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I can't vote that down, but I would if I could.

A corporation, by its very nature, is obligated to its shareholders. They are in violation of the law if they do not attempt to maximize profits for their shareholders.

In order to shift any of that obligation toward employees, they'd have to get shareholder approval, and/or justify it in a way that made sense as a profit-motive (e.g., our workers will be more productive if they're happier or better paid).

The problem isn't that Wal-Mart is paying too little, it's that they're paying the wrong people. Those jobs are perfectly great for high-schoolers and those with little experience, but apparently horrible for others.

That isn't Wal-Mart's fault, it's a market problem caused by a poor economy and/or a dearth of existing jobs.
How are those examples the same typeface, as the author claims? The details in the shapes of the glyphs are strikingly different. Wouldn't it be more correct to say they are distinct typefaces of a particular family (Garamond)?
Please post an email address or your website. I would be interested in talking with you about the position.
Honestly I would withdrawl $1000 from it so you have that $500 again. You pull your winnings and keep your base invested. That's the safe play. Doubled your money, you have it secured. Let that extra winnings be the gamble. If you lose you still won.
I'd also like to know who is buying IN at this point.

People who think bitcoin has >2% chance of becoming a major world currency? http://www.jefftk.com/p/bitcoin-exchange-rate-as-a-predictio...
How is that a win/win?
See discussion above. It's all about the retransmission fees that the networks are getting from the cable companies. Aereo is breaking that model.
> smiles are a form of brain hacking.

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Means people are buying bitcoins not for their inherent value, but rather in order to sell them later at a higher price. When this happens everyone is waiting until value top's off. Sooner or later moment comes when some portion of holders decides to sell. Other people see price dropping and try to sell their bitcoins as well causing bubble to burst and price to drop significantly.
There's ethicalconsumer.org - http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/companies/login.aspx?returnur...

They rate companies according to an ethical standard which encompasses aspects such as animal cruelty, staff treatment, malevolent regime support, fair trade, origin of raw materials, etc..
Of course everybody has a different opinion. Bitcoin might be displaced by another cryptocurrency. There are many risks threatening Bitcoin. Etc.

But with all these disclaimers in mind, I would say I estimate the worth of Bitcoin to be roughly the size of the remittance market, or the gold market, and possibly bigger. So I would say at the very least $100 to $1,000 billion. Divide by the maximum theoretical limit of 21 million bitcoins. That gives a worth of at the very least $5,000 to $50,000 to each bitcoin.
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No reason in trying to figure out the US immigration system alone when many other people are in the same place. Shoot me an email at optentrepreneurs at google's mail.
I currently work in an open office space and I enjoy it. I love being able to ask the analyst across from me how s/he goes about doing something without having to get up and peer over a cubicle wall or walk into an office. Bouncing ideas off people and getting an immediate response is great. I could see it being more distracting than a cubicle or a real office. I've never worked in a place with those so I can't compare.
> as there would be people sending offensive cards there's also "overly sensitive people" that would be beyond themselves because of something like that

Agreed.
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Hiring people at below living wages seems bad on the surface, but it's a legitimate way for hardworking people without many options to earn some money and get some experience. A great example of this is the author of the "What It's Like To Fail" post also on the front page right now.

If you are 50, your industry tanks, and you have a gap in your resume, you could be bagging groceries at Wal-Mart. You might also need some help to be able to afford a proper Thanksgiving dinner. In this hypothetical, Wal-Mart isn't an angel doing favors for the employee, but it is giving him an opportunity.

Requiring, through law or social forces, living wages (for some definition of living wage) will guarantee that fewer opportunities will exist for those who are struggling to get their feet on the bottom rung of the ladder. To top it off, if you raise the cost of employing someone at Wal-Mart or McDonald's, you just increase the attractiveness of automation systems that reduce entry-level employment opportunities.

If you are truly concerned about people not having enough to eat, I guarantee that there are homeless shelters, food banks, and soup kitchens in your neighborhood that would love to have your donations of time, food, or money.

Getting pissed off at Wal-Mart because it lets its employees start food drives for each other (notice the lack of corporate branding on the donation box) isn't helping anyone. It might convince Wal-Mart to ban this kind of charity in the future.
Out of the 10 or 20 posts about Docker that made it to front-page on HN in the last year, this is the first one that has been able to show me what Docker is.

Though I'm still confused on -

Real world examples of tried and proven setups like an environment of Apache, PHP, and MySQL being run inside a Docker container (for example: for setting up shared hosting on a box). Would that even make sense?
Exactly. So it's a macho thing (if that is the case).Well when push comes to shove you have to throw all of that out the window. Also, no friends or contacts that would even lend you money? I advanced a contractor $5000 once who had lost his job for work to be done over the next year. And I had never even met him in person (although he did work for perhaps several years..)
wouldn't it be closer to a package?
Good point, I've edited the parent to correct it.
Deposit btc to btc-e.com. Buy litecoins using bitcoins. Then store them offline in a wallet. :)
They discussed this before but I can't find the link. Priceonomics has started consulting on data analysis and visualization and make significantly more money doing that than they do with their price search tools.
Perhaps it is time to roll out alternative crypto-currency. Bitcoin has way too much attention and speculation.
This kinda suggests there is a huge arbitrage potential, no?
Probably. It's one of those things you learn as a Git user sooner or later -- though in most cases, not before a few heart-stopping moments and probably a bit of an injection of FUD into your team.

Rather more worrying is the possibility of deleting history remotely with an injudicious git push --force. Some such remotes (coughGitHubcough) don't give you any access to the reflog on their end to sort things out.

Git really needs to set receive.denyNonFastForwards and receive.denyDeletes to true by default.
Statism is the analog of Satanism for libertarians. It's basically made up by the libertarians in order to have a straw man to attack. To the extent people identify as statists, it's in order to mock libertarians and celebrate their freedom from libertarianism, just like LeVey's Satanism.

It's one of those things that make it abundantly clear that libertarianism is a form of fundamentalism.
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Save/invest a large percentage of your income, 50+ ideally. If you're making > 650k in a year, 500k in savings doesn't actually sound all that prudent.

That's really secondary though, step one is to not have 8 kids.
FFS, this is not an anti-euthanasia project. Euthanasia is distinct from suicide, and is usually treated as such by people campaigning or working in the area.

> For your project, I will throw a devil's advocate accusation at you, and call you, and anyone in this thread who supports your cause, a terrorist and/or sadist. I will accuse you of in fact not helping people, but misguidedly (due to complete and utter ignorance on your part) torturing people by encouraging them to experience more suffering.

How does this help discussion?
I did not say, that every dynamic language has to implement it this way, but Python does. And Python was not intended to be a language for building up huge data masses in memory, though it does not so bad in most cases (leaving out the mentioned ones).

Pythons style has some advantages though. Simplicity and really a huge quantity of flexibility are two of them.

(Traditional) Python normally is not a truly compiled language -- it is just a rather simple precompilation step that makes life easier for the interpreter. When you compile or "JIT" the code, you have more options. You see the whole program. The precompiler of Python does not! It just sees the local module. So, it can not find all classes that might enhance a base class.

If you have any ideas, how to implement a better language, why don't you implement your own? It's up to you! (I guess, creating new (more or less useful) programming languages is the hobby of computer scientists anyhow)
"And no matter how smart or hardworking you are "

We aren't talking about buggy whips here. There are jobs in that industry. Who do you think are getting those jobs? People who are stupid and lazy?

Of course a rising tide floats all boats. And of course it would have been better if he was an in demand programmer in SF. But most people aren't. And this is something they do need to deal with.
>Wikipedia even says they’re synonymous. I disagree.

This raises my level of scrutiny.

>Even if you might ask someone about a favorite CD, Rolling Stone wouldn’t. They would call those albums.

When CDs were the dominant music medium, this difference was anachronistically pedantic. With the analogy of technology sanding down a previously meaningful difference in mind, re-reading this line was telling:

>In traditional print, the distinction is easy: a font was a typeface set at a certain size, weight and style and cast in metal...In its digital form, fonts are more flexible and the moment when a typeface becomes a font is way more nuanced.

∴ In traditional print typeface != font. But today, the difference is so nuanced, the point of delineation so subjective, that the gradient, while interesting to talk about, can be safely ignored.
I'm curious if the issue with "lacking documentation" is an issue with explaining function inputs and outputs (like types would give you in other languages), expected behavior, or just bad discoverability for the long list of core functions.

When I was starting, I ended up just learning to read the function source because of the lacking documentation. It's a skill that has paid off in the end, but i'm not sure it was the best way.
Are you guys using Cassandra Counters?
Maybe people aren't falling over themselves to report to the media that they did something foolish?
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You should try using https://gist.github.com/paulirish/1579671 instead of setInterval.
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You must have worked in different open plans than I, which resembled more of a giant chatter box.

Problem was mixing different types of work/communication (engineering and sales), and management who did not care about the impact.
Where are all the people denouncing the Peace Prize? And why isn't there more clamoring for a Nobel Prize in Mathematics?
Heh.. telling my peers to choose an alternative to Facebook is hard enough, telling them it also costs money will make them instantly continue using Facebook.

And they will say "If it aint broken, don't fix it" and "I don't have anything to hide, i don't need to switch".
Instead, we are left in the world of selective enforcement, where most individuals are fine with ridiculous laws, because they are unlikely to be enforced against said individuals.

Unless they, to quote a Japanese proverb, stand up. The nail that sticks out gets hammered, and all that.

The result is a brutal, repressive system, that is very precise in its brutality - typically against minorities, troublemakers, or pretty much anyone who ends up on a bureaucrat's hit list. And nobody has a problem with this state of affairs.
My parents, who live in Trinidad, have this problem every time they visit me in America. After a couple of days of everyone fake-smiling at them the whole time they get pissed off. To them, everyone's smiles come off as insincere and even slightly condescending. (They hate it even more when people tell them to "have a nice day".)
Sometimes it is a question of self respect. It's perhaps the last thing people cling to, to keep their sense of self alive. It is what probably keeps him going now.

My father refused to take any real help, till his final days.

In his own words, he wanted to "free" his children from the burden he had turned into - he wanted us to go out and succeed & never blame him for holding us back.

All I could do was get him his pills and sit by his bed & promise him that it wasn't a sacrifice (and that I would live my life, soon).

Not that it did any good to his self-worth, but it helps me sleep well at night, at least.
Hey now, that's cherry picking data if I've ever seen it. Of course Nevada has a high suicide rate. Try comparing Alaska to sunny states where people don't throw their life savings away.
Jump in at #introductions at Mozilla channel on irc. There is always something that you can contribute with, and you will learn too!
When placing any kind of order, you have to look at the seller's reputability and decide for yourself. This project appears to be coming out of a MIT Media Lab project (perhaps this could use confirmation), and the Heritage Chemistry Set is from what seems to be a well-respected shop. It might not be necessary to lump these projects together with other fly-by-night crowdfunding attempts.
Wages cannot be too low. It's simple supply and demand. Too many workers, with little demand for their work. Evidenced by the fact people are willing to work at wal-mart wages.

I would love for everyone to be successful but it's not the kind of thing you can wave a magic wand with a fantasy solution, dump blame on wal-mart, then call it a day.
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You can also press the down arrow button and press return as usual that gives the option to search even if what you type looks like a url to the browser. Also I just tried it and the default selection for what you quote is search not the url.
Wait, was it what worth it? You stepping down to become a founder?
The article seems to get it wrong. It claims, for example, that Garamond 3, Adobe Garamond, and ITC Garamond are "all the same typeface, but each is a different font." They are actually different typefaces, each based on Garamond's (or Jannon's) earlier designs. The key is that they are different designs. That's why they have different names and also why nobody who specified Garamond 3 for a project would be happy to have some misguided printer swap it out for Adobe Garamond under the impression that they were "the same typeface."
And still no mention of shrinking tab headers...Jesus christ.
IMO it really depends on how open they are, and what your company/team size is.

I love open cube "bullpens" for a team of 4-5 people working on a shared goal, but a completely open office where anyone can disturb you has given me issues in the past.
Except that actually, this story doesn't mention the minimum wage at all. And if you look at his past articles, Yglesias is not exactly a cheerleader for it.

I'm not saying Yglesias isn't partisan - he is. But a lot of the comments here seem to have seen the word 'Wal-mart' and just started firing away at a straw-man.
Weird. I think it was on the Discovery Channel recently ( Past month? So also "recent research") where a study on open-plan offices was mentioned and how workers felt they had no privacy saying cubicles were better.

I think it comes down to the person, why not offer both choices?

By the way that graph near the end woke my inner 80s teenager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sLICo-Cxo
The Church of Google.

Who wants to fund a documentary?
Yes. And there are people who make a living off arbitraging Bitcoin exchanges.

The usual arbitrage risks apply here: the Bitcoin exchange rate might vary during the time it takes to wire money in and out of various exchanges.
Aha! Doesn't apply to me, as I do not pay for cable at all!
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Sure! You don't have to agree with everything you read. I obviously don't!
What is important to note in these kind of scenarios is that in most cases the "signal level" does not decrease. So the increase of "noise" is not that bad of a thing, it is usually quite trivial to filter out, and there is always something/someone useful popping out from the noise too.

In general I detest the kind of attitude you represented in your parent comment, eg people shouldn't doing something they enjoy just because it doesn't meet your standards.
This is nothing more than a huge bluff from the NFL/MLB on behalf of the major networks.

The networks have seen the lower courts mostly rule in favor of Aereo, and are now pulling out all the stops to play the scare card by floating the possibility to the public of losing NFL games on Sundays.

I'm not sure what the exact legal details of the NFL's current broadcast agreement with CBS/FOX are, but I believe they currently receive upwards of $1bn a season from each network, extending out to 2021. Are they seriously just going to leave all of that on the table and take their chances with plummeting viewership and/or bank on the majority of fans purchasing some sort of season package?
My mildly autistic 3 year old son quotes/reenacts My Little Pony. It's much healthier than Uncle Grandpa.
I'm a Patriots fan and their game is on ESPN tonight - this is one of the 10%-20% weeks for me. :( The NFL network Thursday night game earlier this season against the Jets was another (fortunately I was in the actual stadium for that one). Red Sox games are only available on cable (NESN). Because I "cut the cord" this year I basically missed the Red Sox season (although, quite honestly, my interest in baseball has waned over the years anyway).

It's felt like the tide has been going against OTA broadcast of sports for a while now, and that 10%-20% is growing instead of shrinking, so this story is a bit disconcerting. :-/

And, like almost everyone else here, I'd be willing to fork over cash for NFL Sunday Ticket and/or MLB.tv if it weren't for the archaic blackout restrictions... grr...
Compare to, for instance, Microsoft Bob.

The high-profile failure of one project (particularly when so much of it was carried out by private contracting, a process known to be more corrupt and wasteful than just using federal employees) is not, in and of itself, evidence that the federal civil service is abnormally wasteful or corrupt when compared to other organizations of similar size or scope, or when compared to combinations of organizations forming an interlocked unit of similar size and scope.

Basically, the federal government can trivially be labelled suboptimal, but calling it abnormally bad requires evidence that you can do better. Overwhelmingly, this is not what we see people bringing forth. The claims we see made are, "This organization is suboptimal for the job it currently does, therefore we should destroy large parts of it entirely. The important jobs done by those parts don't need to be done, because we say so."
Well how much "suffering" is it for you to work the way you do?

I mean no pain no gain. If you want to win a race you have to train, right? In this case the race is making sure you have enough socked away so you can be financially secure if you ever lose your ib bank job. Or just making enough to live a nice life. Not having to worry about money is also a stress reliever and gives you one less thing to lose sleep over. Nobody ever lost sleep over working hard, right?

"Should I go to every single one of my kids' activities or should I spend some of them at home working?"

Well, when your kids get old-er they will care more about what you can do for them that requires money. Not whether you missed a game or not. I've had girlfriends in the past with parents that have been the parent at everything they do. And once the child reaches late high school or college age they care more that their friend has a vacation home and that their dad can't pay for college or buy them things. So I'm firmly in the camp of "miss the events and make money". Other will tell you differently. Not that kids whose parents aren't around don't whine or you won't find a kid who has a "rich" parent who says they would have rather spent more time with them. That's what they say. But the truth is that's short sighted.
This was a great read. Reminds me of a modern day version of George Orwell's classic, Down and Out in Paris and London
Tabs are a design idea that predates the web. You'll find them on physical file folders, binders, and address books, for example. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that tabs were invented hundreds of years ago.
if the death of Fox is in the cards, I'm for it.
>How would you characterize your use of Clojure today?

More than half of respondents are using Clojure at work, which is a big jump compared to the last two years, when only a third of respondents were so lucky. This is nothing but good.

People using Clojure in their work environment is a great thing.
I don't think it's so much a macho thing. It's one thing to ask for help when you need it--but quite another to ask for help in the form of room and board, the implication (and correctly so, here) being that for whatever reason you are unable to support yourself.

As a father, to be unable to support yourself, let alone your kids, can be a destructive blow not only to your self-respect, but to your children's respect for you. I suspect that that's what he was trying to avoid, and I find it wholly reasonable. His children's respect might never return, and it's clear from the article that his relationship with his children is part of what he valued most.
This should ready, "While bitcoins hold 'promise', we have no regulatory authority. Now get off your a$$e$ and give us authoritarian control over all currency of any kind."
You have captured the idea porker. Thanks.
All of the web stuff (ASP.NET MVC, etc) has the advantage of being open source (real open source, Apache 2 licensed, and accepts contributions). The team is also very open with the community and releases frequently. They're also working with with the OWIN (http://owin.org/) standards so that these projects don't have to be tied to Windows/IIS. It all moves very fast however, which might not necessarily be a good thing for LOB developers.

I can't really speak for WinRT. I've never touched or looked at the developer tools. And I've not ever really used an app as a user. The only reason I think it's here to stay, for a little bit anyway, is that it's the _only_ way to develop software that runs on Windows Phone or Windows RT tablets (other than Web apps).