skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically it's laid off or terminated without cause, in which case the person gets unemployment, the business takes a hit on their unemployment insurance but it's typically no hassle as long as it wasn't for a reason that's explicitly against the law, like discrimination.

"Terminated with cause" avoids the hit in unemployment insurance to the business, the person doesn't get to collect, but they can sue you for wrongful term if it really should have been the first category -- here's where you need to document gross negligence.
I use Skype a lot, so that would probably be my goto voip provider. Assuming that they offer something like a landline.
Yes, they do. The point I was trying to make was that I imagine that the new directive on the H1B's allowing them to be used by startup-y people would probably apply to E3's too.

ie, Go to the US to work for your business, and take your partner along who'd be able to work wherever they'd please.
Dr. Matloff has been had by the lie of the mean.

What I see from where I sit in the industry is that H-1B pay is not centered about a mean, it's really a very extreme bi-modal distribution. You have your Infosyses, bringing in ultra-cheap IT labor at a pittance, and you have your Googles and Facebooks, bringing in very highly paid engineers that are earning the prevailing wage (very, very high prevailing wage) for their field.

In other words, "H-1Bs" are not a singular group and cannot be analyzed as such. A large part of the H-1B program does address a very critical labor shortage in this industry, the other part... not as much.

I'd invite Dr. Matloff to actually hang around our industry for some time before laying a claim like: "There is no tech labor shortage." Has he been in the hiring chair recently? Because oh dear God.

It seems also interesting that the only source he actually bothers to cite is the confession of a single former H-1B employer, with the nasty implication that everyone is like Mr. Wadhwa.

I'll just say it: this is xenophobic, anti-immigrant, protectionist bullshit.
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At the company I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the biggest proponents of long hours were a couple of (hourly, natch) contractors who were practicing the most aggravating form of Mortgage-Driven Development I've ever witnessed firsthand. Then salaried people were hounded to work extra hours to keep up with their sh-- code.
Yes, it makes it sound like those banks endorse bitcoin in some way.
Now the question is, how can De Beers extend their extorted monopoly to all flame?
How about in a cyclical project start -> project release process?

I am not referring to "crunch time" where you realize everything is broken and your schedule was unrealistic; rather, many projects I have participated in have an escalating work load as you near release, because a lot of the work simply cannot be done before previous stages are completed.

Unless you are a large entity that can heavily "pipeline" by running 10 or 20 projects at once, and shuffle people around as a project's workload changes, to avoid ever working overtime you'd need to either have to hire too many employees, or hire/fire regularly. Not entirely dissimilar to trying to balance a server cluster with load spikes.
>This line of thought falls into the incorrect notion that just using a GPL program or linking to it with another application will immediately force you to change the license of your product to GPL, too. Most people understand these days that this is wrong, though every once in a while this FUD still pops up, amazingly.

This is believable, unfortunately, because of Stallman's rants against proprietary software. They are easier to read and understand than the actual GPL, so too many people get their ideas of the GPL from the rants rather than doing the work of reading and understanding the license.
This is a very good thing for Android.

The BRIC nations have a faster growth rate, a burgeoning middle class that can't yet afford Apple IPADs or other premium tablets. They would definitely buy these low cost and yet highly functional devices. More people will use it , be familiar with its interface and when they have the money, they will upgrade to better Tablets running Android.
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I didn't read the article yet, but that widget is pretty sweet.
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check out the Daemon and Freedom books..... along those lines, just 1000x more so. http://thedaemon.com/
Same here. But somehow the numbers always get recalculated when they pass through my supervisor's hands.
This might be more common than you suspect. I was en route to Tokyo from Toronto stopping in Detroit when bad weather meant I missed the flight from Detroit. The Delta staff said I'd have to stay in Detroit, I asked to go somewhere else and they happily sent me on the next flight to Seattle where I could depart for Tokyo the next afternoon. I assume when a lot of flights are cancelled it's not really a problem to send people on under booked flights and get those people out of the way and routed through a less congested location.
I know a few founders who employ themselves under H1-B while also taking all the board seats, but they did this before August. I wonder if this would still fly.
Off question, but I am working on a very similar idea (only in my head for now). Hit me up if you would like to connect. My email is in my profile.
The areas that end up being the most complex with regard to training end up being properly designing progression (how you increase the intensity of your workouts), rest and recovery (including extended breaks from training), injury and recovery, and yes, form.

These are also the areas in which I've seen most trainers spend the least time and offer the least value. Most are little more than motivational coaches -- a high-margin, easy-to-provide, but ultimately low-value service (you've either got motivation or don't, and either way, you've got to drag your ass to the gym or wherever else you train).

If you do start light, progress slowly, get critiqued on your lifting form (and realize that everyone has an opinion), and sort it out for yourself, you'll generally do pretty well.
What do you mean by "it won't happen again"? I don't think calling someone nasty names will prevent a fraudster from trying to exploit this system.

If anything, I think the system would shut down to prevent any more abuse.
What the hell? This is a serious change in direction. HP was supposed to transform its PC division into a higher margin business by more aggressively pursuing the luxury market. Also the PC division was part of the WebOS master plan by bundling it with every new PC by the end of the year.

What does this mean for HP's consumer business? What does it mean for WebOS? It seems like Leo is returning to his SAP comfort zone which looks a lot more like IBM than Apple.

Even though the article does not mention Compaq, I can see the new company inheriting the brand name instead of sharing HP. But just how much of the consumer business do they plan to abandon?
Most people are better off, especially in what they can buy -- but in the context of NOT HAVING A JOB, and therefore not being able to afford anything, that doesn't matter.
The scam and your idea seem fundamentally different.

I'm not sure exactly how this ExchB thing works, but since your exploit involves personally writing a bad check, and then cashing it at a bank... seems like you would end up being liable.
If a feature can be duplicated in 48 hours, it's a trivial feature. If your business is that dependent on trivial features, it's a really precarious business.
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The monitoring is automated. There are a lot of suppliers of this type of software and it's not very hard to write it yourself. I recommend playing with YQL + Twitter search API + cron.
Book scanning is actually a great tool for University students. I know that a lot of the actual University libraries are trying to go digital, but in the mean time being able to quickly find specific passages by utilizing the find function makes for a much easier day at the old study hall. This sort of idea could certainly pick up traction around schools for the next few years.
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Looks like mostly bug fixes.
what is this, a Game of Thrones type of suspense build up?
I'd like to hear more about the choice to keep strict time logs in a startup environment. Especially strict ones that provide enough granularity to see 5 hours of break time/wk.
Here is a longer article, with pictures of evolved objects printed in Silver and Bronze:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-endless-web-d-printable....
This is quite a high level overview, so possibly underneath they're using distcc. This at least used to be true for ad-hoc builds on their corporate network in previous years.
cd-to-mp3 services have been around for a long time. i'm sure most of them have lossless encoding as an option.

googling "service to convert cd to mp3" just found a bunch of them.
When this is all said and done, I wonder if they will change their ticker symbol from HPQ back to HWP, which is what it was before their purchase of Compaq.
Ha, thanks. I really suck at finding out if I'm going to post a dup. I just did a site search of HN on the URL, but apparently the article was regurgitated from several news sites. Oh well, thanks for linking me with those comments. Interesting stuff.
Don't you think it's a bit unfair to call everyone who works long hours incompetent? I've seen point two that edw519 made a few times. If there's not enough work to pay for another employee, but just enough to pay for your kids college tuition if you make a lot of overtime, what should you do? Growing your business can take years before you can relax a little.
I highly doubt this. With Apple's history, I think they would dump the audio plug completely in favor of bluetooth.

If you can't use bluetooth, then they'll force you to buy an adapter which lets you use the 30 pin connector for headphones and mic.

On second thought, why don't all manufacturers do this? Isn't it time we get rid of the headphone jack? I'm sure my micro-b usb port can do the job.
I guess I had always assumed attacks were brute force input = output. But you seem to be implying that patterns would be looked for that would make the encryption/decryption vastly easier. That would probably be the piece that I wasn't grasping because if you have:

a -> f(a) -> b

vs.

a -> g(a) -> b

Then brute force really wouldn't be affected by complexity unless it was a time factor and thus either of the functions should be identical in security. But if analysis was the key to a good attack then this makes perfect sense. Thanks for the info.
"If you're working overtime very often on your own business, it's either because you're incompetent, or lazy, or greedy, or failing (see 'incompetent')."

Of all of the successful people I've met (measured in cash, influence, etc), I can't think of ANY who weren't pretty seriously married to their work. I guess many of those people fall into the "greedy" camp and are doing it for the money. But I think most of them do it because they love (or are just addicted to) the game they are playing.

Whoever you're competing with, you've probably got competitors smarter than you and willing to put in long hours. If you're playing to win (many people do, for a lot of reasons), how do you propose to beat them?

To anticipate a common argument: Yes, working hard can lead to stress/bad decisions/burnout. But empirically, it seems to correlate pretty strongly with success.
I accidentally upvoted you (trying to view your profile, I dont have downvote privileges). The CPU use of just about any GIF spinner is trivial compared to this, even in the browser this runs best in. Sure its a solid enough concept, but not something that'd you actually use in practice yet.
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I am not saying it's never a good idea for an individual actor. However, conspectus consumption is by definition wasteful, after all the whole point is to show you can waste large amounts of money. But, you need to approach these things with the understanding that people who avoid such rituals can and often will eat your lunch.
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Some things that could be improved upon is better sandbox. Too many extensions seems to need my data on all sites. Maybe some extensions could work just as well with a copy of the DOM instead of the DOM itself?

And a policy that extensions must not be minified and some buttons on the extension view to read the source code with syntax highlighting and all.
Have you considered setting up an api? If I used this, I'd worry that if I forget to respond to the emails or something. Letting me hook it into other events that indicate I'm alive, such as logging into my laptop, etc, would prevent this.

It'd really be a one-action api- send a post request to some url to keep me alive, with some level of authentication.
High level overview anyone?
Definitely a step in the right direction, but I think they should just turn the Bay Area into a Special Administrative Region similar to what Hong Kong is to China.
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After all, if you stopped marketing tomorrow you’d have a nice, profitable $10 million a year business.

This is incredibly naive. To pretend that marketing isn't a core part of Groupon's model is like pretending that Ford doesn't need car dealerships.
Ugh. Surely thats what CSS transforms and transitions are for. Javascript animations should be a last resort...
I agree, this post doesn't make senese, because Groupon needs to market to acquire current business, in addition to "expansion" business. ASCOI excluded important current business marketing spend.

I left a more detailed comment on this on the author's blog article page.
Why did it take so long to do this? (Don't get me wrong, I think it's great and I guess I hadnt thought of it)

Also the next obvious step would be to add doppler radar and satellite cloud coverage, not just pictures of suns and moons everywhere.
I think Watson would make a better primary diagnostic tool than most doctors, but there is an interesting question about decisions. There are so many variables involved in medicine that having something that can actually synthesize all of them seems like it would be a net positive, but I'm not sure what it would take for me to feel comfortable about the machine making a decision on my treatment. I can't imagine the time won't come (during my life) where diagnostics and treatment can be done by machine.
Anyone could review extensions in Chrome's gallery and provide a seal of quality or recommended avoid list.

With Chrome's model, competing groups with different priorities could recommend different sets of apps to use or avoid, just like competing review magazines for consumer goods.

Mozilla's model invites pressure from DHS to kill specific apps the government doesn't like. So far Mozilla has rejected calls to kill extensions that help circumvent state sponsored blacklists,* but for how long?

As Google learned in China, if there is a technical measure which could hypothetically suppress speech, then some government will eventually demand its use.

* See "MAFIAAfire"
This is why I don't dual boot anymore (No more Windows)
They're probably working on a candle diamond detector right now.
The email is quite predatory and I suspect quite a few vulnerable people are going to fall for it. Just goes to show how sophisticated and targeted spam mail is getting (no longer do you just get emails for V1AGRA!).
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The video indicated that the binding for the book was being cut off. I suspect that will prevent students from borrowing books from the library, getting them scanned via this service, and returning them.

It is sad that many hundreds of thousands of hours have been wasted by students photocopying books :(
Should this article be retitled: Understanding Groupon Means Understanding Accounting Fraud?
Facebook suddenly rushing out stuff as Google+ launches.

Reddit having to work crazy to take up the exodus from Digg.

That bookmark service that did great out of the del.ici.ous fiasco (sorry I honestly can't remember your name!).

Perpetuum having a mass of new players because of the Eve monocle incident.

I'm sure others can think of times when one business has had to react rapidly to either manoeuvres or failures of another business.

Not quite put out of business, but massive opportunity cost if the reaction is not made.
I'm like this also, but would you be hot for 60 hours a week for a year? I think the op is referring to extending time periods.
>a large fraction of the population uses only SMS

Interesting. These people who use only SMS, do they never use their phones to make voice calls -- or do you mean only SMS and voice?
I've known at least a few guys who did indeed like working long hours in the office, since that was less stressful than going home to a house full of cranky kids at bedtime. One co-worker even relished his 1.5 hour commute as the only relaxing parts of his day.

I often like to hang around the office to take care of personal business-but-not-work stuff between 6 and 7 pm. Things like personal finance, doing accounting for this one volunteer organization (I'm treasurer), browsing and booking personal travel. I never want to do that stuff once I'm at home, so putting that into the 6-7 pm window both lowers temptation to do it during the business workday and pushes out an urge to keep working on work stuff late.
Wow. A shame... So let's see... According to Hacker news... I'm:

1) Super Rich. (Not by a long shot.)

2) Horrible because I travel for a business lunch. Sorry, but in the real world, business is much more fruitful when done over a handshake, and not a pixelated image.

3) A celebrity. If that's the case, can you inform my cat? I just cleaned up his puke from my couch. Don't celebrities have "people" do to that?

4) This was a set-up. Really? I'd risk 15 years building a professional career for one stunt? Thanks for playing, but no.

Sad. I expected more out of y'all. But hey, it's just the Internet, right?
I think the app ratings for the popular apps are all useless (they're well know apps, other people rave about them, so no need to read all the reviews). I agree on the long tail being useless as well.

Instead, I think it's most useful for the "middle tail": those apps that do get a fair bit of usage, but are not considered popular: the developer may not have build up a reputation yet, but the reviews help confirming the application does what it is supposed to do (or not of course).
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So how did they find him in the airport? And what do they use for CRM?
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It really pisses me off that I can't opt out of receiving text messages. AT&T charges me for text messages I didn't want from people I don't even know. The system should be changed so that only the people sending text messages pay.
It seems like it is very simple to me: You should always code with your performance requirements in mind. But you shouldn't do detailed optimization until you have some sort of profiling feedback.

You have to do your basic coding with your performance requirements in mind, because it is all too easy to come up with code that can never meet your performance requirements, no matter how much you profile and optimize it.

Case in point: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/p1-best-way-to-multiply-... . My solution (http://strangelyconsistent.org/p6cc2010/p1-colomon/) was quite elegant, IMO, setting up things so I simply generated all the all the possible solutions, and then took the min with respect to the number of multiplications.

But it was also appallingly inefficient. Generating all the possible solutions is completely the wrong approach, and no amount of optimizations to my algorithm would ever be sufficiently efficient for non-trivial problems. The only possible approach is to start over from scratch: http://strangelyconsistent.org/p6cc2010/p1-moritz/

So if I had properly considering my performance requirements, I would have come up with a much better solution. (Or just failed: dynamic programming is not really in my programming toolbox. I need to get around to remedying that!) But at the same time, worrying about how to most efficiently represent my Ordering object would have been completely pointless.

That's what "avoid premature optimization" means, IMO. It's not an excuse ignore performance. It's about not sweating the small details until you're certain they're important.
At this point, it's the "lower" level issues - suspend, graphics, sound - that are ruining the Linux desktop, even for us geeks.

They were the reason I gave up on Linux desktop two years ago and forked over the extra money for a Mac. Closing your laptop and knowing it will work when you open it later!

BTW, we got new Dell laptops at work last year and found they would degrade with every suspend/resume (e.g. audio glitches). Did I mention this was Windows 7?
This. I did this so often I stopped using shared sessions.
Right, getting a list of the tweets is easy. Filtering them and deciding which require action and then acting on the information becomes much harder.