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I'm in the US. I'm not talking about negotiating raises at the same company. The key is when you go looking for that new job, negotiate with the new company. After finding another offer I've had my current company offer $15k extra to keep me and when I didn't want to stay with one company, I've negotiated two new offers to get an extra $10k over my top pick's "absolute max for the position." Negotiating happens when you start a new job and fresh out of college is the perfect time to do it because it's often much easier to get multiple offers at the exact same time and play them off each other.
Ask HN: Shutting Down a Website in a Contract Dispute
Hi,

Obviously IANAL and YANAL... but I would like to hear what people might think. The facts are:

a. I was hired as a contractor to build a website for a non-profit sort of thing, fixed fee, and no discussion of copyright issues. So I have always viewed I owned the copyright and never was going to transfer it anyway - my idea was to open source it eventually.

b. I eventually joined the organization as a volunteer Director of IT, but the Managing Director and I have an email trail where we discuss compensation for continued development of large projects. So I was still acting as a contractor for parts of my work. Again, no licensing or copyright questions.

c. Another board director, who had been subjecting everyone to workplace bullying, triggered one of volunteers to resign. He also abused the MD so much he resigned. The idea that if everyone resigned, this person might see some sense.

That wasn't the case. The problem director ended up writing a glowing email thanking all of us and BTW, mentioning that now the website etc was bring ing enough revenue, he could now be paid a salary. We were trying to transition the org to a official non-profit. So his game plan was clear.

d. I shut down the website and have claimed ownership of my code. He has been threatening to sue for months, saying I was only a volunteer and yadda yadda...

e. Yes, shutting down the website is drastic, but I was never going to get the outstanding invoices paid and my view is
he is trying to steal my code. The contract I was under was "revoked" in some sense - it fell apart so to speak.

f. The code could be reused by him on his other websites and / or possibly commercialised.

Lots of other details, but ... has anyone ever had to deal with such a situation? thanks
I see it more like the Chesterson's Fence argument. Flash exists, and continues to plague us, because it met a need for developers that wasn't met in other ways. If that need still exists, rather than remove Flash (can the capability with it) and replace it with the same capability but with a much reduced attack surface.

I think that would be an excellent project for someone, if you should both show all of Flash's capabilities implemented in Rust and that the result was safer it would be an excellent endorsement of Rust. It could also illuminate end user features which can never be made safe. Also good for the overall body of web knowledge.
I would assume Obama was at most a co-co-author of this.
What's funny is I feel in some ways the exact opposite is true.

When Google creates a program to learn Go, it learns go so well that it knows it (arguably) knows it far better than any human (even if it isn't flawless).

But what did we learn about go? Well, we learned a bit about the opening I guess, since Lee Sedol has become fond of the "AlphaGo opening," but other than that... not much, right?

That's the funny thing about neural networks. They can converge to a set of weights that, when activated, perform better than any human. But we can't look at Weight 483 and Weight 958 and say "Ah, that's where it decided the corner is very valuable!" or something.

It learns, we don't. We can only learn from what it can then show us it has learned.
Personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News, even clever ones.
> And from a business point of view, it can be really hard to make that case.

Not really. DRM usage has nothing to do with (honest) business cases. They are all crooked or Lysenkoist in nature (i.e. based on completely wrong / ignorant reasoning).

Also, I think you are mixing up DRM with security. DRM is the opposite of it. DRM can employ encryption, but its purpose is not to secure your system, but to police you, and because of that it actually compromises your security.

> apps and games increasingly rely on server backends to work properly.

Many multiplayer games surely do. That's why it's good then the server is open source. This way it indeed can be preserved. Otherwise, it will be lost as soon as the servers will go bust. Another option is to provide the server component with the game, to allow running it as server instance. Lot's of older games did that, allowing running LAN / WAN multiplayer without using dedicated servers. It's less common these days. Either developers cut corners with implementing it, or server components got too heavy, not sure.

Making single-player games rely on some remote services as a hard requirement is a very poor taste. Same if they have multiplayer component. It should be optional and single-player part should function without it.
> It means ignoring official advice from all platform providers as disinformation.

This is a painful and revealing comment, and your post certainly isn't the only place I've seen it. The standard wisdom is that advice from platforms is either meaningless, or a guide to exactly how far you can go down their "not recommended" paths without catching a ban.

I'm not sure that there's any decent answer to this; all the evidence suggests that for some markets dishonesty and misleading promotion are the best possible tactics. What good are corporate ethics if the first person to act unethically will outperform all honest competitors?
You and your team's resolve and success in tacking these bugs is awesome.

It's interesting to read about some of the relatively "unusual" choices VoltDB has made as well. Like this one:

> network partitions cause minority nodes to shut down permanently; operator intervention is required to restore full service

...combined with requiring majorities of current rather than original clusters to continue. This is, for human operational interactions, really interesting. There's a big history of self-healing systems getting a little carried away and masking or sometimes even triggering bigger issues. Making signoff to rejoin nodes a required operation seems like it makes a whole category of "flapping" problems a non-issue. Kudos for making these "unusual" choices; this is a great horizon to explore :)
Aka "there is no place for free speech", sorry, any judge worth their salt will throw this out.
not unjustifiably either...

Agile has been so oversold, theres a big backlash against it coming....
The problem, historically, with Rust is that each release was built with the latest nightly, so you had to bootstrap each new version. Now they've changed to using the previous compiler release to bootstrap, so you can bring a binary in for the first build of a package then immediately rebuild with your bootstrapped binary and continue on from there for eternity.
How did you handle the Python to rust knowledge transition? Do you know any helpful guides?
What if I would like to guarantee this property for my own code? As well as testing each nightly as they come out, in case something accidentally breaks, so it can be fixed before a release? This tooling assists greatly with that.

(And dbaupp is correct that it's not always about testing; not all of the OS dev features are in stable yet, so nightly is the only option for that kind of project.)
I think that some nice graphics would be nice.

Are you interested in PR for other languages?
Oh, i wasnt aware you could disable ads.
uh, i'm not even sure what the question was, but distracting yourself with your phone is not the answer.

sounds like you're probably one of the people i'm talking about.
> I typically suggest to them that they start at 10hrs/wk while at their current job to see if they like the work.

ha. Good one.

oh wait you're serious. Noooooooooooooooooooooooo
HITMAN+PRO+3.7.14+BUILD+265+PRODUCT+KEYS+WORKING
Roth 401k and Roth IRA are taxed now (it is post-tax income you contribute). Traditional 401k is taxed when withdrawn. I believe you have it backwards.
The worst piece of legislation ever to be passed in the United States of America. I am a physician. My personal health insurance rate for a family of 5 increased immediately by 66% (since I have an individual policy). I have resorted to using the Medishare healthcare cost sharing plan as traditional insurance became unaffordable.

I have seen many patients lose their doctors because the doctors were not contracted with Covered California. The reason the doctors do not contract with Covered California is because at face value the plan appears to be just like the usual say PPO plan. But in fact it pays about 33% less than medicare (in other words, no different than Medi-Cal.

These are only some of the financial problems created by Obamacare. The problem with the government effectively taking over Health IT by way of forcing Electronic Health Records to abide by bureaucrats definitions for "meaningful use" is a completely different disaster that has resulted in marked decreases in productivity and worse care for patients.

Giant Hospital systems are taking over individual and group practices and turning them into corporate mills with little to no autonomy for physicians and terrible care for patients. All the while greedily taking in government and private dollars.

This is crony capitalism at its very worst.
Is this one of the first media startups funded by YC?
> ...the amount of possible complexity is rather limited

Relative to what a person can handle while driving, there's far more potential complexity, and as with nearly all things electronic, spec sheets/feature lists often trump common sense limitations.
I was unable to get any of the existing 3 llvm 6502 backends to produce reasonable code. Which is why I went this route. I meant to mention that in the video...
State-Space of Drug Effects
Interview with short seller Jim Chanos [pdf]
Per my comment: "The way a company like Gusto could maybe do this is to store an employee's IRA account information like they do their bank information for direct deposit."
I am very concerned that a Europe without the possibility of acting as one entity in the coming globalized world of big players like China and India will have much to say. How will we be able to deal with developments in the Middle East and Africa while the UK cowers away on its island and every one else does whatever they please? All this, while the US places its focus towards the pacific. Is mighty Britain going to stare down the Russians by itself? And I'm not talking about just the military.

The EU sceptics may be smug now but the EU is not some selfserving idea. It's now more relevant than ever.
Stressful life events and psychoticism: evidence for gene-environment correlation
Which ones are you concerned about? I personally haven't paid attention to the exact diff here.

In the past, we've explicitly added platform support for this reason, Windows XP comes to mind.
There's a section about this in the author's medium article
https://medium.com/@samvlu/100-days-of-swift-the-tutorials-d...
Languages evolve, and mostly it irritates me. I hate that the English Dictionaries used to be an authoritative source, and are now just a reflection of common usage

We should start a club :-)
Well, rationality doesn't exist in a vacuum. Those societal pressures are taken into account in a rational choice.

> Are psychopaths not a good indicator of what might happen if your self limiting emotions/thoughts were turned off?

Possibly? If your goal is the ultimate advancement of the self, then sociopathic tendencies might yield the best results. We've evolved to have strong emotions regarding our offspring and those of our tribe, because that's proven a beneficial strategy for the species, but that is, in some respect, to the detriment of the individual. Most of us are fine with this decision, because of our feelings regarding our and our future offspring, but if you have no care for family, friends or the species as a whole, then gaming the system for your own advancement is probably the rational choice.

There are interesting implications to your sentence though. The blogger explained the loss of (generally perceived as) negative emotions, but what if they were not put in a situation to notice, or were unable to because of the condition itself, a loss in what we generally perceive as positive emotions, such as empathy and sympathy? This of course assumes that there was some emotional state change, and it wasn't a placebo effect.
It's just profanity. I wouldn't bother.
Hey there! Long term Obama supporter (no longer) and healthcare consumer in the US. I agree with you mostly.

Monthly premiums for my wife and I are ~$700/month (both healthy, early 30s, Blue Cross Blue Shield). When our daughter arrives shortly, that will increase to $1000/month. That's a high deductible plan where we're out of pocket for everything for the first $6000/year.

I work remotely, so we're looking at moving to Central America (Panama or Belize, wherever its cheaper to dock a 40' catamaran); if you live outside the US more than 330 days/year, you're not obligated to carry insurance. I can obtain expat insurance, that covers my entire family in every country in the world except the US, for $3000/year. $9000/year after-tax savings is nothing to sneeze at.

The ACA was a sham; it measures the insured rate, not the ability of citizens to receive the care they need. On that metric, its failing terribly. But health insurance companies are doing well at least.

EDIT: I have no problem with universal healthcare. I believe greatly in it. I despise that the federal government didn't eliminate health insurance companies entirely and move to single payer through Medicare.
I don't exactly agree with BuzzFeed's business practices because it uses a lot of clickbait tactics. For that reason this comparison carries a sort of negative connotation, although I understand it.
Iron.io's Kris Bondi: Jump Starting Your Demand Generation
Even worse considering that this private company relies on taxpayer funding.

http://reason.com/archives/2016/04/28/elon-musk-crony-capita...
""It's a winding road going through a canyon, with no shoulder," Shope told CNNMoney. The driver told Shope the car was in Autopilot mode, traveling between 55 and 60 mph when it veered to the right and hit a series of wooden stakes on the side of the road. Tesla confirmed that the data it has from the car shows it was in Autopilot mode, and that the driver likely did not have his hands on the wheel."

At 55mph+ and no margin, does it make the slightest difference if he had had his hands on the wheel?
Well that's a good point. It's the difference between the ideal of the UN, vs. the reality of the UN. It's supposed to a fair global venue, but because it lacks any self-sufficient authority, it's dominated by the most powerful nations. That said, China is one of those most powerful nations, so I'd argue that this ruling still has significance.

Maybe someday there will be an actual global government, but right now I don't think that anyone believes we (i.e. human beings) know how to create a well-functioning government that large.

The EU suffers from many of the same problems of the UN, like crazy bureaucracy and dominance by the largest/richest member nations. The U.S. federal government was carefully designed to balance small states and big states, and seems to do a good job of that--but maybe not a lot of other things. And big U.S. states still dominate other areas of national governance, like environmental regs by California, or school textbook standards by Texas.
Your evidence for this is... ?
There is plenty of good Mediterranean food around the Mediterranean (funnily enough). Meat and dairy aren't unhealthy unless you are overdoing them.
Hi Roger, Please elaborate on the more comprehensive comment. We have all you mentioned and more without those excessive AUM fees. We don't outsource core functionality. Captain401k is not a recordkeeper. Your pricing structure also does not account for small businesses and completely disregards the detrimental costs to the plan participants. I'm not trying to pick a fight here, I understand how hard this problem is and the more people focused on it the better. I just wanted to clear up the inaccuracies.
Both Fidelity and Vanguard brokerages offer a wide selection of ETFs with no trading fees.

What do you mean by rate increases?

Vanguard brokerage is funded by its ETF expense ratios; Fidelity by kickbacks from ETF ER as well as subsidized by other products they sell.

But I'm also confused why you suggest doing 400-2000 buys per month. That seems very high to me for a long-term retirement portfolio.
I'm pretty happy to have moved back to the US from Italy for a number of reasons, but the health care system isn't one of them. It's way, way too expensive for what it delivers: just look at costs as a percentage of GDP. It was pretty bad before, and hasn't improved a lot with this reform.
On the suggestion of someone here I tried Phenibut for sleep earlier this year. What I've found with it is that it works best taking it 4-5 days a week with 2-3 days off, otherwise my tolerance builds up. The first day I take it after a break is noticibly stronger and I could probably use a lower dose then (but I ended up just using 900mg all the time). I now do the same with Baclofen 20mg, which I prefer (but Phenibut is more effective for anxiety I hear since it is a weak baclofen plus a weak gabapentin). Anyway, if you want to try lower doeses and haven't tried this already and can go without for a couple of days a week that might work (you might need a longer break at first to clear it out).

Phenibut (and almost certainly Baclofen too) have some interactions with other medications; I had issues with diphenhydramine (numbness in mouth for 10 seconds or so after waking up; I didn't intend to take both, it didn't even seem like a good idea) and L-Theanine (mild asthma reaction, which I otherwise rarely get these days other than in the vicinity of certain cats). While not severe for me, they are the kind of things that could be severe and I think it is worth being careful with them. Withdrawal effects should be less severe with once a day usage due to the short half life (about 6 hours IIRC), but take it long enough without breaks, particularly at high dosage, and it can build up enough to cause withdrawal effects (but tapering when stopping will prevent those).

While I don't remember the details, I tried a benzo for sleep briefly after high school and found it effective only for a day or two. Between that and the potential side effects, I haven't tried them again since. I have a non-24 hour circadian rhythm and have had success with a combination of uridine monophosphate (150mg sublingual daily with maybe monthly breaks of a couple of days), Baclofen (20mg four or five days a week, at least two in a row off), and a quarter of a 5mg melatonin patch most days (I manage to forget it often enough to not need intentional breaks; at least monthly breaks of a couple of days would be a good idea). With this I've been able to avoid my sleep schedule shifting every day as it does without medication. My alertness and other issues during the day still vary quite a bit and are rarely all that good, but hopefully this will get better eventually.

Uridine monophosphate (or triacetyluridine, which is better absorbed from the digestive system but isn't usable sublingually) is also a higher risk in that it hasn't been as comprehensively studied as other things and it could have negative long term effects. I seem to need to take a high B vitamin supplement when I take it or get B vitamin deficiency symptoms (bright red around lips); even a 100% DV supplement doesn't prevent that. The combination of uridine, DHA, and choline is supposed to help with neural growth. I don't know if it would help with anxiety, but anything that helps with sleep seems like a possibility at least :/. It could potentially interact (negatively or otherwise) with things like autoimmune conditions.
Very nice. I wrote a very similar authoring / presentation tool based on MD. It's being used as the presentation app for Axway's instructor-led training and Open Badge authoring. : https://twitter.com/tzmartin/status/687011251172458496

Slide authoring supports nearly all of Deckset syntax (plus a few more tokens), slide configuration and custom themes.
I wouldn't say there is much pessimism in AI today. There should be a lot more pessimism to prevent a funding vacuum. I'd like for the early 90s to be the last AI winter, but I doubt it will be.
I dont see why non profits should be free. Isnt even FIFA a non profit on paper? If it fits your company i would just mention somewhere that you offer discounts for non profits and decide from case to case.
> From the wording below, it appears that it didn't even begin to get to court, so maybe 'settlement' is the wrong word too. It sounds like all they really did was issue a complaint, which WB agreed to listen to.

A "complaint" in this sense is a formal charge ("complaint" is used in the same sense in court cases, a charging document is a "complaint"). An administrative complaint, if not settled, is heard before one of the FTC's administrative law judges, from which appeal can be taken to the commission, from which appeal can be taken to the federal courts.
Relevant quote:

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

- Epicurus
Another project is OdpDown. It converts Markdown to Opendocument Format presentations in contrast to the PDF that is created by Marp.

I like the approach of creating a single static file (i.e. no JavaScript).

An advantage of creating ODP files is that the whole reusable presentation is one file. PDF is not as friendly for reuse.
The presentation author that uses Marp could publish a git repo or a zip file with the source files.

A big advantage of HTML and PDF is that they render directly in the browser. ODF support in browser is a still a dream for the future.

The author of odpdown is a contributor to LibreOffice.

https://github.com/thorstenb/odpdown
It has not happened to me but I have seen it happen to many others. It will happen to you sooner or later if you are the "front man" for any kind of contract web development work.
It's good to see a media startup getting some attention. Not every tech company has to be some cutting-edge, shiny research project to be successful. (In fact, most of them aren't.) There's nothing wrong building a business by taking existing, time-tested technology and bringing it to a new, growing market.
WoofJS – making JavaScript learnable
> We have chosen to keep this list short to provide an opportunity for a discrete [sic] resolution

So much for that...
It's not as easy as that. Take the meat/poultry/milk products industry. In the EU, legislators have done a net-good for humanity by aggressively issuing legislation restricting antibiotics and growth-hormones. This is widely accepted as good for humanity as evidenced in this seminal article[1]. The sword cuts both ways.

[1] http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/28.full
Yeah the millions of Americans who gained health insurance are going to be real mad that a doctor had to pay a little more money for his health insurance.