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I'm trying to make the math on this make sense. The scale of the projects being assigned, if they actually take two full-time weeks for one developer, means a company would receive $43.75/hour in compensation. That's a lot less than most companies bill for developer/tester time, though it is comparable to the salary of a corporate developer/tester.

Are you expecting most companies applying to this to actually be small shops?

Are the scale of projects going to generally be designed/selected to take much less than the allotted 10 business days?
This is a horrible headline and directly promotes misunderstanding. One might even call it clickbait.

In reality, virtual currencies can now be exchanged tax-free, effectively putting them in-line with other currencies—no special status has been afforded specifically to Bitcoin that makes it some kind of tax shelter or similar. Capital gains and taxes while spending Bitcoins or real goods and services still apply as with any currency.
From what I can tell you'll get disability if you keep bothering them long enough. I know guys who are on disability for lower back pain with no physical evidence, i.e. x-rays are normal. They all got turned down a few times at first, but I get the impression if you keep at it long enough they give you benefits just to get rid of you.
This does make sense, primarily you take a bunch of stress and less money now. In the long or medium term, what punishment or repercussions would there be for you if it failed? You too are probably 'next in line for a cushy market job'. What is the opportunity cost you're passing up, but what are you gaining, including experience and connections?
Gotta disagree - Unix etc. are open, built by consensus, and have very good APIs. HTML / CSS for some reason is a clusterfuck.
Wait so... It's not about crypto? That's a little confusing name wise.
I think your situation differs significantly from the one the author is depicting. You sound like you treat your employees correctly, offering them market rate compensation instead of a carrot on a stick.
>How the hell are people who don't need disability getting approved, and the people who don't need it are stuck in purgatory?

Because bureaucracy basically guarantees this exact injustice will occur.
This seems interesting, but how are you judging success or failure of the project as a whole?
Crazy scoping rules? Crazy conversion rules? 8 character lambda keyword? Crappy numeric type? It's safe to say it sucks. It's understandable, given the 10 day timeframe it was created in plus the constraint of needing to be "like" Java for cachet. It's less understandable how so many have doubled down on it.

And even new APIs suck. Look at the silliness npm encourages people to do.
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Maybe it's updating its list of sites that are known to be infected with malicious code? Firefox does this, and it seems like a good idea to me. (I wish it didn't.) How is Chromium's malicious site filtering implemented?

It's good to be transparent about this, but maybe this is something legitimate and safe that's already documented, and the Debian user and maintainer just haven't found the documentation yet.
And really nicely designed/styled
While what you're saying is true, there's an amazing jump in the number of disabled people that coincides with the onset of the recession in 2008.
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For now it seems you would need a donor body to act as the "scaffolding" for your progenitor cells. Pessimistically, there may one day be a blackmarket for scaffolding cadavers with desirable features.

> While the progenitor cells needed to regenerate all of the tissues that make up a limb could be provided by the potential recipient, what has been missing is the matrix or scaffold on which cells could grow into the appropriate tissues.

> ... living cells are stripped from a donor organ with a detergent solution and the remaining matrix is then repopulated with progenitor cells appropriate to the specific organ.

I wonder if a person could also "upgrade" their body, or invent articulate organs with unique functions, such as printing a scaffolding for wings or a specialized muscle structure attached to the hip for opening beer bottles.
but then people know when your diving, if you carry all the time they won't know
CS degrees teach CS not how to program properly you sort of expected to either know it all ready or teach your self as you go along.
Agreed on the headline, but more to the point is that now the EU does not draw a distinction between virtual and traditional currencies. Or this is at least a step in that direction.
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Swiss cheese phone?

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> The whole private prison thing makes me want to vomit.

Muckrock (shoutout to @morisey) is doing an investigative piece on private prisons. If possible, please think about contributing $10-20 on it.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/sep/18/justice-s...
Ok, let's see some numbers!

Founders, post how much % you have.

Employees, post your employee # and your %.

Let's see if this disparity exists.
"I've... seen things... you people wouldn't believe."

"Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate..."

"All those... moments... will be lost, in time, like [chokes up] tears... in... rain."

"Time... to die."
Stagger provides built-in content recommendations and allows you to schedule posts using this content, which saves users the time it takes to search the internet for content to share. There is also a built in custom content searching feature allowing users to search based on keywords, hash tags and currently Twitter handles of your choice, so you can have continuous streams of content to share directly through Stagger. We're still working on these features, but the idea is to be able to provide the content you need right in the scheduling tool to save you time.

You have access to the built-in content recommendations in the free version, which also allows you to create a limited number of your own custom content filters/streams.

We're also still talking to our users to find out what they need, so would love to hear your thoughts about how the software could be more helpful for you.
I would like to see a helluva lot more like this. I often don't read coding articles. I read this one. I enjoyed it. I learned something.
Not to be the naysayer on this but it is a very serious incursion on states rights. The legal consensus i'm hearing is that it will be overturned by the judicial system.

Does the FCC have the right to tell a state or town what to do with local calls? That is the root of this. It's a given that they can regulate interstate, but historically intrastate has been the rights of the states.
Yes it is. Words have meaning, we would all benefit if we used them correctly.
The repo owner is accepting pull requests for the benchmarks so at least it's fixable.
They are all over, I think it's easy to spot them. Here's one I saw earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433865 While HN has with exceptional moderation effort made this place "nice", as opposed to the generally "mean" Reddit, it's optimized for a certain kind of niceness that doesn't necessarily align with the hacker aesthetic, and reddit's brand of rudeness is just one characteristic of reddit, general low quality comments are the problem. Quality has been declinining since at least https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696 and on the aesthetic side I think this thread sums up what's good and bad about the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8214343 (The bad: complaining about the name, political correctness in general.)
And just as delicious.
Purchasing a home. That should be the standard.

Most people don't want to rent for the entirety of their lives.
It should also be fairly easy to find in Toronto. I can attest that my grandparents tend to burn stacks of Hell money whenever we visit the cemetery. Followed by the usual feast afterward.
Why? I thought Chromium was supposed to be the open source (libre) version of Google Chrome. It shouldn't do anything "evil". I guess you would have to change the search engine and perhaps disable update checking if you plan to do that yourself, but other than that...

I personally prefer Firefox regardless, but that's not because of paranoia reasons (I just like it better with about:config and the available add-ons and the way the url bar works and... just usability reasons).
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In the event this is overturned judicially, I intend to incorporate a 501c3 non-profit (or B Corp, depending on the legalities) to provide these services at-cost to deep six Securus Technologies' profiting off of this.
Unix was also extremely inconsistent, before the Linux monoculture became dominant. It can still be painful to support BSDs, HPUX, Solaris etc.
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Probably nothing nice. But I am not obligated to share Steve Jobs' ethics when judging Apple's actions here, and I really don't like the notion that an employee "belongs" to a company that isn't covered in that employee's contract (and even some contracts I think overstep what's legally permissable, not to mention "right.") If you want to keep an employee, you do it by valuing that employee properly, not by shaming competing offers for that employee.
This is sadly the norm in non-software industry where IT is just a peripheral service rather than the core domain.

To add insult to injury, Software Engineers are treated as bunch of nerds who are replaceable.
It's the only way to default to the number keys when the keyboard comes up. The user can of course switch to it manually in a regular text input.
That's been our experience with my uncle who has MS.

It started as periodic attacks in his late 30s, where for anywhere from a day at a time, to about a week at a time, he'd have significant difficulty getting out of bed and moving around (and definitely couldn't drive). But then he could go for weeks at a time being totally fine; usually about 4-6 weeks, and in one case a full 6 months. This already started making it hard to keep employment, though, since employers tend not to like random unscheduled absences that are likely to continue indefinitely into the future (even if they understand the reason). Fortunately, he was a lawyer, which is an area where at the time it was relatively easy to find flexible part-time work. That worked ok for a number of years. Once the attacks got more frequent though, even this no longer worked out. Also he was no longer able to maintain a driver's license. So by his mid-40s he went on disability, even though he was still ok probably 50% of the time. He would definitely have preferred to keep working in some capacity if it were possible, because it gave him something to do, and even his previous part-time job paid more than the $700/mo disability gave. By his late 40s he definitely couldn't work in any capacity (started having mental issues in addition to physical ones, and full-time physical ones), but there's a few years there where it seemed unfortunate that we don't have a way to better accommodate people who are somewhat but not really fully able to work.
And the cost $13.5K for 12 weeks (a single term) is about what it costs for a year at Oxbridge £9k
Extremely controversial.

Stopping prisoners from harassing their victims/witnesses against them/enemies or organising others to do their dirty work externally is already a massive problem. Prisons have the ability to listen to calls and read mail to try and curtail it.

Giving them access to the internet makes all of this far easier, and monitoring it far more expensive. Not to mention that now they can use the internet to commit new crimes, and they have nothing better to do for the years or tens of years that they're sitting in a cell.

I think giving them access to email is do-able, since that is no different in practice to physical letters. But giving them unrestricted access is a monitoring nightmare.
> The reform passed 3:2 along partisan lines, with the appointed Democrat commissioners voting in favor, and Republicans against.

While there has been far too much cross-party desire to be "tough on crime", this is yet another example where the GOP seems to be stuck in the past, unwilling to recognize the failure and brutality of that stance. And while this is absolutely a positive step, meaningful reforms will not transpire to any significant degree so long as state governments are dominated by conservatives. They may occasionally voice social justice concerns, but want to comes time to vote on those issues the result is what you see here, almost without exception.
"My hunch is that Google has a oncology/immunology platform"

As an MD, soon to have a PhD in oncology immunology, I always wonder what project Google could be working on in this area. After all they are a company and most probably try to develop products that will yield a return in the future. So why would someone chose to work for a Google firm that has no real track record in the Life Sciences versus the many life-science companies that already have amazing logistics/experience in place (Novartis, Biogen, Takeda to name just a few in Cambridge, MA). Outside "data-science" projects like genomics, or very technical project like lab-on-a-chip devices, I wouldn't see a big advantage moving to the bay area. However, I guess offering huge salaries always helps convincing people to join your company. And the winters in the Mountain View are probably warmer than the Boston area.
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All fair points and something that should change, especially (imo) the clause around options expiry as well as %age.

I have just one honest (not coming from a place of sneer) question: did the OP follow his own advice in the startup he founded (Parse and/or Scribd)?
Your phone knows more about you then you might realize
The new UI for Plex Media Server is a big improvement over the old one, in my opinion. Plex has some limits, but it does one thing better than any other option, and I continue to be a huge fan.
It's about time! I would love more details on this. Putty has been the go to for decades. Having SSH capabilities standard on all windows machines might be a bit of a concern given MSFT's track record with security on their machines.
"You too are probably 'next in line for a cushy market job'" - Now, maybe. But it wasn't like that during the first year, or even the second. I can honestly tell you I was very very afraid of what my life would be like if we failed back then. I promise you, I wasn't getting emails from Google recruiters back then. It's only now (four years and pivots later) that we've gained traction that I have opportunities.
During visits to Taipei I would pass a shop that sells all sorts of items for the afterlife. Among the largest items are dollhouse-sized mansions made of wood and paper.

The tradition reminds me of the Egyptian rulers who were buried with everything they might need on the other side.
Well if the engineer is checking in working code to features that the company's management prioritizes, then that engineer is definitely adding value. Otherwise it is management's fault for poorly prioritizing.
More "naïve" than "controversial".

Unfettered access ==> ability to run criminal business, organize groups, stalk victims, perpetrate fraud, etc.
I try not to share too much
This is a huge issue that healthcare is not dealing with. Having the ability to have access of your medical record anywhere at anytime is crucial especially in emergency situation. Having the my medical ready to be used on any system is a problem caused by the multiple EHR company. It's like having different Microsoft Word programs and they all produce the same type of doc file. Yet some genius in the company thought it was smart to limit the accessibility for each software. It's like come on! You guys are all trying to do the same thing and you are trying to be secretive about it. Doesn't make any sense at all.

I'm on a mission to deal with this problem. Our medical record should be available at every medical facility in cases we check into that facility. Our data shouldn't be a problem to be read on any computer system out there. Data is simple. It's the complexity of the EHR system trying to dominate one another that causes this problem to happen.

There's a huge elephant in the room when discussing medical record, and no one is bothering to deal with it due to their own selfish needs.
I'm making between 40-45k at a startup in <username> with 0.2% equity. Software developer #2 (excluding one of the cofounders). I feel like I got ripped off regarding my equity stake after reading this article. This startup has around 12 people working for it now (all of whom are in sales with the exception for us two developers and the tech cofounder).

Edit: been with the startup for over 6 months now and have helped design and develop the software as much as you would expect your second engineering employee to.
Ask HN: Do you consider yourself to be evil?
Thank you. I've been trying to get this point across to people for decades. I think that the use of the word observe has been a real hindrance.

Please everyone, stop using the word 'observe' to describe what happens when the box is opened. It has been used by physicists to mean the same as 'measure' which really means something like 'touch'. The problem is that for all but a tiny fraction of the world's population 'observe' simply means 'see' and is something that can be done without 'touching' and without being seen oneself.
The problem with decentralized anything is gainging traction.

To gain traction, you need to explain it to people, and not just techies.

And most people (even most techies) either don't get 1. why it matters or 2. what the heck it means.

It's usually also offered with a loss coherent and more confusing user-experience than the centralized options.

I'd love for more decentralized systems taking hold, but I'm not optimistic enough to believe in it yet.
No, not crypto. Cypher is a graph query language, popularized in the Neo4j graph database. Its name may have been inspired by the Matrix movie...
Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/21/simulated-brain-cells-rob..., which points to this.
The FCC is an independent agency created by Congress, not part of the executive branch.
"Demand" is just another name for what we, collectively, value and desire to acquire.
Haddaway.
> Look, I get it, you support private industry. But let's remember context, you support capitalism where COMPETITION exists, in this situation it is an artificially created monopoly of one company.

I mean, that's the definition of a classical liberal, I'm not sure it's described the Republican Party for a long time though.
Not so much the architect the Consulting Engineer ( a proper one with their PE CE status) has to.

And in fact the basics of structures is taught to Technicians as well.
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More signal, more noise.
> the actual cost of firing some one isn't that high

The legal cost is low, but the social cost of a workplace where people often get fired is high.
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This is great:

GraphQL has nothing to do with graphs.

OpenCypher has nothing to do with ciphers.
Unfortunately these forks -- of which there are many -- often fall behind Chromium's security updates and even introduce serious bugs of their own. E.g. "WhiteHat Aviator", another "security-oriented" fork, had this fiasco:

https://plus.google.com/+JustinSchuh/posts/69qw9wZVH8z

Maybe Iridium has a better record but with so few eyes on them it's hard to have much confidence.

Probably the best thing to do if you're worried about Chromium spying on you is to use Firefox.
I am medically handicapped. I do not qualify for disability for basically bureaucratic reasons. But I do have some income without working and I do freelance work and had food stamps for a time.

Being able to quit my corporate job has allowed me to get healthier and a lot of people would be surprised to find I am handicapped. I mostly walk everywhere and can walk for hours at a time. I also have days when I fall down because I am extremely neurologically impaired, when I have blinding pain accompanied by profuse vomiting and so on.

Being able to quit working can make a handicapped person genuinely more functional. But that doesn't mean they are employable and it doesn't mean the performance you see and judge as evidence of being "able bodied" really adds up to employability.

In other words, he can lift 100 lb stones because he does it when he damn well feels like it, on a good day, at a time of his choosing, under circumstances of his arranging -- none of which applies to typical working conditions.
> same mistake C++ does in that entries in collections are always initialised by copying, so you can't have collections of non-copyable objects

Cool breakdown. This isn't true anymore in C++11 with move semantics.

Also the expression functions only being in module specifications is probably due to their source code being needed to inline them.
Re-posting a snippet of the blog isn't useful or valuable on its own. I am quite able to read a blog post without you copy-pasting it into the comments.
I'd also like to add to the conversation that these bootcamp individuals don't exist in a vacuum. They will gain a decent network and hopefully will be already tied into an existing network. I'm a developer who has a friend who is going through the HackReactor bootcamp process and will begin this January. He's still preparing for the training by doing self study which I mentor him on over lunch hours. A focused bootcamp paired with a solid mentor should definitely produce a developer able to deliver JR tasks. Because afterall once a person lands a job they will surely continue to learn more and more, from their tasks, their colleagues, and mentors. I say let the bootcamps thrive.
It's almost like the competing browser vendors didn't want the spec to work !