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> Low level cruise employees like the cleaning crew, cabin stewards, waiters, cooks, etc. are paid ridiculously low wages, because cruise ships are registered to countries like Panama and the companies do not need to adhere to U.S. standards.

On most major lines, the cleaning, etc. staff get reprimanded if they receive reviews from their passengers that are less than 5 stars. Even if it's only 4/5 (or the equivalent), they are expected to keep "perfect" ratings and are punished if they don't.

Cruises end up being a convenient way for my family to take vacations for a number of reasons (not the least being that my grandmother has limited mobility and cannot enjoy other vacation destinations as easily), but I always feel very guilty every time I go, because I see firsthand how badly the staff are exploited.

(Also, if you never want to go on a cruise line again, read the chapter in Tina Fey's "Bossypants" about her experience the one and only time she took a cruise.)

As for the (lack of) connectivity, I actually like this feature. When I go on a vacation, I enjoy being completely disconnected from the "real world". I find that, after a week of this, I wind up completely refreshed and come back to work more productive than if my attention had been split. But YMMV.
There is no honor in acting like you aren't privileged when you are. But moreover, cruises have a generally more glamorous image than the reality. You can often get on a cruise ship essentially for free, because they want you to spend money shopping and eating on the ship.
In ship lingo it is. A trip from Florida across the Suez Canal and out to Singapore is also considered "Transatlantic".

Basically it just matters what your starting ocean is and if it's round trip or not.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: posting your stuff on the Web and putting ads on your page does not automagically entitle you to any revenue. [1]

You can call it "stealing" as much as you want, but it doesn't make it so.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6638345
Garching
the crew went into "don't get sued" mode really quickly

I hate this kind of thing. Why do we allow this sort of situation, where fear of lawsuits results in worse response/care?

I don't know exactly what would need to change, but this the legal process at its worst.
I see what you did there (;
Do you have any examples of actual games, even if you're not sure that's what they're doing? I don't know of any MMO that has the server side resources to render meshes and send them to clients. Of course, most MMOs aren't "pushing geometry" to clients either, with the exception of Second Life style virtual worlds.
This is badass. Anything to encourage talented designers and developers to build more old-school platformers. Miss them so much.
I think at a certain size, a strong HR dept presents a feedback loop to address the potential issues involved with middle management. I would imagine these issues arise from unconfident managers who are working proactively to hit BS metrics like hours worked, lines of code or attendance at beer events.
In addition to 5 and 30, 11 (the one with a gap) also scanned fine for me (using the SoftBank QR app)
Startup office evolution: how we improved our office layout
Is there a way to line these up so you can get back to your starting destination fairly easily? If we could line them up back to back I'd love to do this for like 6 months, I think.
Good clarification: Software startups.
Is it game-engine-agnostic?
I they can ensure consistency over time in t-shirt quality and size I might become a customer for life.
A Short Interview With Drew Wilson, Co-Creator Of Roon
I'm actually not into the whole cruise entertainment experience anyway and would appreciate a few weeks to mostly be a loner while my needs are taken care of. Commercial Freight is a fantastic idea that I plan on doing hopefully next year.
I remember doing stuff like this in VB/asm about 20 years ago. I miss VGA.
Scaling a LOLCats database to hundreds of millions of users isn't trivial either.
I remember in the late '90s when the latest edition of The Onion would show up on the website every Tuesday (correct me on the date if I am wrong, it's been awhile). The server could not handle the load and would be extremely slow for the rest of the day.

I was excited to finally read The Onion in print when they debuted in NYC many years later. Glad they are still alive in some fashion.
from the companies I know that work with trials, they have ~66% hire rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping
It looks like it just generates maps as textures. You should be able to use it pretty much anywhere provided you write the shaders.
I appreciate your point, but I still disagree.

> usage information doesn't conform to the structure of ordinary program output

This is weak. Pretty much every command line program will have multiple flags that change the output in some profound way. Why should --help get special treatment?
Yes, but that's not what calloc does. It doesn't return memory with all values 0 (how can it? It doesn't know what structure you're allocating.), it returns all bits zero.
PourBico - Firefox Add-on to debug and make changes with full page reload
That's just wrong, they don't want to match "Cauntica" or something like that... :-)
Why not just server it on your laptop, locally?
It comes out looking a lot like voxel stuff, but it can only be rendered from the front. One cool advantage, though, is that the artist can bake in shadows.
Meatloaf Cupcake Recipe
In the past I've had this in my sshd_config files:

Ciphers aes256-ctr
MACs hmac-sha2-512

This is one recommended way for forward secrecy https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf/blob/master/configs/sshd...

Unfortunately my favored Android SSH client (juiceSSH) couldn't handle that so I had to change to:

Ciphers aes256-ctr,aes256-cbc
MACs hmac-sha1

which is rather unfortunate, but still turned out to have been a good thing in light of this vulnerability (I'm running 6.2 on all my machines because of the DoS vulnerability in earlier versions).
I think there's something to be said for acknowledging that your team isn't the smartest out there. I don't think being smart is, in and of itself, a guarantor of'success'.

It seems to me that successful business is not just about having the smartest solution, but having the right solution at the right time... and having a thousand other things fall in to place perfectly as well.
thanks. it's hand-rolled on jekyll/github.
We're looking for an awesome web developer (oh the irony). Let me know if you're interested :)
StudySoup.com
My instinct would be to turn the engine off.
The postscript being handwritten is much more powerful than if it was typed. I can almost feel the excitement that must have caused.
I second the advice to go with a 3rd-party CI (although I am partial to TeamCity).

This is especially because Apple's xcodebuild got way better in this release. It's the underlying deployment system behind the new CI, and in addition it can deploy things to devices now and handle all sorts of neat things that not even the best 3rd-party tools could do before. So:

> Unfortunately, xcodebuild doesn’t properly support test targets and application tests for iOS.

This is out of date, and if xcodebuild has given you problems in the past you should try it again.
But Ubuntu looks good (imo) and is comparatively easy. Hope many Apple/Windows users switch to it. Big step in the right direction. Apps 'uncomplicated' software and I think it is very necessary that there is a mainstream Linux distribution which focusses on 'uncomplicated' computing.

'Privacy' be damned. At least as long as one can configure settings as easy as is the case here. (Privacy quoted as I cannot see the problem here, compared to e.g. google or facebook which are able to build up a whole profile of you (and me)).

(would love to try out gentoo once, but time...)
A huge portion of the "talent shortage" is simply technical interviews that assume the exact opposite, and that only the best 1% of technical talent will do when you're running an ecommerce site selling unicorn horns.
Nowadays I would just run Linux in a VirtualBox configured with the amount of RAM that I wanted to simulate. I've done the same thing with CPU cores to compare performance with 1, 2, 4 and 8 cores. Of course I run VirtualBox on a 16-core server...
I suspect it has more to do with not wanting to train somebody rather than not wanting generalists. Once you get in, you'll be expected to do a little bit of everything if the company is small.
"benefits"
Same here; I was a huge fanboy of Ubuntu for years, but Canonical seems hellbent on introducing change for change's sake. At first, it was mildly annoying but easily corrected: the nonsensical decision to move window maximize/minimize/close buttons from right to left is an example. But Unity was a bitter (and buggy) pill to swallow.

I've moved on to Linux Mint and Crunchbang. Can't say I miss Ubuntu at this point. If they decide to pull their heads out and pay more attention to the wider community, I may eventually use a distro again. I wish them well, but I don't feel that their priorities intersect with my interests.
YouTube’s New System Requires Users to Use G+, Prompts F-Bomb From its CoFounder
http://allthingsd.com/20131108/youtubes-new-comments-system-require-users-to-use-google-prompt-f-bomb-from-youtube-cofounder/
Yes, the good ones become CTOs at startups :-)

No-one appreciates a bad generalist, but a good generalist, who can pick up any piece of code or system you happen to have lying around or need to work with (e.g. can use tcpdump to debug a problem connecting to a client's server, or write a useful shell script, or do some C# coding for an integrated version of your Ruby app) is worth their weight in bitcoins.
I learned something today! It never occurred to me there might be cultural differences here.
Does this include meals etc. ? Where did you find it ? Seems like a great idea indeed
Stop cutting and pasting and start typing. I try to copy from memory, but even writing it out while looking at the original still seems to help retention.
I understand the concerns about an always on camera and audio recording (even if I think your phone is probably a bigger danger in that regard), but I'm having a hard time envisioning what the actual danger would be for having a machine track my skeletal model. The issue with fingerprint scanning is (1) that you can build a fake finger to bypass authentication and (2) you leave your fingerprints everywhere.

At the moment, I don't really think anyone is building fake skeletons to hack my Xbox account. It might make for some creepy Minority Report-style advertising if Kinect cameras become ubiquitous and the data is uploaded to the cloud, but I don't think we're anywhere near that yet.
Why Having No Goals in Our Lives Might Make Us Happier and More Successful
It's not listening for changes to the URL so going back through the URL does not change the pages state.

This is breaking the point of the back button and URL. If you click through a long Wiki page you'll see presing back does indeed move you back.

Back is broken it just isn't hijacked.
I've not read RDPD, but unless I'm mistaken isn't it a self help type book? (in the vein of 4HWW). Where as The Game a novel, you can't really learn to pick up women from reading it, so not sure they can be compared.
Thank you for sharing your story.
I am going through a pretty tough hiring process where the decision makers in corporate made the decision to hire me, but the local people in the current office seem to hate me and doubt I am up for the job, along with local HR joining the bandwagon and complaining about my hiring.
So you sharing your problems gives me a feeling of belonging that I am not alone in being stuck in bad situations.
Passersby will never again be amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.
Now this I understand. Thanks.
The Z-80's 16-bit increment/decrement circuit reverse engineered
A trademark is a recognizable sign that identifies goods or services from a particular from those of others. Protection was thus created to make unlawful any use of the trademark that would be confusing for customers, for example if you displayed one of your competitors' trademarks on your product - that would be a trademark infringement[1]

The protection for trademarks is thus much more lax than the one that you have with copyrights: trademarks are protected only for limited purposes, whereas the protection is broader for copyrights.

The protection was extended in 1996 to forbid some uses of trademarks that however would not be confusing to customers. The owner of the trademark is able to sue someone that use its trademark in such a way for trademark dilution - and not infringement. However, this dilution statute does not apply to noncommercial uses of a famous trademark, such as for news reporting, criticism, commentary, and parody.[2]

As fixubuntu.com doesn't sell any goods or services, there is no trademark infringement. In addition, as it does not show ads nor link to commercial websites, a court would most likely recognize it as non-commercial. If it is still seen as a commercial venture, it would still be protected by the "commentary or criticism" protection.

The fixubuntu.com website could hardly be said to be "festooned" with the logo considered it was used only once. But removing it, despite what I said earlier, was still prudent. Indeed, the problem with trademark law is that even if you're not infringing or diluting, it is really hard to get a trademark lawsuit dismissed quickly, and you could easily get dragged in a long litigation you have the financial situation to fight.

For full disclaimer, IANAL, but I have a strong interest in law, have an education in French public law (which is VERY different from american law) but follows regularly the debate on the popehat.com website on free speech related litigations.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1114
As you can see in the definition of the trademark infringement for registered trademarks, the use of the trademark has to be in relation with the sale of a product.

[2] http://www.dmlp.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/15USC1125.pd...
See (a)(1) for the definition of trademark dilution and (a)(3)(A)(ii) or (a)(3)(C) for the exceptions for non-commercial use; I think the fixubuntu case would work for both.
Plenty of other distros are easy and look good too. Gentoo isn't one of them, but a few others on that list are pretty okay...
Less people suing would reduce that. The problem is that people sue over everything, so why deal with the hassle when you can go into defense mode early and stave off frivolous court proceedings? I agree, it sucks.
Thanks for breaking down the buzzwords into something understandable!
I know they at least use to have a few coin operated newspaper vending machines on street corners in Philadelphia. Not sure about elsewhere, I only ever noticed them in Philly.
The only time I every read the print version was in Chicago, where a street hustler gave everyone in my party free copies, and then followed us asking for money.

I don't expect that's the most common use case of a free paper, but were I _The Onion_ I would find it irksome.
They only thing I will say about that is that there is only a single developer working on this project at the moment,so maybe his resources are better used on something else than developing a mac/linux installer.
Isn't this the same problem eBay has been having for seller who aren't stores?

In that case buyers just buy expensive objects and then open a dispute under the 'object not respondent to description' or 'broken' or something like that... (and they don't send the objects back)

Does anyone know a good list of approaches to take against this kind of scams?
I'm self-taught at Relational Database Design. I spent two years worth of about all of my free time learning, and creating, large normalized SQL schemas. One of the things that most struck me was the capacity to get virtually all the advantages of a relational database without the baggage and rigidity. Add to that the fact that you have a distributed database with almost none of the baggage usually associated with such was another big thing for me.

Granted I'm coming from a do-it-myself green-field project, but the things that Datomic's structure and design opens up for my personal project mean that me, a one man show, can far more easily go toe to toe with the big guys with massive teams to design and deploy their apps and databases.

Potential is what I see, and it's far more than I've seen with just about any other technology that I can think of. I really think Datomic is a game changer, at least for the few awake enough to see it.
I find that it helps get a better reception if you let the poster save face by saying something like "Someone discovered that the article had a mistake" or "You were lied to", to deflect the focus from "you are wrong/stupid"
"There are 300 million cars in the USA in 2012" so your 194,000 is a % of 300 million.
In his post he acknowledged the scaling difficulty, but the point is, having to scale is a good problem to have and you'll be able to afford good engineering at that point since you have "traction".
The Chinese property market/household market is a fickle thing -- a lot of it revolves around speculation. There is a suspicion that there will be a large migration of rural workers to urban regions.

And large is an understatement -- everybody is betting everything on it.
I must admit, I always wondered how this network got away with churning burning for past few years (hdwallpapers3d.com, hdwallpapersdj.com, hdwallpapersinn.com, hdwallpapersuk.com, hdwallpapersfan.com, hdwallpaperszon.com, celebritywallpapers3d.com, hdwallpapersonly.com)

Always come up, they offer little value, and are often no more than a few months old, and all made for adsense pages of content ripped from other places. Moment you take one down like you did with hdwallpaperarena.com they just redirected it to hdwallpapersinn.com (which even has the same logo up still).

I just found it a bit of an an odd one given some tactics they apply are outlawed yet they seem to get by, I always see these sites crop up.
First link that came up on Google, I didn't really dig into it further since I was just refuting that "breach of fiduciary duty" was a made up thing.
I was giving evidence against the claim that we live in a meritocracy.
I'm paying $150/month for mixpanel and that's their lowest paid plan. The switch is a no brainer if Amazon can feature match funnels, retention, and activity.
ha yes but his point is that once these problems reach a non-trivial point the big guns get brought in. It's not the startup team solving them...
I wonder how far down the list "jungle" is on average.
Markus "Notch" Persson on Craig Ferguson 7 November, 2013 Full Interview
I have a shirt made by UP with the Discourse logo on it.

http://www.unitedpixelworkers.com/products/discourse
Launching Healthcare.Gov Knowing it was UnSecure
It would be cool if any in Lob could answer how they deal with these kind of situations, cause I guess they have already experienced some of them.
I guess where I'm getting lost is the terminology - I was under the impression that end-users are peers[0], so I'm worried about maxing out at two users. But if the limit is whatever a transactor can handle then I doubt I'd ever hit it and I might as well commit.

I'm looking at using it as part of a Clojure backend, if that matters.

[0] - http://docs.datomic.com/javadoc/datomic/Peer.html

edit: grammar
Good point. On top of that, pretty much every CEO in every industry says some variation of the following:

"Our true strength is our team. They're the best and most talented group of programmers/butchers/bakers/candlestick makers ever assembled by mankind."

There's really no downside for the CEO to saying this. If he doesn't say those things it seems like he's trying to steal all the credit.
techcofounder.com
Ask HN: Do you want a pre-made tax avoidance structure (ie Apple's Double Irish)
Balaji Srinivasan's comments at this year's Startup School rekindled my interest in pre-made corporate structures that would help people minimize tax bills. I'm interested in gauging interest in this sort of thing among the HN crowd. A tax lawyer indicated that while making this pre-made structure was certainly possible, he couldn't see a lot of demand for it. I didn't feel like wasting time using deductive reasoning based on questionable assumptions when I could just get data to help answer the question. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.<p>See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Maybe it's anonymized .... maybe it's not anonymized enough ... or maybe they change their policies to share this information more-liberally. Take OnStar ... one day they decided they were going to start sharing information about vehicles equipped with their technology even when the owner wasn't an OnStar subscriber. These consumers had no agreement with OnStar so they had no agreement that was being violated. Only when the public outcry and government investigations ramped up, did they backtrack.

Personally, I believe that meta-data collection is an interim-step towards more-aggressive sharing of this information. What does that mean? It means that your FitBit, Withings Scale, Nike Fuel, and Kinect Exercise regimen will one-day be sold to your health-care provider. Initially it'll be opt-in ... consumers can choose to reduce their rates if they share such data with an insurer --- but eventually it'll be mandatory. The XBOX One's early press boasted that the new Kinect sensor is so amazing it can detect your pulse. What would that data be worth to insurers?

Same goes for autos. OnStar opened the door showing that there's value in the data they collect. Progressive has a product called "Snapshot" ( http://www.progressive.com/auto/snapshot/ ) that feeds driving-data to the insurance company in order to inform how they adjust the policy rates they offer to you. Automatic ( http://www.automatic.com/ ) has their dongle that collect similar info. Cars will all be connected one-day, and it won't require extra hardware to collect and transmit this information. All of this data will be sold to insurers. First, it'll be opt-in ... but eventually it'll be required.

Is any of this paranoid? Sure - but the past 6 months of revelations about the level of data-collection taking-place wherever and whenever possible confirms that wherever there is data - it will be collected and sold to anyone that's buying. Just look at the $10 million+ that AT&T makes selling data to the NSA.

So yeah - I am concerned that information is being shared and sold on my behalf for no apparent personal gain.
Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL
Design for Hackers by David Kadavy
should be a ruby gem, bro
Geo-located Twitter as the proxy for global mobility patterns [pdf]
It's always friendlier to first look for an official data dump before thinking about scraping - and in this case, SO does have one[1] :)

[1]: http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...
Nice. I seem to recall the SNES game Yoshi's Island (1995) doing something like this, but only with the backgrounds. This is the only relevant screenshot I could find: http://playingwithsuperpower.com/super-mario-world-2-yoshis-...
That's great for the both of 'em, what about the other guy who quit his job and was not hired? He's now out at least 1 month salary as he needs to start from scratch.
I haven't actually used Datomic yet, but what piques my interest isn't necessarily "ooh, Rich Hickey" as much as "ooh, the Clojure/functional approach to data immutability applied to a database". The appeal, to me at least, is in the potential to make my life easier as a product engineer, rather than as a DBA or devops guy.