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Several have commented that I left out options for people who work a different standard of hours than 40. I'd say if you're in that boat, change the number to what you consider standard and vote accordingly.

For 9 years, I worked a job where 45 was the standard expectation. I left there a little over two months ago for the job I'm at now. I've noticed a marked change recently, though. I was under the impression that this was a place where 40 hours was standard, but I've recently received a few casual jabs for not doing more hours. I have mixed feelings about it, as I'm used to 45 hour standard weeks, but one of the selling points about this place was that I could have some of my time back.

I asked another guy what he thought about the change of atmosphere, and his opinion was that decreased productivity from the holidays could make a company owner a little fidgety, and we'll likely see him in a better mood by January.
I voted 40-45, without a problem working extra. I think there's a more important factor than just hours, though. I think it matters much more when those hours are.

For example, my company has a very nice policy in place that allows flexible hours. It started for just engineers (who would get more done in the middle of the night, or at home, than the rest of the organization), but quickly spread to the rest of the company.

It works like this: as long as projects are coming in on schedule and you're available for a client call during normal business hours (that is usually scheduled pretty far in advance), you can get into and leave the office whenever you want. You can also work from home whenever you want. As long as you're getting your work done and you're not out of contact completely, it's totally your call.

I work 40-60 hours depending on the week, but (most of the time) I don't feel burned out. I stay up late, sometimes working, sometimes just relaxing after a long day, and usually get into the office around 10am. I take long, luxurious lunches, during which I can walk home to cook myself something nice, or read a book for a little while.

In reality, I'm really only "flexing" about 90 minutes per day--an hour later in the morning, and an extra half-hour for lunch--but I absolutely end up working much more than that, probably many times over, each day without the burn out.

Long answer for a simple poll, but I'm passionate about this particular topic. Tech burnout is really bad, and the more ideas we can generate to combat it, the better.
Why did the author of that article have a different title when the same article was posted on the Reuters blog? [1]
Over there the article headline is: "Bitcoin is a step back not forward"

Is that his choice or the editors?

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/edward-hadas/2013/11/27/edward-hada...
Your first paragraph isn't quite right. There have been cryptographic proof-of-timestamp systems for a long time, and they're described in standard crypto texts like Schneier's.

They work basically the same way, except that you have to set up your own network. When you want to timestamp something, you (just like this service) hash it together with the previous entry in the system, sign it, and publish that. The proof of the timestamp lies in how you had to look at the previous entry to make it, and the next, at yours. Compromising it would require a large number of participants to cooperate to re-write the history (and the participants' own records).

What this service does is avoid the need to integrate with an existing service or pay any of the record-keeping costs yourself, and it does so by piggy-backing off of bitcoin's distributed timestamp system, thereby making your timestamps at least as valid as bitcoin's, and increasing (significantly) the number of conspirators required to falsify it.

tl;dr: This is just like existing crypto timestamp systems except for the more extreme decentralization and using the bitcoin network's resources.
@seji That must have been #expensive lol! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eric-pickles-i...
If the definition of "work hours" means actually doing work, to further a goal, you should bump the poll down to 5-10, 10-20, 30-40
"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

Self reliance is not to be underestimated. The state and the individual are both empowered. Being reliant on the state should be a last resort not a goal, as Europe is discovering.
Searching for it would give a whole new meaning to "bitcoin mining"...
I used to do this a few years ago when I was in London. When you have 5 minutes to wait for the next tube there wasn't much else to do as there was no wifi then :)
> If you sell bread, and you know that everyone now has $xxK basic income, why would you not increase the price of bread?

If you are a monopoly, of course you would. That's called a monopoly rent -- and why, in a supply monopoly, the demand curve effectively sets prices.

If you aren't a monopoly, you won't because competitors (either existing or new entrants) will undercut your prices until the prices are dropped to the economic cost of production.
Does this mean: Detecting senators with anomalous voting patterns?

And if so, anomalous to what? Party line?

(By the way, killer visualization and design across the board...)
This idea is generally called "trusted timestamping": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

One example would be to take a photo of a rental car showing damage at the time you rented it and be able to prove it was taken at that time. Then the rental company cannot later claim you caused the damage.

This is a pretty clever use of the blockchain as a publicly-visible and authenticated timestamp. This way, the site's owners do not have to establish themselves as a legal authority on timekeeping in order for this to be a trusted service.
I work 40 hours and I'm out the door. I would very much prefer to work much much less. Screw work/life balance. Work is what I have to do in order to live. I want a work/life imbalance, as heavily in favor of life as can be.
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The text of the article is more specific: "Longest-held American hostage in history".
I don't know if bitcoin is doomed to fail or not but, the thesis of this article isn't credible. There has never been anything like cryptocurrency in the history of the world and this statement may well not apply: "They will fail, because money that is not issued by governments is always doomed to failure. Money is inevitably a tool of the state."
The article wasn't about how to get the size of a file. It was about how linux caches large files. The article just used wc -l as a simple way of loading the entire file into memory.
It uses SHA-256, not SHA-1.
Is it now just completely unacceptable to make statements in the context of an exclusive group? I wonder if this same concern would come out at all if he weren't American.

What about this person? Does he matter less than people from other countries? Why put anything in context at all if you're only interested in the most extreme possible case?
> Unless you mean any individual wallet's share of BTC is likely to be less, in which case the odds of losing as much BTC in a single incident is significantly reduced.

Exactly. The only common narrative of these lost BTC is an earlier ignorance by the owner and a rapid increase in price. That is the only reason "millions" get lost. Once prices stabilizes via increased market cap and average BTC/owner is reduced, this narrative stops being prevalent and large scale.
A couple of jobs ago, I probably put in on average 60 hour weeks. But 10 of those hours would be at time-and-a-half, and 10 on double or sometimes triple time. That was a fair arrangement that suited all parties. When did "overtime" become a dirty word?

The job before that, I was one rank below exec. People fought tooth and nail to avoid getting promoted, because they'd lose their overtime...
> Anyone who purchased _anything_ using BTC is kicking themselves right now.

No. I have purchased several things with BTC and I'm not kicking myself.

I have purchased:

Caramels for 8.211 BTC 1½ years ago
Caramels for 0.2977 BTC two weeks ago
A DAC two months ago
A VPS two weeks ago
You are reading way too much into this.
>Just nitpicking here, but it's not really a weaker claim. Either it's the future of dance music, or it's not. The future of dance music is the same for everyone.

Nope. Dance music has what we call "genres" (and target groups).

Nothing will be the future of ALL dance music, except if all people decide to adopt one dance genre.
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It's not a vaporware (unlike Canonical's Edge). It's an actual product in production which is already being sold! Check your facts.
My thoughts exactly. Perhaps we need another poll...
better yet http://i.imgur.com/9Z0edNh.png
So much wrong with this.

"Chargebacks are basically refunds. But they happen before you ship. "

No they can happen at anytime (including past the 120 day point even though that is supposed to be the cutoff time).

"Credit card companies generally cap the amount of chargebacks at 1-2 percent of a company’s total transactions."

No Visa and MC set this and it comes with an AND clause. So you if you sell 100 of something and 1 person charges back - you are not going into a monitoring program.

"If your chargebacks exceed that, they limit your ability to process payments from their cards. Which means you won’t be able to sell online"

Also not true. Even if you have a TMF you can still find banks who will process for you (assuming you are actually a legit company).

"you don’t have to worry about chargebacks shutting you down."

You always have to worry about chargebacks.

"lets you do take orders and avoid chargebacks"

Like any other merchant account? You have nothing special which “avoids” chargebacks.

"There are two other solutions, both of them flawed. "

No. Several solutions to the problem. One option is a $0 auth to the card then try to bill when you are ready to ship. Any merchant account will support this.

"you can take all the payment and order information you need, sidestep chargebacks"

Nothing "sidesteps" chargebacks.
You should really have choices less than 40 hours. e.g. in France anything over 35 hours is considered overtime.
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What we really should be doing is doing away with broken nomenclature.

What does the "length" of a string even mean? A database will tell you it has to do with storage. A nontechnical person will say it's the number of symbols. A visual designer might say that it has to do with onscreen width when rasterized in a particular way. None of these people are obviously right or wrong.

It's very useful to be able to count the number of glyphs in a string, or the number of unicode codepoints, or bytes, or pixels when rasterized in a particular way, but "length" isn't clear enough to unambiguously refer to any of them. Any meaning you try to ascribe to the "length" operation is going to be wrong to someone.
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Thanks :-)

The algorithm is unsupervised, so it doesn't take any labels (i.e., party) into account. A senator is considered to be an anomaly when its 172 votes are too dissimilar from those of all the other senators.
This can be a suckers game... I've been there and I understand the desire but you need to be careful to manage expectations. There will come a time when you can't or don't want to work like that, but you're trapped by your and your employers expectations.

I'm not saying don't do it, just don't do it invisibly.
I understand, but my point is that without government, you wouldn't have any money to pay for your own private security force. You'd be a peasant, serving some strongman. It's not like Mark Zuckerberg would just hire a private security force and drive on private roads. He wouldn't be wealthy to begin with, because he would have nothing valuable to offer in a such a society.
I've personally used his service twice. And besides PayPal's high fees it works as expected. I will happily use his service again.
I was developing a similar online notary. My idea is to timestamp open code, docs etc create a prior case database against patent trolls and goliaths.
> Suddenly the bottom guy gets enough money to live and quits his job at Walmart. Walmart finds out that people are willing to work for double the old salary though($200). So they multiply the price of goods by 2.

That is an extremely naive conclusion. Re-think your argument.
I work 40 hours day job, 15 hours freelance (trying to stop this) .
The articles you cited refute your point.

> It was a period of booming economic prosperity, the roaring '20s, and very high crime

(emphasis mine)

The time period before the Great Depression != the time period during the Great Depression.

The chart provided suggests that there was a sharp increase in homicide rates beginning around 1920, then a slight upward trend toward 1929, and then another sharp increase through the 1930s, towards the beginning of WWII.

Do you have any other examples? I am really skeptical that crime rates went down on the whole during the least economically productive period in the history of the United States.
Where's the I work 45+ hours because I have equity or options?
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> Shouldn't this be a requirement for all patents?

It has to demonstrate utility for all patents; but utility doesn't generally require a working device (even for patents of a "device" type).

Whether it should is an interesting question, but if its clear from the information in the patent and the information generally available outside of it that a practitioner in the field could derive real utility from the described mechanism, I think there's at least a clear argument that actually having a demonstrated device is unnecessary, while with ones whose claims appear to violate physical laws or be of a class where claims have shown to be impossible to reproduce by other practitioners, the demonstration of a working device to demonstrate utility is important.
Where's the option for "I work 40 hours because that's what they pay me more and make it clear what incentives I expect for more."
I prefer artificially unrestricted texts, the best so far is in epub format and to read it on a Kobo Aura or Aura HD reader.

The physical books I still want to own just as decoration for living space and a conversation starter. But to carry around a fat book - no thanks, thats what e-ink readers are for.

The ebook market is not mature yet, most ereaders are too small and offer shitty support for various formats and are too restricted.

The interface on the ereaders can also be improved a lot, for example the Aura HD is showing the book cover when it is sleeping - there should be a setting to let the last read page be shown instead. Flipping pages offers no animation - some people would like that. Fast flipping through a book is also not supported, it is still faster to flip through a physical book than one on ereader. But these are all technical issues that can be solved.
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Well, if the service becomes popular, the OP will find himself sitting on a nice rolling account of cash (the funds that haven't yet been spent or returned to donors), which might be capable of generating interest. I can't imagine that income being appreciable (or entirely legally kosher), but who knows?
They switched to Qt 5 when they had to switch from using ST-Ericsson to Qualcomm and found out that there is no way they can get X.org drivers from them. So they started using libhybris with Android drivers and Wayland on top, and that by default implied Qt 5.
Well, it's much, much easier to have stuff from Mars to Earth than the other way round, because of the following reasons:

1 - Less gravity on Mars -> smaller escape velocity

2 - Mars is in a higher energy level (gravity wise w.r.t the Sun), so Mars to Earth is "falling down", but you need energy to go from Earth to Mars
I don't wish to take it personally but these kind of remarks make me furious. Should I build you something in Django if thats what it takes to show you? because I am sure I will. By getting my head around, I didn't necessarily meant I was too foolish to understand anything but I had my problems. There wasnt any default schema for urls, each route needed a new one, managing database and creating tables required a console based code generator, setting up django with apache required an effort, the abstraction of app vs website was quite peculiar, and some other issues I don't recall. Call it my ignorance, stupidity, daftness that I failed at so basic stuff but thats my side of the story.
I work 35 (Canada), with the occasional longer day if I'm in the middle of something at 5:15, or something blows up. If it's longer than half an hour or so, I bank it and take time off in lieu of overtime the next week or whatever.
I don't see any edit link. Do you know how I do that?
It would be nice if you included some UI for just pasting in a bunch of hashes myself.
You'd find them half-way on the slider.
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Subliminal message perhaps?

Would be chuckle worthy if it was deliberate.
I can't really speak for him but my junior audio engineer buddy liked his job too. It's still a craptastic job that ultimately goes no where. You don't retire from a job like that: you quit, move on and tell people about your glory days down the road when you have a real job.
A bubble will not lead to adoption. As I said it is negative for people actually wanting to use it. If by "use" you mean participate in a pump and dump scheme, well sure. You don't need a cryptocurrency for that, you just need sufficient stupid people with cash to burn.
Political stories are off-topic and should not be posted here. Most of the climate change articles seem to me to be pretty much about people's political beliefs, rather than an inherent interest in climate science or meteorology or something. That's why I flagged them. What other sorts of climate science do you find interesting? I find it odd that so many people are so very "intellectually gratified" by stuff that revolves around the very political "climate change" stuff, but don't seem to care too much for other kinds of more mundane science.

I probably would not have flagged the perl/gnuplot one, I'll grant you that one.

Node.js articles are on topic, even if one or the other happens to be boring. So I would not flag them, even the most uninteresting ones.
Pretty much agreed except maybe 4. If a contract screams crazy deadlines I'm significantly bumping my rate upfront. To me extra hours have steeply increasing marginal cost which is maybe why I got a really good job so that I don't have to grab contracts.
It would be amazing if this were a service. Easier said than done, I know -- but, basically this but have it check a JSON file every few hours and gets the updated selectors.

(For people who don't know, all GMail's classes and IDs are things like '.xb3', and they change often.)

Having worked on Mozilla Add-ons for a long time, one of the biggest problems was by the time any G-Mail add-on was approved, it was already out of date again. API calls, when done correctly, are allowed by both Chrome and Firefox -- this could be a good solution.

(You could easily charge a few bucks for this, and even contact Firefox + Chrome about making sure the reviewers allow it. Market it as "cutting down on their time" since there will be less to review.)
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Calling BitCoin "privatized" misunderstands its nature. While it's true that there are large players invested, crypto-currencies are protocols, and cannot (reliably) be owned or controlled any more than TCP/IP or HTML.

Meanwhile, fiat currency (as we know it) is not merely a tool of state; it is a command-and-control tool of the government-industrial complex, a creation not only of the U.S. tax code, but by massive private banking institutions who steal value from the public through complicated mathematics.

I actually quite like Graeber and his ideas; I think crypto-currencies come closer to fulfilling "an intricate structure of social relationships and spiritual beliefs" than the U.S. dollar ever could.
... said jaxn in the thread about the guy whose home is being foreclosed upon because he lost his credit and mortgage money in a gamble.
I still have a question, when will prices stabilize? Why does an increased market cap imply stable prices?
Because somebody else would just come along and sell bread at a regular cost.
Two thoughts.

1) Will this have legal weight? I know that the whole "prove paternity of an invention by sending a certified letter containing the design through the mail, and not opening it until you need it" thing doesn't very much work, if it goes to court you tend to be told "OK, what you say is true in the physical universe, but you did not go through our blessed channels, so nyah nyah nyah".

2) Anything that makes bitcoins more legitimate / part of the world's infrastructure decreases the chance of bitcoin going away as a system. I think the idea for the bitcoin community is to make the system as a whole "too big to fail" before governments decide that they want to get rid of it.
"After all, no bank or bitcoin-emitter can be as public-minded as a government, and no private power can raise taxes or pass laws to unwind monetary excesses."

I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but this seems like a big point in the authors argument.

Isn't the removal of this flaw baked into bitcoin by it's nature?

" Besides, if bitcoin ever really started to take off, governments would either ban it or take over the system."

Isn't this pretty damn hard as well?
>> >> Exactly wrong: People who have earned money ARE the productive economy.

>> Not when they're getting richer just by sitting on cash they are not. That's not producing anything, any/all productive work they did was in the past.

If they are getting richer just by sitting on cash, it means - by definition - that the economy is increasing in size. If it ever comes to a point where too many people just sit on their savings, then the economy will retract, and all these people will start to lose wealth.

There's a balance in the system: when the economy increases too quickly, it will incentivize people to stop producing (because they can live off their savings), and when the economy starts contracting, it incentivizes people to start producing (because their savings are getting worth less).
Yep. Mind blown.
Looking back for the specific citation, I can't find it. Looking naively to find the source, it seems like it was an estimate (I mean, we know there are meteorites, but the actual frequency and when they landed, and the total amount isn't known exactly).

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.1059v1.pdf
(ignore the part about lithopanspermia. I'm just discussing the facts of the matter, not the crazy speculation part).
The brief explanation of SOS (which starts at the top of the blog post) uses a toy dataset. This toy dataset has 6 data points. Each data point has two features. In other words, we have 6 data points in a 2-dimensional space.

As for the roll call voting data, the dataset has 103 data points, where each data point has 172 features. The outlier probability of a senator depends on the location of its corresponding data point in the 172-dimensional space.
I wonder what the negative externalities of a 4 million pound fine for minor littering would be.
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Is gold issued by governments?
The f suffix has been removed in favour of the existing "foo".freeze (which is now recognized and optimized in the parser)

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-1-0-prev...

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9042
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