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I understand that market forces drive people's buying decisions. I also know there is nothing inherently better about "locally produced," except for lower shipping costs. I understand that hand-made stuff is available overseas from workers paid a fraction of what it would take to survive in Europe or the US, and therefore it's naturally more efficient to buy from them than make it here. There's no way any government or group can change this situation by fiat without causing huge other economic problems.

However, over the long term, the situation of a third-world craftsperson earning in a month the amount of money a minimum wage worker in Europe or the US makes in a day or two is just not going to last in the long run. Either the influx of money from foreign trade and investment will raise wages in places like Vietnam or China to where their physical labor is no cheaper than a first-world nation, or it will pay for automation that will displace laborers just like it has in Europe or the US, and the costs of production in those nations will depend less and less on unskilled labor.

A purely libertarian way of dealing with the problem this article brings up would be to tighten up disability or abolish it and eliminate minimum wage. That way those workers would have to compete against the global labor market to survive. That's not going to work because our society is not going to accept it, and things are so expensive here, they probably couldn't compete even with starvation level wages. I'm not saying the ideal is possible, I'm just trying to figure out if there is any way society can reap whatever contributions can come from people who are currently on disability for marginal reasons without the nuclear option of forcing them to complete against $80 a month wages overseas? It's no good for people to sit around and do nothing all day, either for the individual or society. Idle hands are the Devil's tools.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but maybe a government program? Since the government is paying for them anyway? Something like the old WPA in the US? I don't have much confidence that will work though. Realistically, government programs rarely accomplish their stated goals, and they rarely go away if they do.
Does it also offers cohort abalysis based on the time of a particular event (not just a particular property like Browser)?
eg. filter everyone that signed up at the first week of January.
There are no patent trolls in fashion.
The layout reminds me of this story:

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall

I like it. The snowfall article is fancier, but they share an aesthetic, and I hope we see more of it.

Thinking about it, I'd be willing to pay for a regular stream of articles that are presented so nicely. (Well, assuming the content itself is also good). This is significant... I've never been willing to pay for news in my life.
Thanks. I don't actually run much stuff on OS X - I use it as my work desktop, but all my "real work" is done via ssh to Linux boxes, so the OS X box is rarely running more than a browser, iTerm 2 and Thunderbird, all maximized. I only "see" OS X when something crashes....

EDIT: Completely unrelated, I just noticed who you are. We met in Mike's house when I came over for the launch of Edgeio. And I just realized how long ago that is.
So a great programmer, a great designer and all round nice kinda guy. I already hate him :/
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This article just reminded me to support what is probably one of the last worthwhile news programs on air. Here's a link for you if you want to too!

http://www.npr.org/about/support/
> No two candidates are perfectly similar.

The scary thing is that many employers would prefer a worse candidate over someone with a known MH illness.
Perhaps a slider or some other interactive tool would be better for estimating monthly cost.

Anyone who'd use your service can look up their existing active user counts and plan accordingly -- much easier than estimating data points. However, you're going to lose some people if you require mental gymnastics to get an estimate based on arbitrary tiers and pro-rated pricing.
Yeah those stupid Americans sure do hate poor people, don't they?

/s
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Dart is Google's Silverlight.
I lived in Aberdeen when they shut down the mill. I remember everyone saying how this was the end of the town. It's weird that the article didn't show a picture of downtown. It's just a bunch of run down buildings with boards over the windows.

The Wal-Mart there is doing great though, one of the most profitable in all of Washington state, according to friends that work there.
I think you've re-invented the Roman welfare system. Probably less vulnerable to abuse than currency-based welfare, but in the end it had sustainability problems.
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A few years ago I was flown 3 hours first class and put up in a nice hotel for 2 days by a potential employer to interview in a white room with a white board for a few hours. I spoke with their development team which went great. Everyone was awesome and were very helpful.

I was then instructed to solve a problem on said white board. After I solved the problem I asked them what they were measuring with this test.

Their reply made me question the morals of said company.

They wouldn't tell me what the test was for. I asked them why. They said it was for internal review and I didn't need to know. I then asked them why I wasn't allowed to know. They had no definite answer other than that it was for their review.

After all was said and done I wished them a good day, thanked them for everything and I walked out. I got a call back a few weeks later informing me that I had another interview in a few days.

Long story-short. I turned them down. Something didn't sit right. I told them and they pretty much said, "welp, too bad for you."

Now I work at my dream job. I'm very happy I turned them down.
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You probably should do some research on what farming actually means in this day and age. Farms are not self sustaining, they buy seed, equipment, fuel, and supplies. Those people buy other things. A farm is a huge input to an economy and money changes multiple hands.
I've thought the same thing, I live in a small town and when I travel out to the country and see small houses actually shacks (their pickup truck is bigger) my mind spins.

Agriculture sounds innocent enough but living in such an environment I know it's not that simple. It's seasonal which is at the moment a huge problem the Canadian government has with seasonal workers in isolated areas. People get government assistance aka employment insurance or "EI" in Canadian-ese but the government has closed down the offices people go to apply and made it web based, baffling non-techy 60 year-olds. Now "EI cops" are making unannounced visits to these rural areas to make sure they people on EI are looking for work...but where?!

Anyway it's an age-old situation, the people make our food live in the middle of nowhere get pennies per ton and when they need money the government and city dwellers sneer at them.
That's not really much like the Soviet Union at all. It's much more akin to the kind of comprehensive social safety nets that European Social Democrats favor.

Scandinavian countries have put many of these ideas into place and they are hardly doomed. On the contrary they seem to be fairing pretty well.
Extraordinarily bad news. The damage that can be done with an Apple ID is limitless, including CC leaks, physical address, instant remote wipes of phones and Macs, you name it.

This had better be Apple's priority zero today.

Edit: When a critical hole is discovered in a system that manages the identity of the 400M wealthiest people on Earth, I'd expect this story to be ranking a little higher than page three on HN.
It's quite common for people to reach child-raising or retirement age and move to such places, or even leave their families there and continue to work in the big city. These cities also tend to have a lot of cottage-industry scale businesses: the average small American town is probably the worldwide capital of some incredibly obscure product or service. A town needs hard-currency inflow to pay for their imports but not a terribly large amount of it.
How are ya'll caching your stuff? Sounds like all that is doing is just making fresh requests for every route.
If he gets money, I could be injured too! I bashed up my leg when I slipped on ice last month. Can I get money for that?
> Is this common knowledge

Depends on your experience. We so a good bit of it after Katrina. The middle-class homeowners were completely at a loss when it came to applying to FEMA. The folks who live have lived of these federal programs for years were showing the engineers and lawyers how to fill out the papers. "No... don't check that box. That tells them you think you can afford food. Don't wanna do that."
I wonder how many of these items are manual fixes? It would be interesting to see the number of them adjusting the index.
yeah or I could just pay them $25 / month and let them pay for bandwidth on their own server time
I'm sorry, actually curious, you can't read it? It's just a tumblr template, so I'm curious if I should change some settings to make it more readable, etc.
I would love to use this product! I was talking with my team recently about having product similar to heap and we've used bunch of analytics products in the past.

@Founders of Heap:

I would love to do beta test for you guys. When do you guys open the gates for beta?
I like the idea of a negative income tax. I'm imagining it as a system where if you make below a certain amount of money, you aren't taxed, you're actually given money. If you make above that amount, you're taxed.

As long as it's implemented in a way that there is still an incentive to make more money, I think it could be a decent solution to our problems.
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These kinds of posts (Google Reader being shutdown, how long will XYZ Google application run for) are starting to get old and redundant...
I only submit reports to my boss when he asks for them, either in person or by email.

I do this maybe once a week if he's not at the office and maybe 2-3 times a week if he is at the office. (It really just depends on his mood.)
The problem is that there is a wide range of different coding styles, between "C with sanity" and "Boost.Spirit". You seem to lean more towards the C side, but that's not clear from the "C++ expert" label alone.
Thank you. It's almost too good to be true.

By the way, to 'read up the comment chain,' you can add '?context=3' to add the top 3 posts. Like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/184uh5/as_a_w...
Apple ID password reset exploit reportedly in the wild
Stop publishing so much
It's not really gaming, because people don't necessarily want to be on it. They tend to be genuinely unable to find work. I have a friend who works as a disability adjudicator (i.e. he determines who qualifies or not), and he says that it's just barely enough to live on -- only the desperate sign up.

The one type of systematic gaming he does see is parents pushing their kids onto disability; in that case it's just extra money.
300 files is nothing. I just strace'd an app I'm playing with that does 145,000 stat calls on startup.... It's in the process of being rewritten to do require_relative whenever possible. As for the gems, it'll probably end up with a hack to "precompile" a list of absolute paths after installation...
This post is titled wrong:

> I'm not yet ready to leave my server-side framework behind

That is the right title, pulled from the concluding paragraph.

This sentiment happens to apply to angular, backbone, knockout and everybody else.

The first thing I ever programmed was a single-page web app built with MooTools 5 years ago. Its still the most impressive application I've built and people ooh and ahh over it to this day (which is sad, since I was clueless).

When I think about all the JS I've written from then to now, nothing has the promise that ember + ember-data do. My ember code is so straightforward, declarative, and minimal.

Perhaps I haven't gone as deep as the author with ember, but when you pick a framework that is very openly pre-release software, and you're already apprehensive about "asynchronous data" (welcome to the web?) don't expect much success.
I ask this to myself: what's the limit?.
A company with millions on revenue still being called startup.
Could somebody please help me understand why?
And not everyone is able to or desires to provide intellectual labor even if given the opportunity.
We were using PGSql at the beginning of this project, but I was lured by the automatic backups / restore capabilities that RDS provides and I migrated.

One of my co-workers used to pound on PGSql pretty hard in a very high traffic environment and has nothing but good things to say, but I'm not crazy about the idea of having to learn all of PGSql's foibles like we have MySQL.

My impression is that MySQL 5.6.x (we're on 5.5.x) should help with the schema migration pain, but I don't have any hard evidence for that claim.

My hope is that MYSQL 5.6.x will remove a lot of the pain, but I don't have a
Did you have some sort of qualification bar for the people who you paid to "sit at home and chat on email"? Would these people pass it?
used version one for a while but it was kinda painful. hard to update a lot of status all at once. We also did daily stand ups.
Who invented tethering and when? Nokia, in 1995.
I got a readyforce account ~6 months ago, and used the site at least once a week for a few months.

Nothing. And it's certainly not because I'm not qualified, as the same resume there got me offers at Microsoft and Google.

And the comment from amooradian (one letter off from OP's name) just looks like astroturf.
Optimizing long-running queries with New Relic
I agree with you, as long as "free higher education" is delivered efficiently using the Internet, and affordable housing isn't in downtown San Francisco, but rather where it is inexpensive to provide.
But how will the product evolve with that talent?

The sync/sharing/storage aspect of the product is mature given the relative one-dimensionality of file storage.

Storage, Syncing and sharing should be transparent to the users - so clearly, they need to ensure a continued robust, secure service - but one that never gets between a user and their data.

The acquisition of Mailbox is a great move assuming they bolt Mailbox on-top of Dropbox.

What I would like to see is API integrations across services such that I can eventually store all MY data in MY account and allow other services access to it.

This could cause an issue for some services - but the fact is that I don't want to host all my mail with gmail, all my pics in FB, etc...

I want a storage glob and a set structure for "pics go here" "docs go here" "mail goes here" and a range of apps that access the data in an authorized, yet ad-hoc manner - but at the end of the day, the data is MINE.
We need to teach Germans to push back against artificial, external rules that limit them. Not sure jaywalking is the best rule to start with...
We've been using Ember in our production environment for nearly a year now. There are lots of plus' and some minus', but I'd like to take a few minutes to share our experience.

We picked up Ember 0.8 in March of last year. Having some prior SproutCore experience it was a pretty easy thing to get going with. Back in those days, Ember was pretty nonconventional, there was a right way and a wrong way to do things, but the framework didn't really enforce a strong point of view. This was really good and really bad at the exact same time. The good was there was a much lower learning curve. The bad was it was so easy to head down the wrong path and shoot yourself in the foot.

I think in the summer of last year, just after Ember 0.9.8 was released, many of the core team members started to explore some the criticism and problems with the framework at the time. The end conclusion, from my view, was to restructure the architecture of the framework. The pieces were the same, but they fit together differently. The biggest of these changes was with the introduction of the strong router conventions. In addition, there we're major changes to the default template context, view hierarchy, runtime and metal, among others. IMHO this was the first time Ember really expressed a strongly enforced convention through the framework.

Fast forwarding to today. Ember has a lot of concepts that people have spent months and months working on. I can sit here and endlessly explain why how the router's pattern makes your application more flexible, or how the template patterns make for easy reuse, etc etc etc. But the truth is you won't really appreciate them until you've given Ember a fair shake.

EDIT: A fair shake doesn't mean picking it up on a weekend. A fair shake means trying to build a reasonable size application with it. Spending a two or three weeks. It has a big learning curve, but that doesn't mean it isn't valuable.
> How are usernames any different?

So, I did not use the word "username" in that comment you are replying to. I thereby will assume you mean "stable and opaque identifier assigned and chosen by the authentication provider", which is what I would argue for (as opposed to attempting to rely on an e-mail address as a stable identifier).

I did use the word "username" in a response to someone else, but that was a very different (and much more abrasive :() argument path.

> Regardless email addresses are more stable and unique than usernames.

E-mail addresses are not more stable that usernames, because e-mail addresses have an external purpose: they receive e-mail. Many people actively go and change their email addresses periodically in order to stop receiving e-mail from people they previously were receiving e-mails from.

A "username" (your word here), especially (and maybe specifically) the "good" kind that is never shown to another user and is just used for account canonicalization, which conceptually could be a random number assigned by the system, is something that the user has no reason to change unless they actually want to never log in to the account again.

E-mail addresses also are tied to the DNS system, which other forms of identification need not be: you can instead tie them to a private key kept by the authentication provider. That would make "me" be A@B where A is a number and B is a key pair. In this way, even if the way you continue to contact my authentication provider lapses (such as attempting to use a hostname) only if the new owner has the same key are they able to claim the identities there (unlike e-mail) and as the user specifier is opaque (not a string that I'm going to care about and want to make pretty, or something I'd ever want to change unless I actively want to lose access to my account) it will not run afoul of the problem with e-mail where people feel compelled to reuse them after some time of abandonment.

The problem then with Persona is that it is the websites consuming it who have the onerous job of dealing with every possible e-mail address change a user may request. With more classic attempts at federated login, users may end up with multiple authentication providers that can become somewhat confusing, but they demand to change authentication providers and especially lose access entirely to authentication providers sufficiently rarely that it is a non-issue to handle the support load of helping users remap their accounts (something that is difficult to automate, of course, in the case where the user already lost access to their old identity). With Persona, this is now something that the user has to do when they change e-mail addresses at every site they may ever have logged in to using their account, ever. :(
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Agreed. Could be a status symbol? I mean maybe we could all look like this: https://twitter.com/jasongrimes/status/314445030003703809/ph...
So you're saying that rapid raise of number of people that can't do anything valuable enough for any employer will never happen? Or that it's not just yet because it wasn't just yet the last time?
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If you're programming 16-bit assembly language, it's even more important to keep in mind the advantages and restrictions of each register, because you can only use BX, SI, DI, and BP for memory addressing.

Each register has its own personality and certain things it just does best. It is a little sad to see that RISC has "won" and modern CPU's have dozens or hundreds of registers which are just numbers.
Traditional website monitoring is becoming irrelevant
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While cleaning your home for a few hours a day is not hard physical labor, cleaning houses all day would probably not be a great job for somebody with back pain. It is certainly more physically strenuous than your average job at McDonalds, which they already have available to them.
figuratively in startups, maybe, yeah. Not that I condone breaking the law, but startups like SideCar, Uber, Lyft and AirBnb wouldn't be around if there wasn't a bit of an appetite for breaking the rules and risking getting in trouble. More of a mentality thing.
I don't earn huge amounts, but I live in a really nice little cottage in a small rural village surrounded by amazing countryside, I eat well, own a car and a good computer, I have all the amenities of modern life, disposable leisure income, and don't really want for anything.

How do I do this? I live in rural Yorkshire, near Barnsley, in a very cheap area. I would say that in real terms, I'm 'richer' than someone earning twice as much as me, but living in a similar village 30 miles outside London. There are jobs in the capital with salaries far higher than mine, that I could likely have a shot at getting if I applied, but I don't apply because I don't want to live in crowded, expensive London.

I much prefer it this way, even if my bank account doesn't have as big a number next to it as someone else's. I'm happy!
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What are the performance implications on, say, a javascript web application?
I am having the same issue, have you figured out how to solve it?
Ah, but horses could provide only one thing: muscle power.

Humans can do so many, many things that if one is undervalued, they will look at others.

Some maybe we should stop saying that we are factory workers and must stay factory workers -- it just doesn't work that way, and truly never has.
Okay. You came up with the park analogy, saying that if someone got hit by a car in it, that you wouldn't not play in it on that basis. This is a fallacy because that was not the original position. The fallacy is called a straw man, because you put up the "straw man" that is supposedly my argument and then knocked it down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

All I did was attempt to make your analogy match reality more closely, to make it less of a straw man. It is a less flawed analogy now. The reality we are discussing is the situation of the person receiving death threats, not any of this other analogous stuff.

But, you know, if you just generally want to have discussions about what to do in different situations where one might or might not need to exercise caution, that can be okay. Of course if someone got hit by accident in a park I wouldn't say that other kids shouldn't play in it.
She should really evaluate her career trajectory in the light of this incident. Drama queens don't make good PR candidates.
But it's not a company; it's a non-profit (or is going to be one). I don't think the goal here is to get big; it's to be self-sustaining, and a free plan doesn't do that.