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> Personal income tax (with the exception of half of social security and medicare) is paid by the employee.

Sure, but income tax is different than payroll tax, and some payroll taxes (the federal ones that support Social Security and Medicare, particularly) are split between the employee and the employer.

> Making the payee of US payroll taxes the employer rather than the employee would similarly be a de facto raise for almost all US workers at the time of implementation because the employer would effectively begin paying your income taxes.

I think you mean "payer" rather than "payee". The payee of federal income and payroll taxes is the federal government, not either the employee or the employer.

> So what I mean is, make the corporation pay it, not the employee. Assuming you actually want a tax on labor at all, given that it discourages hiring in your jurisdiction.

To the extent the US has a tax on labor qua labor (payroll tax vs. income tax), that's already halfway true (income tax isn't strictly a tax on labor, since its not limited solely to labor income.
Looks like someone has been watching too many Matt Damon movies. <ducks>

On a more serious, less snarky note, though: Why are you so scared of there even being a "wealthy dynasty"? For that matter, you and people with similar views as you are yet to prove that it would even be a bad thing. I'm curious how you arrive at such a conclusion; step me through it?

"Let's just hope we figure out that space thing before they ever figure out rejuvenation."
Doom-sayers were spreading similar fud about food and population growth barely a century ago, and look how that turned out. Science is always a few steps away from fixing a plethora of the world's ills. Precisely as the above food-dilemma shows. And yet on the other side, you would seek to deny science power to prevent such things from actually being a problem? Sort of a self-fulfilling prophesy you have there, buddy.
I agree. But I would like the education (classes, materials, etc.) to be separate from the certification of knowledge and skills.

Both should be free (or heavily subsidized), but like in healthcare, we should be paying for outcomes, not services rendered. And we should open things up to allow economies of scale.
Btw, there's a coursera course on Warhol right now for anyone wanting to learn more about him:

https://www.coursera.org/course/warhol
That seems like an OAuth anti pattern. Why would you ask the user for every permission when they're signing up? That can only hurt conversions. Ask for the bare minimum, and then request more permissions if the user does something within the app that needs them. Especially for something as sensitive as this, you want people to feel safe using the product and you can't do that by scaring them when they hit "Sign Up with GitHub."
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Constructive criticism =/= trolling.

Please don't equate the two when posting on HN. People here are offering comments, insight, and opinions. It shouldn't be surprising if they are not in agreement with you on certain aspects.

That being said, best of luck!
Honestly, if you told me that, I'd want to know more; it would not be a black mark (or even grey). I'd consider that to be a high marker for initiative and hackerishness.

I would, however, be concerned that you'd take off as soon as you found a VC to buy into your idea and give you a few years of runway. So you'd have to alleviate that concern (within reason, of course).
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foo.com/* -> www.foo.com/* seems "cleaner" to me than your opposite, due to the issues with cookie leaking, CDN hosting, "normal user" expectations, etc. Like, please appreciate that your usage of "cleaner" is at best subjective ;P. (And I don't quite understand how you are intending to do "foo.com/ -> foo.com"... all URLs must have a path: you can't just GET, you have to GET /.)
>Perhaps nginx might instead check all requests for a particular signed cookie...

That's called session handling, which is something you want to implement in your web application, not your web server.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#HTTP_session_state

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_protocol
Not a VIM bug, not a Tmux bug. Not even a "pivotal/tmux-config".

By the way, as I understand, one shouldn't fiddle with &t_* options, unless strictly necessary. It's supposed to be a Bad Idea ® because it makes things less portable.

(Although I'm also guilty of this, changing the cursor color in insert mode is just too cool for me to resist).
There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the MaidSafe IPO. Exercise due diligence before sending coins over to them. More info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=579797.320
I fully agree.

One thing I cannot understand is the fact that she's got 85,124 followers on LinkedIn - how came?
I went to community college for 12 hours each semester and 6 in the summers while working 40 hour weeks. It was rough but I would stack all my classes on Tuesday/Thursday or Monday/Wednesday and then work the other 5 days at a grocery store.

I did this for over a year and it was definitely rough. I think that's why so few people leave community college for universities. Work and bills and responsibilities stack up and school is usually the easiest one to cut out to make room for others. No one can stop working lest they will not have a place to live or food to eat.

It is very unfortunate because the people that would benefit most from the education end up dropping out while those with family support can push through because they're working less, have financial support, and can afford to take classes over again.

I can't think of an easy solution to this other than offering a stipend for lower income students. Free classes will definitely help though, I think this is fantastic.
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You make some good points, but her contributions to the US's surveillance program are barely more than a footnote on the campaign page. Most are about past economic or geopolitical misdeeds. I think reading the page in toto makes it pretty clear that the authors object to her hiring mainly on the basis of her perceived character flaws.

I was still fairly outraged over the Eich lynching when I wrote all these posts. I still don't think it's a great precedent to set, boycotting a company over appointing someone to a mostly ceremonial position. (Something that I still think is terribly gutless to do anonymously, no matter who you're targeting.) But I do actually buy the privacy argument. And I have to admit, it's really disconcerting to be put in the position of defending the actions of Condoleezza Rice (or any other prominent Bush 43 official).
Thank you! yes, sometimes we misunderstand the intent of a comment. and sometimes we don't :)
Does Nashorn simply rock JavaScript in Java 8 or what?
Of course they cannot compete on a dollars-for-dollars basis, but people will often accept less return (or pay more) to stay on the up-and-up.

If a criminal would pay you $10 for your exploit, and I would pay you $9 to disclose it- many people would opt to disclose.
That is a terrible alternative. It is a colossal pain chasing down processes which are still doing open-ended logging into /var/log on a RAM-only system, or guessing which ones may or may not be properly rotating their log files.

The OP is right: some stuff is so essential it should be centralized. Whether systemd is the right way to do that I don't know, but it certainly seems to the compromise we'll live with in the near future. Just as SysV was in the past.
I am designing this Ngnix conf for use on small vanilla sites and static generated sites like Jekyll. (Yes I know Jekyll puts all blog posts in separate folders to solve the URL issue, but I don't want that).
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Employers are allowed to make hiring decisions based on age as long as the age is less than 45.

Of course legal rules and social rules are different, but I don't see a big media backlash against companies for failing to hire smart 18-year-olds.
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<table> is for tables of information, not for layout.

But seeing as how I was downvoted, the important thing to remember is that any hint of levity strictly forbidden on Hacker News.
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"Our goal is to be in the most cities in the U.S. and have the lowest prices in those cities," said John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft.
In addition to the sibling comments I'll also point out that in this context of wealthy family dynasties, we're talking about far fewer than 1 in 100 people. "1%" is just the catchy branding.
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I tried Tasker. It's a usability nightmare. A perfect example of the bad Android UI that people stereotype (despite many Android apps having fantastic UI these days).

It also costs money. IFTTT appears to be free, and has a large community built around it. Just because it has some similar functionality to Tasker (and much else besides) doesn't make it a "clone".
I do agree that's something we might have to change if the signups slow down. And we need to do a cost-benefit on that perhaps. At the moment, folks are signing up though :)
Granted, it's more work for you, but this is pretty straight-forward to do with with access_by_lua (and the associated nginx APIs).
Congrats on their big launch! This is very exciting for their Android users! I'm not going to lie, as an iOS user I'm quite jealous. Ha This gives Android users quite a bit more tiggers available for them that iOS users can't do. The iOS app can only do basic things like calendar, contacts, and photos. Things such as "sending a text as yourself", changing settings on your phone, etc. are awesome features they added for Android that I wish iOS also offered. But I do understand the nature of iOS being more locked down than Android.

Sort of off topic, but I wonder if IFTTT will ever start charging for their services. I'm a huge fan of what they do, and it surprises me that they have stayed free for this long. Similar services (more directed towards tech) like Zapier [1] have very fair pricing plans, but their free plan is so-so. I would be more than willing to pay for the awesome work that IFTTT is doing with their platform. Just wonder if they will ever introduce pricing plans into their service or not.

[1] https://zapier.com/
This looks promising. I've got several IFTTT recipes in mind that I'd like to try out when they support my phone.

Unfortunately my Facebook related recipes never go quite so well, but I think that's Facebook's fault really.
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"...what if rich people would automatically mean smarter, faster, stronger (harder) people?"

Why is that part of the problem? The easiest way to get very rich is to start out rich and I'm having difficulty believing that there is any strong correlation between being "smarter, faster, stronger" and the ability to accumulate money.

What if your racist uncle, crazy and none-too-bright, can live for a thousand years and owns everything?
If an entry in the log is corrupt, it doesn't get
replayed.

Yes, and that is exactly the solution the article calls for: you have to design your log format so you can determine a log entry is corrupt, so you don't replay it, while still replaying the remaining entries. You can't solve that using write-ahead-logging, or it'd be turtles all the way down.
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Correct. More info on this here: http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/maidsafe-embroiled-safec...

From an outsider's perspective the 'IPO' did indeed look like a planned pump on Mastercoin: People were buying up Mastercoin to take advantage of the btc-msc arbitrage. This drove the Mastercoin price up by ~100%. Meanwhile certain people could potentially have offloaded tonnes of msc purposely bought the week before (for half the price). This may not have been intentional. But either way some people lost big money when Maidsafe stopped accepting msc for their 'IPO' - thus causing the msc price to collapse.
This one is a gem.

I can be very flexible and friendly, but I always put the company|religion|family first and I value the [company|religion|family]'s well being over an individual employee|Human.
What would prevent someone from simply getting a blood transfusion from someone younger?

In that same line of thinking, if I'm donating blood or giving blood samples regularly, does that increase the chance that I will die at a younger age?
Hmm, this reminds me of Asimov's Robots/Empire/Foundation universe.

In this universe, before the events of Foundation, there are two main waves of human expansion. During the first, humans populate and terraform a few dozen planets. By tightly regulating their man-made planets, automating everything, and having excessively tight import restrictions, they live better lives than those packed in on Earth. Their lifespans increase dramatically, and their birth rates drop to sustenance levels. These factors create a strong cultural divide between them and the humans who are still on Earth.

Eventually the humans on Earth get their act together and begin expanding throughout the galaxy again. This time however they do it quick and dirty. Short lives, lots of kids. Their population growth remains unbounded while the initial wave of human settlers becomes increasingly isolationist. Eventually the people and worlds in the first wave of expansion are forgotten.
> Educated residents are beneficial to society, even if they are not working directly for the government.

In aggregate, maybe. In every case? Certainly not. Spending six figures for someone to get a Ph.d. in Esperanto doesn't seem beneficial to society to me.
Seems likely to be shit, fuck or stupid
"It's better to have inequality and life, than equality and death."

A great many founding fathers, heroes, patriots, and what-not would seem to disagree with you.
I've yet to see a usable alternative to Thunderbird on the desktop. (I also don't care about OSX-only products.)
From the technical side of things, where do you see the biggest challenges today? Where do you see the biggest potential wins? What are we not looking at deeply enough?

This is a field that deeply interests me, but my knowledge is effectively zero. I'd love to get your insight, as one that is on the ground in the field.
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Nobody is (or few are, I'm not gonna count) criticizing the termination process, as it's about as empathetic as can be realistically expected.

The heat is coming from how she disavows that decision (and process), and is somehow surprised that he's not enthusiastic to not just put in the contracted paid-for time but won't go above-and-beyond to provide free services for her sole benefit. That's not "trying to be decent to people while trying to run a thriving business", that's expecting people to consent to be taken advantage of.

BTW: being shown the door with a check for 2-3 month's pay (not unusual in the USA) is quite palatable. Shows due appreciation without expecting someone to labor under a dark cloud when they should be out looking for work.
I see it as a kind of sociopathy, an inability to empathize with others and a tendency to see them not as human but as resources for you to use. I have a high sensitivity to it and no tolerance for it. And I agree that sales people are the #1 bullshitters.
> That response is quoted in the NYT article:

A response is quoted in the NYT article, but not the published refutation that was discussed upthread, which is now available: http://www.fcc.gov/blog/setting-record-straight-fcc-s-open-i...

It sounds like the intent is to hew closely to the original order but to adapt it exactly and only as much as necessary to conform to what the FCC perceives to be the parameters of the D.C. Circuit decision.
I think it would sell well, assuming you're raising someone else's taxes or cutting an unpopular budget line item.
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I don't disagree, but this sounds perhaps unnecessarily black and white.

Do you make your own ropes and biners, and walk to every mountain you climb from the house you built with your own hands?

Why draw a special line for Everest ascenders when we all depend on others to get done everything we do?

Why criticize the economics of Sherpas for being dangerous when our own economies are killing people by the millions?
Given that argparse has known problems and that not all optparse code can be ported to argparse I doubt optparse will ever go away. It's also a very small module and if optparse will ever disappear only a subset of optparse is needed to make click work.
I agree, although I'd stick with packages for almost anything as it's just too much work to keep up with every release of every piece of software in your stack (except for, as you mentioned, special circumstances like Geartbleed). Plus, since in this case the repository is managed by nginx.org, it's hard to beat them to a new release even if you compile from source.
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I understand the redirecting to non-www is subjective, however I find less characters in the URL is cleaner. Also for a majority of my projects cookies are not used, so it is not a big deal to use a non-www base url.(Static blogs and simple vanilla sites for various school projects, etc).

Also as far as foo.com/ -> foo.com, I was referring to the URL, not the acutal path.

example: https://www.google.com/ redirects to https://www.google.com correct? Maybe I am missing something...
From your other comments I can tell you're a seasoned daemontools user, so let me just put in a quick plug for daemontools-encore [1]. Like runit, daemontools-encore can now run services in separate process groups with setsid(1). Why is this so darn important? Well, under classic daemontools a ./run file with a pipeline in it -- or really anything that forked -- would spin off orphans every time you did `svc -t|-k`. Very bad stuff to deal with in a production environment.

[1] http://untroubled.org/daemontools-encore/
More like 10%
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28population+of+wester...
Best of luck guys, I love competition :)
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Nancy typing (2006)
> The bounty "prize" is you will eventually have a working product to use.

While an IDE running under Windows is hardly what I would like to work with, a bug that manifests itself only on such extreme circumstances cannot be called a showstopper.

I would worry more about other instances where this Peek() method is being misused like this, perhaps on other situations that happen more frequently than Visual Studio 2013 starts.

As a prize, a Microsoft T-Shirt, a gift card and some public recognition wouldn't hurt. The person who reported this bug did a great job of pinpointing its cause.
I realize the article didn't say SFTP, but that couldn't be gathered from "secure FTP," as that's precisely what SFTP means?
As far as I can tell, neither Locale or Tasker are competitors to IFTTT. While IFTTT can do things like silence your phone based on location, that's not its selling point.

What IFTTT does is let you set up connections between services. You can trigger actions on other services based on something the phone does (indicate missed calls with Hue light bulbs, automatically share photos taken at a particular location to a flickr album) or take actions on the phone based on input from external services (get a notification when an apartment fitting your criteria shows up on craigslist, or set background photos from your instagram feed).

I don't know of any similar services that hook into anywhere close to IFTTT's variety of inputs or outputs.
In some cases it would be useful to perform session handling like this in nginx. I like the idea of building a reverse proxy which handles authentication and sessions, in front of a backend web page which wasn't designed to handle it.
Something like giving access to an old internal intranet without having to change the app.
You don't speak for all of us. What gives you any authority whatsoever to claim what the purpose of my, or anyone else's, existence is?
I think that's moving the goal posts a bit. Git is a VCS. You can replace some of git with RCS. More of it with CVS, or all of it with mercurial (modulus a few git corner cases). Git interfaces with email and diff/patch. It can produce text output that can be turned into reports with awk if you're so inclined.

I think arguing that systemd breaks with the unix philosophy is entirely valid -- it's taking what could (does!) arguably exist as separate systems with clean, separating interfaces into one monolithic whole for a somewhat unclear gain.

I wonder how hard it would be to write a compiler/translator from systemd service files to sysv init-scripts?
Even the word "odesk" leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I have heard a lot of bad things about these kinds of freelance sites.
Everest is kinda getting ridiculous. If you do any reading or watching on treks up the mountain you know the only way 90+% of these "mountaineers" get up to the summit is because of the hard work and ascents of sherpas. I'm happy to hear about the strike and hope it turns away the popularization of something I think isn't as novel as we make it out to be. Why not explore space instead? My $0.02...
> Let's all contact the F.C.C. and let them know how we us consumers are against this!

The FCC Chair has already stated [1] that he is against the kind of rule that the NY Times story described:

[1] http://www.fcc.gov/blog/setting-record-straight-fcc-s-open-i...
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And what if instead of $10 and $9, it's $75,000 and $1,000? And you live in an Eastern European country, where the former will feed your family for years.
Hence why they are going to Mars and the rest of space: to find more of it.

Please, pay attention, try to keep up!
It seems that the lesson is, if you're going to be a spammer, use a separate IP for each site, use a separate ID for registering each domain, and make each site sufficiently distinct. Then, if Google decides to ban ALL your sites, they have a hard time figuring out which sites are actually yours.

That's the danger of shady SEO. It's an arms race between Google tweaking their search algorithm, and people looking to exploit flaws.
Intimidation, lies and deceit on Everest