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37 Signals, Stack Exchange, Dell, IBM, I hear Microsoft has a few remote teams too. A lot of TC startups put "SF or remote" in their job ads. Go to Stack Exchange careers they place an emphasis on remote.

On the flip side, there are a lot of companies that only make exceptions to hire remote workers, as in my case. But a bunch of my onsite counterparts prefer being onsite.
If I weren't married to a teacher who has great health benefits, I'd probably have moved out of the country to get away from the ACA into a single payer system.
The book covers a number of ways System 1 and System 2 thinking affect the way we approach problems, of which the article includes two examples. There's many other neat applications in the book.
I'm absolutely newbie on this field but if qsstv is not what you need you should also consider to take a look to the Debian hamradio project: (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHams)

Some of the software included in the precompiled debian packages:

Gpredict (Real time satellite tracking): http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/

Yagi uda project (design and analyze performance of yagi antennae) http://www.g8wrb.org/yagi/

Freedv (digital speech radio): http://freedv.org/tiki-index.php

GNU-AIS (Decode messages from ships and coastal stations): http://gnuais.sourceforge.net/

Multimon radio decoder (use your sound target as a modem).
http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/multimon.html

GRIG: Hamlib based radio control library http://groundstation.sourceforge.net/grig/

Chirp (configure your baofeng UV-5R radio) http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home

List of debian packages available with: apt search ^hamradio
There's no round trip in the editors I've used. You have the standard formatting, and that's it. What you type in will get rearranged in situ so it's in the right format. If you prefer something else - well, good luck with that, because you can type it in, and it will compile, but you run the risk of somebody doing something that will cause the file to be reformatted and you'll end up with the standard layout anyway. Best get used to it now. (As I understand it, gofmt is very similar.)

This functionality is actually a benefit, because you can type in something like this:

public Fred(int[]x):base(x){
UpdateStuff();}

and the editor sorts it out, something like this:

public Fred(int[] x)
:base(x)
{
UpdateStuff();
}

No need to wear out your space bar and/or Return key putting the formatting in. Visual Studio has got a fair idea of what sort of stuff might have been formatted thet way deliberately, too, so single-statement controlled statements won't get their own line by default, and when opening and closing braces are on the same line the code is left that way. It pretty much always just works. (C/C++ isn't quite as good - maybe 85% of the way there.)

I don't really have a problem with automatically making everybody's code look pretty much the same.
eShares is an interesting solution but with so many parties involved (company, lawyers, several investor groups) how do you get one person to drive the solution? My experience is that something like that may be rocking the boat a little bit too hard.
I'm sorry dude, but not every pre-codition is because people don't exercise or don't eat well.
How to Personalize Your Emails at Scale
They usually say that any press is good press. I wasn't aware of WeWork's existence until this article.
Mesosphere SDK – Write a distributed app in days
Yeah, hello, please at least answer the technological challenge Uber has set at your feet, if you're not going to compete on price.
The NSA peed in their own pool. At one point in my life I would have found it really cool to do security work for the NSA or a defense contractor, but as their despicable behavior comes into light more and more, I can no longer say I'd have been proud to have worked there.

Its gotten to the point where if I saw "worked for the NSA" on someone's resume as a recent employer, I'd have serious questions about their ethical compass and why they chose to work for such a notorious organization. There are plenty of other more reputable opportunities to do security research and ops.
We are approximately half remote actually. We just treat every interaction as if everyone were a remote employee.

Obviously not EVERY reaction, but if that is the default, it's quite easy to sustain.
You HAVE to have a very heavy heavy heavy hand in hiring. Hiring good is by far the best thing you can do, you could hiring the most brilliant coder in the world, but if he is a poor communicator and procrastinator, your SOL.

For remote work, I look for hiring a personable motivated people, who are good at staying up on communication first, I can teach Tech, I don't want to teach someone to communicate or to stay on task. (This means they keep me informed by choice, not when I ask)

Also, as the guy above me said, let them fail and dont over work them. Micro management is something that everyone has issues with, especially if your a new-ish manager, and especially if you are managing a remote team, and if you pile 45-50 hours of work on them in a 50 hour work week, they will become disinterested, and just show up put in the hours and leave without any regards to quality to deadlines.
Ask HN: Design for engineers?
Hello all, I have been an engineer for a few years now and have seen problems get solved with less code and better design. I have taken design thinking classes and applied it practically in my side projects but I still feel a void and think I can learn more. Any resources out there to help with this?
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Canadian banks are in good shape though, they weathered the 2008 storm easily. Mortgages are limited to 25 years in Canada and you need some 20% down IIRC.

I do think there is a housing bubble, especially in Vancouver, but it's not clear to me how one could bet against it. And there always the chance that the prices are sustainable, they are positively mild compared to Zurich or Tokyo or San Francisco.
>It would be so easy to pick any given set of companies for my narrative though.

Yes, please try to come with convincing case studies. I would love to have ammunition to show benefits of remote work.

Remember though, when citing companies's with remote workers that are successful, that you must control for other variables unrelated to remote workers. The other replies citing Automattic Wordpress and 37Signals did not do that.

> I feel like that is just as dismissable.

I feel the opposite. Companies and managers have a herd mentality. You show them any management technique that demonstrates superior results and they will copy it. Look at Six Sigma, or JIT Just In Time manufacturing, or Henry Ford's assembly line regrouping of manufacturing, etc etc.

Show some evidence that reorganizing your onsite workers as remote workers is The Killer Management Technique (trademark applied patent pending) to blow everyone else out of the water and every company will be doing it.
I recently switched from a non-remote team to a remote one, and I can definitely echo these sentiments.

The biggest difference I have seen is that merit seems to give more weight to a team member's position than politics.
Building better context specific menus
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Paylocity-Software-Engineer-...
Good suggestions, I will do that.

I do not mention name or url, since it feels bit like a spam. My project is (hopefully one day will be) competition to Redis.
No, no, not at all.

I'm 54 years old, played this sort of game in the early '70s in elementary school with kits from Radio Shack, but it didn't really take (science and later computers was my thing), and I'm seriously considering subscribing. I'm potentially interested in doing the projects, but definitely don't want to spend a lot of time on the net gathering the parts and info, although it would, as others note, be cheaper.
Probably has hidden backdoors
Only ships to United States. So disappointing steroids :)
> A report from The Economic Times of India says that Google is working on a fifth instant messaging program. This one reportedly won't require a Google account and will be aimed at Whatsapp.

And how will Google be able to get onto the Whatsapp network and use their proprietary protocols?
Pretty much the same at my current place, most people won't use the kegs until its an appropriate time. I've had a beer at lunch or late afternoon a few times though and its never made me feel less productive. Sipping on a beer while coding is a nice experience imo.
The culture of "I want to make more money than my competitor" doesn't need to change. I can easily argue that if switching to remote work, in and of itself, were to produce clear, repeatable productivity gains that consistently outweighed the downsides, companies would switch to it very quickly.
Please don't presume that you are entitled to define what hacker culture is.
Poverty, more than geography, determines who gets online in America
it can work as long as you don't treat the remote workers as second class citizens.
I have worked 100% remote for 3 years and love it.

On the quantitative side of things, remote workers are much less likely to have commute time to and from work, leaving an extra ~1 hour a day (assuming 30 min commute from home to being in office chair ready to work) being available. Assuming those numbers, thats an extra 5 hours per employee per week. Again, assuming that multiplied by 50 weeks, thats 250 additional hours per employee per year. No small sum which could lead to a sizable productivity advantage.

This is assuming that the employee would devote that extra hour a day to the company of course. By my point is that onsite employees would not even have that hour available since it is eaten up by transit time.
It doesn't have to be 100% one way or the other. I think the optimal solution might be something like 1 (or maybe 2) days per week in the office for planning and sync up, and then 3 days WFH.

I'm sure it depends on the size or the organization and type of work being done (even depending on the type of software being written), but it's something that could be experimentally figure out.
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Quite ironic though, that the article got published on a site that still uses Flash.
On the second point, the correlations between hyped startups and established software vendors often isn't that strong. It doesn't necessarily need a major crash for markets to decide that Uber actually isn't worth 40% of the current global taxi market.

Indeed in some cases there's the distinct possibility the correlation goes the other was and profitable public incumbent tech providers will benefit from the loss-making VC-funded upstart unicorns in their market crashing and burning
IMO the issue with the Eudypluta Challenge is that they focus on the wrong part of kernel development (I couldn't get past one of the first few stages because I couldn't figure out what kind of semantics they wanted for the Makefile -- something that isn't a problem for most kernel development work). Kernel development is mostly modification of existing source code, not the creation of new modules (unless you're adding the support for a new driver).

But yes, anything like that does help familiarise you with the semantics of writing kernel code.
Same here.

Especially as it seems to be aimed at novices like myself I'd like to see something a bit more tangible that I'm signing up for.

Almost pulled the trigger and then decided it was simply too vague a proposition to impulse buy a monthly returning cost for.
Truer words are rarely spoken.
Yes, exactly. I had forgotten the name, and I also found it interesting that it wasn't mentioned.
There is an interesting answer from Mark Cuban on Quora about how he preserved his money during the Dot-Com crash... http://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Cuban-save-his-wealth-from...
You need to start by understanding your needs. What are you going to use the power for? Is this a year-round or seasonal application? What is your climate like? Are your rooftops structurally suitable and do they face the equator? If not, what land is available, what direction does it face, and is it shade-free? Do you also have other sources of electricity; if so, what are they? Do you plan to keep/expand/get rid of them? Will your PV installation be tied into a larger electrical system (and/or the grid) or provide standalone power for specific loads? How much power will you need, and how will your usage be distributed throughout the day/year? Are permits and/or inspections required where you live? If so, which parts will you DIY vs. hire out, and what research, supplies, tools, and materials will be required to do the work in a way that will pass inspection?

Once you have some answers there, you can start figuring out what kind of equipment could meet your needs and pricing it out. "I want solar!" is not a constructive way to look at anything; it's a great way to waste a bunch of money on something that will end up not giving you what you want/need. Asking here is not the way to get this done; realistically you have at least several dozen hours of research ahead of you, much more if you are off-grid or really want to do every piece of the work yourself.
Amazon down on prime time
Is there any free content available?
> late-1960's, "a few years after that", "non-wartime"

WHOA! Non-wartime! That's some amazing historical revisionism there.

Spiraling energy costs, an expensive war abroad, skyrocketing interest rates, the final decoupling from the gold standard had a lot more to do with inflation than the minimum wage.
Much as science advances one funeral at a time, I sometimes think working practices advance one bankruptcy at a time.

We are terrible at measuring productivity. I'm not sure any of the places I've worked could've distinguished a factor of 2 in productivity one way or another. There're too many other factors affecting a company's performance.
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The first four points are summarized in "Email is better than verbal communication." While email definitely has advantages, there are tons of downsides of having to rely on written communication. It's slower, you don't get the non-verbals, it's easy to misinterpret, you form less of a bond with the person on the other end, etc.

The last three points are much better (though I can't attest if they're true or not).
Ask HN: Startup transparency vs. big IT firm intelligence
Hi,

I'm the founder of a startup providing a niche IT product.

It's a high-end technology that had been developed. We're like a handful of companies worldwide providing this level of sophistication.

Recently, I have been contacted by a prospect working at one of the top 5 Enterprise software companies.

I am not sure if they are really here as prospects, or if they have another agenda (gather information about the solution, so that they create something similar by themselves)

I'm generally very open about the details of how the solution works.

Should I restrict the information that I disclose to this prospect specifically, because they are competitors and have offerings in the same area as mine?

Thanks for sharing your opinion.
Actually, what frightens me even more is that anyone in the world should ever be a veteran of a war.
Interesting that it has the same design aesthetic as the 6/6+ but has a smaller screen (4"). I bet a lot of people would want an iPhone the same size as this thing.
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Three decades of the Commodore 64
I am almost certainly missing important nuance as an outsider. One thing I find interesting about US right wing politics (the US right, is I think a more uniquely American camp, then the left) is the way "rhetoric" is possible more accurate than policies.

Economically, the US right is very vocal and ideologically clear about its beliefs, economic liberalism. The politicians, pundits and supports cite fundamentals quite a lot. The efficiencies and incentives of free markets, with policies relating fairly directly to economic textbooks (of agreeable persuasions).

I don't want to stigmatize by calling it "economic ideology" as this implies an irrationality that I don't mean to imply, but ideology is more or less what I mean, sans value judgements. Its unfortunate that has become a bad word.

This writer is calling it "economistic" and means a strong expectation that the basic economic models like supply and demand are predictive of the real world effects. So, he expects the minimum wages to result in unemployment. This may be the real rationale for him, but I think the wider political weight of this is only there because it dovetails with other (US-sh) freedom concepts. IE, I think the idea that two people can decide on a wage contract without outside intervention has an appeal beyond just it's economic effects to many in that political camp.

In any case, my point is that this kind of theoretical grounding and economic fundamentalism (again sans-value judgment, I just mean they often tie policies to theoretical fundamentals) is something in recession in other places and political camps. The big examples are the bastard descendants of communism, arguably the most confidently touted and complete economic-political big-T Theory in history.

For example, take "labour-socialism" the big central-left camp in europe. Once upon a time, they believed in labour unionism a variant of socialism. Not just as a means to an end, but as a fundamentally grounded ideology. The way to make industry thrive, create prosperity for workers, etc. It still exists as a real-politic hodgepodge of policies and rhetoric roughly espousing old labour values, but not really labour unionism ideology. It's not comparable to the economic liberalism of the US right.

The Chinese communist party was once… communist. 5 year plans. means of production, the whole shebang.

The remaining left in Europe and elsewhere is very non theory based. The have strong a social and economic goals and values, but not really a big theory about how everything works best. There is no consistent, underlying economic theory like the US right has. It still holds a lot of socialist values and even

We get back to words like idealist or fundamentalist that have negative connotations, an interesting thing in itself. I think that's what this article is arguing for, essentially. Fundamentals say minimum wage increases yield unemployment. Trust in the fundamentals.
My wife's workplace currently has a WeWork office, as well as a manufacturing facility outside of the city. They typically alternate days, switching between being at the office (which has the 'prestigious' New York City address and most of the paperwork), and the warehouse out on Long Island.

They used to have a bigger office, and my wife would typically be the only one using 1 of the 3 desks - the others belonged to the engineer, who would be at the warehouse more frequently, and the sales manager, who was out making sales. It might be under-utilized, but both engineering and sales still needed their own desk, file storage, etc. for the times that they were in the office.
Also, consider the fact that hiring pool increases many folds once you allow remote work. So a company will be able to find better people at lower costs.
I find it odd that you would assume the employee would convert that transit time into work time.

I would lean to the opposite assumption -- that that's one more hour/day the employee would get to spend with life (family, hobbies, etc.).
I find it difficult to believe you cannot answer that question on your own.

The difference is that OCSP provides a needed service, the very purpose being related to a TLS connection that the user requested. Checking the CRL is an important part of the TLS security process, and it would be stupid to ignore it.

A favicon provides no security benefit, and is entirely optional.

Yes, it may be true that making a GET request for both a CRL and a favicon might leak more or less the information. That isn't relevant, and misses the point entirely about minimizing the network. We don't know what data is useful. It is entirely possible that the situation can change in the future and previously harmless data can become a part of something greater.

Minimizing network use to what is necessary is an implementation of the "default deny" policy, and it is the only sane security policy because we cannot predict the future. Enumerating badness[1] is always going to end up playing catch-up.

[1] http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/d...
It is desire for yield. If you take the risk-less rate down from ~4% to 0%, then you can shift the rates for higher risk asset classes down similarly. If VC is historically a 12% return asset class (properly risked), LPs will demand the asset more, driving up supply and down the return until it is in-line with the risk profile (perhaps 8%?).
Does this make it a reasonable development device for iOS?
At the lowest tier for just floating desk space the cost of WeWork and these other coworking spaces is kind of ludicrous if you consider the free alternatives - working from home, a laptop-friendly coffee shop or even the library.

So when they say they have "plenty of cushion in a downturn" that's probably very true. When the tech market is bad the number of freelancers explodes. Loss of larger anchor startups can probably be augmented pretty easily by dropping the fees for freelancers a bit and doing business in volume.
You should read the article. It isn't about rationally rejecting something that is "too complicated." It is about the overall cost for some of these security tips exceeding what is lost to the attacks they protect against.
Daly City, SF without all the SF! Plus you can BART into the city and voilà, you can pretend you're in SF the entire time!

WIN-WIN-WIN!
First off, $5000/week?!? I clearly need to get better at this fast. Thanks so much for your detailed response; posting this was a shot in the dark that I'd get anything at all.

So, I'd be working on this part-time at best. I have a day job and a life, so my time is limited. I use the Seinfeld method of productivity so I can guarantee that I will work for at least 15 minutes a day, but for many days that will be it.

I'm still learning a lot--here's the most complicated app I've made to date: https://github.com/pnichols104/guess_who/commits?author=pnic.... It's a guessing game app; you get a picture and four multiple-choices to identify it. I started in March and am just about done. This one is much more complex and I have a lot to learn about it. Although I've been developing for 3-4 years, I started iOS development about a year ago.

I couldn't possibly charge him $2000/week. Honestly, I was going to charge him a flat rate for the project (which if I could finish in three months, I'd be very proud of myself) and was wondering if $1000 total was too high! Given the specs I listed, which is pretty much all I know so far, what would you think is a fair price for the whole thing?

Thanks again!
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Ubuntu policy is now GPL compliant
SocialRadar offers developers an alternative to Apple’s location manager
Congrats! Keybase has been making cryptography easier for me and everyone I know.
It can! To accomplish this there'd need to be a custom iPhone app for a location and everyone that goes in would have to have the application installed and have their bluetooth turned on.
Here is a list https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
SFC and FSF Achieve GPL Compliance for Canonical IP Policy
I would highly recommend reading, "Don't make me think" and "The design of everyday things."

I've also heard good things about "Design for Hackers," but I could never get into it
Good for them. I've been watching them quietly working hard, and it has been like that for a while now. Good luck! Hopefully some projects that make security completely invisible come about from this.