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We tried a tax on fatty foods in Denmark and it was a huge mess. People would just drive to Germany to get the stuff, and managing it was an administrative nightmare: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/business/global/fat-tax-in...
Calling this a "Crisis" is definitely blowing this out of proportion. True, websites have grown by a lot over the past decade, and so has functionality, take a look at your favourite websites on the waybackmachine and see how god awful most of them looked just 6-7 years ago, compare the functionality they provided vs what we have now.

Yes I agree some websites do really need to go on a diet, loading unused css, js and multimedia has to be removed, but 1-2MB is not a reason anyone should be throwing their hands in air screaming CRISIS!! Definitely I would applaud anyone who would spend their time optimising their websites to be as small as they can be, but Jesus Christ 2BM and we have a crisis... no way!

I for one think this is a sign we are making progress a very good thing, we are improving as a community and we are getting more out of our web.
Absolutely true.
https://github.com/kashif/node-cuda
This point is highlighted in the article.
As a CEO in the US you're legally obligated to maximize profits. In that sense I don't see this as a problem with Nestle, more so the greater system in which Nestle sits.
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Thanks for sharing on HN. Here's the Rust community discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4ij2ub/googles_tensor...
I used to eat a lot of sweets when I was young. Not for breakfast, because that's not the customary here, but at all other times. I liked that stuff. As I grew older, I lost my taste for all that. I have seen this pattern in so many other people too. Kids like sweet stuff. As long as they are active and are in the normal weight range, I don't see any reason to discourage it either, except at night, after brushing teeth.
This has very little to do with capitalism or private prisons. As the description of the kickbacks ("commissions") explains, the government is specifically making the decision to abuse prisoners and their families, and then contracting out the implementation to a third party.
oops, you're right.
Sometimes I have multiple solutions to a problem in mind and want to throughly investigate them, but run into a minor road block when investigating one of them.

In forums, some of the most annoying threads are people that are trying to help you "solve your real problem" instead of helping with the specific question at hand.
Well no kidding; Skype did not exist over 2 millennia ago. It's still an obvious application of the message to today's world.
Doesn't look as user friendly.

Check the iPad screenshots, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lisping/id512138518?mt=8#

However I never tried it, just saw a demo of it a while back.
All of this is unnecessary. Because it's actually possible to build lightweight and fast and yet beautiful websites. The available tools aren't the problem. The problem are the people who design their garbage collectors called websites.

Someone in another thread suggested to colorize the address bar based on bytes transferred and/or requests made. Maybe it'll wake people up if they visit a website and it has some nice dark red color to show how much bandwidth is wasted.
> and so has functionality

If a web site is no longer readable because it layouts every 2 seconds to accommodate 145 ads, it does not have more functionality; it has less.
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I am a little confused. VirusTotal has public and private APIs. Are these companies losing access to those APIs? If so, what if you aren't a security company but want to use it for virus detection of uploaded files?
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Stream.me is a fast paced team where developers are responsible for all aspects of feature design and development. We are looking for a senior backend software engineer to join our team. Our ideal candidate would bring ideas to the table and be able to quickly iterate on them. Our application, https://www.stream.me, is in a space where innovation and new technology is important; we expect team members to be able to explore novel tasks and pragmatically build out the features.

Responsibilities:

* Own and manage multiple microservices as well as contribute to shared code
* Ability to think systematically and see the big picture
* Architecting solutions for massive scale, resiliency and maintainability
* Help plan and develop operations architecture (builds, deployments, etc.)
* Participate in code reviews, helping improve the teams work as well as knowledge of the code base
* Provide coaching, direction, and support to team members
* Maintain a knowledge of the applicable tech space, make technology evaluations and provide recommendations for key infrastructure components
> Can PM me on reddit if
> you want to get in touch:

Unless, of course, I'm not registered on Reddit, and have no interest in being so.

Edit: OK, I really don't know why I'm being down-voted, and I guess I don't care. Let me just add, if ever you're interested in connecting with people and getting work, making it easy to contact you is probably a good idea. Only giving someone the option of being or getting registered on Reddit and insisting that you are contacted via that is unnecessarily limiting your options.

On the other hand, if you deliberately and specifically want to filter out people who aren't registered on some service, then fine. In this case, though, this is a web developer looking for someone with an idea. It seems unlikely to me that applying a technical filter is a good idea.

I would have thought that was all obvious, but I guess it isn't. Maybe that's why I'm getting down-voted. Regardless, good luck.
Do you also think all marketing for alcohol should be banned? It is "well-accepted" that many adults lack the judgement necessary to prevent over-consumption of alcohol.

A product designed to impair judgement absolutely qualifies as harmful.

How about McDonalds? Or Coca-Cola? Should we just ban all marketing because we're no longer adept at making responsible decisions for ourselves and our children?
The market forces companies to peddle garbage to children who generally lack the capacity to make a healthy informed decision in the face of multimillion dollar campaigns designed to get them to consume sugary cereal?

> He said everyone tells them to do so, but once it's on the shelves it does not sell. People want less sugar in the abstract. But they love sugar in their shopping carts, in the mornings, and in their mouths.

This sounds a little too just-so.
study algorithms and data structures. If you can find a good online course take it. If your comfortable learning from a book, go that route.

algorithms and data structures are applicable to almost any language out there.
That's the takeaway here for you?
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Thanks for your reply.

> Does anyone have any actual info on the Atlas timelines/waiting lists?

Without Atlas you get a Delaware instantly from one of the many registries, Atlas is only needed if you want to get the bank account without going to US (something which Estonia can't provide yet (I learned in another reply from you))

> e-Residency (from application to card delivery) should take 2-3 weeks. Not months.

Check the forums, rarely people get it in few weeks

> The difference in the level of complexity of US vs Estonian tax rules can't be described in words :).

Do not agree. At the end of the day you need just one tax consultant. And one is enough also for the US. And they are easy to get in the US. And knowledge online is massive, check this for Estonia.

Besides, taxes can get quickly complicated and messy, especially if you are a resident in another country than your corporation. And because of your local tax regulations and not the one's from the country of the entity you need good tax people who are familiar with your country-of-entity-and-country-of-residency combination.

> Estonia is playing for total transparency and an efficiency heaven. If you want to do shady offshore stuff, then this is not for you. #nopanamapapers

Sorry but this is getting bold now. There're many totally legal use cases where a non-disclosure at the beginning is favorable. Still you can't do anything illegal, authorities will get you with an US corp as well, it's just about that with on Estonian OÜ everybody can google what you are doing.

> US. Starting a one-man online business (and currently not a tax resident of US) -> Estonia!

Sorry have to disagree here again. If you want to start an one-man-show then the Delaware LLC is more favorable, even easier than the C Corp. There are enough online resources giving further explanations.

I don't want to bash your ambitions and I like that Estonia is way more digital and advanced (or tries to) than other nations but I have still problems to see any added value.
>the learning curve of emacs that isn't exactly beginner-friendly

I started to learn emacs in 2006 after a friend show it to me in it's no-window version in a OS X Teminal. We were at the time art students and most of us didn't have programing education. Some people were playing a bit of advanced flash or Max (proprietary Pure Data sound processing), but most of us were doing performing art, sculpture, sound or painting.

Honestly, I have been so motivated by what I discovered, that, the learning curve hasn't been so bad. The folkloric keyboard shortcuts were easy to memorize and the software never failed me. I stopped using Text Edit and the horrible .rtf format and I learned that plaintext was surely more appropriate to write poetry. And wait what is it? Markdown?

I started to open mp3s in text mode and grep into videos. It was really exciting. It was possible to open incredibly huge files in text mode, and the computer was still usable. Wait... Why common browsers slow the machine down when you try to open Gmail then?

I discovered a land of wonder full of funny animals, meaningful laws texts (I mean GNU license) and documentation to read until the end of your life.

In 2008 I ordered GNU Emacs Manual 16th edition with a tee shirt, the reference card is still on my desk.

This piece of software is usable, accessible, documented, and it is still possible to use it 30 years after it's creation. Let's be honest: what is the aim of having a fast-learning-curve if you learn tools that you won't use in 2 years. If the tool is a bit hard to learn but we'll designed, it maybe worth the effort.
I'd be interested to know why(Because BIG BANG)
You can draw lessons out of this for your career, too, in addition to your personal intersection with the lifecycle of one or more technologies.

Video of talk is here: https://t.co/sk99UiZCtA Haven't watched yet; on basis of slides and seeing Brandon speak previously, strong recommendation.
If I sell you a computer and it has adware on it, we just call that "normal state of affairs" because OEMs have been putting adware and shit on their computers for decades.
Requirements:

* A Bachelor’s Degree or higher in CS or equivalent work experience
* 7+ years of programming experience with majority of technologies listed below (or similar)
* 2+ years of experience with cloud applications, microservices, and Go (Golang)
* Experience in collaborating with small, agile development teams
* Experience building SaaS/cloud-based applications that perform well, are scalable, and reflect high security
* Understanding importance of monitoring, alerting, and instrumentation
* Knowledge of virtualization, networking and load balancers
* Strong expertise in troubleshooting infrastructure issues
* Experience managing backend services for mobile applications a strong plus
* A highly collaborative personality and excellent written and verbal communication skills

Technologies:

* Golang
* Javascript and Node.js
* RESTful APIs
* Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
* NoSQL document stores such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra
* Shell scripting, provisioning technologies, Docker, Kubernetes (strong plus)
* Open source technologies in general
* Caching strategies (both local and distributed)
* Statistics and analytics
Not exactly looking for a cofounder, but I am working on few Tableau centric ideas. One that I will launch soon is a Tableau community to consolidate and curate content. Two maybe a Tableau service (a la wpcurve). I might be going against the trend here, but technically speaking I am good, what I need is people with connections/knowledge of the industry, especially for kicking off the community thing.
I've had worthless online TAs, but never did I assume that one was a robot. :-) Will the robots get their own social media profiles to perpetuate the myth that they're human? Or will students prefer robots?
I doubt people in third-world countries are unaware of the value of clean water.
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As the scale of governance goes down, the degree of nepotism, corruption and incompetence goes up, other things being equal.
I think I get where the rant is coming from though. Even though the article isn't talking about a single discovery, it's more the idea that the world will turn one day and it will suddenly be the age of
I just got a text this morning from my phone company: "Your exceeded your monthly 500MB limit". It's probably not a crisis, but it has some quite real economic consequences if I have to download 2MB worth of nothing whenever I click a link.

Yes, Adblockers to the rescue. But you know, Apple doesn't support Adblockers on an iPhone 5 for whatever stupid reason.
np is meant for Reddit users that are not subscribed to the subreddit. For example, when I am logged into reddit and go to https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4if65h/mod_annou... I don't see the voting arrows.
Why exactly should I believe anything Nestlé's marketing department says?
I see nothing wrong in that usage of the word censorship. Please explain.
"people just need information which isn't being readily provided"
The breakdown of the nutritional value of every food stuff is literally right in front of the consumer's face. I'm not sure information availability is a core issue there. It takes less time to check a food label than it does to respond to a text message or check Facebook.

If I had to guess I would say prioritization and budgeting are core issues here. It really is a very similar problem to financial budgeting. In this view we are balancing a calorie budget against time, money, emotional state, and health so the categories are different but the question is still the same as in finance.
This could also be a likely culprit since we do not tend to teach this topic well and Average Joe seems to be about as bad at personal finance as he is with personal wellness.

Perhaps more training on prioritization, goal setting, and delayed gratification is part of the solution?
Pick a popular, modern programming language, and go through the official tutorials. Then, think up a small project for yourself, one you can knock out in a weekend or perhaps over the course of a few weekends. Then do it. Maybe it's a little game, maybe it's a handy utility... it doesn't even have to be something new or unique in the world, as long as it is something you haven't done before.

There, now you can call yourself a coder. Want to upgrade to "programmer" ? Check out languages that are related to the one you just learned. They'll be easy to pick up, so repeat the process. AVOID FRAMEWORKS, and just focus on the language and officially-recommended tools.

Perhaps start tinkering with a Raspberry Pi or Arduino. Learn about the differences in operating systems between Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Get familiar with Linux -- Ubuntu is a great starting place if you're coming from a Windows background.

Make sure you understand the fundamentals of how computers WORK. In particular, experimenting with x86 assembly language will help bridge the gap between what your modern code says, and how your processor interprets the instructions. Also peek into learning things such as Discrete Mathematics (the math of logic), and State Machines and other theoretical concepts of computer science. You probably won't use this knowledge directly in the real world, but it's the backbone of all computer science... and you will have to take classes that cover this material to get a computer science degree.
Hi , Can you tell us how you are rolling out patches to your unity client. As far as I know unity doesn't have an inbuilt updater. But there are few plugins on the unity asset store which do that. But they don't cover all scenarios.
Looking to monetize a suite of AWS Lambda functions. Licensing code to larger orgs, and as a service. More focus on algos with high CPU/IO ratio, but no problem with S3 file transforms etc.

Just myself and a marketing/sales guy. Need a second technical cofounder with complementary interests. The Page to my Brin.
On the other hand, it's frustrating to call up the ISP help line to get a bad router replaced and get treated like a troglodyte.

Likewise, I'm probably qualified to diagnose when my laceration needs stitches. A conversation about problems and not solutions are frustrating at that point.
There's a BASIC development tool called B4A which can be used as a RAD tool.
http://www.b4x.com
Too late if you're out of college I'm afraid.
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You know what's even more annoying? People who ask very misguided questions, because they're obviously trying to solve a wrong problem, and yet insist on doing things their own way even though it will lead them nowhere. They're much more common than people who know what they're talking about, and it's usually easy to tell them apart based on the communication style.
I take your point, but "perceived social status" is really, really valuable.
I second what other commenters have said about low interest rates. They cause us to make economic decisions that we would not normally make such as buying a bigger house. Also, the requirement to have 20% down verse buying with a low down payment adjustable rate mortgage has effects on the price. People's time horizon to sell has changed over the last few decades. No longer due you see the majority living in their houses for 30 years. People have much shorter time horizons to sell.

One the interest rate point.

Think back to the 1980's if your mortgage had 10% interest, how much could you afford to buy? On the flip side, if your a seller how much could you sell your house for with 10% interest rates.

There was some figures out there that stated something along the lines that for every increase in interest rate by 100 basis points, there is a ~14% decrease in the price a buyer can afford.
Children like sweets more than adults, sure, but the amount of sugar in the average diet is extremely high compared to like a century ago.
Hi,

I am software dev with strong experience in full stack web dev and devops. I have a broad set of skills as a tech guy with experience in multiple prog languages. I have mostly done web development(backend and frontend) and devops in 4.5 yrs of professional life.

I am currently looking to startup. I have some ideas I am trying to validate. But I am fine with something the other cofounder might have come up with. I am interested in connecting with both tech and nontech folks. I am based out of India, you can drop me a mail at hi[at]pcx[dot]io or DM me at https://twitter.com/pcx66 to get in touch.

I strongly believe cofounders should have known each other for a while already. But I am ready to be proven wrong.

Cheers

/pcx
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There is a lot of suffering that does not come from people's own choices, such as natural disasters. Even for the evil that does come from people's choices that position is rather questionable. If a person saw somebody about to kill a baby and that person didn't try to stop it then we would criticise the morality of that person. Apparently we hold God to a lower standard than an ordinary person.
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US seems to do both, with city/county, state, and federal nepotism, corruption, and incompetence.
5 is getting close to the point where all possible answers converge to: "because I / they / someone want(s) to feel good."
I was under the impression they ate it because of all the vital nutrients that the placenta had, but I dont think anyone had conclusive evidence except in an evolutionary biology hand-wavy way.
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I believe access to your number is one of the permissions the app requests, so it was probably already on file for all who have installed the app in that geolocation.
When would that actually happen in reality?
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That is true. However, that does not describe all webpages, and I think implies a false dichotomy. There are plenty of sites which use modern functionality to deliver an experience that did not exist a decade ago.
He's saying that people didn't overeat sugar until they were given sufficiently easy access to significant quantities of sugar to make it easy to overeat it.
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Not to mention... I remember the dial-up days. We were all worrying about pages being too big and taking too long to load then, although "too big" was obviously a different size and had more to do with images than scripts. It's not surprising that people are going to use the resources available to them.
You can always mitigate (duplicate safety not good enough, add triple, etc), at the end it comes down to risk/reward ratio and what's considered an acceptable risk. As a climber (and other extreme sports) I'm acutely aware of different tradeoffs I make in regards to safety/convenience/thrill and yet the couple of near death experiences I've had all involved traffic and unmitigable behaviour of other drivers.
Democracy is just rule by majority. That does not always translate into good governance and protections for individual liberty. That's why in the US the constitution has a lot of mechanisms to prevent erosion of liberties (the bill of rights baked into the highest law of the land, for example) and to moderate the effects of the "tyranny of the majority". For example, many people decry gridlock in the federal government, but gridlock is the intended situation for when there is only a moderate majority for some position in the electorate. The system is designed to require a substantial majority (e.g. 2:1) in order to make lots of substantial changes quickly.
While I don't agree with your sentiment personally (I'm American, I have lived in many parts of the country so I see myself as American above all else), I do think that in many places -- especially the emerging parts of the world -- people identify with smaller groups that aren't bounded by the arbitrary borders the colonial powers drew up after WW2. I would also agree with you that Germany (and many other places in Europe, but Germany stands out for me just because of the local nature of beer there) have more regional identity than the US does.

A perfect example are the Kurdish people spread across Syria, Turkey and Iraq. They identify as Kurdish; and don't view themselves as citizens of Syria, Turkey or Iraq. In the emerging world, this situation is common -- basic services are provided by local tribal groups, not by the national government (which is usually dominated by another ethnic group that diverts resources to its own people). Those tribal groups may or may not be confined within a single country.

Nationalism cuts both ways -- it's useful for tearing down the walls between ethnic groups within a country, but take it too far and you get Nazis.
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