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C and C++ will produce statically linked binaries if you ask nicely (gcc -static).

There are some traps though; one I ran into for example is that you require dynamic linking in order to use libnss. I ended up producing a mostly-static binary that just depended on the platform's libc but brought its own libstdc++.

Similarly on Windows, statically linking third-party COM components is not a good idea.
We use puppet and add our public keys to all servers. IMHO a nice solution, but clearly a lot of work without something like puppet.
I really don't understand why for this use case people do not use a third wheel and save the energy consumed to stand still with self balancing.
Not just this segway, also the double robot (the latter, at least, can claim aesthetic motivations given the barrel shape).
Didn't receive a call on my Australian mobile number.

Incoming calls here don't cost the receiver anything so the instruction not to answer is a bit strange.
I always grandfather users. And it's easy when raising prices. The old users get to keep the old cheaper price and are happy.

I was referring to the difficulty when I:

1. Raise prices too high

2. Conversion rate and revenue is harmed, so I then revert to the lower price

3. I now have a bunch of old users paying a higher price, and they might be annoyed when they see the price has gone down. At a minimum I'd need to alter their payment plans to give them the new cheaper price in future

I guess it wouldn't be that difficult. Still, it wasn't long ago since the last price rise and for now I'd rather focus on growing and retaining the customer base.
A little off-topic perhaps:

> This is why terrorism is so effective despite being an irrelevant statistical blimp.

Is it effective? What are the criteria by which one could judge?

I lived half my life in England while the IRA was active, I have a friend who was in a building in London when the IRA threatened to blow it up (it wasn't an empty threat, the device was in place and armed). Neither of us lose any sleep over it.

My children have friends and acquaintances who were shot at Utøya (we live not far away). None of them are letting the event stop them being politically active.

But if I read English language newspapers like the Daily Mail now I am bombarded with 'terrorism' related 'news' and the newspaper tries very hard to give the impression that everyone is really worried.

I'm not convinced that people are that worried.
I'm not sure it will work in Australia. I'm pretty sure Telstra will charge for an international call from a cell, even if it's not "picked up"

Edit: works - now let's see if I'm charged
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Please provide figures and sources to back up your claims. (I'd love if the comment you're replying to would do the same as well).
We could say the CAUSE of the problem is too many features, because makes them unable to solve the most important problems.

I have never experienced the problem you describe, but the lack of decent search functionality bothers me.
It is not my area of expertise and I wouldn't want to go much into it at the risk of misinforming (although there is a detailed wikipedia page which could be a decent starting point), but at the very least should be considered the fact that when Icelandic banks started being too big and other countries warned Iceland and refused to allow some acquisitions, their government went out of their way to guarantee all deposits in Icelandic banks, even of non Icelandic citizen. When things went wrong, they then went back of that promise, paid deposits to their citizen and ignored the others.

At their height, the Icelandic banks possessions was worth eleven times the GDP of Iceland, and were in part fueled by promise of their government to other countries, promise that they went back on the moment things went south.

Imagine if another country did that to yours, say a Chinese bank buy a bank where your country's citizens have deposits and then the chinese govenment reneg their promise and let creditors in your country either lose their money or be repaid by your own government, would you consider the chinese government "the good guys who stood up to bankers" ?

> On 6 October, the Icelandic legislature instituted an emergency law which enabled the Financial Supervisory Authority to take control over financial institutions and made domestic deposits in the banks priority claims. In the following days, new banks were founded to take over the domestic operations of Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir. The old banks were put into receivership and liquidation, resulting in losses for their shareholders and foreign creditors. Outside Iceland, more than half a million depositors lost access to their accounts in foreign branches of Icelandic banks. This led to the 2008–2013 Icesave dispute, that ended with a ESA ruling that Iceland was not obliged to repay Dutch and British depositors minimum deposit guarantees.

> In 2001, banks were deregulated in Iceland. This set the stage for banks to upload debts when foreign companies were accumulated.

> his inflation was exacerbated by the practice of the Central Bank of Iceland issuing liquidity loans to banks on the basis of newly issued, uncovered bonds effectively, printing money on demand.

> In response to the rise in prices – 14% in the twelve months to September 2008, compared with a target of 2.5% – the Central Bank of Iceland held interest rates high (15.5%). Such high interest rates, compared with 5.5% in the United Kingdom or 4% in the eurozone for example, encouraged overseas investors to hold deposits in Icelandic krónur, leading to monetary inflation: the Icelandic money supply (M3) grew 56.5% in the twelve months to September 2008, compared with 5.0% GDP growth

Again, not saying the bankers weren't responsible. They were. But I don't like the praise to how the icelandic government handled it because they were just as responsible and then turned around and beat their accomplice while trying to make themselves appear the good guys.
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True, agree completely. I designed Readlang's Activity Monitor with this in mind: http://blog.readlang.com/2015/09/10/new-learning-activity-st...

It's meant to encourage people to translate or recall just 10 words per day, which is a very small amount which should be doable every day. If they do this they'll build up an "X day streak" - similar to what Github or Duolingo do.
I'm pretty sure a few tens of millions (lets say Nolen has 5% equity? I think give or take a few points, that's about right) for 4 years (generally the buy-out terms for a pair of golden-handcuffs) and the freedom to choose the direction in which TS goes (notice I did say "Lead" -- his role would have to be essentially Anders or Meijer's level for it to go through I'm sure) would be equally amenable for all parties involved. (I don't think you understand the freedom engineers at that level in MS get, especially post-Ballmer). Immutability sucks in TS? Oh well, here David, take 5-10 SDEs and do whatever you want.

MS gets the Clojure (and maybe more importantly the CLJS userbase), Cognitect gets massive reach (CLJS is subsidized solely by the licensing of Datomic by strict revenue), MS' corporate customers get Datomic. Just going by the direction MS has been in lately ("embrace & extend") under the new anti-Ballmer role, floating an offer of 300-500 million would be beneficial to everyone involved. Let's say there are conservatively 100k Clj(s) users out there right now using Clojure + Sun's JVM. At 300 million that's 3k per active developer acquired right off the bat. You'll lose maybe 10% of the users who live-by-their-Macbook-and-die-by-their-iPhone. Even at 600 million, that's still a cheap price to pay.
Great story, good luck!
Apple is brimming with marketing BS and they seem to be doing ok. Every company of that size has a marketing department. The type of language they use doesn't really change the nature of the product.
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This is more along the lines of gcj than javac.
He appeals to the part of the population that doesn't have a problem agreeing that massive illegal immigration, and especially muslims, put the country in trouble, that China is an enemy, that ISIS must be just banished, etc.

In my opinion it's just a matter of priorities, and how the voter thinks the social and financial crisis should be tackled. How is someone like Hillary cleaner than Trump for example?
Sort of related, Jorge Luis Borges wrote reviews of non-existent works by non-existent writers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges#Hoaxes_and_f...
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As a UK citizen who attended a straightforward city primary school and secondary boys school your experience is completely alien and fascinating to me.

I had no idea such schools existed, even 20 years ago.
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According to the statistic available the number of drowning accidents among children and sale of ice-cream is highly correlated, we must take measures to lower sale of ice-cream, please think of the children!

Most of the time a journalist will easily believe a statement like above and rewrite into a newspaper article.

And soon thereafter official recommendations and legislation will follow.

I'm looking forward to http://nusi.org/ publishing some results, they appear to be intellectual honest.
Too all the oh-India-is-so-poor-needs-charity-for-everything people out there, digest this: India has 1bn live mobile phone connections (live month on month and not just issued). It has been done by cut throat competition between private phone players, such as airtel, vodafone, reliance, tata among others, and supportive government measures such a giving spectrum for cheap. No verizon needed to come here with their charity plate, giving away restricted free phone connections.
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I thought you said you sold it for high six figures, or did I misread? Maybe just my lower-middle-class background but that qualifies as rich to me.
>If they can keep selling in theatres then they will.

I think that's what it comes down to.

>Since I got a $500 projector I've hardly ever gone to the cinema, and regretted it when I did.

But that's been a trend for a long time. There is some evidence that high-quality AV equipment with digital content did impact ticket sales. But I don't know if it's going to kill it. The one thing that cinema has going for it is it's a destination when you want to get out of the house.

And we do have a good thing going. If you want to see a new release RIGHT NOW, you pay $15/person/view. If you don't, you wait a few months to rent it for $5 or wait a little longer and watch it for 'free' on Netflix or TV. That's eco101 price discrimination.
As someone whose dream is to do something similar, is it too rude to ask how much money you started off with and what other income you have, if any?
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ansible pushes authorized_keys to all the boxes -- there's a different keys file for different "clusters" -- dev/prod/staging. Most of the users's keys are the same between these files, but it gives you the ability to have users who have access to dev/staging but not prod pretty easily. All of this config lives in the main git repo.

Even if your initial solution is just to copy an authorized_keys file to each box, check that into git. You can just have a small shell script checked in as well that copies the relevant file to the relevant boxes...

Also, always have a backdoor account that uses a key you have and isn't updated this way so if someone biffs the key file you push, you don't lock yourself out.
Thanks for sharing your story. Fingers crossed your product takes off seriously and you achieve your goals.
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What do you mean by elaborate? I thought my statement was pretty clear.

From the linked article:
"Readers – from the conspiracy theorist to the grammar enthusiast, the student of racial injustice to the sociologist – would have something to celebrate."

If applying the pre-1978 laws to pre-1978 works would cause this celebration, then surely applying them to post-1978 works would also cause such celebration.

For further elaboration - if the contemporary rules were applied, then a work from 1977 would become public domain in 2033 and a work from 1978 would become public domain in 2048 (or 2073). If the pre-1978 rules were to be reinstated today, without backdating, then that 1978 work would still take 70 or 95 years. With backdating, it would become public domain in 2034.
StartSSL.
Conversely, pointing this out (as you and another commenter did) is a convenient (but falacious) way of justifiying one-sided views/articles.
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I didn't imply I was using actual numbers. I was trying to clarify an issue. But since you ask.

The last study that made people panic about meat[0][1] estimated an increase of 18% of the chance you'll get colorectal cancer. Using your data, it means the rate of getting that cancer rises from 5% to 5.9% and the risk of dying from it rises from 2% to 2.36%. That is not a significant increase.

> The total risk of getting any cancer is about 40% and dying from a cancer - 20%. Many of the cancers are significantly affected by healthy (or not) lifestyle/eating/drinking/etc..

Well, it's important to qualify precisely. The list you provided shows that the dominant part of the 40%/20% stat is prostate (15%/2.7%) and breast cancer (12%/3%), followed by lung cancer (7%/6%). That's about 1/2 of your the risk of developing and dying from cancer accounted for in stuff not directly related to food and beverages. The rest is spread among other cancer types (turns out there's quite a lot of them) with most of them having rates below 3%/1%, so still, even 2-fold increase in risk of getting a particular type of cancer doesn't mean much.

[0] - http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/26/451950828/pro...

[1] - http://mashable.com/2015/10/31/processed-meat-cancer-risk/
Your price points are out out touch with reality.

I've been using readlang for about a year now, and while I love the product, would never pay $25 a month for it.

It's a great product, but $25/mo is 3x more than a netflix subscription, over 2x the cost of 1TB on Dropbox, etc.

This not to mention that the vast majority of users are students and people trying to train themselves to be able to work or study in new countries.

Hundreds of dollars a year might not be a lot to you, but I assure you it is for the vast majority of people who would want this product.
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What should I consider when starting a research and development department?
Our company is small but growing fast. We're a media and publishing company from the U.K. We have a large tech arm, and my boss has given me the opportunity to start pushing research and development, with a view to hopefully create a research and development function to the business.

I guess my question is how do I formalise that process? What should I consider and how should I go about R&D, other than browsing Reddit!

Thanks in advance!
Depends what you mean by "complete" inequality.

From the two, "equality" is much more limited than "inequality". For example, of all numbers, only 2 is equal to 2. All other numbers (2.0000001, 1, -100, 10^1412) are not equal to 2. So obviously if you claim "inequality is bad", this means you eliminate all numbers, except for 2 exactly. On the other hand, if you claim "inequality is good", you only eliminate the number 2, and no other numbers (also, I don't see how any of them are more "completely" inequal than others).
The point made in the article (and the comment about) is that they have a history of playing a shell game with their companies to obscure where they're actually making their money (and possible to maximize tax benefits). Without seeing their actual accounts, those numbers are meaningless as you don't know whether or not they've bought all kinds of overpriced services intended to shift revenue somewhere else, for example.
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Yes, alter the payment plan. Old users find out their subscription price has dropped -- that's a happy surprise not an annoyance. Assuming monthly billing. Yearly might be more complicated; perhaps extend the subscription length.
For when you really need a less purely functional language,
when you want your data to mutate, and your code not to.
When the possibility any function might be a macro is too frightening, but the possibility any function might mangle its inputs is fine.

Embrace the madness of R, my friend.
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Hi,

I am Usman from Pakistan. I have a good hands-on experience of more than a year working in Big Data Analytics and Science.

I started out as an intern that means I started from the basics and now I am confident I can handle intermediate-advance level problems.

I am actively seeking a remote position in data science. Can anyone suggest me where I can turn?

I work with R scripting, Azure ML and some other tools.

I am also an opinion writer. One of my analysis on terrorist attacks at educational institutes appeared in one of the largest circulation of Pakistan.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1222915

is there a possibility?

I can be reached at usmanashrafrana@gmail.com
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That's a simple but great idea! I've pondered the difficulty of A/B testing price before and had not come across it (or thought of it myself). Thanks.
On another blog I read a very wise notion, which captured the underpinnings which are "wrong" with tools like ansible/salt/puppet.

You can verify that something is set, but this guarantees nothing about the things you haven't set.

Now, this is fine if you purely use the above tools as provisioning, i.e. run the configuration tools on an immutable image. However, often these configuration tools are run on long running machines. And then we're back to pets vs. cattle. With all the faults and difficulties of Docker - at least it does that right.
Completely off topic but I think I saw some of your work in the F# repo being merged upstream. Congratulations if I'm not confusing you with someone else!
It is cheaper for short time periods. As you yourself notes: It's cheaper when it competes with hotels.

It is absolutely not cheaper than government run asylmottak (asylym centres/reception).

As an option for short/medium term handling of overflow it is reasonable, as it makes no sense to build more permanent spaces if the refugee flow then quickly subsides. It also makes sense to pay private providers reasonable amounts above cost to shoulder the risk of changes in volume.

But if the base level is expected to stay high for a long period of time, the government have demonstrated very clearly it can run these kind of centres cheaply.
What can I watch on Netflix? I am in Asia and did not use Netflix before. I visited netflix.com but still don't have a clear view of it. The website says "Watch TV shows & movie anytime, anywhere. Plans from $X a month", but does not provide a complete list.

I watched HBO on TV which continuously shows (old) movies. I know Netflix is not like HBO. It is a VOD system, like a video version of Apple Music. Is it correct?
> It is just a giveaway to the tiny minority of said authors whose work achieved success.

I think you mean the copyright holders. When the authors sign it off to somebody else they are different entities.
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I will get my Master's degree in Computer Science in March, and I was already looking for a stable job with a decent salary. But today I got a shocking offer from my boss.

I am currently working as a Software Engineer intern at a startup. This internship is like a final thesis for my Master's degree. And apparently, they saw my "enthusiasm" and want me to become the CTO of the startup, the problem is that I do not have that much experience, I have less than 2 years of professional experience (I am only 24 years old) and I only started coding 3 years ago! I really was looking for a stable job, just to get more experience, save some money and eventually become an entrepreneur and create my own company.

But this looks like a way too big jump for me. What if I fail? What if the startup fails because of me? Because basically every single engineer that I would hire would be smarter than me and would have more experience than me. However, none of them would be as motivated or enthusiast as me, I know that.

The other main problem would be my salary, which would basically be 0 $us until we get funded, which, according to my boss, could be in May 2016 or even before that.

This will be a life-changing decision for me, so please, I need your advice.
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It happens with regular cab companies too:

http://www.khou.com/story/news/2014/07/18/11680790/

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-broo...

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/07/former_yellow_ca...

AFAIK, Uber does do a background check for drivers in the US.
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Bathroom doors are great. Let's not confound surveillance of interactions and privacy in the extreme sense.

Bathroom doors allow you to interact with yourself with some level of privacy. People know you're in there. They know for how long. They know if there are extreme sounds or scents. If you misuse the plumbing or other bathroom features there is clear evidence of this. In rare circumstances, the bathroom door can be kicked down while someone is using the bathroom.

The most common result of such information is "are you ok darling?".

Bathroom behaviours are interesting because they provide a real case study on the impact of acceptance on privacy. On a first date, where you're not presenting the real version of yourself, you don't want the other party on the date to know anything about the events while you're in the bathroom. Over time, if the relationship progresses, the secrecy around these events changes. The reason for this secrecy changing, I believe, is trust/acceptance. Over time you know that if the other person learns more about the bathroom events, it will not change how they perceive you. If you're in such a relationship, it also doesn't mean you wont use a bathroom door, and it doesn't mean you don't want your partner to use one.

Hopefully that analogy makes sense. Most privacy advocates have a list of 'secrets' they fear will be used against them. I think we're more likely to see a world where this fear is addressed through improved respect of differences, compared to a world where suddenly surveillance is effectively impossible.
People are not that worried in terms of actual expectations. I doubt many people in the West are seriously afraid of getting blown up or shot on their way to work. I remember being terribly worried after the Towers fell; the fear lasted maybe a week or three. You learn to ignore it if you want to function properly in the society.

But, the fear is very well alive and visible when it comes to more abstract issues, like policy decisions. Should we invade the Middle East or not? Should we kick out Muslims or not? Should we hate immigrants or not? Should we let the government surveil us more or not? The general population's answer to all of that seems to be a resounding "yes". And the attacks that happen every now and then make things harder for those who disagree.