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Ask HN: No Profitability and Raises why the guilt?
In short I work for a start up who underpays me. This company is ~5 years old and every time I bring this up, they throw a small amount of money at me to shut me up and remind me that the company is "not yet profitable".

Well, Amazon isn't profitable (maybe they are now..? last I heard they were not), but they still pay their employees market value. Why the guilt? Why not give an employee a raise (which I deserve) without reminding me that they're "doing me this favor"? No, I'm doing them the favor by continuing to work for them... I've seen their applicants, I've seen how no one wants to work here... I know exactly what's going on here...

Just curious what people's thoughts are on this. My personal feeling is that I won't get the pay that I'm looking for without finding a job that will pay it - and THEN my employers will try to keep me from leaving by giving me what I was looking for initially.

How does profitability weigh in on paying employees market value?

Edit: equity is extremely small. Tech lead position for bottom 35 percentile pay in the area.
I'm not sure, but isn't that review process basically a transaction of money? As in buying your way out of being blocked? That's probably the last thing I'd want.
The requirement is really just a dedicated parking spot, not a garage. The two often go together, but certainly not always.

I totally agree that if you park on the street, it's not going to work well for you right now. Eventually we'll get to the point where charging is plentiful even for street parking, but that's going to be a very long time.
My cable modem pulls 120Mbps down, pushes 10Mbps. 24/7. DOCSIS 3.1 promises up to 10Gbps down, 1Gbps up (again, because it biases the bandwidth to down). It's a signal on a medium.

And when we talk about fiber optics, 9 times out of 10 it isn't really fiber optics. The vast majority of BT "fiber optic" installs are a copper twisted pair, with exactly the issue I mentioned. But their junction box, just like cable internet applications, has fiber optics going to it, for what's that worth. For a real pure fiber optic connection, which is rare, the service usually is symmetric because that compromise didn't need to be made.
I've had a lot of fun playing around with Arch, and it's taught me a lot about Linux, but it seems to me like the "rolling release, mostly unmodified sources from many third parties" update model is a no-go for anyone other than a very seasoned Linux user or someone with a lot of time on their hands.

Things just break or otherwise don't work far too often.

So, kudos to the guy who put this distro together but without addressing this issue I don't think we're going to see an "easy to use" Arch-based distro any time soon.

I'm definitely speaking just as an onlooker and a novice here as I'm not involved in any open source development, but it feels like the whole Linux community would benefit from more rigorous API versioning and better documentation of interfaces between components. Even with distros that presumably do a lot of QA on their core packages like Fedora or Ubuntu, it feels like stuff breaks a LOT in Linux because of dependencies on the wrong versions of components. It must be a really tough problem.
I dislike code generators and want to use my own tooling for building, testing, etc.

In my eyes Ember has become an old-school Rails like Blob and newer frameworks are more about modules and "Bring Your Own Tools". I mean who, besides Ember, uses Broccoli?!
Does the publisher of this leak really think the other politicians are better off in keeping private citizens' information private? S/he must have not heard the Clinton's own email server leak issue. Yeah, yeah, it's a cliché, but it shows exactly how much they care about security.
Similar to how grass-fed beef has more omega-3, I suppose.
I see you can now even cite your Docker execution environment with a DOI: http://software.ac.uk/blog/2016-03-29-reproducible-research-...

:-)
You're both right. Elon Musk wants other companies to go electric, and it's great when they do. But at the same time, there's nothing wrong with people rewarding Elon Musk (and others) for taking the initiative in transforming the car industry.
I just tell them my dog's name was Beez6Ich8eeso5uil6Pha4omailai2fu
and store it in my Dropbox-stored KeePass database.
That sounds awful :\
I was thinking more along the lines of biological needs.
Indeed. I follow the Wekan Kanban board project which is Meteor-based, and it seems like it's every couple weeks someone asks "how do I install this with cPanel" (which generally means, shared hosting with PHP/MySQL). It's kinda sad to explain to them that their existing hosting probably isn't going to let them run Meteor.
These businesses feel that they are entitled to my time, my browsing history, my CPU time, my battery life, my limited mobile data, my habits, my privacy and the security of my identity and machines.

They feel that they are entitled to not adapt their business model to change and will push anyone off the jungle gym who won't play by their archaic rules.

It's their right, but the only entitlement I feel I deserve is the right to ignore their childish behavior as well.
Alright, well, most news is going to be negative, that's just how news works. You're not going to see the headline "Things at the NHS are going pretty well", because that's not news. Just like you won't see "Medicare has been pretty solid this month" or something. You will see that kind of analysis in editorials and magazines though.

So I can understand if you don't see much positive commentary about other countries, that's just the nature of the news. But if you're not seeing anything negative about America, then I can't believe you're actually reading any news.

I think the expected mindset for the reader is that things in other developed countries are usually going pretty well, and no news is good news. The media will report on ongoing stories, like Brazil's corruption scandal, the European migrant crisis, Israel/Palestine, etc., and on new newsworthy events, which unfortunately are usually negative. Something like "France passes great budget" is just not interesting enough for a general audience newspaper.
If Putin's childhood friend implicates him surely David Cameron's father implicates David Cameron ?

He has inherited the Blairmore profits amongst the very considerable estate.

Questions ought to be asked in parliament.

http://boingboing.net/2016/04/04/panama-papers-reveal-the-ta...
I use 1Password for this as well, but I recently had a security questions form (can't remember where) that tried to reject random strings because they didn't look like words.

Luckily, 1Password has a 'correct horse battery staple'-generator these days as well.
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> It's like the $10,000 dollar hammer, but this is far worse.

> With the hammer, government apologists claimed it was to "secretly move money for DoD"... which really means it was the DoD and military just giving themselves a shit ton of money.

No, it was a $15 dollar hammer with $420 of project R&D costs averaged out and added to it:
http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the-...

The $435 price was then inflated to $600 by the media and finally $10,000 by you.
It went from being actual wide-shots of cars chasing each other, to short clips of stunmen driving, spliced with reaction-acting of actors too valuable to be in moving cars.

It's like that for most action sequences, I recently saw a Jackie Chan documentary that has him explain the differences of his action shots, and the things to be mindful of to make them be more believable as to be of one long full sequence.
Can Machine Learning Help Lift China’s Smog?
"attached to existing street light poles"

Now that's a sensible idea.

I have seen a couple of Teslas in Edinburgh - but they look like people commuting into the city. Not seen an electric car parked anywhere that looked like the owner lived there.

Our car usage doesn't really fit with current electric cars usage - but I'd love to try if we had a suitable home and a need to commute by car (both my wife and I walk to work at the moment).

Edit: Another option would be to buy a garage - but at £60K to £80K that would rather defeat the purpose of buying an electric car to save money!
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...but this is a country.

In the immediate, the only thing that can happen, if at all, is for some people to lose their jobs.

I think he is hoping that if the leak is well covered enough by the media, it will be adding oil to the fire of public discontent. Perhaps in a way that would dislodge the current government.

Way I see it though, that's quite a long shot :)
I was replying directly to embik (edit: which is, err, you, which I did not notice at first). I acknowledge and apologize that my parenthetical could look like I was talking about apricity, but I was not. I'm not taking the defense for apricity. Indeed I have a track record of recommending against young people doing things that will make people who trust them very, very angry when they can't follow through properly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2974770 I just didn't see a point in joining the pile-on, which seems to have covered the bases fairly well.
Realistically how many people outside (or even inside) HN are going to do that? No matter how you spin it, security questions are a very bad "security pattern" in my opinion and we should get rid of them.
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Yet again, you're parroting the "I can fill my ICE vehicle in < 5 minutes" as the only viable argument against EVs. 98% of EV commutes end at the home charging station, so this argument is getting pretty old and tired.

What was the range of the first ICE vehicle I bought on a tank of gas? 300 miles. What's the range of the Tesla model S? Also 300 miles.

For most consumers, they will actually spend less time waiting for fuel, since the Tesla charges in your garage at night while you're otherwise occupied, and an ICE vehicle requires you to wait in freezing outside temperatures while fueling it about once per week.
How do the citizens of Turkey deserve this?
How to companies verify mother's maiden name? I've never used my mothers real maiden name when filling out any kind of account application form and no one has ever batted an eye.
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Recently United Airlines changed their online security policy and added security questions. The answers to which must be chosen from dropdowns.
Liability. If there were actuaries able to accurately assess the risk of your engineering practice you'd have a much different approach to software development in many niches than, "see what sticks and iterate."

My colleague is working towards becoming a licensed engineer in software. I'm learning a lot about formal methods from him in order to build more reliable software, faster.

If we really were software engineers then there would be a state of the art and if you employed any practices short of that you'd be liable for damages your software causes. And you'd probably go out of business pretty fast.
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Reminds me of the arguments about not letting in any refugees as some of them may commit a crime.
He is a true believer of trickle down economics!
Can we have Fuse on Windows with the new Linux emulation subsystem announced recently ?
Exactly.

I support makers and creators and artists. I back kickstarters. I have patreon subscriptions. I buy music and books and swag from artists I like a lot, especially those that I think need the most support. And sometimes I volunteer my time and skills. All in all I've spent or donated tens of thousands of dollars either in cash or time throughout the years to the arts.

Meanwhile, I spent 20 years browsing the web without an ad blocker. Since I've started using one last year, it's led to a much better experience.

Yet still, there are people who think that I should be burdened with some moral obligation to suffer advertising, for things that I will never buy, being shoved in my face in order to consume content. As though the business models of every single content creator on the planet were my personal problem. No, I do my part, and more. I've paid my advertising dues as well, and I'm done. If you don't like that you can go fuck yourself. You should be spending your time urging content creators to fix their broken business models, or helping them to do so, not moralizing about fucking advertising.
It is largely a cultural difference; in Norway they also publish everyone's details along with their tax return data.

In one country giving someone a pair of shoes is seen as a nice present, in another it is considered a grave insult.

What you grow up with as a kid can have a big influence on what you consider acceptable.

In my personal view as long as the rules apply the same to all then that's the largest problem solved.

EDIT: fixed typo
Ditto but with GUIXSD.
How fitting. A sidebar filled with animated gifs on a page lamenting the ad-industry's failed self-regulation.

And it's not even a third-party ad...
Pretty standard practice to delay IPOs during a chilly market. We delayed IPO from summer 2011 to winter 2011 at my previous employer for this reason (remember the debt ceiling crisis nonsense?)
Well this is cool.

But notice on the https://panamapapers.icij.org/ page there is a "leak to us" button, so we can share information with the journalist consortium, but no "show me the leaked data" button so they can share with us.

Where do we get the actual leaked data, so we can investigate companies ourselves, instead of relying on mass-media "analysis"?

And what about the other law firms (this is only the fourth largest, apparently)? Is it just a coincidence that Putin is implicated in this, the only leak?
Ad networks pay ABP to be whitelisted. That is their review process.
I've found ezjails[0] to be pretty nice for managing jails: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-ezjail.html

It also has nice ZFS support. Here's a short, well written, howto showing an ezjails+PF+ZFS install/config process: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/30063/

0 - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=ezjail-3&stype=n...
Emailed them for the past 3 months, through these Hacker News hiring posts, but never once hear anything back at all.
It depends on a lot of unique factors, from the mundane:

Is the CTO/Co-founder title part of the compensation?

To the social:

How many other founders are there?

To the financial:

How much money has been raised at what valuation under what terms?

Good luck.
Intuitively makes sense until you realize that there are similarly a lot of line of business apps that are used and implemented again and again across federal agencies.

For example, every classified document has a classification level (Secret, Top Secret, with more details on it). And the functionality to roll up the classification is re-implemented by every contractor every single system. So even within ONE agency, every system's implementation is done from scratch.

It's the perfect kind of thing that could've been an open source library (still in a classified network though), but still extremely valuable. It's something I built and recommended to my superiors ten years ago when I worked for a government contractor, but we didn't get much traction for various reasons. (Cynically, most contractors want the free money to reimplement it, so they aren't going to stop that gravy train.)

So there is a LOT of room even within each single agency, to share code that is common to their business practices.

You'll be hard pressed to find an area in any large organization (public or private) that couldn't benefit from the efficiencies of reuse.
It will list the "personnummer", but usually not the last 4 digits. This became a big deal a number of years ago, when they did list the complete numbers, and this was changed so that if the complete number is requested, the party you request information about needs to be informed. However, the complete numbers are still public. Just with that caveat nowadays. (unsure if some still sidestep the "new" legislation, there were some more or less shady companies for a while that still informed you of their full numbers)
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At least in the part of the demo I watched, I didn't hear his screen reader. But I know that it's difficult to make a screen reader's speech output audible over a VoIP program like Skype, without causing a nasty feedback loop. The last time I attempted it, several years ago, I had to use a USB audio device in addition to my computer's built-in audio output, with an analog audio cable between the two.

By the way, what version of Windows do you use, Parham? I ask because it looks like you're using the Windows Classic theme, which isn't available in versions after Windows 7 as far as I know. I know that using this theme used to improve compatibility with screen readers like JAWS and Window-Eyes, but as far as I know, it doesn't matter with NVDA, though I suppose using the simpler theme would still reduce CPU and memory usage.
>> If media is popular, everyone is entitled to it?

This is not a simple question. Access to media is access to culture. And we can't expect people without access to a common culture to participate in our society as equals. That's why we have libraries, museums, arts in public areas; we know that we need to share at least part of our common heritage, or it will stop being our common heritage.

Remember, intelectual property is meant to make creating art profitable enough that we don't stop doing it. It is supposed to protect the consumers, not the creators. Ideas that are not consumed are not a societal good, and we don't make laws to protect them. Of course there should be balance between protections for creators and consumers. If someone thinks the current legislation favours content creators more than it should on this alance, then for that person piracy is probably not morally wrong.
Clinton's email server didn't leak anything, so far as we know. The emails you've read have been released by the State Department as public government records.
Not profitable in this contex probably means they do not have the cash flow nor the means to pay a higher wage. The options are 1) increase revenue, which may not be easy or possible in a given market or 2) pay fewer people more.

Now if you believe in the company and what to stick with it is entirely up to you.

Edit to add. Amazon is not profitable but has massive, massive cash flow. That is unlikely the case with your employer.
Are you saying the opposite? I'm sure a convincing argument could be made for both sides of this question.

After all, is morality not a popular convention?
Do you ever listen to the radio or live tv? And if so do you feel an obligation to not switch channels when there are ads playing?

Such utter nonsense.
Build to think.
Tesla Intrigue Deepens with Musk's Twitter Barrage
Referred to as superluminal communication: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_communication
Yeah- that was actually how he was known in the press when he first became (in)famous as a rich guy with a lot of busted projects but who nevertheless talked with a lot of bravado.
What does this quote mean? And what does it have to do with someone's package manager configuration?
Basically just a browser without a GUI. You can run a normal browser like Chrome or Firefox with a dummy display server or a real headless browser like PhantomJS or SlimerJS.
Safari at least added a disable all sound on a tab button. They should probably add or include video as an option too.
Scaling of B2B Companies
How is repairing any new car an economic tragedy? I bought a Hyundai in 2008. Since then, I've only had to pay annual maintenance costs averaging $200, and the powertrain has a 10 year 100,000 mile warranty (I'm only at 75,000 miles so far after 7.5 years).

The only significant repairs I can imagine on this vehicle are replacing the tires or brakes. As long as the oil changes and maintenance are done regularly, I highly doubt the engine will have any problems until 200,000 miles or so, at which point the vehicle will be almost 20 years old and have cost about $1,000 a year to drive.

New vehicles are incredibly reliable (compared to vehicles produced in the 20th century) and are likely to last a long time, although the electronics will surely be dated when they are 20 years old.

The tesla vehicles have an 8 year warranty on the battery pack, which is the only item besides tires, brakes, and windshield wiper blades that is likely to wear out.
Why would I use this over arch? I mean, If you like pretty pictures, but most Arch users don't: If they did, they'd be using Ubuntu, or Fedora. Arch is all about form over function, It's the beauty of a well crafted piece of engineering, or a wooden table you built yourself, not the beauty of a very elegant interface that somebody else made. So, for now, I'm sticking to i3+urxvt.
> But it is only illegal if you make a copy. So don't do that.

So in other words you argue against free speech (creating a copy) and pro censorship. Writing texts that obey the censorship laws (or in western countries copyright laws) is illegal about nowhere.
WhatsApp IS the internet in Zimbabwe, accounts for 34% of mobile web traffic
I feel awful for using an ad blocker sometimes, but I sometimes have no choice.

On my Windows 10 tablet, a feeble device with 1GB of RAM, the web is unusable without one.
It will be released in future. They keep it that way probably to slowly leak data to increase the impact it will cause.
Yep, I have no trouble believing it will do very well and I'm very happy about that. In the past several decades, the auto industry has only experienced minor evolution in fuel sources with most of the focus on luxury and driving dynamics. It's time to shift into a new environment, and hopefully maintain competition from new players as well as legacy automakers that can turn their ship on course in a timely manner.
Alaska Air to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B
Last I saw the battery expectation is around 15 years. In 15 years, at the rate of development of EV's and research/development being put into batteries, it would be reasonable to expect that batteries would be significantly cheaper with much better technology.
That Law Review article makes an interesting point:

"In other ways, however, underground dining seems quite similar to old-fashioned, antiregulatory libertarianism, with chefs playing the role of factory owners who would prefer to produce goods without having to worry about expensive and burdensome health and safety regulations.