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My impression living in France for the last year is very similar to yours. It's the mecca of paperwork (but doing taxes was relatively easy).

And if you're required to supply some documentation from another country, you're likely to be required to get it translated to French by an official translator (which not only takes time but can be quite expensive). In contrast, I've never had a problem handing in German documents to authorities in Sweden and Swedish documents to authorities in Austria. Documents in English have certainly been accepted everywhere outside of France.

The catch-22s are the best. Renting an apartment requires that you have a French bank account, and getting a French bank account requires that you already have somewhere to live in France...
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This breaks my heart.

This kid should be running tutorials after school to show other kids how to work with electronics, not interrogated by police and bullied by his teachers.

This is so disappointing.
brew install wine --devel

or

brew install wine --HEAD
And the socialists are why we aren't living with a fully free market where every child has a price tag attached. (I mean, if we are going to go 110% overboard with our statements.)
I want to be able to notice it if I look carefully, but not be distracted by it if I don’t care.

Right now the green screams “look at me” and unbalances the whole page. http://i.imgur.com/GhUfRn5.png

Here’s my proposed color, which is still plenty noticeable if you look for it, but now subtle enough to not stand out: http://i.imgur.com/vjW5DYT.png
If it would say "John really likes when someone makes decisions on his behalf", you think John would say "yeah, I love that!" :P
I just think it's the wrong way to look at things. It's better to cut 30,000 to save the company, than to keep everyone hired and wait for every employee to be out of work.
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Be careful about what you're saying here.

I meant what I wrote.

Regulated taxis and private hire vehicles here in the UK are typically required to be serviced and tested much more often than regular cars, for example. Something like not having a functional seatbelt would mean an immediate failure at a test.

All such vehicles and their drivers are also required to display identification, so anyone who is not happy with the state of a vehicle can also report it themselves to the local licensing authority or even the police.
Erm, what were you prepared for?
Where have I heard that before...

> Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

Oh, right. Those people might have been rebellious in 1984, but they're mainstream today.
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So one wonders why there's a problem because evidently there is.
it's more than 70% actually.
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To be fair cheques are also popular in the US. Until recently I had to pay my rent with Cheque. I live in an apartment complex in San Francisco.
I'm pretty sure I read that no matter the country they will all get the same hardware. Let me find the link.

Edit: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/16994
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I've yet to work at a job where my job was solely to "implement X". It is usually more along the lines of "apply 40 hours a week towards corporate goals."

My team has a feature and bug backlog half a mile long; I could clone myself and still not run out of work. And even if I did manage to close out the backlog, there's more work which could be done towards company goals.
This comment focuses on the back-end. As important as it is, as far as I remember when FB acquired WhatsApp then one of the main advantages was the presence of clients in almost any mobile device (thanks to J2ME). I am pretty sure it is not trivial to maintain so many clients, even though over time the older clients will disappear and it will be mostly Android / IPhone / Windows (??) that the engineers need to maintain.
The original Deskjets were good. I had a 500 that lasted years - until I decided I wanted color. But the new generation of their inkjets are horrible. Bloated drivers, mountains of dried ink inside them from the constant cleaning cycles, ink that is overpriced, flaky electronics, cheap plastics. I gave up on them and bought a Brother laser printer, and it's just what I want in a printer - reliable and available.
HP/Compaq at one point many years ago could have done what Apple and Google n years ago would have done. Today, the brain drain and demoralization at HP is far too much to overcome unless unprecedented leadership and vision on the caliber of the late Steve Jobs could possibly turn this company around. HP is a good example of why we pay great leaders what they do and... oh wait, the execs at HP are paid pretty fine for such low "performance" at doing anything besides going by the book. But for a long time I've only known HP to focus upon the bottom line rather than the top line.
Worth reading, especially the stuff that is linked:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-archi...
They didn't cover that they use FreeBSD and are handling 2 million tcp connections per server which is not a trivial task
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Oh ok. I enjoyed the game. It would be nice to be able to swap the turn and strafe controls over as I am used to Q and E being strafe.
Anecdotally I've had similar experiences with older processors in C#, dating back to ~2007.
Exactly. And virements (bank transfer) are really strange, at least with my bank (wait 24 hours to send money, I never saw that before). For me, that fits well into the image of a country that is not at all modern.

But: That at least changed. They are still popular like you said, but by now you can get by without them (I for example have none), many stores do not accept them anymore. That is new.
Go into any Electrical Engineering department at any university and you'll find plenty of students with boxes filled with circuit boards and electronics.

Everybody who's played with electronics knows that stuff is brittle and needs to be protected carefully. One wire coming loose renders your entire work obsolete and unlike software, there's no debugger to tell you where you potentially screwed up...

Racial profiling and ignorance at it's finest.
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Say what you will but I would be slightly concerned if Ahmed Mohamed brought this to school

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...
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No way I'm going to believe this unless you explain me how it works.
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Dang it, I should've done that.. I don't post much...
My German bank doesn't even offer cheque books anymore.
English wikipedia is actually quoting a paper[1] co-authored by Gilberto Orivaldo, who is distributing the drug for free.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22213293
Someething like xkcd's Gravity Wells (https://xkcd.com/681/) but for orbits would be neat indeed.
Very well done. I love the art design. Great job!
Society would adapt.

What's with the contempt for rich people in debates like this? Being mad at rich people for living longer is no less silly than being mad at them for having cars, mobile phones, personal computers back in the day.
I guess it depends on where you work, like all countries.

I have the exacts same experience as you working at a NYC insurance company (9 to 5 then go home).

I also know at lot of companies here (in France) where people work their asses off everyday.
I'm calling bullshit.
I imagine one could - certainly many companies which should die actually do die during a recession. Some structuralist theories are based on this.

But this is just theory. The empirical grounding for labor hoarding is pretty solid.
good luck for you, guys
That degree of risk-eliminating subsidy should indeed light a fire under entrepreneurship (while the gravy train can keep moving). Do you suppose the benefits are commesurate with the costs? IOW, are there enough new companies thusly incubated that become self-supporting or better?
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Why would people pay $48 dollars a year for access to news online, that they can get for free elsewhere and likely less agenda driven or biased?

I have prime and would not take the free 6 month trial offer.

Whats next, people are going to pay for the p0rn.
let's all avoid the M word.
To be frank, reading that article was heartening. When I saw the original articles posted about the Tor Relay going down at a library, I just wrote it off as business as usual.

I am really glad their community understands the importance of unencumbered speech!
Maybe it's because I'm not a lobster, but halting growth to keep energy requirements low seems like an easier problem.
Be sure to try it with your phone or tablet. It works just as well with touch controls.
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"It just occurred to me that this may be of the horoscope variety, where analysis is on the safe side and can apply to almost anyone."

One of the better defenses is to look for where it is wrong, instead of where it is right. If it is really "correct", it shouldn't be wrong anywhere. In your own message, you highlight the thing that you think it really got right... is there anything it's really wrong about?

In a sentence that short, it's hard to tell, but if there's more content you didn't paste you can have a look at that.

Reading for myself the classic Forer text [1], sure, like everyone else, there's a lot of hits. But there's also a lot of huge misses, like, 100% diametrically-opposed wrong. It's not hard to tell a lot of the hits aren't all that direct either, if you look at them and ask "How many people would this be false of?" If the answer is "nearly 0%", then it's worthless.

I actually think your Crystal profile is more specific than that... it might describe a lot of HN people, but in general people do not pursue goals aggressively and methodically. (It's why "make goals and pursue them" is a frequent self-help message... for a lot of people the entire idea is a bit of a revelation! It may sound lamely obvious to $YOU but it isn't in general.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect#Forer.27s_demons...
wow that is lot of money, India should seriously kick medical tourism. Already happens but this can scale lot more. May be US can sponser MBBS students (There is huge amount of students does not opt for MBBS due to cost of up to $150,000 which includes donation to institutions) and then setup operting theators here in India.
Thanks for the feedback. We also plan on adding Gamepad API support.
I saw this on Twitter yesterday and played for 30 mins while on a break. This is a really nice game. Good controls, well polished, challenging, and fun! Thanks for making it and sharing it with the world.
Its important to note this is a dying company with no hope at all for the future. The more employees they shed, the faster they shed them, the longer they can minimally keep on operating, or rephrased they're hoping the total sum revenue will be higher if they stretch out the death of the company as long as possible.

And the reason why that's important is it doesn't matter how good of an employee he is, there's no way to stretch the death of HP out 15 years, so he needs a plan for WHEN hp dies, not IF.

The alternative is to fire everyone all at once in maybe 4 years.
It's the glorification of vinyl as a superior format for audio storage and reproduction that I take issue with. It is mathematically inferior to modern audio recording techniques. If you're concerned about quality and want a "warmer" sound, that should be achieved by some equalizer or other post-processing stage after retrieving the audio from a high quality storage format. It shouldn't be achieved by ignoring the last 50 years of audio recording improvements.

Vinyl is fun for lots of reasons, but it is not a superior format for storing audio, just like $10,000 HDMI cables and magic audiophile crystals are not improvements.
There's a wide variety of tests and information about "tone deafness" out there. This NIH one is actually one of the better tests, though it does suffer from the problems mentioned in comments already - that it assumes familiarity with a particular set of melodies.

Tone deafness is a real condition (it's a subset of the more general condition "amusia") but is often confused with learned musical abilities, particularly being able to sing in tune. True tone deafness is something (which most studies agree) only 1-3% of the general population suffer from.

If you are truly tone deaf you will be unable to really enjoy or appreciate music. For that reason many people take these tests and declare them "too easy" but if the test is well designed it should be easy for 99% of people. This is an example of people misusing the phrase "tone deaf" to mean "not skilled in music".

If anybody would like to try some other tests for tone deafness (some good, some terrible, and disclaimer: one made by me) I wrote up a summary of the most popular ones online here: http://www.easyeartraining.com/learn/tone-deaf-tests-online/
> Renting an apartment requires that you have a French bank account, and getting a French bank account requires that you already have somewhere to live in France...

Had the same :) But it is not really true. You can get a french bank account without living in France, got mine while living in Germany. But of course not all people working for a bank know or respect that. We got checked by my consellier very carefully before she said oui to opening the account.

Nice is the other one: To get an appartment you normally have to have an insurance, but to get that you need an appartment. Works with the landlord accepting to get the assurance attestation one week later, but is goodwill. Of course, a couple from marokko I know did not get the key from the man responsible in such a situation, while getting the appartment because it was university housing. They stood on the street after arriving here… That was pure racism, but shows that many thing here need goodwill to work despite the system.
Thanks for the feedback. Will change. Email luke [at] crystalknows.com w/ the email you signed up with and I'll approve the request.
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he can do it with your help and guidance. the midwest and south are littered with many small tech consulting outfits like this, we work with several. they all bill slightly under coastal market (we're based in california) but high for the midwest ($~150-200/hr). we use them for things like tech-focused CPA work and commercial software support i.e. oracle, sql server etc.

i personally bootstrapped my startup with 0 outside funding by doing commercial i.e. "enterprise" software consulting on a platform i had experience in from two jobs ago, with my partner, for 2 years. we each booked about $250k of revenue a year for 2-3 years before the work dried up after several buyouts etc. by then our 'real' business was self sustaining.

it's time-capped, and you'll have to hustle for the work, but you can bill an outrageous sum of money that will pad their retirement and help secure their future in an otherwise shit situation.
There is the case where its nearly impossible to find the original master digitally, which I'd argue the the original vinyl pressing sounds "better" for some albums.

Totally unrelated to the format itself though, but just a thought as to why I buy some of my favorite older records on vinyl because they "sound better".
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I see tapes on Bandcamp every so often as a limited-edition release of an album. Sadly they're always sold out. There might be a market in managing the stock for bands, and ensuring there's always some available to sell.

Recently:

https://ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/194
Vinyl is very heavily processed. The sound that ends up on the groove has the bass cut by up to 20dB, and the treble boosted by the same amount, because the needle can't move fast enough and far enough to reproduce a flat frequency response. (Google "RIAA curve" for details.)

The processing is reversed on playback in the preamp, but there's always a mismatch between the source EQ and the preamp EQ, so there's always some tonal distortion. And because the bass gets boosted so much there's added waveform distortion which increases with bass frequencies and makes the bass thicker.

Many turntables also have pitch instabilities.

Hence "vinyl sound."

So no - it's not even remotely accurate. Add scratches, crackles, and pops, groove deterioration - the needle causes enough friction to melt the plastic in the groove - and other artefacts, and it's really more of a lifestyle/collector thing than anything to do with accuracy.

Personally I have enough physical stuff already, and I want less, not more. So being able to store all my music on a hard drive in FLAC format makes me thankful the industry moved beyond vinyl.
Is there any study to ascertain how these kind of incidents affect children psychologically, the effects of which manifest only years later? (Let's assume that this boy is a gifted engineer, and this incident leaves deep psychological scars not expressed in the next few years, but eventually leads him to take up activities later in life which are harmful for American citizens)
> The catch-22s are the best. Renting an apartment requires that you have a French bank account, and getting a French bank account requires that you already have somewhere to live in France...

Not specific to France - I had the same experience as a French in Berlin (though it was twenty years ago - it might have changed).
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It seems to depend on the totality of the circumstances, in Illinois, so I'd imagine the nonvoluntary nature of the termination would be taken into account. But there doesn't seem to be a clear answer. If it ended up in litigation it could get messy; there isn't a terribly large amount of guidance from the courts.
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I do hope the Board of Directors sells off the Machine assets to a company that could actually pull it off (that's not Intel) like Microsoft or even, hell, Apple. The idea of moving processing to a memory-centered architecture just seems very interesting and possibly useful in non-trivial situations. And for that idea to die horribly with a company ill equipped just bothers me.

If they're hurting enough to layoff tens of thousands people, surely they can sell off the technology to settle some of their debts and live. Just an idea.
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Amazing game ! Good job LittleWorkShop :D
I guess the shortage of tech labor is over. :)
Very well done and polished, had some fun !

Small bug I've found : If you stand in a 'cell' with 3 walls and the only exit is occupied by an enemy, you can't rotate to hit and get killed eventually.

A drawing explains it better http://pastebin.com/6uZS67VJ
Pray tell, what industry?
Cross-posting from [1]

Is there any study to ascertain how these kind of incidents affect children psychologically, the effects of which manifest only years later? (Let's assume that this boy is a gifted engineer, and this incident leaves deep psychological scars not expressed in the next few years, but eventually leads him to take up activities later in life which are harmful for American citizens)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225962
Would you be concerned if Bob McWhiteypants did?

edit: The now-flagged parent comment stated that concern was warranted due to the child's name.
Would you be as concerned if it was little Timothy McVeigh?
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Yeah, like the USSR.
There are a few elements to this.

Many providers, including public providers, are exceptionally reluctant to see uninsured patients. If push comes to shove they cannot outright refuse, but they can be highly disinclined.

Insurance isn't just "we cover your bills", but "we negotiate rates with providers". Much healthcare billing is basically funny money. Or more specifically, there are huge fixed costs, but charges are based on specific services billed (HMOs excepted, though internally they likely operate somewhat similarly), so that what in a tremendous number of cases, the healthcare provider cannot tell you, as a private individual, what you'd be billed for treatment. But some hospital procedure or stay can billed entirely differently depending on who paying, with hugely varying rates.

And, since the uninsured has zero effective bargaining leverage (health plans can threaten to drop a provider or apply other leverage), they get the highest rates.

On top of all this, billing is tremendously disaggregated. You might see charges for facility, individual supplies, labs, transport, and individual medical personnel who charge independently. Many (if not most) doctors aren't employees of a hospital, but are independent service providers who charge separately.

It's a mess.

And a distressingly ineffective one. There's been very little real improvement in health outcomes since the 1950s (and for quite some time they got worse). Much of the improvement can be chalked up to improved environmental and lifestyle factors (removing lead from paint and gasoline, asbestos, less smoking and drinking). It's been improved health outcomes for the poor and minorities which account for much of the life expectancy gains as well. Earlier improvements largely came from public health measures: fresh, clean drinking water, sewerage systems, municipal waste removal, and quarantines for infectious disease. Even vaccinations and antibiotics were relatively late and minor interventions by comparison.
Ermmm... why? Would you be "slightly concerned" if Matt Jones brought that to school? Or Alice Jackson?
The consequence of not shipping jobs to southeast Asia is that folks there will be vastly poorer than unemployed Europeans. That isn't theoretical, its simply a fact.

Why does a non-contractual relationship change things? Are you applying the Copenhagen theory of ethics or something?

http://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethi...

Also, why dont the workers who became dependent on a company deserve responsibility for that action?
> Children are encouraged “specifically [to] not bring items to school that are prohibited.”

What, clocks? Or the NASA t-shirt he was wearing? (https://i.imgur.com/PMgDR7m.jpg)
... and unencumbered access to CP and the dark web. Yup I bet they understand everything.
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Have you worked at WhatsApp? Do you have any idea what they spend their days doing, what their systems look like, what their requirements are like?

Do you? If yes, please enlighten us. Otherwise I don't see the point of your objection. No one said that it can be done in a weekend. All that the parent comment said is that the fundamentals of building WhatsApp are already solved. He/she didn't dismiss it. Just because something isn't rocket science doesn't mean it's not useful.

As for Facebook, people used to dismiss it not because it was seemingly too easy to build but because they failed to see its usage. Long before it became a platform it was pretty much a waste of time. Obviously anything with more than a hundred MM users is difficult to maintain.