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How Do You Make Remote Fingers More Efficient?
There are some clients (usually government-related) where there is an absolute requirement to perform all deployments through "remote fingers". You literally have to tell a staff member of the client, "type this, click that", either in-person, over a phone, or over a chat.

Does anyone ever do this regularly, and if so, what tools and techniques have you used to make this more efficient?

What I have done to mitigate the absolute productivity-death this requirement imposes are:

* Work from my own office if feasible.

* Use a multiple monitor setup.

* Run 2-3 simultaneous web conference sessions, each session with a staffer from the client taking instructions from me over chat. Feed a steady stream of instructions to all sessions.

* When there are extensive GUI instructions to perform, jump to audio, then jump back to chat when done.

* Schedule out people's time available to work with me as far in advance as possible; this usually works out to be about a week.

* Determine who is the backup, and ensure management clears them to drop what they are doing and transfer to supporting me should the primary point of contact need to bow out.

* Do as much as possible via CLI.

* Set up a lab environment where you can mimic what you are about to deploy, as far as possible.

* Line up my meals for the day at my desk ahead of time.

* When the client staff break for a meal, have them SMS you as soon as they are ready to start again, so they never wait for you to join.

* Set up a private server on my side to let the staff members easily upload files and download files from you. Often these environments have extremely restrictive web site filters that make it all but impossible to ship out large trace logs, or to download a utility like PuTTY (seriously).

What have I missed?
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You misunderstand - how would the public have found out about the results of that audit? There is no incentive to release this information for a closed product; very much the opposite.
It's about time someone got serious about Somalians disrupting international shipping...
Yes, in financial transactions the standard is to use the credible approach instead of the expedient approach.
I think ClaSH is the proper romanization.
The bigger issue here is the utter lack of communication from Mint. They deal with Serious Data™. If their organization don't recognize the need to communicate with their users about this, then what other risks do they not recognize?
For fun, reread this article with "doctor" universally replaced by "teacher", and note the similarities. Then note that the doctor is probably taking home 4-5x the cash.

There's also this:
http://seattlepostglobe.org/2011/03/07/warnings-of-doctor-sh...
It's not like the original article was chock full of substance in the first place, which is why its even more annoying.
This is completely a story of industry structure and bad incentives, and how people react to them.

Currently, in the United States, we believe all of the following things: (1) Human physicians, are the only qualified parties to diagnose, treat, and/or recommend courses of action related to health (not nurses, physician's assistants, computer programs, etc.), (2) everyone has a fundamental right to healthcare, (3) health professionals must undergo expensive, lengthy, difficult courses of study and training, and (4) we reimburse for procedures, not pay for outcomes.

Given these incentives, it's not hard to see why doctors are some of the most overworked, stressed-out, and generally miserable professionals out there. They're at the nexus of a crushing conflict between keeping people healthy, a management system that demands more revenue (and remember that revenue=procedures, because we reimburse for procedures, so the only way to increase "productivity" is to do more, faster, with fewer breaks and longer shifts), and a legal regime which mandates DOCTORS perform procedures, and only after a lengthy course of study.

I believe the way forward is to shift the discussion away from procedures and more toward outcomes, and give medical professionals more operational and financial freedom to run their practices using tried-and-true free-market principles. I believe this outcome is inevitable, but will take a decade or more to surface, because it requires major shifts in how doctors and insurance companies think about billing, greater human trust in computers and recommendation systems, and a collective realization that the current state of healthcare is untenable.
Ask HN: Mysterious occurrences? April 15, Location: SF Bay Area
Some strange occurrences today.

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A friends group text seems to have "seeped out".

The had a group text with ~6 members.

The messages have clearly been "leaking" to other numbers.

How we know this: two people who some (>5) of the group text messages were "leaked" to replied, stating their confusion.

This cannot be explained as a trolling effort, as if one of the original group text members started a new thread and included "random" people, all other members of the group would know.

The "random" people were only brought to the attention of the original group when they replied (and thus a seemingly new group text was created with this "random" individual).

Other individuals may be being included in this group text without our knowledge - it will only become evident if they reply.

--------

Another occurrence:

I rode in two UberXs today.

At 1.35pm, I got in my second ride.

My driver informed me that he had been driving since 5am, and that I was only his second ride. Something had been malfunctioning with the Uber app where he was not receiving requests. He had received one request around 8 or 9am, however the caller cancelled the request.

Then, the next call he received was at 1pm, followed by me at 1.35pm.

This entire time, he was driving around waiting for other calls.

He claims that other Uber drivers he know also had the same issue.

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Anyone experienced similar occurrences?
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I would love learn more about other YC summer '14 applicants, so I've watched a few founder introduction videos. Anyone want to post info on his or her start-up?

My company, CallRed, allows users to quickly message top-tier support at a number of businesses including Comcast, AT&T, USPS and Time Warner. We were featured in lifehacker last week and they’re doing a follow-up article tomorrow (shhh).

http://lifehacker.com/callred-gets-you-help-from-companies-terrible-at-custom-1561087994
In Canada our GPs are paid approximately $31 for a regular visit. They pay their overhead out of this $31 and still typically keep 65-70% of their billings.

It's amazing that the billing costs in the US are a factor of magnitude higher.
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Original Flappy Bird was removed from store and its creator never complained about clones. After all, flappy jam was organized to show support to him. So, in this aspect, he is more in the "old masters" then in the "lost profit" in that.

The other things is that if it takes 3 days from start to finish, then it should not be patentable/copyrightable. It is too simple too little work to warrant years long monopoly. On the other hand, no one is going to clone Grand Theft Auto or Oblivion in three days.

It is like demanding copyright on sunset picture. There are milions of sunset pictures, some free some paid and no one can claim monopoly over them. One of them is super successful once in a while, but that does not mean all subsequent artists should stop making them.

Then again, some even accuse Flappy Bird of being clone. And then again, given some people standards, every single game can be accused of being clone of something.
it was that I'd installed an SSH client at all. She told me I didn't need 'advanced tools like that' to do my job.
This is the best TechCrunch article ever written. I wish they let their journalist spend more time doing well researched pieces like this.
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Alexander Kjerulf describes 5 simple but important policies that makes danes like their work. And americans dislike theirs.
Thank you!

I should add that the entirety of the code will be published on GitHub, like my other projects (http://github.com/stefano-meschiari/), so people should feel free to fork, make pull requests, etc.

If anyone likes what I do, I will be available soon for freelancing. I have a small portfolio of applications I built here:
http://www.stefanom.org/devel/
No. USB 3.1 supports power delivery at 60w or 100W, easily enough for most laptops. Yes, they aren't used at the moment, but it's definitely presumptuous to suggest that laptops won't use USB any time soon when the technology is so nearly in place.
Yea, in the US its a vague 3-5 days.
It's striking that choosing a cofounder one barely knows is a common problem. I'm trying to get something going with my best friend (I've known him since we were six years old), and people we meet will sometimes ask us if we would consider bringing on some guy they know as a third cofounder.

The people who band together for a startup after having known each other for a month would never marry someone they have only known for a month. Clearly the message that startups are a big deal for any relationship hasn't sunk in as it has with marriages.
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> With Starcraft, Thompson said, the physical demands are minimal, as the game is played with a keyboard and mouse.

That's a fairly strange way to define "physical demands." It's kind of like saying "for playing guitar, the physical demands are minimal, as it's played with your fingers and perhaps a small pick." Both activities are not just about reflexes and "strategy," because finger strength and muscle memory play a big role in both. Of course, muscle memory occurs (as far as I know) mostly in the brain, but I would still consider that a physical demand distinct from reflexes and strategy.
Has anyone received an interview/rejection email yet?
That's a horrible thing to say.

No it's not. She's taking up resources ($500,000 of seed capital, and a spot on the New York Times) that someone else could have.

People of substance, like me, are often out-competed in the race for resources (e.g. fundings) by douchebags like her of no merit, but with contacts. The more people like her fail, and preferably embarrassingly so, the sooner we can have a Flight to Substance.

Talent Vs. Legacy is our generation's defining war, and I'm on Team Talent. When well-connected silver spoon hacks fail for a lack of talent, it's a good thing for us. If they always succeeded no matter what, they wouldn't need talent at all, and we'd be starving in the streets getting pissed on by these legacy assholes.
Nice, though when I test the examples (edit items [1]), I would expect better than confirm/alert usage.

1. http://visjs.org/examples/timeline/08_edit_items.html
I don't get why overworked personnel aren't regarded as a dire safety issue. There's a reason the FAA restricted the number of hours commercial pilots are allowed to fly per week without rest.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2014/01/03/pilot...

I met a resident the other day, and they routinely get four hours of sleep or less and worked for shifts that are insanely long that are basically dictated by patient demand. Why not just hire more doctors, maybe lower salaries by increasing supply, and give them a healthier lifestyle? Maybe medical school prices would go down with additional scale.
I was a bit outraged by the article and didn't really think about suggesting a better title. Will do next time.
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Perhaps azth is writing C?
The standard ACH process however just seems slow. Maybe I've been playing with Crytocurrency too much, but it seems in the era of sub-millisecond stock trading... we should be able to figure out how to move $100 one account to another in 5 minutes or so...
Phil Ochs - A.M.A. Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lkvswrSRAE
That is simply not true, the USB spec now supports charging of laptops over USB and I would be very surprised if over the next few months it didn't become fairly common in new laptops - it adds an extra USB port to a laptop and is very inexpensive.
The only important sentence from the article besides the title:

"It appeared the older players compensated for their slower speed by making better use of features such as shortcuts and by using simpler strategies."
At the casual level, it's likely that you will never reach a plateau where this study has a measurable effect on your game. A casual gamer will never practice enough such that the rate of cognitive decline couldn't be counter-acted by practice.

You can reach the top quartile of Starcraft 2 players through practice, overall strategy, and learning the current meta-game and tactics. Your twitch muscles only become differentiators at a much higher level than 99% of people will achieve.
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Note that the article agrees with many of the comments here about the fact that "cognitive motor performance" isn't everything there is to intelligence...

"I think we're adapting without knowing it," he added. "A lot of us are still able to maintain our skills."

In fact, that held true for older Starcraft players also, when only their score was taken into account.

"We had a lot of people performing at a level higher than their speed would otherwise suggest."
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Heartbleed is about to get worse, and it will slow the Internet to a crawl
"Unless something radical happens" - well yeh, the USB spec now supports the wattage required to charge laptops so I think that's a pretty radical change which will be coming in the next few months.
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Note the difference between "speed" and "performance."
I thought it was cool....must we all be so cynical and reflexively shit on things because of a slightly hyperbolic headline? You should be able to learn something from at least one of those maps.
Well, if the servers you are administrating run Node, you you do. Maybe not production quality, but you should at minimum know enough to read it and create a simple project.

At the plus side, you have quite a big deal of control over most of those variables.
See IFTTT, Zapier, etc. They are doing what you're doing; maybe you can build on top?
I have bought cookies in Mexico with zero confirmations. So there was some credibility. At least with small transactions.
I don't see anything incorrect about this headline. "Age-related brain decline starts at 24" is a pretty safe title that accurately represents the contents of the article. The subtitle "Popular game Starcraft 2 used as a measure of brain speed" provides additional clarification, as subtitles are intended to do.
Deep fryers sold in the US also have magnetic power adapters.

Apparently the thing with this (as magnetic power connectors have existed for a long time) is that there are, at the very least, claims in Apple's patents that differ from previous examples and patents[1].

So basically the novel thing isn't magnetic power adapters.

[1] http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/200/prior-art-for...
I'm sure Darwin, aged 50 when he finished Origin of Species, would agree.

Perhaps it takes a slow mind for man to think more deeply about problems, in order to arrive at an elegant solution.

Hopefuly a few decades after retiring from professional gaming, these Starcraft 2 players will produce magnum opera of their own.
After 1.5x-2x the schooling, 3x-5x the apprenticeship period, and around 6x the debt.
If I may ask, what is your speciality and what everyday pains would this fix for you? Others may disagree with me, but I prefer ideas where you are trying to find a solution to a problem that you have on a regular basis.
> give medical professionals more operational and financial freedom to run their practices using tried-and-true free-market principles

I agree completely, but you forgot to add under what we believe: (5) "government has the solution for everything." At least that's what it feels like lately.

The cynic in me says that the healthcare industry will continue to get worse for some time before it gets better, if ever. We may see complete nationalization because the government must swoop in and "save us" from the monster it has helped to create through misguided regulation.
If you don't want to believe the impracticality of it, than just look at the pointlessness of it. Why waste pointless amounts of battery, network bandwidth, and heat dissipation, when the data gathered won't actually help increase ad revenue over and above using GPS, search, email, and other activities as a proxy for your interests.

The idea that they need to know what you're looking at to serve ads just doesn't make much sense.
Totally, thanks jl!

re: even equity split - I'm interested to understand a little better how this is a killer? I understand the rationale that is posed in the article, but it seems to be a pretty blanket statement not applicable to all situations.

Either way, I've had lawyers (in SV specifically) suggest a slightly uneven split (i.e. 51/49), because there is nothing worse than hitting a stalemate on founder decision making. Additionally, I've yet to see a recent tech S-1 filing where founding members have had a complete 50:50 ratio. (Twitter, Facebook, Trulia, Box are just some that come to mind)
The retroactive obviousness of it does seem quite incredible. People get hotel rooms to do things they don't want to do at home. AirBnB is a hotel substitute.

I wonder if AirBnB internally had some risk assessment of this.
In all seriousness, I would compete with that or make it a template for celebrity apps that include voice overs, wallpapers, and what-not. The only use case I can imagine for this app is for getting a girl to break up with you.
True, but amazingly enough this is one of the two times per day when Gladwell's stopped clock happens to coincide with the actual time.
Wow I needed this library about 3 weeks ago! Anyone know else know of any alternatives?
I'll bet that the half of doctors who want out of the profession, are the ones who are exploited by the other half. Naturally the profession wants us to see doctors as selfless workers saving our lives, not as rentiers who are ruining us.
Where's your apartment and when did you sign your lease? I was just looking and couldn't find anything under about $1650, and that was older family-owned apartments in either the California/Escuela area or Shoreline/Wright area.
Keep the good news coming! This is even more proof that other see the viability of this project. Again Bunny and Xobs , others this is great to see the work you all started being extended further!
It is an obviously foreseeable problem because the whole "startup echo chamber" keeps pressuring everyone to have co-founders for sake of having co-founders.

Better to be a single founder covering for everything than sign on "co-founders" you cannot get along with or do not see pulling their weight or having significant disagreements on how the company should be run and the rewards distributed.
> If doctors have the final say on all matters, they don't have a patient - they have a subject.

"Extremist language" indeed, and true only in cases where the doctor can forbid the patient from going to another doctor.
Easy back of the envelop calculation: If a block is generated every two minutes in average, you have a 80% probability that the new block is not generated in that two minutes. So if everyone is in this service then the probability of success is 80%.

The same idea can be used with a rogue client. Just generate a conflicting transaction.

I’m not sure, but if there are conflicting transactions, then most of the miners just pick the first transaction they received. But let’s be optimistic and suppose that they pick at random, so you have a 80%/2=40% that the new conflicting transaction is picked and the original dropped.

IIRC some miners are filtering the transactions to process the transactions with bigger fees, even in the case of not conflicting transactions. So perhaps a bigger fee can be used as an incentive to choose the “right” transaction.
are there any similar programs in Chicago area?
At the time, I was in a pretty rough place. Now I'm in a much better place, short selling it to get out from underneath it, my credit score has recovered, etc.

It's gotten better.
This link was also posted to reddit.com/r/bitcoin about an hour ago and was making its way up the front page. Now ... gone.

I wonder if it's a scam or it got reported and deleted out of fear of causing a stir or similar.
It's snow crash baby. Ain't I glad I live in the woods.
Census revisions mask healthcare law effects
You are talking about relatively well-paid engineers putting in extra hours to get ready for SXSW. I also disagree with parts of her management style, but nothing suggests that any of the employees were "severely exploited".
could you expand
One solid reason is the same reason sleep deprivation is used in basic training. Most doctors, will, at some point in their life, have to make life and death decisions when they're operating far from 100% ... or at least that was true back in the days when they'd take calls at any hour of the day (as late as the '70s). Less dire, they have office hours they must keep unless they're really sick, and they certainly won't be at 100% every day.

So this is useful training, albeit at a cost. Although if they make a mistake that kills a patient during residency and learn they can't deal with the consequences of that, I suppose the earlier the better. They can of course move to less life and death specialties.
I'm not sure how high the adoption rate is but it's a natural extension of immutable data into the database world.

It also has some old roots in the Lisp community, lectures 8A and 8B[0] of MIT's famous SICP course and section 4.4 of the book[1] are on creating a logic programming language similar to Prolog; and Datomic's query language is Datalog which is a subset of Prolog.

[0] - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
[1] - http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-29.html...
This. Prior to 24 I was quite a moron. Since then I have been heading steadily down the path towards being master of my own mind, and I'm happy to say I've spent less than an hour playing computer games in the last 5 years.
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oh, I did that first thing (then bought the correct one) and I've already gotten the refund.
It's 12 weeks, (disclaimer: I teach here) I would also look in to zipfian academy in San Francisco.

https//zipfianacademy.com/

Our graduates go to tesla,facebook, among others. We have applications now:
https://zipfiancollective.wufoo.com/forms/zipfian-academy/
What have your customers been saying? When I checked out your iphone app, it had one poor view.

Personally, I'd like an app that provides me with a wake-up call with stuff I'm interested in (i.e. top news, weather, etc).
I got my rejection last batch at around 11:30 PM PST. It might be a bit of late night (or early morning) for those of you not in PDT.
The property owner would still be liable for annual tax payments on the assessed value of the property. When that is falling, the Prop. 13 limitation has no effect.

The lien we're talking about would be on the difference between the tax paid under Prop. 13 and the tax that would be due if there were no Prop. 13. If the mortgage is underwater, that difference is zero.
When did HN become a gossip rag? Quote taken out of context. Nothing to see here, move along.
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