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Yeah, that was an option until Brexit happened.

My co-conspirator :) is based in Germany, so setting something up there might be the better idea.

Haven't researched that at all (yet), as we're still focused on getting the foundational tech working decently first (progressing fairly well, it's mostly grunt work).

But, keeping an eye open meanwhile... :)
>At its core, capitalism is simply the codification of a win-win transaction between two or more parties. I work for your company, you pay me X salary.

I don't think that's true; I view capitalism as a mode of production, subsisting on private ownership of the social means of production, the primacy of wage labour (this is the aspect you mentioned) but also the production of commodities (i.e exchange is to be maximised rather than the use of products) and lastly that production is for profit and accumulation of capital rather than satisfying social wants.

>Whereas socialism is the codification of a win-lose, non-consensual transaction. You're doing well, give me your money so I can give it to a third party, or else.

This is not what Socialism is about. Socialism is contrasted with capitalism not by money redistribution (in fact, no redistribution of non-social MoP produce or money occurs) but by the fact that means of production would be owned collectively by workers, and used for their benefit. The workers are also the consumers. This two-faceted benefit would seem to be a win-win in my opinion.

>non-consensual transaction.

The non-consensual part of Socialism is seizing the means of production from capitalists (either via revolution or otherwise). The non-consensual part of capitalism is the fact that people must sell their labour-power as a commodity on a market to private property owners in order to survive. Although all parties appear at face value to be participating in a system of equal and fair uncoerced exchanges, a look at the more extreme examples in our world of sweatshop labour or prostitution by necessity gives an opposite picture. These people are free to quit at any time, but have little option otherwise. They certainly can't accumulate sufficient capital to start a self-employment model of business.
The Virgin train was definitely faster than a normal train . I'm not 100% clear on the semantics of what counts as high speed rail. I believe they are 100-120mph or so.

The thing that mattered to me is that it was 2 hours, because a 1 hour flight isn't really a 1 hour flight after you deal with the airport.
In my job, sick leave is officially authorized for immediate family members, though the wording is a little vague on who that covers:

> Sick leave may be authorized due to personal illness or injury; to care for an immediate family member who is ill or injured and requires the personal attention of the employee
I guess it's more fair if you view someone taking a day to care for their sick child as "vacation".

I personally don't view it that way (I say this as someone who doesn't have a child).
Ubisoft. :)
> One of my past employers actually did away with ALL sick time. One was only able to take vacation time when one was sick.

This was policy at my former employer. People showed up sick all the damn time and flu season was invariably a disaster.

Next time an employer presents me with this brilliant stratagem they can absolutely shove it. If people are sick they should damn well stay home, and incentivizing them to sneeze all over their coworkers is myopic.
The policy was implemented in Amazon DE. The US has nothing tobdo here.
I briefly worked at a company with combined sick+vacation "PTO" days.

Worst idea ever -- people would come to work with a full-on cold, coughing and sneezing all over the place. Just because they didn't want to "waste" vacation days being sick.

Now I work at a place with more traditional sick days separate from vacation days, and people stay home when they are sick. And are actively encouraged to stay home, no one wants to see a flu sweep through the entire engineering team.
The entire top comment thread belies this statement. HN humor just has a particularly nerdy bent, in a way entirely unlike the bleeding sarcasm you'd find on, say, Reddit.
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Well, that's the thing: the folks running the centre I worked for were very much human, and really quite understanding of regular everyday human things. I think, though, that the Edinburgh culture was very influenced by the centre being started by a guy who wanted to move to Scotland to start a family - it's been explicitly family-friendly from the start, with people being encouraged to keep a good work-life balance rather than working more and more hours.

From what I heard that wasn't the case in the rest of Amazon, which always made me feel a bit icky about working from said megacorp - along with all the other dubiously moral stuff. I'm rather a lot happier being out of there, I must say.
To be clear, I was hyperbolically trying to make that exact point... I'm not truly suggesting death as an option.
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The value for Uber acquiring Lyft is in eliminating it's only real competition, which is worth more than any number of drivers and users.

That's also why they'd have to pay a large premium over the current $7.5B valuation, such as the $10B suggested by parent.

I'm unaware of any transportation companies that could really afford to purchase Lyft.
How do you factor in the fact that this news was from Amazon.de?
Or perpetrator, depending on how you look at it. It's not a clear-cut case.
I worked at Aflac for a time. At the time, it was supposedly the largest company in Columbus, GA and had around 5000 employees. I was recently looking for data on them and they appear to have shrunk substantially.

While I was there, they cut back on janitorial service to save money. It basically has a similar impact to this policy: Exposing employees to more germs and health risks. I can't prove cause and effect (between this bad policy and their decline), but it looks to me like there is one (though I am not suggesting this is the sole cause of their decline).

Even if there is genuine malice, this is just stupid. Making sure people come to work sick and spread the germs does not lead to excellence. Quite the contrary.
Hey HN,

I just built this as a sideproject with inspiration from http://textio.com after getting frustrated with the lack of feedback and haphazard advice for coverletters on a multitude of blogs. I built it using Flask, SpaCy, Textacy and NLTK with a bunch of heuristics that I took from writing blogs and form talking to experienced manager.

This is just an MVP so it isn't super fast and is missing a few nice-to-have features like HTTP.
Well, i don't know the exact details. What i do know is, he is getting paid, but his employer (telekom support call center) is still needling him to provide information on when he'd be back and how he's feeling about his health.

Maybe it's an oddity of MeckPomm, or something specific about cancer that allows this.

Can you provide an explanation as to why they'd be still on his case if he's not costing them anything?
It's hardly a "nitpick" to point out that throughout the book the heroes make a point of congratulating themselves and each other on only acting in their self-interest every time they conclude an agreement, whilst every time they dare to practice the Randian vice of altruism either the ungrateful recipients or the book's narrative throws it back in their face.

The real purpose for Dagny's dinner with the tramp after all isn't for Rand to illustrate the virtues of helping tramps, but for the tramp to lecture on how the Twentieth Century Motor Company failed because the company based its ethos around helping those claiming to be in need, and explain that the book's hero has resolved to "stop the motor of the world* rather than continue to work for others.

And yeah, the symbolic nature of having to pay for everything rather than do favours is the heroes believe [in maintaining the illusion that] those deserving of their support are evaluated not as individuals but based on their ability to produce interchangeable tokens of past effort....
The way this problem will get solved is some service running on top of aws which will allow users to install and run any app, packaged in a standardized format. This will be free in exchange for a column beside the app which serves ads or some small amount of money to get rid of the ads.
> how much time

They usually say at least three hours study for each hour of class, I used that as my guide

> difficult to even spend 1 hour a night

The more abstract and mathematical the class, the longer I know it will last and I can use it. The more specific classes like learning C++ were immediately useful.

That said, I did have to kick myself to memorize dozens of species of fungi and their attributes for my science requirement class.

You never know what will come in useful. English writing class seems like BS? Not if it teaches you to write documentation, e-mails etc. better.

> can't find anything

I've been there too. It makes me skeptical of these people who say Coursera etc. will destroy colleges. I can always ask my professor after class or during office hours.

You're going to be rooting around in your work life as well, so aside from the class material, you're exercising this skill as well.
What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?
>Not using twitter isn't an excommunication from society

Obviously not, which is why I said "opt[ing] out of corporate ownership" which includes but is not limited to Twitter, Facebook, Google, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Microsoft, Apple, Elsevier, etc.
I mean, email isn't meant to be a document repository. Slack (or other chat) is great for immediate conversations with many people. Email is great for slower conversations with a more limited number of people. A wiki is great for a very slow conversation. An actual document repository is great to be able to link to when using any of the other conversation methods.

Just because Slack isn't good at slow conversations doesn't mean it's bad. Just because email is bad at including people who joined after the fact doesn't mean it's bad. Those aren't their strengths, and that's fine. They still serve their own purpose just fine.
they also deleted my tweet from this morning, which simply made fun of united airlines ("we seat you, then we beat you! Board as a doctor, leave as a patient! #NewUnitedAirlinesMottos")
consumers will provide the fitness function through deciding what products they prefer.

What about when your users don't have a choice?
Because it's still the best.
Live debugging in production. What could possibly go wrong? [gif]
i'll save you both some time. "contact us" means at least $10k. if you don't want to spend $10k, they probably don't want you as a customer either.
Wonderfully put, especially this sad tidbit:

I tried to capture a movie of myself scrolling through the Verge Apple watch review, but failed. The graphics card on my late-model Apple laptop could literally not cope with the load.
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> offer Github issues

Why a proprietary issue tracker that requires that people make an account with them in order to communicate with you?
Every now (when I break X through a badly chosen compiler flag or whatever) and then I use Lynx. It takes me right back to WAIS n Gopher before this newfangled www thing appeared 8)

I used to telnet a VAX, then a X25 PAD, then to the outer reaches of JANET then to NIST (I think). Then I got to fire up Gopher. sigh (not) the good old days. I can't even remember why - probably to download fractal porn or something equally bloody pointless. I spent three months staffing a helpdesk with no users in a rather well funded organisation in '91 ...
Good point, that's something that might happen, especially because both are fairly open about using the money raised from investors to subsidize the rides.

Size-wise, especially in some locations Uber and Lyft now dwarf the regular taxi services. So you're probably right that this would at least be reviewed and likely flagged down, assuming that such local issues would be enough to raise that flag.
> You know what the alternative to all of these Electron apps coming out is? If your answer is "A native Cocoa/WPF app", you are on another planet, the answer is, "It wouldn't exist at all".

Agree fully with this. I find the complaints about how appalling it is that apps use a few extra 100MB of RAM and disk space really tiresome and impractical when laptops + desktops typically have lots of RAM and disk space now. Many of these cross platform apps either wouldn't exist or would exist on only one platform if everyone insisted on native apps especially for apps made my small teams or individuals.

I'm not saying Electron is perfect but easy cross platform support is a huge benefit and one of many. You also have the huge JavaScript community, pool of developers and available libraries to draw from as well as being able to share code between your desktop app and web app. Tossing that all away to save resources that most users aren't even going to notice isn't a good business decision in my opinion.
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OP is arguing we should use boats for everything, including sending something across town. Realtime chat works a lot better for certain things, like troubleshooting, where having to wait around for a forum/email response may not be the best way of doing things.
This is warehouses and maybe customer service hotlines we're talking about. The work is fungible and the teams are large enough for it to average out.

I'd also argue that because of them being a drag in other work environments, there already is enough social pressure to keep "fake" illnesses low. Humans are surprisingly sensitive to the disapproval of their team/tribe.
I switched from Google maps to Bing maps a little over a year ago - their edge over Google is that their mapping system still works like a mapping system, and therefore does useful things, instead of whatever the hell it is that Google maps has been trying to do lately. I really hope Bing never catches up, because it's better the way it is.
Getting the ice packs was my favorite part of Blue Apron when I joined. I reuse them all the time.
No, but you can tell that if this gains adoption that they will be better off than they were last week.
Well, with enough in-house expertise everything is possible using a set of the tools you're an expert at.

But with ever-growing complexity and volume of the infrastructure, the expertise required and time to manage these things are in short supply. Teleport is mainly the opinionated and simplified way to deliver SSH best practices.

Additionally, it has a few neat usability features (like a nice Web UI) and directly addresses the use case of managing the infrastructure that's not yours (MSP use case) where you can have multiple clusters owned by different organizations where you can set up cross-cluster trust via certificate authorities (CA)s [1], well... that's just what's on top of my head.

There's more here: http://gravitational.com/teleport/ or feel free to reach out and chat, we're a friendly bunch! :)

[1] That's our use case, Teleport was originally built to set up and manage Kubernetes clusters on infrastructure located behind firewalls, see our flagship here: http://gravitational.com/telekube/
1) Go to work.

2) Lie down on a desk for half the day because you're half dead.

That's the last time I had to handle a sick leave in France. It didn't shock anyone. Normal practise.

Gotta adapt when you can't take sick days.
While I'm not a fan of this approach, sick leave abuse is a common issue. While I've never seen actual studies to back that up, anecdotally I've seen it a lot.

My employer had to institute a policy that if you take sick leave on the work day immediately before or after a holiday, you need to bring a doctors note to receive the holiday pay. They did this because it was common practice to call in sick on Friday when Monday was a holiday, turning a three day weekend into a four day weekend.
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Uhm... collective punishment is a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Then you're maintaining two definitions - typescript ones and json schema ones. But thanks for the idea :)
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Hello,

I have been reading HN for quite some time and am a great fan. I am writing this post in hope for advice on the situation I am in. Next week I will be offered an equity package from the founders but I do not know how to evaluate the offer. Please help. I have been working in the company since October and it was 1.5 years old when I joined. I am posting the most pressing questions I can think of but feel free to give any advice.

1. How do I calculate my value in the company ?
2. How do I calculate my risks/losses connected with working for it ?
3. What is a "normal" first employee equity package ? ( background: I am owning almost 1/3 of the coding with future plans to own around 1/2 of it until we hire in September probably, I am also experiencing all the stress and issues around the company like over-hours and no-salary when in need. )
4. What things should I bargain for - I mainly accepted the job for the knowledge however is it ok to demand to sit during investors/clients meetings, see the budgets and talk to partners ?

Thanks
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> Yeah...I'm all for this approach, except for the part that assumes you're going to buy a book that you're not going to read immediately. Totally viable and possibly useful...if you have 10x more money than you need.

I definitely buy books that I don't intend to read "immediately", in fact I have books which I've bought 3-4 years ago, of which I think about every 2-3 months, but which I've not yet had the time to read. I definitely do not have 10X the money that I need, even though I agree that books are one of my few guilty pleasures (I oftentimes think that I was born in order to read books).

I also like to sit on my couch and look at my bookshelves, it gives me a really pleasant feeling. I do that every 2-3 days. I like books.
> A a pentagon-shaped building is also structurally stronger than a square building

That isn't the case for the Pentagon. It's not a single, simple, unbroken structure and does not meaningfully benefit from that premise. The Pentagon is a lot of building segments connecting to form a shape. It would be equally strong as a whole had it been built in the shape of a rectangle or square.
There's also The Scientist and Engineers' Guide to Digital Signal Processing: http://www.dspguide.com/
Agree about DCC but lot of the other issues you list are due to curmudgeonly (IMHO) users insisting on using non-modern clients and networks.

If they would tolerate a little breakage of backwards compatibility, the big networks could easily move to utf8 with standardized identity and colours, etc.

Unfortunately there is a small but very vocal faction of IRC users that are highly entrenched and resistant to change.
It seems like I'm getting sweet potatoes every other meal. My wife and I aren't big fans of sweet potato but I don't think there's a way to tell Blue Apron not to send them to me. I just throw them away and buy my own regular potatoes to supplement.
Well you need both right, the Typescript interface and the JSON Schema? There's still the possibility of a mismatch there.
Frugality is part of the company culture. Sometimes people take that too far - to the point where the word "frupid" got coined internally to describe policies that saved pennies at the cost of massive frustration or inconvenience.
I think that's the biggest flaw with a lot of web-based chats. There's no flexibility in layout. With a chat app like pidgin, I can choose how things are laid out, set up notifications a lot easier, etc. Webapps tend to be a lot more limited in such areas -- not able to choose notification sounds, set various things to notify in different ways, etc.
I've found that the best way to learn something is to play with that thing. Doesn't matter if it's an essay, a sentence, a formula, a function, an algorithm, or whatever. The most essential thing is to play with it. Turn it around in your head, try to apply it to different circumstances - even ones where it would seem nonsensical. Everything is just a block or piece of knowledge in a certain shape waiting for you to see if you can fit it into some random kinda-round hole you found.

I feel like people approach higher levels of education more like a job than like a game to master. It's all the same.
Sick days get abused by both sides.

A manager once told me that a member of his team was sick for exactly two weeks every year. Coincidentally, the company offered 2 weeks paid sick time. He said she wasn't fooling anyone, and didn't get a raise as a result.

In another company I knew, it was well known that a sunny day after many days of rain resulted in a spike in sick days.
> The statement that you quoted does not claim, or imply, that it's all the same.

Fair point, and it crossed my mind when I wrote my GP comment. I disagree with your statement but I can't disprove it and any comment's implications are in the eye of the beholder, to a degree. But I still think the implication I took is a reasonable one, and I did write carefully so as address an argument made by many, even if not by the GGP:

> I strongly disagree with the argument that it's all the same [emphasis added]
If nothing else, it's probably worth looking into integration with qemu user mode emulation, which already allows execution of ARM binaries on x86 platforms
An interesting comment I ran across... not sure if it's valid or not, though:

"Lawyer here. This myth that passengers don't have rights needs to go away, ASAP. Here is how United illegally kicked him off the plane:

1. First of all, it's airline spin to call this an overbooking. The statutory provision granting them the ability to deny boarding is about "OVERSALES", specifically defines as booking more reserved confirmed seats than there are available. This is not what happened. They did not overbook the flight; they had a fully booked flight, and not only did everyone already have a reserved confirmed seat, they were all sitting in them. The law allowing them to denying boarding in the event of an oversale does not apply.

2. Even if it did apply, the law is unambiguously clear that airlines have to give preference to everyone with reserved confirmed seats when choosing to involuntarily deny boarding. They have to always choose the solution that will affect the least amount of reserved confirmed seats. This rule is straightforward, and United makes very clear in their own contract of carriage that employees of their own or of other carriers may be denied boarding without compensation because they do not have reserved confirmed seats. On its face, it's clear that what they did was illegal-- they gave preference to their employees over people who had reserved confirmed seats, in violation of 14 CFR 250.2a.

3. Furthermore, even if you try and twist this into a legal application of 250.2a and say that United had the right to deny him boarding in the event of an overbooking; they did NOT have the right to kick him off the plane. Their contract of carriage highlights there is a complete difference in rights after you've boarded and sat on the plane, and Rule 21 goes over the specific scenarios where you could get kicked off. NONE of them apply here. He did absolutely nothing wrong and shouldn't have been targeted. He's going to leave with a hefty settlement after this fiasco."