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21 year old makes 12k/day selling CS:GO skins
Original article link : http://www.lesaffaires.com/blogues/julien-brault/ce-montrealais-de-21-ans-fait-12-000--par-jour-en-vendant-des-fusils-virtuels/579654?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=16-06-2015&utm_campaign=montrealais-12000-dollars-par-jour

The text is in french thoses are the highlights of it :

* Artur Minacov 21 co-founder from Montreal

* website : OPSkins

* 120 000$/day selling volume takes a 10% cut -> 12 000$ / day

* The website is selling Counter Strike GO skins which are only a design for a gun no added value

* 340 000 users plan to get all of the 6.5 millions users of CS:GO

* He will sponsor the next ESWC for a total of 100k$

* Dropout from Cegep (college) at 19 years old

* Failed a few startups (2) before OPSkins

* Refused VC funding (6% for 50k)

Sorry if there is mistake it is a bit late and not my native language.
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I asked Zach Holman at one of his tech talks a couple years ago and he replied (paraphrasing): "Yes read/write deploy keys are not ideal. That's why we don't ourselves use deploy keys at GitHub, and in fact we regret that the feature exists." I think he used an expression like "deploy keys are a red-headed stepchild".
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Good summary of the upcoming trends 2015, more web designers should read this. There are so many crappy sites in the internet – and "website builder" tools still increase their number.
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Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9729762
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You log in every day to LastPass, giving them a lot more opportunity to intercept your password without changing anything on the client side. LastPass also has a web interface where you can log in, and you often need to log in there in order to make changes to your account. This can act as an additional attack vector if they were compromised.

If 1Password was compromised, on the other hand, they'd have to wait until you upgrade the client to the bugged version. As far as I can tell, they don't even have a web interface for you to log in.

Dropbox doesn't even come into the equation since it's just dumb storage. Someone who compromises Dropbox will only see a useless blob. The attacker would have to compromise both 1Password and Dropbox, as well as get you to install a compromised 1Password client, in order to get your encrypted passwords.
I like to pride myself on never having used a clumsy phrase like that. That said, machine users were en vogue at GitHub, although maybe that's changing with more consideration being given to deploy keys nowadays.
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The original legislation is tucked away in section 6(1) Employment Agencies Act 1973.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/35/enacted

6.-(1)Except in such cases or classes of case as the Secretary of State may prescribe,a person carrying on an employment agency or an employment business shall not demand or directly or indirectly receive from any person any fee for finding him employment, or for seeking to find him employment.
(2)Any person who contravenes this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400.
I recall back in 2010 I saw job postings looking for a minimum 5 years experience writing iOS Apps. Never mind that the iOS SDK was only two years old at that point. #sigh
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No you cannot, unless you have been paying into the system for 10 years. If you have, then you probably have a green card by then. If not, you should get one anyway since you've spent a decade of your life in the country that your pretty much american by that point. Legally and paying a lot of taxes.

You would never get medicare treatment as only an H1-B worker, since if your unemployed, you cannot stay in the country long enough to be able to use medicare benefits much.

So you effectively pay at %12 tax on your income that you will never see the benefits of unless you immigrate.
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Isn't that VBA?
What about the trans fat already in our arteries ? Is it going to stay in our arteries for ever?
That's not really the paradox. The amount of paint required depends on the thickness of the coat, and the inside is forced to get a thinner and thinner coat (since the space available gets thinner) while the outside is assumed to be painted with an even thickness of paint. If you painted the outside with a layer of paint whose thickness is proportional to the thickness of the curve, you could do it with a finite amount. (This is all assuming idea "paint" that is continuous and arbitrarily subdivisible, real paint is made of molecules.)

The intended "paradox" is that the surface area is infinite but the volume is finite.
It is possible that you are "old" like me and thought that "responsive" meant "responds quickly to your input". These days "responsive" means that if you have a different size display than the person who designed the website, it isn't foobared. It is very difficult for me to repress snarky comments about the state of web design these days, but then I have to remember how ugly the web used to be in the good old days... Flashing red text on blue tiled backgrounds still haunt my dreams.
"The Labor Department said last week that it had opened an investigation into two outsourcing companies, Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys..." Disney was using both. And suddenly, Disney management decides that maybe violating labor law isn't such a good idea.

The US has reasonably good labor laws, but weak enforcement and too-small penalties.
Oh, I have no trouble believing that. It's certainly possible to write a more humane AoI. But the purpose of these is mostly to make sure that they don't matter, so I was hoping to reassure the OP that (with basic care) such agreements don't matter and that the 'get a lawyer' and 'this isn't how it is in the UK' pitchfork crowd is simply wrong.

If you have a nicer, professionally-vetted, less scary-sounding AoI, that's terrific. I'd encourage you to post it somewhere as a template.
Sorry, I believe you used a more palatable expression than that, but having a similar meaning.

Edit: and to paint a more complete picture, you pointed out in your answer that many folks were using deploy keys to promote from a development branch to the master branch. Some commenters in this thread may, like myself, just not have thought to use deploy keys for this purpose, or that others would want to.
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Aren't the only weirdness in French 70, 80 and 90? That's nothing compared to German :)
This sounds like a plot lifted straight from silicon valley.
Have you ever seen this work?

To organise real projects that will take 10-40 hours seems very expense on the companies time, even if it was possible.

It takes weeks to months to get people up to speed, you'd need to spec it out, explain context, work place health and safety, legal, insurance, how does team work play into this?

If you have easy 10-40 hour projects lying around why haven't you just outsourced them?
IANAL, but I get the impression that it may actually be in our contract because in many industries, it's much less contentious and has become standard that way. Take for instance, if I were a nuclear engineer. The equipment so expensive, and knowledge so specialized, that anything that one does in their free-time that is nuclear related is very clearly a derivative work, that these clauses are pretty much just an extension of don't steal our work and go to a competitor. And other things one may do, say woodworking, is so clearly hobby, and so unrelated that the issue would never stand up in court such that the issue is never debated.

But that's just been my understanding, I could be very mistaken.
Now if only the Australian government would follow suit and follow through with investigations of similar practices here. Abuse of "skilled immigration" 457 visas is rampant.
Blame AMD. They ruined PV performance on x84_64 when they removed two of the protection rings.

Hardware extensions still move the performance needle towards Xen (PV)HVM/PVH and KVM, but the extra context switches required due to the inferior (for paravirtualization) architecture are a major performance hit.

(PV, of course, performs IO better when there is not SRIOV access to the IO devices)
Strike the clause. You are in a negotiation. They are going to structure the contract to be filled with things they'd love to have. Most people just sign. But there a clauses that are love-to-haves, but not must-haves. Maybe this is one of them. If it's one of the must-haves, they'll let you know by saying they cant accept the contract with that clause struck.
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Perhaps instead of that, they should give you a list of inventions which they own and you sign that, and anything else that you come up with on your own time is yours.

It's ultimately about power. You rely upon the company for sustenance, it doesn't rely upon you. That manifests in contractual terms which are basically designed to give the company license to completely screw you.
Concurrency was part of the HMRC's Business Entity Tests which were so hilariously inaccurate compared to IR35 actual rules its was funny.

I guess if you had a small battle and that won it that battle wasn't with HMRC but instead with the Cabinet Office or another government department / quango...
"Just a formality" or "standard" is how 100% of abusive contractual terms are described.

The fact it is common (and, sadly, it is) does not mean it is right.
Asking for a recommendation from friends/family is best, even if their lawyer doesn't specialize in employment law. In the case where the lawyer doesn't do employment law, say you were recommended by a friend/family and ask them if they can refer you to a lawyer with the right expertise.

Failing that, contact your state bar association. For example, the CA bar association offers a list of certified lawyer referral services that will help you find a lawyer with the right expertise: http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Public/LawyerReferralServicesLRS.as...
I used Nixon Williams for about five years, they were very good.
You might just try contacting the biggest union near you and asking. They typically know plenty of labor lawyers. It can't hurt.
FWIW, I've been using Atom since it launched. For the past several weeks it's been so bad, unstable and slow I switched to another editor. Now with version 0.209.0 Atom is back to what I'm used to.

Atom will be a really nice editor, it's just going to take some time, and it does have rough patches now and then.
Nothing is truly tamper proof, but you could make it an order of magnitude harder to diffuse.

There's a MacGyver episode from 1986 ("Countdown") that involved a bomb extortion plot that was, in retrospect, almost certainly inspired by this event.
Very well paid is relative, especially when you factor in the cost of living somewhere like the Bay Area. I personally know several experienced nurses who would happily move if it meant increasing their overall standard of living.

It's always about salary. The shortage of nurses could be easily filled if they were raised. Instead hospitals prefer to cut it close, running borderline unsafe units on busy days
Yeah, I've done this about 4 times now just with this one specific clause.

Companies keep giving me these contracts. I keep saying no. So far, no company has ever made their job offer contingent upon signing away every idea I come up with in the shower. The day that happens I will walk, though.

One thing I have noticed, though, is that it is a pretty reliable red flag, because it means one of two things:

* They don't read their own contracts (one employer actually seemed surprised when I read the clause back to him). Sign of incompetence.

* They are actually unreasonable people. Strong likelihood they will try to fuck you over in lots of ways.
As others pointed out, you need an hour with a labor lawyer.

Fish and Richardson, the law firm, says "Employees: Non compete agreements - don't sign them.[1]

It's often effective to take the contract, cross out and initial sections you and your lawyer consider overreaching, sign that, and turn it in. Then the company has to argue with you paragraph by paragraph, tying up their legal counsel, if they really want those terms. Also, there are special legal provisions about requiring a new employment contract from existing employees.

I went through this years ago with a very big company, refused certain clauses, and after some huffing and puffing, they gave in. This was important, because I did work for a startup on the side and got stock.

[1] http://www.fr.com/files/Uploads/Documents/Dos-and-Don%27ts-o...
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Yeah, couldn't they have also banned intravenous trans fat? :)
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Hi there. I'm the author of that admittedly ridiculous and unnecessary extension :)

"Extension" should probably be in scare quotes because the implementation is literally just CSS animation: https://github.com/dmnd/rainbow-selection/blob/master/styles...

There's no good reason such an animation should be taxing your machine. It works fine on my MacBook Pro. But someone else reported this issue too: https://github.com/dmnd/rainbow-selection/issues/3

If you're interested in working out what's going on, please respond to that github issue. I understand if you don't want to spend time on such a trivial thing. But you spent the time to write this comment, so I figured maybe you're interested :)
And talk to your colleagues - the more of you that strike a clause, the more political weight you'll have. Others may also not realise the issue in that clause.

I struck two clauses in my catch-all generic contract when I signed on here: no installing software on my own machine; and no installing free software. As a sysadmin hired to admin linux, these had to be struck or I couldn't do my job :)
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I am not sure if Github can be related to open source. Being free for open source, is more or less is their growth hack. Their profits come from hosting private repositories. That said, these kind of freemium Business models are hard to come by and that's why they always triumph the market when they come by like Dropbox.

The awesomeness of Github is that it is created by developers, for developers. John Carmack, once estimated that Stack Overflow may have saved billions of dollars in productivity[1]. Hard to estimate but seeing the sheer accelaration in Open Source world, after Github, I am sure, a similar estimate would be much higher for Github.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/380018564792455168
All you are pointing out is that mixing little-endian and big-endian may cause trouble. You're not saying anything about which of the two is better.

Anyway, it doesn't matter what you think is 'more natural.' Computing in binary probably feels less natural to you, but nobody is going to stop making binary computers because of that.
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Not even remotely...
To setup for a call to a C function is a matter of a handfull of instructions.
To setup a context switch is hundreds.
Paravirtualization is not an extension of full virtualization. If anything, it's moving in the other direction - instead of virtualizing the parts of the system that are difficult or low performance when virtualized, you instead offer up a software device. In practice, this is generally your IO devices - without SR-IOV support, your IO is quite slow through an emulated device.

Paravirtual IO drivers, you have a front end driver in the guest, and a back end driver elsewhere. In Xen, this is a dom0 or stub domain that also includes the actual hardware driver. With Xen the front end and back end are just a shared memory segment using a ring buffer. KVM does things a bit differently, but the core concept is pretty similar.

SR-IOV you have a virtual function of the device that is passed through directly to the guest, eliminating the need for the PV IO drivers at all.
Twenty years? No way. Maybe five or ten years for something like nursing.

Programmers can learn a language in a few months and become professionally proficient in two years or so. It's a lot closer to factory work than rocket science.

Beyond that there are a bunch of 50+ year old guys with perfectly good skills who can't get jobs because they don't fit the common (erroneous) mental picture of a software developer. There's no shortage of IT people in the US and never has been.
I wonder how/if the inertia of the needle affects the sound. It seems to me that at 20 kHz, the needle would bounce around in the track. I should do the math...
Heh, the stuff I've been screwed on the hardest is stuff where the boss or the HR officer has said "it's just (standard|a formality|the norm)", despite not encountering those things in other workplaces.

Edit: I guess the moral of the story is that something being dismissed as 'standard' is a red flag to confirm that on your own time. Maybe it is a standard, but if that's the only explanation they're using, it's not good enough to stand on it's own.
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I'm not entirely sure of your statistics but I'd urge you to consider that 'standard' and 'just a formality' is also how very nearly 100% of things that are actually standard and a formality are also described.
Wargh, I use KeePass.
The body will eventually burn it for energy.
I've done the same in the U.S. In my experience, employers would rather amend these terms than see a potential new employee turn them down.
Thanks! It's great to see this sort of thing.
Good advice.

I contracted for about 10 years in the UK, finance mostly. Had my own Ltd, took home about 65% of my day rate. No funny business, happened to move clients about every two years which helped for IR35.

Nothing more complicated than that. Yes that means I paid 35% tax, which is pretty much the equivalent I would have paid if I could have ever found anyone who would pay me my day rate as a salary.

1. I believe in a progressive tax system and public services
2. I don't believe in working for an umbrella based in Norther Cyprus which is owned by a Trust of which I am a trustee which pays me loans on a semi-regular basis of 80-88% of my day rate with absolutely zero tax paid by me.

HMRC is cracking down on IT Contractor loans anyway, and quite a few people are rightly being hit up for quite large amounts of tax.

If the UK public had any idea how many (roughly 50k contractors in the City) avoided paying so much tax (billions) while they were being mugged by PAYE there would be a total bun fight.

Me. I'm still wealthy, my dad was a teacher, my mum a stay-at-home mum. Went to state schools, drove on state roads, took the benefit of people who actually paid tax.

To all the "I could pay some of my extra money to a charity / local school" brigade. Sure, but you never did - you parasite. Feel free to thank me for providing all those public services for you if you like.
No, it's not the same at all. Here you get to select online the product you want to buy, you are not "forced" to receive a box of produce. And there is no monthly fee at all, you just pay for what you buy.
I tried #3. Company lawyers requested that I change it as it was holding up an acquisition.
It's amazing how true this is, huge files work fine, but one long line... I wish I knew more about editors to help fix it.
Also this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/google...
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Growth of 5% per year is geometric, not exponential.
Well if he's 100 year old and still active enough to do lobbying, he probably is doing something right diet-wise...

(Did you know that the guy who invented LSD died at 102?)
noticed this as well.
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Inspiring to read about anyone taking on the FDA to improve our food supply and the nation's health. Especially impressive considering that we're talking about a person 100 years old.

Goes to show age is not necessarily a barrier to productivity and creativity. Maybe it's fair to describe Dr. Kummerow as a kind of "geek" in his field. It follows that by all means we should honor old geeks, it doesn't serve our interests very well to discard them at 50 which I'm told is a current trend.

Article is a nice juxtaposition too, since just a few hours ago there was mention here of an article about diet and obesity. No doubt consuming substantial quantities of artificial trans-fats contributes to the health consequences of obesity if not obesity itself.
Because (hate) speech and (cyber)bullying can hurt and even kill people by pushing them into suicide. It's easy to ignore for you and me, presumable both straight white male in a secured position with a good solid job and enough free time at our hands for idle discussions on HN, but much harder so for people from minorities, with prior (mental) issues or other hardships to deal with.

Relying on a community works only where such a community exists, but twitter is not HN where moderators can and do take out the trash, it's a commercial enterprise with limited incentive to spend money on curbing even the most extreme cases and I think that's where some external entity needs to step in and remind them - and that's the law. And while such tools may be in the hand of the government, in germany for example the government does not have standing to sue. It's only the arbiter.
> the H1B is supposed to have skills that the local workers don't

Given that, wouldn't it make more sense for the extra money to go into education? How is contributing to unemployment going to get Americans more jobs?

What about companies that need the skills but can't afford the more expensive workers? If I'm a small startup with a $200k budget for an <insert niche field> expert but there are no citizens with the skills available (at all), paying $220k may not be an option, leaving me with either a loan or without the skills I need.
They have plenty of lawyers, highly specialised. And if you go to an IT-related union they are very used to dealing with IP issues.
Noone needs to agree with past policy.

But then lament your past policy. Don't attack the ones whose constitution you created.
In France there is the AMAP association (http://www.reseau-amap.org/) which shares some of the same goals, but for non-profit and with a focus on organic products.
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