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You won't believe which company I'll never apply to work for in 2014.
You're wrong because the rules that apply in U.S. courts are not the rules the apply to U.S. government actions everywhere in the world. Courts are basically domestic institutions, by Constitutional design. The Framers intentionally did not give the judiciary a role in foreign affairs like they did for Congress and the President. Judging whether military killings abroad are "legal" would intrinsically involve the courts impinging on a domain reserved for the president and congress.

The only thing limiting what the U.S. can do abroad are treatises. However, there is an exception: Americans carry their Constitutional rights abroad by virtue of their citizenship. Generally, the U.S. government cannot kill am American abroad without due process because the citizenship link gives U.S. courts the necessay jurisdiction to enforce those rights.
The article boils down to

1) Kiva spends to much money on marketing and is therefor inefficient.
2) Kiva gets to much media attention.
3) Kiva are attracting more than their share of micro-investors.
4) Kiva does not export Western cultural values.

Regarding number 4, I think individual investors should decided what and what not to fund. I find cock/dog-fighting to be inhumane, but I enjoy hunting, many people would say hunting is inhumane and immoral and a smaller group would go as far to say "eating meat is murder". What about businesses using malnourished horses to transport goods? Should Kiva not fund anything animal related?

As far as only funding legal organizations. I am sure Kiva does not fund narcotic production or gun running. But how can they possibly be sure all businesses they fund are 100% legal, complying with all health, zoning, retail, licensing etc. laws of the local county/state/country?
Might as well add a few names: @danielpunkass, @nicklockwood, @vadimshpakovski, @Padraig, @soffes, @corydmc, and all the CocoaPods people: @alloy, @orta, @hanke, @micheletitolo, @kylefuller
What the article completely misses is that cost of bad hire is just as high for the employee as it is for the company.

Particularly fire "fast" option, for the employees next job it raises uncomfortable questions of why. So the goal is to not hire bad people. If you did hire a person, own it up and provide them with close performance feedback. Fire people if you have to, but not before they had at least few chances to improve their behavior and were clearly communicated as to what is going to happen if they do not.
Running a huge charity foundation seems to be a good start.
It's supposed to be kind of stupid. The guy used to write sketches for Demetri Martin's show to give you a sense of his comedy style. If you don't think it's funny, that's fine, but it's not supposed to be "anti-establishment" or anything of the like.
Lol. I'm sure op is only bad hire there.
This is a great rebranding
Don't be someone this person doesn't like! With such stringent criteria as "uncomfortable feelings" and avoiding provoking random feelings of "buyer's remorse", I can't wait to submit an application to UberFlop's house of wildly swinging emotions. Every new hire gets a crystal ball to divine this persons emotions and a mood ring to make sure to only think happy thoughts. Are these adults we're talking about here? Holy fuck.
So if your new employee doesn't give you warm fuzzies- let them go fast? There are lots of great talent that is neither an anti-social asshole, nor a social butterfly; there has to be a some minimal time to "get to know" the new guy. It sounds like this guys is hiring for a frat-house.

Also, Warning signs- Randy mentions "9-5" and "as they say goodbye at what you may not deem not a legitimate end of the day."

I don't think I would want to work for Randy- Maybe this is just my impression and not the case here, but if you think being a startup is an excuse for regularly expecting employees to work more than 8 working hours a day then you are deluded, taking advantage of your employees and hurting them. I would not let my employees work more than 50 hrs/week even if they begged.

Side thought: Everyone in the valley mentions 9-5 as "standard working hours", but a standard work day is 8 hours. So assuming a 1 hr lunch that is 7-4/8-5/9-6... Where I grew up in the upper midwest, there everyone used the term 8-5...
I'd caution against anyone from applying anything from this article as a universal truth.

For Example:

Changing Jobs every 6 months - The economy has been shit for 5 years - and unless you have spent your whole career in the Bay Area - you're likely to have been job hopping from contract to contract.

Commute - again, this is highly tied to which market you're in. An hour away in Seattle is a doable commute - its either 30 miles (if going to Seattle) or up to 60 miles (if heading away).

Followup to Interview - I used to do this - but after getting no reply 90% of the time, I stopped. I now only do this if I'm really, really interested. Typically something that makes me really interested is a great resume builder, salary or benefits - I try not to apply for jobs that I don't find interesting from a technology level.

On a personal note:
Lack of personalized cover letter - I've been in the position where applying for work was more like an assembly line - How personalized should it be? I have a form letter I modify light for each job I apply for - I'd be leery of any employer that expects me to write an essay of ball gargling - The cover letter IMO should exclaim my strengths to the job - not why I want to work for you - I want to work for you, because the work sounds interesting, and for one reason or another, I'm in a the market for a job.

The Good - Listen to your intuition - I think this is great advice - but only listen when its screaming - not just when you meet someone different then you. A warning, intuition is how you judge that 'fit to culture' - If your intuition says too many people are off - the problem isn't the candidates, its your culture.
> As for people
berating hardcores versus casuals,
that's largely an in-joke.

I am under the impression that a sizable group of people on the internet regularly gets legitimately angry about any given video game issue. Why would this be different? I remember people being genuinely upset with Nintendo's "betrayal of its fans" with the Wii.
I sure hope that's not what he meant by "not a legimate end of the day".
I think it's intended to be the minimal parody required for legal parody status.
You're wrong because of Reid vs Covert in 1957. The US government is still constrained by the constitution when acting against US citizens outside of US borders.

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1950-1959/1955/1955_701_2
Assassinations and extrajudicial killings go against both US and international law. We shouldn't be killing anyone with drone attacks without Congress first declaring war. It's a serious matter to deprive anyone of their life or liberty. That's why the US constitution made such a big deal about due process and a balance of power between the various branches of government to prevent abuse. Our pledge of allegiance calls for "liberty and justice for all". Where is the justice for the US citizen who's about to be blown to smithereens? Not to mention, the potential for abuse as current or future administrations use this power to silence dissenters without any transparency or accountability to the American people.
That's really cool. I've wanted your library for a long time!
I'm tempted to ask for an explanation of the downvotes, too, but I think I'll quit while I'm ahead.
Yeah, he's super cocky and arrogant. But he is only in high school. I can remember, oh, 1 or 2 kids who thought they owned the school back when I was somewhere around there. The good news is, he has a lot of life left, and plenty of time to mature. Putting out this little article will I think help him head him down that path. Good luck Eugene - keep improving yourself.
Phaser – Desktop and Mobile HTML5 Game Framework
I just watched a great movie called "Bromancing the Stone".
You've got an appallingly pungent stench of douchiness about you.

I think he's right — just by reading the way you write, I can tell you're too full of yourself to even fathom the concept of working well with others.
Definitely not sarcastic - just trying to impart an earnest observation
I'm going with my gut here: every sentence I read from this guy makes me hate him more. If I read this article before applying for a job with his company, I would only have myself to blame if he made an offer and I accepted it.
assuming 8 hour days and 2 days a week off they are looking at 82k/year. that's hardly "rock star" level developers that he's expecting. Though, I am not sure what a "rock star" goes for in Toronto so maybe that is "rock star" up there.
I think you would enjoy Thomas Campbell's work :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8LaMrn_MM
"The US, by law, is supposed to treat all people the same regardless of nationality. In a court of law, for example, illegal immigrants get the same rights as full citizens."

Well, no. There are actually quite a lot of differences in rulings particulary in war.
That's quite fluffy, ethereal "bad hire" criteria. Nothing about ability to get the job done, communication with the team, quality of deliverables, reliability, or really anything a reasonable person would use as objective criteria to identify a bad hire. I wish I could read between the lines and understand what the author is really saying here, because we occasionally see articles written like this. What is your magic criteria to be in cool club? Please just speak plainly!
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+1 Superb! I was not aware of this at all! Thank you so much.
Wow. Susan Sons at 12 years old was way better at open source software than I am today! We need more children like Susan Sons in the world, and we need to give them unlimited, supervised computer/internet access.
25 rockstars, eh? And $70K (fully loaded) on six bad hires who lasted a median 53 days. Let's assume that the salary distribution for those new hires is similar to that for those rockstars. In the absence of other information, we'll also have to assume that the median period of employment for those six is also the average. So we're talking about rockstar salaries (fully loaded) in the range of $84K. Where can I get rockstars that cheap?

Also, he never really says what was wrong with these employees. Vague doubts about "fit"? "Get under your skin"? "Don't mesh"? All sounds like a discrimination or wrongful-termination suit waiting to happen. Anybody who is in any way dealing with HR should know that firing someone requires extensive documentation of actual wrongdoing, not just this weak "feels wrong" crap. I'd be very surprised if that's less the case in Canada than in the US.

This author really needs to worry less about cover letters, and more about why his company is having these cultural-fit problems. Maybe putting "Like to work late?" and "Test your ping pong and foosball skills" on the Careers page doesn't attract the right kind of employees. I'd love to hear what some of those ex-employees found once they got there, especially regarding the little Pocket Napoleon of a COO.
Please, can you show us your portafolio if that is not a problem?
At an average 75 days per, that's 450 days of work, about 2 years of work for $70k, fully loaded. Bargain of the century. I'm not looking for a job but now I know at least one place and one person I can just blacklist forever.
re: side thought - we do 8:30-5 where I'm at, as we generally set aside half an hour for lunch. That said - in the service industries I worked in for many years, you would work an 8 hour shift with one short break, one half hour break and get paid for 35 hours at the end of the week. I know that isn't universal, but it was a very common experience in my work life.
> The US, by law, is supposed to treat all people the same regardless of nationality.

Not nationality - national origin.

http://www.justice.gov/crt/legalinfo/natorigin.php

That's at least what I believe you are misquoting.

Obama has essentially stripped Americans of their right to due process, a jury of their peers, and the ability to confront their accusers in a court of law - and has relegated us to the same legal status of non-US citizens when it comes to being targeted for assassination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

You'll notice that the Church Commission recommendations against assassination were revoked by executive order by President Reagan.
It's interesting that so much of the article was about this 'fuzzy' feeling the author had about people. While reading I got the same fuzzy feeling about the author. Danger, danger, red alert.
He probably isn't being sarcastic. You do seem leagues ahead of other highschoolers your age and that is probably inflating your ego a bit! Just keep a level head, man. You will find you will gain far more for yourself being supportive of others than you will from putting them down.
This post gives off a really bad brogrammer vibe.

And I hope these aren't developers they were hiring and firing. The average salary of these bad hires was about $57,000 per year. (The total was $70,000, divided by 6 people who stayed an average of 75 days.)
Or perhaps the pen will be cheap, but they will make it all up by overcharging for that sandpaper they have that makes the pen write well.
We've always offered upgrade pricing. Upgrade from Arq 3 to 4 will be $19.99.
The Affordable Care Act requires routine medical visits to be covered by your insurance provider without a copay. If you aren't seeing a doctor every year, you're throwing away money.

http://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/insurance-plans/health...
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I don't know you, but I'd wager that in order to be able to say things like this, you're very privileged. And it's leading you to say extremely ignorant things.
Ask HN: Open Source projects to join? 
Hey guys, I'm currently studying CS and I am Sophomore. I would consider my self an "ok" programmer, I'm not by any means amazing but with that being said I'm not horrible either. Is there any projects open source or other wise that you might need some help on so that I can get some real world experience and something to list on my resume as well?
Ahhh ok. I appreciate the kind words.
> And that trading currencies is a completely different task than trading cards.

Right -- you can use Magic cards to play a fun game, as well as to try to make speculative bets. Bitcoins are that, minus the fun.
Ding. Ding. Ding we have a winner!
People have been calling it that for as long as I've followed BTC and MTGox; that is, after all, it's name.

And there have been serious questions about it's credibility in all that time as well.
> You get this uncomfortable feeling when you see that hire stroll in first thing in the morning… They get under your skin even though they haven’t done anything 'bad' quite yet.

I'm no lawyer, but I wonder whether saying things like this creates legal liabilities related to employment discrimination by implying that the company makes hiring decisions on non-job related criteria.
>>C: [...] Is there anything else I can help you with?

A: Yes, I'd like to speak to your manager, please. Thank you.

You should attempt to escalate at least once by asking for a manager. If you're bothered enough to initially call in and spend the time anyway with the first level support person, the marginal cost in time to ask for a manager is probably worth it.
Google Takes Over NASA’s Hangar One, a Silicon Valley Icon
Dreamweaver CS6 is actually an awesome web IDE. Yes they have features that are "for beginners" that automate some code generation, but you don't have to use them. For the "advanced" build-by-handers out there their suite of code editing features are very deep and frankly their syntax highlighting, hinting, auto-complete, and customization tools are better than almost every other web IDE out there, and I've used many of them.

It's funny how Dreamweaver got such a reputation, but I wonder if in this case the blank looks he was getting was because he still thinks Dreamweaver is for for point-and-click build my first website designers.

Edit: What made me change away from DW was a persistent memory leak that was unfixable/unbearable.
When doing calculations, it is better to use the average of 75 days. So 70K paid for six employees for 75 days (given in the article), which is about a fifth of a year. So 70*5/6 = 58K per employee per year.
Ask HN: Not sure what to do with my side project.
I've built a Twitter photo sharing service which has survived through Twitter's API changes and even when they started to allow photo uploads directly. The service is still used with 5000-7000 photos uploaded daily with 4mm pageviews per month. There's just under 4m photos stored on S3 and just under a million tokened users. There's a Safari, Chrome and Firefox browser plugin, iOS app and Android app in the wild. It runs 100% on auto-pilot.

I've been paying for hosting out of pocket as most users are outside of the US, banner revenue barely covers the costs to host it.

Any suggestions on what I should do? Thoughts are:

- Rebrand and relaunch it

- Sell it

- Shut it down

Any ideas on what I should do?
I assume you don't use Snapchat then, because it should be fairly self evident.

For one thing, snap chat is audio visual, email is not. The second is snap chat is designed to work in manner to capture the moment without interfering with it, email on the other hand has a very interrupting flow.

So you end up with one product that captures the emotional state of a moment, and the other which doesn't. This weekend for example I received a snap chat taken a friend bombing a motorway exit on roller blades. The fact it self destructs adds to this as well, because its not the content that matters so much as the vibe of the message. When I got that message I was stunned and wanted to see it again, I had the impluse to contact my friend immediately and respond. I would never get that from an email.

I probably get in excess of 100:1 snapchats to emails from friends for those reasons. I also get maybe 20:1 vs Facebook messages now as well now.
>Where can I get rockstars that cheap?

Not likely on the coasts... at least not that many at one time.

>Vague doubts about "fit"? "Get under your skin"? "Don't mesh"?

Agreed, culture is important, but an absolute fit isn't essential either. For fscks sake, sometimes a good workplace cultural value is tolerance for your co-workers idiosyncrasies.
I am glad that you post thist article, since i hope that some of the comments here serve you to become a better person and break that little bubble of arrogance that you live in. Cheers
The author makes some important critiques of the video game and video game reporting industries in general, which I readily agree with. Most importantly, the author points out that

how our societies are organized by valuing people and things by their monetary value above all else structures how we talk about games

and

The mainstream culture of games development demands you are from a class of people who could go into computer science or digital art training and have enough resources to handle an industry that has a terrible track record with labor issues.

But the application of these ideas to Flappy Bird and Candy Crush misses the mark. From everyone I've heard from, the backlash against these games stemmed from the fact that they are addictive, dull, and not creative; capitalism was not a significant factor.
Jesus man. I'm definitely not that type of kid. Honest. But I'll take your words into good meaning.
I think a key feature of health insurance is that not everyone gets hit with 6 or 7 figure healthcare bills. It's because of that fact that we can and should do better as a society.
Expat Proposal on Stackexchange nearing beta
> firing someone requires extensive documentation of actual wrongdoing

In the US? Maybe to help avoid frivolous lawsuits, but barring having signed a contract stating otherwise, you don't need any wrongdoing to terminate someone's employment.
I'm calling it now - such a project should be called "Mocker".

Actually, this is really a good idea. I hadn't realized that non-root users can't start their own Docker images, which I think could be a killer application. Perhaps if the overhead from something like Mbox is low enough, this could be feasible. As it is, I'm not sure I'm willing to fork over the extra ~20% overhead, just to have my applications running in a sandbox, but this could be a good method to distribute complete environments.
Just one of the reasons service industries suck. (Especially with respect to software industry, but also manufacturing.)
Don't ruin the point please.
This is a grab bag of ideas not grounded in any reality. E.g. The Pledge of Alleigance wasn't written until 1892 and wasn't adopted by Congress until 1942. Also, there is no magic words necessary to declare war. The AUMF passed by Congress counts.
This was actually closer to my calculations as well. I was getting about 60k-70k a hire assuming they worked a 9-6 job for 5 days a week. Feels like these are college grads or junior devs.

Edit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxnNYT5res
Found a video, yep, they look young.
Note that cutting off utilities access to another branch of the government is different, legally, from cutting off access to an individual or private organization. I hope this stands and sets a precedent as a protest tactic by state and local governments.
Covert was in custody of US forces.

If an American-citizen-suspected-terrorist were in US custody, I might agree.

But the issue here quite specifically concerns those not in US custody - and whom the US is not able to reasonably gain custody over.
Pretty bad. The only redeeming thing I can find is that as far as the following are concerned, I think "Yeah, it's a bit odd for someone not to do those things." (Not that they're by any means universal.)

> They did not include a personalized cover letter with their resume when applying
> They did not create a trial account of our product before the first interview
>They did not send a follow up email after the first interview

But I'd have liked to seen a "didn't meet explicit 30 day objectives" rather than the touchy-feely reactions.
For anyone looking for a symbolic computation environment - check out Maxima, I find it to be more pleasant than command-line SymPy.
According to Andreessen, Pierre Omidyar has pumped $250M into FL/TI https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/432910510653046785
I'm not sure that it really applies to me (since I'm not following anyone), but I could imagine it being useful if you only follow people you respect. If someone you respect is using a library, isn't that a strong endorsement or a vote of confidence?

Of course, starring a repository doesn't mean you're using it...

And you said you see this anyway in your feed...

But maybe it'd still be useful as a thread to pull on or if you missed that event in your feed.

If anything, it does seem to increase the "networkyness" of GitHub. I think I kind of like that.
yes, it's possible. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11216587/how-to-rebrand-a...
Not just that, but if that was purely the salary cost (not the fully loaded cost, which he said it was), that'd be a pretty low salary. 75 days on average times 6 employees is 450 days. Assuming that's calendar days, not workdays, that's 1.23 years, or 57k/yr. That seems shockingly low to me, even for a non-SV startup of 25 employees.