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>The offer letter he received, which was in English, stated clearly the “at will” nature of the contract

Just because you write something in a contract does not make it so. Labor laws exist for a reason, and chances are that the "at will" nature of the contract would have not been cause if you had fired him after the three-month trial period.

As someone who has flown halfway across the world for a job, I feel for Andreas (luckily for me things have turned out better than for him). The thing I'm trying to figure out is not only whether what happened was legal, but also whether what you did was, for lack of a better phrase, a dick move.

I can understand that hiring people can be difficult to get right. But if you ask someone to move to a different for you, if you decide it's not right in the end, not giving them some sort of severance (even if it's just 2 weeks pay) doesn't seem like the "startup" thing to do.

I've only been on the employee side of the relationship, so there might be things I'm not seeing. But if you hired 8 people in the same period (and you weren't planning on firing the guy from the outset), I can't see it being a cash flow problem. That money could be considered part of hiring costs, and the professional relationship could terminate as amicably as possible.

I don't think you really get credit for 'treating him with respect', if (according to your description) you seem to have caught him by surprise by letting him go immediately. Most people can't find jobs on a 24 hour notice. Loaning him money to help pay for rent is cool, but should also have been a sign to you that maybe he didn't have much money to deal with becoming jobless.

I can understand letting him go if he didn't fit the team. I can't understand letting him go after uprooting him without helping him transition back.
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Instead of posting to /r/thefappening what if they were just posting to /r/pics or /r/aww ? You think they would shutdown a subreddit with millions of subscribers?
No, we should pass a law barring law enforcement from seizing property in any case until a judgment has been reached in a court of law.
9/11 is ultimately making the terrorists win because otherwise they terrorist might win.
Who has painted Rand Paul that way?
I could throw out a few situations that have happened to me in the last few months:

- People that gave me cash in an envelope at my wedding, as it's cheaper than getting a money order/bank check if you don't write a regular check that takes forever to clear with large amounts. Don't want to think about how much I was carting back home that night. Hell, replace wedding with any situation - I have had to cart around a fair amount of money in general between my parents and their friends that are in a war with each other over gifts/paying for things, sometimes unknowingly when people stuff an envelope in my purse/bag or somewhere in my car and then only tell me after the fact. (If you're Asian, you know what I'm talking about.)

- Me hauling ~$5k to go straight from my restaurant and bank across the street, to one of a couple of restaurant supply stores that offer a cash discount because they don't want to deal with fraud and fees (and nor do I). It's rare I buy a piece of equipment with cash, but sometimes it's urgent so I go in person instead of ordering it online.

- The other day, dad was in the hospital and they wanted payment asap. I had been in a rush and I didn't have my CCs on me only like $60 in cash and an ID, so I went to my restaurant and brought the payment over that was otherwise going to be deposited in the bank later that day.

Some of this is cultural though - older or still very Asian folks that like the feel of cold, hard cash. They're a lot of small business owners with businesses that deal with a lot of cash on a regular basis too. So you know what some of the deal is ;)

Having dealt with $10k+ checks in general though, I almost want to just deal with cash but it's just too easy to lose. I deposited a ~$50k bank check in my business account that took _three weeks_ to clear. As in, fully guaranteed by the bank funds. When they're not and they're just personal checks, I've occasionally gotten a stinkeye from bank tellers, nevermind the pain of going to the bank to deposit a check in the 5 figures in the first place (typically can't ATM or app deposit) - even though that's not uncommon for me (not even 1mo of contracting, or my parents' gift to me for my wedding).
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There are a bunch of self harm and thinspo subreddits that are not touched, until those subreddits start breaking other laws (collecting and distributing personal information about people under 13 for example). Watching reddit feels its way through conflicting law and Reddit "hands off" stance is interesting.
Yum! There are some really great-looking gradients here. I would love to have an easy way to see them at different scales, though. I'd want to see, for example, how a gradient that looks great over the full width of the browser window looks as the background of a smaller element.
Shopify has a pretty good one, it humanizes the product pretty well: http://www.shopify.ca/
I can see how one might come to the assumption that the victims here are "poor", and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are, but I didn't see any suggestion of that in the article. I would presume that the less well-off victims did not have the legal resources (as these men did) to challenge the police's actions.

Of the three victims that were profiled, 2 were business owners, all 3 (presumably) owned vehicles, and were carrying anywhere from $18k to $75. Now, that doesn't mean they were well off, but it's also not sounding like most people's definition of poverty. Surely business owners have to deal with the costs of bank transactions.

Again, I'm not trying to blame the victims here. I think they were wronged and that the police are overstepping their mandate. I do empathize with what happened to them. However, I've had enough experiences in life to form the belief that while at the same time you should stand up and speak against wrongdoings like this, you should also protect yourself as best you can, knowing that these things, sadly, will happen. That's where my original question originated from. For example, I don't keep valuables in my car, because while I know that the thieves who break into my car once or twice a year are completely in the wrong, I know I am putting myself at risk if I leave stuff in there for them to take. I'm not going to leave stuff in the car out of principle, because it's my "right".
Lawyer up if you feel mislead.

It's always hard to see who is right and who ia wrong, specialy in employment case. Morever, european laws should be a lot more protrective even if you are the one in fault.

ps: On a side note, never forget that's every publicity is good publicity. I am working on integrating automated translation in our web app and now I am considering unbabel. :/
Hang on:
"Thrust was observed on both test articles, even though one of the test articles was designed with the expectation that it would not produce thrust. Specifically, one test article contained internal physical modifications that were designed to produce thrust, while the other did not (with the latter being referred to as the "null" test article)."

So they made a "real" thruster and a "dummy" thruster as a control and their measurements say that BOTH produce a (ludicrously small) amount of measured force in their test environment. Was it the same amount of force in both cases, or is that "30-50 micro-Newtons" the difference between the two?

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/dont-buy-stock-in-imp...
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Calling sandbox_init from inside your app has been deprecated in favor of the App Sandbox mechanism, but I don't see any indication that sandbox-exec is deprecated.
I don't think the OP has handled this well and I'd like to believe everything that you wrote, however, I keep getting stuck at this paragraph:

About a week before they fired me they helped me land a 4 month contract for a new apartment and even lent me the money for the deposit and two months rent to be deducted from future pay checks. When they fired me they deducted everything from my final pay, and since I couldn't afford to fulfill my rental contract I never got the deposit back.

Is that statement true? If it is, the most charitable thing I can say is that you are either deeply dishonest or else borderline incompetent. Surely you knew that Andreas was not a good fit by that time. Why would you go out of your way to screw him over? If it is not true, what actually happened?
A dose of skepticism: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-to-fool-the-world-...
From about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114188

Basic summary is that it's interesting, but almost definitely not doing what we think it is. Between the dummy thruster producing thrust, and the real thruster producing a thousandth the power measured in the Chinese test, this is likely an odd mismeasurement.
mobile/light version http://p-cos.blogspot.fr/2014/09/why-i-like-common-lisp.html...
Very nice looking indeed.
Especially as a board member of Facebook.
Note the dates on the article and paper. This was from six weeks ago and describes an experiment from a year ago. Nothing new to see here. It is probably still due to experimental error like most unrepeated results that violate the laws of physics.
Is this further news than was previously reported or just a new article?
Here's the DMCA request that was sent to GitHub: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-09-05-CraftB...
Follow the link in the article to the NASA website report.
> However, there are probably a few folks who don't use banks (don't trust 'em or don't use 'em just because) and this is how they buy a house or buy a car or go from one state to another with their possessions.

It may help to compare cash to bitcoin to help you imagine it. One of bitcoin's motivations is, "Why does the convenience of electronic transfer come bundled with central authority?"

If you can reduce middle-man risk, that's a good thing. Banks have lost reputation with the poor to the point that it's seen as less risky to transport sums in cash.
Eh, their post was their opinion, and they've got some decent points. Your accusation of ad hominem is misapplied--go look it up.

The observation was made that the real damage to the US would come from within and not without. This seems trivially easy to "prove" if you keep up with the news and history.

The observation was made that broad swathes of government and private practice were in league to perpetuate these issues. Such behavior is expected because of the mechanism of action at work: the rot and the power is in the legislative and judicial systems, so of course those folks will be acting in concert.

The observation was made that in other "corrupt" countries officers routinely relieve travelers of excess pecuniary baggage, which appears to also be the case in some parts of the US.

These are not ad hominem propositions, nor were they presented as such.
This is all that's strictly needed, which is why the rest is in a footnote.

I'm not sure of the legal requirements, or if there even are any.

But I know that I've filed irrelevant bugs with better documentation than the event which is claimed to be the seminal moment when an extremely high profile prosecution was suddenly possible. If for nothing else, whoever saw this packet should have documented it for bragging rights. It should be printed on the back of their business card, the byline to the rest of their career.

Instead they said "this totes happens all the time, trust us".

Bragging rights aside, this packet is the basis of a high profile international search warrant. Visiting the IP and receiving the same page is circumstantial... Anyone could be serving that same page. I'm sure you'll find plenty of them by Googling for whatever text was on the page, but you won't get a search warrant like that. It is the original packet from the source that points to that page which makes that IP crucial. It should be properly documented.
You can see the passion for his work in his eyes.
I think the point is: all that was one WITHOUT a warrant...
I believe it was eventually understood that the "dummy" wasn't a complete control, it was just there to prove whether or not the hypothesized mechanism of the thrust was actually responsible or not (and that it ruled out that theory).
So did I. Try clicking on Dashboard in the top right, that worked for me.

Edit: False start, it doesn't do anything unless you make an account. Lame.
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This is neither "new" nor "fantasy sports". Weekly picks have been around for decades. You're just creating a place to track them.

The "fantasy" part is choosing a team comprised of what you hope are the best players in the league.

Also, don't review your own app. It looks desperate.
We'll bury this post if you'll post it again when it's ready. The thread is unable to be a meaningful discussion right now, so I think that's in everyone's interests.
Gathering aggregated and anonymized 'doesnot' hamper privacy.

If we look at any authentic reference (Ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics#Privacy_issues) we will find only when an app associates behaviour-analytics with attributes such as IP Addresses and Geolocation data, it may debate privacy issues, otherwise not.

If you see the word 'privacy', it only activates when an individual is being talked about. There are no specific users on this app, no email id, no unique id. All requests are considered similar irrespective of origin.
I think your logic is flawed a bit here. A lot of people absolutely will dismiss suggestions like "keep your IO functions minimal/separate" and "you should test your code" and etc essentially saying "it works fine for me."

But in general I agree with you. "Until somebody explains to me... a rational reason..." - I will explain it: It is detracting (however unfortunate that may be) from your message/content.
That guy is a maniac. Much of the stuff that he was ranting off about are textbook examples of why functional programming and imperative programming ought to be separated from each other
Beyond any reason, I agree with this most.

Our current way of living insists on third party participation during even A -> B trades, it's ridiculous and inefficient.
Increased Phishing Threats with Obfuscation
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The first one I landed on was called "Influenza". Not sure about that name. But I like the colors.
From a user perspective. providing the bower or component support will be better, and maybe you should place the dependency(jquery) in bower.json or component.json. but not directly in git folder.
I disagree. I clicked this because I find apps made by people younger than 26 to be interesting.

Before people have been in the business world for a few years, they're a lot more naive and idealistic. Usually, that makes their products either terrible or fantastic (much more commonly terrible).
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If there is just the cop and you, how does giving consent or not matter? Assuming there are no recording devices it's his word against yours. The best course of action seems to not piss them off, because they sure seem like they have all the cards.
Yup. I remember working on q game engine many years ago and we wanted to use python as a scripting language and found the trail of broken dreams that is the various attempts to sandbox Python.

Just use Lua if you need a sandboxed dynamically-typed environment.
Disgusted by it? Yes. Ashamed? No. "Ashamed" implies that I expect better, or that I am responsible, neither of which are the case.
I used checks and wire transfers and had to pay a fee for both. I've never been charged for making a cash payment.
It's easier to understand when you see that the laws simply don't apply to everyone.
I wrote every line from scratch.

On penalty of your eternal soul burning in hell, don't fuck with me.

Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven,
and a few little fishes.

15:35 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.

15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks,
and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the
multitude.

15:37 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the
broken meat that was left seven baskets full.

15:38 And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and
children.

15:39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the
coasts of Magdala.

16:1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired
him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Why was this voted down? It strikes me as something requiring some citations or rebuttal, but not a simple downvote.
Great summary of a course!
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Wait, an article balances out the police seizing private assets without a crime for 3 decades to the tune of a hundred million dollars a year?

There's something wrong when police have been funding themselves with $30 billion in essentially stolen money.
Looking at the actual DMCA request [1], it's definitely weird. The argument seems to be that:

* Wolvereness's contributions to CraftBukkit are licensed under the GPL, and therefore may only be redistributed on that license

* CraftBukkit itself is released under the GPL

* ...but Wolvereness claims that CraftBukkit includes Mojang's Minecraft server, which is proprietary (apparently this is disputed by Mojang themselves, though)

* Therefore CraftBukkit's GPL license is illegitimate, and the CraftBukkit developers' right to use Wolvereness's contributions is terminated.

Even if the factual claims in the DMCA takedown are correct (which is hard to verify now that the repository is offline), it strikes me as an abuse of the process. When you file a lawsuit, you have to demonstrate that you have standing because of some adverse effect that specifically affects you. By that logic, Wolvereness shouldn't be able to use a third party's copyright to enforce a takedown.

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-09-05-CraftB...
The "right privilege level" allows you to see anything that happens during the execution of the lower privilege levels. I can even single-step your application with the right privilege level. So the crypto services have to run at the high privilege level and ideally your applications should leave even the key management to the "higher privilege levels." That way attacking the application can leak the data, but not the key, that is, you can still have the "perfect forward secrecy" from the point of the view of the application. So you have to trust the OS and the hardware and implement all the tricky things on that level. Trying to solve anything like that on the language level doesn't seem to be the right direction of the attacking the problem.
Tetlock's work was based on individuals giving unfiltered predictions.
The state literally prints currency to facilitate commerce, so it is beyond unjust to then seize it from people who use it to conduct commerce regardless of whether there exist other means of doing so.

I sold a car to someone on craigslist for a few thousand dollars. The person who bought it paid in cash, still in a bank envelope. This transaction was not criminal, and it's exceedingly unlikely that the money had illicit origins. I promptly deposited the cash into a checking account. The amount certainly prompted a Suspicious Activity Report to FinCEN, which I made no attempt to avoid, as doing so would have indeed been criminal.

Cash is just by far the most trustworthy form of payment to accept from strangers (other than perhaps cryptocurrency or physically going to the bank with them), which is why craigslist warns against money orders or checks of any kind.

It would have been entirely and unambiguously unjust if the state had seized that money from either me or the person I legally sold my car to.
Easily. Bank transactions are only cheap when

1. delays have a low marginal cost

or

2. the receiving party is both wealthy and trusting enough to buffer the entire transaction

Banks operate on a principle of eventual consistency that lets transactions and accounts dangle in limbo for days to weeks. Delays cost money: lost opportunities, missed deadlines, rent. Is it really so hard to believe that the expected cost of a weeklong delay (which happen all the time) would be more than the expected cost of theft (which is rare in comparison)?
In Italian it's either influence or flue. You pick :)
Why doesn't your society resist? Parts of your police is now equiped like an army on a battlefield and money can be seized without any reasoning.

And then there's NSA spying, torture and drone executions of suspected terrorists (even US citizens) without trial.

If someone would have told me 20 years ago, that the US will turn into this, I would have thought that this person must be insane.

Now it wouldn't even surprise me, if the US turns into a giant gulag in the next 10 years.

Edit: I wonder how these policemen justify their actions, after all they are going after their own people.
Really simple to use - nice job. Maybe a way to throw in a sample page with some different text/typography/colors/sizes so you can really see how it would work.
As I mentioned in the HN comments to a previous post in this series, Portugese law does not allow for employees to be terminated before the end of the probationary period, even (or especially) in the case of indefinite term employment. Where the length of the employment contract is fixed in term, the law sets a fixed probationary period.

Andreas' complaint is that Unbabel violated Portugese labor law with regards to his employment, by terminating him prematurely, and nothing you've said indicates that his complaint is without merit.

Your comments here and elsewhere on HN reflect a consistently poor understanding or disregard of the legal and regulatory environment you have chosen to locate your business in. You're a startup, but that doesn't excuse you from following the law.
The article's dated August 1, 2014 so not even a new article.
Why must the people opposing asset forfeiture come up with a "legitimate situation"? What if I simply want to carry a bunch of cash unrelated to any criminal activity?

You might as well say something like "I don't see why anyone would legitimately like death metal music." It's fine to not understand or share people's opinions and preferences, but it's ridiculous to support them being robbed simply because their preferences differ from yours.
The example was the first image I found that set several lines of text in mixed-case Comic Sans. Unfortunately all the examples I saw were either deliberately mocking or had tonal disjunctions, including the one I picked (which I agree makes my point less clear). Looking again now, I do see a Lorem ipsum, which I should have included instead: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-obX-NunkcIo/Te7HPuvuovI/AAAAAAAAAN...

Many nice humanist sans-serif faces communicate "friendly, human, informal" well in practically any setting, but okay, there are folks who absolutely must have something that indicates "handwriting" in order to be sufficiently informal. Several typefaces fit that bill--Comic Neue, Architect's Daughter, maybe Just Another Hand--but seem nicer to read (not quite the same as legibility).
Because it's an inconvenient fact that doesn't align with the popular bias here.
Slickgrid does http://mleibman.github.io/SlickGrid/examples/example5-collap...
Cannot use this without Couchbase
> a majority of folks in Europe simply don't use credit cards

Ehm? Europe's a very big place, and in many European countries credit cards are just as common and as commonly used as in the US.