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> Taxpayers and workers brought GM out of bankruptcy, yet it is the hedge funds that will reap the biggest rewards. Taxpayers and workers should demand that open-market repurchases by all companies be banned. Stock buybacks manipulate the stock market and leave most Americans worse off. In this case, it is clear that what is good for the hedge funds is bad for the United States.

Stock repurchases are just a different way of paying dividends. Nothing scary about them.
With the amount of money on the line I can only assume they'll get the laws changed in favor of those with the deep pockets.
The "sharing" economy is a misnomer--what Uber represents is the "mis-classified contractor" economy.
"Tuesday morning, the company announced a new native advertising initiative that will let brands and advertising agencies sponsor content on the site, much as sites like the New York Times and the Washington Post do already."

They do? Many papers do; the "fluff" sections (Travel, Food, Wine, etc.) are often outsourced to Demand Media. But I didn't think the NYT did.

Some sites which you may not think are clickbait, are. Business Insider is owned by a founder of DoubleClick.
I grieve for Paul's passing but also for Cady's loss.

To lose a father at that age... the picture is truly heart breaking
Ask HN: Best developer machine; and what to learn to become employable?
Hi.

I intend to learn web development on my own during and after the summer. Mainly because there aren't any bootcamps over here in Ireland with a proven track record.

While I would love to learn web development, I am afraid it will hinder me to do back-end work, if that is something I end up finding interesting in the future.

My question is basically, what exactly should I learn to become employable in Europe? Preferably England or Switzerland. I have no degree, and I would be creating a portfolio from scratch. Exactly how low are the requirements?

At the moment I intend to learn: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML5 CSS3, Javascript, jQuery.
Is that really enough?
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as a person with severe depression, i am absolutely certain of one thing. feelings come first, then thoughts. it's impossible to think your way out of depression. it sounds like OP's empathy is a "deep" / low-level quality of how their mind works, in which case it's probably impossible for them to think their way out of it. IMO
Yes, thanks. Was fun digging out my old MtG cards. I had to do a bit of Googling to even remember some of the basics of how to play. From a quick skim it looks like I've got a bunch of $5ish cards, but nothing too fancy.
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...and which magical hard drive do you buy that guarantees it will fail gracefully? Customer hard drive reviews are littered with sudden drive deaths and DOAs. If the electronics or motor go on a hard drive, the data is practically toast unless you're ready to pay out the nose for exotic data recovery.
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Are you in contact with the Pirate parties of different countries? Your party sounds like it uses the idea of "liquid democracy" which is discussed quite a bit by the Pirate parties if memory serves right.
I think the German one at least discussed some tools to use/build for the entire vote/poll mechanism which I assume is built into your collaboration product.

You'll probably end up in some upcoming startup books as an unusual MVP (is it M?). "Found a political party".

Good luck, political change is really hard and I do like the concept of more direct wisdom of the crowd like politics. I'm not sure about your product but access to governments and understanding how they work is pretty valuable. Government tools tend to be internally-viral (one community usues it, it spreads). I'm curious if the fact that you are also a party might be dangerous for the product though. Pretty often useful stuff is blocked on principle so for example if your party seems "left", conservative city councils might not use your tool due to that (likewise the other way around). Pretty interesting problem to have.
It's also worth remembering that Finland has, in addition to income proportional fines, a rule that three offences during a year or four during two years will lead to losing your license. And if you go too far above the speed limit, you will lose your license for <=6 months.
There's been some research on adding a "deliberative" component to the entire process. http://cdd.stanford.edu/. This apparently results in different outcomes than mere voting does. There's obviously the question of whether "different" is in fact "better" and how the deliberative process is structured, but given that debate and discussion appears to be an important part of DemocracyOS, I wonder if there's any way to build upon the existing research here.

If we assume that entering a war tends to be more of a rash impulsive, decision than in abstaining from violence, then building DemocracyOS in such a way so as to encourage deliberation could reduce the odds of people voting for war (or, if they do vote for war, assure others that the war is being waged for careful, thought-out reasons).

Also, the Lawrence Lessig refrain that "code is law" seems particularly applicable here.
Ask HN: What does it mean to sign NDA?
First post... YC newbie. Glad to be here :-)

I have been looking to buy an internet business and came across a broker firm that deals in such deals. Whereas Flippa, allows open and direct communication with seller, this broker has asked me to sign a NDA before getting on the phone. I'd like to point out, we are nowhere close to discussing a specific business deal. I am just trying to understand what they bring to the table and what are they offering. Is this a fair request on the broker's side? Asking me to sign a legal document before they can even disclose the name and nature of the business.
It makes me a little uncomfortable signing a generic NDA w/o knowing how it ties me down. For ex, will it bind me from using any technique/method/idea that is employed by this business, now or in future.

I understand this is not the place for a legal counsel. But if people have prior experience reading/writing NDA's, opinions would be appreciated. Below is a scrubbed version of the document with any proprietary information removed.

Appreciate the help!

http://tinypic.com/r/al1d6q/8
http://tinypic.com/r/f36vs5/8
http://tinypic.com/r/jq2vj4/8

PS - NDA will be in effect for 2 years from date of signing.
It's a good thing that we shy away from excessive punishments. The point here is simply that what is excessive may depend on the person being punished. In that sense, your premise is not a counter-argument against what tellarin wrote.

A 1,000$ fine for somebody with 20,000$ yearly income is a catastrophe. A 1,000$ fine for somebody with 1,000,000$ yearly income is at most a small annoyance.

Since the whole point of fines is (to a large extent) to act as a deterrent, you must take into account the fact that money has a decreasing marginal utility.

Your point about due process is interesting, but similarly needs to be scaled to the defendants wealth: Once you go down the road of talking about different amounts of due process required based on the potential effects of the punishments, it is clear that the amount of due process must be based not on the absolute value of the fine, but rather on the punishment's effect on the utility/well-being of the defendant.
> Their hours are flexible—but only to a point. Uber, for example, has threatened to suspend the accounts of drivers who accept less than 90 percent of rides.

The second statement does not follow from the first. Uber is probably saying that if you're on the grid, you have to accept 90% of the rides. This totally makes sense; otherwise users will not be able to get a ride even when they see cars all around. Uber is (probably) not saying that drivers should log in for a certain number of hours every day.
> I believe it was Alan Kay who said, "names don't scale".

apparently in (http://joearms.github.io/2015/03/12/The_web_of_names.html) joe-armstrong also says something similar.
Things like these shouldn't happen. I strongly believe that we have the resources and the knowledge to safe many people lives. It is tragedy that many of us willingly let those resources be wasted, by whatever plan politicians elected by us come up with.

This may sound like cliche but I believe it is truth

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.(Edmund Burke)

Question is what can we do to improve it?

Things like easiest things to do is spend some money on organization supporting research, helping those in need in general.

Help research by joining folding@home, rosetta@home or other distributed computing project.

Spend some time helping in some charity.

This is a little but it might help to safe life someone you know. I am curious if there is some other plan for this.
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Making a video tutorial is one of the most cost-effective ways
Lots of things have names related to topics in computer science. Like Y Combinator or Stack Overflow. Neither of those represent the respective companies' entire scopes. Y Combinator has the courtesy toward the uninitiated to actually write "Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups." on the first place you lay your eyes on when you visit the page.
Empathy is one of the greatest spiritual quality [0]. You should explore spirituality and who knows that you may progress faster than average individuals [1].

0] http://omswami.com/2014/12/seed-empathy.html
1] http://omswami.com/2014/10/if-truth-be-told.html
Yes, because legal penalty becomes an expected cost of the activity.
By that definition is looks like they are in the clear. Many drivers drive for multiple clients. They have a high level of control over their work. Not exactly sure I understand the third part beyond "specific jobs over limited periods of time" which is also the case.
"surface tollbooth"?

4 and 5 axis CNC mills for watch-sized objects aren't overly expensive. Roland has some nice ones in the $8K range.[1] Their little desktop milling machines are often used to produce medical and dental replacement parts. Apple's use of laser deburring is a nice touch. That's likely to become popular.

[1] http://www.rolanddga.com/products/3d/mdx40/
Taxi drivers were already classified as independent contractors, even when working for large cab companies. In fact, they sued four of them in Chicago just last year[1].

Despite of the jab in the headline, Uber et all didn't create this situation, and they may in fact have the (unintended) consequence of fixing this and other long lasting issues with the taxi industry.

I don't like Uber, nor their business practices, but I do appreciate the kick in the status quo.

[1] http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-26/news/chi-suit-...
"Ceph isn't ready for production." - this is not the case.

Ceph object-store known as RADOS is production ready and supported by Red Hat [1], in addition the block-device service known as RBD which is an access method to RADOS is also production ready and supported. RBD provides many SAN like features like snapshots, cloning, and soon mirroring. The CephFS (POSIX filesystem access method) is not yet a supported product but is used by several sites in production. Ceph also provides S3/Swift object-store gateway (radosgw) so existing applications can access the object store with a compatible API.

Ceph provides unified storage: providing object, block and filesystem access from a single cluster, so Ceph is the more general purpose technology. Ceph MDS provides metadata service for the CephFS POSIX-filesystem but is not needed if you're not using that feature. For development and testing Ceph will run on a single VM, or more realistically on 3 small VMs so the cluster characteristics can be explored.

[1] alternatively you can buy a production grade fully supported appliance product from Fujitsu based on Ceph known as ETERNUS CD10000. For most deployments Ceph runs well on commodity hardware and the Ceph community provides excellent support too.
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It would be exciting if this ever led to an accurate detection/diagnosis technique.
Another side effect of involuntary empathy for me is tending to forgive (sometimes too?!) easily - since I understand, or at least like to believe I understand almost everything as a result of hard to change traits and motivations.
Whenever somebody is blamed for something I immediately try to explain why her or his acting is understandable.
Empathy might also lower my belief in free will.
The part implies that you're more likely to be classified as an independent contractor if you're, say, a designer hired by a fishing company than if you're a fisherman hired by the same company.
seagate dual head design: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-hdd-harddrive,8279....
I have to say this is false. I work in that industry, and even when you have, say, a 4 drive RAID, and all 4 drives are the same model but intentionally different batches, you will still, more often than not, have 2 drive failures within 24 hours.

Now, what does this mean in, exactly? In that four drive scenario, RAID10 has a 1/3rd chance of failure (both failed drives being both the A or B parts of the inner RAID 0s is two out of six possible scenarios), RAID5 will fail no matter which two drives, RAID6 will survive no matter which two drives, ZFS's RAID-Z3 (three parity RAID5/6) will survive no matter which three drives, and RAID1 will survive no matter which three drives.

RAID10 is the most performant of the possible outcomes, and the usual makeup of a 4 drive array unless you absolutely need the storage, then its usually RAID5; unless you seriously do not care about sanity at all, then its RAID0 or just independent disks.

Now, my suggestion for 15 hour rebuild times? Whatever you do, have a hotspare so it can begin immediately rebuilding and do not use any RAID variant that can't handle more than 2 failures in 15 hours. This means no RAID10 or RAID5, only RAID6 or RAID-Z3.

Ceph mitigates this 15 hour time because it can rebuild a lost drive by just allocating new blocks on every other drive simultaneously and maxing out your network and/or storage IO (whichever is slowest) so the window of potential doom is much smaller (depending on Ceph cluster size, obviously, bigger the better in this case).
Right :-)

ftp.microsoft.com/services/technet/windows/msdos/RESKIT/SUPPDISK/NIBBLES.BAS

ftp.microsoft.com/services/technet/windows/msdos/RESKIT/SUPPDISK/GORILLA.BAS
I don't get the kick in the status quo,since they're doing exactly the same shit other taxi companies are doing, but with a nicer app and sidestepping regulations.

At least for drivers, this doesn't seem like a better deal in the long term
That's a pretty cynical point of view. And what's the alternative, handing the decisions over to a "ruling class" of elites? One could make a somewhat compelling argument that current democratic systems are pretty much a "curse of Plato" (term taken from Open Society by Popper) type of system with an extra layer of indirection above it and.

I think there's at least enough evidence from other areas (broadly wisdom of the crowds) + technology is good enough these days to quickly vote on stuff to invest in more direct alternatives.
People actually went to jail for financial fraud? What different times it must have been back then.
Interesting to think about it that way -- you jack it into just a single branch of the US government and you have some built in QA process.

I'm assuming the long term goal is to connect all of these together to have a global state after they're already embedded in each country's government. All hail the internet state we build together (or our benevolent leaders who backdoor the version of DemocracyOS we're running)!

In all seriousness, it's great to be able to think about using fairness algorithms [1] to literally write social contracts.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionally_fair
And what does this mean: an employer’s “right to discharge at will, without cause” as “strong evidence in support of an employment relationship.”

Aren't contractors easier to discharge?
One can surely argue that for an increasingly large proportion of the public, the level of monetary punishment does not provide any deterrent from breaking rules.

Maybe I am imagining it, but (anecdotally) I tend to see mainly expensive cars parked illegally in handicapped spots.

Income proportional fines seems to me like a fair way to apply a monetary deterrent to people that now get meaningless (to them) fines.
The Net Party seems like it defeats the purpose of representative democracy. The system was designed to let congress people differ from their electorate on certain matters. If you take the Net Party concept (as I understand it) to it's logical conclusion, isn't that changing the basic form of government from representative to direct democracy? Or in essence saying "Nice try James Madison, but we have something different in mind"?

It's great to to give citizens a forum for debate and anything that encourages communication between government and the governed is generally a good thing. Not sure how much I like the idea of making major changes to the basic process of government though, at least here in the United States. I can think of many examples of good things that might not have passed in congress if representatives had to vote the way that citizens using a particular software app wanted them to vote (slavery, income tax, segregation, healthcare).

I wish you good luck and it sounds like you're doing good things. Experimentation is good, even if it poses risks.
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ZFS can mostly handle that. It will try to recover any data it can, and rebuild whatever it can. Due to how paranoid ZFS is designed, it will survive edge cases like this much better, which is also why I like deploying it here even at home.

And if it can't recover it? You can prove it by failed checksum check. This is why, in my opinion, ZFS is so much better than all other file systems: if it fails, you can prove it instead of just sorta vaguely questioning everything because you can't tell but you suspect it, and it slowly drives you insane.

Once you try ZFS, you never go back.
OK, I see. So a software company contracting with drivers sounds like your second example. So all three tenets support the contractor relationship. I think common sense is there as well. I've driven for both and didn't feel even slightly like an employee.
Here's a link to the IRS's general test on misclassification of employees, can be interested in walking through

http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/shared/Documents/Publications/Natu...

There are 20 points to consider in total.
some of the ones that don't come up in these discussions but probably should:

• Degree of business integration. Workers whose services are integrated into business
operations or significantly affect business success are likely to be considered employees.

• Control over discharge. A company's unilateral right to discharge a worker suggests
an employment relationship. In contrast, a company's ability to terminate independent
contractor relationships generally depends on contract terms.

• Right of termination. Most employees unilaterally can terminate their work for a
company without liability. Independent contractors cannot terminate services without
liability, except as allowed under their contracts.
Ahh cool, thanks for the correction.
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How long has this idea of making a 3D engine from conv nets been researched?
Mabe someone will finally get it. You can't trust third-party sites to keep your stuff up. Host it yourself if you want to be sure it's around somewhere. Use free hosting as a backup plan.
Of course they are bloody employees, end of !
you are completely missing the beauty of the Legacy format.

Cards like Tabernacle, Imperial Recruiter, candelabra, Grim Tutor are not objectively more powerful than commonly used alternatives. These are role players in a couple of decks and while some of these decks are quite good, none of these decks are particularly dominant.

The metagame would not collapse in on itself if the guys that spend $10K+ on foiled out decks and beta duals just decided to buy rare expensive staples instead. If there was a way to pay money to have an unfair advantage in tournaments there is no way in hell the people who basically do it for a living wouldn't be doing it.

I play almost exclusively Legacy and almost exclusively with people who have either no qualms with proxying or large disposable incomes. My local meta is extremely varied. We have unsanctioned tournaments with large prize payouts so people are very much incentivized to play the best deck possible. Proxying allows the people with less disposable income to have options outside of the typical 3-5 tier 2 budget decks.
I'm guessing it's only available in certain countries. It would be nice if they actually told people that, instead of making it fail with no error.
Texas is not privately held. That's the difference.
Aren't you both arguing for a culture of science? Of discussions dominated by experimental results and data driven decisions?

You can be as loud an asshat as you like, but if your opinions disagree with experimental results, tough.

Of course you can still be a loud asshat and right but that's a different class of problem.
"complete specific jobs over a limited period of time that fall outside the usual scope of their current employer’s business" is more concerning..

Hiring a software Developer as contracter by a taxi company may be undernorms but A Taxi Management Company whose power is from Software hiring Taxi Drivers doesn't look like comes under this definition...
Contracts typically have a term length.
Do you mean like Hublot?
http://www.hublot.com/en/craftsmanship/materials

stop trolling; they aren't trying to rip you off.
I have personally met Dan Rosen.... CEO of Chegg and he did seem like a jerk using foul language in front of so many audience in wharton summit. and he has been running a company in losses. He had so much negativity around him!
Ultimately to be on the safe side against all scenarios including chosen plaintext attacks and ensure integrity you'll need an authenticated encryption with encrypt-then-mac scheme. What always remains opens is the key sharing and identity management.
Check back in a year and see how much of the consumer protection Google has quietly removed. Look at the history of Facebook privacy defaults. (http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/)
Wow. What an amazing individual. And what a terrible tragedy and loss for humanity that he didn't get a full life.

After reading his writing I am very saddened to hear that he never got to write his book - he is an amazing writer and thinker. (http://stanmed.stanford.edu/2015spring/before-i-go.html and http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/opinion/sunday/how-long-ha...)
I miss the old Sierra games. I'm glad we're starting to see a revival of adventuring gaming via Kickstarter and episodic channels, although I often feel like a lot of the AAA games coming out these days lack a certain spark found in those old Sierra games. Maybe it's because I'm just older and more jaded now, but this quote spoke to me:

''' So I guess my thinking is that the big problems came when game developers lost control of their companies. The Broderbund guys were programmers and gamers and developers. Ken was. Quite a few of the other -- Activision was founded by a game player, and Accolade. A lot of other companies were founded by guys who knew games and as long as they were in charge, it seemed like things were better. But when gradually their companies hired professional management -- professional managers love spreadsheets and they loved evidence, because they didn't have gut feelings that said, "Yeah, that's a great idea! Yeah, that'll sell! People will love that! Look at that!" Instead, they would say, "Well, what are the numbers here? How do we compare this? What are your comparables?"
'''

Compare to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179624