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Quibids is one of the scammy-iest "auction" site abound. It's name is called Penny-Scam Auction

The gist for those that do now know: you buy bid-packs. A bid costs .60$, per BID. This doesn't matter if you "win" the item. If you do "win" (gamification abound), then you pay what the bid was brought up to. The other scam-note is that bids increase usually by $.01 so you see shit like "XYZ WON AN IPAD FOR 2.73$ !!!". While in reality, the "winner" pays $2.73+$40 in bids, along with everyone else to get the permission to bid.

If you type in quibids in google, the top auto-fill is SCAM. Just go look it up.

Btw UnFundedHype: I hope your scam of a business fails, and fails hard. You know better than this shit.
Interesting read. I had no idea about this scam and it appears I am right in the middle of one. Mind you, the item I sold is nowhere near as expensive. Lesson learned though, and I wont be using eBay any time soon.
No its pretty good as a first filter. Lets say I want a i5 or an i7 but I must have a bunch PCI-e slots and 4 e-SATA. You start with a motherboard with the right socket and go from there. Perhaps I can get away with getting the most inexpensive processor right now but I must have these other features. This will probably work out to an inexpensive processor on an expensive motherboard. Right now, you can do that.

In the cheap processor is married to the low-end motherboard and the expensive processor is married to the high end motherboard world you couldn't. To get the higher end features you would have to buy the expensive processor, even if you didn't need it.
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The whole desktop/atx ecosystem is about to drown isn't it ?
The PWC report includes time spent determining state and local taxes, which can be quite complex in the U.S. (for companies operating in many states) but which are nonexistent in other nations.
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I have taken a look at Juvia (an open source alternative to Disqus), but have not moved forward with it:

https://github.com/phusion/juvia

I am still with Disqus. The biggest problem I have with Disqus is that it is a 3rd party service, meaning:

- I do not control my own blog's data, as I did with wordpress

- third parties can peer into the identities of my visitors, eavesdrop on their comments, modify those comments, etc

- my otherwise static website now has a new vector for injecting exploits (i.e. via Disqus dependencies)

- Ghostery rightly blocks Disqus... and this gives me a moment's pause

I have seen SMTP-based static comments for Jeckyl:

https://github.com/mpalmer/jekyll-static-comments

...but this actually introduces a .php dependency! At any rate, I am eager to hear about other alternatives in the self-hosted comment space, particularly those that are compatible with static blog workflows.
Your first sentence is a non sequitur. It's grammatically correct but contains no detectable semantic meaning. Salary is deferred when it would ordinarily be due immediately but is paid later. Formally, a deferred salary is a commitment to pay a precise amount of money at some point in the future. Colloquially, any promise of compensation that would ordinarily be due in the next pay period but will instead come 1-2 years from now at "exit" is a deferred payment.

Your reasoning about "Series C" versus "Series A" startups and salary expectations is also suspect. We pay market salaries to a large number of very talented, very specialized engineers and haven't raised a dollar of funding.

The problem with your reasoning is that it isn't based on the market, but rather on some kind of status hierarchy about startups. The mistake I think you're making is that you frame things in terms of "90k and a huge chunk of equity", rather than "your market rate of 150k, 2/3rds in salary, 1/3rd in equity, risk-adjusted based on expected liquidity from revenues we forecast at N, N+1, N+k over the next k quarters, at acquisition multiple y".

If you write the blog post that way, so that you can make a case that a 150k candidate is effectively demanding 300k, your post starts to make sense (but it's a little boring, right?). But when you write it in terms of "Series A employees should get 90k", you go way off the rails.

Later edit: you can also reason through your equity valuation with a candidate the way 'ChuckMcM does, but it seems like to do that honestly, your equity would need to be liquid enough that you could place another x00,000 shares; in particular, you can't just treat your last valuation as gospel; just like your B investors can reduce your valuation, so can candidates.
What happens to @PaulRyanVP?
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isn't that the point, you're paying a premium for security.
If you look at Paypal's 10-K, they assume an automatic writeoff 4% of their revenues due to losses from chargebacks.
Biggest pain point associated with code reviews are the lingering branches. So glad this has finally been bundled into Github. Thanks Github!
If this happened to me, small claims court.
It's hard to accept that they're no longer the specialist hardware supplier who treats every customer exceptionally well. Now we're just being farmed like any customer.

Why is this surprising? This is what you generally have to do when servicing the general public - Apple is no longer the niche specialist, but the gorilla.
I did recently buy some old equipment for ~$250 on ebay from an amateur seller. I'm not sure what eBay can do, except charge higher fees and provide some insurance.
You would think people (even engineers) would do their homework and find out if you want to do the "startup thing" you should go in expecting to take a pay cut and work 50 hours out of the box.

It seems like the engineer in the article had a romantic notion about what it would be like to work for a startup and had not done his homework.
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Has this post been moderated away? I'm not seeing it anywhere, even 5+ pages deep. If so... is that really necessary; is someone threatened or offended? This is a real article with just as valuable a point as all the self-posted 300-word blogspam that occupies the front page daily.
> My objection was this: "Only 40% of programmers could correctly write out a FizzBuzz program on paper during our timed test in the middle of a job interview" is not equivalent to "Only 40% of applicants even have the skill to code FizzBuzz."

OK. You made that point very poorly. I only understood that now. Also, I disagree, but that's offtopic here.

You were not downvoted because you made an unpopular point, or because people disagrees with you. You weren't "silenced". Understand that. There is an extremely high tolerance for disagreement here, but it has to be well phrased and well argued.

You were downvoted because you made your point very poorly, so it read like an argumentation-void grasping at a strawman. I'm completely willing to accept that wasn't how you meant it to come out, but it's your responsibility, and only yours, that your comment comes across as intended.

I never responded to the first three comments - they were upvoted because you hit a popular vein in that particular discussion. That's pretty common. By the way, here's one for challenging the bias on this site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4827567 - it's got 53 points. It's not a particular well written or insightful comment, it's a fairly trivial anecdote that happens to contain the magic word "YC". It's probably one of my all-time highest scoring comments, to think that means it's the best depresses me. A lot.
An hour account, his account was marked dead. Now it's not.
On an Enterprise project I was on recently this was a real problem. With about 12 distinct and large (5-10 developers per team) all working on a single git repo, the lingering branches were out of control. They had built up over more than a year of abuse.

I think this issue is worth thinking about. For projects with a single owner or a small core set of contributors taking pull requests it is manageable. But when the responsibility is distributed, especially in the degenerate culture of Enterprise Java, uncontrolled branching can make git usage miserable.

The real problem was that we were using Git like an SVN server. But it was really interesting to see how bad it can be when branch pruning is not considered upfront.

Great feature github :)
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Paypal is the most fraudulent company that I've done business with. There for I never sell anything anymore using it, purchase is ok but also risky. A friend of mine purchased an engine part on ebay but received a brick insted. Paypal then refused to give the money back because he had signed it out.

In total I've lost 1000's of dollars due to Paypal just handing it back to the fraudster. It doesn't matter what you say or what evidence you got. Me personally have never won a paypal dispute as a mercher.

My recommendation to other people, I know its a loss of customers but LibertyReserve, bitcoins or old fashion bankwire is as safe as it gets.
I think you're misusing the word "precedent" here. This absolutely does set a precedent but whether it constitutes a trend or policy change is debatable.
Presumably the OP has an address where he sent his iPhone. Not sure as IANAL, but he theoretically could sue a Doe at a given address and subpoena for an identity.
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So instead of a hard delineation between solar wind and cosmic rays we're seeing something more like velcro?
That's not an auction, that is a lottery, a raffle basically.
Yardsale meets your description and is YC backed.
I'm not sure if "Thunders" is the correct term here. It has roughly 44% more usage, which could be significant if Mac OS X didn't have less than 4% total usage.

I imagine that when Valve releases Steam for Linux, there will be headlines like "Linux rapidly encroaching on Mac OS X's usage share on Steam" when it hits like 1-2% total usage.

Of course Windows 8 is going to overtake Mac OS X, there are simply more gamers on Windows, and gamers tend to use the latest software, regardless of how terrible it is.
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Churches and companies don't promulgate "laws", they promulgate "rules." Rules have consequences to breaking them, but these consequences may vary widely in effect on the individual. A priest can try to make you feel guilty for breaking the religious edicts of his church, but if you don't consider his self-proclaimed authority in your life to have any basis, then guilt will be an ineffective consequence for breaking the rule. Companies, similarly, can fire you for breaking their rules, and while this deprives you of money and possibly opportunities, it does not deprive you of your life or freedom.

In short, the authority of these private organizations are opt-out, while the authority of the state is not.

It's circular logic to say that a state has a monopoly on only legitimate violence since it's the same state which defines which violence is legitimate and which is not. Can you think of any organizations that successfully exercise a monopoly on illegitimate violence? Successful states do not allow such activities to continue for long.

A state is, as others have already said, simply a political institution which exercises a monopoly on violence and determines how to apply it within its political domain.
The last couple "startups" I've talked to about working with have deigned to offer "1% equity", and expected me to be happy with that, along with no money. Or... "a good salary when the first/next round comes through".

Didn't seem to faze them that I'd be working alongside them for months with $0 pay, actually potentially working more (in both cases, a 'founder' had a day job as well).

I'm not sure if they understood why they were having trouble getting good people to work productively with them.
This the kind of "innovation" rather similar to lottery, and I would rather it did not exist at all.
Great. Just great. So much for productivity today.

I like the separate canvas for mouse activities. Makes a lot of sense. It's probably not that much of a novelty, but I'm a designer/lousy programmer, so I'm impressed easily.
It doesn't really sound like an auction - more like a raffle. i.e. If 10 people pay $20 but only one wins it...

I actually looked at making a site like this for selling my house a couple of years ago. Fortunately I did some analysis before building it as in NZ it came under the gambling commission rules. This meant that I could only build a site like this if I donated all the proceeds to charity - unfortunately that was against what I was trying to achieve so never went through with it.
FreeCNC: open source, SDL-rewrite of Command & Conquer
Have you tried contacting the PostMaster for that city? They should be able to assist you in finding the owner of the P.O. Box. From there you can start the motions for filing charges or a lawsuit.
> I believe the only way forward is to pressure the FTC through our government representatives.

+1, this. Please, please file a complaint about Paypal/Ebay with the FTC about this. Enough complaining, and they will be forced to change or leave.
I really don't know. For example, as MVP they could actually manually verify accounts (verify Facebook login, friends on that account, etc.). Also, at the beginning, maybe to allow only people in same city to do transaction. I know it is hard, but somebody much smarter than me could do it.
Fight, win, prevail!

Aside from that, second to last map, GDI, best, mission, ever.
I got burned out by the start up scene in the original internet boom in the '90s. Probably lost 200K in salary due to betting on the startups, only to have the founders make bonehead mistakes or shaft the programmers.
> Not really. You almost always would need to resize or somewhat edit them anyway.

This would make sense if they were vector icons but because it's a TIFF you can't really do any resizing or worthwhile editing.
> At a financed, leveraged startup, you're not going to get that number in cash. But you need to get that number, risk-adjusted, in some fashion. Generally, engineers should not expect to be "worth less" to startups. They're just compensated using different instruments.

Completely agree.

> The problem with berating engineers for framing comp discussions in terms of their going rate is that engineers can't value equity the way founders can. It's an asymmetric information problem. The founders know more about the value of their equity and have more control over the variables that will change those values.

And this is the part where I personally believe in 100% transparency. I am here to build a business that will make everyone involved happy. I am not afraid to show you the things that are going well, or the things that are going terrible or to share any other number with you. Of course, you don't know if I am lying to you or not. But guess what? The same is true of any job. It is naive of the founder to believe that they can permanently hide the state of the startup to the people they are hiring. If I lied to you, you will find out soon enough and leave. There are so many amazing startups in Silicon Valley, that is dumb for a founder to lie about these things. So the better approach is to be 100% transparent from the beginning.
Looking at the other comments, this seems like basic CSRF to me.
How do you suppose event-based models are notified of changes? Ultimately you are still polling, you're just abstracting it out of your higher-level design.
Did you consider using forks more actively? E.g. each team has it's own fork where they commit, and one person is responsible for merging the fork upstream?
Serving a subpoena to "General Delivery" is problematic at best.
Apple Is Quietly Working To Destroy The iPhone
No kidding. When I saw the headline, my heartrate spiked a noticeable amount while I waited for the link to load.
There's also Boxcryptor which looks similar though I haven't tried it yet. I've been wanting to use one of these encryption services but I'm also wondering what people think of them.
I pay for stuff once in a while on PayPal. However, I do not maintain a cash balance with them, nor do I have a linked bank account. I have only my American Express card linked to my account.

A few years ago, I ordered some dirt cheap magazine subscriptions on eBay. I had done the same on eBay once before without a problem, but that was before the scamsters caught on.

You see, there is an inherent vulnerability with magazine subscriptions: they are not expected to start serving until approximately eight weeks after you order them. That's plenty of time for you to give positive feedback and a crooked seller to make more sales. It's also beyond that 45-day window you mention.

In the event, a couple of months passed. No magazines. I checked the magazine subscriber service sites and found that no subscriptions had been entered for me. I had paid on PayPal, via my American Express card. The action I took was to dispute the charge on the Amex website. It didn't occur to me take up the matter with PayPal first, so I didn't run into the problem you had. In any case, the chargeback was resolved in my favor.

Not long after that, eBay stopped allowing subscription sales on their site.
"I get the author's feelings."

No matter how good your customer service is there will always be people that feel just as aggrieved as the author because they fell just short of the standard for replacement.

Maybe Apple is completely falling apart and This Would Never Happen With Steve(TM)... or maybe we've seen this movie many times before. For years it was the Guy with One Bad Pixel when the standard for replacement was two but he always swore on the forums that it was Right In the Middle.
What attorney would give a crap about a $500 phone?

A class-action attorney?
sigh

The 'job security' part is the one that worries me the most in stories like this. I'm not alone. I need to support a family. While I'd love to sink time (and money, to a degree) in a company, the risks turn me off to even apply.

It seems that the general consensus is that you need a really good savings account not just for starting your own business, but for joining a new startup as well.

I _know_ that I'll find a job around here again. That's not a problem. The time frame is. Let's assume I can (ignoring all legal issues for a second) join a startup, remote, from this small town in Germany. Wherever they are, they probably can cut me out quite easily (even here, if the headcount is low enough), quickly.

The companies that I'd turn to for safety are slooooooow. So you risk being out on the streets waiting for bigger, safer companies to return your calls and get back to you. Which might, which WILL happen if you're a decent programmer/engineer/whateverpatiowouldsuggestmewritinghere.

But .. in time? Fast enough to not worry about your family? I'm a chicken here. I wouldn't bet on that.
I have not gotten uniformly glowing assessments, but none of the bad things I've heard were Uber's fault, so much as they were reasons why the Uber business model in Chicago is sometimes inferior to that of the conventional black car model.

My friend's driver didn't tell me he wasn't "licensed"; what he was telling me was that he was, for conventional livery companies, uninsurable. It seems clear to me that Uber checks drivers differently than black car companies do.
If y'all have questions, I'm the program chair so fire away. I'm happy to answer 'em here.
No, the current ecosystem of Bitcoin is just fine. You have to click one link after another because you just don't _know_ anybody who has bitcoins.

One day you will get robbed by one of these exchanges, and you will blame bitcoins (or the bad man) and swear to never work with Bitcoins again. But they will be just one link in a chain of exchanges that you've trusted each one, hundreds of times, to bring you music and movies for bitcash, and nobody will write an article about it.

I am a small volume user but I have never been scammed by anybody in Bitcoin, except for that Bitscalper fellow.
Absolutely, we're currently doing mugs for TWiT (www.teespring.com/twitmugs) and our plan is to branch out to other items - we just want to make sure we can deliver an amazing experience in each product category before we expand to the next.

If you shoot me an email at walker (at) teespring (dot) com I'd be happy to work with you to setup a poster campaign.
The UI performance was so abysmal for me that it didn't make up for the higher resolution.

Spending 4k on the maxed out spec system, and having to deal with sub 20 fps while scrolling a web page is just ridiculous (and one of the main reasons I returned it.) Even the notes app would slow to a crawl when scrolling through large amounts of text and nearly stop responding.

I'm really surprised that there haven't been more people complaining about this issue. I'm all for high resolution screens, but please, for the love of all that is holy, put a graphics card in there that is capable of pushing out those pixels!
That's not going to meet anyone's definition of "internet service". Not even folks who think it's just "the web" and email.
Ebay works great for buyers now, it just sucks for sellers.

I buy on Ebay all the time, you can find all kinds of things there really cheap.
There is one potential difference, though, which is in the value of a full paycheck in the short to medium term.

Some people may feel they just can't afford to forego a standard, market rate salary, and they wouldn't want to join a company that has a high chance of disappearing next month or failing to make payroll. But beyond that, they're not terrified of the idea of losing their job and looking for a new one. I think we may overstate at times how easy it is to get a job here on HN, but clearly there is a large population of strong programmers who can be picky about what they'll take and still get a decent job offer within a month or two of looking.

I remember Marc Andressen writing about this on his blog a while back - that in a very tech dense place like silicon valley, startups aren't quite as risky as they might sound. A total meltdown in hiring is an outside risk (like the couple of years immediately after the first dot com bust), but otherwise, people often build up such a strong network and skillset through startups that they may have more "job" stability, if it's defined as the ability to get a job (I hear this referred to as "career stability").

None of this necessarily means that post series A is quite the right spot to be in. That might still have too poor a stability vs opportunity ratio. But some sort of "early employee" be the right spot for people who would like to optimize for potential returns under a strict constraint of earning a market-level (or close to it) salary.
Maybe it's V Ger! Look out Capt Kirk!!!
Actually, in building my own system, choosing the MB was my favorite part of the building process; always choosing high-quality and board component reliability/longevity over anything else.

I still have a few questions though. What will this mean for aftermarket heatsinks/coolers? I never run with the stock Intel/AMD heatsinks, will these coolers be permanently bolted on just like the processor?

And for motherboards featuring high-end processors, what will this mean for scenarios where the MB fails but the processor is still good. Will we just have to scrap the two altogether?
> To be fair to languages without such great parallelism support: you can do this using asynchronous/event-loop-based code

Well you can do with callbacks anything that you can do with channels and goroutines. Go's primary appeal is that it makes concurrent[1] code easy to reason about, not that it enables you to do anything that you "couldn't do" otherwise.

Continuations are just GOTOs, and just like GOTOs, some people love them and some people hate them, but even people who like them can find them difficult in large doses. Goroutines and channels are nice, because they fit the structure of imperative code, whereas callbacks sort of resemble imperative code but "inside out".

[1] Note that I didn't say parallel!