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Nick Hanauer (first non-family investor in Amazon and self-described zillionaire who sold one of his companies for $6.4 billion in cash) believes if current income inequality continues then the pitchforks will come because there is no long term stability in such a society. The middle class are essential to growth and prosperity.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfork...

But the problem isn’t that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.

And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.

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The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor. So for as long as there has been capitalism, capitalists have said the same thing about any effort to raise wages. We’ve had 75 years of complaints from big business—when the minimum wage was instituted, when women had to be paid equitable amounts, when child labor laws were created. Every time the capitalists said exactly the same thing in the same way: We’re all going to go bankrupt. I’ll have to close. I’ll have to lay everyone off. It hasn’t happened. In fact, the data show that when workers are better treated, business gets better.
This is the weirdest sequence of events I've ever seen from a company. At this point, from the point of view from someone that's not involved in this, it's more intriguing than it is frustrating.
https://github.com/18f?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=fec :)
Unless this hacker was able to get the COO's HN account as well that seems unlikely. And even then a call to someone at YC to jump into the thread and let everyone know it was a hack wouldn't be too hard.
The creation of the middle class has always been a deliberate policy decision.

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Democracy-Political-History-Ame...

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_phillips.html
MarketInvoice | London, UK

Data Scientists, Data Engineers (Python) and Analysts (SQL-fu)

MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backbone of the economy.

Imagine you’re a young company who’s just won a major contract but your client wants to pay you on 90 day terms when you need to pay your staff and suppliers upfront. That’s where we step in. Our platform uses the peer-to-peer approach to provide the day-to-day operational financing for companies as varied as mobile development agencies, food brands and construction firms.

We’re the largest startup in our space worldwide and already lending £25 million/month to small businesses and on track to double that within the next year.

It's a £100bn/year market which is dominated by legacy lenders and banks with complex processes and shady practices. We’re bringing transparency and simplicity to the market.

https://www.marketinvoice.com/

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Drop me an email at i.ghory@marketinvoice.com if you're interested or just want to chat.

(Our team uses Python but we're open to people from different technology stacks; there are also other teams at the company using JS & C#/.Net if that's what you're looking for. Also hiring for Product, Marketing, Risk, Sales, Ops, etc - see https://www.marketinvoice.com/careers for details).
For the original series movies...

The Motion Picture (#1) is basically an elongated TOS episode. Doesn't really influence any of the other films. Some enjoy it, some find it dull.

The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home (#2-4) form a trilogy and must be watched in order.

The Final Frontier (#5)...I loved it when I was nine. Skippable otherwise.

The Undiscovered Country (#6) should be watched after #2 through #4. It and The Wrath of Khan are typically tied for the favorite Trek film.
I wonder how this would have gone if they disclosed something besides a disability in the "control" coverletter that wasn't relevant to the job. I suspect they'd still find discrimination, but perhaps a bit less.
TripAdvisor Entrepreneur Comes Full Circle and Returns to His “Baby”
Is there a hardware equivalent to script kiddies?
Creating a Custom Hadoop Compression Codec
Thanks, you wrote some good points I haven't considered. You've actually convinced me and now I wish for a permanent showroom too. I wonder, maybe electronics stores will slowly evolve towards that? Order on-line and pick up at store is already a thing, and the second part of the equation would be just a streamlined mobile buying experience.
My little brother wants to get into network security and I've been sending him tons of articles, some career advice from colleagues in the field and such.

I am both tempted to show this link to him and also thinking he doesn't need to get his hands on something so portable. As smart and interested as he is, he's also only 16 and has some immature tendencies still.

It's a real challenge for me and I'm going to have to think it over.

Maybe show it to him, build it with him and use this as another opportunity to talk about ethics.
yeah I wouldn't run that, the content of that url looks nasty. any chance it could buffer override the motd command?
Right, but you're talking about the phrasing of a basic, well-known, ubiquitous dynamic that people deal with all the time. By your standard, it would seem to be likewise dishonest for any store to raise or lower any price without attaching an economics lesson.

Wrong: "Apples are 10% off this week."

Right: "Apples are 10% off this week, indicating that suppliers are generally willing to offer lower prices for apples now and in the near future, so they should redirect near-term production away from bringing them to market, and consumers should look for marginal uses that they can substitute apples into, like snacks or pies."

That's pretty much unexpected anywhere else.
I really find it a poor show, Linus running his mouth like that, and all the others scurrying to reply deferentially and civilly to his adolescent rant (whether he is technically right or not, which doesn't even seem clear from the follow-up mails). IMHO, it's not the way to build an inclusive community, and it's not the way to encourage newcomers (who may be unfamiliar with your coding practices but could have useful expertise in their own right).

Really, i long for the "coolness" and "macho" around the Linux project to die. It's doing free software everywhere a disservice thanks to the project's high visibility. Maybe this makes me a wuss or whatever (i freely admit to being extremely non-confrontational), but it'd be nice if people of all cultures and communication styles would be welcomed as volunteers to great libre software projects such as these.

EDIT: I wonder if it would help if news sites would be more critical of such outbursts? This article seems to remain relatively neutral, but perhaps public condemnation of emotional outbursts would help towards taking the glamour out of it. I wonder if it'd also help stop "hero-worshipping" emulation of such behaviour.
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There are lists of episodes that hit the "classic" ones, but the original series was remarkably suitable to binge-watching on Netflix, partly because there were few seasons. Many of the episodes are retellings of classic tales, some are downright lame or campy. However, the main characters' development is good. There are some interesting discussions of ethics and philosophy in there, as well.

There are certainly episodes that suck, but the better ones are things that you will find have informed our pop culture lexicon, and are referenced in many other things. Watch it for the characters, more than the individual shows, IMO.
1aim - Berlin, Germany | Onsite, Full Time, Visa

At 1aim, we develop and produce access control systems, which allow to open doors with mobile phones. We create all hardware, software and IT-Infrastructure to run our systems on our own. Beside access systems we are already putting a lot of R&D effort in creating further new smart home/building automation products. We see ourselves as an engineering-driven technology company, that influences how a future with connected devices will look.

We enable engineers to focus on what they can to best, letting them work on new products in small, highly interdisciplinary teams. We get rid of management overhead and daily standup meetings. We have almost no rules and flexible working hours, your contribution is the only thing we care about. Right now, we are hiring new engineers for the following areas:

- (Frontend) Web Development

- Backend Development (with a focus on high security/cryptography)

- App Development (Android and/or iOS)

- Electrical Engineering & Embedded Software Development

- Mechanical Engineering

We do not care about your academic degrees or where you are from, but about the stuff you did and what you could create in the future given the right opportunities. If you are interested in working at 1aim, write us an email at work.hn<?>1aim.com and tell us about the projects you worked on that you are the most proud of and which technological feats of the past inspire you.

We provide visa assistance, relocation support and free housing until you find your own place to live.
Do you really mean "US Citizens only", which can be legally problematic in some cases I believe, or "people with legal authorization to work in the US for any employer"? Unless you are doing something with the USG or which falls under ITAR you almost certainly mean the latter -- don't want to exclude good candidates who have green cards/permanent residency, etc.
In no way is blocking ads theft. The ads are using your bandwidth.
I'll grant them 15 years ahead of the iPad, but the show was supposed to be hundreds of years advanced.

My utopian thoughts aren't really around the economics. Star trek humans are all pure of motive and work to do the right thing in all circumstances, modulo plot-necessitated black hats. I'd prefer a bit more humanity there. Humans are far more complex than the black-and-white morality plays star trek tends to be.

If they make a show that has "wrath of Khan" level pathos to the characters, I'm in. If it's action schlock or morality plays, the star trek brand isn't enough to attract me, particularly if the technology alternates between "stupidly unreal" and banal.
Tempo Automation | San Francisco | Backend Software Engineer

Come help build an automated electronics factory in San Francisco.

We provide manufacturing-as-a-service to electronics designers to rapidly test and iterate their designs more like software developers, spurring innovation and making better products faster. Our reinvented process turns a 2 week, tedious process into a seamless 3 day experience. Our customers include folks building the future - cutting edge satellites to autonomous vehicles and more.

Our software engineers build the backbone of factory automation - automating various processes from when a design is submitted to when the boards are received by the customer.

https://secure.tempoautomation.com/home/careers or email directly to brian@tempoautomation.com

Requirements?

3+ years as a software engineer, 3+ years Python with a focus on Django or Flask.

Experience in designing HA/scalable solutions running on Linux

Experience with configuration management and release engineering (docker/fabric/ansible)

Experience in performance analysis (SQL optimization, page response time, etc)

Competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design practices

Able to participate in a team, yet function autonomously
Besides speed, there is another difference between local and remote storage: remote storage is on a different failure domain. A machine is still a single failure domain since the storage/RAM/CPU share a power supply / battery backup.

If you change an application to use remote storage rather than local storage, you may not get severe performance degradation in some cases, but your application will experience more failure modes than it did before.
It would be good to see offers specify whether they respect the 8-hour workday or not.

This to me is the primary concern when working for someone else and the best "perk" that is out there. If I'm expected to do unpaid overtime, I'm not interested no matter what the salary is or other details.
Pebble | Palo Alto, CA, SF, Bay Area (moving soon to Redwood City, CA) | Full-Time | ONSITE | Senior Ruby Developer / Ecommerce | Apply here: https://www.pebble.com/jobs/91173

We make smartwatches that are useful in your daily life. Our smartwatches track steps and sleep for healthy living, keep you in the moment with notifications on wrist, and personalizable with thousands of watch faces.

We're looking for a senior Ruby developer for a technical lead in the ecommerce team. You will work on initiatives to:

1) drive growth and sales of pebble smartwatches
2) improve the experience of the order process for happier customers

through the Pebble.com website, our order processing, and order fulfillment systems.

You should have a great understanding of the full web stack, a systems/holistic view of problem solving, and an analytical mind to determine next course of action.

We work in cross-functional teams, so ecommerce team has a product owner, engineers, designer, and copywriter. You'll also have the opportunity to talk and learn from marketing, logistics, finance, and customer support.

The stack is Ruby and Mongodb. For frontend, we use React, Knockout, and Angular across the different repos we work on.

Please email wil@pebble.com for more information or apply at https://www.pebble.com/jobs/91173.
My Dad told the tale of a farmer coming to the repair shop with a tractor gas tank needing repair. The mechanic refused. The farmer insisted he'd cleaned the tank; no danger of explosion while it was being welded. The mechanic replied "Ok, I'll weld it, if you hold it while I'm doing that." The farmer left.
You can start almost anywhere; all of the continuities are self-contained. I personally find The Original Series hit-or-miss, but there are a few must-watch episodes; worth seeing, but don't let the quality of the "average" episode put you off from the franchise. Next Generation starts out rough but gets quite good later on; worth watching all the way through. DS9 is exceptional, particularly for marathon watching; it has more story arcs with continuity, and more long-term character development. Voyager is a bit more "anomaly of the week", but it has some particularly good episodes, and it's worth watching all the way through as well. Enterprise is...Enterprise; personally I skipped most of it.

For movies: see the Original Series movies Star Trek II, IV, and VI (watching the series first not required), see Generations once (watch some of TNG first), see First Contact (watch most of TNG first), see Insurrection (surprisingly good), skip Nemesis entirely.

If you have to pick one series to start with, I'd say either DS9 (as a marathon) or TNG. Note that you'll get a very different flavor from both; TNG presents a lovely idyllic future with occasional hiccups, while DS9 presents a darker and grittier 24th century, for better or worse.
My neighbor, son, daughter, friend, mailman all probably can provide an answer?
My+Baby+Died:+How+Do+I+Go+On?
https://reportcard.wmflabs.org/ indicates 453M unique visitors in the month of April 2015, so most certainly the claim of "billions of people every day" is wrong by at least one order of magnitude.
Roddenberry meddling less was another factor in the improvement of TNG.
Thanks for the kind words!

I wouldn't call my self a "real" app developer just yet as I'm still learning app development (i.e. still don't know how to sync core data with iCloud). I used to focus mostly on web, but recently started iOS. I'm not working yet, I'm still in University studying CS.

I usually don't like to discuss the exact amount I'm making from my app, however I would say I'm "ramen profitable" for a student.
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Full Stack Developer with 4+ years experience.
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I prefer to work in Node.js + React / Angular or Meteor; but am open to many different technologies.

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I suspect they will give this a fat budget because this is meant to be a driver for subscriptions to the $6 / mo plan for one network (CBS) which is closer to a premium HBO subscription than anything else.
Two Words: Starfleet Academy.

It would be perfect to introduce a new crew and follow them through the Academy years. They could either do the backstories of existing characters to introduce new ones. You can combine the fun of Hogwarts-eque school, with younger drama, and still throw in lots of science and adventures.
This is based on a policy document released a couple months back. Here is a better article http://opensource.com/government/15/8/india-adopts-open-sour...

In general, this is just intent. I am not sure how the government plans to implement this. Government in India is huge and complex and most of the arms run independently, which is great for IT services vendors like IBM, TCS and others since they make money by selling the same stuff over and over again.

People who I know and are working in various organizations with the government are pretty frustrated with the pace and lack of intent on the ground.

Most Indian FOSS projects like BOSS Linux are pretty lame and they don't have any real community behind them. I think they took down the forum on the BOSS linux website, because there were no questions asked. Some of the other "successful" services like Spoken Tutorials (http://spoken-tutorial.org/) are pretty bad too (though I see websites have improved).

As a tax paying Indian citizen, I really hope all this changes.
In other news:

Top 1% singers better than the remaining 99%.

Top 1% sprinters better than the remaining 99%.

Top 1% producers better than the remaining 99%.

Where's the surprise here? It's a variation of Sturgeon's Law.

EDIT: the top 1% of wealthy americans are better producers than everyone else, yes. They are not better people than everyone else, no. How is this so hard to understand to HN-level people?
Fitbit | San Francisco, Boston, San Diego -- https://www.fitbit.com/jobs/search#all

Fitbit is hiring lots of positions in multiple locations. It is a great company to work for.

https://www.fitbit.com/jobs/search#all

At Fitbit we are committed to creating great experiences that inspire and empower people to live healthier, more active lives. We design products and experiences that fit seamlessly into your life so you can achieve your health and fitness goals, whatever they may be.
Founded in 2007 in San Francisco, Calif., today, Fitbit is the market leader in the fast-growing Connected Health & Fitness category. Fitbit’s full line of products, which includes the Fitbit Zip and Fitbit One activity tracker clips, the Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale and now, the Fitbit Flex, means Fitbit offers the most diverse product line for everyone to track their everyday health. Fitbit products are carried at leading U.S. retailer stores and sold internationally, including Canada, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Fitbit is funded by the Foundry Group, True Ventures and SoftTech VC.

Perks & Benefits at Fitbit

Free Fitbit products

Competitive salaries and Equity Options still available

Awesome Medical Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, Life

Catered lunches and fully-stocked kitchen

Choose your technology. Mac or PC

Flexible work schedules

Open and collaborative environment where your ideas are heard

Casual dress code

High visibility to management

Tax-free Transit

Employee referral bonus program

Weekly Events: Happy Hours, Holiday Parties

Work on Products that are helping improve peoples' lives

Office TVs and Games

Easy access to Public Transportation

Amazing downtown San Francisco location
That's pretty much the sum of it. And frankly, there's nothing wrong with that. It's how markets work. You provide something of value, and someone purchases it, or you provide something of no value, and the market refuses to buy it.
People who work hard and contribute to the economy

"Economy" is the measurement of the movement of money.

Rich people hoarding money slows the movement, thereby slows the economy.

Any one wanting to help the economy would logically oppose the ever growing inequity.
You're right, it actually isn't! This has more to do with the information paradox and black hole complementarity and is not related to the collapse of the wave function. I've removed the sentence and put an edit notice.
When you build stuff, it's usually to gain a competitive advantage over other firms, and so it's only useful as long as you keep it secret.
US Dept. Of Education Proposes Open Licensing Policy
I really like what I've read of CapnProto and would try it for my next distributed system project.
I'm pretty sure this solution figures as a subplot in one of the story arcs of Triangle & Robert (ancient webcomic about geometry, pudding and a space/time pair o' ducks).
I would just wait for it on putlocker
After Amazon threatened to close my paid Prime account because I was returning too many things (totally false) I'm now going back to the brick and mortar stores too. As more and more people get alienated by policies that aren't even written down, applied transparently and randomly by stupid algorithms, I think more people will deal with the inconvenience of shopping in person or at the very least look for online retailers that don't tell their paying customers who have been spending $10-30k a year regularly for many years to go fuck themselves.

I think there's a lot of chances for retails stores as people realize that the promise of online technologies is incredibly hindered by their actualization and the artificial limits imposed by such unscrupulous vendors as Amazon.
> Yeah, tying this to an unproven web streaming service seems like the modern equivalent of giving a show a time slot in the middle of the night.

This is just standard operating procedure for CBS/Paramount, who have viewed Star Trek as a big enough draw to attract audiences to new distribution channels for decades.

Back in the '70s they planned to use a Star Trek: Phase II series to launch a new network that never got off the ground (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Phase_II).

Then in the '80s they used Star Trek: The Next Generation as the flagship for a new, syndication-only system of network-unaffiliated TV stations.

Then in the '90s they revived the dream of a Paramount network in the form of UPN (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPN), and created Star Trek: Voyager to attract viewers to that.

These efforts have had varying degrees of success, but they've never failed hard enough to shake CBS/Paramount from the conviction that new Star Trek is something people will want to see so badly that they'll be willing to change their viewing habits to get it.
There are many use cases for having lots of connections open that aren't doing much: chat apps, IoT, pub/sub busses, etc.
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