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That's how it works in much of Europe. The US banking system sucks. I have clients in Germany. They pay me via credit card because bank transfers to US accounts are such a pain. If I had a German account they could pay me instantly without hassle. Even many of my US clients pay me by credit card because they'd otherwise have to mail me a check (yuck) or get some kind of 3rd party bank transfer service which they're not willing to do.
You do not look weird on the tube. I do not know about the US but certainly, on the tube, there is no way to look weird, whatever you do. Or do not do.

Try it, you will find that sometimes it is much more fun to stand than to be seated.
I agree this is propaganda, and it is dangerous. Despite the fact that bad roads and decaying villages are very real in Russia, Russia has tremendous oil and gas wealth, and the medium and long-term economic trends for Russia are upward.

Russia has many symptoms of an industrial nation turning into a resource-extraction oligopoly, but it would be a very risky mistake to think Russia headed toward collapse. Russia may have many problems, but it will be a strong and rich nation. Allowing that fact to surprise us will lead to bad policy decisions.
I don't disagree with any of your points. I just disagree with the assumption that twitter frontend is something static with no time-related components.
Amongst companies that keep beer on premesis what is the culture surrounding it?

If you come into work on monday morning and everyone is already onto their 3rd Carlsberg export by 12:30 then I can see why that might cause problems.

OTOH companies that I've worked at that have kept beer in the fridge it has always been something that might be enjoyed with lunch on a friday or at 7PM when one has stayed a little late finishing some milestone on a project before heading home (assuming they are not driving).
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I use a ~/.config/redshift.conf:

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and then start redshift without any arguments.
People who don't use TeX for accessibility reasons might want to give it another look. The tooling has risen in quality and accessibility hugely of late. I use TexPad[1] - which I like enormously.

Otherwise, as another commenter mentioned, there is always Markdown. Combined with MathJax[2] and custom style sheets you see many of the same benefits with greatly increased simplicity. A great desktop Markdown editor (if people don't like web based ones) is Mou[3].

Lastly - the advantage to using Markdown is that if you have to work with someone who does use TeX - something like pandoc[4] can be used to convert between formats fairly nicely.

One thing I think is missing is a "Make" like program to dictate how to combine multiple Markdown or TeX documents into a single document, which folders to scan for references etc. I've seen a couple of home grown solutions - but nothing that really fit the bill.

[1]: https://www.texpadapp.com/

[2]: http://www.mathjax.org/

[3]: http://mouapp.com/

[4]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
> Surely whatever scheme you have to obfuscate the trail could be built into the network? If so, why wasn't it?

Not really. Mixing Bitcoin relies on shared wallets controlled by a third party. You trust in them not to leak the details of what Bitcoin went where, and you also trust them not to just pocket the inputs and never send anything back. That would never make it into the network. The alternative is something called CoinJoin, which allows people to pair up and spend each others Bitcoin to ruin the trail through the blockchain, this probably will be implemented at some point, but it's just in development stages thus far.

> Do you think normal people are going to take the care to obfuscate their Bitcoin transactions properly? I don't.

By the same token, do they need to?
I know an update isn't available for OS X yet, but did anyone else get notified of an upgrade of their OS X version? The most recent OS X version of the Flux.app file says it was created Oct 4, 2013. I'm pretty sure this update has caused my Macbook Air to hang momentarily when trying to put it to sleep. Kind of annoying.
I can't speak for others, but my company is a one-man show right now. I'm an iOS dev by trade, hence the app is iOS-only for now.
WARNING: If you want to try this for the first time, wait until mid-day. The first transition is quite jarring, but trying it in the day will make it much smoother (to the point where, if you disable it at night, you will quickly curse and re-enable it).
At my prior employer, there was a legend of two guys who wrote the companies email system (before commercial packages were available) in 6 weeks. There method was to hit a pub for 4 hour design sessions every few days, followed by a few days of marathon coding. As soon as they'd get stuck, back to the pub. This was an uber-conservative employer, so beer in the office would have been cause for celebration.

I'm with you that if you're going to have beer in the office, it should be good beer. A trend I've seen lately is scotch at work. It's more an end of the day relaxer than anything else.

I've seen both sides of the argument, and don't have a definitive opinion. If it works, keep doing it. If not, don't. If beer in the office costs you employees, don't have it. If beer in the office cuts your turnover, it's cheaper than hiring new people.
Quick someone show this to college students. Most of his advice is exactly what I am looking for when I give interviews.
Yes, the government knows how to lie with statistics. Since the introduction of the so-called "one-euro jobs", the unemployment has gone down only because people who took such jobs were not counted as unemployed anymore, even though their situation has not been improved.
I think it only sounds arrogant to someone who doesn't run, or who has never experienced the problem.

I started running in March of this year, after having lived 35 years of my life believing that there was something wrong with me that physically prohibited me from running. Every time I tried running, I would end up gassed very quickly, with my heart rate shooting up to 180 bpm. I tried all sorts of things, but it turned out, I just ran too fast. Surprisingly, this isn't something anyone thinks to tell beginning runners: slow down. I found that I had to focus on running slower than was comfortable in order to get my endurance up. It required real, conscious effort to slow down.

I don't know how many people experience this problem, but I know it was a giant hurdle for me. Your app seems like a really fantastic idea.
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I genuinely hope it IS a honeypot.

I am attracted to BitCoin-as-a-currency by it's near-zero-transaction-cost property.

I am attracted to the technology (for peer-to-peer trading), by it's potential to disrupt traditional asset classes.

I am rather disinterested in the privacy/secrecy aspect of the technology.

Indeed, I would quite like to see ALL financial transactions made public; as that would greatly assist the fight against corruption, and many many many forms of wrongdoing.
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So are endless meetings, endless emails, emergencies at 4:55p on a Friday, upper management, the phase of the moon, and tidal activity.

We get it. Your vision of "professional" explicitly doesn't allow for any kind of alcohol ever, but how about not dictating that for everyone else, eh?
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Just saw this answer to another question about the technology:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6558539

I guess you could ask him for more details.
Is the subtext here about hostile frat culture, or, worse, about harassment? That's what I think it is.

Like a lot of things, I think beer is fine if you're adult about it. We've got quite a lot of beer in our Chicago office (we haul crates from Russian River and Three Floyds and Jolly Pumpkin). But nobody drinks while they work, and nobody drinks whole bottles; we open a bottle and a bunch of people taste. If it's Friday, we might open a couple bottles.

I can't imagine this creating a problem. For one thing, nobody's getting drunk. For another, nobody is OK with disrupting anyone else's work. And finally, I don't think many people here would be sanguine about seeing someone get harassed. On the other hand, maybe that's because so many of us are parents.

Maybe there's an argument that your culture needs to be mature enough to handle beer, and maybe there's an argument that if you've got kegs and people are drinking during the working afternoon, that's a sign that maybe the maturity isn't there.
> Something that happens quite frequently is non-technical friends see my laptop at night and ask "why it is orange?"

This, very much; if you just have it on for a while, you don't notice it yourself. There was a time years ago when it would transition rather quickly so you could see when it turned on, but that's a setting you can turn off so it goes reeeeally smoothly. I hardly notice it now. Maybe sometimes when I turn on a game it will flicker back to normal for a little bit. But yeah, I hardly notice it (which is good), but others do. Funny.
At my current employer, there's rarely a lot of beer in the fridge, and people won't grab one before 4:30 or 5:00 or early in the week. Outside of interns, the people most likely to grab 1 or 2 are the hardest workers in the office.
Fuck that shit. I like beer. If I have a choice between a job where it's supplied and a job where it isn't, guess which I'm going to choose. You say "investors aren't backing frat houses", but they must be seeing decent returns from companies with a beer supply or they wouldn't be funding them.
Yes but grammatically correct sequences of words have much less entropy than that. I guess much much less.
> Bitcoin is, by design, highly vulnerable to network analysis

Maybe it's time Zerocoin (by Matthew Green's students) got implemented into Bitcoin:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zerocoin-mak...
You left off the rest of that sentence.
I've only developed for iOS, but the 2 weeks I spent 2 years ago developing for Android, I was simply relieved that I only had to target one Android tablet, so my genuine question:

Is there any such thing as an "Android audience?" Calling it a "Samsung Galaxy S4 audience" or "Moto X audience" might be more accurate, right? Because if you want to reach that so called entire Android audience, you have to target much older operating systems and set that as your lowest common denominator.
Quite a remarkable feat and I am happy for their success but frankly no 'non obvious insights'. It was a rather long and boring post.
I picture a "Tell Tale Heart" scenario. This would drive me crazy.
Perhaps there's a difference in culture between bottles versus kegs? The former suggests restraint, the latter doesn't?
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You are responding to the tone of the post and to your presumption of who the author is and what they represent, but you're not really responding to the message of the post.
Bitcoin does not and never did have well-defined requirements or constraints, so it is kind of pointless to ask why some feature is not present or why the creators of Bitcoin have not worked to improve it in some particular way. None of the definitions of privacy or security defintiions that apply to academic digital cash can be satisfied by Bitcoin, as those definitions all assume the existence of a central bank in the system. Similarly, definitions that are applicable to anonymous messaging (e.g. mix-nets) are useless here unless you want to use Bitcoin as an anonymous messaging system (rather than as a digital cash system).
Which article?

From the horse's mouth:

"I'm not on the Guardian staff and have never been an employee."

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/387938465955868672
Doesn't professional just mean you're making a living doing it? If he is, then he is.

So much pretentiousness.
This seems to be the best argument for it. Or rather - would you leave a place that had beer for one that didn't?
Maybe it's because i'm european and not living in the US, but this kegerator in the office thing looks like something that gets old fast. The first weeks it may sound fun, beer in the office, branded beer glasses,etc... but i don't understand how someone could care as the novelty wears of.

And i hope i don't need to comment on that "devs need beer" thing, c'mon, childish stuff.

Does a subset of the employee likes beer? Ok, let's go outside to taste some nice craft beer after work. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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I would say that changing color temperature based on time of day (and location on the planet) as a means to reduce late-night eyestrain and fatigue is something non-obvious, yes. I never even thought about color temperature and the influence of it on your sleeping patterns (esp. late at night) until the guy behind f.lux came by.
Beer in the office is not something anybody needs and yes it requires a level of responsibility about how you use it, I would argue the same thing is true of having free soda in terms of the long term health of people in the office.

I'm a guy and I could care less about if there is beer or not in the office. If anything it's a signal that the company is trying to look cool. It doesn't mean that the company is in fact a cool place to work.

Also, it is completely sexist to say that beer is the fault of guys or that it is keeping women away. The place where I worked where they had beer on tap, just as many women drank as men. Many of the women were as vocal about supporting the beer keg as the guys were, so even though it is popular to claim that it's a gender thing, it's not.

Some people like beer in the office some don't. I don't think gender has a lot to do with it. Alcohol consumption is very much a personal preference that doesn't correlate well with gender from what I can tell.
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I wonder what regulations you're talking about when opening a UG. There's a form contract that you fill in, got to a Notar, pay a fixed fee (50 Euros IIRC), wait for the electronic registration and done. Even forming a GmbH is not really a major hassle - we have formed ours in half a day. The main hurdle for the GmbH is actually the base capital that you need to accumulate - 25.000 euros. But that's not "cost" since you get to spend the money.

The larger issue associated with both legal forms are actually the bookkeeping requirements since unlike a GbR or freelance, the company is actual a legal entity and does own all its money, so you need to pay yourself a wage instead of just taking money from the company. However, you can get a tax accountant to do all the bookkeeping for you for a reasonable amount.
Drinking glasses of beer from a tap during a working meeting sounds very frat-y to me, and I'm a drinker.
"A map to help you find your location"

I hope this isn't the start of feature bloat.
I've configured my cycling GPS to auto-pause when I'm going at less than 5 km/h. So sometimes, while I'm struggling to pedal up a big hill, my GPS adds insult to injury and auto-pauses with a sad beep.
The real loophole is in U.S. law, which allows Apple to make large profits selling things in the U.S. but not pay any tax on them through the magic of self-dealing transactions.

It's as if you gave all your income to your cat - whose bank account you happen to control - and then were able to deduct those gifts fully from your tax return, leaving you with no income and no tax liability. The tax man wouldn't look kindly on individuals doing that, but does look kindly on large corporations doing that. Odd.
This is exactly why companies provide it. Like programminggeek said, it's a signal that they're trying to look cool. They would probably prefer if you didn't actually use it (impaired mental function, cost of operation, etc), but simply having it attracts and retains employees like you. There's beer on tap in my office, but I never actually see anyone have any at their desk or during the day. I've only ever seen people drinking at the end of the day before going home.
Seems like a non-issue to me. If a person doesn't want beer, they don't have to drink it. As long as everybody is getting their work done and not getting drunk, who cares?

Soda and junk food aren't great either, why not complain about them?
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The better question is: why would you have people on staff who you wouldn't trust to be mature enough to handle the situation?
As much as I'd like to, I doubt my collaborators would go for it - I work with a lot of clinicians using ancient computers with a stable, predictable work pattern, and they are understandably content with that.
Don't fix what ain't broke?

Beer causing problems in the office is a personnel problem, not a "beer in the office problem".
Personally, I have trouble trusting people who write thngs like "Windowz" and "Winslows" on their product home page.
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I agree the Guardian is probably one of the few news sources i trusted more than most. I'm thinking he was offered freedoms that the guardian COULDN'T offer him or the chance to run a full team of journalists like himself. I doubt he will be tamed by any organization. We will see.
Most programming is nothing like operating heavy machinery or heart surgery, there's no reason not to have beer on tap. Working conditions have been improving greatly over the last century. I for one welcome a bit of pampering.

Small doses of alcohol actually improve mood and cognitive performance[1]. Athletic too but that's less relevant.

If some people like it, let them have it. What happened to "live and let live"? If some people like more frat-like atmosphere, why not let them gravitate towards those places?

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9833014
They still do in that they can automatically adjust brightness based on light environments. Just brightness / backlight setting though, not colors or anything. I have it turned off and have it set to the lowest, given how it's still too bright even if my room is pretty dark.
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We have a beer fridge in the office. If we’re hosting a barbecue event in Summer or some other kind of social we can offer them out. We’re free to take them if we want. Very, very rarely does that happen – and we’re a hosting company with software and hardware folks, aged 20-40 on average, the kind of people demographically some might expect to be all for beer at work.

Maybe after a hard day, a beer happens. But never, ever, ever during.

Frankly, If you think you can work and drink, you’re mixing business with pleasure. Never a good call.

Having a drink at work at the end of the day is a nice option to have, especially if there’s something to be thankful for (we fixed the issue, so-and-so is having a baby etc). It’s a case of knowing when it’s appropriate, and when it isn’t.
If you don’t know when it’s appropriate to have a casual beer your sensibilities are way off. Worse, if you think it’s ok to be flat-out drunk in the office then you probably shouldn’t have a job at all.

It’s not beer’s fault. Nobody forces you to drink it, either in small or large doses.
children do get the wrong ideas about what they see and sometimes it happens with adults too, with porn being the main reason why men think they need big penises to satisfy women

Is it porn that gives them the wrong idea, or is it because porn is the only concept of sex that they get exposed to?

But I would find useful a system that alerts me when my child gets exposed to porn, such that I can take appropriate measures, like having fatherly talks about sex, explaining to him that what he just saw is a really bad idea in case he looked at something weird.

Why wouldn't you have fatherly talks about sex regardless of exposure to porn?

Imagine hearing in the workplace the sound of a woman's moan. It's totally disrespectful to your colleagues, as it disrupts their workflow.

Playing any sound is disrespectful to your colleagues, by breaking their concentration. The pornographic part is irrelevant.
As someone who sits in #osm and #osm-dev on irc.oftc.net and helps at least one person a day, I'd like to point out that the community will most definitely give you support. MapBox certainly makes it easier to pay someone, but the community isn't completely shut off from the world :).
> you wouldn't look at the Mona Lisa with amber glasses.

I would if I had to look at it constantly for my job and entertainment and it had a bright blue backlight shining right into my eyes all the time, :p.
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I installed 4.3 today on my iMac, the machine crashed twice within a couple of hours, it has never crashed otherwise in 2+ years I have owned the machine. Uninstalled, will upgrade Parallels if necessary.
Alcohol makes me sleepy and lose the ability to concentrate. I have no idea why people enjoy drinking when they're trying to get stuff done. Especially if any of that "stuff" requires significant brain power.
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Stupid title. Even MapBox might agree they don't compete with Google Maps. They are here to make OSM awesome, and hats off to MapBox for what they've done so far.
> Like a lot of things, I think beer is fine if you're adult about it.

There are a very long list of things that are typically prohibited at work that would be fine "if you're an adult about it." There's a crossover point at which the population of workers becomes large enough that it is difficult or impossible to impose the "be an adult" requirement. The arbiters of responsibility cannot be within reach of all behavior, and thus we mitigate the opportunity for irresponsibly by removing factors that contribute to irresponsible behavior.

I'm of mixed opinion on it. I don't like the idea of saying "this is fine for one organization, but not for another", but that's kind of the reality. If the focus of your business is building a business, you have to sit down and evaluate how the presence of alcohol in the workplace serves that goal (or detracts from it). Yes, it may be a very valuable perk to some employees, but it also has the potential to be a big problem. Even moderate consumption (I know you're not advocating this) is known to alter judgement and lower inhibition.
> So why is sitting so damaging? One thing it does is change the way our bodies deal with sugar... but how efficiently your body does that is affected by how physically active you are

Terrible reporting here. This has nothing to do with sitting, it has to do with inactivity. You can have an active lifestyle and still sit all day. Later it states

> blood glucose levels fell back to normal levels after a meal far more quickly on the days when the volunteers stood than when they sat.

So what? If you don't have a medical condition related to elevated blood glucose having meal related glucose levels take longer to return to baseline shouldn't cause problems. I'm not aware of any research stating otherwise. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

There are problems due to sitting though, such as

> a sharp reduction in the activity of an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase

and as they mentioned standing burns far more calories (the article said 50/h) which is a good thing.

I'm all for standing but it'd be nice for reporters to get their facts straight.
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