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Ask HN: Do you feel guilty when you quit a job?
TLDR: I got hired by a UK company as their third developer 6 months ago, on a temporary contract. As I am a 'junior' developer, I was offered half of the stated salary, with an email from them saying it would go up should I be offered a permanent role. My temporary contract just came to an end, and they've offered me a permanent role, but without increasing my salary at all.

I've had to accept, as I can't afford to be without a job, but I also can't afford to stay in this role as I end up further into debt each month on what they pay me. My initial mistake was not getting it in writing from the off, that my salary would be increased to £x if I was offered a permanent role.

After being treated this way, why then do I feel a huge amount of guilt that I'm actively soliciting other roles every moment that I'm not at work? Is it normal to feel like I'm going 'behind their backs', so to speak?
This may come down to our individual philosophies, but I'm far more interested in what would convince you that a model is wrong. It's a Popperian sentiment, which may be considered quaint these days, but I rarely hear any kind of answer.

Anyway, I don't think we are talking about even close to the same meaning of "complex", but one possible situation that would help convince me is if we had a "control" planet, and an "experimental" planet, with nearly identical climates and biodiversity and so on, and then we raised the CO2 level of the experimental planet, keeping in mind that all kinds of other inputs to the non-linear system should remain the same, like land use, fishing, other industrial activities, etc. If the experimental planet diverged significantly from the control planet, it wouldn't be solid 100% irrefutable proof but it would be far better evidence than anything we have today.
Be sure not to confuse condescension with intellectualism.
> The fact remains that current proxy studies are thoroughly insufficient as proof of any long-term trend

The notion of "proving" a future trend doesn't make sense. That's not how science works. You test a model against past data, and then people use the model to help them make decisions until we find a better model. Things are only ever proved after the fact.

> Literature like this makes me happy, because it is further evidence that the alarmists have very little material left.

That doesn't really follow. The promotion of a psychological study could be the result of alarmists running out of material as you describe, or it could just be one story in a queue of many others.

> Mercifully we may have hit the high-water mark of this generation of misanthropic environmentalist nonsense

Making generic insults at unnamed people and ideas doesn't really add anything to the conversation. Could you describe some actual nonsense that has someone's name attached to it so we could talk about it?
Why Learning JavaScript and CSS Won't Make You the Best Web Designer
Keyword: enough time. Spent two day working around a firefox outline bug only to have it break on mobile safary because their absolute positioning of pseudo elements is relative to the parent and not the element.

Browsers are making my day to day work miserable. I wish O could target a reference css3 platform and browser specific bugs be damned.
This is an interesting point. However, I am not convinced that life under "market forces" is less political than elsewhere. I would like to see some evidence.

I also think the point (and large success) of democracy is that it distributes power equally, so we simply stop wasting time on fighting for it and get the stuff done. Especially in direct democracy. So I think what you are saying only applies to "naive" (maybe even strawman) anarchism, where there are no rules, not the democratic one (that I think Chomsky admires).

> you don't have to suck up for the boss in free time and he don't care what your political views are

I am actually not sure this is true in small enterprises. I haven't worked for one, but I know one can get easily fired for voicing sympathies with unions, for instance.
It is possible to get actual transferable higher education credits for around 100 euros for some european MOOCs. The US MOOCs offer odd bits of paper at this price range because the US credential market is not free at all. Accreditation provides specific barriers to entry in the US to make education cost enough to satisfy the institutions.

For European systems, any student who is taking MOOCs is cutting their costs instead of threatening their profit model. Many students in Europe wont have financial incentives to use MOOCs for their primary area of study, but the European model doesn't really offer unlimited free higher education in what one wants whenever one wants locally.
What a less than visionary manager. I would love UI folks to make a prototype of how they envision the UI to work. It helps a lot and allow for some quick feedback from both the biz and the programmer who has to do the programming. Its in the same ballpark as writing the user manual first then starting to program the project (Pages by Pages, I do believe).

I knew a couple of consultants who did enterprise process work and also knew Shockwave. They would program a demo of each process. A little figure moving paper from place to place gets the point across better than any PowerPoint presentation ever will.
Can you give us any details of what you mean by 'horrible' or 'worst'?
The further irony is that Vimeo is still stuck in the 20th century and doesn't serve HTML5 video.
What Chomsky does is impeccable scholarship, but then he inevitably seems (to me!) to overreach on the conclusions. I don't know if it's blind spots or not.

As an example, I do not hold that any colonialist explanation for US involvement in Vietnam is necessary. There's an awful lot of ... circumstantial evidence to suggest that, but I don't know for a fact that anyone in the US explicitly wanted to do it for that reason - it's much more likely that simple anticommunism suffices.

After all, weren't the Chinese, in very complex ways, just wanting to "colonize" Vietnam through Ho Chi Minh?

But behind that is the message that power corrupts, and on that point, Chomsky is spot on. But I happen to think it's more about the powerful being constrained by circumstance and resources than by them simply being arbitrary. We have ample evidence of this from LBJ's White House tapes.

But that is perhaps my bias and blind spot, and maybe he's right.

Climate change is different in that cheap energy props up people who struggle economically in the US. So that's why I don't like carbon taxes as well as a solution.
Man, you need to grow some balls. You should have negotiated the contract and emphasised that it isn't enough to live on and that you were promised more. If you were too shy to do that, then you'll have to live with the fact that you got yourself in a non-sustainable position.

And..... according to you, the company lied to you about a promotion and then didn't deliver. So YOU feel guilty about wanting to leave? Oh come now.
Science isn't about demanding legislation either.

And the entire OP is a thinly-veiled insult aimed at the authors' political opponents. That's the point I'm trying to make, although perhaps it could be made more politely.
I looked at their full stack
program: Apparently
for my startup I've done most or all of that
already! So, right, I've got up my
Web site, with Web pages with HTML and
CSS, and four server side servers. One
of these is just SQL Server. Another
is a Web page session state server I
wrote. And the other two are specialized
to the technical internals of my site.

I did it all from self-teaching. Gee whiz.

"Look, Ma: No courses!"

Also looked at their program
for training data analysts
to "Discover Insights from Data".

"Insights"? For that goal, there
needs to be some caution as in, say,

Statistical Science
2001, Vol. 16, No. 3, 199–231
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures
Leo Breiman

as at

http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?vi...

Part of their work
is using exploratory data analysis.
Gee, there's a book with that title
by J. Tukey. I have a copy of the
original, that is, the manuscript,
that is, in Tukey's handwriting!
It was okay.

They mention finding "anomalies"
in data. Okay, how about
an anomaly detector that is
both multi-dimensional and
distribution-free with false alarm
rate adjustable in small steps
over a wide range, say, one a
minute, hour, day, week, month,
quarter, and known quite accurately
in advance? I published one of those.

Gee, guys. I also sent 1000+ resumes
and got back zip, zilch, and zero.

Are some people hiring? Do they
really know what the heck they
are looking for? Will they recognize
what they are looking for when they
see it? All maybe not.
Most of the cultivated salmon is actually containing significant amounts of heavy metals (due to the sea fish they get fed). And it is also given large amounts of medication to prevent sickness and parasites. This all ends up on our plates... I love salmon, but have almost fully stopped eating it, lacking a trusted source. Also because the salmon get fed with seafish, cultivating them actually contributes to overfishing the oceans. There is a german documentary about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Sl_wjiOyI
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, I think he does know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoi_Vinh

> Khoi Vinh is a graphic designer, blogger, and former Design Director for The New York Times, where he worked from January 2006 until July 2010.
Have you read Weinberg's The First Three Minutes?
We do know for certain that the ad is at fault. We can see that the ad is what is flickering into blocking the text. We also know that the NYT doesn't have a flickering block on every page.
That's an equally valid reading. The author is dead, after all. ;-)
If the old web server is going to be up anyways, why not just reverse proxy responses to the new one using nginx for example?
Is there any new information on how the attack works?

Was it something that's injected at compile time (the Xcode building the app store version was compromised for all these apps?)? Was it just files added to the project if anyone on the team used the compromised Xcode?
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I consider myself liberal yet I don't agree with it, though you're right, there are many elitist liberals around. I think they are easily spotted by their opposition to direct democracy.

And I actually think we should always assume "nurture". My reasoning is when you assume "nature", that's a dead end. This is a similar argument to whether the world is knowable - assuming it is will get you further.
How do they scale? Workable solutions need to allow seven billion people to inter-operate.
Yes, they do.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/07/vimeo-new-video-player/
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What are you even talking about ??
Scrolling has a lot of issues. The behavior seen in the video is common on many websites. And then there are some pages which simply won't load. I do not have examples offhand, though.
Facebook is a really laggy and glitchy affair, even though the screen size is enough to display the full website.
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Is that you ? Is it the former greek finance minister ?
By the same token, if the problem was the ad, this would happen for everyone who it was served to.
It does use <video> tag for me. Maybe you have an outdated browser?
S3concurrent, yet another S3 syncing project
Ask HN: Do you deploy apps using deb/rpm packages?
I'm curious if it's worth investigating deploying a web application using a deb or rpm package over our current capistrano-style deployment.

Right now it's automated and working fine, this is sort of a curiosity project.

I'm curious about if a system package (deb/rpm) would cause any (or perhaps "more") downtime over a capistrano-style deployment strategy - does it "smartly" update files, or simply overwrite them as if you used something like rsync?
You're talking about purpose, not structure. I'll agree, the USSR's purpose was not profit, because profit does not make sense if you're trying to own everything. The USSR's goals were growth and, as a logical consequence of growth, not shrinking, i.e. survival. It failed, yes. The larger a hierarchy and its concentration of resources, leadership, and power at the pinnacle, the worse it performs. This occurs with corporations in a capitalist system as well, but since it is not a defining feature of such corporations that they must own everything, their existence is more flexible. They can merge, split, be acquired, get sold off, get refinanced, etc. In this way, the capitalists (viz. people who make their living off of property ownership) can preserve their ownership even if their power structures fail.

So the key difference between the USSR and the Liberal states in opposition to it is the notion of property. Under the USSR, all property is state property and under the Liberal states, property is the bourgeois notion of property.
Oh, I do it all the time. It seems fine...
Don't feel guilty about anything concerning corporations. You don't have to have absolutely any loyalty to them, they're bitches that will treat you as throwable and replaceable "resource" as soon as they can find a cheaper replacement preferably from a remote country.

In software, you will be able to find a new job easily. Perhaps not the same day, as it occured to my dad in your exact same situation 50 years ago (he just crossed the road and got a better job), but you'll be able to find a new job in less than 2 weeks. So just start looking and interviewing, and when you have a proposal, give your notice.

You can consider the fact that they didn't double your salary as promised as a "polite" way to ask you to leave them.
A few couple of quotes from wikipedia:

"The Supreme Court is generally reluctant to exercise the powers of judicial review given to it by the constitution, in large part because of unwillingness to become involved in politically sensitive issues. When decisions have been rendered on such matters as the constitutionality of the Self-Defense Forces, the sponsorship of Shinto ceremonies by public authorities, or the authority of the Ministry of Education to determine the content of school textbooks or teaching curricula, the Court has generally deferred to the government."

"The Supreme Court of Japan has been described as the most conservative constitutional court in the world, and for good reason ...Since its creation in 1947 [the court] has struck down only eight statutes on constitutional grounds. By way of comparison, Germany’s constitutional court, which was established several years later, has struck down over 600 laws."

So what's the chance? Not very high.
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It's about the numerical value of these constants. The 1.673E-27 of the proton and the 9.109E-31 of the electron are completely arbitrary, but their ratio 1836 isn't. Besides, you can't really measure dimensional values. An experiment to measure the mass of the proton really is a complex way to measure the ratio of the mass of the proton to the mass of the international prototype kilogram; and that's a dimensionless value.
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By that 'logic', if you place ads on content that is not worth my time, you are the thief. Since you are not capable of judging what content is worth to me, the only safe route for you is to remove all advertising.
Huh, when I saw "same argument Germany" I thought you were gonna call back to the Third Reich's explaining various annexations / occupations as "defending the German people in those lands".
isn't it obvious that he didn't make it, though? Of course it's just a 14 year old clumsily messing around with electronics, it doesn't really matter to the story, though. It's not designed to look suspicious, it's just a kid fucking around with electronics, doing what little he knows to do, which in this case happens to be putting it in a new case. I did similar things when I was that age, it certainly doesn't follow he was trying to make it look like a bomb.

Sure, there's 14 year olds that have done much more impressive things, but that doesn't matter to the story at all. People aren't being supportive because they think the clock is so amazing, but because he got into trouble over nothing.
.... so?
in turkey, banks automatically enroll your debit or credit cards to 3d secure networks so you don't have to do it yourself. all you have to do is to enter a one time password sent to your mobile phone during payment.

with full 3d secure payments the liability shifts to the customer and you will have no liability. because the customer verified the payment him/herself by hand with the otp.

p.s. i am yet to read that link.
And if it's a site I visit more than once, creating a 'display: none' CSS override. Same for the floating headers that break paging, and similar annoyances. (I use the Stylish browser extension.)
<i>Most likely the owners of those vehicles, the commercial companies, would have their own lots for parking in places where it was the cheapest.</i>

Most companies, including large national ones, don't own the buildings that their stores / offices are in. They don't want to get into the real estate business and would rather someone else handle it.
Thanks for posting
+1 here. I have two bikes: one is a custom tracker (read: bunch of parts bolted together into something that runs... mostly) with open pipes. The other is a Zero SR (electric). Although anecdotal, I notice no difference in driver perception of my presence, except in stand still traffic, where it is least needed.

With the level of acoustic engineering that goes into modern vehicles specifically to block out external noise, combined with radio / in car entertainment, relying on other drivers being able to position you from audio is a bad idea. Now if bikes were to be fitted with cell phone jammers, that I could get on board with.
I have a bookmarklet that lets me do that without popping open dev tools. When I get home I'll post it.
You are correct, the distinction here is between unitless constants and constants expressible only in terms of arbitrary units.

ex:
The fine structure constant 7.29735257×10^−3 is independent of any measurement system and takes the same value when computed in any of them. The speed of light, however, cannot be expressed without prior definition of units of time and distance. 299792458 m/s is equivalent to 1.8026175×10^12 furlongs per fortnight.
These are the good old days.

There is also an incredible boom in commercial construction. Large, multi-story office buildings popping up all around the new 49er stadium, a mass of new distribution & warehouse space in South Fremont (serving future Tesla capacity?), new Facebook, LinkedIn & Apple HQs. There seem to be a lot of people betting that this boom will continue, and profits from regional companies are not disappointing investors: "the [2015] SV150 produced a profit margin of 16.4 percent amid record sales and profits,..." [0]

The commercial boom parallels spiking rental and real-estate prices throughout the region. [1]

What goes up, must come down. How sustainable is this cycle? To what extent do the startup incucelerators play into the momentum?

[0] http://www.siliconvalley.com/sv150/ci_27941929/sv150-silicon...
[1] https://www.zumper.com/blog/2015/09/san-francisco-rent-price...
Was there not some stone wheels used as currency on some pacific islands?
At London Gatwick you know first have to present your boarding pass at a first set of gates. They're horrible - travelling with children you easily get in a position where your child is on one side of the gate, and you can't get to them. Last time the gate refused to open for me after I'd sent my 6 year old through, and I had to walk off to the side with a supervisor while my son was alone on the other side, for the security guy to check my boarding pass details and let me through manually (the reason they refused to open, apparently, was that my son stood too close to the other side; my boarding pass was then marked as having been used to pass the gates, even though the gates never opened, so next try it was being rejected regardless)

Then there's the baggage x-ray and metal detection, after which my son routinely (this has happened every time at Gatwick) gets pulled aside for extra screening, which involves x-raying his shoes, and passing him through an extra scanner, and then patting him down. I usually don't have to, but if I don't it means I won't be able to accompany him through a process he already finds uncomfortable and scary.

Nobody has been able to explain why he always gets pulled aside, and it doesn't happen on the return journey from Oslo (most of our foreign trips are to visit family in Norway).

(Meanwhile we routinely forget to take bottles of water or juice out of our carry on, and nobody has ever noticed it until I've realised afterwards; in other words, the fluid restrictions only work on people who voluntarily hand it over and doesn't put it in their bags.)

So while security can be quite efficient now, for a substantial number of passengers it's gotten to be a real pain, and it's pretty much unpredictable enough that you have to plan for it to take time just in case.
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I thought "units canceled out" was the entire point. The units we use say everything about our assumptions such as the definition of distance and time (concepts, for example, closely tied to our understanding of light) and dimensionless constants allow us to safetly hide some of those assumptions.

Philosophically this is significant because these constants provide us our most basic hypothetical methods of communication with other technologically advanced species in the future, provided they share a relatively similar linear number system (which can be based on ratio of protons between different elements).
It's also possible (and quite likely) the the faulty ad wouldn't cause exactly the same problems on other websites, due to the way in which it'll interact with the page, the size of the viewport of the browser, etc.etc.
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And now, it gets worse. My phone screen is so small compared to desktop - a lot of ads render sites unusable (blocking full screen without possibility to close). Thats why I love my Firefox on Android. Having the possibility of running uBlock on my phone makes surfing so fast and painless. Even if chrome performs and renders better in general, having an adblocker makes that void.
Writing (like music, acting, art, fashion, etc.) has always been a lottery economy. A very very tiny fraction (JK Rowling, Dan Brown, EL James) of writers will become staggeringly successful, spurring millions to dream of matching their success and working for free in the meantime.

It's the same reason that thousands of naive 20-somethings move to LA every year.
Can someone explain to me why this whole ad blocking fiasco has blown up in the past 3 days?

Why was iOS's inclusion of ad blocking capabilities the turning point in what seemed to be an already-unstoppable movement towards a return to sanity for the web?

Why is everyone so scared of ad shops/website owners having to change their business models? I don't understand the hype.
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