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I don't agree with you. I think the complaint is completely legitimate, and it's the main reason I want to wait a year or two before taking the plunge with smartwatches.

I think the Apple Watch is really cool and I want one. But I'm very much like the author. I hate being ostentatious and I don't want to wear something that will be very noticeable.

The author was still willing to risk it in order to give it a try. There's nothing wrong with that.

(Also, for me the usually-off screen is sort of a dealbreaker, because it really harms the aesthetics of the watch when the screen is off.)
If Zenefits isn't happy that they can't access ADP's payroll info on behalf of their customers then why doesn't Zenefits spin off a payroll service and attack ADP from that angle? Maybe Zenefits could name it ZenPayroll. Oh wait...
If you download from Sourceforge try unzipping the installer which will usually defeat the spyware installer that they have been bundling with it.
WASD now has a full set of vim keycaps
Hahahaha. That's such a good film and a good reference too.
ADP will lose this lawsuit very quickly
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You just said:
> there are plenty of really well-paying job in the tech industry.

And I can walk into an 80k job outside of Dublin. Considering the cost of living in Dublin vs the salary for tech grads versus... anywhere else in the world, you'd be crazy to stay.
Is this the same CEO who said in Quora to the effect of: if you have to ask how it's like to work here, you won't fit in here?
Probably because their goal was to write a negative article about it. At least they actually bought one and tried it before writing about it.
> Zenefits overloaded ADP’s computer systems with a flood of digital traffic

Lol
Why do you think the software is to blame for your decision to listen to the same music all the time?
Posts like these make me a bit sad, how far some people get detached from reality of this world as a whole.

I would hate it since i am part of this industry, byt maybe we really need some dev crysis, meaning 50% of software engineers unemployed, salaries plunge say to construction engineers level. Those fortunate to keep the job would be glad to be creative with what they have and maybe, but just MAYBE these pathetic rants won't surface as much.

As for you, simple advice - sort out your life, you know better than anybody else what you want, and you're the only one who can do it. it's quite easy, just that some decisions require sturdy balls, not moaning on internet forums :)
Yes, it has! Again, I don't think the design decisions were made to lock out other vendors. It's very reasonable to me that the first platform to be supported by Google engineers is Google's platform.

Side note: I should be a better citizen and link to specific commits next time.
Nope, backwards. People are reporting more nonsense even as crime goes down, which is probably part of why the police are pursuing nonsense.
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Gamification = Garbage
Yes. Turn off the TV when ads come on. Educate why.
Exactly this.

General rule of thumb when deciding between eliminating debt or investing is to compare if the debt interest is greater than investment interest (investment rate of return).

If (debt.interest > investment.interest ), pay off debt first. Else, invest.
Stuck in the middle of nowhere, NY until I graduate with my Master's in Dec. 2017. So, most likely not.
I'd be skeptical of some of the more outlandish defector testimonies. They have a strong incentive to exaggerate and invent stories, and owing to the relative seclusion of North Korea, it's pretty easy to not get called on it.

Many of the defector testimonies also comes from the mid 90s, when North Korea was undergoing a famine, and while that famine was really severe, it was still 20 years ago and their malnutrition levels have plunged precipitously since. If it were still that bad today, probably the regime would have collapsed already.

Tourism in the country is very controlled, but it's not 100%. Kernels of truth will slip through. Honestly, the propaganda and the truth is quite easy to distinguish, too - their propaganda is very unsophisticated and pretty blunt and not every tour guide is a mindless brainwashed automaton.
Probably because it's a pretty unique device that she really wanted to try. She was willing to take the risk.

There are other smartwatches on the market, of course, but it sounds like she doesn't like the appearance of any of them, so the AW was the only viable option for her ("no matter how attractive the Apple Watch is in the context of other smartwatches or smartbands, no matter how much of an aesthetic advance its rounded corners and rectangular display, [...]").
I grew up with Lego when it started the franchising, so I've collected a large amount of generic 80s and franchised 90s/early 00s sets, and I'd mostly disagree. Yeah, it made it (sometimes painfully) obvious what franchise a particular brick came from. But mix&match was still fun (because honestly, who wouldn't want Harry Potter with laser swords battling Martians and giant squid?) and most sets I owned were never once assembled according to their manual.

Creativity is what you make of it.
All it's shown me is how politically biased the readership here is.
I am the owner/operator of this subscription-based service that provides a very easy to implement API to access a database filled with millions of bad passwords.

Exploiting weak credentials is a very common way for "hackers" (term used loosely here) to gain unauthorized access to accounts all across the Internet. Many sites/apps that require login will have some form of a password policy, but it's obvious that these password polices aren't enough. A common password policy is something along the lines of:

* Must be at least 8 characters long
* Must have at least one character from 3 of the 4 major sets (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols)

But even with this password policy, the password "Password1" meets the policy required yet it is one of the more commonly exploited passwords. Web or App developers could try to keep a tab on all the bad passwords being used, leaked and exploited, to include in their password policy, or they could implement a basic policy (like above) and subscribe to Password RBL to cover the rest.

We will be launching support for Microsoft Windows Active Directory very soon. This will open up the service to an even wider customer base. Before we go live with this, I'd like to hear comments from the Show HN community regarding the web site, the offering, the packages, business, marketing, etc., etc. - anything really.

Thanks in advance.
Yeah, I feel the same way, too. The watches for iOS and Android really aren't anything more than an extra notification device for me ... my phone already does that, and arguably too much. My $24 Mickey Mouse watch still tells the time when I'm not staring at my phone, and it didn't cost me $400 like the Apple Watch would.
> I would love the ability to make a certain drill or word as Finished or Very Confident so I don't have to waste time practicing stuff I already know.

It's my understanding that Duolingo (and similar tools) aren't quizzing you just to make you prove that you know a word. It's actually part of the process of ensuring retention, and the act of recalling the word is actually part of the process of storing the information more permanently in the brain. Therefore, the ability to mark a word as "learned" may be counterproductive long-term. Of course, the algorithm isn't perfect, but it's more advanced than simply checking off a box that you've learned the word and never need to practice it again.

That being said, I do agree that more customization would be helpful.
How so is .NET declining? I haven't heard this.
In Louisville I hear a lot about the Civic Data Alliance working with local government and local nonprofits, on things like accessibility for people who are blind, &c. They're part of Code for America.
http://www.civicdataalliance.org/
http://www.codeforamerica.org/
People think I'm joking, but yes. I've had people walk up to me in the store and ask about it. It's a flip on the old joke:

How do you know you are wearing your Apple Watch?

Everyone will ask you about it.

And they are all looking for me to tell them that it's great, that it's wonderful, and that it changed my life. And when I don't, they inevitably have a glint of disappoint in their eyes.
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Yeah I agree; even if Zenefits is 100% in the right here ADP has the resources to drag this out for quite some time and cost them a very large amount of money. If Zenefits is in the right I wonder if they can produce evidence and try to use SLAPP regulation (not sure if that works for companies but then again companies are people, right?). I'm obviously not a lawyer :)
The first thing that came to mind was that it's an offense to open mail but really it seems like it's just stealing either way so that's probably not the big deterrent.

Maybe there are more restrictions/logging that prevents mail from getting lost. I would find that a bit weird (that USPS would be more secure) but I somehow doubt it's because postal workers are just more honorable.
Stating statistical fact is now considered hyperbole?
Also, games back in the days, not being seen as part of the same serious IT industry, a lot of very creative techniques were written ad-hoc without leaking out to the world because they were 'one shot' solutions for the problem at hand.

I think it was Phil Trefford that had articles about embedded DSLs being used quite often in the 80s, to avoid bare metal complexities.
I'd sure love to know what "Get your meal plan" does, without needing to signup to anything.

If the truth about "consumers attention span is only 7 seconds", then they will click on "Get your meal plan", see a signup and probably close the site.

Also, "Eat Better - Psesonalised Meal Plans" - probably need to fix that typo.
This reminds me so much of George Alec Effinger's Budayeen cycle of cyberpunk novels, though it's supposed to involve Arabic culture not Persian.

No doubt crass since it's a real thing, Taraaf sounds like an excellent and fun mechanism for social interactions in fiction... now I'm going to look for a book which demonstrates it...
I never read any of his works, but from the parts that I've read, I think we could've been good friends. As he used to visit my home town every once in a while, I could've actually met him if I would've been born a century earlier :)
That makes sense to me. Automated translation software has made huge strides in the past decade, so Duolingo's crowdfunded approach (as cool as it is) will likely be obsolete in the fairly near future anyways.
In my experience driving in the U.K, most of the major roads (motorways/dual carraigeways)have average speed cameras liberally placed on the road. I don't know what the threshold for a ticket is on the road, but I would guess you're more likely to be noticed doing 75MPH over a 5 mile stretch of road than by a cop in a bush with a speed camera.
If I brought my quadcopter to work and started flying it around, people would take notice and comment on it. Some might also want to try it out. No one would mistake it for a fashion accessory, however. That's because it is a toy; which is what people who aren't tech geeks think of gadgets: they're expensive toys. The author doesn't want to be perceived as the kind of person who has en expensive toy strapped to her wrist.
Quite the opposite (it wasn't struggling in 2013 either). The move into franchise-branded sets (Star Wars, etc.) hasn't been popular with purists, but has been great for business, catapulting the company from a strong niche company to either 1st or 2nd largest toy company in the world (possibly behind Mattel). Revenue over the past decade has approximately quadrupled! [1]

[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/282870/lego-group-revenue...
ADP's legal department is likely larger than Zenefits itself, and well funded. They can probably drag it out for quite a while.
I second gp comment. HOF and FP in general constraints programming so much it leads to decoupled logic. Sometimes too much, but it's a good way to balance imperative statements allowing too much state.
It looks like the origin of the use of the term "quote mining" is an article [1] on ScienceBlogs. I think your interpretation of the term is in agreement with it, in this case.

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/12/01/quote-mining-code...
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Still waiting for their Russian course!
This is not about 'fuck TEPCO', is about 'Should we trust still in what TEPCO says?'. There is a well documented chain of lies, accidents, and surrealistic mistakes from this company in the last four years.

I don't know enough about the claimed process of purification so I could be wrong, but I'm understanding by the article that tons of radioactive saltwater are magically converted in yummy distilled water and that tritium is the only cause of concern. It reminds me the same old rethoric: "they are clever, they know how to do this, don't make questions, nature will gobble the problem and we all will be safe and happy again".

I think that is reasonable to be sceptic in this case.

Are we talking about to dump distilled pure water or saltwater to the sea?. Is a different situation. It is saltwater there is a lot of things about to care, not just hydrogen. What happened with the dissolved salts and organic matter in the radioactive saltwater?.

And of course, how we could control the real composition of the dumped water?. Just because TEPCO promises us that this time is safe?. This is also a legitimate question. Are we just sending a clear message of 'do as you please with the waste'?. This could be a huge mistake in my opinion.
Startup idea: build a way for people to be active on multiple different forums, sharing a username and karma across each, in a respectful way, so each user can tune their content but still have a common community.
>Are there fewer layers of abstraction in other popular OSEs?

This is application servers, not OSs, and its old, but is a pretty famous example:

https://ma.ttias.be/system-calls-in-apache-linux-vs-iis-wind...
Reading the complaint, ADP is not likely come close to winning.

The defamation they claimed happened is that Zenefits "alleged that ADP intentionally sought to cause harm to ADP’s clients solely to gain an unfair competitive advantage against Zenefits.”

Even if you argue this is defamation per se (and not per quod), about a matter of private concern, they'd still have to prove "4. That [name of defendant] failed to use reasonable care to determine the truth or falsity of the statement(s).

"

(california jury instructions for this charge will be here:
https://www.justia.com/trials-litigation/docs/caci/1700/1704...)

There is a near 0% chance they can prove a lack of reasonable care here.
Plus, they open themselves up to discovery on any memos, etc they've written about this decision internally, which almost certainly show the statement is truth.

Note the above is the best case. If it's determined to be a matter of public concern, or defamation per quod, ADP's chances go down.
There were overspecialized parts early on. I have a forklift part from the early 80's that can only act as a forklift (it has a spring). I also have some boat parts from that era that really float. I got a train set around 1984 that included train tracks, carriage cars and bases that can't easily be used to make anything other than a train set.

Things got really bad in the late 90's and early 2000's before Lego turned it around. My wife got our kids a Lego airplane set with parts that can pretty much only be used to build an airplane fuselage, wings and landing gear. Very sad.

Since then, Lego has drastically cut down on the number of parts they make. There are still specialized parts. Minifigs and car wheels pretty much need to be specialized, and there are a few large parts that obviously exist only to create a larger toy at a cheaper cost. But things are much better than they were 15 years ago. Most sets now consist of mostly generic parts with just a few specialized pieces thrown in.
Cognitive behaviour therapy is effective for many people who have anxiety disorders.

Seek a registered therapist (in England you can get access via your GP; or you can self refer to your local IAPT talkig therapies; or you can use your company's occupational health services; or you can get a private therapist. BACP are a reliable registration body for psychological therapists).

The Australian website "Mood Gym" provide online CBT. https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/

Sometimes anxiety disorders interfere with day to day life - they can become quite disabling. Early intervention helps and it might be useful To talk to a doctor, and to push the need for treatment.
Be aware that astrology is concerned with character and, if I'm correct, events in your life. Not physical health. And each individual has like a gazillion factors hitting on them throughout their life to change the shit out of the star dust poured on them in the birth room.
>> "They're being paid huge sums..."

Everyone who works in finance just lol'd.

But seriously, relative to the value a good hacker adds to the business, "huge sums" is probably not an accurate characterization of engineer comp.
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Surface Hub == Big touchscreen TV, computer, MS Windows, true or false? Is there more to it than the packaging, and is this the only way to get that "more"?
Are you referring to this http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-start-my-career... answer by Benefit's CEO? I'm not sure of the connection between that and this story. I guess you could be going for a reckless attitude in one area might translate to lawsuits in another area?
Flickr was originally a MMO, pivoted.
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Thanks for taking the time to explain!

I understand that each { follower visits page } is dependent on the { Ashton Kutcher tweets } event, but I still don't understand why events are not independent of each other, and why the N visits to the webpage in time period T from the tweet would not likely be described by a Poisson process. Not expecting an answer btw, just thinking out loud here. :)
Why would you call it that? I don't understand.
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/filezilla/filezilla...

I know, this isn't very helpful, but if you don't like how software is distributed for your system there's still the option to use a system that solved this during the '90s.
("What sped things up for me" or I suppose you could say "What speeds things up for me;" hope this is received well by commenter HN community in the spirit of helping someone learn/improve their language)
Same here. I took two years of Spanish in high school, and two semesters in college. I never put much effort into those classes, as I knew I couldn't commit the time to becoming fluent (I was taking them to fulfill core requirements at the liberal arts college I attended). Now, I'm finding myself slowly reactivating and building on that knowledge using Duolingo, to the point that I should be able to strike up basic conversations fairly soon.
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> use it easily without first telling you to get complex, fragile external tooling like vagrant or virtualbox working.

I won't get into virtualbox. But I haven't found vagrant very fragile at all since Mitchell moved to omnibus (quite a while back). Most of the issues I had with vagrant were directly related to virtualbox, not vagrant itself.

> Docker has a huge interest in making it easy for the legions of Mac-toting developers

Well, sort of. They have a product that is inherently linux based. Getting a nice setup working on OS X is pretty trivial, takes a developer maybe a couple of hours one time to have something working.If they use someone else's solution, it takes minutes.

Here's an ansible task I use to configure an ubuntu machine[1]. It's all of 24 lines. If you're running it against a VM, you just forward the 2375 port to your host. Then the workflow looks like:

vagrant up
docker build -t jkyle/awesomeness .

Course you can get fancier. Ansible can pull down docker projects using git, build, and run them for you as well.

[1] https://gist.github.com/jameskyle/b8e573d63da4dbaaf31a
Just some advice, don't worry about organized league vs. street play so much. I played organized hockey year-round (up to 3 teams at a time) and still had plenty of time for unorganized play with neighborhood kids. I grew up in an urban, relatively population-dense neighborhood. Within 2 blocks, there were at least 30 kids within 3 years of my age. Your child's chance to do unorganized activity depends mostly on the number of kids close to his/her age within shouting distance.

The biggest drain on your child's free time is going to be school. Our culture is scared right now about falling behind the rest of the developed world in cognitive skills necessary for the future job market. The knee-jerk reaction is to work harder. The result is that more homework gets assigned, more testing takes place, and some groups are calling for longer school days and less vacation time.

You're a parent now. Educate yourself on child development and Education reform. Then get yourself involved politically so you can be your child's advocate.
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I'm dabbling with Java occasionally, and what always stumps me is that dependencies are handled differently in every environment. Learning how to add and use an external library in Android is too painful, and zero of that knowledge transfers to Java desktop applications, and zero of that to JBoss WARs.

At some point I just give up and start copy pasting source files; Java's whole environment is too painful for me to want to spend my free time on it, and too complex to learn it in passing at work. It's a lose-lose situation, and I just end up avoiding Java where I can. (Which imo is a shame, because JBoss e.g. turned out to be surprisingly neat once I wrapped my head around it.)
It would be interesting to see what Vanessa Friedman would make of the Pebble. It's still too large, as that's one of her complaints, but I imagine it won't jar like the Apple watch as. And it's pretty nondescript too.
> When customers hate your product (i.e. the ADP front-end) so much that an entire company forms around making something less terrible, you really have to look at yourself in the mirror.

Is this really accurate? Doesn't Zenefits exist to merge several services, only some of which ADP provide? And while many people have said that ADP's front end is bad, it seems like you've taken those claims a step further by claiming that people only pay Zenefits to avoid having to use it (rather than cross-platform integration which is their real purpose).
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I think Glass's main issue was that it was obnoxiously obvious and disruptive (in the bad way) and even a little creepy.
It's like meta t'aarof?
Well, it was more of a joke.