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Employment law only covers so much. For one, people are still discriminated against on the basis of their belonging to a protected class - it just can't be done overtly. For another the laws don't cover everything.

I appreciate that you feel the phrasing is antagonistic; but I hope you can appreciate that to me it is deeply reassuring and gives me much needed hope.

Searching for employment for me is very stressful (as it is for most people I imagine). I'm non-typical in a few ways, and some of them are rather visible. I have to worry about and have experienced judgment/reluctance to hire me based on those differences. It is nice for me to know ahead of time that an employer is not just looking for people who fit a certain mold.

It's not just about women, LGBTQ, people of color, etc either. One of the ways I am somewhat non-typical as a developer is I'm a high school dropout. It's relatively common for developers not to have a college/university education, but overall it's still not the norm and there are places that will discount you on that basis (especially outside the major tech hubs). Sure, a lot of postings will add that nice qualifier "or equivalent experience"; and that's great. This goes a little farther though, and lets me know that not only will they not hold my lack of a piece of paper against me, they won't hold my alternate path in life against me either.

I can appreciate that it might seem like it goes without saying to you, or might ring hollow... but honestly I've found there are places that don't care about diversity/inclusiveness, or are even hostile to it. Also, I do actually appreciate just the effort of hanging that little sign that says "this is a welcoming place".
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Having purchased a few of of Packt's books, I have to say that I have not missed the Amazon store infrastructure to get things on to my Kindle. Having a choice in the formats from Packt is kind of awesome. If I want Kindle, I can send to Kindle. If I want proper pagination and the ability to make sure figures haven't been mangled, PDF.
>Understand this is an issue in the merchant's processes, not with Bitcoin

Sure, but the end result is the same. It's irrelevant whose fault it is.

Or, reversely, nothing prohibits buying with credit cards online to be done differently and be safe from such fraud (e.g one-off credit card numbers with token generators).

But in the real world, credits cards are used the way we know, and merchants accepting bitcoin still ask for those details.
The article ignores that the recipients of Chen's charity are not comparable to those of the handout studies. The latter are a general population in a developing country - in other words most have a family, many have some work, most have a modest home.

The "NYC homeless" on the other hand often are mentally ill, have no ties in the community, no home (duh...) and are usually unemployed, quite a few are or have been addicts.

The idea that these people could use the money for drugs and alcohol is actually a lot more warranted than in the general case.

Homelessness in developed countries is a completely different problem from poverty in developing countries. Still, it's hard to imagine that this charity is doing a better job with the money than they could do for themselves.
As a driver, I really like these timers. I can see from a block away that I've got 15 seconds (and will make it comfortably) or 2 seconds (and may as well slow down now since I won't be anywhere close).

As long as the blinders weren't too restrictive, my use case would still be viable.
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It's even already implemented as the Hacker News UX extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-ux/chn...

I like it a lot, it would be great to have it that way by default.
Didn't you read the latest news on war? Apparently, they claim that a lack of it makes the economy stagnate. </no_kidding_they_really_said_that>
Ask HN: Should my company name specify the type of service I provide?
I'm about to register a limited company, get a company bank account etc, so I need to get my company name right.

I'm building a SAAS product, which may be the first of many, so I have one company name under which all of my products will be sold (obviously with a seperate website for the product so it can be properly marketed). This is the sort of thing I want to do going forward - build my own products and sell them.

So my question is should I register my company name as "CompanyName" or should I add "Software" afterwards so it's clear that i'm in the business of selling software? I.e. I would instead register "CompanyName Software"?

I noticed Patrick from Kalzumeus has registered with the "Software" addition, as have others.

I'd prefer to just register as MyCompany as it's shorter, snappier and allows me to change direction in future. Adding Software does however create less ambiguity over what my company does currently... What's the best move?
vice did a short about this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDH4C0B956Y
Doesn't seem to be included on the CentOS 6.5 server I tried it on, but it's good to see there's one out there.
Sounds like a feature the whole site could use. ;)
Weird. I wonder if this is primarily a problem in larger, more congested cities where people tend to drive more aggressively. I live in a smaller city where we've had these a very long time, and they don't seem to inspire the kind of behavior they're talking about here. But driving here is also significantly less aggressive than somewhere like, say, Chicago.
Since when was "we want our employees to respect one another and not harass each other" considered "political beliefs"? Fuck off with your childish manbaby bullshit nonsense shitgarbage. Get the fuck out of our industry if that's how you're going to act. You have the emotional maturity of a walnut.

You know what? Don't even bother responding. You're gonna think you're clever, but you'll actually be responding with trite garbage that we've all heard, literally, hundreds of times before. People like you are climate change deniers, or creationists. You have tons of information and resources right in front of you, but you never bother to pay attention. Then suddenly you're the idiot asking why monkeys still existed if humans evolved from them.
You can't really compare the category of homeless drug users in Liberia with homeless drug users in NYC without adequate controls for the resources available to these people as well what kinds of addiction are prevalent and perhaps certain background characteristics that could influence decision making. Here's a very crude hypothesis to illustrate my point:

In Liberia I can't imagine that there are many soup kitchens or organizations like the NYC Rescue Mission. Thus, when an individual receives cash they will spend it on items such as food and clothing because these are basic neccessities. Perhaps the disutility of not having anything to eat or to wear is greater than the utility gained from using drugs. This also depends on the type of addiction.

Now imagine that you're homeless in NYC. Being homeless your standard of living is relatively poor, however you can still scour the bins for pizza leftovers or go to a place like the NYC Rescue Mission and get a meal. Homeless people might not be adequately dressed to withstand winter, but they do have something. So now when you get money, you spend it on your addiction because while life is painful, it's not painful enough to give up drugs.

I haven't read through the 19+ studies implicitly mentioned in the article, but this is definitely something that should be taken into consideration.
That's nice.
In a sense he's rationalizing away the need to apply the same rigorous requirements to the existence of a god (and therefore whether or not obedience is necessary, followed by a source from which to gather his sense of morality) that one would apply to any other fantastical claim. So what? Nothing wrong with that. So long as he's not applying that same mode of thinking to the actual science he does (which he apparently does not), doesn't negatively impact others with that morality which he derives from his beliefs - or the source of those beliefs, and doesn't demand that others respect or accept those beliefs. Doesn't appear from the article that he's guilty of any of those actions. Then again, I'm unfamiliar with his name or his work.

*Edit: rephrased "...or acceptance of..." => "...or accept..."
In the case of homeless people in the US they often don't know what's best for them. Many are schizophrenic or otherwise mentally ill. Many are veterans. Even if they know they need treatment, who could give it to them? $300 might not be enough for even the first doctor's visit.
You understood his point backwards.

He's not saying there are more people with mental health issues in NY, but rather than there are more homeless people for other reasons (i.e. economic) in Liberia.
Just everyone in the office independently voting on something can trigger it, which is unfortunate since it was not even planned.
I think one thing that's interesting is how this relates to things like pay equality.

People throw their arms up and say "How the hell can a CEO pay themselves 1000 times what the lowest paid staff gets paid"

But that CEO may be a "Messi".

Some people really are 1,000x more productive/as talented as the average person. And so should be compensated accordingly.
The author answers that question with this:

In 2010, Jim Rankin, a reporter for The Toronto Star, asked
himself the same question. So he handed out five $50 prepaid
Visa and MasterCard gift cards to panhandlers. What did they
buy? Mostly food. Some phone minutes and clothes. A couple
bought liquor as well.

By and large, people know what's best for themselves. Some will waste it, but most will put the cash to good use.

Waste can't be completely eliminated, and giving the cash to an organization also doesn't eliminate waste.
> Donors have a finite amount of money to donate to charity so convincing them to give it to you often just means they don't give it to someone else.

That's not always true. Sometimes a potential donor doesn't give at all, so if you convince them to give, then this is a donation that would not otherwise exist.
I feel like it's more likely they'll be completely separate until Play Music has absorbed all of Songza's features.
"I feel quite uneasy about the idea of telling people not to give money to the homeless."
If that makes you feel uneasy, I'm curious to know how you'll feel about the things this search will show you:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=illegal+feed+homeless+people
Not that I'm inclined to agree with the war-as-a-business-model approach to economics, but there are a number of very significant differences between paying for a war against an opponent who can scarcely afford to retaliate and having your own country turned into a war zone. Even people who benefit from the former are unlikely to be in favor of the latter. Having a lot of the national currency of a pile of rubble is not a very good place to be in the grand scheme of things
"This content is not available in your location."

Fuck off.
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I learned a similar lesson in another domain.

Songza's headphone-specific equalizer made my Sennheiser HD 558 on iPhone much more enjoyable with the profile for HD 580. Hope they provide a profile for HD 558. Hardware headphone amplifiers are obsolete. Software equalizers are the solution.
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That might actually be caused among other things by a higher representation of African-Americans in the US military. Turns out, being a US soldier can have all sorts of health consequences...
Dart is much more of a scripting language than C++. It makes as many code issues static warnings and runtime errors as it can, rather than runtime errors, so you can run a partially incorrect program.

Dart is also strongly typed, doesn't have pointers, has GC, has no shared-memory concurrency, uses dynamic dispatch, don't require a compiler (for development), has full access the the DOM (with a much nicer API than in JavaScript!)...
I wonder what it feels like?
> And FWIW, "trusting social proof", as the term is used, would mean deferring to the group beliefs;

I did not know the phrase had commonly held definition. I meant more along the lines hamburglar's heuristic for deciding when they were more likely to be correct was overly dependent on not just the people who he happened to be around but other people in general.

> But even then, I think the group was representative of the population at large: very few people possess the kind of understanding to do that, nor hold themselves to the standard that would make them seek it.

My comment was not about a group representing the population, but rather representative of the possible solutions weighted by relevance or similar metric.

> I think the problem is that you never encountered anyone who actually understood the best reasons for the policies you opposed,

hamburglar should have/be use heuristics that do not depend on encountering the right people to gather and judge evidence when possible.
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The SF salaries listed are really, really low. Where I'm currently contracting several of my colleagues converted to full time. Only the COO and CEO on that list earn more than their base salary. My hourly rate makes my salary-equivalent more than everybody but the CEO.

When I was a developer in a low cost of living area prior to moving to the bay area several months ago my salary was within 10% of the "Senior" engineer positions listed. This was at a non-profit, doing some really junior level CRUD work (so glad I'm not there anymore).

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to discern whether that means the salaries are "lowball" or not. And it's for Buffer to determine whether it can afford more, what the Buffer-market-rate is, etc. Nobody else. Frankly I wish more companies were transparent about salaries. Information asymmetry is a killer when it comes to negotiations.
Anecdotally, companies which I've worked with set bands based on local market conditions and allocate you within the bands on a roughly cross-company performance basis. e.g. 10 levels of engineers, level 3 engineers in NYC and Bogota are roughly comparable in skill level but the ones in NYC make quite a bit more.

Mostly for internal sensibilities of fairness, it is generally the case that e.g. level 3 engineers in Bogota working at the company would earn above-market for their skillset in Bogota. The companies tried to strike a balance between "We want to pay them equitably with our employees in high-cost US locales.", "We want to retain them versus other offers.", and "We do not want to give them golden shackles by e.g. paying grossly more than any employer in their low-cost locale."

This assumes functioning remote cultures and regular, full-time, full-class employees. Consultants obviously do things differently. (And any consulting client which made reference to Nagoya FTE rates in a negotiation with me would have gotten a firm handshake and non-specific pleasantries immediately.)
Typescript is a superset of Javascript. Similar to C and C++. Almost every C code can be compiled as C++. Dart is Java in this analogy.
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Good point. Here for some reason the pedestrian light is 15 second even if the traffic is going to be flowing in that direction for 45 sec. You can hit the button and it'll start counting down again.
Can't wait till we get self-driving cars. Next generation will find it completely reckless that we put people in charge of driving cars
I'm having trouble understanding this article. If the count down timers show pedestrians the amount of time they have to cross the road (as they do here in London) why would the driver be watching this and think they only have a few seconds until the light goes red and they can't get through the intersection. Surely, the opposite is the case?

I can see that you could potentially form a similar explanation around that scenario too but it doesn't seem as convincing.
This is why we have IdentityFile :)
(also afair you usually get more like 5 key attempts before failure)
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I've actually written about that on Programmers: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/235992/55400. The term was coined before Python Labs joined Zope Corp though (IIRC).
I've always wondered about what it is that kicks someone up from great to "how is that even possible?". For example Mozart being asked to remove a ring because his playing was so good an audience thought the ring was a talisman. It's one thing to be so good people think you cheat. It's another level when people think you are magic.

Clearly opportunity, talent, and work play their parts, but there have been many people that have all three and don't turn out a Gauss, or a Newton, or a Pele.
Indeed. In searching around to find something to compare these numbers with, I found that Walmart alone processed 10 million register transactions in 4 hours on Black Friday in 2012[1]. Even if all 70k bitcoin transactions every day were actual purchases (rather than shifting money around), it'd take 5 months to do what Walmart did in 4 hours.

1. http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2012/11/23/walmart-us-r...
I'm assuming this has something to do with being able to turn through a red light, which is illegal in London.

But yeah. I had trouble understanding the issue at all, as you note London has them, I've never noticed any issue at all - if anything, it gets the peds out of the road more timely...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_Server
Thank god we have people like Darth Google looking out for the white guys.
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Are you software developers? Are you Web designers? Two very different markets. If I am a small business, are you a company I would hire to design my web site? If so, your competition is Squarespace / Wix / my local high school student / etc... why are you more effective than them for what I need?
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The list misses one of the best. Connect through a jump host directly to the target server using ProxyCommand and nc:

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070925181947

Combines well with aliases - prefix all hosts with a common name and use "Host prefix-*" to setup the ProxyCommand.
> Package manager and repositories are not completely foolproof.

Nothing is completely foolproof.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/aug/19/i...

> If Linux were to get as popular as Windows, the problem is going to way worse.

Everybody says this but it doesn't make any sense. Are the repositories going to get more malware when there are more people and funding available to notice and report it?

> Also, there's lot of Android malware that's installed from outside the app store, typically for piracy reasons which is another big malware vector on Windows.

All the more reason why it wouldn't happen on Linux. Nobody really pirates LibreOffice or gcc.
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Ideally, I’d like to be involved in a product with a mobile or platform component, and where I can contribute both on the backend (~75%) and frontend (~25%). Of course, I’m very flexible and not bound to these ratios :) The most important points for me when evaluating a company are (in order): great team, interesting problems, and technology stack.

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It's very interesting to read that most companies change salaries based on location. I'd like to hear from someone in a senior level position explain the reasoning behind that.

I think that it would make the most sense to pay someone what they are worth, regardless of location.

As a remote worker who moves quite a bit I'd be constantly having to renegotiate my salary.
I'm skeptical about the ownership projections. It's very hard to beat the latency of owning a car that sits ready to go in the garage.

Owning a self-driving car could be interesting though. Perhaps you could let it participate in a ride provider while you're at work or sleeping, having it return well before you may need to use it. Also, it enables some interesting new activities such as you drive to a boat launch, take off in a canoe, and have the car drive downstream and wait for you.
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Couchbase is hiring for technical positions across the board http://www.couchbase.com/careers

Specifically I'm tracking mobile database engineer and developer advocate roles, but there's a lot more opportunity than that. Remote is an option for all our positions.
> I think the reality here is that you can't be a tiny startup in areas like music. Licensing costs can kill you.

We're a tiny startup trying to take advantage of this, I'm just a contract programmer though and it's more exploiting licensing costs than anything. I don't really disagree with you.
Who cares if I fake my location? If I'm in Berlin but I say I'm in London, does that really detract from anything? I can still talk to people, right?
What gets me is that unless you are really interested in GO, Haskell, dislike Microsoft, think you can write a real encrypted instant messaging system in JavaScript crypto, and have a libertarian leaning you will never have enough karma/points to downvote other people.

It encourages group think in the extreme.

Also, at around 180 gold stars/dingles it just stops.

I mean seriously...there is a vast amount of consensus around a set of things here that are just impermeable. Yes I have read "the approach to comments" and it sounds like you guys think that "resisting decline" means everyone basically has the same opinion but everyone gets to restate it to each other in "civil" and interesting ways.

EDIT: You also have to really be into crypto-currency...it also helps if you mention hayek while talking about it. You rebel.