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Why are bad laws needed? Surely that's the problem. And what mechanisms for "realignment" do you have in mind?

The relevant money transmitter laws in the USA take at minimum several years and millions of dollars to comply with, without any really good reason. The evidence that they achieve anything is minimal (try finding good academic studies of this - it's an exercise in frustration). There is NO way to reform them because the laws are highly open to interpretation, and the regulators who apply them freely admit that they pretty much do whatever they want with applicants:

http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_151/how-california-...

US money transmitter laws have created a kind of death spiral where regulators see startups as dangerous (they explicitly say that in the article), make it difficult for them to get licenses, and so the entire market ends up owned by stagnant incumbents. There is then nobody left to lobby for changes to the laws, and big entrenched interests who don't want competition, thus it's impossible to get reform.
Wrote a small script to easily put my Thinkpad battery to storage mode (50-70% SOC) and back to full charge:
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Also one (lame) for bat stats on linux: https://gist.github.com/cmavr8/bdf591d8dc66290ae87a
Although DVCSs don't require a central repo to operate, the most natural workflow for most projects is still to have a central repo where everybody pulls and pushes.

DVCSs still have many merits, even with that central repo. First, when the central repo is down, you still have the whole history in your local repo. You can still view logs, check out an old commit, create new branches and commits, etc.. Second, if that central repo is destroyed, you can trivially recreate it using any update-to-date clone. This is already way more advanced than centralized VCSs.
"Thankfully, the fact that these problems were solved decades ago has not stopped people from coming up with their own solutions, and we now all get to witness the resulting disasters."

Spot on
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You need to go where the jobs are or work really hard on Elance. Remote jobs are mostly still a luxury.
That is very true. Indeed we know fairness is an innate value for us and all primates [1]

Likewise "meritocracy" is a very imprecise word depending a lot on what you want to maximize and so, if not focusing on net benefit to humanity, could produce horrendous outcomes. Blindly maximizing wealth creation could be such a mistake but given how much good prosperity usually does for people, it looks like a good starting point.

But I believe the article and I are referring to fairness among employees rather than employee vs employer (which is of course also interesting). Specifically, employees comparing wages would create quite appropriate outrage between employees when some individuals receive more for less work. And this regardless of how much or little of the company's produce goes to wages (a separate issue)

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v425/n6955/abs/nature01...
or tldr; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKhAd0Tyny0
They're not well tested but seem to work. Let me know if you have improvement suggestions that are easy to do.

Chris
Here is where the mistake in your thinking is. In scenario 2 the investor will only agree to put in 1M for a 20% stake if he gets preferred shares. If he only gets common shares he might only put in, say, 500k for 20%.

Assuming that you think the company is going to increase in value, the fact that he has preferred shares won't matter in an exit so you're much better off taking 1M instead of 500k (assuming you can put the extra money to good use). And if you don't think that the company is going to increase in value then why did you start it in the first place?
Etymology is always relevant in the analysis of natural languages. Emotions? Not so much.

> Context matters.

It does. The context is a relatively progressive media organization that is afraid to write certain words because they might interfere with the nation-wide policy of linking their acceptable usage to the color of the speaker's skin.
Some have already closed that exit, banning the storage of cash in their boxes. They want to keep your funds available for negative interest rates and possible bail-ins.
Maybe Ripple Labs were engaged in civil disobedience, then?

Or is it impossible for organised groups of people like Ripple and Uber to engage in civil disobedience, in your view?
My thoughts exactly. I will look at the features, but I won't even consider it for production use in our company.
That doesn't bode very well for a PhD (though I'm only 40, I still have time to generalize!).
No, not really. I just find the constant injection of political labels tiresome.
It's been well demonstrated that economies with gold standard currencies fall apart.. it played a big role in the global great depression and every affected nation ditched the gold standard before their economies were able to recover. There is no example of this system working well and plenty of examples of it failing.
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My analog to this is when someone claims that partitions are rare so you can ignore them, any product they make is very likely to lose data during partitions.
When your core sociopolitical axioms are generally dominated by strict Constitutionalism, Judeo-Christian ethics, Randian objectivism, and austere governmental fiscal policy (including gold/silver-based currency), you're probably a "tea party" type. Serious answer.
"Even Microsoft was kinda masquerading early versions of Edge as Chrome"

I would assume that was more to keep the tech press from seeing it.
If you add punctuation, it'll work: "My name is Jamaal; I'm white."
If you are a gamer, you should already have that to play current gen games at max settings. I'm on $1000 worth of GPU right now for 4k, and the 4k screen itself was about $500.

Don't make it sound like Oculus is more expensive than what gamer already have to pay to get the best experience.
Sorry to disappoint, but you're correct the article was for Google AdWords Advertisers. However, I think everyone would benefit from an article about negative keywords in queries which I will try my best to write in the near future.

Thank you.
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He meant all workers are concerned to some degree in demonstrating their job as invaluable to managers/employers -- even (or specially) if they don't actually believe it is, or if they don't believe to be on top of the knowledge of skill ladder.
I am 48 and a General Partner at a VC fund. On the board of five tech companies. Founded three companies where I was CEO.
Coded and still code every day since my Stanford CS days in the late 1980's.

Right now: Scala, Node/AngularJS, Ionic. Use GitHub, CircleCI, and deploy to Docker clusters. Use JIRA to stay sane.

Worked at Oracle, so traditional database (DBA level) and now use Couch + Mongo.

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Go to tech/programming conferences and meetups.

A full-stack unicorn. How's that for a VC?
I'm very excited about this release.

In my opinion, they've taken a bit too long, and now they have a high likelihood of being dethroned between now and their release date (e.g., Magic Leap, Holo Lens, Gear VR, etc.).
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I suspect that if HN had been around when Google was raising we would have read the same type of comments there.

Based on the numbers in the article, they could very well be in the billions of rev within a few years if they can maintain the growth.
Federal government demands NYC strip Times Square of billboards
In modern linguistics, etymology is given far less weight than it was in the pre-scientific days of philology. So no, etymology is not "always" relevant; arguments based on etymology are typically given weight only in historical contexts (e.g. tracing language evolution, or lexical borrowings). They give very little insight about present meaning, and especially not about pragmatics.
That was exactly my takeaway from it. Even just the fact that it caters for standing experiences is a fairly big announcement on its own. Especially considering how exhaustively they stressed the fact that the Oculus Rift was a seated experience previously.

One other takeway from this release, is that we will _probably_ be expecting technical specifications and details come E3. At least, it's alluded to.
God is this true. My girlfriend just types 'facebook' into the URL bar, then clicks on Facebook.com. I don't understand it.
> There's an important distinction between the two: you can prefer text, if that fits your case better, without hating on binary storage.

Except according to the article (which you posted and are defending all over this thread, so I'm guessing you actually wrote it?) the author has NO intention of honoring those who prefer text logs, in fact using the phrase "so vigilantly against text based log storage". To use your own reply, you can prefer binary, if it fits your case better, BUT DON'T HATE ON TEXT STORAGE.
Ten reasons why open-source software will eat the world
New Relic adds Docker monitoring, joins CloudFoundry Foundation
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Silicon Valley is a ridiculous festering pool of hypocrisy. Instead of trying to train and hire underprivileged blacks from right next door, Oakland, they fly or outsource them from half way around the world in India. Yet they think they are liberal and caring because they upvote stories like this.
Not quite: that figure was chosen because most applications won't exceed it. It's not an arbitrary number.
But why - for everything good in this world - would they down-vote then?
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The AML laws require that you be a licensed MSB in each state that you operate in though (in the USA). Filing with FinCEN is indeed easy, however, it doesn't really accomplish anything. The requirements themselves are entirely subjective and almost impossible to comply with if the regulators in question decide they don't like you.

For instance: take the requirement to report "suspicious" transactions. What does suspicious mean? It's left undefined. In practice, suspicious means any transaction the government doesn't like, and if it decides that retroactively ...... well, now you have a pickle on your hands. It doesn't matter if you genuinely didn't think it was suspicious at the time because it's not you who get to decide.

So complying with this requirement effectively means an unlimited investment into analysts and risk managers (detectives) who try and spot anything that might be suspicious, and enforce US foreign policy via sanctions.

Coinbase are doing this. But they have tens of millions of dollars in venture capital to spend, and even then, I expect them to get fined/prosecuted/both at some point, simply because it appears to be impossible to run a financial institution in the USA without that happening.
Perhaps, but in a few years when the company has a down year will you be replaceable by the next specialist, or are you able to get a few fingers in different pies by being diversified?
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That doesn't mean they will get it.

We are also looking for pretty specialized people, but there are none. So we will take also those, who are willing to learn. The downside is, that the money that goes to their training would be theirs, if they already knew what is needed (i.e. they cannot ask for the same money/benefits as those who are "ready made").
Extremely, extremely different.
First thanks for replying instead of just downvoting.

I might argue that the commodities you're referencing and precious metals are a little different. What you want to look at is the size of the stores versus the yearly production.

I don't know what the crude stockpiles are worldwide above ground, but they don't amount to much more than a few months worth of consumption. So if you were going to pick a single commodity to use, you probably wouldn't pick crude. Because there's very little buffer, supply or demand shocks quickly work their way into prices. This is not ideal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_strategic_petroleum_rese...

Diamonds do satisfy the "large reserves relative to production" as DeBeers supposedly has many decades worth of diamonds locked up in vaults. This is to keep the price higher than it otherwise would, made possible by demand they manufactured through advertising.

So while diamonds do have the buffer we want, they aren't divisible. Take a barrel of crude and pour it into two different containers. Each is now worth basically half of the first container. But split a diamond in half, and its value isn't cleanly divided in two. Diamond prices are based more on the carat square or cube (http://forums.udacity.com/questions/100166221/power-law-or-e...) so dividing a diamond in half makes each of the halves worth 1/4 of the whole. Not a good feature of something monetary; getting change for a dollar doesn't destroy any value.

Gold and silver on the other hand are divisible, fungible, and have high value relative to size and weight. Gold doesn't tarnish at all and silver very slowly and whatever oxide it does produce is protective. Also the yearly production of gold and silver from mining only represents a few percent of world stockpiles so supply or demand shocks have to be very large indeed to make drastic price changes; also a nice feature. Diamonds aren't fungible nor divisible. Crude doesn't have large stocks and has much lower per-unit value.
I would love to be able to filter by platform (e.g. exclude iOS and Windows Phone)
Congrats guys, this is awesome! :)
2/4. You're not helping. Need a tie breaker.
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The next level is to run a Python implementation of JavaScript inside that...
It's surprising how frequently businesses switch out their benefits and HR services as well. This is a very crowded space.

> The company said it’s on track to hit annual recurring revenue of $100 million by January 2016, and hit $20 million in annual recurring revenue in January this year.

So it sounds like they're actually worth around $100-400 million at this point in non-imaginary money, which is impressive for being so new and in such a competitive space.

> Our sources previously told us that the company expects to lose more than $100 million in 2015

ouch.

I guess their sell point is that this can be considered recurring revenue. So if companies they contract with grow, or don't switch to some other vendor, this turns into lots of money. But their customer acquisition costs are insane right now.

How we value companies is clearly completely broken.
If Rift's timing is anything like Rift's timing for, well, everything they've done... I think the Rift will be released in 2017.
This looks good. What I was expecting though was a low price phone which match the specs on my phone. I know those phones are out there, but I would like to sort by price (so that I can find cheapest), OS (android/windows/ios), manufacturer.
+1 -- we also used DynamoDB at Adzerk for the same use case.
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So.. CGI?
I paid the $4 and got it. Slick & entertaining. Not as hard-core math-ish as I'd like, but fun to zoom around in. There's in-app "pro upgrade", which I find a bit irritating if that's where the greater numeric control & deeper resolution resides.
And it's a shame this is the case, though.

I do publish projects with github because of the popularity of the platform, but I really don't approve github pull requests, and I also don't like github over-simplified issues. Together, these two features are probably what most projects depend on.

Github pull requests are definitely inferior to the patch-by-mail approach for a conversation within a closed group of people. It's clicky and looks friendly, but you don't have the patch to see in the mail notification (you have to be online), and again it's more convoluted to edit/apply using vanilla git.

Many people don't know, but git makes patch-by-mail handling extremely convenient to handle. In fact, it's more convenient to handle than using the several github command-line interfaces I tried(!). You submit the patch, have a conversation by regular mail, and then either edit the patch or merge it. Everything is always right there. Using github you have several side effects: people often add comments to specific lines in the patch, which will looks like garbage in the generated github notification. People will also naturally edit the comments, which won't generate notifications. I cannot count how many times I have to re-read comments because I had the feeling I missed something (and indeed, some comments were edited). This is bad. It shouldn't be allowed. It cannot happen with email.

Github has the advantage of making the conversation visible. But if you have a developer mailing list for your project, git and plain, regular patches do work really well. It might take a bit more to get used to, but it pays back.

Issues are a different problem, since I still feel the distributed solutions are inferior. I experimented a lot with bugs-everywhere and simple defects (sd), two distributed bug trackers that store the issues in the repository itself. Both are nice, and have distinctive features from each other which I'm not going to discuss much. The main thing is that 'sd', at some point, even supported to sync issues with github, which allowed to have best of both worlds. Unfortunately, it's lacking maintenance at the time, but it would solve ticketing in a distributed way. It looks like there's not much interest in this, as both projects are definitely not as active as the many available github clients which do 1/10 of what these projects offer.

Please, look into these two projects.
It's really sad that somebody would come to HN just to push an antisemitic agenda.
Is there any solution based on openvswitch ? If using vxlan to encapsulate containers L2 frames, the openvswitch kernel module should be able to route packets very well with much lower overhead than any userspace solution that do not access the nic memory directly.
Games are based on simplified models and train us to do useful work.

So we like to play, because it improves our skills.
You want work in a game? Try 7 days To Die. Clear a newly found town of 50 to 100 zombies so you can maybe find a can of dog food in one of the cupboards. That's work and it's fun and I have no idea why.
Carmack is an employee, primarily writing code. The company is owned and run by other people.
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Fun idea. Not sure I like "The hours are displayed using red and the minutes using green. When a square is used to display both the hours and minutes it turns blue." because red + green != blue.

Would be clearer if it was red, green and yellow (red + green == yellow).
I actually loved this part of the page being discussed.

The whole idea of versioning content based on who accesses it is broken and fundamentally at odds with the idea of the open web. Same goes for user-agent string madness, by the way. Yes, we should be able to tell robots from humans, but otherwise, it's supposed to be the Web.

Incidentally, this hits close to a pain point: I find it extremely annoying when publishers (like Elsevier) hide content behind a paywall, but still expose it to Googlebot for indexing. The result is that you are able to find a scientific article, which is not accessible (but Googlebot has cached snippets). This goes against Google's own guidelines (they used to tell people that Googlebot must not see different content from browsers). And it goes against the whole idea of the Web: if you want to hide stuff behind a paywall, do so — but then it is no longer accessible.

Going back to Applebot, I love the fact that they will now follow Googlebot instructions. Hopefully people will stop distinguishing who accesses content.
Report: Asian-American tech workers absent from executive suites
We can make excuses for this behavior, but we shouldn't make it look OK by using the word "reasonable". It's certainly understandable why people make those assumptions, but those assumptions are neither based on reason nor fair.
I would push back on that view and say other people are absolutely at fault here. if thats not something we can't or won't own up to as a society, then we will have to continue to live with the consequences of stereotyping which, good and bad, harm us all in many subtle and not-so-subtle ways. difficult, but necessary.
Economists generally call that stagflation.
Interesting, but it's not a SaaS. It doesn't look like a direct rival to Splunk.
Do people cat sourcecode to read it? For anything larger than a five line shell script, I'd assume one would open it in vim or emacs.
52 here. I've had a mixed career, ranging from F500's to start-ups, to consulting companies, to solo consultant. At 46, just before the financial crisis, I took a Dev job with the most stable of the companies I'd consulted for. I'd still be there, probably through retirement, but I had/have one more ambition. So, I'm working on a PhD and hope to land in academia. Failing that, I left on good terms, and keep in touch with, the crew at my last job.

I don't know that I'd recommend rolling the dice like I have, but if you keep yourself curious, fresh, and focused on solving problems people have, I think there are ways to beat ageism.