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I come from a country with the opposite work culture, Norway. We got short days. So does much of northern Europe including Germany. What I don't like about this work hour obsession is the idea that it indicates how hard people work. You can't tell that by hours worked each day. The Greeks work the longest hours in Europe but anybody who has been to Germany and Greece would probably tell you that the Germans probably work harder.

I have a family member who worked in Thailand, which like much of asia has long work hours. But he was far less stressed there than in Norway with his short work hours. In Norway there was no time for anything but work while at work. In Thailand he had lots of time at work to take care of non-work related tasks.

Especially if you got kids in Norway, you end up getting quite stressed even if you work short hours because you don't have the opportunity to dump the whole responsibility of children onto the wife like in Japan. You have to hurry back from work to pick up kids from pre-school/school, help with school work, make dinner, get them ready for bed etc.

Comparing to American work culture which I know best having worked with a lot of Americans I think in Norway we tend to mainly work while at work and socialize after work. While in the US there is a lot more of non-work related activity at work because people spend a lot more time at work. Nothing right or wrong with that. Earlier I worked a lot American style. Spending long hours at work but also socializing more with colleagues.

My point is that I don't think people necessarily should be worshiped for how many hours they spend at work. It is what you do that matters.
I'd second that. The basics are easy, but there will be constant niggles relating to RFC2047 header-parsing, MIME-issues, and issues relating to handling some crazy mails that people will send.

I've written my mail-clients in C++, but I suspect Perl, Python, or Ruby, would be fast enough with the massive caveat that you need to have decent libraries/interfaces for the low-level parts.
The Sega-vs-Accolade times seem so far away ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
Thanks. I will check them.
So, if we ignore all lower and medium severity ones we're basically only left with CVE-2015-2213 which requires authentication. Also XSS is barely something one can blame PHP for. That's pretty low number.

For the record: ownCloud protects you against XSS using Content-Security-Policy.
They Fed needs to get a grip. Interest rates cannot sustain a functioning economy at near 0 percent rates. This is getting ridiculous already. If they do not raise the rates on Wednesday they will have lost a lot of legitimacy
This brought a smile to my face: http://hacker-dict.com/subject/recursion
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax):

> A land value tax (LVT), also called a site valuation tax, split rate tax, or site-value rating, is a levy on the unimproved value of land. It is an ad valorem that, unlike property taxes, disregards the value of buildings, personal property and other improvements.
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So, under Thai law Thai land goes to the highest bidder that happens to have a Thai passport..
Ya, um, well, that is the sort of thing climbers say when cameras are around, like a baseball pitcher remaining calm as he throws a perfect game. Adrenaline is always part of climbing.
Great, I'm really excited about testing this on my VPS. Hope it handle the load.
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I'd be very tempted to ask the HR person for their salary and/or ask for the CTO/CEO's salary and/or some confidential revenue number or something like that before ending the interview.

It's fairly shady negotiating to anchor the process one sided. If they want your salary they should tell you what the highest paid developer makes as well.
Ha, ha. What a dystopian country. Except, wait, this is the very country I've been living for decades.

Where to start with? First, the language. The translation of the common phrase, "Otsukare sama desu" isn't "you look tired" (this is already a misleading and insidious tactic to set the whole tone). The phrase is roughly synonymous to "Gokurou sama desu" but with more sympathy. The literal translation would be "it's hardwork-sama (Mr/Ms. hardwork)", and there's a reason that we use honorifics, which is to admire one's effort.

I can't have a word for the gross exaggeration of the work hours in the article, but I'm certain that one of the big reasons for some people to overwork is not loyalty, but fear. It's often said in Japan "incompetent men tend to overwork" and I find it generally true. In this society of lifetime employment, getting fired or demoted at work has very serious consequences. So they often use their long work hours as an excuse or emotional appeal, which can (sadly) still work. But from what I've seen many managements actually hate the employee's over hours because it's costly and inefficient. It's just that it takes a time to change the people's mindset, but I think the situations are slowly getting improved.

It is probably true that we have more perfectionist/anal-retentive kind of people, but again they're generally the result of fear rather than enthusiasm or moral, because their anal-retentiveness doesn't necessarily result in quality work. A lot of lengthy and pointless paperwork, excess bureaucracy, etc, etc. I pity those people, and hope we have more social mobility to dissolve their anxiety.
Yes, stupid people with no imagination often think this way.
>>> I'll never understand why companies make such customer hostile decisions.

Or, if you look it at from a different angle, it's a user friendly decision. Maybe there were enough people saying hey this $NO_NAME_CHINESE_MANUFACTURER bulb doesn't work therefore Philips sucks. Can it contribute to introducing a monopoly? Sure. But it's a luxury good so I don't have much problem with that. If Philips controls what is compatible and what is not, it can ensure to a greater degree that customers experience is satisfactory.

I understand the general BigBadCorporation vs Open Standards sentiment over HN but, really, it's sometimes for the better.
If it can roll and brake, a CALTRANS vehicle with a strong push bumper will push it somewhere out of the way. If not, they have to tow.
Not disagreeing with your point, but be wary when reading research/opinion about japan published by the NHK or any company relatively close to government influence inside japan.

Japan's journalistic integrity is sometimes a little lacking.
Yeah that sounds totalitarian to me. Like why would a country insist on all its citizens pledging allegiance to country every day! That is a bit North Korea sounding to me.
Whoa that's pretty cool! I've been meaning to check out TensorFlow and this may help me better understand how it works. Thanks!
We're an open source project, remember. 'product development' happens in the open.

ownCloud, Inc. is not involved other than allowing some of their employees (me incluis) to spend some time on this, even though it isn't interesting for customers at all. See http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2015/12/western-digital-labs-a...

so, on your last point: yes. As in - WD will ship the hardware, and the software comes from volunteers - or not at all.

IF this turns out successful (as in, the first batch of devices has great software and sells out in 2 weeks so a second, much bigger batch is made) we'll talk to WD about sharing some of their profit with the community. Until then, there is only costs for all involved and we're not asking for financial donations to cover that. Isn't that cool?
... which is better than letting the entire world drive up your real estate prices, thereby pricing your own citizens out.
just like there are plenty of bad companies out there, there are bad unions too. That doesent mean unionizing is a bad thing. But I guess you think its ok for companies to legally lobby congress to get their whishes and needs legalized but not for normal workers or contractors to. Sorry but i have no sympathy for such a view.
Indeed. I own Hue bulbs, and the only reason I've bought more, after my initial purchase, is because they have an API that let other systems control my lights.

Currently, I'm using home assistant (https://home-assistant.io/) for controlling the lights, and if I ever buy other lights, they'd be controlled from there as well.

What should be interesting now is to wait and see if they lock down the API as well...
If the tax rates aren't usurious I have heard compelling arguments that they have low impact on how decisions are really made in business.
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Also not shown: when the current hub technology is discontinued and replaced with something newer and better and incompatible and you need to replace all the lights in your house unless you want to stick forever with the old hub. Ops, new lights and other stuff that talks with the hub won't work with the old one so you hope you'll never need anything new anymore. Probably not something somebody in this kind of things does.
A relative who is a native German recently had to work with a partner in her native land. This was a joint effort between two international companies, the US counterpart was adaptable to hours to make a meeting happen, the German counterpart claimed upcoming vacation and other issues and the meeting would be 6-8 weeks out.

There is work day and then there is "process".
You are implicity assuming that the fed actually has the power to control interest rates in a meaningful way. However, in the end, the fed cannot depart too much from the "natural rate of interest" and there are hints that this natural rate currently is lower than ever before.
Speedball 2 was so addictive, good times.
Isn't that similar to Mexico?
You need to open your mind to differences. For me as a French, raising the flag and singing national anthem for no reason at school is also weird, but I heard it is common in the US.

Now that I have lived in China for >10 years I can tell you: people from different countries are different, and that's what makes life bearable. (They are different but also the same, obviously. For example, they all love their children.)
Costly? I was under the impression that this kind of overtime isn't compensated in a lot of cases?

I've heard one reasoning that if they wouldn't do the (free) overtime, then there wouldn't be a company for them to work at, as it couldn't afford to pay their employees then. However, this was a mid-sized local business and not a multi-national corporation.
Why can't everyone afford it, or at least middle class and above? The US is already the "1%" right? So we all can take a hit to solve this problem now. It may be politically unpopular, or even politically nonviable but it can be done.
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At the very least, yes, it makes it a lot harder.

But, for many users, security is complicated and us making it easy to run ownCloud includes that. You won't find many competitors with such extensive documentation, nor automatic security setup tips and warnings in the ownCloud admin interface.

Second, this is a matter of focus. For home and small server users, ease of use trumps perfect security, that is a simple risk model assumption: your security has to be good enough, not perfect. Better than others and all that.

For enterprise users, however, security IS paramount and ownCloud lends itself for that. We get security audits by the financial institutions and others which run ownCloud and have extensive security hardening and best practices in place. Of course, these enterprise users don't use the many 'random' community apps, which is where the vast majority of security issues can be expected. I think that, for enterprise usage, you'll find that ownCloud security practice belongs to the best. And that is in no small part thanks to the awesome that is Lukas Reschke.
While I don't actually live in Japan right now, I can guarantee you that the majority of time people spend at the office in Japan is not actual productive work time (though you could maybe say the same about white collar jobs like software engineering in the US).

While anecdotal, I visit relatively often, and every time I talk to friends at various types of companies in Japan (ex. an investment/securities trading firm, nikon, etc) about how work life is there, the complaints I hear the most are really just related to what has become ingrained in the work culture there.

Things like:

- Not leaving before your boss leaves

- Going to after-work functions that are optional, but not really

- Constantly maintaining the appearance of working hard by working long hours

- Lots of top-down bullying (ex. some manager asking a subordinate to completely redo some report for no reason other than to make them work)

- Lack of overtime pay from companies (if companies were properly paying overtime, they'd be in a hurry to increase productivity, not time spent at the office)

There are many more things like this that are just a part of the culture, that everyone has just accepted. Recent explosion of startup culture (and startups) in Japan is changing this, though, slowly and surely. Foreign companies in Japan already have good reputations for having great work/life balance because our normal work culture is so much more lax.

Another anecdotal but more specific example is a japanese friend that I know working in NYC -- this friend works for a Japanese company that has essentially replicated a lot of the bad parts of the culture they have there here, in the foreign office. This friend knows that just about any other business in the same sector (that wasn't a japanese subsidiary) would be way better.
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Free food is also a great way to transfer value to the employee without it being taxed multiple times over. It's an under-the-counter method of payment.
Logic Blox is built on some of the same principles
I discerned what he was saying, no problem. "I use services which I know are relying on ads and i block them anyway, violating their ToS, but let me bullshit a bit about 'i dont know if the link contains ads' and when I get called out, I will just deflect and play dumb."

I just wanted him to say it himself to see if he can understand how flawed his justification is. Watching him weasel out is just for fun.
Keen is available on Steam nowadays for not too expensive (I think $5).

Keen Dreams is excluded from the bundle IIRC, but that's abandonware by now and has been opensourced on Github.
> Not only is this a cheap emotional gambit

Are you really suggesting or implying that the poor won't be affected by this? This is a huge issue and trying to claim the concern isn't valid by calling it "a cheap emotional gambit" is shockingly dishonest and disingenuous. Quite the contrary, it's a massive concern. It's reminds me of the whole idiotic & naive "flat tax" ideology. Millionaires love the idea because it hurts the poor the most. They're the ones most directly impacted.

> it pre-supposes that they are currently getting content for free.

They are. Practically the entire internet is free. Do you have to pay to use youtube, facebook or reddit? Do you pay when you go to carforums.com and chat with other people about cars? Or video game forums to chat about the latest Call of duty game? If you instead had to pay a $5 per month subscription to youtube, or reddit or facebook, the entire internet changes overnight. The fact you don't see this pretty much solidifies my idea that you really haven't thought this through.

> Do academic websites have ads in your world? Does wikipedia?

Are you suggesting people only educate themselves on wikipedia and academic websites? Because I've learned considerably more from non-academic sites. Sites like Reddit's /r/Askscience, /r/TodayIlearned or /r/Askhistory. Or sites that popularize learning & education, like Mentafloss, Zidbits or even Cracked.com

> You seem to have a very inaccurate view of what is available on the internet.

No, quite the opposite. You haven't really began to comprehend just how much of an impact the changes you suggest would be. And how it would eventually directly & indirectly effect everything else. You haven't fully connected all the dots yet.

Do you know how I know you haven't connected all the dots yet? Because nobody has. Nobody can predict the outcome of something like that, though we can make some educated guesses about some things. I think that's the difference between our opinions; I freely admit that I have no idea, while you claim to know everything and have an answer for everything. Only, that's impossible. Nobody is omniscient.
Yes, lots of unpaid overtime being worked in Japan by salarymen. At the very least, the recent college grads do it (I've heard first hand accounts, though I guess that's basically hearsay to anyone reading this).
Yes. That's why so many FARs exist in the first place. Most are the result of incidents or accidents.

One of my favorites is 91.119a
"Anywhere. An altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface."

It's one I do not think drones or their operator should be exempt from.
The existing national debt already has an interest rate attached to it. It's cheaper to buy that back once you raise interest rates because its value goes down immediately! The US will always be able to pay back its US dollar debt. That is not a factor here. It is true that new debt will have a higher rate attached to it but the US has served debt with rates of over 10% in the past with no problem (wish I could have gotten my hands on some of those).

You can't cause the currency to collapse simply by printing money. That money has to go somewhere. As long as the government isn't spending money it doesn't make a difference. We've been printing money for almost 10 years now and giving it away as loans with very low interest rates. This is what many people also call pushing on a rope, there's no uptake for that money in the real economy. Higher inflation is what the Fed wants and has been unable to achieve.

You're right though that the Fed does have a dilemma but it's not the one you mentioned. The real problem is that higher interest rates cause other asset prices to go down. I.e. the stock market will go down, real estate will go down etc. That can do damage to the real economy. This is the real problem here. Even the hint of raising interest rates sends the stock market into a spiral. The other thing higher rates do is strengthen the dollar. This makes the US economy less competitive and adds a deflationary pressure. Those are the two things the Fed is concerned about.

You're right about having less bullets in the chamber, so to speak, for dealing with future emergencies when the rates are already so low. There's still QE to the rescue and negative interest rates though.
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For a sense of how this is going, you can read the California DMV's collection of autonomous vehicle accident reports.[1] 9 from Google, one from Delphi. Almost all the Google ones are a Google vehicle being rear-ended by another car at slow speed. Typical situation: Google AV turning right on red after a full stop. AV advances enough to get a good sensor view of cross traffic, detects cross traffic, and stops. Following vehicle rear-ends Google AV. Not AV's fault.

If manually driven cars had radar-controlled braking (now a common option, and one which may become as standard as ABS in a few years), that's enough to stop most rear-end collisions. That may be all that's necessary for AVs and human-driven cars to play well together.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...
> I'll never understand why companies make such customer hostile decisions.

Really? It's pretty easy to understand.

There's very little to lose and a whole lot to gain.

Sure, you'll piss off a few people who read Hacker News but most buyers will just shrug and keep buying the only One True Brand, thereby making them millions and granting them a monopoly.

If the plan doesn't work, you can still backtrack and open up to third parties.

But there's really no downside to trying to force yourself into a monopoly, which is why Phillips, and before them Keurig, Apple and countless other brands, have tried and will try again.
yeah, but WD is in the business of selling hard drives and they look everywhere for ways of doing that. In this case, connected to a Raspberry Pi and such boards... We're happy to benefit by getting a cool, ownCloud branded device for our users ;-)
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For a pivot, simply take a resultset that gives three columns and map the first to the X axis, the second to the Y and the third as values. It's very often that I find myself pulling that kind of data out in reports.

Making a general purpose cohort chart (https://blog.modeanalytics.com/cohort-analysis-helps-look-ah...) is probably a bit harder, since it requires a relatively complex query to generate the data. Would probably work best with a sort of macro or template system in place.
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Still an interesting point. Note that the software for this device will be fully developed in the open on Github and IF WD builds in a backdoor between us shipping the final image to them and them putting it on the devices before they go out to users, it will not be terribly hard to find out. Heck, ownCloud 9 will already verify its own code and warn if things are modified, maybe we can do something in the OS image which does some checks, too.

You're welcome to help out!
Originally ML was implemented in Lisp. It was the language for a theorem prover: HOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOL_(proof_assistant)

Older ML (not something like SML) in Lisp is still available in some old version of that prover.
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I don't know of any part of the USA where you can own land without paying property tax, with or without buildings on it.
Original author here (sorry, was in bed when it came to the front page ;) )

I did not read that paper (book?), but will add it to my "To Read" pile. Thank you ;)
Sounds like the 'unlimited vacation' that's getting quite popular in the Valley
> You do realize that the internet and even the web existed way before all of those companies, right?

And just how popular was the internet back then?

> And while you might not have been around then, it was great back then.

I'm in my 30s, I definitely was around then.

> it was great back then.

But clearly you weren't. The internet today is AMAZING compared to how it was in the late 90s. Spending 5 minutes to load up a single web page? No thanks. You also couldn't watch videos (can barely load a gif in a reasonable amount of time) and there wasn't many people. A 5mb MP3? Yep, took a half hour to download. Streaming? Hahaha. Yeah, didn't exist. Except for maybe real player. But only if you were lucky and had a 56k modem, and even then, spotty at best.

I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. The internet in the 90s sucked compared to today.

> Another search engine?

Who is going to want to run a search engine for free? You forget, you just killed off 90% of the revenue of the internet by killing ads. How would a search engine make money? More importantly, who would want to fund the creation of a search engine that wouldn't make any money?
I haven't tried Falcon. I hear it's fast.
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