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Yes, you might face a greater economic risk than any one employee, but how does your risk compare to that for all of them? The employees, after all, are more numerous. How much total salary, both present and future, did the whole set of them lose vs. if they'd gone elsewhere? Are you sure that, in aggregate, it's not more than you've been set back personally? How does that change for a couple of employees vs. ten, or twenty?

Let's also not forget that this is about risk, not just salary. The thing about risk is that it's not merely additive. A catastrophic outcome that's only 10% likely for one person is not still 10% likely for ten. It's 65% likely to affect at least one. You might not even have faced some of the risks that your employees do, such as arguments about financial decisions landing someone in "family" court. Who's taking the biggest risk, in aggregate, again?

Comparing risk for one vs. risk for many is a tricky proposition at best. The article might well be wrong for taking one position, and you just as wrong for taking its opposite. The real point of the article might be that founders should not turn a blind eye to employees' risk, regardless of whether or not it's greater than their own. Did it succeed at least that much?
Agreed in general, but it's also the level of inefficiency that matters. In the case of jump vs call/ret and those others, you're looking at a less-than-double increase in time. It's there and you can optimize it, but if you don't you don't really notice.

FRP can be very different. With a large chunk of data and the wrong methods, you could be copying and re-copying that data over and over instead of editing it in place. This isn't just a 100% slowdown - you can go from 5 seconds to 500 seconds when converting an in-place data modification to FRP.

Basically O(n) vs O(2n) ? Optimize it later if necessary

O(n) vs O(n^3) - Uh oh! That's not to say that FRP is bad or you shouldn't use it, but never use a 'magic' mapping in FRP unless you know exactly what it is doing to the data and if it's going to copy or not (hint: it usually is).
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You don't "have to pay sales tax on it" when you buy BTC like you pay sales tax when you buy a banana. But you still have to pay sales tax when you purchase a banana with BTC.
You mean:

> Then along came smartphones.

Wasn't ARM a relative minor player before smartphones took over?
My favorite site for these kinds of puzzles is https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml
Most of the businesses with negative gross margins from 2007 aren't around, a few managed to become profitable, some failed, and many were acqui-hired.

I think we are just starting to hit the point in the last year or so in which you can really say "bubble" but it could pop tomorrow or in 5 years... there's a famous quote about trying to invest by betting against a bubble that is roughly "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"
Oh yeah, this bit me in a widget I made for a client. But it only bit me once I tried it in Chrome, IIRC. Browser inconsistency, yay :/

I just used an <input type=text> and checked its content upon keydown instead.
I had built this a while back - will add more details on the site/page if there is interest.

When using webhooks, I was frustrated that you need to write some code to take the request, transform the parameters a bit, and then make a REST or a DB call. This provides a IFTTT like glue to turn those webhook calls into REST API calls.
Yes, Europe has no conventional sales tax, but VAT is a tax on sales, to be sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_tax
I took it as an interesting, harmless, and creative funerary tradition and nothing more. It doesn't (IMO) reflect poorly on the Chinese people, and getting all defensive over it is silly.
Also Rails' success, and any other tools that simplify decisions by an order of magnitude or more.
I think they're doing this because while Android apps beat iOS in quantity, there's a widespread conception that it lags in quality. So Google is doing this to try to establish a higher standard of Android developers craftsmanship, to try to counter the "iOS first" mentality. I don't think there's a shortage of Android devs, but of really great devs. And because of lower overall quality of Android apps, and market perceptions of Android apps being more fungible and less worthy of being paid for, it ends up being a cycle where firms go for iOS first.
It's probably time to give up on the ridiculous sanctity of states' rights.

It made sense in a time when people lived in same state their whole lives, rarely traveled outside the state, and rarely communicated outside the state. Their whole lives unfolded within a few hundred square miles.

That's not the case anymore. You can't subdivide the interests of American citizens by state anymore. What does it mean to be from Ohio vs. Indiana? Almost nothing.
ARM is not an overnight success. It's older than Transmeta. ARM is from the 1990's -- it was the chip that powered the Newton.
What is the name of your company? I want to buy whatever you make.
I think reputation matters far less than people think it does in the news industry.

Buzzfeed consistently does as much traffic as all local newspapers combined.

Maybe in the longterm it all evens out, but right now traffic is traffic.
That's Baader-Meinhof in action.
> the EU does not draw a distinction between virtual and traditional currencies.

This should be the headline...
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(Reposting with additions from duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10384792)

It'll be interesting to see if this works. I rarely found it worth my while engaging in a job with a new client if it billed under 10-15 days. $3500 is only a few days work, so they'll have to ensure the administrative overhead in bidding and billing is minimised.

> Whoever has the lowest bid at the closing time will have 10 working days to ship the code necessary to satisfy the criteria. If the criteria are met, the vendor gets paid. It's that easy. If the criteria aren't met, the next lowest bidder gets 10 working days to ship the code. In order to make this work, we will provide acceptance criteria, instead of requirements. This limits the possibility of misinterpretation and ensures the quality of delivery.

I fear that the focus on tight acceptance criteria may encourage gaming the system. There's no incentive for the contractor to do more than the bare minimum. Even if you gain a reputation with the procuring team of being reliable they still have to go with the lowest bidder for the next job.

For contractors, the optimum strategy would seem to be bid without spending any time coming up with an implementation strategy, then drop any jobs you win that don't seem worthwhile after a few hours working out how to implement it.

Ultimately this becomes a test of how well the jobs can be specified. For this to be efficient they have to include the time spent internally preparing and assessing the result vs working over a longer periods with people with whom they can build a trusting working relationship.

It might be more efficient to rely less on price competition and more on reputation. That would make it a low overhead system for engaging trusted contractors on individual tickets. There'd be far less preparation required in defining very tight acceptance criteria.
I routinely use it to test alternate logins, given that it behaves as a separate browser session.
I agree with the spirit of your comment.

twostorytowerseems seems like an articulate fellow, and even if his or her industry is not of interest to me, I'd like to keep tabs on what's he or she is working on.

A link to the company in a his or her HN profile would help here.
See: Rocket Internet.

They have a habit of seeing what works in the US, making it in Europe as fast as they can and either:

1) Selling it to the original US company

or 2) Developing it into a big independent company (see HelloFresh)

Some people are mad at them for that. I think it's pretty brilliant.
There's an add-on for Kodi called PleXBMC that lets you look up your Plex libraries, and some skins have specific support that replaces the default XBMC libraries.
I agree with the conservative FCC comissioners; this is a matter which should be dealt with in contracts between the government (state or federal) and the prison operator.

The FCC has recently been venturing into fields where it does not have expertise or (clear) authority. When the FCC issues regulations which should have been addressed by another regulator or actor, accountability is lost. Who is now to blame when something goes wrong with the prison phones? What happens when prisons fail to service the phones, or make it more difficult for inmates to use them? When it is not clear who is responsible for something, no one is responsible for it.

What horrors are you worried that a conservative-majority FCC will cause? That they will be accountable for the consequences of their actions, and not attempt to increase the scope of their authority?
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At least it _sounds like_ they've been talking to other graph DB vendors about adopting (Open)Cypher. Who knows if it's really going to happen, but it makes me slightly more inclined to invest time in Neo4J's Cypher when I finally start playing with GraphDBs.
I thought that Republicans were bitterly divided, until I started learning about Libertarians.
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What does it mean to be from Hawaii vs. Mississippi? Kind of a lot?
These kinds of HN threads have completely ruined me on ever using the term "liberal" in any context. It doesn't reliably scale to broadcast a consistent concept to a sizable group of people.
>> Can they be? Sure, but as some graduates in this thread themselves admitted, it took them 2-3 years to reach that position anyway.

Meanwhile they were taking home a paycheck instead of paying tuition dollars. Maybe they've got family to support and taking four years out of the workforce wasn't a possibility. Or maybe sitting in a classroom is just not how they learn.

What exactly is the problem with some people learning on the job if they want to and employers want them to? You don't want to work with them find an company that doesn't want to hire them or found one yourself.
If you don't mind me asking, if the company failed to turn a profit what was your next step? Savings gone, no money coming in, living with your parents and not being actively sought after. It sounds like you went "all in" which is very admirable.
I'm not sure if I understand the Rational pirates puzzle or it might need clarification. Specifically "the oldest pirate alive will propose how the coins will be distributed among the pirates,......"

"Otherwise, the pirate proposing the scheme will be thrown overboard".

I read this as the pirate who proposed the breakdown (the oldest remaining pirate), but in your solution, it sounds like the person who voted against it thrown out.
Headline is indeed horrible, but there's some merit to the news. There could've been many other tax implications with Bitcoin and the article exposes that's not the case.
That may have been their stated objection, but the broader pattern belies this. The broader pattern is "make life as difficult for the poor, middle class, and the minorities as possible."
While you may have made poor financial choices that does not mean you represent the aggregate market. Further, the risk your stock is worth nothing is lower than the risks your initial employees stock is worthless. EX: Many smart founders take a little money off the table when they get a large funding round. Early employees don't get that option.

Finally, founders tend to have better long term career opportunity's which reduces risks. (Much like how spending money on collage is less of a risk than spending the same money playing blackjack.

PS: While often overlooked, having a deeper incite into a companies finances also allows you to better hedge long term risks.
I thought they just do voice calls and mail pictures right now.
I actually had that exact problem, when writing an app with Ionic. It looks like a "feature" of Angular, as can be seen on their documentation [1].

[1] https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/input/input%5Bemail%5D
Some interesting tidbits I read:

* AWS grew 78% from t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶v̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶q̶u̶a̶r̶t̶e̶r̶ the year-ago quarter!

* GE moving workload to AWS, downsizing from 34 data centers to 4.
> Why We Need a Common Graph Query Language

> I believe that graph query language is Cypher.

I, and others, believe gremlin is that common graph query language.

My first meet with graph databases was in fact Neo4j, but quickly pivoted to Titan, and now using Cayley for smaller projects (although its Cassandra model will make an interesting future).

All except Neo4j supported gremlin, which to me is expressive, formal and actual-human readable.

Cypher looks cool, and has intuitive method of writing the edge query parts, but while it looks hip, I didn't find it obvious nor human parsable. Human readable yes. You recognize the terms, but translating it into an AST is simpler and easier in gremlin than in Cypher (in my opinion)
> Sooner or later we will hit a limit

Sooner or later sun will burn out, universe will expand in to nothingness, etc.

Those arguments are pointless - we won't reach those limits within our lifetime even with highest growth projections and who knows what happens after that.

But that's not what OP is arguing - baby seals - ie. "bio diversity" and "wildlife preservation" - is more important to the modern green movement than increasing the standard of living for a large part of human population and hence the enlightened ideas such as forbidding reproduction and limiting resource use.
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I think you underestimate the costs of running a union and you will need staff to service the members needs lay officers can only go so far.

OK Electronics can save some postage costs but that's it.

"Members could vote on specific issues rather than vote for people to represent them."

What do you mean by that and who decides what gets voted on :-)

Also Unions do use a form of rev control for making decisions its called parliamentary procedure.
those debates don't use facts or evidence, so, probably not ;)
I'm not saying states shouldn't be able to determine certain things. But the federal government should be able to overrule asinine state policies after public debate (still subject to testing in court).

When that testing happens, as it does now, the determining factor shouldn't be "states vs federal rights". It should be, "Does this state have a good reason to differ from the rest of the country?"

In this case, where inmates' families are being harmed, there is no reason for Hawaii to differ from Mississippi.
I can't help but feel like this is simultaneously insightful and insufferable. The author has interesting thoughts, but is obsessed with aesthetics.

You want differentiation? Every Subaru (save one) has AWD, and one of the best AWD systems on the market at that. Subaru never really sold cars on the basis of looking cool (save that same one).

As for the wind tunnel- that's a smart connection. A large amount of the stylistic similarity can be traced to the wind tunnel. But that is because we are slave to wind resistance, and the optimal shapes for fuel efficiency are pretty well known.

Statements like this:

The wind tunnel’s usefulness has been perverted to legitimize the destruction of progress.

I cannot even figure out how to parse. The wind tunnel is now an excuse to gain fuel efficiency and avoid progress, where "progress" means "striking bodystyles"?

Or:

Wiedeking’s use of the word “fickle” is telling. To translate, “People with taste are picky. The only way to make money is by satisfying those who can’t discern quality.”

Wiedeking's problem with the sports car market is it fluctuates wildly no matter how good a car you make. It is the canary in the coal mine that is the greater car market.
I was watching the the iPhone launch video last night and what you're saying is very apropos. Apple was able to piggyback on the failures of existing smartphones to tell a powerful product story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUIxyE2Ns8
That goes for most labels used in some context. Left-wing, right wing, liberal, conservative, democracy, freedom, prosperity and so on. All those mean different things to different people.
It's frustrating how much Congress has ceded to these agencies. it's a loophole in democracy.
You can still get the actual value from DOM even if Angular is updating your model with an empty string.
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Basically, yeah: voice, photos by mail, text by mail, and then some kind of support group/social network for wives and girlfriends of prisoners[1]. What an unfortunate name for that service, though...

1. https://pigeon.ly/prisonwives
In continental Europe it's somewhat clarified by dividing them into "liberal-conservatives", who politically side with conservative parties and may also be open to some elements of traditional conservatism (patriotism/nationalism, anti-immigration, etc.), and "social liberals", who tend to position themselves as politically centrist or center-left, support at least some kinds of social programs, and are typically hostile to traditional conservatism. Individuals may or may not fit cleanly into one of those categories, but the parties usually do.

Though that runs into another naming collision, because "social liberal" in the U.S. means a liberal who is focused mostly on social issues (gay marriage, abortion, free speech), rather than a liberal who is supportive of social programs.
Replying to myself, more awake. That had an error in it, it should have been 'after absorption of the old one'. Remember to pay more attention when posting tired.
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I regret that "eventually" correct is far too optimistic.
"Many smart founders take a little money off the table when they get a large funding round. Early employees don't get that option." it usually takes years to get to that point.
Victor Davis Hanson made a similar point in the book "Who Killed Classical Studies": every significant text has been analyzed in depth, and the remaining texts still being found are minor. (Even if a new play by Aeschylus or book by Livy turns up, it's not likely to change what we know very much.) The historical picture is pretty complete; and the archaeological details being found are mostly refining that picture, not overturning it.

Counterargument: the Antikythera mechanism. There could well be more archaeological surprises, or analyses that open up an entirely new aspect.
I want people to not have children so that we can preserve the accumulated genetic legacy of billions of years of evolution, which is what prevents our ecosystems from degrading by making it robust.

We are not separate from said ecosystems. Also, what makes you think people's desire to have children trumps the health of the systems we depend on for survival?
Why must you accuse your intellectual opponents of being mean and evil? Why would they be so cruel and irrational? Do you have any real reason to believe you are any better than them?
I tried out them, they don't seem to work with the fonts I tried. I skimmed the unicode standard for "block characters" and I didn't read any constrain for the block characters on width.
Dit is different in that it thinks it's git - it git hooks into any given git repository, and it does all the work in the background whenever you make a commit in the repository or pull from a remote. The only command you ever run is "dit init" and the rest is done for you.

I made dit because everything else I found to manage dotfiles seemed to be incredibly intricate (rcm, homesick), and I just wanted something simple I could install and forget about ever needing to manage again.

Any feedback as to coding style, bugs, concept, features you would enjoy, etc is appreciated.
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In all article they mention only one another graph db which is not publicly available :) if you call this talking to other DB vendors :)
No, you read that correctly in the puzzle description. The oldest pirate will be thrown overboard. My solution was written in a slightly misleading way. I just updated it. I hope it is clear now. Thanks for your feedback!
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It is not just the prison. In some places, ankle bracelets are outsourced to private companies [1] and they charge the user rent for it and if they can't pay, guess where they go back?

[1] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/23/1424181/-Pay-for-yo...
Hi!

I have thought about the same issues as you described. I see this as an interaction between two parties: producer and consumer. If the producer is so slow, that the consumer manages to ask 1000s of times for a product before it's created, than we have a case for reactive events.

Game programming is different: the rate at which the events are produced greatly overwhelm the consumer rate (60 fps is nice target for graphics).

There is one exception though! I have found a very annoying issue in a lot of games: they sometimes drop input. If you happen to play some fast action game and the game is crunching too much for the moment and drops FPS, also assuming that input events are polled once per frame, then a lot of input events might go unnoticed. Only the last input state for one frame is recognized by the game logic, but there might have been more than one.

So, in my opinion, input handling would be better handled in a pull fashion, where all the events could be processed immediately, for example: the rotation matrix could be updated off the game loop many times between one frame. I hate all those 3d viewers which loose all interactivity if the scene is too large. It doesn't have to be!
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From reading the article I can't tell "any selfie" reveals one's PIN. Is it from smudges?

If so, one's PIN would be revealed when the screen's image didn't get in the way.

This article (I tried to find a more informative one than this and failed--maybe I'll try to find the presentation itself) seems to imply that one could film at sufficiently-high resolution someone's face and eyes, and reveal what was on their phone screen. Interesting stuff. Like Starbug says, "Everything can be spoofed."
Typically in that case you bargain with individual employers for your grades.

M&P (managerial and professional) Union's work quite differently to the sector wide EU model
There could be other parameters but since we're not aware of them to us the photons are indistinguishable.

It's in a nutshell why your mirror image still looks remarkably like you. It's all 'brand new' photons moving in a new direction but they carry all the properties of the originals, the only thing that is different is that there are fewer of them because some of the absorbed ones never made it to re-emission because their interaction with the mirror substrate caused them to stay there.
Why not $0?

The marginal cost of the bandwidth required to make the phone calls is negligible, so there is no reason it should cost anything to the inmates.

A simple solution to achieve such a result is to buy a cell phone plan with unlimited minutes and route calls through it.
I am self taught but I've interviewed a few bootcampers from SF bootcamps that knew nothing aside from boilerplate Ruby code.

If I were you I'd save the 5 figure fees and go through the python (learnpythonthehardway.org) and Django (learnpythonthehardway.org/book/next.html) tutorials.
Nobody stops you to do your own book keeping or management accounting/budgeting.
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