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I've been on both ends, being fired/laid off and doing the firing/laying.

My advice is first, realize you're not going to be popular. Treat people with dignity but don't worry too much about how they will take it. They're going to take it poorly. They're going to be upset. If some of your employees aren't, then that's a bonus. With this in mind, don't let your process or productivity become unnecessarily disrupted and be very careful in making concessions.

With this many people, do it all at once. Don't make people wait in agony for hours or days waiting to see if they'll get called in next. The specifics on how to do that will depend on the structure and size of your company, but do not allow for suspense.

Like others said, treat the employees with dignity and offer a reasonable severance as far as is possible. This isn't about preserving your relationship with them, it's about being a decent human being and making accommodation to ease a large transition like that.

Good luck. Like I said above, don't overthink it or worry about preserving your employees' opinions -- just behave in a manner that seems both reasonable and decent to you and be satisfied with that. Making it fast, moving forward with resolve, and appearing like you know what you're doing will help comfort the remaining employees to whatever extent is possible.
If you want to do this on a Mac you can use software such as Little Snitch. Create a rule prohibiting Skype to connect to apps.skype.com.
Kero Blaster is not half bad.
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It'd help to know which ToS you're looking at, there seem to be a number of them, depending on which country you're in.
Linking together animal brains with electrodes
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I'm curious: the folks reading HN are obviously pretty comfortable with technology, but I get the impression from the comments that almost everyone has heard about telemedicine, but virtually no-one actually uses it.

For those who have not used telemedicine services, why is that? Couldn't find one? Preference for an in-person visit? Concern about the accuracy of the diagnosis? If you have used a telemedicine service, how did you find the experience and would you do it again?

[Full Disclojure :) I'm a physician currently working on umedoc.com, one of thousands of telemedicine startups...]
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I am not sure. That said, it does seem that people from the US place an unusually large degree of trust in business, and less trust in government [1]. I have read that there has been a great deal of money spent in the US on pro-business propaganda over the last century [2], so perhaps results like these are not so surprising!

[1] See the graph in this Forbes article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/02/05/america...

[2] This is discussed at length in the book "Collision Course" by Kerryn Higgs. See: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collision-course
Lynx ;)
Painting cryptography as a 'weapon,' as the header image of this article does and as was done in the past with the ban on it's exportation, is a completely wrong analogy.

Cryptography simply translates to the digital world mankind's right to be secure in our personal effects, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure.

Unencrypted digital communication removes the temporal aspect of surveillance. If you have a conversation with somebody in the physical world and you are secure that that conversation is not being spied on, you can be sure that at no point in the future will that conversation be spied on. Encrypted digital communication simply translates that right to the digital world.

If an authority has pretty good knowledge that someone is in possession of encrypted digital files that only they have the password to access, this is simply the digital version of an authority having pretty good knowledge that someone has a buried treasure that only they have access to. This person cannot be coerced against their will to travel to the location of the buried treasure an dig it up just because an authority is pretty sure it is out there somewhere.

Others in this thread have pointed out that this is just law enforcement being lazy. And that is a very good point there are plenty ways to do law enforcement even if your target is communicating in codes and crucially it causes resources to focus on the important targets.

This is really crux of the matter, encrypted communication is not going to prevent law enforcement from doing their jobs. Crucially, what it does prevent, is the nation/world wide digital-technology enabled surveillance dragnets.

This is what must be kept in mind when considering this issue, we must make sure that we are creating future societies that are under no threat of nationwide spying from tyrannical governments.

In fact, any non-sense about 'going dark,' or terrorism and criminals is a smokescreen and should be struck from any reasonable, level-headed discussion of this matter. Terrorism and crime are rare enough and law enforcement is good enough that we are under no risk in seeing an upswing in crime and terrorism due to continued proliferation of strong(that is, actual) encryption. The continued development and use of cryptography is entirely about preventing the kind of massive scale, unlawful spying that has been shown to be taking place.
Why is this opt-out and not opt-in, seriously ?
I've looked at the top three PDFs (for US, NL, DE) from this page: https://www.leaseweb.com/legal

These terms are contained in all three documents. These are called General Conditions so I assume they apply to every service of the company.
I think this another instance of focussed short-term financial benefits winning out over distributed longer-term catastrophic costs. Not surprising, but certainly dispiriting.
I'd need a damn good bookstore, donut place open late, plenty of non-American food, used and/or new record store, and a music venue that gets good bands if not famous ones. I can make my own fun after that.
And by "notice", I'm sure you mean "severance". Do not, I repeat, do NOT give employees advance notice of the termination. Convert any would-be notice period into severance and sever ASAP.
There are core ContainerShip features that function similarly to how Kubernetes does. Both provide a cluster scheduler that places and manages containers across a group of servers. They ensures jobs are restarted if they fail, let you scale the number of containers for an app up or down, and make it so you can stop thinking about individual servers.

That feature set alone is awesome but it won't take you to the finish line, you'll end up needing to tack other projects on to get a fully working system when you use something like Kubernetes (and some other popular choices).

With ContainerShip we wanted to make it easy for people to get up and running without having to learn and glue together many different projects. We are trying to provide everything needed to run and scale your infrastructure anywhere in one package.

ContainerShip Cloud makes it easy to stand clusters up on various providers, backup your data, and easily migrate somewhere else.
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We don't try to rehabilitate people in US prisons, or treat them like humans with problems. All we know how to do is lock people away in hopes of either breaking them or at least just keeping them far away from us. It's our only tool.

Then of course we are shocked and dismayed when somebody, even after such a long sentence, re-offends. So what if they have learned no life skills in prison except how to use violence, and have no job prospects. Better lock 'em up longer next time. That'll teach them!
Within the HR profession, there's a discipline about performing layoffs that minimize litigation risk, unemployment insurance costs, reputation risk, etc. Firms like Lee Hecht Harrison walk employers through a complete menu of services that prep the layoff meeting, instructions for HR, IT, and security, and services for your layed-off people that get them into job search quickly. LHH claims, for example, that their service "gets employees back to work 50% faster". You'll trade off the benefits of a graceful exit vs. the cash you need to keep.

- http://www.lhh.com/career-transition/career-transition.aspx
- http://www.risesmart.com/outplacement
Related question: Are there any well-known & admirable companies that have gone through layoffs early in their lives?
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Thanks! I've been meaning to do some testing with kubernetes so I'll make sure to add this to the list so I can understand it better.
Please don't name it Fuse. Yes, it's a good name, but there is already a rather well known project with that name, plus it's a common household item. You make it unnecessary hard to be found and not con-fuse-d (hah!) by users.

I speak from experience: I often have to look up errors/bugs related to root. Root as in "CERN analysis software", not the user. One of the most annoying names ever. (In that sense it's rather fitting)
‘Deadpool,’ an Extra Witty Superhero, Has Comic-Con on Its Feet
Or hire providers themselves and own the vertical.
I typically will generate basic code from a model and then after I make modifications I regenerate documentation and the model. To make a 2-way mapping really work you for you would have to separate generated code from code that you modify.
> Directly integrating Pocket into the browser was a choice we made to provide this feature to our users in the best way possible

That's sounds weird. Why wouldn't they just make it opt-in on the "you've been updated" page? Or just bundle the extension?
I've seen a lot of how-to use PGP writeups, but I haven't found a single good one that helps both windows and mac users (or linux). And by good, I mean something that walks the user through the process of securely creating a key, protecting their private key, explaining the difference between a public key and a private key, explaining how to PGP sign an email, PGP encrypt an email properly, encrypt files, decrypt files, upload public keys to a key server (or why you shouldn't), how to decrypt an email... and anything else you need to know to not make any mistakes that would compromise yourself. PGP is great but there are a lot of ways you can make a mistake.

I dream of a day when secure communications is simple and usable by all.
Every investment opportunity has risk, and many possible outcomes. There will always be investors who gained. There will always be investors who missed a chance to gain. Alternatively, there could be investors who lost, or those who dodged the bullet.

This one had gains and missed opportunity. No one lost anything except time reading a post that appears to be 'prodding the losers' when there weren't any. In fact, some of the investors probably made more elsewhere in something closer to their realm, so it can't readily be said that an opportunity was missed.
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The top parent said:

> Good work done, though Python may not be the best choice as it is a bit ancient programming language.

So they weren't complaining about Python being slow (it is) but rather about it being "ancient" (not compared to C, or Fortran)
When I think of those three in the middle ages I think of Lithuanians being captured and castrated by Jews then sold into slavery to Muslims. So awesome.
Enterprise. There are more Fortune 500 headquarters in the Twin Cities per capita than anywhere else in the world - more than New York, more than the Bay area, more than London or Tokyo. Working in IT in the Twin Cities generally means working for the likes of Target, United Healthcare, Best Buy, 3M, Carlson Wagonlit, Monsanto, and other tremendously huge companies.

Last fall, I was in Silicon Valley at an enterprise meetup, and was talking to people there about a sense of scale. I observed that if you saw a startup generating $50M in revenue, you'd think they were very successful. I've worked on three different projects larger than that (some private, some government), and they were just side businesses to bigger enterprises.
Apple is running on fumes
Clichy Plage 2015: une saison très animée pour les enfants
What if you tap into your connections and try to find them a job? Think of it as if the other company acquihires part of your company. Chances are you are probably firing teams and there are many reasons why any company would love to get working teams as a package. In this situation everyone wins. Of course it is harder to pull off than it sounds.
It's opt-out because if it were opt-in, far fewer people would benefit from it.

The Firefox design team conducted user research experiments, and found that a significant amount of people like the feature (far more than dislike it). Most of those users are not techies, and would never even hear about an addon, so including it in the browser is the most realistic way to reach them.
I think it's a bit case specific. Ideally, yes I agree with you. But assuming you're on a shoestring budget and these employees (through their work) are generating a portion of the revenue that you'd need to keep paying them at all, then I'm not sure severing ASAP is feasible. But hopefully it is.
What do the base hardware requirements look like for this? I ask because we originally were going to use Deis for container deployment automation but then found out that they want a minimum of 8GB of ram just to run it (that's before even running any containers).
Facebook is not an appropriate or safe medium for conducting your secret life, if your secret life could get you or your family jailed/killed.
Here is more information than you would expect :)

https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/organizational-ev...

I like Manager-Tools because it is step-by-step and actionable. Does not say "think out of the box" (how?), it gives you exact words that have worked for 1000s of companies.

BTW, performance based layoff list might be a legal issue in some case, for example when the reason is workforce reduction. Without a good lawyer don't go there...
I was trying to highlight the separation experience with that startup, not startups in general. That startup was all wrong: wrong idea, wrong funding, wrong people in the wrong positions, etc. It was doomed from the start, but it still didn't have to end (for me/us) the way it did.
This more or less reflects my stance on SK too. I ran a reasonably large APAC/SEA esports-related site for a while, competing sites in SK often attempted to attack it (and outright told me as such, to get out of korea). It's strange and I really have no idea why.
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Or Mozilla could implement something similar but not shady.
Interesting, what are some the standout awesomeness from these cultures in your opinion? What about Lithuanian history from this time makes it your favorite?

I'm vaguely familiar with mathematical development in the Islamic Golden Age.
Cut more than you have to so you only have to do it once. Don't worry if you cut more than you could have if things pick up, it is critical that it is one and done.

I would advise telling everyone remaining you are "over cutting" so they know that another cut is not coming in the next couple of months if things don't turn out the way you hoped. Other than don't be an asshole and provide as much support for those cut as possible and don't use weasel words like "right sized" or "let go".
Almost all users of any popular browser are not tech savvy like you and I and other people here on Hacker News. They would not enable an opt-in feature because it would sound complex and confusing to them.

The Firefox design team did studies on this, seeing how real users interact with the feature. The results are that bundling it in the browser makes it useful to a lot of people, overall making the browser experience better for them. That's really all this comes down to - the data shows users are happier, overall, with it present by default.

Some users don't like it, like the author of this article, but more users do like it.
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When I was younger I wanted to do something huge and earth-shattering with my life. Something noteworthy, that the history books would remember.

Now I just want to live a good life; to do something that ensures that the world is a little bit better for me having existed. That's all I really hope for. Learning how to accomplish that is a journey, and that journey is what I expect life to be; or at least that's the form I hope mine will take.
NetFlow logs would be one way.
I don't see how it's shady. It's quite similar to other browser integrations. For example, Chrome integrates with Google services like Google Translate. All modern browsers do some amount of by-default enabled extra services. Of course, Search is the most familiar such service (google.com, bing, yahoo, etc.).

Firefox is, has always been, and always will be, open source. The Mozilla server side is similarly also open source. But Mozilla is quite small compared to Google and Microsoft, and so must partner with external parties for things like Search and Pocket.
This may just be me, but I feel like 2D ages so much more gracefully than 3D. Especially the PS1 era.

I can look at a game like Tales of Phantasia and bask in how beautiful everything looks, even at 256x224 on that limited hardware. I can even go way back to the '80s on PC-88 titles like Undine and have a lot of fun.

But I load up Grandia and ... oh dear. I know it's a great game, everyone says it's wonderful, but it looks absolutely dreadful.
containership has two modes it can run in: leader & follower

You'll need at least one leader host for the cluster to function, and a minimum of 3 for true high availability.

Follower hosts are where your containers will actually be placed and will run. The specs on these servers should be great enough to fit all of the containers/applications you plan to run.

For a small test deployment with under 10 followers, you can get away with running your leaders on the smallest DigitalOcean droplets without any problems. Once you get up into larger number of follower hosts the hardware requirements of the leaders will change, but not significantly.
If you are the CEO/near the top, don't make the foolish mistake of telling people "but now we're all set & we won't need to do this again"

You just might, and you'll lose all credibility with your employees.
Feels a lot like Titanium?
Another question- how was the scheduling of rotations and clinics in med school?
Interested in building it. Lets get a communication channel open. Email in profile.
Try googling "lng explosion". It is cold, so is denser than air and spreads out on the surface, and when ignited goes off with a big bang.
That reply came off a little condescending.

I'm not some kind of Haskell zealot, and I haven't even used it in several years. That said, I'm well aware of the downsides of Haskell, and I've pointed out on numerous occasions that "real life" Haskell doesn't match up with the pure, lazy Haskell people often talk about.

However, the reality is that people who really care about performance and predictability in C++ aren't doing crazy template metaprogramming because, although not as bad as Haskell, it's also difficult to reason about and understand what's going on under the hood.

My guess is that every time somebody has said, "I translated this Haskell code to C++ metaprogramming," they could have just used Haskell with no negative repercussions.
I fail to see how being punched in the face suggests anything other than that the perp is a maladjusted adult.
That still doesn't explain why firefox has to be marketing for the Read it Later company. Why even bother having extensions if Mozilla going to pick and choose for you?
How did I end up growing old
You have absolutely no idea.

While not dead certain I speculate that we could reverse global warming by powering off all the child pornography servers.

http://www.warplife.com/jonathan-swift/books/software-proble...

I regard Microsoft's Bing Image search as the most-egregious offender.

Clark County Washington Deputy C. Bull suggested I notify the FBI. "The FBI obviously knows about it," I replied. "There must be some reason they don't enforce the law. I have some theories but really I do not know."

My essay is a very rough draft but far enough along that you can see where I am going with it.
26? I get 15 digits before it switches to exponent representation. This is on iPhone 5s running iOS 8.4.
There are assholes in every country.

It's easier for assholes in some countries to launch DDoS attacks than it is for assholes in other countries.

With the one of the world's largest userbases of outdated IE with tons of ActiveX plugins, South Korea sure is a nice place to run a botnet.

On the other hand, most of the ISPs mentioned in the article are not Korean, so maybe it's a bit more complicated.
Could this be a state-sponsored attack? Or an attack by nationalists who are against people bypassing the anti-everything-speech-related laws?
Interesting business model. It's like Segment.io for containers!
Terraria.

The new content update 1.3 is boss.
Tell HN: The “You are submitting to fast” timeout doesn't make sense
I am unable to find a deterministic way to predict whether my next comment or submission will be too fast.

EDIT: jcr - thank you I will send an email.

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I worked for a place that notified an entire team they were laid off by locking them out of exchange. When individuals couldn't login they talked to peers and figured out what had happened 2+ hours before HR started talking to them. That company was all class.

My current company just had layoffs and most people found out when HR left the firing lists sitting face up on top of the copier to go to the restroom. I survived and I'm still trying to figure out if I want to bail too. I was pretty upset that as recently as 3 weeks ago we were asked to help recruit friends for a senior java architect position, and one of the laid-off engineers had only been at the company 7 weeks. It's just not right to fuck with people like that.
But wait - You're leaving out the company's loss of 10% of its equity as part of the investment transaction.

A "company" can't lose equity it never owned any to begin with. The equity was transferred from one party (usually the founders) to another entity in exchange for cash.

After the investment, the company had $1350K of equity left because it sold 10% of itself, and it no longer owned that chunk of equity.

This is completely wrong.
How I went from underemployed to the top 1% of millennials in 3 months
A lot of people who get laid off want to know why them and not a peer. Was their peer a better performer at the same pay grade? Or was their peer doing the same job for less money? Is the company looking to eliminate senior roles? Junior roles? Or was the selection completely random?

Some transparency into why the decision was made can be make it easier to move on. Generic reassurances that "it's not performance related" are not always helpful, particularly because that's so often bullshit.

It certainly was performance related to the extent that if the person being laid off was doing twice as much good work for half as much money then it's unlikely they'd have been let go. It's a hard thing to talk about, I know, but that's what people want to know when they ask why.

That way the person let go knows whether and how to adjust their performance going forward at their next job so they're more likely to survive that company's inevitable layoffs.
According to the founder [1], Telegram was even removed from Play Store for a few hours at the request of a South Korean competitor.

For whatever reason, somebody in South Korea is seriously pissed off with Telegram.

[1] https://twitter.com/durov/status/619486763032182784