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Well, all Moonies have to do to see the Earth is to travel to the opposite side of it, whereas to do the opposite from Earth requires launching a vehicle out of the planet's atmosphere, across the orbit of the Moon, and back to Earth again.

Granted, it wasn't until several hundred years ago that Earthlings began to circumnavigate the globe, but the technology to travel long (cross-continental) distances have existed since ancient times.
But somehow you can build a house without knowing much about static loads, roofing, plumbing, insulation, heating etc. Of course the less you know the more you risk that someone sells you crap, but that is nothing special to outsourcing.

I would of course expect to be able to tell a producer/composer to come up with some accordion music, and that he will know what questions he has to ask and when to send me a demo for feedback to make this a success.
And so, the cycle of re-escalation in our infinite war has begun anew.

First it'll just be more special infantry raids and bombings, then the ground troops will need close air support, so we'll send that, then they'll need more logistic capacity in-country to repair the choppers, so that'll go-- along with a larger ground force to protect the choppers, which needs certain other provisions, etc. Five years later we'll call it a quagmire and de-escalate again for a few years. We're already a few steps down that spiral, again.
I should not have said "very" biased. I also did not mean it as an indictment, only to prep the reader that there may be a bit of a slant.

Google can point out some allegedly biased reporting they have done [1], but I'm certainly no expert on it. My concern, in this particular case, is that Mother Jones has, by most accounts, a left-leaning bias [2, among others]. Dealership associations have, by most accounts, a right-leaning bias [3, among others]. The conflict there raises my internal alarm when reading them on this issue.

Moreover, you can't talk about franchise protections without talking about two major recent presidents during their tenure as governors. That those presidents are generally referred to negatively by MJ (in my personal estimation) and that casting their political legacies in a negative light makes a naturally-appealing target, needs to be considered.

That said, I agree with you. I find MJ's articles generally good and I believe their reporting on this issue was very enlightening.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=mother+jones+bias

[2] http://www.allsides.com/news-source/mother-jones

[3] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/news-flash-car-dealers-a...
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Better late than never, I suppose, but I have my doubts that they will go far enough to put an end to ISIS altogether.
This is the reason I like TrueCar. It's not a total solution, but it definitely starts down the road of leveling the playing field.
A London company wants to buy my business, but I've refused. It's not even about money, because everything is negotiable (including remote office from France), it's that at the bottom line I care for my health and abs. I want to get as far away as possible from their drinking habits, they look old at young age, and they'd enroll me into drinking.
Are they better for corporations and larger companies?
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I am looking for a new report solution for my company, but it seems you guys have a different set of users in mind. But your dashboard building solution looks great, I wish BI suites out there would be that easy
> replacing "socially conscious" art by funding "abstract" art

This is what it was about.
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3 is crucially important -- and the religion thing is really unimportant compared to the larger problem.

Charter schools, in many states, occupy the absurd position of being able to claim that they out-perform local schools while selecting or quasi-selecting their student population and still not actually participating -- at all -- in the standardized testing that justified their existence in the first place.
V'ger's latest Amazon purchase: God is Retired, by F'etzsche.
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If what the dealerships do is valuable enough to the customer, they would exist even without the ban on direct sales.

Can you really make that assumption? Customers act selfishly, and game theory applies here.

For example, you try a shoe on in the store and then buy it online for less. The store provided something valuable to you, but you still bought the shoe online. Eventually the store will go out of business if many people do this, and we lose a valuable service because we each act in our own self interest.

It's not hard for me to imagine that protections could be good in some cases.
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The 'skill vs chance' test for illegality makes no sense to me. With all sports, there's luck involved as well as skill. So by betting on them, you are at the mercy of luck too. Even a game of chess might involve luck - a player might have a terrible headache, or get distracted at a key point in the game.

Surely the test, if it is to be used at all, should outlaw games where there is no skill involved at all (e.g. roulette, lotteries)
larger companies like Oracle,Adobe hardly give a damn. Sometime they say "Thanks" that's it
Unfortunately that sound about right. I knew it when Obama announced his strategy with the oft propagandized "it's going to take time".
A small disclaimer: I'm talking from remote programmer point of view.

I really don't get why the place I'm working from determines how much do I earn.

Am I bringing less value working from Malaysia than from London? I think the value you bring in should be the only factor what your salary depends on.

Can somebody shed some light on it? I know there are some arguments like costs of living, but why it should be even considered? It's totally up to you where do you live.
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> "Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up"

I'm a big believer in Chesterton's Fence too, but what do you do about fences put up by someone who had no right to put it there? If someone erected a wall through the middle of your kitchen, would you have the same reticence to tear it down? The way I see it, the state has no right to enforce a ban like this, and we would be justified in ignoring and circumventing it.
Now you've just taken a deal, which was probably worth $200, and made it even more expensive to execute. Not to mention, this is a customer who is already demanding enough to warrant a swap, so who's to say the demands won't increase once you've already sunk some cost into it. (See my note about swaps not being legally-binding until the sale.)

> Oh, and the story about...

Oh my goodness, salespeople absolutely abuse the cars. (For the record, I did not.)
William Hill runs betting shops in many towns in the UK. Sports betting is promoted on the home page: http://sports.williamhill.com/

There's an American site: http://www.williamhill.us/ though it seems they've just licensed the name.

How does the latter exist if online sports betting is illegal in the US?
> I’ve never been a huge user of debuggers. Being able to diagnose my code line-by-line, statement-by-statement sounded theoretically good to me, but I’ve never really “clicked” with it in practice.

Years ago, I would've been floored by a comment like this. But lately I find myself using them a little less often. These days, the codebases I interact with leverage more and more small-scope unit tests. This usually means that an unexpected test failure requires much less imagination to explain.

But debuggers remain a terribly simple way to identify the cause of a segfault/bus error. Even with code I've never seen -- if armed with just a stack trace I can identify a system misconfiguration or a workaround to avoid the error.
Is there a good GUI wrapper for gdb or lldb?
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This is also the case with US based contract development shops. It's easy to "run your own contract business" when it's just you doing the work and you can decide to pay yourself whenever the client can get you the money.

The second you have a single "employee" your sole focus shifts to making payroll on time every month. Completely changes the formula.
I don't think anything he found could come close to bankrupting any of the companies... but I agree he should be receiving a more significant award, even if the companies don't have a bug bounty program yet.
"John W. Backus suggested to IBM a language to replace assembly language."

And today, in a world with far more CPU homogeneity, we have an endless stream of nerds suggesting to HN languages to "replace" C.

I am never sure what "replace" means when used in this context. I'm still using assembly language; other languages cannot match it. In the same way, FORTRAN is still being used. Perhaps "supplement" should be substituted for "replace".

Enduring fact: "Your Father's" languages are more performant than the new ones you hold in high regard.

Because performance will always be important to some people, I doubt these old languages will ever disappear from use.

Unless someone can construct a compiler that accepts a different "language" and produces more performant object code, these languages will never be "replaced".
I think your prices seem simple enough. $2 for a template or $9 for ten.

Personally, I'd split off the "Resume Checker" into a separate $20 item.

One thing I noticed - most of your templates include a photo. That's really unusual in my country (UK). Fields like DOB should not be included in order to comply with age discrimination legislation.

That said - I do like the look of some of the templates.
"Imagine"... I've been doing it in Visual Studio for years.

Step 1. Find problematic code

Step 2. Step back to before problematic statement

Step 3. Change problematic data value and/or code to hypothesized good one (while debugger is active and paused)

Step 4. Continue execution and observe if output is as desired

Step 5. Write test case.

Easy peasy. I'm glad to see the Rust community doing something similar, as the benefits of ease of development are not to be discounted, and Rust seems like a pretty nifty language.
Context for who\what Begbie was for anyone not familiar with Trainspotting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3E7UkIzt4

It's unlikely that you'd see something so violent as a guy chucking a pint glass into a crowd, but randomly targeted violence\aggression is not uncommon and having worked in a bar in Edinburgh I have served, chatted with and had altercations with various Begbies in my time.
Seriously. The term is scale-free network[1] and they could have just dropped it at that. It's not really even a new discovery, we've known that animal neural networks are scale free for at least ten years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network
There is also Vim support (albeit a work in progress)

https://github.com/chochos/ceylon-vim
In other words, "is the new goto" is the new "considered harmful"?
The Phases apply to drugs, not devices.
Really like this one. Lots if practical uses. Only problem I see us that the graphics momentarily disapper after reaching the top if the page.
BuildZoom is hiring a visual designer
Moonies is not the preferred nomenclature — Mooninites, please.
Non-sequitor! Does not compute!!
Ironically, the same kind of art was super popular in revolutionary Russia, e.g. Malevich's "Black Square".
Hi, nice work :)

Found a typo in the "Batteries included" paragraph: "horziontal"

Edit: nevermind, I found the repo on GH and submitted a PR
https://github.com/dennybritz/neal-sample/pull/1
Then other companies will realize that this is valuable and will let you try on multiple shoes and mail back the ones you don't like (Zappos/Amazon). This competition ends up being a net positive for the consumer.
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The version of the Mate S with Force Touch that Huawei is delivering in China in early 2016 has the ability to use the technology to weight stuff.
I saw the introduction live in Berlin and the marketing device was the picture of an orange being weighted directly on the phone.
Too bad that the version of the Mate S with Force Touch is not meant to be distributed globally.
Plus, who the hell would use a phone to weight an orange?
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A point of clarification. All call execution is just a ping. If the call requires call data it is supplied by the scheduler and cannot be manipulated or changed by the caller. All call execution is relayed through the alarm service so it only relies on the executor to initiate the transaction and then the alarm service does all of the rest.
Can't agree more on this. YC companies are best, but yes sometime startups don't want to pay some random guy for one/two bug.
The general property tax rate in my area of the US is about 1.25-1.5% the value of the home. My home is ~$500k and my property tax is about $7250 a year. Previous home was ~$300k and my property tax was about $4200 a year.

Schools are funded primarily through this mechanism.
From time to time, I think the concept of car dealers has a lot in common with the RIAA model of the music industry.

The RIAA has a vested interest in keeping "direct to consumer" models sidelined, or, once enough critical mass is achieved, to bring that artist/group into the fold. In reality, the RIAA system spends a lot of money on behalf of artists/groups, in a similar notion that car dealerships are at the forefront for manufacturers and brand stability. Sometimes dealerships go bust, sometimes labels go bust...sometimes dealerships do so well they become multi-million dollar enterprises (Don Huffines in Texas...now State Senator Don Huffines), and same goes for record labels (Big Machine).

Both the dealership association and the RIAA push very hard in lobbying for their own ends. As can be seen in the music industry, fans nor artists haven't exactly jumped ship away from the RIAA system. There may be some similarities in the dealership scenario, but time will tell.
I think it's fairer to say the author thinks outsourcing fails because interests are not aligned. The client benefits from a successful, well-designed and efficient code base. The outsourcing company benefits from billing more time to clients that pay a lot on time.

I don't think this is an overseas thing. This is an in-house vs hired gun question.
Ive tried using gdb with Emacs (via GUD[1]) if that counts, but it never worked out for me in the sense that I felt I got anything extra in return for the investment.

Maybe there's some special things I forgot to do, but out of the box GUD definitely felt (too) minimal for me.

Lately I've used LLDB when working on the .NET framework, and that seems like quite a reasonable thing to work with too at this point. I'd love some emacs-magic for this too :)

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GrandUnifiedDebugger
I've sort of tried the second one and usually do get a bit done at weekends. I like the first one though, I'll try that too. It's all a question of whether I can get up that early!
So when does the Internet start scurrying around mazes for cheese?
That seems to describe memory editing plus "edit and continue", which is distinct from record&replay and reverse execution.

Also, rr has nothing to do with Rust in particular, although this article shows how to use it with Rust.
Faxes from the far side
I definitely use a debugger for getting a backtrace from a hard crash, but it is (well, was) pretty much the only case where I'd reach for it as the first choice.
I vote for 1 time per usage based on the following variables / experience.

Reason 1: Theres roughly 2 different reasons your looking for a job - a: your unemployed or or b: your looking for something new / different / better paying

If your unemployed, money might be tight - no one unemployed wants to take on another subscription

Reason 2: This is a specific use case type system. Unless your a business / recruiter / blogger - when do you use LinkedIN? When you need a job. When do you stop using LinkedIN? When you found a job (generally speaking - not including their whole "were a news outlet, but not") - same for a resume builder. We may update our resumes when we have stuff to add to it, but for the most part, I think most people keep their resume somewhere safe and forget about it until that time comes again

Reason 3: People sometimes stay at jobs a long time. I had a job that I was at for almost 8 years (and I'm 35) - I may have used a service like this before I got hired to help build my resume, but would have forgotten about it shortly after - and sure as hell not 8 years later.
@vessenes, I would ask that you backup that assertion with an actual explanation of why Alarm should never be used for Augur.

Just saying it shouldn't be used isn't very constructive.

Edit:

If I make some assumptions about why you think it's a bad idea then I would guess it is that you think the call executors can behave badly in some way. The way the call execution works is that as long as there is at least one honest caller, then calls cannot be censored. Call execution is a binary operation as the executor can't control the call data. So the only thing a call executor has control over is whether or not they execute the call. Even in the situation where some attacker represents a large part of the caller pool, there is a section during the last part of the call window where anyone may execute the function call in exchange for a large payout. So even if an attacker is operating 99/100 of the accounts executing function calls, that 1 honest person can execute the call if everyone else chooses not to.
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Well, they can (hopefully) still buy foreign currency and Gold coins, such as Krugerrands.
Depends on the payment model. I sometime do freelance work for friend. You would get clients who have a fixed budget but not a fixed scope.
that's a difference in opinion

Indications for use aren't a matter of opinion. 23AndMe clearly screwed up there, but I agree it was a different nature of screw up.
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A lot of military and older prefer the online experience. It takes time to commute to classes. Also the straight out of high school students are immature and aimless. In the beginning the for-profit college offered a better online experience. But regular colleges are catching up.
Nothing new here, this interviewing technique by storytelling has been standard procedure for a long time with the British Police. One simple variation is to recall the story from the beginning, then recall from the end and see what doesn't match up.
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Experimental support for higher order generics will be in 1.2 (JavaScript runtime only):

http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/06/03/generic-function-refs...
http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/06/12/more-type-functions/
VW slumps to first quarterly loss in at least 15 years
Yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458318
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I'm a software engineer at a health-focused startup by the day.

I run two sites

http://hellobox.co - tool to create and run your own communities (e.g. like HN)
http://sideprojectors.com - market place to sell & buy side projects
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We know why it was put up. This is not a mystery. It was lobbied for by car dealerships in order to procure monopoly status, under the guise of 'consumer protection.'

This is kind of a bullshit response, honestly. This is a very, very well plumbed, documented and reported on issue. The corollary to your statement about fences is:

"About which you do not know, be silent."

Car dealership laws may have served a purpose, but their primary purpose these days is to enrich car dealership owners:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/19/172402376/why-b...

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/franchise_lawyer/201...

Their passing will be a net gain for the consumer.
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This would definitely be interesting. There's a UK accelerator, Entrepreneur First [0] which takes people pre-team and pre-idea. I'm not sure if they have any exits yet, but YC occasionally fund their alumni.

[0] http://www.joinef.com
This is freaking cool!

Why isn't this on the front page?
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Yeah, but this is bullshit. We do know. The laws are garbage and should go the way of the dodo.
If you are focusing on oDesk/freelance it's easy to say you need to learn PHP, Ruby on Rails is easier as others said but you won't get a lot of projects with it. More likely to get a job with it.
> within a few decades, negotiating over prices would end

It's interesting because often the trade-in value is mostly what is being negotiated, but the customer doesn't realize this. Or perhaps financing rate games are being played which the customer is unaware of.

I think many of the limitations come down to the way the car business is financed. Ford Motor Credit, for example, uses lease rates as an incentive to get more vehicles manufactured. So while the market rate for a customer might be 3.5%, there is 1% financing available for a limited time.

Similarly, Ford Motor Credit may prefer to incentivize leases vs purchases (or vice versa) because both look different on the company's books. There is arbitrage going on because the financing rate on a lease is partially due to the credit risk of the customer, and partially due to the residual price risk of the make/model/trim.

So the company may be happy to offer 0% financing on a sold vehicle, but only 2.9% on a lease, because the company keeps the residual price exposure.

This makes lease/purchase financings difficult to transform, because the accounting is only done relative to "new" vs "end of lease", so doing it on a vehicle someone rented for a month which has 2560 miles on is much more challenging, and the result of this is that the market value of the 1 day old "used" vehicle is often significantly below invoice, since when it is sold as used none of the new car incentives apply, lowering the value of the vehicle significantly, and disproportionately to miles driven, wear and tear, etc.

So I think it's ultimately that there is insufficient sophistication on the finance/accounting side to allow OEMs or dealers to have any incentive to keep 1 month old vehicles with 2560 miles on their books. With a small adjustment to price and warranty, the customer should be completely indifferent to this vehicle vs a new one.

I think this is a legacy of the car business as an assembly line where everything coming out of the "finished" end needs to be sold ASAP before it goes stale. Consumers likely want a much more services oriented approach b/c cars are typically more of a long term asset.

I think these are legacies of the core reason why the car companies went with the franchising model in the first place: It takes tons of capital to bring cars to market and sell/distribute them nationally, and there is a fair bit of risk too.
Apparently this is how certain companies make money from government contracts. They deliver exactly what is asked for, at an unreasonably low bid, but then make the real money when the client suddently realises, far too late, that what they asked for wasn't what they needed.
I wonder if successful con artists (or novel writers) have such a vivid imagination that they would be able to pass this kind of test. If you have such a good imagination that you can convince yourself you actually are in a make-believe world, does the lie become just as convincing as the truth?

Put another way, if a novel is so richly detailed that I feel as though I'm actually in the story, would describing my experience of that novel be interpreted by this system as truth or a lie?
Just legalise it already. Jeez....