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Ask HN: What companies have private offices for programmers?
I've read and heard from lots of programmers who want them, but I've only ever heard of about two software companies that offer them.

careers.stackoverflow.com has "Joel Test" scores for some entries, but companies seem pretty loose with the "quiet working conditions" criterion. One of them claims a point for that, but then brags about their "open layout" office.

I'm not looking for yet another debate over the pros/cons of offices/cubes/open layout, nor a list of earplug/headphone/desk indicators as mitigation.
What kind of collateral (I assume printed?); there are templates on graphicriver for this type of stuff ie:

http://graphicriver.net/item/lawn-care-trifold/5357957?WT.ac...
Gold's use value is much, much lower than the current price reflects. Most of the price of gold is explained by its reservation demand - i.e., monetary demand, both by individuals and central banks.

And you're incorrect that bitcoin has no "intrisic value". As this author explains:
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/42262765318/direct-use-value-o...
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Bitcoin network has very interesting properties that allow you to use it not only as a currency. For example, the block chain (decentralized transaction history) is designed to be extremely hard to forge and very easy to verify. This, with some crypto features, allows it to be used for secure time-stamping, proving ownership of tangible property, decentralized DNS and new ways to sign contracts without having to fully trust any one party. Some of these things are already possible using existing software, some require already planned and compatible modifications.
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There are a great many things that are now possible with the creation of bitcoin and the solving of the Byzantine Generals' problem that were previously impossible. If that's not "intrinsic value" then nothing is.
The huge variations in price mean that a company could very easily lose more than the few, entirely predictable, percent the credit card companies charge.
I've never seen anything wrong with more communication between stakeholders and adapting a solution to meet their ever-changing needs.

There is an effect where people who are invited to second-guess themselves become less happy with their initial decisions. There is another effect where cost or price or effort or social-standing is associated to quality.

If you give the impression of falling over yourself to serve the whims of your stakeholders, you're doomed. If you set reasonable limits... well that requires experience to do properly, and that same experience could be used to twist a more traditional methodology into something useful.

Perhaps agile has a stronger sink-or-swim learning curve? You either learn quickly and succeed very well, or you never figure out what went wrong.
Putting a sign up is not the equivalent to an FCC license. And if you're going to transmit radio waves, you'll need an FCC license (yes, there are exceptions and I'm vastly simplifying for this specific topic). Good luck with getting the FCC to grant you that license.

That's not to say that a movie theater or coffee shop couldn't passively attenuate cell phone signals with metallic paint or other equivalents to a giant Faraday cage. But ensuring that you're not being an ass with your radio transmissions is the FCC's specific task.
As other people have said, jamming would certainly be illegal because of the potential for interference. However, they could fairly easily implement some kind of passive signal blocking. I know that a few schools, including the one I went to, install aluminium foil in the ceiling for this exact reason.
There is also Disconnect.me and Ghostery if you want to block facebook and other trackers without disabling JS
Full disclosure: I work at UpCloud, a cloud hosting provider and I think business in this industry day and night.

One thing that gets overlooked in almost all comparisons is the pricing models. I actually use Glacier through Arq (brilliant backup for Mac), but the catch is in the requests. I recently uploaded 200GB of photos to glacier and the upload process cost me about $10. The monthly storage is about $2.

The thing is that you shouldn't compare the sole storage price, but the total of cost of storing your data in glacier, which was also overlooked in the original article.

I'm sure AWS has understood this through their S3 storage lifecycle and thus developed an appropriate pricing model for glacier that arouses interest in the product like no other.
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I always mean to explicitly end a statement. say what you mean. avoid any kind of ambiguity.
I need to read those studies closely; but, I imagine there's a difference between gabbing about nothing and doing serious mental work when it comes to the amount of focus taken away by talking. Singing with the radio probably has similar focus requirements to gabbing. I have not done any tests on this; and we're not going to stop singing on the radio.

Fiddling with a phone is probably the most dangerous of phone related activities while driving, though. Looking and reading off the screen (texts), pushing capacitive spots on the screen to interact with it (changing songs), and so on.

Police most likely want eyes on the road, as even passive attention to the road is better than eyes completely off it.

[edit: replaced "be singing" with "stop singing" since that's what I meant to say]
OSM does not rely on imports that much, many cities have fantastic geocoding potential because local mappers poured their sweat and local knowledge into it. ;)
I appreciate this guy's intent but he doesn't need to do this. Texting while driving is the leading cause of death for teens. The problem is fixing itself.
It's more expensive to society, not to the individual. And that's really debatable because the cattle are going to be fed antibiotics regardless whether you buy meat or not.
This is a cool spin on Uber
The value of a currency is a measurement of the faith of people holding it. That's all it is.

If people have no faith in a currency, they'll drop it like bad habit. If people have a ton of faith in a currency, they'll hoard it like crazy.

Everything you buy with a currency is, again, a decision you make based upon faith. You have _faith_ that a house will be a good place to live, that it'll provide for your needs and maybe be worth more in the future. Of course there are _reasons_ for this - and i can understand you objecting to me claiming that it's just faith. Reasons are great, for sure, because we've found that faith which is contradicted by all reason tends to fail. The reasons we have, though, are entirely historical. I have faith that the sun won't explode tomorrow. My _reasoning_ for this is based upon my understanding of the physics of stars and which ones explode and which ones don't, but i recognize that i may be wrong. That's faith. If someone has _no faith_ that the dollar wil be worth anything, he's not going to hold any. If he thinks 'well i dont think it'll be worth anything, but i'm sure other people will think it does' then he has faith that it will have value in the future - because other people having faith in it confers value to it.

Bitcoin is powered by the blockchain. If bitcoin is worth a lot of money, then the blockchain will be much harder to break or adulterate. It's not just a means of storing account balances - people can store whatever they want in the public records. No government can tamper with it, and no company can claim copyright and censor it.

I think that's something a lot of people would like to have faith in.
I'm doing about 15m/mo and my peak req/sec so far is 24 which looks out of the normal cycle by about 2.5 req/sec. We can double our limit for a lot less than what we're paying monthly now so this is a welcome change for us. I would think retrying 155 responses would work ok for us while refactoring to reduce calls. I think the new offline data store ability will help with reducing requests.

I've been using Parse for a few years now and have always been happy with them. Their service offerings have been growing right along with my needs so it's been great. I'm happily welcoming this announcement.
No. Our species must make the small evolutionary step to change general behavior or die. I am willing to make every ethical change to make that possible and I think I would like to live in that world.
Edge cases. The big picture is that it's not happening fast enough, which is why the government will need to step in and will need to assume a leadership role to push hard on this.
Banned numerous times. Most of them near the end of the cycle or right after payment confirmed (but before it was sent). All under separate legal entities (name, company tax id, etc).

Had one account that used to do 15k a month which never got banned. Lucky me! Made about 150k before that site was sold.

Had an account that was rapidly growing and was doing near $1k per day when it got banned. Site started exploding and within 2 weeks we had gone from $40 a day to $700+. Cycle ended and was banned.

I never violated the TOS on any of my accounts. Never bought traffic or clicked my own ads. If you have half a brain you'd realize its pointless unless you're trying to make a few dollars per day if you're gonna click them yourself.
In his book "Eating Animals" Jonathan Safran Foer dedicates a lot of time to this. Remember, he is not a vegan. This shouldn't be important but there are few groups that get more irrational hate than vegans. He cites multiple studies and if you are really concerned it's a quick read. One study showed how effectiveness of a specific antibiotic was at ~99% and then only 10 years after it being introduced into livestock feed the effectiveness shot down to 80%. So we went from about a 1 in 100 chance of it not working to around 1 in 5. That is a massive and terrifying difference. I urge you to read more. Clearly this is an issue I care about. I firmly believe this is the most likely cause of my unnecessary death. Far more than war or terrorism. Protect yourself, your loved ones, your children, your grand children. Stop eating meat that is fed antibiotics.
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The anonymous login allows users to become less anonymous by providing real info if they wish to do so later. So you have the potential to get > 0 data.

This would basically make it easier to access or try out all the FB-only-login apps without giving the app owner all the personal info.
I don't know, but we have several signs and yet I have still needed to ask patients to stop. It probably happens once or twice a month. Not quite as frequent is those who try to video their procedure. While I get irritated, I'd get more bothered by not being able to make or receive calls myself if a jammer was installed. A good compromise is to have patients seated near an MRI Faraday cage - it works just as well and doesn't break laws.
First step: better buses, oh and stop removing routes from the bus system. (I'm looking at you Seattle and your recent voting results)
It seems like Langley and Gibson both agree that OCSP Must-Staple would resolve all this.

"If we want a scalable solution to the revocation problem then it's probably going to come in the form of short-lived certificates or something like OCSP Must Staple." - https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/04/19/revchecking.html

"The case for “OCSP Must-Staple" -
https://www.grc.com/revocation/commentary.htm
Your corporate Internet nightmare starts now.
In what way does multi-device login render anonymous login useless? The only difference for the application developer is that Facebook doesn't give them some additional information to store with the account up front.
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I agree. Most people aren't smart enough to put down their phone even to save their own life. The guy has good intentions but some people just can't be saved.
Reasons for Modest First Projects and Incremental Learning
Good news there is actually such a thing, it's called XPrivacy. It let's you restrict permissions that apps claim they absolutely require and will feed spoofed data to them.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/mod-xprivacy-...
When you say "the typical consumer", I think you are really saying "the typical, relatively wealthy consumer living in the first world". For the some billions of people on the Earth who don't have a stable currency, credit/debit cards, mortgages and other financial products Bitcoin has more benefits. Think of the WhatsApp demographic without a smart-phone.
It would probably be insurance, so you'd have to pay for it and they could deny your claim if you didn't use a Trezor.

There may also be bounty hunters who try to recover stolen BTC on contingency, but that doesn't sound like a good business.
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If I'm able to hire the people I need then I don't really care if there's a group of developers that I'll never find.

Homogenising for efficiency carries long term risk. If you don't have several primary sources for hiring, then not only are you artificially narrowing your available pool, but you are also introducing a single point of failure. To borrow a phrase, if something goes badly wrong, Linkedin can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.
Aren't the FCC helping?
>"People weren't dying from bad drugs before we had the FDA. I mean, it just didn't happen"

Wow. I refuse to believe that Ron Paul of all people has never heard of "snake oil".

The FDA was formed precisely in response to "people dying from bad drugs": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act#History_...

How do we let politicians get away with this sort of thing?
Do you like listening to Pandora or Spotify in your car? That would be disabled, too. Same band.

I understand the desire, and it makes a lot of sense; but ... it's just not going to happen :/
I feel like the author confuses efforts to gain adoption by subsidizing the costs voluntarily, and the situation Comcast applies to those like Netflix.

I do not see net neutrality being an enforcement that states CDNs and such can't make more optimal network paths of their own free will.
Ripple's consensus algorithm makes it effectively a centralized system though - there's a central clique of nodes run by the Ripple creators and a handful of people they trust, the consensus they come to cannot be influenced by anyone outside the clique unless they choose to allow it, and if any nodes decide on a different consensus this effectively hard-forks the Ripple transaction history into two branches (their version and the official version).
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned SQRL for truly anonymous identification and authentication yet https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
The FCC does not even allow cell phone jammers at prisons. The Secret Service protecting the President is probably one of the few authorized users of cell phone jammers anywhere in the country.
"Rational opimist"? Sounds rather dellusional to me, one of those guys that made a religion out of science and/or technology.

>"But here's a peculiar feature of human history: We burst through such limits again and again."

Yeah, just like Bertrand Russel's inductivist (and rational optimist) turkey:

The turkey found that, on his first morning at the turkey farm, he was fed at 9 a.m. Being a good inductivist turkey he did not jump to conclusions. He waited until he collected a large number of observations that he was fed at 9 a.m. and made these observations under a wide range of circumstances, on Wednesdays, on Thursdays, on cold days, on warm days. Each day he added another observation statement to his list. Finally he was satisfied that he had collected a number of observation statements to inductively infer that “I am always fed at 9 a.m.”.

However on the morning of Christmas eve he was not fed but instead had his throat cut.
How is it shady? We happened to be hired at same place. I think they're assholes and would not want any first impression of me to be tainted by them.

shady: of doubtful honesty or legality

I suppose everyone who went to high school with Dahmer is shady too since for reasons out of their control they all went to the same school for a period of time. I doubt they feel the need to broadcast that information even though a little bit of extra looking would reveal the information.
Facebook Is Throttling Nonprofits and Activists
Apple has them. Microsoft too I think. I prefer them.

EDIT: By the way, I like them, but I write this from a plastic folding table in a warehouse in Brisbane CA (AKA Drone Valley)
First class functions blow many peoples' minds.
This article does a great job reinforcing the fact that the w3c has made an absolute mess of the css spec, and that browser vendors continue to implement crap. It's disheartening at best to think about css. I say this as I am wrangling YASCI (yet another stupid css issue).
> Eat less meat.

I never understand how "Stop eating factory farmed meat" means you have to "eat less meat" - why not just eat better sourced high quality meat?

It seems especially strange in a place like HN where you'd think that supporting the alternative grass-fed, non-factory farmers would be the entrepreneurial thing (and encourage more farmers to do it).

Meat is not the problem. The quality of the meat is. There are ways to solve that problem outside of eating less meat.
The point of this isn't staying anonymous to Facebook. It's anonymity from the app developers using FB-only login.

There's no doubt that Facebook knows who you are even if you use the "Anonymous" login. This just allows a user of RandomApp#100 to login without giving the app everything on their Facebook before they even try it.

Also even with anonymous login, you can later choose to give the app your real info if you trust it more or find it useful.

Do I like Facebook-only login? No. However, this does give the user some more choice as to how much is shared with those apps up front.
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I think the image here in this person's mind is of someone bumbling around an isle, not looking where they're going (2 people tend to look around more and be more cogniscent of their environment, especially when the sounds they're listening to are coming from the environment (human voice, 3 feet away) and not a small box a few inches away)... and then occasionally yelling, "WHAT?!!?" into the phone when they can't hear.
They do. LinkedIn allows you to view an anonymous version of the profile, so it doesn't technically break the rules.
You don't have to leave the jammer turned on.

You just pulse them on every now and then. That drops all the calls. Keep doing it for a few minutes and people give up using their devices.
I'm not really disputing the time anything will take, rather that "A+ doesn't require that you use the browser's asynchronous scheduling mechanism" – it very much does, even though that scheduling mechanism might be to occasionally flush your own managed event queue instead of handing every callback to the browser.
Calling Type XXI failure is kind of (mo)ironic. Soviet submarines and to some extend western submarines are practically build on top of it. It is like saying jet-engines are failure :-)
Well human populations have gotten significantly larger, more dense, and we have far more/faster travel. The worst case is a plague that also ends civilization.
The much more common alternative is ~3 person offices. I'm going to go out on a limb and say most big software-engineer focused companies have them for a lot of people. E.g. Microsoft. I have been to MS and seen them (but it's a big place -- don't know if everyone does)

You are right to not want open-layout. Peopleware presents a study that music can interfere with creativity.

One other thing I'm seeing is Huddle rooms. They are smaller, ad-hoc offices. Teams can request them to work together on something. My sense is that they are for a short period of time, measured in days to weeks.
But people are paying $1290 an ounce for fillings. You might find it pricey, but plenty of people are getting gold fillings. Of course, not every filling needs a full ounce.

You can also go to an electronics store and find audio equipment etc. which uses gold. Too pricey for some, but others buy it.

When price flies away from value, like for subprime mortgages, a reckoning is always coming sooner or later. And collectively, even subprime mortgages have some value. Bitcoins have no value.
Time lag is a critical issue that needs to be accounted for. If we assume that innovation will mediate the worst effects of global warming then we neglect the possibility that forcing conditions created today may have consequences that manifest themselves over the next 20 or 50 years. Global warming is not like any problem that humanity has ever had to confront and it's dangerous to wave away the scale and complexity of the problem as something innovation will eventually rectify.
So school shootings and medical emergencies go unreported?
I agree that humanity has a strong track record of overcoming challenges, and of course, that's a great thing! And I'm not saying that climate change will be something we'll be unable to overcome. However, it's unwise to bet the planet on an uncertainty: Let's just be a little cautious when we are talking about something with potentially devastating consequences.

I agree that predicting based on a static extension of the present may be limiting -- but prediction in general is a pretty tough game, and we should not put too much faith in any extrapolations into the distant future; meaning that there is much uncertainty in the future, and we should acknowledge that we can't know what will happen; and thus we should try to minimize risk if possible when dealing with singular resources (like our planet as a whole).

My main point is that technological optimism should not be an excuse for failing to ask inconvenient questions (that may demand opposing the current inertia of technology-driven capitalism): Are we negatively impacting the environment in a way that may undermine our grandchildren's quality of life? What happens as technology automates away a large percentage of cognitive jobs and displaces those workers? Is the current trend of increasingly powerful technology and relative moral stagnation likely to lead to our species' extinction?
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>The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon [1] --the human mind has limitless potential to select and pursue the use of materials

Only if those materials exist in the actual world first. So not that limitless after all. (And that's if we indeed accept that the mind's potential is "limitless", which is non-scientific mumbo jumbo).

>Capitalism by George Reisman [2] -- the phenomenon of price responds to actual supply and demand, and prompts profit-seekers to develop and switch production accordingly.

Says nothing about resources "not running out" -- just about distribution and demand of them, when they are available. A tribe of capitalists in a desert without water would still die of first.
The world climate is collapsing (hypothetical scenario).

The proponents of free market say:

"The market will adapt to fix the problems causing climate change!"

What really happens:

"I've built a mask that lets you breath the Earth's new poisonous atmosphere!"

"Well my mask lets you breath twice as much air per minute!!"

"My mask does all this !but! shows an interactive map of the next sulfuric acid rain storm so you can find your way to our nearest BioShelter2000. Buy now, and you get a month BioShelter pass, letting you stay for free up to 4 hours per day, including use of the bathroom!"
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I strongly doubt it happens in the UK. Any hotel doin so would be heavily fined.