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I'm not as negative as you are, I think this is all very interesting, from the outside looking in. It really helps understanding the pros and cons of our monetary system, the good and the bad. It's pretty educational I think.

Of course it's sad for people who invest money they can't afford to lose, but really "investing" in cryptocurrencies is more like playing roulette than anything else and they should've known better.

I really wonder what cryptocurrencies will look like 10 years from now. Will they still exist? Will they have taken over the world as some predict?

Given how easy it is to irrevocably lose your coins I really have a hard time imagining how this could become mainstream. At best I could imagine using bitcoin through some third party that would take care of your wallet for you. We'd call it a bank or something.
The article definitely points out the wrongs done by IMF/World bank. Are there any resources you can point me to, such as data / financial reports which highlight how the resources are misused / mishandled?
I can't pay with credit cards in a lot of places online (I'm from the EU)
Tell that to your Venezuelan friends.
Indirectly you are asking about indian/Chinese work hours. Which is being less in office, mostly wfh and 1+ hour lunch break. Bay Area is the best.
Why is gold worth $5 trillion market cap? If someone steals your gold, you can't even get it back easily.
This jives with another phenomenon I have noticed over the years: the smartest or best devs in the company aren't necessarily making the most money.

Imagine you have a very talented engineer that joins Company A out of college. They pick up new skills quickly and do an excellent job with everything they get thrown their way. The reality is that the company isn't likely to give them a 50% bonus overnight just because they deserve it.

Whereas you can get another person that comes in from another company (and many more before that) and due to the nature of jumping around has the title and the base salary going for them. They very well aren't as good as this other person, but just because they have what they have, they keep getting it.

To be really successful as an engineer, you need to know your stuff, and also know what you are worth. I've seen so many talented engineers stick with companies that are paying them way under market value just because they don't feel like applying anywhere else and they don't know how much more they could be making elsewhere.
Are you getting paid for 50 hours?
I'm not a lawyer, but pre-announcing that three unfortunate souls will be summarily booted from the plane seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen. I'm guessing they go through the whole song and dance partially to minimize the payout, partially to collect data on average payouts and equilibrium pricing, and partially to create the opportunity for volunteers to leave willingly.

Don't get me wrong; I'd love if they simply cut to the chase. But airlines are not in the business of customer service, as is often painfully obvious. They seem to take their business practices from the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. (In particular, the dictum, "Once you've got their money, never give it back.")
It goes beyond that, unless the US implementation is different to the one i am (somewhat) familiar with.

The chip is an active participant in the authentication.

it will receive digital signatures from the bank and the terminal, and if said signatures are found valid, release the payment info stored.
You can deploy systems to multiple locations in a variety of configurations to handle this need.

Mainframes are not my are of specialty, but it looks like this PDF, "IBM z/OS Multi-Site Business Continuity," has a lot of details:

https://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebInde...
I wonder if a block chain could certify websites:

1. someone writes a url to the chain

2. others post a (url/hash/date time) of the output of the url

3. then people could post an image with their face and a blockchain address. could be a form of ID.
IBM does suggest purchasing one production mainframe and one at CBU (Capacity Back Up) pricing if the company runs their own warm/hot/cold Business Continuity location. As great as these mainframes are at staying online, we have to account for storms and other threats to the data center, and need that redundancy somewhere. The CBU box will usually be much cheaper to run than the production box, but they are not free.
I think they didn't abandon the idea, but until they have a working prototype it's just a idea. Nobody is sure if it's possible to use in the real word, were many people will try to steal a few million dollars if they can.
>I imagine this is good advice in some places, but as a line manager, if you pull this on me I'm more than likely to shake your hand and wish you luck in your new job.

Well, glad that people know that, so that they can wish the company good luck in getting second rate talent.
Kubernetes versus Nanobox for App Creation Workflow
No and I take your point, but I guess the extrapolation is the anonymous nature of blockchain cryptocurrencies enable a class of crime that would be much more difficult with traditional currencies.
You know how Microsoft is playing nice with Linux and open source these days? IBM did it first, because they knew vendor lock-in was a loser. It may continue to help them squeeze money out of existing customers, but it won't get them many new ones. So they had to pivot on their mainframe strategy.

These days, IBM mainframes can not only run Linux and an open source stack on an LPAR, there's even a model of mainframe that is configured to only run Linux. You get the throughput benefits of the mainframe without having to commit to something that's not movable off the platform.
That changed a few months ago...no need to change any values or whitelist anything now. However, the UI does default to "no screen", so the user has to specifically choose "entire screen" from the drop-down list.
If you're running Linux on System Z there is no lock in - but in raw performance, even low end system z hardware will (generally) out perform x86 class hardware.
Makes it much harder to raise future financing, which is bad for everyone.

A company who has given away equity with anti-dilution is much less attractive for a new investor. If 30% of the company is allocated on anti-dilution, that means everyone else without anti-dilution is fighting for the remaining 70%. ALL future dilution comes out of their share. It acts like a dilutive multiplier.

So any new investor is going to want anti-dilution also. But there's only ever 100 percent. So you end up with new investors trying to force old investors to sell (or tasking the founders/board with doing so). This is not uncommon in reality.

BTW, most anti-dilution works by allowing existing investors the option to put in more money with each new round. I.e. they can "top off" their equity to X%, but only by investing more. So as an angel, you might have invested $100k for a few points, but to stay topped off in future rounds, you start having to invest a lot more as the valuation goes up. Not everyone has the desire or liquidity to do that.
for approximately 2 months, before the burnout leads to you doing nothing but wasting time on HN
Surely employers compete for employees, so employees can simply vote with their feet
The recruiter gives a damn about you because the higher compensation he negotiates for you, the more he gets paid (usually). It's in the recruiter's interest to get you the best deal possible, if he's acting as your agent. (It's the opposite if the recruiter works for the employer.) Of course, the recruiter has to walk a fine line because he doesn't want to be too aggressive and lose the deal, but they generally will work for you to a point. However, the flip side to this is that, working through a recruiter, you might not get paid as much because, to the employer, the total compensation is higher since they have to pay the recruiter's fee which is very large. It's kinda like selling something through consignment: they want the best price possible, since they get a bigger cut, but because they get a cut, you might be getting less in the end. But recruiters can get you access to jobs you might not easily have access to otherwise (because the company didn't post it yet, won't post it, didn't post it where you'll see it, etc.), so there's that factor too.
Is the first section of the video badly out of sync for anyone else? Both the real and fake initial segments appear way off to me?
I suspect it's the inverse. The companies I've been at with a 9-5 culture spend a much higher percentage of their time doing "real work" than those with an unpaid overtime culture.
1. money is what people work for. Unless you are doing something truly great for the humanity there is not much more than money or great work conditions google style to motivate people.

2. Of course, because he wants to be paid like the market is paying people in his position, not to be the only idiot with a worthless salary.

Because, you know, they are asking you to offer them the same the competence is able to give.

What you want is an underpaid worker who never ask for a raise and have his mouth shut up for everything, hell you would take a slave if you could
At Google I work 9-5 or 10-6. I take about 30 minutes for lunch and occasional five to ten minute coffee/snack breaks. Recently I've been trying to set aside my last hour of work to read a programming book relevant to my job. Most people here work similar schedules, but typically it's the youngest and newest employees that work longer (which is not expected, and sometimes actively discouraged by managers).
Token sales are risky. What do people expect? Guaranteed thousands-of-percent returns.

At this point, it probably takes good judgement to make money in crypto. You can't just throw fiat at anything & expect to walk away rich.

One of the reasons criminals are all over crypto is because they're valuable.

When Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks he replied: 'Because that's where the money is'.

I'd say caveat emptor.
>The person to whom you're responding explicitly drew a distinction between discussing a raise with your boss vs going to your boss with another offer that you have secured.

Because it's only OK to ask for a raise when the boss has the upper hand?
This is an interesting article on private vs. public blockchains. I personally have never really seen the value in using extremely inefficient distributed ledgers in lieu of a database for permissioned settings.
One of the main Ethereum code-contracts, the DAO ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization) ) had a bug in its code, and someone exploited that bug to extract the value from it. Rather than accept that as consistent with their view of "the code is the contract", the Ethereum developers hard-forked the currency to reverse that result and give everyone their money back.
To me if I can get a better offer (ie over 10% salary increase) that's just a signal that the current employer is trying to take advantage of me. I'm with you in that I'd never go back and negotiate, I'd just leave. Especially early in your career, there is 0 reason to stick around with someone that won't pay you what you're worth. Underpaying is going to directly correlate with retention problems, and limited career growth so it's best to get out early and often.
Hmm, a lot of young people have the mentality that they'll learn more and go farther in their careers if they go to SF/SV to start, even if their adjusted salary is lower. I can't say whether they're right for sure, but it sounds right to me. I think my career has "suffered" for never having lived there. (I'm still doing just fine.)
Some bring from home
I work for a large enterprise security company. I work 1 or sometimes 2 days a week from home. I spend about 6 hours in the office, usually from 10-4. My commute is really long, close to 2 hours one way, so I got my company to reimburse for a verizon jetpack, so that I can work during the commute. Apart from the window of time I spend at work, I work the remaining hours when I am in the right mindset. Sometimes, this is early in the morning, or late in the evening.
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>The people who are buying now give their money to the people who got in earlier.

This is entirely incorrect, no users are paid dividends.
Neither. They hacked the webpage and wrote a different address to send money to. Similar to me sending you a letter that I am Oxfam, please send me money.

If only the crypto-currency world had laws and the institution of justice...
I predict t'will be 21 straight quarters of declining revenues.
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sF is a function to search that formats output similar to sublime's text search
I think there was a recent 20% crash in ether price. Probably a result of immediate dumping from this hack.
How the best design recruiter in the country finds the top 1% of designers
Actually school time tables, college transcripts, etc all say Mathematics. Only everyday communication uses the shortened form.
Blue Apron hit by worries of rival service from Amazon
There's a broader question of when to investigate a technology yourself versus learning from others. A new programmer could spend ten years programming in [some language] or they could learn from other people to avoid it, and possibly save themselves a lot of time. Yes, that means you're just following the bandwagon, but sometimes that's efficient.

I would share the link, though, rather than making my own assertions, and be open to other arguments from more experienced people.
I think there's a whole subreddit dedicated to Bitcoin schaudenfreude.

It's fun at first, but then you start reading about the people (presumably with undiagnosed gambling addictions, but hey, I'm not a psychologist) who dump their entire savings, their kids' college funds, etc. into Bitcoin and then lose the whole shebang. That's the kind of decision that will break apart families.
LPARs are implemented on hardware/microcode level (some older implementations even involve actual physical switches in the CPU and IO buses for partitioning the system), so OS does not have to even know about it.

The main feature of virtualization on zArchitecture are not LPARs, but the fact that that it meets the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements perfectly and thus there are no artificial limits on how deep you can nest the hypervisors. In fact even the process in z/OS can almost behave as if it was running directly on hardware.
The freedom of unregulated money!
My wife and I really enjoy Pandemic and quite often play a quick game using the iPad version during meals.(The physical version is not particularly compact)
9-5 or 10-6, and if something breaks (rare) then you deal with it
Perhaps this is ignorance on my part, but my limited understanding of bitcoin suggests that new bitcoins cannot be created by creating a loan. It would be impossible to use a fractional reserve system with bitcoins by definition. This distinction is important since over 90% of US currency is created via loan using this fractional reserve mechanism.
That's great question
There is a small subset of people who are able to work 80+ hours weeks without end (and are also intelligent, conscientious etc.). I think a significant portion of highly successful people belong to this group.
I think it's important to take both of the posts above this one seriously and not dismiss them as "not in my experience."

If you want leverage in any negotiating situation, you need to be able to walk away from the negotiation if the final terms are undesirable. The party with the best "next-best option" is usually the one most willing to stand their ground on terms, or walk.

That means you need to be prepared to lose your job when you discuss changing its terms, which implies BOTH that you should have other offers AND that you should know your boss might fire you on the spot (or worse, talk you into rejecting the other offers and also quietly stop considering you for advancement in your current role).
I really wish it was as easy to get this outside of the Bay Area. I don't really want to move to the Bay Area (nor does my girlfriend) but I've been stuck making just over half of your current total comp out near Chicago after almost 10 years of experience in various tech stacks.

I know in theory it should be possible out here although Glass Door salary averages for the region are about what I'm making currently, so I don't know.
Banks, government, reservation systems (like airlines) and the odd company that had tech at the seventies.
10-6 M-F is about what I've seen, too. Expect pushback if you schedule a 9 am meeting, but people will show up if there's a good reason.

A few times a year there may be a crunch time when people work longer hours and maybe come in on the weekend, and I strongly advise stepping up at those times or you'll take a serious social hit.

The 60-80 hour work weeks that people speak of are actually quite rare. A few teams and a few very motivated people work that way, but most don't.
Came here to say the same thing.
My work is really flexible, so I come in around 930, and I tend to leave around 4:45 or so. I'm just not productive after that so there's no use sitting in a desk killing time
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Everyone in Crypto Currencies are besotted by the "we are in at ground level of a tech revolution" idea... namely they think they saw the kids of the 80s/90s get easy low qualification required tech jobs and one man shops making 100s/millions/dollars. They are the modern prospectors. Free gold on unclaimed land.

Like any decent business thinker you don't see the rough edges of your focus. Sometimes when you do it can cripple you. But then again most business fail.
Which is entirely different to dismissing Snake Oil, or alternative treatment.

Also, how do you know this?
I mean, there's a strong confounding factor - if you're paying market rate and treating your employees well, it would be very rare that someone comes into your office with a competing offer; and if you're not, then people are likely to leave you even if they don't ask for that counteroffer.

It all depends on how you are managing the compensation growth appropriate for people who are growing in their careers - if you're doing it properly and proactively, then people won't be repeatedly coming to your office with solid evidence that the actual market rate is much higher than whatever you're paying; and if you're giving appropriate raises only when pushed to, then doing that seems to be the only way how your existing employees can continue to get paid market rate.
Net Neutrality Comments May Be Fake, Conservative Group Says
Awesome resource - thank you!
The full title on the link is: "Breaking: CoinDash’s Token Sale (ICO) Website Has Been Hacked." This submission is disingenuous at best, as it implies the ICO contract was hacked: someone hacked the webpage and changed the token sending address.

Edit: Looks like the title was updated. :)
You're suggesting the answer to "we need better startup time" must be "we need the best startup time possible"? In that case, Go is also bad. Everything should be hand-rolled assembler.

Many of us who actually run Clojure in production have been bit by this, and Clojurescript has been fast enough to alleviate the issue. Not a straw man, a community meme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_of_life
That's not true at all in my experience. Both as a manager to others, I've always tried to be loyal to employees who invested in the employer/employee relationship - and as an employee who benefitted from having an employer/managers look out for me when inevitable bumps in the road occurred in my personal life.

Outside of my own direct experience, I can also recall many other co-workers' experiences where the companies I've worked for went above and beyond in their commitment to their employees. One time that meant making many extraordinary allowances for an employee suffering from a mental breakdown. At times it has meant extending the employment of someone who was looking for a life/career change, but the company kept on paying a salary until the employee found somewhere new to land - way beyond where the employment had any real benefit to the company. There are many others.

By all means, takes some precautions. By all means, stand up for yourself. By all means, make sure that you're being fairly compensated... but if you go into every relationship, personal or business, with your shields raised and phasers set to kill - you will reap what you sow.
Parent post generally agrees with what I've seen. I'm older with family and generally work 9-6. I eat free company lunch at my desk most days.
Blue Apron shares sink after Amazon files meal kit trademark
I work remotely for a large SV company. I typically start around 8 am (no commute) and work an eight to nine hour day, sometimes broken up into blocks depending on what I have going on in my real life.
One would hope that CustOS has learned the lesson from Dr. Strangelove [0] and will tell screener recipients that there is a countermeasure, and that they'll be held in breach of contract if that bitcoin account is touched. And for anyone who receives screeners, their financial incentive to keep receiving those screeners is far in excess of a single $5. A random pirate? Not so much.

[0] https://youtu.be/cmCKJi3CKGE?t=3m44s
Not sure if you would count that as greenfield projects (I would not), but I am told they make very good database and ERP servers. Our local utility runs the DB2 backend for their SAP installation on a (small-ish) mainframe.

I remember hearing a while back (~10 years) that IBM and SAP were giving fairly generous discounts for customers to move their SAP installations to GNU/Linux running on zSeries mainframes.

None of that is very buzzwordy, but putting such mission-critical software on a mainframe can make sense at a certain scale.
Hyper deflation and hyper inflation are both extremely destructive to a functional economy.
My list:

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8	87 2,20868% rm
9	82 2,08175% docker
10	79 2,00559% la

'up' is an alias for 'cd ..' and 'la' is an alias for 'ls -la'.
> One of the hugely compelling benefits of cryptocurrencies is they entirely eliminate the necessity for such middlemen taking a cut and driving up costs for the parties actually partaking in the transaction.

Don't all bitcoin transactions require a transaction fee in order to get processed these days?
Another glorious win for the socialist revolution.
Haha, and another group blames us (Indian here) for being in office too long without working and pulling down the general team culture.
The issue with your example is the matter of context. A relationship, in the normal case, isn't a business arrangement. In the 21st century companies (and that's all companies small start up to large mega corp) have no loyalty to you as an employee and you sure as hell shouldn't have any loyalty to them.
170 different cores to choose from. Not sure how they go about determining capacity on a first-time shop, but ongoing installations looking to upgrade base the capacity on the new box against their growth rate and plan accordingly for however long they expect the new mainframe to be on the production floor.
Is this quote the difference between Google and Apple?

With Google, you are the product - you pay $ and have your data harvested and used for advertising.
With Apple, you are the customer - you pay $$$ for a locked down, secure (they try?) system, that doesn't sell your data.

I grew up as an Apple hater (no particular reason), but now that privacy is becoming more of a concern, it seems that the Apple ecosystem offers a better product? Am I being naive about Apple?