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You either must have gotten in late, or been exceedingly lucky, as failing NFS mounts is one of those things systemd downright hates.

People have had whole boxes fail to come up because of a NFS mount that didn't work, and therefore the unit file didn't come up roses, and so systemd decided to abandon ship and present the admin with a borked minimal console.

One early fix, a brute force 30 second kill timer on every unit file.

Went over well with one Fedora Alpha (lucky for them) where said timer tripped on the post distro upgrade house cleaning unit.
Unless you are tarring ships, you mean paid, not payed.

As an H1-B holder you have to jump through many hoops, including constant attention to your command of the language. How does it feel to be judged? :)

More importantly, why would you expect more from a foreign applicant that from a local? The point is there shouldn't be discrimination, in either way. H1-Bs are for specialty occupations that are in high demand to begin with. Not sure what encourages you to be more catholic than the Pope.
Raspberry Pi are anti-GamerGate bigots. They're dead to me.
Pretending it was myself I googled Employment Lawyer Minneapolis

Which pointed me to http://lawyers.findlaw.com/lawyer/firm/employment-law-employ...

FindLaw is a Thompson Reuters business, so I trust it enough, and it came up with 43 results which it seems should be enough to find something adequate.
IPv6-only + NAT64 networks aren't coming "soon"; T-Mobile has been operating this configuration on non-Apple devices for the last 1-2 years:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-stud...

Android (and more recently, Windows Phone) uses 464XLAT to keep the AF_INET socket APIs on life support. Apple didn't like that design, so instead they're telling app developers to fix their code.

It remains to be seen whether Apple's iron fist can weed out the IPv4-only apps well enough to satisfy the carriers, or if they'll backpedal and implement a broader compatibility hack.
I understand your point about control completely!

My highest priority for businesses making these choices is usually slightly more pragmatic, and focuses on avoiding provider lockin - something that you can install and run on your own local hardware, you can also (in most cases) install and run on co-located hardware, on rented hardware, on traditional rented virtual hardware (i.e. VPS) or on "flexible" rented virtual hardware (i.e. AWS, Azure, etc).
thanks for the find, tried it found a bug and fixed it too :)
I have been in a situation where I needed help as have my sister.

You just call them, explain your situation and hear what they say.

In general they give you a quick evaluation and then say: In order for us to help you, you need to be a member - the price is xxx pr. month - if you sign up now we will work on your case straight away, we also have an insurrance that covers lawsuits and some other benefits.
Well, I guess I strongly disagree that it's 'not unusual' for employers to try to 'pull a fast one'. This sort of agreement is standard precisely because it gives both parties a way to protect themselves and delineate what belongs to whom. Bad things happen when you don't have such an agreement. Perhaps things are different in the UK, but I'll echo what 'borksi said downthread - just about every software job in the US will come with such an 'Assignment of Inventions' bit of paper.
Get a lawyer to look this over.

LegalShield (https://www.legalshield.com/) is effectively a multi-level marketing scheme, but the product is actually sound. It has helped a couple of friends of mine with both contract and criminal defense issues.

LegalShield is also very useful if you happen to suffer from "driving while brown/black" as they can be called 24/7.
As I explained in a sibling thread, I would consider "self host{ed,able}" to mean that you can run it on an arbitrary machine (virtual and/or physical) regardless of provider (e.g. this is AWS specific, so I can't run it on physical hardware I own/rent or even on a competing provider of virtual machines)
Thing is, Linux used to be flexible. This because of some stuff it inherited from Unix about user space being made out of loosely coupled parts with solidified interfaces between them.

Meaning that it could accomodate both the latest and "greatest" coming out of the labs, and the tried and tested stuff that had been sitting in production for a decade.

systemd instead gloops it all into a lightly coupled shoggoth of a project that is chasing the future come hell or high water.
I'm confused about Scarlet's place in the lineup.

Is it a complementary product for Macaw (now Indigo, apparently), or is it a successor?
Verizon prepaid Moto G is $20-40 depending on the current sales. No bootloader unlock, no root, no SD slot, and no gyro but otherwise a pretty good little device for running stuff.
This sort of agreement is standard precisely because it gives both parties a way to protect themselves and delineate what belongs to whom.

But it doesn't. What it does is make the employer win by default, even for things that have nothing to do with the job. Given the dramatic power imbalance that almost certainly exists between employer and employee anyway, this is the wrong way around. In fact, it's such a bad idea that there is now statute law on the books in various jurisdictions -- including, as I understand it, some states in the USA -- explicitly to nullify such terms in employment contracts.
No, his issue is that because others choose to do so he has to do so because the fad of the year is tramping all over the alternatives.
Can you elaborate? He was interviewed as in, came in off the street, so to speak, to interview, made mention of having a lawyer review contract language and was cut a check?

Or was this an interview with the acquiring company?
I would rather burden the employer with additional tax, scrutiny and labor rules. This mechanism is to reset to original intent of acquiring talent rather than cost-saving labor (as currently practiced).
This sum's finiteness seems pretty intuitive:

9 + 0.9 + 0.09 + 0.09 + 0.009...
The solution is for H1-B workers to auto-convert to a green card after 12 months. Period. The company has 12 months to complete a security check and has to fund it itself.

Now, if the company really needs a worker brought in on an H1-B, they will be very happy and the H1-B queue will continuously clear itself. However, if all they want is an indentured servant, that will get quashed when the green card arrives.

Everybody wins--except for companies who abuse the H1-B program. Which is almost all of them. Which is why you never hear this solution.
If you're a member of a professional association or union, they might be able to provide you employment-contract advice. In Denmark in the engineering field for example, most workers are members of the engineers' union 'Ingeniørforeningen', which will provide you employment-related legal advice [1].

[1] http://english.ida.dk/why-join/core-benefits/counselling
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I think we can't have a web today without JavaScript. We keep trying to go back to what things were, instead of moving forward and excepting the web for what it is.
Why would they do that in a job interview? Why not just not extend an offer? That seems very strange.

You should mention what company it was, I would love to go to a few interviews and then walk away with a settlement check for no reason.
this game feels nothing like street fighter alpha to anyone who has played sf competitively. it might look like it though.
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You start out in a reasonable place but then rhetorically overplay your hand: I'm pretty sure they do HMAC their IV, (a) because they say they do and (b) because there are open source implementations of their file format that (i) do the HMAC verification and (ii) would not work properly if they weren't HMAC'ing their IV. You can check right now: it took 2 minutes to find the Python code that computes the HMAC.

It's a minor thing to be wrong about, but it's also something you could have checked yourself before dinging me about it. :)

The story of this whole thread culminates in a place where I trust 1Password a lot more than KeePass; KeePass knows they need a better cryptosystem, but retains a broken one. 1Password has an extensively documented file format with 3rd party implementations, the author of which format actually responds to academic research.

I'd still use KeePass before I used LastPass, though, and would still use KeePass before I used no password manager!
And gentoo had to jump through hoops (to the point of forking udev) to be able to continue to do so.

The whole systemd vs sysv back and forth is a smokescreen, because while sysv stops at init systemd continues on to cron, networking, sessions, dhcp, dns, /dev, and soon to be ttys etc.

And while the kernel is maintained under the rule that change do not break user space, systemd developers seem to do changes with a permanent "deal with it" meme.
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That answer does not inspire confidence.

1) Random port is not helping against a specific attacker. Get a real firewall
2) Fail2ban is not a real firewall
3) Keys only, no passwords. 40chars is nothing compared to a strong rsa key with a 40char password on it
Is the dev scene bad in the UK? Why are you so interested in moving to the US?
Neither do I want to shut down any forums; I apologize for not making it clear, but that was what I meant in my last paragraph. I don't support hate speech laws.

That said, I don't want to rethink anything. Just because the regime can call something an hateful political movement unjustly, doesn't mean none exist. The movements I'm talking about aren't boogymen, they were the dominant not that long ago in many European countries.
Silhouette's point is that the good employers use language that qualifies the inventions to which they are entitled: on company time or equipment and relevant to the company's business, etc..
Previous submission from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9637015, which is funny because the article says it was published yesterday.
Is there any chance to have this working with the OSX version of Excel?

I don't know much about the Excel environment and ClojureCLR so I don't know if it's feasible at all.
This is such a bad idea [...]

I'm afraid this matches neither my experience and, I'm willing to bet, the experience of just about everyone who's worked in the field in the US in the last couple of decades. Again, I know nothing about how things work in the UK. In the US, this stuff is a formality akin to all the other formalities of an employment contract, say, your tax, 401k and health insurance forms.
Oh they do now. It's the Minecraft Generation.
Ask friends or acquaintances that you trust.
Thanks for sharing! Knew of Google, Amazon and Azure solutions. BigML and Dato looks interesting!
I completely agree; that's exactly what I meant in my last paragraph. I just dislike the trivialization of the problem.
Those that has adopted systemd are either precursors for commercial distros, said commercial distros, or based of same.

The really early adopters seems to have been offshots of Fedora. And i do wonder if Debian was a holdout until systemd started sprouting containerization features, and Canonical (Ubuntu) was feeling the heat.
Storage is not what engineers struggle with its the ML setup.
I think it's really useless though, because it doesn't load the feed data in-page. To read the actual content, you open up the page of the feed item itself. Bad. Did Google Reader open a feed item's page directly, to present it to you? No. It was a option, yes, but it would rather load the content in-page, when clicking on the feed item.

Also, when I add a rss feed link, you should do some ajax magic. Not make me reload the page. It's 2015 for god's sake, who needs reloads for such an application?
Here's the printable PDF version: https://gitprint.com/tadast/switching-to-contracting-uk
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Would a union rep have a lot of experience with intellectual property agreements and their legal consequences?

I would have guessed that most union reps consult lawyers when they finalize a contract and don't have the law background needed.
I thought I used one right in the beginning of my post. Care to be more specific, please?
SEC S-1 http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1589149/0000721748140...

quite underwhelming
In fairness - I'd suggest that the water delivered to a farm for irrigation is of a vastly different quality than that which is delivered in the city for drinking, the distribution systems are also much cheaper for irrigation as well.
> From your experience, which password manager is the good choice? And what syncing, additional security layers (like key files, YubiKey...) could be used to gain maximum protection of the sensitive information?

Every time someone asks 'which one has the best security', the first question you need to ask is - what's your threat model? Because that will impact what your requirements are. Personally, my threat model includes people physically getting hold of my laptop or phone, people using my computer when I'm not around, keylogging/malware, or websites having their passwords breached. It doesn't include the NSA, nation-state adversaries, spear-phishing attacks.

This impacts which software I use, how I've set it up, and my use cases.
The H-1B visa should be eliminated. It's been nothing but a scam from the start. If there's a demand for a certain type of skill high wages will attract people to the field.
Or, instead of that, they hand you a piece of paper where you get to list your inventions. Which is much simpler, less prone to misinterpretation and perhaps a reason why everyone does it that way.
Ask HN: Are Facebook page likes broken?
Facebook wouldn't allow us to change the title of our page when we changed the name of our startup, so we created a new page.

We changed the cover picture to a big sign redirecting people to the new page. See https://www.facebook.com/fpvracing

We've posted daily updates trying to redirect people to the new page.

We've basically started begging people to not like the page.

And yet, they keep coming. The page is still getting likes at essentially the same rate it was before.

I'm genuinely curious what's going on here. Are people just liking the page without even looking at it? Is the reach of Facebook pages so miserable now that nobody is seeing our daily redirection posts?
Timing attacks.

It's not a valid concern in this context, however, because an attacker attempting to bruteforce it can simply code the more efficient comparison and use it.

Timing attacks are a concern on network applications or when considering a block-box type attack.
I don't buy this. The real issue is prestige. Many journals use a large publisher for their brand name. As schools themselves manage to establish significant international brand awareness, they no longer need this service. There is currently no online/open access platform with academic prestige--because that can only come with time and a track record of proper review and rejection. When the larger players come together and form or use such a body, the smaller players will be able to migrate to it.
Exactly. The primary issue with H-1B is that it's attached to the company. As a nation, it's in our interest to pull in people with (supposedly) unique skills, and to incentivize them staying in the country.

If the visa is not attached to the company, then the wage deflation effect will be much more minor. After all, the visa holder could just go to the company next door and get a higher wage if the initial company tries to pay too low a salary.
I know you are joking, but technically this is possible today.

https://youtu.be/4i7KrG1Afbk?t=1251
If I were running things free speech would be absolute, including incitement. We already have laws against incitement, and they're only enforced against the people the government doesn't like.
What interview question to ask when hiring a UX Designer?
We sold our journal I think for two reasons. The first was to digitize them. We have a large electronic database that we are still not completely finished converting from microfiche. We've been working on it since the late 80s. The second was time commitment. We are small. 10-15 people on average. Only two real developers. The hosting commitment was daunting at the time.

Honestly, I don't know the whole story. I've only been around here for a few years.
Object Storage, I dont think the cost of Object Storage matters at the scale of Linode are trying to compete. Because anyone who needs PB or few hundred TB storage are already out of Linode's best fit range. The reason for Object Storage within the same host is the saving on Bandwidth cost. And purely in terms of instances,

There are Intel 1S 10 Core CPU that offers up to 768GB Memory if I remember correctly. Although I am not sure if the pricing works in their flavor.

CDN - I was thinking more of Linode building their own with their DC around the world, mainly as Bulk transfer. For pure Speed it would properly be EdgeCast or Fastly. But this was more of convinenet rather then necessary.
Regarding the weather: I think at some point your body gives in and then it becomes a new normal.

In my experience I got use to walking around with long pants on... Still sucks though!
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Congrats, not everyone can create a simple elegant platform and write about it in such an accessible manner. I suppose you're standing on the shoulders of giants, but still.

This is the level of engineering/communication I always shoot for, and which (somewhat disappointingly) is rare where I've worked.
Keepass was never meant for corporate use, that much I am positive about. So personally I use gpg through the pass(1) script.

However, for corporate use I must recommend siptrack, a Django-based webbapp with a xmlrpc gui that tries not so much to replace keepass but rather racktables and keepass.

So it's much more than password management but it uses pycrypto and doesn't try to re-invent encryption. Future plans have it moving to pynacl too.
High wages are not enough. It takes time to train people. It can take years. Demand for experienced workers can't be satisfied with newly trained workers. Demand for skilled workers can very easily exceed their supply.

A good example of this problem currently is nurses in the Bay Area. They are very well paid however there is still a shortage because there isn't enough teaching available. The teachers are of course experienced nurses, so there's no way to increase the supply of teachers without further reducing the supply of nurses.

So while supply and demand will solve them problem eventually, you might have to wait 20 years and in the world of business someone else is going to eat your lunch during that time.
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Maybe ping the EFF? https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-keepassx
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DO is great for a lot of things, but it's not AWS. You can't allocate extra disk to a droplet, for example. AWS is a _much_ more complete offering than DO.
There is no straightforward way for AgileBits to quietly steal credentials from a specific target --- they'd have to publish an update that did that to their whole userbase, hope the target actually updates, and they would get caught. It is on the other hand trivial for LastPass to do that, for most of their users, because there is a normal usage flow for that product that involves typing a master password into an HTML PASSWORD input.

The problem is not open-source/closed-source so much as it is that convenient, centralized, web-based crypto tools are virtually never safe, and that's the problem LastPass has chosen to try to crack.
Derivatives, commodity speculation, forex, etc, all allow organizations to hedge risks and make decisions that have higher expected economic returns.
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Hehe, my point was that both qualifying language and an explicit list are not mutually incompatible; in fact we have both in my current assignment of inventions agreement.
Could someone expand on this phenomenon as it relates to noise machines? They normally help people sleep but could they actually make certain sounds more distracting based on this phenomenon?
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The compensation part is actually really interesting. My particular industry is notorious for using really strongly worded non-competes. Those don't fly at all in California but they do fly in a fair number of other states. In Illinois there was a court ruling that stated that non-compete agreements are not enforceable unless a specific bonus is paid for signing the agreement. Continued employment (in that case of just under 2 years, after an acquisition) was not enough compensation.

So, if you are asked to sign one of these things either ask for some cash up front or hold in your back pocket that it's probably not enforceable (though it can certainly end in litigation which can be terrible for everyone involved).
i'm a designer .. and learned to program 7 years ago . i really miss flash as a way to design experiences ! thinking design in html/js/css is a horrible way to live !
Love the long sell website, always makes me trust the author and production... Also the page is an 'Untitled Document'.
> Nice, except recvmmsg() is broken. [...] The only way around it is to use a "self clocking" method.

Apparently you can also use the SO_RCVTIMEO socket option, which is a way to specify a timeout for all receive operations on the socket.
Successfully suing a large corporation is effectively impossible in the United States, regardless of merit. Your only hope is that the case is so egregious that you get a modest settlement offer just to go away, along with the one-in-a-million chance that some superstar lawyer takes your case pro bono. Practically speaking, you will never make it into a courtroom because you will be broke years before the case reaches that point. So the reason to work with counsel before signing the contract is to understand what can be done to avoid the need for litigation later, and the likely consequences of each possible approach. Options may range from filling out the paperwork in a certain way to renegotiating terms to walking away from the acquirer's offer.

If you want non-legal advice, walk away. If you wanted to be working for BigCo, you could have joined up years ago. You didn't. Go find the next thing that's right for you instead.
I think you're misunderstanding the example.

An anti-derivative of 1/x is ln |x| (very different from |ln x|) when the domain excludes x=0. By the fundamental theorem of calculus, you can use it to integrate over intervals that exclude x=0. (On positive-real intervals F(x)=ln(x) works, and on negative-real intervals F(x)=ln(-x) works. In either case, F(x)=ln|x| is an equivalent formula. If you try a domain that includes x=0, you risk not just a problem with technicalities but also the practical problem that F(x)=ln|x| and G(x)=ln|x|+sgn(x) look no different...)
Man-hours and man-years? Probably not hyperbole at all.