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This may also be an easy way of firing people for culture fit.

David Sacks's original letter was heavy on the need to change the culture at Zenefits, and there's usually some degree of culture change at a company whenever a new CEO takes over. It could be that this is a convenient way to fire the ringleaders of the party culture, the people having sex in the stairwell, the most egregious rulebreakers or those who're disgruntled about having to go through all the regulated training, all without needing to build the paper trail that safely firing for cause would require.
Your product makes me think immediately towards high school/college debate (https://youtu.be/HGyFBRu5F8o?t=1461). Policy debate in particular has the added benefit of being untranscrible (listen for a couple minutes).

Couple ideas: (1) Analysis tool like Krossover, by cutting out prep time from videos like the above, segmenting by speech, and allowing people to annotate, search by annotation, etc. (2) a response platform for people to practice debates outside of tournaments. Right now, if you want to practice, you either debate with a teammember, or email speech docs to others, which doesn't really capture the energy or spirit of a debate. I could see this being useful esp for debaters at small schools without large teams, or rural areas without nearby partner schools, etc...
Once you accrue enough karma (~1,000 points IIRC, though that may vary) you'll get a downvote button.

It's conveniently placed close enough to the upvote button that on mobile, any moderation action is essentially a 50-50 probability of either....
Exactly my point, prices are for the new servers when they were brand new, as well as processors are really one of the worst xeons of that time. They E5600 suck a lot of power while not giving that good performance, there are x5600 for performance and L5600 for efficiency.
I mean absolutely no disrespect and wish everyone well in this project, but other than a fun hobby or even more fun career for the author, what is the use case for MicroPython? Surely at the microcontroller level, C is perfectly adequate and already in place, everywhere?
Yep. It's a general pattern: any term for "termination of employment" goes through the euphemism treadmill much, much faster than any other word or than we expect it to.

It used to feel like there was a distinction between being laid off (can't afford you anymore, have to scale down) vs being fired (you messed up and they don't want you anymore at any positive price). But gradually I heard "laid off" get used to mean any firing for any reason.

And it makes sense: anyone is going to want to make their termination reason sound better for them, while retaining plausible deniability -- "well, the word is ambiguous anyway". Plus, it's a sensitive topic where people don't want to reveal details of the reasons about third parties. So, expect any term for any termination reason get applied to broader and broader cases, to the point of absurdity.

"He was made redundant after groping the secretary."

"He was retired after they lost their major customer." But he's 35! "So?"

"She was downsized after using illegal accounting practices for the 15th time."

"The junior partner was let go after appearing drunk at a client presentation." (Note:"let go" can be a meaningful distinction in a case where leaving might have major penalties for the leaving employee but the managing partners waive those penalties.)
Yes, he is no longer "the lead" developer, but he's still a core contributor, and is Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, so the point stands.
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> 'The book' says

Hah! I just had this happen to me last month. My wife accepted a position (at her dream company) on the other side of the state. That means we're no-questions-asked packing up, selling our home, and moving for this opportunity.

I told my manager the news and gave him the choice: The company can transition me to full-time remote or they can have my resignation (which I had typed, printed, signed, and brought with me).

So, that afternoon, I'm in the HR managers office. They (HR, not my manager -- he is an amazing, caring, understanding person who laughs at this story harder than I do) literally pulled "The Book" out and pointed to some section of text while stating, "ENGINEERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WORK REMOTELY!" at me.

I'm still there, we made it work, but it took almost more effort than it was worth.
"hipster arrogance." Ha. I'm 42, got my first email address in 1991 and hardly a hipster. I own a fixie because I used to race on velodromes.

What is the word for people who use the internet in some purposely crippled fashion, just so that they can complain about things not working for them? =)
Most companies pay previous salary plus 15%

Raises small after hiring

"Why is everyone in this industry such a job hopper?"
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Presumably having broken the terms of the agreement, you'd be able to sue them for any damages.
Nice product! OT: do you know of any other automated security scanning services (hosted/SaaS)? Have you considered expanding beyond AWS (though AWS customers are probably your target audience and entire focus)?
We also have 'rustfmt' in development, which goes even further than the built-in lints.
Why swipe? Isn't swiping kind of an odd interaction w/ a mouse and keyboard?
I tried this approach with a perfect resume and qualifications and got rejected after a long interview process. The problem is: there are always unknown elements and biases in the process, and people were working differently than what I was used to.

Still, lot of time went away for me, because I didn't want to go to other places. I believe this is good advice, but you still need multiple options, which means it's better to prepare but spare your own time: make sure the company invests in you as much as you do in the company at each step (even in the beginning...a cover letter is OK, but nothing more, like free work).
(This is not one of the YC chaps)
1) Tell us the site,
2) Ask who makes money when your audience grows,
3) Ask who wants access to your audience,
4) Realise that "non-profit" only describes who has a claim on profits, not whether they must exist. Your org must still have income >= expenses
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Yes, that's one option. I'm a little shakey on the specific function, characteristics, and reaction materials, but some form of redox and electron flow is what you're aiming for.
You're certainly negotiating, you're just doing so in a way that will statistically mean over the course of your career you will make hundreds of thousands of dollars less.
First some product advice: You're trying to replace various more specialized tools with a general purpose tool. For example, I use Slack, Front, and Lever in addition to gmail, for internal, external, and recruiting-related conversations respectively. You should explain clearly how your one tool will be better than a combination of the many special-purpose tools.

If you can support yourselves with only 15% time on the old project, that's pretty good. You can probably get Missive off the ground with 85%. Once it's off the ground, it should be easy to get investment to focus on it full-time.

I like to think that investors aren't just a time sink, but can give useful advice about the parts of the business that are common to the other businesses they work with, like customer acquisition, hiring, and managing teams.
Thank you. User establishes their baseline of a Non Zero Day (5000 steps) per day. If failed to achieve the goal they pay us money.
Hi Trevor and Jared, thanks for doing this.

We have been working on http://growthzilla.com - a data driven growth solution for salons for a little more than a year now. We have paying customers since launch and have zero cancellations. Our customers love the product for 3 reasons (1) ease of use (2) effectiveness in driving growth and (3) customer service

The problem: we are growing slower than we would want. Is there anything you'd like to suggest?
Thank you for your advice! I've started reaching out to debate clubs in schools and colleges already on FB. Will keep working towards that. However, I have still not given up on general user segment.

One advantage of video is (hopefully) reduce abuse. Twitter is plagued with the problem of anonymous abuse. However, its not easy to show your face in video and abuse!
+1 for Roaring Bitmaps. We are starting to use it in multiple products.
Tell Mrs. Patmore that.
at my school, most students take as their first CS course, a 123 course focused on a specific topic (app dev, robotics, computer graphics). No prior experience is required and apparently it has really improved on the number of students who drop out of the CS department after starting out with intro courses without seeing any real applications.
I serve on the CS advisory board at another college that competes head to head with Harvey Mudd for students. Generally, when one of these schools celebrates having more women or a higher ratio than the others, it means they've managed to recruit more of a static pool rather than growing the pool.

The college that I advise at took another approach to grow the pool while also recruiting better from the pool. They encourage profs to work with Girl Scout troops on science projects, to get students to tutor junior high and high school kids in general, and build relationships long before the normal "I have to think about college" thoughts begin.
yes, for example World of Tanks always uses same key, replays are simply a dump of network traffic to a file = encrypted with same key. Here is a project decrypting replay files (so a network traffic stream) and interpreting data.

https://github.com/evido/wotreplay-parser

with a bit of work this could be modded to work live on network tap. You could even generate heatmap for current battle on second screen while you play.
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dumb question but can you do different colors besides blue and white?
I had a situation where I asked for a certain salary and they said it was out of the salary band for the job title. The solution was to change the job title to one where the salary was in-band.
And most landlords and cities prohibit AirBnB-style rentals, but that has never stopped AirBnB.
This has been discussed in the past on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=harvey%20mudd&sort=byPopularit...). The real howto is simple: take a tiny elite college; spend a staggering amount of money poaching the few women interested in CS to your college and loosening admission rates; proceed to talk only about percentages when boasting about your success.
Hi!
I'm building a platform for scientists to run and share their experiments (anything computable) including their whole research environment. I want to make scientific research easily discoverable and replicable.

First, what are your thoughts on this market?

Also, some advice: I'm currently building the prototype based on my own experience as I'm my own user. That's the only thing I've been focusing on, I haven't looked for external feedback yet and haven't spent much time looking for people to join me. I figured both of those things will be much easier once I have the prototype ready. Am I on the right track or should I be doing everything at once?
Hi Jared and Trevor,

I'm building games and tools for language learning. While talking to users, I asked them what language learning tools they wished existed when they were studying in the past. A lot of them talked about a tool that lets them talk to native speakers of their target language online.

I know I should build something users want, but there are plenty of tools that let you do this (including a YC company, cambly) and I don't want to build another one. So what do I do with their answer to my question?
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Whether you're looking at hydrogen or hydrocarbons, you need some chemical energy carrier mechanism. In the long run, either will have to be formulated, and yes, there's about a 50% efficiency hit straight off the top in elecrolysing hydrogen.

But if you're trading an abundant, variable energy source (say, peak solar which is otherwise wasted) for a scarce but valuable and useful store, that's a net win.

Note that whether you're formulating H2 or hydrocarbons, the energy cost is about the same (the carbon sequestration from seawater mentioned above is low energy cost), though it requires fairly substantial capital investments.
You can always decrease the amount you do per day without breaking the chain. In our case you would decrease the amount of steps, miles or calories.
You don't need advanced auto-indenting when the existing code is already correctly indented. Any decent programmers editor will automatically change the starting indentation point when you paste a block.

Your other points could be debated but really, is coding so keyboard-limited that saving a single keystroke is a major issue? Python has focused on comprehensibility, which I think is the right balance given how frequently people need to understand code versus write it.
> commercial users of your property for shoots treat it much differently than casual travel users will. There will be a big crew, they will have bulky/heavy equipment, they will be focused on getting a job done and they won't care about dinging up your walls, etc., in the process. A week later, you will discover something broken.

I imagine it's likely to be used as a location for some "reality" porn series (which are about as real as the average reality TV show). I can't imagine that requiring a lot of equipment or personnel.
As someone who has watched class after class of analysts put together 50-page pitch books of which <5 will be read, the day of the robots cannot come soon enough.
This seems like the responsible way for CloudFlare to deal with the situation, honestly.
Ahhh, I'll look into that on firefox :)

Thanks,
> The contract could have fines for breaking this rule

It might have a liquidated damages clause if the use of and stipulated amount of liquidated damages was such as to be found reasonable for the type of breach it covers; otherwise, a "fine" in a contract is generally an unenforceable penalty clause.
> So why not remove all blank lines too. They're less important for reducing issues that single line/braceless flow control blocks can cause.

By and large I do. But I don't think what you say is actually true. Given the choice between:

stepa1
if(something)
stepa2
stepa3

stepb1
stepb2
stepb3

and

stepa1
if(something) {
stepa2
}
stepa3
stepb1
stepb2
stepb3

(same number of lines), I think the former is often more readable - stepa2 is visually separated in either case.
Isn't that typically the question when negotiating anything? How often do we truly walk away with the absolute best deal that we can get? Even if, how often can we say with 100% confidence that the deal was the best that can be offered?

I think people hate to admit that things can just be "good enough", because the phrase "good enough" sounds like we settled without putting forth enough effort. It's a false dichotomy. Things can be good enough in one area yet outstanding in others.
See previous discussion on fuel cell disadvantages. Especially highly costly catalysts (typically platinum).

Again: an ICE engine for a car is a few hundred dollars. A fuel cell for a car is about a million dollars. That's significant even to a physicist.
I hope you stay away from GCC as well, which for example broke C++ in 4.7.0 and fixed it in 4.7.2.

Any new major release is bound to break something for someone. Prudence suggests adopting a major release only after a few months. This applies to all platforms.
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Hey,
I want to present http://grobyk.com, a platform that wants to help teams to grow by engaging the team's members to find/create/share useful articles. In this way they will build a knowledge base and grow as a team.
We want some feedback regarding the idea and how we can attract customers.
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Funnily enough, in many cases, that's exactly what a lot of AirBnB renters are doing, too - illegally subletting their home, ignoring commercial hotel regulations, and the like.

"Only OUR disruption is okay! Yours isn't!"
Hi Jared and Trevor,

I have developed a high-speed image encoder that runs on off-the-shelf graphics cards:

http://grokimagecompression.github.io/GrokImage/

I am working on my marketing strategy: need to decide whether to focus on selling to end-users, or licensing the software to other businesses. Second option requires more $$, and a sales team, but seems to have more potential for growing the business.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Our most famous project is called Contemporary Art Daily, but our most ambitious, new project is called Contemporary Art Quarterly. The organization is called Contemporary Art Group.

We're generating $250k of income, a bit more than our present expenses, largely based on the value of our audience.

Being a non-profit also, very importantly, speaks to our motives, which mostly are to fulfill a mission to make important art more accessible to the public, rather than to get bigger and enrich the people involved.
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Why do you assume they aren't getting paid market wages? Your statement, in a way, is contradictory. Engineers are perceived as scarce, but they aren't paid market wages.
> Their growth in the market was not affected.

Apple went from 11% to 10% market share from Q42014 to Q42015.

Android is the only one of the top 3 mobile manufacturers to have sold more devices than have become inactive in that timespan.
Non-porn people are very capable of making a real mess. Talk to any hotel cleaner. People get drunk, they bleed, they get sick and even die, the later being very rare in porn.
Ask HN: How do you track FOSS releases, changelogs?
So I realized this morning (after seeing the post re: NodeJS release) that I'm always having a hard time tracking release notes, breaking changes, new features, etc. It's hard even for the software I'm intimately familiar with and use on a daily basis, and I'd like to get a better forest-level view of the projects I'm using or considering.

Does anybody have a resource or tool that aggregates this sort of information? That lets me filter/select the ones I care most about? I'd love to see something like that. Free product idea if it doesn't already exist. ;-)

Features I'm hoping for, in no particular order:

- Reasonably common format
- Filtering/Selecting
- FOSS itself, of course
As much as I like the idea and would love to use it, but I am not really motivated by the fact that you are taking the money, you are not offering any service, just using people's procrastination to make money, I don't know about others but I really don't like that.

It could be much better if the user has to choose a charity that money goes to, I understand that you also have costs for running this app, but I think I will write my own app and besides that, it's not always about workouts, it might be about reading , FOSS, self development, or whatever of that things, would love if it had something like that.
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it. :) (I'm part of the Nylas team)
My SO is one of the women who are better off because they got through a CS degree instead of an alternate. She could have been a good molecular biologist or teacher, but she's a spectacular software engineer, especially for those high-level business-use/architectural tasks that a lot of devs can't handle. She'd be a lot less happy right now if her dad had managed to succeed in convincing her that girls can't program.
I have been doing this using browser startup tabs. Since I open the browser only once in the morning when I come to the office, I will launch the browser and review all the tabs and remember to do things.
http://lifehacker.com/use-your-browsers-startup-settings-to-...
There is no class action in german law. Everybody has to sue on their own (with very few exceptions), but of course there is no point in having (and funding) multiple identical cases unless this case gets dismissed for a technicality like the fading issue.
What I find most interesting about this is that most of the changes they implemented weren't necessarily targeted towards women and benefited everyone (emphasis on group work, research projects, splitting the into classes by experience).
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There even is a web app based on it http://dontbreakthechain.com/ which I try to improve right now with https://markmyday.net

The latter doesn't require an account, lets you log some additional data and is of course absolute beta.
I really didn't plan to publish it yet, but I haven't done anything else to reach my goal today.
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Was fully expecting an article about instagram filters.
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You should add support for pomotodo.
FWIW this rendered poorly on both chrome and Firefox on my android phone. The first 4 or 5 chars on the left hand side were cut off. I had tobuse the little book thingy in Firefox in order to be able to read it.
> they want brand that they know to trust.

like fulltilt or leehman brothers!
Right off the bat I would say a public gallery would be neat and engaging. It's really easy to make something beautiful with this (!), so if you create a public forum for sharing & competing to make something even cooler, you could probably catch a lot of eyeballs, and monetize that way.

Then your growth comes down to keeping people engaged with new / fun ways to make art easily.
2+ generations that have never tuned in a radio station using a radio button
Really what somebody needs to do is say "I built a custom chipset that has 32 octa-core Allwinner A80's on it". It has a A15/A7 big little architecture. I would guess the processors cost like $25 each. So the board would be like $800 + maybe $200 more in other components like RAM and flash. So $1000 and you get a cluster that has 256 cores and 32 parallel memory buses and 32 parallel flash chips--seems like that $1000 would get you a pretty epic server. Plus each of those chips have powerVR GPU's, so you would have some GPU capability that Xeon servers don't have. Buying $35 raspberry pi's is basically $5 useful stuff in there and $30 not useful overhead. So better to actually build a legit server board covered in ARM processors and then actually compare how well that $1000 is spent compared to a dual 6 core xeon blade.
It works great on a trackpad, and lots of folks have touch screens these days.

We also have keyboard shortcuts, fully customizable in the preferences window.
> In intro classes a lot of the more experienced (and thus less socially able) students are actively intimidating.

I think the developer community should try to not perpetuate the stereotype that those with experience programming necessarily don't have social skills. This type of thing is what pigeonholes us as "nerds" who are incapable of being involved in the business side of projects.
Thank you very much for responding. I definitely see your point about starting in a small vertical. I already have a couple of potential solutions in mind to solve the critical mass problem, but the fact that you saw it immediately as my number one issue makes me want to revisit them. Re: marketing, I will try the relationship building route rather than an outright pitch. Thanks again.
> PHP is not at fault.

Well, it is the fault of Php's shared nothing model that throws everything away after each request...
You know Roundup (glyphosate) is a herbicide, right? So that's a non-issue.
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Skipping days with "impunity" is a great way to break habit though :/
"Keeping my infant daughter alive" is my current life goal. So I have no zero days so far!