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Is there any reason you couldn't set up the travel through the company rather than the employee, arrange plane tickets, hotels etc. pre-tax?
> if you have a LIBOR-linked mortgage with Barclays,

They all did it. Barclays were the last bank to start doing it, and the first to confess.
Yeah, probably not. But why would I want to survive given that case?

I mean... that sounds just about as bad as actual slavery, but with the disadvantage that you still have to make ends meet.

And the other thing I keep hearing about that situation is that it has nothing to do with actually getting the work done, it's just to show that you're committed. And I think committed is the right word because that concept is CRAZY.
I see that you can manually control the robot on step 3. Not really a robot at that point, but you're right that it is motion. I was looking at step 7, where the bot starts moving on its own.
Me and a team of 3 others recently completed an iPhone app for the Evernote DevCup (I literally just submitted this link 3 minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4228897). From what the two iOS devs told me, the best resource is the Stanford iOS lectures on iTunes U. They offer lectures as recent as the last semester of classes. Good luck!
My impression skimming through the help files on this is that you ask to have things restored to a particular event in your Dropbox event history. There would only be a problem if there were other items deleted later on purpose.
I like how the article goes to pains to describe this technology as NOT a visible laser beam and then uses a visible laser beam as their stock photo in the header.
A nitpick - "world GDP" is an oxymoron.
While I support his fight, I believe this simply adds to a long tradition in politics of offering "tempting" concessions the other side can never accept, for publicity and other purposes.
With the UG, you are required to sock away capital until you hit the 25K, though, no?

http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/germany/

vs

http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/united-ki...

UK still looks easier, and doesn't have any capital requirements.

> minimum capital of 25.000 Euros

This is a very continental European concept that, IMO, is basically useless. It's a number picked by some politician, nothing more, nothing less.
I agree that having different forms of communication is useful. Phone/SMS is more personal, partly because I only give my number to those I want to contact me. I use my email for personal communication as well but I also use it to sign up for things like coupons from stores, etc. Some seem to be arguing that having so many options is difficult for the user, but I really don't know anyone who has trouble keeping them straight.
Nah, I don't disagree with anything you said.

I guess what I don't understand is your connection between "Free Market Capitalism is a joke" and the true statements above. A bunch of companies writing laws isn't Capitalism. It's Cronyism and Corporatism.

It's a direct result of investing too much power in the government to control things since there are no real protections to keep the government from being corrupted by anyone with some money.

It's one thing to have a powerful corporation that dominates a marketplace. That can make it uncomfortable when you're looking for an alternative product or service. It's quite another thing when powerful corporations write the laws. In that case, we're screwed since the guys with the tanks no longer allow us any choices but to fall in line.
Excellent points - and important not to generalize about model construction.

I have a degree in computer science, and most of my training consisted of solving problems where there was a single outcome - e.g. "does the compiler work?" When I moved into financial modeling, I really had to shift from the idea of one answer to the idea that the real world is exceptionally complex and difficult to model. I had to get comfortable with the idea that I might have an idea of the outcome based on a model, but, as you point out, this is probabilistic outcome.

I found this article to have all the marking of someone with a similar background trying out a different profession without understanding probabilistic modeling, and, as you rightly point out, not understanding the deterministic portion of the models - the domain knowledge.

Moreover, I think he expresses doubt in any model that doesn't turn out the right answer 100% of the time - to me, not understanding the complexity of the systems that are being modeled and definitely not understanding that it is, as the name "climate science" implies, science - you experiment, you gain new knowledge from new data, etc.
Seems that my comment is controversial as someone has voted me down. I'm curious to hear from opposing views - I love technologies like TCP/IP, gcc, Unix, C, etc. - but I think they wouldn't be much use unless they were used to enable applications like Twitter, Google, Nethack and Wikipedia.

I do want to clarify that I'm not saying that the underlying technologies aren't amazing.
Our policy is officially, "Take however much time of you need, we don't want to track it just make sure you get your job done"...

Below that there is an addendum, however, "We expect people will probably take around 5 weeks off per year". This isn't set up as a maximum, rather it is set up as a way to provide that sort've benchmark for people to know whats acceptable. However, no one here is counting... seriously.
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I really like the idea of a sabbatical... but I always worried then in my (our) field you'd end up really really far behind / out of touch if you took a 2 month sabbatical.
Wasn't this idea the basis for the spoof MMO Asteroids earlier this year?

http://seb.ly/2012/04/gotcha-fake-mmo-asteroids-april-fool/
These 16bits, UCS, wide char ideas are just plain wrong !
Just use UTF-8 for the files and for communication and 32bits code points internally when needed.
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This, to me, is the winner, minus the bouncing. Email servers or clients can append headers based on what content is in the mail, and that information can be used to provide context sensitive app links. I can imagine a big button next to an email that says "Add to Calendar" or "Send to Evernote" or "View Map/Directions". I think Gmail does a good bit of this, so if they can provide hooks for more external services to capture, it would be a huge win.
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This article makes my head spin with the author's confusing mixing of the terms shorter and longer, higher and lower, up and down, above and below, when referring to wavelengths. Am I the only one who is more accustomed to thinking in terms of frequency, so UV is "above" visible light which is above infrared? I would think with something named after its frequency, it would make sense to stick to that terminology.
Do you have a large number of servers or just smallish deployments? Fabric is cool, but at some point the pull model starts to be better than push. You probably don't want to actually wait at the console and try to spot errors when deploying 100+ nodes - and this is where chef/puppet is actually nice.
IIRC the capital requirements don't have to be met with cash, but can be satisfied by things like IP. Developed an app? That could be included.
I find it really interesting that you claimed slashdot's tagline for the last 15 years as the HN "Motto".
The original content recycler I found this link from has more insightful commentary than I could ever muster: http://www.avclub.com/articles/here-allow-science-to-ruin-ba...
If these devices worked to accurately identify unknown materials from 50 feet away, they would already be used in thousands of labs and we'd know empirically how well they work, whether non-scientists can use them as accurately as scientists, what the false positive rate is, etc. If more accurate than a traditional lab spectrometer they would already be used widely. If less accurate, we don't need them to be used to get probable cause for "bomb" searches that "just happen" to turn up things like too much cash or a bit of pot. Even worse, we don't need their results as "evidence" that drug or bomb "residue" was found. Already we see many people arrested for "possession of meth precursors" because they have aluminum foil, plastic sandwich bags and brake fluid in their house. In many cases it is about coming up with a plausible reason for arresting people these days rather than actually holding criminals who cause trouble (such as those on wall street) accountable.
There is a cool project that my company (Rackspace) has opened sourced called Repose. It is a proxy for ReST APIs that, among other things, supports rate limiting in a clustered environment. It's still pretty new, but we use it internally and might be useful for people writing APIs. You can find it on github:

https://github.com/rackspace/repose
Lobbying groups do that too: the US is a democracy, so influencing voters directly is a useful approach at times.
I'll take a look, but I work much better from written tutorials. Any suggestions?
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I am a member of a group that makes PC standards selections for an organization that buys 30,000-40,000 computers per year. We take stewardship of our IT asset lifecycle seriously -- over 60,000 devices were properly recycled last year. (Includes non-computer equipment and counts monitors separately) Apple was a small growing category for us since 2009.

EPEAT is about more than recycling -- it's about reducing the total environmental impact of the PC. Everything from avoiding hazardous materials to energy efficiency to packaging options to end-of-life. It gives folks who give a hoot the ability to quickly do an "apples to apples" comparison of the environmental impact of various products.

It also externalizes decisions. Should we not buy that amazing device that everyone lusts over because the bezel contains brominated materials? It's just a bezel! EPEAT makes that decision easier -- it's certified, or not.

This is just one more example of the level of contempt that Apple routinely displays for anyone whose needs go beyond buying their products for MSRP at retail, I'm done with them. I'm not sacrificing our standards so that Apple can glue components to their computers.
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Yes, but who evaluates how much it's worth? And why the hell should someone even have to be doing that? It's utterly useless bureaucracy. If the goal of having capital is to cover wages, say, should the company go under, then you should have that specific requirement, not some vague notion of 25K being a magical number.
Find the 60 minutes episode on computer recycling, it's pretty horrifying.
You can read it either way. I assumed because of the winky face that he wasn't agreeing with OP.
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That is a huge "If" at the start there. I'm highly skeptical of their claims - especially the "50 feet" bit.
I wrote about the process at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215302

You are required to save capital, so you cannot pay yourself above a certain percentage in dividends, but you can still pay yourself salary, which is not subject to those limits.

It is easier in the UK if you are already in the UK, but living in Germany is certainly easier than living in the UK in terms of immigration rules.
Austria is actually on my list of countries to move to. And Vienna was the best place to live for many years in the Mercer survey.

Where do I read more about these things that are wrong with Austria?
dead cheap is getting more and more to "starting to get expensive". Prices are rising so much the last years, especially in Kreuzberg and other cool places. Offices are also getting more expensive and harder to get. Currently looking for a nice and affordable office in Schöneberg... :(

I think it's time for killing the "Berlin is dead cheap" myth
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While I'm unsure of the capacity of competition batteries, Apple claims 1000 or more recharge cycles on their batteries.

This is a critical factor -- if the Apple battery is $200 (installed professionally) vs $170 (parts only), and lasts significantly longer, it becomes more interesting of a comparison. But only if it lasts longer.

Also, Apple displays cycles used in system info, while finding similar information in Windows is not as easy. I know Apple is willing to replace batteries that die before their advertised cycle count is up, but I haven't heard of that behavior being common with competition.

I'm not claiming that Apple is better, not at all. Heck, comparing laptops between brands is difficult anyway, considering that Apple owns the >$1000 market and it's competition does the majority of it's business in the <$1000 market. (Meaning that most of the >$1000 laptops we compare to Apple products aren't those brands' bread-and-butter big sellers, they're niche products).
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But you will probably procrastinate regardless.
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you mean like 'bitcoin mining science' ;)
Oh God, why do they put hosts in /etc/ansible? Why would I corrupt my system installation with project-specific files? What I want to do is make a "<project>-deployment" folder and have everything related to deployment there.

Why the hell would I store anything about deploying one of my projects in /etc/?
I agree, but in the absence of a change in company law, the option to be able to satisfy it with intangibles is ok. I think so long as the valuation is reasonable, it counts. Any decent-sized app would easily cost >€25k, and even the website can cost that much in some cases. It's easy to discount the value of our own work, but we shouldn't.

Plus, instead of handing over the copyright to the company, it might be possible to do something like grant an exclusive license to the company instead.
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One indicator to me that an article would be a time-waster (to me) is the "numbered lists" (10 ways to do X etc.) By avoiding those, my quality to waster article ratio has increased.
They definitely have, I've been visiting it a lot lately, when I was writing my own deployment script.

Also, you need this too: https://github.com/sebastien/cuisine/
There has been a lot of noise about the working conditions at groupon (Germany). I am not sure if this is good news or not.
>> since it depends on the willingness of your employer to allow them when you want them.

In Japan employers cannot refuse requested holidays unless it would damage the business (for low ranked people with no authority, this is not a problem). It is the peer pressure and subtle bullying in traditional organizations that keeps people from taking holidays.
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Predictable? Or should Microsoft have ridden in as the white knight?
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Ah, yep, got me there. Think it's about time to turn on noprocrast again.
No, it's not.

If you're planning on flying somewhere not near by (ie: going to another continent, far away islands, etc), plane tickets alone could cost $1k to $2k. 1 or 2 weeks in nice hotel / condo will be another $1k to $2k. Eating, activities, rental car quickly spend yet another $2k to $3k over 2 weeks.
Not really. If you like it as a comedic aside then fine but it's not a valid point in any sense beyond that.

Assange currently has the run of the Ecuadorian embassy in London (roughly the size of a large flat) but the minute he leaves that (for instance to try to get to an airport) he'll be arrested for breaching his bail terms.

Even if he's granted asylum (relatively unlikely) that won't change unless they make him an Ecuadorian diplomat with the diplomatic immunity that confers. That would however be essentially unheard of.

Assange isn't going on the run anywhere.
no, it isn't. just has to be manually enabled.

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62403&replies=10#...
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Hi folks, thanks for all the comments and helpful criticisms. In order to best respond to this, I've published a document answering many of your questions for now.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4228989

Thanks,

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Great job on the app and the video. Looks like you took care to really make the process as simple as possible... that being said, tracking every minute of my day gives me anxiety.
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I think that might depend on the territory/genre/author in question - in my experience many publishers provide the sole editorial input, sometimes going as far as deciding on the content themselves, with the author employed to write to hire, but this varies widely depending on the subject matter, the publisher, the popularity of the author, and probably the country as well, and obviously doesn't apply to fiction.
I read this as a commentary on the respect that they feel for him.
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Division by zero doesn't return a string. It returns a well defined value that is within the domain of the data type, which is positive infinity. parseInt does what it is specified to do - it takes the numerical value (positive infinity) and converts it to a string, then searches the string for the first character that it recognises as a contiguous number ("I", which is 18 in base 19). If it finds one, then it returns the value as an integer, if not then it returns NaN.

So not a bug, though I agree the string search is particularly silly. It can't be a bug if it does what the specified algorithm says it does. It would be a bug if it gave a different result.
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They did mention that's for a family of 4. I'm not sure if they scale it back if you are single, but if you have a family that's probably in the ballpark.
I decided to use Fabric as well, because then I could just use apt to install packages, which strikes me as a far superior way than building everything from source.

However, it took me days to complete the script and make it moderately reusable (and completely idempotent and able to handle different configurations), and it still doesn't do as much as I want it to. For example, I just noticed that Ansible[1] can tell whether a change needs to restart a service (e.g. if a config file changed) and only then do it.

That's pretty useful, but my script can't really handle it.

[1] http://ansible.github.com/examples.html
I think reading most guides on the developer.android.com website is the best way to start developing on Android. The SDK also includes sample codes that are worth looking at for good practices on various tasks.
Email is the worst solution to the problem of general communication except for all the others.

In fact I think that quote goes a long way to explaining why email is so wonderfully useful while also being annoying. Because it is so wonderfully free and open. That's also it's downside
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Dont know about any one else, but I couldn't close the window fast enough after the page loaded. It just assaulted my brain. I have no idea why. It literally repelled me. Quite strange.
Far short of this is simply making employees take their vacation.

My Dad always tells the story of having a battle every year to get one of the people that worked for him to take her vacation. She was entitled to 3 weeks, and typically took 2-3 days. It wasn't healthy, and it wasn't necessary for her to make that sacrifice. Some people have trouble just letting go.
I meant to say that the HN community's attitude closely aligns with the Slashdot motto -- somehow it ended up with "HN motto".
Phew, thought I was the only one. Like I was getting old or something.
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Agreed. My girlfriend is currently working at a startup with 'unlimited' time off, and she basically hasn't taken any time off in 4 months. She also has been working 6 or 7 days a week. If she had a specific 3 weeks of vacation to use, I imagine she would have at least taken some days.
I would have to agree with this.

Although I've been developing on android since the beta SDK in 2008..
Business owner here. The purpose of a business is to do whatever the business owners want it to do.
Thanks for regurgitating the Apple PR spin.

Permanently affixing readily recyclable components like memory and batteries to system boards are not "superior" practices by any meaningful measure. They are practices that enhance the marketing segmentation of their products and make Apple more money -- while making recovery of valuable assets (memory, battery materials) impossible at the end of the device's lifecycle.

Offering recycling of products is meaningless -- relatively few devices get recycled by the manufacturers programs (particularly at institutional customers like schools or enterprises).
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Rather it is 6 weeks vacations + public holidays. 8 hours a day is a bit low, in IT you'll most probably do around 9 hours, not including lunch break.
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Any comparison between a high paid salary employee with a few weeks vacation a year and slavery gets a downvote from me.
Surprised no one's mentioned Zed Shaw or his Learn Python the Hard Way series...

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According to his homepage, his books have been downloaded 500,000 times. Don't know if those are all paying charges but he also sells online tutorials.
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The US is far from the path to debt free either - the difference with Greece is that they can print their own money. The US is trading low taxes against high inflation right now.
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