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In Australia we have 'demerit points', so if you rack up enough of them, you can lose your license, which takes away your right to drive a car. If you drive without a license and get caught, you have no insurance and you can go to jail as it's considered contempt of court.

So the fines are no big deal to the rich here, but the right to drive is incentive enough to stop being an asshat.
The dd-style syntax isn't actually that bad. of=X if=Y is possibly easier to remember than -o X -i Y, while still being less typing that --output X --input Y.

JCL itself has a lot of warts, no denying that. But the basic idea behind the DD statement is interesting. In Unix, file descriptors are just numbers; whereas, in classic MVS, instead of numeric file descriptors the API uses 1-8 character names (DDNAMEs). While in principle a Unix program can inherit any number of file descriptors, in practice very few programs inherit any more than 0-2, because remembering numbers has poor usability. In classic MVS, it is not uncommon for a program to inherit more than 3 file descriptors, because they are assigned names not numbers. ("File descriptors" and "inherit" are not quite the right terms, but trying to use Unix-like language to make it comprehensible to people.)

(And I say classic MVS, because contemporary z/OS is actually a conforming Unix implementation so it supports numeric file descriptors in the Unix API, as well as alphanumeric DDNAMEs in the classic MVS API.)
There is a huge difference between a few weeks of vacation a year (probably taken in 1-2 week chunks) and multiple continuous months of parental leave. The latter can absolutely kill a startup, especially when the person leaving is a subject matter expert in a critical area.
Keep in mind the actual fraud is NOT saying “we will try to do impossible task X” and failing. The fraud is going to extreme lengths to cook up results to drum up sales and investments.

UBeam might very well flameout but I think if you are evaluating a company for fraud potential, there’s no evidence of UBeam making up complete BS to raise investments. In that case, even if their tech doesn’t pan out, as long as they weren’t massively deceiving investors, it would be a failed startup, not a fraudulent one. They are not the same thing.
I'm reading the book Bad Blood at the moment. It's a cracker. Assuming it's true, the level of wilful negligence and fraud is astounding. What is unbelievable is how they got away with it for so long.

I can hardly put it down, I highly recommend it.
I hate these kind of sophisticate-cynical arguments.

Yes you are technically correct, and thus get to revel in Being Right. Drinking a celebratory champaign.

Yet we are still having negative outcomes that are highly problematic. And you have contributed nothing except, what, smugness?
Name one company you could call up and ask “hey I’m doing some dirt that might get me inestigated by the feds, can you secure my comms?” And they’d say yes.

Now name one that an average attorney could find.

I’m not picking on you, I’m serious. I have a couple of people I might ask, but if expect most of them to say “no thanks”
> Running a business requires a lot more soft skills than getting a job, because you live and die by your sales, no matter how good your product is.

Yes and no. The good thing about the internet is that you can get a decent sales funnel without having to talk to a single person. Write interesting blog posts on relevant topics, help others by showing how to solve their problem with your product, etc. There's a lot to learn here for a techie nerd, but the learning curve here is much easier for those who aren't naturally good at dealing with people.
I was looking for a job in 2008, unfortunately right during the stock market crash. I would go and interview for jobs and then get a call back saying that hiring was freezing as the national financial markets continued to spiral downwards.

Fortunately, companies still needed their websites maintained and I opened up shop for myself below agency rates and above freelancing rates in the hopes of building my own agency.

It worked and multiple clients signed on looking to save money and I was able to build and grow a team as a result, eventually working up to market rates as the economy improved.
> First... people with bad soft skills don't have the ability to self-reflect and admit it, as you have. Give yourself some credit.

This is a nice sentiment but I don't think it's true. 'Soft skills' is a pretty broad category, and you can definitely be bad at some of them without being arrogant or oblivious.

(I'm confident that this is more than just a technical possibility, because I think it applies in my own case: I'm aware of and willing to admit many of my flaws, but that doesn't always save me from awkwardness, underdeveloped social instincts, etc. I can even manage to come across as arrogant, despite having quite a low opinion of myself.)
Don't iPhones have Bluetooth?
If we anything they'd be named something like "ym", "cv", or "ck" if they were Unix tools. I was expecting a new set of JavaScript libraries.
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> My point is really that no one calls their opponents 'Stalin' or 'Commies'

"Commie" is not a great word to call folks in the US. Thougth weight is not as great as 'nazis', some "media" outlets still use the term.
Forbes is for 'Wall Street Wannabees' who cream their jeans over concepts like 'Marketing Share'.

Open Source enthusiasts and/or programmers don't give two hoots about 'market share' or 'user adoption'. As long as it's there for them to use, that's all that is necessary.

There used to be the derogatory question "When is it going to be the 'Year of the Linux Desktop'?" until the Linux-based Android monopolised the smartphone market.

One could just as well ask "When is it going to be the 'Year of the Mercedes on the Roads'?" except that people know that it's always the year of the Mercedes on the Roads, even if most people buy a Ford, GM or Chrysler.
They were exposed after they raised almost a billion dollars from sales and investments, often on the basis of glowing media. The book is filled with anecdotes abt how the positive media was leveraged by Holmes and often cited by internal champions at Safeway and Walgreens to counter the skeptical voices in the room (“come on, they’re in Forbes, they can’t be a scam!”)
As much I hate to admit it, I have no proof that it was infact my idea. So there’s not a damn thing I can do about it :(

But, if I had in fact patented a practical implementation of my abstract idea, or my idea itself was about a practical implementation of a thing and it was patented, and you stole it, we’d have loads of fun doing a tango dance at the local courthouse. Assuming of course that I could afford the lawyer to dance on my behalf, considering my terrible dancing skills.
What about Mark Zuckerberg who has an annual salary of $1.00?
I am not surprised. Hackernews is filled with entirely too many 20-something boys. I've been getting fairly disappointed with this place for several years now.

Sadly the rest of the internet is even worse somehow!
Was there another smartphone platform he could have used at the time that would have been less work to secure? A secure smartphone for the President seems well worth the effort.
You will win more people to your cause without insulting the people you are convincing to open their wallets!

Many of the great disagreements in the world come from one side considering only the 'normative' view, and one side considering the 'positive' view.

The normative view (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normative) is when we look at how things ought to be.

The positive view (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_economics) is when you look at what actually happens.

In order for people to come together and agree, you have to convince them on both levels.

Consider abortion. The normative position is that "no fetus/baby should ever be aborted". The positive position is that illegal abortions are dangerous, and will happen anyway. In addition, making the topic taboo reduces contraception use, which is one of the few things that actually reduces abortions.

The normative position on this issue is that discrimination based on pregnancy is unethical, and we are bad for even discussing the issue.

The positive position is that putting the burden of paid leave on the employer INCREASES the incentive to discriminate against women of childbearing age. Therefore, we should avoid setting up a system where there are huge incentives to discriminate. If we want to reduce discrimination, we should require a small income tax (it'd only need to be like 0.5%), and have the government cover salaries during paid maternity leave.
Well, if (when?) uber/lyft enter the market, you probably already have their apps, so this is a non-issue.

For others, I think if you have competent product people, you'd limit registration to a phone number and offer apple/android pay. With iOS 12, for example, it would be so seamless since it can auto-fill confirmation codes. So all you'd have to do is put in your phone number and you're logged into a new account.
That’s fair but if I may use some heuristics here if they are able to get investors like Sequoia and Accel the round is almost definitely competitive enough that they can dictate terms and get clean term sheets
> Because it's not legal to even ask about pregnancy or desire for children during an interview

It's not illegal to ask about these things, but it's illegal to make a hiring decision based on these factors and asking during an interview would be pretty strong evidence of using the information in hiring.
"WE had twins so SHE wasn't going back to work anyway"

I'd say you were discriminating her way more than Google.

Kids are ruinous for women careers but only partly for practice like one described.

The other reason is that we as families, partners and society in general accept that kids are, essentially, a woman job.
> is that always reasonable?

This is why remote-only work culture is so important for social justice in tech. Flexible working hours from home gives women the freedom to work from their recovery beds, walk away from the computer to feed their newborns, be there to give their kids a snack and ask them how was school when they get home.

One of the best hiring strategies is to focus on workers whom the market is undervaluing, for whatever prejudice. Remote-only allows you to take the real career-related risks that pregnancy and motherhood imposes and completely mitigate them.
12 months paid and not having to show up for work?

> ... wasn't going back to work anyway ...

Adding in severance pay on top of that, sounds like a sweet deal!
"scientific" might be a better way.

I am continually disappointed at people who use the summary of a scientific article to prop up their justification, along with what I call "the world is a binary logic puzzle" fallacy.

For example, a lot of arguments positioned nature vs nurture. It's not a simplistic blend of this or that, or even as simple as "trait X is DNA and trait Y is societal" -- if you learned anything about biology the sheer adaptability of the human body should be it.

Don't forget that every single study hypothesizes a model, then attempts to build evidence in support of it. All models are wrong, some are occasionally useful.

I've been extremely disappointed in the 'bay area rationalist' community with their response to that memo. It's really given me an eye opening view on the limitations of so-called "rationality" as they practiced it.
Take a look at Snowplow. Those guys are doing a great job with their open source stack. You need a bit of ops experience to deploy the components but nothing super hard. Besides, the community is very helpful.
Because you can't define pathology (deviation from a norm) without defining the norm. Modern psychologists dodge this question and implicitly assume various generally accepted moral standards and tenents (a form of circular reasoning) by which they condemn those who don't follow it. It is not science and to make it a science the psychologists should be seeking a rational basis to define ethics. Nobody has done this and until they do psychology will remain a pre-science like alchemy.
None of that matters. An employer is free to ask any questions they want.

What they aren't free to do is make discriminatory hiring decisions based on membership in protected classes.

Avoiding asking certain types of personal questions is one way to avoid the appearance of discriminatory hiring practices.

>they can take that into account.

They can't take that into account just because you bring it up. Whether or not you bring it up or they ask doesn't matter. Some jurisdictions have laws explicitly forbiding discrimination against parents, and the federal prohibition on sex discrimination means that discrimination against caregivers is generally prohibited (since women are more likely to be caregivers, discrimination against them is defacto discriminatory towards women)
Netflix gives 12 months for maternity/paternity.
> Where will you find the time?

If she doesn't have the time to work on a lawsuit, why would she have had the time to work at her job?
Try to understand it strategically.

If there's a 25% tariff on Chinese components, it makes Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, developing-economy players more competitive. If the tariff is projected to last it will cause a sizable diffusion toward other players. Consider also that tech goods growth is projected to continue and China wants to start fabbing silicon. China doesn't want the brakes pumped on that exponential curve.
ICO's have reached multi-million dollar valuations in a matter of minutes. Caveat emptor.
Who knows, may have received more in a lawsuit.
There was just a story today in the news about the University of Chicago completely doing away with requiring SAT/ACT for admissions. It seems like we're bending over backwards to toss out any kind of test or criterion that could be perceived as discriminatory. With one stated goal to make the student body mirror the general population.

But that is a flawed premise. Is it even the role of higher education to remedy the cards that have already been dealt, and even if so what evidence is there that it actually does what people say it does?
Both can use birth control.
What I don't get is... forget the "illegal" part, how is that not dumb? 3 months after your first child is born is when you start to accommodate with your new life. They will spend another 6 months-1y trying to find a reasonable replacement, and might very well end up with a poorer employee, and for sure one that needs to ramp up for a few months. By that time, she will likely be fully productive again.

What baffles me the most is that my (US) employer practices rampant positive discrimination when hiring women (I don't mind, btw). And I find it hard to believe they're unique in this. How does a company go from "we ned more gender diversity" to "let's fire the young mothers!"?

WRT "how to fix this".... it's one of the few things that my country has done fairly well, but it'd be unthinkable in the US: you can legally take up to 2 years of maternity leave (or paternity leave, but not both; I think social security covers most of the costs for the company). It's at a fraction of your salary, and there are incentives to come back to work sooner, but you can also stay the full 2y. If you come back sooner, the company is often just grateful, they don't question "how will you handle it" because well... you could've stayed home; you probably figured it out how to handle a small child. And after 2y, nobody really doubts that you can handle work & parenting. Firing you while pregnant is rampantly illegal, I've never heard anybody have this problem - but, indeed, there is sometimes/in some companies a reluctance to hire young childless women. Still, overall I think the rule is pretty good.
It's actually pretty common in all kinds of fields to see others reproduce things that they have known for decades. A fun (and infamous) example is this paper (http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152) which rediscovers the trapezoidal rule to calculate area under the curve and gets published.
Correct, a sizable number of these lunatic US neocons support Israel because they believe that once all the Jews are gathered there, a holy war will begin in which Jews and Muslims will obliterate each other and Jesus will come take all the Christians to heaven. But the ones that aren't totally insane just support Israel because of its geopolitical significance.
In a normal city, that lifestyle is dirt cheap. As in, your total spending could be under $15k/year. That frees up a whole lot of possibilities beyond a $100k/year bachelors-degreed corporate 9-5. Grad school, skipping college altogether, the arts industry, the nonprofit sector, part-time work, etc. all become feasible. And if you do go for a high-end white collar gig, your savings percentage is ludicrous - you could very quickly get the point of sustaining the same lifestyle on investment income alone.

If you can tolerate strangers in your kitchen and living room, it's rarely the optimal move to pursue that lifestyle at a high-stress white-collar job in an expensive area, where it's merely prudent. Do it in the sort of place where it's liberating.

I'd also guess that people making the tradeoffs necessary to land at a $100k job are motivated, at least in part, by the desire to live better than this. People who made those tradeoffs during a less severe phase of the housing crisis are feeling a little cheated right about now. Are they the most sympathetic victims in the world? Of course not. They'll be fine. The market will adjust - Bay Area companies will pay more, or have a harder time hiring as word gets around about what those job offers really entail. But it takes time for those cultural memes to propagate - just like it took a while for the general public to catch on that law school is no longer a meal ticket - and people caught up in that latency are going to be a little pissed as the material conditions that their oh-so-alluring "$100k" can buy get worse and worse every year.

As an aside, $1500-$2000 is a lot to pay for a room in Oakland. You'd expect to be in SF for that. Out south and west (towards Daly City) rooms can be $1200 or even $1000.
I was going to say something similar. I would like to see time to unicorn vs time duration of company.

Not just because of the example companies that didn't do well. I expect a rapid valuation like this is almost guaranteed to be too fast for management to handle or too fast for the investors to actually know whether it is that valuable.
Stalin Falsified the Data, Then Killed the Statisticians
>>Name one company you could call up and ask “hey I’m doing some dirt that might get me inestigated by the feds, can you secure my comms?” And they’d say yes.

No, "I'm doing sensitive work for a huge company and we fear that hackers are trying to penetrate our network and devices." How many would say yes now? Until the raid he was a big shot...and the personal "lawyer" to Trump.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ev-revenue-multiple.asp

EV/R is typically 2.x I think. Of course it's a very faulty metric, but as a ballpark figure I think it's useful as a 'bubble' indicator.
>This is why remote-only work culture is so important for social justice in tech. Flexible working hours from home gives women the freedom to work from their recovery beds, walk away from the computer to feed their newborns, be there to give their kids a snack and ask them how was school when they get home.

Although I agree in principle, I can think of few things as horrifying as new mothers working from a hospital bed, it's practically dystopian.

IMO the way of fixing the discrimination issue is equal maternity and paternity leave, along with increasing the amount of leave. If both parents are going to take the same time off then there's less of an issue.
Recommended: Ian Kershaw's books on Hitler.

https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Ian-Kershaw-ebook/dp/B00BJIMCA...
Cloud9 Core available on github. They never replied regarding a onprem license[0].

[0]: https://github.com/c9/core/blob/master/LICENSE-COMMERCIAL-US...
That sounds very much like Medicaid, or are you saying that the state mandates that the cost of the care come out of the "pocket" of the hospital?
Having been involved in a lawsuit, and despite winning it, they sap the life out of you.
So if I run a long running grep and terminate it using Ctrl+c, which remote host am I sending the command to?
Man, it's really interesting to see the tech hype cycle again and again and again. The amazing thing to me is that real companies actually do emerge from this, and usually not the ones everybody is fired up about initially.

It's easy to be cynical (I'm certainly guilty) but this attitude, hubris, and unfettered optimism is what it takes to consistently create disruptive companies.
scooter startups feel like they only really make sense in california, where it almost never rains, never snows and is often 70f outside. not many places in the world like that.
They misspoke, Finland fines a percentage of income, which would include money from selling Facebook stock to pay for rent, food, yachts, etc.

IANATaxLawyer, but I imagine gaming the system would require you to take out non-taxable loans using that company stock as collateral, and hope that your lawlessness is caught during the living-on-a-loan years rather than the liquidate-and-repay years.
To say nothing of the logical contortions required to argue that modern standardized tests discriminates based on ancestry or skin color.
Let us know the equivalent of the Beer Hall Putsch or the Reichstag Fire. And Trump did win the election.
Or how about on Internet infrastructure?
Not always the best solution.
Hmm? Blowing 1/3rd of your gross income and 1/2 your cash are approximately the same thing under our tax rates.
It's interesting how this simple truth is not obvious to most people, and we somehow think that people with skills or knowledge have some special quality we don't, when really they're just experienced.
Make it a percentage of taxable income or something like that. Lots of people have non-salary income.
Okay, but due to inflation they won't be the last, because $1B is a goalpost that keeps getting easier to hit as time goes on.

Tune in later for "Stock market breaks record -- again!" or "World population breaks record -- again!".
I don't think those examples match very well. Theranos really didn't have anything that worked. Spacex has rockets that work and satisfied customers. They aren't going to Mars yet, but most of their current satellite launch customers probably really don't care.

And of the various self-driving car efforts, Waymo seems one of the most careful, both in their engineering and PR. I don't recall them making any claims they can't back up, but I may have missed some.
A Chinese tariff would have been great policy 40 years ago. Now it is just stupid.
>>Damn, you'd think that someone at that level would pay for better OPSEC support

I think that he thought himself as untouchable and neglected it. Maybe dodged so many bullets over the years.

Question for HN: did the FBI break the Signal encryption or just managed to open his device to find all the messages there? Maybe sensitive messages need to be deleted.
To make a living wage work, we'll actually have to make sure some of the productivity improvements benefit workers. Productivity has grown 6x as fast[1] as pay.

It's not the workers who have to do something extra to justify what they're making.

[1] https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
Yeah, that I knew, also Aho from dragon book :)