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Is it just me or does this writer have an incredibly pessimistic view on his own workers?

Re [sic]: "they will just steal my ideas...", "women will take 6 year vacations (out of spite?)", etc.
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I think the author's point was that Iran is a sophisticated industrial society ("not a backwater") and the people have a wide range of views ("not North Korea").
In what country?
You have no obligation in Sweden to tell anything about pregnancy or illness you may have.
In 2003 there were 6 million car accidents, not to mention people falling over, wars, etc. You're mandating the robot to put everyone in a padded cell for their own good.
This patent was filed by Microsoft in December of 2007 and according to Wikipedia the feature you describe was added in March of 2009 to EVE Online (at least 'change to auto-pilot features...' [I don't play the game so I don't know])

Would that mean they are in violation of the patent?
Quite sure.

I believe PayPal refunded me simply so I wouldn't sue them... but who knows?

Here is the lowdown...

I purchased ~10 1500W rated ATX power cords on ebay from a seller in china.

I fired up 2-3 servers and the cords literally started smoking/melting under ~300 watts of load.

Upon dissection of the cords, it was obvious they were fakes and would never be able to stand 1500 watts of load. They were all comprised of hundreds of 30+ gauge wires.

Long story short... I had to pay for shipment back to china in order to receive a refund.

I wrote to paypal in my furious state, explaining how the seller had nearly burnt down my home (what if the cables went as soon as I stepped out for a smoke?)... and they refunded me literally out of their own pocket.

They said [sic] ... "typically you must return the items but in this case we will refund the payment for you".

I wrote them back wishing the seller would have been reprimanded some how or have had to felt the loss but that was the last I heard from them.
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What if we replaced "employee" with mechanic? Would you be in favour of making it illegal for people to switch mechanics 'at-will'. Then you would have to prove that your mechanic was terrible before you could use someone else.
If you're going to travel, come to Europe! It can be really refreshing to get to know some new cultures. There's so much to see here. I'll give you a tour of Berlin if you're in the area. And I agree with the other people: take a break. Don't feel guilty about not having goals for a few months or a year. In the end, a high quality of life is very important for enjoying life, and if you're going to start too quickly while not having recovered there are chances you won't enjoy it.
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A classic among businessmen all over Europe (I'm Dutch).

And it's wrong(1).

When you spend 3000 Euros to hire someone who nets 1500 Euros, the difference is not "stolen" by the government, it's what you pay to have access to a pool of highly educated potential employees who get free(ish) health care, childcare, pensions that you as an employer don't have to worry about.

There are of course places where such taxes are not levvied, but it's a mistake to assume an employer can simply pocket the 1500 Euros difference as employees will demand higher salaries so they can save up for their own medical care, child care and pensions.

(1) Except the bit about maternity leave: it may not be three years (!) all over Europe but even if it's a mere six months it's enough to cause small businesses to be very reluctant to hire women in the child bearing age.
I can assure you that there is a lot of talking about that. Right now, there is serious discussion here in Italy about taking away some job protection from those who have too much (usually older people) and give some more to those who have none at all, through some kinds of contracts (usually younger people).

I don't think that deregulation is always right, but it is when you have too much - and we do have too much regulation, too much discretionarily applied.
I read this as "Github gives out CLI edition"
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I registered directly with Companies House a few months ago, after consulting an accountant. It was completely straightforward. I don't see any need to use a third party.
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Right-wing label does not mean anything. The same's true for left-wing label.

Politics has more than one dimension, and we're not even sure which dimension is described by this left-right dychotomy.
Read a little further. He has a special needs kid. I don't know how demanding that is for him but I do know that getting the worklife/homelife balance right and finding time to exercise can be quite a challenge even with regular kids.

And btw, I've read his blog for some time now. While I don't make all the same personal choices as he does when it comes to getting things done, I've found his reasoning-from-principles approach to it very helpful.
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I recently built a Website Hosting Provider website that converts approximately 5% of unique visitors. I know I need 400,000 visitors at this rate to hit my income goal - should I focus on getting more hits or high conversions?
"But before you can do that, you need to figure out which package you want. The crucial factor is that in order to open a bank account, you will need a printed Certificate of Incorporation."

This is not true. I have registered a few companies and not once did they care about the printed certificate. They will call Companies House or email them and confirm you are a director and the company exists.

Note: My bank is Lloyds TSB.
Me too. Maybe this should be renamed to something like 'CLI tool for GitHub Issues'?
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I was a little confused also, I am under the impression that he is mentioning 2 points.

1) Attack on RSA to attempt to see if RSA has some attack on the RSA algorithm hidden.
2) Using an attack on SecurID to attempt to get more information from a Lockheed Martin or other breach.
Sad to see codeacademy discriminating against remote workers

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http://37signals.com/svn/posts/161-why-are-you-not-hiring-re...
Yeah, that's very nice when you have a working legal system. In Hungary a case like this will take 5 years, and you will most probably loose. They can steal your software, your artwork, your clients, your intellectual property, and you loose the case. Absurd. Happens all the time, not only to me. Judges are clueless in such matters.
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After looking around I used the Bronze package from Companies Made Simple. It ended up being slightly cheaper then using Companies House direct (my understanding of which is that Companies House only charges formation agents £14 per company). Both give you a PDF of the Certificate of Incorporation which you can print off yourself for the bank if they ask for it, plus if you're happy with Barclays the £50 cash back was pretty sweet.
You should increase both if you have low traffic and low conversion. But once you get to a certain point, focus more on conversion. Increasing visitor count doesn't necessarily mean the ratio of sign up will stay the same. Focus on increasing the number that matters.
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im also from Manila and I believe there is none.
Further, if you have a horizontal product it gets even harder to decide what to add and what to change or to make a certain persona really happy.
It's a mistake to think about Bloomberg as an application, it's much closer to a platform which hosts a wide variety of applications (that just all happened to be made by Bloomberg). Some of the apps might work fine as web apps, but if you have for example an app that requires displaying a large number of updates (for example realtime pricing of the S&P 500) then html/javascript just doesn't have the performance.

Also most of the big clients have physical connections to Bloomberg directly rather than going over the internet (for redundancy, security and performance reasons), and you need to optimize the data going over those connections. If you have a few hundred people at one client all watching 1000 prices in real-time you don't want to send all that data to every user separately so you need to use a fan-out node located at the client site.

These are just a few of the kind of complications you'd need to deal with if you wanted to build a web app that did the same thing. I doubt there's a single web app in existence which has anywhere near the level complexity that Bloomberg on the web would have.

It might be possible eventually but we're still someway off.
i guess that depends on your current traffic. 5% sounds quite good to me, but it depends on absolute numbers.
if you have 1.000 unique visitors a month you propably should focus on getting more traffic.
on the other hand if you have 100.000 uniques a month a/b split testing would be a great way to increase sales.

hope that helps, martin
I have some conjecture based on some prior knowledge/connections..

First the info:

Phil Zimmermann has a company working on Secure VOIP. I was contacted past 18 months ago to build the android mobile client. Project never lifted off due to some large distraction and the excuses I was given never matched up to reality.

I submit because of Phil's connections to other RSA inventors and break-ins that occurred in the past 24 months that the distraction was a major hole was found in RSA or the process to secure it. The RSA inventors are consultants/board members of the the secure VOIP firm(Phil Zimmermann's firm).

At this time its only conjecture and there are no concrete facts out in the open to fully confirm it. However, there are some analysis out there such as the authors that point to a major breach of RSA in the last 24 months that highlights new RSA holes in either the RSA itself or the process in securing RSA keys.
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I'm a woman running a small ISV in Croatia, and a mother too. I would never hire a woman either, for the same reasons. As a matter of fact I wold not hire anyone locally, I just opted for the "outsoucing" via VAs and such. The thing is that it's very hard to fire someone, and human workers cost too much.
Not in all places of the world. In a lot of places they won't even admit publicly that they are lesbians...
Paternity (as opposed to just maternity leave) is for me the solution to many problems. Here in Sweden this already exists (18 months to be shared between parents as chosen, with some extra for the person actually physically giving birth for time spent in hospital during pregnancy). There is even some debate about having to use 9 of the months for each parent.

Possibly a necessary means to end (if you believe in this kind of logic) but hopefully not an end in and of itself.

(Already got enough minus points for pointing out gender issues and advocating free education so may as well dig myself even deeper :) )
When people talk about Iran it's more about the things that are, by any definition, wrong

Why? It's not by the definition of wrong of those Iranians. Where does that objective standard come from?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all of helping (in not very intrusive ways) the westernized Iranians steer their country in their direction, but that's just because I like those ideals and notion of right and wrong, not because they're somehow objectively right.
In Australia, you have to have a reason to fire someone, unless your company is small (<25 people?). That reason can be a great variety of things, but if they haven't done anything that you can pin on them as 'dismissably wrong', you can retrench their position instead. This is a way of saying "it's not you, it's us", but the catch is that you can't hire someone else to do that role for 6 months, ie: you're being held to your claim of 'downsizing'.
my connection is sometimes below any arbitrary technical standard and I still want to get my bytes through if possible.
I didn't install it, but the table looks unuseful. I usually want to have the whole title of an issue more than more space used by the date and the person and the table in between.

I use ghi, from the python package github_cli

easy_install github_cli

and it looks better imo.
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It's interesting that you speak of salary in net. In Australia we speak of it in gross, and the rule of thumb is that an employee costs about 30% more than their gross, which includes 9% mandatory superannuation, payroll tax, and other sundry employment costs.
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Of the three "solutions", wikis and discussion forums are "pull" formats, they don't work well for notifications, for example, informing team members of a change. The third, newsfeeds or activity feeds are going to be even more cluttered than a heavily CC'ed email system.
Not to be the "well actually" guy, but URLs are an okay place to be pedantic, (I think). I found Ars Digita University at (http://aduni.org).

Anyway more SICP material? Sweet. I also had never heard about either. So nice find.
For the first question: thank you, I didn't realize that the article meant that those two numbers are supposed to be swapped THROUGHOUT! (every occurrence in the grid, like find-and-replace). This makes sense to me. Likewise, it seems to me true that you can swap-and-replace any two numbers in any completed graph. (Really, they're just symbols, it could be turning the original numbers into A B C D E F G H I in the first step - then you can map these 1:1 to one through nine in the second step however you want) and, therefore, you could do that operation on the original clues and get a valid sudoku as well.

In other words, it seems if you see some sixes and some fives in a sudoku, you can just swap them before you solve them, getting a different, but still valid sudoku. Interesting.

For the second question, thanks. I thought your parent meant something different - that the 16-clue solution was "obviously" impossible.
This isn't really new as others have said. Maybe someone publicly released a tool to do this finally.

but basically how this works:

You have a malicious client figure out a transaction(s) that are easy for the client to request, but difficult for the server to fulfill (ideally).

The client initiates the TCP connection.

Three way handshake happens.

Client sends in the whole request.

Client immediately sends in a tcp window update with a very small or zero window size.

The server processes the entire request and goes to send it.

The server's TCP stack says "Oops, I need to send to that client but he has a small or zero window size. I can only send packets of X size, or I can't send at all. This data is going to sit in my TCP Send Buffer until I can send it".

Two things happen here. The TCP send buffer is full (taking up memory) and 2, if the amount of data needed to be sent > TCP Send Buffer size, you now have a Server thread blocked trying to send the data.

The client delays for some amount of time and then sends another TCP window update "Hey, I can take X bytes of data now".

The server sends X bytes of data.

The client can now play a game of sending random small window sizes and or zero windows to essentially slow the connection to a crawl and consume resources on the server side.

Edit: Formatting
Totally agreed with. We have an office in Romania and they do better work than most developers I've worked with in the UK.

...Oh and they cost roughly 70% less
Ah, your experience differs from mine, then. Every time I opened a bank account (HSBC and Lloyds too) they asked for a copy of the printed certificate of incorporation. Maybe it depends on your branch?
3. If the state takes away "only" 30% of your money.

Federal income tax + California state income tax + FICA significantly exceeds that for most people in the technology industry in Silicon Valley.

Does it add up to anywhere near the ~52% his graph says it is in Hungary? Or are we talking around 35% or so?
thanks. it's like why a system of three variables for which you have two equations (like x = 2y + z and x = 3y + 2z + 7) isn't solvable.
I've done both in the past, and while Companies House is straight forward, using a third party is even easier, its usually a case of just filling out a page or two form and entering credit card details.

The companies I've registered through third parties email me annually with reminders of what needs to be filled when etc, and where I've left a company dormant I can get that filed for a nominal fee and a couple of clicks of a button.

Additionally they often have cash back deals with the banks, so after opening an account I actually ended up with a profit from registering the company (about £5)
Are you guys/girls based in Romania? Good to see some population from RO here on HN. I've got some fantastic developers in our office there.
There are a lots of misunderstandings about cost of firing, cost of employment, etc... in Europe. What is true is that it is complicated because every country is different, and some countries can be anal about one thing that others are not. A typical example: in France, you often have to consult union before having to fire people (especially true is big companies). The key point though is "consult". Whether they say yes or not is actually irrelevant (from a legal POV, that is).

I am also tried about the "stealing your money argument". In the US, the salary you get after taxes still needs to be used to pay health insurance and retirement. In continental Europe, that's part of the 'stolen' money. You can argue whether it is a good system or not, but an honest comparion is to e.g. remove the social contributions for health (around 6-7 % for a beginner engineer with a good degree), and pension (around 10-12 % IIRC). When comparing e.g. the US vs European country, this has to be taken into account (the graph in the OP is pure non-sense in that regard for the OP argument).

As far as Silicon Valley goes: from all countries I have been working in, Japan has by far the lower income taxation. Yet, it does not especially thrive in a silicon valley manner (I also believe California is far from being the state with the lower income tax in the US ?).
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Wouldn't you consider a mechanic a contractor? And you should be able to end a contract with a contractor too (depending on the terms you signed together). An employer/employee relationship is (at least legally) a whole different kettle of fish.
I've heard this many times, but interestingly TurboTax says it's not true.

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I'm surprised this hasn't been submitted before. It's been around for quite some time now.

Regardless of what you think of ESR's personality, politics or hacking skills, I found this to be a pretty good read.

There's lots of good things in here that apply - not just to software written for Unix systems - but for software in general (I guess it's not really a coincidence that a lot of the good practices on Unix are good practices in general).

Edit: Joel Spolsky's take on it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html
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billswift, thats precisely what I said too :)
I did not exclude American conservative fundamentalists - they are indeed a plague on our society as they are ANYWHERE.

ANYWHERE there is conservative fundamentalism it means people's freedom is being restricted.

Gitmo, Patriot Act, SOPA - none of these came out of progressive thinking - they are throwbacks to conservative desires regardless who votes for them.
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I opened a business account with Lloyds last month and they were happy with an electronic copy of the certificate.
You are correct, that is exactly what I meant about the sophistication level.

Hence no surprise they could dissect a drone.

By no means was I implying it would be acceptable to bomb north korea!
Why was this down voted, I'm viewing on a mobile, and having a clickable link is a massive time saver compared to copy and paste with a touch screen. It's an upvote from me :)
I think this'd be really helpful if it was documented better. As it is, it assumes you already know what you're supposed to be doing. It tells you part of what you need to do, but buries the rest in the github page.

Some better error reporting, even providing the interpreter in JS (as suggested by another commenter), would allow people to run the app offline without leaving their browsers. Having the ability to install the gem is great, but I would say the browser opens it up to people who might not want to - or can't - do that.

Finally, the layout of the page means you have to keep scrolling up and down to refer to the level details and get back to the editor. There's a lot of horizontal space wasted with the fixed-width layout, when it could be used to present the level details and the editor side-by-side (thus allowing the editor to assume the full height of the browser).

This could be a really good tutorial with a bit more polish :) if I understood it all and knew Ruby well enough I'd gladly contribute.
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