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I've been wondering how the many recruiters have suddenly been getting my phone number. If you are a developer they blacklist your e-mail from creating an account to view the info they have on you.
You need to answer a bunch of questions (to yourself, even if not to us).

First and most important, how long is your runway? How soon do you have to tell your company yes or no? Did you get any severance? How long can you stand being out of work?

How well did you like your job? How much do you like Denver?

Do you prefer small towns or large cities? (I have a hard time thinking of any two places more different from each other than Sunnyvale and Kirkland.)

If you go to Kirkland and get laid off there, you're almost certainly going to have to move again to find your next job. Sunnyvale, probably not.

What is the probability that, if you apply for your job in Kirkland or Sunnyvale, you'll get it?
Yeah, it's not at all clear to me that USB connectors aren't worth "thousands" of insertion/removal cycles. They look very well thought out, plenty of contact area. Looks like it depends on the thickness of the gold contacts, per this supplier: http://www.globalconnectortechnology.com/usb-connectors/

USB2.0 Full Size: 1,500 mating cycles, gold flash plating.
USB2.0 Mini: 5,000 mating cycles, 15µ” gold plating.
USB2.0 Micro: 10,000 mating cycles, 30µ” gold plating.
USB3.0 Full Size: 5,000 mating cycles, 30µ” gold plating.
USB 3.0 Micro: 10,000 mating cycles, 30µ” gold plating.

With an added comment:

Why Micro types offer better durability?

Accomplished by moving leaf-spring from the PCB receptacle to plug, the most-stressed part is now on the cable side of the connection.

Inexpensive cable bears most wear instead of the µUSB device.

Plus as you note, it's easy to make it a cheap replaceable part. Use a USB extension cable on the computer side and you won't be wearing that out (I've done that trick in times past).
Should one really be setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH like that? I thought the preferred way to deal with library search at run time was to rpath it in at compile time.
idempotency is a nice goal, i tend to run into issues where say somebody changes a chef attribute and re runs chef-client (update) on the machine. Say that was a filepath that got changed. Without knowing about the previous filepath, the only thing that can be done is to work with the new path. its technically idempotent in that if i run it twice without a config change it will not change anything on the second run, but unless on every attribute/recipe change i throw away the old machine and provision a new one there is left over state. That being said, i recreate instances fairly regularly as I believe there are always chaos monkeys lurking :)
Peerblock is effectively useless. There's no reason to waste time implementing it.
Start working with OpenStreetMap data.
I've never understood the management attitude that seeks to create such an environment, because workers just end up rebelling against it in hidden ways. I worked in retail in college for a truly terrible company. The work environment was awful and exploitative, but the company wasn't very good at things like inventory control. So, largely in response to this, the people in the stock room would literally throw probably 10% of the merchandise that came off the trucks directly into the garbage compactor. If that's good business, then there's something seriously wrong with our economic system.
I live in a fairly low-cost area(a mid-sized town in the coastal southeast). $10/hr would be a stretch.
I rigged up Azureus to do this kind of sequential downloading a long time ago once, and it was quite neat, but I didn't share the patch because I reckoned it would be bad for torrent health if everyone started doing this. Isn't that still true, and with Popcorn and this popping up now, isn't it just a question of time before seeders start recognising and penalising sequential downloaders?
How we validated our SaaS product without building it
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As noted in the release notes, I've recently transitioned from being a weekend contributor to a full time maintainer on Deis. It has been awesome working with Docker since v0.1.2 and with Deis since v0.1.0, and I am certainly looking forward to contributing more upstream improvements in the future.

Look out for more pull requests to the registry! :)
An increase in the cost of living would occur, particularly for people for whom essential goods form the large part of their consumption (luxury goods, in contrast, would likely decrease in price). The details of extent, however, depend on the magnitude of the basic income.

A couple things counteract that increase in price. For one, capital would flow more toward producing essential goods owing to a larger demand: this would prioritize research and development in those goods, and in hunting out inefficiencies that hamper their production and distribution, leading to a lower real cost. For two, most people already consume the bare essentials of life--the real question is just where that money comes from, be it a basic income, a demeaning job, a good job, or debt. (These two counteracting factors are at odds, btw: the more one is a factor, the less the other is. The second prevents inflation from being an issue at all, while the first merely mitigates against it. Two is the larger factor, imo.)

In addition, there's an individual psychological factor that helps. Not having a guaranteed income means that, at a moment's notice, you can have no financial ability to take care of yourself: this puts you into bad situations and leads you to make locally rational decisions that are globally suboptimal (where you do less-than-ideal things to survive today that cost you a lot more down the line than the benefit you got today). And this has a broader deleterious social impact: for instance, you might be forced to abandon all your social networks to move back home (if you have a home to go back to!), which significantly increases search costs and destroys valuable information, making labor markets less efficient. So even if there's been serious inflation because of a basic income, it still allows you to stay afloat instead of throwing your life into radical chaos.

I share your concern about the exact shape of what would happen, and the level of basic income that best improves social outcomes depends on such a number of factors that it seems very difficult to calculate. Phasing it in over a range of increasing values seems like one way to deal with that.
> The crux of your argument is unconvincing. Service jobs have to be near the wealthy? What kind of myopia is that?

Actually, what's myopic is this:

> Un-wealthy people go out to eat and get their car repaired just as much as Richie Rich.

People who aren't wealthy don't eat out as much and don't spend nearly as much when they go out to eat. They buy food that has smaller margins and expect less in the way of service, meaning lower wages for the workers.

And of course service jobs have to be near the wealthy. When it doesn't matter where a worker is located, that job gets outsourced. Location-dependent jobs are the ones that are least likely to disappear in the future (or to have disappeared already).

> It's also awful presumptuous to say, "Well I'm wealthy, this is where I want to live. You are poor, you don't get a choice, live near me"

It's no more presumptuous than Henry Ford was when he expected workers to move to Detroit to work in the booming automotive industry, rather than setting up a bunch of small factories all across America so he could accommodate them. Moreover, in this case, such a policy would help to keep workers from having to move (to the Sun Belt, or another low-cost-of-living locale) away from their families and communities in the first place.

You can dream all you want of a utopia where people can live in the middle of nowhere and have their ideal job. But that isn't going to make it a reality.
This is why you're wrong: https://twitter.com/juanmacias/status/443465968480976897

I will translate it for you: "24€ for the 3 of us at the cinema... empty place. And downloading is the guilty"
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Almost done... but pizza
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No point in anything: no point in oversight, no point in the government, no point in waking up in the morning...
> if the user allows it to access the SD card. And since majority of the people allows everything on their Android device

1. So basically, if you're installing an app AND you're allowing the app to access all of your phone (and its dirty secrets)

2. I don't see why whatsapp would encrypt the chats (I might be very wrong on this one), isn't it better if we can access them offline through a computer if the phone crashes?

3. Bigger picture: at first, dividing permissions and asking for the user to accept them was a good idea, but now we tend to accept anything because in the end, we want to use the app. Same problem with facebook login, google login, where we tend to accept whatever info websites request just to get to the app.
OK, so I'll add some context, you tell me what you think. I have almost 20 years experience in 2 very niche fields (consumer electronics and TV technologies). As a result, I've built up a lot of domain expertise and a lot of industry contacts. Again - no judgement here on whether I'm good or not, just stating some facts.

I frequently get emails from people introducing me to "Bob" who is starting a hardware startup and really wants to learn how to bring a gadget to market. For me, this is fun - I love to talk about this stuff. I've mentored/nurtured/consulted for dozens of these startups, and continue to do so to this day.

BUT - I'm also running a startup and have a family at home. Which means I have much, much less time available than I used to. So every "Fun" activity I choose to take takes away from either my work time or my personal time. This is fine - as long as I can manage it. Which I do. Until requests show up uninvited. Which now puts, as I've said, a burden in my lap.

I can choose to either (A) reply and take on the intro, (B) reply and decline (as politely as I possibly can), or (C) ignore it. So I never do (C), as I feel it's rude, but I can guarantee you that every time I do (B) I create a negative perception about myself.

I don't like being put in a position where I have to tell other people - who genuinely could use my help - that I am too busy for them. But what else am I supposed to do?

Whereas when my colleague asks if I'm up for an intro, and I can say no to someone who I already have a relationship with, and will understand me, is fine to me.

Maybe you think the above is wrong, but I don't...

Looking forward to your reply.
There are very few original ideas out there.
OclHashCat adds support to crack DNSSEC 1.1mh/s
The patents that Twitter bought from IBM were mostly low quality assets. IBM, largest patent holder for the last 21 years straight, is known for having tons of narrow patents on every little feature they develop. This deal was a good way for IBM to get rid of some garbage and a good way for Twitter to get a Big, Scary looking patent portfolio.

I did a qualitative analysis of the patent portfolio here: http://www.preferredembodiment.com/1/post/2014/03/twitter-bo...
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All of this is quite predictable if you just ask yourself what kind of people refer to their personal opinion papers as "manifestos".
You are correct, that is what I meant, but I've taken to calling it 'rebooting' because all the intro-to-EC2 stuff I've seen listed their "how to reboot the instance" instructions as stopping and starting it, so I figured it's the appropriate vernacular, however incorrect it might otherwise be.
Who did you have in mind to replace her?
I assume you are being sarcastic, given the history of protestantism. Come to think of it, that reminds me of an Emo Phillips joke:

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!"

"Why shouldn't I?" he said.

I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!"

He said, "Like what?"

I said, "Well...are you religious or atheist?"

He said, "Religious."

I said, "Me too! Are you christian or buddhist?"

He said, "Christian."

I said, "Me too! Are you catholic or protestant?"

He said, "Protestant."

I said, "Me too! Are you episcopalian or baptist?"

He said, "Baptist!"

I said,"Wow! Me too! Are you baptist church of god or baptist church of the lord?"

He said, "Baptist church of god!"

I said, "Me too! Are you original baptist church of god, or are you reformed baptist church of god?"

He said,"Reformed Baptist church of god!"

I said, "Me too! Are you reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1879, or reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915?"

He said, "Reformed baptist church of god, reformation of 1915!"

I said, "Die, heretic scum", and pushed him off.
If,

- My NDA protected work can not be added to the metrics
- I can not view my profile
- Opt out

Then I believe this is a terrible product.
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How mountains teach us about being human
Interesting. I've been using EchoSign (http://www.echosign.com) for years without complaints, but I don't think their UI has been updated much since being acquired by Adobe a while ago.
And my argument was that a simple design is good design, and in my opinion, better than something that isn't simple.

You could definitely write a build system in shell. In my opinion, "the job" is subjective and you shouldn't have to pick one tool for it. But I would prefer a simple one where I can see pretty much everything it's doing up front and not have to download source code or search through docs.

Debian picked up systemd because it was a popular decision, not because it was better. As far as i'm aware there was nothing broken in sysvinit that systemd fixed; there was just a vocal minority that wanted some new features and insisted it be shipped as default.

And in defense of shell scripts, nearly every single operating system you can think of other than Windows uses scripts to initialize (hell, even Windows has some startup scripts), and that is an abstraction that's suited to the problem domain. It's not like for the past 50 years people have been too stupid to come up with something better than shell scripts. The whole point of init scripts is to let anyone be able to modify their operating system's start-up procedures quickly and easily. If we didn't need to modify them to suit our individual cases they'd be statically compiled C programs or assembly (which, by the way, I have done in the past; it's not a good idea)
So it is OK for CIA to defeat its own oversight?
This is a good way for a company to amass tons of low quality patents. After a few years, the maintenance fees start to drag them down. IBM sold some of these crap assets to Twitter to avoid paying $9.9m in maintenance fees over the next 10 years.
I'm failing to see the value...
this is true in the US too, except without the bath part.
Snowden accuses Senate intelligence chair of hypocrisy over CIA disclosures
I just built this yesterday: http://blog.vivekpanyam.com/plotter-plot-anything/. Inspired by Tasseo and Scout Realtime
This is exactly how empires fall, they get greedy, take too much, push too far and something breaks. If the feudal kings only took 10% we would probably all still be serfs.
Microsoft brings Office 365 data to Android apps
Is there a new API for Google Docs I haven't heard about?

It looks like Google Docs might finally be ready to go after Microsoft Office in the enterprise, now that they have an API to beat out Visual Basic for Applications.
The biggest difference that I see is that women are usually invited to parties. There is a huge gender imbalance in Japanese science research, and I think the culture around funding is responsible.
"... a gig that paid twice as much per week as I'd earn in a month at the store."

So 300 * 2 * 4 *52 = $124,800.
Every security researcher goes through this phase when it dawns on them no one gives a shit about security. It leads to a few years of depression, and then going to work for people who, for whatever reason, really do care about security.
Great points. As someone who has founded a couple tech-meets-meatspace businesses (including a cleaning company) these observations certainly ring true.

Another thing I would add, is that people often don't correctly estimate how much of a pain it can be to deal with customer/worker issues day in and day out. Most tech companies have limited support access, which greatly reduces their exposure to angry clients.

But when you're in a services business you are pretty much forced to spend hours each day talking with angry customers, unreliable providers, and helping resolve seemingly endless conflicts. You can mitigate some of this with better systems and tech, but ultimately this burden only increases as you scale. At the end of the day there will always be a subset of your customers who are belligerent, unreasonable, or trying to con you outright. And that's to say nothing of unreliable/dishonest workers.

It can be a great business to be in, but you will need a thick skin, velvet tongue, and something of an indomitable spirit.
Crytek jumps on Steam Machine hype train, announces Linux support
That part had strange wording. I'm assuming that that was one of the rumors. It could have been worded better, perhaps with a colon and then a list of rumors.
"I still hope to get her out of the Senate at her next election cycle."

That's a long wait. She is not up for re-election until 2018.
> there is only one version to build against in the chrooted environment where the build occurs

This is all rather new to me. Would it be fair to make the analogy? The build process is not a portable/cross-platform event, so you basically distribute a BuildFoo.exe with statically-linked libraries included.

You're roughly guaranteed that the BuildFoo.exe will run (they've got those libraries), and the user gets Foo in the end (either dynamically-linked or statically).
The high cost of living is caused solely by liberals and their zoning policies?

Presumably this is why Shanghai, Melbourne, Moscow, Singapore, and Hong Kong are so expensive. Because they're run by liberals.

Nothing to do with private markets. Nothing to do with issues related to installed bases. Nothing to do with market forces. Just liberal governments.

You libertarians are flipping hilariously stupid sometimes. Where by sometimes I mean always.
There are endless good reasons for an app to request access to the SD card, so I would say it's still very reasonable to trick anybody into accepting it.

The idea of handling the SD card has a global shared filesystem that totally bypasses the application sandbox is a security disaster from the get go. Fortunately, SD cards are on the way out, and Google doesn't even bother to fix it at the system level since they're dropping it anyway at some point.
I agree on the content, but disagree on the form of some of the points.

Example:

Budget:

Validate leads. Yes, of course. However, I don't like that asking someone how much they're willing to spend. Not under this form, at least.

This information is none of anyone's business than the prospect (speaking as a prospect). However, it's an important information, so the salesman needs to adapt to get that information. He might not ask for it, but needs to get it.

Some cues on the means of the prospect can be visible, but this can be deceiving. Bling bling people often are broke overcompensating folks.

Conversation fu can also be used indirectly to get the information, but the prospect can be good at that and drop just the right amount of hints to convey he can afford it..

Authority:

Speaking to the right person. Yes. However, this is done on two sides: Convincing the pockets, using the daughter as leverage.

Asking the father "Besides yourself, who else is involved with the purchase" isn't, in my opinion, the right form.

Because it's like asking a man "Is your wife grabbing your ?". A man will never admit someone else holds the power. Those who do, the "I won't lie to you, she's the boss.." are way beyond the point of no return, but at least, they're at peace and you can go for it.

But with those who won't admit to that, you need to be careful not to scratch the ego. The problem isn't the fact he has no power inspite him being the earner, the problem is that you mustn't know. So you always make it seem it's his decision, and won't acknowledge the fact the wife or the daughter chose. He must feel good about the decision he -someone else- made.

With this, too, observation is key. You see a man with his daughter and wife, and you know. You see how they interact, and you see who's a daddy girl or a bossy wife, who's a wimp and who's dominating and who'se domineering. These are all subtleties one observes.

Needs:
Agree. How about a Cayenne ? It's fast, it's German, it's luxurious (a Porsche, after all) and it's got 4 doors. You drop the kids, and pick-up a young lady a two minutes later.

Handling objections is of paramount importance (Sometimes triggering them helps, too. I know it may sound weird, but triggering an objection on a point early on when the objection doesn't really matter (because there's no action tied to it at that time) is useful for when you go over that point later because the objection was already triggered earlier (or about another, less important point)).

I haven't sold a $100M for anyone, but let's say I have a slight knack for enabling people to do what they really want to do, but didn't find a way to.
Well that is an interesting development. Looks like Wolfram has more planned with this than just education.
Plotter: Plot Anything
How was Berkin Elvan killed?
Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign.

Another integration we have that's unique to HelloSign is the ability to sign documents directly in Gmail. It’s one of my favorite integrations we’ve built:

https://www.hellosign.com/gmail
I'm pretty sure that isn't a surety. See the accepted answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11412160/java-libraries-... for instance. LGPL, in any case, would almost certainly be okay. Most people I talk to consider .jar's a dynamic link and dynamic links okay via the GPL but there are alternative interpretations and I don't think it has been tested one way or another in the courts.
"This app would like to: ... Allow this application to run when you are not present ..."

No, thanks. It will also cost if I sign more than 3 documents per month.
this sounds like the most frustrating experience for a user ever
Ask HN: how do you remoters get tech-socialization?
My local friends aren't into programming so I can't talk tech with them. What else can you do that doesn't involve traveling hours to go to a meetup (closest one to me is hours away)?
I didn't say I agree with that statement. But it certainly seems to reflect reality.

I personally believe that low-skill/pay workers should be treated better in this country. The important question is: How do we accomplish this? Mandates like higher min. wage? Or, societal pressures of some sort? It doesn't appear that (most) corporations will treat employees better out of the goodness of their heart.
This is actually good news . . .?
Unfortunately, by removing Flappy Bird from the App Store, he opened the door for shitty clones to reach the top of the charts. This arguably made the lives of users worse. He also passed up the opportunity to make millions of more dollars in merchandising.
One thing I learned recently was that dependencies can be locked with npm shrinkwrap [1]. In the event that you don't want a deployment to be impacted by a newer version of a dependency.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-shrinkwrap.html