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To see the photo including the current Prime Minister (David Cameron) and the current Mayor of London (Boris Johnson), and the photo including the current Chancellor of the Exchequer (George Osborne) and Nat Rothschild (of the Rothschild family), see for example [0].

But beware, some of the photos appear to have had people airbrushed out[1].

[0] https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/the-bullingdon...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2008/oct/26/george-osbo...
I think you are not comparing apple-to-apple. Sure, SV pays good money, but the rent is also much higher. In Texas the pay may be lower, so is the rent.

I have a friend who works as full-time freelancer in a small town in Malaysia (Taiping, if you are really curious) and she helps local businesses to do IT projects. For example, she built a custom room management system for a small hotel. She used to work in Motorola Penang, and the freelancer job gives her much more freedom and time, and interestingly, her income is way better than what she got in Mot, even she just serves such a small town with population of around 245K (2010 data)
Worse still, to the extent that a well-run Presidential campaign is an audition for the office itself, the one significant managerial task he's taken on so far (organizing and running the PAC) he failed at, and had to hand the reins to someone else.
> and the Saudis would demolish the structure over Mohamed's grave if they had the chance.

You mean the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi and the so called Green Dome under which Mohammed is buried? An area that has become a standard stop as the second holiest place in Islam in the muslim pilgrimage?

I do agree with you, that's the Saudi position and the green dome is an exception (which may one day end up stopping to be an exception), but so far they've spared it despite various calls to destroy it in the past, and rather have expanded the site in a massive way (not the tomb, but the mosque around it, which is visited becomes of veneration of Mohamed and visits to the tomb). If you had named any other person you'd have been right, but so far Mohamed seems to be an exception to the rule.

Regardless I don't think it mattered much. Take the holy site in Shia islam, the shrine of Husain ibn Ali for example, was first believed to have been marked with a berry tree. A few years later, a mosque was built, which roughly 100 years later was demolished and the berry tree cut down. People still kept visiting guided (it is said), by the traces of the berry tree. The caliph then ordered the tree to be cut out from the root to stop people from visiting. A few decades later a new mosque was built, which a few decades later still was destroyed and the land ordered to be ploughed (including the grave). Stuff like this went on for centuries, with new mosques being built and destroyed for political or religious reasons. I'm doubtless as to whether OBL's burial sight would've become a place of visitation and propaganda, it'd be inevitable to have created some following even if it was merely marked by GPS and barely any structure could be found at the sight because any structures would get removed. Burial at sea is the exception.
> interestingly this is only ever apparent when a topic comes up that I am an expert in.

What other circumstances would you expect it in?
Zephyr Teachout took over the PAC because Lessig's management of the PAC --- and the PAC itself --- was widely regarded as a total failure. That's not my opinion; it's the reporting on Mayday PAC.
That's just wrong.

You haven't explained how is it wrong and why. None of those thing are "wrong" by itself. It is the malicious use, of any tool, that is unethical.

Is there a website where we can blacklist IP addresses of such violators ?

What exactly do you think is being violated here?
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Interesting how these aspects are distributed in different cultures. For example in the US, musicians of certain genres (and probably other artists) are expected to act that way. In the 2004 presidential election, frontrunners Bush and Kerry were both from the same elite Yale secret society, where they were trained to be members of the ruling class.
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It could certainly be used for unethical purposes, but it isn't de facto unethical.
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That's fine, but as a positive-only, non-normative argument, 'jacobolus is right: the GOP opposes campaign finance reform. The issue here is the most effective way for Lessig to accomplish what Lessig wants to accomplish, not the best way to represent both parties.
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You have to wonder why the Brits keep electing these elites to top positions in the government (it's a little tougher to keep alumnae from being given positions in the corporate world).

Of course, you have to ask the same question about US voters. And in a bit of irony, this topic and another discussion [1] of the government elites in the US vis-a-vis the Lawrence Lessig campaign are in the #2 and #1 spots on the HN front page.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10403507
bah, you could always beat those short-sellers by being profitable and generating revenue.
Hmm, cool, didn't know they were working on it. That should help.
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This was aimed at Facebook, but is a joke:

1. It's aimed at the US while the Uk (EU) and France (EU) do the same thing.

2. Facebook will just add an opt in checkbox and everyone who wants to share cat videos will opt in.
The attacks we're talking about are non-brute-force mathematical attacks (specifically, in this case, the index calculus). A pure brute-force attack on a 2^1024 search space would be comically implausible.
Part Deux is here:

https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-united-states-...

It occurs to me that what Strat4 is doing here is forecasting. Extrapolating from historic bases of power to predict the emergence of future hegemons. But wouldn't it be possible to achieve a more data-driven, empirical analysis? Might make a sweet Kaggle crowd prediction problem ;)
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But we have primaries, where we get to choose who those candidates will be. It makes sense to winnow down choices from a larger group until you get to the top 2, and then choose between the top two. You still have lots of choices if you look at the process from the beginning, not just from the very last part of the selection process.
CAPTCHA are used to separate real people from automated scripts like here so all of your registered users are real human beings.

If this has automated CAPTCHAs, there will be work into making much more difficult CAPTCHas. I don't know if this is sustainable. I remember 2 different sites where I havent been able to solve their captchas
I spent roughly the same time evaluating Erlang and Elixir, fwiw, but didn't do it at the same time (hence not at the same level of experience, either).

I certainly consider that Elixir will lead me to love Erlang, but with a reduced initial friction (like CoffeeScript did for me with JavaScript, which I'm now confortable with).
You have the right to vote, not the obligation to vote. The latter is a clear coercive practice and free speech violation. It forces the uninformed to cast votes on issues they have no background in. It also criminalizes the legitimate protest activity of abstention.
Actually, I don't know what an election, without money, would look like. The rich have been telling the poor/middle class what's good for them forever? Or capitalizing on fears/ignorance of the average voter; to get their guy in?

"Between both parties, we have over 20 people running for President."

That really isn't a lot of people considering our population size? The allowance of large swaths of money just widens the pool of Wackadoodles we are forced to pick from. Yea, the candidates eventually show off too many warts, and we are stuck voting for a person who seems slightly better than the other guy?

With money, we sit back and are spoon fed these candidates.

Without money, I wonder if we would really take these elections/candidates seriously? Would their be popular websites devoted just to candidates? Would we be up late debating one candidate, over the next? Or would be at some fun website? Probally the fun website? Maybe we haven't had it bad enough to really care?

I just don't know.

I look at it this way; would medical researchers be a lot father along curing real illnesses, and diseases if drug companies weren't allowed to advertise to the idiots?

I believe--yes. These drug companies would be forced to look beyond the quick dollar curing a limp weenie, baldness, or pimping a happy pill that's slightly better than placebo in bad studies.

Without advertising Doctors(trained, educated people in alleviating serious disease) would be calling the shots. Trained doctors would be telling researchers what their patients need, not the other way around?

Maybe this is not the best analogy? I really don't have an answer.

I just don't feel money and politics need to go together.

We got luckey with Obama, but that was a fluke. (yea, I know a lot of you don't like the man, but I feel like he tried. He originally tries to do the right thing, but is/was derailed by politicians controlled by big money. His original health care bill was great, until the Rebublicans got their hands on it. He was forced to change it, or we wouldn't have anything.)

Bye-I'll try to get some sleep. Or, wish I could sleep well.
I agree we are running in bubble-like dynamics now. Personally I believe this is driven not by dumb money but more by the fact that the rest of the economy has been under-performing since '08, and therefore smart money is looking for any investment that improves odds at big results. I honestly don't know if this distinction will matter at the end or not.

On the other hand, you could have spared a lot of down votes if you had made your point clearly in the first place.
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As much as unethical as using adblock or disabling javascript. If you don't want your content to be scraped, don't put it online!
There is also the real risk/reward involved. Pakistan is an ally, is dependent on the US for aid, and even if it wasn't, absolutely cannot afford a military confrontation with the US.

So, game it out: if the mission fails, and the SEALs are stranded in Abbotabad, then what happens? Probably nothing, other than some embarrassment for the administration. The SEALs could probably fly back commercial if they had to.

This isn't a midnight raid into North Korea we're talking about.
> You have to wonder why the Brits keep electing these elites to top positions in the government (it's a little tougher to keep alumnae from being given positions in the corporate world).

We don't. We elect a (one) Member of Parliament for the constituency we live in. Following the election, the leader of the largest party attempts to form a government (thereby making them Prime Minister), and they then appoint cabinet ministers.

Most elections end up with people voting in favour of a party, regardless of who the party has nominated to stand in the election, and those viewed as "senior" members of the party are typically asked to stand in safe seats (regardless of where the seat is and whether they have any ties there!).
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Who can look at this list and actually want to start getting into frontend development? 30 learn X entries not to mention 30x lists of tools for each area. Front end development seems to have gotten beyond ridiculuously complicated - especially when you consider half these entries will probably be outdated in 6 months time and almost certainly in 2 years time.
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This is just bizarre.
Appointing electors is universally FPTP in the United States, sans a couple of states. Do primaries use a Condorcet method, or...?
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>To an average person, programming is not a valuable thing

+1

And any changes you are asked to make are not "easy" nor "quick" nor could they "do it in an hour if I knew how"

I like to give the example that if you were having a house built, when they were putting the final touches to it, painting the walls, screwing lightbulbs etc. It may delay the house being ready, it may cost a bit more if you decide you want to move the house by 1 metre to the left, change the load bearing walls.

Yet they think similar changes to a project should take no time nor cost a thing.

And the best of all "just build something so I can see it then I will know what I want" but I won't pay you for that.

>To the freelancer just starting out I say: don't get suckered into these kinds of debates, be friendly but firm in rejecting malicious "job offers". Holding out until the right client comes along can be tough

Can also be impossible if you have bills to pay, a family to support, are just starting out. I've been there (move to the tropics with a young family during the economic down turn, the few contacts I had who had promised work before I left were unable to deliver when I arrived (took the best part of two years wandering around the world to get to the destination).

But good clients are out there. I still do the odd bit of work for a couple of clients I got in the early days (<$15 ph data scraping jobs lol). Financially these days isn't worth doing, but they paid on time, offered to pay for time to discuss changes, offered pay for changes, so like to help them out with the odd bits of work they have as they have had many problems with freelance devs (just like I had with other clients)
Even an on-average wealth imbalance would produce a paying-for, paid-for imbalance, all other things being equal between men and women.
Pretty much this. In this day and age, it's easy for people to ignore the advertising and simply search online for the candidates positions, their history, which groups support them, etc. This probably takes less than an hour.

Granted, most people don't, and most people probably don't even know the names of the people running besides those in the biggest races (they might know the presidential or mayoral candidates, but they often don't know the state senate or state party candidates).

I disagree about third parties though - it usually makes much more sense to try to make changes during the primary, then trying to make them with a third party (there are a few exceptions, of course).
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> I specifically said that it was those thing with respect to dealing with web requests within the further scope of talking to the database and dealing with user input.

Although I corrected your interlocutor on a factual inaccuracy, I actually fully agree with him/her on the principle, and as the author of a strongly-typed database access library (Opaleye for Haskell) I'm in a very good position to!
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Two worthless ideas that generate millions in tourism. ;)
If Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is caused by fungal infection, why have antifungals (often given for people with invasive fungal disease) never cured an AD patient? AD is common enough that many of these people will have received antifungals for e.g. esophageal thrush or even fungemia.

Regarding the research, the data presented here are not convincing without larger scale replication with better controls and more standardized assays.
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I would say that on any given weekend a significant proportion of the male population of the UK, particularly between 16 and 25, are doing stuff that involves large amount of alcohol, breaking things and the occasional stripper.

Not sure why these guys doing it is that bad or different.
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I have similar experience. I tried to bid to some projects there, but it's just seems to impossible. Every project got 50-100 bids and my bid is just lost. And, as I'm not going to work for free ($20/hr currently), probably my price and lack of reputation makes it impossible to win any project.

I like the idea of this site, but everyone undercuts so much. I live in a poor country, but even there I can make more on a full-time job.

It seems for me that freelancing is really hard. Much harder than work on local site.
I don't know where you're located, but $60/hr seems insanely low. Annualized as a full time job that's $125k/yr. not terrible, but quite a bit less than what a good developer can make as base salary at a tech company. But that tech company job comes with benefits, paid vacation, stability, and possibly equity and bonuses. Plus the freelance gigs are rarely actually full time (even if you have enough clients on a steady basis, you need some time to manage the business itself). I can't imagine going freelance if $60/hr was what I was able to bill...
That's false, because the Democratic party today encapsulates both the old Republican and the old Democratic party. Hillary Clinton is essentially an Eisenhower Republican (if you place her into any European country she's in their conservative party), and Warren/Sanders are the left wing group.

The republican party of today is essentially a business lobby masquerading as a party. Place it into any European country, and it will be a far right extremist group.
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I'm on a project at the moment where google spreadsheets is the starting point for all content that goes into our database.

Steps go something like this:

1. Scrape data from various places into CSV
2. Import CSV to google sheets
3. Manual clean / Visually inspection by human. They backfill any missing information
4. User scripts for google sheets (like geocoding addresses)
5. Point python script at sheet URL an import data to Postgres
6. Done

This workflow works extremely well because we outsource some of the data cleaning/backfilling on Upwork. These days everyone understands spreadsheets, so there is very little training involved.
Apparently because they're the "elites" or something.

Something something lizards something.
Nice setup, but its very cumbersome to write graphs in ascii, i prefer DOT if i dont care about layout too much, otherwise i use gliffy or something like that. For simple diagrams this is nice. However i think the main reason to use this is not diagrams. However then i think its better to use Markdown since most people know that.
This notion that "outsiders" are what it takes to reform government is a popular campaign theme, but has never succeeded. The basis for justification is essentially one of "the system has made others corrupt, but not me" -- it's a play on principles rising above the temptation for personal gain in order to achieve reform. Aside from being untrue, we've actually seen how this plays out.

Many of the far-right members in the House of Representatives that identify with the Tea Party are also highly principled. Listen to their campaigns and you'll hear how they'll "fix Washington" and such. One may or may not agree with those principles, but many of those members are steadfast in their beliefs, and govern based on those beliefs.

And what has been accomplished? To quote Admiral Stockdale - Gridlock!

Reform will never happen with a single leader. It will take the right people in all levels of government to make it happen.
Nice blog explaining how someone cant use cron. Doesn't mean the rest of us are that incapable.
As someone who does contract work for companies in other countries, I highly recommend that you don't do that. This is specifically the kind of thing that will get you kicked out of a country. Once you are kicked out, not only are you very unlikely to every be able to get a visa for that country again (even a tourist visa), but you are unlikely to get a visa anywhere in the world. Countries share this kind of data freely.

Stick strictly to the rules (both in letter and spirit). Living abroad and working on contracts internationally is very, very nice. Being able to travel to the countries where you are doing business so that you can have meetings, meet people, actually negotiate, etc is often a prerequisite for getting the contract. Don't screw over your future self.
I read the original version of this in Hackers almost 30 years ago. I didn't really appreciate how cool the TMRC part of the book was until I started learning about low-level hardware recently and realized that they were playing around with telephone switches and automation really early.
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The place where I worked did a pretty good job at administering the studies. The cost was in all the sampling and shipping. When your study is doing 1,000 sample kits with 5 samples every week day for multiple years, its going to cost.

I am still a bit clueless with all the research we have done with Alzheimer's why we need another control group?
I didn't even know there were any! I will take a look.
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Thanks! How compatible were these computers with IBM PCs? Aside from the different codepage, would any DOS software run properly on them? I wonder whether, for example, the CPUs were 100% copies of Intel/etc chips or had minor differences in behaviour.
Same person?
Racism? The runner up in the republican primary is a black man. When you accuse anyone you dislike or disagree with of racism, you cheapen the term and devalue the experiences of those who are actually suffering from it.

Also, in general, you seem extremely partisan and basically want to treat politics like a soccer match. People like you are the reason that we have a corrupt 2 party system. You can't conceive of any possible higher goal than rooting for your team.

I know you'll respond to this with another laundry list of how the republicans are the root of all evil. Thanks in advance for proving my point.
The ASCII to graph feature reminds me of https://github.com/knsv/mermaid .

But I like the more WYSIWYG approach (if I dare say) of Markdeep.
I was thinking if this is real then there must have been past cases of people with Alzheimer’s having been given antifungals for other reasons and having gotten better. Googling randomly I came across one, sadly paywalled but from the abstract the guy had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's for three years, then they figured it was cryptococcal meningitis and gave antifungals and four months later he was normal.

The interpretation in the paper was it was a misdiagnosis rather than an Alzheimer's cure but you never know.

http://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-d...
they mean that the purchase price is discounted. a company with 5M shares outstanding might sell 1M shares for $5 each to Series A investor. Now they have 6M shares and a "30M valuation". But they're still giving common grants at a $1 strike price because common shares aren't as valuable as preferred shares at this stage. In sufficient liquidity, the gap will close.
Good question. Are anti fungal molecules small enough to cross the blood brain barrier easily?
I experienced the same, until I removed my glasses. It still wasn't particularly good at matching the correct expression, but it was better (and stopped the rapid changing).
I think you and I agree. I'm saying the opposite of "hedge fund managers get special treatment":

> that number should be the same no matter who the victim (or perpetrator) is.

Meaning: if you are wealthy, law enforcement pays $20,000 to investigate and prosecute the person who raped you. If you are a hobo, law enforcement pays $20,000 to investigate and prosecute the person who raped you.