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My dad was working as a consultant (environmental consultant, basically handling the creation of reports needed for a company's legal compliance with emissions standards, etc.) for an industrial trade org. They had a rule not to compete with member companies, so when a consultancy joined the org, they shut down his division, even though the new member only offered services that were tangentially related. He ended up working for himself (one man shop) for the last 13 years of his career before retiring, doing exactly the same thing he'd always done. He's not a sales person by any means, and striking out on his own definitely seemed outside his comfort zone at first. But he was able to base his business on the relationships with customers that he'd already established, and since he's got such a specialized skill set and works so diligently, his customers kept coming back and recommended him to others. So I just wanted to give an example that this sort of thing is possible (assuming there's no non-compete clause to undermine the whole thing - in my dad's case he did it with the blessing of his former employer - sometimes they'd even send him leads when they had to turn away a customer)
Please stop the FUD. It's true that immigrants are over-represented in crime statistics, but that is both as victims and perpetrators, and it must be understood in the light of their socioeconomic status.

Regardless, >99% of the people who are coming to Europe right now are not future rapists.
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Y Combinator has reputation of the best technical business incubator in the world and I have been using many services it helped to create myself (reddit, dropbox, parse and a plenty of others).

I have ~5 years experience programming for iOS and consider myself a decent developer.

The problem is: I don't live in the US (but I do have a valid visitor visa).

Is it reasonable for me to seek people who are going to apply to YC and are in need of technical co-founder (or the ones who already got in but also looking for talent)? If yes, then where is the best place to start looking? jobs@hackernews seems to be focused on on-site positions, which implies need of work visa.
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It's not ignorance, it's malice.
One question I have about this - and I might have missed in article is - I'm all for using asyncio to make HTTP requests. But I see they apparently also use asyncio for "parse_links". Since parselinks should be CPU op, would it make sense to use fibers to download links and pass them into a thread pool to actually parse them//add to queue?

I'm messing around with some of the ParallelUniverse Java fiber implementation and what I do is spam fibers to download pages and send the String response over to another fiber over a channel that maintains a thread pool to parse response body as they come in//create new fibers to read these links.

I'm really just doing this to get more familiar with async programming and specifically the paralleluniverse Java libs but one thing I'm struggling a bit with is how to best make it well behaved (e.g right now there's no bound on number of outstanding HTPT requests).
> I don't know how the Europeans intend to get all of these refugee adults up to economic snuff at the same grade of Europeans who were trained in the ways of the West from birth.

We are not, they are refugees, not immigrants
I'm from Austria. We have thousands of refugees crossing our border from Hungary daily right now, since they are being treated like animals there. [0]

Civil society responded quickly: here in Vienna there are thousands of volunteers providing food, shelter and medicine, even going into the camps in hungary and rescuing people out from there, bringing them (probably illegally, the situation isn't clear) across the border into our country. People who drive there to bring them medicine risk being beaten and arrested by hungarian police.

Or picking them up from the road. The kids have bloody feet from walking and many parents almost breaking down from carrying them and the exhaustion.

Libanon is currently receiving most of the refugees: about 2 Million in a country of 6 million. Imagine that. If a society is capable of this, surely it's possible to distribute another 2 million into 25 EU-states.

In Austria, we have a population of around 8 million. In 1992 we took about 90.000 refugees. Since WW2 we apparently had 2 million refugees, 700.000 stayed here. [1]

We are one of the richest countries in the world. It works.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoKpuXA9myw
[1] http://www.unhcr.at/english/asylum-country-with-tradition.ht...
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Yeah, because running Facebook isn't hard at all. Maybe you should clue them in how they don't actually need all these positions at all https://www.facebook.com/careers/teams/infrastructure
A good LL(1) parser generator will be able to provide helpful error messages and good performance, at the cost of not being able to parse all grammars you might come up with.
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It's an evolutionary response to lack of gene-furthering prospects. All men are potential rapists. The gender imbalance is a problem.
I'm pretty sure they learn that if they look at us we'll try to fix their problems for them. I think the whole "training" thing goes both ways with dogs and humans. My dog has trained me to let her back into the house when she makes a noise outside the back door, it's the only place she makes this particular noise and she started doing that by herself.
It example that wave-matter duality of particles in QM can be explained without need of God, Observer, and other stuff. It is just simple physics.

Moreover, probability is not a physic at all — it is measurement of lack of _our_ knowledge. Universe is deterministic, so there is no place for half-alive cats.
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Does the CMS has things like /news, /bio, /photos etc and then the designers/front-end work on top of that?

Great project btw! I am a fan of these bands as well
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because the device is a RaspberryPI built into the keyboard?
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By making the shitty products, you diminish the perceived quality of everything you make. On the other hand, having high standards even for your budget range (e.g. Motorola phones currently) shows that all your products can be trusted and that your badge or brand actually means something.
HP has become terrible. My girlfriend does some IT procurement from time to time at her job, and that also involves having to buy stuff from HP (nothing big, just the usual).

She told me that HP's procurement interface for external entities (or whatever its official name is) is absolutely terrible. It blocks randomly, it's very slow, it takes a lot to fill in all the info, and when you finally give up and call some human from HP you're being told to go back using the interface. It's like they just don't want to take their clients' money.
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A smartphone, maybe. An iPhone? Never. That is - whether you like it or not - a luxury device, priced as such. If it is phone, GPS, maps and translation you want you can just get whatever Android is on sale - for a sixth to a tenth of the price of the luxury iPhone.
Yeah and then this happens because they don't want to integrate into European counties because most of those immigrants still think west is evil and they laugh at our values: http://shoebat.com/2015/03/02/austria-makes-new-law-muslims-...
Stumbled onto this article while browsing the website referenced in the "About the Author" section of the book "Swift OS X Programming for Absolute Beginners".
You can try and likely ontain at least some erosion. Say you place 10,000 in Hungary and 6,000 end up in Germany anyway -- that's still some relief. These people have travelled for so long and gone through such a huge culture shock, if you try to integrate them quickly they will probably lose the appetite for relocating again.

Unfortunately, the unspoken truth is that Eastern European countries have a huge unaddressed problem of deep racism. They have not gone through the experience of being target for economic mass-migration from other continents yet, unlike most Western European countries have been for more than 50 years now (and still struggle with the issue occasionally, but with much softer undertones). Countries like Hungary will do the bare minimum required to keep their EU funding and will likely not even try to really help these people, which means the quota system might end up being an exercise in futility. We still have to try though, it's the only solution. We must hope our Eastern fellows will eventually find the compassion to change their ways.
Every time it seems like HN is making a little bit of progress you click on a link and find out they've upvoted something like 'Rape Town!' to the top of a thread.
Thanks for sharing this!

I checked out your pricing plans and the way you differentiate plans based on visitors / day jumped out at me since it goes against advice I read recently from the UserVoice team. They used to price based on number of users who can vote but (in their own words)...

"This was a huge failure. It created what I call a success penalty: the more successful you were in activating your users to give you feedback the more expensive the product became. On some level this made sense but since no one knew how to estimate this future usage it just created uncertainty about committing to a product without knowing the future cost of it. It was especially problematic because we were often working with young companies who didn’t know or were very optimistic about their future active user levels (and equally optimistic about what % of them would engage on UserVoice and give them feedback). It put us in the awkward position of tempering a customer’s enthusiasm about their use of our product (aka “There’s no way you’ll have 300K people on your site in 60 days time”).
When we removed the usage limits, which were designed to drive upgrades, we actually saw that upgrades increased 33%!"

Link: http://500.co/the-data-behind-purchasing-behavior-at-uservoi...
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Shouting 'rape town!' helps though, gotcha!
Dogs are mostly wolves with neotenic traits, it would be interesting to see how wolf and dog pups behave in the same test when presented with an impossible task, and, if they behave identically, at what age they diverge.

Likewise for dogs and wolves raised by their biological parent (assuming dogs treat their owner as a surrogate parent).
I only wish they cut from the pool of useless middle managers (god knows there's an overabundance of them in HPE, and their number seems to increase every day), and not from among people who do actual productive work.
Chile is a far stronger economy than Poland will probably ever be.
What? I've never heard before of police deliberately sinking boats. Do you have any source at all?
I remember that maintenance kit. Big solid metal thing that fitted into the paper feed and a ROM cartridge to go with it. Must have cost them serious money to design, build and ship that.
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Good news: you're almost certainly wrong :)

Obamacare in MN is through https://www.mnsure.org/ . Your father being fired or laid off qualifies as a special enrollment event.

If your mother is seriously ill, look at gold plans and simply look at the maximum out of pocket. Find a plan with a maximum out of pocket of $2k or even $1k pp. They'll spend it all, and after that, your out of pocket expenses will be limited to copays. They will even be eligible for assistance paying for it if your parents' income falls.

From a brief poke around the above website, for zip 55401 and two adults born 1/1/1960, you should be able to find a plan for under $1k/mo unsubsidized with a $3k/family/year maximum out of pocket. This is almost certainly less than cobra will cost. Be careful of narrow networks though, particularly if your mother is being actively treated by a doctor/hospital.

Good luck to you and yours.
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cobra is often much more expensive than obamacare; at least it was for me
Not in this case no, but even in the case where they were asked to stay late I would still find the idea that they had special priviledges to reconfigure their schedule unfair. As a parent myself I just believe I'm not entitled to special treatment at work because of the life choices I've made to have kids.
This kid should sue the police for trying to malign him in front of his schoolmates and for the "mental agony".
Denying a problem does not solve it. Please read up on those statistics before you start wielding terms like 'FUD'. The 'U' in this case in not justified as it is known that non-western immigrants are heavily overrepresented in crime statistics. Neither is the 'D', for the same reasons. The mere fact that a large part of the immigrants will not commit crimes does not mean you should ignore or talk down the crimes perpetrated by those who do. Which leaves the 'F' for fear. That fear is fed for a large part by the fact that discussing these issues immediately leads to outcries of 'FUD', 'Racism', 'Discrimination' and 'Xenophobia'. Not being allowed to discuss something does not make it go away. It makes it grow in the minds of those subjected to the censure. It also does not help in solving these problems since they have to be visible and understood before they can be solved.
You say "convince". I don't think that has application to many technical discussions. Often these aren't settled on merit, because they're not actually technical at all. It surprises and disappoints me that many of the most heated arguments at work are really discussions about human factors.

Pretending that all discussions are going to be resolved amicably ignores ego, laziness, resistance to change, dislike of being publicly gainsaid, unwillingness to admit to mistakes, obsession with what's cool and so on.

These are never going to go away. The very best managers can take these conflicting concerns, balance them, and make a choice while explaining to all that yes, what they said is interesting and important but no, they don't always get their way.

The less good managers, i.e. most of them [us - I used to be a manager, but I wasn't very good at it] lack that ability and so arguments rumble on, grudges fester and somewhere along the line, someone who might be a sweetheart most of the time will take malicious glee in screwing things up.
then again 'recommended' ciphers from last round came with a backdoor - which was in the press all over again in 2014 for whatever reason, but I remember Schneier talking about it immediately in 2007 after the preliminary results came out.
Interestingly enough, the mercurial 'mq' extension has full support for it: https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension#Publishing_pa...

It's also a pretty common thing in package manager managers.
The websites don't have a fixed structure. As a front-end developer/designer you're able to define templates with a set of elements (text, image, datetime, concerts, twitter integration, collection of other templates, …). The schema of the templates define the forms in the content management section of the CMS.

I hope this screenshot helps to clarify things a bit http://drif.tt/1KfpfoI :)
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I think this is a great idea; you just put a "group" flag that we can click on new stories, and the context should be enough to know which submissions to group. Limiting them only to new also avoids the urge to just group all resubmissions, create ongoing topic threads, etc.
That law basically states that muslim preachers in hospitals or who are teaching at schools or universities have to BE ABLE to speak german, so that the german-only speaking muslims, who exist as well, can understand them. The concept is called "official language of a country".

Right-Wing parties in Turkey are criticizing the law. The muslim organisations inside Austria are supporting it.

The law has nothing to do with the refugee-crisis.

EDITED: the muslim youth-organization in Austria oppose the law. The official organisation isn't happy with some points, for example that the law forbids financing their religious organisations with foreign money, but they state that "It's a compromise, which seems to come close to both sides."

The law definitely isn't perfect, but it's a different topic.
That's exactly how I use Prolog - embedded in the other languages. It is especially invaluable inside compilers (alongside with an optimised Datalog). And I had to extend the default unification for implementing some exotic type systems.
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Just a quick question about some copy on your website, you might be unaware this is even on there but the text for your VAT stuff (pricing related) is a little hard to understand.

.... Additional VAT charges are added to purchases made by customers from the European Union, except for customers from the European Union, but outside of Germany, who provide a valid VAT ID. Businesses from outside the European Union are not charged with VAT.
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Banks do borrow money from the central bank occasionally, though mostly they just sell government bonds to the central bank in exchange for money.

The general thrust of what you're saying is correct, though: If you want to understand how money enters the circulation among the general public, you absolutely have to look at banks. The central bank and the government have almost nothing to do with it outside of their regulatory function.
CA/usa, broken ankle, two surgeries: $110k in billings. All told, probably 10-12 doctor-hours.

Insurance, beyond insuring you, does something perhaps more important: they negotiate massive discounts with all medical practices/hospitals/etc. My insurer negotiated that to something reasonable (approx $35k, though memory fails me); I could even afford that if I needed to. Crucially (and I understand this is fucking stupid; go 'murica), uninsured people pay way more than insured people even including what the insurance pays. Like integer multiples greater than 3 and up to 20 times more.
Working in the that lab right now. We can now follow the oscillations of these proteins inside the mouse without kills. Wawesome.
I think there is a certain amount of cognitive energy that goes in to renting something rather than owning it.

After moving to a larger city recently, I have been renting cars when needed rather than owning one. While it is far cheaper and even more convenient (4x4 for skiing, small car for city trip), the effort, inconvenience and mental awareness take a toll. The selection of the car, the strict schedule to pick it up and drop it off, the worry over damaging it (or being told I damaged it when I didn't) and inconvenience caused by system malfunctions (flat batteries or "technical difficulties" communicating with the car have happened several times) all serve to add that little bit of inconvenience for what should be a nice day out.

I think a similar problem exists with the sharing economy, there is just too much inconvenience and unless money is a serious problem it's just not worth the hassle.
People don't like being raped even if you've got a socioeconomic explanation for it :-P
No one is saying don't talk about the issue. People are pointing out that "rape town!" poisons the well on serious debate. Come on.
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> Sweden: 85%, 2006 [1]

You're citing a report from december 2005 for statistics from 2006?
Some families send the strongest/healthiest male in the family since the trip to Europe is so dangerous, but the families often come afterwards. It's easier for them to come legally if they already have a family member in the country.

During the first half of 2015, 2000 women and 4500 men came as refugees to Sweden from Syria, but 3100 women and 2000 men came afterwards as asylum searching family members. In total ~5300 women and ~6800 men (including working visas) came to Sweden from Syria.

I wonder, do you think people from non-western countries has a bigger potential of commiting rape? How different do you think the values of these people are compared to "us"?

http://www.scb.se/sv_/Hitta-statistik/Statistik-efter-amne/B...
The money that the central bank creates is central bank money/high-powered money/M0. The money that private banks create is the money in general circulation, i.e. M2. M2 is much bigger than M0.
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the pricing isn't perfect, yet.

I'm currently segmenting by visitors/day as it seems to be the only way to separate bands into the different plans based on their popularity and success. It's also directly bound to the costs on my side (more traffic -> more server resources).

I'm happy to hear suggestions on how to make sure a band making tons of money doesn't end up on the smallest plan, as well as costs for infrastructure not bankrupting me. :)
> And as far as I'm aware, we don't place people with Down syndrome into ghettoes

You may want to spend some time investigating the human rights abuses that people with Down's Syndome (and other learning disabilities) endure.
The problem is they tend to cut the wrong people. The bloat is usually in middle management (people "fail upwards" to where they can do no harm), but the people who get cut are on the bottom.
The special thing that banks do is take deposits. This is tightly regulated in most countries.

Anyone can lend money, as you say.
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That is what you get when a normal, level-headed discussion on a subject is not allowed. Merely breaching the subject in public invites accusations of racism, xenophobia and discrimination. That is not helpful as it is clear that the problem does exist. That problem needs to be solved, not ignored or hidden under a false blanket of understanding. A crime is a crime, no matter whether the perpetrator is a native-born or immigrant.
On the other hand, I have never seen a HN link labelled in green.

Is this a new feature?

http://i.imgur.com/6gAgfsg.png
Yeah, it is hard to understand. The regulations for VAT on SaaS products got insanely complicated a few months ago.

Thanks for the feedback, though! I'll try to rephrase it without losing the gist of it :)
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Protect against tampering/provide evidence of tampering. That said, calling that "a blockchain" is really pushing it, because the anti-tamper properties are provided by Merkle trees alone, and those have been around far longer than the blockchain.
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I thought (but I'd have to watch the movie again) that the sexual Miller/Jolie scene was a dream Miller was having. He was alone in his room and woke up to cops (or possible the Plague) busting in and threathening him.
I still regularly use my HP 48GX.

Alas, nowadays I use it for the equivalent of using a Mack truck to drive 300 metres down the road to buy a pack of cigarettes.

Nevertheless it's a fantastic product, which never fails me.
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Meeting for everything is bad as well. I don't like email/chat and I consider that wastes lot more time for miniscule task. Want to cost of something. Pick the phone and ask.(Check if the person is free or busy in calendar). I appreciate the following. Physical/Direct -> Phone -> eChat -> Email. makes thing faster
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