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"Apple and Google’s wage-fixing involved dozens more companies, over 1M employees" - 80 characters

"Revealed: Apple and Google’s wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over one million employees" - 106 characters

HN has an 80 character limit for titles.
I think they should just leave their users property alone, and act like a dumb conduit without the ability to inspect. Find other ways to solve the problem. Do what they would do if they were not in the convenient position of being the email host.
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The Pando article itself is spin. It wasn't a 'wage fixing cartel'. It was a non-poaching agreement, which may or may not have resulted in lower wages as a side-effect. I'm not sure it's even accurate to call it a 'cartel'. A cartel agrees to fix prices, which didn't happen in this case. They didn't even agree to fix wages, so the article is essentially bullshit in my opinion.
If only a "few thousand" people want security, then they can't be losing a significant number of customers.
Presumably this whole cartel was around trying not to get where investment banking and other areas are. Many of those companies (like Goldman Sachs) were once partnerships, where paying out a lot of income is normal. It may take tech companies a while to get there as there is huge level of founder and VC control in most companies and they want payouts rather than employees getting them.
You can research, maybe you have similar possibilities.

My bank allows me to register virtual "credit" card. It lasts 30 days(I can close it earlier also), I can have custom limit and making it takes around 2 minutes online. It costs i guess around 50cents per card. So by the time the card details leak from online shop, card is already useless.
It depends on a bunch of factors. For the type of folks I'm imagining, that won't be a problem for them. Think "margin." Not only do they not need to wait 3 days to receive the $30k they might never have to sell anything for it at all.
Chip & Pin [0] as well online authentication challenges such as 3-D Secure [1] have already solved these issues but the United States has been slow to picking them up.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
HN titles have an 80 character limit. This has nothing to do with spin.
Zuck to Obama: NSA Spying Is Bad for Business
Not easy to get those jobs and not easy if you don't want to live in London.
"Tech Corp wage-fixing cartel involved dozens more companies, over 1M employees"

would have fit snugly in 79 characters ;-)
Sure, but in the case of job loss + foreclosure or short sale, all of that goes up in smoke. It's a big risk.
Taking steroids doesn't reduce the effort in getting abs and muscles. You still have to put in a heckuva effort to build that muscle.
Article calls out an interesting point by Elizabeth Warren.[1] In this country, it's extremely difficult to access the best schools without expensive housing. That encourages families to overextend and puts them at risk of bankruptcy.

There was a recent This American Life episode that demonstrated the human impact of our absurd system, where hyperlocal property taxes set school quality. I thought it was a particularly strong episode.[2]

[1] The Two Income Trap, http://www.amazon.com/The-Two-Income-Trap-Middle-Class-Paren...
[2] This American Life #512, "House Rules" http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/h...
I suspect the most common cause is a wrist or thumb brushing against a laptop trackpad.

Or perhaps when switching between windows or tabs.
An activists organization that only defends existing laws would be pretty useless. You're being shortsighted in your expectations here.
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> When making a pull request, be clear about what you’re changing and why. Please include the following: “This comment has been identified as either hateful, hurtful or discriminatory as part of a project to #CleanUpGitHub. This pull request was made by a human. For more info, please check EthicalCode’s website at www.ethicalco.de/cleanupgh”.

Hard to say for sure without more insight into the types of pull requests you're looking to make, but I worry that starting with "hateful" might immediately put people in defensive mode.

Perhaps it could be rephrased?

E.g. "We're working hard to promote a more inclusive dev community and as part of that goal, we noticed this comment and would like to suggest an alternative..."
Wow! And no mention of scaleform - the Flash MiddleWare for consoles... humm... - http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform
That estimate is up from a few months ago.

It will go higher. Then, when people have a choice of veriably secure gear and services from non-US companies, we will see a decline in the "they all do it" posts here.
There is more than one definition of "wealth" and "poverty". You could be a senior Silicon Valley engineer making 200k a year and that would make you wealthy compared to some homeless person in Detroit, but you'd still be poor compared to a hedge fund manager in NYC making 500 million.
You aren't the only one. I often am bothered by the limitations of my own project. I rarely need outsiders to point out the major issues because I know of so many myself. Some people consider it a talent to blurt out obvious observations though.
I've been in software development for 20 years now. Started to work as a student at a top consulting firm in my country, at the expense of dropping out of CS studies - real work (and earning good money) was so much more interesting than studying.

After that I switched a couple of regular jobs and enjoyed every single one of them: working on real-world problems (electronic banking, multimedia production) together with bunch of talented and all-around nice people.

My carrier was interrupted by unexpectedly getting stuck in remote mountains of east Tibet for almost two years. After returning home I felt professionally disoriented and took on a couple of terrible freelance gigs, working for a year like crazy and earning about 2 EUR per hour (in EU) because of feature creep on a fixed amount project.

Then I got to my senses and started a consulting firm doing mostly web development. Since childhood I dreamt of having a company of my own. When I got it, it was far from glamorous - trading time for money that barely paid for my rapidly growing expenses (marriage, mortgage, kid).

Software development is one of the rare professions where you can relatively easily create something that has a value on its own - scalable and not directly dependent on how much time you put into it.

Selling products instead of my time was my goal throughout this time. Now, seven years later, we (I run the company with my wife) are finally getting there [1] [2].

I made a lot of mistakes in these 20 years, but in general, if I could go back, I would not do it much differently. Mistakes are an important stepping stones on the path.

So, what I'm trying to say is this: you're young, do the things that excite you. There is nothing wrong in working for and with others. At any time, you can decide to try creating something on your own. At this stage in life you can probably take on more risk than later when/if you get a family. But no point in over-calculating things. As long as you breath and your heart beats you have the freedom to steer your life in any direction you choose.

[1] http://pinegrow.com [2] http://getbooklers.com
It would be great if Nashorn could be used as part of a headless browser but I think that's still a long way off it it ever comes to pass.

Browsers have become extremely complex beasts. It is very difficult to simulate one using anything but the original browser code. So my bet is still on phantomjs.

I firmly believe that search engines will have to execute JavaScript as well (if they don't already do it). I think this is just Google's attempt to put off the inevitable for a little while longer: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/...
F.B.I. Agent Is Cleared in Fatal Shooting of Man Tied to Boston Suspects
Immediately. The beauty of a service business! Not massively scalable, but we don't need investors and do $4M in profit (before-tax) between 2 partners. It took us ~6 months to hit this run-rate.
Somehow somebody got enough information to attempt to open a line of credit in my name. Thankfully it was declined for some reason even though I ha e a good credit score but I am left with a refusal on my report. Still working on getting that cleaned up. Not sure how it was done but having a credit card in my name could be a good step in phishing.
This is a pretty cool idea. I was considering making something like this (automate data retrieval and then analyze it) but I wasn't sure how to approach the problem.
I'm sure there's a reason for not having the package flat all around but the convex shape on the pin-header side seems to make it a lot thicker than necessary.

I would have liked to make a watch out of this, but something that big would look obnoxious. Great idea nonetheless, I really enjoy seeing all these ready-to-work solutions for the maker community.
I still remember a HN thread which suggested that Larry/Sergey fire Eric Schmidt for this.
I think the whole discussion doesn't lead anywhere. We're trying to bend the ideas of self, continuity and sameness to our quite limited imagination.

Let's take the teleportation example: my rebuilt self is just as much "me" as the original was (or still is, should the device keep it intact) -- all atoms are in exactly the same place, and what's crucial, the memories and mental characteristics are preserved. It's not my clone (where only the DNA is the same), it's the exact replica. Doesn't matter that it's built from freshly assembled atoms, since our bodies continuously assimilate new atoms and shed old ones anyway. In that we're more resembling a wave on the ocean than a Luke Skywalker's lightsaber prop, where it actually counts that it's the exact set of atoms that Mark Hamill wielded on set. If you care about memorabilia anyway.

The two existing duplicates of me are obviously not "the same me", but nobody should expect them to be. They both are a continuation of myself. Like the aforementioned wave, I'm not my atoms and their configuration, I'm the continuity of their ever-changing state.

.......

When a cell divides, does it cease to exist? If so, at which point exactly? Are the two newly created cells the same cell as the one that was there before? Are they a half-cell each, even though they both are full cells now? Is one of them the original cell that gave half of its matter to create an offspring? Would everything be back to normal if one of them ate the other one and we could say that the original cell just performed a crazy transformation, but it's still the same cell (the same atoms, chromosomes and all)?

These questions might seem reasonable, but I think they stem from our mistaken desire to qualify and label things. Still, the reality isn't limited to our understanding of it.
What is the likely outcome of this? I'm guessing a lot of pull requests that never get merged. This is essentially the application of one very subjective morality over lexical sentiment and embodies the wider issue of offence.

Offence ultimately derives from intent and we, as the end user, don't have intent inferred to us while reading code. It may be misguided for a developer to use "faggot" or "bitch" as a placeholder variable, but these make no implication of the developers sentiment or any wider statement about such respective issues.

In reality, the better solution is don't use software you disagree with. If there is no better alternative, fork it and create a version you do agree with. That is the joy of open source.
> I suspect that back and forth in Safari may be non-destructive as well (though I can't confirm this right now)

I just tried swiping back and forth with this text in the Hacker News comment box and it didn't lose the content. I'm pretty sure I've had issues before, I think in relation to pages loaded by POST.
No, I don't really have a minimum size. I suppose I was thinking a little smaller since most of my projects I've done solo.
That's still a bit of a distance from 5000000000000000000000000000 TiB. (I'm counting 2^128 128-bit values, not just 2^128 bytes.)
Some registrars, particularly Network Solutions, offer poor support for DNSSEC records, or anything beyond A and CNAME records really. For a long time it was officially unsupported; lately there is a footnote at the bottom of the advanced DNS options page to call tech support if you want to discuss using DNSSEC---although they'll happily sell me an extended validation certificate....
A cartel are competitors who privately agree to essentially not compete, and this can include on the production side (which in this case are tech workers). The unavoidable, and intentional impact of that is wage suppression. This isn't a "maybe", this is absolute certainty: A rising Google upset the apple cart by offering more than those other companies were, and everyone else was sour that they'd have to start paying more to keep their employees. This agreement, without any doubt at all, took money out of the pockets of tech workers.

I'm generally a fan of Google, but I have a negative opinion of Eric Schmidt. So many times he says and does things that seem so fundamentally detached from real life.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that the hero of this story -- the only one who actually saw that it was wrong and probably illegal, was Edward Colligan, then the CEO of Palm - http://pando.com/2014/02/19/court-documents-reveal-steve-job...
Object Equality in JavaScript
I occasionally have this issue; seems like a firmware bug to me. Doing nothing else but turning off the Pebble for a few minutes and then turning it back on resolves it for me. Anything else (cycling bluetooth on phone, the pebble, etc) doesn't help. Rebooting it in this way usually gives me a week of uninterrupted connectivity. I'm an iPhone 5 user.
I can't tell you how glad I am you came to this decision. As I mentioned in another thread[0], I use HN as a 'ledger of opinion' of sorts, and have always appreciated the ability to weigh in after a conversation has come to a close.

I was actually worried on finding all about pending comment changes this morning; they seemed like quite meaningful changes that would have all but eliminated a lot of the ways I interact with Hacker News. It seems this was planned to be 'per thread' to begin with, which makes it a very appropriate moderation tool, so my worry was for naught.

Thanks for all, and hope leaving is for the best. I have never been involved with Y Combinator, but appreciate your writing, and the community. I hope you continue writing.

[0]-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449717
Warren Buffett Made $1 Billion In First 22 Hours Of March Madness
I'm a fan of crypto currency, but the current solutions don't quite solve this problem -- yet. I'm enthusiastic about what start-ups in the space will bring to the table to fix problems like this.
If I were in his situation I'd be in Pokhara, Nepal - my personal paradise. You can pay $6 a night for a beautiful hotel room so you could probably get a good longterm rate.
To be clear - I think FreeBSD is an awesome project and the jails look solid, but it is really the Docker community and exploding Docker ecosystem that makes Docker appealing to me. For example, Red Hat embracing Docker means that I can build Docker containers for enterprises that embrace CentOS and Red Hat. None of the corporations or organizations I have worked with use or support FreeBSD, but they all support CentOS. Reference: http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-virtualization/red-ha...
Oh good ol' Silicon Valley
I'd love to see it without the shell
>My carrier was interrupted by unexpectedly getting stuck in remote mountains of east Tibet for almost two years.

If you dont mind me asking, what happened ?
I bought it just because I wanted a smaller platform to do some hobby development on but getting notifications on my wrist is really fantastic. I feel more connected but much less bothered.
Randomized ensemble reinforcement learning in Mario AI
What do you think is needed for Bitcoin to solve the problem? Is it just wider adoption, or are there technical features missing?
The analysis misses the crucial factor - access to credit.

A middle-class homeowner can easily borrow tens of thousands of dollars cheaply and easily via credit cards and overdrafts. With a good credit history, you don't need liquid savings to deal with a temporary cashflow problem; Low interest rates mean that it is economically rational to rely on credit in this way, rather than having capital under-utilised in instant access savings accounts.

Credit is vastly more expensive for the poor, especially the unbanked poor (who represent around 8% of the American population). Borrowing $1000 for a couple of months costs just a few dollars if you have a low-rate credit card, but hundreds if your only access to credit is through payday lending. Without the cushion of cheap credit, it is imperative to have a rainy-day fund.

The availability of peer support is also highly relevant; If you have affluent family and friends, then the consequences of cashflow problems are greatly diminished.

The author draws the conclusion that the middle-classes are financially insecure, but I think that the converse is true - they choose to spend to the limit of their income because they are highly financially secure and do not fear short-term cashflow problems.
The current solutions (such as Chip-and-Pin and 3D-secure) do solve the problem. The problem is noöne uses them.
So, in other words, an AI that can pitch a book?
Interesting product. How long did it take for clients to start approaching you as opposed to the other way around?
Why not try to freelance for lottery tickets instead?
Never thought playboy magazine could inspiration for developing WebApp.
> While I would much prefer a basic income to an increase in the minimum wage, I am torn by the fear that it would turn us into the world of Neal Stephenson's Anathem or Mike Judge's Idiocracy. I support Voltaire's assertion that "Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need"

You could grant basic income only to people who are employed, similar to how the EITC is administered. This kills some of the administrative overhead advantages, but not all of it, as verification of employment is still less of an overhead than need verification (it's basically built into the income tax system by default). It's also more likely to fly politically.

Incidentally, this also suggests a feasible political path forward for implementing true basic income -- start with EITC expansion, then slowly roll back the employment verification.
How can you accidentally put a third finger down to swipe back, if you're scrolling with two fingers?
Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime
I would add in all seriousness that:

"It would be tragically easy for many retailers to not immediately encrypt the CC number using Curve25519 and AES-256 as soon as they got it, or take years to move to this, etc."

Although anything that, if properly used, would massively decrease the attack surface and localize the consequence of a breach, would be fantastic.

Right now the attack surface is just too damned big.

Hmmm, to prevent another Target, wouldn't each POS card acceptor need firmware or hardware changes to do this action "immediately"?
A stable price for one. I can't have 0.1 btc be enough for a nice dinner one day and a cup of coffee the next.

Second people need to have their wallets on their phones and know how to use it. That's more of a consumer education problem than a tech problem, though.
As someone living in the Netherlands I can say that your statement of noone is far from the truth. I don't know about the state of things in America, but here in Europe Chip-and-Pin is very common.
Not surprising considering the geniuses at the CA DMV think that "Who did you vote for in the last presidential election?" is a good security question.

I write about six checks a year. Two of them are auto registration because their site is so horribly broken when it could be so amazingly easy. These people are able to send me a piece of paper in the mail with an access code. It should take 30 seconds to pay my registration online.
Nice, what's your project, if you don't mind me asking?
Thanks for your feedback. You are indeed seeing profiles only from Canada. You can change your settings to predict salaries from other countries. We will introduce filtering based on specific area in the future.
About 18 months ... Did have a popular product (website) before incorporating, but had to choose and implement a business model on top of it.
Why Your Supermarket Sells Only 5 Kinds of Apples
"his job (I learned decades later) was to modify and maintain all the typewriters in the White House so their keystrokes couldn't be used to identify what was being typed on them."

How would you do that? Soundproofing? Delay on the mechanical action? What is the fingerprint that allows transcription of a sound sample?

https://www.freesound.org/people/keithpeter/sounds/123344/

have at it...
I didn't see Asus listed here. Their laptops are great. I personally like the X202 series (netbooks).
I have a similar approach. But it doesn't hurt if you end up making some money out of it either.
"Tragically easy" in the case of a large government deployment of software probably means "a few years of study, about a hundred consultants, and a bunch of custom COBOL and Java written by people who can't spell XOR and think that ROT13 is overkill."

The encryption algorithms you use are the least interesting piece of the puzzle: Just use something strong enough. It's the key management, data flow, storage and access security (both physical and via computer) that this kind of thing falls apart on.

You really need security all the way from the reader, which is (sort of) what chip-and-PIN is.
I'm both charmed and appalled. Connect your Arduino to your RasPi? Convert it into an OLED necklace? If this campaign was starting a week from now I'd wonder if it wasn't a stealthy parody of Arduino hobbyism... But it does seem both charming and useful.
Looks like it reached the $30k stretch goal. I look forward to seeing a vim library.
The better option, for most places, is to use some form of tokenization where your CC processor stores the CC numbers and hands you an opaque token to store.

Much less to worry about on your end as the tokens have no meaning outside the tokenization service.

Also, just to reïterate the point: When it comes to security, and you're not a crypto or security person, don't be creative and don't be fancy. Use what works.
It makes me sad that Huawei may now be driven to an even greater distance from the US market—particularly the consumer market. The phones that Huawei makes are quality enough, and cheap enough for me to consider them a staple of the Maker movement (at least that involving android smartphones). If I'm gonna tear apart a phone or at least put it in harsh conditions (like we do at http://rfcx.org), I at least want it to be reliable and expendable, financially. It's now hard enough to get Huawei phones in the US, and I fear it's now only going to get harder. I know that's not really the point—this article is really about spying, and US is not alone in doing so, by any means, but this news affected me on another level.
I am very disappointed with my pre-order, I bought mine mid-February when they were estimating by the end of the month and then (without even an email) they changed my order to "backorder" status and changed the delivery dates to be 6-8 weeks. My card hasn't been charged yet and I could cancel but I've been looking forward to getting one for quite some time so I probably wont.
I find your story incredibly inspiring! What happened in Tibet ? Also, the fact that you and your wife run your business(es) together is something we have in common. Am going to drop you an email!
Thanks for the comment. Was exactly the kinda thing i was looking (Guys with exp and their thoughts)
Solving XKCD 1313 part 2 by Peter Norvig