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In fairness, some sales reps will say anything to make the sale.
Seeing comments in the recent Zenefits threads, it seems like we dodged a bullet when Zenefits bungling around with our onboarding process led us to use a different providers for our payroll/insurance services.
Thanks. This is a bit embarrassing :-)
Does tritium evaporate? Or could we condense all the tanks from say 1 million gallons of water + 1 pound of tritium, down to say 100 gallons of water and 1 pound of tritium? Seems the volume of water is what makes it tricky, not the actual tritium.
Thanks! btrfs is certainly something to think about. Especially compared to ext4 it seems to make backups much easier and less painful.
I can't speak for Kraków, as I've only had a family since being in Warsaw.

I think Warsaw's great. Plenty of green spaces, lots of child-friendly environments, and it's pretty easy - if you choose - to find yourself living in a community of similarly-aged kids where they all look out for one another.

The only downside I can think of is navigating stuff like vaccinations, doctors, and general bureaucracy. The majority you'll be fine with, but some working Polish - and having Polish friends - will be helpful as English is in short supply in some vital areas.
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There is no way to permanently learn a language if you're not using it. I have known coworkers who grew up in the US for the first 20-something years of their life and then moved to other countries and have begun the process of forgetting English. Their first language. The one they were taught as babies.

Remember this: everyone is taught their perfect grammar and spelling and quizzed on it for years in school. How many people can say what a past participle is, or even what an adverb is? How many people who passed geometry can still do that level of math from the top of their heads?

Of course you can't permanently learn something. You have to keep it in practice.
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23/5, No?
>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.

But discovery cuts both ways. They could easily find a Zenefits email that says "lets blast them for this, who cares if it is true or not, it's about perception."

I agree they probably won't win, but never rule out a smoking gun.
Now I really want to buy them. I like when things looks geeky and beautiful simultaneously.
Is this all it is? Same effect as having a CID officer in an unmarked car with a flask and an empty 2.5 litre coke bottle?

There is not much to be learned about pervasive, 24/7 dragnet surveillance from comparing it to one officer in one location. They are completely different concepts with different consequences. An officer can track a few people for a short time. Stingrays and the like can build an ongoing narrative about everyone who passes them, criminal or innocent.
Nope. In our experience, Zenefits has no special deals and absurdly high pricing for health insurance for small companies. You're far better off going with a PEO (e.g. Trinet etc.)
> To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.

Actually, to achieve success, we must do the job.

Some people find lifting heavy weights and whatnot helps them do that. I certainly have. Others find it's quiet contemplation under a tree. I've done that too, in another place, not here.

Time and chance happen to us all, and having a deep toolkit of techniques for dealing with the truly astonishing variety of slings and arrows the world can huck in our direction is at least as important as our dedication to any one of them. Because when we fail--and we will fail, if we truly strive to achieve anything interesting or important--having a different set of techniques to catch ourselves can come in handly.

For myself, the secrect of my success is being able to go on in the certainty of failure, because taking one more step forward is worthwhile, even when I know the destination is unreachable. And sometimes I'm wrong, and reach it anyway.
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You know how touristy places look more like each other than the genuine thing? Souvenir trash shops, tastes you are used to. People doing traditional stuff, except it's only a show and their souls are not in it. A sell out.

I think that would be a good development.
Rails can serve data far in excess of 15RPS. I've built apps that serve plenty of responses in <15ms. That's one app server on one CPU core. Of course, if you do a lot in a given request it's pretty easy to get that number down as low as you want.
done: https://github.com/messageoftheday/scripts#tips
ahh, thanks for the clarification. :) (edited the post to be more accurate)
Having used both ADP and Peak Payroll at our company in the past we have experienced a lot of manual intervention at both. Usually things get ironed out until some/any out of the ordinary change causes problems that end up taking a payroll or two to correct. Basically I'm saying that all payroll providers seem to have these problems.

We're back on ADP after our company was bought as that is what the parent company uses.
This can be said about art in general. So it's not very unique to computer games (which are a form of art).
Yes, haproxy can do the same job, but it can also do a whole bunch more that we wouldn't be using. It's overkill in my opinion to have load balancing, status checking, request inspection, etc available, when all i need is listen on port 443, strip tls, add a proxy header, send to localhost. (There's nothing wrong with haproxy, and I would consider it if I needed the other features)
Correct.
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"Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat."
~some smart person
> Do you think we should move the signup ask further downstream?

Not that much further, but just until the initial session ends.

It can be like:

- Load webpage

- Initial discovery ("ahh this is what it does")

- Get the first meal plan (start the email offer here, eg "would you like us to email you this meal-plan in a nicely formatted PDF")

- User about to leave ("hey, looks like you made your first meal plan, why not create an account and keep on discovering new food")

It's all about AB-testing though. Don't ever take my suggestion as your final solution. Always test to see what the percentage of on-boarding is.

If using the app and then getting signups increases from 10% to 30+%, you know this is how to do it (or try something different if it only increases by 1 or 2%)
I would pick any "hard problem" and I will try to come up with a reasonable implementation.

A short list of "hard" problem:

* writing a compiler

* a key value distribuite storage system

* embedded databases

* a constrain solver

* circuit simulator

* render engine

You can note a couple of things, usually "hard" problem require a lot of theory, they are hard because we don't have the right abstraction, they are not really related to each other...

Anyhow "seniorities" is not really about the capability of solve hard problem, it is more about to empower your team to solve such problem, together.
Same here... I was quite disappointed.
The Kennedy's would be a better example of an aristocratic family than the Clinton's.
The health insurance and benefits industry needs innovation, badly, but as one person said on this thread, don't bite the hand that feeds you. The Hub and Spoke model that Parker often refers to will not work if you are too aggressive with trying to force (your version) of change on these companies you have no choice to work with in some capacity. Disruption is one thing, destruction is another.

There's a lot of focus on Zenefits bombastic personality, and the whole "we're gonna drink your milkshake" rhetoric. That will scare huge incumbents into moving into very defensive positions quickly. Offering to spend $600,000 getting companies to drop ADP in favor of Intuit or another payroll company doesn't help either.

One thing I find curious was that I thought that Zenefits had 10,000+ businesses using the service as of three or four months ago. According to what's been reported, 600 ADP connected business have been cut off, which was stated as being 10% of their total business. That math doesn't back out.
Are accountants who access ADP on behalf of their clients doing something unethical? Does it matter if that accountant uses their own scripts or wget to access ADP?

> Improper access matters when you start using the service.

I don't know what this means.
Right. A double has twice the precision of a float (hence the name). It's also the default floating point data type in Swift.
If the U.S. Supreme Court rules for the plaintiff later this month in the case of King v. Burwell, 7.5 million Americans stand to lose their Obamacare tax credits. Such a ruling would make it illegal to sell subsidized Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage on the federal healthcare.gov insurance exchange website that runs on an Amazon EC2 cluster. But it will still be legal (read: ACA-compliant) to sell subsidized Obamacare insurance on a state run exchange using the same SaaS exchange application on a separate EC2 cluster. http://www.cio.com/article/2933561/legal/cloud-tech-can-make...
I'm filing Zenefits in under the heading "companies that confuse 'disruptive' with 'douchebag'".
For headline purposes, it would help if this had a catchy brand name instead of floxy-whatever. But you don't have to make a comparison to anything for a headline. "FDA panel backs sex drive booster for women" gets the point across in as many characters.
I thought many of the words in urbit were inspired by a story by Jorge Luis Borges?

It's too bad cause I think urbit it super-interesting, and even the weirdness surrounding the blogs (I came across later) were also super-interesting (but I don't agree with most of those, it was like curiosity-interesting).

I think the tech-conference should have taken the chance, though. Because it is (thought) provoking.
IANAL but I belive the stock advice when you are facing a lawsuit is to shut up about it. "We don't comment on matters under litigation" is the standard line, and for good reason.
I'd like to see an analysis by set type. My girls really love "LEGO Friends", which I suppose is the least offensive of "girl-oriented" crap people push out (at least it's not Disney...).

But the size of the sets seem rather small for the price, compared to creator. Creator seems to have more value, a substantial set for the same price as the Friends ones.
I think, that only HVM instances with non-network optimized interfaces might be vulnerable.
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As a parent who loves having kids play with Legos, I'm all for "Just Duplos". I've already had one trip to the doctor for stepping on a sharp toy. I'd much rather have them play all day and night with their imagination. Legos are a fun way for teaching letters too. My older likes to get in on the game with the younger. (Teaches the abstractions behind what are otherwise perfect shapes)
> With that in mind, and also the fact that Zenefits can no longer be classified as a startup - with +50 (or is it +100 employees)

Ha, because of all of the manual entry they have to do as of February 2015 Zenefits had over 500 employees. When the CEO went on TWiST just a week or two ago he said they were over 1,000 and hiring 100 new employees a month.

They're burning hard and fast.
optimizing won't help you here, unfortunately. the process-per-request model is fundamentally flawed past a certain scaling point.
The problem is, labor capital is the only thing that everyone has. And most people don't have the other form of capital. So if their labor capital has no value, then they're probably going to starve.
Never thought to. I am starting today.
For small businesses, Zenefits and other brokers offer almost exactly the same rates, which are the list rates of the insurance companies. The negotiation only comes in to play with larger companies (currently 50+ employees, next year it will be 100+, I think). For us, Zenefits seemed slightly more expensive, but it is hard to tell since they didn't give us good comparison data based on employee ages and coverage.

If you want to leverage the large company rates as a small company, you need to explore the PEO model, which Zenefits does not support, but ADP does (and several others).
It stinks but this is why you don't form a company based around another company's product. You will either get bought by them or screwed over, and you often won't find out which one it is until it's too late.

It's not a fun bet.
Yeah if anything they should have "leaked" this story of a news outlet. Putting it on the site is just insanity.
I can understand that many people probably don't feel Zenefits is totally in the right in this dispute as a whole, but I struggle to see how you can dispute that ADP is being ridiculously two faced. I'm not sure how thinking ADP is better than Zenefits or that web scraping is bad or whatever people saying about Zenefits is relevant to the fact that ADP filed a lawsuit in federal court saying they're NOT making a Zenefits competitor and then sent out emails to customers saying explicitly that they ARE making a Zenefits competitor. Whatever else you think about this situation, that is obviously pretty screwed up.
Since there are so many Duoling fans here, I have to ask: am I the only one who finds the app almost unusable because there's no theory?

For German I used to try the exercises on my commute, but suddenly the app expected me to use "dem" instead of "der" without any explanation. I can't be the only one with this problem, right? Or is there a "new concepts" tab that I've never seen?
Economics 101 doesn't usually reflect conditions in the real world.
In terms of Twitter blocking Meerkat - it's the same exact situation. What is different, though, is that Twitter didn't then sue Meerkat for defamation, when Meerkat complained after getting blocked.
Duolingo is pretty nice, but often the voices are odd and I'm not so sure the pronunciation detection is accurate. Hard to complain for a free product, of course.

Lingvist is fairly new and French-only for now, yet I feel like I'm making more progress with that than I did with Duolingo. Not sure why that's the case.

I'm pairing both with French vocabulary decks on Brainscape, which is an Anki-like SRS app. Lingvist claims it will switch to a paid model soon, and Brainscape decks are in-app purchases. Lingvist is both mobile and web, though I always prefer the web interfaces when I have access to them. Wish it also had a speaking component.

I've started using Verbling for having conversations but so far they seem pretty unstructured and not worth the money. This will, of course, depend on who you choose. There don't seem to be a lot of French to English options there.

If anyone has suggestions for alternatives, I'd love to hear them. I'd like to rapidly improve my French before a trip at the end of August.
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This reminds me a lot of Resharper's refactoring common things to LINQ in Visual Studio. A lot of times I just ran it thinking "oh wow that's a neat way to do it" and then reverted it back because it wasn't a common idiom or it made it much harder to understand.

The same thing is going to happen with Java 8 until the feature becomes less shiny.
Yeah, doesn't Groovy come about as trying to make something ruby-like though? I think it gets it's smalltalk influence through ruby, but I dunno.

I was never actually a smalltalk user, it's work environment is not the attractive part of smalltalk to me, in fact it makes me shudder in horror to not be able to use an ordinary text editor to edit code, ordinary unix tools to search it, ordinary source control to store it and diff it as text, etc. -- to need custom language-specific tools for all of these things. Although I understand actual smalltalk users did like it and miss it.
The tone of this response as well as the tone of the README in the actual project ensure that I'll pass on this, as I can bet on receiving dismissive and snarky responses to any issues/pull requests.
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>The client paid for ADP access and has every right to use whatever means they deem necessary to input or output data from the ADP system.

Surely ADP has a superseding right to determine how information enters and leaves their system? I'm not suggesting that's good or bad, just pointing out that it's their system, being a customer doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever you like.

Hell, look at what happened to Aaron Swartz.
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Sure, if you enjoy pedantry, please go ahead and assume that I mean that's the one golden rule and I'm sitting here blindly buying up mutual funds with every spare dollar I have.

You make the world a better place.
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That's what I was looking for, thanks. The announcement of a competing product looks really bad for ADP; if Zenefits had advance notice of it, I can see why they'd make the moves they made.
As far as I understand Zenefits is doing both screen scraping and manual entry into the ADP systems and they may have never even talked to ADP. So instead of hitting an API directly where ADP may expect a large amount of requests Zenefits is hitting their normal website requesting hundreds or thousands of users every hour.

I would have blocked them too. It looks far too much like malice from the ADP side of things where it could be bot nets or something else versus a legit company.
Maybe think back 5-10 years. I bet there's some nugget of childlike excitement, deep calm fun focus, that triggered you again and again. Find that and follow it back up your life. Dig into it and find its roots. Look at some photo albums and old emails and find its fruit.

Also "biggest impact" on what? Why do you feel you need to make a big impact. I think that's a little counter productive and mutually exclusive to-in-about-around-through your personal excitement. I can see a one in a million people who's excitements derive from making a big impact on the world.
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I think these are the comments in question:

> Becca Mills
> November 11, 2013

> I was thinking this, too, but then it occurred to me that being able to determine exactly where that line is (the line between looking comfortably professional and looking like a poor person trying to fake their status by flaunting an exorbitantly expensive bauble) is itself a matter of privilege. You might have to be “in the club” to be able to perceive the subtle messages various clothing/accessory choices, combined with the rest of your presentation, can send. Or at least you’d have to have studied “the club” from the outside with an unusually perceptive eye.

> tressiemc22
> November 13, 2013

> Yes, Becca. If everyone knows where the line is the status symbol loses most of its utility.
A shame you're getting downvoted, as your point is relevant. AirBnB did this in the early days- spamming craigslist users looking for hosts (from female sounding email addresses on gmail-- sounds like the "spam from gmail" tactic is a YC "best practice"????)

To be honest, the obvious first growth hack is spamming... anybody can do it. Finding a way to leverage an existing audience without cheating or engaging in slimy behavior takes real thinking....YC companies doing this at some point starts to reflect on YC (And these are not the only two instances of this, it seems like every YC company does it to some extent.)
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Yep the common idiom is "waking the sleeping giant" as often attributed to Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Indica hopefully. Sativa is the more uppy-thinky one.
Looking over the history of DMA Design, i am struck by how prolific they were. Yet it never dawned on me that they were Scotland based.
Zenefits could simply implement ACH themselves, as ZenPayroll has.

ADP is not a monopoly.

Zenefits built a model that vaguely value adds onto ADP by using a more modern web stack.

I'm no huge fan of ADP, but they're being generous to even consider themselves to be competing with Zenefits.
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A public web app is an official API, thought primarily to be used by humans; but built using protocols such that it's possible to be used by programs on behalf of humans ..

You access HN by your browser, the same as Zenefits' customers accessed ADP services indirectly ..

The point is where to put the line between what's a good allowed access, and a bad too-much-indirection access
Out of curiosity, what physical condition causes your insomnia?
How do WASD keyboards compare to Das, for example.

http://www.daskeyboard.com/

It's reall hard to decide which keyboard to buy because you can't test them in stores.
ADP has for years, and still does, allow bookkeepers, accountants, and HR services firms similar to Zenefits to access client accounts via 3rd-party administrative logins that clients themselves set up in their payroll.

The way this works is that you, as an ADP client, call them up and says "hey, I've asked my HR firm, XYZ-HR, to manage my payroll. Can you create an account for them to access my payroll system?" ADP creates this account, and XYZ-HR then handles all the payroll admin work going forward -- adding employee, terming them, inputting hours worked, managing deductions, etc.

This is how this has worked for years, and it's how thousands of companies do this via ADP. Even today, as an ADP RUN client, you can call in and add any third-party person you want as an admin to your payroll system -- as long as it's not Zenefits. ADP has marketing materials that describe this feature, both for companies and HR / bookkeeping / accounting firms. This is how Zenefits was accessing client's payroll, and doing so in order to take on all the administrative work related to payroll that you don't want to handle. We weren't "hacking" anything. We were doing this at our customers' request, with their full knowledge of what we were doing, and ADP set up these accounts with @zenefits.com email addresses, knowing it was Zenefits.

There is nothing improper about how we were doing this.
This strongly suggests that the shutoff AND the defamation lawsuit were part of a planned strategy - that they're deliberately goading Zenefits' notoriously outspoken CEO.

Which does not bode well for their lawsuit, but I don't think they're out to win that anyway.
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Asking for forgiveness rather than permission is a risky strategy, but one that pays off well when it works.

Where it seems to have worked: Uber, Paypal, et al.

Where it failed: Twitter clients, Craigslist front-ends, et al.
My mistake, I always mixed those two up. Both properties address OP, though, as MD5 is not suspected to have preimage resistance either (it's just not to the point of somebody having done it yet).