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Ask HN: Does your employer provide you mobile devices?
The question is mostly for mobile application developers, but every IT people can answer as well.

I worked at two different companies and know many other iOS/Android developers who are provided mobile devices by their employers even if they can use emulators/simulators to work.

Now, I moved to France and I am told that here it is kind of normal not to provide mobile devices to application developers.

How does that work for you?
Do you have a police report to link to back that up?
After reading all the comments about C Corp vs. LLC, I am thinking to start my business as LLC and when the time comes that business is on the right track and I have investors willing to invest, convert the LLC to C Corp at that point.

I live in New Jersey. My startup is e-commerce business which will deliver goods to anywhere in US. And initially I will not need any physical office - I will run my business from my home. It will require for me to ship goods from my garage, but I will not have employees or office until at least a year, if the business succeeds.

My questions:
1) Do I need to establish my startup in Delaware or is it enough to just register it as LLC in New Jersey?
2) If some of you say I should register in Delaware, then my question becomes do I need to register NJ as foreign qualification as well? Or is that ok to just have Delaware only until I need an office space and have employees in NJ - only at that time establish foreign qualification in NJ.

I have made some research but not clear to me if it is safer to establish the NJ LLC as foreign qualification (in case I am recommended to establish the business in Delaware) even if I run the business initially from home but provide my service to customers across US.

I appreciate any advise.
Devs seem to be realizing this, at least the ones I know (new thing).

Seems the endgame's going to be higher equity grants. If VCs won't fund something unproven at 350/head and devs won't work for peanuts, higher equity grants seem the only option.

I think it'll be just like Hollywood, in that projects are evaluated as much for who they've managed to recruit (e.g. a movie with Brad Pitt is fundable) as on other business fundamentals.

It's striking how much of business views "labor" as ancillary to success. That might be true if you're running a pizza joint but it couldn't be farther from the truth building a software company, or making a movie.
This is a real concern. We think about it a lot. In fact, we have a fairly nice way of isolating customers who can afford global server installs from other customers on shared infrastructure.

Unfortunately, setting servers up across the world is really complicated and expensive. There's a definite trade off — we want to make this kind of power accessible to every developer, and running shared infrastructure is the only way we've found to do it.

I do think apps are more secure by default running through fly than most load balancer services. Traffic between visitors and our edges is SSL (unless a customer opts out, at which point we nag them), application processes establish a secure tunnel back to our edge nodes to handle traffic. There are no network hops between fly and customer apps that happen in the clear.

Replicating this with a normal load balancer setup means handling SSL termination for visitors and terminating SSL with client cert verification between load balancers and app servers. It's a pain, and most people don't get it right because it's too finicky.

But I don't want to disregard your concern either. It's definitely something we think about a lot. We would like to figure out a way to offer all of this power easily, cheaply (for developers), and in a way that is entirely opaque to us. As soon as we figure out how, we will.
He doesn't need to generalize about all of it to assert that there are some cases like this. What do you do with those?
This is a pretty strained analogy. I consider it likely that smarter-than-human (*more capable of achieving goals) AI will at some point become possible and cause very unpredictable but hopefully directable results.

So presumably that makes me a secular-religious nut by your estimation, but I don't observe any of the religious customs you specify above. Perhaps the first, if you use a wide definition.

It would be more interesting if the criticism of transhumanist ideas explained why these ideas are unlikely or impossible, rather than dismiss them with the quasi-ad hominem of comparing them to religious ideas that are either outright wrong, or completely outdated in their real-world impact.
No it isn't. Your numbers are high.
Yup, no argument from me there. There's always room for improvement...
About ten years ago I spent two years on the streets of Santa Monica, California making a documentary film about the homeless people there. This is a clip of an encounter I have with a schizophrenic person on the first day of filming:

http://graceofgodmovie.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-am-super-danny...

It's worth watching all the way through because Daniel undergoes a remarkable transformation over the course of four minutes, simply because I stopped being afraid of him and started treating him with basic respect and decency. It's one of the most important lessons I have ever learned.

Over the course of the next two years I learned a lot more about mental illness and the often subtle ways it can manifest itself, a lot of which is reflected in the film (which you can get on iTunes and Amazon, links are on the home page: http://graceofgodmovie.com/)

It's a very complicated problem. But involuntary commitment to mental institutions is absolutely not the right answer IMHO.
A higher turnout than the referendum in 1975 (64.62%) to stay in... Does that mean it was never the will of people to be in (then) EC at all?
So because seat-belts are not also interlock devices, you assume your kids won't drive?
Images of the car: https://www.google.com/search?q=Audi+e-tron+quattro
"He swore at his father before hurling a partially-open Pret a Manger baguette in his direction. The baguette, believed to be prosciutto ham, narrowly missed and collided with a glass window above his head"
check every weekday, but only click and read one, maybe two articles each day. I always read comments in the articles about Go to see the Haskell programmers having tantrums. I always read comments in the articles about JavaScript to see the Go programmers having tantrums. I don't ever read anything about politics from HN because people that read HN are not a representative sample of the real world; HN isn't exactly a wellspring of political diversity. I basically only look for announcements and stories about catastrophic failures in production systems.

also fwiw this is by nature a broken census since the people that will click this link are already gonna be the people that like the comment threads (since it's only a comment thread) and the people that respond are the people that post comments. so basically your feedback about how people behave based on comments is already going to select down to people that post comments on HN, which is likely a single-digit percentage of people that visit HN. asking users how they use a website on that website will always be subject to extreme sampling bias. so... this is fun by all means but let's not look too far into it ;)
I agree with most of your comment. One thing to note though is the whole scandal where Steve Jobs colluded with other firms into a non-poaching kind of agreement, essentially distorting the market. So that is a possible outcome as well.
Oui, aber mit Deutsche, kaj Esperanoto, και Ελληνικά, I think my philosophies may be broader than most.

More seriously, I know I would be surprised if more than 5% leave willingly. I don't want to go, I just see no choice. Our collective departure will probably boost the wages for developers who do stay in the UK, but by how much, and against which currencies I would not dare to say — economics is an expert level subject, of which I know only the basics.
How about ads with privacy? They are not mutually exclusive.
No, it's because it explains how he is misusing the term "not Black enough" (used originally for dealing with colorism in the Black community) and accuses him instead of being a boring person. I can't call him out on the former but the latter I wholeheartedly agree with.

If a journalist wants to write a story about overcoming adversity and you respond that you haven't had any adversity to overcome, if they reject you it's pretty silly to complain about it and also pretty plainly because you're too privileged to understand why this is important and his reaction makes it pretty clear that he is indeed too privileged to understand why talking about adversity is critical to overcoming it. (Also mentioned in the reply)
The late economist Wynne Godley explained why the Euro couldn't work in the long run and described how it would cause problems like Greece back in 1992 [1]. There is simply no way a supra-national currency could work without a federal budget. It's probably time to accept that the Euro will likely fail no matter what we do. Sadly, the people of Greece have already paid a terrible cost...

1. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-al...
Indeed, the cultural "importance" will be revealed in time. However, I fear not in the way you intend.

There used to be a time when we as a society valued things like self-control, discipline, and tradition. No more.

What you are alluding to here is a world where we are ruled by our emotions and our basest desires without the fear or potential for having to deal with our actions. To divorce sex from children is to misunderstand intimacy, the family, and the entire underpinning of our society.

EDIT: Yeah, I know conservative positions on HN are ways to make your Karma go down, but hey, that's what forums are for right, to have your opinions regarded as trolling instead of interacting with them, right?
There are a million different factors where startups are at a disadvantage to big tech companies. That's the whole point of a startup. Of course you can't compete on salaries. But if you're smart you'll find that startups have many advantages in recruiting that the big companies don't. Namely self determination and recognition - the two most coveted workplace qualities of any good hacker.
An html UX pattern that simplify traversing a page with the tab key
Someone downvoted this anti-union sentiment but I think the real question addresses the balance of interests of the workers (continued jobs) versus the company (profitability).

In fact, in modern times, according to Greenspan, there is also a third party: the corporate leadership's interest is at odds with both the employees and the sharedholders, forming a triangle of interest. Perhaps this third only applies to US public corps.
>Leave would never had won. //

Depends, I still haven't worked out who ultimately is driving this shi(p|t) but it would have been relatively easy to get a lot of Scottish and Welsh people to vote to leave England based on a millennium of ill-sentiment that "we're being governed by them without a proper say" and to get the English to ditch the rest based on "they get more spent on them per capita" and writing a big number on a bus.
Privacy is weighed against public safety all the time. The question is at which point does it become unreasonable. Warrantless searches of American individuals just so happens to be where we, as Americans, draw the line.

On the other hand, don't mistake my assault on the technical validity of your sentence for disagreement with its intent. We should be outraged.

Shame on us for having allowed this to happen, and for the dangerous precendent it sets for local monopolies to sell your information.
Smart Heater Reference Project on ESP8266, MongooseOS and AWS IoT: Device Shadow
It is about 80% an instance of the sunk cost fallacy, but RSU payout is based on past performance, so higher performing employees will be granted more RSUs. That means that if you got a 10% RSU bonus over average due to performance, you'd be losing out on a portion of your compensation for your past work.

Also there's something to be said for "the mirage I know is better than the mirage I don't know". Although in general I'd agree, if you're capable of performing well at one of the big guys, you can probably go to any of them, and get a starting bonus to offset your "losses".
I thought about this myself as well. To me a 20% reduction in work days is well worth a 20% reduction in pay. This is an easy perk that is offered at no large companies.

Sadly it's not widespread. And I fear most companies wouldn't be well prepared to actually execute on it.
Many people and organizations with a lot of power have spent a lot of time and money giving you that impression. Unions have done a great deal of good worldwide, but no 'it's Henry Ford that's responsible for the 40 hour week' etc.

PS: Remember, the best way to keep power long term is to convince everyone else to hand it to you.
The German model of trades unionism is built on co-operation between union and management; the history runs deep. One consequence is that workers are screwed over less. Another consequence is that industrial action is rarely necessary.
I have a former colleague from academia with a PhD in math (his focus was algebraic number theory) who works at Google...writing a lot of JavaScript - the kicker is he enjoys it a lot more than his time in academia (I feel the same way as a PhD dropout myself - I primarily write JS/manage engineers now).
What /u/mrkurt said.
> If engineers would refuse to implement privacy invasions, they wouldn't happen.

That'll never work, as long as it's just a personal ethical thing. There's always someone who would rather take the money.

Now, if there was a professional organization or union with some teeth, which could enforce some kind of ethical code, then maybe "engineers" could do something about stuff like this. I'm not sure how it would work in detail, but it might involve pickets/walkouts of entire organizations engaged in unethical projects or expelling members who work on them in a way that negatively affects their future job prospects.
Context:

This mayor has done (and previous mayors did it too, but to a lesser extent) some painting over graffiti.

Given political discussions at this moment (in Brazil, but similar to those happening in the US and Europe), his attitude was criticized. He is more right-inclined (coming from business, specially in real state, and so on) and the left did criticize such painting a lot.

The ad from Amazon says that the city is now too grey and they shined those book quotes over those places (that had graffitis just 1 or 2 months ago).

The great point is that removing graffitis was supported by some parcel of the citizens, and the Amazon ad was downvoted. When the Mayor replied in another video, asking Amazon to donate books and Kindles, all the debate ignated, with people pro- and against- the ad campaign.

And some companies jumped onboard and used twitter to say that they will donate books, before Amazon replied.
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The Unions in Germany are considered to be very strong.

This works well in companies where managers don't have a lot of imagination and who's first reaction is to fire staff when the going gets tough.

For example VW wanted to cut 3000 workers. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-redundancies-id...

After talks with the Union they rescinded somewhat and now the losses will be through attrition. i.e. wait for people to retire or leave.

It doesn't surprise me that Audi want to keep what may be seen as a growing product in Germany.
This talks about GC settings that worked for them in SBCL for production, not sure if you already tried the same kind of stuff but may be an interesting read http://tech.grammarly.com/blog/posts/Running-Lisp-in-Product....

If you can make an easy to run example of the garbage collector not working correctly, the folks in #sbcl on freenode are very responsive and have commit access to fix it.
Delft University of Technology organising first anti-drone race
It also assumes that the recruiters are looking for this personality profile that the author is shooting for. Maybe they don't want someone with 100% confidence, because such people could also be cocky and stubborn.
Remember that we had a prime minister that lied and said he'd invoke Article 50 immediately?

All the predictions were based on a bunch of promises by certain people to make rash, idiotic changes immediatly after the vote. Promises that were thankfully broken.

Most of the conditions that these kind of predictions were made under changed the moment Cameron resigned.
Ah, just tried on my phone, the Ui at least seems to show all 9 when I type in these two files, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

File 1,

a
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1
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x
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File 2,

x
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yields,

Code type is set to auto. Presumed language is unknown.

Execution time: 0.013 seconds

Number of differences: 9 differences from 9 lines of code.
I agree with you that 'collapse' is not really something that is inevitable. I do expect however that there will come a point when either China or South Korea will see it as the 'least painful' option to annex it. And in some ways I find it interesting to interpret moves by China and the rest of the world in that light.
FTC can still regulate ISP's after this bill passes, if I understand it correctly.

Edit: Nope, apparently this just nullifies the FCC rule, it's not an actual bill to change authority away from FCC. D'oh.
>I prefer the EU's scientific and cautionary stance to the "will it cause loss of profit for shareholders" stance that we're going to be seeing much more of.

I might too, but the question is if they are free to make their own laws or bound to EU law. Not whether EU law might be better (it obviously will be better in some cases, and worse in others).
Technically I beleive the only efficient systems are those where it is known a priori who employs birth control. That basically means it must be the responsibility of one sex or both. I agree with you: both sexes may be overkill but is the only fair option.
I wrote a long post in response but then I remembered that when a person uses their feelings to argue, you cannot counter-argue them with logic. It just doesn't work. So Let me instead ask you this (and please don't answer this question with a question!): what if you are wrong? what then? what if the morality you speak of here is actually injustice and evil itself disguised as goodness and justice? what remedy do I have against your tyranny?

Ever stopped to think about that? I get that you believe that society's role is to take from X and give to Y. But what IF that belief is wrong? aren't you then responsible for all the pain and suffering that is to take place due to your beliefs?
Huh? I found this article kind of tone deaf.

Writing uses motor memory, there is no need for visualization or rehearsal once mastery has been achieved.

It's no harder to write Chinese than english or any other alphabetic language.
Webinar: How Would the World Embrace Video Collaboration If It Couldn’t Scale?
As a former Audi owner, I wonder if the "audi service position" will be applicable to their electric cars. Tangental I know, but I would be curious to know if they will make their cars easier/cheaper to service. I never really had much trouble with my A4, but maintenance costs upwards of 1k per 6 months(I was driving a lot of miles at the time) turned me off to the ownership experience.
Leave would probably never have won if the ballot paper specified leaving the single market, either.

It might also not have won if the ballot paper had said "leaving will provide no extra money for the NHS, actually probably less money because the pound will be devalued and much of the NHS workforce comes from Europe, and also various prominent Leave campaigners are actually eager to dismantle the NHS and privatise healthcare bit by bit".

But, oh well, we are where we are, I suppose.
Mark my words. In 10 years, there will be no more adoption of annotations than there is today.

If you can't get anybody to use something, it's a non-starter. It doesn't matter why. It just hasn't happened and it wont happen.
CGPGrey's vids are awesome. Unique perspective as an American living in the UK. I highly encourage anyone interested to go seek them out.

Also, he mentions in his podcasts that he is a HN user.
I want to be a positive contributor.

I should have used a gentler tone. Sorry for rankling.
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Yes, I don't think you should take the headline that literally - there's a touch of abstraction there. More literally, Congressional Republicans sold telcos a convenient legal avenue to violate your privacy. They didn't "possibly" make it harder... they added a massive new burden to your life if you care about your privacy. Read the other comments in this thread -- see how complex and incomplete the countermeasures seem to be, even for techies?

There are many ways the government protects your privacy such that you don't have to worry about it in X scenario. The Republicans sold one of those protections and added a new scenario to the list of things you have to worry about. The headline is pretty appropriate in context.
Abuse accelerates puberty in children
This is the same argument that was made when the pill came about.
What do you drive now if you don't mind me asking? Current Audi owner here. Similar experience, but I don't mind.
Why not: work for a large company that can do both? Pay reasonably well with low-risk, and let you grow your technology skills + contacts?

A: those companies aren't cool & won't make you a millionaire by 35 on stock options (whereas a startup might)
Don't forget that in an interview yesterday he said that if Brexit turns out to be a failed experiment, he will leave UK and live somewhere else. I'm sure his buddy Donald Trump will offer him a place to live.
There's a limit to how much a company can raise pre-product/pre-traction. It hinges a lot on the team and whether they've had a big exit.

Keep in mind, most early-stage funding is done by angels who "work for themselves", not VCs -- real, true VCs work for their limited partners (investors) and if a deal goes south, there can be a lot of "how the hell did this get funded" blowback that can be career-limiting.

So as much as I like to think VC can change, their incentives do make it a bit difficult.
Very nice and relevant to my interest.
I have recently discovered how cool the Arduino and other programmable mircontrollers are. I now have to wrap my head around its programming with all the bitwise operations I see in C for projects I am interested in tackling.
This is crazy talk.

I am not vegan. But the life of an animal bred for human consumption is not "somewhat unhappy". It's closer to "absolutely depressing" or "shockingly inhumane".

Change the word animal to human in your question: Is it better for a human to never exist or for it to be born and then at the age of 6 we murder it?

The obvious answer to that is that it's much better that that human never exist.

Again, I'm not vegan, and I occasionally eat meat. But your logic here is terrible.
> It's natural reality

Well, yeah, but this is why we form a society: to make ourselves immune to what's natural (as in "what animals do"). There's no need for society rules to emulate a savannah we all come from, is there?

> Forcing another person to share a bit of their wealth IS a death threat.

? I don't understand?
Lower than in Bay/NYC, but still good, partially offset by the lower state tax rate, and (signing) RSUs aren't any lower than in the Bay, which means that take home pay for someone in Colorado after rent can be higher.
>How do you not make the color of your skin a "defining characteristic"? People see you and make a judgement based on that.

I don't.
The Israelis have their own modified version of the F-15, the F-15I. Some of the mods are done at the factory and some done in Israel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15E_Strike...