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Tech writers seem to spend more time writing about themselves than time writing about technology.
Wait...let me get this straight. You're asking "..is the leverage so great that someone is a liability" for having a relationship? And you're asking this in a thread in which the OP describes how his ex-lover's attempt at extortion (if we believe the OP) has forced him out of the company?

I guess the answer to your question is...yes?
What do you expect such a hotel owner to do? Strip search patrons for drugs and install cameras in their rooms to ensure that no money is exchanged for sex? Give background checks and risk discrimination lawsuits by refusing to service people who look sketchy to you?

Read the judges decision. The man did everything he could reasonably be expected to do. His motel did not spawn lowlifes, it was merely cheap enough for lowlifes to afford. Society spawned those lowlifes and the local government is responsible for that, not him.
Seems like a lot of guess work. I fear I'd be doing something wrong just by trying to figure out whether or not the other person was gay.

So a straight guy can say to another straight guy "Hey man you have a nice ass?" without legal repercussions?

One more reason to try to work from home I guess.
"You don't need to ask unless /home is mounted noexec."

You'd be surprised what is restricted in a lot of corps beyond the "approved" software list. It is amazing what big things get approved and what little things don't.
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I'm a Canadian who has spent the past two years living in Latin America. Most of it has been spent in Mexico and I'm currently in Guatemala.

I believe I have a higher quality of life here than in Canada. No, there's not the same health care or social programs (these are usually taken into account when determining quality of life) but those aren't things that I ever had to take advantage of in Canada.

My cost of living is much cheaper which means I can work less hours and spend more time doing the things that I enjoy.

I live 50 meters up a volcano and have an amazing view across the lake to two other volcanos. The property is 100% off the grid and I need to take a boat to get to a town to buy anything. Internet is from a 3g usb modem. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/799543

Nothing here comes instantly. Everything moves a bit slower. This has taught me to be more patient and make better use of my time.
Our system of laws are designed with such an intention. Clearly laws can be constructed with no such intention, though frankly I don't see the point. I think I would rather live in Somalia than North Korea.
If you find suppliers of similar products on Alibaba, it's very likely that they will be able to manufacture something to your specs. There's quite a learning curve involved with outsourcing manufacturing. ThomasNet is another option.
I think the last developer who cared was Firefox and even they gave up.
I don't know about there being no life at all, but we could start by having less kids, or at least having a deep second or third thought about it instead of it being the default direction a relationship should take.

Significantly fewer people having kids would sure take a load off this resource-scarce, overcrowded planet. It would help fight poverty, hunger, and war.

If you absolutely must have kids, here's to hoping that you'll at least do it for unselfish reasons -- such as that you sincerely hope (and intend to do everything you can to ensure) that your child will improve the world in some way, rather than having a child for the selfish or conformist reasons I described in my earlier post.
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Bill Gates: My kids have never asked for Apple products
Well it's the chaotic Jobs we all seen that emphasised his authority. Sure, Cook hasn't forgotten, but it doesn't take much to realize that he has had to operate Apple differently as CEO. This isn't about inside knowledge, it is a perspective that arguably has some validity to it.
Our team was heartbroken to hear the outcome of that treatment as well. (You've now got three of our team sitting around discussing your incredibly poignant comment.)

It's certainly a bit of a dilemma, but we've made a promise to be 100% transparent, even when it hurts.

FWIW we've found ourselves even more dedicated to Watsi since receiving our first negative outcome. We always knew that what we were doing was real and important, but there's something about death that really puts the gravity of the problem we're attempting to solve into perspective.
Hah. My brother-in-law was talking to me about how much farmers would appreciate software like this the Christmas before last. His family runs quite the complicated operation, and farmers will surprise you with how cutting edge they are technologically. If you search it there's a farmer who rigged up an Arduino to drive his combine (autosteer systems can run into the tens of thousands).

Edit: I just texted my brother-in-law asking about FarmLogs. He said he just did a trial, it was pretty expensive. Now he's liking an app called "Farm at Hand", he's met the main developer and talked with him over email. Personal interaction seems to mean a LOT to farmers. Apparently the app is good and on the right track but needs a bit of tweaking. Also Farm Credit Canada is supposed to be coming out with an app soon that's going to be good at record keeping.
3.6 mbps internet provided by the private telco NCELL, price is bit high though. To add, a 14 hrs of power cut per day.
Are you serious? Did you read the OP? Did you read the part where he describes encouraging his lover to apply for a job -- and oh, what a coincidence, his lover happens to beat out numerous applicants for a job at a highly respected startup -- and how his lover has just filed a lawsuit accusing the OP of sexual harassment and even attempted, according to the OP, to extort millions from the OP?

And if you read that, you're still asking why HR has any right to know if their executives are in a possible enanglement with a subordinate?

OK, maybe you have a reflexive hate of HR. don't fixate on them. Instead, pretend you were in the shoes of Square's founders or major investors, and you're reading a lawsuit that accuses your COO of sexual harassment, the kind of sexual harassment allegation that can only come from a COO who broke standard operating procedure (I.e. not informing HR of this)

Would you think the investors and partners are more angrier or less angrier than you right now?
I've been using the web without Flash installed on my system for months now - an it really surprised me how little I have to jump into Chrome (with its built in flash) to play a video!

Flash is headed for irrelevance - I doubt it will make much difference at all in this format choice. What will matter a lot more is what format mobile devices are able to play.
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I guess libertarians would be better off, if the Austrian economics faction within them was less vocal.
These are lossy formats, so there aren't clean, easily defined limits like there are for lossless formats.
Interesting. First time I have heard of Riposte. It dousn't sound like a new language though, but rather a new runtime. Am I understanding incorrectly?
You paint a very black and white picture when we all know that the landscape isn't truly that polarized. Firstly, given two candidates of equal knowledge, one with no degree and one with a degree in art history, I would _look at the work history_ and then make my decision.

A college education doesn't serve as a certification of exposure to new ideas and studies or long-term commitment and responsibility. No, one example of long-term commitment and responsibility is taking the route less traveled, knowing all the while that you are succeeding, while others laugh at your seemingly obvious missteps.

Tell me, how would you evaluate a person that skated through HS with Cs and Ds; duplicated the same effort in community college for one and a half years before dropping out; and then showed up at your company looking for a job? You'd probably show him or her the door, when you should have asked what was done in lieu of grinding through school. Then maybe you would find the person with a certified thirst for new ideas and studies who has more dedication and commitment than any college graduate, but feels that the education system is slow, broken, and nonqualitative.

Allow me to brush this chip off my shoulder. Don't get me wrong, I understand where you are coming from as well, and I love the entire school experience. But UW is taking the right step forward for people whom deplore the superfluous evaluations such as attendance and homework, to name a few.

UW can consider me one of their first customers.
Keith Rabois left Square due to claim he sexually harassed an employee
It sure does. Kinda happens in public schools now - teachers teach to the test because they need the students to pass the standardized tests.
I am well aware that Flash can act as a container. But that container by default will have H.265 since Adobe is already a licensee. So why would anybody not use it ?

And Google Glass is vapourware and YouTube/Chrome supports H.264 so not buying the whole Google will put its weight behind VP9 argument. We heard it before with VP8.
Great documentary about Dashan by the National Film Board of Canada http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UuubcfCXnU
> I can see a few reasons why I wouldn't want to say anything, especially if this person wasn't a direct report.

Really?

The guy was the COO, almost by definition everyone else in the company reports to him through some direct line.

The guy admitted to having a physical relationship. There is absolutely no gray area here as far as HR would be concerned.

Your a C level exec, you have a physical relationship with someone else at the company, whether or not it stopped before that person arrived, you report it the first moment you know that person starts working at your company.

I agree relationships are messy and life has lots of gray areas. This, however, is not one of them. This is HR 101 and if your still not convinced he admitted he knew this and should have reported it.
The CFAA covers cases where the alleged computer crime involves a computer system that is involved in interstate commerce or communication. So basically, any alleged computer crime involving a computer connected to the Internet could be prosecuted by the federal government.
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You must be right about Wang; I haven't heard of them.

Targeting xen instead of bare metal sounds better to me. openmirage is doing that with ocaml.
I think it is an acceptable loss for high ranking (founders, directors, officers) people to not recommend their sexual partners to their employers. If you are in a relationship, having diversity of income sources seems like a worthwhile secondary reason, but I'd kind of hate being an unrelated employee who had a founder's spouse as a coworker or manager, too.
I've proctored an exam for an online class. There was no vetting. Nobody even checked that I was faculty anywhere.
I like the way you handled that. Just curious, but how often do you end up blacklisting scrapers?
That doesn't mean the settled law is right. How is the average person supposed to know that their torrent client is "seeding"? Ask anybody off the street who the distributor is in that kind of system and they'll say it's the one who uploaded the .torrent, just like the distributor is Adobe or Blizzard or the BBC when they use P2P to distribute stuff.
Not to mention pay for those inflated prison guard pensions?
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Wouldn't it be more feasible to make the Erlang VM run on Baremetal OS[1], and contribute to it? Thousands of hours will be spent on kernel development and hardware issues for what is mostly duplicated effort.

[1] http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html
I don't know... I feel that a final examination is no test of knowledge. It's a test of memory. It's regurgitation. I'd never do that in my class.

I do have one class where doing well on the final project can get a failing student a passing grade though. But the project requires they apply what they've learned.
It's not hip indie music and bright colors that make products seem appealing in an ad. Ads succeed when they allow the most appealing parts of a product be revealed simply and cleverly.

Microsoft has always failed on this single issue when it comes to marketing: they are simply too heavy handed and unwilling to let products speak for themselves.

A lot of their products also suffer from simply not being compelling enough, but even when the product is compelling they go overboard on the "forced fun soundtrack" and stock-people.

Stepford advertising at its worst.
The shoe fits? It makes sense, and I have been given absolutely no reason to doubt it.
I didn't say that at all. I'm just more interested in real change vs. a witch hunt.
I'm so glad this was funded, I remember when it was initially posted, and the simple, brave solution, and I salute to YC for funding and mentoring this.

One small thing, although I just donated 50$ for two people, I found myself to be a bit uncomfortable with my actions,

I didn't really pay attention much to who I'm donating to, just clicked on the first picture that caught my eye without thinking, and donated 25$. Then I noticed, I'm donating to a 1 year old baby, with a cute photo.
I really want to think of myself as someone who pays more attention, reads and makes a decision based on facts, medical condition, urgency, and likelihood to succeed, but no, I just clicked based on prejudice, 1 second first impression, biased decision, without noticing I did so.

Then I saw a 37 years old woman and noticed she got much less donations although her total needed amount is higher, perhaps her medical situation is less severe, but I would be naive to think that that's the only reason. So I asked myself, am I doing some sort of unconscious decision that is not really fair and unbiased? I would lie if I say I didn't.

So I donated 25$ to her as well, just so I feel a little better with myself, and then I thought, well, this is a feature request.

So to avoid the "cute baby gets more donations" bias, what would make it a little nicer to me is to donate without knowing who it goes to, I'd like a button that says - "donate to most medically severe case", or "donate to most time sensitive case" and have someone else make the decision. This will make me feel a little more in peace with myself, and actually might make such biases less common.
Right now it might not have affect, but as it will hopefully grow to help more people, having such "donate to who needs it most medically" option will help prevent such gaps.

Also moving to a better payment system, Stripe or even Google checkout will make it a much nicer experience.

EDIT: the baby's profile was on the home page, where as the woman's profile was one click deeper, so this could be another reason, but this brings another enhancement, please automatically promote / rotate profiles that have less donations / most urgent medical conditions to the front page

Another feature I'm missing is to allow subscription, I would think many would be happy to donate 5$-20$ a month and automatically give it to those who have the least donations, or must urgent medical condition. Getting traffic is hard and critical for making this work, and not every day you get to HN front page, I would take advantage of it and offer a recurring donation as soon as possible.
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It's actually funny how the communities of developers get divided into groups. There's the know-everythings who are inclined to the technical side and have a smart answer for anything and everything, all decisions are based on manuals and numbers. Also, creative ones who have some sort of background in something else other than development, like music or illustration, etc. They usually make things touching a bit on the side of art, therefore experimenting a bit more. In some cases these dudes will actually be very well versed on the technical side, but not all of the time. So, the interesting thing here to see how people appreciate websites in different forms. You see these guys from 'A List Apart' sorta breaking schemes by doing a chopped title on the header, and people here deciding it's a bug on their browser :) . I've seen designs on the web that propose something different to the eye, where nerds will be ranting that the rules say it's wrong because you're violating the rules of this or that. Maybe I just wish I could experiment more, because I like looking at developers and designers proposing new things.
I take to it that you have misunderstood my point.

I never said, nor did I imply that I hated the creator of losethos. I've praised his ability, skill, perseverance and talent that he possesses. And while your "fuck this, I'm in the Matrix" argument makes sense to a degree, Terrence Davis has PUBLICLY admitted that he is schizophrenic. Now, I don't know if he's either a really talented programmer/troll, or if he really is ill, or if he's just going through a phase. I don't know the guy. But many of his comments do make sense, and then lapse into nonsense gibberish. He does also display many signs of schizophrenia, such as disorganized, breaking speech, extreme ability to concentrate on a single, specific topic, and belief in an idol as a source of catharsis.

I doubt any person who took the time to write an OS for 10 full years would go to those extents to troll. When he's not talking nonsense, he seems like a logical and nice guy, honestly. My whole intention was to show how mentally ill people do not think the way normal people do, and highlight how it can negatively affect their life. This guy also had to leave his job on some unknown but probably intense terms.

And while you make a remark that I'm following the herd, the herd hates him. I do not. I have nothing against mad scientists; many have brought some very great things to society.

As a 14-year-old whose father is a physician with a degree in psychology, I HAVE asked him what the symptoms are. I HAVE showed him Davis' comments and videos. And my father believes it's very likely that Davis indeed has schizophrenia.

I have thought about this topic for hours at a time while I code (yes, I know, I have no life). I have reached a conclusion, and it is that Davis does have schizophrenia. Why would somebody sit home and code an OS for years, living off of disability instead of putting that talent to work in a traditional environment, especially when said person has a degree in computer science? Granted, there are crazy people in technology. Even Linus himself seems to be bipolar at times, but the fact of the matter remains that Davis is off the hook. Seriously off the hook.

(As for your open source comment, what I meant was less about hippies lining up outside of 1 Infinite Loop, but more about the virtues of FOSS itself and how its implications could have on society in general, thus, a "revolution.")
"As for payment processors, why not bitcoin?"

...because only a tiny minority of anarchists trust Bitcoin? Oh sure, you can point to a few "forward thinking" (also known as "gullible") businesses that accept it, but it is not even a blip on the radar of money. The overwhelming majority of black market drug sales in the USA are done in -- you guessed correctly -- US Dollars.

If you can convince me that (a) Bitcoin is something a court will recognize as money, and not require me to convert it to dollars first, (b) that I can repay any debt with it, including taxes, and (c) that it's value today will even remotely reflect its value tomorrow, then maybe I'll accept Bitcoin payments from you. Otherwise, you'll have to give me my country's currency, because frankly, nothing else is useful to me (unless I am in another country, in which case you'll have to give me that country's currency).

Let's put it this way: it doesn't take a bunch of people commenting about the exciting US Dollar or British Pound Sterling to keep those currencies valuable. How long do you think Bitcoin would last if people stopped playing it up as the next big thing?
Good teachers aren't lecturing. They're facilitating. They're bringing in discussions, showing examples, and helping students learn. The reason the online classes work is because students figured out that instructor/content focused courses don't require students to actually attend.

Look at "flipped classrooms" where students read and watch lectures at home and then come to class prepared to discuss and perform.

I don't think I'm an exceptioanl teacher but I think I'm quite good, and students who've taken online classes prefer having some face-to-face time with me and other students because I don't lecture and read powerpoints for 60 minutes.

Any instructor/professor that lectures, recites, and PowerPoints is absolutely in danger of being replaced by an online course because they add little value.
I don't, but many have complained about their recent budget cuts. To me, it seems like it's helping space exploration more than hurting.
> While it's not foolproof,

I hereby nominated you for "Understatement of the Year".

Constitutional protection in the US is gone, full stop, and has been for a long time. The document is purely historical and "cultural", in that it does inform public opinion, but does not, in any way, constrain the government -- it's actual purpose.
"There are a few out there, but quite frankly they all reeked of Java and were limited by the nature of decompiling as a workaround to Minecrafts lack of an API."

What does Java smell like?

Seriously though, is it really the language that's the problem here? Honestly, this guy is a JavaScript developer. If there ever was code that had potential to "reek" it would be JavaScript. However, it would be ignorant to discredit an entire language and toolset because of that. Don't judge every line of Java code out there because Minecraft, of all things, doesn't have any kind of public API or because it's closed source. Especially since Java has such a thriving Open Source community.

The article was however really interesting, and I'm glad the author wrote about his experiences. I've been playing around with Minecraft and thought it would be fun to write a clone of my own.
These pictures are part of an huge collection made by the banker Albert Kahn (I posted 2 links in another comment).

There are hundreds of them taken in the trenches of WWI in Central Europe, Balkans and the Ottoman Empire. It is quite shocking to see how the poor and simple people where impacted by the war.
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"If you mean some thing based on morality or justice"

We must have stopped talking about copyrights. Copyright is a system for promoting the progress of science and useful arts, according to my country's constitution (assuming we still care about that).

"promised share of the revenue"

So much for a market-based system where businesses are not "promised" revenue.

"the site is in the same boat as The Pirate Bay there"

On the forefront of using a revolutionary communication system to deliver creative works to people, despite constant attacks by greedy anachronistic businesses who failed to adapt to a changing market?
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why i love SO: to play around with the data yourself, just email :)