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You file a complaint with the discrimination ombudsman, they investigate and if they find that you are right they try to reach a settlement between you and your employer. If that fails, either party can take it to the courts.

Yes, there's a cost to these laws and these processes, but I think (and the politicians of my country obviously agrees) that it's cheaper and easier to do it this way, than to add a corporate tax and redistribute that money to groups that suffer from workplace discrimination.

It seems to work here, but that doesn't mean it would work as well elsewhere. There are so many factors that make up a society.
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> Doctors are, of course, a limited resource - there's simply an insufficient number of people with the requisite intelligence, mindset and dedication necessary to do the job.

That's not exactly quite true; we have far more qualified people than we actual doctors, the AMA strictly limits the supply [1] by controlling the schools and this of course seriously affects the market, the prices, and their salaries. Things would be much cheaper if 57% of qualified applications weren't turned away every year.

[1] http://wallstreetpit.com/5769-the-medical-cartel-why-are-md-...
> There's research that shows that in certain situations, the first mentioned number acts as a strong anchor. So you might want to be the first.

I believe I read the same research (Robert Cialdini? though he might have been citing other people's work).

The effect is certainly real, but the keyword here is "certain situations", I don't quite recall this research to include salary negotiations among these certain situations.

Though I'd love to be proven wrong, do you have a citation?

But let's say it works (I could easily be wrong on the above), this number anchoring effect also works when the number mentioned is not strictly related to the quantity you're trying to make higher (or lower) in the response. So you could passingly mention an hourly rate (or yearly income) of an unrelated profession, or even something like "activity/service X costs 90k yearly". In this case you can also safely name a much higher number than you're aiming for (as long as it's on the same order of magnitude, I suppose), which was shown to strengthen the anchoring effect. That way, you're still framing the "bigness" but without mentioning a possible salary first. So you get to have your cake and eat it too.
It is reality. It does happen, that you're a smallbusiness owner, and somebody you used to hire 6 years ago shows up. She's back from maternity leave. And you have to rehire her, increase her salary to present level, pay her 4 months of fully paid vacation. And either grow your company - if you can -, or make room for her. How? By laying off somebody else. Maybe the one who had to hire when your employee 6 years ago went left to raise children. This is not a 'pessimistic view', this is what happens all the time.
IAAL.

"At will" means there's no contractual agreement and an employee can be terminated for documented performance issues or for business reasons (i.e. layoffs) without it being treated as a breach of contract.

That's not true at all. You are misunderstanding contract law. An employer-employee relationship is a contractual relationship, even if not formally memoized in writing.

"At will" simply means that the length of the employment arrangement is not defined, and continues so long both parties agree it shall continue. If either party decides it should not continue, that party may end the arrangement (the employee by quitting, the employer by firing). An at-will employee can be fired for any reason, so long as it is not one of the prohibited discriminatory reasons (i.e., age, gender, etc.). There is no need for the employer to document the reasons for termination, though many due as a matter of course (usually, to defend against discrimination lawsuits).

That said, it's usually not in a person's interest to pursue a wrongful termination lawsuit. It's much easier and less risky, in most cases, to get another job.

LOL. If a person is fired for discriminatory reasons, it is definitely worth the effort to sue. In addition to salary for the period of reasonable unemployment, they are also entitled to punitive damages (usually 3x actual damages).
Szia!

I understand what you're saying, and it's true, in fact I've worked at small companies and been subject to it.

My post was specifically meant to refute the parent's point that:

"I would expect there to be very few engineers in Hungary that match that [top-notch] description".
Do authors have to be social? No, but it helps
You can build a similar thing server side using Imagemagick. It has a great suite of tools for doing image quantization and other manipulations.
I find it strange that he calls msysGit a good solution on Windows.

My personal Windows machine has Cygwin, MSYS (for MinGW), and MSVC's own command line (based on cmd.exe), so that I can use each of those three compilers for compatibility testing my projects. With msysGit my experience has not been good at all; patching git into each of the evironments always seems to require some manual work on my part, despite msysGit's claim that it can put just the git binaries on PATH.

So quite frankly, I do not think the current Windows situation for git is adequate, as it has (in my experience) integrated poorly with various command line environments.
My ex was Korean. Her dad worked at an insurance company, and every month he got his (tiny) official salary as well as an envelop full of cash, which was 4x more money. I asked her about it and she said small companies are normally completely "off the grid" from a tax standpoint, so mid-sized companies need to do this to compete. And they all do.

She opened a bar and never, you know, registered as a business or kept books or did any of the other business things you'd need to do in the US to stay out of jail.

Her impression was tax receipts come mostly from the giant chaebol like LG and Samsung.
Not to mention that America electrocutes people to death, which may be slightly cleaner than a stoning but not exactly humanitarian.
Taskwarrior. It's all you need.
I personally don't agree with this, I think as a professional it is our obligation to keep our skills relevant by whatever means, if we want to work on newer technology. If we don't we can choose to sunset. That being said, when I am in an authoritative position in my organizations I always give my developers free time to improve skills but I personally don't think it should be expected.
Slinky Drop - can you predict the result? (video)
Yes, you're right. My point was that Hungary is probably still better than say the United States, which is famous for being a very litigious nation. Unfortunately, I can't find number to back up my gut feeling.
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The Germans get Royal Tiger tanks for the first time in the Panzer Grenadier seriesplus giant lumbering vehicles like the Hunting Tiger with its 128mm gun and the Hunting Panthe,
Is there an equivalent article on incorporating in the US?
Trying it with full-screen on (F11) makes it even cooler.
I'd say division of labor/"departments" are a must-have no matter where you are based. Sometimes LAZY managers/owners put employee level developers together with customers and make them even handle billing/contracts. At one point such employees realize that they don't need you or your company! And why should they?

Besides, specialization increases productivity.
The original investigation reports are a pretty good read. (links at the bottom of this article: http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/rybka-disqualified-and-ban... )
I've heard somewhere that the UK limited company is the easiest and cheapest (also in terms of capital requirements) available. In Denmark, the capital requirements for a limited company is £14,000, although setting up as a sole trader is extremely simple and completely free.

It also have the advantage over Luxembourg and Cyprus that English is the official language. And finally, it's probably worth mentioning that swombat is living in the UK.
Want To Get Kids Interested In Programming? Teach Them Computer History
The NAO is nice, but rather pricey. You can do advanced robotics stuff without breaking the bank using a Turtlebot. And it's open hardware and software.

http://www.turtlebot.com

In some regards the Turtlebot is more advanced, since you can do SLAM and also carry stuff around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z36xkUILtQE
Japan's Dream Project is a farm run by robots
Hone the Core of Your Product
It is, as with almost everything in life, a balance.

It might be the case that the balance in Hungary is off as the author of the article claims, but that claim was buried in a one-sided rant against the cost of accessing the labour pool.

The point of my post was to even the scales, to remind everyone that it costs a lot of money to employ people, because creating employable people costs a lot of money. The CS college graduates we want to interview as potential employees of our dot-com startups don't materialize out of thin air. As cheesy as it sounds, previous generations invested in their future; we have to do the same.
Yes, it was widely reported that Lockheed was a target after SecurID was breached. Whether or not anything useful was extracted from Lockheed's systems, and whether or not any Lockheed data was involved in spoofing the drone, is pure speculation. It seems equally plausible that Iran had an inside man at a defense contractor. After all, history has shown how relatively inexpensive and effective double agents are to state actors.
(Oswalt's response: http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew)
Indeed, it's in the guidelines:

> In Submissions
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From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Web is Reorganizing Around People, Via Their Mobile Devices
1: You can turn off location data.

2: None of this is being stored, beyond a cookie. Of course, you can call back to the server with that data, but the server has your IP address, which is where the location data came from.
That's not obvious. He clearly says he hopes his conclusions would go beyond his bias.

He failed to do so, but we couldn't know that without reading the article.
Income tax and payroll tax seem to me to effectively be the same layer. Yes, there will be a psychological difference when people see how much is taken out of their paychecks, but that's about it.
Because employers could just replace you. The same way a person is supposed to take care of his own choice of career and the education that goes with it, one should keep up to date with the novelties himself.
Of course, if we are talking about some obscure technology/process that the employer has chosen (ISO 98823:4343 for example), then the employer should provide the training.
> The people who succeed with startups are not particularly likely to be amazing software developers. In fact, the impedance mismatch between raw programming talent and software startup success is one of the more irritating things about working in startups.

From my experience, the people who succeed and reach the big payout tend to be the bottom quarter in terms of developer skill. They had an idea early enough, new enough or with enough impact to gain traction. Later professional developers come in to clean up their mess.

Unfortunately, after the payout these low-skill (from a development sense) tend to think they were actually highly skilled. They don't repeat their first success, often they become "Angel investors".

On the other hand. If you're hiring you should simply enjoy this large, un-mined vein of talent. Hopefully your competition doesn't catch on.
I was at a kickoff event in NJ. I did it for 4 years in High School and now I mentor a team. It was as great of an experience as Hacker School.
Don't blame businesses, don't blame women. Blame governments that refuse the responsibilities of taking hard, but necessary decisions, because they're afraid it'll cost them votes. They instead play shady games that only appear to resolve issues, when all they do is to force/allow both businesses and people to dabble in gray areas.

Let's speak hypothetically. Let's say we're a government that sees that we have too many expenses and as a result have very high taxes. Yet, we still have some unresolved social issues for which we have no budget, such as maternity programs and 50+ employment protection (yes, these should be state responsibilities, no reason to offload it to businesses). We could decide to reshuffle our current programs to make room for these, but that would certainly means cutting into some other established programs (unpopular decisions = no no in politics). Alternatively, we could yet again openly increase taxes, at the risk of looking even more expensive than neighboring countries and losing even more businesses (no no). We will do neither, instead we'll come up with laws that makes us look good with the people (3 years maternity, ensured reemployment, 50+ protection, all bankrolled by businesses), while allowing employers to find loopholes (discrimination).

The issues themselves remain unresolved and everybody goes home happy.
I want to automate my first startup and make a better one. With the first startup I can't make more than 70k euros/month. It's in Germany, noone would buy it. So should I kill it? Because I have better ideas.

P.S. I didn't say I'm Jack Dorsey. I really appreciate what he does and did. But I and anyone else can be better than him, if you ask my opinion.
> the most glaring one being whether history is allowed to be rewritten or not.

That's not even true, history is allowed to be rewritten in mercurial (mercurial-bundled extensions `rebase`, and `mq` as well as the standard `rollback` command do — or can be used to do — exactly that, and so do third-party extensions such as `histedit`), there's little difference on that point. The difference is the tendency to push for history-rewriting.
This would seem like an ideal opportunity to get a solid grounding in the fundamentals of programming. I would suggest that you work through the MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) version of their "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming" (the newer version that uses Python as its teaching language). You would be learning Python while you are learning the fundamentals. The course uses a freely available textbook, and video lectures are available. The course website is located at "http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput....
It is only a competitive advantage for those unwilling to hire women if the cost of hiring women is greater than the benefit of the perspective those women who were not hired could bring to the team. However I do not believe that this is the case.
Because they are poor and stupid. I don't mean that as a pejorative: they don't have many resources to expend on pursuing their rights against the landlord, which can take time, and if they're being continually exposed to lead (eg via water pipes or ventilation), they're likely suffering from chronic low-level brain damage, especially those who have been occupants of the building since childhood. That's what makes the landlords' behavior so objectionable; the property they are renting out is not merely unpleasant, but dangerous to both the physical and mental health of the inhabitants, at least some of whom are more likely to end up participating in crime - at further danger to themselves, and to the community at large.
There were stories floating around* that Lockheed had a remote intrusion problem linked to the securid compromise, and that perhaps US contractor companies were the real target behind the RSA hack.

That would draw a nice line between securid and secret data found on gps satellites manufactured by lockheed.

*: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/27/lockheed_securid_hac...
I was in batch[1] and I have to say it was one of the best experiences I've ever had.
"That's not what I would recommend at all. There's no guarantee a project will resolve those issues or that new ones will crop up."

Also, Google probably figured the tool they chose would have a bright future considering Google's prominence. In hindsight, Github won the community over and pushed Git toward critical mass.
Running SmartOS with VMware Workstation/Player
One other thing to note is that a lot of businesses are now granting paternity leave equal or near so to maternity leave.
LOL no, I missed that one. But the sibling is correct, the author failed.
Pretty much everyone outside Intel thinks FinFETs should not be called 3D, since 3D was already used to refer to die stacking.
Hiring people is now the equivalent of exploiting them?
Clever use of <canvas>. I made an Android app that does something similar:

https://market.android.com/details?id=uk.co.opeso.android.co...
Bleach[0] might be a better idea, it's based on html5lib

[0] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bleach
I'm just throwing out a quote to show why I enjoyed the book.

"""To do the Unix philosophy right, you have to be loyal to excellence. You have to believe that software design is a craft worth all the intelligence, creativity, and passion you can muster.

Otherwise you won't look past the easy, stereotyped ways of approaching design and implementation; you'll rush into coding when you should be thinking. You'll carelessly complicate when you should be relentlessly simplifying — and then you'll wonder why your code bloats and debugging is so hard."""

(from the end of Chapter 1)
I agree, that this problem is the most obvious with small companies. But I think that even on the national scales these regulations harm those, whom they aim to protect. It's a wrong concept to treat the employer and employee like enemies. The good concepts would be win-win-win scenarios. For example, goverments should REDUCE the cost of hiring the handicapped instead of forcing companies to hire them.
Two issues:

1) You overstate the likelihood of the market driving out discrimination. Racist and sexist discrimination has existed for centuries without the market ever reaching the equilibrium state of no discrimination that would result if people were rational market participants (1).

2) Inevitably people bring up Scandinavia in these discussions, and for good reason. Scandinavian countries have both very generous family benefits (including paternal leave!) and high representation of women throughout the workforce. This isn't dispositive, but it does suggest the situation is much more complicated than the original post would suggest.

All in all, I prefer to live in a world where everyone pays their fair share instead of trying to eke out a couple extra cents of profit by not providing parental benefits to mothers and families.

(1)This is actually an even subtler issue, because it's possible for markets to exist where racism and sexism offer a competitive advantage, due to consumer preferences.
Please write some explanatory text on your homepage what Nepali Baghchal is and (maybe) why should I use/play it with one sentence and pic/video. I hear first time about it and it asks me to register. Everyone would exit.
Ask HN: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
During commencement speech at Stanford University, Steve Jobs said "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." at the end of his speech.

What is meaning of "Foolish" here? My understanding is to stay humble. What do you think?
I'm also against rent control from an economic standpoint, but poisoning your tenants is not the right way to protest the issue. A fifth amendment suit about rent control as an indirect taking (and pursuit of appropriate compensation) would be a better approach.
No only one was programmed to balance in autonomous. They'd only ever done it with just their bot in the middle of the bridge, but they were able to balance with the other one on there because they just kept backing up until the gyro sensor was level. I love it when you get to see unexpected behaviors from something you built.
FIRST is one of the most important sports in the world, and brings back many great memories to anyone who has participated. There is no high school program that teaches the principles of engineering, programming, rapid prototyping and teamwork so well. That, and it is just downright fun to build robots.

Part of FIRST's value lies in its ability to get anyone involved in a team and get them excited about technology. There were non-technical students who joined my high school's FRC team (Team 3652) and helped by leading our fundraising and media projects. They learned plenty of business and life skills. But best of all, when the robot scored for the first time, they were just as excited as the rest of us.
Thanks, I'll have a long close look at it.
Just watched this with my FIRST team (759, one of a very small number of UK teams). It's interesting the FTC integration which was used last year (for the minibot) is not repeated and instead harks back to a more traditional FRC game.
Felipe Contreras, do you really not see your bias at selecting the example you chose? Paragraphs before you mention how in Mercurial "History is Sacred" then you push for that.
Every time I give it another try, so far, it's been missing about half the songs I'd like to listen to.

Additionally, on my last tryout, they required a Facebook ID for the free demo--not having Facebook, that's where the experiment ended.
"Exploit employees" suggests that by profiting from other's time that you paid for is wrong. You are forgetting that the business owner also takes on risk with his investment in employees while employees has a steady income with no risk.

To the partnership answer, a lot of people don't want to take risks in general. This is true even in the US where people are way more entrepreneurial than other countries.
Awesome - I am definitely going to try and complete this, thanks!
Thomas, this is totally irrelevant, but would you consider yourself one of those "older" developers? I'm intimately familiar with your comments, but I have no idea how old you are.
Speaking as a founder, yes I would. I'd also fire one just as quick.

I'm of the mindset that both employers and employees need to be flexible with one another. I may need you to pick up technologies you're not comfortable with and you may need spend your early evenings with your family. I may need you to work 60+ hours on a given week and you may need to work some of that on off hours.

It's a give and take situation with any startup employment. What's objective is what can you deliver and can I obtain a positive ROI from hiring you?
hn's gone down the shitter if posts like this make it to the front page. no, no one outside of this fucking filter bubble gives a shit which one's better at arcane crap no reasonable person would care about. people who actually get shit done just do so without writing long "OMG I AM TEH BIAS BUT THIS HAS NO BIAS, I PROMISE" blog posts about it.

also, lol @ him thinking msysgit works. it'd almost be cute if git-tards weren't so annoying. not surprising though given how deeply the git butt plug's shoved up their asses
While on Hacker School time, it was made clear that startups are not the focus, and that we should worry more about the challenge of programming than building "Products".

(I was in batch[1])