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> So let me see if I understand this.

> One guy is filibustering the CIA nominee

Yes.

> based on an incomplete and vague set of questions

No. See [1]

> [vague set of] answers

Yes. See [2]

> The filibuster has no chance of succeeding

No. They can go ad infinitum. Already others are joining in so the debate doesn't die. Eventually if we want a CIA head, we'll get a new nominee. Also, Paul is repeatedly saying that with firm answers, he'll end the filibuster.

The rest of your post is spot-on. Makes me finally proud of or political process for the first time in a few years.

[1]
http://paul.senate.gov/files/documents/Brennan1.pdf
http://paul.senate.gov/files/documents/Brennan2.pdf
http://paul.senate.gov/files/documents/Brennan3.pdf

[2]
http://paul.senate.gov/files/documents/BrennanPaul.pdf
http://paul.senate.gov/files/documents/BrennanHolderResponse...
Rand Paul, Justin Amash, Jason Chaffetz. Is some sanity creeping into our political system?
It costs $25-$35 / diner to pay a server $12/hr?
Trouble is, the same mammals operate drones, with the difference that there is no physical danger to them that would justify it.
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I actually love the idea, and have enough friends (~30) and enough regular-user friends (~15) to make it worthwhile.

However, I couldn't get over how slow the experience is. The app itself is snappy enough (well, 2.x was; 3.0 appears to have slowed down a bit). The network communication is terrible. Loading anything takes way longer than my patience allows, and far too often I get an error message stating that the app was unable to contact Path.

It's simply unacceptable, especially for a mobile-only service. I don't have latency problems with the mobile apps for Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. Just Path.

For that reason (and also because the checkin feature just stopped working, claiming it could never find my location), I uninstalled it last August and gave up. I just reinstalled to see what 3.0 is like, and still find the same problems. Tried 3G, tried WiFi, and it's so ridiculously slow, and I still get timeouts every now and then.

I think the app is beautiful and has great UX, and loved being able to tag people, tag locations, and even mirror selectively to Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook. But using it was (and I'm afraid still is, though I'll give it a few days; at least the check-in feature appears to be working properly again) just a horribly frustrating experience.
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This is very wise +1
Obviously lifting the minimum wage would increase pressure on their competition. Maybe they can not operate as efficiently as Costco and having to pay their workers more would send them on a tailspin to bankruptcy (for example).
It really doesn't make sense for a business to call for higher minimum wages (other than for PR and hurting the competition). If they believe in paying more, they can do so without a law.
The Semantic Web and the Knowledge Graph
Markdown + pandoc is viable for writing now. I'm doing my thesis with it. Although the citation support gave me the shits so I wrote my own citation markup extension (incomplete - https://github.com/singingfish/Citeproc-Markdown ).
Ask HN: Should I take a downgrade to work in a better company?
I've got a good job at a midwest IT services firm -- but the tech is outdated and the coworkers "just doing their jobs."

A VC-backed startup founded by Google alums in SF made me an offer through FiveYearItch.com. Looks good, but the pay boost I'd get would only just match the cost of living in SF. I'd also be busted down from Team Lead to Software Engineer.

But everything I can see about the company looks cool: Top people, interesting tech.

Should I take this?
Unemployment doesn't have to be worse than low-wage employment, in a progressive socialized economy.
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Please make a paid version.

I have the in-app purchases disabled in the Settings, so upgrading an app like yours requires doing an app switch, then typing in Restrictions password, enabling IAP, switching back to the app (frequently needing to restart it to), making a purchase (including typing a password), then going back to Settings and re-disabling IAP. In other words it's a hassle.
By that same logic, if government raises the rate, negotiating on your behalf, your labor is worth more.
> I think we should raise the minimum wage

It means you want unemployment to raise as well? Because that's a very typical effect of minimum wage increase.
Here is an idea to keep your forking mojo going: "improve" the looks of svndiff to match the looks of git-gutter.
The letter of the law doesn't bring the dead back to life. And what's written in the constitution is irrelevant if 2 branches of government brazenly decide to ignore it, as has happened far too many times in the past.
> Nowadays more children attend school than ever before, but they learn much less. They learn almost nothing. The proportion of the Mexican population that is literate is going up, but in absolute numbers, there are more illiterate people in Mexico now than there were 12 years ago.

So...literacy rates are going up? That doesn't sound so bad.
I don't think you get my comment: the debunking itself is valuable. Just look at the many papers/critiques published on the subject[1]. The last paragraph of the Wikipedia article is also very relevant:

In a 2012 paper, anthropologist Philip Tobias noted that rejection of
the AAH led to stigmatization of a spectrum of topics related to the
evolution of humans and their interaction with water. The result of
this bias, in his and co-authors opinions, was an incomplete
reconstruction of human evolution within varied landscapes.

This is why I think these not-100%-scientific talks (but not spiritualistic crap) are perfectly valid in a TED event. They might be wrong after all, but it doesn't matter as long as they made you visualize/explore new ideas.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis#Footnote...
Why sit on it? Why not disclose it and have it be your name on that CVE, and not someone else?
The problem with EITC (and Medicaid) is that it subsidizes employers like Walmart.
What's wrong with that? Seems perfectly fine to me.
Unemployed people can do plenty of things to develop skills, and are often required to do so by welfare programs. What are the main skills acquired by working at Walmart after the first week?
Deadweight loss only occurs if government is incapable of putting people to productive work. government, while imperfect, has some capacity for organizing productive labor.
Grammatically, "Fix it, it's broken" is incorrect. The correct punctuation is a semi-colon, not a comma (splice). Alternatively, you could use a colon ("Fix it: it's broken") or conjunction (e.g., "Fix it, as it's broken"). Anyhow, for hackers, "broken" and "fix it" are redundant.

Also, people occasionally use "Tell HN:" but almost never "HN:".

That's probably why it was edited.
Robot ballerinas to replace human dancers?
Gosh, I wonder if being ruled by a mass murderer dictator might have been a factor?
What does part time have to do with hourly wage?
I'm afraid my system does not have yet support to http protocol

This server does not apparently has any service listening on port 23 so unfortunately I can't telnet to it (I'm not sure what's this /jobs as well, is this a Gopher page? oh well...)
Does Walmart get direct welfare?
I wonder how they're going to work around two of the four major browsers blocking third-party cookies by default.
Clojure's dynamic typing is somewhat different from other languages, though, as it really just has two non-atom types: seqs for collections and maps for data objects. Virtually all collections and objects can be manipulated as one of these two types. So "calling a method" on an inappropriate type is basically passing an inappropriate map to a function. You might want to disallow it, but Clojure allows it for good reason: this makes it possible to have many data access/manipulation functions that work on all objects. So the question is, do you want to forbid passing an argument that doesn't make sense to a function or open the door to lots of useful functions that would work on all objects. Clojure simply chose the latter.
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Well it's about $44 now. Not really a crash in my view.
I do this all the time with VNC on linux.

I use vncserver to setup a background vnc X session, then connect to it as many times as needed with vncviewers.
Lingual ,a SQL DSL for Hadoop
Maybe constraints rather than craziness? Constraints tailor a language, make it fitter for one purpose or another. But you have a limited constraint budget - overspend and everything is difficult.

As an old boss of mine (hi Paul Earwicker) used to say - "flexibility is just design decisions you haven't taken yet."
not yet (sorry), but it's on the list.
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Over a 10-year horizon, that scheme only counters 10% of their goodness.
Are you really saying there is not a middle class in china?
If I were you, yes.

But a question to ask is... Are you willing to sacrifice?

It might be a short term sacrifice. Because maybe after few months or a year, the startup will be acquired or became a hit. We don't know.

Also, do you have family? If you have, maybe consider to ask them first.

When joining a startup, I always said to myself that it's not about the money. It's about the value (experience, learnings, etc.) you will get.
I think the first electronic circuit I ever designed from scratch was an in-line "autofire box" for my VIC-20 joystick so I could kill at Gorf ;)
Homeless in San Francisco, AirBnB founder eats his dog food [vid interview]
I personally consider it not major but significant, not just due to market share but also because it's the default browser (and shares its inner components with applications leveraging WebView) on a certain platform. Therefore it's a prime target for establishing a foothold on that platform.
The easiest way to go for everyone is to work for the remote company as a contractor. Then you take care of your own taxes as someone who is self employed. In the U.S. if you don't have another business structure setup for doing contract work, then you are automatically a sole proprietor. I imagine Germany has something similar.

Hire an accountant to figure out what extra tax hit you will take working as a contractor as opposed to an employee. Whatever you would normally charge the company to work work for them - add that extra tax hit, the costs of the accountant to handle your taxes and whatever overhead costs that you will take on by working remotely vs working in their office.

Otherwise, the company you are looking to work for will likely set other demands based on whatever works best in their system. Be flexible, but make sure to add the above mentioned costs.
I like Linda.com and find it very useful. Everytime I mention it to my co workers they make fun of it. What they don't know, well What only my previous lead dev knows is that I'm a college drop out who learn mostly on my own through Linda and many others, and I am on a program where I receive a raise every 3 months for the past 2 years I am working at this company. If my co workers only knew .

Thank you lynda.
Maybe it is our military programs that are unfunded. Like the ones passed as non-budgetary "emergency" appropriations.
When the stock market plunges more than a few percentage points during a single day, every publication on the planet calls it a crash. During the last "flash crash" the market recovered within minutes; it was still a crash, covered internationally and garnering its own Wikipedia page. The bitcoin market losing 33% of its value in an hour is a crash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
Please DO NOT listen to this guy.

Steady on, soldier. I just asked a question.
Thanks. I like the way the 'Alien Blue' iPhone app does it but it doesn't seem like there's a HN app which does the same.
I wouldn't say "intelligent design" was invented out of nowhere. It's an old (3000+ years old) concept. The name of it is new, but it's the same old tired dogma.
Wouldn't it be correct to call him a dictator the day that he was a dictator?
My point being is that as long as LV are engaged in what you say is "one act of trolling", then they can be called trolls.
There's a yearly book fair, LéaLA (http://www.lea-la.com/). If you're willing to cross the border, Gandhi (http://gandhi.com.mx/index.cfm/id/f:corporativo-sucursales; click where it says Tijuana) is the best bookstore chain in Mexico; although it is apparently prospering, I couldn't say with a straight face that it is actually good.

Don't believe anything you read on either of those pages without double checking.
What would you say has superceded it?
I don't understand why you think any rules change just because the jobs being done change. This revolution of automation has largely already taken place, and I would argue that the automation isn't even the important part. What difference does it make if all food is generated by robots vs today's reality of most food being generated by a tiny percentage of the humans with the huge help of technology? I certainly don't generate my own food, and I don't do anything very essential by the "physicist viewpoint", and yet I am still able to acquire food. Most people in this country don't farm and are still able to get food despite doing "non physicist" jobs. I didn't need a job handed to me or invented to keep me busy. My job is completely non-essential and would have made absolutely no sense 1000 years ago. It however exists because of technology and surplus.

The guy playing StarCraft makes money. He then uses said money to buy food from guy who owns the crops, just like today. Its no different than how soccer players play for people for money. What is the complexity here? Why do you think we will need to figure out means of "distribution"?
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Any details?

I don't see anything in a Github repo to support this, not with the Microsoft tools. Perhaps it builds under Cygwin and similar, but that's hardly qualifies as "builds on Windows" for practical purposes.
I went and joined. It said it could get my pic from Facebook. Great. Then it went on to request a bunch of other stuff (including posting) all of which I denied. Fine. I come back to see my "moments" in Path pre-filled and littered with my Facebook timeline. I don't want that stuff from years ago, I never gave you permission to cross post them (well, not in good faith), and I want to remove them. I can't. Or it's damn hard to find out how.
Another (probable) software failure due to unexpected scenario was the Mars polar lander http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander#Loss_of_commu...

The failure review concluded that the probable cause of loss was that the landing system software apparently interpreted the deployment of lander's legs as touchdown and shut down the descent engines. The vibrations caused by the deployment of the legs was not taken into account when designing the software.
The most important consideration is your future. Does this job open up new opportunities, new skills, new connections?

If you see yourself rising up the ladder in your current place, and it interests you, stay.

But all in all, the other opportunity looks good.
Why do you assume that consumers will pay the cost of higher wages, and not owners (via lower profits)?
I'd much preferred if they removed minimum wage and almost all of the welfare programs and replaced it with basic income guarantee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee)
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I believe irony's the right term. You'd expect techcrunch to give you the hyped-up start-up journalistic drivel, but instead you find good quality content.
That's a good thing. Efficient businesses with happy employees prosper. Inefficient sweatshops shut down.
@sebbi - you are shadow-banned.
Thai is the most idiotic game I have ever played. Bad job. Sorry to be the who is speaking the truth here. Majority so HN comments are just sugar coated. Read it long enough and one one can get diabetes.
But not me I call a spade a spade.
I can't imagine you'd find much public support for giving millionaires a weekly wage. What does this offer over the minimum wage? Is it that the universality makes it cheaper to administer or is the universality a principle rather than a pragmatic concession?

In the UK, there is a movement for a living wage which seems to be more about a higher, regionally-calibrated minimum wage.
This proposal is missing a critical component: circumvention to allow playback of legally purchased media on any device we choose. There's no excuse for denying people the ability to copy a DVD or Blu-Ray's contents to an iPad, home server, or whatever.
The short answer is: Yes.

But what really should matter is the market -- i.e., your options. Learn what your opportunities are, and take the best. Did FiveYearItch send you some other offers? How do they compare? Did you look for options elsewhere?
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Because Adobe's Creative Suite does not run on Linux.
On a reread I do not think that the next wave or whatever will cause a collapse - if there are no jobs to be had then we shall not all be livin in the dirt - we will find ways to share the wealth some other way than wage packets.

There are many ways of sharing the wealth - for example I benefit from road building schemes even if I do not recieve direct payments.

Michalangelo as compared to a Neanderthal is an interesting idea - but reverse it - although michaleangelo presumably thought he had to work hard, if he had lived a life of same utility as a Neanderthal he could have done so on an hours work a week. It's just that he liked clothes and houses and wine. So I agree that in the robot future the effort needed to live like you or I will be small - but it won't pay for that holiday to Mars
> But, the wrap issue is annoying - you can't do a ps -auxwww , see that the line length is too long, and the resize the window and have your text rewrap. (At least on putty 0.6, the version on my vm instance)

You're right that putty doesn't do this, but I always run screen inside putty, which will rewrap text when the window resizes.
i've been using ember for the past three months in a fairly complex project and i'm very happy with it ; a platform that builds business web apps dynamically for devices (20+ pages,250+ fields per app with validations, calculated fields, conditional flows etc , rendering/theming in jqm -> packaged with phonegap) and client web browsers (render/theme in bootstrap),the backend is in java. So, i certainly don't feel the same way for emberjs as the writer.

I had decided to build the frontend in a js mvc framework and the candidates were backbone, emberjs (pre version), angularjs. Read about them and gave backbone a try, however from the documentation only emberjs approach felt better maybe because of a similar in-house development java framework that we work on. So i tried to give emberjs a try at the same time, due to the tight deadlines. I dropped backbone, and spent more time on emberjs because everything simply worked and fitted together nicely. All these binding mechanisms are great and actually work :) . Haven't tried angularjs.

The system now works with emberjs (pre and rc) with a nice layered architecture and separate independent business logic modules.

My advice is to read the documentation carefully and choose what fits better to your needs and coding styles.
What valuable skills are developed over a year of flipping burgers, that aren't taught in the most basic highschool classrooms?
Thank god. I have been planning on writing a bunch of papers to publish on my website and all of the options have been awful.

So far, it looks great. Thanks for the service. Can't wait to try it out.
Nice game but too easy. Less than 15 minutes for all puzzles.
That example is too narrow/shaky. It requires employer to have some sort of monopoly on employing that worker (otherwise why would the worker keep working for that employer for $X/hour in the first place?).

I was asking about example when employee's gain (from increasing minimum wage) would be more reliable and would not depend on chance so much.

Gambler has a chance to win, but gambling is not a good way to get wealthier.
What's the difference between:

1) entering your 1Password master password in untrusted software

and

2) running untrusted software which could potentially keylog your 1Password master password?

Agilebits likes to talk about how 1Password protects against keylogging (http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/security.html and note the author here http://mackeyloggerprotection.com/ ) but what's stopping attackers/malware from keylogging your master password and exfiltrating your 1Password database and master password?
I dislike data binding with a vengeance. From Windows Forms, to Web Forms, to WPF, to Swing, to QT QML, to AngularJS. I don't think this pattern will ever work for me.
Thanks, yes, FiveYearItch got me some other good offers. Some had significantly higher pay. But at this point, that's not my top priority. It's a choice between the comfortable job I have now and the "hot startup" in SF
Unless, of course, you have these millions and millions of apps that need your on kernel to run.
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I wouldn't.

If you were able to receive one offer without looking then surely you can get another offer if you were specifically looking for another job in SF.

Though it's good to love your job, it's also important that your time in your job is financially providing something more than just a paycheck. You should be able to put money away and enjoy the time that you aren't working as well. Getting paid just enough to cover your cost of living is no fun and stressful. What do you do if they go under? If they really recognize the value that you are bringing to the table, then they should be paying you enough to make this an easy question.

It sounds to me like this offer has perked your interest for moving on and that perhaps you haven't considered this before. Perhaps you should look around for other opportunities and at least get some competing offers. Maybe you could even do something as a remote developer (just don't apply to Yahoo!) somewhere.

ETA: If you want to scratch an itch, start a side project or find an open source project to contribute to.
Amazon. Not trying to be sarcastic; I order Russian books from Amazon all the time.
This is a slightly ignorant claim to make. There are plenty of startup companies who have different business models than just "make a program and sell it".

Additionally, you're assuming that every startup is also a saas startup. Most aren't, meaning they might have a thousands in lets say production molds and an order of 10000 units from retailers. They'll need the investment money to help them fulfill orders and grow.

Lastly for many other startups there are costs that exceed past general development. Security is a good example of one of these large costs especially if you're dealing with money or private data in any way. These additional necessary costs could be minor but for many startups they're large and unable to be paid for by the hopeful entrepreneur.
Well there's always MtGox, which I don't think has any limits, but you have to give them an absurd amount of identity verification to be able to place orders, which scared me away.

There are multiple services, Coinbase is just one of them. This particular instance of you not being able to place an order through them is not indicative of a wider tendency to not be able to place orders.

Coinbase has a 24-hour rolling limit for how many coins can be sold through them. This is reliably the case every day.

Also, not being able to buy coins doesn't seem to be a "security" issue.
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“I won’t comment on the safety of this nuclear reactor, but it’s truly a beautiful nuclear reactor”