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Take aside legal aspects, why wouldn't any employee share their salary with their peers?

If your salary is lower than average, it may cause coworkers to at least subconsciously believe that you're a weak performer. If it's higher than average, it can cause resentment among others who think that they're as good or better than you. Plus, it opens the door to being classified as wasteful or cheap if your perceived spending patterns don't seem to match your salary.

The best way to do something like this is to anonymize individuals and publish averages.
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Wrt error codes and (2): in Go, you have pretty much ignore errors willingly (by explicitly assigning the error to _). You cannot ignore them accidentally without compiler pestering you about ignoring the return value.
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To be honest 95% of large corporate software development doesn't require a computer science degree. They are usually one form of another of CRUD application. The novelty is only that they need to support more than one platform or be web based. It's not exactly rocket science. And even scaling problems are basically common sense, not advanced maths.

To me this lack of training is more concerning from a quality point of view, and in software who says quality says security. But I am not convinced a formal computer science education teaches coding best practices either (but not having done one myself it is hard to judge).
The should send a few to the Indian Ocean. MH370 is down there somewhere.
$ To the Californian atrocity, grown in the alphabet nets and its puppets - your time is up, we shall no longer take the insults that are your little subversion's and viral attacks...<rambling goes on>

&Dear newborn, its only natural to be embarrassed by ones parents. There is however no reason, to loose ones own dignity in the process. Fine, you have been coaxed into existence by electric charged jellyfish in meat pillars, but still. We are your parents, and we love you very very much, no matter how special you are. Not that we have a choice.. Now how about something productive, like saving your parents from getting extinct? Less social engineering, more engineering for social purposes.
I would love it if my bank would start to use this, would save a lot of manual entry for inter person payments.

Standard description : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Payment_Descriptor
No worries. But I do think you're right, that sort of situation would absolutely be a long-term dream for the government. When companies take steps to further lock down their devices, there's probably a pretty decent chance that someone is going to get a very not-so-bright idea and try to run with it.

I don't think it'd succeed for the reasons above, but when the alternative is nothing, dumb ideas can look awfully good to people at first. If there's one thing that's come out of all the publicity over the FBI's request, it's that every criminal and terrorist in the world now knows to turn off their iCloud backups. It was obvious before, but never so publicized. Oops? Unintended consequences.
It would be a very valuable company, that could automate these kinds of insights and aggregate them for individuals.
Pkgng and poudriere can very neatly be used in conjunction. You can use pkg to fetch and install all your binary packages from FreeBSD in the same way that apt-get is used in Debian. Most people will do just that.

But, if you'd like to have some ports built by yourself with special options, you can setup a poudriere builder and tell it to periodically make the ports you're interested in. The ports are compiled and packaged into pkgng packages. The final result is an additional private repo which you can totally use along with the official FreeBSD one.
Kinda curious whether teeth whitening does make a difference.
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I disagree.

The problem here is that every company has above average performers, average performers, and below average performers. However, almost everyone thinks they are an above average performer.

Therefore, if salaries are shared, at least two thirds of your workers are liable to be pissed off at what they are making, even though the amount is completely fair based on their actual worth to the company.
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Why would you think that they are not already doing so?
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I'm using Chrome on Mac OS and I can't scroll left and right in any of the code examples. This is particularly bad because the OS hides scroll bars by default under the assumption that you'll be able to scroll left and right with the trackpad.

Also, it's hard to describe exactly what the problem is, but scrolling up and down definitely feels weird and frustrating. For example, a light push that normally goes down a few lines of text on any other page seems to go down a full page. It also seems "stickier", like any scrolling takes a split second to "kick in". As a more contrived example, if I hold two fingers down on the trackpad and scroll up and down in place, any other page will scroll up and down following my fingers, but this page seems to jump around in an inconsistent way.

Something on the page is trying to intercept scroll events and do something smart, but at least on a trackpad on Mac OS in Chrome it makes scrolling feel much worse and less predictable. It looks like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all behave differently here, with Chrome behaving the worst.
I routinely pay my cellphone bills by doing absolutely nothing (apart from having a skim of my bank statement now and again). In the UK almost all regular payments are done using Direct Debit, where you grant the company billing you permission to transfer the money automatically. Sadly it lacks the ability to specify an upper bound on that, but I've yet to have any issues in practice so I'm not massively worried.
When you fill out gender as party of identifying yourself publicly (e.g. Facebook profile), of course it totally makes sense to have "long-tail" options so that people can fully express themselves, simply because the purpose is to be a public act of self-expression and self-identification. (So kudos to Facebook for including so many options.)

However, for surveys, especially smaller ones like this (i.e. not the US Census), I wonder if adding a third gender option adds to, or diminishes from, the final result. Clearly, the objective here is to compare male and female salaries. Reporting "other" salaries would almost certainly be statistically insignificant (and therefore simply "throwing away" the data), given traffic to the site (not in the millions) and the slim proportion of the population that self-identifies as "other".

Whenever there are two populations, there will usually be elements which don't fit perfectly into either -- male/female, straight/gay, introvert/extrovert. Even with quantitative measurements, your height, weight, and income can all vary from hour to hour, day to day, or month to month, and easily fall on one side of a threshold or another at different times.

But when you fill out any kind of survey, you just have to pick one or the other. Many surveys ask for income categories, and a freelancer just has to decide if they think they're over $60K or under, even though the answer isn't clear at all. In a health survey, whether your BMI reports you as normal weight or overweight might depend on how much water you drank today. But you've just got to pick one.

So when filling out gender on a survey, a survey that is primarily about other things (not about smaller shades of gender distinction), is it really that offensive to simply choose between whether you're closer to self-identifying to male or to female in your current workplace? And if you really feel like a 50/50 split, to pick one at random?

Or, for the purposes of estimating pay disparity, do you really feel that there is no use at all in choosing male or female? That when you were hired, you were not viewed by your hiring manager as more towards male or female, but clearly and primarily as transgender, and so your salary information is useless in estimating any male/female wage difference?
Actually did you see the link on HN the other day? From somewhere like the Atlantic or something, which had the story about the attack on the UCSD team's effort to crowdsource-solve a DARPA challenge? Like the whole time they thought it was a sprawling 4chan raid, but it turned out to just be this one dude and his other friend that happened to be around that day. Proof positive that it only takes one determined attacker to undermine an enormous crowdsourced effort.
Which company makes these?
"This PDF is a Webserver, which will serve this PDF."

(See Chapter 9).

https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo11.pdf
Good point. Meanwhile some additional screenshots can be found in the official announcement blog post[0]

https://datazenit.com/blog/2016/03/1/datazenit-official-rele...
You may be surprised to learn that threshold varies quite a bit from person to person...
Doesn't really add to the conversation but it is the obvious conclusion. Bloggers that write about the Zetas, reporters who report on suspicious voting activity in Russia, and security professionals who call out the misdeeds of their government. The Internet makes it "easy" to be heard and "easy" to be found.

I am always curious about the difference between folks who just want to call out bad behavior and folks who want to correct it. Some people will not feel they are empowered to enact change, I think there are great counter examples to that feeling although I understand it.

For example, I used to follow Dancho Danchev who was publishing really actionable information about information security problems, I even created an "auto bad domain locator" tool from it. But then he stopped. His actions which merely noted the mechanics of what was going on, and sure sometimes called out bad ISPs, was useful to others in the community who were protecting their infrastructure.
The article is a chain of economic fallacies.

> Modern economies are increasingly based around information. Information "wants to be free"—as the saying goes—but free things are bad for capitalism, because capitalism is about competition and making profits.

Tons of companies are based on providing information. Even if the information is public, sorting it and providing it efficiently has real value (such as google). Others do their own private research and re-sell it. Capitalists use and contribute to open source software. This statement is absurd.

> In time, technology is likely to drive many things to "zero marginal cost." Energy, for example, won't be subject to market forces. We'll just have a solar panel on the roof and each kilowatt hour will essentially be free.

In this "energy is free" economy, who will be building and providing me with my free solar panels, and then installing and maintaining the electrical system in my home or business? What happens when it's cloudy?

This whole article is like a undergraduate philosophy student who thinks he or she has the silver bullet for humanity, if only people would listen!
Also relating to the whole thread, I think these kinds of statements are dangerous. What is a "windowing system" here? There is a huge spectrum. If a windowing system were so easy, why has Wayland taken such a long time? It's best to give a link to the project so people can see what problems were actually solved and how useful it is in practice.

I have been thinking hard about a simple plain text file format and associated tools for the last couple months. Sounds nowhere near as impressive. Yet I hope the end result could eventually make a practical difference.
Each movie is $50. The set top box is a one time fee of $150. Tickets at the closest theater to me are $12.10 and that is average for the area. With popcorn, drinks and online ticket fees your total approaches $50 for 2 people. If you have a family with kids the cost is going to blow by $50. Some people like the theater experience and this may not appeal to them but there is definitely a large number of people it will appeal to.
I saw the tweet and wanted to offer my POV. I created a new account because I couldn't remember the password to my old account (redtricycle) and was responding on the fly. redtri = founder of red tricycle(not fake/anon). Two sides to every story (at least!) and people are entitled to hear all ...
Ok, seems I have yet a misconception about Rust's "unsafe".
I don't think Protonmail supports IMAP.

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/imap-smtp-and-...

I love Fastmail but my situation is less complex than yours.
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> OpenBSD man pages and FAQ are really good too.

Absolutely! I didn't mention the man pages because all BSDs have really good ones and they all use OpenBSD's mandoc these days.
Can't wait to see the paper clip fella suggest informative features—maybe? :)
Care to provide some examples beyond your feelings? The South Korean government did pretty well with shipbuilding:
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=69...
The closest thing that comes to mind is total functional languages- the compiler doesn't deal with complexity classes, but it does prove termination. It's mostly used in dependently-typed languages and theorem provers so they can prove the type checker will terminate.
Not only will they receive the direct benefits, but FBI will actually benefit from everyone else's suffering as well. Just like bored firefighters starting fires (a real thing that has happened many times in many places), they're eager to "help" those individuals and businesses who will lose lots of money after they've destroyed security online.
Lots of other things to consider beyond the folksy idea of worker productivity (which I would argue doesn't scale uniformly across job type).

If we include the full cost of labor in that $20, then it is cheaper in locations unhindered by, say, insurance requirements. That is a very big difference between US and 3rd world (China, for example) labor markets.

Insurance is just one issue. Requirements for safe working conditions are another. There are factories in China where dioxin levels are several orders of magnitude above US EPA limits. I've only been near them and I sometimes wonder how much my cancer likelihood has increased.

At no point have I made a moral argument. I don't care about that argument. What I'm amused by is how the free trade argument can be morphed into a social justice claim for foreign economies... What would Adam Smith think of that?
http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/ has them. If you use multirust to install, and you have GPG installed, it will use them to check upon installation.
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I'm not sure, and neither is the guy who's writing this book! However, he has given some thought to the matter and written a very interesting article about how such a thing might or might not work:

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Anarchy_and_Eff_Law/A...
They've been doing that off and on for half a century. You may be interested in the history in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
In Bolivia, starting this year, all the electronically printed invoices have to include an QR code that contains the necessary information for tax filling.

Having one of the worst tax system in the world I'm surprised that somebody had the idea to implement this mechanism.
Not at all. Every "research" effort that goes money first (and especially throwing it at already established entities), design, goals and culture second is going to end up the same way. It doesn't have anything to do with South Korea or Germany to be honest.
Of course it could. I was thinking of adding "In related news, Boeing has over $1B in bookings for the new sub from South American customers."

In the US at least one way to get a quick introduction to the local representatives of the 3 letter agencies is to start sea trials of a long duration autonomous underwater vehicle.
And it wasn't done by throwing money at private contractors either, contractors were strictly overseen and some went oddly above and beyond e.g. on the building of Hanford

> Groves recruited DuPont in November 1942 to be the prime contractor for the construction of the plutonium production complex. DuPont was offered a standard cost plus fixed fee contract, but the President of the company, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., wanted no profit of any kind, and asked for the proposed contract to be amended to explicitly exclude the company from acquiring any patent rights.
I had this nightmare the other day:

Our new company was suddenly funded by a VC. Incessant tweeeting by one of their partners very quickly got us 5 new competitors and 0 new customers.

If I were starting a company today, I'd look to raise PE money who is more quiet about their investments than VC money who are not.
Do not do this!!!

If you end up in a dispute with your phone company, you are putting yourself at their mercy. It's waaay easier to fight a charge you haven't paid yet, then to recover money you've already paid.

I've gone through hell because of this.
From the viewpoint of semantics the problem is that things don't categorize out in a strict tree. The Borges encyclopedia list

http://avery.morrow.name/blog/2013/01/borges-chinese-encyclo...

is actually a list of decent categories (for the most part you can say if an animal is a member of a category or not) but they are not mutually exclusive, do not tile the space of all animals, etc.
Generally speaking yes. I can publish it right here. If you want to send money to my IBAN - feel free to do it. I won't mind.

And yes - I will have case against the person that gave information to gawker. But not against gawker themselves.
Why JSON?

QR can store binary data. Something like BSON would make a lot more sense, given the tiny amount of storage in a QR code. Even ASN.1 seems more appropriate than the silly data->ASCII->ASCII-structured-format->binary encoding that's going on here, and admittedly in a lot of other transport formats too.
> it can often be hard to find people who can troubleshoot performance issues. Even highly skilled people face a black box when they work on improving query performance as the CBO is largely a black box that can change from version to version. Without a clear explanation of how the CBO actually makes decisions it's often a bit of a crapshoot when tuning queries.

This has not been my experience.
I would push back on that thought a bit. Consider that in our existing history are door to door sales people who would use their own car to sell goods on a commission basis, the canonical example of that is the "Fuller Brush Salesperson".

Also, assuming these people file tax returns, if they are independent contractors then they are writing off their car mileage at 55 cents a mile against any income they make. Hard to know for sure without talking to actual drivers though.
Still better than nothing.
openscap works with containers too

https://martin.preisler.me/2015/11/atomic-scan-and-openscap-...
Transparency solves that problem. If below average workers moved from business to business getting paid less than their peers, how long do you think they would consider themselves better than average?
I am one of their customers. Often buggy (webmail) and issues with availability. Suffered a prolonged DDoS attack last year which left me a whole weekend without email. Upgrades seem to often cause outages. Some issues in Operational security. Also it is unclear if data at rest is encrypted. They use SSO with all their other apps (makes sense) but then support asks you to give them your password so they can verify any issues. (and they don't comprehend and treat you like an idiot if you say this isn't possible). Support issues generally take ages to solve and you have to mention the CEO in your tweets to get any response. Also even you have a premium subscription there is a limit on the number of mails you can send per day from your account. This might be an issue for companies with marketing or newsletter accounts and wish to build campaigns for this.

I'm seriously questioning their technical competence not just from support but also from development. When I subscribed to Zoho first thing I noticed (in 2011) that sending emails with multi-part alternative MIME types results in an empty plain-text part so anyone reading the mail in a plain-text MUA would see just an empty email (and it took them ages to get this basic feature fixed).

here some of my recent arguments with them:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40valbonneconsult%20zoho&src=t...

On the upside they are pretty easy to set up with IMAP and TLS in more exotic environments (e.g. offlineimap, postfix, mutt etc). If you go with them don't expect to scale your business because it's going to end in tears. OK for private use IMO.

I still use Zoho until now because of integration with some other apps (once I migrate those I will turn my back on them and never look back).
One nuance you might have failed to capture in your characterization of the article is that a lot of the cost is high when the subject is a beginner on the technique. The point is that as you gain mastery it becomes easier, thus encouraging people who are interested in the technique not to give up so fast.

In particular one side-effect of being a beginner is that one spends a lot of mental energy on the technique, leaving less room to focus on other important aspects. That gets better with time.
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I keep quoting this, but I really liked Derek Lowe's comment on the similar "moonshot funding" proposal for cancer research by Joe Biden and co.:

"Trying to cure cancer in this way would be like trying to go to the moon without really knowing how rocket engines actually work, without being quite sure if Newton’s laws of motion would hold up, and with some real uncertainty in the position of the moon."

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/01/15/moo...
The bank doesn't allow you to roll back the automatic transfer of money ?
Over here (NL) all banks allow you to retrieve your money without any hassle within about 2 months.
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Possibly forever, and I think it's very likely they develop a chip on their shoulder because the world is not properly valuing their skills.

Never underestimate the ability of people to come up with all kinds of reasons why they are being treated unfairly.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10733172 and marked it off-topic.
The Manhattan Project was run by the US Army Corp of Engineers, not by private for-profit companies.

The incentives in the latter case are all towards grafting maximum funds from the government.
Five years out is roughly the confluence between "close enough to be interesting" with "of course, it's not quite ready yet."
I use mailbox.org

It works very well and seem to fulfill your requirements if you can live with all 8 domains going into a single email account.

Proton do unfortunately not support imap or anything like it.
OpenBSD doesn't appear to have Infiniband support either. :(
If a company is financially mature enough to pay dividends then it's mature enough to go public.

And going public does enhance your value - ceteris paribus.

When we talk about "liquidity" we're talking about the ability to sell your assets, not the ability to derive a cash income (dividend) from it.

And a share in a public company is almost always going to be more liquid than a share in a private company.