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Should be tagged "Show HN" just like all of the rest of the posts by this user

(For the poster: There's a reason you've only earned 24 karma since your first post 550 days ago, it looks like you're advertising. Try maintaining a real account that really comments and votes on other people's articles and maybe people will vote you up. HN is a community, not a billboard.)
> This concept of "Colour" causing difficulties exists only because of the extreme flexibility and "genericness" of digital data

It predates the digital data and it has caused trouble before then. Authors who happened to publish similar stories/melodies/compositions used to bicker over the source of the "bits". It mattered whether it was a coincidentally similar creation or just plain old copying.
I like this idea of minimum vacation. Most companies I've worked in use vacation days as some sort of reward for sticking with the company for X number of years (i.e., "When you hit your 5 year anniversary, you get an extra 1.5 days of paid vacation. Won't that be nice!"). And when I say paid vacation, I really mean PTO with no separate 'sick leave' days. Which means people show up to work sick.

Funny enough, the company I work for was recently bought, and in the interests of making things 'uniform', we were forced to adopt the purchasing company's vacation policy, which meant an across the board cut in everyone's PTO hours (to include folks that negotiated additional vacation days when they were hired -- those agreements were declared null and void). Apparently the execs thought the hit to morale/retention was worth the 'cost savings'.

On the other hand, I once interviewed at a company with an 'open' vacation policy and was immediately suspicious of it. My first thought was "I'm guessing people don't take much vacation?" That didn't go over so well with the interviewer.

It's nice to see an employer that treats vacation as a means to increase employee productivity and retention (burnout prevention, etc.), rather than as a pure cost to be minimized as much as possible.
> With these kinds of policies being more common in young companies, I highly doubt that paying back unused vacation can have any significant effect on normal operations.

It has an effect on the balance sheet, since vacation time accrued but not used is a liability; in companies whose operations are labor-heavy, and that have high-pay workers, that's may be a concern, especially when seeking investors, since concrete current liabilities can weigh heavily against hoped-for future returns.
Or the other way around. Existence of replicators will create laws forbidding you to whittle yourself a shape of a Mercedes.
Decentralization, and thus p2p, is the very reason services like these are being created, to protect against censorship. That seems the logical next step.

And besides the "altcoin" problem, MaidSafe does this. You pretty much provide a hash to the API, and it fetches your files using chunks from a decentralized system. It's genius. All the hard work they're doing is the "magic work behind the scenes" that implements that.

As for the altcoin, the word "altcoin" connotates a "copy" of bitcoin or something negative. It's not fair to call SafeCoin an "altcoin", since it has nothing whatsoever to do with any other coins. It's completely original (and does not use a blockchain), and it deserves a chance to prove itself. But I understand all the bitcoin evangelists don't even want to consider that another digital currency can make it to the top.
> I get 28 days off per year in the UK, which is around the standard amount.

28 is the legal minimum in the UK, however that includes bank holidays. You probably actually have 36 including bank holidays
A GPG signature is metadata (color).

My string of zero and your string of zero may have different GPG signatures, but they are both strings of zero. Stripped of metadata (color) there is no way to tell who the source was.
Windows 0-Day exploit to hack NATO
The metal filters do not filter out cafestol, which may raise LDL cholesterol.

You can reuse the good aeropress paper filters as well (peel off before puck ejection, rinse and let it dry for a few minutes, then store with the press). I use each one five or six times, which puts me at about $1.50 worth of filters per year.

Thanks for the Lido grinder suggestion, I had been looking for one.
My personal experience is that the VMware provider is much snappier - and more stable too. The provider is what, $80 US? Not sure I'd call that an expensive gamble b
I think we are already getting there with 3D printers...
Good article about how to tell if someone is a narcissist
They are officially labeling us as "attackers" on seclists now:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/37
Reality check: over here in Germany, the legal minimum is 24 days per year. As a developer, you wouldn't take a contract below 28 days (but you also won't be offered one). 29-30 are common. My previous company allowed an additional ~5 days of unpaid leave, which many took.

Sorry, but your 10-15 days are insane.
Your example falls flat. Any text editor with regular expression support can do that...

Do you have another example?
I'm flattered :)
I'm not familiar with Peter Sunde, but this sounds a lot like Peter isn't attached to Pirate Bay at all anymore.
Convert iOS apps to Android
> you don't know what resources need to be prefetched and even if you did you will have no way of knowing when it changes

you could find out if google set up an API that exposed this information. Then a simple plugin could update the links on your page.
Why use something that's tested and known to work when you can use a plugin no one's ever heard of with a glib, vaguely insulting description and no Windows support?
But is that an enforced minimum? Is an employee required to take that many days off work? Because that's the distinction being drawn here.
Good old days of reading RFCs. Thanks for remembering this.
If the rubber plunger is starting to feel "gummy" around the edge, you might be able to get a replacement for free. They had a problem for a while and were shipping out replacement parts no questions asked.
Repokar Announces Partnership with Many Auto Auctions All Over the US
Then I do not get the purpose of that sentence in your post since it reads like "Yes we did shitty stuff to him but remember they thought he was a bad guy at the time."
> Without the liability, you'll see a lot of people take vacation during layoffs though.

Not necessarily -- quantitatively unlimited vacation doesn't mean that the vacation can be taken without management approval of the specific timing, it just means that its not held to a fixed limit.
Hashimoto: “Atlas is the universal answer to app delivery and DevOps”
IIRC, the company doesn't have to pay you for unused vacation days even if you don't use them. It's pretty much at the discretion of the company.
no, my vet provides number to call in emergencies there is also an emergency vet that is open 24 hours if our regular vet isn't available.

For Vets . . . I would think about software for them to track their patients . . . maybe invoicing software where pet owners can pay online . . . online appointments/boarding reservations/grooming reservations.

These tools/apps are already out there but you might be able to improve on them or create an all in one tool vets would pay for.

More in line with your question, vets might pay you to man their 24/7 line, or pay for access to a database of symptoms, treatments, etc . . .

Good luck in 2015
Sounds like a mature way to run a business. Where do I sign up?
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Building MongoDB Applications with Binary Files Using GridFS: Part 1
Dashlane password utility changes your passwords so you don't have to
Location: Santiago, Chile

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, anywhere

Technologies: Full Stack Java Dev (Spring/Maven/Hudson/Svn-Git/Hibernate/JSF/JPA), Nodejs/Iojs and flavours and Full Data Scientist Stack /SQL/NoSQL/SAS/perl/awk/hadoop/UNIX

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Email: karim /at computer /dot org

Hello, I'm Karim (aka alberto acuña) from Chile, full developer and data engineer/hacker. I'm a data scientist with working experience in the top2 credit bureaus /Experian and Equifax, dealing with massive production and custom data.
I love machine learning and data mining. I can design, improve and automate any data enrichment process from raw-unstructured to knowledge, due to my developer background I can learn and work with any tool or create a custom one, just let me know your project.
For marketing early startups: Deep, not wide
Outernet brings free Internet to africa
Computer Science in Vietnam: Counting Down to the Hour of Code
We have an unlimited vacation policy and no one has taken more than 20 days off in a calendar year (not including holidays). That being said, I'm at 18 and only started in September.
Reminds me of The Map that Changed the World ([1]), a map of England drawn by a professional canal digger who had noticed and documented strata throughout England, Wales, and southern Scotland. It was essentially the first geological map and led both to modern geology and to Darwinian evolution.

Science advances at least partially through the collection of large amounts of data and the distillation of that data into useful forms by dedicated workers like Tharp and Smith.

[1] http://simonwinchester.com/books/the-map-that-changed-the-wo...
Hi, My name is Skip and I made this as well as swiftstub.com. All python code is run in it's own new container which is then destroyed immediately.
I was recently searching for work, and one process took automated recruitment to a whole new level.

I was told I had a phone interview and given a number to ring, so I did and was horrified to discover my interviewer was in fact a robot.

Turns out there are services online that let you as a company submit questions you want to ask and then give the applicant a 30 second window to record an answer, which is then submitted to the company seeking the new employee.

Suffice to say, I didn't get that job. 30 seconds is nowhere near enough time to even consider your answer, let alone sum it up in a clear and concise manner.

Not saying I'm "The Best Talent" but I can certainly see the recruiting company having problems hiring by using such an automated system as that. As the article states, it's called 'HUMAN resources' for a reason.
> I am on vacation next week but am still the primary on-call.

Whatever that is, it isn't vacation.
I think you are talking about 25 days they can choose. In the UK you have 8 days that are Bank Holidays and National holidays. So this is a 33 day holiday policy.
Merge commits from pulls really bothered me at first, but as I've used git more I've realized that the hoops you jump through to always rebase and avoid them aren't always worth it. A merge commit might clutter up your git log, but it does more accurately describe what happened.
A lot of these "unlimited" places have a "as long as your work gets done" policy, meaning you can take tons of short days off or afternoons off, but almost no extended holidays (e.g. travel abroad, out of state, etc).

My friend works at a company with unlimited vacation and they pay you $1000 for every full week you take off.
Amazon Dives Deeper into Games, Acquiring GoodGame, an E-Sports Talent Agency
I'm an Australian living in Japan. I moved here 2 months ago.

Most Japanese get around 3 weeks of annual leave per year - but each day expires after 24 months.

It is quite common for leave to expire.
It depends on the State the employee lives in
And in a court setting, source of evidence or testimony is also metadata. It's true that courts care very much about metadata, but so do computers: By default, my iPhone won't install apps that don't have the right signatures.

NB: The "string of zero" hypothetical at the beginning is specious, based on a misunderstanding of how copyright works. If two works are similar, but independently created, there is no infringement. But does not follow that if two works are not independently created, there is infringement. They must still be similar enough to infringe. I.e. if you start with the text of Harry Potter, then you change every single word, there is no infringement.
book by the author:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/index.ht...
I've created a Vagrant Box based on the KVM installation. Try it out:
https://bitbucket.org/therealmarv/ubuntu-core-vagrant

"vagrant init therealmarv/ubuntu-core"
Unisys MCP machines, IIRC, also did that. It's not even difficult to implement in a sensible way.
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I'm curious to read about what it means to "de-stress" from work but I think you forgot the [1] citation.

Maybe this is not common, but if I worked at a company with "unlimited vacation", I would definitely take extended vacations occasionally. I think as long as you timed them appropriately and gave advance notice, you could easily take a week or more off.
I jokingly refer to Unlimited Vacation Policy as Guilt Driven Vacation Policy. IMHO, it is a sham so companies don't have to take liability for accrued vacation time on their books. While I commend Travis for coming up with a workable solution wouldn't it be easier to just say: "Everyone has 4 weeks vacation, use them!".
IBM is playing to two of it's strengths here -- decades of enterprise sales relationships and development manpower, largely based in India. In effect, they're becoming a sales and System Integration channel for Apple. In return they get to give their customers mobile apps that put lipstick on the pigs (Mainframe software, WebSphere/J2EE apps).

What I find amusing is how IBM is spinning this into a "Data and Analytics" play. Granted, it is a bit of marketing BS. But I also suspect that they are trying to please the stock market analysts. It would probably be a highlight in their next earnings call.
Aaron Draplin Takes on a Logo Design Challenge
I guess you'd have variables for things like the colours of the buttons.
There is a Firefox plugin that does that: Clean Links.
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the people who introduced DRM certainly didn't share the attitude of tbe GP.

I'm not going to click ads and, most importantly, actually buy stuff to feel better about leeching content, anyhow? How would that not be shortsighted nor shelfish?
"We tried something that didn't fit our culture, and it didn't work."

Taking less vacation time is not necessarily a bad thing. For myself, not having to meet a minimum quota means I enjoy the vacations I do take more, since I take them when I need and want instead of mandatory ones. It means, as long as I'm feeling good, I can keep the momentum up.

The bigger problems is that employees didn't respect others' vacation time. Or their own, for that matter. That is a cultural problem, and a change in vacation policy won't help (much). If you want the people in your company to be happier with their time off, work on respecting it.

"The guilt of taking time off takes over, and you "just check in" or promise to be available if anything comes up."

That is, to me, a sign of an unhealthy culture. Fix that before trying yet another vacation experiment.
I really like the tone of this post. It makes me think that this person is trustworthy and I'd be glad to work for him.

I wish my company had such an open communication!
Ask HN: Asking for maximum salary
The common wisdom is that you shouldn't give a number. If the company provides a salary range, why not ask for the top salary if they ask for a number? I could see in some situations where the company might be willing to go outside the range. But is that really likely?
Your normal pay + $1000 or just $1000 ?

In Sweden you actually get a ~12% higher pay during your vacation.
We have an open vacation policy for 2014, and I will take the last two weeks off (I've taken off about 5 weeks so far this year), but I will be available if need be. I don't mind, I don't expect any issues, and even if there are, it's not like I wouldn't be called in if I had a limited number of days off (which will happen next year).
The company I work for has open vacation and it works out fine. People take a few days, a week here and there and it winds up being 4-5 weeks a year. This is in the US. I'm sure there's no big payout for unused vacation when people leave, but no big deal. When you're sick, you stay home, when you need time off, you take it. The CTO and upper managers are all coders and have worked hard at maintaining a good work culture.
Wow, so in Silicon Valley a week is an 'extended vacation'! I used to think that meant a month or more. How fast the world is changing.
We also close between Christmas Eve and January 2nd so that is a another week that is mandatory off for everyone.

I meant 2-3 weeks in a row. Last year I took off 10 days to go to Europe, then another 2 weeks in the summer. Plus the random day off her and there and the week in December and I will probably have taken 4-5 weeks off total for the year.
And if/when it does you totally know you'll pay a licence fee for each "pattern" you materialise.

I mean people pay over $1 for a Christmas card and the justification for that is "someone has to come up with the designs!"
I'm an IBM consultant. A large portion of our revenue comes from services. I'd say it would be correct to classify IBM as a Consulting and Services company now. More so than software and hardware. We still do a lot of software but the bread and butter is consulting. We're basically exiting low margin hardware businesses. Also the original comment is correct that most enterprises don't want out of box solutions. They almost always want something customized.

I still don't know very much about the IBM and Apple deal. It almost seems like Apple is trying to leverage the IBM brand to get into enterprise business but we'll have to see how it plays out.
That's like a perfect example of selection bias. The programs you haven't heard about... well you haven't even heard about them.
Isn't that exactly what they did? Everyone has to take 5 weeks minimum, and on top of that you may take more if you want/need.
Well, here in Uruguay, you have to take 10 days minimum, at least twice a year.

Plus you get close to a week off a few times a year (Easter and Carnival). So a week is nothing special here :)

It has a silver lining: it forces the company to plan for backups and make processes more explicit.
Personally, I use an ad blocker because I never click on ads. They're an ugly distraction and waste of bandwidth that I will literally never click.

For sites whose content I respect who I know rely on per-impression (not click-through) ads, I'll generally add an exception to my ad blocker, and/or buy some merchandise now and then to support them. I'm really excited about systems like Patreon that make this support easier because I don't need more t-shirts.

I respect creators as I'm a creator myself. But at the same time, I think if you're going to put content online and expect something like ads to support it, you need to rethink your business model.

To me it's like putting physical products on a stall on the street, and leaving it unattended with a little bucket for payments hidden in the corner. Yes, morally speaking, people shouldn't steal from it. I wouldn't steal from such a place, but I would not be surprised if others did.
I phrased it poorly - we get off the week around the holidays as the company closes down. I also take probably another week off for random days here or there.
It's a trade off. You can potentially have your information viewed/stolen by someone on the same local WiFi network. Or, you can have all of your traffic go through your ISP/VPN provider where they can act as a central point of data collection for someone to steal your information.

If you were trying to steal credentials or financial information, wouldn't you rather target the systems of a VPN provider instead of a local WiFi Hot Spot? Not to mention the government actors having a centralized place to see users' traffic (even when a user is not on the ISP's network).

It's certainly a positive step in some cases, but a better one would be encryption handled directly in the applications/services being used. Then the transport doesn't matter.
Automated Web Crawling and RSS data feed extraction
The next generation of big enterprise application platforms needs to target mobile and IBM is trying to get ahead of the curve. The more interesting part is that Apple is now playing along. In the Steve Jobs' days, they never would have paid much attention to the enterprise.
Quitting Cold Turkey
Here in Uruguay, if you don't take your leave, the company has to compensate you (pay it as an extra worked day). Same if they fire you.
As a counterpoint, most investment banks enfore a mandatory 10 working day break where all remote access capabilities are disabled (including blackberries).

This is less out of altruism, and more so that any untoward activities can be uncovered whilst the person is out of the office.
Didn't knew this one!
With respect to aliasing, an analog to digital converter contains an analog low-pass filter which reduces the amplitude of the signal content above the Nyquist frequency prior to digitization. This effectively eliminates alsiasing in the digitized signal.

In terms of more complex signals, or frequency "beats", the same principles apply. If two high frequency (above-20kHz) signals interact in such a way to create an audible (below-20kHz) beating, the beating will be accurately recorded by the ADC.
The first mention I have ever seen of dribble on this site was from you, just now.

I have had the opposite experience and it seems to me that design articles posted here tend to be focused on user experience improvements, research based explorations into best practices, and calls to stop gimmicky mumbo jumbo like scrolljacking.
;o) Taxis are worst. Everyone else has much more respect, although, everything that is done by taxi drivers can also be seen from others, but rarely.

Police does not have sufficient personnel to catch them all. But I think, because with their drivers license taxi drivers would lose their job, the police looks away much more (this is a pure guess). Taxi drivers are also well connected and have their police info system. That is a fact,as you hear it, when you use a taxi. There is constant exchange about traffic control over radio.

Do the uber guys have a taxi driver background and are used to being reckless? :o)
Agreed. FYI it's MIT https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton#license
We should have no sympathy for 'balance sheet' or accounting reasons for anything.

Regardless of how much vacation time is on the books as a liability, the company's cash flows are exactly the same.
Interesting that one of the bugs was introduced back in 1987...
All of the stories in Bacigalupi's _The_Windup_Girl_ universe contain sub-plots about the 'Calorie Cartels' based in Iowa. Really good reading for a near-apocalyptic vision of a post-Oil, mid-climate crisis world. Full-on Trigger Warning for some of the sexual content in _The_Windup_Girl_ though.
I'm also in the US, and I receive 15 days of combined vacation and sick leave. So one bad flu can wipe out your ability to take an extended vacation.

Or, alternatively, you take only a day or two when the flu is at its worst, then come into the office to stare blankly at your screen and drool on your keyboard, whilst getting your colleagues sick. Yes, stupid policies tend to incentivize people to do stupid things.
This would be really cool to participate in, especially if it could be packaged à la Folding@Home/SETI@Home and widely distributed. I wonder if there's some clever method using crypto that can provably discourage bad actors if the network has certain properties (e.g. Bitcoin is nearly impossible to cheat unless one group owns >50% of the network).
Thoughts on C++
I'm not an iOS dev. From somebody that is one, I take it you have to configure your iOS device to do development work first? Is that a big hassle?
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