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> Considering there sometimes are in the tech industry clauses in contract that prevent an employee from working in another company active in the same field for X years, could such a clause be applied to government employees ? To prevent that kind of abuse. Could that legally be done (in Canada, eg) and would that be `fair' ?

Especially considering that the pensions can be thought of as a form of "gardening leave"[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
Talk...Talk to your manager, friends, family and other support system. This will give you different view points on how the current situation can be handled. Solicit help. Do not always try to brazen through these issues alone.
I'm curious what nutrients can only be animal-derived.

I came across the following list recently:

1. Vitamin B12

2. Creatine

3. Carnosine

4. Cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3)

5. Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA)

6. Heme-iron

7. Taurine

Source: http://authoritynutrition.com/7-nutrients-you-cant-get-from-...
Can anybody with any experience compare this vs RDS for me?
I wish I'd known this back when I was actually running Facebook ads. I'm glad it was pointed out to them, but would have been great to know as I worked at an early large-scale FB advertiser.
You sir, are the reason FCC even has a job.
(Assuming channel 14 is illegal in your place of living.)
Specific to the US, who do you think people will side with? Movie stars or Google Lawyers?

I don't see this as being slam-dunk for either side.
I would definitely recommend people get a credit card for this purpose. That said, if you are the type who thinks credit card is 'free money' stay away from it -- you will be trapped in debt forever. If you are generally good with managing your expenses, I would say get a 'bank card' (like Citi, Chase, etc.) and put it on Auto Pay to pay it off in full each month. If your limit on the card is low (say $1,000) then try not to spend more than $300 each month (30% utilization) as it is better for your credit score to keep your utilization low.

You will be bombarded with 0% Balance Transfer offers and stay away from those unless you are knowledgeable about this game. You make one mistake and everything you gained by doing the BT will get wiped away.

Also, if you travel internationally you should either use a card that does not have foreign transaction fees or just use your ATM in that country -- usually banks give you better rates than the card companies; the card companies typically charge 3% fees for each transaction.
How many bits can it encode? I bet not many.
And I bet it is far easier to just write down two or three characters like "Am3" or "IX8" and use OCR to extract the information.
> Lynx was never meant to be an example of what the web was supposed to be.

You're very bossy. Lynx was a perfectly functional browser, not just a 'stopgap'; nor is it 'poor.' With Lynx it was always possible to download a referenced image and print it or view it in a specialised image viewer.

Then there's something like ewww or emacs-w3m, both of which are graphical browsers, but do not support JavaScript.

Heck, if you want to talk about what the web's 'supposed to be,' JavaScript isn't it, since…there was no JavaScript for the first several years that the web existed.

JavaScript and dynamic web pages are a blight upon the web. They are the only widely-deployed, easy-to-start-with high-level dynamic-language graphical runtime around (the JVM, in comparison, is too low-level and doesn't solve the problem of distributing updates). That's great, but it does nothing for the web.

The web is about documents composed almost entirely of text (yes, with tags referring to images), linked to other documents composed entirely of text. When you break that, you break the web.

When you require me to execute untrusted code in order to read text you break the web, and my security.

There are some really neat things which can be done with JavaScript and single-page apps. But they are not the web.
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What do you teach in the public schools?
> This type of hiring occurs all the time, it literally has a name in the tech community - "acquihire". Do you find acquihires just as distasteful and filled with conflicts of interest?

Honestly? Yes.

Acquihiring itself seems like a reasonable approach to hiring, just as hiring someone who knows a particular domain through their service in public office. But both also create perverse incentives. Politicians often try to gain favours with their potential future employer while still in office, thus serving two masters with conflicting interests. And more and more startups are created with the goal and expectation of being acquihired - which means that their product is a lie. As a customer I don't want (and will refuse to give my money to) a company to bullshit me about how "their users are important to them" and how "their service is a product of love", only to shut it down at a moment's notice as planned from day one (and to add insult to injury, sending an e-mail about how "we founders want to thank you for being with us" while having drinks at a beach, because "this is a success of all of us, we couldn't do that without you").
Quite the opposite. It should be a badge of honor to do more with least funding, waste, capital, effort, etc. as possible. I'm convinced at this point that too much funding, especially to inexperienced ops scaling-hat wearing founders, is far, far more destructive than the focused struggle of slightly underfunded, hungry shops that are focused on delivering and not on the tired mythology of funding == success == exit.

OTOH, the campaign to get the last slot cost him only $0.01.

PS: Don't buy a Ferrari if you get funded, it's wiser to milk the poverty appearance card for all it's worth. (I know a guy that recent sold his startup to EMC for 8 digits that ran around with 3 missing hubcaps.)

http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
Aurora is an engine for RDS.
Who does the minimum wage jobs once that happens? Those people coming after also deserve a decent wage.
What industries do they typically move to and why did they choose those industries?

Do they choose work of similar nature but in industries without the same biases or do they move to industries where the nature of the labor involved is very different?
Looks like all of jduck's commits are fixes for libstagefright.

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_frameworks_av/commits...
Yeah they forgot that people only used real names on Facebook because it was extremely private (only people in your university could see you). Google+ on the other hand is full of public actions - Youtube comments, app reviews, etc.
That would probably be XM Sirius satellite radio (spectrum right below). They have perviously tried to have the FCC go after 2.4 GHz Wifi [1]

[1] http://www.geek.com/news/satellite-radio-worried-about-wi-fi...
Yes, all everyone talks about is making changes to create a more friendly and equal work environment. I never see any good ideas to achieve this.

Nobody is against this, but work is work, it can't be pleasant all the time. There is competition and money needs to be made. You can learn to compete or not play, that's your choice.
Assuming its easier for majorities already working in the field is frankly a bit insulting.
"Nike - Just do it."
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If maternity leave policies are a major reason for retention, what are the figures for other industries? It's not like only women in tech want to have kids and are impacted by maternity leave policies.
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Thanks!!
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From my experience:

1. It is a pipeline problem (I never got as much women applications as I wanted, even with targeting a women audience)

2. It is a problem of not enough role models for women (so women do not see themselves in tech and do not aspire for tech careers or for becoming CTOs - women CTOs go a long way here).

3. It is a problem of the vile and toxicity of the tech community in general (just see all the fights over programming languages, about being right vs. understanding each other). And the bro culture in some places.

4. It is a problem of women in general being more risk averse (so they gamble less with salaries or risk to push for promotion)

5. It is a problem of job ads (male focused, where males might say 'Ah I can do all those things' and women might say 'I don't know all the things they want') and the recruiting process in general.
If you're in the U.S. and use channel 14, my understanding is that you're interfering with someone else's spectrum. So this isn't like a right such as arms-bearing; it's more like trespassing.
There's a distinct possibility that it's not based on MySQL at all. From their prior discussions, this looks like a clean implementation that just uses its API, so even if MySQL were AGPLed, Amazon wouldn't need to release anything.
Businesses will use whatever systems they can for their own benefit, if the government is corruptible, it will be used. It just so happens that you can buy government, so they will.
Today copyright protection is in fact much longer than 75 years in the US.

For personal works, it's life of author + 70 years. So if you write a poem today and live another 60 years, your poem will enter public domain in the year 2145.

For "works made for hire" (which includes most commercial works), the term of copyright is either 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter.

So the movie "Ant Man" will enter public domain in 2110... Assuming that the US Congress doesn't extend the deadline indefinitely (which the Supreme Court has permitted).

Law text: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/302
There was article on HN some days ago maybe even weeks which was showing IT compared to other fields. It was about how many women work in field and for IT it was lot less than other. It was showing percentage in years so in 80's there was a lot more women in IT than now. Sorry but cannot find article, maybe someone will have link.
Sure. I agree, and certaintly cannot argue with you about facts of your own life.

It's more subtle: I don't think anyone is making sweeping uniform generalisations. i.e. "ALL MEN DO a" "ALL WOMEN DO b". I'm not claiming anything about specific individuals. but I am indeed claiming there is a general bias, at least in a statistical sense. For example, here's an arbitrary statistic from the UK in 2012 [1]:

> Just over one in 10 women – 13% – say their husbands do more housework than they do, while only 3% of married women do fewer than three hours a week, with almost half doing 13 hours or more.

So, given no further information about particular circumstances, if I were a betting man, I know which way I'd bet about this kind of thing.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/mar/10/housework-gen...
> What if the tech boom came close to the dream of unlimited growth?

No danger of that happening.

In a finite world with finite resources and non-zero energy costs, there is a guaranteed upper bound for expansion. That is an unavoidable fact.

The best known quote on the subject puts it really well: "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." - Kennet Boulding (1966) [0]

0: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Economics (Search for "growth".)
People will side with MPAA or RIAA?
The 'People' section in Settings. There's also a button with your profile name on it at the top right in newer versions of Chrome.
Where does this inherent distrust come from?

Well, it seems as if quid pro quo is standard practice in US politics.

Example: Chris Dodd works to put through some of the worst Copyright Laws and then goes on to work for the MPAA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd
If they don't lock it down and is similar to the One, then it should be incredibly easy to switch to CM.

I'm running CM12.1 on my One at the moment and it's leaps and bounds better than the stock CM11S ROM that comes with the device.
now this will sound sexist. believe me I am not - I'm just a dev and I wish we had more women in the field for reason I won't articulate here - take this as 'seen from vc eyes':

on a big enterprise, the kind of which people work for more than ten years, maternity leave pay is just a fraction of the whole worker working life - say you work at a company ten years, it's just about 10% of productivity lost. less if you factor days instead of months and account for not giving out bonuses nor vacation in that period)

this of course should not justify a 10% pay reduction, however it is what it is, I'm not deciding it, I'm just telling it.

in the VC worlds, a company they invest on should have a return in three years or even less. in that context, a maternity leave is a 50% productivity loss - three years is too short to absorb a leave and too long for not being at risk of being impacted by it

is this sexist? of course it is. is it fair? of course it isn't.

are there any solutions to this? well, since VC is currently male dominated and they tend not to understand the potential of a woman energy, I can't see many.
rundll32.exe!

Cool stuff. Reminds me of iPython and xonsh.

http://ipython.org/
http://xonsh.org/
If you do business travel, and rack up $20k+/month expenses (raises hand), credit cards are invaluable. I certainly don't want to be extending my company $20K. It was impossible for me to have that much money just sitting around when I was in my 20s, particularly if it took a bit of time for the company to pay me back.

From the perspective of a company with hundreds of employees each spending $20k/month - this is effectively a $2mm+ interest free 30 day loan from the credit card company.

Credit Cards take all the fraud risk. If someone fraudulently uses my credit card number, I am not on the hook for any charges. In Canada, at least, the consumer takes the fraud risk for a debit card. (Actually, for Chip+Pin Credit cards, last time I checked, they were trying to get consumers to take the fraud risk as well - not sure if that went through).

Lots of hotels want a credit card, not cash, when you are checking in. Some of then require a credit card, both for reservation, and your stay. I believe that the vast majority of car-rentals require credit cards.

Credit cards in the United States are an effective mechanism for young people to jump start their FICO score, which is important if they ever want to get a loan to purchase a home, (I'm presuming you see the advantage of buying a home with Debt).

Credit Cards, between points and various plans, provide 1-2% cash back on your purchases.

I can load my Credit Card onto my iPhone. I don't know if it's possible to do that with a Debit Card.

Here in Singapore, OCBC will give me an extra 1% on my savings account with their bank (up to $60K - so, $600/year) if I spend $1000/month on my credit card. (And 1% cash back on said card for all expenses.)

With that said - different places have different culture. Here in Singapore, Lots of Taxi's (all of them?) won't take Visa Credit cards, and around half of them won't take any credit cards. Lots of places (all the hawkers that I've run into) are cash only. In West-Coast Canada, Debit-Cards seem to be pretty popular.

But, Net-Net, outside of some of those use cases - I totally agree with you. I don't really see the fascination with credit cards either, particularly now that Visa+Debit cards+Chip+Pin+Smart Phones seem to offer a lot of the advantages of Credit Cards.
glib throwaway response: yeah, let's criticise women for being harsh to each other in an environment that is structurally biased against them! because they could use some extra criticism here!

(i mean, yeah, that might genuinely be an interesting question to look into, but surely that isn't at the top of our list of priorities, right?)
The MPAA/RIAA are not "The Movie Stars" they are "The Movie Studios." It's not even that. The MPAA is an industry lobbying group that the studios are members of. There is no big name movie star that is the "face" of the MPAA.
The already have that in RDS. This is a da add of their own design. They were pragmatic enough to use the query language that most devs already know and trust, but how they pull off reads, writes, and sharing at that scale must have fundamentally different internals than a single MySQL instance.
I think Asus deserves some credit here as well for selling a 4GB RAM Intel Atom phone with dual SIM and SD card slot for comparable prices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_ZenFone#ZenFone_2

Of course, as usual, their own skin and who knows how long you get updates.
I have been slightly paranoid to flash mine (came from China I think and not quite correctly installed as the OTA updates don't take with a signature mismatch). If you have the time - can you tell me

1. Are they easy to brick?
2. Is there a decent guide for updating?

Thanks!
No NFC, which seems like an odd choice. Wonder how much that shaved off the manufacturing cost.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/27/oneplus-says-it-drop...
Oh, it was a real argument that people actually believed...there were some other rippers - the cows milk turning sour due to the "extra" sunlight was one that is particularly memorable.
> Sorry you couldn't handle the stress of life and the choices you made.

Whoa. Meanness like that is not ok here. Please don't do this again.

Kicking someone when they're down makes it 10x worse.
You could easily see these rules as going much further than OpenWRT, basically anything with a radio transmitter is fair game so that's all the way from USB wifi dongles to laptops and computers that come with installed wifi. After all whether it's a linux driver or OpenWRT doesn't seem to matter at all in this sense.

A couple more steps and Cory Doctorow will be found to be right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
Credit and debit cards are the easiest way to pay in America, since bank transfers are not really an option for merchants. It's really uncommon to pay by check at the point of sale (to the extent where people might respond negatively), and cash is actually pretty inconvenient in the US due to odd-even pricing tactics giving everyone pockets full of small coins.

Most people would agree that the most intelligent way to use a credit card is to treat it as a debit card and never incur a balance. Instead, you'd pay each month's bill in full. This way, you pay no interest on your debt; in fact, you are effectively incurring zero debt. Moreover, a lot of credit cards offer rewards programs in terms of cash back or "points" as a percentage of your expenditures. With some mixing and matching of cards, you can easily get 2-3% cash back on your aggregate purchases, or rack up some free airline flights.

I actually find this to be a huge moral gray area; the reason that Visa, Discover, and MasterCard can afford to pay out handsome rewards is partly because of the financially illiterate charging more to their credit cards than they can afford to pay off. [1] I don't have the exact numbers on me, but I think interest versus merchant fees was about a 67%-33% split in terms of credit card company revenue. (American Express is an exception because they do not allow you to carry a balance on a lot of their cards; they will report your account as delinquent and terminate service.)

Otherwise, as other posters have mentioned, credit cards offer fraud protection. Cards aimed at people with good credit scores often come with other nice benefits, such as additional reimbursement if an airline loses your bag.

[1] There are valid reasons to place a huge charge that you can't afford to pay off immediately. Emergencies do happen, for instance, and it's really great to have a line of credit for that situation. But then your credit card serves the same purpose as a traditional loan.
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> you should most strongly consider

Based on what?
The MPAA isn't made up of movie stars.

So, will people side with Google Lawyers, or Notoriously-Shady-Film-Studio Lawyers?
Uhhhh... I think the MPAA's popularity has basically been zero since the whole napster thing.
Disappointed with the invite system again. Did the first version no sell well enough?
Unlikely, because they already have a hosted MySQL 5.6 product in RDS. If anything, this is a MySQL 5.6 frontend + query processing engine with a new storage layer.
> I don't really see the fascination with credit cards either, particularly now that Visa+Debit cards+Chip+Pin+Smart Phones seem to offer a lot of the advantages of Credit Card

What you said before is the key. When your debit card gets compromised your money gets wiped out pretty quickly. Even with limited fraud liability on debit cards, it is still your money that left the bank. With a credit card, you are not on the hook to get that money back -- the bank will put it on the merchant if card was not present or just eat the cost. That to me is the biggest draw of credit cards. Although a normal consumer probably got on to it because of all those rewards and POS discounts.
hey pc, one of your many happy customers. when will you give us the new stripe dashboard that you promised a while ago here on HN ? Stripe dashboard UI needs a big change and needs it asap.
This might be something you could sell to people in the black hat seo community. You could try advertising on forums such as blackhatworld.com, warriorforum.com etc.
Millions of dollars seem like pretty good evidence that someone cares.
If the goal were to have a mutable list data structure, then switching to a backquote representation is a source code optimization which might or might not be possible, based on what the list structure should be. The user then needs to find out if it is possible or not. That may cost additional time and may introduce errors.
Wholesale prices exist because it's hard to find customers. Selling in bulk to a single customer is a good deal. However, when it's effortless to connect producers with customers, everyone will get wholesale prices.

You won't pay to ship one single item. The entire batch from the factory that's heading for your country will go out together on one boat with lots of other stuff. Instead of going to an Amazon warehouse when it gets here, it'll just go to you, along with all the other goods from the port headed to your area. Decentralizing shipping will make it more efficient, too.

Another option is that a manufacturer who expects overseas customers can ship the goods to convenient locations for their customers to get faster shipping times. Amazon uses part of their markup to pay for that today. Customers will pay for it directly in the future. Customers will pay for everything directly.

Anyone with a warehouse will be able to make money by participating in the decentralized retail system, but today, it's impossible for those people to compete with Amazon and Walmart. Competition will drive down profit margins.
I wonder how many of these techniques could be/are applied in other VMs such as the JVM or .NET?