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Pretty much this. I always keep about 7 days of vacation banked as a insurance policy. One of my friends was laid off with about half his company, and everyone got "paid through the end of the week." He had a 5 day vacation planned the next week, and they weren't going to pay him for the vacation he had notified them of months in advance. I have an emergency fund, but I'd prefer to save that money and get an actual paycheck if anything happens.

On top of that, banked vacation is a way to have some funemployment if you get an extra week between leaving on job and starting another. It's basically like taking a vacation anyways.
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Chinese people generally hear of Shakespeare in school but few will have read him.
That's the official (US) narrative, and it's the real absurdity here.

You should find out how those "peaceful protests" started, and the activities of the US ambassador to Syria just before the protests broke out. It's from the same playbook that was used successfully in Libya and Ukraine, and almost succeeded a few years ago in Cuba.

It's an interesting exercise if you have the time. Venezuela is in the same neighborhood too.
>You can tell a startup is focusing on the wrong thing when: They're using the 'newest', most obscure, programming language or frameworks available because it's the 'best' for some unscientific reason.

I don't think he was talking about technical details, he was merely trying to emphasis on the importance of ignoring trivial things that might not mean (at an early stage esp.,) as much as one might think... And I'd agree..

At an early stage one should have google like garage office and just stay focused... focused.

twitter isn't facing problems due to less revenue.. but due to abundance of the expenses.... just gave a very broad example to make the point.
Balance sheets and cash flow statements are, if not the antidote to fear, at least a control measure. I think that cost accounting is the Achilles' heel of most startups, particularly those dealing with client work. The key is to always think about employee loaded costs and client pursuit costs. Every time you add a cost -- office space, furniture, laptops, administrative and sales staff, kegs of craft beer, Slack accounts -- you need to make sure that you're allocating those to the loaded costs of your billing employees (in the same way that the military tracks its "tooth to tail" ratio), in addition to salary, holidays/sick days, and benefit costs. Otherwise it's easy to "lose" expenditures and not realize that your margins are slipping. Likewise with pursuit costs; even if you treat sales salaries as "tail," direct costs and commission can eat away at project value pretty quickly.
Huh, the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the name was this thing: https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html . Apparently forest animals are popular in the SSL implementation writing crowd.
> In Auckland, New Zealand, investors are buying property and houses en masse.

That isn't exactly a bad problem to have--if free construction is allowed and property taxes (or better yet, land value taxes) aren't constrained, it would be fairly straightforward to fund a significant portion of the governments' budgets, plus a basic income or rent subsidy, by a taxing foreign investors.
Electric cars with stickers would not be eligible for the new dedicated bus route under my system. :)
Ask HN: Will conversational interfaces ever become popular?
With everybody talking about conversational interfaces but no concrete success stories I am wondering if it ever will become a success.
Yeah, I cringe at a lot of it too.

I think this is a result of all of the tooling and automated building that's "necessary" to cludge everything together.

ES6 features and TypeScript are great, for many reasons, but they don't work immediately in the browser. You need precompiling and something like CommonJS or SystemJS to handle importing libraries not defined in HTML. SASS/SCSS really improves stylesheets, tremendously improves them, but you need to...precompile. Finally, JS heavy apps turn into a hodgepodge of JS, CSS, and HTML that just doesn't really...sit well, so most people will use tooling to establish some sense of ordering.

That last step is both a boon and a curse. Automating the process makes development very easy and saves a lot of time. That tooling is also inherently complicated to an outsider and is a large, ugly barrier to entry.
But it isn't. There's no aspect of it that would be extra trouble. It's just mechanical transforms. That's like saying true refactoring is "trouble".
1200 is still reasonable I'd say if it's downtown.
> It's not pure luck. It's not pure talent/drive/etc. It's the mixture of the two.

I agree with that. I interpreted your comment above as over-emphasizing luck; perhaps a misinterpretation.
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Not everyone has those horrible commutes. It only takes a few successful exits in the millions to afford a house in Palo Alto, or just one in the billions!
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I take my 2 year old daughter to preschool every day on mass transit in SF. And everyday I see a handful of parents in my bus doing the same. Some even have two kids.

Why do you say mass transit is a non starter for kids?

She loves it and I love the time with her and not worrying about parking, accidents, etc.
Almost all of the examples on that page use curl https:// | sh. Which, again, makes it a superior option to wget && gpg --verify && ./configure; I have yet to see anyone who is better at PGP fingerprint verification than their OS's SSL stack is at TLS certificate verification. (There are a very small number of people who are as good, but not better.)
MOM and MAVEN were just about simultaneous (arriving at Mars two days apart), but they weren't comparable. MOM's primary mission objectives were things like "navigation." MAVEN would be NASA's 3rd orbiter at the time, to say nothing of the 4 or so previous orbiters, and so they weren't trying to just repeat earlier things.

Now, if you compare launch costs, you get a better feel for the differences. Those were about $43 million (MOM) to $187 million (MAVEN). But MAVEN was almost twice the mass.

SpaceX will give you a Falcon 9 Full Thrust launch, fixed price, for $62 million, which can launch something twice as big as MAVEN to Mars.

So SpaceX and India are price competitive on a kilogram-to-GTO basis.
Ask HN: What are some good JavaScript plugins for creating quizzes?
When I google this, I get a bunch of quizzes about JavaScript or HTML concepts, or some libraries that look like crap. I want to create some simple, interactive quizzes in the browser - anyone have some suggestions on what to use?
Sweet, Alf seems to be exactly what I wanted!

Shame it no longer seems to be under active development, but it seems to be pretty mature?
Take a look at https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards/blob/staging/LIC... and count the number of existing open-source projects which they're re-using. This looks to me like an experienced team who did their homework to assess how much flexibility and control they needed and reused as much open-source as possible while still meeting their other requirements.
I'd personally like to see the effort put into telesurgery.
I think it's better to look at the time of commute, as that's what usually determines how one feels about a commute. In any case, Brighton is just under 50 miles straight line from London, and that's on the edge of what most people consider acceptable. Going North, it's about 50 miles and 45 minutes to Milton Keynes. Not many people commute from farther than that.
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The DOM is _abstracted_ by React not a subset of React. If you can't see the difference between subset and abstract you are either new on the web development scene or just another die-hard fan of JS development.
False. This is complete nonsense.

If you owe $100 in taxes, the government will ask you nicely to pay it.

Then, when you refuse to pay it, they will mark it up with a bit of interest, and ask you nicely to pay it.

Then, when you refuse to pay it, they'll deduct it out of your next year's tax return, and call it even.

Then, if you didn't have a tax return, they'll put a mark on your social security account, and will pay themselves out of your social security cheque.

Then, if you didn't have a tax return, or social security, they'll put a lien on your house, so if you refuse to pay it, they will get paid when you sell your house.

Then, if you still haven't paid your taxes, and don't have a tax return, or social security, or a house, they will complain to a credit agency, and ding your credit rating.

Then, if you still haven't paid your taxes, don't have a tax return, or social security, or a house, or care about your credit, and you are not going to suffer economic hardship because of it, they may take money out of your bank account, or your car, or your property, sell it, and give the remainder to you.

Then, if all those means are exhausted, and you have been particularly belligerent about this process, and owe a lot of taxes, you might be looking at jail time. (At this point, have you considered just paying your debts? Or, perhaps, declaring bankruptcy?)

They will give you many, many, many chance to pay what you owe. The steps that they will take to collect are both reasonable, and proportionate.

Please don't spread nonsense about armed goons at gunpoint stealing 'your' money. That would be civil forfeiture, courtesy of your local police department, not the IRS.
I would also guess that the majority of those commuters are not driving solo. Longer train commutes are less mentally exhausting and also don't cause congestion.
thx nikolay!! I remember playing this game many years ago, but never managed to find it online.
I didn't have to pay, but it does show me ads.
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How is "utilizing time contributing to comments on a post like this on HN instead of working on your product" not on the list? :)
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I had friends who commuted from Philly to NYC, and from NYC to Princeton. Insanity!
Fly to a place without nicotine.
Not in the US, I just read it.
Being able to walk to work, getting 4+ weeks off a year guaranteed by law (so people actually use it instead of hearing they have unlimited PTO and then getting chided for taking a week off), the thought of my kids not having crushing student debt, the ability to live a somewhat lower-carbon lifestyle, not being miserably hot every summer, and a substantially reduced likelihood of being killed every time I go for a bike ride are good reasons to be in Europe.
Infill development of single family homes basically makes the exurbs (like Pleasanton) become "farther" since traffic becomes worse
Learning to play an instrument "to get laid" is a guaranteed way to be mediocre at said instrument :) Practicing for the wrong reasons is pretty much bad practice.
Stay in your lane.
I heard a executive scream "but face time!" somewhere in the distance. Results only workplaces would make this possible but I don't see that happening.
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>Do you have any evidence to back up that opinion

The very article we're discussing? Remember, it shows 7 times as many women give up as men do.

A generalization is not contradicted by one example to the contrary, it would need a majority of examples to the contrary. Obviously some men do give up. But only 1/7th as many as with women. I am simply supporting the explanation someone else offered: that this is because women have inherent value and men's value is purely based on their current level of success. So men have an additional strong incentive to not give up. And when they do give up, it is often just to pursue another avenue where they feel success is more likely, rather than just giving up altogether.
Which benefits the employers and the employees. How has this benefited San Francisco? The real estate tax base would increase regardless of the tech community due to foreign money flowing in from China (Vancouver has had the same issue without a SFBA tech base).

Miami, LA, NYC, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Chicago to a lesser extent, all have thriving economies without being tech-centric. This fallacy that SF has some special magic nowhere else has economically speaking needs to die already. Please don't bring your Bay Area problems elsewhere (becoming a wage slave to afford a million dollar single family home, overflowing poverty in one of the richest parts of the world, displacing non-tech residents through housing costs).
One problem with your comment is that HN is global.

There are many people reading and posting on HN from China, Japan, Spain, Germany, Russia, etc. English is not their native language. Their mastery of written English is superb, by most objective criteria.

Or maybe someone just made a typo?

Not every minor mistake needs to be pointed out. This particular mistake wasn't egregious enough to justify creating a provocatively named new account in order to point it out.
I know it's not, for we had an 8 hour meeting with 50 people -- the entire dev team.
For anyone else who likes primary sources on this sort of thing, here is the court's very readable 2-page summary: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/summ... (PDF)
And here's the actual ruling: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/judg... (PDF)
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How about putting together an upgrade tool in the same spirit of python's 2to3 [1]? If not actually a corrective tool it could discover and report likely outmoded constructs. Or even form the basis of a proper org-lint?

In anycase, it must be said that many of us simply could not stay organized without efforts like yours, and we're greatly appreciative! (couldn't write a grant without it anymore)

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html
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The point is to provide options - sure, if your job requires a car/truck you're obviously not going to use public transit. If you're in poor physical health, you probably can't take standard public transit - though accessibility options often exist. If you travel with kids often you might be less inclined to take transit (though plenty of people with kids do anyways).

But if you're one of the hundreds of thousands of other people in a major metro who don't fall into those categories, you'd probably appreciate the option to not have to obtain a personal vehicle or use it exclusively for your commute, errands, a night on the town, etc.... and the best part is that for all the remaining people who do drive, every person who takes transit is one less person contributing to traffic congestion!

Transit options benefit everyone. Your comment reads like you don't support transit options because they don't suit your particular tastes - I suggest you instead consider advocating for transit to make life better for both yourself and your community, regardless of whether you personally use transit or not.
That's the conspiracy theory narrative, and it's the real real absurdity here. US ambassadors don't have the power to raise hell on the streets of any given country, especially in one where a significant portion of the population have long-standing and legitimate aggrievances against the current government.
One word: rental cars.

Out-of-state buyers already practice this.
50 miles from Downtown London places one in Brighton or 5 miles away from Oxford. The diameter of London is about 50 miles, hard to believe that the average commuter moves from one end to the other on a daily basis.

I'm also fun at parties.
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I think you mean to be in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12861815
But then you don't have the homophone bear/bare, with "bare" having some nice connotations when your context of the topic includes OpenSSL.
> Either there's been a multi-decade cabal holding the entire country in its grip and preventing us from leaping into our beautiful public transportation future... Or Americans just do not want it, kicking and screaming about sustainability to the contrary.

Zoning, basically. It makes density illegal in enough places that transit isn't terribly practical. It also makes even walking to a corner store something that is no longer an option in many new developments. If you'd like to read all about it, this book is very thorough:

http://amzn.to/2fz1hPI

If you'd like something a bit more tl;dr, these are good: http://amzn.to/2erOJXL http://amzn.to/2fyXrpG
You scared me a bit, as I'm using 0.25 ohm. Can you explain what's the problem or provide some resources to read?

I was pretty scared of ecigs before, seeing so many exploding.
Cars also work better for healthy people than unhealthy people. My grandmother lost her license a while ago as her vision and reaction times (and, perhaps, judgment) faded. She might have benefited from access to strong public transport. As it is, her beautiful home in a lovely spot became something of a trap as it was too far from any amenities to be walkable.
Actually Google kind of screwed themselves there because just this year they set the legal precedent that all APIs are public domain so if they sued they would lose the case against oracle(and 8.8 billion dollars).
Wow! I have a few friends who teach in Ontario, will be interested to hear their thoughts. Thanks for the background info.
Previously : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11373435
What about a thick cloud of... carbon dioxide and water vapor, from the people standing around you?
The scraper was the easy part :)
They still might have an ounce of the hacker spirit in the company - so maybe they'll be lenient!

Jokes aside, implementing a program with the same API should be fine, right? Would love to hear from someone better versed in copyright law!
Transbay bus is around 45 minutes to SF and BART is not much longer, so you must be going to somewhere other than downtown
I live & work in London. I can't imagine doing that kind of commute everyday. Utterly soul crushing.
> > Presumably there are good reasons to have it

> That's not a good reason to keep a feature ever.

I'm not sure I understand you there. If there are good reasons for it existing (as I presume there are) then surely that is a good reason for it to be kept?

> If you can't demonstrate a valid use-case

Perhaps a full-screen kiosk application needs to indicate battery level (because any OS indicator is hidden? Though admittedly this is not going to be a common need.

Another use would perhaps be to turn off "excess" animations in a game when the battery is low.
No, it's not a spare cash problem. The modern world is full of credit.

Anyone can save a deposit given enough time, affording the monthly mortgage payments is the challenge.

There's a demographic difference, for example I'm constantly being asked by members of the prior generation why I don't own two cars and how we possibly cope. Actually I have no interested in owning any cars at all but one is necessary.

The same goes for housing - why don't you buy? Because I don't need to...

Now, we millennials do care a lot about housing but only to the extent that the previous generation has made it unaffordable.
That's actually a really good comparison, blocking ads doesn't prevent anyone else from viewing the content, which is really the problem with the taking all the candy. At worst, it's like the candy owner sitting there saying "if you don't pay for this free candy, I'm going to take it away".
This is a very important factor, for sure. Its very fortunate that the Indian education system does produce a lot of engineers. Quality is a problem, for sure, but I would argue it is much easier to train someone who has had some exposure to Math/Science than to start from scratch. This is one of the areas where India's large population and emphasis on education (specifically engineering) seems to be paying off very well.
If the label says it is bier, it has no additives as far as I know.
We should separate the concept of ingredients and additives, which in most cases, are found accidentally and only in traces.

Can you enumerate additives allowed in german bier?
From my personal experience with friends/family men are much more likely to make the switch. All the male smokers I have urged to try quit normal cigs shortly after. All the women use it only sometimes but continue smoking or just flat out rejected it. Not sure why this is. I am suspecting it is too technical/nerdy for most of them dealing with charging batteries, refilling liquid, assembling tanks etc. No meaning to be sexist here but I would not be surprised if the gender distribution for vaping would be similar to that in technical jobs for instance.
> Sometimes I understand the problem perfectly well, but a single beautiful query is not performant enough.

> It wouldn't improve performance, but it might improve readability without denigrating performance.

These two statements of yours are negating each other, unless people started using "performant" as synonymous for readable now.
completely OT: I like that HN has strong and heavy moderation for titles, the more definite - the better.

On topic - IMHO articles like these should be more frequent. I dislike 'startup culture'. They should build a business first (or at least have monetization strategy) and party later.
The biggest killer: pursuing the wrong customers/users. I like Groove's list, but all seven of its sins flow out of that more-fundamental problem.

Get a few troublesome customers ... and you will be stuck in a lot of meetings, trying to figure out what they want, how to deal with their latest crazy requirements/deadlines, etc. The meetings are a symptom. Not the root cause.

It's the same story with "vanity benchmarks." Good benchmarks reinforce smart business choices (i.e doing business with the right people.) The way you know you're worshiping vanity benchmarks is if they keep generating traffic, leads, etc. that take you ever deeper into the valley of canceled accounts and anti-profits.
I think you're willfully ignoring the point.
Ask HN: Any product managers miss development?
Any developers turned product managers miss their dev work? Been in a bit of a funk lately, and I'm not sure whether it's that I miss developing software day to day (I know I do) or just normal for someone making that type of transition.
My guess: You got angry eyes because nicotine is a stimulant and (speaking from experience) can cause heart rate abnormalities.