pretty isolated and mostly tourist area of Florida where there are seemingly no other developers or dev companies and most certainly no co-working spots here.
1. Hrm, ok. So apparently it's a 770B fund. Let's say they want to move .01% of their assets into MSFT. That would be $77M or about 2.2M shares. That would be about 5% of the average daily volume of MSFT.

2. It's not a binary thing but a gradual transition from mostly human market makers in the 80s to mostly algorithmic market makers today.

3. I'm on shakier ground on this one, but a fraction of a % of their cost.
It's not clear that you actually watched the video. He's not saying you should never eat fructose. E.g. he points out that fructose is metabolized in a similar way to alcohol with similar bad effects, but he never said "no alcohol" either. The issue he's raising is that Americans have been consuming far too much fructose, and this consumption has been driven by government intervention going back to Nixon.
The test indicates something more important than Window's performance and that is monothilic designer like Apple can in fact make a great product if the designer chooses to. If Windows were to make their own laptop and invest the same amount of resource into bothe software and hardware, the comparison will be more interesting.

In essence, your average OEM does not do a great job. The capacitor, the transistors they use are probably way cheaper than what Apple have put into their MBA. That is expected because after all, your Dell computer is not going to cost $1499.
>"- Easiest returns if the need arises."

This has actually become the most compelling thing about Amazon for me. I've been a Prime member since the start and Amazon has taken care of me without question even when it's not entirely "their" problem (stolen packages, marketplace sellers, my own mistakes).

Also, a not entirely well known benefit of Prime is the option to share the free 2-day shipping benefit with four family (They call it "household member", but no need to have the same address) members.
No, it's more like they want to buy a kagillion shares and before they can complete the trade a HFT buys them and sells to Norway for slightly more. It's not good for me, I sold to the HFT. It's just intraday noise that only does the HFT any good.
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Cloning other people's products and then dumping them onto the market using predatory pricing is a far more 'vehement' attack than anything Apple has done.

If you seriously believe Samsung is a more ethical company than Apple, then we need discuss this no longer.
I agree, though it seems the OP is the author of the page, so he could change the original title to this one if he really wants to.
> More computers aimed solely at content consumers, neutered only to run web browsers, with their own NIH development environments tied down to specific languages.

What are you talking about ? Firefox os made a choice i wish them good luck.

If you are talking about phone oses is general Android is hackable,it's not just aimed at content consumers. As for specific languages you can code in java ,c/c++,python,... or javascript with android. you are not tied to anything.
Pay did not scale with Walmart's business. So you get sub-par skilled employees who only care about having a job to make a little money, and even then, most REALLY don't care. If you pay for an $8/hour employee, you're gonna get exactly that. If you don't promote and dismiss employees you're going to bottleneck on lackluster performance
I'd say to index it to GDP.
I think your sarcasm just fell into a chasm. It may not be by design, but the effect is the same...
I don't think collaborator is a good term here, it is implying they are secretly giving up US citizens for some evil nefarious purposes to the government. I'd label them as a US based company that is complying with US law.
Of course, when they scan your passport (drivers license) into their computer at the security desk they are looking you up. That data was gathered before you arrived at the airport.
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Here's a job board I found dedicated to remote positions. Maybe you'll find something that suits you here: https://www.wfh.io/jobs/
Wow. If they added an option to be an intermediate proxy for traffic you were unconnected with, could they turn this thing into a global tor with authorized exit nodes?
Technically, you could, but you don't want to stomp on other vendor's feet. It's a bit like mac addresses or IP addresses, you can do what you want but you probably want to behave in society (in the case of IP addresses, you'll need friends for routing).

And also, to find the device from the OS API, you sometimes have to submit the VID/PID of the device you are looking for. Example: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/usb.html#method-findDevices So changing it on the fly might be a problem (not sure, maybe once open they won't seek it again).
Video conferencing (whether it's Google Hangouts, WebRTC, or something fancier) malees a huge difference. Seeing the people you're talking with makes the conversation much more personal and gives you visual cues about what people are saying and when it's your turn to speak.
Fuck it, let's just argue the other way and save some time.

What evidence is there that we should ignore the well-known design principles of encapsulation and separation-of-concerns and thus allow the TSA to access data held by other agencies?
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Germany is a long time NSA collaborator. If Europeans wanted to they could handle intelligence themselves they could, they don't want to.
Where did you get your Privacy Policy copy from?
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I always found so stupid they just don't put a bit of flash and the drivers in it. Or just an URL in the device descriptor.
> For instance, an update about the T.S.A.’s Transportation Security Enforcement Record System, which contains information about travelers accused of “violations or potential violations” of security regulations, warns that the records may be shared with “a debt collection agency for the purpose of debt collection.”

This is absurd. So now the government is snitching on citizens who are traveling domestically.
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