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>why would they hire someone with conviction records when they can't pay any lower than the minimum wage?

Even at the lowest level, not all employees are equally productive. And even at the lowest level, there's something to be said for "loyalty" - for the employee genuinely trying to act in the best interest of the company.

Money is just one way these sorts of behaviors can be incented.

I like to give the example of the choice of hiring a citizen vs. hiring a H1B worker.

Even if the company does pay them the same as a citizen, the employer has rather more leverage over the H1B, as if the H1B gets fired, they've got two weeks to find another employer that can sponsor their visa, or to get their shit together and get out of the country.

There's the positive side of that, too; If you take a person that has never been given a chance and give them a chance, well, there's a chance they will feel grateful, and attempt to return the favor... whereas if you hire someone who gets five or six phone calls from recruiters every day? You probably aren't going to get as much gratitude from that person.
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Could you explain what you mean by "unprofessional" here? Personally Google's business model seems to be the unprofessional thing in this conversation.
Someone must have written a script because it is almost all 0 now.
Is there any calculation on what resolution would be even theoretically possible? There are only a finite number of photons being emitted by the surface of the earth and so at a certain distance there wouldn't be enough to show detail past some level.
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does "Be a good sport." exist as a phrase in Australia? Meaning 'grin and bear it.'.

Maybe the US English uses 'sports' instead of 'sport' due to the conflict in meanings between the two uses.

Just an idea.
I use a macbook air mid 2011. 1.7 Ghz i5, 4GB 133MHz DDR3, 128GB SSD, intel HD graphics 3000 384 MB memory, and it works fine. I run Yosemite on it and develop iOS apps. I actually run a Windows 8 VM on it as well - but I have to be careful with the memory usage :-). I keep looking for an excuse to upgrade it but I have no reason :-(

If you buy from Apple you can return it in 14 days no questions asked - at least in Australia last time I looked. I tried this once with an external hard drive (too noisy) and it was not a problem.
"compress a datafile such that ..." appears to give a self-contained definition of what it means to compress in the context of the challenge.

In any case, no compression algorithm makes all inputs smaller. So, just because a data encoding doesn't make a particular input case smaller doesn't imply that it's not a compression algorithm.
HSC electronics in SJ aka halted dot com has a fair bit of history.
And getting them out of their "social" situation of hanging out with other addicts. Addicts reinforce each other's habits.
I'm not sure why you'd hate an accent just because you find it difficult to understand as (I'm guessing) a non-native speaker. It's probably just a matter of getting more practice at listening to it.
Good idea. I added a page at http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-using-swift.html
I suspect that if the challenge had been solved with a single file, Goldman would try to get out of paying by claiming that the program's size should include the size of the interpreter for its language, and the libraries linked to that, the size of the command line needed to invoke it (including the pointer vector and null termination), not to mention the underlying kernel ...
Unverified certificate. Haha. Is this a joke?
But if you ever hope to scale up to support massive numbers of users without using up massive amounts of extraneous servers

When the time comes that a self-taught engineer is scaling to these massive numbers, there should be money in the budget to hire people with expertise in efficient algorithms.
No, that's not a very nice thing to say. Everyone can get a little obsessed over their projects or ideas from time to time. There's no karmic penalty for being wrong about a unsolved mystery nor should there be.
I think talent, at least in engineering, has very little to do with the success of startups. The "Absolutely" and "Absolutely not" engineers are the same. There are good ones and bad ones everywhere. It's hardly ever the fault of engineers that the company they are working at doesn't make it. Likewise, very few companies make it because of engineering talent.
Adobe After Effects can be used to do these kind of animations, especially the smooth morphing effect from one shape to another
It's kinda well known a lot of these old pop psychology experiments were not scientifically valid yet peoples keep taking them at face value even in this thread?

It's not to say the point was wrong, they were made fanciful to popularise a point the researchers believed in.

But if you want to believe they were right please at least quote valid research.
Stallman has a bachelor's degree in physics, and he did graduate work in physics. I thought he got a master's, but his bio on his site does not mention one. No CS degree. (I'm not counting honorary doctorates, which he has, and why he writes "Dr." in front of his name--yes, an honorary doctorate allows for that).

Knuth has a bachelor's, master's, and PhD in mathematics. No CS degree.
I would assume the moderator disagreed with the premise of lumping those three categories of people together, or that somehow being an addict is as bad as a felon, or vice versa. Really the offensive part is lumping immigrants in there. Additionally, it's sort of a click-bait title because they hire anyone regardless of their background, they aren't specifically seeking these people out.
No, I get it. My issue is that they get conflated in the media and in discussion. Combating sexism and harassment is good, no two ways about it -it is a problem? Yes, I know of women who have to turn down repeated requests for dates, from the same people over and over and over. Myself I remember some guy asking me out repeatedly --knowing very well I'm not into guys. But, it's a shame that there is no nuance and any semblance of sexuality is automatically seen as treading the very thin ice of harassment.

People aren't sure any more if a compliment is going to be interpreted as harassment. Harassment meanwhile goes unabated, and as you conclude, may be getting worse.
There is something wrong with it when you openly admit to profiting from the story.

Give it a few months and I'm guessing we'll see a story about how well his "social experiment" worked.
This is a pretty incredible comment -- if I accuse someone of behavior, I'm obligated to give them a platform to defend themselves? Is there some rationale to this besides to protect the powerful, or a single place in the law besides in your head where this is written? Rod has plentiful methods of defense, up to and including a lawsuit for libel. Which you also don't understand; in the united states, a necessary condition of libel or slander is falsehood. See, eg, wiki [1]

Truth is an absolute defense against defamation in the United States,
meaning true statements cannot be defamatory.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
and exactly the same thing now happens with Asians.
Talent does not exclusively create success - there's still some elements of luck and market in there. It's still a huge part of success. Look at the absolutely insane amounts of effort companies are putting in to attract talent.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to do that :)
There's no need for a self-taught person to be caught short in an interview on not knowing what a linked list is, or the basics of algorithmic complexity.

This site has a nice summary:
http://bigocheatsheet.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkj5oWt-G4o

Simple demo.
It's boring, if you have kids it's hard to stand still and do nothing for two minutes you're trying to get them out the door, it requires several minutes of waiting for your hot water kettle, it's yet another thing to clean which people don't like, some people like variety every day and wouldn't go through beans quick enough before they went bad. There are tons of reasons (though personally I'd use an aeropress if I drank coffee at home too)
What you seem to suggest is that there is no need to even upgrade the RAM.

I could check how well it works for a while before spending the extra on the RAM.

Thanks.
No doubt -- but some are more informed than others, so I'd generally go with the advice of council with experience in the relevant fields.
I'd get 8GB, I do have trouble now and then with the 4GB, but only because of the VM (I have to reboot), 8GB will give you a longer lifetime I think (I didn't think you could upgrade the RAM in the mini's any more).
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That’s the Mozilla Public Licence. If I recall correctly, it is considered incompatible with the GNU GPL (although it probably shouldn’t be) without an explicit clause permitting combination of MPLed software with GNU GPLed software.

The MPL is a superb licence that is under-appreciated. It usually acts similar to the MIT licence in that it never taints your software that uses MPLed software. It has, at best, a “modular” taint. If you depend on an MPLed library, you can combine that library without revealing your source at all. If you modify that library, you only have to release your modified source. You can even modify it so that it goes from proprietary -> MPLed library -> proprietary, but you have to document the nature of what you’re doing in that call out from the MPL and you may need to release that (I haven’t dealt with the MPL in years, but I think that describes that particular case).

GNU activists were loud enough for years (despite having had the exact same debate at the beginning of the licensing project) that ultimately Mozilla caved and dual-licensed its projects just to shut them up. (It didn’t help with some folks in the Debian community because of the constraints on the trademarks, but some people will never be satisfied unless you’re receiving your web pages by email in emacs.)
He's a cross-eyed lunatic. There's no conspiracy on the part of Russia involving the disappearance of this aircraft.

People had a rough idea where Air France Flight 447 was when it went down, and it still took them two years to find it. No one has even a faint idea of where MH370 crashed, making the chances of finding it at all very, very, slim.

The ocean is a shockingly massive place which is a fact that Wise would discount in favor of some fantastically absurd notion that Russia somehow snuck an aircraft all the way from Malaysia to anywhere else without being spotted is ridiculous.

Unfortunately, he's going to view all this exposure as an affirmation of his theory instead of a confirmation that he needs to seek professional help.
you need a camera there. my old crabs where boring...
because not everybody has easy access to the internet. Plus, packages can't be delivered digitally.
Ask HN: Founder stock for investors? Normal?
I am an early employee of a startup that has raised some seed money. I have incentive stock options vesting over 4 years. I basically built our MVP and am the interim tech lead after the technical co-founder left.

One of the founders is raising capital (7 figures) from a non-VC investor. When the investor was in the office I overheard them talking about the investment and I heard the founder negotiating with the investor about "founder stock" that the investor will get because of the advice, introductions, blah blah he says he will provide. It sounds like this is in addition to the stock he's buying.

Is it normal for an investor to get founder stock in addition to the stock he buys? Should I be upset that the company would be SOL without my tech expertise but I'm only getting options instead of stock?
Though it does similar things and shares the name, that's not the same tool.
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Hermit crabs are wondrous and hilarious. I had a couple as pets decades ago. That's before I knew about that industry and how it deprives these creatures of a beautiful, wild existence. The following is worth considering.

http://www.peta.org/living/companion-animals/7-reasons-never...
If you read the tech specs as below,
http://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/

In the memory section, it says it's upgradeable.

And I think this is a link from Apple's own instructions on how to do the upgrade.

https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT4432
I've heard others (mostly Chinese-American engineers) tongue-in-cheek describe the Xiaomi units as "Android with Chinese characteristics."
Lower cost, higher hardness. Seems like a win-win.

Makes you wonder why nobody ever thought of it before?
Amazon's offices were shockingly bad for this.
What would that union do? Use violence or the law to force employers not to automate programming? That would be a net negative for society. One thing I like about nerd culture, is that the kind of self deception needed to convince oneself that a union is good for everyone, is absent from the nerd community. Amongst socially better adjusted people, the in group instinct is stronger, and even smart people convince themselves the the supply of labor in their industry has to be restricted, (for the good of all, of course).
I certainly agree, i just dont like the idea that this sort of comment is never appropriate. Hell ive said something siilar to that to my wife on occasion.
I'm 56, and when I started I was an electronic tech assistant. Over time I started coding and specialized in developing device drivers and then OS development. So I have a long resume with lots of experience. After Steve Jobs hired me he said that there were two people at NeXT without a degree, and that he (Steve) was one of them. So I was the other. Having said all that, it definitely would have been easier with a degree.
I was curious if there was any rate limiting/filtering being used... Since someone else noticed I guess there isn't!
Though, white guy with English and Mandarin might be a selling point.
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The thing is, there is a lot of interesting things that you could reduce into 'crud' per say. Or crud with servers.

For example, would bitcoin be a 'crud app'? Is mint a 'crud app'? Is pinterest a 'crud app'? Facebook or Instagram?
Assuming this theory is wrong (and I assume it is) it is interesting to consider why it has become so popular.

Firstly, there is no compelling counter-theory. The consensus view (the plane turned off its flight path for an unknown reason, flew in a mostly unknown direction for an unknown period of time and then crashed somewhere in the Indian ocean) has so many thing that are unknown that any theory offering certainty is attractive.

Secondly, the "Russians stole the plane because of something to do with some Ukrainians" fits the current political narrative very well. Confirmation bias means people are likely consider it even when they probably shouldn't.

Thirdly... maybe it true. Anyone have a better theory? (See how easy it is?)
Are you sure? - from the site https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT4432

Mac mini (Late 2014)
Mac mini (Late 2014) does not have user-installable RAM. You can configure the memory in your Mac mini (Late 2014) when you purchase it.

I'd ask over on http://apple.stackexchange.com to get a couple of other opinions to :-)
On the flip side, chrome is also one of the tools used to convince people that web should somehow be equivalent to native. Which, really, just doesn't make any bloody sense.

If web pages were content to showing web sites, the vast majority of the motivation for heavy sandboxing, Chrome style, would be irrelevant.
I'm working on a new JS framework that using a heavily modified Vim to allow you to write programs using only punch cards. But for it to work you have to be wearing a t-shirt that's one size too small and a scarf. It's not even done yet I'm already working a re-write in GO and Rust.
The robot's reminiscent of sculptures by Kenneth Snelson http://www.kennethsnelson.net/sculpture/outdoor/ , one of which, called "Mozart I", is on the Stanford Campus, where one of the creators of the robot in the article did his undergraduate studies in Symbolic Systems. I wouldn't be surprised if the sculpture was an inspiration for the robot.
This was one of the first works I read that changed my perspective to focus on the human elements in science fiction as opposed to the bells and whistles.
lol, I think you may be an exception :-), kudos to you by the way
I think it'll work pretty well, unless you are working on really big projects.

RAM is something that will never hurt to have more of.
On one hand, yes, I believe third wave feminism and radical feminism are divergent (third wave being an inclusionary branch), but according to Wikipedia, anyone who recognizes and opposes the patriarchy is a radical feminist, so one could reasonably consider third-wave to be a sub-type of radical feminism. (I think if you used the term "radfem", that would be more clearly distinct from third wave feminism--that term seems used along with terms like "terf".)

Disclaimer: I'm not very well educated on this at all.
Thanks for the follow-up. It's good to know. Cheers, and keep on (organically) keeping!
BTC: No, there's an astounding amount of cryptography there. You can build CRUD stuff on top of it.

Mint: (assuming the financial tracker) No, ask anyone who's worked with bank software before - it ain't pretty.

Pinterest/FB/Instagram: Possibly. At the start? Absolutely. What makes those companies valuable is their network effect - everyone you know is already there. Supporting users at that scale takes a lot more than just reading up on the latest APIs. FB invented a (sorta) new language to tackle their scaling problems.
Chrome doesn't force-update on Linux. You can just install it and not accept any updates.
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Yes. I just saw that. I cant reply to your comment directly as there is no reply button below your comment (probably nested too deep). stackexchange might be a good place to check. I think the 2012 mac mini was eating into their higher end machine sales and crippling the 2014 mac mini is move on their part to counter this.
They found debris from AF447 the day after it crashed. Nothing from MH370 has been found.
Theory A) Putin had 3 Russian Spetsnaz hijack the plane, kill all the passengers on board, and navigated to an abandoned space launch and landing facility, so in a year or two it could be loaded up with explosives and used in a first-strike terrorist attack against the USA.

Theory B) Plane crashed at unexpected location in ocean that covers 3/4 of earth surface.

I know which one the media outlets that are booking this guy are going to be pushing come Monday. It has all the right juicy bits in it. And the other one is kind of bland.
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But the harassment, in this case, is only a symptom of the sexism that is making its way into the very core of SV workplaces. Everything gets amplified when the perpetrator enjoys more power and the support of the boy club. This case is just one more demonstration that the problem is not the limits of propriety, but a very unfair distribution of power.

If someone hurts you, whether or not you will experience the offense as a dangerous threat depends very much on whether the offender makes the offense knowing they enjoy the protection of power, which allows them to harm people who don't.
It's pretty clear that there are things that are are okay until I'm told to stop, and there are other things that are inappropriate until I'm told it's okay.

A lot of us consider telling a coworker "It's taking all of my self control not to grab your ass right now" falls under the latter category.
Hmm.

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--------- ---
x x hairy
x x over-affectionate
x x personal hygiene issues
x spends time burying bones
x spends time buried in code
x chasing tail
x debugging
x can write C++
x x sometimes tries to lick own balls when nobody is looking
x succeeds

I think I'll take the dog.
It isn't that you have to pretend to be asexual.

Just don't sexually harass people who work under you as subordinates; that's abusing your position.
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Because generally these people are perfectly capable of using the standard version of their language just fine. I make exceptions for people who were alive at the times of WW2, but most people who speak in heavy accents do it because they have no courtesy for their fellow humans. As for more practice: I already spent 16 years learning english to a near-native degree (among others). I'm not gonna bother trying to learn the accent of someone who probably only speaks a single language and is simply too lazy to use the standard language of their own country.
Free speech is an ideal I hold closely, and I would rather let myself be locked up, with all that entails, than acquiesce to governance that required I renounce it.

So if I no longer live in a country that feels as I do, which I very sincerely doubt, let come what may.
The companies put a lot of effort into finding people who are 1) sufficiently competent and 2) cheap. That's quite a bit different than trying to find the best of the best although it can be plenty hard if you're not willing to pay the market clearing rate.
If Debian were a business and the original poster were one of their customers, how would the OP be feeling about that exchange?

It's unprofessional by definition because it is so clear that the person responding does not consider this their profession.
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