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ZenPayroll (YC W12) is hiring software engineers to help make delightful payroll

About us:

+ We're building the future of payroll. If you love solving foundational problems that affect millions of people, we'd love to talk with you. Just imagine that you can help your favorite cafe or flower shop pay their employees.

+ Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have had two prior exits. We're hungry to build something truly great and we're in this for the long haul.

+ We're funded by the CEOs of Yelp, Dropbox, Yammer, Box, Parse, and others, as well as Google Ventures, Salesforce and Y-Combinator. Full list at www.zenpayroll.com/investors.

+ Most importantly, our company values are here: https://zenpayroll.com/about.

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Things we're looking for:

+ Experience with Rails | Backbone.js | CoffeeScript | MySQL is a plus but not a pre-requisite.

+ Interest in using a test driven development process. We also pair part of the time.

+ Interest in building user-facing and core-backend features, as well as being an active part of the design process.

+ Desire to understand the customer perspective. All members of our team are builders and it's important everyone understands the pain point we're solving.

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Perks:

+ You'll be a core member of our team as we grow the company. As a result, you'll receive a competitive salary + significant equity stake.

+ Housing stipend if you live near the office, three meals a day, company retreats, gym/sports club stipend, dream work set-up, and more -- including copious espressos brewed by one of our co-founders. People are the foundation of our company and we make sure they know they're valued.

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Above all, we're looking for individuals who are yearning to do the best work of their lives. You'll be amply rewarded for the work you do.

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To apply, send a note to jobs [at] zenpayroll [dot] com and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, and/or any project pages.

This job is located in SoMa, San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost).
Can someone please explain to me why a BI wouldn't simply result in higher prices, resulting in the need for a higher BI, resulting in higher prices, resulting in the need for a higher BI, etc?

You have two mechanisms by which you can fund such a proposal:

* The government prints money and hands it out. Basically, just direct inflation; the BI becomes an arms race to keep up with inflation caused by BI.

* The people who successfully make money have a larger portion of it taken away by the government and given to people who don't make money. They recoup their losses by raising prices and re-extracting it from the people it has been given to, except now the government gets a cut of it twice. BI has to be increased to keep pace with rising prices caused by funding BI.

(There is a third proposal: Borrow it without any plan to actually repay it, which is not self-sustaining for obvious reasons)

In either case, I can't understand how a BI would lead to a more stable economy. The endgame of the first option is Zimbabwe. The endgame of the second option is Marxist communism; the point at which the system reaches stability is the point at which there is nobody left to extract extra money from to distribute.

I feel like I'm missing something critical that makes it a viable strategy. I don't think anyone at all is in favor of uncontrolled hyperinflation, so I'm left to conclude that the favored option is the second choice. We know from history that communism just doesn't work once you reach a large enough population that people are not personally accountable to each other; why would it be different here?

(I want to make it clear that if I could snap my fingers and make the world such that nobody had to live in poverty and had food, clothing, shelter, and an internet connection, I'd do it. I don't have anything against the moral goals of BI. I just don't see how it's sustainable, since the money for it has to some from somewhere.)
China is pretty much a damning counter example to your whole rant, as was the Soviet Union. Two countries that were previously economic backwaters that became world powers because of directed government action.
MapBox - San Francisco and Washington DC

MapBox is looking for developers and designers, an Operations Manager, and a Business Development Lead.

http://www.mapbox.com/jobs/

We're a team of 30 or so artists, developers, designers and strategists working on an open platform for maps. Our platform powers everything from apps like Foursquare, GitHub and Evernote to news stories on NPR and USAToday to simple maps on personal blogs and wedding websites. Much of our work is powered by open source and open data and we're often in touch with folks at OpenStreetMap, the US Census Bureau, USGS, and NASA.

Check out what we have been working on lately on our blog:

http://www.mapbox.com/blog/
I do write status report emails, but that kind of communication has operated very differently at every different organization I've worked in.

I'd assume the department responsible for debugging kernel driver bugs is far less interrupt-driven than the operations-oriented departments I base my experiences on. The common thread though, was usually about prioritizing between the work we already roughly understood how to do. The more common communication failures were about coordinating and scheduling. But when you're doing something specialized enough as debugging multi-threaded embedded drivers, and you have a specific metric like bug closure rate, then all of that information is already captured in the bug log.

The first response in the Ars thread says that keeping detailed notes for yourself is both a powerful tool to help you learn, and also a tool for communicating in very specific ways with the rest of the department. One reason better communication isn't a "very easy fix" is that multiple people are involved, and you can't just force everyone to pay attention to all the relevant information already available.

Alternatively: I worked on a small development team / startup with daily stand-ups that would tend to last 15 or even 30 minutes. Not a single person in the room ever seemed to know what they were going to say prior to opening their mouths. No amount of "leading by example" seemed to convey the concept that summarization is the most important feature to communication in daily status meetings.
"Blocks" seem to be an Objective C feature.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/...
There are plans to have a "cookbook" section on the EmberJS site that will be one of the go to places to answer the question of "How do I do X in Ember?". It's currently on the master branch for the site, so expect that soon. In the mean time here are some other video resources http://www.embercasts.com/ and http://ember101.com/. They may be slightly out of date but they are still relevant. Make sure to look in the console for warnings about deprecations.
China and Russia have been capitalist for decades. Russia is doing far better than its communist days, not to mention China.
Pretio Interactive (Victoria, BC, Canada) (near Seattle, Vancouver)

Front End Web Developer - Full Time

About Us:
We think there’s a better way for advertisers to reach consumers than stuffing more ads online. We also think publishers should be rewarding users for being active on their favorite games, apps, and websites. Pretio was started to solve this.

We do two basic things:

1. We run online loyalty programs with real-world rewards that we secure from our advertisers. We then make these loyalty programs available to content publishers so that they can reward their users, free of charge.

2. We offer those rewards to other online loyalty and engagement programs for their customers, too.

About the Job:
We’re looking for a talented front-end developer with design chops, who’s comfortable with owning and iterating on the design of our product’s UI. You’ll be primarily responsible for the design and direction of our new user-facing features, with your work being seen by millions of people. We’re nice people, in a growing company, with a highly collaborative environment where your ideas will be heard. Help us build the future of advertising with a product that people will love!

Join us in Victoria, consistently rated one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and best places to live in Canada.

See the full description at http://pretiointeractive.com/jobs

Feel free to reply directly to me if you have any questions : alim (dot) jiwa (at) pretiointeractive [dot] com
I'd wager a wire mesh.
Sometimes people are just serially unlucky. The population of the US alone is large enough that 1-in-a-million coincidences could be happening over 300 times a day.
It's not about "governments are more innovative than individuals." False dichotomy on many levels:

* More accurate to say "governments are more innovative than corporations."

* Governments employ workers for wages, like corporations. For example, innovative mathematician Terence Tao is employed at UCLA, a public university. (Which paid him $433,599.99 in 2012. http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/)

* Corporations are artificial creations of the state. Feel free to look at their history. Government and corporate interests are the same, to a first approximation. They're both part of the same (state-capitalist) system.

BTW, the point is obviously her book contains relevant evidence.
I don't understand this. Why can't you be guaranteed a job, but you don't get paid if you don't do it? I don't see how paying people who refuse to work is a necessary part of a Basic Job Guarantee.

Also, the purpose of this is for the unemployed to clean up and improve public parks, repair potholes and the like. Private employers are under no obligation to hire anyone.
Apple extension to C language for blocks/lambdas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_(C_language_extension)
Well, the source of the 32bit kernel is open, and anybody can study and learn from it:
http://www.menuetos.org/M32.htm
> Bolsa Familia is not a basic income. It fails to fix the fundamental problem with current welfare: that it is a disincentive to reemployment.

I don't think it's disincentive to reemployment in this case, because being unemployed is not a requirement to receive the money, just being below a certain level of income per family member. Those families can both receive the benefit and work, as the program has the potential to stimulate the local economy and create business opportunities or jobs that didn't existed before.

> This has nothing to do with socialism.

Redistribution of wealth is a core concept of socialism, and that's what this program effectively achieves. The resources come from heavier taxation from the federal government on the bigger economic centers of Brazil. So I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
It's not that capital here doesn't exist - it's just concentrated to a toxic degree. Warren Buffett is a smart investor, but he can't squeeze the most out of every dollar, not at the scale he's obligated to invest at. Scale - especially the bespoke, "too big to fail" kind - invites waste.

Capital requirements in the US are also higher. In Uganda, people can become significantly wealthier and improve their standard of living simply by having a few chickens. But in the US, individuals are taking on debt just to have enough education to get a job! And the level of spending needed to operate in most US industries is similar to the costs of college education. Like you point out, software is exceptional in this respect since it has an extremely low capex - so we can conclude that, in fact, individuals are capital starved in the US as well.
Could not agree more. Well said!

The idea that the state is God is a rabbit-hole leading towards totalitarianism and the government being the one to pick the winners and the losers.

Crony capitalism thrives in a system in which the government is fully in control over a society and a society's economy.
It helps to make a sandbox file that has everything imported already and just reeval the whole file - https://github.com/jamii/strucjure/blob/compiled/test/strucj...

Then you can also run the file as a free regression test - https://github.com/jamii/strucjure/blob/compiled/test/strucj...
The battery itself may have a transmitter built in if someone else got a hold of it.
JQuery is great, but it doesn't scale up well. Frameworks like Ember allow you to build bigger applications in an easy, clean way. JQuery tends toward spaghetti.
The company in this case does not appear to be moving to where you live ;)
Technically an extension to plain C, with some Objective-C integration.
>that doesn't mean Capitalism itself is problematic

I think you've misread my comment: I was condemning the Communist position, not defending it. Capitalism has historically functioned as an economic system only. There are important human activities, with heavy economic impact, that have nowhere been successfully conducted through financial, market-based "voluntary exchanges". Politics would be one (I sure hope the market for Congressional votes is inefficient), and basic scientific research another.
The Toxicity of Arrogance
You might have a point. I counted six of them so far in this thread, other threads seem to average at about 12. But then again, this is only a few hours old. Looks like startup people are hanging out here on weekends :)
I'm not entirely sure about the "usually", it may or may not be true. But to offer a different view here, I'm from Sweden and cost of living in Sweden is extremely low. If you have an apartment or house outside the capital it costs next to nothing, we have no health insurance costs, no education costs, food is not particularly expensive compared to the rest of the industrialized world and so people usually feel it's OK to offer a lower salary in Sweden on that argument.
Who is going to pay you for the risk of confrontation? Like others already said, its not your job to oversee the management. As a team member priority number one is to keep the peace. The best you can do it to give small hints here and there by asking for justification/vision/mission statement that makes sense. If management don't catch on the hints, there is nothing else you can do.

I am surprised this person has so much vision over the state of the business, if there is nothing else that can explain the situation you have to leave.
> You can never take it out of the shield

Why would you arrive at such an absurd conclusion? The pouch provides control of when you are tracked.
http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/index.php is another great resource for picking optimally distinct colors.
Diversity is strength...for Capital. But diversity is weakness for Labor.

The more diverse a nation, state, city, neighborhood, workplace etc, the less united is Labor. Diversity engenders factions. Factions weaken unity. A less unified Labor is easily preyed upon by Capital.

What sort of diversity creates factions?

1. Size: the larger the nation, state, city, workplace etc, the more factions.
2. Distance.
3. Race.
4. Culture.
5. Nationality
6. Language.

The fact that factions and diversity weaken the position of the majority has been well known to Capital for centuries. In fact the so-called 'founding fathers' (aka Capital) deliberately discarded the Articles of Confederation and replaced them with the Constitution because the structure of the government created by the constitution would cause factions in the electorate, weakening the position of Labor and strengthening the position of Capital. See, e.g., the federalist papers that were written by the Father of the Constitution, Madison (worth 100 mill after he got his inheritance) and see also his notes on the constitutional convention.

I have given you the theory. Let us examine the evidence: for western nations, let us compare two extremes: one, very large and diverse, the other, small and relatively homogeneous.

The USA versus...denmark, sweden, iceland, austria et al.

Where is it that the people enjoy more time off? Where is it that the people have more control of their governments?

Now, recently denmark, sweden, austria, et al are "enjoying" more diversity via mass immigration.

How is that increased diversity impacting the quality of the lifestyle enjoyed by the citizens therein?

You know the answer.

Now you have the theory and the data.

But you will not understand what I am saying because this is not what you have been taught since youth. Hmm...another of the puzzles of mankind upon which to ruminate....
Won't "Airplane Mode" prevent phone from radiating any active signal?
Nice to see someone capable of independent thought.
The BAG itself is something a government organisation called the 'Kadaster' maintains. I would be surprised if the US doesn't have a similar organisation.

I know some municipalities maintain extensive GIS and financial datasets that include valuation, sale data, ownership, maps, etc. Here's an example from the Boston assessor's database: http://www.cityofboston.gov/assessing/search/?pid=0503500000

But I don't know if smaller/poorer towns have created or maintain digital archives, what standards are used, or whether data is shared at the county or state level. One question I have: Is this a state or local requirement that such records are created and posted online, and how does it differ from municipality to municipality and state to state?

I would be surprised if a federal agency maintained a national database like the Netherlands, although these days it's not really clear what data our government is gathering/sharing, and for what sorts of purposes.
You read the whole article (while ignoring the fact that you have to follow a link to get to the second page) and then the last sentence is that he's not really living in his car anymore. What's the point of this article?
There's one potential issue with this in that all electronic devices these days can store data. It may not be able to transmit while in the pouch, but there's no reason it could store and forward when you next come into rage of a wifi station. We already know malware exists for mobile devices; there's no reason a 0-day exploit can't be implanted to do just that.

Besides, it's not just your phone that could be transmitting signals. Whether accidentally or not, pretty much any gadget sophisticated enough to pick up audio may also be transmitting :

http://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1le3if/so_i_discover...
In the face of what antocv said, how can you possibly not qualify this comment?
Caught using interns to write articles?
If they were actually on you, they would find the hidden volume too.
This seems backwards to me. It's not as though things "line up" magically, but rather there's enough "wiggle room" to allow things line up. It's similar to me to saying that given three non-negative integers A, B, and C, you can form a triangle with side lengths A, B, and C if and only if the sum of any two numbers is greater than the third.

"Why" this is the case is best understood by seeing what happens when it doesn't hold. Or, another way would be to take two line segments attached at the end, fix one, and rotate the other. As you rotate, draw a line between the endpoint of one segment and the other. The range of lengths of this third side is going to be the permissible range of lengths for any third side length and it's going to be "largest" when the two original line segments have a 180º angle between them (i.e., their sum).

But I think for plenty of people this wouldn't suffice to answer the question "why." It could still seem like a "happy accident." This is always the tricky thing with why questions -- what constitutes an explanation for one person is entirely unsatisfactory to another.
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That the article deals with fictional characters doesn't lend it much credence in my view.

Does the author "hate" Grace Hopper as well?
What opinion is expressed? All I see are tons of facts on working hours, vacations, leisure time. With plenty of supporting links for more information / verify for yourself.
http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...? ?
Oh, handy, never knew that existed.
The premise of this article seems to be that since the government funding of scientific research has bore fruits, then it must be justified. The ole saying "a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while" comes to mind. It's worth entertaining the idea that public funding displaces private funding (at a net loss). Burt Rutan makes this argument in his Ted talk on the space industry (http://www.ted.com/talks/burt_rutan_sees_the_future_of_space...).

In college I came across "The Economic Laws of Scientific Research" by Terence Kealey. It's a great read for anyone interested.
Apple Launches Redesigned Bug Reporter Tool
NSA hacked Al-Jazeera and Russia’s Aeroflot – report
You tell me. How many terrorist attacks have you heard after 9/11 in USA. You can count them on your fingers. Is that good or bad? How many gun related violence have you heard. Don't even start to count. What does that say?

'harassment' isn't the aim, it is an unintended by-product. I believe, a careful screening makes incredible difference.

People living in first world countries often take law & order for granted. When you visit a third world country, you are issued so many safety advisories because you aren't used to weird stuff happen day in & day out.
Yes, but with significantly less pay. New Zealand is doing comparatively well -and pays its females approximately 10% less than its males. Pretty pathetic stuff. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap
I like to think of it as a modified version of the thing where businesses start out doing shady stuff and then suddenly go legit and everything is just okay. Think Napster, for example. They built their audience and popularity and business on facilitating the sharing of other people's copyright and then they go legitimate. They would never have been able to build their business being legitimate from the start, though. And once you go legitimate, everyone forgets that you essentially built your "Ford dealership" by stealing the Ford's from the other Ford dealerships in your town, until you could make enough money off their products to go legitimate and open up your own honest Ford dealership.

Granted, this isn't that extreme, but it reminds me of it.