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I happen to agree. As an employer however, we've found it hard to always keep our developers motivated and executing on time. Any advice?
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I'm in NYC, recently turned 26 and signed up for the cheapest Oscar plan available. It's only around $180 a month — fairly high deductible (~$6,000) but includes free preventative care and a couple free primary care visits per year. I believe this "catastrophic plan" is only available for people under 30 yrs old, otherwise the cheapest is more like $300. Also doesn't cover prescriptions, but I don't have any so it seemed the best option for me right now.
https://www.priorityhealth.com/plans/individual-family/mypri...
Well he would, wouldn't he?
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Regulation doesn't stop murder, theft nor rape. If it did we wouldn't have prisons.

There are numerous events of murder and rape in regulated taxi cabs. (Google is helpful). If you have any evidence that Uber is more dangerous than a cab is love to see it.

As for your final question, yes. Regulation has artificially held back the medical industry and ridiculously inflated prices. People aren't stupid, they can decide what's best for themselves. Choice and free competition is the foundation of progress.
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I'm not really qualified to speak as to its statistical properties, but I've used this generator a couple times.

The biggest downside I ran into is that it requires 64 bit numbers even for the 32 bit RNG, which means its very simple code becomes more complex on a platform with only 32 bit numbers, or in a scripting language. Also, it's not a CSPRNG, if this matters to you.

This is minor though, and I would use it again. It's flexibility for seeding and easy serialization outweigh this IMO (and it's still simple compared to e.g. mtrand)
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Avoiding the experiment would make an attack more effective and hence more likely to take place. It's not identical to the simple philosophical construction, but it's not wholly unlike it, either.
I don't even like to drink while gaming, let alone working.
Try abebooks.com. I've bought quite a lot of cheap books there, both text books (often of the "don't sell anywhere but India" variety), and used fiction that I can't find anywhere.

They're now an Amazon property, but they're still cheap and convenient.
Talk about an edge case for UI design :). I watched a show about a cop who couldn't open his trunk with his keys while he was under fire.
Exactly which part do you disagree with, or do you even have anything more than an emotional objection?
SnapDocs (YC W14) is hiring a product engineer with OCR experience
About us: In the last year, our clients have uploaded 150,000+ pdfs. They've had to tag and classify each one of these by hand. I bet we could help out with that....

About you: You've got experience with OCR. You know the types of data that you can extract and you know how to act on it. In the longer term, you're interested in joining a small team and owning full feature sets or eventually entire product lines.

More about us: We're addressing the entirely old school process of borrowing money to buy a house. Right now, the industry is driven by huge stacks of paper and casual handshakes. We believe that using contemporary design and data analysis, we can deliver something 10x better.

Or to put it another way, we do SaaS for non-technical users and we're growing fast (double-digit month-over-month). Everyday, clients call and email us to say that we're making them happy, and that feels great. We have solid penetration in one segment of the market. We’re looking to hire another core engineer to help us expand further.

The technical details: Our app is built in Ruby on Rails and we deploy to AWS. We have an agile team structure. Since we're so early, you'll be helping set the tone for our culture. If there's something you want to hack on, it's something you can hack on. Ideally, you'll have 3-5+ years engineering experience.

The practical details: We're in San Francisco in Union Square, near to BART and MUNI. We have a lovely office above an antique shop and this is an onsite position. We offer health insurance and generous vacation. Compensation will be salary plus meaningful equity. As an early engineer you'll be shaping this company.

More details: pivotal, git, rails, Postgres, slack, opsworks, AWS, javascript, balsamiq

Get in touch: jobs@snapdocs.com.
"Hey Dad, why is the flag at half mast?"

"I dunno. Some Marine Corps General died."
Everything you said is perfectly compatible with believing in God. Particularly believing in a God who is the source of existence itself, including the existence of matter and the existence of the physical laws which lead to the results you so eloquently described. None of that "substitutes God into the story".

Now, maybe the poster meant literal six day creationism, but that's a minority view even among American Christians. And that wasn't actually stated.
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I do not regret paying for health insurance, or car insurance for that matter. It would actually be cheaper for me to pay the penalty and not have coverage, however i still have it because it is what I consider a good investment, even at the increased rates. I will say I am a little bitter, since I actually worked at a health insurance company that worked to reduce health care costs instead of just upped the premiums when costs rose, I see how the health industry triad is just making it worse. The ACA on top of that has made it so that the free market will not be able to correct itself and effectively ruined capitalism from working for the health industry.

ACA had good intentions, just very poor execution.
Yeah, OK, but separating tokens is enough...
>Companies that support remote workers and do it well seem to have a huge leg up on the competition.

I'm a remote worker and I'm definitely spoiled by not having to deal with open office plans and disruptions.

That said, I see no evidence that the article's statement is true. (I want it to be true, but that doesn't change the fact that so far, I see zero evidence that it is true.)

You can't convince people with just rhetoric.

Instead, show compelling examples of how Company-A-with-mostly-remote-workers is beating the pants off of the Company-B-with-onsite-workers.

Show that RemoteWorkerCompany is 10x more innovative, delivers 10x faster, has 10x profits, etc etc.

I suspect finding comparisons that control for other variables are hard to come up with. Nevertheless, that's what it's going to take to convince managers. A bunch of programmers writing a thousand essays on the "advantages" of remote workers is just preaching to people like me who happen to like working from home.
Sorry, I should know better, but I honestly only scanned it. I've read other articles glowing about WeWork (making it onto the front page of HN) and ignoring the other places and I was just looking to see if that was the case here.
I know someone who works a marketing/sales job, they're making enough and saving enough to afford a condo in the near future. They also do some uber driving. It isn't always poor people, it's people who want to make some extra cash and who want more flexible schedules.
I recently toured a new WeWork space in San Francisco. While beautiful, the price was absolutely bonkers. I say that in the context of a commercial real estate market that is booming in general.
I love this idea and very much agree you end up with a much more modular, and proactive organisation with the right people. Owing to desk space issues, finance is moving more towards working-from-home. Honestly, in my next job I'd like to go 100% WFH - the amount of time saved from commuting is huge and, from an organisational perspective, if I get inspired over the weekend or the evening I'm much more likely just to get some bits and pieces done.

Unfortunately there's still a lot of legacy managers and people who make the transition tricky. If you can start from the ground up, or at least foster it within teams that's great.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejects gay marriage
Well-designed interfaces look boring
yes, but it costs O(n) to compute the nth digit of pi (bailey algorithm).

I've talked to people who wanted to publish streams of truly random numbers, where you choose an index into the stream, and the data at the index forms a private key (the shared secret is the index) used to encrypt data.
The rise of the Full Stack Designer and the tools he uses
Try moving to a country that splits phone numbers different that what you are used to. I grew up with 3-3-4 but live in a country that splits 2-4-4. Subtly annoying.
I really like this, but the background tracks are a little short for my taste. Fireplace and rain are only 3 minutes, and they don't loop very well. It's not so noticeable when it's mixed with the cafe tracks, though. I like Rainy Mood [1] for ambient rain.

I love the scene in Interstellar with the wide shot as they slowly fly past Saturn, where sounds of the jungle are playing in the background. I think ambient sounds and visuals would be really good for mental health when you're away from nature. In the city, on the ISS, or a manned mission to Mars, etc.

In the next few years I'm planning to travel the world and capture beautiful scenery for VR. I want to take long videos, from sunrise to sunset. I'm really interested in Google's GoPro rig, but the JauntVR 360 camera [2[ looks very promising too.

Then I would like to composite a virtual workstation inside those VR videos, with virtual screens, so I can do some work or reading in there. Apparently Samsung is working on an 11K screen with 2250 PPI, so I think this will be feasible in the near future. I've been starting to do some practice runs, too [3].

[1]: http://www.rainymood.com/

[2]: http://www.jauntvr.com

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-5SNis4zLM
> But who supplies the VC's with money?

Ultimately, all "money" these days is supplied by central bankers.

There aren't a lot of good ways to short this stuff, at least if you aren't someone like BlackRock. That's especially unfortunate because it means no one is going to make money on the downside, offsetting others' losses. In every transaction there is still a winner or a loser, it's just that in this case the winner is going to be the people selling chunks of worthless companies for big money today. Just like in 2008 the winners were people who sold overpriced and overhyped real estate in 2006 and 2007. So if I were you, I'd go found a worthless company, pay the "tech press" to hype the holy living fuck out of it, raise a dozen rounds at obviously nonsense "valuations", and use the money to pay yourself and your friends nice fat salaries and lots of silly perks for the next 3 or 4 years while everything implodes around you. That's not how you short the madness, but it's how you profit from it which is really what your question is about.
I would love to work for a remote company. I had partial remote work for awhile and wanted to just go full remote.
And hopefully this talk of a basic income will be the most sensible solution instead of forcing veterans and people with low incomes to beg and wait for any sort of help. It's disturbing that this guy has to wait for months to get veterans benefits.
There are plenty of opportunities to bet against many of these markets, some more direct than others.

To bet against the Canadian housing market, for instance, you could look at shorting vulnerable financial institutions (Canadian banks and lenders with exposure to the Canadian housing market). You could also look at the Canadian dollar, which could conceivably fall if there's a housing crash.

Private startups are obviously a more difficult target, but you should consider that the types of events likely to push the private startup market into meaningful decline would in most cases also be bad news for publicly-traded tech companies as well, and you can short just about all of these. There are numerous advantages to targeting publicly-traded companies (liquidity, availability of information, in a major market correction there will be forced selling, etc.).
WTF is wrong w/ you?
He didn't say his belief is the only right one. It did contribute to the conversation for some of us. And I agree with a sibling commenter, downvoting should ideally be reserved for non-serious/troll comments?
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[AngJobs](http://angjobs.com/#!/jobs/inbox/hn?july) allows free custom filters, so you could easily add a location filter, although not possible to combine with other filters at the moment
Isn't that just a pacing issue. If there's enough discrete work going through the pipe line then burn-downs (or if you're not traditionally agile, targets) should be pretty reflective of your output.

You have to be careful, but I wonder if giving a developer access to their own progress/burndown would be an encouragement for those who arn't quite so self motivated.
http://quickjson.com
Reddit’s Terrorists Have Won: Ellen Pao and the Failure to Rebrand Web 2.0
Tough questions to answer for someone on the outside.

> Is there any likelihood of an acquirer being interested in purchasing the product but not its developers?

At the very least you will be expected to stick around for documentation and gradual hand-over. This may well be the only card in your hand during a negotiation, or it may not be, depending on the circumstances and your relationship to the people transacting the acquisition.

I have to point out though your assumption is that the product is the key asset a buyer will be interested in. Is this the intention of the founders as well? Because counter-intuitive as it may seem, the new company might be more interested in the people who sold this product than the thing itself. Do what you can to find out more.

> Assuming I do stick it out as an acquihire, what's the likelihood I'd be allowed to remain in charge of my product vs having to execute on someone else's vision?

That depends totally on your relationship with your new employer and the structure and politics of the new company. Best case, you'll move up the ladder there. Worst case, they want to get rid of you as soon as possible. Average case: in a year they regret the acquisition, because they realized they'll never make back the money they paid for it. If you do like it there, it might make sense to move onto a more important product in their core portfolio before the acquisition hangover hits them.

> how do I best stand up for my own interests here, without being the asshole that ruins the deal for everyone?

Be friendly, exude an aura of confidence and competence, but don't be a roadblock. Find out what the decision makers want (first at your current company, then at the new one) and help them achieve their goals. The risk is still you'll be left at the side of the road, but then again, that's always a risk.
There is a new Kickstarter project called Hacker Boxes which does this on steroids:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/207210015/hackerboxes-t...
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no problem, i will also say that PH insurance has some of the BEST customer service. Both public facing and internal. They actually have an internal department that the public is unaware that does some amazing things that help reduce cost for both them and you as a customer. This department also help make sure the care you receive is the best available for you, as well as thoroughly completed to avoid complications and repeat visits, which also help reduce costs but improve quality of life.

I cant say much more then that because im pretty sure its what they would call a trade secret... I am only aware of it because I worked for them and was involved in supporting this from an IT perspective.

On a side note for all of you people looking for a change of pace. Health care is IMO the most fascinating place to be as far as IT is concerned, I would have never left the health care industry except that I wanted the benefit of working from home full time. When I left, I told my boss and a few other managers to let me know if a full time work from home position became available.
Get really drunk to see how smart you are, got it.
What do people think about the 35% off of Crucial SSDs? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KFAGCUM

I haven't really shopped for SSDs before but I need to upgrade my 4 year old MBP. It looks to be about $20 cheaper than what's on Newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...
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STM's a good one. I'd consider I/O and State as solving a self-inflicted problem -- I can have side-effect-creating I/O and State in just plain C with barely any type system.
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Drones by Drones: The unmanned aerial field recordings of Tim Prebble
I find that a remote culture is hard to build if half your office is remote and the other half is in the office.
Found this the other day - might come in handy, if you haven't seen it already.

http://themeteorchef.com/
London man arrested for recharging iPhone on Overground train
When things really get nuts, it's considered favorable to be panned by the Journal or any other stodgy old-media outlet. They don't get it, so you really must be awesome. Besides, it's different this time.
Thanks for the correction, I didn't knew.
Interviewed launches to let job hunters prove what's on their resume (YC S15)
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Don't even need all that.
Just, right-click the icon and click "Remove from Toolbar/Menu".
I was in Vancouver for that one. I didn't feel a thing. There seemed to be a fairly even mix among my friends depending on where they were. Some felt it quite strongly. Some didn't notice it.
They most certainly do not have a singular canonical format. American Express cards use different groupings and a four-digit card security code.
for your rainy mood the best one http://pluvior.com
Guess Linux gets excluded once again? Cause they keep pushing Flash to me, even though I have H.264?
uBlock killed subscribe for me, too. Didn't occur to me until I saw others mention it.
Unfortunately it's a byproduct of the US's quasi-deification of those who serve in the military. One really has to be a part of the club to really get it, I guess. For those whose past generations have made it a tradition of serving, yeah, it's a big deal. But those who know no one that's served, obviously not so much.

And then there's the angle that you bring up: those who enlist generally are those with fewer skills to offer the marketplace and thus choose the safe government-supported route. Which isn't a bad thing, that's just how it is.

Of course you're going to get downvotes from this crowd for not pussyfooting around the issue and saying how it really is. I too see it as absurd to worship the ground that veterans walk on, especially when it was their choice to be put in harm's way. It's not my fault you fell for all the war-is-glorious propaganda and then came home a fractured mess (the ineptitude of the VA is another issue).
Suggestion: you might want to put terms "opensource" and "Apache license" on homepage somewhere (and a link to sources). From your comment I knew MapDB was opensource and I still spent a few minutes before finding the sources and license on github. It looks almost as if you want to stay "one-man-show". :)
> As an employer however, we've found it hard to always keep our developers motivated and executing on time.

The only time I've seen this to be a "problem" is when one of the following is true:

A) Non-technical people are responsible for the estimates and/or have the ability to make changes to the requirements without understanding the complexity of the new requirements.

B) They are stuck fixing bugs instead of doing new feature development due to technical debt.

C) There is a serious communication problem.

D) People want fixed, written in stone deadlines before the prototyping is done when things are still too fluid for anything resembling a good time estimate is possible.

For instance, the only deadline I've majorly missed at my present workplace is the one project I told my boss was impractical, a terrible idea, and to please give it to someone else because I don't have the temperament to handle such requests. I'm sure some "business" person responsible for it considers it a "motivation and executing on time" problem despite the fact I basically said this was a terrible idea in front of the entire IT department in an official meeting with minutes being taken.

Are you completely certain none of these 4 exist as an employer?
this is something I believe really works for things that are hard to do. For exdample pick any activity with a difficulty of balance. visualization, especially structured consistent visualization over a time period I think will make an impact. I don't know this but I think more tests are needed. I also think there is something to visulization healing. But it makes you wonder, if it works, how is it working and what are the limitations. And if there are limitations, why are there limitations.

It's like the matrix, some rules can be bent, others can be broken i guess.
So many variables.

First, the software can be sold without an acquihire and is not an uncommon route by traditional enterprises outside of tech (an asset sale). However, in general even in those cases the acquirer wants at least 1-2 key employees to help them through the transition. I have been though a couple of these with Public companies being the acquirer and am familiar with it. Also, if this was the route the startup would likely be required to pay investors first from the sale, and the chance you or anyone else gets anything is fairly low (so you want/hope for an equity sale not an asset sale).

In the end, you aren't a founder so in reality unless the founders are including you on the discussions you won't know for sure what is happening or being discussed. If the founders are good people (but maybe bad business sense), hopefully they will be fighting for their team. You did mention you have a significant equity stake, if it is large enough you may be able to get a seat at the table, depending on if it is options or granted stock and what class of stock it is etc. Also, part of this all depends on how many people are in the company and what the skill set makeup is like. e.g. 6 people total with 4 being devs is different than 6 people with 1 dev when it comes time to be acquired.

If the acquirer is a large firm with in place development and product management the chances of you staying in control of the product are slim long term. Short term you might have some say, 3-6 months, but longer term you likely will not. That isn't to say you couldn't, but the odds are against it generally speaking. The smaller the acquirer is, the better the chance you get to stay in a more controlling spot.

As for what to do to protect you, don't try to sour the deal, but make sure that you negotiate what is fair to you. I'd stick out the acquihire if the deal was reasonable, you may have to stick around for 12 months or so but for that you may get a small amount of stock or cash. I have not ever done this part, so others here are probably a better source of information.
http://pluvior.com/ for me too
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Keybase raises $10.8M
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How can Apple continue offering 16GB base models? ODR
Thanks for sharing the site. I usually just listen to electronic music, but I really enjoy the rain/water sounds.
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