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Ask HN: When a startup supplies a computer, do you own it?
I'm considering an offer from a startup. Among their perks is a new laptop, monitor, etc.

Now at a typical job, I'd expect this to be supplied and owned by the company. But this is a remote startup, and thus feels different somehow.

Would the equipment typically be owned by the employee or the employer? Just having to ship it back if you were to quit seems odd. Especially if you add a chair into the equipment mix. Thoughts/experiences?
Even if your SaaS were perfect you'd still need to expend some kind of effort to move and ship physical goods around. So to the extent that's true and that people would prefer not to do that, there may be a viable market for Valet.
You are right, I should have probably mentioned I am doing it on my free time and no one is paying me. It's just pure curiosity. :)
Shay says they've already "fixed this" [1] and the aim is to get the fix in 1.3. I'm interested in what the fix actually is.

To quote Shay:
"FYI, the improved_zen branch already contains a fix for this issue, we are letting it bake as this is a delicate change, and we are working on adding more test scenarios (aside from the one detailed in this issue) to make sure. The plan is to aim at getting this into 1.3. We have not yet ran Jespen (which simulates the same scenario we already simulate in our test), but we will do it as well."

[1]: https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/2488#i...
Great, and we've lost the ability to save them to your computer, and to share them outside of twitter's ecosystem.
As a person who started with 24-bit colors, I only have a lot of respect for Jim.
This has nothing to do with UX. Yes, eBay has a terrible UX but some people have stuff to sell and no time on their hands.

Does Instamotor exist because of the terrible UX of car dealerships?
I wonder what the username(s) are for the Valets, is that public yet?
This is something you need to clarify with the company. My company has remote employees, but they get company owned laptops, monitors, etc.. When the employee leaves the company, they have to ship the company owned equipment back. You need to have this clarified in writing if you expect to keep the equipment.
Really we should stop talking so much about tools, and what tool/language/ide/whatever is best. Many years ago people didn't have half the tools we have now, and they still did amazing things. Most of what we have today is very good already. IMO focus on building products, not on bashing the tools.

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40 year old virgin did it first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEHD6jHXt58
Seems you have a fraud problem, not a chargeback problem. I'd use a fraud prevention service such as Sift Science to reduce the fraudulent credit card usage.

For legitimate users that are causing chargebacks, the following helped reduce it for us:

1) Emailed invoice every time there's a charge

2) When canceling, also sending an confirmation email stating the date of cancelation (so if they still receive a final charge, they'll know it's because cancelation date was after that final charge).

3) Changing the "Statement descriptor" for the credit card charge to be our domain name instead of our company name.

Since implementing those changes our chargebacks have gone down to almost zero. Hope it helps.
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.. and then, when the content is wrapped over two lines you get a line-height that you set just to vertical align the text. Perfect? No :-)
Mark Twain would have a field day in 2014
The Wargames book predates htmw by 10 years so htmw is the recontextualisation but thanks because the reviews on it don't really relatw to gaming.
By a Dutch auction, are you referring to a sealed second-bid auction, or are you referring to a second-item auction? Or are you actually referring to a descending price Dutch auction?[1] If you are referring to a sealed second-bid auction, you're right that it would definitely eliminate sniping, but it probably wouldn't be beneficial for eBay, so it's not going to happen.

First, with eBay's current bidding system items are already auctioned for a very full price, and it's better for eBay for prices to be high. Theoretically a sealed-second bid auction would cause people to provide their maximum willingness to pay, but as a matter of uninformed consumer behavior I wouldn't be surprised if prices were actually lower with sealed bids. Second, with the current system people are much more engaged with eBay than they would be with sealed-bids, because eBay gets to send them status updates on their auctions when they get outbid, which can cause them to either go back to the site and increase the bid (and potentially bid on something else while they are there), or bid on an alternative item which decreases the cycle rate for bidders. Third, bidders may actually prefer the current system, because they can know before the auction ends whether they have been knocked out or not and can move on to acquire goods through some other means.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction

Edit: Actually, it turns out that if everyone on eBay were using sniping, it's essentially the same as a sealed second-bid auction, economically, because of the proxy bidding (or very close, due to the way bid increments work). But time extension is a different issue. Given that prices would be open still, I would expect that the prices end up near the same place that they do with sniping. Potentially the prices would be slightly higher because all of the bids would be open rather than just the bids made before the deadline which could foment more competition, so that criticism doesn't apply.

In any case, from the consumer's perspective if you want to win the auction it doesn't really change your strategy. You should bid the maximum amount you would be willing to pay and make sure its more than anyone else would be willing to pay. With proxy bidding you can always win by paying too much. If you've ever lost because of sniping it's because you didn't set your bid high enough to beat the snipers. (What, you thought you would get a deal on an auction site? No, this is winner's curse territory.[2])

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_curse
Sadly, the launcher tells us it doesn't support rooted devices. Given that this is a limited release to presumably early adopters, I find this not only annoying but counter-intuituve. sigh
The rule of law is a great thing. It's a shame when short sighted people enforce the letter instead of the spirit of the law as that undermines order in the long term.
New or like-new designer shoes and handbags: Brands like Hugo Boss, Gucci, Nine West, Ralph Lauren

I wonder if eBay are potentially setting themselves up for a massive headache with this.

There is a quite staggering number of people who falsely believe that their counterfeit designer items are genuine.
America, land of the free... Just wow!

I'm living in Vienna and these things are common here. We have local stores having a "take something, leave somthing" shelf. We even have a few "cupboards" installed by the city at public places installed for this kind of book exchange.
Cover looks cool. Seems like the sort of thing amazon would like to launch next - with a quick launch button to it's flow app - as a way to spread the new firefly button("push to visual search") functionality faster.
Typically, the employer. They'll probably want to manage it, include e.g. "nuke from orbit if you lose physical control of the device." Owning the computer makes their claim to your code (even) stronger. Owning the computer means that e.g. the company's insurance won't insta-deny any claims that they make because they fail a checkbox item about letting uncontrolled hardware access their network, etc etc.

Buying you a computer is also not tax advantageous when compared to buying a computer for your use. If they buy you a $3,000 Macbook and give it to you, that costs ~$4,500. If they buy it for you, the cost is upper bounded by $3,000, since they can book the depreciation on it as a business expense and carry forward the tax loss as an asset.
I would be very interested in knowing the details.
I suspect it's intentional: if they find someone that bites despite they put no effort into it, that means he will be easier to control and will work for cheaper without needing to spend as much on salary or good working environment; the same way spam doesn't work on most people, but when it finds a sucker, they bleed it dry.
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Local smaller valets would be something nice, since as a seller and buyer on ebay I enjoy the occasional local delivery of an item which spares the hassles, pollution and the costs of shipping. You can come accross assholes too but that's part of the charm.
If you haven't seen it already, you might enjoy reading "It's Behind You" by Bob Pape. It's about how the game R-Type was ported to the ZX Spectrum back in the day.

http://www.bizzley.com/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6470106
Seriously, how cold-blooded do you have to be?
I would get yelled at by my wife if I said "girl" and meant anyone over about 15.

As such, given I didn't know the gender (or age) of the person involved, I tend to default to "guy" as gender-neutral. As mentioned by another post, "you guys" can include both genders.
I can't even imagine what the person reporting this must have been thinking. Indeed, America, land of the free.
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Land of the free ...
It's also common in America, it's just one stupid city that is complaining.

Don't forget just how large America is, you'll find every kind here depending on where you go. In some ways that's the draw: You can pick your perfect environment without having to deal with immigration or language issues.
Isn't "quantum computers are proven to be more powerful than classical" proof that BQP != P, which would imply P != PSPACE, which hasn't yet been proven?
Same in France, and they are always full of books. People like this kind of social experience and there are very few abuses.
I have not checked if the overal quality of the books tend to go down after a few months ending up with yellow pages.
I'm terribly old-fashioned and use vim for development. My monolithic window is iTerm2 which allows for split panes. It is pretty nice with my laptop screen below for reference material.
You're right: there are no shortcuts in hiring. No matter what blog posts on the internet you read, hiring is hard work, and requires a great deal of attention and thought. The bullets I describe are mostly principles to focus your thinking if you're choosing to do cold outreach — it's generally better if you can just hire from within your network though.
The story is really about a piece of furniture being considered a detached house annex. The child and his books have little relevance as far as the city hall is concerned, only used to attract clicks.
Slightly misleading headline. The city has no issue with the "library", they take issue with the library being a free-standing little shack making it a building code violation.

Restricting where on a property one can erect structures is common in building codes across the world. And as always with laws and codes, once you allow for exceptions, everyone and their uncle will go to court to get an exception too.

What I think the city should have done is invite the kid over to city hall and offer their assistance in navigating the process towards getting permits or whatever is needed to continue running the "library". That would be a helpful lesson to learn and probably yield a nice photo op for the mayor in the local newspaper - win win. Instead they taught him that government and bureaucracy are soulless machines.
>Why not just get them painted by some artist?

Over here in Germany they do this in quite some cities:

http://frankkoebsch.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/bemalte-trafoha...

http://www.juliusbaasner.com/architektur.php?projekt=1

http://www.appolloart.com/2014/04/28/stadtwerke-bernau-liebe...

One can debate how beautiful the results turned out but some painted transformer stations or communications boxes gave me a smile upon seeing them here in Berlin.
Wow. Really unfortunate that people end up doing that. I think the most important part about cold outreach of any sort is to be sincere (cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7917277).
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Humanity is a great thing. Laws are simplified ideas, that can be both helpful or oppressive.

Small minded people are generally attracted to this kind of power, so we get far too much of the later.
Dart is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. The project also encompasses APIs like collections, async and a much improved DOM API. Dart also has a node.js-like server VM with IO.

Angular is a client-side web framework that provides templating and data-binding. It was originally written in JavaScript, and now has a Dart port as well.

Somewhat relatedly, Google and Mozilla have been working on the web components standards, which bring some of the features Angular popularized, and some more fundamental ones as well, natively into the browser. These include Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, Mutation Observers, Object.observe(), and HTML Imports.

Polymer is a project that helps with building custom elements, it adds some sugar including templating and data-binding, similar to Angular in some ways, but completely focused on modern Web Components related standards, and on elements - not apps or frameworks. You can use Polymer elements in any app with any framework, or without a framework.

Web Starter Kit looks like a bundle tools to help you build a site with modern best practices, like responsive layouts, a local dev server, a build system, mobile-friendly user input, multi-device testing, etc.

Web Starter Kit looks like it's framework agnostic, so you could probably use Angular or other frameworks to fill in the views, though these days you might find you don't really need a framework if you're using Web Components.
Somewhat relevant: Pamela Zave has done some interesting work with Alloy to analyze the Chord overlay protocol:

http://www2.research.att.com/~pamela/chord.html

I'm not particularly familiar with Alloy itself, but I've found Zave's papers great for filling in the gaps in the original Chord papers.

In particular, there are multiple versions of Chord from different papers: in "How to Make Chord Correct" Zave kind of cobbles together the useful parts of the 2-3 versions of Chord from the original papers with some of her own work to produce a version of Chord that can be modeled in & verified by Spin, another lightweight verification tool:

http://spinroot.com/spin/whatispin.html
I had thought Statwing set up the remote stuff and then automated a lot of tasks in-browser, but it doesn't seem to give the easy access this does. This is a lot more attractive!
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Does it actually refuse to launch if your device has root?
This implementation of multi-argument partial application does not in any say prevent implementation of flip. It's just syntax sugar.
My observation is that when I talked to friends about my amazing ideas, they are invariably less passionate about them than me. So, be prepared for lukewarm reception. Or worse, 'devils advocates', etc.

You might even be more susceptible to this type of reaction given your condition. So, be aware of it.

I would just do it anyway. Its worth it for the experience. A set of 4 or 5 solid projects from this age on a resume is likely to result in additional interviews, which might find you jobs worth an extra $10,000/yr. So, consider it an investment in your future.
Pro tip : when dealing with the idea that there are many people better than you realize that you are better than them for thinking that, and if they do to, you still are better for being thinking that they think that too. A few recursions later you are the brightest guy in the world!

Hey wait, you can't be, I am. Ok it used to work when I was 8 or 10, doesnt work anymore.
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Thanks for the kind words!

I'm not sure I fully follow your comment — what's the distinction you're drawing between managers/execs wanting to talk about their team, and someone wanting to talk about working at the company? Is it the specificity of them wanting you for their particular team?
Did you never see what a 1mhz 6502 could do?

KnightLore 1984 http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/ignacio/images/knightlr.gif

Did you never go to a video games arcade?

BattleZone came out in 1980

Seriously, the PC took years to become State of the Art when VESA local bus freed us from IBM dictating the game with E/ISA and ceeding control by trying to force MCA on the world.

Anyone who knew about Trocadero http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Trocadero knew what was coming

There was a Transputer network game doing realtime raytracing!
I was close to install it, then I read their ZLauncher Privacy Policy and I discovered they read your text messages and call logs, and I abandoned it. I guess, trust really affects our perception of a system, and our willingness to share personal information with it. Unfortunately, if there is no trust, the relationship/interaction man-machine will never achieve its full potential.
Very slightly misleading.. I doubt anybody actually thought they wanted to have a book burning. We're not quite there yet.

- The 9 year old used his brain, his humanity and his creativity to make something nice for the community.

- We delegated power to a collection of mindless bureaucrats.

- Mindless bureaucrats caused problems for 9 year old.

Pretty accurate title.
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I wonder if this will depress the market. Perhaps they will start all items at $1.
Access to production environment is not the only issue here.

Proper testing in development environment is not very practical without restoring a backup from production environment.

So typically, even if developers cannot change production data, they still can read few weeks old copy from production environment.

Trimming production data after restoring it to development may improve security a little bit, but such trimming is a project in itself and requires constant maintenance of that trimming code.
In addition to that, trimming production backup may introduce new bugs in development and make production bugs not reproducible in development environment.
Do they consider dog houses to be free-standing buildings? Bird houses?

"Instead they taught him that government and bureaucracy are soulless machines."

I think that's a better lesson than how to "navigate the process towards getting permits" for a damn bookshelf.
This is not going to end well for eBay, I can see it now. Some fake items are surprisingly good, you'll be reading stories of people being ripped off because valets were told they were given designer brand items only for them to be discovered as fakes later on. Somewhat cool idea I will admit, but when you're dealing with e-commerce and allowing users to get other people to sell their items, it'll open up a rather complex wound.
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Can you advise me where I can get a platform to run my Django App Online. I mean like a free Django host. I'm working on https://bitbucket.org/oswalpalash/football/ which is a Django API wrapper for FIFA worldcup in JSON.
Thanks in advance.
There's definitely a tradeoff there — the flip side is that after reading a bunch of company descriptions, they all start to blend together. So counterintuitively, a full description can cause your email to be ignored. In my mind, it's all about creating a (genuine!) connection with the person, and being cautious about consuming their time.
Machine learning is sort of hard to do without corpus.
This is truly impressive, I'm amazed by how fast it renders. So I guess Mr. Gates was right, you only need 64k...
I never smoked, ever. But, it seems to me you need some pleasant event to unwind in the evening. So, how about a nice piece of cheese. Or a movie.
That's a comprehensive explanation, thanks!
Gnome subtitles is pretty easy to use and works well: http://gnome-subtitles.sourceforge.net/
Trust but verify, ie tamper resistant auditing, works for low sensitivity data. It's also an investment you'll never outgrow. When you get larger, or more sensitive, its time to implement something like a Two Man Rule. Take your pick of implementations of Shamirs Secret Sharing. And lastly, my favorite, operators of the service can not access customer data without explicit permission from the customer. A friend implemented this, Grendel, as an internal service at Wesabi.

Personally I dislike identity impersonation schemes, even between internal services. It leads to poor visibility and accountability. A proper Auth/Authz/RHAC scheme where the customer expliceitly grants specific priveleges to your internal service, and delegates, works better long term.
The city is not objecting to the book sharing. They are objecting to the container used to hold the books.

The reporter or the blogger could have turned this into an interesting story by investigating WHY outbuildings are not allowed by the city's building code. My guess is that there is a sound reason for this in the case of things like like 100 sq ft storage sheds [1], and so then the question would arise as to whether or not this makes sense for small buildings. Do they prohibit dog houses? Bird houses?

Another interesting question would be, if the code as written does indeed prohibit this structure, is whether or not that was intentional, or was the code too broadly drafted?

But no, they just go for the cheap "mean city bullies book sharing kid" approach.

[1] for instance! small detached buildings might be unusually dangerous in high winds, blowing apart and turning into shrapnel. This story is from a state known for tornados, so I'd be surprised if wind concerns were not a major factor in their building codes.
Seems like it might make people more likely to run into camouflaged obstacles (particularly those vision-impaired). Imagine running through a park at night with camouflaged electrical boxes.

I heavily agree with painting artwork on them. A few blocks away, there is a painted electrical box that I have become quite attached to.
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As if no other organizations are reading them.
I'm on my first Android phone, never installed any mods, and it seemed quite simple to me. Possibly even more simple than using Play.
What exactly is an abstract idea? Is it possible for an idea to be concrete?

From looking at examples, "abstract" seems to mean trivial. By trivial, I don't mean obvious or silly, I mean small; i.e. an idea that can be reduced to one or two sentences, like "e-commerce shopping cart."

Otherwise it's pretty hard to distinguish ideas about software from ideas about hardware and explain why one is more patentable than the other.
What is the spirit of the law in this case?
Hmm not sure about the permission for dialling out...
Isn't this just a rebranding of something that already existed? This service has existed for a long time.
I don't know what papers you are reading, but you seem to have a very distorted view of the literature. How do results on image net, production speech recognition datasets, language modeling, and high resolution satellite images fit the pattern you allege? Once again HN comment quality is depressingly low when it comes to machine learning topics. But I guess to be fair the description in the original link is very confused as well and misunderstands the conclusions of the paper.
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