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Ah, you have found a bug in my code (I made an error in computing the string length, and didn't notice it because it displayed fine on Chrome). I have fixed my code in git and the blog post.

As for the stray output displayed on the stdout: it is to be expected. The %n format outputs the numbers of character that is written by printf, so it must have written something to the stdout.
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Yes. It's always funny to see people clamour to minimum wages. Eg they express costs in terms of multiples of minimum wage. Or celebrate raising the minimum wage.

Hong Kong recently raised the minimum wage from 0 to a couple of dollars. (Ie introduced a new one.) Poor People didn't suddenly earn more money.
Ignore pay mobile - why stick with magnetic stripe and unchecked signatures when you could have chip and pin?
If that's the worst he managed to come up with, I guess we're doing pretty ok.
"including not to toggle a relais(?) more than 10/min"

That's actually exactly what the latter two configuration parameters for OTP supervisors are for - to tell the supervisor how many failures in what unit of time it should consider "normal".
Unfortunately, your comment isn't at the top.

There are very simple guidelines that can help prevent melanoma, especially for people at risk:
- Avoid exposing your skin to the sun, especially when it's high. Use high SPF (30+) sun screen (water resistant if you'll be swimming); wear longsleeves, hats and sunglasses. (Good sunglasses are important, as you can have ocular melanoma)
- Obviously, don't use tanning booths.
- Plan a visit with a dermatologist at least once per year. This is very important. Just like you'd get your tooth, eyes, etc... checked every year, take the habit to see a dermatologist.
- If you're especially at risk, regulary check your skin for signs of changes. Nowadays it's easy to take pictures with a digital camera (or phone) so that you can see how the spots and moles evolve.

How do you know if you're in the population at risk? If you have moles, OR are fair-skinned / haired, OR have freckles (all of these are usuall signs of an overall general sensitivity to sun exposure), you are at risk. Obviously, if there are family antecedants of skin cancer, you are at risk. Also, if your work or hobbies expose your skin regularly and for prolonged periods of time to the Sun, you are at risk.

Personal story: I have a friend who has had a mole removed in the knee, and which proved to be ultimately (after testing) malignant. Fortunately this was caught early. And I've had personnally a mole removed in the back, though it was found to be benign.
Skin cancer risk can be greatly reduced by these simple precautions, so please people, try to follow these.
oh come on, if you're going to be a jerk just do it, don't fill your post with trite crap like 'not to be offensive, but...'
As a father in my thirties this hits home but I can't help but wonder WHY DON'T YOU HAVE LIFE INSURANCE? This is what it's for! For the cost of a few dinners out a year you could have 500k of coverage and right now you'd be spending time with your loved ones instead of worrying about money.

Please, if you have dependents (people that need your income) buy life insurance. It's cheap (if you're young and healthy) and death can happen to anyone of us at anytime for any reason.

/ end rant.

I feel for you though, this is super sad and I can't imagine not seeing my kids grow up. I wish you the best.
I'm mostly surprised it's a personal computer and not a relay network like elevators were/are typically controlled by. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GevDdd_IOY
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Religion. It will take ages to move game developers away from C and C++ to other languages.

Similar to how much it has taken them to move from Assembly to C and C++.
That AD was not applicable to this aircraft as it didn't have the antenna he's speculating tore off installed at all.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/13/Missing-MH3...
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I don't see ruby mentioned anywhere and the article mentions shellcode. I thought it was informative and interesting and I am well aware of shellcode. Your comment is unnecessarily condescending and may discourage posts like this.
It's not just ranting about some paperwork. It's pointing out that the paperwork is far worse than in the EU (which is far less unified than the US, but at least the labour market is pretty transparent), and actively discourages companies from incorporating in the US. The US is hurting its own bottomline here.

Now countries shouldn't make it too attractive for companies either; then you get a race to the bottom where companies get tax exemptions just for creating a handful of extra jobs. And this absolutely happens; I believe there are some European countries where taxes for foreign companies are ridiculously low. So the EU isn't doing everything right either. But shouldn't there be some sensible middle ground where it's easy to open up shop in a different country, without having to jump through insane hoops, while paying a normal, sane amount of tax?
Yeah, dying from cancer sounds like a great life. You're just babbling.
I remember reading some criticism about the STM: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/XHqWLMcsH-c

I wonder if nowadays people can generally use it without never having to think about locks?
Hiring an employee in another state may create a nexus in that state, and this may require you to file income tax in that state.

For example, if you incorporate in Delaware, and then hire someone for >$50k in Texas, you may have to file company income taxes in Texas. Not that Texas income attributed to your company (or partners) will be much, but, computing and filing is best done by hiring an accountant.
Anyone who thinks they can't see them should set their user agent to google's crawler. Then they become immediately apparent. That might also explain why the chrome users see it. I presume that has "google" in the UA somewhere.
To make a Pixar quality film would require a bunch of different world class skillsets. In addition to animators, modellers, riggers, lighters, lookdev artists, fx artists and compositors you'd need writers, editors, sound designers, voice actors etc.

In addition to all that you'd need some sort of top down project management structure. If the people who are directing/supervising the project decide one of the sequences that a bunch of people have worked on for 6 months isn't working, they need to be able to make the decision to abandon the work without causing massive animosity and have people quit the project.
Ask HN: tools for collaboration with a remote cofounder
We are a team of two: I'm a developer and my cofounder is a designer. We work remotely and constantly looking for ways to improve our communication to make it as close as possible to a real-life interaction when it comes to efficiency.

So far, that's what we've got (we try to stick to free tools):

* Skype for video conferencing

* Screenhero for screen sharing

* Dropbox for file sharing

* Shared ical calendars

* Useful links shared by email/twitter

Works out alright so far, except for the last one. It's difficult to keep track and organize useful content, maybe a wiki would do here.

I've tried to use Asana for task management on previous project with 3+ people and it was quiet efficient. For a team of two I feel like it would be an overkill, as we are always up-to-date with each others progress by having daily skype status calls.

Which tools do you use?
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Why do you limit remote applicants with "US-only"?
The important thing is making sure your employees get looked after. Make sure they get paid before any other expenses and do whatever you can to help them transition.

One option is to look for an acquihire of the business, speak to your investors/network/competitors and see if there's any interest in picking up the business. You won't get much out of it financially, but it'll help your employees.
But.. ..but he's

> reading on an iPad, so the risk of system infection is negligible.
The magnetic strip can't even be used anymore: http://www.n24.de/n24/Wissen/Finanzen/d/1798604/der-magnetst...

It was barely used anymore before
After having done business in many other countries you begin to realise that certain countries have a love affair with needless bureaucracy; the US and it's fragmented federation being one of them. Take Australia for example; even though it is a federation of states (and territories) like the US it has one uniform goods and sales tax that is consistent across the country. In fact states regularly come together to share best practice between legislation and administration in order to increase efficiencies within the country. Even road laws (which are a state matter in Australia) have been deliberately homogenised between states. Even countries like the UK with it's constituent nations and territories work hard at having a uniform and efficient system for businesses to do what they need to do.

Saying "Just deal with it" is a cop out that will end up consigning your country to a worsening economic future. Tourists are already turned off from coming to the US because of the TSA issues. Having a "Just deal with it" attitude will also drive away business. This will lead to a worsening trade imbalance and the joys that come forthwith.
Randomness wouldn't have a motive. In fact, that's my suggestion.

You cited several scenarios wherein intelligence and anomalies converge, and I am suggesting that randomness is another possible (and perhaps likely) one.

I suppose this possibility is not unlike your accident suggestion but, perhaps, less bounded.
Vox Media (behind The Verge, Polygon, SB Nation etc.) announced in January they're working on something similar [1]. Their jobs page [2] is listing a few positions under 'Project X'.

Worth keeping an eye on.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/26/5348212/ezra-klein-vox-is-...
[2] http://jobs.voxmedia.com/apply
Among a few things, that's why I'm happy to live in France where with a medium wage (35,000$ / year) I'm sure that my wife will get the house ( the loan insurance will pay that) and the hospitalization would be nearly free...

Be in a welfare state is somewhat a good thing even if you pay more taxes.
You can't separate the state out like that and pretend it's not a player. Capitalism is what gives rise to corporatism.

Oh, and welfare state is not a bad word. Some of the most prosperous and equitable countries in the world are welfare states[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
I'm not sure about EU law - but if you have a company in Denmark, and want to hire someone who works in Portugal as a permanent employee, and not a contractor, what do you need to do?
The whole point of my comment is that it's not a zero sum game. Because most of us work eight hours a day means there is a lot more stuff to go around.
Obviously to be fair, generally people don't expect to get a potentially terminal cancer at 35 either. At worst one might think they have 20 or 30 years to deal with a mortgage taken on at 35.

I can't find a fault with taking on a mortgage at 35 when you have a family. Particularly if you can afford the payments. I'd argue given the historically low cost of mortgage debt today, the cost of renting + trying to save to one day buy a house for your family, is a worse choice.
I've read your comments a couple of times and still can't really see what you've added.

You're talking about very abnormal situations. Companies that are so technically incompetent they have to hire you.

And then saying that we should listen because in your abnormal experience of dealing with teams so dysfunctional they can't even ship bad software that agile at least gets them going a little bit.

I suspect almost any change would get them going a little bit as the change itself is the trigger.

EDIT: The more I think about it, the more your comment reminds me of the people defending the other fads of years gone past. Workflow diagrams, OOP-design (as a be-all-and-end-all process), UML, Worflow Engines, RAD tools. Your comment reminds me of the defences of them. These things worked because those desperate teams need a light to guide them, not because of the tool itself.

And with each of those tools, it turned out the tool itself is mainly counter-productive to functional teams. I think we're realising Agile is another of those false prophets.
Do you give root access to your minions?
> the EU

No, Denmark. If you want paperwork, there's plenty to be had here in Italy!
in that case, it can be argued that the soviet union was not real Communism either.
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35 is too young, and I really do feel for anyone in that situation.

But cancer when you're over 60? That's basically just dying of old age...
I think this comment on the article sums it up nicely:

"I have this feeling that Michael Booth was simply trying to respond to the highly selective, often fallacious Nordic image currently being peddled in the UK (with the Guardian as the worst offender) with an article employing the same kind of distortions. A rhetorical device, if you like."
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Jonathan here. Being woke up by my wife crying because the donations just aren't stopping is both heart-breaking and comforting.

For those of you who haven't seen the 'Bucket List' post, here's what it says at the very top:

As I try to deal with the reality that is my impending death I can't help but wonder how many things I might have been able to accomplish given just a little more time. When I was diagnosed, I had only one thing that I wanted; to live long enough to see my children grow up. The reality is that the odds of me living long enough to see my children grow are quite slim. The only available treatment will eventually stop working and then it's just a matter of time.

This is the list of things that I want to accomplish while I still have time. Many of them aren't for me. They are for my family. They are meant to provide security for my wife and kids so that they can celebrate my life instead of mourning my death when that time comes.

My priorities are taking care of my family just as they always have been. Sometimes, we just can't plan far enough ahead to deal with something like this. If you saw the original page you would also note that Trips and meeting celebrities is not high on my list of priorities. Those are things that would provide me with a small boost on an emotional level but I don't consider them something that must happen before I die.

Life Insurance: I changed jobs and don't have any and now that I'm terminal, the cost for obtaining it is prohibitive. I agree that this is poor planning on my part, however, I'm 35 and no one expects to find out that they are going to die at 35. We all think we have plenty of time and the reality is that we don't.

Health Insurance: Thank god that I have this or we would've been sunk from the beginning. Despite having insurance, there continue to be ongoing costs and once I go on long-term disability I'll be paying cobra rates to keep the same coverage. I have no idea how expensive this will be but I don't expect it to be cheap.

This really isn't about me or the money, this is about my family and trying to ease their pain. I know that I'm living on borrowed time right now and I could be dead at any moment. All I want to do is spend as much time as I can with my kids so that they know I loved them. You try telling a 6 year old that her daddy has cancer and will be dead before she turns 8. Hardest thing I've ever had to do and I would never wish it any one.

For those of you that have helped us, thank you is not enough.
Not really pointless... guy is dying and worried about the financial security of his family, which I completely understand, but then outlines some financially irresponsible expenses?

How about posting on facebook "I'm dying, here's a fund we started to help support my wife and children in my absence" and leave it at that. This comes across as entitled and unrealistic.

That being said, his situation is extremely shitty and it is probably worthwhile for anyone with the means to help him out for that reason alone.
1) Ok, so what? 2) Why do you think interstellar travel will be so complicated/impossible?
I've just been wondering if a light saber is similar to an electrolaser [1], where you use a laser to ionize air and then send out an electric current through the plasma channel.

I could be wrong but wouldn't the power of the laser determine the length of the plasma channel?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser
There is no solution I can see, and that's worrying. While we're all running around curing diseases, solving global warming etc, the thing that will kill off our species is our own "success".
Understood as what? I'm presuming you're implying that "3rd world country" == "country in the developing world", as it's often used. Although you might consider it to be fully acceptable, there are many that disagree that that equality be taken as a norm, including the head of the World Bank [1].

Fact of the matter is that use of the "3rd world" as a descriptor is contentious at the very least and I opted to draw attention to this fact.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/third-world-term-sh...
The employees wouldn't be working there if the alternatives were better. They will go to an even worse job or become unemployed.
A poorly run welfare state is a bad word, to so speak, and that's exactly what America has.

Some of the worst functioning countries on earth are also very poorly run welfare states. Feel free to point out several poorly functioning, free market Capitalism countries though.

Socialism is what gives rise to Corporatism. The intrusion of government into the economy - rather than the proper separation of the two - through regulation and bribes, opening up a flood gate of protectionism, lobbying and special favors.

I'm well aware of the arguments on the nordic model. Most of them had to reform their poorly functioning welfare models over the last few decades (see: Sweden).

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0803/international-invest-...
The question is whether this is abnormal or not. I suspect that it is not. That is, i suspect that there are many more mediocre-to-poor developers and managers out there than there are good-to-excellent ones.
It's indubitable that the nordic countries are well-run places. Occasionally though, the amount of "smug" they export is a bit on the high side.
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A lot of this could have been solved by (pick a few):

1. forming a 1099 relationship with your devs if they weren't working full time.

2.Using a Personal Employment Organization.

3. Doing your research before blindly incorporating in Texas. We could debate for ages the merits of the state and federal system, but if you were going down this whole road of opening a company in another country and hiring there, then it would have been useful to talk to a tax lawyer and an accountant who are familiar with the issues involved.

TLDR;Europeans whining about things they didn't research, again.
Had you seen my body language when I posted the comment, you might not have decided that it was made out of any sense of smugness.

NOTE:

Since my comments in this thread were downvoted, implying that they were not taken in the spirit they were intended, my contribution to this thread should be considered obsolete. I'll leave my original comments in place to serve as a reminder to myself to be careful about what I say around here in future.

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>If you've just bought a house and a car and had a kid you're probably in a lot of recent debt, with the assumption that you'll have a lifetime to pay it down

Out of self discipline I bought a life insurance at the same time my home loan was approved; the insurance amount being same as loan amount.

I have always wondered why don't Government have regulations in place that forces a borrower to purchase a life insurance. Or at least make the borrower opt into insurance by default with the option of opting out.

Left to themselves borrowers are not likely to think about insurance at the time of taking loans. I think by nature we underplay risks to our life because of which our loved ones end up suffering financially over and above emotionally.
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I really don't understand this fetishization of the US for business. If you want to be sued into utter oblivion and live on the streets with a nonexistent social safety net I guess it's all right. I'm in Ireland and if you want to start a real business (not some rinkydink app that mysteriously needs €30 million in funding so you can fail more spectacularly) the climate seems quite good.
> In terms of his house and the like, I was always led to believe that life insurance was specifically for cases like his? Is life insurance a big thing in America?

I found the "Pay off our mortgage" part a bit strange. Living in Poland I don't know anyone who managed to get a mortgage without mandatory life insurance which makes the bank the first beneficiary. You die, they get the money, mortgage is paid off, family keeps the house. Pople like to bitch that it's a scam, hidden cost, extra money for the bank etc, but it's designed for situations like this (it protects the bank as well as the customer).
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wow, does anyone apart from facebook and the government actually want facebook to do this? it's pretty terrifying
Can't find where I read, but I think it was Rolls Royce. Every thing seems to be speculation in this case.
This comment on the OP site pretty much sums up a lot of these kinds of posts:

Learn about all good and important methodologies, and take what fits your character and team. Any religious treatment of any method is not natural.
That's not capitalism. That's the credit system and nanny state at work.
It wasn't and many people do argue that whenever the subject comes up.
I can't seem to find a source for this right now, but this claim has apparently just been denied in a press conference by Rolls Royce, Boeing and Malaysia Airlines.
differences in state rules should have been expected, given the name of the country

'United'?
Firstly the observable universe is nothing compared to the whole universe.

Secondly what the above comment means is that with so many bodies emitting some thing random for such a long period of time. You are inevitable bound to notice something that you could make some meaning of.

And yes the 'WOW' signal is present some where in Pi.
Exactly. Then the questions is how we can make most of us to perform better. The answer is not to "be excellent developer". The answer must be in the way we do things.
Whilst I do not wish the hell that is American business regulation on anyone, I am at least happy to see some Europeans realizing that America does in fact have more onerous regulation, all things considered, than nice nations like Denmark.

Scott Sumner of Bentley University, in Boston, has written on this topic quite a bit. Sumner, in fact, considers Denmark the most free market oriented non-postage-stamp nation on earth. A sample:

On taxes: http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=24759

On regulation: http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=21601

On inequality: http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=22400
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The Hong Kong government have been promising to help grow the Startup community in HK, and this is finally what they've released?
Is being frustrated and correct the same as being smug?
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