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Ask HN: Which Companies Hire Remote Employees?
Do you know of any companies that have a bias towards a distributed team? Not only for developers but the whole team including support.

I'm really keen to carry on my work as an Applications Support Engineer but ideally with a modern company building an innovative SaaS application.

The main ones I know of are :-

* GitHub

* WordPress

* Buffer

* 37Signals

I'm based in the UK so I would be most useful supporting a company that has a segment of customers in EST and European timezones.

If anyone here is currently growing their support team, please let me know!
That's such an obvious solution I can't believe nobody thought of that before this guy.

Weird.
Windows 8.1 to be made available in October
twice? You must be doing something very much wrong then :]
While the OP did run into some interesting problems that many of us in Internet Marketing face, I was very thrown off by the direction this post took. There was a pretty substantial lack of understanding of cookie tracking and first-click/last-click attribution.

The affiliates didn't do anything wrong here, which was ironic, because I've met affiliate marketers at conferences in Vegas, and there's PLENTY of shady stuff that some of them do. That said, none of that is taking place here.

Ranking for "name of company I'm an affiliate for" discount code is practically step 1 on the affiliate SEO checklist. This post was almost comically misleading, to be candid.
I recently switched to Android for a few weeks. I got a Nexus 4 for development and decided I'd move over to learn as much as I could about using Android. I really liked it but I switched back to iOS for a few reasons:

1. After PRISM I don't like having all my information with Google. I'm willing to give up privacy to a point but giving it all to one company worries me and I trust Apple more as their business doesn't involve using/selling my information.

2. As an iOS dev I've been using iOS 7 for the past couple of months and it is really nice. It took a little while to adjust to the new UI but I really like it and they seem to be doing some Google Now style stuff with the notification centre which was one of the big Android selling points for me.

3. The fact that Android is so flexible and open is very useful and there are some great apps available. But I've found that iOS I just a little slicker. iOS runs just a little smoother. Comparing identical apps on each platform (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter etc.) the iOS ones are just a little smoother and nicer to use. This is one of the big things I've noticed. iOS may have some tradeoffs but it is just a lot nicer to use.
Why's that so bad? A comment in this discussion (http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/17519/why-doe...) suggests that it is trivial to transform one system to the other.
I agree with you on the need to use judgement. In this case though, while the research might not tell us much about the mind, knowing more about the regions of the brain that are active during an NDE could provide more insight into how the brain is physically affected by oxygen starvation. It might also help with designing physical and psychological therapies for the negative consequences [1] of near death experiences for survivors.

It does seen like a lot of the discussion about this subject is (often implicitly) trying to address a religious/afterlife aspect of nde. For example, the article says 'The "near-death experience" reported by cardiac arrest survivors worldwide may be grounded in science'. The brain is a physical object that is subject to the laws of physics, so that "grounding" is inevitable whether we know how it works or not. This shouldn't be surprising and there isn't an alternative, short of admitting religion or parapsychology.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience#Effects
Educação em Engenharia: Desafios para a Inovação
What does Docker add to just plain LXC?
I really like SFML, I've been using for a small game project of mine as well. The API is just nice and beautiful.

I was wondering how SDL 2.0 stacks up against SFML? Does anyone know much about it?

I'm only doing 2D game development, so SDL's "simple 2D rendering API that can use Direct3D, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, or software rendering behind the scenes" is perfect for my needs. However it needs to support two basic things:

* Rotation (additional matrix transformation like scaling & shearing would be nice as as well)

* Transparency (being able to apply a color filter not necessarily limited to the alpha channel, like an RGBA filter would be nicer)

Does it support the above? (I'm guessing it does -- just want to be sure.)

Also, I know Android/iOS support for SFML is in the pipeline, but the fact that it's not ready yet is another reason it might be good to switch to SDL 2.
>The really big news is the license change: SDL2 is now covered by the zlib license, whereas previous versions were/are using the GPL/LGPL license.

>This means that it's okay to statically link SDL2 into your game, instead of needing to ship a folder full of shared libraries! xD

source:
[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1k9ila/sdl_20_has_b...
It's notable that Musk uses supersonic air travel as a comparison point.
Talking about LA to NY: "...I believe the economics would probably favor a supersonic plane"

With reasonable timing: it's just coming up to a decade of supersonic air travel being commercially unviable.
> If committed investors raise the valuation of a startup, would it make sense for a startup to offer a slightly-sweetened valuation for the first investor to commit?

That is exactly what I did when raising seed money for dotCloud. It works great.

Our very first angel (Ash Patel from Morado Ventures) was not the first to express interest, but he was the first to actually sign a check. For that he got a better deal, as well as our lasting gratitude and permanent advertisement as "dotCloud's first angel". Everyone else in the round got identically unsweetened (but fair and attractive) terms. I was and continue to be very transparent about the arrangement, because it's very obviously fair, and doesn't make anyone feel like an idiot.

When we had the opportunity to further escalate the cost of the round, we didn't, because that didn't seem obviously fair and I didn't feel confident I could look an investor in the eye and tell him that it was. We may have left a little gravvy on the table, but in return we saved time, spared ourselves distracting drama, earned trust capital with our investors, and retained the ability to take the moral high ground in any future negotiations.

I don't claim that this is the best method. Certainly not every founder who successfully raised money did it this way. But it worked for me.
I'm currently working on http://ezsend.it but this sounds like something fun and somewhat related.

It would be great if it also offered public transit directions. One could then market it to businesses as a replacement for the static map on their contact page.

Let's keep in touch once I'm done with ezsend.it
I would be curious to see a comparison of the electrical activity of an NDE with someone taking DMT.
It's not so much stealing the customer as it is rescuing the order. It may not be the most ethical of techniques but they are claiming a bounty for converting abandoned carts.

Like someone else said earlier, the order process is broken by encouraging users to leave the website and potentially forget the order.
IMHO, Firefox has more and more trouble to renew itself.

This browser was great when it come out, fast, reliable and virus-free. I remember the good old time of IE when you have to wonder forever whenever if you'll click on a suspicious link or not. However, I have the feeling since chrome come out, they don't innovate anymore. Extensions are slow and unreliable, a lot of stuff feels like copy/paste from Opera or Chrome, Firebug, once the greatest, seems outdated, they have taken forever to support retina display on the mac, their engine crash or freeze in JS heavy environment... and they removed the blink tag.

My 5 cents.
Driving seems to get a special exemption in the public consciousness. Trains and planes are already much, much safer than driving, but they're still required to add additional redundant safety features, and there's still outcry when one crashes.
But do you pay based on what the bitcoin was worth in USD when you made the transaction, or when you pay your tax bill. Which exchange does that valuation come from?
I appreciate your comments.
Can someone explain to me how these are different than Vuzix, and any other company after that?:

http://www.vuzix.com/augmented-reality/

PS and Yes, I understand the advertising potential after GG_AR. Maybe Vuzix should do the same, like Sony did against Microsoft on the E3 (PS4 vs Xboxone)
Good idea! I've always found my country's tax office to be very helpful when I've made mistakes or had questions with my taxes in the past. They might have some tips for the whole US situation.
Even if the pressure problems could be countered, a bullet hole is likely to leave a pretty ragged profile on the inside of the steel tube. The specification calls for the air bearing skis to ride 0.5 to 1.3mm off the tunnel wall. They'd need to be pretty robust to take hitting the ragged edge of a bullet hole at 700mph.
I will do this when I get home from work. Thank you.
Ready or not, 77 million kids and adults heading back to school soon
36% of single filers in the US make less than $14000 per year.
City of London Bans 'Smart' Trash Cans
You are thinking of the inheritance tax. If I recall the gift tax and the inheritance tax interact, but you only pay the inheritance tax once, when you are dead.
Well, it'd probably get you flagged for investigation as an unusually incompetent money launderer, but I suspect you could convincingly argue that it's not taxable.
Just type `whois Microsoft.com` in your shell
That's some interesting data...
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is: You never know if they´re accurate!" - Mahatma Ghandi

I´ve actually seen this one attributed to Napolean Bonaparte and John Lennon as well...
A bit of context, these bins tracked wifi enabled devices as they passed by for various targeted marketing things. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/londons-smart-bins-track-4m-...
Yes. SDL_RenderCopyEx and SDL_SetTextureAlphaMod is what you want.
Are you seriously saying that government wont consider Hyperloop because they are averse to innovation? On the contrary, "big government" has been the largest engine of innovation the past century. NASA has put people into orbit, and on to the Moon, has launched the first space stations, and made several robotic probes to other planets and the depths of space. Musk founded SpaceX which has managed to do a fraction of the things NASA has decades after them. In 1972, the Rand corporation, financed by the United States, thoroughly researched a "Very High Speed Transit System" that is similar to Musk's proposal. Sure there will be political difficulties implementing something like The Very High Speed Transit System or Hyperloop, but realistically the government is the only entity that has the foresight, money, and motivation to undertake such a project.
If electrical energy is what constitutes brain activity, then what happens to that energy when death occurs?

What happens to electrical energy in a computer when we switch it off? I'd say that nothing very interesting.

"Constitutes" is also somewhat ambiguous. It's the structure of that electrical currents that depends on neural connections what I would say brain activity is.

Once the neurons are unusable, the energy by itself is just dispersed, mere electrons with no shape. So we... die.
Snapdeal Raises $75 Million From Softbank
Indeed. Why, if the government applies small taxes to cash savings of over 125k, I just won't save at all!

Wait, what?
This is a ridiculous comment. An hour door-to-door SF to LA means of transportation for less than $100 round trip would completely alter the economic landscape of California.
OK, I admit it was a cheap shot. But I'm not the only one in the thread making it. And the quote is definitely bizarre. Can you explain how it's related to Perl?

I agree that Perl has done a very good job with backwards compatibility. I have run many ancient Perl scripts that all work fine, and yes, CPAN is huge. I never liked the language, but that for other reasons, not worth going into here. Feel free to mod me down or whatever, just speaking what is on my mind.
Nothing. For that matter, nothing stops you having a hundred bank accounts, but doing so will certainly increase your chances of an audit.
That's very interesting. But I can't help feeling sorry for the poor asphyxiated rats.
Nice but please push the chosen state to history.
1) Get a US passport. Assuming you're a US citizen, this is not that hard. This will solve 99.8% of your US travel problems. People greatly overestimate how much passports and the IRS have to do with each other: in all but egregious cases, they have nothing to do with each other.

2) You're going to want to file back taxes with the IRS. Include a letter explaining your situation briefly (didn't know I was an American until quite recently, received passport as of $MONTH_AGO, and am making a good-faith effort to bring my tax situation into compliance with the law) and file for the last six years. Pick a different number if your accountant tells you different.

Despite the IRS' reputation, they do have actual human beings working there, and they do make compassionate decisions. And guess what? Squeezing you for your US tax liabilities, which are quite likely to be zero, won't make anyone's quota.

3) Here's what you're going to do for each year you filed: take a copy of your $NATION taxes. Find the gross earned income number. Convert to USD using the yearly average exchange rate, which you can find published on http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Yearl...

You put that number in the income line of your Form 1040. You will then file a Form 2555, Foreign Earned Income Exclusion. You can probably get away with the 2555-EZ, which is the quick-entry version. Check the box for Physical Presence Test, since you spent 330+ days out of the year physically outside of the US and can trivially prove this. (You're also a slam dunk for Bona Fide Residence but FPT is easier on both the IRS and you.)

You will copy the number from your 1040 which you reported for income, deduct it using Form 2555, and report (unless you're making over $85k a year, which I think is unlikely in Europe as a researcher unless I miss my guess) 0 taxable income and, as a consequence, 0 taxes.

You then mail this off to the IRS.

If you hear back from the IRS, it will likely be to request additional documentation. If it isn't screamingly obvious what documentation they want, talk to your accountant. But, again, this will occupy a low-level staffer's time for about twenty minutes as they punch your information into the computer and then promptly forget about you.
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
> Mine took five minutes to fill out. Four minutes to find the postal address for my bank branch, one to flip through my bank statements to find the peak balance and covert it to USD.

Sadly, it's not that simple!

Suppose you in the year 2013 have 200k units of Foreign Currency X (FCX) in your non-US savings account, and the money has never had anything to do with the US (it's all been earned and saved abroad, where you live and work). Let's say the conversion rate in 2013 is 2 FCX to 1 USD. OK, so you report 100k USD on your FBAR. Let's say 2013 is a bad year for you, so you haven't been able to put anything in your savings account - in 2014 it still stands at 200k FCX. But lo and behold, the value of the USD has fallen against the FCX, so the dollar equivalent in your account has now in 2014 become 150k USD. This means [1] that you have to put 150k USD on your FBAR and that the difference of 50k USD is taxable as capital gains. This is utterly, entirely, completely insane! It's nothing short of international robbery. (I repeat: I'm not talking about money earned in or brought into or out of the US here - I would understand if it were taxed. This money has never had anything to do with the US, and has never been converted from one currency to another, except on the FBAR form.)

This cannot be OK. Not at all. I understand that the laws were made for catching US money hid away overseas. That goal makes perfect sense. But the way it works now is just insane.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWk6yRdwMo
False dilemma and apples to oranges wrapped up in one comment. First, we can have people working on the hyperloop and also addressing these problems. Second, all of the things you mention have to do with intra-bay area transportation, and most of them have nothing to do with efficiency but with comfort, while the hyperloop is about efficient transport between two cities.
I rarely fly. I have used British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Easy Jet.
EU Commission Eurapp project is awarding €9k for smart ideas from app developers
Show HN: A Pebble app that prevents you from falling asleep
Unfortunately, it is not yet available on Android and iOS.
Also http://www.glfw.org/faq.html#12__what_is_glfw_not
> If the government steps in to "de-anonymize" bitcoin, then people will simply begin using tumbling services.

Well, yes. Of course, it's not like tax authorities haven't had to deal with money laundering before.
I feel it got a reputation of @#$@#(==~/s(.*)+) language that was updated last time in 1995. Not that it is uncapable of @@->$/=+s{}. But when you

use Modern::Perl;
use Moose;

it's quite different thing. Perl6 may become cool, but it's a different story.

(Moose is full-grown object system, with meta object protocol, nice syntax and implemented completely as a library).
Your conventional wisdom is about two years out of date.
It just so happens there is! (Sort of.) A one time sum can be compared with recurring annual sums by calculating the present value of each, taking into account prevailing interest rates. The present value of an infinite series of annual payments is given by the perpetuity formula: PV = (annual payment) / (interest rate). Assuming that the NSA budget won't grow, and using the 30-year treasury bond rate of 3.71%, the present value (or cost, really) of having an NSA forever is $270B. Of course, the NSA's budget is probably growing faster than 3.71% right now which ruins the math, since it would imply an infinite NPV. Also, to be totally accurate you would have to calculate the present value of the hyperloop which would be spent over some number of years.
Interesting. Can someone explain what is happening here?
Commercial heavier-than-air travel has a distinctly limited future. Perhaps 5 years, perhaps 20, but when liquid fuels are no longer cheap, it will go the way of the dodo.

The alternatives are lighter-than-air craft, where speeds of up to 130 MPH are possible in current designs, it's unlikely that we'll do much better than this. These have _vastly_ lower energy requirements, and could be feasibly powered by solar cells plus either batteries or a small hydrogen fuel reserve capacity, or perhaps wholly by hydrogen-fueled engines, as the volumetric constraints of an airship are much lower than that of a HTA craft.

Or you could offer high-speed ground travel. Conventional high-speed rail is one option, the Hyperloop would seem to be another. I suspect that conventional HSR could achieve higher throughput -- 840 passengers/hour would be about 16 x 60-passenger rail cars. HSR offers lower speeds and longer transit times (2h 38m SF-LA projected), but might also serve more end-points for a roughly equivalent door-to-door trip time, though I suspect that's pushing feasibility. Musk discusses 2 minute to 30 second headways between pods, which is ... pretty aggressive (that still puts between 5 and 24 miles between pods, but you're moving at 700 mph top speed).

Either way, planes are going to be excluded by and by.
With improvements to the garbage collector [1], the developer tools and the recent emphasis on performance [2], I think Firefox has really benefitted from the competition.

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2013/07/18/clawing-our-w...

[2]: http://arewefastyet.com/
It would seem far less infeasible than taxing cash transactions (far easier to trace), and cash transactions are certainly a thing of great interest to tax authorities.
Businesses should use automated tools to detect web application vulnerabilities
There are several benefits to using automated web application security scanners to detect vulnerabilities.
>the business cycle goes up; the business cycle goes down. We all know this to be the case, and the business cycle is obviously up, so quit whining and get to work.

I do work. Business cycle is up temporarily on cheap credit. There is no substance to it. 70% of new hires since 2008 in the US are part time. The debt to GDP ratio is higher than ever. Food stamps are on record high. Inflation if used Ronald Reagan years formula and not today's hocus-pocus hedonistic whatever is at 10%. The whole thing seems to work just because of the interest rates at 0% since 2008. And you can't have them at zero forever.

> Sitting here and complaining about the business cycle doesn't help you, it doesn't help me, and who knows, maybe some people feel that it brings that day of "the business cycle goes down" closer to now. That was the primary reason why I'd guess you got down-voted.

Wow. If 50 million Americans on food stamps, 10% inflation rate, and average real wage adjusted for inflation lower than in 1960s is up in the business cycle, I'm afraid to ask what will be down. Greece?

> The other thing? Do you remember the '90s? I worked through the crash. It was not at all obvious ahead of time, which companies would come through, and which companies would not. I mean, it seems obvious now, sure, but it was not obvious then.

No, it wasn't. The same like right now it is not obvious to you that the "up" you perceive is just a bubble in the US Treasuries. Don't worry, will be obvious to you soon as well.

BTW, you haven't addressed anything that has to do with extremely poor VCs performance in the past decade from my post. And that $1m on the company's bank account usually doesn't translate into the company being worth $1m more. Which was my main point. Care to talk about this?
Probably that contributed to Tagore re-thinking the environment/methods of teaching and establishment of Santiniketan where one of the main objectives was to make the learning more enjoyable and being closer to nature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiniketan
Occupy Bank Cards: Building A Fairer Bank
You have to enter it without the comma.
Does it have to be steel? Any other materials we can be considering? Some interesting new forms of carbon...?
Told me that Bristol was Alderan
Java tops C as most popular language in developer index
Compose.jl: declarative vector graphics
of course, once it hits you it doesn't make much difference. However, the faster and/or more massive an object is, the bigger is the radius of damage that it can do, hence the more likely is for you to be affected by it.

For example, a sufficiently fast and massive object can derail and hit a large building killing many, while a 80Mph SUV hitting a building wall will still, most likely, not be able to bring down the whole building.
US Special Ops Have Become Much, Much Scarier Since 9/11