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Absolutely, which is why it's an interesting hire.
It wasn't simple on the back-end. Your estimate of "man-weeks" is off by an order of magnitude, because of the back-end system complexity.

As the article states, it started with the button, which, as you quite rightly point out, dominoed into a lot of changes and thinking about edge cases that didn't exist before. The point I was trying to make was that it started with the button.

The big story here isn't that adding this particular button will yield $300m in revenue. The story was that, by watching users, we saw an opportunity to reap $300m. And we took it and it worked.
Please don't post comments about getting downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The comment was unsubstantive and dismissive. If there's something wrong with a source, it would be better to explain what that is instead of just snarking, which (a) undermines civility and (b) teaches us nothing.
I'm really not sure how I feel about this. Moot created the biggest, most toxic garbage fire of an internet community, refused to take management of it, and walked away when it became too toxic for anyone to deal with. In a way, he's a perfect new hire for Google, but Google usually doesn't leave quite so much devastation in its wake.
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Chrome made pageAction based extentions unbearable
Chromium-Extensions-Announce › Upcoming UI Change

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/chromium-extensions/upcoming$20ui$20change/chromium-extensions/7As9MKhav5E/dNiZDoSCCQAJ

What happened with pageAction?

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/wOUFbsKqPg0

Chromium Code Review

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=566000&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Stars%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified
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In addition to being able to qualify with equivalent work experience (usually a ratio of 3 years work : 1 year diploma), there are two occupations that don't require a degree strictly: (Scientific) Technician and Management Consultant. My advice is find a competent tech immigration attorney in SV or surrounding areas who specializes and you will have a good time. I recommend Olivia Lee at Minami Tamaki or Chris Wright in LA.
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This is a helpful summary!

We could also say that blockchains can be useful in principle when people are afraid of retroactive modification of history (for example because they get hacked, or because of governmental pressure to falsify their records). This is sort of an instance of this article's mutually-untrusting writers issue, but it's an interesting one because the writers are saying that they don't want to be trusted.

I think this is the case now for software distributors and certificate authorities, among others (I gave a talk related to this at CCC); they are saying "it's bad for us and you if you just believe whatever we say, without at least a way to know if a larger audience has heard it and whether we're denying what we said before".

So we can also say that blockchains (or perhaps another kind of distributed consensus mechanism; clearly Ben Laurie and others are claiming that blockchains are too heavyweight some or all of the time) can be useful when people are afraid that they're going to be made to emit writes that they didn't want to, or to deny writes that they previously emitted.
You can get more out of a house than resale value, and thus "protecting" doesn't pertain only to resale value.

If you buy a house because it has a nice view of the mountains, fighting billboards that obstruct your view is "protecting your investment".
You might very well be correct. However, (and I don't love FB) when is the last time someone in real life called you over to look at something on linkedIN?

Professionally, it is dangerous as you can't show coworkers the great job you found. Most of the articles are advertisements or a logo and smiling people holding laptops, and the jobs (as all sites) are just crawled from every other companies site.

I can only assume that if I have to pay to send you a linkedIn mail we're not connected, and if we are connected I would send you and email.

So, the only reason I go on linkedIN, is because it is too hard to write a crawler to parse what I can only imagine is like 10K LOC of JS, and copy paste the source into my crawler to pull the info. Also, for potential investors & enterprise customers
to view these profiles is $80 a month. So the top people who don't want to talk to us get unsolicited inbound emails from us because linkedin sold them out for $80 a month.

so yes this is HN, and yes I bloody hate LI.
Cheap wine is presumed, right? I also presume it's not expensive coffee. The most expensive coffee in the world, that made from Black Ivory beans, is $374 per 12oz bag, or $49.50 per 750ml of brewed coffee (the size of a bottle of wine). I would not be "printing" with this. Although, given these beans are pre-processed by an elephant's digestive tract, I'm not sure I'd drink them either.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2012/12/07/co...
Only because open space these days usually has pretty strong advocates, especially in the Bay area. Developers would be more than happy to build in green space given the chance--as the parent comment noted.
The problems I have run into have been acting like I know more than I actually do. Our first accountant assumed I knew everything since I acted like I was making informed decisions, which led to some issues. He also made a few mistakes (not capitalizing on section 179 one year for example).

In regard to your question about why your misconception is common, no idea. Just a quick google shows lots of accurate descriptions of the benefits of an S-Corp. Maybe a misunderstanding with your accountants?

After moving to a larger (and much more expensive) accounting firm, and learning from our previous mistakes, I've had a much more pleasant time dealing with this stuff. It's all arcane and stupid when it comes down to it, but you have to learn it to effectively manage your tax burden. If you don't actively think about it you get absolutely screwed on occasion, as it affects everything about your business. And the mistakes get expensive as your revenue scales up.

This is getting totally tangential, but you can probably hardly imagine all the crazy rules regarding taxation in the case of a sales event. Operating as an S-Corp is fine and dandy, but creates an additional hurdle for getting investment and for sales. S-Corps can only be owned by individuals, so an acquisition or an investment means restructuring, but you are restructuring after a planned purchase, which says certain things about intent which makes the restructuring likely a taxable event in and of itself.

I strongly strongly strongly recommend talking to an experienced business lawyer, and having them recommend an experienced business tax planner. This isn't schemey tax avoidance stuff, this is fundamental planning so you don't get a surprise $200k bill at some point!
In fairness to science, this is just psychology.
Why take the content down after only five days? Five months or five years would seem more reasonable.
Well, the problem is that the end result was proof of ego depletion. We can move the goalposts and say, "Wait, no this new nullification is the true end result," but those 100 studies ruled the roost for quite some time.

The reality is that the end results are usually terrible and a lot of science out there is straight up junk science designed to chase grants and to lean on journal biases to get published, especially in the social sciences. The problem is we don't really have a better alternative so working with a clock that's right twice a day is much better than having no clocks at all. We might have hit organizational limits on how well we can do science on this level. With funding comes politics, with journals comes bias, with publishing comes perverse incentives, challenging big egos is difficult, unknowns have to 'pay their dues', small universities and institutions don't have influence compared to their larger peers, the sometimes political tenure process, etc.

Hell, the article itself even calls out Carter's relatively young age or for not being tenured in an almost "Can we trust this young nobody," way.
It would still be pretty gross, especially with all those variable declarations/assignments inside conditionals.
> 1 intermediate engineer = $65,000 CAD / year = $48,888 USD / year

The gross annual amount of an employee's base salary is very different than the cost of hiring an employee with said base salary. I know CA != US, but payroll taxes, benefits, retirement contributions, unemployment and disability insurance, etc can't be that alien of a concept. Or is it? In the US estimate 130%-160% of the salary for base employment. Or is circa 30k for an intermediate engineer normal in Vancouver? In which case what would the entry level position make?
Again, this is not new in FLIF, and it isn't a strength of the format. You're describing exactly what can already be done with progressive JPEG better.

Look at https://uprootlabs.github.io/poly-flif/ - set truncation to 80-90% and compare to Same Size JPEG.

Truncated FLIF looks like a pixelated mess, whereas JPEG at the same byte size is almost like the original (note that the site has encoded JPEG to have few progressive scans, so sometimes you get half image perfect and half blocky. This is configurable in JPEG and could be equalized to entire image being ok-ish).
Unfortunately, Oracle also holds copyright in Linux, so they can sue as a GPL rightsholder.

The real question is whether Oracle could convince a jury. It is hard to imagine what their argument would be. Then again, I would have never imagined that they would use copyright law over APIs to attack Google's use of Java.
Would you rather be Tom Brady, or Al Michaels?

Players play the game. Commentators talk about it.
I think they were relying on video services being able to detect available bandwidth and alter the stream to fit. Netflix does this, for example. If you have a narrow connection, you're probably going to get 240p video.

If the streaming service doesn't do this, you just get a terrible experience (buffering... buffering... buffering...).
It's reasonably selfish. People by homes expecting their value to be retained; housing density increase tends to have the opposite effect. To the extent they can protect their investments, you'd expect people to do so.
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> I wasn't even on the job posting!

Maybe they found you on LinkedIn :)
Its no more selfish for existing property owners to want to keep their community as-is any more than its selfish that highly compensated tech workers who are in the SFBA by choice want cheaper housing.

My point was, selfish is simply an emotionally charged word for the issue. Everyone is self interested, as they should be, and as economics expects everyone to be.
The problem is not the use per se, the problem is delivering them to the user as one blob of software together. This is not a problem with proprietary graphics drivers, since you can just download them after setting up you system. However, if you want to boot from a ZFS disk, you need the ZFS driver and the only way to obtain it at that point is effectively from the installation medium.
So essentially this 2013 environmental report says that it'd make traffic tougher - assuming the same number of cars and no decrease due to bus ridership.

Note: "The encouraging news is that this law is about to change. California will soon reform traffic analysis under CEQA by replacing "level of service" with another metric more in line with its environmental and urban mobility goals. "

Does anyone know if this has indeed changed?
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While it might be incredibly toxic at times, it's also the source of quite a lot of interesting Internet culture and movements, many positive works, and a ton of creativity. It's a microcosm of the worst and the best of what the Internet can pull off.

Don't dismiss it out of hand as exclusively negative.
This is incorrect, at least for for an S Corp. The rest of the money (after you pay salaries AND deduct valid business expenses) is distributed to shareholder(s) as shareholder distributions using Schedule K-1, not dividend (terminology is important, they are not one and the same).

Shareholder distributions then add (or subtract if you lost money) to/from shareholder individual incomes. It is taxed at the same level as other income.
Your parent is saying today's open space is literally where development was proposed, decades ago.
While its true that they own the specification, in practice the large company (i.e. Siemens in this example) is the only one capable of producing the product at a non-prohibitive rate.

I suspect what they'll find when they finally rip out all this equipment is that the new system will be unrepairable without huge long term contracts with the original vendor.

These old mechanical systems have their own problems, but repairability is not one of them. Almost any competent machining shop could duplicate one of the switches in the article.
Unless you cannot, because you aren't in the allotted time window.

Yes, there are rules around the whole thing. But, in principle, it is possible to have an "S LLC". But this kind of stuff is exactly where it's important to have good / knowledgeable advisors to help with this kind of stuff, because what average mortal understands the myriad of byzantine IRS regulations?

Can distributions be treated as dividends?

No idea. :-(
What devastation? 4chan is absolutely not a "toxic garbage fire of an internet community", and it's not even his concept or idea. He didn't "create" anything in that sense.

He also didn't, "walk away when it became too toxic for anyone to deal with." That sentence is literally too hard to parse, given what's publicly available information about Moot and 4chan.
I love moot! And I love his attention to all communities, especially women in tech.
I think some solid visualizations of use-cases would be nice to see on the homepage. In my quick glance, I didn't see any.
You're a toxic garbage fire.
I felt that I could maybe get better at Minesweeper with a keyboard interface, so I made this game with ncurses. The controls are inspired by nethack/vim (but arrow keys work as well).

When developing it, I made the game logic into a library, which was also used by a friend to create a GameBoy version! Check it out: https://github.com/rotmoset/gb-mines
I'm not sure if their Rewards program is part of their ad department or not but part of their reward program is that you have to consent to being tracked.
I work in a 50 year old hospital. There was some work on the nurse call bell system and the maintenance staff had to scour eBay for old parts to fix the outdated system. I think procurement had a fit when they saw eBay receipts show up.
no - Donald Trump is anti-ILLEGAL-immigration. The word a lot of people 'conveniently' leave out to serve their own political bias.

I agree with the other two items. ESPECIALLY the H-1B debacle that is currently going on...
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Basically a toned down corporate version of China's social credit: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34592186
Or bumping a lock open!
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There's a couple techniques for determining the intrinsic value of something to you:

* Look at the direct labor cost: My last W-2 job was something like $45/hour after taxes. I'd probably work an extra hour to get a coffee maker that'll last about 3 years. This doesn't really help price anything below $1000 or so, since the prices tend to meld together. But I definitely want to quit work 2 weeks earlier, so the entire bottom floor of my house is devoid of furniture(which might sum to $3000).

* Look at opportunity cost: I can live on about $800/month with bills/housing/etc. So $40 is 1.5 days of runway on savings. Would I rather have an extra 1.5 days of time to launch my next project, or would I rather have a coffee maker? It's possible the coffee maker would pay off.

* Look at ROI: Someone bought me a Keurig as a gift, and the K-cups that it uses are ridiculously expensive(something like $1/cup). Buying a coffee maker that uses bulk grounds is cheaper. You can make a spreadsheet comparing the 'status quo', 'buy new coffee maker', and 'attempt to find or make cheaper K-cups' options.

* Look at risk mitigation: Suppose I lose money hiring an unreliable freelancer. Maybe I've lost $1000, and I'm considering buying a Dale Carnegie book for $20. I think the techniques in that book can turn at least 1 in 50 freelancers around, so it pays for itself in expected value on the very next freelancer I hire. Or maybe my site went down the other week and I lost $15000 and I'm considering spending $500 in dev time to go bug-hunting in that area: It pays for itself if I estimate at least 3% probability of finding another bug of similar magnitude.

Similarly, I wanted a 3rd new monitor to expand on my 8-year old dual-monitors. I estimated its value at $500, and ended up buying whatever was the best quality monitor I could get for $500. I think it was listed as half-off on Newegg.

It's worth paying someone $20 every month or so to clean the grass around my sidewalk, if you look at what the city would fine you if you don't(risk mitigation) and looking at wage costs.

A quart of ice cream is probably worth $20 to me, since I rarely eat it except on somewhat special occasions. I usually pay $4.

Actually, I'm having trouble thinking of a single thing that I can't determine an intrinsic value for that's worth buying, and which I would need to defer to the market to decide on a price.
I guess I understand that for simple component. The checkbox here is a good example where the value is the state, so there is no use in keeping an extra copy of it. Same would be with a slider component or whatever. But when it comes to more complex components I always feel like encapsulating functionality makes the component more reusable and less boilerplate-y which in turn encourages use. It's sort of like convention over configuration.

But then again, maybe it just hasn't 'clicked' with me yet.

Edit: I should say though that having all state external would help in testing the component since you can now simulate every possible state without going into the internals of the component itself.
And for whatever the faults of housing/tax/transit/etc. policies in $POPULAR_CITY--and there are always myriad such--it's pretty much always the case that there's some practical upper limit to how many people can live there (especially when the geography limits outward growth). Clearly cities can grow, including growing upwards, over time. But this is a decades-long process.
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Moot has always appeared to me to be a very talented and bright person. I think it's a mistake to judge him by what some people will say on an anonymous image board. The influence of 4chan on internet culture cannot be ignored: everything from LOLCats to advice animals and countless internet slang terms. He's also had a very unique and unusual experience being in charge of a group of people who believe the internet should be controlled chaos. In my opinion, Moot is a lot like Mike Judge after he did Beavis and Butthead: it's too easy to dismiss him because what he created is a bit crass. But he's a smart and talented person who will most likely go on to build a reputation beyond his first big thing.
> The point is, a dev cannot make use of GPL software in closed src.

Yes. That's the very idea of GPL. One's either accepting it and gets what it grants, or not.

> BSD/MIT automatically implies open source.

Ok, I simplified the wording and the meaning was lost. Let me fix it. I meant, I got a binary but that binary was produced from a BSD/MIT/Apache/whatever-licensed source code. If that source isn't available to me (like on the almost every single Android phone we have out there), I'm basically powerless.

> Proprietary software can be open source.

This is certainly wrong. Unless you're not using OSI definition of open source, but something of your own. Or if we mean something different under the term "proprietary".

> Case in point: GPL/share-alike adoption has been in steady decline.

Not surprising. GPL had lost, you're totally right on this.

It was predicted long ago - as most users don't possess any engineering skills, they don't exercise their freedoms to access the source code, modify it and distribute the modifications. The freedom to distribute the original software lost it to the unauthorized distribution ("piracy") and freemium-type software. Users don't care (actually IIRC it was shown that they tend to cope with whatever inconvenience they find, rather than try to fix it - that's also how privacy wars were lost), and developers find it that proprietary software has a well-known business models to bring profits, while free software requires to tread carefully.

Yet, it's wrong that "all it does is stop devs from using it". The word "all" is surely incorrect. It does stop some devs from using it - two groups, actully: a) those who want to develop proprietary software and b) those who just can't stand it for any personal reasons. But that's not all it does - I've mentioned what it also does above.
I think the first question is how long will it theoretically take for your startup to generate $2K/month for you? What does that timeline look like? Its easier to make a plan when you have the details laid out. Can you save $x/month and give yourself some runway etc.?