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I'm sure these companies are more humanely managed and have happier employees but I doubt they're economically efficient. If they were they'd outcompete non employees
owned companies. We even have an entire sector of employee owned companies where they obviously do win consistently, professional services firms like accountancy (PWC, KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young) or management consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG). All the MC firms reserve equity for partners after an up or out process which takes about seven years. Most people never get equity. Accounting firms don't have up or out but there are still partners and non-partners.

What's particularly damning about the efficiency/survival value of employee ownership is that all the (then) Big 5 accounting firms threw off IT project management/procurement firms, all of which were/are normal companies. Accenture os all that's left of Arthur Andersen. It doesn't have partners except the way Goldman Sachs has "partners".

If you want more humanely managed companies mandate it for everyone because employee owned companies lose, consistently.
Oh, for fuck's sake, mods. There was a useful, informative, uncontroversial title here, and you've turned it into something meaningless. You've actually made it more clickbaity. Stop doing this, for the love of all that is good.
If by "the world" you mean "the US", then yes.
What: Petpoc is an iPhone app for pet owners to snap, edit and share photos of their pets. Use virtual stickers to express yourself and your pets with silly costumes and accessories. Targeted towards a young female audience who have a strong affinity to their pets. http://www.petpoc.com

Why: Because pet owners are under served in the App Store. Either the existing apps are poor quality or they focus on being a social media network for pets. I believe a relationship with your pet is a very personal thing and so the focus is simply on your pet, not anyone else's. The target audience clearly enjoy expressing themselves and customising every facet of their digital lives so I provide simple tools to empower them to do that with their pets.
Ask HN: Any grand plans for YC Hacks tomorrow?
People at the event onsite, or those just hacking remotely, any plans?
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I do use git. Just not for deployment. To be honest though I could live without it.
> The choices between those objects that they valued most highly were both the most positive and the most anxiety-filled. The more choices they had—the study was repeated with up to six items per choice—the more anxious they felt.

This sounds like nothing more than loss aversion. Until you make the choice you have opportunity to acquire some valuable things. When you make the choice you've lost all the things you didn't choose.

This leads to easy ways of alleviating anxiety. You just need to mentally devalue all the things you are supposed to choose from and when you make the choice, immediately devalue things you haven't chosen even more (getting hyped over the thing you just chose won't help because anxiety comes not for the lack of appreciation of what you gained but for too much appreciation for the things you've lost opportunity to obtain).
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Pretty cool how a project that took 10+ years to agree on is going to make traffic worse in the 4th most congested metropolitan area in the US and cost 2-5x as much. All around a fine bureaucratic job by everyone involved.
the only thing I'm seeing from your posts is "I'm a fucking idiot who doesn't understand that C is safer than any interpreted pretend-you're-safe language"
I am from Spain and used to work with cooperatives like Mondragon group in the North and lots of small agricultural coops in the south.

It is not paradise, but somewhat it works. It is not for everyone, everybody is the same and you have consensus lock when taking decisions.

About unions relationship, well for me they have nothing to do. Everything changes when the workers own a part of the company, nothing to do with Big Unions on Big Companies or Government.
This is totally true. I simply hadn't thought of a better way to put it than ORM. I think it could be best put as an object spreadsheet mapper.
I think you should read philwelch's post again. You seem to see development as an intrisic good thing, whereas philwelch does not (or at least questions it).

There is a world of difference between freezing in a cave and developing 1080p/2160p/4320p.
Again, this. Even with WiX it's painful. HKLM vs HKCU + corporate deployment hell + why the fuck do I need two MSIs to bootstrap the CLR and VSTO. Argh.

I deal with VSTO, WiX, ClickOnce, IIS, COM, MSMQ and the usual bits. Pays well but it made my hair fall out and has taken a couple of years off my life at least.

I long for the gong to ring so I can go home to my MacBook and OpenBSD (where I truly belong).
Well one alternative floated was to simply to demolish the unsafe viaduct with no replacement, as San Francisco did with the Embarcadero Freeway after the '89 earthquake. My preferred alternative, and much cheaper! However that wasn't a popular suggestion, probably because it would be worse for traffic (at least in the medium-term), especially given Seattle's not-great public transit. Another alternative is to rebuild the viaduct, which would be cheaper than a tunnel but still very expensive, and would probably require it to be closed in the interim anyway, because it basically needs a complete replacement of the unsound 1950s structure, not just more reinforcement. Or, of course, keep the viaduct as is and hope there aren't any major earthquakes...
You can't verify the 'decision-making aspects and operational state' of a human or remote server, they can fake anything that you can check. Crypto tech allows us to verify possession of some information or token, or a proof of work, but that's it.

Either the supernode can't do anything bad even if it's malicious (such as bitcoin miners) and you don't need the transparency or it can do something bad and then you can't audit it remotely, you need trust.

If "something bad" is altering data, then if you can detect if the data is 'proper' (such as bitcoin transactions), then a node simply can't fake data; but if you can't detect it then you need to trust the node. The same for reading data, if it's cryptographically impossible for the node to read your messages, then you don't need to audit that node; but if it's possible, then you can't be really sure unless (and probably even if) the node is under your full control.

[edit] Ahh, and if by 'verify' we mean not 'automatic verification that the system can do' but 'human verification where I check that Bob seems to be a nice guy, and thus his node can't be evil', then we're back to the original post - either centralized certificate authority chain, or Sybil problems.
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MDN was on Django 1.2 for a while, albeit with monkeypatched password hashing (since Django at the time was still defaulting to SHA1, I believe). With the switch to Persona, it no longer matters -- for a new account -- what hasher is used, since Persona doesn't involve storing a password.
Not a great fan of c#. It always dissolves into generic programming and constraint hell. Most of it is satisfying the compiler and working around shit (like non-serializable dictionaries), piss poor frameworks like MVC etc which have dubious lifecycle management for filters/attributes and state problems galore. Oh and sealed classes. Thanks bastards, I'll never need to mock them will I - oh wait!

Yes deployment is a broken pile of crap. We inevitably did an NIH and wrote a massive push deployment framework for that. Cost a fortune. And I look after our integration environment as well (TeamCity). TC is nice but the .Net toolchain is horrific. Requires so much maintenance it's unbelievable. Also everything is stateful meaning repeatability is a PITA.

I'm the sweary guy too. Usually "we should have used Java - we don't have to invent new wheels every two mins".

The only bit of our infrastructure that is reliable is some memcache boxes on CentOS which have been online without a reboot for over two years!!!

Give me a C compiler, preferably LLVM and let me leave all this behind.
It's not one argument. In its simplest form, take the digital camera megapixel race. Who in their right mind does anything useful with 20 megapixels, where most are buried in the noise levels for all common applications? Does that really need to be "optimized" further, even if it means quality and storage both suffers? A lot of real problems worked on in the industry could be described like that.
"Setting up the Key Lime Pi is a breeze! Just insert the provided SD card, hook up your keyboard and plug the device into your monitor. Then follow the detailed instructions that are included with your device. The instructions can also be found here!"

Hardly "a breeze" for anyone with a laptop.
The term Autism is as meaningless and vague as the term Hysteria in times of Froid. There is a whole scale of ASDs, which have very different causes and symptoms and hardly could be fit in a single oversimplified category. Especially when used in media.

Some causes are "environmental" and of personal experiences, like childhood traumas or, which is the most common scenario, lack of proper treatment by parents and abusing by others as "being stupid". These conditions could be successfully treated by various CBTs, including those based oon "overcoming ignorance", to which I am myself a living proof.

But there are also various neurological disorders which cannot be lifted by mere CBTs.

So, the meme of autism as in characters like Rocky or Travis (these are the most "realistic" ones) or modern memes of autistic techies or hackers (with a very few well-known exceptions) are, well, a stupid memes. Life of an ordinary person with Aspergers (as they call us) is by no means a movie. It is just a severe condition of confusion, frustration and pain.

Unfortunately, modern media are made out of memes because common folks cannot grasp the subtleties of reality, which is indeed a not easy task.

So, non-neuroligical condition changed by a improvised CBT is not such a great news. These things happen routinely and quetly in the rest of the world.
My rough writeup:

Every single listed weakness also applies to a device that is online. An offline device has a lower attack surface.
Why did Stellar decide on using Facebook accounts to enforce the one account per person rule, instead of something better like mobile numbers? There are more people with cell phones than there are with Facebook accounts. Acquiring large batches of phone numbers to game the system is harder since it costs money and is more easily detectable.

Even if this guy isn't gaming the system with fake Facebook accounts, I'm sure others already are.
Me too. I wonder whether it got censored. Copywright stuff maybe?
It's pretty amazing how much engineering and user-focused innovation has gone on since the '70s. Having to restart your computer in order to run a program on another disk? Having to walk to the back of the computer to turn it on and off? We've come a long way.

One or two of the kids show signs of being potential future programmers, which is nice. Even if they don't understand all the trouble the old-timey computer was, they still feel that sense of achivement when they manage to make it do something correctly.

In the same vein, teens react to '90s Internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mg9DxvfZE

- and in this one it's easy for us older ones to relate to how teens see the modern, omnipresent Internet.
I had do look twice when I saw the prices: 16 BTC seems pretty steep. The small leading dot is easy to miss.

Maybe use a leading zero or millibit or bits or whatever is trending right now.
I'd rather stick to Google for searching movies.
Yea. On the Play Store, there is litterelly a screenshot of the app displaying a picture, above the text presentation which claim that the app protect against screenshots… This is so lame.
And even the "fun" is 90% boring. The tunneling itself is maintaining the TBM as it's doing its thing and crawling along at ~30ft/day. Seeing them in action for 10mn is fun (I did and the scale is awe-inspiring) but I'd expect working on them to be more on the boring side.
Facebook has nothing to do with this.

If everyone on Earth were given 5000 Stellars right now, how many people do you think would be willing to sell all of their Stellars for a beer?

It's basic economics.
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Are we thinking of the problem incorrectly? Math may actually be our enemy here. (Egads!)

So yes, for a fixed problem domain, the information transversing it requires topological constraints. Or another words, the fact that the data is structured requires the network to be traversible.

So how about this? We remove the structured requirement from the data. My device "knows" several other devices. Each device has some biometric identifying data to show who is using it currently. Those devices send my device unstructured data and app code from time to time. Each device decides who and what to share things with and whether and how much to trust incoming material. The data and the app are linked through a cataloging system provided by the sender.

The trick is this: each device really only makes one decision: how much do I trust the other devices? If trust is established, the app and code can continue to propagate. So we're sort of making viruses a good thing!

Now your data has no structure, so there's nothing to coordinate. If some of the initial apps helped folks communicate, then you could communicate to those you trusted. I could imagine some "master" data types that all devices could use: URL, IPv6, Text, HTML, JSON, XML, email, IM, etc. You could even have some master device types.

The beauty of this is that you start building security at the same time you're doing anything else -- because if you don't, somebody's going to own your machine, and rather quickly. Each device has no knowledge of the whole, but it has to quickly evolve a very complex and nuanced understanding of what it's willing to store and do for other devices.

I don't think the math would work on this at all, but I think it's a workable system - much the same as a cocktail party is a terrible place to interview people, yet lots of folks end up with jobs because of conversations held around cocktail parties. (Do people still have cocktail parties?)
So, essentially this site is just reselling Raspberry Pi's with a few pieces of software source code pre-downloaded to the SD card? I'm really not seeing the value add here.
Damn, this is an awesome interface. Nice job.

I did have one super minor moment of confusion. I'm on iOS 7 on an iPhone 5. I tapped "genre" then "action," and then my choice appeared at the bottom of my screen in the white triangle. I did not realize there was more content if I scrolled down the page, so I was confused why nothing changed except the appearance of my choice.

So I would recommend finding a way to make it clear scrolling is available if you can't tell.
There's a lot of ways to access internal interfaces. By executing javascript on an internal computer for example. An img src is enough for simple requests.

If the home router implements uPnP (many do), and if that implementation is insecure (all are), you can often pop holes from the outside.

And that's just the two ideas to try first... Don't expect a disabled remote admin to protect you from anything else than automated bots.
They're selling them for bitcoin?

Maybe they have created amazing docs?
That's exactly how the windows ecosystem works. Everything is pay per view.

By the time we've got the PO's signed if it was open source then I'd have solved the problem at hand.

To get around this, defensive purchasing is required: at least one VS ultimate license, at least one MSDN sub, ANTS profiler, IDA Pro, Azure VM allocation ready to roll for test machines and two guys who actually know something about all this.

This is the safety belt cost: about $30000 + $120k a person
I think people living in the modern world, with all of our technology are no more happy than a caveman sitting by a fire with his family.

However, to survive as a species in the long term, we need to leave this planet. To do that, we need a number of advancements in technology.

So, if we can agree the survival of the species is in our benefit, then we can agree development is considered a good thing, even if it doesn't equate to an increase in happiness for the individual.
> now law enforcement assume ip==user who did things

That is false. However, they might have a few questions.

The plausible deniability is in fact a big plus for lesser crimes that they don't really want to investigate, such as file sharing.

I've been running an open access point for 14 years now for the simple reason that I want to live in a society where people do such things.
Yup. As a Seattle area resident it's been frustrating watching this clusterfuck play out in slow motion to the tune of billions in costs. The deep bore tunnel was the most expensive and riskiest of all the options to replace the viaduct. For a while there was hope, but it turned out to be just as much of a shitshow as most detractors imagined. The tunnel was supposed to have been open to traffic sometime in 2015. Now 2015 is when they will finally be able to dig down to the TBM so they can extract the cutting head in order to repair it, and then maybe sometime after that they can return to digging.
Yep, they should make it CLEAR that the SD card is one crappy and unreliable storage to use and backups must be made.
> Seattle's not-great public transit

I like Seattle's public transit. As for the tunnel, how about giving the right-of-way to Sound Transit and let them build the Ballard/West Seattle rail route through there? They seem to be doing quite well at digging tunnels pretty much everywhere.
You could implement onion routing. But yes, you are right the IP address is usually a useless piece of information.
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As for the last option, the viaduct is sinking, if it sinks too much they'll be forced to close it and it's already nearly half of the way there. So even if we tossed earthquake safety out the window the viaduct realistically doesn't have a long lifetime ahead of it.
You make a mistake when you say downvotes are only for disagreement. Some people do not use them for disagreement and only ever use them to indicate unsuitable posts.
I love FreeBSD but only really get chance to run it at home as work is very Linux orientated these days. So I don't get chance to stay as up to date with changes as I used to.

So I wondered if someone could explain to me (or point me towards a previous discussion as I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this) about the changes to package management. Previously I would compile everything via ports but I gather the new package manager replaces both the previous binary repos and ports too. So I'm curious, how clean is the switch over to the new package manager and am I likely to see any performance impact in losing the ability to compile architecture specific binaries?
Picasa?
No!
Google+!
Hm maybe not.
Picasa again?
Ip addresses change. Sometimes they don't even work for P2P. Without ICE or something its hard to even know your public IP address programmatically. So often some kind of proxy or server is necessary for most people. True decentralized connections are a sketchy proposition.
Last time I tried OM, good 5 years back, it required some stupid commercial implementation of Common Lisp. Is it still there?
What its got is different cultures, which makes all the difference. The Protestant work ethic has an entirely different outcome for a people than many other ethics for instance. Japan has little or no natural resource - look at what they accomplish.

And what do you mean, absent energy? There's plenty of energy around. Methane Hydrate reserves are estimated at 6X all the oil we ever found for instance.
If you're willing to accept some zero-knowledge centralization, then the feature set of things like Bitcoin begin to look very weak. Bitcoin spends so much energy solving the double-spend problem that other desirable aspects of a monetary system (transacting offline, fast transactions, provisioning for lines of credit, anonymity) are largely not addressed.

Stefan Brands described a digital cash system using zero-knowledge signatures more than 20 years ago that provides far greater payer and payee anonymity than the blockchain, and is fully distributed with no requirement for full-time network connectivity to engage in trade. The only real downside is it requires a traditional bank at the backend to act as an honest reserve.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money... - half way down, under the heading "PROTOCOL 5" for a high level description of operation.

Many people don't realise that the only substantial benefit unique to Bitcoins Blockchain architecture is the lack of central issue from a reserve bank.
> There aren't any decentralized alternatives to Facebook,

> Google, or Twitter because nobody's been able to ship one.

Diaspora and identi.ca(/pump.io) are decentralized alternatives to Facebook and Twitter. Admittedly not in fully decentralized sense the author is talking about, but that isn't their problem. People don't use them, because people don't use them.
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Can we please start making people go to jail when this happens? I am so tired of having personal information so often.
Other interesting things include Faust and ingen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAUST_%28programming_language%...

http://drobilla.net/software/ingen/
Hacker News really needs some feature to down-vote ... ;-)
Yes, but not exactly via "F? SF?" thread. My situation was a bit unusual, so I posted here on "Ask HN" separately, got in touch with a startup founder and worked for him for 9 months - it went great.

During that time we also worked with another guy from HN for a few months - and he got in touch via "F? SF?" thread directly.

So yes, it is possible to find work here on HN.
>What does "encrypted, salted passwords" mean? MD5 with a static salt? Holy shit, that's a problem. bcrypt? Less so. I have no context to know how concerned I should be, or any indication of how incompetent, or awesome, Mozilla's existing processes and defenses are.

Given that this leak happened at all, incompetent to criminally negligent would be my estimation.
When have you heard of a JavaScript dangling pointer problem? Buffer overrun? Segfault?
See also the Edinburgh tram system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Trams

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27602618

It cost twice as much as predicted (probably more); has less network than originally planned; caused massive disruption to locals; etc.

When the opening ceremony is described (by Edinburgh City Council chief executive Sue Bruce):

> "It's not a day for jubilation," she told BBC Breakfast.

> "I think the whole of Edinburgh is relieved that the programme is now in place and the city can move on."

... then you know the project isn't the sucess that people wanted.
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So, what is the difference between utox_linux_amd64.tar.xz and Venom from https://repo.tox.im/rpm/ ?
In Poland there is very famous children's rhymed short story about a donkey regarding this paradox of choice, so polish children are very early confronted with this paradox and warned about possible consequences (donkey dies of hunger in the end). Rhymed form makes it stick so good that we even have a saying for describing person experiencing paradox of choice that is literally the first line of this story.

Story:
http://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Chciwo%C5%9B%C4%87_os%C5%82a

Saying:
http://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/osio%C5%82kowi_w_%C5%BC%C5%82o...