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These fogcreek interviews are pretty good. It is too bad the video quality is so poor.
Probably not the first time this joke will be made, but...

"I'm impressed - I didn't realise Ahmed had built a clock with a functional alarm."
> The police aren't spending money on military-grade gear, they're being gifted surplus from the military.

They're spending money training on it, storing it, operating it, and organizing operations around it so that they can justify receiving and keeping it, as well as in personnel costs associated with the staff time devoted to doing the research, applications, etc., to be awarded it.

They may not be purchasing it, but its not appearing and hanging around without expenditure of department resources.
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I'm taking the Coursera course right now. The course page at Stanford has a lot of student projects. The breadth of applications is pretty huge, definitely worth a check if you're looking for an idea.

http://cs229.stanford.edu
It depends a bit on how you define it. All of those kids have Facebook accounts, but they don't tend to use them except to brag to their extended family about whatever it is they're doing this week.

If they're talking with their friends they use something like Snapchat or Whatsapp instead. The same way you don't gossip in front of your parents.
I hear the argument that teenagers aren't on Facebook any more, they are now on Snapchat, Instagram etc. It always seems like their argument implies that teens use a single social network. I would guess that many teens use multiple social media platforms. Facebook has over a billion users, there's likely a few teenagers hanging around.
Even if they were, the market is clearly different, so they could be both have the same mark.
For health insurance you're just providing an exchange, not a brokerage right? Or both?

Also, any thoughts/plans to move into the PEO space?
There are a lot of things in life which are free. Just look around. Not everyone's into making money, when they make something. I will give you an example because I was just contemplating on this the other day (I have no involvement in this). Take a look at this communication platform (1). Read up its FAQs, its TOS, its history of existence, etc. Now tell me, how and why is this free? Then reflect on your own comment about money being involved in "everything".

(1) https://www.threadthat.com

The Ads exist because they are selling on top of something else altogether. When the Adblockers come on board with the same goal, they defeat the purpose. I am just indicating this apparent cycle, which is fundamentally odd. I am not making a case for or against Ads or Adblockers.
Depends on the contract =)
Gusto co-founder here. By no means do we consider payroll to be finished! This is something that every employer needs and will always be a big (if not the biggest) part of Gusto. One of the main reasons why our benefits offering is so good is that it's built on top of our own payroll offering.
> Who is paying for that? Tax payers of course!

I'm happy when "my" tax dollars are spent making my life better. Isn't that the whole point? (Obviously, this will work when everyone in the country has a 6 hour work week)
holy crap that website is like a gift from the gods
So you think he meant within a factor of 3 and 1/3? That's not what the original netflix comment said.
Just because they have a Facebook account doesn't mean that they use Facebook the way you did. It's like how you have an email account to interface with old people (e.g. parents) and websites (your bank, transactional emails from services). Think about how old people might still use email listservs, whereas you might be more Facebook primary, and the "young hip people" might be using Kik/SMS/SnapChat.
Unpaid internship is illegal. Well, at least in Brazil it is.
No, what you're saying is exactly my point: there's nothing wrong here.
Can you be specific when the "not following the constitution anymore" started?
Haha, touché! b^)
I do think that if a company is going to have an arduous interview process they should try to make it positive one if only for their own benefit because people talk.

Having reviewed code samples I can say that it can be exhausting trying to write constructive feedback to the person who wrote it. It is much easier to give a more dispassionate summary to the recruiter than one that would be appropriate to give to the person who wrote the code.
HTTP 1.1 - 0.64s, 2.0 - 0.60s. Firefox Aurora, Linux.

I'd like to know more about how this benchmark runs and what it's actually measuring. Page load times and responsiveness are notoriously hard to define.

I don't mean to nitpick the benchmark too much, it's obviously measuring something, but it's also nice to be able to weigh it against other tests and design goals.
More like 4 or 5.

Different problems happen in companies that are not "startups". For instance, a startup won't have a 40 minute build process because it hasn't accumulated enough code. A company that has been around 10 years however and hasn't deleted anything is a different story...
I don't like how they altered the font on their webpage to something that is so thin that strokes are only visible as subpixels. Glad the API docs use a readable normal-weight font instead.

If you need to visually "hide" the text in order to make it look "clean," you're doing typography wrong.
some words for whom Feynman's imperative is not enough:

A paradox is just a scenario that betrays the subject's lack of, or inappropriate, context. They are a perceptual phenomenon. Indeed, language and imagery will not explain QM and there is no problem with that. The only philosophy required is that which understands that different tools are needed to work appropriately with different layers of complexity and scale; the proven appropriate tool for the apparently most basic layer is math.
Because China is one of the biggest I.P. thieves in the world. The likes of Huwei have played that to huge advantage with real losses for U.S. companies. Having an I.P. thief wanting to look at your I.P. or have it in their jurisdiction to "protect them" is different than the norm in U.S. and Europe.

Plus, most products certified in those don't even have to turn in their source code. It's one of the reasons I call bullshit every time companies get such a certification and say it means something.
Oh yeah, would be interesting. Also some comparison of different teams suspected in working for govs
Hmmm...

http://imgur.com/WyjSpBK

I'm probably an outlier.
Click on the LWN domain in the title. You're taken to a list of articles submitted to HN from that domain.

There are a bunch of people who submit articles from LWN. If you suspect shenanigans it's probably more useful to email HN. (I'm only guessing that though).
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Neither party owes the other anything, but giving some sort of feedback, besides being polite, is a simple and useful positive contribution the other part's life, namely because the candidate has invested time on the process.

Much for the same reason, competent HR professionals appreciate if you give them a reason for leaving a recruitment process or a job, it helps them identify areas of improvement.
Wow I would not want to work for or with this guy. Someone who blatantly lies like that will hardly make a good teammate or a boss.
Criminality is defined by the law (i.e. government) so of course criminal pursuits are distinct from government ones: criminal pursuits are those pursuits the government doesn't approve of. This isn't a conservative or liberal worldview, it is fact and what the words mean. Whether or not this distinction is legitimate and meaningful is another debate.

And it seems you're conflating your economic system with our government; the society we have is because our government is toothless and unable to take real action, we are subject to the brutal whims of capitalism. Every time someone suggests we wield the power of our government to better our society it's decried as "socialist" and fails. So with effective government effectively banned by conservatives, we are left with ineffective government. Which gives conservatives more ammunition to ban any remaining government.

And you seem to wholly omit the consent of the governed; perhaps you reject it as a principle, and perhaps you simply don't wish to acknowledge its existence. In the first case, you should be aware your position is an extremist ideological one and shared by almost no-one outside of academic philosophy. In the second, this is a serious omission since it is the obvious counterpoint to your entire argument above.
I've been getting that for years with ubuntu.
Honestly, no offense intended but his is bullshit. Everybody competent knows that hiring is crapshoot and all perms get clauses that allow them to be let go fairly quickly here in the UK.

I do agree with you, this doesn't work, but that's because once the candidate is of the quality that they can easily grab contracts, they have no incentive to come work for you as a permie.

That said, only high end contractors are really that more expensive. You need to remember, your employees are likely getting sick days, holidays, and pensions. You need to pay employers NI and probably offer other benefits. In addition to this after a while getting rid of them becomes difficult.

When you think of it like that, a often contractor isn't a bad deal. It's a shame a lot of companies feel like they need ownership of their staff.
Thanks for the information, but Experian is a credit bureau or credit reporting company. A credit union is something else, more like a saving-and-loan association.
"omertà, standing up to unfair authority, protecting your own", that's silly... "omertà" means: if you talk we kill you.
Rofl. Where is this guy working? I hope not the silicon valley, because $150k is pretty standard starting salary around here.
If possible, consider leaving socket.io.

If you can, check out https://github.com/websockets/ws .
This.
My company uses about 40% of their engineering time manually completing firmware builds (literally dragging and dropping dozens files back and forth for various in house tools) and dealing with the super awesome proprietary version control system that requires about an hour of clicking around, rebasing and navigating to create a release. We scare new people away who were trained on the cutting edge tools (git, continuous integration, etc) because "we spend a lot of money on these 'professional' tools"
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What do you mean by that? It's catchy and fun but not really informative or helpful by itself.
Already happening: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-trading-influence-l...
I'm sure it would (leave someone vulnerable), but I think it would be interesting to see some analysis of how it stacks up to encryption.

Governments have been breaking codes since forever, so I know they're good at it. And with computers, I'm sure it's gotten so much easier.
> The 'leveling' power of the web is an illusion. The web is controlled by those who have the resources to develop and distribute web browsers, which is a tiny elite at this point.

Not even slightly. If I wanted to, I could post a .txt file on an HTTP server somewhere and anyone could consume it. More broadly, web browser are accessible to all, and anyone can put a web page online. That's not true with apps at all.
> Assessing talent is a predictable scientific process. Good companies know how to do it. Other companies don't, so they use contract to perm to compensate.

Alternatively, its a predictable scientific process which is more accurate when actual time in seat is devoted to the assessment, and good companies know this and bad companies just delude themselves into settling with a less reliable process.

Or, more accurately, assessing fit for job is a task that varies by the specific job (including, among other things, how much room the role, size, and mission of the organization leaves for customizing the job around the individual) for which suitability is being assessed, and good companies (in this regard, at least are those that understand the mechanisms which are most appropriate for assessing fit for the jobs they actually are hiring for and choose the right methods (which may or may not include contract-to-perm for particular jobs), and bad companies are those that don't (which may include picking contract-to-perm for jobs where its not the best choice -- or not choosing it for jobs where it is.)
"Shady promotion, sex trafficking, and data mining are just some of the tricks of the trade for Facebook's growing population of fakers"

http://www.dailytech.com/Fakebook+Pt+I+From+The+Chive+to+Ask...

On dating websites' use of stolen images:

" He said: "We'd steal someone's identity through say My Space or something, we'd take someone from a totally different country, ie. Spain or wherever it may be. [...] We'd take the person's photos online and we'd start knocking out messages. It was all fake and under the pretence that it was real."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1020771...

And yes, I have met people who have had their profile pics used elsewhere. TinEye is a great tool for discovering such incidents. Then again I used to work in the entertainment industry (film) and now teach a forensics class to young people at a local college so I probably run into it more often than the average.
Pop up blocking wasn't always a standard feature. Then it was.
Coinbase is often recommended as a BitPay alternative. Unlike BitPay it's not a specialized processor but an online wallet, but much like PayPal you can use it to collect payments as well.
It can certainly be done properly, even on relatively static systems like Unix. See Cristiano Giuffrida's Ph.D. thesis on "Safe and Automatic Live Update" [1], or, if you don't want to skim through 197 pages, the significantly shorter master's thesis "Safe and Automatic Live Update for Unix Applications" [2] by Calin Iorgulescu. The research has been supervised by AST and since incorporated into MINIX 3.

[1] http://www.minix3.org/theses/Cristiano_Giuffrida_PhD_thesis....

[2] http://www.minix3.org/theses/Calin_Iorgulescu_Master_Thesis....
Which is entirely the point. To make money, companies are going to have to move away from the open web to closed app environments.

Like the article says.
Your ISP is doing some nasty stuff.
In what way aren't they "allowed" (at least in general in the US)? It's pretty much up to you what you put on your resume. Leaving off a very short-term position that didn't work out seems entirely above-board to me.
Aren't they two different things? The open software community has been, in general, a big supporter of human rights, but every author or artist should be able to decide how he or she sells or gives away their creations. (Am I missing some important point?)
D'oh, you're right. My mistake. Fixed.

I also attributed The Work Number to Experian, but it's owned by Equifax.
Great comment. I find it slightly off-putting that he would put everything else on hold for professional development. In this industry, there is an undeniable need for working very hard (new languages, softwares, frameworks, design patterns etc. not to mention the amazing output that comes from Academic research) but balance is so important. I speak anecdotally, of course, but it feels amazing to work really hard during the week and have the weekends off to spend time and build friendships and relationships. And to be honest, the industry pays well enough that not to take advantage of it would be a bigger fallacy.
Not really. We'd still exist, even with the same attitude. Sometimes increasing the size of the population is beneficial to society, but it's a different situation in today's world.

I understand why the idea of bringing life into the world is appealing, but let's not pretend that's the main reason for living.
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Systemd does standardize many interfaces[1] (including logind).

[1] - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePo...
> I urge everyone here to really consider taking the pledge and begin diverting at least some of their income to effective charities.

I wasn't aware of Peter Singer etc., but I was actually independently considering doing the same thing (also 10%). But to be honest, I still fight with my worries - I am not sure about the local culture (Czech Republic), many people here still believe "who doesn't steal, steals from the family", and I worry that some of my friends/family will not like the idea. Although it may be completely unfounded fear or rationalization (I have a fair share of social anxiety).
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Good for Zen... er Gusto. I interviewed for an engineering internship there when I was in college and really like everyone I talked with. They seemed to have a great culture and to be solving some pretty cool technical problems. I hope things continue to go well for them as they expand into the benefits market.
...a lie, I added $20k to my current salary

It's right in the text.
In Sweden "work" entails 8hours + 1hour set aside for obligatory break time. Is it different in the states?

Also, I can't see how 6hours would mean no stretch/brain breaks.
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Very nicely written, and a good template, too. If you use it too much, it could fall flat, but even a personalized sentence of "I really think that [disrupting the fish-taco industry by serving Gungans instead] is a great approach!", if you can be sincere, is another way to help the whole thing be remembered fondly by all involved.
1. you can actually do a kernel update without a reboot now, using certain tools.

Which Debian doesn't officially support, so they can't be expected to write update scripts for that use case.
Not at all. I endorse both restricting location of data to safer places and security review of products. The specifics vary considerably from country to country. The consensus is that a Swiss ownership/company offering services in their country evaluated by INFOSEC professionals would be ideal. If any L.I. exists, it would have low likelihood of abuse. Iceland may not have L.I. or crypto regs but it's unknown how they will handle future U.S. pressure. Swiss handled it pretty well and aren't NSA SIGINT partners unlike most of Europe.

Then, there's Europe with its data protections of unknown effectiveness for me as an American. Then, there's America where the sue happy, LEO's, and courts can get away with a lot. Your actual trade secrets, source code, etc are more protected here plus stronger patents. Then we have China and Russia where some employees and external parties on the network will be hacking the crap out of you while the government protects them when caught.

So, quite different situations in different countries even for same topic.
Ah, yes. A voice of reason. It gets so tiresome when some people can't understand that the use of force is unavoidable. People who frequent the same circles where game theory is routinely discussed don't seem to grasp violence being a necessary consequence of its benefits to the victor. If they had understood that, then they would immediately have understood that a democratic government is a pretty good overlord to have, and that having some sort of overlord is mandatory. While it is true that states and mafia are similar in some respects, that is a truth of dubious interest and importance.

I can only conclude that the people continuing to compare mafia and democratic governments are ideologically handicapped. Or maybe it's a steady procession of innocents believing the world has never considered their insight. Probably a bit of both.
> If I wanted to, I could post a .txt file on an HTTP server somewhere and anyone could consume it.

Sure, right now. Of course, the browser manufacturers are moving to actively discourage that by flagging HTTP as unsafe, as a first step to blocking it by default. At which point you'll have to use HTTPS for most people to be able to see it, which means you'll have to go through someone with a relationship with a root CA trusted by browser vendors to make content visible to the public, which means, again, back to the web being controlled by those who develop and distribute web browsers.
I just respond to people and kindly tell them why I'm unable to accept the work. Most people can appreciate everyone having limited time and resources. Doesn't an e-mail template (even with modest customization) seem impersonal? Maybe I'm getting old.
Reimplementable Independently: No

Ian Sutton, who embarked on a project to emulate some of the systemd D-Bus daemons, also attests to the "standardization" being largely a red herring: http://darknedgy.net/files/systembsd.pdf
Hmm, I don't think this was a design or style choice. It sounds a lot less risky to just modify the validator variable here via some binary hacking than try to remove all the code responsible for generating those ship questions. In the article, Paczyński claims source code is very rare for these games, and I imagine they just incorporate community binary hacks and call it a day.

Funny enough, I remember having this issue with a Steam game and the 'fix' was googling the old manual. Luckily, it only happened once per session. It seems like Valve is a much more conservative group than GOG.
One of the main benefits of a truly integrated payroll, benefits, and compliance product is that you don't have to worry about the syncing of employee records across these systems. We intentionally wanted to start at the lowest, most fundamental layer (payroll) and build these other pieces into a single product.
There is an important difference between the mafia and legitimate governance: A Constitution and a Republic (3 powers).
You say that the parent has poorly reasoned anecdotes. Then you provide two personal examples with just as low of a value when it comes to special insight.

You proclaim advertising does not work like that, and provide no proof or substance to back up that claim.

How was your post any better than the one you were criticizing?
I think the 'Reimplementable Independently' just means that it is straightforward to reimplement on top of systemd (although that isn't made very clear). Since the external login DBus interface is standardized, I can't imagine why it would be difficult to reimplement logind on top of another init system.

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To an employee, the actual benefit offerings are the primary consideration. If one provider had great payroll but so-so benefits, that's not worth a slight reduction in management overhead.
>But in no country does a corporation respond to the people at large

"respond to the people at large" is an awfully general characterisation.

What corporations typically do is respond to wishes of their customers and prospective customers, provided they can make money from doing so. If one corporation does not, a competitor probably will. So there are potential alliances to be formed between consumers and specific corporations regarding specific political issues.

Again, I'm not saying that the market or consumer power magically replaces democracy or that the interests of consumers and corporations are naturally aligned in general.
Does it seem odd to anyone else that for verifying integrity they distribute a GPG-signed list of SHASUMS? Why not create a GPG signature for each blob?
>What do you mean by that?

To some on HN, MBAs are uninformed miscreants who ruin everything. Everything but engineering is a waste of money.
Well, I'm not saying bitcoin is perfect or fit for mainstream usage for that matter, but for what is worth, that is bound to happen with anything digital. Security data breaches are a recurring problem for internet companies and services too.