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The people who made and insured slavery was legal appear on every form of currency in your wallet (except the penny and $5 bill).

The very motive of capitalism is to make as much profit in any way possible. The only thing holding it back is law, which is made by government. The problem is the government which should be run by the people but more often than not is run by lobbyists who are owned by the corporations looking to push for more capitalism.

The answer is not less laws, it's less lobbyists.
Also, this random behavior will be significantly amplified if the host is running inside of a VM.
Dog eat dog is so much better, right? I still don't understand how John Rawls was born in USA, his views were so un-American.
The double-Irish is definitely a loophole. The basic premise of the loophole is that Irish-incorporated companies don't owe Irish income taxes on their business activities if they are not managed in Ireland.

This is a relatively recent change to the Irish tax code (based on the pace of tax law development)--and was introduced only after the development of transfer pricing rules (assignment of income to/between subsidiaries of multinational companies). In other words--the loophole was deliberately designed to get around U.S. and European transfer pricing rules and make Ireland "competitive" for multinational corporations.
Can you really use this as an argument against the government protecting workers by ensuring they get a guaranteed amount of holiday a year? I don't think its valid to say EU workers have their pay downsized to compensate for enforced holidays, what about things like minimum wage? (After all, we are talking about people on the bottom end of the scale here, who have minimal protection from employers already)
> Just to correct you a little, its nowhere near half of the your income. Marginal tax rate is 39.6% for a single filer for income in excess of $400k. Of course the majority of states have sales tax, and there's other taxes (state, property, petrol, etc) down the line as well. For some people, it may approach a total of 50% taxation, but that is a tiny tiny minority. And its not like most people making over $400k actually pay that tax rate on all their income, given that we have exceedingly generous deductions and other classes of tax (capital gains, which is a favorite of the rich) that are significantly lower than the marginal rate on standard income.

Math, personal experience, and observation tells me otherwise -- for a human living in California, at least. Between Federal income tax, Social Security tax, State income tax, the various (un)employment taxes, sales tax, excise taxes of one type or another, property tax, etc. I suspect that most people give 1/2 of their income to one government entity or another.

Whether that is an acceptable amount is another matter entirely. That's a normative judgment call. But the raw math seems to indicate a massive haircut.

And don't get me started on the financial burden of the friction of the tax system (aka paperwork and complexity).

(Disclosure: I am an international tax lawyer and it is my job to think tax laws are evil).
No, fight for other, better paid jobs.

From a European perspective, social welfare is supposed to be there to ensure crisis does not turn into disaster, that illness does not bankrupt you, that workers are as free as possible to move to better jobs. See above.
He does, if enough people agree.
How is this questionable reading material? The book got through the CIA's publication review board and there was no funny business like there was with Operation Dark Heart.

Today is the only day of the year that I watch sports (Go Cuse!) so I'm going to try my hardest to ignore that giant leap from >15 days in solitary is torture to everyone in solitary is being treated inhumanely.
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How can a Bermuda google subsidiary be the owner of the intellectual rights? Where do these funds come from?

I guess the biggest loophole, even more than the double Irish, is non-existing or very lenient transfer pricing rules...
It is best to boil it down to one variable, in this case, money and let the employee decide.
GDP per capita of the two countries is almost the same.
Ample amounts of rest does not seem to increase productivity
in the rest of the time.

GDP per capita is a per annum figure - so productivity (economic output per days of work) would actually be higher for Austria in the above case.
Yeah but mandatory vacation laws takes away that choice from others. Sure you would like to have vacation time in lieu of your salary, but I don't, I am saving up for the future, and I can work harder now when I am young, forcing me to take vacation when I'd rather have more salary, is wrong.
This sort of thing is an externality, like pollution: it compromise rights of persons other than the companies' willing customers.

Suppose I don't have any Hollywood stuff on my PC, am I then immune from the poison-ware? Can you easily recover costs if you are falsely accused? People must remain unaffected unless they are successfully sued or convicted, in a court with proper procedures and evidence.
Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings?
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Where?

She could go to a totally different industry, but she'd be starting her career over again at the bottom.

She loves flying & traveling, so she'd probably want to go to another airline. However, Delta (one of the largest airlines) accepts a only few thousand new flight attendants per year out of many tens of thousands of applicants. Smaller airlines would be even more difficult to get a job at. All the airlines are also seniority based, so she's have to start her career over again at the bottom. Experience at other airlines wouldn't contribute one iota to her standing in a new airline.

College put her (and everybody else) in substantial debt, so she can't start a business or do anything really risky like that.

This is a story you have all heard over and over again...

If you're a well paid engineer, it might be hard for you to understand: Educated, hard working people, are constantly screwed by the system and consistently ignored by people who don't understand their plight.
Germany? Norway? Sweeden? Finland? Ain't that interesting...
In my experience, the opposite has been true: companies have hard caps (bands) on salary, but not on vacation days, so you can usually negotiate for the latter more easily than the former.

If time and money aren't fungible, shouldn't there be a comparison we could do between Germany and the US to show that? Maybe there is one. I haven't looked hard.
How's the US economy doing the past few years?
His insight that crypto is hard because you don't get feedback when you mess up is good. It made me wonder what other domains are like that -- domains where correctness seems within reach, yet there are subtle aspects that are hard to state. Some that come to mind:

* Concurrency. It's easy to introduce race conditions, livelocks, or deadlocks without even knowing. They are often difficult to observe or reproduce, and it takes a lot of hard-won experience to become sufficiently critical of your own incompetence. On the other hand, the tools are improving here (helgrind, relacy, threadsanitizer).

* Exception-safety. I don't mean in the weak sense of "won't leak resources" but in the stronger sense of leaving the system in a consistent state after an exception. Again, it's difficult to analyze or induce all the different code paths that might occur, and difficult or expensive (depending on your starting point) to roll back your mutations. Again, there are tools that help with this, like STM or cheap persistent data structures (so you can do a bunch of mutation that is only committed atomically at the end).

Are there others? Can the progress in these domains shed light on how to make crypto safer?
I realize this is a very common set of answers, so here are a few more concrete things you could do.

- Go through http://railstutorial.org/

- Learn Git (this taught me all of the more important unix commands for my everyday work)

- Check out Coursera courses, like this one: https://www.coursera.org/course/digitalmedia or this one: https://www.coursera.org/course/posa (two very different courses, both very informative)

- If you aren't keen on Coursera, check out Udacity

- Get a VM running so you don't have to worry about the damage you might cause running sudo stuff. This is very big; if you are intimidated because you don't want to cause damage to your machine, build a sandbox first. (Assuming you can set up a VM. If not, check something like this out: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011010701239RVLFSW)
The message extension attack is pretty well known by crackers, which could leave your webapp open to pre-scripted kit attacks that simply crawl the web.
Related is Ami Ankilewitz, featured in 39 Pounds of Love (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39_Pounds_of_Love), a fellow 3D animator who had a severe medical condition.
I used to think that mandatory vacation laws were an undesirable restrictions on worker freedom. I figured workers should have the freedom to choose their own balance between compensation and vacation time.

I changed my mind on the issue. For a long version of my new thinking, I have a blog post: The Four Economic Classes and Their Respective Plights http://intellectual-detox.com/2013/01/20/economic-classes/ I'll try and give a shorter version here.

The problem is that an increasing percentage of jobs in the economy are either zero-sum or positive sum but very competitive or winner-takes-all in nature. In such a situation, unilaterally choosing to take a vacation can be a death sentence. But if everyone takes a vacation, everyone could be better off.

This is a classic prisoners dilemma problem. As a sales person at a software company, I might want more vacation time. But if I take off the time, I might lose the sale to a competing firm, who does not take time off (the I lose, they win quadrant of the game). So both might work the extra day, and we both lose because we are working more. But if there is a law mandating a national holiday, then we both can take the day off, without losing the sale to the competing firm.

For the minimum wage worker, yes, that particular worker might be fighting for more hours. But when all the low wage workers fight for more hours and give up benefits, it just drives down the wages for everyone. The U.S. is rich enough to both give all workers a living wage and enough vacation, so why not enact the policies to do so? (Just mandating more vacation alone, might not be a good idea, but mandating vacation plus giving some sort of wage subsidy either in the form of cash or in health benefits, might be a quite good idea).
You're comparing one extreme to another in order to say that your preferred extreme is better? Based on the logic that you're trying to put forth paid vacation should be made illegal. Then the economy would increase 10-fold, right?
Always interesting to read your comments on subjects where something like morality meets a business decision.
We are probably on the same page politically, more than you might think. But the emphasis on securing mandatory vacation days for employees might be misguided.
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I think you know quite well that this is not what xordon is saying at all. Whenever something like this happens, people throw words like "theft" and "stolen" around. This widespread conflation of stealing and copyright infringement is the deliberate outcome of a long-running effort by the copyright lobby. Reminding each other of the difference is healthy for the long-term balance of power between the general public and rights-holders.
I am doing this. It looks fun.
(Un)conscious (in)competence reminds me of Donald Rumsfeld's trichotomy of known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

(highlighted here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ex8EEv-WPs)
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Of ALL the things that are unique about this country, the idea that having pathetically low vacation days is a contributor is ridiculous.
Its rare that anyone on minimum wage is on a salary.

Minimum wage jobs tend to be hourly mcJobs. In the UK thats 6.31 an hour, or 9700 a year (~14,500 USD). I struggle to think of salaried jobs that low (apprentice positions maybe but they are highly protected)
Doesn't using TV signals or satellite require special hardware that doesn't come on cheap android phones?
Germans are less bitter[1], they have a far less violent society, and live longer? oh, and they are better appreciated in the world. All that with a smaller country.
Nothing fungible with money, it's true. That's the trick with Maslow's analysis (not an economist, sorry): past a certain level of income your values drift from simply earning more to more immaterial needs.

[1] They didn't militarily invade any country recently, also there are waves of Germans swarming sunny European beaches during the holidays, they eventually recess in the fall.
Why when the US is being called out on anything (torture, limiting free speech, illegal searches, no paid holidays, shitty minimum wage ... the list goes on) people immediately try to compare the US to nations where the situation is much worse. (China, North Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, and others).

Not only is it annoying, it doesn't add anything to the conversation. Yes, China doesn't have free speech, and they may have a totalitarian government, do you really want to compare the US to them like the US is somehow doing better?

Shouldn't the US be holding itself up as the poster child for how it should be done? Aren't the rights granted by the constitution something that should be upheld as something other countries in the world should take note of and follow?

Oh look the US is torturing prisoners of war, well China is too so it isn't all bad, is it? Oh look the US is wiretapping all of its citizens and with a heavy hand censoring the Internet as it sees fit (domain seizures) ... Well at least we don't have to deal with the Great Firewall like China.

How about the US once again shows how it is done... you know, stop the illegal wiretapping, set proper minimum wage so that people can live off it, get a proper healthcare system, increase funding to schools and scientific research, stop the needless wars, uphold the citizens rights to free speech, disallow the police force to take money from private corporations, don't make the police jackbooted thugs, instead make them people who are there to protect the people, not someone we need protection from.

Let the US once again thrive, so that in the future it can become a comparison with "Does France have X", "Does Sweden have Y".
I don't think this is a tradeoff between morality and business. If I believed it was, I'd opt for morality every time. I'm not certain mandatory vacation day policies actually leave employees better off.
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I honestly don't care if they do. Users of this service come out ahead without them doing so. It puts them in a better place to gain experience about these issues and learn how to protect themselves moving forward.
btw: isn't the scheme you posted vulnerable to replay attacks too? Much easier than the timing attack.

edited to add: don't mean this as a nitpick. I've seen that very mistake made by two S&P 500 companies that had 'homebrew' SSO we had to integrate with.
If you do not manage SSL certificate properly (trust only your server's certificate), a MITM attack can break the system easily. Otherwise I don't think you can intercept the signed message if everything is over TLS.
The choice is starker than that. Phone "lines" are no longer tied to houses, addresses, and the identities of the people living there. It is possible to have communications devices that are pseudonymous and hard to trace to an individual, and communications payload that is completely opaque to police, and all this is cheap enough that every person could have communication that is completely opaque to inspection.

Do you think having that should be illegal?
The primary benefit is portability-- it compiles not just to JS, but AS and native mobile and desktop code as well. That's a life saver for small game devs, but if it's not a killer feature for you then you probably wouldn't see much reason to use it.
Thanks Rik.

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Doors open in a couple of weeks as we start to roll out invites. Currently we are only accepting applications from verifiable agencies / studios / start-ups, not individuals looking for extra help. http://onsite.io/apply/agency.

If you are a freelancer, you can apply here: http://onsite.io/apply/freelancer (you will again need to be verifiable with online examples of your work to be considered).

Cheers.
In an idealized, theoretical economy where skills are highly liquid and exchangeable, yes.

Real life doesn't quite work that way. Many people develop skill tracks that do not easily (or at all) adapt to another skill track. When one (or a few) players monopolize the demand for said skill track, there are frequently few choices.

We, as software engineers, are fortunate in that we live in an age where people are practically bashing down our doors to give us jobs in a wide array of subfields. Not everyone is as fortunate, and indeed, it is impossible to create a population where this is the case for everyone.

It is extremely easy for us to say, to another programmer, "man that sucks, you should get a new job", the reality fo the vast majority of the population is much, much harder.
Totally agree. I found this out the hard way: bought my mom a mac, and then ended up buying her an iPad about a year later. Even with Apple's free training, macbooks are just too complicated for people who just want to get simple things done.
His point is valid, albeit sarcastic. It's amazing how many respond with variations on "it's too hard" because various luxuries aren't trivial to acquire. Most of humanity spent most of history surviving on a lot less acquired with a lot more work.

We can continue the quibbling over narrow cases and solutions, but it all comes down to a phrase in a memorable HN thread: your life depends on it, so fucking figure it out. Some of us are trying to and doing pretty good at it; naysayers add nothing.
Dog eat dog is much better... if you view yourself as the alpha dog. The funny thing is that were push come to shove, you might find out that your views and reality differ.
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Delta ran a substantial anti-union campaign during the union vote. The popular opinion of the majority was "Why should I pay for a union? I like my working conditions and benefits. How could a union help?" Management worked very hard to bolster that message.

Now, there is another union establishment effort occurring. There is significant evidence that the popular opinion has swayed dramatically in favor of a union. I'm not saying that the majority is stupid, I'm saying that they decided they didn't want to pay union dues and assumed that things would stay the way they are. They didn't understand that the threat of a union was one of the few things eliminating their need for a union. That's ignorance of business realities, not stupidity in general.

My mindset isn't "the majority must be stupid". My mindset is "post-election events have proven the majority to be shortsighted."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
All those "paradigms" are artificial distinctions and can be used together perfectly well.

Why do you consider mixing them bad?
>Same goes for power and manufacturing industries, they have old control systems that rarely break, because failures are very expensive.

Out of curiosity, how much experience do you have selling to the manufacturing industry? I have no problems drumming up interest for my sales and marketing SaaS product for manufacturing industry. If you found otherwise we should compare notes.
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agreed - and even if this takes off, they will come after you for trademark infringement. You should change now before it becomes a headache
I don't believe that they are required to recuse themselves[1], but if there was a bias, it probably makes an appeal easier.

[1] A good example was when Jack Thompson (personally) sued one of the judges that was hearing a case he had. The judge was not required to recuse himself, even with the possible conflict of interest, because this would effectively allow someone to 'choose a new judge' by suing the judge they didn't like.
The article does state it's an unusual move.
Don't go away, next up on HN: Long Weekend Edition, we throw back to the 60s and start calling each other commie pinkos. Join us at 4pm for a live reenactment of the McCarthy hearings!

Seriously though, ad hominems aren't cool. Can we keep things at least slightly civil?
> I'd rather flag the entire submission. Cooking cheap is one thing, but the "healthy" throughline continues to go nowhere.

Perhaps a better title would be "how to eat as healthily as possible for £1 per day", but I tried to find a balance between precision and clarity.

Yes, the primary energy source is starch, but this is simply a necessity on such a limited budget. Even if you were comfortable getting the majority of your calories from vegetable oil or lard, it would be extremely difficult to find a palatable diet that incorporated such large quantities without breaking the budget.
If you want to artificially boost your Facebook likes or Twitter followers, that's the place to go.
I submitted this link a month ago but I learned the hard way that you shouldn't submit your startup on HN when it's not ready (it was downvoted).
Hopefully this time I can get some reviews. :)
Sure, but most US companies would start her at 0 or 1 week of vacation and she'd need to work there for years to accrue what she might have already had. For average people, businesses aren't going to give an inch.

I have a friend who is a fantastic programmer at a telecom in Texas. He was a contract employee before they decided to bring him on full time. They invented a position specifically for him in order to pay him what he wanted. What they would not budge on? Vacation time. One week, non-negotiable. Of course, now he's worked there for several years, and he's earned a couple more weeks.
Well I didn't think China did, and they are certainly a 'developed nation' so saying the US is the "only" developed nation without it was false on its face. So that made me wonder what subtext the headline was trying send.

As at last check China was on track to be the #2 economy in the world and perhaps the #1 economy (replacing the US). If you wrote the article title "All the top economies of the world don't have mandatory vacation" its a much different message is it not?

One headline seems to advocate that the US is barbaric for not allowing vacation, and the other headline seems to advocate that you can't become a top economy by giving away GDP.
The article did mention that it was "unusual". I find it to be unprofessional. It seems justices like to express their personal opinions on big tech cases; perhaps it's a move for free publicity?

Either way, it doesn't sit right with me.
nonsense. Consider for a second all of the technology that corporations use in their products that were originally funded by government research projects like the internet(arpanet), world wide web (And others).

If government didn't have the scale to take on such projects a lot of these corporations wouldn't exist and a lack of research like those often government funded would just reinforce the status quo.