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I never advocated banning anything. The argument is closer to "cheap, high calorie low nutrition food is leading to an obesity epidemic." Tax fraud costs taxpayers billions of dollars[0]. There are surely many ways to combat this, but the correlation between fraud and it being free to attempt fraud en masse is real.

The link you provided points to industry participants in the Free File Alliance[1]. Some skeptics believe the industry has this program to appease the government enough to not pursue tax software created by the government. If you're one of the folks who believe we should have a more european-style system, participating in FFA probably works against that goal (I don't know that that's your stance just throwing it out there for others to consider)

I think it's also interesting from a business case study. I tried to make the argument that tax software isn't cheap to produce. What's the right way for competition to blossom if the cost to users is "free" and the revenue is made up via other less than savory means? Does small-guy competition have to resort to the same tactics?

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/leonardburman/2012/05/28/billion...

[1] http://freefilealliance.org/
1) Because someone posted it.
2) Because enough people up voted it.
I thought the main charge of the anti-vax group was the, now debunked, thimerosal-autism link. Is that not the case? No doubt that pharmaceutical companies have a history of spreading disinformation for profit. What is the solution? I believe greater openness and greater CDC oversight of independent trials is the only way. Much of the work requires very long term studies and the public is not willing to wait.
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Mouse movement over the graphic does it on desktop too, fyi
TLDR: Adjust GOMAXPROCS if you want a speedup from multiple goroutines.

http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/

"GOMAXPROCS sets the maximum number of CPUs that can be executing simultaneously and returns the previous setting. If n < 1, it does not change the current setting. The number of logical CPUs on the local machine can be queried with NumCPU. This call will go away when the scheduler improves."

It will be nice when this requirement is eliminated.
Some are worse than others, but that guy sounds particularly bad.
It's hard enough to make money in the restaurant business much less to also take on a mortgage. And then you have no guarantee your restaurant will still be around in three years and then what what do you do?

Source: me. Multiple restaurant owner for 30 years.
I'm interested in reactions to this idea: a virtual "shadow Congress."

The plan would be to get broad participation in an unofficial election process which would elect representatives to "shadow Congress." They'd at least start out by addressing the same agenda as real Congress, and be forbidden from introducing new agenda. The idea would be to generate a template of what a broad-participation representative group of citizens would like to see happen from Congress.

The theory is that if this shadow Congress is representative enough, it becomes hard for real Congress to ignore. The compromises it comes up with are a template for real compromises. When the national media starts writing stories like "Why can't real Congress do what shadow Congress can?" or "Here is the Senator unilaterally blocking the rest of Congress from following the shadow Congress' lead on this issue." the idea will have worked.
In that case I'd probably write it all in lowercase with a few caps mixed in, and then flip it with V~. But I can't say I've ever needed to write such a sentence.
You left out a link for your [1], and I think you misspelled "Condorcet" [2], unless you're thinking of something I'm not familiar with.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_criterion
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All the independent recruiters in my area have an autoresponder set up in my GMail that tells them politely that I don't work with their kind because the incentive structure of their business creates quantity of matches over quality.

I'm happy to receive interest from recruiters who work for the companies they're recruiting for, though.
I interviewed with Treehouse a while back, and from what I recall, they were a little below market (for an experienced remote dev) but not outrageously so.

I would have been willing to accept the pay given the hours and other aspects of the job, but we didn't work out for other reasons.
Now this could be an early sign of a bubble in the making. Here's why:

1. The bay believes that solofounders are a bad deal - mostly - because starting a company is a lot of work. And so it is - a lot of work!

2. Now here we have a handful of _startups_ that confess there's isn't enough work to keep everyone in the nimble team up on toes for even forty hours a week! This contradicts with 1.

Sure it means team happiness and all that. Fine.

3. For each _startup_ that has confessed situation at 2. there should be at least 'X' times the number of start_ups who do not accept this reality. I don't know what that number 'X' would be but let's take it 10.

Which means what - a bubble?

[Left open]
Interesting how the companies discussed are outside of SV.
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Your grounds for disagreeing are bogus. Check out "How to Disagree" [0] by Paul Graham. You are at one of the lowest levels: "DH2. Responding to Tone."

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I disagree, cats can be trained; ours no longer jump up on kitchen counters.
Where? Source?

I've been in the restaurant business for 30 years and have never seen or heard of that.
Since we're talking about 404s, are there best practices for orienting users? I have a site with 1-2 major resources.

Does it make sense to say something like:

------

Maybe you were looking for:

Resource 1
Resource 2
This is a somewhat trivial suggestion, but it would be much more clear to your readers what the speedup was if you aligned the values in the benchmark results.
I've tried a couple of syntax-highlighting editors. I'm starting to get annoyed at them.

The problem is when they don't do it right, and it's impossible to configure it to have the correct behavior.

For example, JetBeans, when you type a ", automatically inserts the matching ". I couldn't figure out how to disable this feature, and it leads to strings like "data"".

Syntax-highlighting editors only seem necessary for scripting languages where you don't get proper error messages. In C/C++, if you miss a " on a string, the compiler rules will ensure you an error message in the right place. If you miss a " in Javascript, the console error may be useless, so you need a syntax-highlighting editor to find your bug.
He means that working from home implies quantity of work is less important than quality. Nobody knows how much time you put in, but yourself. One way or another, you will be judged on what you deliver, not how much time it took you.

Some managers (or even people hiring contractors) think they can get around this, but, ultimately, you can always do in 4h what they expect you to do in 8h and get paid for 8h. Not saying it's moral, but it is the reality. The conclusion is inescapable: working from home implies that the only important metric is the quality of your work (and the deadline), not how much time you spend on it. Because you can "simulate" one with the other.

Some people don't realize this, yet. Doesn't make it not true.

EDIT: PS: I'm talking about project where the "deadlines" are reasonably far apart and predictable. Say, no more than a few times a day. If your work includes being on-call and responding to incoming requests, that's a different story.
More BS from the HN posters.

Source credibility: me. 30 years as a multiple restaurant owner.
You are thinking about this wrong, what it actually means is that 14% of the time, it will detect positive. So say out of 1000 people, 1 is infected with syphilis. That person will tests positive, but so will 140 other people that don't have syphilis. So the test just referred 141 people to consultations and further testing, only 1 of which actually has the disease.
The first Tizen smartphone isn’t an “Android killer”–it’s a bad Android clone
Not bad, quite sarcastic in fact.
Yes, everyone is addicted to work. This is what we've been conditioned to know/believe/live. I'd also venture to say "fear" is the foundation upon which many managers/motivators operate, at least here in the U.S. Remote work has the same challenges; "if I can't see my employee at his desk, he's probably screwing off somewhere!". It's lazy, but it's what most know.
Deuterium is most certainly not a perfect substitute for ordinary hydrogen (or protium). At the chemical level, deuterium (D, since I can't figure out how to to superscripts) is fundamentally different from hydrogen (H).

Chemical bonds involving D are stronger, IIRC due to increased the energy requirements to activate the transition state. I also recall from chemistry that water made with D (D2O, or heavy water) can be toxic to all but the most basic of single called life forms (prokaryotes). It's okay for humans to ingest large quantities of it in a short period, but replacing body water with heavy water would lead to cell death.
That seems like a pretty simplistic conclusion to make. Do you really think, given the recent embarrassment that was the ACA enrollment website, Intuit is worried the Government will come up with better software to file taxes than they have? It makes more sense to me that Intuit is worried the Government will shut out alternatives once they put their tax filing service online by making it the only way people can e-file, and that it will only be "better" because it will involve further reach of the Government into our personal financial information. I would absolutely spend millions to lobby against that potential outcome if I were them and I'm glad they do. If we have tax reform, I'd rather it be a complete overall of the tax system to make it simpler rather than spend millions allowing the Government fumble around trying to make software that helps people navigate the laughably complex tax system they were responsible for creating in the first place.
The whole point of the article was that, at this particular company, the employees only have to clock 32 hours a week at the place of business.

My speculation had to do with believing that most IT employees, given this situation, would "work", at job related tasks, for over 40 hours anyway.

Personally, if a job that paid me for 40 hours a week expected me to work 60 for more then perhaps once or twice a year, I would quit instantly, so I've never understood the "mandatory 60-hour" meme.

Perhaps this is where our wires were crossing.
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Comedy gold. It's good to see that serious business has a sense of humor.

I still love the Lemmings 404 game here: http://www.romainbrasier.fr/404.php
I was an early Fab customer and they did feature some unique and interesting gifts. The daily e-mails were also beautifully designed, to the point that Fab eventually sued or threatened to sue a different company who had ripped off the look and feel. But over time those Fab e-mails started featuring more and more tchotchkes and mass-produced junk, I guess in an effort to push more products. So when I read in the article that...

"Shellhammer has since started a new company, Bezar, that's almost an exact replica of what Fab used to be."

...I signed up for Bezar right away. Because Goldberg may lack business savvy, but no one denies that Shellhammer has excellent taste. And I need some wall art for my house.

EDIT: It was "Touch of Modern" who was sued by Fab for supposedly ripping off their design elements, but I don't know if the lawsuit was successful or not. Details: http://pando.com/2012/08/16/breaking-down-fabs-copycat-claim...
Touch of Modern appears to still be in existence.
Many years ago I had benchmarked openmp in comparison to other frameworks. IT was very easy but poorly performing.
Is Netflix an outdated business model? Because it's not possible without DRM. Is any sort of video rental or subscription model outdated? And why is it outdated? DRM may not be able to provide 100% ironclad copy protection, but it provides roughly the same level of copy protection that video rental has before, probably better if you're comparing to VHS or DVD.

The idea that any sort of rental arrangement for video content is "outdated" reflects your own wishes, not the facts on the ground. The technology exists to provide good enough guarantees for the content providers, and it remains a popular choice with consumers. You're right that pirates have figured out how to break the DRM on Orange Is The New Black and distribute copies of it. What they haven't figured out is a new business model where consumers buy the majority of their content a la carte rather than getting much of it from subscriptions (Netflix/Hulu/Amazon type subscriptions or cable/satellite subscriptions) and rentals and theatrical exhibition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8996946
In a community based on karma and ranking, your personal predilections have little value, only the consensus determines quality. As such, your complaints about quality also have little value.

Upvote what you want to see more of, downvote what you want to see less of, flag spam and abuse, and if you still don't like what bubbles up on HN, post more of the kind of content you would rather see.
I really don't get much "work" done in the office; most of my work gets done at 2am or on the weekends. (We talk alot and strategize, so technically that's work I suppose, but the actual coding usually happens elsewhere)
I'd like to hear this "best" substantiated against HotSpot. I enjoy writing code on the CLR, but I'm not aware of strong performance arguments in its favor relative to HotSpot.
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We come pretty average for the U.S. but under SV pay. We don't cut pay to adjust for the shorter week, though.
Unrelated question, isn't it a bad idea to update the seed for every sample?
> here we have a handful of _startups_ that confess there's isn't enough work to keep everyone in the nimble team up on toes for even forty hours a week

I don't think they said anything of the sort. There's no claim they don't have enough work for 40 hours; I'm sure like most of us there is no end to the work, and it can and will consume all the time we're willing to give it.

They're just not willing to give it as much. It's possible that will put them at a disadvantage to their competitors. It's also possible that they may be sufficiently more creative to overcome that disadvantage.
It's Duverger's Law, actually.
“Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity,” they wrote in a visionary 1968 paper titled “The Computer as a Communication Device.” Their optimism verged on utopianism. “There will be plenty of opportunity for everyone (who can afford a console) to find his calling, for the whole world of information, with all its fields and disciplines, will be open to him.”

Excerpt From: Isaacson, Walter. “The Innovators.”
Nope. My personal 'predilections' have nothing to do with it. I thought HN had a theme other than McDonald's restaurant closings and that would make it off topic. Obiously not and anything goes here without moderation. So I'm done.
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I have Dell XPS L501x, which have upgraded with SSDs and RAM. It's i7 740QM, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 2GB nVidia GT 435M graphics. I have dual booted with Yosemite and Windows 8.1. Works for me!
I can't describe how important using ZMQ has been to architecting some pretty heavy lifting solutions. You end up with lots of very well defined boundaries in your application pipeline which are language agnostic.
Don't let the door hit you where the Lord split you.
I don't stand over the team with a stopwatch, but it's something I try to keep a pulse on and I don't think most of our folks "work well over 40 hours." Most do probably end up over 32 though, I'd say.
If you really believe Americans don't desire proper healthcare, education, safety, domestic violence, low teenage pregnancy, freedom of the press etc then you're beyond ignorant. That's just silly.

And guess what, the US generally doesn't rank anywhere near the top on any of these, except teenage pregnancies, you're number 1 by a very wide margin. But take Freedom of the Press for example, Freedom House puts the US at place 30, and Reporters without Borders at place 46 for 2014. For healthcare you pay a multiple of everyone else, yet don't rank in the top 10.

I'm not saying this is an exclusive list by the way. There'll surely be a whole bunch of things Americans prefer more than the rest of the world, it's completely besides the point and I'm not arguing against that at all. You may disagree with the rest of the world on how things like healthcare or domestic violence should be handled in terms of policy, but you can't argue that people don't care about having good healthcare or having little domestic violence. Any poll would show this.
We usually don't have the patience nor spare disk space to spend days or weeks on creating a multi-terabyte tar-archive first.

I'm also rather skeptical that the common BT clients are made to handle files in the multi-terabyte range very well.

And finally, BT only makes sense when you're transferring to multiple destinations. There are better options for 1-to-1 transfers.
This reminds me of the movie "Dead Man", which is a good thing I'd say.
We must maintain perfect backward compatibility back to the beginning of time!

Actually, if you are writing archiving software, yeah. Especially for official or legal records.
Updating the seed is extra pointless operations but if your PRNG is 'good' it shouldn't cause major numerical problems.

Besides the author is only sampling the PRNG 1 million times, this is hardly enough to stumble upon any periodicity in a modern PRNG. I have absolutely no idea if the PRNG provided by Go is any good or what method it is based off of.
My daily stupidity dose, thanks!
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Isn't this a misleading title? The article is essentially the author forgetting to set GOMAXPROCS, not really a lack of parallelism in Go.
If they're selling non-obvious quirky stuff, maybe having a non-obvious quirky name will help with branding.

Or not. But I don't think assuming it's a net negative is necessarily justified here.
>> "I wonder if they pay part-time salaries to reflect the work hours."

It's only 8 hours less than the average work week so I'd expect the salary cut to be minimal.
Many EU nations use parliamentary democracy instead of the Duverger's-law-ridden First Past the Post elections to district seats used in America.
My question is, what do you tell customers that demand responses Friday through Sunday? I mean if something breaks I am sure people come in/do remote work, so that's not the cases I am talking about. I assume this only works for companies that have non-critical or fully automated products where users don't have any person to person interaction built in anywhere.

I ask because I would love to implement something like this, but we get requests for service or user questions every day - and a three day turn around time on a user issue is terrible customer support - especially if they have other work riding on it. I realize treehouse is different in this respect.

It seems like the more employee focused you are the less responsive to customers you can be.
I'm glad to see some people having the same experience. It's really hard to explain to people as a problem.

"You mean you're mad because people are trying to get you a job?"
"Yeah, but..."

I really appreciated the people who did listen and sign up though - it feels really good when they do listen to you when you state the best way to contact you. Recruiters take note!
Fair enough...perhaps a tad bit of unnecessary hyperbole was thrown in for effect.

[edit] see bdcravens comment for the idea I was trying to express.
Last multithreaded C++ app I did was high speed deep packet analysis. For our purpose, we could do packet parsing in separate threads, but needed to consult and update shared data structures to keep track of stream state. It's awkward to do that in separate processes, and it doesn't lend itself to a GPU.
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> For example, the BBC's iPlayer is designed for time shifting and device shifting

Cool, can you show me how to play the content on my portable MP4 player please.
I started just replying with a "No thanks, but I'll hang onto your info in case anything changes or I come across anyone else who's looking", and then I add their email to a "recruiters" contact list in Gmail.

I now have close to 300 folks split between internal/external/vc. I haven't needed to use the list yet, but I have shared it with one or two friends who were interested in changing jobs.
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GPUs are not suitable for many types of calculations.
> These days, on Fridays, he gets his two young sons off to school and spends the day hanging out with his wife, Gill. “It’s like dating again. We go to coffee shops. We read books together. I really feel like I’m involved in my kids’ lives and my wife’s life,”

This assumes that your wife is not working. I've tried taking some days off like this and, in the middle of the week everyone works, so you don't get to hang out much
The work is pretty endless, we just stop at the end of the day.
Popular saying, huh?

Don't remember last time i had to take my cat outside twice a day, pick up his turds on every street corner, then hire a babysitter if i needed to be out of town for a weekend. Also never seen him eat shit.

He does get let outside a few times a week, he does hunt, and when i choose to go outside with him (without a leash), he follows me everywhere by himself, though usually trailing by 50ft. Did I mention he also bathes himself, daily? Then watches TV, kneads the blankets and sleeps next to us at night.

Reality is different than catchy quotes :)
"...as a thunder lizard, the tech world’s name for the tiny handful of start-ups that actually become $1 billion businesses." I thought we were calling these unicorns? Maybe I'm behind the times terminology wise.
That's great! I like the stats that an email vendor provides. :)
Rebasing is similar to merging. Instead of merging their code after your code, you are merging your code after their code. So if the two versions modify the same code fifty commits apart you'll have conflicts in both cases.
I see "triggered" people down-voting ... lel
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I'm Treehouse's CTO and cofounder. I'll try to answer anything I can.
I wonder - How else would you manage uncertain information?
Then if you're a small-p progressive, and you want to keep regressives in check, that's the place to be. :)
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We have a support person who works his four days over the weekend to make sure it's covered.
Fatigue is such a killer of creativity and innovation. When I'm tired I feel my brain deliberately shying away from anything but the familiar and rote. How many great ideas have been sacrificed to stay an extra hour at work instead of using that hour for rest and replenishment?
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2 submissions in 3 months and you're the one to complain?

Submit what you'd like to see more of, if it gains traction then maybe you won't see what you don't want to see in slot 2. As an aside, you can simply ignore slot #2 and click on 'more' at the bottom and look at the first link on the next page. It's a workaround, but a surprisingly effective one.