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ZenPayroll is hiring – join an early-stage team on a mission
ABOUT US:

+ We're building the future of payroll. If you love solving foundational problems that affect millions of people, we'd love to talk with you. You’ll be an early member of the team with significant responsibility and equity stake.

+ Payroll is complex and there are tough engineering challenges to be tackled. We move tens of millions of dollars every month. Payroll is business critical and must always be correct. Business owners and their employees depend on us to receive their pay. We strive for 100% test coverage, and every commit is code reviewed by another developer on the team. We all hold each other to rigorous standards and we’ve all become better developers because of it. Learn more about our engineering culture:http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/

+ We raised a $6.1M seed round last year and are funded by the CEOs of Yelp, Dropbox, Yammer, Box, Parse, and others, as well as Google Ventures, Salesforce and Y-Combinator. Full list at www.zenpayroll.com/investors.

+ Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have had two prior exits. We’re in this for the long haul and are committed to building ZenPayroll into a truly significant company that we’re proud of.

THINGS WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

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

+ Interest in using a test driven and code review development process.

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

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

PERKS:

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

+ Housing stipend if you live near the office, delicious and healthy food and snacks, company retreats, gym/sports club stipend, dream work set-up, and more -- including copious espressos brewed by one of our co-founders. People are the foundation of our company and we make sure they know they're valued. Full list of perks at www.zenpayroll.com/careers

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

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

We’re located in SoMa, San Francisco, CA and you must be local or willing to relocate (we'll cover the cost).
The code is commented well enough to give a good idea of what is going on.
Maybe you have a huge library, or maybe some other problems. Either way, I'm not experiencing beach balling so much (except when connecting devices to sync them) and I use iTunes exclusively as my audio player.
I think the market for HTML templates is on the rise. Is anyone else seeing that?
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In the UK politicians seem to try avoiding using the word class altogether.
I do the same thing, but I ask upfront in the interview instead of spontaneously quitting the job after the fact.
The phone isn't carrier locked, you can buy it online and then put any SIM inside it.
Maybe people just put time into their appearance? It's amazing how far a good diet, good sleep, exercise, and some grooming can go.
Yeah, but it's been well documented for many, many years:

http://www.mega.nu/cm/cm1.html

This site lists articles going back to 1982 about the NSA domestic spying programs. A whois lookup on the site puts the information on the site around 1997. It's fascinating to me people seemed to have no idea, yet the information had been out there for years and years.

I liken it to Jose Canseco. For so many years he was telling people guys in the MLB were all juicing. He got blacklisted and people hazed the crap out of him for the mere suggestion. A few years after his book came out, every player he named was confirmed as a steroid user.

Pretty much the same thing in my mind. . .
Just another BS title for the people working on the DSM, and a doctor to extend his legacy by creating a catchy, all-encompassing term that stands to plague the world for decades.

You're not ADD, you're all-wound-up because your sitting in a chair for 8 hours a day only to come home and do homework for another hour, sit down and eat for another hour, shower, hygiene, etc for another hour, then finally bed. Nowadays kids spend probably a minimum of 12 hours doing sedentary work. Now combine that time spent sitting with a diet high in sugar, caffeine, and artificial food...

OF COURSE YOU HAVE BUILT UP ENERGY.

The recent work of Doctors(mostly Psychiatrists) is absolutely ridiculous and the people producing the fodder for mass hysteria (ADHD, ADD, Schizo, etc,) need to be held accountable for the mis-diagnosis they've created in the society(not to mention the lawsuits they're going to be facing when in 10 years we find out that the reason for all of these new mass-diseases are these new mass-drugs))

The ONLY classification of "addiction" should be to things that have TRULY addicting chemical qualities that can be proven in simple placebo A/B testing.
All OTHER work is worthless because in the human mind, anything is liable to become "addictive". I can become addicted to carrots, that doesn't make carrots "addictive"(chemically) and doesn't necessarily warrant a doctor prescribing me with loads of drugs or classifying me inside of some kind of medical label for the DSM.

The only reason sugar is treated any different is because the potential fame and money. Not the mention the likelihood nowadays that the study was funded by the same corporation that stands to benefit from the results.

* I can only hope that my generation is the one that stands to really study how powerful the mind and the body are, rather than today's generation of simply patching the problem with a bandaid called Adderall.
Sure. Let's remember that Lustig's goal is to actually ban substances which he says are causing MASSIVE HARM to people.

First, the conclusion that it's detriment is admitted by the authors as being uncertain "some data suggest it may".

Second, most people in the area would say that in the absence of data showing harm, one should not conclude
something is harmful, and then take action.

Third, let's turn their argument around. They state: "in the absence of evidence, use professional judgment. If something has no use, it should be avoided." OK. If that's their professional judgement, then to be fair it should apply to everything in their demesne, right? AKA, if there is somethign which is not absolutely necessary, and might be detrimental, these authors would say to avoid it entirely.

However, sugar makes food more palatable. So there are patients who don't want to eat food (cancer patients on chemo) but if the food is more palatable they eat it. Even sometimes getting kids to eat food is hard- shall I not add salt, or sugar if it gets them to eat a meal? Taken to its logical conclusion, their suggestion would shut down nearly all free choices that we make which have marginal risk concerns.
SF's bus protests and the Affordable Housing Mythology
It still makes no sense to me why, on the Mac, everything is glommed into a single app. For years I've been hoping that Apple breaks it apart into separate music, video, app store, and device syncing/management apps. Why should I be locked out of playing music or a video just because I'm restoring my iPod, and iTunes decides that it wants to present a modal progress bar until it's done?
You're right; I had forgotten about TFS.
Designing iPhone Apps — How To Set Up Photoshop (For Developers)
I wasnt sure about the pricing advantage, some would say we get one for iPhones in the US but others say we are paying for it by getting locked into 2 year contracts.
I get a kick out of the genre names. My wife and I both use the same account, and each rate movies ourselves. Whenever something comes out of left field, we say, "Look at your movies..."

I wonder if Netflix can tell if multiple people are rating movies. Does it think we are one confused person, or two distinct personalities?
You should try todoist - www.todoist.com. Todoist really is the best to-do list manager.
Did you buy on the exchange? In GA, the exchange has different options than e.g. eHealthInsurance.com.
lol you mean this isn't the same guy? http://www.blacktie.co/2013/11/small-dribbble-portfolio-them...
Looks handy, thanks!
$50k is median per-household, not mean per person.
I feel like the TV thing is such a thorny situation. TV is a cartel run by media companies and I think they already saw how Apple turned the Music Industry on it's head. These media companies are trying to hold onto the last bastion of hope that makes them relevant: Live sports. Without that, I feel like a physical TV or set-top TV box won't really be able to really compete with what you get with cable.
Thank you, yes, it's not so much finding the code I need to modify that's the problem, as understanding how any given single thing fits into the Emacs C source as a whole. Hacking the Lisp side I don't really have a problem with -- but if I want to, for example, extend the MESSAGE primitive so that it can check a list of messages not to emit in the minibuffer, things get very hairy, very fast. A general overview of what's what, and where, in the C source, would be extremely useful, and I haven't had much luck finding anything like that in the source distribution or online. (And, yes, I have read etc/CONTRIBUTE, etc/DEBUG, and (Info)Elisp/GNU Emacs Internals/*. And I'm pretty sure doing what I'm talking about doing to MESSAGE would be a bad idea, because it'd require a call up into Lisp space every time the primitive gets called, which can be extremely frequent especially during initialization. But I know somebody who'd like to have that functionality available, and it seemed like a relatively simple place to start, until I tried actually doing it.)
Thanks, this is starting to make a lot of sense now, much appreciated!
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After more than 5 years I am currently on 16 day break where I just stay and do nothing but benchpresses and deadlifts. The refreshment is amazing. Sometimes you just need to relax a bit.

I am getting to the point of feeling bored and longing to get back to work. Awesome feeling.
The alacrity surrounding mimicry cryptocurrency never fails to amaze me.
Chalk me up as a user for whom Messages seems to function as advertised. Most people don't take to the air to shout about how something as mundane as text messaging works fine for them.
Its kind of amazing that just 2 years ago iTunes was one of my most used apps, and today its not even in my dock anymore. The combination of the horrible design/implementation you describe alongside the conceptually poorer model as compared to spotify means I literally never use it.
I thought this was FINALLY going to be an article on how coddled developers and entrepreneurs are.

I was disappointed.
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This project is based on the Dust polymorphic protocol engine: https://github.com/blanu/Dust

A talk the developer did at Defcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z56andRyCY
You can get more practical information by reading the wikipedia page on distributed computing. There's many different models of distributed systems that this ebook doesn't touch on. For example, several of the systems i'm familiar with don't require consensus, consistency or time ordering (or they're resolved based on certain assumptions about the model, data, application, etc)
Shopify is not American.
Many companies have vacation and sick leave the same. You can be sick, but vacation less, or vice-versa. If you're predisposed with a weak immune system and need a lot of sick leave during the year, well, sucks to be you at those companies.
Right. The reason I made my comment was because you said "which while built of GNU/Linux pieces" referring to Android, which doesn't make sense.
Sorry, I edited coin #999 to be the biased coin.
Nitpick here, but Shopify is a Canadian company.

I do agree they should support chip payments as most payment processors in Canada use them.
I've done the same as byoung2 here.

He's simply asking the new company for an exception to the normal vacation rule. Instead of waiting until the days are all accrued, he wants to use them ahead of time.

If the new hire is a great match and the company is eager to have them on board, allowing him to virtually start a few weeks later than planned isn't that big of a problem. Or if he disappears for 3 weeks a little while after he's started, so be it.

You can ask for (and receive) a hell of a lot more out of a new employer before your start date than you can after it.
Exactly my thoughts when reading these comments. I'm in my first year in employment after graduating from University, and I get 27.5 days holiday a year...if you don't take it you get in trouble with HR (although I can carry 5 days over to next year with prior agreement).

I can also buy more days if I wanted to, my manager does for example so he can spend more time on his sailing hobby.
2013 Was a Terrible Year for Evolution
Yes indeed: two different metals in electrical contact through an electrolyte solution (sea water). One way to stop this is to use a sacrificial anode (where the oxidation occurs) made of Magnesium, although this would probably be unpractical in salt water. A colorful answer would be to replace the water with a fluid like 3M's Fluorinert and replace the air with a nitrogen atmosphere. But that would also be unpractical.
This is great. A real alternative to surveillance tainted iOS and Android.

In addition to this, there's a new Firefox OS phone coming soon (I hope).

http://www.geeksphone.com/revolution/
"They are three people who used to show up to run TGIF all the time. "
> If I leave my apartment door unlocked

Oh god, this again
I just knew some shallow oaf was going to take his finger out of his nose long enough to pick on my having included a stolen television in my example. True, no theft of a physical object occurs. But one would have to be either deliberately obtuse or abjectly stupid to ignore the legal commonality I used that example to demonstrate.
In the sense you mean, health care is most certainly still tied to employment. The individual mandate will not accomplish having everyone in the same risk pool--not even close. It's a tiny, trivial, and nearly insignificant step toward making people less dependent on their boss for their health.
It's not the same thing. That only stores the latest revision. You can't easily go back in history and check out earlier revisions of the large files. You can in hg.
ECommerce trends from 2013 to 2014
Great question! Yes, there are a few locks that have hollow pins that the springs rest in. Typically they do that for space constraints, though, rather than to improve alignment.

There's a great example whos name is escaping me at the moment...its a South American company. Anyway, they have a lock with two rows of pins, one normally aligned and the other coming in from the side. However, there isn't as much room horizontally (you'll notice most plugs are located toward the bottom of the housing, yet centered horizontally) so they use the encapsulating pins to make up for the lost space.

That's one of the most interesting challenges in lock engineering, actually. There are a handful of standard formats for locks around the world, and whatever you build needs to fit within those agreed-upon (and very compact) formats, or you won't enjoy wide adoption of your concept.
Polyphasic and Biphasic Sleep
I've learned that the big thing that makes something a non-profit (aside from legality) is they have to disburse their profits. The NYSE was a non-profit until they found legal way to sell themselves. (This is rare - it's actually difficult for non-profits to sell themselves. That's one downside)
I see the children are home from school. Did you have an argument to make?
I am from the US and when I hear fast food workers being referred to as middle class it always surprises me. Can you really afford to rent or buy a house, or buy a relatively new car, or pay on any substantial debt with the income from KFC? I guess more importantly do we really expect that someone should be able to? Should even the lowest paying of jobs be enough to do such things? I know as a kid working a minimum wage job I never expected that I should be able afford more than gas, snacks, and games until I had a "real job". I am curious if our economy could even afford to provide a "living wage" for virtually all jobs.
Why do people say this is irrelevant? Clearly the small population needs to be taken into consideration, but it is still an interesting point, and could be a sign of things to come or not. Since we all like to be prepared, I think it is something of interest to us here.
Here's a tip that a lot of people don't realize. When negotiating salary, quite often you if they won't give you what you want in pay, you can probably squeeze an additional week or two time off. Esp. if they are trying to head-hunt you from somewhere else, and if you've been working for a number of years/decades.
> Maybe people just put time into their appearance?

Impossible.

> It's amazing how far a good diet, good sleep, exercise, and some grooming can do.

It's a slippery slope, though. You start with that crap and, before you know it, you're doing flat-out irrational things like getting dressed and brushing your teeth. I shudder at the thought!
This is super interesting to me. Do you have anything that you can share along these lines?
I like that attitude, but not everyone can afford to follow through and actually quit, that's part of the big problem, most people have relatively little leverage and can't afford to "take" leverage.
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I have a lot of sympathy for the individuals involved. One question... Does an insurance market exist for student loan paybacks? If not, perhaps it's time.

If the market doesn't exist (or can't exist) and we have sympathy for people who can't pay their loans back then we have to accept higher interest rates in returns. By having such strict laws on paying loans back, people with poor credit ratings through no fault of their own can get student loans.

Of course it would be great if people didn't need to go so far in debt to pay for school, but that's another story.
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Before Google it was Microsoft. Before Microsoft it was IBM.
Yes, Stalin killed people of all backgrounds. But so-called reactionary nationalities were specifically targeted for NKVD operations. For example, the NKVD would round up people with Polish-sounding names from telephone books during the Great Purge. Entire peoples were deported to Central Asia—you can't deny an ethnic dimension to his Terror.

Whatever Stalin's initial intentions were for the Doctors' Plot case, it ended up taking on a clearly antisemitic character, with the media hyping up the threat of Zionism. We may note that while Khrushchev denounced the Doctors' Plot as having been fabricated by Stalin, he didn't denounce the antisemitic rhetoric.
I suggest that most Android phones don't run Android apps without significant problems, since most Android phones are cheap devices with bad screens, low memory and slow processors. And most developers instead have the latest and greatest.

Most Android phones are not Samsung 4 or HTC one.
Do you use messages across several devices? And do you have group chats?

If I use Messages just on my iPhone, it works just fine. However, when I use it between 2 macs, an iPhone, and an iPad, it just breaks.

Sure, it's an edge case use - most people use messages just on their phone - but it's a pretty basic feature.
All of my beverages are currently sitting chilled in the fridge, but I'll install it now and next time I need them chilled fast I'll try your app out.

*Edit: I just ran through the options and I think it's great that your app just does what it says it will do. No fancy graphics everywhere, just raw information.

The settings button seems a little out of place. You currently only have the option for Farenheit and Celsius on that screen. Why not just put those options right on the main screen? Seems like a few extra touches for no reason.
Without using Mailbox, by name that's not surprising. The other 3 are a surprise.
Because it takes forever. Front door locks are admittedly not so strong, but it could still take a good pick-lock several minutes, while a window could be broken through in seconds. As for being stealthier… Windows can be cut stealthily, and crouching by a door for five minutes looks rather suspicious by itself.
Because the EMV regulations surrounding taking chip-and-pin payments are a real headache. Taking swipe payments is much more straight forward.
Just Do It, Even If You Suck
> * conceptually poorer model as compared to spotify*

What, you mean the model where you actually own your music, and artists make money when you buy more? As opposed to Spotify where you own nothing and artists make no money?
Can any physicists comment on the article?
You don't have to quit the next day. It's indicative of a poor working environment, and means it's time to start looking for a new job.
That doesn't help people who get coverage through an employer though. Sure, maybe they can go buy coverage once they leave their employment, but then they have to get rid of it again once they get another job. What would be nice is if employers would give you the cash in lieu of your benefits, but I've never heard of that being an option.
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Have you tried their multiple profiles feature? https://movies.netflix.com/EditProfiles
OpenSSL site defacement involving hypervisor hack rattles nerves
Yes, and expecting that no one will try my doorknob to see if I forgot to lock it is relying on security by obscurity, and if someone exploits my having forgotten to lock my door, both the exploit, and whatever harm comes to me by it, are entirely my own fault and no one else is liable.
In America, the majority of the country self-identifies as middle-class, and in conversation and political rhetoric we basically use it as a synonym for "normal people." Not that the UK is wrong, but I think our usage matches the name a bit better. Doctor/lawyer-type professions are a bit exclusive to call them the middle.

If someone is trying to pull statistics, "middle class" is defined by income to usually be either the middle 3 quintiles (60%) of the population, or an income between $25k-ish and $200k-ish. Doctors, Lawyers, etc. are usually on the top end of that range, and called upper-middle class.
It's all an Idiot Litmus Test.

There are a lot of people who will not get behind Bitcoin for one reason or another (they cannot be bothered to research it, cannot understand it, or just don't buy into the idea), but every Joe Jackass salivates over the prospect of essentially creating money on their PC. They don't have to understand it, they don't even have to care at all about what it is, what it means, what it stands for, its technical merit - all they have to hear is "with Xcoin, you can be a successful miner too!", and that's all that it takes.

It's a gold rush.
In fact, key blanks and stampers can be purchased online.
Could they be thinking of something even bolder than vending machines? Something like RFID on steroids?
Supply and demand. If there are an over-abundant supply of workers, then wages should tend to lower over time.
That makes sense. I've never dealt with odds as a fraction before.
Yep, to the first one. No, to the second one.

Works fine for me across the board. My only issue with it is how it's eating ~2gbs of disk space on my phone for attachments. I haven't figured out a way to get rid of it without going through and purging all my messages or formatting my phone.