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No need to turn down equity, provided the company is meeting your targeted salary expectations. Think of an equity stake as added incentive compensation. It's nice to have, but there's a reason people call them lottery tickets.
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The problem is sufficiently complex and boring to favor Comcast. What I would like to know is this: It is already a regional monopoly in high speed internet because no on can touch their speeds, why would anyone consider extending their monopoly nation-wide?
>>> "A lot of people would be shocked to find out that the space programme was founded by a man who held orgies in his Pasadena mansion."

Still wondering how the heck that would ever find its way into an academic book about NASA or the JPL considering how people are up in arms about anything that goes into text books these days.
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Wow, http://www.fathomdb.com is a YC08 company...and still has just a landing page up. How does that not count as dead?
Regardless of what it'll say in print, 75% of any money will go to lawyers, and the rest will be doled out accordingly. Affected workers will have to get in line with appropriate documentation for their $75 pre-paid Visa card, to be mailed to them and delivered within 8-12 weeks.
That's nice and all but the fact of the matter is Comcast doesn't give a crap about its own network or its customers. In the last 6-8months their PNW, SoCal, Colorado, and NY/NJ routing centers have sat, 24/7, at significantly higher than 50% util (Think closer to 70% at "lows" and 90+% at peaks). As far as I can tell, they have no real plans to fix that.

Comcast's CEO is a smug bastard who doesn't think his customers want faster speeds, or cheaper internet, or higher level of service than Comcast currently provides. The CEO doesn't care that his customer satisfaction and service ranks dead last -- he things that's just dandy. Comcast's CEO thinks they were ranked the "Worst Company In America" not because they might be the least liked in general but because a few, vocal, not-representative people on the internet were mean.
I believe Single Page Apps (SPA) built with a front-end 'modern' stack (MV* framework + DOM manipulation library + templating engine + theme) that connect to REST APIs. These APIs will be PAAS (think Firebase) and in some cases Local Storage (no back-end) wih some sort of synch. In a few cases it will make sense to program your own backend. Moreover, as browsers become more OS (say Chromebooks) on both desktop and mobile, the non-sense mobile native programming (care to maintain 4-5 code bases of the same app, anyone?) will be replaced by the one SPA that is programmed for the desktop, something that we devs will be eternally greatful for :)
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

(And, if I'm ever successful and allowed to dream, Seattle would be my next target)

Thanks for the suggestion, I updated my profile.
> UK, Canadian and a lot of EU have socialized medicine and it works rather nice for them

"Works rather nice" if you don't mind them rationing all forms of health care, which is precisely what I was referring to before: they don't just negotiate better rates for their citizens, they decide what health care those citizens are going to get. Which, as far as I can tell, results in longer wait times for various procedures and fewer people receiving them.

> it's possible to have decent government.

"Possible" is not the same as "likely enough to be worth betting on".

> I'm talking about immediate life altering changes.

And I'm pointing out that basing your reasoning solely on those emergency situations paints a false picture of how we actually value human life.

Sure, if a person is in a life-threatening emergency, they are willing to trade almost anything to stay alive. But they weren't thinking in those terms when they ate the smoked bacon or the hot dogs that ultimately led to the heart disease that put them in the position of needing a heart within seven days or dying. Why not? Because there was nothing in the system forcing them to actually take into account what it would cost to get a heart in seven days if it came to that.

Please note that I am not saying a "free market" in hearts, for example, would make the cost less than it is now. I am saying that nobody is forced to think of the cost at all until they are in the life-threatening situation. That's a bad system, and the government that allowed it to be put in place is bad government.

Please note also that the cost is not just monetary cost. There are fewer hearts (and kidneys, and livers, and other organs) available than there are people who need them, so decisions are going to have to be made about who gets them first. Every person who gets a heart because they failed to foresee the consequences of their bad eating habits or other lifestyle choices is taking that heart away from someone else, who might need it because they were in an accident, or for some other reason that's no fault of their own. Once the situation gets to that point, there are no good options; so the best thing we can do, to whatever extent possible, is to prevent those situations from ever happening. And that means forcing people to consider the long-term costs of their behaviors up front, while there's still time to do something about them before it becomes an emergency.
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Funny, that interpretation didn't even cross my mind.

I guess there's a lesson in that (don't assume your way of reading something is the "right" way).
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Huh, looks pretty similar to envuidgid(8) from daemontools. [1]

Another plug for daemontools-encore (last one I promise). The setuidgid(8) program in classic daemontools doesn't set supplementary groups, and a lot of people I know just end up just using sudo in their run files. If you use daemontools-encore though, you can just use `setuidgid -s` instead.

PS. Really, daemontools-encore should imo be called daemontools 1.x, but you know how djb feels about forks of his projects...

[1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/envuidgid.html
nope. typed it on my phone. it was a service i use 2 months ago and a friend asked me about it during the chat
Related, Google built their own water treatment plant at one of their data centers.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/helping-hooch-with-wa...
Because Comcast does not incur cost per-bit, they incur cost based on the maximum required capacity of their network. Netflix significantly increases those costs on a per-customer basis.
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It definitely seems a little naive to hand over the keys to your life's data without accepting that you're taking on a fairly large amount of risk with regards to privacy. Even if the party to which you're handing it over doesn't intentionally behave maliciously, you still have to trust that they share your exact opinion on what reasonable use of the data is.
But, Google+ showed that they were incredibly influential. The real-name policy was the primary narrative about Google+. Feminist bloggers complained it would expose women to stalkers and abusive ex's. Journalists wrote about the underlying racism of the algorithm assuming Anglo-Saxon naming conventions and highlighted people barred from the service for having names from a different ethnic or cultural background. Techies wrote about privacy and big brother.

The end result was every article about Google+ carried with it some form of controversy, negativity or problem. Joe average might not care about the real name policy at first, but they do care when they're told it's broken, sexist, racist and dangerous.
I thought this for a bit. Had a pile of shit (100+ notes) in OneNote on OneDrive and then suddenly WHAM half my notes disappeared out of the blue. Fortunately I had a backup but I'm not going to trust it again. If you're offline you're probably OK though.

Gone back to a lab notebook and space pen for the mean time.

Side issue: does anyone know where you can get decent lab notebooks in the UK - shipping them from the US is expensive?
"We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together."
-Terrence Mckenna
As a bonus, they're working in the Stripe office. If Stripe thinks they're awesome, they can extend an offer at the end.
I'm guessing it's this, but I didn't go too far back in the comment history so I may be wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430250
Although I believe he meant "public" as in, people who were affected but not directly filing the lawsuits. So, as you say, people who worked for or were affiliated with the affected companies.

However, you can make the argument that this affected the entire North American tech labor market, in which case it truly would be the tech public at large.

Perhaps that's why they're so keen to settle.
I would use them more if I could assert a different identity/profile for each one.
We just opened out our new cloud version and as part of that move we have started our journey towards open sourcing too. Mowbly has six different modules and we are open sourcing two of them the cross platform mobile SDK (iOS & Android) and coming up in May we will open source our cross platform mobile UI framework 'Juci' along with the Windows & Blackberry SDKs.

Our Github repo: https://github.com/teammowbly/Mowbly-Mobile-SDK
...AND signed with the lawyers to be represented.

the judge just have to agree that a significant number of people affect joined to allow a class action. even if in reality it leaves almost everyone out.
+1 a great article

I had the privilege/fun of consulting at Google for four months last year and getting a glimpse inside the company was more than interesting.

I think the filter that projects should offer 10x improvements sets high expectations. If Google is the first to develop a general purpose AI then their valuation will approach infinity.
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I think even that part is mostly wrong. The author confuses project and engineering managers, but more importantly, this notion that Larry wanted to fire all of them is just not true. The managers all had technical backgrounds (CS degrees, usually) so the plan was for them to go back to writing code. I also don't remember a bunch of people moving to Urs' team. Maybe one or two? Most stayed with their teams.
The Real Names policy stinks. It misses completely legitimate (and innocent) reasons why people want to be anonymous sometimes.

That said, your other point needs to be trumpeted to any companies thinking about taking a run at FB. The reality is that FB has its annoyances, but overall it is good enough that it's not worth losing all my posts, photos, etc. that have become a "life mosaic", as well as, my network of friends to move to another site - and I don't have time to maintain more than one social network. The situation reminds me of enterprise vendor apps that my employer uses. Overall a particular app may have its warts, but it covers most use cases alright so that we aren't tempted to go to a competing app.
That's for internal, in Russia, consumption, for those who don't know better. Pay no attention... to the phrase itself.
Trying to figure out how this compares to Naked (http://naked-py.com) in terms of goals.
It's amazing how many cool things they come up with and follow through on. Respect.
Lots of fields primarily use LaTeX to typeset papers, e.g. physics and computational biology. Typesetting and hosting a PDF never justifies a $1500 publishing fee given that reviewers, editors and of course authors are all working for free. Hence even the good-guy (non-profit) publisher PLOS took about 20% excess revenue in 2012, primarily by charging $1300 odd dollars for publication in PLOS ONE.

Why do we even need the dated journal model? Push everything to a central arXiv, biorXiv like repo (funded as they are by small donations from institutions). Couple this with open post-publication peer review and endorsements. Millions of tax dollars saved around the world, research open to everyone.

The counter argument is the rubber stamp that accompanies a prestigious journal (and filtering the crazies) but if the repo was accompanied with a suitable array of article-level metrics and thorough categorisation the good science can continue to filter to the top, much like how HN and reddit work.
Ah, I'm thousands of miles away. Best of luck with your project!
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Hmm, it's crashing on a fresh install of Cyanogenmod. I can't blame them too much for that, though.
I should write up a comparison between:

- Cement (http://builtoncement.com)

- Cliff (http://cliff.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)

- Plumbum (http://plumbum.readthedocs.org)

- Argh (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/argh/0.24.1)

- Aaargh (https://github.com/wbolster/aaargh)

- Baker (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Baker/)

So many more to choose from. Now we get to evaluate Click. Seems like the reason Armin wrote Click was to load options dynamically, but that's what Cliff does via stevedore (https://github.com/dreamhost/stevedore).

My favorite feature about Cliff though is: http://cliff.readthedocs.org/en/latest/complete.html which comes out of the box, but then again, there's Argcomplete (https://github.com/kislyuk/argcomplete).

EDIT: Updating from previous posters

- Naked (http://naked-py.com)

- Docopt (http://docopt.org)

- Clint (https://github.com/kennethreitz/clint)

- Argvard (https://github.com/DasIch/argvard)

- Commandr (https://github.com/tellapart/commandr)

- Argtools (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/argtools/0.1.2)

- Plac (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plac)
I have an incredibly common name and have had this problem many times working in even small teams. We tend to just suffix with a number on the end :)
Throwing this out there for anyone working on a startup in the academic journal space. I'm on the board of SAGE Publications, which is (depending on how you count), the 5th or so largest publisher in the space. See this diagram for where SAGE fits: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/vis/images/?src=4e3c02ab/journal_pub...

If you’re doing a startup in this space and want to reach out, please contact me. I live in SF and would happily take you out for coffee or meet up for a beer. My contact details are on my HN profile.

SAGE is a 100% family owned business. My grandmother is chairwoman, my dad and I are on the board. I'm a coder working in an unrelated startup for my day job, living in SF. We’re not dinosaurs trying to bleed the system dry until our business model collapses, but at the same time I wholeheartedly acknowledge the fundamentals of the journals business are antiquated and I believe they will radically change eventually. Academia is incredibly complicated and moves at a glacial pace.

So if you’re interested in seeing the world of academic journals from the inside, please get in touch. I can get you in contact with anyone in the SAGE organization at every level.
You say that like it's a short amount of time. Three months is more than enough time for hype to build, peek, and wither, which can -- and did, I would agrue -- kill a social network.
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A judge would never approve such a high contingency fee. Standard contingency fee is about 35%.
Their gross margins are the result of their positions in the value chain which, in turn, determine their cost structure. What Comcast is trying to do is to extract more rent out of its position.

As others have commented, consumers already pay for both services.

If it's infrastructure cost that you're concerned about I've read somewhere (Bloomberg?) that Netflix offered to co-locate its equipment in Comcast's data centers but the latter refused.
Blackboard. Universities use it for managing courses, assignments, grades. It's hideous. You click a link and it takes 30 seconds for the javascript to spin up and render the page. So much feature bloat! And yet they can't even make simple tasks like data entry or file uploads easy.
I've been getting groceries delivered for years now from Peapod (and a brief trial with Freshdirect). We get our groceries delivered two or three days after we place our order - you might be able to get them sooner, but I think it costs more for that option.

You know what we never have to do? Spend more than 5-10 minutes shopping for two weeks' worth of groceries. I don't even leave the couch, and when the delivery person shows up, they take the bags right into the kitchen.

Totally acceptable.
Why? My grandmother didn't have electricity in her home, but she could buy groceries in 15 minutes. It's not exactly a great luxury.
Then you might be right, but I hope that's not the case.
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I had the same reaction; "retreat" is ambiguous without context.
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It also has the added benefit of incentivizing Comcast to provide faster service.

Actually it gives them an incentive to provide slower Internet service. This encourages content providers to pay to use the Comcast private network instead of the Internet.
I find the new Maps to be so unusably slow, laggy, finnicky, and overall not an improvement over what Google Maps had been for the 4 years before.

And I can't figure out how to show traffic WHILE displaying directions or a location that I searched for. Seems like such a simple, commonly used thing... "Where is this place? What's the traffic outlook for the routes there?" Sigh
I'd be worried that if I hired her and she ran into trouble with other employees that couldn't be resolved to her satisfaction, that I and my company would be ensnarled in this kind of PR mess too.

And yet you make no mention of existing employees on the payroll who contribute to this type of misogynistic behavior in the first place? You're not "worried" about that?
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Here's a Medicines Sans Frontieres Ebola expert answering that very question[1]:

In recent years, MSF has been involved in battling every Ebola epidemic. Once the first case is confirmed by a blood test, every person who cares for an infected patient must wear a hazmat suit, gloves, a mask and protective goggles and exercise extreme caution when administering treatment. Decontamination chambers are generally installed between the isolated patients and the external environment. To confine the epidemic, it is critical to trace the entire transmission chain. All individuals who have had contact with patients who may be contaminated are monitored and isolated at the first sign of infection. The affected communities must also be informed about the illness and the precautions to be taken to limit risks of contamination. Basic hygiene – such as washing one’s hands – can significantly reduce the risk of transmission.

1: http://www.msf.org/article/guinea-%E2%80%9Cthere-no-treatmen...
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Me too. That was a shock.
Yes, "laid off" is another term I would put in the same category as "made redundant". I work in Spain now and I am used to non native speakers using sacked or fired when I would have used "laid off" or "lost his job". Like I say, I still have the connotations of incompetence or poor work when I hear "fired".
This reminds me of a tip Guy Steele gave in his talk on the Language Design panel of the Dynamic Languages Wizards Series in 2001 [1]. He said: It's important to establish design principles early on, that is in effect to do meta-design, because as you evolve the design, or as the language grows later, you want to remain true to an initial vision. This has to do with keeping the description small, and if you can resort to a meta-principle to help you resolve a particular design decision, it keeps the language more consistent. (17:09-17:29) [2]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw-wlHGi0E

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw-wlHGi0E#t=17m09s
The plaintiffs are not the public at large. They are the class of people, 60,000 in number in this case, who were affected by these hiring practices. The terms of the settlement will be mailed to class members who are not directly involved in the suit, and they will be given the option to opt-out and preserve any individual claims they have against the parties.
Zynga has a history of timing their shady announcements like this, that's all.
This is really just drama (I'm equally culpable here on this thread). Let's talk about TLS and UKS instead.
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I guarantee you they do give a crap. But there's only so much money available from subscription fees to provide network upgrades, and Comcast spends ~$6-8 billion a year doing so.

I've seen nothing of this low level of service or high cost; I can get a 150mbit connection for $89/mo. It's not Google Fiber, but it's really not bad at all (especially compared to FiOS, which I have and hate with a passion). I mean yeah, their customer service is shit, but the Internet service itself is good.
The packages have been uploaded as far as I can see.
What about surnames?
We had like six Johans at one time, so started going with surnames.
This is awesome, can't wait to see what comes out of it.
About two weeks ago, NPR mentioned two things that make this outbreak more worrying:

1. Cases in 2 countries with suspected cases in 2 more [1]

2. Cases in a capital city of 2M+ people

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/04/08/300509073/the-ebo...

[1] thanks nbouscal
Great,

Hopefully they'll just end the push to make people unify account names across platforms.

The efforts to make me unify my Youtube and my (inactive) Gmail accounts have been fricken annoying.
As deadly as Ebola is for the individual patient, it's somewhat easily containable compared to other infections: It spreads via blood or other body fluids, it's not airborne or transmitted via touch. From what I've read somewhat prolonged exposure is required - so pretty basic hospital equipment is sufficient as long as you can keep the patients isolated. Previous outbreaks were contained by isolating the patients and giving them the best care possible until either all perished or overcame the disease.

It's a gruesome sickness but it doesn't have the potential to hop like SARS etc. do.
> Perhaps I've been conditioned by decades of languages with balanced quotes

> I've

see? You used a quote that you didn't close
The packages are usually uploaded within a couple of hours after the release announcement. It took it a big longer this time because there were two releases. :)
Once again, it is the user who requested that data from Netflix. The user pays the ISP. The ISP is already immensely profitable. Because of these things, the ISP has no need or ethical right to demand more from the user or from Netflix for providing a service the ISP already promised and the user already purchased.
Its not my comfort I am thinking of. Its everyone’s.
> If you're offline you're probably OK though.

Isn't the recent OneNote free version only able to work with the MS syncing? Copies coming with Office packs probably aren't limited that way (corporate users wouldn't take it), but your average Joe consumers are stuck.
The SICP lectures on logic programming will provide some conceptual background if needed.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
They should use classic Cable TV vs. Local Broadcasters tactics:
Block all IPs from Comcast and force them to pay access to your content...which happens to be the exact amount they want for the Tolls.

If we consumers have to pay to access to content why shouldn't ISPs?
Ebola is actually too aggressive. It tends to kill and incapacitate people so quickly that they don't have time to spread it to others.
Generating traffic is easy.

Routing each bit to customer houses is the difficult part.

The offer to put Netflix's servers in a Comcast data center does not help.
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