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One thing many people in Europe don't realize is how huge the United States is. (This ends up often causing some hilarious confusion when they come visit and realize you can't do a road trip tour of the country in one weekend.)

Let's do some comparison. For kicks, and because I work with some Danes, we'll use Copenhagen. Denmark has about 5 million people. The state I live in, Washington, has more than 7 million.

From Copehagan, you can travel 28km and be in Malmö Sweden. Hope you know Swedish! Meanwhile, I'll still be in the metro area of the city I live in, Seattle.

Go 151km out and you can reach Stralsund in Germany. I'll be able to just reach the tip of Canada, since Seattle happens to be near the corner of the state. But if I go East, I'm still less than a quarter of the way out of Washington. And, of course, even taking Canada into account, I'm still surrounded by only English speakers.

Up to 251km, and now we've reached Kolobrzeg in Poland. Still mostly in Washington, though I can just reach the edge of Oregon. Everyone there speaks English.

At 392km, we can get to Kristiansand, Norway. Meanwhile, I can still be in Washington.

A 530km jaunt across the Baltic gets us into Lithuania or Latvia. That just gets me to Oregon, Idaho, and a bit of Montana because Idaho is so narrow.

Going the other way, a 784km paddle across the North Sea gets us to the UK. That gets me a little bit of the way into Nevada and California. 44 states are still out of reach.

804km will make it to France. That gets me to... still just Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and California.

To get to a place where English isn't the main language, I have to go about 1,700km to Mexico. That distance will take a Dane well past Moscow.

To get to Florida, the last place I lived, I have to go about 4,000km. That distance will take our Danish friend to Sudan, Saudia Arabia, Novosibirsk, or well past the North pole. In fact, it will take them just about over the Atlantic all the way to Canada.

So, yes, I do wish I was multi-lingual. But I don't think it should come as a shock or be considered a failure that most Americans are when it lets us converse with all of the more than 300 million people that are in a several thousand kilometer radius around us.
> one female PM for every male PM

Where I've worked women far outnumber men in PM roles... and that's OK.
Bill and Steve would meet in a plane flying over the ocean - in order to prevent anyone else being involved and to prevent any monitoring. And, in general, these deals made them very rich, so the only people who could betray them had both made a lot of money and been involved in illegal activities themselves. Kind of hard to see much risk in something that is completely deniable. If I hadn't spoken to people with direct knowledge of these things, I wouldn't know it myself. I'm not sure what it would take to get people to admit to their involvement.
Hey how do I get downvotes? No fair! :) Answer: I could tell you, but you need 2070 karma first :) :)
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> I mean if I was an investor, I would be so much proud of creating free services. That's the only way honest improvements has ever worked, when it was not so much profit driven.

And that's why you and I are not investors, but just poor developers who like making video games. There aren't many investors out there who care about actual improvement for society; I might hesitantly point to few names, but that's it. For the rest it's just another level of money-making-money game.
And when it is widely known than there are no consequences to not paying your water bill, it's not surprising to see the numbers of people not paying increase. How many of the people having their bills paid just decided to stop paying because doing so was for suckers?
On the contrary, continue with your side projects. That's probably why you even managed to get interviews with those companies. Did you compute the odds of landing an internship at Google? How many people apply? How many people get in?

Make yourself really good. Write code that amazes. Then you'll be able to control your destiny.
I was really excited by this announcement, until I read the comparison. The 'Free (for up to 30 users)' doesn't include the single most important feature to me: LDAP integration. In other words, I can host it myself, but I'm not actually testing out any of the features I want to try so it doesn't matter anyway. If I want that I have to pay money anyway, so this is completely pointless for me (and, I suspect, others as well).
"You knew what I was when you picked me up," said the snake as it slithered away.
Right, the brand thing is what I was trying to drive at as being a large factor for purchase decision outside of just tangible assets.

I have also read enough of Buffet to know that while he likes to put on the hat of gump old man, he has teams of people who he relies on for things he "doesn't understand" - and we aren't talking about nuclear technology here.

Especially if you are making brand decisions, Google is a huge brand, and the technology is not esoteric nor is the business model. The difference though is that google is software based, while IBM is hardware. At least that's how it has historically been...I am curious what BH will do as IBM moves toward more software/people centered.
it seems 51 members of the team are sued..what are the odds that all are Indians??
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Ok, I've posted in the forums a few times on this and the reason seems to be that music gets licensed and unlicensed all the time on Spotify but they try to hide that from the user (as they should). However in a number of cases when an explicit song that gets unlicenced (even if it is almost immediately re-licensed) then it will fallback to the clean licenced version because Spotify always wants to default to non-explicit songs (In fact for a while, and maybe still, they didn't allow explicit songs on the mobile app, the only way to hear them was to add them to a playlist on desktop first, there was no way to search for or find them). I'm fine with this IF AND ONLY IF when the explicit version is re-added that my song (or rather my "pointer" to the song) gets "upgraded".

Ideally there would be an "explicit-only" checkbox like there is "hide explicit" one that would always show the explicit instead of the clean version.

Edit: My Spotify forum post for reference https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/... I can't seem to find my orignal post... Maybe I'm mis-remembering and I just read it on the forums...
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I built this to learn Go: https://cryptowat.ch.

It was the perfect project because it involves a lot of concurrency and networking. I'd think about projects that involve those two things.
As a father of 1, I must agree to this:

- I lose ~ 2-3 hours a day every day on commute alone.

- I lose an additional 1-2 hours daily on getting my daughter ready, taking her to school, pickup from grandparents, and other daily needs of my daughter.

- My income is SIGNIFICANTLY lessened by the expenses of my daughter

If I was not a father, I would have the following:

- I could live 15 minutes away from work by foot, thus saving me between 1.5 - 2.5 hours a day.

- Living close to work requires most likely paying double my current housing cost, and having half my living space.

- Living close to work eliminates my need for a car, so some savings there.

- I will have 2 spare hours for extra sleep or misc. activity a day

- I will also have 2-3 extra hours a day not taking care of my daughter (homework, Daddy-Child time, planning meetups with friends, planning activities).

- No need to pay for extra food (time + money), no need to have homecooked food (I can survive on "ramen", child cannot), no need for gymnastics or other physical / social / mental development activity programs (lots of money saved).

Add it all up I am at ~ 4-6 hour disadvantage to the average 23-27 year old single male, with a significant lifestyle and monetary hit. If I was just to use 2 hours a day that the more free have to program an OSS project, and 2-4 hours on sleep, I would be better rested, more productive, and would contribute between 10 to 14 hours a week to OSS all while keeping my current lifestyle.

P.S. on top of that I work at a job who doesn't count ass-in-chair time, lets me work 9-5 (not 9-6), and is low stress. So already I am privileged over others in my exact position without this cozy 9-5 job.

P.S.S. on top of that as a divorced man, I also need to find time to date, so you can't argue that I too have time savings over a single man's need to date. Which mind you is really hard when you have a child.

P.S.S.S. Some people have a job that revolves around and/or encourages OSS contributions. So they get to contribute, all while getting paid for it in their standard job. This puts then in an even further advantage because they are now unfairly elevated above the average worker.
I'm not sure if this question is really applicable since you weren't there for very long before the IPO, but do you know what the Series A -> IPO dilution of shares looked like?
Why not use a license that merely prohibits commercial use? And presumably the startups in question are actually adding some value to your code beyond just implementing it with a wrapper. It's not like they are building a business around your piece of code (or are they?)
I think that's the opposite of what the GP is saying. The thesis seems to be that hardware is patentable because what matters is not the schematic/topology, but the physically manufactured circuit board, whereas in software you can directly copy an algorithm. It's the "you wouldn't download a car" differentiation.
Interesting. I'm sure people are doing this illegally, but technically you're supposed to buy a commercial Spotify license for public performance.
> Right, PG's advice is not useful for all founders, just the 1 out of every 10 that makes it big. The others are supposed to nut up and get over it.

Quite contrary, the opposite is true: the "1 out of every 10" companies you hear about are the companies where founders resisted opportunities to sell early, which grew to a size where millionaires continued to be minted even after the IPO.

Some VCs have even refused to permit early sales that would have made the founders comfortable (i.e., 1-5mm per founder): while top-tier VCs _won't_ do that (that would make founders who have their pick of VCs be reluctant about accepting their funding), it's probably not the best idea in the world to take substantial amount of VC funding without even considering the possibility of building a public company.

There's a lot that one can accuse pg of, but pushing founders to take long odds to make VCs rich is not one of them.
So 2008[0] then?

0: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/
I've been using node-style modules for several years now... with simple modules and composition for object structures, I really don't need classes. The ES6/7 stuff does add a lot to the language. I think that async/await/thenables brings JS up to par with most modern languages... proper observable objects will help too.

I find that people tend to have a hammer (be it ent-lib for .Net, or any number of other tools) and like to see everything as a nail. When you stop trying to force JS in a class system box, it becomes much nicer to work with.
What does "worked out very well" mean? Also, what do you mean by watching the sausage get made? Not sure I follow.
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Not 100% confirmed yet. Follow up here: http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/03/18/inenglish/1426667907_532...
Have you searched for those things? There are lots of campaigns to get more women in those jobs... just google the job title and more women or even feminism.

Example:
http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/135815/API_Study_Getti...
https://jobs.telegraph.co.uk/article/fancy-commuting-by-heli...
http://www.womeninmining.org.uk/
If someone hasn't heard of Dropbox by now they likely aren't your target market.
Things like water distribution are natural monopolies. Or are you suggesting that we have several independent water vendors built completely separate water pipeline infrastructures?
Would you mind disclosing at what stage of the process you got your initial grant, and how much that grant was diluted along the way to IPO?
You mention your most famous competitor? :-P Sounds a silly strategy, (if it's like Dropbox why not use dropbox?) but it actually works :-)
They are non-sandboxed but most are open source.

Additionally, there are so many users testing these mods that I doubt any serious malware could be put on Steam without being caught by the community.
See Downsize DC's One Subject at a Time Act (OSTA) which does exactly what you ask[0]. I have heard that what the bill wants to accomplish would require a constitutional amendment, as you suggested, due to legislative entrenchment (the current congress cannot bind a future congress) but I do not know what the truth of the situation is.

Downsize DC's Agenda page has a list of all of their bills[1]. OSTA is the one I think has the best chance of being implemented. Some others with good ideas include:

* Read The Bills Act: 'Yea' votes require that the congressperson has read/heard the bill (no more "I didn't know that was in there!"), mandatory 7-day public review period of final bill text. I think the mandatory reading of the text before a quorum will keep this one from being considered though.

* Enumerated Powers Act: Congress must cite the constitutional authority on which the bill rests.

I don't view Downsize DC as a very effective organization, so I would love to see other orgs throw their weight behind OSTA. It seems to me that it's something EFF or ACLU could support, for example, because so many of the things they fight against were enacted using sneaky riders.

[0]https://downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/
[1]https://downsizedc.org/agenda
With the number of languages that transpile to ES5 or asm.js, I don't think that's really the problem.
Yes, I'm an active user of Designer News and Product Hunt, so I've got a lot of inspiration from them (mostly Designer News).

Nomadler build using Telescope and their tagline on the website is "Build and customize your very own Hacker News, Reddit, or Product Hunt!" :)
http://www.oecd.org/dac/gender-development/1849277.pdf
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Ebbv might be referring to problems with orbital precession, which was explained completely by general relativity.
This could be better phrased, but it seems to me:

Working to achieve a 1:1 sex ratio between men and women creates a sense of division by fundamentally looking at men and women as different when they should be looked at as the same in the workplace. It fosters a sense of "otherness", polarization, two separate groups and a sense of difference, when there should be a sense of LACK of importance of gender/sex.

Same pattern applies to racial diversity. By looking at skin color and purposefully categorizing people and trying to achieve a certain balance, you enhance a sense of group-identity and otherness that creates racial division in the first place.

I think this is why this issue seems so intractable. Just by talking about and labeling groups you help reinforce and create those groups and divisions between them.
So it's horseshit because it "seems like horseshit" to you?

In fact, coordinate transformations are at the heart of the modern conception of classical mechanics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics
As a parallel, just because white people treat other white people poorly doesn't make institutional racism of white treating people of color poorly acceptable.
I knew a Harvard CS grad with starting salary at AmaGooFaceSoft of (base+bonus+RSUs) of between $200k and $250k, so I'd take the under on 2020 if we're willing to take the upper end of reasonably achievable rather than the standard offer at the big places.
That's good news. I'm hearing more and more good things for open access to journals and research. Now a country's governmental organisation is opening it's doors. Let the information flow!
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The proposition in the article only works because users pay a fixed monthly rate for unlimited listening, rather than a charge that is metered based on how much they stream.

Jack Stratton's proposition is wagered on the proposition that the users who listen to his tracks are ones who don't listen to very much other stuff. His listeners pay $9.99 per months, but don't stream very much, and a big chunk of what they do stream is Stratton's material. He doesn't want most of that $9.99 going to those other damn artists, who are just random junk whose material isn't sought out by anyone, but streamed randomly in Yoga classes, elevators, supermarkets or wherever.

If there is some user who paid $9.99, 70% of which is $7 going to the artists, and half of what that user listened to was Stratton's tracks, Stratton wants $3.50 for that month, for that user alone. Add to that other similar users, and extrapolate to twelve months and you have some non-negligible cash at the end of the year: better than a fraction of a cent.

Problem is, no matter how you slice the pie, it is a zero-sum game. There is so much revenue and so many artists.
Most artists, likely including Stratton, will lose this zero-sum game no matter how the pie is carved.

There is little difference between 99% of the artists getting peanuts, and 100% of the artists getting peanuts. The proposed rule would just create a tiny group which gets quite a lot more revenue than the rest, at the cost of slightly impoverishing every member of the remaining group, who then gets a slightly smaller fraction of a cent.

It's actually a good rule from Spotify's POV because this tiny group would represent "success stories" which Spotify could use for promotion.

On a different topic, this kind of reminds me of the whiners who complain about online dating sites. "I'm obviously a more qualified bachelor than most of the losers who make profiles on this site, so if only the implementation of the site were based on somewhat different rules, then I would easily get replies from the women I'm interested in. I might have found a girlfriend long ago if it weren't for this damn dating site. Waaaah ... sniff!"
Large infrastructure projects in Germany usually fail, projects involving the internet or technology especially so.

If there is such a thing as a most wrong stereotype, german efficiency is it.
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This is not an argument against allowing the freedom of choice of how to spend my money and time. If I want more risk, I should absolutely have it. What you're saying is like saying "if you surf and get bitten by a shark, you would start reconsidering your attitude towards surfing, thinking maybe you shouldn't have gotten into the water in the first place". Should we ban surfing on the grounds that some people may actually regret it?

The point is to allow people to make their own choices. What you're advocating is depriving people of the choice of how to spend their money and manage their risk/reward options.
The question you should be asking, is why is it not?
Problem? Well, a minor inconvenience. For me the difference is that I specifically need to reserve cash to pay taxis in Germany, not for any other purpose.

Normally, I don't carry cash with me, except for a few coins for a bus ticket or a vending machine or a quick lunch. I don't even carry a wallet; I have a phone case which has pockets for driving license or ID card, and bank/credit card. Above, I said credit card, but I actually use it as a direct debit card. I pay may lunch and groceries with it, and gas and parking, and whatever.

If I make a one-day business trip to Stockholm, I don't need to make any special preparations: I can pay everything with the same debit/credit card, and I don't need to change any currency even though Sweden does not use euros.

If I make a one-day business trip to Berlin, I do need to prepare with currency to pay the taxi there. If Uber brings pressure for taxis to accept debit/credit cards, that's good.
Getting blindsided by that complete botching of a strong argument seems oddly familiar, I must have read this back in 2013 too. The case to be made that unpaid labor to an OSS project should not be a barrier to entry to employment is very strong on it's own. The sidetrack into OSS diversity seems to imply that if open source were more diverse it wouldn't still be a terrible hiring practice to expect candidates to have contributed to open source.
Such a license would mean your software is proprietary, and thus dissuade not just businesses but a lot of end users as well, e.g. from not being featured in distro repositories (or thrown away in some third-party repo) due to not meeting licensing guidelines.
> "I can only assume a lot of men would not opt for it,"

Of course. There is no silver bullet. If you are expecting one, you will be perpetually disappointed.
How late of a hire? What kind of % did you get?
If you systematically avoid hiring them you are also subject to lawsuits...
Because people actively avoid OSS with licenses like that, always opting for projects that have MIT/BSD type licenses.
Looks similar to what the current MS Kinect does?
If you think that the hypothetical quote implies the author agrees with it, why?

When thinking about how to deal with sexist society, is it not important to understand all behaviors, illogical, immoral or sexist, in order to make things better for the disadvantaged?
Would you mind disclosing at what stage of the process you got your initial grant, and how much that grant was diluted along the way to the final exit?
"I feel so bad about Maxis closing down," Hallikainen said. "The older SimCitys were really the inspiration for us to even consider making a city builder."

That is a brave statement these days. No doubt they have to tread carefully lest someone accuse them of infringing the SimCity IP.
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Thanks for the sources.

I'd be curious to see what the active merchants per month actually are for Bitpay and Coinbase. Until then I have a hard time believing they actually have those numbers live given the number of stories I've seen of people visiting stores/restaurants that accept bitcoin only to be told they don't do that anymore.
Not for getting insurance compensation as passenger. For premiums paid by the driver there well could be a difference.
> Do you think it's good that men treat each other like shit?

Yes. If you can't take the heat, don't jump in the oven.

Respect is something that have to be earned. I will treat anyone with disrespect (bosses, presidents and pope included) until you earn it and show you have worth as a human being.
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Other useless school trivia: the quadratic formula
Ask HN: How do you charge for a custom WordPress site development?
I've recently been undertaking a number of custom WordPress site development projects. Some entail building a theme from scratch including everything the client wants in terms of functionality. While others, include giving a complete facelift to a pre-existing theme.

My question for other WordPress developers out there: how do you determine what to charge for projects you undertake? Hourly? Fixed? Something else?

I've been struggling with how to put a pricetag on my own time and services and look forward to hearing thoughts from the community.
My point was that for some reason women do not choose technology. And that hiring (i.e. the demand on the jobs market) is not the issue, the intent to work (the supply) is.

And my second point was that women are perfectly capable of doing arbitrarily challenging work in IT.