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Same in Germany. Letters sent by fax legally count as "written" correspondence while email does not. I am 23 and I can remember times, when I (theoretically) had to cryptographically sign a PDF to send even an invoice by email.

In private homes fax machines are the exception but in businesses of every size, they are still pretty common.

Our chancellor famously said in 2013 "The internet is new land for all of us." [0]

We keep inventing technologies like De-Mail [1] or the chip on our ID card [2] to authenticates you online - if you could only find a services that implements the protocol and you would have the required card reader. I guess most of this audience would not even understand the need for an offline ID card …

Focus on security is a good thing - especially when I read stories about how criminals claim refunds from other people's IRS accounts in the US, but email is in no way easier hackable for the average person than postal letters are. And postal addresses will not give you unique identification either.

I also love when I ask the German version of the IRS a quick question by email and get the answer back by postal letter with my email printed and attached to it. Gives me the warm feeling, that you can count on some things to stay the same. :D

[0]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/neuland

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-Mail

[2]: http://www.personalausweisportal.de/EN/Citizens/Electronic-I...
It doesn't. As an average developer it's my public/private cloud providers job to take my images/dockers and schedule them correctly on whatever underlying fleet of hardware they run.

I can only assume Tectonic and related tech are aimed at those developers who run hybrid or private clouds for the rest of their company.
Where I land is that mercurial is a better tool, but git is a better platform. As a result, better tools have been built on top of git than mercurial (like github). As a result, git at some point became the standard.
I'm sorry, the first sentence of The Crying of Lot 49 may be long – somewhat run-on – but it's not really at all difficult to understand. After running into that misstatement, I'm not sure I want to read much more. After the author then throws out the $20 word "profluence" (which wiktionary calls obsolete or rare) where "flow" or nothing at all would serve at least as well, I become convinced of it.

Which is not at all to say that the novel is not worth reading, and rereading.
Possibly unpopular opinion here, but I don't think this policy will change much. At least, it is not as universally anti-employee as people make it out to be.

Already, the best way for anyone to get a better salary is to have a competing offer in hand. "Asking for more money" will just get you back the ~$5K that the company low-balled you in the first place, figuring that you would ask for it. Folks in the comments here are talking about getting a raise of $7.5K by asking for it - I've had multiple offers (at the same time) differ by ~35%, and doubled my compensation by switching jobs after about 2 years.

What this policy will do is ensure that Reddit will lose candidates who shop around to a higher bidder. This is not a loss for the candidate - they get the higher-paying job anyway - it's a loss for Reddit. Or maybe it's not, if Reddit is looking to employ "true believers" who care about the site itself and not their salary.

Or Reddit could up its base salary so that it has a reasonable likelihood of being the highest offer for any candidate it wants to employ. That's a win for all of Reddit's current employees, a financial loss for Reddit, but may be a cultural win for Reddit.
The question you need to ask is how much a video codec factors into Android's success. What would happen if they dropped VP8/VP9 entirely? Every single video on YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, etc. would still play. Nobody would encounter problems with video chat, sharing, etc. because those apps all require H.264 unless they only support Android users with high-end CPUs.

At the end of the day, VP8/VP9 is interesting as a possible bandwidth optimization or share certain patent/free software positions. It's just hard to believe that this would decide even a single phone purchase, much less enough to significantly affect Android development priorities.
Show HN: HackerNews Unofficial app made with ionic
Not all the ways to build bare metal apps use unikernels.
> "Our rechargeable aluminum battery generates about two volts of electricity."

Now that's really good news. Stick it together with a 1.5V regulator inside an AA cell and never have problems with devices not accepting the 1.2V of a typical NiMH cell.
I have incredibly mixed feelings about this. Zero-negotiation policies are great tools for eliminating unfairness if executed well, the problem is that you still force the employee to end "trusting someone at their word", and every company claims they're going to make a fair, standard offer. Here's the thing:

1) Yes, being strict and almost formulaic will reduce inequality and increase probability that folks are compensated according to actual value.

2) But you need meaningful transparency around this. I guarantee you, 100% that if I had a live offer at Reddit, I could find some way to negotiate some additional crap that amounted to a meaningful compensation bump in the end.

3) Every company that does this ends up making exceptions for people the higher-up you go. Wealthfront, Stack Exchange, and now Reddit, will join the club of companies that negotiate with execs they hire, VCs, and bizdev partners, suppliers - basically, everybody except their employees. And even then only "most of the time"- there are always exceptions - just hold out for a higher comp band. Get a stronger inside referral. It's always possible.

Something very close to the Buffer model is the only real way to do things. You can tweak the variables, but you need strictness and transparency. https://open.bufferapp.com/buffer-open-equity-formula/

Ellen, Alexis - If you're reading this, I'd love a chance to understand your challenges in crafting these policies, and see if I could offer any input from my perspective as well.

(Source I founded http://OfferLetter.io - we help engineers and other tech workers negotiate for what they're worth. I've personally had literally hundreds of conversations with folks about this.)
oh nice! thanks for the link. :D
Do they actually have a good way to monetize android - are they selling phones? Last I checked they had a great search engine. How does the revenue model on mobile compare? Android is different on every oem so though it might be huge - is it really even a google product or more of a Google open source project?
It's cool but it still needs work when it comes to teaching glsl.

Just giving semi-commented code samples isn't enough when a student doesn't know what an attribute is.
So many years of fun from this game.
The same can be said about adding anything to repeated items.
Don't overlook the potentially enormous cost to the artists for this brief statement, in both time and money:

The materials needed to create a bust of this type cost thousands of dollars, and the pair ponied up the cash. It then took a little over six months to sculpt, mold, cast and ship to New York. Had the sculptor charged market rates, he said it would have cost tens of thousands of dollars. “The amount of work that goes into this kind of stuff, it’s easily a 30 grand project,” said the 30-something sculptor. “If it were bronze, it could be a $100,000 piece of artwork, maybe more.”

[From the article]
Microservices for Enterprises Part I
To change the point of view of a monument or previous piece of art in a easily reversible way is not vandalism in fact. Is art.

Art is not a democratic thing at all. This is the same that Banksy does. Is also the "monna-lissa with moustache" from Duchamp, the picasso's versions of velazquez paintings, and the impresionists showing his pictures in the "salon des refusees". People changed his point of view for better and just learned to deal with it.

What was claimed as inaceptable vandalism and breaking of the rules yesterday, is just culture today.

More interestingly, the success of a work of art is not linked to the objet permanence. If damaged o destroyed will spawn more controversy and will spread the idea (the real work of art), probably spawning a miriad of "photoshop restaurations" on internet.

A very smart move.
I really love this, it makes for a very elegant programming style. I'll admit, though, that I don't know Latin, so I can't use it.
This Rust code is very, very, very out of date. There's a project to update things to a more modern Rust: https://github.com/Hoverbear/rust-rosetta
This is what caused me to abandon HHVM for plain ol' PHP around a year ago. I was running it in Docker containers and the memory leaks would regularly crash my containers if left unattended for more than a couple of days.

It was quite frustrating because I noticed some definite performance gains (e.g., ~2x faster page loads, etc.), but ultimately opted for PHP's stability.

The benefit to running all this in Docker is that I can swap HHVM back in relatively easily (unless it's changed really dramatically over the past 10 months or so). Your comment has me tempted to give it another shot!
It basically never applies; transaction costs are always sky-high. But it can still function as a sort of guide to thought, like Raymond Chen's "what if two programs had that feature". It's more useful if you think of it as saying "reality can't diverge from this goal state by more that a function of the local transaction costs, legal system, etc".
> They are saying they won't negotiate and that you can negotiate in the same sentence.

No, they aren't. You are inserting assumptions not in their statement to come up with that interpretation.

> Asking for a swap is a negotiation unless you have an offer that gives you multiple salary to stock option balances to choose from to begin with.

Since nothing in what they say indicates that they are not not providing offers that give multiple salary to stock option balances to choose from (or a base salary/equity balance and a defined swap ratio and range in which swaps are allowed), and as you yourself note the only way the statement is internally consistent is if it does do that, why do you assume that the offers aren't structured that way?
The difficulty is that when a risk pool goes from large to very large, the proportionate amount of necessary reserves does not decrease meaningfully, but the costs of managing the complexity of the relationships with all parties - employees, customers, providers - increase, in some cases, exponentially.

This suggests that a decentralized network of risk pools balanced near the optimal point between risking being too small and being too expensively and chaotically large would be more effective than a single payer.

The public-private system in the United States could function this well, but many factors prevent it from occurring, some by design and some due to context/inertia.
"a 20yr-old, asked 'what's Flicker?'"
Wow.
Unfortunately most of the C++ vs Rust comparison posts are coming from people who aren't familiar with C++'s idioms and it's obvious that it's not their day to day / goto language.
That still takes time to refetch yt page and parse for mp4 link. Smplayer can do it too, but it takes ~1 second, thats ~1 second too long for me :P. If I wasnt so lazy I would find youtubecenter code responsible for this parsing, but I am, so I simply

document.getElementById("watch8-ytcenter-buttons").children[0].children[0].href

and bam, mp4 link ready in javascript for free.

Got plenty of Linux in my life (mostly embedded, for example running my DIY TV build from recycled 32' LCD panel, universal chinese lcd controller and rasPee. Yes, I like repurposing junk). Linux is how I learned to cobble up together ugliest hacks imaginable.
Somehow off topic: I've been looking for something similar but implemented in Swift. Does anyone knows about an alternative?
It isn't described as "difficult to understand" but "labyrinthine and recursive: full of noise", and that's an accurate description:

"One summer afternoon, Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary."

This is loaded with irrelevancies (full of noise) no matter what the "single thought" it is supposed to convey might be. If it's about her role as executor, why the detail about the kirsch in the fondue at the garden party? If it's about the garden party, why the anecdote about the loss of two million dollars?

And given that "profluence" is a term specifically associated with Gardner, it is no surprise that an essay that opens by discussing Gardner's opinions should use it. It doesn't mean "flow" but rather the way in which fiction actively draws us forward in a continuous waking dream.
That's what they tweeted at me.
So, good news: the CC-licensed photos are still there.
Not so good news: the bug was there for 5 days w/o being noticed or fixed.
Those graphs...ugh. Including so many points that the noise overwhelms the data is NOT helpful.
Why iOS 7 minimum? There's no UI so I'm curious what apis were needed that iOS 6 didn't support.
In no particular order

Dan Piponi
http://blog.sigfpe.com/

The ever awesome oleg
http://okmij.org/ftp/

Chris Done
http://chrisdone.com/

Gabriel Gonzalez
http://www.haskellforall.com/

There are many more. The haskell community has awesome developers in abundance.
I like the sheer number of running examples. When I first learned any OpenGL/WebGL, I had to imagine all of these examples from the text and static images.

I especially like the up-to-date examples for how to write WebGL in shorthand and the common practices examples. The explanations are phenomenal too. I guess what I'm trying to say is, this is likely the best WebGL reference I've seen yet.
"No religions have any helpful teachings when it comes to enlightening yourself."

So you've studied them all and know with certainty that none could possibly be useful to the poster? Blithe anti-religious sentiment like this abounds on HN and it drives me crazy.
Author here. I meant that in earnest, getting the emulator 6502 compatible was a large part of the project. But it did come together in about ten days, on the order of 70 hours.

There's something about these old systems, you can fit the whole system into your mental working memory. Just can't do that with todays abstractions.
How to find what you are passionate about
> seems like a bad idea to me and i struggle to understand how not negotiating salaries makes it a more fair workplace.

Paying people for the work they are being asked to do rather than for that adjusted by their negotiating ability is more fair (unless the work they are being asked to do is something closely relating to negotiating, in which case paying for negotiating ability could reasonably be interpreted as paying for job-related skills.)

As for why it might be a good idea, if they set the non-negotiation offers at a level that pays what the average employee would end up with with negotiation, it suddenly becomes a more attractive place to apply for people whose skills are more in the area of the work of the job than in negotiating (and, until other firms adopt similar approaches, may produce a particularly strong retention advantage for those people.)
This is great. 50% productivity killer, 50% inspiration generator.
One of the Worst Explanations You’ll Read of Why College Is So Expensive
Is farmfresh pushing withg aggressive lack of options?
I think the combination of difficulties there are

1) canceling an order
2) getting a hold of them
3) aggressive drop-ops and no online option to cancel your service

is slightly acknowledged predatory business-style, what do you guys think of this?

http://www.farmfreshtoyou.com/

You might say "is it legal" but tech companies are supposed to have some 'honesty glow' to them and looks bad.
My feeling is that high tech Japan is a myth of the past, that never truly realized itself. Part of the myth probably originated from the futuristic anime that it produced in the 80s and 90s.

If you look at Japan today, there is quite a bit of pretense of high-tech that I suspect to be nothing but pseudo-science and marketing crap to drive consumerism (Phiten for its "health" accessories, and a bunch of well-known brands like Panasonic jumping on the alkaline water bandwagon).
The two things that matter are performance and reliability. Are you able to go into how lattice improves over either Mesos or k8s in these regards?
In the case of "the things you don't know you don't know", I find following certain developers to be priceless. Can't go looking for a reference for something you don't know exists, after all.
I wish they bothered to state the expected energy density of these batteries. The fact that they didn't leads me to believe it's quite low compared to something like li-ion.
And for several years bookmarks have been unfortunately missing in unfortunately common linux distributions.
We merged 473 PRs in Rust last month: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pulse/monthly

That's roughly one every other hour, so still not quite on the same level. And we do use tooling _in addition_ to GitHub, but reviews are done in PR and not over email.

(FWIW I personally wish more projects worked like the kernel's, but such is life)
Pure mesh networks will not take over ISP's. But what about a hybrid solution? Fat fiber pipe feeds wireless mesh. Run fiber from nearest datacenter to middle of town, build mesh network out from there.

Crowdfunding SEC rules + neutrality ISP rules could very well open up an opportunity for crowdfunding municipal ISP's. Communities run their own mesh and rent fiber from an upstream transit probider.
> Attractiveness plays absolutely no role in reproduction? I honestly don't know how to respond to that, I hope you've just phrased it poorly.

I have not worded it incorrectly. Attractive people may have kids, but so do ugly people, and ugly people have kids with attractive people, too. There is currently no known link between attractiveness and offspring. Your "common knowledge" is failing you here.

But wait, so you're trying to tell me that this sentence:

> In many ways we are already selecting for those traits and have been for countless generations

Is supposed to have meant this:

> I'm saying we're not selecting for the same intelligence and beauty every generation.

?
There does exist a moral neutral. Not everything is "good" or "bad".
> are irrationally attached to P values

This is actually a terrible problem. Most people, I think, do this because of nervous cluelessness: they are sure there is some theory that says what it means, but they aren't sure they understand it, so they insist on following some strict rules, whether they make sense or not.

I think the idea is that if you follow a strict rule given in a textbook (even if wrong or inapplicable), that makes people feel safer than if they try to figure the rule out for themselves. At least if they follow a rule, they aren't personally responsible for the outcome.

It can sometimes be quite difficult to explain why a certain rule should not be applied, because the same reasons for why they didn't understand the rule in the first place also make it difficult to understand explanations given by someone else.
I believe this battery's density is not super impressive that they didn't mention in in the article and the title of the article is about it's safety rather that fast charging time or capacity
In the absence of a firewall, you are correct that any node that gets hold of the publicly routable address assigned to one of your devices will be able to communicate with it from the outside. This is indeed a problem for most users, who won't know or bother to configure one; ISPs should do it for them on the CPE.

Regarding the tracking of specific users: RFC 3041 stateless autoconfiguration (which is deployed at least on Linux and OSX - not sure about Windows) allows a device to switch to a new random IPv6 address within its assigned prefix every few minutes. This mitigates, though it does not eliminate, an attacker's ability to correlate connections originating from the same device over a period of time.

Naturally, all of those addresses will share a common IPv6 prefix. But that is no different from most residential NATs, where all connections are observed from the outside to originate from the same IPv4 address.

Also due to stateless autoconfiguration, guessing the address of a device from the outside is equivalent to finding a needle in a 2^64-straw haystack. It's not impossible, but it takes time and a lot of traffic to do so.
> CoreOS spent the last 9 months effectively rewriting etcd and it's raft implementation to meet the stability requirements we need going forward.

Yeah, I noticed that. It almost seems like it would have been better to just glom on to Zookeeper or some other directory service that was a bit more established, just for the sake of being able to work on other things for the last 9 months. Do you ever look back in retrospect on that?
Former Nike CIO Anthony Watson Named COO at Bitcoin Startup
MLK and company most certainly took steps that were not approved by some democratic process or approved by the state. Asking alone and letting "business as usual" answer the question "can we do this?" wouldn't have brought the change that humanity had deserved.

You seemed, to me, to be implying that all conscientious objectors must at all times observe complete obedience to the rule of law. That approach will never keep things running sanely for long. You can clearly see throughout history that it never has. Power must always be kept in check and in support of that, some of the rules ordained by that power must always be broken.
Lawn Love (YC S14) Is Hiring a Senior Full-Stack Engineer in San Diego
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We'd love to hear from you at jobs@lawnlove.com. Resumes are cool, but we're much more interested in seeing what you've built. :)
Well the thing is, none of your reasons are applicable here. He has a valid question as to why you would need JS as this is purely a styling between mobile and desktop. The only thing you could potentially do with JS would be to strip the content and rerender it which would be very strongly tied to the HTML structure. Once again, your points are valid, mostly, but for this particular problem, you wouldn't need or even want to do it via JS. I think that's the solution to the original question.
You'd think an article about responsive CSS would be readable on a mobile screen.