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>Another part of what I'm saying is that, if the premise is that current corporations are not sharing enough upside with employees, then one obvious response is to start a business...

That's fine. But, what I'm saying is that's where you're effectively changing the subject. That is, it still doesn't speak to the current treatment of employees at corporations that employ millions of workers right now, and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future. So, why let them off the hook? It just comes off as a disingenuous red herring to suggest that the remedy is for folks to go out and start new businesses. We know that it's extremely difficult for any individual business to succeed for a variety of reasons. Yet, what you're saying is that to remedy this problem, many, many new businesses must do so in significant numbers. I'm an idealist, but that's just not realistic--particularly in the near future.

And, I read at least a tinge of disdain for workers implied in your comments, especially given the current environment that has seen more than its share of Ayn Rand talk and hostility aimed at workers. The sentiment comes off as one of "be happy with what you get, and if you don't like the way you're treated, then start your own business".

>it's not just starting but growing businesses that should be less impeded by regulation

Yeah, I was simply responding to what you'd written re: starting a business, but agreed that regulations pose some hurdle at all phases. I run a business. You're not going to hear me cheer-leading in favor of the current regulatory environment. I don't like it either, but it's not my biggest problem by miles. I'm sure it varies by industry type, and I agree with those that you listed. But, the decrying of regulations has generally been overblown, political buzz-wording in an effort to promote a particular agenda.

So, here we have to distinguish between small businesses and major corporations. When you hear the political-speak decrying regulations it's generally a tactic to use small-businesess as cover for large corporations. "There's too much regulation and it's killing our small businesses", which is cover for "abolish environmental protections, consumer protections, financial market protections, etc. so corporations can realize even more profit".

So, the term "over-regulated" comes fully-loaded. And, that's what makes me wretch.

Where we do intersect is in acknowledgment of the tilted playing field and pay-to-play political environment/markets. Whether it's through manipulation of the regulatory environment, ridiculous subsidies, or any multitude of tools, this obviously hurts the market, workers, and everyone--except of course, those who have the deepest pockets.
My friend, of East European descent (immigrated to the US as a teen), has started a company with a small number of software engineers from his home country. He is US-based and seems to be having success with these engineers building a platform and finding business.

The big win though is that he speaks the language and has direct hired his employees. This could be a catch for you if you are considering working with an outsourcing company. My friend is successful with his hires because he has the intangibles in place - speaking the language, occasional trips back to visit with them, works hard to direct hire (and keep) smart engineers, and he is personally vested in making sure he shares the "spoils" of the business with his employees. He also hacks on the platform, although not as much as in the beginning.

It sounds like you are considering a similar option, so you might be successful. You'll be putting in a lot of time though - frequent conference calls, code reviews, dealing with the occasional bad-fit, etc. In many ways, I think it would be harder than finding someone local to you.
I consider perks as a part of the salary. Let's take an extreme case: free food. If I can eat for free 5 days a weekend, that's a lot of money I don't have to pay!
About time! With so many startups based in Lisbon, it's kind of surprising we didn't do this sooner :)
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"Necessary" might be a hard barrier to get over, but I can think of times when it might be nice. For instance in C# optional parameters must be at the end of the parameter list (that is all required parameters must come before any optional ones).

So for our highly used method we realize that there is actually a reasonable default for the first parameter (maybe because we notice tons of usages of that value). In order to change this from a required to an optional field, we must move it to the back of the list.

Without an automated and safe way to do this, I'm unlikely to make that refactoring, leaving us with a code base that is worse than it could be. Again, is it necessary? No, but if it is trivial my code will get better, if it isn't my code will stay worse.
FWIW, 401(k) and pensions are very different things.
It depends on what kind of project you want the developers in India to get done, combined with the location(city) in India that you are planning to have your team work out of.

If its something like a mobile-first product, it will be better if you can have one of your trusted team-mates, who understands both the product and the aesthetics of your product, sit in India and operate the team: the reason being this team-mate will need to be hands-on with the developers on the product features and also add a lot of value on the aesthetics of the app.

In most cases, the developers in India lack these skills. As long as you are able to address that, you will be good.

The other most important question to ask yourself - are you looking at this team simply to save your development costs (or) are you looking to really collaborate with them and look at them to add value to your product? If its the former, then a lot of brickbats are thrown when the deliverables are getting delayed and you may end up in a bad state and write negative reviews about developers from India. But if you look at the India based team to add a lot of value to your product, then the guys will go any end to deliver the product for you. It becomes a happy ending for everyone. In this case, you wont even mind the 10-12 hour timezone difference.
Why don't you just install the os on the refurbished pcs when you distribute them? Am I missing something? What is the point of the USB stick?
Yeah, Windows has "Force Quit" baked into their regular shutdown process now - if any program is blocking the shutdown for more than a second or three, the user will get the option to kill everything. Under windows, there is now no excuse not to properly handle a forced abrupt termination, because the layman users will do it.
> Why in the world would I pay these regulators? It's an extra cost and their service is provided even if I don't pay because somebody else will pay for it.

You pay your taxes, don't you? Why wouldn't you pay private firms instead to do the same job more effectively? And then, of course, it's easy to imagine that such a regulator would only provide information to paying customers using a smartphone app, for example.

> How do we know the regulators aren't influenced by whichever of the protection firms they buy from?

How do you know your government regulator is not in bed with the company it regulates? In fact, you don't and in fact most of them are. You can only elect government officials (and not regulating agencies themselves) and then they stay in power for n years almost indefinitely.

On the free market, there's competition of regulators. If I suspect one regulator takes bribes, I switch to another. Or maybe I subscribe to both and compare their info. Or alternatively, if I saw they were all in bed with consumer businesses, I'd stop paying them completely, as would many people, and that means they'd go out of business.

> If people are apathetic about the property rights of their neighbour what right does the government have to step in and stop them taking that property?

This one I didn't understand. In fact your last paragraph looks very odd and I don't understand how you came to imagine such a scenario. One thing I can tell you is that the poor will be able to afford protection agencies, just like they can afford owning a car or a pair of jeans or a computer. A protection agency doesn't have to be expensive to be profitable and it doesn't mean having personal body guards. There are various segments on that market and each can be covered. The crucial difference is that the poor will now be customers of the protection agency, whereas in the current system, I guess you're not going to argue, it is the poor who most often become victims of police brutality and injustice - the reason is, they're not customers, the police and the judges will be paid indefinitely and they know it.
That changed long ago. All the google is doing last two years is stopping projects, removing features and replacing acceptable GUIs by less practical ones.
Quite a few of the past large political shifts were due to betrayal and spies, effectively also making months of work undone instantly. The current one was due to a bug or due to a player making a mistake. I don't think players cater all that much for the difference, and we'll likely never know which one it was.
Why not also release to CPAN? It would make managing the dependencies easier for those not installing the packages from homebrew/apt.
That's mean, but I laughed. Sorry op.
I am not a Facebook app user since closed my account years ago so maybe not the best person to comment but... I have never understood why one needs an app to view a website? Facebook has a mobile site that works yes?
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Remote execution holes in the scrollbar code? How about if they fix series security issues promptly without simultaneously breaking basic UI elements?
Monzy should keep making music. I want new tracks!
From the POV of a court, bits are coloured [0]. Just because two links are exactly equal, it does not mean that either both of them infringe or both don't.

[0] http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
For anyone looking for their place in the universe; how I found mine.
That is quite interesting.

Any idea why?
Crazy! ;)
This sort of thing has been happening in the U.S. probably ever since there has been a U.S. At common law, the waters of the state were held in trust by the state for the public, and the beach between the water and high tide line were part of this trust. People were held to have a right to access and use this public property for purposes like fishing, bathing, cleaning clothes, etc. This concept dates back to Roman times. There is an amusing case in 1892, where the Supreme Court reversed a sale by the City of Chicago of the submerged land along the shore of Lake Michigan to a railroad company, holding that the transfer was invalid because the public trust land could not be alienated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Central_Railroad_v._Il....

Because this concept is well-entrenched, rich people, have resorted to buying up the land adjacent to the public beaches and cutting off access that way. Some states have responded by requiring private property owners adjacent to beaches to provide reasonable access to the public through their property. This particular conflict isn't any different than conflicts that are happening all over the country over beach access. Incidentally, it's quite amusing to me to watch Silicon Valley techies' sense of "but no, really, we're different!" idealism slowly come crashing down as they realize that there is nothing new under the sun. "Rich guy tries to block beach access" wouldn't even elicit a reaction from a Floridian.
That's not what "high-risk" means in this context.
It's because he knows he can turn around and sell it to a rich international buyer for double if he can market it as having an effectively private California beach. That's all there is to it.
Yes, but the only reason you need a license is because copyright law prevents you from copying the work without one. Without copyright, you don't need to subscribe to any license or contract to copy and redistribute the work.
Well, if you need more precision than singles provide, then yeah, use doubles. The question was, "why use doubles when singles are okay?"
Poll: What is your employment status?
interested in learning about HN demographics in terms of employment status.
Full-time employed
Part-time employed (not self employed but on employer's payroll)
Self-employed / freelancer
Not employed currently
To be fair, they also work pretty hard at collecting your personal information.
If you want to fly a titan, you can do it within two years (or less) if you are smart about it.

Now THAT'S a commitment!
29th november 2013, journalists (along with everyone else) get beaten brutally by storm troopers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE6wBzLgEH8

more recently, men in plain clothes with white armbands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrl6Uw--nYc

Would you like to know more? There's more. But I guess you could always say that there is no context, or that these are just isolated incidents not sanctioned from above, so I'm not sure if I should bother posting more. But I have been following this for like a week, reading and watching a lot, and I would say the situation is actually worse than many people in the west are aware of.

And now, for something completely different! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGaQ5BDNouM
This is pretty interesting as I've heard that early on, the trend was towards building electric vehicles. With the rise of Tesla, perhaps the day of electric car is not far off. Come to think of it 49 miles on a charge is not too shabby for a 115 year old car. I can only wonder how much technological advances we could have had in battery technology if cars had gone electric rather than ICEs.
The government should be able to sue to get an easement to the beach. Easements are not a new or exotic thing by any meabs.
I submit as evidence 99.44% of software that has been released that programmers are, in fact, idiots.
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I reject copyright because I believe users should be able to modify their software and redistribute their improvements. Open source licenses are a tool I employ to give more users that right, not an end in themselves.
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Not caring about being backwards compatible is perfectly fine choice.

Not caring about having reliable guides for updating between versions (which include keeping information around for upgrade between outdated versions. These needed be updated, but they should still be possible to find for people that use old versions) is less ok. The situation tend to be decent if one upgrades between current versions, but that information needs to be kept, which isn't the case today. It is fine not to update them, but they still must be possible to find.
As the law stands it looks like it is illegal (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html section 3 subsection D [or search for link]). It looks like the linker is only protected if they don't have knowledge that the link is infringement and doesn't receive any financial benefit from the action.
Ask HN: How to handle taxes on a larger freelance contract
A friend of mine recently landed me an opportunity to earn some side cash developing an application and a few small website overhauls. I have been programming for almost ten years now and when I was younger I worked with some small businesses on freelance contracts. Back then, they were people that I knew and I didn't worry too much about taxes because the amount I got was minimal. Now though, I'm in a position where I will be earning a good amount of money from these and I wanted to be sure that I was doing this right in terms of taxes and other things I may overlook when accepting money for work.

Could anyone give me some pointers on how to handle this contract properly so I won't have to worry about this at the end of the year?
I am currently self-employed even though I contract at a Fortune 100 company. I contract through my company (S-corp) and run my own payroll, accounting etc.
The books are good though. Hopefully someday somebody will have the stomach to film Altered Carbon.
That's a big "if". Big enough to be implausible - even nuclear missiles were sitting in the silos for years with launch code set to "000000"; what makes you think that hotels will care more about their security? See e.g. this: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/hotel_door_lo...

Moreover, the electronic mechanism pretty much never opens the lock: it activates a relay, which opens ... drum roll ... the physical lock. So the old, mechanical lock vulnerabilities are preserved, and new electronic ones added on top. What could posibly go wrong?
What working zombie are you?
The Wakelock allows the app to wake up when your phone is asleep. My twitter client wants one, but I have notifications turned off. It might be that because I have them turned off it doesn't invoke a Wakelock. But it might. Basically, Wakelocks are the #1 cause of unnecessary battery drain.
If a company is paying for the servers, they may have a claim for the after hours side projects of their employees. Depends on specific situation obviously.

Better to pay for your own servers. My $.02.
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An opposition to "test everything" is to play telecom signal to noise ratio type games. And error rates. So attempting a 1 part in 2 ^ 64 implies your memory access error rates and disk error rates are already far under 1 in 2 ^ 64 which is quite expensive. There are of course solutions to those problems, but they may be more expensive and complicated than you want.

With non-ECC memory and a simplistic brute force algo it doesn't make much sense to talk about doing 2^64 tests because any errors will swamp the memory errors that will be detected. Depending on who's numbers you select (1e-10? 1e-15?) to get the predetermined result you want (LOL)

At 1 in 2 ^ 32 range its commodity desktop hardware time. To pull off 1 in 2 ^ 64 hardware error rates is way harder.
> There has to be something about space that makes people toss money at videogames.

Which is a damn travesty when people won't throw money at space in real-life. Other than a few huge backers (Musk, Branson) that have loads of money to hinge on this stuff, no one seems to care or pay attention.
> And that spiky-haired mascot...

"Keepod" means "porcupine" in Hebrew, hence the mascot. The narrator even pronounces it correctly in the video.
My advice to everyone: if an altcoin pops up, mine it for a day or two. Place the funds in a private wallet. Backup the wallet on a USB key and two hard drives. Do not access it for 2-3 years. Early on, farming a block takes no effort at all. Later on, if the altcoin succeeds, you hit a random lotto. Otherwise, you have a few encrypted wallets and probably wasted 15 minutes setting up the miner per altcoin. Be wary of the altcoins.
The maps were very oversimplified too. It's too bad this story is being under-reported. I think it's more than a "Red and blue states with different languages" situation. It could be a civil war, or national split, no?
>> How could they make such a bad product design decision?

Maybe they made the decision so you can't take them off. If people realise they can't ask you to take them off or you won't be able to see, they may not say anything and it will normalise the use of Glass in situations people are currently uncomfortable with it.
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Full-timed employed and self-employed. I have a day job and a startup I'm working on bootstrapping.
That's weird.

- Ukraine needed to adapt their laws to EU standards before signing the association with EU.

- Pro-EU protesters fight against these laws.

I'm lost here.
Add to that six missing and many jailed: http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-dead-missing-jailed/252...
Ask HN: Should I continue with my bootstrapped startup?
I launched BugMuncher (http://bugmuncher.com) a couple of years ago when Google + launched. Some people on HN seemed more interested in G+'s feedback tool than G+ itself, they wanted this tool for their own website. BugMuncher was based on G+'s feedback tool.

I've put a lot of time into BugMuncher, going from MVP to full app, but I'm only making $200 / month. I fear people are impressed when they first see BugMuncher, but no one needs this tool. I dogfood BugMuncher with my own users, even they don't use it much.

I think it could have more use for reporting cross browser issues, but all screenshots are created with webkit, so it's pretty useless for that. I've looked into using VM's to create screenshots for different browsers, the only service that would work is crossbrowsertesting.com, but they're prohibitively expensive. I'd either have to put my prices up a lot, or cut the monthly report limit by 70%

Which brings me to my only competitor, Usersnap - https://usersnap.com. They launched after me, but got VC funding, and use VM's to take screenshots in the same browser/OS as the user. Based on their pricing and report limit, I think they use crossbrowsertesting.com for screenshots, and the last time they posted a show HN, people complained 50 reports is not enough for $19 / month.

I'm now wondering if BugMuncher will ever be my full time job, I've got other things I'd like to work on, and I'm doing well freelancing. I don't feel like I have time for BugMuncher unless it can bring the majority of my income.

- Would you use BugMuncher as it is now (webkit screenshots)?
- If not, would you use it if I used VMs to take screenshots with the correct browser, if so, would you want higher prices or lower limits?
- Should I consider funding?
- Should I stop, and sell BugMuncher or open source it?
Set us straight then; expand your responses with your own knowledge of primary sources.

Enlighten us.
I know, I know I sound like a dick here, but I think this is one of those cases where his being born and raised in India is a contributing factor. Indian culture is vastly different than ours, including a very high "power distance" measurement compared to typical Western nations.

In India, if you're rich (or even middle class), you have servants and you do what you want. In his view, this is his, and he doesn't have to share it with the lesser people.

Sure, many people born in America would do this too, but they would possibly feel a bit more guilty about it.
Mostly Firepad, which is an adapter for CodeMirror that uses Firebase to add real-time collaborative text editing to it: http://www.firepad.io/

We are using ACE, not CodeMirror, so I added another adapter to hook Firepad up to ACE: http://ace.c9.io/

We also use Firebase to sync the wizard presence, position, chat, and game script state.
I see, thanks. That's what I thought, but I thought that apps rely on push to get notifications. I guess that would not be very scalable, so the client wakes up once every X hours and polls.
> One problem is that Google can see my original messages, and the NSA can probably see them too. If I wanted to avoid it, I could post some anonymous translation jobs and pay the translaters via Bitcoin.

Wouldn't this then make it almost trivial for Google or the NSA to find you with textual analysis by matching what is pasted in translate with any other writing sample you've done? So the OP isn't really concerned about anonymity from Google or NSA at all... amiright?
When it comes to recommending people to EVE, the following rule of thumb has been effective: If you enjoyed playing Dwarf Fortress, you'll like EVE Online.

@That one other guy: When most people want to fly a titan, they don't bother training a character and just buy a titan pilot on the sanctioned character trading forum, so training time is rarely an issue for experienced pilots.
And record audio and video? Are they insane? Who the fuck would agree to this?
Additionally all those safety mechanisms can be turned off for performance, but only on the exact spot where it really matters, instead of being scattered all around the code.